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ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS 1264 2014 1 celebrating 750 years | merton celebrating 750 years | merton
2014 CALENDAR OF EVENTS contents
4 Birthday Weekend JAN 5 Birthday Weekend Timetable TH 11th - 17th 15th 17th - 24th 19th MERTON COLLEGE’S 750 ANNIVERSARY Warden’s visit to Merton Warden’s visit to Epiphany Hong Kong (p.24) Conversation in Japan (p.24) Carol Service (p.21) 6 Birthday Weekend speakers Hong Kong (p.10) 2014 IS ALMOST HERE 8 Birthday Weekend Dinner & Birthday Party FEB MAR
28th 1st 9 Birthday Weekend family events Merton The Dream of Conversation Gerontius in Oxford (p.11) The Sheldonian 10 Merton Conversations Theatre (p. 20) Hong Kong - with Sir Callum McCarthy, APRIL Charles Li and Alejandro Reyes
4th – 6th 9th - 21st 12th 26th 11 Oxford – with Professor Dame Jessica Rawson Passiontide Choir in the USA Merton Inaugural Organ at Merton (p.20) 11th - 13th Conversation and Concert by and Lord Patten of Barnes MC3 Weekend MC3 Weekend in John Scott (p. 19) (p.24) New York (p. 12) 12 New York - with Sir Howard Stringer MAY and Mark Thompson
15th 24th 31st 13 Royal Society, London – with Stephen Fry, Merton Organ Concert by Summer After years of planning, we are and fireworks and will culminate on Conversation at James O’Donnell Eights Dinner (p.22) Professor Brian Cox and Lord May of Oxford the Sunday with a Family Garden Party. the Royal Society, (p. 19) incredibly proud to present a calendar London (p. 13) of events that will bring together the Mertonians are warmly invited to come back 14 BAFTA, London - with the Rt Hon Sir Brian Merton College community for the to the College for this unique celebration. Leveson and Dr Shami Chakrabarti JUNE 750th Anniversary Year. The College hopes that this varied 6th 7th 8th 28th During the course of 2014 there will be programme of events will suit a wide Founder’s Society Organ Concert by Pentecost Eucharist Summer Ball (p.16) 15 Royal Institution, London – with Sir Alec Meeting (p.22) Benjamin Nicholas and Dinner (p. 21) Jeffreys and Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe Merton Conversations between some range of ages, tastes and interests. I (p. 19) of the College’s acclaimed alumni, its sincerely hope that you will be able 16 750th Anniversary Summer Ball eminent Fellows and its friends. We also to join us, either in Oxford or at one SEPT have musical offerings, exhibitions, an of the many events we have arranged
9th Sept – 2nd Nov 12th – 14th September 18 Organ Festival anniversary archive and a spectacular around the world. Let us enjoy this Exhibition: Merton Birthday Weekend Exhibition: Summer Ball. special landmark in the history of Merton College 1264-2014’ including a Birthday Dinner and Dance and Treasures and More 20 Merton concerts College together. Bodleian Library a Sunday Afternoon Family Garden Party. (p.23) Without doubt the highlight of the year (p.23) (pp.4-9) will be the Birthday Weekend, timed to 21 Merton Chapel Events OCT fall on and include the actual anniversary of Merton’s foundation: 14th September. 7th 11th Autumn (date TBC) 22 Other events in Oxford & London Merton Organ Concert by Anniversary The Weekend will be full of thought- meeting of the 1264 Conversation at Daniel Hyde (p. 19) 24 Other international events provoking lectures, music, dining, dancing BAFTA, London Society, London (p.14) (p.22) 25 Final 750th Anniversary & Campaign Sir Martin Taylor NOV London Dinner Warden
2nd 11th 15th 22nd All Souls’ Requiem Merton Organ Concert by Merton College 26 Merton Souvenirs (p.21) Conversation at The Clive Driskill-Smith Choir Concert Royal Institution, (p. 19) (p.20) London (p.15) 28 Essential Information
DEC 29 Booking form 29th & 30th 5th Advent Carol Final 750th Service (p.21) Anniversary and Campaign Dinner 2 in London (p.25) 3 celebrating 750 years | merton celebrating 750 years | merton
SATURDAY 13TH SEPTEMBER
TIME ACTIVITY BREAKFAST IN HALL 8.30 – 9.30am REGISTRATION BIRTHDAY WEEKEND (for those who are staying in College) TH TH FRIDAY 12 – SUNDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 10 – 10.30am Welcome Speech by the Warden - ‘Merton Today’
10.30 - 11.30am LECTURES* he 750th Anniversary Weekend will Highlights of the Weekend will include For information about Tgive Mertonians and their guests the the Foundation Service, a spectacular 11.45 – 12.45am LECTURES* opportunity to participate in and enjoy Saturday evening Dinner and Dance with accommodation options available over the course of the Birthday the intellectual activity for which the firework display, and an afternoon Family Weekend, both at Merton and 12 noon – 2pm LUNCH IN THE MARQUEE College is renowned. Garden Party on Sunday. other venues throughout the city, The Weekend will be filled with lectures, Open to: Students, Alumni, Fellows, please turn to page 28. 2.45 – 3.45pm LECTURES* workshops, panels, exhibitions and Staff, Friends of the College, and guests. 4 – 5pm LECTURES* debates across all academic fields, and Booking: Go to will permit Mertonians to glimpse aspects of the College that are not usually on www.merton.ox.ac.uk/750 5.45 – 7pm Foundation Service in the College Chapel: Lord Harries of Pentregarth display, such as the Beerbohm Room and the College silver. Merton College 750th Birthday Party (see page 8)
7 – 8pm PRE-DINNER DRINKS
Friday Evening Saturday Sunday 8pm onwards BIRTHDAY DINNER FOLLOWED BY PARTY WITH DANCING AND FIREWORKS 12th September 13th September 14th September SUNDAY 14TH SEPTEMBER Those who arrive on Friday evening Join us on Saturday and enjoy a packed Sunday offers a more relaxed schedule are invited to enjoy a delicious three schedule of workshops, walks and of events. Begin the day with sung TIME ACTIVITY course dinner, before the Birthday talks on subjects as varied as quantum Eucharist in the Chapel, then enjoy a BREAKFAST IN HALL Weekend begins. After dinner, you will physics and poetry, ‘Adventure’ and the final workshop, guided tour or lecture 8.30 – 9.30am REGISTRATION (for those who are staying in College) be entertained by the Merton College secret behind business success. Hall will from one of our exceptional Sunday Welcome Speech by the Warden - Choir, in a late-night concert in be open all day, providing the perfect speakers, and follow this with Sunday 9.30 - 10am ‘Merton Today’ the Chapel. place to catch up with friends over Lunch in Hall. FAMILY BREAKFAST IN HALL (see page 9) refreshments. A running buffet lunch The perfect way to start the Cost: Sunday daytime ticket, including 10 - 10.30am will be provided for all in a marquee in Birthday Weekend. lunch: £35 per person SUNG EUCHARIST the College gardens. Cost: Dinner (including entry to N.B: this ticket does not include the 10.30 – 11.00am evening concert), £45 per person At the end of the day, to mark the Family Breakfast in Hall or the Sunday Anniversary of Merton’s foundation, Afternoon Family Garden Party. 11.30 – 12.30 LECTURES* there will be a special service in the Tickets for these events must be Chapel at which the preacher will be the ordered separately (see page 9 for 1 – 2.15pm BUFFET LUNCH IN HALL former Bishop of Oxford, Lord Harries of more information).
Pentregarth. 2.30 - 5pm Afternoon Family Garden Party for Mertonians and their families (see page 9) Cost: Saturday daytime ticket, including lunch, £45 per person; All-day Saturday Pass, including *Turn over the page to discover some of our featured Birthday Weekend speakers and workshop lunch, dinner and Birthday Party, leaders. NB: the lecture schedule will be finalised next April, at which point all those who have £170 per person (see page 8 for signed up will be notified of the final timetable and will be asked to book their choice of events. more information) 4 5 celebrating 750 years | merton celebrating 750 years | merton
Fellows, Alumni and guest Speakers Graduate Student and Research Fellow Speakers
(2011) is reading for his (2012) is studying Artur Ekert is one of the pioneers of One of the founding members of OC&C Sir Howard Stringer (1961) Discover some of the current research Jason Allen Alexander Karlberg DPhil on modernist aesthetics in the for his DPhil in Theoretical Physics. His quantum information science and a Strategy Consultants, Michael Jary (see page 12 for biography) carried out at Merton College. postcolonial theatre of the French and thesis is titled Precision Calculations in co-inventor of quantum cryptography. He (1982), is also a non-executive director SATURDAY SPEAKER English-speaking Caribbean. Jason’s Quantum Chromo Dynamics. Alexander is currently Professor of Quantum Physics of Nationwide, the chairman of both After completing her DPhil in International at the University of Oxford and Lee Kong Duchy Originals and The Prince’s Social interests range from a general fascination was a former member and Chairman of In 2000, after working for many years in Relations at Merton (2007) Chian Centennial Professor at the National Enterprises, and chair of The Fairtrade Dr Janina Dill for Caribbean poetics to the history and the Niels Bohr Institute student outreach the art world, published went on to become a Junior Research University of Singapore. He is also the Foundation’s board of trustees. Julie Summers development of European theatre in the group, The Scientific Playground, in the biography of her great-uncle, the Fellow at Wolfson. She returned to Merton founding Director of Singapore’s Centre 20th century. Denmark. SUNDAY SPEAKER Mertonian and Everest explorer, Sandy as a Research Fellow and Hedley Bull SATURDAY SPEAKER SUNDAY SPEAKER for Quantum Technologies. Irvine. Since writing Fearless on Everest: Fellow at the Department of Politics and
SATURDAY SPEAKER Consultant ophthalmologist Professor The Quest for Sandy Irvine Julie has written International Relations in 2010. Janina’s Kinda Al-Hourani (2008) is now Alongside her current postgraduate research focuses on international law in pursuing a DPhil at the Weatherall studies in Orchestral creativity at Merton Robert MacLaren (1992) specialises a number of books about people coping war and international relations theory. Institute of Molecular Medicine, before College, (2011) Retail expert Alan Giles (1972) is an in diseases of the retina, and his in extreme situations, including exploration Cayenna Ponchione returning to study Clinical Medicine remains active as a conductor, working Associate Fellow at Saïd Business current research focuses on developing and war. SATURDAY SPEAKER SATURDAY SPEAKER School, and a non-executive director of revolutionary new gene therapy at the College. Her doctoral project with the Oxford University Philharmonia, Rentokil Initial plc and the Competition treatments for blindness. Professor concentrates on the innate immune Oxford University String Ensemble, Professor Sir KBE, FRS & Markets Authority. Until July 2013 Alan MacLaren is also a Bodley Fellow and Andrew Wiles response to viral infections, with a focus Merton College Fidelio Orchestra and the (1971) is a British mathematician most was Chairman of Fat Face, and was CEO Lecturer in Human Anatomy at Merton. on Hepatitis C virus. Oxford Philomusica. notable for proving Fermat’s Last Theorem SUNDAY SPEAKER SATURDAY SPEAKER of HMV Group, the owner of HMV and He is a DPhil supervisor and teaches in 1994. Sir Andrew has been awarded Waterstones, from 1998 to 2006. first- and second-year medical students numerous prizes in the fields of both in preclinical sciences. SUNDAY SPEAKER Mathematics and Science, including the
SATURDAY SPEAKER only ever International Mathematical The popular science and history Union silver plaque. He is also both an broadcaster, Mertonian Adam Hart-Davis Professor Richard McCabe is Fellow and alumnus of Merton and a current Royal (1962), will bring his passion for science Tutor in English at Merton, and a Fellow Society Research Professor at the College. to the stage at the Birthday Weekend. of the British Academy. He currently SATURDAY SPEAKER As well as featuring on television holds a Major Leverhulme Fellowship to and radio, Adam is a keen scientific write a study of literary patronage in Professor of Biodiversity at Merton, photographer and has published 27 titles Early Modern England. In 2012 he held Professor is currently including, most recently, the pop-up an Andrew Mellow Fellowship at the Kathy Willis researching the relationship between book Inventions, The Book of Time and Huntington Library. Most recently he has long-term ecosystem dynamics and Engineers. edited The Oxford Handbook of Edmund SATURDAY SPEAKER environmental change. In addition to her Exhibitions and more! Spenser (2010). SATURDAY SPEAKER academic career, Kathy is also the Director While in Oxford for the Birthday Weekend, why not visit Merton Choirbook Symposium (1981) is best known for of Science at the Royal Botanic Gardens, one of our commemorative exhibitions, ‘Treasures and More’ Mark Haddon Merton Fellow Dr Daniel Grimley will lead a discussion his multi-award-winning mystery novel, (1983) is the head of Kew. or ‘Merton College 1264 - 2014’ hosted in College and at John Mitchinson SATURDAY SPEAKER with composers who have contributed to the specially The Curious Incident of the Dog in the research for the British television panel the Bodleian Library respectively? Turn to page 23 for commissioned Merton Choirbook. Night-Time. He has published a collection game QI, and is also the managing more information. of poetry and two further novels, A Spot director of Quite Interesting Limited. He is Merton@750 Archive of Bother and The Red House. His play co-writer of the QI series of books with Tours Throughout the Birthday Weekend there will be the Polar Bear was staged by the Donmar the show’s creator John Lloyd. Rediscover Merton’s gardens and historic buildings, look at opportunity to bring Merton memorabilia back to Warehouse in 2010. SATURDAY WORKSHOP the College silver or see some of the Treasures of Merton the College for scanning and inclusion in this digital
SATURDAY WORKSHOP College in real life, on one of our many tours over the anniversary archive, to mark the anniversary. Photo of Adam Hart-Davis (top, third from left) by Rich Wood Birthday Weekend. Turn to page 23 for more information. 6 7 celebrating 750 years | merton celebrating 750 years | merton
DINNER & BIRTHDAY PARTY FAMILY EVENTS SATURDAY 13TH SEPTEMBER, BIRTHDAY WEEKEND SUNDAY 14TH SEPTEMBER, BIRTHDAY WEEKEND
e have got the perfect day trip Wto Oxford planned for you and your family over the Birthday Weekend. Family Breakfast Sunday Afternoon Arrive early on Sunday and share a in Hall Family Garden Party special Hall dining experience with your Sunday 14th September Sunday 14th September children over breakfast. After the whole 9.30 – 10.30am 2.30 - 5pm family has filled up on a hot and cold breakfast you’ll be ready to explore one Cost: £10 per person, children under Cost: Family ticket (2 adults, 2 children), of Oxford’s many museums, or take a 10 years eat for free £27.50; Adult’s ticket, £10; stroll around Christ Church Meadow. Capacity: 100 Child’s ticket, £5. Then, after your whistle-stop tour of Open to: Mertonians and their families Open to: Mertonians and their families - Oxford, return to the College for 2.30pm, Booking: Go to all welcome to enjoy our Sunday Afternoon Family www.merton.ox.ac.uk/750 Booking: Go to Garden Party, with a treasure hunt, face highlight of the 750th Anniversary Cost: £125 dining ticket www.merton.ox.ac.uk/750 A Birthday Weekend will be Merton’s £50 non-dining ticket painters, jugglers, and child-friendly Saturday Evening tours of the College (accompanied Gala Dinner and Birthday Party in the Capacity: 400, with a limited number children over 13 years can even climb to 13th September College Gardens on the eve of the of non-dining tickets available the top of the tower!). 7pm, pre-dinner drinks College’s actual anniversary. Open to: Mertonians and their guests 8pm dinner, followed Under the cover of canvas on a cool late- (group bookings are welcome) Sandwiches, strawberries, tea and coffee, by a party with dancing summer evening, you and your guests are Booking: Go to and special, child-friendly afternoon tea boxes will be served. and fireworks invited to take your places at our Gala www.merton.ox.ac.uk/750 Birthday Weekend Dinner and Dance. Why not join your friends at a relaxed evening of dining (no dinner jackets required), dancing and music. The evening will be rounded off with a spectacular fireworks display to mark the date Walter de Merton signed the College Statutes.
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MERTON CONVERSATIONS MERTON CONVERSATIONS SIX CONVERSATIONS, AROUND THE WORLD, IN 2014 OXFORD | FRIDAY 28TH FEBRUARY
erton College’s 750th Anniversary lecture series The Merton Conversations will be held in venues across the world during the Mcourse of 2014. Mertonians will have the opportunity to engage with a range of contemporary topics, discussed by pairs of high-profile speakers who are eminent in their field.
HONG KONG | WEDNESDAY 15TH JANUARY
Warden of Merton from 1994 to 2010 and Capacity for this Conversation is limited, China and the West: Professor of Chinese Art and Archaeology, so early booking is recommended. Dame Jessica Rawson, and the Chancellor Cost: Standard tickets, £35; students and Culture and Society of the University of Oxford, once Governor staff, £10 Speakers: Professor Dame of Hong Kong, Lord Patten of Barnes, will Marking the launch of Merton’s 750th held in its Hong Kong Jockey Club Hall. Capacity: 139 Anniversary year, Sir Callum McCarthy A reception with canapés will follow, held Jessica Rawson and Lord come together in Oxford for our second The Challenges of Open to: Mertonians, current students (1962) and Charles Li will debate the in the stunning Joseph Lau Roof Garden Merton Conversation of the year. Patten of Barnes and staff Global Finance challenges of global finance in the against the backdrop of the Admiralty The evening will be hosted in Merton’s TS Eliot Theatre, Booking: Go to Speakers: Sir Callum first Merton Conversation of the skyline. most recent building, the award-winning anniversary year, and bring their www.merton.ox.ac.uk/750 Cost: HK$250 (HK$350 non-Mertonians) Merton College, TS Eliot Theatre at Rose Lane. A reception McCarthy, Charles Li and combined 68 years’ experience of Capacity: 135 Friday 28th February with canapés will follow the main event. Alejandro Reyes working in the finance sector to the Open to: Public 6 – 9.30pm The Asia Society Hong Kong table. The moderator for the evening Booking: Go to Center, 9 Justice Drive, will be Professor Alejandro Reyes. www.merton.ox.ac.uk/750 Professor Dame Lord Patten of Barnes Admiralty, Wednesday Hosted in the historic surroundings of Jessica Rawson, an was Director of the 15th January, 6 - 9.30pm the Asia Society, the main event will be internationally renowned Conservative Research scholar in the field Department (1974-79), of Chinese art and MP for Bath (1979-92), archaeology, was Warden of Merton from a Minister (1983-92), and Chairman Charles Li is the Chief Mertonian Sir Callum Alejandro Reyes, who 1994 to 2010. She is Professor of Chinese of the Conservative Party (1990-92). Executive of the Hong McCarthy (1962) is the will moderate the Art and Archaeology in the University of From 1992-97 he was Governor of Hong Kong Exchanges and former Chairman of Conversation, is the Oxford and, for the academic year 2013- Kong; from 1998-99 Chairman of the Clearing Ltd (HKEx). He the Financial Services Managing Partner of The 2014, Slade Professor of Fine Art at the Independent Commission on Policing in has more than 20 years Authority. He currently Editors Group, based in University of Cambridge. Before coming Northern Ireland; and from 1999-2004 he of experience in investment banking, and serves as Non-Executive Chairman of Hong Kong. As well as being a journalist to Merton, she was head of the Asian was European Commissioner for External has worked for international investment Promontory Financial Group’s UK affiliate. and consultant, Alejandro is Visiting Department in the British Museum. Affairs. He was made a Companion of banks in Beijing and Hong Kong. Before He also serves on the boards of ICBC in Professor in the Department of Politics Honour in 1998, and a Life Peer in 2005. joining HKEx, he was Chairman of JP Beijing and of Intercontinental Exchange and Administration of the University of Lord Patten is currently Chairman of Morgan China. in Atlanta. Hong Kong. the BBC Trust and Chancellor of the 10 University of Oxford. 11 celebrating 750 years | merton celebrating 750 years | merton
MERTON CONVERSATIONS MERTON CONVERSATIONS NEW YORK | SATURDAY 12TH APRIL LONDON | THURSDAY 15TH MAY
Our third Merton Conversation will take This Merton Conversation is timed to In this, the fourth in our series of six book, The Two Cultures – a lament on the The Global us to America’s vibrant city, with a thriving coincide with MC3’s own Anniversary The Two Cultures Merton Conversations, we bring together gulf between scientific and literary circles. financial and cultural heart: New York. We Weekend - to include their Annual Dinner two of Britain’s most well-loved television A reception with canapés will follow Media Revolution bring together two Mertonians who have and AGM, a Friday evening boat trip, of CP Snow personalities, the broadcaster and the main event. comedian Stephen Fry and the physicist Speakers: Sir Howard forged influential transatlantic careers in Sunday brunch and the Merton College Speakers: Stephen Fry, Cost: Standard tickets, £65 - £150; and presenter Brian Cox, at the Royal Stringer and Mark Thompson the media – Sir Howard Stringer (1961) and Choir Tour to the US (see page 24). students, £30; recent graduates and Professor Brian Cox and Society in London, where some of the Mark Thompson (1976) – to discuss global staff, £50 The Century Association, Capacity: 150 Lord May of Oxford most fundamental and life-changing media in today’s 24-hour world, in the city Capacity: 302 7 W 43rd, New York that never sleeps. A reception will follow Open to: Mertonians and their guests The Royal Society, Carlton discoveries in scientific history have been Open to: Public Saturday, 12th April, 4.30pm the main event. Booking: Booking for this Conversation House Terrace, London made. They will be joined by Merton’s Booking: Go to followed by MC3 dinner will go through MC3. Invitations will be Thursday, 15th May Emeritus Fellow Lord May, who will sent out prior to the event. moderate an engaging discussion of the www.merton.ox.ac.uk/750 6.30 – 9.30pm British chemist CP Snow’s most famous
Sir Howard Stringer Mark Thompson (1976) (1961) was Chairman of the is a media executive and OBE, Board of Sony Corporation current President and Stephen Fry Professor Brian Cox Robert, Lord May of is an English actor, is a particle physicist, a OM AC Kt FRS, until June 2013. Previously CEO of The New York Oxford comedian, author, Royal Society University was President of The he served as Chief Times Company. A former presenter, film director Research Fellow, and Royal Society (2000- Executive Officer, Chairman and President Controller of BBC2 and chief executive of and activist. He is PPARC Advanced Fellow at 2005), and formerly Chief of Sony Corporation. Prior to joining Sony Channel 4, he is best known as having perhaps best known for his comedy work, the University of Manchester, and works Scientific Adviser to the UK Government in 1997, Sir Howard had a distinguished been Director-General of the BBC from including his portrayal of the valet in the on the ATLAS experiment at the Large and Head of the UK Office of Science and career as a journalist, producer, and then 2004 to 2012. In 2012, he served as the TV adaptation of PG Wodehouse’s Jeeves Hadron Collider at CERN, Switzerland. Technology from 1995. He is a member President of the Broadcasting Network first Humanitas Visiting Professor in and Wooster and, more recently, for his He is best known for presenting science of the UK Government’s independent CBS. Sir Howard serves as Chairman of the Rhetoric and the Art of Public Persuasion long-held position as host of the BBC programmes on the BBC, boosting the Climate Change Committee, a Non- American Film Institute Board of Trustees at the University of Oxford. He is an television quiz show QI. popularity of subjects such as astronomy Executive Director of the MoD’s Science and has just been appointed Chair of the Honorary Fellow of Merton. and physics. and Technology Laboratory and has School Board at the Saïd Business School served as Chairman of the Trustees for of the University of Oxford. He is an the Natural History Museum. Honorary Fellow of Merton and received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of 12 Oxford in June 2012. 13 celebrating 750 years | merton celebrating 750 years | merton
MERTON CONVERSATIONS MERTON CONVERSATIONS LONDON | TUESDAY 7TH OCTOBER LONDON | TUESDAY 11TH NOVEMBER
In the heart of London, at the prestigious A reception with canapés will follow In our final Merton Conversation of the a great number of renowned speakers On Liberty BAFTA headquarters, two of Britain’s top the main event. The Real Science year, science and its real-life applications including Michael Faraday, HG Wells, legal minds, the Rt Hon Sir Brian Leveson and implications for crime-fighting are David Attenborough and Bill Gates. Speakers: Rt Hon Sir Brian Cost: Standard tickets, £65; students, (Lord Justice of Appeal and Head of the Behind CSI brought into the spotlight. Mertonians Leveson and Dr Shami £30; recent graduates and staff, £50 A reception with canapés will follow Leveson Inquiry) and Shami Chakrabarti, Speakers: Professor Sir Alec Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys (1968), Chakrabarti Capacity: 227 the main event. Director of Liberty, will come together for Jeffreys and Sir Bernard who developed techniques for DNA BAFTA, Piccadilly, London Open to: Public Cost: Standard tickets, £65; students, an evening of exciting and lively debate on Hogan-Howe fingerprinting, and Sir Bernard Hogan- Tuesday, 7th October the subject of liberty. Booking: Go to Howe (1988), who is Commissioner of £30; recent graduates and staff, £50 The Royal Institution of 6 - 9.30pm www.merton.ox.ac.uk/750 the Metropolitan Police Service, will meet Capacity: 302 Great Britain, Albemarle to discuss ‘The Real Science Behind CSI’ Open to: Public Street, London in the famous Faraday Theatre of The Booking: Go to Tuesday, 11th November Royal Institution of Great Britain. The www.merton.ox.ac.uk/750 6 - 9.30pm Royal Institution has hosted lectures from Mertonian and President Shami Chakrabarti CBE, of the Merton Society, has been Director of the Rt Hon Sir Brian Liberty since September Leveson (1967) is newly 2003. A barrister by Professor Sir Alec Sir Bernard Hogan- appointed President of background, she worked Jeffreys FRS (1968), Howe QPM (1988) the Queen’s Bench Division. In 2000, as a lawyer in the Home Office from is a British geneticist who is the Commissioner of he was appointed as a Judge of the 1996 to 2001 for governments of both developed techniques for Police of the Metropolis High Court, Queen’s Bench Division, persuasions. Since becoming Liberty’s DNA fingerprinting and of London. Sir Bernard and served as a Presiding Judge of the director, she has written, spoken and DNA profiling that are now used all over began his police career in 1979 with South Northern Circuit between 2002 and 2005. broadcast widely about Liberty’s work the world in forensic science to assist Yorkshire Police and rose up the ranks to He was knighted in 2000. Most recently, on equality, human rights and the rule of police detective work. He is a professor of become Chief Constable of Merseyside Sir Brian chaired the public inquiry into law. She is Chancellor of Oxford Brookes genetics at the University of Leicester, and Police, an Assistant Commissioner of the culture, practice and ethics of the UK University, a Visiting Fellow of Nuffield he became an Honorary Freeman of the the Metropolitan Police, and one of Her press. He is also an Honorary Fellow of College, Oxford and a Master of the City of Leicester on in 1992. In 1994, he Majesty’s Inspectors of Constabulary. He the College. Bench of Middle Temple. was knighted for Services to Science and was knighted in the Queen’s 2013 New Technology and is an Honorary Fellow of Year Honours and is an Honorary Fellow Merton College. of the College. 14 15 celebrating 750 years | merton celebrating 750 years | merton
750TH ANNIVERSARY SUMMER BALL SATURDAY 28TH JUNE
n the balmy summer evening of marquee, where you will dine and enjoy Summer Ball Othe 28th June, Merton College a sumptuous banquet. After dinner you Merton College will open its doors to Mertonians and will be entertained by the Pasadena Roof their guests for the spectacular 750th Orchestra, playing some classic big band 28th June Anniversary Ball – in celebration of the jazz and swing of the 1920s and 30s, and 7.15pm for drinks reception rich history of Merton College. then Mertonian and world-renowned DJ Andy Cato (of Groove Armada) will take 8pm start, finish late For one night only, the entire College to the decks. grounds will be transformed and, as you step from Front Quad to the Croquet The night will be rounded off by a Lawn, St Albans Quad to Fellows’ Garden, spectacular firework display and you will be entertained and indulged then a silent disco, giving those with with food stalls, music and fairground boundless energy the opportunity to entertainment. At the heart of the dance the night away while the rest of College, the Hall will be a meeting Oxford sleeps. place at which to relax and regale, Cost: £225 for dining ticket, with chocolate fountains and warm £155 for non-dining ticket drinks throughout the night. Capacity: 450 dining, 400 non-dining The evening will begin with a drinks Open to: Students, Alumni, Fellows, reception - the perfect opportunity to Staff, Friends of the College, and guests. see old friends, as well as meet and be Booking: Go to merry with the Fellows and students www.merton.ox.ac.uk/750 of Merton today - then move to the 16 17 celebrating 750 years | merton celebrating 750 years | merton
MERTON MUSIC ORGAN FESTIVAL | 26TH APRIL – 15TH NOVEMBER
Inaugural Organ Organ Concert by Organ Concert by Concert by John Scott James O’Donnell Daniel Hyde Saturday 26th April, 8pm Saturday 24th May, 4pm Saturday 11th October, 4pm
The virtuoso organist John Scott James O’Donnell (pictured above) is the Daniel Hyde (pictured above), currently (pictured above) plays the opening distinguished Organist of Westminster Organist of Magdalen College, Oxford concert on the College’s new Dobson Abbey. His programme demonstrates plays a varied programme before Organ. This keenly anticipated event the versatility of the Dobson Organ and embarking on a complete survey of JS will sell out quickly, so early booking is includes masterpieces by Bach, Vierne Bach’s organ music later in the year. recommended. John Scott is the former and Duruflé. Cost: £12 Organist of St Paul’s Cathedral and is Cost: £12 currently Organist of St Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue, New York. Cost: £20 MERTON MUSIC Organ Concert by Organ Concert by ORGAN FESTIVAL | 26TH APRIL – 15TH NOVEMBER Benjamin Nicholas Clive Driskill-Smith Saturday 7th June, 4pm Saturday 15th November, 5.30pm To celebrate the installation of the Open to: Public Benjamin Nicholas, Reed Rubin Organist Merton College Chapel stunning new Dobson Organ in the and Director of Music at Merton College, Clive Driskill-Smith, the prize-winning Capacity: 250 at each concert College Chapel (pictured above), we celebrates the arrival of the new Dobson Sub-Organist of Christ Church, plays will be hosting a series of distinguished Booking opens: 1st November Organ with a programme of music by a programme of Bach, Harris and Louis Sweelinck, Bach, Elgar and Vierne. organists over the course of the Booking: Tickets for the Organ Festival Vierne’s Sixth Symphony. Cost: £12 Anniversary year, for a series of five are available through Music at Oxford. Cost: £12 organ recitals. Please call +44(0)1865 244806 or book online at www.musicatoxford.com
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MERTON MUSIC MERTON CHAPEL EVENTS CONCERTS IN THE ANNIVERSARY YEAR
All Souls’ Requiem Sunday 2nd November 5.30pm
The College Choir, accompanied by orchestra, will sing the Mozart Requiem as the College commemorates all former Mertonians and departed loved ones. Open to: Public Booking Info: Reserved seating available for Friends of the Choir. Email [email protected] for The Dream of Passiontide at Merton World première Epiphany Carol Service Pentecost Eucharist further details. Gerontius Merton College Chapel of a major new Sunday 19th January, and Dinner Friday 4th April – 5.45pm The Sheldonian Theatre choral work by Sunday 8th June, Sunday 6th April Advent Carol Service Saturday 1st March, 7.30pm Harrison Birtwistle Hilary Term begins with a candlelit Eucharist at 5.45pm Saturday 29th November & celebration of the Epiphany of Christ. Dinner at 7.30pm ‘This is the best of me’ wrote Elgar at The fifth ‘Passiontide at Merton’ festival Sunday 30th November Merton College Chapel Epiphany, like Advent and Christmas, the end of the completed score of The opens with the first performance of both 5.45pm Saturday 22nd November has its own distinctive carols. Sung by We shall celebrate the feast of Pentecost Dream of Gerontius. Merton College Gabriel Jackson’s The Passion of the Lord the College Choir, these will include two with a Eucharist and Dinner to which Choir, the Kodaly Choir, members of the Jesus Christ, composed to a libretto 7.30pm pieces from the Merton Choirbook by all Mertonians, particularly those who The Advent Carol Service has become Oxford Bach Choir and Oxford University’s by The Revd Dr Simon Jones and By the end of 2014, the Merton Choirbook Richard Allain. were involved in the life of the Chapel so popular that we now have two! Orchestra-in-Residence join mezzo- commissioned as part of the Merton will include some 50 new commissions and/or sang in the Choir, are invited to Celebrating the beginning of the Christian soprano Sarah Connolly and conductor Choirbook, and closes with Bach’s St Open to: Public from many of today’s leading composers. join current members of the College. year, the service moves from darkness Benjamin Nicholas, Reed Rubin Organist Matthew Passion, featuring Dame Emma At this concert, perhaps the most Booking: Reserved seating available The preacher, Bishop Tom Wright, was to light, and includes a feast of Advent and Director of Music, to celebrate the Kirkby as soprano soloist. Dr David significant commission receives its première for Friends of the Choir. Contact a Junior Research Fellow and Junior music, including commissions from the College’s 750th anniversary. Stancliffe is the Festival Lecturer; Choral [email protected] Chaplain at Merton. Merton Choirbook. Evensong on the Saturday and the Sung – a new choral work by Harrison Birtwistle, composed to a text by Geoffrey Hill. for further details. Cost: £10 - £42 Eucharist on the Sunday morning will be Cost: Dinner – tbc Open to: Public Open to: Public sung by the College Choir. Open to: Public Open to: Eucharist open to public; Booking Info: Reserved seating Booking: Booking now open. Go available for Friends of the Choir. Email Open to: Public Capacity: 200 dinner open to Mertonians plus guests to www.musicatoxford.com or call [email protected] for Booking: Booking opens on 1st Cost: £20 Booking Info: For dinner, email 01865 244806. further details. November. Call Tickets Oxford Booking Info: Booking opens on [email protected] on +44(0)1865 305305 or go to 1st November. Call Tickets Oxford Merton College Choir www.oxfordplayhouse.com/ticketsoxford. on +44(0)1865 305305 or go to www.oxfordplayhouse.com/ticketsoxford. in the USA To find out more about becoming a Friend of the Choir go to See page 24 for more information. www.merton.ox.ac.uk/friends-of-the-choir 20 21 celebrating 750 years | merton celebrating 750 years | merton
OTHER EVENTS IN OXFORD & LONDON 2014
Summer Eights Dinner Founder’s Society Benefactors’ Birthday Saturday 31st May Meeting Weekend Reception 6.15pm, drinks reception Merton College Saturday 13th September 7.30pm, dinner in Hall Friday 6th June To thank those who have made such After a day of cheering on Merton’s 11.45am – 3pm a difference to Merton, the Warden men’s and women’s VIIIs by the Isis, you The biennial meeting of the Founder’s and Lady Taylor will host an exclusive are invited to come back to College for Society, for Legators. An update from the cocktail reception for the College’s major a celebratory dinner with the Merton Exhibition: Treasures Exhibition: Merton Merton@750: an Chair, Sir Jeremy Isaacs, and the Warden benefactors at the Warden’s Lodgings, College Boat Club Committee, the Friends will take place at noon in the TS Eliot before the Gala Dinner on the 750th and More College 1264-2014 Anniversary Collection of Merton College Boat Club and the Theatre. Lunch will follow in the Savile Anniversary Birthday Weekend. Merton Society. Upper Library and Bodleian Library, Proscholium Go to www.merton.ox.ac.uk room at 1pm. All members are welcome Booking: Invitations will be sent to Beerbohm Room, 9th September – in 2014 for more information. Open to: Alumni and their guests to bring a guest. major benefactors prior to the event. Merton College 2nd November Booking: Invitations will be sent out prior Do you have old College photos tucked Open to: All Mertonians who have September to the event Walter de Merton’s College was a new away in a dusty album, old undergraduate informed the College of their intent diaries, letters home or Merton Attendees at the Birthday Weekend will type of institution 750 years ago, and to leave a gift in their will to Merton. memorabilia packed away in the attic? If Tolkien in Oxford: have an opportunity to see some of since that time the College and its Capacity: 200 so, we need YOU! Merton’s favourite treasures ‘in person’ members have played important roles Cost: £20 a symposium in the Upper Library and Beerbohm in the development of the University. A In this ambitious project, entitled Booking Info: Invitations will be sent out TS Eliot Lecture Theatre, Room exhibition spaces. Following the selection of historic treasures relating to Merton@750, the College Library and An evening of magical Merton will be on public display in the prior to the event Merton College publication of Treasures of Merton College, Archive aims to capture this special music for Merton’s Tuesday 18th November Mertonians will be asked to play the Proscholium (entrance foyer) of the Old year by actively collecting and sharing lifetime benefactors role of curator and pick their favourite Bodleian Library. Mertonians and their contributions in a variety of media from Anniversary meeting JRR Tolkien, author and scholar, is one treasure - what would you choose to guests are encouraged to make a detour all Mertonians and Friends of the College Merton College and the of the most famous Mertonians of the display? to the Bodleian at some point during (Fellows, staff, students, alumni, visitors, Sheldonian Theatre of the 1264 Society 20th century. This day-long symposium the Birthday Weekend and enjoy and members of communities with historic Cost: Free Saturday 1st March will bring together a range of experts to the exhibition. ties to the College). It will be possible to London, autumn 2014 Open to: Public discuss a variety of topics focusing on Cost: Free submit material electronically, through Our major benefactors will be treated A special reception for members of the Tolkien in Oxford. Speakers will include Open to: Public donation, or at our scanning station 1264 Society will be held in London for the Professor Andrew Orchard (Rawlinson to a special supper and drinks before Monday to Friday 9am – 5pm in College at the Birthday Weekend. anniversary year, to thank all Mertonians and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon), accompanying the Warden and Lady Taylor Saturday 9am – 4.30pm Throughout the year, the project will to the Sheldonian Theatre for Elgar’s The who have supported the College by Professor Vincent Gillespie (JRR Tolkien bring you information, images and little- Sunday 11am – 5pm Dream of Gerontius (see page 20). donating £1264 to the College in a Professor of English Literature and known facts about the College, its life and single financial year, since the Society’s Language), and Dr Stuart Lee (editor of its members, past and present. This new Booking: Invitations will be sent to inception in 2010. Expect an evening the forthcoming Blackwell’s A Companion collection will be available to all via the lifetime benefactors prior to the event. of culture, conversation and conviviality. to JRR Tolkien). college website throughout 2014 and will Lifetime benefactors are those who Cost: Free Booking: This event will be open to form a majestic open digital ‘time capsule’ have donated £25,000+ to the 750th for generations to enjoy and refer to in Open to: All members of the the public, though some seats will be Anniversary Campaign. years to come. Look for more information 1264 Society reserved for Mertonians. Details will be on the college website in 2014. Booking: Details will be confirmed prior confirmed in early 2014. 22 to the event 23 celebrating 750 years | merton celebrating 750 years | merton
FINAL 750TH ANNIVERSARY & OTHER INTERNATIONAL EVENTS IN 2014 CAMPAIGN LONDON DINNER
As the Anniversary year draws to a close, remains virtually unchanged to this day, Final 750th we aim to bring together Mertonians and having survived the Great Fire of London Warden’s visit to Warden’s visit to MC3 Weekend in their guests for a final 750th Celebratory and both World Wars. Dinner, which will look back at the Hong Kong Tokyo New York Anniversary and Located in the heart of London’s legal achievements of the 750th Anniversary 11th - 17th January 17th - 24th January quarter, Middle Temple continues to serve 11th - 13th April Campaign Dinner Campaign, Sustaining Excellence, and Dinner: Monday 13th January Dinner: Tuesday 21st January the legal profession today, belonging to The Middle Temple Hall, forward to Merton’s plans for the future, The MC3 Weekend will commence on one of the four ancient Inns of Court. It Temple, London EC4Y 9AT with speeches from the Warden and To coincide with our first Merton After his trip to Hong Kong, the Warden Friday with a boat trip to view the NYC Merton Society President, The Rt Hon Sir is a few minutes from Fleet Street, The Conversation on ‘The Challenges of will travel to Japan, to reconnect with skyline by night. On Saturday afternoon Friday 5th December Brian Leveson (1967). Strand and Embankment, and is easily Global Finance’, to be held at the Asia alumni and friends. the third in our series of Merton 7pm, pre-dinner drinks accessible by public transport. Society in Hong Kong on Wednesday 15th Conversations (see page 12) will be held at 7.30pm, dinner We will dine in the beautiful historic Mertonians and their guests January (see page 10), the Warden will Open to: the Century Association and be followed setting of Middle Temple Hall, with its Booking: All Mertonians and their TBC make a special trip at the beginning of Cost: by a special reception and dinner in the unusual oak double-hammerbeam roof. guests are welcome to attend. Booking our Anniversary Year to reconnect with Booking: Invitations will be sent to all impressive Library. The Weekend will Built between 1562 and 1573, the Hall details will be available in August 2014. alumni and friends in Hong Kong. Mertonians living in Japan before the conclude with brunch in Park Avenue, at end of the year. the rooftop apartment of John Kirby (1962) Mertonians and their guests Open to: and Susan Cullman. The College Choir, TBC Merton was established through the the tutorial system, to support Cost: sponsored by Reed (1957) and Jane Rubin, philanthropy of others, 750 years students, and to continue protecting Booking: Invitations will be sent to all will be singing at the Friday boat trip, and ago, and would not survive without and resourcing our historic buildings. Mertonians living in Hong Kong before will give the second performance of Gabriel the visionary support of its many By making a gift, a regular donation the end of the year. Jackson’s at Trinity Church, Wall benefactors. By the end of 2014 we Passion or a legacy, you will help safeguard plan to have raised £30 million to Street. The choir tour will include concerts excellence at Merton. To find out sustain Merton’s position as one of in Philadelphia and Williamsburg, Virginia. how you can make a gift and make a the world’s best teaching and difference, go to www.merton.ox.ac.uk, research establishments. If you have recently moved to East Asia or America and would like to be on Booking: Booking for the MC3 Weekend call the Development Office on 01865 our mailing list for any of these events, please update your contact details will be via MC3. Invitations will be sent out Our three principal objectives of 276316 or email us at by emailing [email protected] or calling +44(0)1865 276316, Sustaining Excellence are: to [email protected]. so that we can ensure that you receive an invitation in due course. in 2014. guarantee 24 25 celebrating 750 years | merton celebrating 750 years | merton
Merton Souvenirs 1 2 3 from black imitation leather and can 1. 750th Edition mug Cufflinks White bone china mug, detailed on one accommodate most tablet PCs. Cost: £22 Sterling silver cufflinks with a T-bar fitting, side with a black silhouette of the Merton showcasing the Merton College coat of College coat of arms and, on the other side, arms. Sold in a presentation box, they make 7. Leather wash bag the commemoratory 750th anniversary Made from quality Nappa leather and the perfect gift. Cost: £69 design. £6 embossed with the College coat of arms, Cost: OFFER CLOSES CARDHOLDER’S BILLING DETAILS: Place your order today to guarantee your name in the book A beautiful new book to celebrate 30TH JUNE 2013 this bag is available in black or brown (BLOCK CAPITALS PLEASE) as a subscriber and save £10 on the published price 750 years of Merton College Sweetie Bracelet and charms Name: leather. Cost: £55 Sterling silver sweetie bracelet, part of the Address: 2. Decanter This elegant handmade glass wine decanter, signature collection by Links of London. BOOK SPECIFICATIONS SPECIAL SUBSCRIBER PRICE Post/Zip code: from £150 • Hardback £ designed in the shape of a teardrop and Cost: Country: • Portrait, 270 x 230 mm * Telephone: • 160 pages printed in colour 25 *PLUS P&P The Isis Collection for RRP £35 delicately engraved with the Merton College Fax: • Up to 200 colour and mono illustrations Treasures of 4 • c.35,000 words 5 Email: Merton College • Publication October 2013 crest, is the perfect addition to any dinner NOTE: PLEASE ENTER YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS, IF YOU Merton’s distinguished history is the HAVE ONE, SO THAT WE CAN CONFIRM RECEIPT OF YOUR ORDER Merton College table. £85 PUBLICATION DELIVERY DETAILS (if different from above): Cost: inspiration for this fine collection from (BLOCK CAPITALS PLEASE) THE EDITORS THE PUBLISHER Name: Deborah Sears and Isis Ceramics, which Address: General Editor: Third Millennium Information Ltd (TMI) Steven Gunn, Fellow and Tutor in History is the leading publisher of high-quality draws from the architectural legacy of the illustrated books celebrating great institutions Editorial Board: – universities, colleges, schools, cathedrals, 3. Shot glass Alan Bott inns of court and military regiments. Third college and the life of its inhabitants. Post/Zip code: Bring back long-lost memories of the Matt Bowdler Millennium has published books on several Country: Helen Kingsley Oxford and Cambridge colleges, Durham CARDHOLDER’S SIGNATURE: College bar, with a shot glass delicately Helen Morley Cathedral, York Minster, Lincoln’s Inn, Julian Reid Wellington College, The Household Division
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The CD is available from High Street 9. Large plate music stores and the OU shop. A large octagonal under plate with a view of The bracelet and Merton from the river as it might have been mortar board charm in the 19th century, with such features as can be purchased 5. Treasures of Merton College This richly illustrated book tells the 750- pleasure boats and punting, the Chestnut from Links of year story of Merton College, Oxford, Tree, the Round Table and the Griffin. London at www. through its many and varied treasures. (Diameter: 13 inches.) Cost: £140 linksoflondon.com. The Merton crested Cost: £35 charm can be Buy through Third Millennium Publishing 10. Small plate A small octagonal side plate with a view purchased from the at www.tmiltd.com/products/treasures- of Merton Tower from the meadows OU Shop. 9 of-merton-college-oxford-book showing dons and undergraduates as they might have been seen in the 17th century. Sweet pot Treasures of Merton College (Diameter: 8 inches.) Cost: £84 Filled with approx. Calendar - 2014 We have hand-picked 12 of the most 30g of gourmet jelly stunning Merton treasures to illustrate our beans. Branded with special commemoratory calendar, for the Bow tie Merton’s special 10 750th Anniversary Year. Taken from the anniversary logo. newly-published book, Treasures of Merton Cost: £6 College, full-colour photographs depict 8 treasures as wide ranging as the Library globe, Chapel ceiling and mulberry tree. Cost: £10 Unless otherwise stated, all of Merton’s Order through Merton College Anniversary souvenirs are available Development Office (see page 30). from the OU Shop (www.oushop.com/ Pre-tied or untied silk bow tie patterned in Oxford-Colleges/Merton-College) the Merton College colour magenta, with a 6. Tablet PC case repeating white stripe. Cost: £20 For technology lovers. Protect your precious tablet PC in a case embossed with your Order through Merton College college’s coat of arms. The case is made Development Office (see page 30). 26 27 celebrating 750 years | merton Booking Form celebrating 750 years | merton
750th Anniversary Birthday Weekend Cost No of places Total
Friday 12th September 2014 Evening Dinner £45 per person £ College Accommodation B&B (single) £32.50 per person £ College Accommodation B&B (double) £65 per couple £ Saturday 13th September 2014 Daytime ticket including lunch £45 per person £ All day Saturday Pass, including lunch, dinner and £170 per person £ ESSENTIAL INFORMATION Birthday Party Birthday Party (including dance & fireworks) and Dinner £125 per person £ Birthday Party (including dance & fireworks) only £50 per person £ • The Oxford City Accommodation approaches to Oxford, offering quick and College Accommodation B&B (single) £32.50 per person £ How to Book Guide, which gives you information easy access to the city centre. Buses run College Accommodation B&B (double) £65 per couple £ Some events and merchandise sales about hotels, B&Bs and apartments every 10-20 minutes at weekends. are being managed by external ticket Sunday 14th September available in the city. Please see the Park and Ride website: sellers. See the event listing for specific Morning ticket including lunch £35 per person £ • Oxford Rooms, which lists B&B www.parkandride.net. booking instructions. accommodation available in Oxford Sunday Family breakfast £10 each / children under 10 no charge £ For Merton-run events the preferred University colleges. Getting around Sunday Family Garden Party Family ticket (2 adults and 2 children) - £27.50 £ method of booking is online. Go to For details of local buses in Oxford, Adult - £10 £ • Oxford Bed & Breakfasts, where to book. including routes and fares, please visit www.merton.ox.ac.uk/750 you will find a collection of Child (5 - 16 years) - £5 £ If you have no access to the internet Oxford B&Bs and Oxford boutique www.oxfordbus.co.uk. Customer name and Guest (s) Special dietary /access requirements please complete the booking form hotels. Options range from small If you are travelling to Oxford from opposite, and return it to the independent Oxford hotels to London, or from Heathrow or Gatwick Development Office, Merton College, family-run guest houses. airports, we recommend you use the Merton Street, Oxford OX1 4JD services provided by the Oxford Tube If you are bringing children please 0-5 years Don’t forget to bring your Oxford or the Oxford Bus indicate their ages We regret that we are not able to take Alumni Card with you when returning to www.oxfordtube.com 6-10 years bookings over the telephone. Company X90 . Merton. Your card will secure discounts www.oxfordbus.co.uk 11-16 years at a range of local shops, cafes and Taxi ranks are located at Gloucester Accommodation restaurants. Please see www.alumni. Green coach station, St Giles and Oxford Merton Conversations, each followed by a reception Cost No of places Total Alumni card-holders are entitled to a for the full listing Rail Station. For local taxi companies, discount at the following hotels: ox.ac.uk/alumni_card of discounts available. These include a please telephone: 15th January (Asia Society, Hong Kong) HK$250 Mertonians and their guests £ • Macdonald Randolph Hotel 10% discount at the Bodleian Library • 001 Taxis: +44 (0)1865 240000 28th February (TS Eliot Theatre, Oxford) £35 per person £ Shop, the University of Oxford Shop, • The Old Bank Hotel £10 for current students, College staff and alumni who £ the Ashmolean Museum Shop and the • ABC Radio Taxis: +44 (0)1865 242424 • The Old Parsonage matriculated in 2005 or after* Blackwell Bookshop • Oxford City Cars: +44 (0)1865 703030 • University Club 12th April (Century Association, New York) Tickets will be available as part of MC3 Weekend, in 2014. • For details of trains, including 15th May (Royal Society, London) Band A seating - £150 seat £ Or you can visit www.merton.ox.ac.uk Parking where you routes and fares, please visit Band B seating - £100 seat £ /coming-back-to-college Access to the city centre for cars is . will find links to: restricted and parking is limited. There www.nationalrail.co.uk Band C seating - £65 seat £ are five Park and Ride sites on the main £50 for College staff and alumni who matriculated in 2005 or £ after* £30 for current students* £ 7th October (BAFTA, London) £65 per person £ Birthday Weekend and Summer Ball accommodation £50 for College staff and alumni who matriculated in 2005 or £ Merton College has reserved rooms for The Eastgate Hotel, Holiday Inn Oxford, Peartree after* Mertonians at the following hotels for Merton Street, Oxford OX1 4BE Roundabout, Woodstock Road, £30 for current students* £ the Summer Ball (28th June) and over the +44 (0)1865 248332 Oxford OX2 8JD 11th November (Royal Institution, London) £65 per person £ Birthday Weekend (Friday 12th – Sunday Summer Ball Ref: MERT280614 +44 (0)1865 888400 £50 for College staff and alumni who matriculated in 2005 or £ 14th September). Birthday Weekend Ref: MERT120914 Summer Ball Ref: NCV Birthday Weekend Ref: RBQ after* The Old Bank Hotel, The Macdonald Randolph Hotel, £30 for current students* £ High Street, Oxford OX1 4BJ Beaumont Street, Oxford OX1 2LN The University Club, Customer name and Guest (s) Special dietary /access requirements +44 (0)1865 799599 +44 (0)1865 256400 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3SZ Summer Ball Ref: MERTJU Summer Ball Ref: MERT280614 +44 (0)1865 271044 Birthday Weekend Ref: MERTSEP Birthday Weekend Ref: MERT120914 https://roomres.club.ox.ac.uk Summer Ball Ref: MERTJUNE Birthday Weekend Ref: MERTSEPT *Of the number of tickets available, a limited number will be offered at a concessionary rate, depending on the size of venue. The concession is for current students, College staff and alumni who matriculated in 2005 or after. These concessionary tickets will be allocated by ballot. If you are successful in obtaining a ticket for the event and fall into these categories, you will be entered into the ballot for the concessionary rate. The ballot will be held one month before the event, after which payment will be due. If 28 you are unsuccessful, you will be offered a full price ticket. 29 celebrating 750 years | merton celebrating 750 years | merton
Summer Ball Cost No of places Total
Ball and Dining ticket 28th June £225 for dining ticket £
£155 for non-dining ticket £
For Merton music, Chapel and other alumni events see the relevant event page for booking information.
Merchandise
Merton Treasures Calendar 2014 £10 (including P&P) £
Merton College Bow Tie £20 (including P&P) £ 750th Sustaining Excellence Campaign GRAND TOTAL
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All places are allocated on a first come, first served basis. Please Book online: www.merton.ox.ac.uk/750 note that events with smaller capacity are expected to fill up quickly.
Book by post: Please send this completed order Cancellations form and cheque (if appropriate) to the Development Office After booking, if you are no longer able to attend the event, please at Merton College, Merton Street, Oxford, OX1 4JD. let us know so that we can reallocate your place. Tickets are not transferable and all unused tickets should be returned to the Development Office. If you cancel your place less than 5 working days before the event Merton College reserves the right not to send you a refund.
Enquiries SEE YOU IN 2014 For all enquiries about any of these events, please contact +44(0)1865 286292 or email [email protected]. 30 31 celebrating 750 years | merton
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