Balliol College Annual Record 2009

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The College was founded by John Balliol of Barnard Castle in the county of Durham and Dervorguilla his wife (parents of John Balliol, King of Scotland), some time before June 1266, traditionally in 1263. Editor Denis Noble

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front cover: Coverage of a protest at the Clarendon building against the Proctors’ leafleting ban, Daily Telegraph, 4 June 1968. Contents

Visitor, Master, Fellows and Lecturers, Preachers in Chapel 1

The Master’s Letter 7

Balliol’s Revolution 1968–1975

Denis Noble Introduction: the view from Holywell 11

Neil MacCormick 1968 and all that 13

Alan Montefiore Memories of turbulence 16

Martin Kettle It was right to rebel 19

Richard Jenkyns The revolution that wasn’t 22

Stephen Bergman The Balliol revolution: an American view 25

Jon Moynihan The events of ’68: a social, not a political, phenomenon 30

Philip McDonagh Justifying Jowett: an Irishman at Balliol, 1970–1974 36

Penelope J. Corfield Christopher Hill: Marxist history and Balliol College 39

Balliol graffiti 42

Obituaries: Sir Neil MacCormick 43 Vernon Handley 45 Tuanku Abdul Rahman 48 Bernie Brooks 49

Book Reviews: Ian Goldin: The Bridge at the End of the World, by James Gustave Speth 51 Paul Slack: The Ends of Life, by Keith Thomas 52 Ben Morison: From Empedocles to Wittgenstein, by Anthony Kenny 53 Hagan Bayley: The Dyson Perrins Laboratory and Oxford Organic 55 Chemistry 1916–2004 by Rachel Curtis et al Jonathan Long: A Tangled Web: A British Spy in Estonia, by Mart 57 Männik, translated by George Carlisle

Poetry: Philip McDonagh 59 Ian Blake 59 Andrew Blades 60 Carl Schmidt 61 Carmen Bugan 62 Sally Bayley 62 Vidyan Ravinthiran 63

Letters to the Editor: Jack Reynolds 64 Alastair Walsh Atkins 65 John Colligan 65 Amanda Wrigley 67

Gazette: First Year Graduates and Undergraduates 69 The William Westerman Pathfinders Programme 74 Firsts and Distinctions 75 University and College Prizes 76 College Scholarships 77 Doctorates of Philosophy 78 The Library 80 The College Archives 82 The College Staff 84

College Societies 86

College Sport 92

Members’ News: Honours 102 Births, Marriages, and Deaths 102 News and Notes 105 Portrait of the Master, Andrew Graham, by Robbie Wraith, 2008

Oxf, FBA, Tutor in Politics. Balliol College O’HARE, Dermot Michael, MA DPhil Oxf, Septcentenary Fellow, Professor of Chemistry, and 2008–2009 Tutor in Inorganic Chemistry. BROWN, Judith Margaret, MA PhD Camb, MA DPhil Oxf, FRHistS, Professorial Fellow, and Beit Professor Visitor of the History of the British Commonwealth. CONWAY, Martin Herbert, MA DPhil Oxf, FRHistS, The Rt Hon Lord BINGHAM of Cornhill, KG, PC, MA, MacLellan-Warburg Fellow, and Tutor in History. Senior Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, High Steward of NYE, Piers Charles Gillespie, MA Oxf, PhD California, the University of Oxford. Septcentenary Fellow, and Tutor in Physiological Sciences. Master VINES, David Anthony, BA Melbourne, MA PhD Camb, GRAHAM, Andrew Winston Mawdsley, MA Hon DCL. MA DPhil Oxf, Lord Thompson of Fleet Fellow, Professor of Economics, and Tutor in Economics. Fellows ZANCANI, Diego, Laurea Milan, MA Oxf, Dott JONES, John Henry, MA DPhil Oxf, CChem, FRSC, Bocconi, Tutor in Modern Languages (Italian), and FRHistS, Septcentenary Fellow, and Fellow Archivist. Praefectus. HANNABUSS, Keith Cyril, MA DPhil Oxf, Billmeir- O’BRIEN, Dominic Christopher, MA PhD Camb, MA Septcentenary Fellow, Tutor in Mathematics, and Vice- DPhil Oxf, Eastern Electricity Fellow, Reader in Master (Academic). Engineering Science, Tutor in Engineering Science, and SCHMIDT, Aubrey Vincent Carlyle, MA Oxf, Tutor in Tutor for Undergraduate Admissions. English. SKINNER, Simon Andrew, MA MPhil DPhil Oxf, BULLOCH, Penelope Anne Ward, MA PhD Camb, MA FRHistS, Keen Fellow, and Tutor in History. DPhil Oxf, ALA, FSA, Librarian. FORDER, James, MA DPhil Oxf, Hofmeyr- DUPREE, Hugh Douglas, BA Univ of the South, Septcentenary Fellow, and Tutor in Economics. Tennesse, MA DPhil Oxf, MDiv Virginia, Chaplain, TREFETHEN, Lloyd Nicholas, AB Harvard, MA Oxf, and Dean. MS PhD Stanford, FRS, Professorial Fellow, and KIRWAN, Frances Clare, BA Camb, MA DPhil Oxf, FRS, Professor of Numerical Analysis. Professor of Mathematics, and Tutor in Mathematics. ENDICOTT, Timothy Andrew Orville, AB Harvard, LLB MCQUAY, Henry John, BM MA DM Oxf, FRCP Edin, Toronto, MA DPhil Oxf, Dean of Law Faculty. Professorial Fellow, and Nuffield Professor of Clinical LAMOND, Grant Ian, MA BCL DPhil Oxf, BA LLB Anaesthetics. Sydney, Frankfurter Fellow, and Tutor in Law. SWIFT, Adam Richard George, MA MPhil DPhil Oxf, ABRAMS, Lesley Jane, MA Oxf, MA PhD Toronto, Tutor in Politics. FRHistS, Colyer-Fergusson Fellow, and Tutor in WILSON, Timothy Hugh, MPhil Lond, MA Oxf, FSA, History. Professorial Fellow, and Keeper of Western Art. FIELD, Robert William, BA PhD Camb, MA Oxf, CEng, BUCKLEY, Christopher Paul, MA DPhil Oxf, FIMMM, MIChemE, Tutor in Engineering Science. FIMechE, CEng, Lubbock Fellow, Professor of REICHOLD, Armin Josef Hermann, MA Oxf, Diplom Engineering Science, and Tutor in Engineering Science. PAS Dr rer nat Dip Dortmund, Tutor in Physics. HAZAREESINGH, Sudhir Kumar, MA MPhil DPhil DUTTON, William Harold, BA Missouri, MA Oxf, MA Balliol College Record 1 PhD SUNY, Professorial Fellow, Professor of Internet BROOKE, Christopher Robert, AM PhD Harvard, MA Studies, and Director of the Oxford Internet Institute. Oxf, Isaiah Berlin Research Fellow in Politics. ROPER, Lyndal Anne, MA Oxf, BA Melbourne, PhD PAOLI, Sandra, MA Oxf, PhD Manc, Research Fellow in Lond, FRHistS, Lucas Fellow, Professor of Early Romance Linguistics. Modern History, and Tutor in History. GOLDIN, Ian A, BA BSc Cape Town, MSc LSE, MA MELHAM, Thomas Frederick, BSc Calgary, MA Oxf, DPhil Oxf, AMP INSEAD, Professorial Fellow, and PhD Camb, FRSE, Professor of Computer Science, Director of the James Martin 21st Century School. Tutor in Computation, and Tutor for Graduate THOMAS, Sarah Elizabeth, AB Smith, MS Simmons, Admissions. MA PhD Johns Hopkins, MA Oxf, Professorial Fellow, PERRY, Seamus Peter, MA DPhil Oxf, Massey Fellow, Director of University Library Services, and Bodley’s Tutor in English, and Vice-Master (Development). Librarian. JAMES, Alastair D, BA York, MA Oxf, Development GREEN, Leslie, BA Queen’s Canada, MA MPhil Director. DPhil Oxf, Professorial Fellow, and Professor of the FOSTER, Brian, OBE, MA DPhil Oxf, BSc Lond, FRS, Philosophy of Law. Professorial Fellow, and Professor of Experimental MAGIDOR, Ofra, BSc Jerusalem, MA BPhil DPhil Oxf, Physics. Fairfax Fellow, and Tutor in Philosophy. SHIMELD, Sebastian Mordecai, BSc S’ton, MA Oxf, COLLIER, Richard Hale, BSc US Naval Academy, LLM PhD Manc, Julian Huxley Fellow, and Tutor in Camb, DrJur Cornell, MA Oxf, Finance Bursar. Zoology. NOE, Thomas H, BA Whittier, MBA PhD Texas at THOMAS, Rosalind, BA PhD Lond, MA Oxf, Dyson Austin, MA Oxf, Professorial Fellow, and Ernest Macgregor Fellow, Jowett Lecturer, and Tutor in Butten Professor of Management Studies. Ancient History. LATSIS, John Spiro, BA Oxf, MSc Lond, PhD Camb, LUKAS, Andre, BSc Wuppertal, MA Oxf, Dr phil TU Junior Research Fellow in Social Sciences. Munich, Professor of Physics, and Tutor in Theoretical ERDOS, David, MA Oxf, MA PhD Princeton, Nicholas Physics. de B Katzenbach Junior Research Fellow in Law. MARNETTE, Sophie, MA Oxf, PhD California, HURRELL, Andrew, MA DPhil Oxf, Professorial Fellow, Dervorguilla Fellow, and Tutor in Medieval French. and Montague Burton Professor of International KOHL, Peter, MA Oxf, MD Berlin, PhD Moscow, Tutor Relations. in Biomedical Sciences. KELLY, Adrian David, BA MA Melbourne, DPhil Oxf, LUCAS, David M, BA DPhil Oxf, Tutor in Physics. Tutor in Greek Literature. RICKS, Christopher Bruce, BLitt MA DLitt Oxf, FBA, MOSS, Jessica Dawn, BA Yale, PhD Princeton, Samuel- Professorial Fellow, and Professor of Poetry. Leveson-Gower-Septcentenary Fellow, and Tutor in MINKOWSKI, Christopher Z, AB PhD Harvard, MA Ancient Philosophy. Oxf, Professorial Fellow, and Boden Professor of WALLACE, Vesna, PhD California, Professorial Fellow, Sanskrit. and Numata Professor of Buddhist Studies. WALLACE, David M, MPhys BPhil DPhil Oxf, Fairfax HAMDY, Freddie Charles, MBChB Alexandria, MD Fellow, and Tutor in Philosophy. Sheffield, LRCP-LRCS FRCSUrol Edin, LRCPS COWAN, Robert William, MSt DPhil MA Oxf, Fairfax Glasgow, Professorial Fellow, and Nuffield Professor of Fellow, Jowett Lecturer, and Tutor in Classics. Surgery. BARFORD, William, BSc Sheff, MA Oxf, PhD Camb, KING, Jeff, BA Ottawa, LLB BCL McGill, MSt Oxf, Tutor in Physical Chemistry. Blanesburgh Fellow, and Tutor in Law. 2 Balliol College Record ASHLEY, Andrew Edward, MChem DPhil Oxf, Junior FFPH, DCH. Research Fellow in the Sciences. MORTON, Keith William, MA (PhD New York). MRAZOVA, Monika, Ing ECP, Dip-Ing TU Wien, MSc STAPLETON, Barbara Jane, MA, DPhil (BSc New South LSE, Junior Research Fellow in the Social Sciences. Wales, PhD Adelaide, LLB ANU). MARGULIS, Lynn, AB Chicago, MSc Wisconsin, PhD DAVIES, Paul Lyndon, MA (LLM London and Yale), Berkeley, Supernumerary Fellow, George Eastman FBA. Visiting Professor. LONSDALE, Roger Harrison, MA, DPhil, FRSL, FBA. LOPEZ MUNOZ, Juan Manuel, PhD Seville, KEEN, Maurice Hugh, MA, DPhil, FRHistS, FSA, FBA, Supernumerary Visiting Fellow (French). OBE. RAMSEY, John T, AB Harvard, MA Oxf, PhD Harvard, MCFARLAND, David John, MA, DPhil (BSc Liv). Supernumerary Visiting Fellow (Classics, Hilary Term BURROW, John Wyon, MA, DPhil, FBA (MA, PhD 2008). Cantab, Dr Sci Pol Bologna). STOREY, Ian Christopher, PhD Toronto, MPhil Oxf, STOY, Joseph Edward, MA. Supernumerary Visiting Fellow (Classics). POWIS, Jonathan Keppel, MA, DPhil. ZANNA, Laure, PhD Harvard, MSc Weizmann Inst of MORRIS, Peter, MA (MB, BS, PhD Melbourne), FRCS, Science, BSc Tel Aviv, Junior Research Fellow in the FRACS, FACS, FRS, AC. Sciences and James Martin Fellow in the 21st Century CASHMORE, Sir Roger John, MA, DPhil, FRS. Ocean Institute, based in the Departments of Physics GRIFFIN, Jasper, MA, FBA. and Earth Sciences. NOBLE, Denis, CBE, MA, (PhD Lond), FRCP, Hon. FRCP, FRS. Emeritus Fellows MURRAY, Oswyn, MA, DPhil, FSA. GARLICK, Kenneth John, MA (PhD Birm). GOMBRICH, Richard, MA, DPhil, (AM Harvard). GREEN, Malcolm Leslie Hodder, MA (PhD Lond, MA CLARK, Carol, MA (PhD Lond). Cantab) FRS, CChem, FRSC. NEWTON-SMITH, William Herbert, MA, DPhil (BA LUKES, Steven Michael, MA, DPhil, FBA. Queen’s, Canada; MA Cornell). SANDARS, Patrick George Henry, MA, DPhil. LOGAN, David Edwin, MA, DPhil (MA, PhD Cantab). WEINSTEIN, William Leon, MA, BPhil (BA Columbia). RAZ, Joseph, MA, DPhil (MJr Jerusalem), FBA. BECKERMAN, Wilfred, MA, DPhil (MA, PhD Cantab). MORRISS-KAY, Gillian Mary, MA, DSc (BSc Durham, HARRIS, Donald Renshaw, BCL, MA (BA, LLM New MA, PhD Cantab). Zealand, Hon LLD Keele), Hon QC. ROBERTS, Sir Edward Adam, KCMG, MA, FBA. BRINK, David Maurice, MA, DPhil (BSc Tasmania), HODBY, Jonathan, MA, DPhil. FRS. MONTEFIORE, Alan Claud Robin Goldsmid, MA. Honorary Fellows TURNER, David Warren, MA (BSc Univ. Coll. of the BLUMBERG, Baruch Samuel, MA, DPhil, MD, PhD South West; PhD Lond), FRS. Columbia (Hon DSc Pittsburg, Dickinson College, BARNES, Jonathan, MA, FBA. Carlisle McMaster, Pennsylvania, Hahnemann PREST, John Michael, MA (MA Cantab). Medical College, Philadelphia; Hon DMSc Medical HOWATSON, Alastair Macrae, MA (BSc, PhD Edin). College of Pennsylvania; Hon LLD Union College, REA, John Rowland, MA (BA, Belfast, PhD Lond), FBA. Schenectady, New York; Hon LLD LaSalle College, FOWLER, Godfrey Heath OBE, BM, MA, FRCP, FRCGP, Philadelphia; Hon Doctorate of Medicine and Balliol College Record 3 Surgery Univ of Florence; Hon DSc Bard College, RICKS, Christopher Bruce, MA, BLitt, FBA. New York; Hon DSc Ursinus College, Pennsylvania; KENNY, Sir Anthony John Patrick, Kt, MA, DPhil, Hon DHL Thomas Jefferson University and Rush DLitt, Hon DCL (Hon DLitt Bristol, Liverpool, University Chicago). Glasgow, Lafayette, Hull; Hon DHumLetts Denison; DOVER, Sir Kenneth James, DLitt (Hon LLD Birm; Hon DCL Queen’s, Belfast), FBA. Hon DLitt Bristol, London, St Andrews, Durham; BLANDY, John Peter CBE, MA, DM, MCh, FRCS, Hon DHL Oglethorpe University, Atlanta). FACS. GEACH, Peter Thomas, MA, FBA. CAREY, John, MA, DPhil, FRSL. HEALEY, the Rt Hon Lord Denis Winston, PC, CH, FAIRFAX, James Oswald, MA, AO. MBE, MA (Hon LLD Sussex, Leeds). MALLET, John Valentine Granville, BA, FSA, FRSA. NORWAY, HM King Harald V. SARBANES, Paul Spyros, BA. THOMAS, Sir Keith Vivian, Kt, MA, FBA (Hon DLitt OWADA, Her Imperial Highness the Crown Princess Kent, Wales; Hon LLD Williams). Masako of Japan. HINDE, Robert Aubrey, MA, DPhil, Hon DSc, FRS STEINER, George, DPhil (BA Chicago; MA Harvard), (Hon DSc Univ Libre, Brussels, Univ of Paris, FRSL. Nanterre, Edinburgh, Stirling, Göteborg, Oxford; Hon ALLEYNE, Doddridge Henry Newton, MA. ScD Univ of Western Ontario). ALBERTI, Kurt George Matthew Mayer, DPhil, BM, LEONARD, The Rt Revd and Rt Hon Graham Douglas, BCh, FRCP, FRCPE, FRCPath. KCVO, PC, MA (Hon DD Episcopal Theological KEEGAN, Sir John Desmond Patrick, Kt, OBE, MA, Seminary, Kentucky, Westminster College, Fulton; FRSL, FRHistS (Hon LLD New Brunswick; Hon DLit Hon DCnL Nashotah; Hon STD Siena College, New Queen’s, Belfast; Hon DLitt Bath). York; Hon LLD Simon Greenleaf School of Law, Los PATTEN, the Rt Hon Christopher Francis, CH, PC, Angeles; Hon DLitt, CNAA). MA. STREETEN, Paul Patrick, MA, DLitt (Hon LLD Aberd, RODGER, the Rt Hon Lord Rodger of Earlsferry Hon DLitt Malta). (Alan Ferguson), PC, MA, DPhil, DCL (MA, LLB von WEIZSÄCKER, Richard, Hon DCL (DrJur Glasgow), FBA. Göttingen; Hon Dr Grenoble School for Social STRANG, William Gilbert, BA (SB, MIT, PhD Calif). Research, New York, Weizmann Institute, Leuven, MEHTA, Ved Parkash, MA (MA Harvard). Istanbul, Sucre, Harvard). LUCAS, Sir Colin Renshaw, Kt, MA, DPhil, FRHistS. ANDERSON, Sir [William] Eric Kinloch, Kt, BLitt (MA, AVEBURY, Lord (Eric), BA, MIMechE, CEng, FBCS. Hon DLitt St Andrews), FRSE. BOWERSOCK, Glen, MA, DPhil, AB (Harvard). BINGHAM of Cornhill, the Rt Hon Lord Thomas DAWKINS, Richard, MA, DPhil, DSc, FRS. Henry, KG, PC, MA, Senior Lord of Appeal in KEENE, Rt Hon Sir David, BA, BCL, QC. Ordinary, Hon DCL (Hon LLD Birmingham, London, MORTIMER, Edward, BA. Wales, Glamorgan, Dickinson School of Law/ NAYYAR, Deepak, MA, BPhil, DPhil. Pennsylvania State University, Hon DU Essex), Hon RICHARDS, Graham, CBE, MA, DPhil. FBA. ROITT, Ivan, MA, DPhil, DSc, FRS, Hon. FRCP. HUTTON of Bresagh, The Rt Hon Lord James Brian RYAN, Alan, MA, DLitt, FBA. Edward, PC, QC, BA. SCHMOKE, Kurt, BA. LEGGETT, Anthony James, MA, DPhil, FRS. SMITHIES, Oliver, MA, DPhil. NISBET, Robin George Murdoch, MA, FBA. WEST, Martin, MA, DPhil, DLitt, FBA. 4 Balliol College Record AKINKUGBE, Oladipo Olujimi, DPhil, MD, FRCP Lecturer in Spanish. (Edin). FITZGERALD, Steven Patrick, BA MSci PhD Camb, BERG, Maxine Louise, BA, DPhil, FBA, FRHistS. Lecturer in Applied Mathematics. DRAYTON, Bill, MA. GALLO, Edoardo, BA Harvard, MPhil Oxf, Lecturer in KROLL, [John] Simon, MA, BM, BCh, FRCP, FRCPCH, Economics. FMedSci. GODDARD, Stephen, MA DPhil Oxf, Lecturer in SLACK, Paul Alexander, MA, DPhil, FRHistS, FBA. French. TAYLOR, Charles Margrave, BA, FBA. HARGRAVE, Robert Mark, BSc East Ang, MA BPhil Oxf, Lecturer in Philosophy, PPE Admissions Foundation Fellows Organizer. DELLAL, Jack. HUNTER, Paul William, BSc Tasmania, PhD Camb, FOLEY, Martin Anthony Oliver, MA. Lecturer in Computer Science. MOYNIHAN, Jonathan Patrick, MA (MSc North KNOX, Eleanor, BA BPhil Oxf, Lecturer in Physics & London; SM MIT). Philosophy. SHIRLEY, Dame Stephanie, DBE (BSc London), CEng, LACZIK, Zsolt John, Dip Ing Budapest, DPhil Oxf, FBCS, FRSA, FREng. Lecturer in Engineering. WARBURG, Michael, MA, FCIS, FBCS. LITTLETON, Suellen M, BSc California, MBA Lond, WARBURG, Rosemary. Lecturer in Management. McHUGH, Stephen, MA Edin, MSc DPhil Oxf, Lecturer in Psychology. Fellow Commoner MRAZOVA, Monika, Ing ECP, Dipl-Ing TU Wien, HORE, Julia Delafi eld. MSc LSE, Lecturer in Economics, Deputy Tutor for Undergraduate Admissions. College Lecturers NEWBURY, Guy Talbot, MPhil Sussex, PhD BOARD, Mary, MA DPhil Oxf, Lecturer in Durham, MA Oxf, Lecturer in Music. Biochemistry. OCKENDEN, Ray Curtis, MA DPhil Oxf, Lecturer in BRONSTEIN, David Joseph, BA King’s College German. and Dalhousie, PhD Toronto, Lecturer in Ancient PALMER, Christopher William Proctor, MA DPhil Oxf, Philosophy. Lecturer in Physics. BURTON, Martin James, BA MA Camb, BM BCh MA QUARRELL, Rachel, MA DPhil Oxf, Lecturer in DM Oxf, FRCS Otolaryngology, FRCSORL, Lecturer Chemistry. in Clinical Medicine. QUINN, Natalie Nairi, BA MPhil Oxf, Economics BUSSE, Vera, Magister Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Teaching Assistant. DipLaTHE Oxf, Lecturer in German. RAVINTHIRAN, Vidyan, BA Oxf, MPhil Camb, CHOUDHURY, Robin P, BA BM BCh MA DM Oxf, Lecturer in English. Lecturer in Clinical Medicine. RITCHIE, Grant, BA DPhil Oxf, Lecturer in Chemistry. DE PENNINGTON, Nicholas, MA Camb, BM BCh SCATAGLINI-BELGHITAR, Giovanna, Laurea Trieste, Oxf, MRCS, Lecturer in Neuroscience. PhD Durham, Lecturer in Mathematics, Deputy Tutor DEER, Cécile Marie Anne, MA DPhil Oxf, Lecturer in for Undergraduate Admissions. French. STOUT, Rowland, MSc Sussex, BA BPhil DPhil Oxf, DONAPERTY, Maria, Lic. Salamanca, PhD Oviedo, Lecturer in Philosophy. Balliol College Record 5 TURNEY, Ben William, MA Camb, MB BChir MSc The Revd Marie-Elsa Bragg, Curate, St Mary’s Kilburn Oxf, MRCSEng, Lecturer in Human Anatomy & & St James’ West Hampstead. Genetics. Dr John Jones (Balliol 1961), the Senior Fellow. URNER, David Christian, Dip PhD Zurich, Lecturer in Physics. WALKER, Lisa Jane, BSc Manc, BM BCh DPhil Oxf, Lecturer in Pathology. WILSON, Charles Robert Eden, MA DPhil Oxf, Lecturer in Psychology. Preachers in Chapel Michaelmas Term 2008 The Revd Canon Beaumont Stevenson, Sometime Chaplain of the Warneford Hospital. The Revd Dr Teresa Morgan, Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History, Oriel College. The Revd Professor David Martin, Emeritus Professor, London School of Economics. Major Sean Cronin (Balliol 1993). The Revd Canon Brian Mountford, Vicar, University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford.

Hilary Term 2009 Mr Harri Williams (Balliol 2004). Miss Charlotte Leslie (Balliol 1997). Mr Ranjeet Guptara, Balliol Christian Union Guest. Mr Jacob Rigg, Speechwriter for President Obama. The Revd Angus Ritchie, Campaign for Living Wage. The Rt Hon the Lord Elis-Thomas AM, Presiding Offi cer of the National Assembly of Wales.

Trinity Term 2009 The Revd Bob Whorton, Chaplain, Sir Michael Sobell House Hospice. The Revd Dr Michael Screech, Fellow Emeritus, All Souls, Oxford. The Revd Barry Orford, Priest Archivist, Pusey House. Prof Jeremy Waldron, University Professor, NYU Law School.

6 Balliol College Record held, courtesy of Reuters, in London in June. A seminar The Master’s Letter on the crisis was proceeding smoothly, perhaps a little too smoothly, when one questioner said, ‘Your panel includes distinguished bankers, regulators, academics, senior civil A conversational gambit I sometimes deploy is to ask servants, and financial journalists, yet none of you is tak- ‘What are you worrying about?’ Unsurprisingly, almost ing the blame!’ everyone’s reply over the past year has been something to Here is not the place for a full reply to what is a highly do with finances – theirs or their company’s or their coun- pertinent question, though the crisis is certainly of suf- try’s. Although at the time of writing, stock markets are ficient magnitude that we should all be reflecting on it showing some signs of recovery, and some people are even rather more than appears currently to be the case. In the suggesting that the worst of the recession may be over, it is corridors of academia it is, after all, worth recalling that worth recalling that, last autumn, capitalism as we know most of those who have been key players in the crisis are it fell off a cliff. Then, the implosion of the world financial university graduates, some of whom we taught, and, if system was so rapid that government actions regarded as they seem ignorant of financial history or of the limits of impossible on one day became inevitable the next. Within mathematical models or the existence of Dr Pangloss, is a period of just a few weeks all the core principles of the that not at least partly our responsibility? political economy that had ruled supreme since the col- As far as the crisis and Balliol’s and Oxford’s finances lapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989 were torn up. Competition are concerned, there is – as you might expect – both good among the banks? – pass legislation today to over-ride news and bad. The bad news: first, like almost everyone that. Monetary control? – forget it. Balanced budgets and/ else, we have lost a significant amount of our endowment; or Golden Rules? – you must be joking. second, the University’s funding position is so tight that While the immediate sense of panic has perhaps passed, there is a near freeze on appointments; third, we know it would be a great mistake to think that we have yet seen that there are substantial adverse indirect effects still to anything like the full economic or political consequences. come, but we do not know when nor how much. Is the One small example: I am writing this letter on holiday in worst-case scenario a 20 per cent cut in the higher educa- Greece. The nearby village has a bed capacity of 5000, but tion budget, as it has been suggested is being considered, now, at the very peak of the season, a mere 700 are occu- or even more? And, if the axe falls – will that be this year, pied and with what knock-on effects? Building plots for or next, or when? sale everywhere as the local businesses have to sell some- It is a bit like sitting in the back carriage of a slow-motion thing – anything – to keep the banks at bay; the land that train crash. We have heard the initial bang and the luggage sells is at fire-sale prices; this depresses the value of all has fallen off the racks, but we don’t know whether we are other assets (including the land not up for sale) and so the going right off the rails or are just in for very bad shaking. reaction goes on. Keynes wrote a brilliant article about The good news is that at the worst point, when the precisely this process in Vanity Fair in 1931 with the tell- world’s financial markets were down 40 per cent, Balliol’s ing title ‘The Consequences for the Banks of the Collapse funds were down by only 20 per cent; and, having gone of Money Values’. liquid to a degree in advance of the crash, we entered the I am reminded of Keynes’ comments (including his crisis with more than £6m in cash (sufficient to fund draw- remarkable concluding paragraphs to The General Theory ings from the endowment for almost three years at our of Employment, Interest and Money in which he speaks normal rate without having to sell any assets at depressed of the immense power of ideas) not just by what I see in prices). And we had no money in Iceland! Greece but also by a comment made at a Balliol event Just as, if not more, important, the College has shown Balliol College Record 7 exceptional cohesion in its response to the worsening University. The reason is simple: the ordinary academic financial position. Everyone – staff, students, and Fellows was not convinced it was necessary. Nevertheless, cumu- – has agreed a series of actions (both economies and extra latively, the underfunding in terms of the requisite people, income) that will improve our position by more than skills, and equipment was becoming critical. As a result, £200,000 next year. The economies include a wage freeze in 2004/5 the University’s accounting and administrative for all the full-time employees of the College (Master, processes were in such disarray that cash was draining Bursars, scouts, secretaries, everyone) plus an impres- away; the accounts for 2003/4 were only finalized with sive matching contribution from all those (such as most external help from KPMG and, even then, submitted more Fellows) partly paid by the University. In aggregate these than ten months late; and, despite being dependent on moves will be enough to bring us into budget balance for funds per student, we did not know with any certainty next year. how many students we had! More problematic will be 2010/11 and 2011/12 when It is to John Hood’s credit that he has been willing to we expect to have to find substantial further economies. tackle these problems and to face the unpopularity of We were running a pretty tight ship even before the present investing in administration (while already being unpopu- round of cuts, so finding yet another round of reductions lar over governance). It was probably unwise to attempt will be extremely difficult. Indeed it will be hard even to to do both, but, having failed on governance, there is no sustain the economies we have put in place for next year: doubt about his success on finance. Net cash outflows of wages cannot stay frozen for ever and some ‘economies’ £85m and £68m in 2003/4 and 2004/5 were turned into (especially the deferral of repairs) soon become false econ- cash inflows in 2005/6 and 2006/7 of £82m and £25m. omies. Like the University, we will have to freeze posts And so, thank goodness, the University has entered the (especially in those cases where the University share of the current crisis with its finances under control. This is not costs is unlikely to be forthcoming). However, given that all. During his watch, two colleges – Templeton and Green we have started to think about this well ahead, given the – have been amalgamated (a first, I believe); two aca- willingness of everyone to pull together, and given your demic divisions have been merged; there has been a major support, I am sure we will make it. reorganization of the Saïd Business School; our research On a brighter note, it is remarkable how well Oxford income has nearly doubled; internationally we have been University manages to do on a much smaller endowment ranked second and fourth in the world in the last two years than almost all its main competitors. Indeed with the cur- (according to the Times Higher Education Supplement); rent Vice-Chancellor, John Hood, completing his five years and, domestically, we have been top of the Times Good of office this year, it is notable how well the University University Guide and the Guardian’s university rankings has performed over this period. Of course, the current VC in all of the last five years. generated much controversy early on with his plans for a There is a further quasi-success story to report, which major reform of governance – plans that were resound- brings its own complications. As many of you will know, ingly defeated in Congregation (even after they had been all UK universities have had to submit enormous quantities modified almost beyond recognition). All of this gener- of material to HEFCE so that the relative strength of our ated much media attention, but there is a complementary research can be assessed. Oxford had the best result of any view which is less well known but just as important. – undoubtedly helpful. The only problems are that, despite The fact is that, over a long period and despite the best coming top, less money has followed than we had hoped, efforts of previous Vice-Chancellors and Registrars, the and what has come has been accompanied by a strong University’s central administration has not been keeping steer that it should go to support Science, Technology, pace with the increase in the scale and complexity of the Engineering, and Maths – or STEM, in the acronymic 8 Balliol College Record world we now all inhabit. That’s fine for those parts of the include, inter alia, interviews with Balliol people: a stu- University but, if followed through too strictly, would be dent, Ambit Cho; an Old Member, Jon Moynihan (1967); disastrous for the Social Sciences and the Humanities. The a Fellow, David Vines; and, most recently, me.2 Perhaps Colleges would also lose money. Rationally, the University next year, this letter will be a video broadcast! Or maybe has decided to damp the changes, but the fact remains that not just yet! these twin pressures – less money in total and less in partic- Thinking about these interviews and our contemporary ular for Social Sciences, the Humanities and the Colleges ability to record and transmit almost everything, it struck – seem likely to keep grinding away below the surface. me that many of you might have liked to have been a fly Do I speak too much of the University and too little of on the wall in the final few days of Trinity Term. After a Balliol? freezing May and early June, Oxford at last turned on its There are two reasons for the balance. One is that in charms with a perfect English summer day for Encaenia my very first of these letters I undertook to do my best and long soft evenings for the multiple College end-of- to identify the key issues – and there is no doubt that term gatherings. Thus it was on Monday, 22 June – and over the next few years the macroeconomic picture and in the fading light of evening – we said goodbye at the the constraints on the University’s funds will be one of Retiring Fellows’ Dinner to John Jones. John has been our major concerns. The other is that, just like anywhere not just a Fellow for forty-three years, nor just a Dean else, the ways in which news about Oxford and Balliol for thirty, nor just a Vice-Master for five years, but also flows around the world are changing. It is not just that throughout his time at Balliol the College’s constant and almost all the material that Masters in the past would caring custodian. Its history, its archives, its portraits, its have put into this letter (the appointments of Honorary Registers of Old Members (in three editions), its guide Fellows, arrivals and departures, scholarly and sporting books, its Chapel glass, its sports, and its Trusts have all successes, the progress of building plans and so on) now been written or garnered or edited or restored or encour- appear in Floreat Domus; it is also that you are constantly aged or watched over by John. It was therefore fitting that updated with email newsletters, items on the website, and we had a record turn-out for the dinner when two former email chatter and texts from friends and acquaintances. Masters, Fellows, Emeritus Fellows, Honorary Fellows Anything written here about news items will therefore be and their partners gathered to acknowledge all that John weeks or months out of date by the time you read it. has done and contributed to the life of Balliol. Of course, A further sign of the times is another Oxford (and John being John, he is not really going as he is continuing largely Balliol) innovation. With the ever-energetic Denis both to mastermind the Historic Collections Centre at St Noble1 as presenter and in conjunction with Bill Dutton, Cross Church and to assist us with the re-writing of our the Director of the Oxford Internet Institute and a Fellow Statutes as a prerequisite for Charities Registration. of Balliol, Dr Sung Hee Kim, a distinguished Korean Two final words, both about statues. You may have broadcaster and member of the Balliol SCR, has set up seen in Floreat Domus the photo of the Antony Gormley Voices from Oxford (VFO). This is a series of documen- statue with the figure gazing wistfully down at Balliol (see tary broadcasts about Oxford viewable on the web. They overleaf). One Old Member has sent this to me with a

1 Denis has been Editor of the Record from 2005 until now. He fi nishes with this special edition and its marvellous collection of articles about the events of 1968. For his work, his imagination, and many other things besides, I offer him my warmest thanks. 2 www.voicesfromoxford.org/agraham_economistdigitalage.html Balliol College Record 9 thought bubble attached ‘I should have been at Balliol’. Quite right. But then, to keep everything in perspective, Holywell Manor has a new statue of Icarus created and donated by Raymond Petit (1975). Raymond tells me that inspiration for the sculpture came from the dangers of arrogance that might follow from Balliol’s claim to effortless superiority. Personally I like the statue a great deal both for itself and for its message.

Best wishes for the year ahead.

Andrew Graham

STOP PRESS The Norrington Table, now published officially by the University, has just appeared. We have slipped badly. In the last three years we have been 2nd, 4th, and 3rd, but this year we were 14th. We will look into this.

10 Balliol College Record good idea what was in people’s minds and, perhaps, what Introduction: the view from the possible compromises might be. It is hard to imagine now, but there was a period when Holywell some thought that Holywell might indeed develop into a separate graduate college (this also was one of the By Denis Noble (1963) demands). I remember a meeting at which Jack de Wet as Vice-Master told the graduates that this might be all This is an unusual edition of the College Record. Four right by him, but ‘where was the money to come from?’ decades on, and before memories fade, we are featur- Christopher’s private meeting with me showed just how ing a set of articles on the revolutionary period between seriously he took the situation. He came straight to the 1968 and 1975. These are somewhat arbitrary dates of point: ‘I would like you to go in there as Praefectus’. I was course. There were signs of the tumultuous events to shocked. come even in the Balliol I encountered when I arrived But that was not all. When I raised various objec- in 1963 as a Tutorial Fellow in Physiology. People were tions, including how I could possibly reject or, even more already discussing the absence of women and of College implausibly, implement what the students were demand- facilities for graduates. But, my first impressions were ing, he brushed it all aside. The Praefectus, he said, can more of a College basking in the glory of its highly suc- do what he wants. He was asking both that I should ‘go cessful Septcentenary Appeal. We were the first Oxford in there as Praefectus’ and then work it out for myself College to raise £1 million in an appeal – a huge sum, with no further instruction. It took me some time to real- corresponding to around £15 million today. ize the full wisdom of what he was doing. Some Fellows I believe that the issues of graduates and women played have described the Holywell system of governance, as a role i n t he ele c t ion of C h r istopher H i l l as M aster i n 1965 it was then at least, as an appointed dictatorship. If the since he expressed strong views on both. Establishing Praefectus is a democratic dictator1 then it works. As we Holywell Manor as a mixed sex Graduate Centre was well know, many of the arguments between the governing already on the agenda, and in 1967, when it opened, I moved my tutorial room to the Manor, excited by what body and the JCR in those years were very protracted and was to become one of Balliol’s great innovations, now frustratingly difficult. But, at a stroke, Christopher side- copied by many other colleges. But I certainly did not stepped all the main issues at Holywell. They only rarely anticipate that four years later I would be taken aside by appeared as an item on College Meeting agendas. Part of Christopher in one of his quiet little chats that often led the reason for this was that the Dean, Frank McCarthy, to people assuming responsibilities for which they never and I had a good understanding of each other’s roles. imagined they had either the relevant expertise or experi- Only rarely did I have to involve him, and his advice was ence. both kind and wise. He had just received a revolutionary set of demands I will refer only in passing to the problem faced by a from the graduates at Holywell, including the abolition of young don with two young children, hardly any furniture the office of Praefectus, so I thought that he simply want- – and even less money – when faced with the question ed an insider’s view of what was going on. I was myself of how to furnish the lodgings. What I do recall is early not much older than many of the research students, par- meetings with the graduates in the cavernous and nearly ticularly those from the USA on Rhodes scholarships, and empty lodgings (I am pleased to say that they are now I often stayed on for drinks and supper with them after beautifully furnished by the College) to discuss how to finishing tutorials. So he must have known that I had a proceed. There had been some informal discussion any- Balliol College Record 11 way in the period before I actually moved into residence, tive’ Master. With regard to College business and due but nothing very much had been resolved. order I think that is correct. But, when the chips were The line I took was to tell the graduates that I was there down he fully revealed his radical side. He rightly saw to see that they got their main demand, which was, effec- the creation of the mixed sex Graduate Centre as a major tively, to run the Centre themselves. I must have said some- achievement during his Mastership and was determined thing about the need for some rules, but that they were to that it should flourish. discuss what these should be and then bring them to the Was he, in retrospect, the right Master for the time? Joint Manor Committee. I was helped by the fact that I believe so. Of course, it doesn’t always need a radical the St Anne’s Fellow on the Manor Committee (the early to deal with a radical situation. But Christopher kept his Graduate Centre was a joint venture with St Anne’s which radical side only for when it really mattered to him and, provided the women graduates) was Jennifer Hart, who in his view, to the College. Balliol might have taken a very was in total sympathy with what I was doing. Malcolm different course under another Master. He did therefore Green was also involved and took the same view. leave his mark on its development, and certainly on the In fact, the main problem initially was with the domes- Graduate Centre. He was deliberately moving the master- tic staff. A few, though by no means all, were not at all ship well away from the model set by Sir David Lindsey happy with new rules, nor did they have much confidence Keir to a more consensual form. But that was precisely in a Praefectus who didn’t look like one. In those days, what we elected him to do. I doubt whether I could have my hair was quite as long as the revolutionaries’! I used managed a revolutionary Holywell Manor in the way to reflect on the strange fact that it was OK for Russell I did under a Keir mastership. One cannot understand Meiggs to wear his famous thatch, but not for me. Christopher’s period as Master or the Balliol revolution But all that was the relatively easy part. As monarchs itself without taking that as the starting point. must also know, when you give up power, people have a habit of asking why you need to be there at all. In that sense the revolutionaries were correct to propose abolition. My reply to that question was to re-invent the role Note of the Praefectus. From being a kind of dean, the post 1 had to evolve into a more academic and social role. And Not such a contradiction as it may seem – some royalty so the Praefectus’ seminars and the music parties began. have used that trick, famously the King of Spain, Juan Bread and circuses in place of revolution! Those who have Carlos 1, when he stopped the military anti-parliamenta- read my chapter, ‘Holywell Nights’, in Oswyn Murray’s ry revolt in 1981. Anecdotal History of Holywell Manor will know how that role developed and helped to create the ethos of the Denis Noble is an Emeritus Fellow of Balliol. He is Graduate Centre as we know it today. President of the International Union of Physiological It is a poignant fact that Balliol had Christopher Hill as Sciences (IUPS) and author of The Music of Life (OUP). Master during the decade following the events of 1968. When we elected him in 1965 I am sure no-one foresaw the ‘événements’ and how deeply they would affect Balliol and its Graduate Centre. But somehow it was appropriate to have a historian of the English Revolution at such a time. Andrew Graham’s speech at the memorial to Christopher in 2003 referred to him as being a ‘conserva- 12 Balliol College Record same hoops again. Alongside of themselves, they found 1968 and all that English schoolboys who in a kind of reciprocal way felt that their status as adults was challenged, indeed it was By Neil MacCormick (1963) denied by the concept of the undergraduate in statu pupil- lari. Everybody wanted to be grown up – at least, a lot of My Balliol days, both as Snell Exhibitioner 1963–5 and people did. No one quite agreed who belonged in the front as Felix Frankfurter Fellow 1967–72, were full of change, line of these changes, but many laid some claim to a place. challenge, and upheaval. The old understandings and Politics outside had full effect, too. We were living comfortable certainties of paternalistic Oxford were in through the crises of civil rights in the USA, decoloni- flux, finally in disarray. The Oxford of Evelyn Waugh, zation by European powers, and winds of change. The Max Beerbohm, even Ferdinand Mount, was in retreat. French Republic was struggling to assume stability, and It was held in low regard among many of the student – the Federal German Republic was seeking a new decency. ‘undergraduate’ – body of the period. It was time to put The ‘ruling class’ had run out of steam, and new ways of aside childish things. Time to build a muscular, adult, conceiving western polities and politics were in demand. ‘Beyond the Fringe’, ‘That was the Week that Was’, all Oxford, with full rights of participation for all. the great wave of anti-establishment satire – everything By no means everyone agreed, of course. Youths still was all undermining the old understandings. It all had arrived from school, and indeed from other universities, its local effect among us in Oxford, and in particular in elsewhere inside and outside the UK, for whom the Oxford Balliol. of tradition was that which they had come to enjoy. Gate Truly, times were changing and we changing in them. rules, womens’ hours, music hours, singing ‘Gordouli’ at My period as a Fellow of the College ran from October the tree, burning boats after successes on the river, punt- 1967 till September 1972, when I departed to take up the ing on the Cherwell – these were not badges of the shame Regius Chair of Public Law in Edinburgh University. But of oppressed juveniles. They were what people had come for the latter appointment, I would have taken up office for, what made Oxford special and different, like funny as Dean of Balliol in September 1972, having for some ties for Arnold and Brakenbury Debates, or whatever. time previously acted as Chair of a committee appointed In the aftermath of war, certainly, there had already to revise the College’s disciplinary code and procedures. been in the forties and fifties a cohort of much older and Other jobs I did included being Camerarius (at the time of more mature students passing through, in haste to get on Andrew Graham’s first election as a Fellow, so I fixed our with real life. For different reasons, they never had time to present Master up with his first College room), Assistant get involved in the politics of university organization and Tutor for Admissions, and in 1969–70, Pro-Proctor. governance. Getting qualified and getting on were what One way or the other, I was fairly well mixed up in mattered to them after years lost at war or in barracks. the concerns about unrest and discipline in College and They were followed by a last wave of gilded youth, and University during a turbulent time, of which the Paris then the sixties and seventies dawned. events of May ’68 were probably the focal point. Though Oxford by then was far from a simple add-on to pub- the times in Oxford were turbulent by contrast with what lic or grammar school. It was attracting disproportion- went before and what came after, it must be said that ately more graduates from elsewhere – Rhodes Scholars, they were placid compared with what went on in Paris, in Commonwealth Scholars, and all the motley rest of us. Chicago, and even in London, at Grosvenor Square dur- These were people who had achieved high undergraduate ing the riot at the US Embassy, in which no doubt some honours and did not want simply to be run through the Balliol people participated. Balliol College Record 13 For some, Balliol under Christopher Hill’s mastership other undergraduates I grew to know in the casual way was guyed up as the source of all vile subversive infection such relationships could flourish. Not all were happy, far in Oxford – Hugh Trevor-Roper’s occasional scurrilous less eager, to be railroaded into radical Balliol. They still but highly amusing Mercurius Oxoniensis epistles to the liked the old ways, or aspects of them, and wanted to get Spectator frequently decried the College as a hotbed of on with life and with studies undisturbed. There was a revolution spurred on by ‘Cobb the ranter’ and others. real issue of relative and potentially conflicting duty in The ‘Balliol wall newspaper’, the much-chalked wall of the background of one’s thought and activity. the Waterhouse Quad, was one of the chief sites of protest It was also, needless to say, an enormously busy time. messages and even appointments. Only once, however, on We had a lot of teaching to do with stacks of undergradu- the occasion of the daubing of the College Hall and SCR ate tutorials, and there were hugely exciting seminars and in protest against Edward Heath’s Honorary Fellowship discussions going on at the BCL classes in jurisprudence and the dinner in his honour, did anything like vandal- and in Herbert Hart’s and Ronald Dworkin’s rooms at ism invade the bounds of the College itself. That led to Univ. We were not only trying to bring or keep order to the rustication of the one detected malefactor, who had the governance of the University on new and fairer terms carelessly dropped a wallet at one of the scenes of crime. (Herbert Hart had chaired the Commission that reported A theme much discussed at the time was that of a ‘gen- on relations between Senior and Junior Members of the eration gap’ between the disaffected youth of the College University). We were, or thought we were, also wrestling – indeed, disaffected youth in general – and their vener- with what we saw as the front line of engagement with able seniors. This never convinced me. It seemed to me vital philosophical topics. On the domestic front, my that there was actually quite a gap between people of my wife and I had a home to run, and two daughters born own age, born just before or during the war of 1939–45 during my five years as a don. The wonder is not how and those born after it – subsequently dubbed the ‘baby much happened, but how we managed to keep up with boomers’. For my generation, life had been largely an it at all. experience of the amelioration of conditions following on Rivalry is often sharpest between those near in age. the grim years of war and post-war and rationing. On Towards the young revolutionaries, I suspect that some the whole the relative liberalism of our way of life con- of my more venerable colleagues found it easier than I trasted favourably with the USA of the McCarthy years did to take a wholly relaxed view of what was going on. and the troubled conditions of countries like France and Certainly, though, there were others who could become Italy, while Germany was working its way back to inter- very angry indeed about the way the ‘young men’ were national respectability under Adenauer and Erhardt. behaving. There was a strong sense of outrage over the Despite agreeing in substance that a time for real daubing of the SCR on the occasion of Edward Heath’s change was at hand, I found it difficult to take on board visit, in the context of protest about South African naval the degree of what seemed radicalized resentment of the bases. The issue was not about the bases themselves, but world about them that was experienced by our immedi- about how to sustain conditions of civility in the College ate juniors. Present contributors to this collection, like while contesting great political questions. Martin Kettle, and others had a sense of anger with the Disagreement about issues of political substance was University’s way of doing that never convinced me, even not the essential issue. Civil rights were an issue for us if there was plenty of room for sensible reform in college all. So was apartheid. So was the war – the Vietnam disciplinary and related arrangements. ‘Repressive toler- War was unjustified and cruel in its effects on people’s ance’ struck me as more tolerant than repressive. On the lives and was doomed to failure anyway. Very many held other hand, also, there were my various law pupils, and that view. There were archaic elements in University and 14 Balliol College Record College discipline and the previous approach to relations concede, also to the young radicals who were making the between ‘senior’ and ‘junior’ members of the University pace there in the sixties. was ripe for a measure of re-thinking. But the use of the demonstration and the sit-in – for example the projected Neil MacCormick (Snell Exhibitioner at Balliol invasion of the Clarendon Building – raised other issues 1963–65, President of the Oxford Union Society 1965, altogether. Fellow and Tutor in Jurisprudence at Balliol 1967–72, A recent letter to me from Andrew Graham as Master and Honorary Fellow 2009) was a renowned legal recalled an occasion when I chaired a discussion in the philosopher and Scottish politician. He very sadly lecture room under the SCR about the limits of reason- died from cancer on 5 April 2009 (see obituary on able protest in a University. We discussed in particular the page 43). He was Regius Professor of Public Law and issue when or whether the teaching and other activities the Law of Nature and Nations at the University of of a free institution of higher learning could properly be Edinburgh from 1972 until 2008. He was a Member disrupted however great the justified indignation of indi- of the European Parliament and officer of the Scottish viduals might be concerning the apprehended evil of the National Party (SNP). moment. I confess to having been then, and to remaining, resolutely of the view that repressive protest is worse than repressive tolerance. Christopher Hill became for me, then and thereafter, a principal mentor and guide in the exercise of academic authority. He led by example not precept. He treated people with universal courtesy, even under acute disagreement, and he largely succeeded in keeping not just the peace but the conditions of mutual cordiality across deep disagreements about substantive issues and about reasonable ways to pursue issues of substance. We had our moments of tension no doubt. But we remained a cohesive and coherent academic society. It has come as no real surprise that so many of the firebrands of that time have become respected figures commenting on affairs in a decidedly Hill-like way. Looking back on everything from yet further away, at the end of my own life, I must say how much I owe to the experiences of these years in Balliol. As a young Professor, and then a young Dean, in Edinburgh University from 1972, I was swiftly drawn into similar attempts at managed and civilized but substantial change and reform in governance, both among members of the academic staff and between academics and students. Real changes came about, and I remain glad for the contribution I made to the process. I certainly owed most of my understanding of it to Christopher Hill’s Balliol, and, as I must now Balliol College Record 15 a similar batch of actual or postulant nuns – of whom, Memories of turbulence incidentally, all but, I think, one of each had lapsed two or three years later.) At McGill, at the same time, one of By Alan Montefiore (1948) the main themes of student opposition to existing forms of authority and of associated demonstrations was one in Nineteen sixty-eight is, of course, remembered as a year favour of an unlikely transformation of that university of by now almost mythical student turbulence. But my into a ‘McGill Français’, a campaign of which a leader own memories of that year are not at all of what was in subsequent years was one of my own former Balliol going on in Balliol or even in Oxford more generally. students, an anglophone Montrealer of, if I remember Having just finished my first seven years back in Balliol rightly, Polish Jewish origin, who had taught himself as a Tutor in Philosophy, including a five year stint as the some fairly rudimentary French for the purpose – and first Tutor for Admissions after the splitting off of the whom, on one of my many return visits, I was only able functions of this post from those of the Senior Tutor, I to meet for a coffee in a local café after some complicated took advantage of the opportunity to take a full year of efforts at getting in touch via a network of ‘underground’ telephone contacts. In another register, I also remember Sabbatical leave. This took me for the first five months having among my students at McGill a certain number of 1968 to Montreal, where I taught in the very different of American students, who were there in partial effect as Philosophy Departments of (English-speaking) McGill refugees from conscription to the American army and to and the (French-speaking) Université de Montréal. This the Vietnam War, to which – it goes without saying – they was followed by two months at the University of Western were deeply and irreconcilably opposed. Australia and then five months at Singapore University. Towards the end of my appointed stay in Montreal and Students in all these places were naturally affected by the before going on to Australia, I had decided to return to events of the time, but – not surprisingly – in character- England for three weeks to see family there and, or so istically distinct ways. In Montreal the cause of French I had planned, other family members in Paris. But this Quebec nationalism was a main local preoccupation, was the month of May 1968, and once back in the UK I though this took different forms in each of the two univer- discovered that the only way of (possibly) getting to Paris sities in which I was a Visiting Professor. This was a time would have been by travelling to Belgium and by making at which local nationalists might put the occasional small my way to the border with France, where, if I was lucky, I bomb in a letter-box as one way of expressing the strength might have been able to hitch a lift for the rest of the way. of their views and feelings; and I well remember one of But as getting back again in time to catch my return flight my students at the U. of M. referring to Pierre Trudeau as to Montreal, where my immediate family was waiting, ‘un de nos traîtres à Ottawa – mais un des notres quand would have been even more uncertain, I decided that the même’. But it was also, of course, a time at which the emer- ‘possibility’ was so unreliable as to be effectively impos- gence of Quebec from being a very old-fashioned Church- sible, and that the prospect of a few days in Paris was once dominated society was still of fresh and sensitive memory again as remote as it had been during the years of the war. – Duplessis had only died as recently as 1960 – and my Perth provided a totally different environment; the memories include the embarrassed silence which greeted University of Western Australia was at that time still the my naïvely expressed curiosity in asking my U. of M. class only university in the State and was known as the univer- of about fifty students how many of them were practising sity that of all the universities of the world was furthest Catholics. (In fact, as I subsequently discovered, it includ- away from any other. My students there had, of course, ed at least three or four priests or apprentice priests and read about the goings-on of their contemporaries in 16 Balliol College Record other parts of the world, and felt fairly strongly that they long stop-overs in Delhi and Tel Aviv on the way – called, owed it to themselves not to miss out on this exhilarat- then, for a certain readjustment. It may go without fur- ing moment of action and protest. But what might they ther saying that in the Balliol of those days at any rate the be justified in protesting about? Knowing that I had just initials PPE might have stood for Pool of Political Energy, come from parts of the world where student protest was and though it would undoubtedly be an exaggeration to very much the order of the day, they sought my advice as say that every PPE student was actively caught up in the to what they might reasonably present as their grievances. student politics of the times, enough of them were to keep I cannot, to be honest, now remember exactly how our their tutors very much on their toes. All of us must have a consultations went, except that we were able to agree on fair store of assorted memories of those immediately post- what seemed to me to be a perfectly justifiable grievance. 1968 years, but, with the seemingly ever more rapid pass- It was at that time illegal for anyone under the age of 21 to ing of time, I have to confess to finding it hard now to allot consume alcoholic drinks in any public place, the univer- my share of them each to its appropriate year. So though sity premises included, which meant, incidentally, that it what follows is a fair representative sample, I cannot be would have been against the law for me to offer any of my confident of allocating each memory to its exact year of students a glass of sherry or wine or whatever in my room origin – those who may recognize their past selves as fig- at the university. So, Australia having committed itself to uring among them may very well be able to help me out. acting as an ally of the Americans in Vietnam, the protest So in no particular order: One of my more lasting slogan became ‘Old enough to fight, but too young to be memories is of being called upon to act as counsel for the allowed a drink’ – or something very much to that effect! defence, as it were, and in my capacity as his personal Singapore was, of course, a different story again. I was tutor, for the future holder of a distinguished Chair in one based for the five months that I was there at the (English- of our leading universities, who, as a PPE undergradu- language) University of Singapore where I spent most of ate, stood charged with having sought to mark a visit to my working time; but I did also take part in a regular the College of Ted Heath, the Prime Minister of the day series of seminars held at the then still existing Chinese- and, of course, a former Organ Scholar of the College, language Nanyang University. There, as I remember it by painting on the wall of the Senior Common Room, in at this distance in time, the campus was effectively bar- large and appropriately red letters, a distinctly disoblig- ricaded off, enabling the police to check on whoever ing message of greeting. The ‘hearing’ took place in the might be coming in or out. The reason for this lay in the Master’s Drawing Room, and some of my more outraged Government’s fears of Communist subversion and of the colleagues, as I remember it, were in favour of straight- force of attraction that the power of mainland China forward expulsion from the College. In the end, however, might have in particular for students coming from the agreement was reached on the lesser penalty of rustication Chinese-speaking section of Singapore’s (heavily major- for a term. The dissident in question duly reappeared the ity) Chinese population. And even at the University of following term – and went on to earn his solidly first-class Singapore, students – whether of politics or philosophy degree. (I also, incidentally, remember being impressed by or whatever – needed special permission before being how on a subsequent occasion the same Ted Heath, after allowed access to books on Marxism in the university dining in College, sat on in the Senior Common Room library. So one way and another, opportunities for stu- long after virtually everyone else had disappeared, ear- dent political or semi-political protest were pretty tightly nestly seeking to explain and to justify his support for constrained. the Vietnam War to one sceptical Junior Research Fellow My return to Balliol at the beginning of the Hilary term from whose anyhow unlikely vote he could clearly have of 1969 and to the realities of life in Oxford – with week- expected absolutely no politically significant advantage.) Balliol College Record 17 I have memories too of student rent strikes and of stu- ed as an academically entirely serious and indeed very dent occupations – in particular the occupation of the interesting student – and, moreover, that he could even be Sheldonian, when police on guard in the cold outside seen as likely to prove an example of calming influence of shared cups of warming tea with representatives of the painfully acquired responsibility to our own for the most occupying students from the inside. No wonder that one part much younger and less experienced dissidents. After of our Senior Status students from the States, who had much discussion, then, we agreed to offer him a place – himself been heavily involved in the much more robust subject, of course, to his being granted the necessary stu- movements of student protest back home, described the dent visa. Which, in the event, the Home Office minister local Oxford efforts to me as nothing but ‘Mickey Mouse of the day refused to grant – fearing, no doubt, the accusa- politics’; politics which he regarded as essentially childish tions that he would have had to face of being irresponsibly and in which as a visitor he prudently refrained from tak- soft in his leniency to foreign revolutionaries. And so in ing part. Not that they were not taken seriously by senior the end Rudi Dutschke never became a member of Balliol. members of the colleges and of the University as such, and I remember too arranging discussions in my room in Alan Montefiore is an Emeritus Fellow of Balliol. He Balliol between some of our most actively engaged stu- was Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy for over thirty years. dents and Michael Brock, at that time Senior Tutor and He is currently President of the Forum for European Vice-President of Wolfson and a prominent University Philosophy at the London School of Economics. figure, at which they exchanged their contrasting views of the situation and of what was at stake therein in notably courteous if mutually largely uncomprehending terms. And yet another memory from, I think, the latter part of that period, but which I cannot date with any precision: Rudi Dutschke, the very well-known, not to say notorious, leader of the German revolutionary student movements of the time, having somehow survived a serious assassination attempt which had cost him a bullet in his head, applied for admission to Balliol in order to read PPE. I remember very well how he came for interview, accompanied by his wife, and being very much impressed by the way in which he conducted himself and in particular by how he had succeeded in re-learning English, his previous apparently excellent knowledge of which had seemingly been shot out of that part of his brain that had been damaged. There was some considerable anxiety expressed by members of our Governing Body of the time at the prospect of admitting such a well-known activist from the continent and of the impact that this might have on the College’s reputation. We, the PPE tutors, were, however, able to convince our colleagues that in student revolutionary terms Dutschke was now a spent force and that in his current reincarnation he could safely be regard- 18 Balliol College Record rospect. Moreover most of them were long ago achieved It was right to rebel without Balliol or Oxford becoming, to quote a famous Oxford pamphlet of the time, a howling wilderness. By Martin Kettle (1967) One senior member once told me in all seriousness that he assumed I behaved as I did as JCR President – writ- At around the time that I got the invitation to write about ing open letters to the SCR, getting caught in breach of the Balliol événements for this edition of the Record I was College rules, making a deliberately political speech at going through some letters that my father Arnold Kettle the freshmen’s dinner – because I had been a pupil at AS wrote to me while I was an undergraduate at Balliol in Neill’s Summerhill School in Suffolk, where pupils had a the late 1960s. At that time my father was far away from vote on school issues and could decide not to attend les- England, teaching at the University of Dar es Salaam. In sons. It was an interesting theory. But it contained a cru- that pre-internet age the two of us wrote letters to one cial flaw. I never had anything to do with Summerhill in another fairly regularly. Since my father was both a uni- my life. The anecdote, trivial though it was, is a reminder versity professor and a lifelong Communist – he had that these were times of heightened feelings and strong joined the Communist Party at Cambridge in the 1930s emotions. People on both sides of the argument felt with some but not all of what that may imply – he was strongly about what divided them. Not everyone behaved extremely interested in what I wrote to him about events well all of the time. As Christopher Hill once put it to me, in Balliol, where I was JCR President. neither the old nor the young had a monopoly of either In one of his letters, dated 10 November 1969, he wrote wisdom or foolishness. as follows: ‘You sound very busy. I should think the Forty years on, it is tempting to dismiss the so-called important – though not the easiest – thing with the dons Balliol revolution as an even more marginal event than it is to avoid personal attacks as far as possible. Of course seemed to many at the time. After all, in the hierarchy of they will always stall on demands they don’t like as they 1960s tumult, Britain was always rooted in the relegation will hope to get a more amenable JCR committee next zone, surpassed and outclassed for revolutionary glam- year. I do think it’s important from the students’ side not our by Vietnam, Czechoslovakia, South Africa, France, to regard the SCR as the class enemy, however stuffy and Germany, Italy, Japan, Poland, Spain, Mexico, and the maddening they may be. I know you agree.’ United States, among others. Within Britain itself, Oxford I did agree. I still do. I quote this letter because it is a was never the scene of the greatest campus dramas either; pretty accurate reminder of the temper of the times. In that accolade went variously to LSE (above all) and places an intimate and self-regarding environment like Balliol, such as Hornsey Art College, Manchester, Cambridge, where everyone knows everyone else and where everyone Warwick, and Essex. However, when Oxford did flare has an opinion about everything, campaigns that seemed up, as it did intermittently between 1968 and 1975, any- to some of us wholly political could rapidly turn personal. thing that happened always attracted disproportionate Sometimes that was our fault. But not always. Some mem- national media attention and was taken with the familiar bers of the SCR reacted very badly to student radicalism self-absorbed seriousness in Oxford itself. Nevertheless, in Balliol in 1969. They found it – and us – offensive and Balliol was rarely the focus of any serious discontent – they were careless about how they showed it. Some senior which tended to centre on the University rather than on members seemed always ready to believe the worst of us the colleges. In my time, the peaks of student radicalism and perhaps one or two of those still living still do. I regret were the campaign against the Proctors’ ban on politi- that, now as then. But I don’t and won’t apologize for the cal leafleting in 1968, the occupation of the Clarendon radicalism. Its goals were actually quite modest in ret- building in 1970 over the issue of student files, and the Balliol College Record 19 very large campaign against Margaret Thatcher’s plan era rather than the start of one. It seems to me that May to restrict the funding of student unions in 1971. All of 1968, an extraordinary month, had more impact on the these were University-wide issues. To me, therefore, talk way we saw Balliol than anything that Christopher Hill of a Balliol revolution seems exaggerated, perhaps even or the SCR might do. somewhat solipsistic. Our involvement and even our interest in British poli- Nevertheless, Balliol was part of the student world and tics – and certainly in Labour party politics, which most the student world of those years was unquestionably a of us despised – was often, in fact, quite low. By con- world in political ferment to an unusual degree that has trast, some knowledge and even experience of African been unmatched since. Balliol certainly had an extremely freedom movements was not uncommon. Experience political reputation in those years. It derived in part from of the Middle East or even Northern Ireland was more the College’s past and in part from its then present – Denis unusual, while no one whom I knew of student age had Healey, Roy Jenkins, and Edward Heath were major if ever been anywhere near Vietnam itself. Some of Balliol’s distant Balliol figures, while all the College’s economists most prominent left-wing students of that era certainly seemed to be seconded to Downing Street and the Treasury had developed Marxist political sympathies before or at some time during the Wilson years. It also derived from shortly after arriving in Oxford – I am thinking of people Christopher Hill’s presence as Master, though not from like Tony Hodges, Aidan Foster-Carter, Peter Goodwin, any great involvement of his in events beyond Balliol’s Christopher Hitchens, Jonathan Slack, John Gledhill, walls – I could always rely on Christopher to sign a peti- Simon Mohun, and myself (the last three of us were more tion, but he was never one of the handful of Oxford sen- than once referred to by the Dean as the three Yorkshire ior members who associated themselves publicly with Marx brothers). Very few of us, though, had ever been the student revolt. There were very few Howard Kirks in behind the Iron Curtain, and even fewer had any serious Oxford either – Kirk is the egregious central character in sympathies for the Soviet Union – if we did, they did not Malcolm Bradbury’s 1975 novel The History Man – and outlast the invasion of Czechoslovakia. none of them, as far as I can recall, was in Balliol. Andrew JCR politics was an offshoot of this politicization for Graham certainly was never in that category, that’s for some of us. Many on the left, however, took only a desul- sure. tory interest in such bourgeois deviations. Some had the Nevertheless, Balliol student radicalism overwhelm- University rather than the College in their sights. Others ingly took its cues and drew its energy from the wider preferred to focus on the Cowley car workers. ‘Martin, if world, rather than in response to anything intrinsic to the you can persuade Balliol to rename itself the Fritz Teufel College, or even Oxford, itself. Many of the more politi- Institute of Ideology, then maybe it’s worth voting for cized of us on the left saw ourselves, however improbably, you’, I remember one doubter with bigger ideas saying in an international context. We called ourselves revolu- to me. Teufel was a situationist prankster in the student tionaries more because we were committed to the free- movement in Berlin whom a few of us venerated from dom struggles of oppressed peoples abroad than because afar. I said I would try; it was another broken political we had immediate expectations that we would ourselves promise. For many, though, the political prank was as far take part in some classic revolutionary upheaval here. as it went where interest in Balliol politics was concerned. Thinking back, I have an abiding image of many of us in Probably our finest hour of that sort was on May Day the TV room next to the Lindsay Bar watching the nightly 1968 when, fired with zeal at events in Hue and Paris, news reports from Paris in May 1968 and debating with we crawled and clambered our way into various inac- some disbelief the apparent rebirth of the revolutionary cessible roofs and hidden corners of the College so that, tradition – in many ways 1968 was to prove the end of an when dawn broke, red flags could be seen flying from 20 Balliol College Record various holes and vantage points in the building. Some of private we used to talk about our supporters, Tammany the flags remained there for much of the day – the Oxford style, as ‘de boys’. Will de boys back that idea? How far Mail carried a black and white photo of one over the lodge are de boys willing to go? How do we make sure de boys – defying the efforts of the College servants to get them stay throughout a long JCR meeting like the once famous down. Whoever it was who got up early one morning and ‘fascist fruit’ debate? wrote Chairman Mao’s words ‘It is right to rebel’ in the For some years after I left Oxford, I kept a large box newly fallen snow one winter in the quad – an event that crammed with JCR minutes and other political ephem- was reported in a national newspaper diary – was part of era of the period – not least the red ‘Balliol JCR’ banner that, too. which I once carried (with Melanie Phillips, of all people) It was right to rebel. Yet, for me and a few others on on the anti-Thatcher march in 1971 and of which some- the left, JCR politics were also a serious business. I was how I had become the custodian. In the end, though, the very impressed with how Aidan Foster-Carter’s JCR box became a dusty encumbrance in the attic. Eventually committee, elected in 1968, had a College reform agenda I returned it all to Balliol. It seemed the best place. I hope and really did their homework. I moved my first motion the college can live with its memories of those years more in a JCR meeting at about this time, arguing that the comfortably than it occasionally lived with the reality. Latey report on reducing the age of majority from 21 to 18 meant that undergraduates should now be entitled Martin Kettle writes for the Guardian on British, to shape the College in which we lived. This embodied European, and American politics, as well as the media, the way in which we looked at the College and when law, and music. our term came in 1969 we were very well prepared and extremely focused. Our aim, Jonathan Slack used to say, must be to eliminate all ‘reactionary College practices’, so we focused on a series of issues, like the wearing of ties and gowns in hall, restrictions on women guests, front gate opening hours – and even the now forgotten JCR contraceptive machine (those were days of sexual as well as political exuberance) – all of which seemed to us to embody the reactionary Oxford culture against which we rallied. Such phrases were mostly used tongue in cheek – but pseudo-Bolshevik language was in vogue then, so we talked about progressive elements, friends of the people, objective allies, and counter-reactionary forces. We were not at all left sectarian, though, and we were extremely thorough about ensuring that we won elections and votes through big tent politics that would have done credit to New Labour at its zenith. Geoff Eley, Dan Shapiro, and I probably knew the College List off by heart, working out ways to appeal to otherwise improbable allies like the boat club and the God squad. We knew who everyone was and we knew whether we had any hope of winning their support. We had a good canvassing system and in Balliol College Record 21 suppose that most voters most of the time would come to The revolution that wasn’t support the socialist idea. In the event, the disappearance of socialism has been one of the most significant proc- By Richard Jenkyns (1967) esses of the last forty years. The soi-disant revolutionaries were in fact remarkably unaware of what was going Not many people, I should guess, have attended a sit-in on around them in the real world. The scouts were made wearing a dinner jacket, but I can claim to be among members of the people’s collective of the JCR (until it was them. The Leonardo Society was a serious group that remembered what a conservative body of men they were usually met in Steven Lukes’s room to hear one of our and the proposal lapsed), but I cannot remember anyone number read a paper; ‘Wittgenstein’s Aesthetics’ was a pressing for the College to admit women. It was a boys’ typical subject. But our secretary decided that for once we world. should have a dinner, and we dressed up for the occasion. Kipling brought antinomianism to the school story in Our modest meal ended, we strolled down the Broad to Stalky and Co, and in some ways, the student stirs of take a look at the Clarendon Building, then under student the sixties were an updated and disguised version of that world: it was like a boarding school jape. The leaders of occupation. The sansculotte on the gate was reluctant to the left were disproportionately from public schools or else admit us, but someone recalled that Chris Hitchens was were the offspring of the left establishment (MPs, profes- standing for some JCR office, and might appreciate a few sors, etc). And as it happens, the first two presidents of the more votes. A message was passed to the great man, the JCR during my own time at Balliol were Old Etonians, as wrought-iron gates swung open, and we were in. was Tony Hodges, the most prominent figure in ORSS. I Looking back on the revolution, I am struck by how moved to Corpus for my first graduate year. It was said little it affected the traditional character of undergradu- that if revolution swept the streets, Balliol and Corpus ate life. The Victorian Society flourished mightily, the were the two colleges where it would make no difference, Arnold and Brakenbury staggered on, the Annandale Balliol because the revolution had already occurred there, (for posh people to get drunk) was refounded, and the and Corpus because, tucked away in a corner of Merton Lime Society (for less posh people to get very drunk) did Street, they would never find out. At Balliol the school not lack for members. The Gordouli, complete with its most represented in the undergraduate body was Eton, relics of Edwardian slang, was lustily sung. Meanwhile, at Corpus a grammar school in the Rhondda. Needless long discussions in the small hours over foul mugs of to say, these Old Labour Welshmen had no time for fun instant coffee about life, love, religion, and politics were revolution. an important part of my own undergraduate experience. It is not just that the revolution was out of touch with Such things seem, in retrospect, almost timeless; it is the the reality of its own time; it was essentially backward revolution that now looks dated. Oxford Revolutionary looking, the end of an old story, not the beginning of Socialist Students, or ORSS – the acronym resembled that something new. It is obvious now – actually, it was pretty of a nation (and an empire) that has since ceased to exist. obvious at the time – that far from this being a proletar- But curiously the word that now seems the most out- ian revolution it was essentially aristocratic in character. moded of them all is ‘socialist’. In those days it was easy This was the late afternoon of a world in which the priv- enough to believe in the triumph of socialism. One might ilege of life as an Oxford undergraduate was taken, in or might not welcome the prospect, but with the decline perfect unselfconsciousness, as an entitlement; where, as of deference, the growth of a public-sector clientela and it seemed, hardly more than Anthony Blanche and Lord the moral claims of equality, it was plausible enough to Sebastian did you need your tiresome tutor to help you 22 Balliol College Record to a good degree and write the references that would get Keeping the revolutionary spirit up increasingly needed you the job you wanted. It is very different now. I do not the invention of grievance. The idea was fabricated that mean, of course, that all the student left were posh; I do the University was keeping secret files on students. The mean that undergraduates, from all backgrounds, were graffito ‘No files’ appeared all over the city, which as still living in a style and a milieu that had been formed by an indicative statement was perfectly correct. However, the more or less upper classes, across centuries, into an Frank Willis-Bund did not cool the atmosphere by tapping aristocratic shape. After all, the eight-hour JCR meeting his forehead and saying, ‘My files are in here.’ Then there was, in its own way, an example of conspicuous leisure. was the affair of LSE. The authorities of that institution ORSS began skilfully. They dug out an old regulation had erected some doors, obviously an act of calculated about political leafleting that was more or less indefensi- villainy. The Balliol JCR debated the situation. One gal- ble in modern circumstances, and told the Proctors that lant spirit stood up to argue that violence should be reject- they were going to defy it. The Proctors took the bait, and ed in favour of the Christian way of love. This produced a then allowed themselves to be besieged in the Clarendon flood of eloquence from one of the College’s Americans, Building. They emerged to make a concession, and then who explained that putting in doors was a provocation not much later, another concession. It looked as though that had compelled the students to break them down. student protest could actually achieve something, even if ‘Doors are violence!’ he proclaimed. ‘Violence is love!’ it was only making our elders look silly. But six months Nitpickers may notice some internal inconsistency in the later overconfidence wrecked the credibility of ORSS: argument, but it was a great success at the time. they besieged All Souls. They had committed the mistake Sometimes frivolity broke in more consciously. There of making demands that their target could not have con- was the issue of Fascist Fruit (boycotting Outspan orang- ceded, however weak they were; in other words, they had es from South Africa). One speaker pointed out that there engaged in a battle that they were certain to lose. were only two acceptable countries in the world, Cuba In the event, the weather in that early November was and North Vietnam, but Castro had recently been perse- especially foul, and most of the protestors and their plac- cuting pooves and Ho Chi Minh had in some other way ards gradually slunk away. Warden Sparrow was hav- offended against the revolutionary purity of the JCR. ing the time of his life. The All Souls Day gaudy was a The JCR committee should accordingly be instructed to howling success. The story goes that the Warden sent the starve itself to death on behalf of the people as a whole. college butler across the quad with glasses of brandy for This was passed with acclamation. the few bedraggled besiegers who were holding out in the Gibbon famously said that his experience in the cold and rain, and that they took them. I am not sure Hampshire militia had not been useless to him as an his- whether this actually happened, but it is certainly true torian of the Roman empire, and in similar spirit I reckon that Sparrow managed to capture an ORSS banner. A few that the experience of those student stirs has taught me days later, when he handed it back to Hilary Wainwright something about the psychopathology of real revolutions (La Pasionaria of the Oxford Revolution) and a small – some genuine idealism and high (if perversely applied) group of other enragés, they found it had been emended intelligence in the early stages, followed by a later and less to read ‘Oxford Revolutionary Socialist Stupids’. A pho- appealing stage marked by the invention of imaginary tograph records the moment: smiles all round. This was enemies, bullying, meanness of spirit, and a pleasure in a cunning piece of childishness, exposing the protestors destructiveness for its own sake. for the fun revolutionaries that they really were, happy When I myself became a proctor and had to deal with to end the story with a drink in the lodgings. This was the occupation of a building in protest against the gov- indeed Lenin lite. ernment’s student fees, I found myself feeling that I could Balliol College Record 23 have given the protestors some useful advice. Like ORSS before All Souls, they had chosen a battle that they were certain to lose: they were asking the University to give up £20,000,000 a year, and however feeble you might have supposed it to be, it could not possibly have com- plied. I would also have dissuaded them from hanging out a banner reading, ‘Blair, could you afford to study here now?’, since the answer was obviously yes. We also had to deal w ith u nderg raduates who were ref using to pay up. We were truly brutal: we cut their e-mail accounts. This ruthless act brought immediate payment from all but one recalcitrant, who opened his own account. I was delighted to see (what a thing it is to be admired by the young) that he had chosen as his electronic name spiritof68. We’re history.

Richard Jenkyns is Professor of the Classical Tradition and a Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall. He was made Public Orator of the University in 2004.

24 Balliol College Record attendance at Harvard Medical School while I did a DPhil The Balliol revolution: an degree in physiology at Oxford. Deep down I wanted to be a writer, but I had almost failed the freshman writing American view class at Harvard and was convinced that I had no talent in that direction. In college from 1962–66 I had partici- By Stephen Bergman (1966) pated in protests that led to putting the civil rights laws on the books, and against the Vietnam War. It was just In early November of 1963 I found myself sitting beside a what you did. To buy and wear an SNCC button (Student girl in a packed, chilly, but sunny Harvard University sta- Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) with white and dium watching the Harvard–Dartmouth football game. black hands clasped, and talk the talk – you’d have to be It was our first date in Boston, and things were going well. heartless not to join in. And, let’s face it, to wear it was cool. Shortly before half time something strange happened – When I arrived at Oxford I was remarkably naïve about something I had never experienced before, or since. politics, government, and history. I had never before been Despite the play on the field, a sense came over us all, and outside the United States. I was ripe for something else to then a hush. Suddenly 30,000 eyes were on the fifty-yard happen in my life, and, looking back over these forty-two years, everything did. Balliol, I soon learned, was not only line of the Harvard side, as a thin, well-tanned young the most ‘diverse’ – in terms of Africans and Asians – col- man in a dark suit, his sandy hair blowing in the breeze, lege, but the most radical one, a hotbed of political thought entered and walked to a seat, accompanied by two others and action. My time at Balliol would have grown me up in suits. Word rippled through the crowd: President John under any circumstances, but with the ‘revolution’ – in val- F. Kennedy had come back to his alma mater to watch the ues, politics, generations, arts, and action in the service of game. He sat a few rows away from us. My roommate got injustice – it changed my life utterly. his autograph. Two weeks later, driving down to the Yale Much of it was so damp and strange that it was pure game, we heard on the radio that he was dead. misery. Because of a mix-up, I was the only one of my In late September of 1966, after a freezing, seasick jour- American Rhodes friends to be stuck living in the College ney on the Queen Elizabeth and a confusing bus trip from itself – up on the second floor of a drippy turret of the S out h a mpton , we R ho de s s chola r s were dep o sited , one by dread staircase 3. One closet-sized room, with a sink and one, at our colleges in Oxford. I was sitting beside a friend a window that did not close fully, and a patch of moss from Harvard, Terrence Malick. He, from Oklahoma, thriving in a corner of the ceiling, faced the Broad; the had been especially seasick and mortally miserable. The other, smaller room far down the cold, stone-floored hall- bus stopped at Balliol – actually at a high wall between way, with a desk and chair, faced the Quad; the bathroom Balliol and Trinity that was being rebuilt. The day was was down a flight and next to what smelled like a slaugh- cold and rainy, and seeing the barbed wire on the top of terhouse. My friends were all in Holywell Manor, and I the wall, Terry groaned and said, so loudly that all the rest started hanging out there. Not that it was warm, or dry, of us heard it clearly, ‘Dachau!’ but comparatively it was heavenly. Not only the rooms, On the trip over, it seemed that most of the thirty-two but the girls. With our testosterone levels, and with the Rhodes scholars were already campaigning to become braless-look/mini-skirts that together were a kind of rec- Secretary of State. I was not in the running. The son of a lamation of natural resources for each and every woman, dentist who wanted (and wanted me) to be a doctor, I was a to have girls – even inscrutable upper-class English ones pre-med psychologist/scientist who was hell bent on find- – next door was sexy. And if the door was locked at some ing the biological basis of memory, and was deferring my early hour, well, there were ways to get in, and we did. The Balliol College Record 25 Warden of Rhodes House, E.T. Williams, laid out the two from all over the world. Prabhat Patnaik, a brilliant gentle rules of the American scholars’ trajectory at Oxford. First: economist who was at Balliol as one of the two Rhodes ‘Rhodes scholars are young men with a promising future scholars from India my year, was a constant friend, soul- hidden somewhere in their past’; second: ‘you Americans mate, and introduction to a left-wing view of economy and spend your first year winding down, and your second politics, shadowed by my first dim awareness of that great year winding back up.’ ‘Winding down’ immediately sub-continent of Asia. I had never questioned the virtue took a decadent turn: booze, pot, girls, love, sex, morning of capitalism before, and now, with him and other leftists films (I once saw three double features in one day camped of Balliol, in the carnage of Vietnam, I sure did. Politics, out in the dark of the theatre in Jericho), and getting the economics, philosophy, revolution, history – things were hell out of Oxford to some sunshine further south. And linking up! Looking back I see that this great unwieldy talking. A typical day would be breakfast in the market, university was working on me by demanding I open my coffee at a pub, lunch at a Chinese, tea anywhere, drinks eyes to two new worlds. History, at every step history. in a pub, dinner at one of the Indian restaurants (note: ‘Step’, yes, for I remember the first time I stepped through after my first meal in Hall I never went back – there are the small door in the big door into Balliol, finding my foot some things even a young man, even when hungry, won’t treading in the hollow in the stone that had been formed eat – we navigated Oxford by the cheap restaurants, from by seven-hundred plus years of feet. I had never thought the grand Taj to the reeking Dilduedenum, né Dildunia), history important, and now I started to understand. Not and then talk/party in someone’s rooms or a pub. Each of just about what had happened, but about how to change these daily events was with a different person or persons, history for the better – about resistance. The other world, although dinner was often our inner ‘radical’ group, gath- which was essential for the revolutionary time I found ered from around the globe. And talk we did – in a way it myself in, was the whole rest of the world that gave me was all we did – and laugh, and drink, and smoke. This a new insight into America. From friends coming from was my real education at Balliol. And it was an educa- Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia, South America – I saw tion across countries, races, and class. I’d never even got America fresh. And what I saw, with the Vietnam War, to know a European, until then. My Rhodes athleticism was not pretty. Many of these countries were recently was golf, and I recall many days on the golf team playing freed from colonial rule. I had been against the war on practice rounds with two South Africans: Balliol’s Abner human grounds but suddenly now I saw clear as a rare Moses Sonny Skwambane, and Nick Oppenheimer, of fine Oxford day how this American colonial war, follow- the Oppenheimers. Where else but Oxford? ing the French colonial failure, was historically doomed, My revolution was personal and political. I had broken an obscene, st upid failu re that would rat tle dow n th roug h up with my Harvard girl. If I hadn’t got the Rhodes and history for a long time (four decades later, we hear it in had stayed on the Harvard medical track we would have the debacle of Iraq, as well as of that historical killer of been married. My depression fuelled my risk-taking; my empires, Afghanistan). The Domino Theory? Get real. It credo was that, when offered a chance to do anything, to was a first insight into the delusional innocence of my say ‘Yes.’ One summer I was loaned an elephantine BMW country of birth. It fuelled and ignited my resistance to 650 motorcycle and decided to ‘hit a ton’ (go one hundred the draft. miles per hour) and – without a shirt, helmet, or shoes, and And so the years of revolution became personal. fairly drunk – did so on a long downstretch on the A34 Everything was on the table, and after one of those month- through the Cotswolds to Stratford, riding the cats-eyes in long wild and woolly 1960s road trips in a VW to Morocco t he m idd le as ca rs passed by on eit her side. Balliol broug ht with my Balliol economics buddy Steve Schaffran (see me in touch with sophisticated young men and women ‘The Computer and the Belly Dancer’, The American 26 Balliol College Record Oxonian, 122–132, Spring 1996), I understood that the by the JFK assassination; now, from 3000 miles away we whole trajectory of my life that had been heading along a watched the assassinations of Martin Luther King and conveyer belt toward medicine and science with little con- then Robert Kennedy – and our hearts were ripped again. sciousness, was secondary to something I always knew To us, America had gone crazy. Watching this carnage was primary that had never been acknowledged, to be a from the hinge of Europe, Africa, and Asia, for the first writer. The preconceptions of my identity fell away. I read time America was a foreign country, not our own. I began everything I could get my hands on about history, politics to understand that the people in charge, though of a high – I made friends with the Balliol economics don Richard surface-tension intelligence, when it came to history and Portes and his wife Bobby and joined them, summers, at Asian culture and basic deeply human concerns, were Lord Tommy Balogh’s house in the Dordogne. One night shallow idiots, at best idiots savants. Secretary of State in the summer of 1968, sitting by the fire burning the Dean Rusk, a former Rhodes scholar (non-Balliol), was day’s garbage, we listened to the broadcast of the Czech one of the worst; hadn’t he, at Oxford, learned anything revolution. I remember another night, drinking Gorge about world history and culture and how, for an occu- d’Enfer wine as we sat at a café on the banks of the Vezere pying power using standard-issue violence in a distant in Les Eyzies de Tayac, Tommy answering Richard’s com- country against a dedicated resistance movement defend- plex mathematical analysis of something economic with, ing their homeland, failure was assured? Hadn’t he read ‘Well my dear boy, it all boils down to whether they pre- his history of the American Revolution? Was he not aware fer cheddar or brie.’ Back at Oxford, night after night a of John Adams writing of the American colonies’ resist- shifting group with a core of Harvard friends would sit ance that ‘The revolution was accomplished before the around someone’s room (Holywell Manor, again) and war began’? Having opened up to a wider world of under- talk politics and how we could stop the war. I soon went standing at Oxford, I looked upon the administration as from someone on the fringes, interrupting often because comprised of banal technocrats with no – to use a Yiddish I didn’t even know the names or the laws they were men- word I grew up with – ‘seichel’, heartfelt sense. tioning, to someone whose learning curve for resistance The central concern of us Americans was the draft. was steep – as steep as the curve of learning to write – and Nothing focuses the mind like an impending execution; even though I kept on with my research teaching cock- ’Nam was that, and focus we did. We talked about it con- roaches to lift their legs under the hands-off supervision stantly, deciding whether, if called, we would go, or not. of the most remarkable scientist/humanist I had ever met, There was a split in the group; many of the Rhodes, espe- Denis Noble, it was clearly more and more secondary, as cially from the patriotic south and Midwest and military he, of course, saw before I did. The second year I moved academies, were gung ho war. My group would never go; out of digs and rented a cottage in Kirtlington called either we would game the system to find deferments (fake ‘Noah’s Ark’ – it was, in fact, that damp – and began to degrees, fake physicals), become conscientious objectors write. I wrote every day, or rather every night (I worked – a little late, for that – or choose exile in England or from the time I got back from the pubs in Oxford until Canada. At one point I got a scary letter from my draft 4 am), mostly poetry and short stories and plays. And of board in my broken-down town of Hudson New York, course I went to every play, concert, modern dance, and telling me to return at once for a pre-draft physical – luck- other art in Oxford, Stratford, and London that I could ily it was a clerical error. My Morocco-adventure buddy afford. The revolution in theatre and literature and art at Steve Schaffran was safe because he had been offered a that time was another explosion that rings true, even now. Balliol lectureship – on condition that he pass his BPhil Nineteen sixty-eight of course was the horrific, defini- exam in economics. He failed it – and was suddenly draft tive year. Five years before, our lives had been ripped apart meat. Russell Meiggs, Praefectus of Holywell Manor, Balliol College Record 27 took him out to the garden and walked him around and At the end of my Rhodes deferment in 1969 I faced a asked him why he’d failed. At the end of the walk Russell choice: Vietnam or Harvard Med. I wanted to be a writer said, ‘Balliol was going to elect you before the exam, and but I needed a deferment and a meal ticket, and medi- Balliol is going to elect you after the exam.’ cine was both. I left Balliol in August and went straight All the Rhodes scholars in residence, feeling our self- to Harvard Medical School. Instead of strawberries and importance as only young men can, spent a month draft- cream on the lawn it was cadavers and formalin in the ing a Letter to the President (LBJ) about Vietnam, which basement. I hated it, yearned for Oxford, and soon began in final form was so watered down that anyone could sign realizing, through my ‘aberrant’ views and actions, how it (not quite anyone, for those who were concerned about much I had changed. In the spring of 1970 as we began it coming back to haunt them at their confirmation hear- ‘The Kidney Block’, it was revealed that Nixon had been ings for Secretary of State or their run for the Senate or secretly bombing Cambodia, and at a protest at Kent their march up the military mountain, despite agreeing State University, the Ohio State National Guard mur- with the letter, would not sign). And in late 1968 when dered four demonstrating students. The universities went LBJ – the one whom we had cheered with his champi- out on strike. We at Harvard had to decide whether to oning the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act in join them. There were passionate speeches: ‘If we go out 1964 and 1965 – started bombing Vietnam ‘back to the on strike we’ll never learn the kidney’ versus ‘To hell with Stone Age’, we raged at the TV, and we took to the streets, the kidney, let’s go!’ We went out on strike. I never learned the kidney. Taking the pen-name Samuel Shem, I wrote and Europe exploded and we joined in that explosion in my first novel, The House of God, about internship train- Oxford and London and Paris and Rome and Madrid and ing at the Beth Israel Hospital in Boston 1973–74. I owe Berlin and Amsterdam and we would never, ever, see our the tone, and the success, of that first novel to Balliol. The home country the same way again. Racial justice? Gone. first chapter is set in southern France at what was Denis Doing ‘good things in the world’ and ‘being the great- Noble’s country house, looking back over the internship est force for good in the world in history’? Forget it. We year. The novel grew from my outrage at the way that took to the streets and guess what? One day we found the received wisdom of the medical/hospital system was ourselves glued to the TVs again as we heard LBJ say starkly at odds with the values of us fresh and idealistic that he would not run for re-election for president. We interns trained by our experience of resistance in the six- cheered. Little did we know that this revolutionary time ties. One can read the novel as a primer on non-violent in America called ‘the sixties’ would scare the hell out of resistance to an u njust authorit y, in the ser vice of bring ing the ‘silent majority’ that made up our astonishingly insu- healthy change. To my surprise, the novel struck a chord, lar, isolated, uninformed, and conservative country and has now sold almost three million copies in just about usher in a reaction – from sick Nixon through the phony every country of the world, and is commonly called ‘a Reagan to the neo-Republican Clinton (his first year at classic’. Although when it came out in 1978, I and it were Oxford was my last and I must have met him but he left reviled and censored by the older generation of doctors, no trace in my memory), and the neo-fascist and criminal on its thirtieth anniversary there was an international Bushies – that would send our once-dear country fair- symposium on it with scholars, doctors, philosophers, ly far down the tubes of empire, and financial collapse. and humanists. Essays in the accompanying volume Professor Tom Lehrer of MIT, the great political song- (published by Kent State University Press!), suggest that writer, when asked why he had stopped writing protest the novel has helped humanize medical training, and I songs, said: ‘When Henry Kissinger got the Nobel Peace have spoken all over the world on ‘How to Stay Human Prize, all the fun went out of political satire.’ in Medicine’. It was my awakening at Balliol that fuelled 28 Balliol College Record my passion to write novels that matter, that are political I write this on 20 January 2009. A thin, African- in the broad sense, addressing the inhumane. My writing American young man – about the same age as JFK at his starts with ‘hey wait a second’ moments – moments we all assassination – wearing a dark suit, his hair clipped short, have every day when we see or hear or do things that are today is taking the oath of office to be the 44th president unjust and we say ‘Hey wait a second why am I doing this of the United States. I watch with my wife Janet – the (or not doing this) in the face of injustice?’ When enough girl at the Dartmouth game – and our daughter Katie, of these moments pile up, I start to write. Another novel, adopted from China at four months, now almost seven- Mount Misery, addresses the injustices in psychiatry; the teen. We, like the new president, are a mixed-race family. new novel, The Spirit of the Place, the injustices of love Katie and I and Janet worked for Obama. Janet and I, and truth and death when a middle-aged doctor goes back having lived with the utter stupidity and criminal rending home to practise, all in the Reagan era of the destruction of the fabric of the world by the Cheney/Bush regime, feel of the ‘safety net’ that LBJ had provided for the poor, the an unmatched sense of political relief, and a hope that infirm, and the elderly. And the ‘Off Broadway’ play I Katie’s world might be more just. The man and the time wrote with my wife Janet Surrey, ‘Bill W. and Dr. Bob’, might just be transformative. For the first time in our about the relationship between the two men that led to lifetime he got a lot of diverse people to embrace a ‘We’, the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous in Akron Ohio as in ‘Yes we can.’ The worry is that the man, in power, in 1935, addresses the inhumanity of a killer disease of will dampen his creativity and boldness, will not be as isolation, and the power of mutual connection to heal. brave as the time demands. This country will do that to W h i le m a ny of my R hode s f r iend s h ave , as is ‘nor m a l’ as you. America, for the moment, seems less foreign, but to one ages, tempered their youthful resistance and become recover and redeem and ‘get real’, it needs a spirit of resist- titans of industry or the IMF or World Bank or governance to what has been taken for normal, as in ‘normal’ ment, others have lived their hearts’ dream in unselfish free market forces or the ‘normal’ obscene defence budget service. Four years ago, on my first trip to India, I spent at the expense of, say, national health care. time with Prabhat Patnaik. I hadn’t seen him in thirty- five years. He had started the economic programme at The essential learning from my time at Oxford is how Nehru University and, a committed leftist economist, has to be human in the world. Resistance to injustice is an become the economic minister of the communist state essence of that quest, as long as the steps are taken hand Kerala, walking the walk, talking the talk (recently at in hand with the spirit, the awareness of each of our pow- the United Nations) for a just and worldly policy to help ers greater than ourselves. As a doctor I have written only all humans without regard for nationality. Resilience. one article in a medical journal: ‘Fiction as Resistance’ Dedication. Wisdom. An inspiration. Our own family’s (Annals of Internal Medicine, Vol. 137, No.11, 3 ‘service’ focus is now in St. Raphael, Costa Rica, creat- December 2002). As a doctor and a writer and a person, ing dialogues between Tica and American teenagers. I have come to a certain awareness of the possibility, as Costa Rica abolished an army in 1948 – it has no defence one moves through suffering in connection with others, budget, imagine that. Even the smallest town has a health of redemption. The worlds have come together. Thanks, clinic with a doctor, and a school. They have perhaps the Balliol. Without you, I might have become a dentist. smallest carbon footprint in the world, getting almost all their energy from water, solar, and wind. Our house there Stephen Bergman, under the pen-name Samuel Shem, is called ‘Tierra Tranquila’. One question that a Tica teen- has published four novels, and with Janet Surrey a play ager in dialogue asked the Americans: ‘What does it feel called ‘Bill W. and Dr. Bob’; after three decades of hav- like to live in a country that’s always at war?’ ing medicine as his day-job, he now writes full-time. Balliol College Record 29 I recall that even at the time, as one putative benefici- The events of ’68: ary, I found this wholesale handing-over of moral and societal authority to the younger generation to be some- a social, not a political, what counter-intuitive. The older, war generation, of admirable life choices and accomplishments, seemed to phenomenon be abdicating authority to the younger as a result of a still not wholly comprehensible late-life access of self-doubt. By Jon Moynihan (1967) Their children, growing up in relative comfort and without the fear or experience of war, were quick to adopt Mildred (Peggy Maley): What are you rebelling against, slogans such as ‘never trust anyone over thirty’, and to Johnny? embrace new lifestyles – sex because of the Pill; drugs Johnny (Marlon Brando): Whaddya got? because of LSD (not the most frequently used, but cer- ‘The Wild One’, 1953 tainly the most emblematic of the drugs of the 1960s); and pop music, as the phenomenon of the Beatles led on to the Thy sons learn to combine, nowhere so well as here, Rolling Stones, Dylan, Hendrix, and the rest. For each Extreme opinions and a good career new generation to come up with something to shock the J.G., Balliol Record 1970 prior is evergreen, but the degree of cultural change that took place in the late 1960s was far greater than the norm, and the shock must have been correspondingly greater. Although the memories of those who were present in The clash of cultures initially engendered a reactionary the 1960s are conventionally alleged to be unreliable, fightback by the older generation, but abdication quick- my own recollection is of three overlapping drivers of ly became the prevailing tone (‘Who breaks a butterfly rebellion at Oxford in the late 1960s: the generational, upon a wheel?’).1 This cultural and generational victory the cultural, and the political. While the third of these is encouraged the young to believe that the world now lay nowadays seen as the fundamental driver of the events before them, persuading them – not entirely correctly – of 1968, that is not so: they were not, however they were that they could in addition achieve significant long-term seen at the time, primarily political in origin or outcome. political wins. Before that, starting with the ‘angry young men’ phenom- For university students, a buoyant economy meant that enon of the 1950s, there had already been a generational the future looked unthreatening – there seemed little need revolt against what was viewed as the drabness and con- to conform or acknowledge authority. Low unemploy- formity of the 1950s and early 1960s. This ‘Lucky Jim’ ment, combined with a scarcity of graduating students rebellion was then further fuelled by the three great cul- (in those years, not much more than 10 per cent were in tural agents of change – sex; drugs; rock and roll music. higher education), meant that one leaving Oxford with Together, these generational and cultural impulses led to anything better than a Pass degree could expect to fall a startlingly unresisting surrender of power and influ- comfortably into well-paid mainstream employment. A ence to the infamous ‘me’ generation – the baby boomers. short period of alternative lifestyle while up at the Varsity Once this change was already in swing, most notewor- – including, or even only comprising, a dabble into far- thily during the so-called ‘Summer of Love’ of 1967, the left politics – would not compromise the future greatly, resulting dislocation was, only then, seized upon by polit- if at all. ical opportunists to advance a further agenda of radical These ebbs and flows were played out as much at Balliol change. as anywhere else, but inevitably with their own peculiar 30 Balliol College Record twists. On the generational side, Balliol had a particular six years and one day for attempting to smuggle kief from technical difficulty in asserting moral authority, since its Morocco. (A relative flew from the Lebanon to ‘arrange’ Master had belonged the Communist Party, and was still his quick release. Albert’s Balliol companion on that trip, a Marxist. While to the left-wing undergraduates that was the son of a US industrialist, had somehow exited Spain not extraordinary – even a badge of honour – nonetheless before the trial.) Albert claimed that his weeks in the it seemed to others that for someone of famed intellect, rather tough Algeciras jail had led him to experience his character, and accomplishments, who had spent a year in subsequent life as a free man with greater intensity and Russia in the 1930s, and even spoke Russian, to leave it happiness than anyone he knew.3 Overall, however, d rugs until ’56 Hungary to resign from the party was, while not did not play a big part at Balliol; and nor did the new as questionable as staying in the party until ’68 Prague, 1960s music. Indeed, it would be a mistake to claim that still a regrettably tardy moment to spot the writing on the all Balliol was in a ferment over the new cultural revolu- wall.2 Similarly, the Master was viewed with suspicion tion. Of the College’s 400 or so students, 80 or 90 per by some fellow dons, as one whose political sympathies cent spent a large part of their time in the lecture room might lead him to be too sympathetic to the demands of and the Library. A smaller, vocal group – as so often in the more left-wing students. life – monopolized the limelight. These difficulties may or may not have led to a certain This smaller group was mostly left-wing in its beliefs. paralysis in command at Balliol, but for whatever rea- Its chief arena for revolt was, of course, political. Its issues son, as elsewhere there was something of a breakdown divided into University-orientated and national-orientat- in authority. Balliol’s younger generation saw this as an ed, with the Cowley Motor Works offering an exciting opportunity to press their demands, possibly mistaking in-between opportunity, with only a minimum of dodgy the flexible and usually courteous reactions of the Master logic needed – guided by the more tortuous thinking of and Fellows to their communications as implying a great- nouveau European Political Philosophers – to bring gown er willingness to surrender rights and powers than even- to town, by way for example of attempts to sell radical tually turned out to be the case. newspapers to ‘The Workers’. The great national issue From a cultural perspective, the part played in Balliol was the Vietnam War. Good University issues were some- by the trio of sex, drugs, and music was perhaps less times harder to come by, with the (as it eventually turned influential than elsewhere. Male outnumbered female out only partial) abolition of gowns in Hall – recollected undergraduates at Oxford by seven to one at the time, by Oliver Franklin, an occasionally bemused transat- so while sex was talked about a lot, it was, as a math- lantic onlooker, as the chief concession made to student ematical inevitability, less universally practised by Balliol demands at the time – assuming a prominence that only men than most might, forty years on, imagine (or claim). served to emphasize that the undergraduates were some- Drugs, too, were less prevalent than the headlines implied, times short of causes for dispute. although there were a number of incidents at Balliol. The How serious was the left-wingery of our generation? grandson of a Prime Minister died from an overdose. It has to be embarrassing to some to recall their part in Another undergraduate, in what was possibly an early the debates and factionalism among the various politi- example of cannabis-induced mental breakdown, died cal cliques. There were Communist Party members; tragically. The exploits of Howard Marks showed that Young Socialists and International Socialists (Marxist/ not all Balliol men were slouches in matters psychoac- Trotskyite); proper Trotskyists; Maoists; we even had a tive. Albert Khouri, at the time perhaps a competitor with Lin Piaoist (who later, naturally, became a senior execu- Denis Noble for having the most polymathic mind at tive in a large multinational). Grave discussions took place Balliol, was, in the spring of 1968, sentenced in Spain to about omelettes and broken eggs. Reductionism occurred Balliol College Record 31 in which Russia was declared to have failed the neces- it were, the ‘eye of the storm’ of the late 1960s, Aidan sary high-flown socialist qualifications; China in its turn lays claim to complete amnesia as regards his approach, was judged to have fallen by the wayside; people rushed actions, successes, and failures during that time, but it is onward to embrace a belief that ‘real existing socialism’ probably fair to say that matters at Balliol took on a more was to be found in Cuba and/or North Korea (sometimes Marxistic turn, with class struggle coming into the con- even East Germany) – generally rejecting any implication versation more than heretofore. that there might be something systemically wrong with From then, and on into the 1970s, some kind of Marxist the whole idea. or far-left political tone prevailed in JCR politics at The Oxford Union was seen by Balliol as out of bounds Balliol. Foster-Carter was succeeded for the 1969/70 term and to be spurned as bourgeois (‘Union Harries’), though of office by the more stringent Martin Kettle. Relations Christopher Hitchens did not toe that line. Ian Glick, with the College authorities became more strained, and another deviationist, became President of the Union. But in turn some in the undergraduate body began to have most Balliol men stayed away from the Union, so that doubts as to the value of a JCR Committee they saw as Common Room politics became the focus of those who more desirous of fomenting ongoing confrontation with had political ambition. This led to some particularly tur- the College than of actually managing the JCR’s daily gid JCR meetings, with decisions often being made by a mundane affairs. In the spring of 1970 there were two hard core of thirty to fifty voters, and lengthy meetings attempts to pass a motion of no confidence in the JCR ending only for lack of quorum (which meant that those Committee. It survived both motions in part due to the with motions to put forward vied to have them placed as support of a middle faction – one perhaps more libertar- early on the agenda as possible). Between 1967 and 1970, ian in tone than Marxist, filling the historically tradition- a sea-change could be observed in the tactics and behav- al role of useful idiots – who seemed broadly supportive iour of the JCR as it confronted the SCR. of the left-wing Balliol JCR politicians, while not entirely The JCR President in 1967/68 was the brilliantly deb- enamoured of their more fatuous posturing – such as onair Michael Burton, who adopted a constitutional the JCR Committee’s grating habit of addressing fellow approach to achieving change. Taking advantage of the JCR members as ‘Comrade’ at all times. This anarchis- Franks Report, he exploited the statutes to lodge a peti- tic group, of somewhat hooligan tendencies, decided, for tion, thus blocking any change until the petition was whatever reason, to help save the leftist JCR Committee addressed. Becoming chairman of the petitioners, Burton by voting for it during the motions of no confidence. – with JCR presidents from other colleges as fellow peti- The hooligans’ take on ‘student revolution’ at Balliol tioners – was able to extract a price for withdrawing their was on view at the Matriculation Ceremony of 1968. At petition in the form of the University’s agreement to form- the Sheldonian, a sign painted on the wall by students of ing the Hart committee. Next, Burton, as first President a presumably left-wing disposition urged ‘Occupy!’, but of the new Student Representative Council (SRC), nego- below that sign, comically dressed students from Balliol tiated with Hart a new disciplinary system; joint repre- and elsewhere, led by Tim Healey and others, were play- sentation on University bodies such as the Hebdomadal ing on kazoos; singing – for reasons that, if ever known, Council, and recognition of the SRC, which eventu- are now lost to time – ‘We want Muffin, Muffin the Mule’; ally became today’s Oxford University Student Union and rushing around in a generally disorganized fashion. (OUSU). One can perhaps sum up the confrontation between Burton was succeeded as JCR President by the equal- the generations as being about the demarcation between ly delightful and ever-pleasant Aidan Foster-Carter for childhood and adulthood. Youths of 18 to 21 are some- 1968/69. As would befit one who presided during, as times boys, sometimes men. Some 20-year-olds were 32 Balliol College Record already quite adult; others weren’t. Looking back, one can see the same individuals saying very adult things at one EXTRACTS FROM THE AGENDA OF A moment and rather childish ones at the next. Universities BALLIOL JCR MEETING, all over the world find ways to address this maturational 25 NOVEMBER 1970 issue – Fraternities and Sororities in America; Societeits in Holland; JCRs in the UK – so as to allow undergraduates (abridged/synopsized) an autonomous space within the wider community of the university or college. In doing so, they offer to those with Procedural motion (Grimshaw): that the motion a taste for governing their fellow man the opportunity regarding ‘University Challenge’ be moved up the to have a (minor) crack at that. The ambitious left-wing agenda. (Overwhelmingly defeated). student politicians of late 1960s Balliol, having organized so as to be elected to that power, found their challenge Motion 5 (Burnett): that High Table be abolished in attacking Oxford’s traditions, some of which (gowns, at Balliol. (Passed 66-6). gate hours, hours during which women were admitted to College, admission of women as undergraduate mem- Motion 6 (Sedgwick-Jell): That Balliol refrain bers4) they were able, sooner or later, to have removed; from electing a Proctor unless Junior members are others of which (abolition of High Table, self-disciplin- given full voting rights (Rejected) or students are ing, control of syllabus) they weren’t. They faced opposi- given full control over their own discipline. (Passed tion on two fronts: first from the College and Fellows, 60-7). and second from many of their fellow students, one faction of whom felt the JCR Committee had been elected to Motion 9 (Brown): to inform the Home Secretary ensure good food in the JCR pantry, control cockroaches, of the JCR’s solidarity with Rudi Dutschke. and suchlike – in the very late 1960s, cockroach control (Passed overwhelmingly). was alleged to have taken a back seat. The trend overall at the time was, as now, for the young- Motion 10 (Kettle): That Balliol contribute to er generation to seek more control over its own life. The the striking dustmen’s fund an equal amount as Master, Dean, and Fellows went along with that view, any payment that Balliol might have made to any but only to a degree, and had a fairly clear intent against strike-breaking private firms, and apologize to the too-great surrender, particularly when it came to College dustmen if they had used strike-breakers to collect property, or behaviour within the College. The trick was the garbage. (Passed 21-14). to hold the line in a way that would leave everyone more or less happy, and not alienate anyone permanently. The Motion 11 (Sedgwick-Jell): That Edward Heath large number of former lefties – indeed, the large number should be deprived of his honorary fellowship of of all former undergraduates – attending the just-held Balliol if arms were sold to South Africa. (Passed Gaudy for 1965–67 is testament, if any were needed, that 40-9). this tack proved successful. By 1970, if the student politicians were seriously Motion 12 (Grimshaw): That this JCR rejects attempting to change society, their modus was eccen- the motion of Trinity term 1970 proposed by Jon tric. Richard Heller (in more recent years twice finalist Moynihan5 re: ‘University Challenge’. (Defeated on television’s ‘Mastermind’ – the grown-ups’ ‘University 17-21). Challenge’) believes that there was an intent (unlike simi- Balliol College Record 33 lar contemporary movements in the US) to distance the Committee, unhappy with certain events. But the fact is movement from, indeed alienate, mainstream politics and that now, with many of the dramatis personae on both opinion. The issues chosen to protest about – whether a sides still involved one way or another with the College, syllabus, the iniquity of an individual don, or mysterious, an atmosphere of mutual goodwill rules, and few long- Private Eye-style ‘Secret Files’ – often seemed synthetic, term grudges exist. This is probably a testament to the poorly thought-through. Heller recalls that whatever new College’s tolerant and flexible approach to the students at issue was being dredged up tended to bear an uncanny the time, and to the students’ recognition that hard words resemblance to whatever had been protested about a spoken at the time were, if not always excusable, never- week prior at Warwick University, where Marxist radi- theless a product of the moment. So – a past to be glanced cal and Professor of History E. P. Thompson held sway. at, not dwelt upon. (Thompson’s son, Mark, was at Balliol at the time, and Have the revolutionary views of the students of 1968 E. P. was a regular visitor). There was little linkage to con- survived the test of time? Of course, no youth of 20 should temporary events in Paris, although some from Oxford hold the opinions he will eventually settle on, but it is now had travelled there in the summer of 1968.6 Many com- generally accepted that, even in this time of challenged plaints and demands seemed somewhat half-hearted. (An capitalism, and with the recent G20 events bringing back innovative exception was the spirited attempt, thwarted a whiff of 1968,7 the politico-economic underpinnings on constitutional grounds and at the time strongly object- of the students’ agenda were unsound. Within a decade, ed to by College authorities, to inveigle a contraceptive most left-wing students had joined the establishment in machine onto the JCR’s premises.) one form or another. Sir Michael Burton is now one of What did the student ‘revolution’ end up accomplishing? Britain’s most brilliant High Court Judges. Aidan Foster- Some historically inevitable wins, such as co-education Carter writes regularly for and to the Financial Times and removal of gate hours, were indeed accomplished. and the Economist, excoriating that North Korean Some of the issues, particularly Vietnam, were indeed at regime that he once saw as a great hope for the world. the time pressing – yet now, after the Khmer Rouge, the Mar tin Ket tle is A ssistant E ditor of the Guardian, and his re-education camps, and the boat people, it is doubtful Wikipedia entry – penned by who knows? – refers to his that all still feel precisely that same level of certainty on personal friendship with Tony Blair. The revolutions of Vietnam that they did at the time. Other major issues of Christopher Hitchens continue, of course, joyously apace the time – the position of women in society; gay politics; – it is probably best to applaud generously the loyalty of his the Third World – were known, but not greatly agitated reported ongoing promotion of Trotskyism as an essen- about (Philip Maxwell and Al Liddell helped start Third tially distinct alternative to Stalinism, even if in truth he World First, now People and Planet, and its associated sees well that the two are but distributaries of that single magazine, The Internationalist, in 1969, but this was not red river, Leninism. The generation of the 1960s did not particularly embraced by the left wing as a political cause, throw up many successful politicians in the mainstream as I recall). Balliol mould: those who heard Hitch give a barnstorm- How much did personal animus play a part in these ing, rabble-rousing speech to a rally at the Union in 1969 affairs? On all sides, harsh words were at times spoken might feel that a superior form of Kinnock-style politi- and an atmosphere of distrust occasionally prevailed. In cian was lost to Britain when he departed for America to March and May 1970, there were two JCR motions of seek love – but, these many years later, it seems useless to no confidence in the Dean (carried both times) and calls repine at British politics’ loss. (ignored by the SCR) for his resignation. On the College’s Many of that lef t-wing generation have ended up as suc- side, Tony Kenny resigned from the Joint Disciplinary cessful academics, a number now living in that same US 34 Balliol College Record that they had demonstrated against. In the end, the acts Notes and statements of rebellion by many can perhaps now best be seen as no more than a conventional rite of pas- 1 The author of this definitive climbdown by the sage into adulthood. Establishment was of course a Balliol man. Far-left-wing views still have, after all these years, 2 Robert Conquest’s The Great Terror was published in some appeal at Balliol – testament to the strength of the emblematic year of 1968, but was largely unread by their allure. For the 1960s Balliol generation, Marxism left-wingers at Balliol. was a dominating view: the paucity of competing models 3 Albert died, sadly, in 1971 – I understand from unex- offered to impressionable undergraduates as to how to pected heart failure. view the world perhaps was (and perhaps still is) regret- 4 ‘The JCR has been bombarding us with resolutions in table. But as earlier said: while all of this was going on, favour of the admission of women to the College for many most of Balliol was going about its way in time-honoured years’ – Balliol College Annual Record, Master’s Letter, fashion. Balliol’s place in the Norrington Table did, it is true, dip from 1st in 1966 and 1967 to 8th, 2nd, 4th, 1971. 5 and 9th in 1968–1972, with further onward declines as The author had left the College the previous term, hav- the 1970s continued – our accustomed place consistently ing successfully proposed a self-serving (and as with so near or at the top of the table was only truly regained in many JCR resolutions, unimplemented) motion intended the past decade or so. It would be difficult to assert, let to orient the selectors of Balliol’s ‘University Challenge’ alone prove, that Balliol’s temporary decline in academic team toward choosing those such as he. achievement was in any way related to the radicalism of 6 In general, violent protest was eschewed, although it was its JCR politics, especially given that any swing back to alleged that during the Grosvenor Square riot, the plate- the centre is not completely detectable. In any event, dur- glass windows of the American Express offices were ing the upheavals of 1968–70, the essential Balliol contin- smashed by a certain leading Balliol leftie. ued unchanged. The Balliol crew was first in Torpids in 7 A large banner displayed outside the Bank of England 1968, 1969, 1970, and 1971. Lawyers were going on to during the recent G20 demo said only ‘Abolish Money’ – become high-paid barristers or low-paid judges (or both, clearly worthy of the 1968 Balliol Wall. in turn). Scientists were going off to advance the frontiers of their disciplines. Bankers were going off to make large Jon Moynihan is a Balliol Foundation Fellow. He was fortunes (in an era, currently suspended alas for many, awarded an OBE in 1994, and is currently Executive when Bankers were able to do that). A few even joined the Chairman of PA Consulting Group. (then much derided) realm of ‘industry’, and prospered there. Hamilton Macmillan was, however implausibly, being recruited to join MI6, where ostensibly his greatest achievement would be to provide Howard Marks with supporting evidence for what could be the most preposterous (and successful) alibi ever offered in a High Court criminal trial. This parallel world, of Balliol men studying and then going off to do whatever Balliol men had always done, had proceeded (apart from politics) in relatively unruffled fashion throughout those rebellious years. Gender aside, not much change there then… Balliol College Record 35 the queue looking for another customer. I shared the taxi Justifying Jowett: with Philip Snow. Another early memory is of the dinner for freshmen. an Irishman at Balliol, The Master had a particular word of welcome for overseas students. I have since come to appreciate that Balliol’s 1970–1974 broad membership is one of the many ways in which the College continues to express the spirit of Benjamin By Philip McDonagh (1970) Jowett. When I served as Ireland’s Ambassador to India, I came across the autobiography of Sir Michael O’Dwyer, I travelled to Balliol for interview in December 1969. Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab, who arrived at Balliol The flight to London was diverted to Birmingham. In from an Irish Jesuit school a century before me. Jowett as Birmingham, I accepted the airline’s offer of a coach-ride Master practically obliged O’Dwyer to attend Mass and to Heathrow, thinking this would put me back on track. engaged him in conversation about Manning. At Heathrow, I took a taxi to my uncle’s house in Mill That I (and subsequently my brother Bobby) went to Hill. The £14 I paid for this was a big chunk of the money Balliol required our parents to borrow a lot of money. I was carrying with me for emergencies. My uncle drove There was no pressure. But from the first I had a sense of me to Paddington, having phoned ahead to postpone the special opportunity. I wanted to get as much benefit as interview. The following morning – I remember an open possible both from the teaching and the time apart repre- fire, Robert Ogilvie in a tweed jacket, and Jasper Griffin sented by Oxford. and Russell Meiggs – the first question was this: ‘Mr. ‘Still they gazed and still their wonder grew…’. All McDonagh, you had certain vicissitudes in your trans- Jasper Griffin knew stands out less in memory than those port arrangements. Do you know where Oxford is?’ large and extremely deft hands finding the right place in What I lacked in knowledge of English geography was worn text-books and writing an exquisite Greek script. made up for by a sense of what Oxford is – not that the During our first Long Vacation, Jasper exchanged let- interview took that particular turn. With my parents and ters with me on the subject of Latin verse composition, teachers, I saw Oxford as the heart of England, a place of towards which I then humbly aspired. Tony Kenny, a bet- moral freedom and intellectual excellence. At Gonzaga, ter patron than Sligger Urquhart, took us twice to the my school in Dublin, we read Matthew Arnold, Gerard Balliol Chalet. Maurice Keen was another friend, quizzing Manley Hopkins, and John Henry Newman. Our clas- me on whether the volume ‘Aristotle’s Man’ referred per- sics text-books were edited by Oxford dons. When it was haps to the great philosopher’s butler. Through Maurice, suggested I should apply to Oxford, the reason was clear: I formed a picture of Dervorguilla, our foundress, dining it was about education for its own sake, in accordance each evening opposite the ashes of her late husband John with the ideals of the school. No one from Gonzaga had de Balliol. For ease of recognition in the quad, Oswyn previously taken the Oxford entrance exam. Our classics Murray opted for the same long (Lacedaimonian?) hair- teacher John Wilson was a future Fianna Fáil Tánaiste style as his predecessor Russell Meiggs. Oswyn was (deputy Prime Minister). Without hesitation, he nomi- an outstanding teacher. To find Spartacus (‘more of a nated Balliol as the college to put down first on my list. Grecian than the people of his country usually are,’ as My first memory of going up is of the taxi queue at Plutarch has it) in Pope Benedict’s encyclical Spe Salvi was Oxford Station and the special way the taxi-man said to re-live tutorials in which we compared chattel slavery ‘Balliol College’ over and over again as he went down in the ancient Mediterranean and the antebellum South. 36 Balliol College Record In my second year, our scout on Staircase XI was Laurie take part in the protest march in St. Giles uniting town Daniels. Laurie had a slight limp and had taken part in and gown. I feared the ‘Official IRA’ and other outside the liberation of Belsen. There was talk of abolishing the influences. scout system. I did not instinctively support this. Perhaps The Oxford Union first debated Ireland in 1825 and I also sensed that as a kind of guest at Oxford, I should had been a barometer of opinion on Ireland ever since, not take the lead in promoting change. This caution, at least as regards a section of British society. On 11 combined with my commitment (however imperfectly November 1847, the Union voted overwhelmingly for the executed) to giving priority to study, made me appear motion ‘That the memory of Mr. O’Connell is entitled to conservative by some standards. I was approached one no great respect at our hands, but that he was the great- evening by a couple of friends (one from the Labour est enemy Ireland ever had.’ Fifty years later, on 6 March Club, of which I was a member, and one from the Oxford 1890, the Union wrote off the other great democratic University Conservative Association, OUCA) to run for leader of nineteenth-century Ireland, passing the follow- President of the JCR. ing motion: ‘That this house…is of the opinion that the I was already involved in the Oxford Union. In my great prevalence of crime and outrage in Ireland from the first term, I had mentioned to my father the forthcom- year 1878 to the year 1888 was chiefly due to the wicked ing freshmen’s debate at the Union on the motion ‘That and criminal acts, speeches, and conduct of Mr. Parnell God is a public school man’. Dad produced arguments and his associates.’ based on the omnipresence and omnipotence of the public During a posting in London in which I was concerned school influence. The following week I took the floor. A with the peace process, I found that imaginative generos- number of established figures in the Union encouraged ity in relation to Ireland is predictive of open-mindedness me to stand for election. Sue Richards, now Sue Kramer, in other fields as well. Those nineteenth-century critics of the Lib Dem MP, offered me a paper speech in a televised O’Connell and Parnell took up defensive positions on the debate on education – in which Balliol’s Julian Priestley, treatment of wage earners, the extension of the franchise, a real orator, insouciantly introduced Shirley Williams as the hereditary principle in politics, slavery in the colonies, ‘the well-known woman.’ the status of Roman Catholics and Jews, corporal punish- Later on, I got into trouble as President of the JCR ment in the Army and the Navy, and prisons issues of the for simultaneously holding the office of President of the kind raised by Oscar Wilde. To understand how Ireland Union without supporting JCR policy on the creation of remains a touchstone, or whetstone, of British values, one a University-wide students’ union. I recall never feeling has only to read, to this day, some London newspapers’ abused or th reatened in what was objectively an awkward destructive line on Ireland. In a not entirely unrelated con- situation. David Gilmour of OUCA spoke up for me at the text, Jasper Griffin once reminded me of the Democrats’ ‘impeachment’. Philip Snow recited Shakespeare: ‘Down, response to Barry Goldwater. Goldwater had a slogan, ‘In down I fall like glistering Phaethon…’. Simon Walker was your heart, you know he’s right.’ The Democrats framed a active in mobilizing support. counter-slogan, ‘In your guts, you know he’s nuts.’ What moves me at this interval of time is that a can- In the 1970s, I had the privilege of meeting old members didate ‘with bog-water squelching out of his boots’ (as who had heard Harold Macmillan speak at the Union someone described my credentials) was elected in both the before the First World War. I myself heard Macmillan JCR and the Union at around the time of Bloody Sunday. speak in 1973, recalling Eights Week on the river in the The astringent BBC coverage of the British Government’s warm Trinity Term of 1914. Macmillan was a Home Rule conduct was a consolation as I followed political events supporter. The conscience of another Balliol (and JCR on the TV beside the Lindsay Bar. However, I did not and Union) man was touched by Bloody Sunday: the tran- Balliol College Record 37 script of the conversation between Ted Heath and Jack careers in public service, a tangible College life, the inter- Lynch on the night of those killings is now in the public pretation of scripture in the light of reason – represent, domain. Stormont came to an end in March 1972. The in sum, a University response to the crucial question of two governments started on the path to our present peace justice. – and Jack Lynch’s and John Hume’s motion was carried First comes he. Floreat domus. In the mother-tongue at the Union on 22 November 1972. Beside Balliol’s many of Dervorguilla, bail ó Dhia ar an obair: God bless the political figures, including two Secretaries of State for work. Northern Ireland and a Cabinet Minister from Derry, I count my tutors and friends at Balliol as friends of Ireland. Philip McDonagh is a diplomat and published poet. He is It is worth going into this because the present edition of currently Irish Ambassador to Russia. the Record, covering the years 1968 to 1975, implies the question, ‘Where is your revolution?’. In relationships on the island of Ireland, among the peoples of our islands, and in Europe, some seeds of a richer harvest have indeed been sown in this generation. From Adam von Trott zu Solz to Chris Patten, Balliol has produced artisans of this change. In every generation, the quest for justice finds an ally in fair-mindedness and intellectual perspective. The direction of that quest in the chastened world of 2009 is not for consideration here. But as that quest gains or regains confidence in the years to come, the values promoted by suc- cessive Masters of Balliol will be needed more than ever. I formed the impression that Christopher Hill as Master could never quite make sense of me as JCR President: my meetings with Brigadier Jacko Jackson, the Domestic Bursar, were more entertaining (‘But what does the College do when a junior member throws plates into Trinity Quad from Staircase III?’). It seems right, nevertheless, that a College that in Elizabethan times produced Alexander Briant and Richard Garnet should have had Christopher as Master at the height of the Cold War. Today, even more than on those first October evenings almost forty years ago, I am aware of the life-giving privilege of being taught at Balliol. There needs to be developed, at least somewhere in society, the mental equipment to go back to first principles, to the roots of our culture. At least somewhere, dispassionate reason should accompany passionate commitment. Benjamin Jowett’s priori- ties – Plato and St. Paul, access to the College for the less well-off, attracting students from India and overseas, 38 Balliol College Record among the Fellowship. A new-broom atmosphere seemed Christopher Hill: Marxist at last to bring the College into the spirit of the 1960s. And Christopher Hill did indeed prove to be good for history and Balliol College Balliol, to which he was staunchly loyal. He played fair with all, discouraging factionalism. His personal style By Penelope J. Corfield was informal and unpretentious. In particular, Hill paid great attention to College students of all backgrounds Christopher Hill, the eminent Marxist historian, became and views, keeping in touch with many long after his own Master of Balliol College Oxford in 1965. His election retirement as Master. No advocate of the drugs culture, was considered a surprise by many, because his stance as he nonetheless corresponded regularly with the convicted a man of the left was publicly known. Therefore it was drug dealer Howard Marks when he was languishing in assumed – wrongly as it turned out – that such a provoca- an American jail, on the grounds that here was a Balliol tive political outlook would prevent Hill from gaining the man in difficulty and in need of friends. top job at an old-established College in an old-established As Master, Hill proved to be a liberal rather than revo- University like Oxford. lutionary figure. He certainly had no plans to make the College a hotbed of Marxism. In fact, the radical chal- In the pre-election debates, however, his supporters lenge in the later 1960s came not from old communists argued that he would be ‘good for Balliol’. One effective but from the New Left of student protesters. Hill saw the speech within the College making that case came from College calmly through these excitable days. He steered Maurice Keen, the historian of medieval England and a between agitated dons and passionate student radicals, moderate Tory gentleman of the old school. His advo- wryly enjoying the Marxist reference when they painted cacy swung many waverers. After all, Hill was not an ‘Eggheads of the world unite!’ on the walls of Balliol, unknown quantity within Balliol, where he had studied under his study window. But no revolution ensued. Hill as a student in the early 1930s and where he was elected worked behind the scenes to promote constructive out- to a Fellowship in 1938, returning in 1945 after his war- comes, liaising late at night over glasses of whisky with time secondment to Military Intelligence. the moderates among the Balliol students. One of these Nonetheless, there was some internal resistance to be was Martin Kettle, now a distinguished journalist on overcome. Cold War hardliners remained deeply suspi- the Guardian. Their debates were, in miniature, like cious of Hill’s politics; and his divorce in the mid 1950s the negotiations between Cromwell and the Levellers in had met with voiced disapproval from traditional moral- 1647. In this case, however, the radicals were not shot ists such as Hill’s predecessor as Master, David Lindsay or dismissed but student representatives were introduced Keir. That reaction dated from the era when outsiders felt onto College committees: a useful reform but hardly the free to interpret other people’s matrimonial difficulties as full ferment of The World Turned Upside Down. a sign of moral turpitude as well as a symptom of social One joking nickname that Hill acquired at this time breakdown. It hurt Hill, who had not sought the divorce. was ‘SuperGod’. The tag was invented by another of the And it also irked him, as a symptom of narrow-minded College’s eminent historians, Richard Cobb. He left a repression and an excessive reverence for outward forms phone message, barking out his own monosyllabic sur- with which he fundamentally disagreed. name. When Christopher Hill returned home, he was The choice of Hill was therefore a moment when the informed by his mystified young son that someone had Balliol selectorate overrode not only old Cold War battle- called: ‘He said his name was God’. After some confusion, lines but also some long-standing cultural disagreements it transpired that the divinity was ‘Cobb’. He was charac- Balliol College Record 39 teristically delighted when the error was reported to him, but not a communist. After bruising debates over Hungary improvising in reply: ‘If I am God, then as Master you are and Stalinism in the mid-1950s, he and many others, like SuperGod’. The joke name was later quoted with mock his fellow historian E.P. Thompson, had broken from the exasperation by Hill, especially when he was wearied by international movement. The defeat of their proposals for the un-divine compromises of College and University life. internal party democracy within the British Communist For most of the time, he loved the job of being Master. Party was occasion for their resignations. The break was Later, however, he found the slow pace of change frustrat- anguishing for Hill but it gave him a greater freedom of ing; and he was sad that the full admission of women as manoeuvre, amounting to an intellectual liberation. His undergraduates into Balliol, for which he worked hard writings quickly shed the old Marxist vocabulary and a during the 1970s, was not achieved until just after his lot of the dogma. Moreover, it was his resignation from retirement in 1978. the Communist Party that made it possible for him later With the effervescent aid of his second wife Bridget Hill, to become Master of Balliol. A Marxist proved to be just Christopher established an open and friendly atmosphere possible. But a card-carrying member of international in College. He held regular parties, which were famed in communism would (in my view) never have succeeded, 1960s Oxford, giving students a chance to meet the tutors even in the liberal 1960s. informally. There was a ready flow of wit and repartee, Given his decidedly left-wing stance and the fact that as well as of wine, beer, and cider. Women students from his views were always on the record, Hill was accustomed other Colleges were invited in some numbers – then a rad- to criticisms, whether of his politics or his history. In ical and popular move. Christopher Hill, smiling quizzi- reply, he defended his corner staunchly but without ran- cally, would spar verbally with his fellow historians like cour or personal animus. As a result, his direct style made Maurice Keen and especially with Richard Cobb, greatly him widely respected across the ideological spectrum. In entertaining the students, who were encouraged to join his later life, he was personally saddened by the collapse the banter. of communist Russia and what was revealed about the While Hill relished debates, he did not indulge in idle regime’s shortcomings. But unlike some other former chit-chat. Like the Quakers, he was happy to sit word- communists, Hill never claimed the fashionable tag of lessly through long moments of ‘holy silence’, if such ‘post-Marxist’. Perhaps because he remained a beacon were required. His conversational pauses could unnerve of intellectual sympathy for egalitarianism, he attracted unwary students, who worried that, to counteract the some lurid allegations, immediately after his death in cryptic Hill silence, they had themselves begun to babble 2003. It was claimed that Hill had acted as a secret agent nonsense. But he stuck to his guns in tutorials, believing for Soviet Russia during the Second World War. But such that these were occasions for students to talk rather than claims are implausible. Hill was a plain-dealer who dis- for tutors to soliloquize. Once people got the measure of dained subterfuge. And it is significant that no-one dared his style and his somewhat stylized stammer, they found to make such accusations to his face, at any point in his his counsel both generous and wise. long lifetime. Throughout his period as Master, Hill continued to pub- Arriving as a brilliant but shy young student from a pro- lish a steady flow of major books and articles expounding vincial Methodist background, Hill in the early 1930s was his interpretation of seventeenth-century English history keenly stimulated by Oxford’s intellectual crucible. He as an era of revolution. Having devoted the mornings, and shed his religion though not his personal morality, while often the evenings, to College business, he would disap- gaining an intellectual cause as an international Marxist. pear to his home in north Oxford and shut himself away In time, he himself became one of the University’s iconic to write. By this time, Hill described himself as a Marxist figures, as a quintessential Balliol man. His thirteen-year 40 Balliol College Record tenure as Master was comparatively short but he followed in the pathways of two liberal reformers among his pred- ecessors, Benjamin Jowett (Master 1870–93) and particularly A.D. Lindsay (Master 1924–49), a man whose values Hill shared. Like them, he loved Oxford while simultaneously seeking to challenge its more restric- tive attitudes and to widen its social access. Moreover, like A.D. Lindsay who became Keele University’s first Principal after retiring from Balliol aged 70, Christopher Hill moved to the Open University when he retired from Balliol aged 65. Both were thereby signaling their continuing commitment to educational innovation. Hill enjoyed the challenge of the Open University. His two years there were busy and productive. Nonetheless, Christopher Hill’s core identification remained with the causes he espoused in his young adulthood: Marxist history – and Balliol College.

Penelope Corfield, who is the niece of Christopher Hill, is a Professor of History at Royal Holloway, University of London, and a Visiting Fellow at All Souls 2008/9. Her essay ‘“We are all one in the Eyes of the Lord”: Christopher Hill and the Historical Meanings of Radical Religion’, is published in History Workshop Journal, no. 58 (2004), pp. 114–31.

Balliol College Record 41 This wall does not exist. It is a fi gment of your bourgeois Balliol graffi ti, 1968 imagination. Remember Belshazzar. Econometrics is pedagogic play therapy – Balogh. Writings on Balliol Walls, copied in November 1968 by This is at least the second renewal. . Russell Meiggs, from the Balliol College Annual Record 1976 Do you know your “Birds”? Is this a sparrow or a tit? (with (p.41). rough drawing). Left side of Lodge Electrify Woodward. Muriel is a test tube baby. Christian Science is holy water with which the priest conse- Who wants to write on walls? Even the walls have ears. crates the heart-burnings of the aristocrat. Marx. Akamantophioia is a carnal sin. From the Master’s Lodgings to the Trinity Boundary Wanted teachers. Who the hell cares about the Pareto optimum? Do you think this is a toilet. Balliol wall is the people’s organ. Contributions welcome. Victory to the knees. Tomorrow has been abolished owing to lack of interest. Vietcong These walls have a greater circulation than Cherwell. Nous ne sommes rien – soyons tout. Berkely saw Balliol as an idea in the mind of God. Help God Les grands ne sont grands que parce que nous sommes sous les to forget it. genoux – êtes vous tous? Kropotkin is alive and rampant and living in Balliol – more Bring back the cod piece. than may be said for Balogh collaborator. N.L.F. Positivism out, dialectics in. Right side of Lodge Knees. None offos cann speoo. De Faschisten haben mein fahrrad geklout. Philosophers have only interpreted the world. It still remains (und die Bolshevisten meine Freudin) to be changed. Down with Marshallian Marginalism! (erasure above) though this does not solve the problem of his Aphronism is the death rattle of revolution. relevance. Rehabilitate Trotsky! This space reserved for non-political graffi ti and lectures in Knees. political orthography. Stand up. Open All Souls to heteros. The Warden of All Souls has a banner-fi xation. Right side of Lodgings God is an atheist. Max Weber is a fi nk. Down With Marshal- Philosophers have only interpreted the world. The point is to lian marginalism. change it. As you don’t exist you shouldn’t be reading this. Max Weber is a fi nk. Marx ruined. Calcutta imperialists. Ho, ho, get out of Bradford. Doctor the (Proctors erased). Knees. Revolt is one of the essential dimensions of mankind (Camus). Be students, not snobs. Opinion is the religion of the people. What is the function of functionalism? – functioning. Revolution is the opinion of people. Knees. (erasure) Irrelevant gnomes. Balliol is a bit like New College (unchanged for all 5 days) Join the society for the demolition of Balliol. If you can’t beat it, exaggerate it – love Essex. Save the Argylls. Equal rights for heteros. (Russian): Proletarii ot svitchky strani zyedinnevaialge. Abolish gate rules. Decompose natural products. Writing on walls is a Freudian masturbation substitute. Join the Fascists. Fred Bakunin lives. Victory of the knees. Anarchy for ever. GOR 8846. Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love. Camus. Stop Ewart Jones messing about with polyacetylenes. 42 Balliol College Record survived by his wife, Flora, three daughters, and three Obituaries step children. (Donald) Neil MacCormick was born in Glasgow in 1941. He was the son of John MacCormick, a founder of the Scottish National Party and Rector of the University Sir Neil MacCormick (1941–2009) of Glasgow. Neil’s father is well known to lawyers as the pursuer in MacCormick v. Lord Advocate, in which Professor Sir Neil MacCormick, QC, FRSE, FBA; he challenged, as a breach of the Act of Union 1707, distinguished jurist, philosopher, and politician; Snell Her Majesty’s right to the style ‘Queen Elizabeth II’ in Scotland. (Elizabeth I was never Queen of Scotland.) Exhibitioner at Balliol 1963–65, President of the Oxford MacCormick lost; the ‘II’ was secured; but along the way Union Society 1965, Fellow and Tutor in Jurisprudence the court raised deep questions about the mutability of at Balliol 1967–72; Honorary Fellow of Balliol 2008, the Union, the sovereignty of Parliament, the identity of died at home, of cancer, on 5 April 2009, aged 67. He is legal systems over time, and even about nationality. Can © Edinburgh University

Balliol College Record 43 it be a coincidence that John’s son Neil went on to write and dispersed audience, Neil’s proposals were intelligent, about all of these issues, and to do so while pursuing an empathetic, and moderate. It is because of people like active career in the Scottish National Party? Neil that the SNP is nothing like the BNP. First Minister On leaving Glasgow High School, Neil studied Alex Salmond called him ‘a man of immense warmth, philosophy at the University of Glasgow. He came up intellect and breadth of knowledge, and Scotland’s public to Balliol as Snell Exhibitioner, where he took a first in life is greatly the poorer for his passing.’ And so it is. But Jurisprudence and served as President of the Oxford Union so is ours. Society in 1965. After a brief teaching stint at Dundee, he Neil was a friend and a mentor. We divided over returned to Balliol as a Tutor in Law until, at the age of philosophy; we overlapped on devolution; we were at only 31, he was appointed Regius Professor of Public Law one on the significance of law to a nation’s culture, and and the Law of Nature and Nations at Edinburgh, a post culture to its law. After conferences, we would sometimes he held with distinction for almost four decades. retreat to a corner, to catch up, have a wee dram, and Neil’s Chair has the grandest style to which any legal somehow end up singing (rather well, or so it seemed in philosopher could aspire. A mere ‘I’ or ‘II’ pales in the moment) old Gaelic songs. Neil was a good piper; I comparison. And, amazingly, he actually worked in each am a poor one. But in addition to everything else I learned of the branches of his title, the balance shifting over the from him, he taught me Dòmnhull Bàn MacCruimein’s years. To legal philosophers he is well remembered for his great lament. The thought that its words would someday seminal work, Legal Reasoning and Legal Theory, which be printed here would have given Neil enormous pleasure. remains one of the best accounts of its subject. His book on the philosophy of his mentor, HLA Hart, is a little gem, introducing, defending, but significantly modifying Dh’iadh ceò nan stùc what was for some time the dominant legal theory Mu eudann Chuilinn, in Oxford. Among many other books, Questioning Is sheinn ’bhean-shìth Sovereignty posed and answered hard questions about the A torman mulaid, constitution, state, and nation in Britain and in Europe. Gorm shùilean ciùin ’s Neil’s summa was four volumes of legal philosophy, An Dùin a sileadh, collectively entitled Law, State and Practical Reason, O’n thriall thu uainn finished just before his death. Leaving almost no area ’S nach till thu tuille! of legal philosophy untouched, this massive work draws eclectically, as Neil increasingly did, from the work of O’er Coolin’s face scholars from different legal and intellectual traditions, The night is creeping writing in various European languages. The nationalist The banshee’s wail of the heart was to the end a cosmopolitan of the mind. Is round us sweeping; It is this combination – not a contradiction – that made Blue eyes in Duin Neil MacCormick so valuable to the SNP, for which he Are dim with weeping, contested five general elections in the UK before being Since thou art gone elected MEP and serving with ambition and energy And ne’er returnest. from 1999 to 2004. Whether it was drafting a possible constitution for Scotland, working with the convention on a constitution for Europe, or trying to figure out how Leslie Green is Professor of the BBC ought to deliver Gaelic-language services to a tiny the Philosophy of Law at Balliol 44 Balliol College Record Vernon Handley (1930–2008) The second photograph shows Balliol College Association Football Club team, 1953 to 1954. I should I knew Tod best in the 1950s, when he was at Balliol know the names of the players, but memory fades. reading Philology. I read Music. He, like myself, played However, there’s no disputing who the two characters are football for the Balliol team, and when we went to play second and third from the left on the top row. Tod and I away-matches he would entertain us on the bus by whis- have decided we no longer want to have any further asso- tling, miming, and singing any piece of music, popular ciation with one another! or obscure, we’d put to him. So when my music tutor After Oxford we went our separate ways. Tod went to Bernard Rose, the conductor of the University Chamber the Royal College of Music in London and gradually built Orchestra, began to grow tired of conducting, I suggested up a high reputation as conductor for many orchestral that Tod might take over. At the Oxford University Music and choral societies. I embarked on a year’s teacher-train- Club and Union’s 1,725th meeting on 24 November 1953, ing course. I had already met Olga, my future wife-to-be, V.G. Handley made his debut as a conductor after the interval. He conducted Moeran’s ‘Allegro and Thema con Variazioni’. He was an immediate success, and hereafter his name appeared on many of the OUMC programmes. Tod was a delightful person, and generated great enthusiasm. He encouraged me to compose, and during our time at Oxford he conducted a number of my works. One such was ‘Overture to the “Taming of the Shrew”’, for the Oxford University Dramatic Society production on 15 June 1954. Tod wrote in the hand-written score, ‘Approx duration Hindley-time 6 mins, Handley-time 6 ½ mins. Tod Handley (Conductor by appointment)’. I have two photographs of Tod. One, taken in the Holywell Music Room, shows him conducting the University Chamber Orchestra. He has an erect stance, and the only direct physical movement he makes is through his right wrist, as he flicks his longish baton down, then up. The movement through the beat is very fast, so we see only a blur. His left hand is down by his side, and the rest of his body is quite still. But there’s a smile on his face. John Poole, another Balliol man, is playing the cello at the far left of the photo. He also read Music; in our first year he and I shared rooms together. He later distinguished himself as Director of the BBC Singers. Now he’s retired and lives in some out-of-the-way place in France. Another good friend at Balliol, Martin Davies, a chemist, is playing the viola, out of sight. Balliol College Record 45 in Ireland in 1953, a lovely girl with a beautiful voice. David because I’m conducting, and I hope that girl Olga She came to Oxford to be with me during this year. We is singing like a full-bosomed thrush.’ were engaged in August 1955, and married in Dublin on On 27 December Tod wrote again. His carol concert 5 January 1956. Tod was to have been my best man, but went well: ‘The great news is great indeed. On the 18th unfortunately couldn’t make it. Thick fog across England Dec. I saw Sir Adrian Boult. He has, as David knows, caused fights from London to be cancelled. My first post always been my hero, and in the flesh he turned out as I as a school music teacher was at Huddersfield College (a had always imagined he would be. Very stern, but with a grammar school), later, Huddersfield New College, where great warmth of humour, and a terrific air of authority. I taught for seven years. Tod and I communicated peri- He started the interview as if I were just another young odically. I have eight letters written by Tod spanning the man with romantic ideas about conducting, but as we dis- years 1956 to 1961. All letters were written in his home at cussed he became more and more interested, and I was ‘Michael’s Folly’. They give very interesting insights into not turned away politely as I learned from the reception- ist so many are. For one hour and forty minutes we were his world of musical activity. (Unfortunately I do not have at it; and I thanked God that I had learned music in my the letters I wrote to him!) own queer way, for I could argue scores with him and On 16 December 1956, Tod wrote a letter firstly trade blow for blow, which I think impressed him tre- describing his local choir, but his ‘greatest news’ was mendously. I could see he was taking more trouble than about his ‘old hero’ Sir Adrian Boult: ‘I requested from his usual, because he started questioning me on rather rare secretary a rehearsal pass for a Holst concert last week, scores (Bax second symphony; Sibelius 7th). After putting and when she asked him for it, he said “Is it the same me through it thoroughly he leant back and offered me Handley who worried me about Holst several years ago?” coffee; and then proceeded to pronounce sentence. The He remembered also my letter from Balliol days and was upshot was that he was more than interested. He is going so impressed that I was keeping up my conducting ambi- to try to get me coaching the London Junior and Senior tions that he has offered me an interview next Tuesday.’ Orchestras and if possible the National Youth! Later on, At the end of the letter he said, ‘I hope you are composing I am to have a single work in a public concert with the London Philharmonic. We will get there David, as we always said we would, as long as we keep our enthusiasm through these difficult years.’ On 1 October 1958 he wrote at length about his recent success in conducting. ‘By Gustav, it has begun! I have won a conducting competition. Incidentally the first I have entered. Not the L.S.O. not the B.B.C. not the Royal Choral Soc. no! But the Tonbridge Philharmonic Soc. (chorus of 90) Kent. (All expenses paid and a good feel) I am, in fact, a paid conductor!!! Four people were tested for the job and I won the ballot. I was the youngest, and one of the others was a member of the Oriana Choir (you know – C. Kennedy Scotts’ lot.) Rehearsals have begun for Xmas, and Tonbridge have made B. and I very welcome.’ Later he wrote, ‘Sir Adrian continues very helpful (sic) and encouraging, lending scores and writing testimo- 46 Balliol College Record nials, and arranging rehearsal passes. What I have learnt bubbled up during the first world war and at about ten- and go on learning from him!...At the moment I am re- year intervals it has been bubbling up ever since…Most learning Beethoven 4 and a work by Boris Blacher… Neil people at present writing in this style are not writing with (Black) suggested that if I got the orchestra I should do an instinctive idiom in it…I have nothing against the fact your Sinfonietta, but I hope for a new work, the product that seems to worry most people, i.e. that there is in fact of the new phase after that Bartok period.’ no tonality. The thing that worries me is that not only is In fact that new work was in hand! Despite the fact the focal point gone, but intellectually and aurally there that my life was moving in a different direction, being is nothing put in its place as a main feature…Enough of appointed music-master at Huddersfield College, I did this. The great thing is that you do not want to go the find the time to write a symphony of sorts. I must have whole hog with a system that does not convince you com- told Tod about it, because his letter of 23 December 1960 pletely, morally and intellectually (and incidentally it has makes mention of it: ‘When your card arrived with the taken its time convincing Stravinsky!) The talkers do not magic word “symphony” on it, I decided there was no seem to realise that tonality is not a whim, it is part of time like the present.’ He first describes his ‘Adult Choral a natural, i.e. scientific phenomenon, and although this Course’, then asks, ‘What is this symphony like, how has does not mean you can’t throw it over it does not mean your idiom settled, and in what direction? Hindemithian, that a human mentality has to be convinced instinctively Stravinsky, Webern, Bartock, Honneger, V. W. or unadul- as well as intellectually of some order replacing it. To use terated Hindley? ...Have you got a performance fixed up? the tone-row and to shuffle it in exactly the same way as “Bags” I.’ one shuffles bits of material in a Kaleidoscope, produces His final letter addressed to Olga and me arrived less a number of different patterns; intellectually convincing than a week later, on 3 January 1961. It begins: ‘I hope in themselves and as an entity meaningless. As a basis of you will excuse biro, but I have written so much, and my a personal idiom, however, it seems to me, very exciting hands, though never painful now; sometimes get a bit indeed…I have not had a chance to study your pieces yet tired. This letter will be mainly directed at you David, but but comments will follow. Your news about school work I hope dear Olga will catch something of my exhilaration convinces me that Huddersfield will be the richer for your as I talk about your news. It’s generous of you to greet our work, and your Headmaster must be proud. What was news and appreciate that although I have not made my the anthem of Holst that you did? (He is still my greatest professional debut I have at least been making progress.’ favourite.) This was scribbled in haste. I hope some of the He then gives a long appraisal of what was happening in ideas and views are comprehensible.’ the world of music. It was triggered by my own concern as to the road I should take. The letter reveals his stance in David Hindley (1952) is a retired Lecturer in Music at the musical world of 48 years ago: Cambridge. ‘The fact that you are grappling with this problem of orientation is as encouraging to me as anything you could tell me. I know a number of composers who shy away from it, and just as many who have climbed on the “atonal band-wagon” to be in the swim of things at the pseudo-intellectual watering places, and whose music is, to a musician, artistic falsehood…But atonality is not new and if we are to get it in perspective we have to understand where it started and what are its results. It Balliol College Record 47 Tuanku Ja’afar ibni Almarhum Nations in New York. From 1958, he served as Deputy High Commissioner in London for five years before being Tuanku Abdul Rahman posted as Malaysian Ambassador to Egypt (1963–65) (1922–2008) and High Commissioner in Nigeria (1965–67). Upon his elder brother’s untimely death, Tuanku Ja’afar succeeded him to the throne of Negeri Sembilan, becoming the 10th Yang di Pertuan Besar (Sultan). He reigned for 41 years, achieving the status of the oldest reigning Monarch in the world until his demise on 27 December 2008 at the age of 86 years. Tuanku Ja’afar was a great sportsman representing his school, the Malay College where he was Head Boy at Kuala Kangsar in cricket, tennis, squash, badminton, hockey, and football. Subsequently at Raffles College in Singapore he was a regular partner at tennis with Lee Kuan Yew (now Singapore’s Minister Mentor). He read Law at Nottingham University, graduating in 1952, thereafter pursuing a one-year course in Public Administration at Balliol College, Oxford. He was awarded an Oxford Blue for badminton and certainly played tennis for both the Nottingham and Oxford University First Teams. Tuanku Ja’afar was proclaimed the 10th Yang Di Pertuan Agong (or King) of Malaysia in 1994 and reigned for five illustrious years. His father, Tuanku Abdul Rahman, had been proclaimed the first King at the country’s independence in 1957. As a Constitutional Monarch Tuanku Ja’afar was most exemplary in forging international ties during a time when Malaysia was making its mark on the world stage as the world’s 20th largest trading nation and establishing leadership in the Organization H.R.H. Tuanku Ja’afar ibni Almarhum Tuanku Abdul of Islamic Countries (OIC). The 1998 Commonwealth R a h m a n (‘ Tu a n k u J a’a f a r ’) b o r n o n 19 Ju ly 19 2 2 , pu r s u e d Games in Kuala Lumpur and the construction of the a distinguished career in public administration. Having landmark Petronas Twin Towers are two major mile- served in his early years as District Officer in various plac- stones during his tenure as King under Malaysia’s unique es in Malaya, he finally became Assistant State Secretary rotational monarchy. in Perak state before being recruited into the fledgling foreign service of a newly independent country. When Tunku Naquiyuddin is the son of Tuanku Ja’afar. Malaya became independent on 31 August 1957, Tuanku He will continue to organize the annual Royal Sevens Ja’afar briefly became the country’s Charge d’Affaires in (Rugby) and Seremban Half Marathon in memory of his its new embassy in Washington, before being appointed father, and a Gallery will be built to recognize his Royal Malaya’s Deputy Permanent Representative at the United Highness’ illustrious reign. 48 Balliol College Record Bernie Brooks (1929–2008) He sat in on all JCR committee meetings, providing it with its only point of continuity through the years, and Bernie Brooks, JCR Steward for many years, seemed to be often showed himself to have a wiser head than many of part of the fabric of Balliol, and for many of us it is impos- those of us schooled in books, but at that stage yet to be sible to remember the JCR without also remembering schooled in life. He knew when to let us have our head, Bernie. Bernie was a very caring man who took an indi- but also knew when the right moment was to rein us back, vidual interest in members of the common room, know- and taught this JCR President at least that discretion ing many by name, and who was always ready to step could be the better part of valour. A word from Bernie beyond the strict bounds of his job to help when needed. when he took the Master his afternoon cup of tea could Always smartly dressed in a jacket and tie, he was unflap- yield more than countless strongly worded JCR motions pable, and displayed what I now recognize was an amaz- demanding some action or other from the SCR. ing patience when dealing with undergraduates. It was not always entirely clear to me what Bernie did and he would retreat to his office at various points in the day when I learned it was best not to disturb him. It was clear however that the JCR could not run without him. Not only did he organize the operation of a busy bar and shop/café, he was also a quietly effective diplomat who helped to smooth relations between the occasionally difficult undergraduates and the long-suffering domestic staff. On at least one occasion it was only the intervention of Bernie that prevented a scout quitting on the spot when she encountered the results of some especially objection- able undergraduate behaviour. I particularly remember the support and help Bernie gave me with changes that were made to the arrangement of the JCR over the course of one summer vacation. Bernie must have been looking forward to a few quiet weeks during that period, and it has to be said that his initial reaction was not enthusiastic when I proposed introducing hot food to the pantry, the removal of a wall to double the size of the Lindsay bar, and the refurbishment of the Norway Room. It was Bernie however who won over the doubters in both the JCR and SCR, it was Bernie who persuaded the somewhat reluctant pantry staff to become cooks, and it was Bernie who was the prime mover in getting the work done on schedule and to order. It was also Bernie who pointed out that the best way to avoid apparently insurmountable difficulties with the city planning and environmental health authorities over the instal- lation of a large extractor venting cooking smells into St Giles, was simply not to apply for permission in the first Balliol College Record 49 place! The sum total of his reward was a vote of thanks tinually and unpredictably. The JCR in my time would from the JCR and the honour of being the first to eat a not have functioned without Bernie. It seems that the cooked breakfast, but he was immensely proud of all that graduate and undergraduate community and their friends he had achieved that summer, and rightly so. and guests were bent on becoming problems for scouts, Bernie was a calm, unassuming man who often had a gardeners, JCR staff, and others, but for Bernie it was twinkle in his eye, a kind word for many, and who was all part of a day at the office. Sometimes he would hold a good friend to generations of students, to the JCR, and meetings to discuss and soothe over sensitive matters. to Balliol. More than once I saw him guide an initially resistive staff meeting through to agreement: ‘so let’s try it and see how Duncan Taylor (1980) followed a career in business and it works for the gentlemen’. Sometimes the problems a is now writing a PhD on ‘Waterborne trade in the smaller student caused took days or weeks to iron over, but for Bristol Channel ports during the sixteenth century’. Bernie, it was part of the territory. When I went down I made a point of saying goodbye to Bernie. He had been a source of direction and of immeas- Bernie Brooks dressed in sports jackets and ties in stark urable help. His response was that this was not necessary contrast to almost all members of the JCR. However, as we would meet again, and he was quite right. On a the stark contrast ended there; I recall him as an integral return to Balliol many years later he called out to me as part of Balliol and JCR life. He sat on JCR committees, I came out from a staircase; he had remembered my first employed and managed the staff, and befriended student name. ‘The gentlemen are a little different today,’ he said. members. ‘Shorter hair!’ As Bernie put it, the members of the JCR committee were the governors. And in my time the committees Christopher Brickhill (1972) lives in Singapore and runs caused him problems, ranging from ridiculous demands like paying employees’ salaries without withholding the Asia Pacific operations for a retail banking software taxes, to dealing with student occupations, sit-ins, and company, as well as doing some community work. requests for the provision of food and other items which would have made no economic sense. I do not recall him ever showing frustration or, heaven forbid, becoming short-tempered. He had the ability to quietly ‘shelve for future action’ many of our less realistic demands until they were forgotten. Bernie was a gem. Bernie provided the JCR with continuity from year to year. But in doing so he did not interfere with our decisions. I heard him say, more often than not with a hint of concern, ‘If that is what you want, then that is what we will do’. Bernie, however, had a fine sense of tactics and timing, and small changes he wished to make in the JCR occurred over the summer break. What did Bernie do on a daily basis? Like all good managers he kept plenty of time free in his daily routine in order to deal with the countless problems that arose, con- 50 Balliol College Record of negative environmental trends will destroy humanity. Book Reviews His hope is that by ‘looking into the abyss’ we may be able to arrest these trends and save our species. The Bridge at the End of the World: Capitalism, There are many competitors in the race to catastrophe. the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Some authors, like Lord Martin Rees, argue that environ- Sustainability ment destruction is only one of the possible reasons that our growth may hit a brick wall. Rees argues that there is James Gustave Speth (1964) a 50 per cent probability that civilization is living in our (Yale University Press, New Haven, 2008) ‘final century’, with pandemics, nuclear conflicts, or bio- terrorism posing risks which compound those of climate Gus Speth has written a timely book. Although it preced- change and the destruction of the environment. ed the current financial crisis, it is prescient in its identi- Speth’s book does not set out to weigh these different fication of the underlying systemic risks of turbo charged risks, choosing instead to examine the critical dimen- capitalism. Speth identifies what he terms ‘the great col- sion of the relationship of the environment to economic lision’ arising from humanity’s impact on the earth. He growth. Having provided a persuasive case that the cur- acknowledges that globalization and economic growth rent trends cannot be allowed to continue, Speth pro- have brought great progress, not least in that for many it vides a radical case for the reform of capitalism itself. He has helped overcome disease and poverty. His concern is argues that nothing short of this will lead to sustainable that accelerating development has come at an unsustain- outcomes. Speth demonstrates that it is necessary to go able cost to the natural environment. beyond market-based solutions. These currently are a The book begins by chronicling the damage. Half of pervasive feature of proposed responses to climate change the world’s tropical and temperate forests and wetlands and the other environmental challenges. Where it is rec- have disappeared. Three-quarters of the marine fisheries ognized that the market fails and that externalities may are depleted. Speth shows how water and land resources exist, there is a partial and reluctant agreement current- are being overexploited and how bio-diversity is being ly to establish rules and regulatory agencies to address destroyed at an alarming rate, in what he terms a ‘spasm these market failings. While not dismissing these, Speth of extinction’, not seen for sixty-five million years, when has a much more robust approach, including a question- dinosaurs disappeared. ing of the assumptions regarding the need to grow and a The belated realization of the impact of humanity on rethinking of the constant escalation of consumer mar- the world’s climate is receiving growing recognition. The keting and material consumption. book serves to place this in a broader context of the rela- In the business world, Speth is keen to demonstrate that tionsh ip of hu man it y to t he planet. I n seek i ng to f i nd solu- corporate social responsibility needs to go beyond public tions, it goes beyond the market-based approaches which relations and should be embedded in the entire corporate are the current vogue, to address the deeper questions of philosophy and in business practices. the nature of capitalism and the need for a fundamental This is an ambitious book, where calls for a new form rethink of the imperatives and consequences of current of corporation are matched by chapters calling for new models of economic growth and development. forms of consciousness and politics. These changes may Speth believes that environmental degradation poses have appeared to be rather distant dreams; however, in the greatest threat to humanity and that the acceleration the short time which has elapsed since the book was writ- Balliol College Record 51 ten, a radical change in the US Presidency has been asso- There are several interlocking themes therefore, ciated with a new awareness of global implications and stretching from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. the need for urgent global action on climate change. The One is the waning influence of some traditional values recent financial crisis has served to reinforce the sense of and codes of behaviour. Military virtues had lost much of vulnerability and led to a growing call for a reconsidera- their moral and social force by the early eighteenth cen- tion of a number of the core tenets underlying our models tury, when fewer people than in other European countries of economic growth. were directly involved in war, and military profession- Speth’s The Bridge at the Edge of the World aims to als were more clearly separated from civilians. Related provide a logical framework for the transition from crisis notions of ‘honour’ were eroded in much more complex to sustainability. It provides fresh perspectives which will ways, but becoming less dominated by social distinctions be of great interest to all those who wish to think afresh and more by judgements about individual behaviours that about how we may secure a better future. conferred credit and earned respect. At the same time, greater value was being attributed to mundane and mate- Ian Goldin, Director of the James Martin 21st Century rial satisfactions, including those to be found in work and School and Professorial Fellow, Balliol College worldly goods. The acquisitive self-centred appetites of a market and consumer society became more respectable. Neither Christian nor classical notions of happiness and fulfilment could survive unaltered in that world, where The Ends of Life: Roads to Fulfilment in Early private satisfactions were elevated, and people were most Modern England satisfied, and felt most ‘themselves’, at home. The chapter on friendship and sociability, which few other historians Keith Thomas (1952) could have written so effectively, explores that tangled (Oxford University Press, 2009) aspect of past values and emotions; and it leads to a conclusion on the decline of confidence in the blessings of This is the book of the Ford Lectures which Keith Thomas heaven and pains of hell. Conceptions of happiness were delivered to large audiences in the Examination Schools shifting, from the objective felicity of the Greek ideal to in Hilary Term 2000. It has been well worth waiting for. a subjective fulfilment to be found in everyday existence. The overall shape of the lectures is retained, and so is So bald a summary does scant justice to an account the choice of the ‘ends’ on which it concentrates: military chock-full of instructive and often entertaining detail and prowess, work, wealth and possessions, honour and repu- incident, however. One of several telling illustrations is tation, friendship and sociability, fame and the afterlife. the funeral monument of an Elizabethan publisher and As the introduction says, other roads to human fulfilment book-seller who was kitted out like a medieval knight in early modern England have been given less attention, in full armour: chivalric ideals were still tenacious. So including religious goals and public service and private were other kinds of tradition, though they were given charity, but the addition of a vast amount of new material new shape. Prayers for the dead, for example, survived means that these topics are touched on too. The method, in Protestant forms, like the May Morning ceremony still as the author explains, is ‘that of the lumper’, amassing celebrated on Magdalen Tower. Language and the conno- quotations and examples to show how different modes of tations of words also changed. How many of us knew that discourse, and different inherited intellectual traditions, ‘chums’ were originally chamber-fellows, and that old could coexist, rub along together, but gradually take on Brasenose room-mates already called one another that in what were clearly novel meanings. 1691; or that the insult of ‘cuckold’ had lost its bite as early 52 Balliol College Record as 1691, and in Charlbury at least become a jocular term other kinds of ending, read this learned, enthralling, and for familiar and intimate friends? The index on its own is thoroughly humane book. a good guide to the range of topics covered: ‘leisure; leisure preference; lesbianism; letter-writing’, for instance, Paul Slack (1966), Principal of Linacre or ‘cushions; custard; cutlery; cynics; Dahrendorf, Ralf [quoted on ‘life chances’]; damnation, fear of.’ In the variety of different voices (whose citation occupies nearly a hundred pages) there are plenty of clues to From Empedocles to Wittgenstein: Historical indicate where the author’s sympathies – it would be pre- sumptuous to say his fulfilments – lie. An early instance is Essays in Philosophy the reference to John Prideaux, Rector of Exeter College in the early seventeenth century, who kept a pair of Anthony Kenny (1964) labourer’s breeches to show his pupils how diligence had (Oxford University Press, 2008) raised him from humble beginnings to a Regius Chair and the Vice-Chancellorship. ‘It was said that three men The former Master shows himself to be master of the in his college lost their lives in a vain attempt to emu- 10–15 page paper. Of the fifteen papers, only three lie late his industry’. A man of no less admirable dedication, much outside that band: two are twenty-odd pages long, the great judge and scholar, Mathew Hale, crops up sev- and one just seven. All go by very quickly; Sir Anthony’s eral times. As a law student he worked sixteen hours a style is to be swift and decisive, with the merest nod at day, and was so roughly dressed that he was once press- problems which the slower philosopher (like me) would ganged for military service. In later life ‘he came to think normally have to spend weeks puzzling over. that 6 hours of intense work a day was quite enough’, and The briskness is curious. Many of the papers have aris- acquired ‘more decency in his clothes’, but still lived in a en out of Sir Anthony’s work on his four volume opus, modest house in Acton and on a frugal diet, so as to be A New History of Western Philosophy, and he reminds ‘the fitter for business’. One might almost say that each of us in the preface to From Empedocles to Wittgenstein them sounds as if he should have been a Balliol man. that: ‘Each volume was to be 125,000 words long and Yet there is also John Dryden, celebrating less purpose- one volume was to be delivered in each year from 2003 ful day-to-day satisfactions in a ‘bleak but defiant’ ver- to 2006’ (vi). Unsurprisingly, ‘in the course of writing sion of one of Horace’s odes. It closes the book, just as it [A New History] I frequently had to take up positions on fittingly ended the last of the Ford lectures: controversial issues of historical philosophy, which could only be justified to a scholarly audience by much ampler Happy the Man, and happy he alone, discussion’ (vii–viii). Sometimes half a million words He, who can call today his own: just isn’t enough. Anyway, most of the papers in From He, who secure within, can say Empedocles to Wittgenstein present these fuller justifica- Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. tions. It is all the more surprising that they should be so Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine; quick and short. It is as if the decisiveness necessary for The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate are mine; completing the larger work has habituated Sir Anthony to Not Heav’n itself upon the past has pow’r; writing in the telegraphic style. But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. An example will help. The first paper, ‘Seven Concepts of Creation’, is, if you reflect on the title, strikingly ambi- If you want to understand how people arrived at that and tious. We’re talking about the creation of the universe Balliol College Record 53 here. What can a philosopher expect to achieve in a dis- Chapter 4, ‘Aristotle’s Criteria for Happiness’ consists cussion of seven concepts of creation which takes just 14 of a few remarks on a paper of John Cooper’s on the self- pages? Answer: ‘I wish to make a comparison between sufficiency of virtue patched together with an extended the Platonic account [of creation] in the Timaeus and the book review of Gabriel Richardson Lear’s Happy Lives biblical concept of creation. I will also explore the way and the Highest Good. Aristotle claims that happiness in which that concept was developed and modified by consists in contemplative activity (roughly speaking, Christian philosophers in the medieval and early modern doing philosophy), and that everything we do, we do period’ (2). I found the comparison hard to follow. For for the sake of happiness. This is supposed to include instance, one feature of the Platonic account of creation morally virtuous activities such as honest actions, kind in the Timaeus is that ‘God worked on pre-existent mat- actions, brave actions, and so forth, which are also said ter’ (1). It turns out that the biblical account of creation by Aristotle to be worth doing for their own sake. Sir is not so simple, because ‘The book of Genesis contains Anthony expounds Richardson Lear’s idea as to how to not one but two accounts of creation’ (2), whose differ- understand the claim that virtuous activity is done for the ences are explained. The obvious conclusion to draw sake of contemplative activity: ‘Her solution to the prob- is that there is not a single biblical account of creation. lem rests on a simple but extremely fruitful insight: that Nonetheless, they are treated as one by Sir Anthony: ‘It is one way in which X can be for the sake of Y is by being an the absence of paradigms, in fact, that is the most obvious approximation to Y’ (42; his emphasis). Now, no evidence is given for Richardson Lear’s proposal being an ‘insight’ difference between the Platonic and the Mosaic narra- (i.e. for a start, being true), but perhaps the onus falls on tives’ (4), and on the specific issue of the pre-existent mat- Richardson Lear to provide that. Instead, we are offered ter the Platonic and biblical accounts are said to be ‘fairly an illustration of the ‘insight’ with the following gem: ‘we easily reconcilable’ (ibid). What is strange about this is might say that kissing is for the sake of sex, even though that Sir Anthony himself had pointed out that in one of not all kissing leads to sex, and kissing is worth doing for the biblical accounts (the one starting at chapter 2 verse its own sake’ (ibid). But here again I felt that things were 5), ‘it is not clear whether the existence of the dry dusty going too quickly. If X is for the sake of Y, then answers to earth precedes the activity of God; the text can be read the question ‘Why are you X-ing?’ should make reference either way’ (3). In other words, one of the biblical texts to Y as some sort of goal. I suppose Richardson Lear’s seems to waver on just this question of pre-existent mat- idea is that sometimes, when asked ‘Why are you X-ing?’, ter. Treating the two biblical accounts as two expressions you will say ‘Well, I wanted to achieve Y, but X-ing is the of one view seems to have its difficulties: Sir Anthony best I can get’: your activity of X-ing must be understood would surely be the perfect scholar to help us understand against the background of the unattained goal Y. Now, this. Here, the details are put to one side. presumably the kind of kissing Sir Anthony has in mind Chapter 2 is an occasional piece on Empedocles is (to put it coyly) romantic kissing, not the kissing of a (more on that below), and chapters 3 through 6 are all child by a parent, for instance. But, if you ask a lover ‘why on Aristotle, mostly on ethical matters (in which Sir are you kissing your beloved?’ you would not expect the Anthony’s famous views on the relation between the answer ‘Well, I wanted to have sex with him, but kissing Eudemian and Nicomachean Ethics are often to the fore), him is the closest I could get’. (It puts a new complex- but including a paper on the Categories which had previ- ion on ‘Da mi basia mille, deinde centum, | dein mille ously appeared in French. (It is a curious feature of all the altera, dein secunda centum, | deinde usque altera mille, papers on Aristotle that the Greek lacks breathings and deinde centum’.) You might sometimes get the answer: accents.) ‘in order to cajole him into having sex’, or something like 54 Balliol College Record that, but this is not Richardson Lear’s point. For once, Sir The volume contains two occasional pieces: ‘Life after Anthony’s finely tuned ear for a commonplace example Etna: Empedocles in Prose in Poetry’, is a charming lets him down. Of course, there are some activities which piece in the ‘after-dinner speech’ style about the recep- are approximations to sexual intercourse in the sense that tion of Empedocles, and contains swathes of Arnold’s they fall short of being sexual intercourse, and which Empedocles on Etna quoted in extenso, along with an are engaged in as a replacement for sexual intercourse. interesting account of that poem’s own reception. ‘The Kissing is not one of them. Unity of Knowledge and the Diversity of Belief’ has lots Next we have four chapters on Aquinas, then three con- more poetry too, and wonderful bons mots: ‘Everlasting cerning Wittgenstein. Two of the Wittgenstein papers are peace is a consummation devoutly to be wished: but per- the most successful in the volume: one exegetical (Chapter petual light sounds like a torture out of Guantanamo’ 11, elucidating §599 of Philosophical Investigations: (211). ‘Philosophy states only what everyone admits’), and the These occasional pieces are at home in this collection other (‘The Wittgenstein Editions’) telling the extraordi- because the author’s style is everywhere accessible: even nary story of the various attempts to get Wittgenstein’s the papers aimed at an academic audience read easily and Nachlass into print, or electronic form. It is a depressing smoothly. Those papers do not offer the final word on story, offering much evidence of how human nature can their subjects, but the blurb on the back of the book refers get in the way of successful scholarship; Sir Anthony’s to them as ‘scholarly explorations’, which is an honest recounting is cool and mostly dispassionate – and highly and exact description. I enjoyed them all. recommended. The philosophers that figure most in these papers are Ben Morison (1988), Michael Cohen Fellow in Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, and Wittgenstein, all of whom Philosophy at Exeter figure in Sir Anthony’s pantheon of great philosophers, the remaining two being Descartes and Kant (vi). But not all the papers in the volume occupy themselves with these great philosophers. The paper ‘Knowledge, Belief, and The Dyson Perrins Laboratory and Oxford Faith’ is essentially a book review of Dawkins’ The God Organic Chemistry 1916–2004 Delusion: ‘I find myself in agreement with perhaps 90 percent of what Dawkins says’ (181), but ‘because of the Rachel Curtis, Catherine Leith, Joshua Nall, and John 10 per cent difference between us I end up in quite a dif- Jones ferent position with regard to the rationality of religion’ (Published by John Jones) (182). (One would indeed expect the famous agnostic to differ with the atheist.) Part of this different position Like all good history, this short volume by John Jones consists in the thought that ‘if there is any truth in any and his young colleagues sheds light on the present: in religious revelation it is more likely that each of them is a this case, the state of contemporary organic chemistry in metaphor for a single underlying truth…In this way reli- Oxford. The story begins in 1916 with the opening of the gion would resemble poetry rather than science’ (196). first phase of the DP, the Dyson Perrins Laboratory on But more interestingly, Sir Anthony thinks that belief South Parks Road, in response to the dire state of chemis- in God can be reasonable: ‘A belief may be reasonable, try in Oxford at the beginning of the century. Those who though false’ (197). Atheism might be reasonable too, but have moved into new buildings will appreciate the authors’ only ‘Tentative, non-dogmatic atheism’ (ibid). observant comment on the optimistic ‘1915’ prominent Balliol College Record 55 on the DP drainpipes. In earlier times, chemical research had been carried out in converted cellars and stables in the colleges, including the legendary Balliol-Trinity laboratory (eventually closed in 1941), and later in the first purpose-built laboratory, which was part of the University Museum. Dyson Perrins, who paid most of the bill for the DP despite, we read, the unresolved issue of his opposition to compulsory Greek, was the grandson of W. H. Perrins the co-concocter of the lucrative Lea and Perrins sauce. From Jones’ account, it can be seen how the sauce money led to a separation of organic chemistry from the other branches of the subject and the observance of practices that remain entrenched in Oxford to this day: the con- trolling professorship, a cumbersome Part II system, the sacrosanct undergraduate course, academic inbreeding, the lack of a tenure-track system, secretive appointment committees, and so on. Each harder to change than the dons’ light bulb. As Jones observes in a footnote, speaking of the University in general, ‘It was and is a constantly evolving maelstrom of administrative complexity, which nobody of sound mind would have ever planned.’ What then of the Professorship, which originated in 1865 as the Waynflete Chair? Despite a recent provision, which separated the Headship of Organic Chemistry and the Chair, the Professor has remained a dominant force commanding considerable resources, stemming perhaps from the idea that laboratories are built for individuals, in the case of the DP the redoubtable W. H. Perkin Jr, rather Dyson Perrins, 1917 than departments. While outstanding science resulted from this arrangement, especially during the era of the somewhere, since this would release a Fellowship at brilliant Robert Robinson, who was awarded the Nobel Balliol.’ Prize in 1947, it is possible that much more might have What too of the wisdom of the Part II system in which emerged from a US-style department in which senior fac- 180-odd undergraduate chemists are retained for a fourth ulty members are equals and the headship is rotated on a year of research in order to obtain a classified degree? We regular basis. As recounted by Jones and colleagues, even read that this scheme, like the DPhil, originated during the celestial Robinson erred on the structures of choles- the Great War to compete with the Germans in turning terol, proteins, and penicillin, and indeed was recalcitrant out chemists with adequate experimental skills. But today on the latter. The volume is also fascinating on professo- this programme uses vast amounts of expensive laborato- rial politics with, for example, the incoming Waynflete ry space and additional resources on undergraduates, of Professor, Ewart Jones (of Manchester), writing to Todd whom many are yearning for jobs far away from research (of Cambridge) asking him to fix up Waters ‘in a Chair in the City and elsewhere. Entrenched by locked-in fund- 56 Balliol College Record ing and apparently cheap labour, there is seemingly no A Tangled Web: A British Spy in Estonia. The way the system can be modified to make room for more memoirs of an Estonian who fell into the graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. But still, clutches of MI6 and the KGB there have been highlights such as Barlow’s discovery through a structure-function analysis, published in 1948, Mart Männik of a potent mimic of curare. Molecules similar to Barlow’s Translated by George Carlisle (1967) are still used as muscle relaxants in surgery. And, it must (Grenader Publishing, Tallinn, 2008) be noted, Jones’ three co-authors were recent Part IIs. Today’s challenges in chemistry at Oxford include Disraeli is said to have once remarked, ‘Read no history; maintaining an excellent tutorial system, preserving a rig- nothing but biography, for that is life without theory’. orous undergraduate course linked to modern advances This is not an approach to history that would have found in science, and the recruitment, retention, and funding of much favour in Christopher Hill’s Balliol of the 1960s, the very best young scientists. We must also retain out- but it was nevertheless one that was enthusiastically fol- standing senior staff, cognizant of losses such as Balliol’s lowed by the (then) George Morpeth. Consequently, it K nowles. A ll this must be done in the face of the challenge was always a fascinating experience to accompany him to of A si a n s c ie n c e , c on s t a nt s c r ut i n it y ( R A E s , I nt er n at ion a l history tutorials – or, at least, to those few tutorials which Reviews, etc.) and an apparently insurmountable deficit. we both actually attended, since we were more often to be Even an excellent performance in RAE 2008 has led to a reduction in HEFCE funding. While a forceful response found in the Broad Street Post Office, sending urgent tel- to external pressure is required, the self-congratulation egrams to apologize for our sudden inability to appear at of former times, extant in Jones’ volume, can no longer the appointed time, for one equally unconvincing reason work. Scientific excellence demonstrated at an interna- or another (the late much-lamented Donald Pennington tional level is all that will suffice, and even that offers no was a particularly long-suffering victim of these little certainty. dramas, which he always tolerated with his usual kind- While it is admirable that many science volumes are ness and good humour). On those rare occasions when today aimed at lay readers, this is a fine book written by we actually put in an appearance, George could always chemists that will be appreciated by practising scientists. be relied upon to produce another episode in his dra- Indeed Jones is more than a chemist, something of a poly- matic rewriting of the history of England which, in his math: scientist, educator, college man, historian. The hands, became a series of disputes between troublesome, admirably illustrated text is interspersed with interesting rather minor, members of the Howard family, whose peri- snippets of chemistry, including some from outside the odic quarrels over loot, land, and women managed, in DP: Biochemistry and the Dunn School, for example. The George’s highly original interpretation, to explain every densely referenced narrative remains close to its sources: major event in English history, from the Magna Carta to original documents and the testimony of living partici- the Civil War, from the Glorious Revolution to the Great pants in the life of the laboratory. While the story remains Reform Act. incomplete and fragmented, there is here ample material The former biographer of the quarrelsome Howards for a vivid reconstruction of an era that ended with the has now found an equally fascinating subject for his tal- opening in 2004 of the Chemistry Research Laboratory ents, this time (somewhat improbably) in Estonia. Mart on the other side of the street. Männik appears to have been one of those born survivors who, over a turbulent period of some 15 years, went from Hagan Bayley (1970), Professor of Chemical Biology semi-voluntary service in the German Army, to post-war Balliol College Record 57 industrial work in Britain, before being swept up into performed rather creditably. It was, after all, the academ- MI6’s (or the Secret Intelligence Service, SIS) disastrous ics who joined M15 as war-time amateurs who ran the Operation Jungle, which he managed to survive only by successful Double Cross counter-intelligence operation very sensibly changing sides after his arrest and becoming and played the same elaborate wireless games with the a double agent for the KGB. George Carlisle has produced Abwehr that the KGB played so cleverly against SIS in the an idiosyncratic English translation of this little-known Baltic a few years later. Even the musketeers of the Special spy’s rather brief memoirs but, in doing so, he has uncov- Operations Executive (SOE), exuberant self publicists ered a life which is interesting as much for its banality as as many of them were, nevertheless managed a series for its excitement. Although the book’s sub-title tells us of Boy’s Own paper adventures, even if these generally that Mart Männik survived ‘the clutches of MI6 and the read better in their memoirs than in the reports written KGB’, he then, perhaps even more astonishingly, settled at the time. However, unlike MI5 or even the SOE, SIS down in Estonia ‘for the last four decades of his life, mar- (the subsequent promoters of Operation Jungle) did not ried, raised a family and was employed as a mechanic and have ‘a good war’. Events got off to a bad start with the craftsman’. In other words, he picked up the pieces of his disastrous Venlo incident in November 1939, and, had it life from precisely where it had been temporarily inter- not been for the successful bureaucratic infighting from rupted in 1939 by the outbreak of the Second World War which SIS eventually emerged triumphant as the ‘owners’ and all that followed from it, as though nothing of any of the vital Ultra decrypts, their future might well have real importance had happened to him during this time. been in serious doubt in 1945. It did not matter that the It is indeed indicative of where Mart Männik’s heart real work on Ultra was carried out by the mathematicians lay that more than half of this short memoir is devoted to at Bletchley Park, nor that this work was largely made his life in Estonia, before and during the war, while his possible by Polish intelligence, who provided a complete brief career as a double agent is packed into the remaining duplicate Enigma machine shortly after the outbreak of 25 pages, with his four or five years’ work for the KGB war, at great personal risk to those involved. SIS neverthe- being dealt with in the last 12 or 13 of these pages. Mart less claimed the credit for what was achieved and it was, Männik died as he had lived, a mechanic and a skilled perhaps, something of this same ignorant arrogance that craftsman in his beloved Estonia, while the few years he led to the disasters of Operation Jungle, as well as to simi- spent as a soldier and a spy appear to have been little more lar post-war debacles throughout the Balkans. than a passing phase, during which he did whatever was Now that George Carlisle has done belated justice to necessary to survive and to return home safely. Surely a Mart Männik, perhaps he will turn his talents to writing very realistic approach to life, especially in war- and spy- about some of the wider aspects of the history of espio- torn Estonia? nage. The Acknowledgement and Introduction to this However, this intriguing book also raises some wider book hint at such work in the future (what exactly was he questions, particularly regarding the whole fiasco of hobnobbing with the late Professor Trevor-Roper about?) Operation Jungle, and exactly what its organizers and perhaps give reason to hope that further revelations (apparently a couple of dispossessed lumberjacks, with are to be expected. When they appear, they will no doubt chips on their shoulders) thought they were trying to be written with his own inimitable verve and style, little achieve or, indeed, why they were ever allowed to try changed, forty years on, from that of the author of the it. The operation began in 1949; in other words, some original Howard biopics. four years after the end of the Second World War, during which the various agencies making up the British Jonathan Long (1967), Chairman of First City intelligence community are generally thought to have Monument Bank Plc in Nigeria 58 Balliol College Record Poetry

The Great Maidan Gaudy

My only sleepless night for Benazir 21st March 2009 was not a claim on love, or not at least under its major sub-heads; it came near Now, after forty years, duty; yet somehow was duty ceased, we gather again gone with her going, once the funeral in the familiar quad was over. So my anxious hesitancy surrounded by the absence deriving from no rule was personal: of a different millennium. the matter grievous, the decision free. Quick as silver, squirrel grey, lithe, agile, And in the end I travelled. Plans abandoned, sprints up the chestnut tree I went on Internet and booked Finnair that is in bud again and crossed a continent and seas to London. unlike our greying selves. Careful as other old friends gathering there, Regeneration (is a mystery I too had brought to that impromptu scene chestnut trees and squirrels understand) late virtual roses for the laughing girl evading us entirely of Lady Margaret Hall. The one you’d been, as we stand here once more. the something in you that we all once were, Ian Blake was then transparent in the character and billboard face of representative. Was there as well an anguish night would stir, the day’s work never settle? Ours to give this journey for an elegy, to scan in miniature your fateful exodus and last appointment in the great maidan: history that called on you was calling us.

Philip McDonagh

Balliol College Record 59 Daunt Hobbyists for lieges. This might be the centre of the world. The amateurs that twirled a cane Or England, at least. To get the natives dancing. Our love of lapping up on foreign shores, Roués, bounders, decadents and rakes. Our greater love of coming back to green, And who could tell the charmer from the snake? To teatime idling, browsing halls of books. Now the skins are shed, what’s left It might be Fogg’s Reform Club, here where Is garbled facts and bric-a-brac. Cities slumber, shelved, Philately. Curatorship. Waiting for a thumb to prise their ramparts. Every loft a tribute to collection, Domes and skylights poached pell-mell, As dust collects. As we collect ourselves, And brought to Marylebone from Piccadilly. Wooed by the luxury of colour supplements, The classic green of billiard-ball and baize, A room where you could spend a month of Sundays, Or one of those sleek lamps so loved by lawyers. Amid the rustling folios and fly-covers, And yes, the clientele is often pin-striped, Where time is brewed and poured, and hours stay hot, The type who wield their pens from eight to eight And tea does not go cuprous in the pot. And still have time to swot up on their operas. Andrew Blades Such was our past. A foreign country, half a bloody globe Though fuchsia-pink, not red, and bearing tints Of pallid quinine. Edwards with moustaches Drew boundaries till six then mastered bridge.

60 Balliol College Record THE FALL AT TIERBOSKLOOF but you that whelm and calm cleanse or coolly drown For my grandson Mungo unknot nerves grown numb mad make suddenly sane Bibet de torrente in via swell olive, fig and vine stir organs stricken dumb STILL in your scuttering drops (and closed my wordless stroll) – must you anonymous lie light rests its weightless lance. an anchorite to all Frail prisms haunt their tips too loud to list your sough? kindling recovered sense: Baptized in your own spray moisture and music at once I name you Mungo’s Fall: one wintry noonbeam sips. whose view let brine not blur Locking their dripping lairs too soon, but let him ride against your feigned assault far as the Frozen Sea trees shunt away the showers your green and growing flood down basins smooth as felt. fraught with life’s untaxed hoard Guileless and free from guilt friendship, felicity. far from the township’s glowers While his right years run fresh your volta never stalls into time’s bitter bay its analeptic leap no slip of terror dash till summer’s baton quells his shimmering towers of joy suites that would never stop. glib cosmocrat untie When TIERBOSKLOOF exhales love’s zebra-tinctured sash its spicy Feinbos smells but sleep his thousandth moon, proteas fierce as fair work till his vision yield, bluster against the blue trek where your torrents reign strutting their spiky gear or where they rest concealed to fright the mist away rise from the fall at noon butterflies flaunt and die again again again encountering some peer Carl Schmidt

Balliol College Record 61 Harvesting Walnuts Seriozha

Early in October, when our walnut tree (For Anna Karenina) Began to drop a nut here, one there, First letting go of the green husks, The birds were still singing With a pluck and a plump then a thump, When she stole into his room.

Grandfather carved sticks, thick as our arms; The hallway had been dark, We climbed the tree to beat the walnuts off: And now the light, a telltale nuisance, From between the leaves a bitter smell of iodine Threatened to betray her – Fell. Back on the ground we sat in a circle (Like that squeaking minx at the opera last week, Holding round stones in yellow-stained hands, Twirling her opera glasses, pointing her brows). We cracked the walnuts then built leaf castles Guarded by turtle armies made of husks The light hovered dangerously across his eyelids, his And broken shells, we learned the colour bitter-green. mouth, Wet oval pads, dabbling, drawing closer. Carmen Bugan A toy soldier lodged beneath her foot turned over and Grimaced, quietly – still holding in the dawn.

She remembered her lover – The gold buttons tight beneath the chin, His chest held too tightly in, The way he wrestled with his solitude.

Her son turned over, His mouth fluttered open, then closed.

The fibrillations of her heart were quite astounding.

Sally Bayley

62 Balliol College Record Dynasty Warriors The Poets Cutting swathes through hordes of lazily Philip McDonagh (1970) is a diplo- scripted A.I, Legolas and Gimli mat and published poet. He is cur- race each other’s kill count. Ajax wipes rently Irish Ambassador to Russia. out another species in a fi eld, then weeps. Like morning, Krishna steps from the dark chariot. Vidyan Ravinthiran (2003) is a He speaks to Arjuna as to an American idiot. DPhil student working on prose of I hear Google Mail’s got a new app designed to stop you the Romantic Period. sending drunken emails. You’ve got to solve a puzzle or two Andrew Blades (1989) is a former before it’ll let you hit send. This isn’t the voice Balliol English student now doing Arjuna was expecting, the bold phrase a DPhil on Modern American Just Do It stapled to a skyscraper. Along the horizon Literature. the Kauravas stand ranked. In his indecision he notes old friends and family, mentors he must now kill. Carl Schmidt is Senior English Action is not true for once; will Tutor at Balliol. has lost the muscle of its message. His Carmen Bugan (2000) is the author face, withered by doubt, looks like Gandhi’s of Crossing the Carpathians and for a second. Then he’s Oppenheimer, Himmler next, was Creative Writing Fellow at all great fans of this doubt-containing feel-good text Wolfson 2008–09. set to pump adrenaline into the answering machine. As Krishna explains, all the enemies you can imagine Sally Bayley is Lecturer in Modern are already dead; it is right to function in this world, Literature at Jesus College and was to kill what must die before morning. Cold formerly a Lecturer at Balliol. She and passionate, Arjuna hops back onto the chariot has written a book on Sylvia Plath and Krishna drives his tireless white horses straight and art. into the thick of it. If there’s a point Ian Blake (1965) lives and writes in the history of all major religions when economic self-restraint 100 yards from the shore in Wester turns back on itself the command to go out and slaughter Ross, looking out to the Outer all those who oppose our particular Islands. box of tricks, Arjuna, playing with his bow and arrow set, is praying – not yet, not yet.

Vidyan Ravinthiran

Balliol College Record 63 Purple Grape appeared after eight strokes. At all events, Letters to the Editor like a recurring nightmare so bizarre that only Gerard Hoffnung could do justice to, it all happened again, dou- Dear Sir, ble overbump and all. Now you might think that the men in that Fourth Eight The account of Balliol’s success on the river [Floreat would be pariahs, but no such thing. There was a consid- Domus August 2008] reminded me of events in 1952. I erable faction in College which was uneasy at the First am looking at the Menu Card for the Bump Supper of Eight’s success. Breaking that gap between 1879 and that year. It is inscribed ‘On Saturday, May 24, 1952, 1952 was seen by them as ominous. What was happen- the Balliol First Eight bumped Merton to go Head of the ing to our reputation for academic prowess and sporting River for the first time since 1879’. failure? Were we turning into BNC hearties? That First Eight included D.D. Cadle at 6 and J.G.C. No – the Fourth Eight had conspicuously redressed the Blacker rowing 7. Two bumps are recorded for the First balance. Double overbumped – in itself an admirable cor- Eight, five (including an overbump) for the Second boat, rective of the worrying achievement of the First Boat – and three for the Third. but double overbumped twice on one day. Truly effortless But there was a Fourth Eight for which no bumps superiority. are recorded – an omission which concealed a hideous Not wishing to spoil the story, a week or two later that truth. The crew, which was coxed by J.A. Noble, con- same Don Cadle put up a firkin of beer to be awarded to sisted of J.G.A. Jump at Stroke, M.A. Duddy at 7, P.B.B the winners of a race for Coxless Pairs. And, unless my Mayhew at 6, A.A.O. Morrison at 5, A.W. Bowkett at 4, memory is completely at sea, Patrick Mayhew and myself R.J. Marjoribanks at 3, A. Sunderland at 2, and myself entered and won it. There was nothing wrong with the at Bow. All in all a somewhat motley crew including brawn or the brains of that ill-starred scratch crew – but three northern grammar school boys, the son of Speaker of co-ordination there was none. W.S.M. Morrison, and a future Noble Lord. The Noble Lord is still with us and so, I see, is Roger Marjoribanks Jack Reynolds (1947) – or at least he was in 2007, when he looked forward to his fourth grandson in the College Annual Record. And isn’t it Professor Noble now? But where are the rest one wonders? That is the land of lost content, The devil cast his net wide when he picked that crew for I see it shining plain, a purpose that will soon become clear, but he caught at The happy highways where I went least five of its members in the back bar of the Royal Oak And cannot come again. on Woodstock Road where, incidentally, John Blacker put in an occasional appearance to give us a different take on the Eton Boat Song. On the fourth day of Eights Week this scratch crew was double overbumped. Such was the resulting chaos on the river that the rear-most boats could not navigate and appealed for a re-row. Which was awarded. So at about 5.15 the whole ghastly scene was re-enacted. Speaking for myself I was already so exhausted that the first signs of the

64 Balliol College Record Dear Sir, Dear Sir,

I noted with great interest your cartoon in the 2008 Balliol I refer to David Allen’s letter in the 2008 Annual Record, College Annual Record. I have a copy in my study which I containing his cartoon of a rowing crew, of which I still view with some warmth every so often. Herewith my rec- have a somewhat battered copy. I was the cox of the 1962 ollections of the crew, plus notes if possibly illuminating: 1st Torpid and 1st VIII. The crew depicted is the 1st VIII, who were reasonably successful, making a couple of Cox: John Colligan – big hair bumps. From Bow to Stroke, the members were: Alastair Stroke: Roger Symonds – had a most attractive girlfriend Walsh Atkins, Richard Carter, Steve Hodge, Prince No 7: Peter Lascelles Harald of Norway, Tom Platts-Mills, Nick Bevan, Peter No 6: Nick Bevan Lascelles, and Roger Symonds. No 5: Tom Platts-Mills The humour of David’s captions, amusing in 1962, has No 4: Prince Harald – learnt some Anglo- Saxon quite hardly stood the test of time. Some are obvious, such as a quickly candle burning at both ends. I used to wear my hair quite No 3: Steve Hodge – good trencherman long in those days. David’s recollection of the reference to No 2: Richard Carter – he was perceived to be a devotee ‘My Brother Esau’ is correct. Colin Porter was an influen- of oarsman Colin Porter who wrote a book on the sub- tial British rowing coach, who promoted rather strenuous ject training, and had recently given a talk to the Boat Club. Bow: Alastair Walsh Atkins – of whom it was sometimes T he collision referred to in David’s let ter occu rred when enquired by one Malcolm Forrest (see below) for reasons I managed to steer the boat into a pier of a bridge, which I cannot imagine ‘How is your brother Esau?’ had been submerged by a flooded river for some time; the However I am not sure if the cartoon is of the 1962 Torpid. boat was holed and filled with water. I have the crew photograph of that boat which gives the The only members of the crew I have seen in recent following composition: years are Steve Hodge and Nick Bevan, but no doubt other members are still in touch with Balliol, and you Cox: John Colligan may well have received other, more extensive, replies to Stroke: Roger Symonds David’s letter. No 7: Richard Carter No 6: Prince Harald John Colligan (1960) No 5: Colin Senior No 4: Malcolm Forrest No 3: Steve Hodge No 2: Ian Griffith Bow: Alastair Walsh Atkins

Perhaps your cartoon depicted the 1962 First VIII but I cannot locate my photograph of the crew to confirm or otherwise. Maybe the current Boat Club officials may have some records which would help. Alastair Walsh Atkins (1960) Balliol College Record 65 The John Blacker Society: calling old boat club members

In 2008, Maya Bahoshy (2006), Women’s Captain 2007–2008, formed the John Blacker Society to bring together members of the Balliol College Boat Club, past and present.

If you would like to become a member of this society (and receive its biannual e- newsletter as well as invitations to Society Days), please visit the Boat Club website to sign up online (www.bcbc.co.uk), or write to the John Blacker Society secretary at Balliol College, or send an email to [email protected].

66 Balliol College Record Dear Sir, by Oxford undergraduates; but after the Second World War, as the Players’ taste for free interpretation and sub- I wou ld like to ex tend wa rm than ks to the scores of Balliol stantial re-writing of Aristophanes became increasingly alumni who responded generously to my previous let- adventurous, their potential audiences – paradoxically ters, published in the 2004 and 2007 issues of the Balliol – became narrower, eventually being restricted to pub- College Annual Record, appealing for help with scripts, lic schools who expected something far more traditional photographs, programmes, and memories concerning the from Oxford undergraduates than an up-to-date and Balliol Players’ long history of producing Greek drama on often risqué revue. tour. I could not have wished for a more helpful response, The founding Balliol Players’ self-avowed ‘missionary’ and the enthusiasm and kindness of Balliol alumni has enthusiasm to share the Greek drama they were study- been a great encouragement. ing with communities beyond Oxford was representative I am happy to report that the manuscript of Performing of a wider movement of social idealism which sprang up Greek Drama in Oxford and on Tour with the Balliol in the years following the end of the First World War. Players is with Exeter University Press; the book will Chapter 4 ‘Women, War and Gilbert Murray’ discuss- appear as a richly illustrated hardback early in 2010. The es other enterprises with links to Oxford: for exam- book features forty images, many of which have not been ple, the Holywell Players, the all-female Osiris Players, reproduced before, and an appendix of full cast and cred- the poet John Masefield’s Boars Hill Players, and the its (where known) for Balliol Players’ productions. The Oxford Recitations, verse-speaking competitions which Press has kindly agreed to extend a significant discount Masefield founded with the help of Gilbert Murray. The to Balliol alumni. It is hoped that Balliol will host a book common impulse was to engage new communities with launch event in 2010, with a small exhibition of the mate- drama and poetry in performance. Penelope Wheeler’s rials that have been sent to me (and which I will deposit in Greek Play Company, which toured Gilbert Murray’s the College archives), and a screening of the fascinating translations of Greek tragedy right across the country in silent film of the 1934 tour of Sophocles’ Ajax. Those who the first two decades of the century, also had strong links have helped with materials will receive an invitation; if with Oxford, since she was a close friend of Murray, a you would like to be kept informed about the publication regular performer in Masefield’s theatricals, and an adju- or the launch please contact the development office. dicator in the Oxford Recitations. The Balliol Players’ history occupies three chapters: Wheeler’s performances in Oxford may have provid- Chapter 6 ‘The social idealism of the Balliol Players and ed a model for the increasing number of Greek dramas their performances for Thomas Hardy, 1923–1927’; staged by women’s colleges in the first two decades of Chapter 7 ‘“A first-class excuse for legitimate vagabond- the twentieth century. This activity was prefigured – age”: The Balliol Players, 1928–1939’; and Chapter 8 and perhaps enabled – by Somerville College’s success- ‘The A ristophanic Balliol Players, 1947–1976’. This case- ful staging of Robert Bridges’ masque Demeter, specially study illustrates trends in the history of the performance written for the official opening of the library in 1904. of Greek drama in Britain over six decades of the twenti- Despite the increasing participation of women in drama eth century, and this long example of what might today from this point, the Oxford University Dramatic Society be termed ‘outreach’ also necessarily engages with the (OUDS) remained all-male for many decades. Chapter 5 shifting position of classical studies within the wider cul- ‘Greek plays at the Oxford Playhouse: from J.B. Fagan to tural and social life of the nation: in the 1920s and 1930s Minos Volonakis’, however, discusses other groups in the public audiences would flock to such an ‘educational’ University (e.g. Experimental Theatre Club) and the city scheme as an outdoor performance of a Greek play staged (e.g. Meadow Players) which both welcomed women and Balliol College Record 67 also championed continental playwrights’ contemporary engagements with Greek tragedy. The book opens with a chapter on the academic drama in the humanist curriculum and culture of Oxford – a discussion of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century college playwrights whose free dramatizations of a wide range of ancient texts entertained both local audiences and also visiting royalty until the outbreak of Civil War in 1642, after which there was very little drama at the University until the middle of the nineteenth century. In the 1860s, classical burlesques were all the rage in Oxford. Audiences were thrilled with the riotous mix of song and dance, and topical and classical allusion, and fascinated by the skill of male transvestite actors. In 1870, however, newspaper reports of the association of one of Oxford’s star transvestite actors with London’s homosexual demi- monde led the University authorities to come down on these lively burlesques with a heavy hand. The ban lasted for a decade. Chapter 2 ‘The young men in women’s clothes’ may be particularly interesting to Balliol alumni, for it documents the landmark 1880 production in Balliol Hall of Aeschylus’ Agamemnon in ancient Greek. Benjamin Jowett personally ensured that the production was both serious and also artistic, with the involvement of several leading artists such as Alma-Tadema and Burne-Jones. With Jowett’s backing, the 1880 production made a significant contribution to the movement for resurrection of undergraduate theatricals which culminated in the establishment of OUDS in 1885. Chapter 3 ‘Languages of translation: OUDS’ ancient Greek productions, 1887– 1914’ discusses how Greek comedy in particular was revi- talized via the long-established British tradition of comic and musical drama, especially burlesque.

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James David Benjamin BALFOUR, Higgs Scholar Eleanor Florence WOODHOUSE, Higgs Exhibitioner Robert Amos (Pharmacology), ‘The Physiology and Pharmacology of Autonomic Neurotransmission in the PHILOSOPHY, POLITICS AND ECONOMICS Rodent Anococcygeus’. Jonathan Paul BUSS, James Hall Scholar Thomas Bilyard (Life Sciences Interface), ‘Single Barr Baruch EVEN, James Hall Scholar Molecule Studies of ATP Synthase’. Michael MARKS, James Hall Scholar Christopher Bradley (English), ‘The Psychology of Tomasz PRZEZDZIECKI, Markby Scholar Devotion in Late Medieval England: Instruction, Simon Shui-Ming WAN, Markby Scholar Analysis, and Religious Experience’. Matthew Robert FRASER, Markby Exhibitioner Davide Cargnello (Philosophy), ‘The Problem of Agency Robin Maximilian WINKLER, James Hall Exhibitioner and the Concept of Action – An Essay on Ethics and Agency in German Idealism’. PHYSICS Monika Class (English), ‘Illusions of Oneness in Britain Alice LIGHTON, Prosser Exhibitioner and Germany 1781–1834: A Comparative Study of Wordsworth, Coleridge, De Quincey and Carlyle’. PHYSICS AND PHILOSOPHY Piers Daubeney (Medicine), ‘Pulmonary Atresia with Jack Curzon BLAIKLOCK, Prosser Scholar Intact Ventricular Septum: The United Kingdom and Jack Alexander DEVLIN, Theobald Scholar Ireland Collaborative Study’. 78 Balliol College Record Christopher Davies (History), ‘The Farmers’ Stamatia Piper (Law), ‘Patent Indifference: Public Interest Conundrum: Political Sovereignty and State and the Development of the Diagnostic Exception from Interventions in Rural Munster, 1924–1938’. Patentability’. Yi Du (Chemistry), ‘Layered Cobalt Hydroxides: Ashley Pitcher (Mathematics) ‘Mathematical Modelling Synthesis, Characterization, Kinetic and and Optimal Control of Constrained Systems’. Mechanisnistic Studies’. Jasmina Ponjavic (Human Anatomy and Genetics), Richard Ekins (Law), ‘The Nature of Legislative Intent’. ‘Analyses of Mammalian Non-coding Sequence’. Joseph Fishkin (Politics), ‘Opportunity Pluralism’. Amit Pundik (Law), ‘Causation and Law’. Arunabha Ghosh (International Relations), ‘See No Evil, Rodrigo Reyes (Biochemistry), ‘Replisome Dynamics and Speak No Evil? The WTO, the Trade Policy Review Chromosome Segregation in Escherichia coli’. Mechanism, and Developing Countries’. Alison Rosenblitt (Ancient History), ‘The Speeches in Anne Gilbert (Chemistry), ‘Theoretical Studies of the Sallust’s Histories’. Periodic Anderson Model’. Sebastian Sequoiah-Grayson (Philosophy), Sean Gourley (Physics), ‘From Traffic to Terrorism: Agent Zhan Su (Statistics), ‘Statistics Applied to Genetics’. Based Modelling of Complex Systems’. Xiaowei Wang (Engineering), ‘Instantaneous In-Cylinder Gergely Hidas (Oriental Studies), ‘A Critical Edition of Heat Transfer and Combustion Analysis in Spark the Mahapratisaramahauidyarazni with Annotated Ignition Engine’. Translation and Introduction’. Rebecca Hodes (History), ‘Siyayinqoba/Beat it!: A History of HIV/AIDS on South African Television’. Other Graduate Degrees Bryan Howie (Statistics), ‘Statistical Methods for Phasing Haplotypes and Imputin Genotypes in Large Population Genetic Datasets’. Jennifer Robinson: MPhil Law, ‘Buying Back Human Gueorgui Kantor (Ancient History), ‘Roman History’. Rights? International Law of Investment and Human David Knezevic (Computing), ‘Finite Element Methods Rights in Investment Arbitration’. for Deterministic Simulation of Polymeric Fluids’. Aruna Sathanapally: MPhil Law, ‘Parliamentary Halim Kusumaatmaja (Physics), ‘Lattice Boltzmann Protection of Human Rights: Theory and Practice’. Studies of Drop Dynamics’. Xiaodan Yang: MSc Physics, ‘Quantum Tomography of a George Lentzas (Economics), ‘Essays in Financial Phase Sensitive Photon Counting Detector’. Econometrics’. Fok-Shuen Leung (Mathematics), ‘Manin’s Conjecture on a Non-Singular Quartic Del Pezzo Surface’. Satish Nadig (Clinical Medicine), ‘Immunoregulation of Transplant Arteriosclerosis’. Ka Yuen Ng (Chemistry), ‘Anion Templated Synthesis of Pseudorotaxanes and Rotaxanes’. Dan Nicolau (Mathematical Biology), ‘Cellular Systems’. Nicola Pickup (Zoology), ‘Cis-Regulatory Evolution in the Chorate Genome’. Balliol College Record 79 The Library Tyacke. Edited by Kenneth Fincham and Peter Lake. 2006. Publications of members given by the M A Fullilove (1997): Hope or glory?: the presidential authors or editors, July 2008 – July 2009 election and U.S. foreign policy. 2008. (Brookings Institution, Foreign policy paper, 9) J C Grayson (1967): Princely power in the Dutch T R Adès (1960): The madness of Amadis: and other Republic: patronage and William Frederick of Nassau poems. By Jean Cassou; introduced and translated by (1613-64). By Geert H Janssen; translated by J C Timothy Adès. 2008. Grayson. 2008. A P M Almond (1949): High hopes: coming of age at N F Gregory (1986): New industries from new places: the mid-century: letters of two young poets. By Paul the emergence of the software and hardware industries Almond and Michael Ballantyne. 1999. in China and India. By Neil Gregory and others. 2009. W Beckerman (1964): Principles of environmental E M Harris (1974): Symposion 2007: Vorträge zur sciences. Edited by Jan J Boersema and Lucas griechischen und hellenistischen Rechtsgeschichte: Reijnders. 2009. (Contribution by Wilfred Papers on Greek and Hellenistic legal theory (Durham, Beckerman) 2-6 September 2007). Edited by Edward Harris and D H Benedictus (1956): Dropping names. 2005. Gerhard Thür. 2008. (Akten der Gesellschaft für F M Brookfield (1970): Waitangi and indigenous rights: griechische und hellenistische Rechtsgeschichte, 20) revolution, law and legitimation. Updated edition. M R Heafford (1962): Two Victorian ladies on the 2006. Continent 1844-45: an anonymous journal. Edited –– “In good faith”: symposium proceedings marking the with notes by Michael Heafford. 2008. 20th anniversary of the Lands case. Edited by Jacinta B W Heineman (1965): High performance with high Ruru. 2008. (Contribution by F M Brookfield) integrity. 2008. P J Crittenden (1965): Changing orders: scenes of A J Heppinstall (1995): The manual of employment clerical and academic life. 2008. appeals. By Patrick Green and Adam Heppinstall. G M Davis (1976): Butterworths insolvency law 2008. J Higgins (1949): St Thomas’s pedagogy: ignored, handbook. Edited by Michael Crystal, Mark Phillips rediscovered, and applied. 2009. (offprint from The and Glen Davis. 10th edition. 2008. Heythrop Journal) C M-A Deer (1997): Pierre Bourdieu: key concepts. P A Howell (1959): Martial. 2009. (Ancients in action) Edited by Michael Grenfell. 2008. (Contribution by J H Jones (1961): The Dyson Perrins Laboratory and Cécile Deer) Oxford organic chemistry 1916-2004. By Rachel E P Delia (1977): Personal well-being, social values and Curtis, John Jones and others. Published by John economic policy tools: institutional instruments and Jones. 2008. welfare support. 2009. (APS Bank Occasional Papers, A F Kavanagh (1995) and J F K Oberdiek (1995): 8) Arguing about law. Edited by Aileen Kavanagh and E N Eadie (1968): Animal suffering and the law: John Oberdiek. 2009. national, regional, and international. 2009. M J Kelly (1994): The Fenian ideal and Irish nationalism, T A O Endicott (1999): Administrative law. 2009. 1882-1916. 2006. K C Fincham (1982): Religious politics in post- R J King (1993): The fun factory: the Keystone Film Reformation England: essays in honour of Nicholas Company and the emergence of mass culture. 2009. 80 Balliol College Record B D A Lewis (1983): “So clean”: Lord Leverhulme, soap Volume 2: Introduction, textual notes, commentary, and civilization. 2008. bibliography and indexical glossary. 2008. G M M MacDonogh (1975): 1938: Hitler’s gamble. P A Shrimpton (1977): A Catholic Eton?: Newman’s 2009. Oratory School. 2005. G Mandel (1955): Nothing personal: family letters A N Sperryn (1957): New economics. (article in The 1938-1946. Edited by George Mandel. 2005. Common Good, issue 199, Winter 2008) L Margulis (2008): Luminous fish: tales of science and P M E Springman (1947): The Guards Brigade in the love. 2007. Crimea. 2008. –– Dazzle gradually: reflections on the nature of nature. –– Sharpshooter in the Crimea: the letters of Captain By Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan. 2007. Goodlake VC. Transcribed, edited and annotated by –– Mind, life, and universe: conversations with great Michael Springman. 2005. scientists of our time. Edited by Lynn Margulis and P B Stone (1951): Did we save the earth at Stockholm? Eduardo Punset. 2007. 1973. E C Morris (1961): Searching for Sir Humphrey: and I C Storey (2008): Euripides: Suppliant women. 2008. other tales from the Thames: text and photographs by (Duckworth companions to Greek and Roman Chris Morris. 2008. tragedy) D Nayyar (1967): Liberalization and development. A R G Swift (1980): Social theory and practice: an 2008. international and interdisciplinary journal of social –– Trade and globalization. 2008. philosophy. Volume 34, no. 3: Special Issue: Ideal R J-M Petit (1975): European unity: AD 1986. (edition theory, nonideal circumstances. General editors Ingrid limited to 250 copies) Robeyns and Adam Swift. 2008. J S Phillips (1946): International tax treaty networks. H C Templeton (1952): Mr Ambassador: memoirs of Sir CD-ROM, updated versions October 2008 and April Carl Berendsen. Edited by Hugh Templeton. 2009. 2009. A M Pilch (1945): Reflections: pictures and poems by Sir Keith Thomas (1952): The ends of life: roads to Michael Pilch. 2008. fulfilment in early modern England. 2009. –– New reflections: pictures and poems by Michael Pilch. N R N Tyacke (1959): Aspects of English Protestantism, 2009. c.1530-1700. 2001. J G Priestley (1969): Six battles that shaped Europe’s D R Waller (1981): The magnificent Mrs Tennant: parliament. 2008. the adventurous life of Gertrude Tennant, Victorian J Raz (1972): The authority of law: essays on law and grande-dame. 2009. morality. 2nd edition. 2009. M L Wilcockson (1978): Medical ethics. 2008. –– Between authority and interpretation: on the theory of T H Wilson (1989): Italian Renaissance ceramics: a law and practical reason. 2009. catalogue of the British Museum collection. By Dora W G Richards (1964): Spin-outs: creating businesses Thornton and Timothy Wilson. 2009. 2 volumes. from university intellectual property. 2009. T P Wiseman (1957): Remembering the Roman people: G J Samuels (1940): Looking back: a university essays on late-Republican politics and literature. 2009. chancellor reflects. 2005. (Presented by Mrs Samuels) –– Unwritten Rome. 2008. A V C Schmidt (1962): Piers Plowman: a parallel text of P J Yearwood (1968): Guarantee of peace: the League of the A, B, C and Z versions. Edited by A V C Schmidt. Nations in British policy, 1914-1925. 2009. Balliol College Record 81 Other Gifts Conservation

Lady Cradock-Hartopp gave the later papers of her father Generous contributions came from Professor David Sir Frederick Leith-Ross (Balliol 1905-9) chief economic Gowland (1968) and The Balliol Society. John Phillips adviser to the UK government from 1932 to 1945, then (1946) continued his substantial support for conservation, governor of the National Bank of Egypt during the Suez which has enabled Balliol to be a full member of the crisis, director of the National Provincial Bank and Oxford Colleges Conservation Consortium. The work chairman of Standard Bank when Rhodesia declared UDI. conserved this year is one of the oldest printed books in Balliol, Josephus Antiquitates and de bello Judaico printed D E Wickham (1961) gave for the archives a King Penguin on vellum before 1475. This was the only printed book edition of Ackerman’s prints of Oxford, 1954, inscribed left to us by our great medieval benefactor, William Gray, with the autographs of distinguished Balliol men and Bishop of Ely, c.1478. others, including Dervorguilla Society speakers 1962-4 and University Challenge participants 1963. The College Archives 2008–9 R A Hopkinson-Woolley (1955) gave a collection of postcards from the First World War. Acquisitions Myles Glover (1946) gave an Illustrated Programme of • Copies of material about the history of St Cross The Royal Jubilee Procession June 22nd 1897. (Holywell) parish, kindly sent by Mrs J Nedderman of Chapel Hill, Queensland, daughter of a former Diarmid Cross (1952) added to his gift of antiquarian incumbent. books. • Several accessions of historical and administrative John Prest (1954) gave a print of St Cross Church by Steve material about St Cross church from parish officers Empson, 2006 for the new Historic Collections Centre. and former parishioners. • Accruals to the papers of Professor Leslie Woods, Other welcome gifts were made by: All Souls College deposited by Dr J Ashbourn, most notably his WW2 Library, Oxford, Ross Beaton, Prof James Binney, flying cap and goggles, which would have seen action Benjamin Bleasdale, Mark Bostridge, Christopher over the Pacific. Brooke, Maria Donapetry, Nicholas Dewey (in memory • Thirteen part 2 (undergraduate) Chemistry theses by of David Hay), Matthew Frank, Miriam Griffin, J W Balliol men, 1925–1939, deposited by Dr W Barford. Hodby, D S Holloway, R A Hopkinson-Woolley, J T Hughes, Yosuke Iida, John Jones, Grace Li, Prof Lynn Conservation Margulis, Prof John Meddemmen, David Morris, Oxford Balliol’s membership of the Oxford Conservation University Press, Seamus Perry, Paul A Rahe, Anita Rao, Consortium began in October 2006. Robert Sephton, Nicholas Shrimpton, Lesley Smith, Philip All of the outsize maps on parchment, the early maps Stewart, Barry Tebb, Paul Thiekoetter, Trinity College and plans on paper, and some of the modern maps on Library, Cambridge, Trinity College Library, Oxford, paper have been cleaned, and most flattened. Those that The Wedgestone Press, Prof Christopher Wickham, Prof are still rolled have been individually boxed. The ongoing Donald Winch and Prof Diego Zancani. project for the next couple of years will be to clean and 82 Balliol College Record repackage the medieval title deeds before the move to St Outreach Cross. • Display: Head of the River history – SCR for Balliol’s oldest document (Archives B.22.1, from Robert, Headship Dinner, Buttery, OCR for Gaudy and Abbot of St Sauve, Montreuil, to John de St Lawrence, re private function for Peter Sowden (rowing the a grant of the Church of St Lawrence-Jewry, London, with Thames to raise funds for a cancer charity), June 2008 rents, etc. ca.1200) is currently being cleaned, mounted, • Display: Gaudy, (1975–77) June 2008 and boxed. • Talk & tour: on college history for Brita Water Filter Environmental monitoring using Hanwell Instruments representatives, September 2008 dataloggers is in place in the main archive repository, the • Talk & tour: on college history for John Blackford ground floor Library grille housing mainly archive items, and Probus group, September 2008 the Library annexe, and the Library basement. • Exhibition: for Balliol Society (1958), October 2008 • Talk & exhibition: with PAB, about Old Synagogue Cataloguing site and deeds, displaying original documents from Progress has been made on creating detailed lists of the Library and Archives for Oxford Jewish History ca. 800 unsorted collections in the Miscellaneous Bursary society, October 2008 Papers, Miscellaneous College Office Papers, and General • Display: on St Cross project for Balliol reception as Miscellany classes. These lists are entered on the ADLIB part of Bodleian ‘Beyond the Work of One’ exhibition database. There is a summary catalogue of archive private view evening, October 2008 holdings online and enquirers can request more detailed • Study day: with Helen Deeming (Royal Holloway) lists of relevant catalogue sections. and Paul Binski (Cambridge), for Parish Councillors Several large new accessions from the last couple of years and diocesan officers on the Ranworth Antiphoner, St (e.g. Musical Society papers, JCR records) have also been Helen’s, Ranworth, Norfolk, December 2008 listed in detail. Listing of the Pathfinder scheme papers sent • Exhibition: for International Adam Smith Society by Mrs Lastavica is complete, and arrangement nearly so. conference, in Chapel January 2009. Open to Civic A number of catalogues of personal papers collections in Society tour members and Balliol people. At least the Library have been made available in full online. 250 people visited the exhibition. St Cross display in antechapel. • Talk & tour: on college history to Oxford Civic Enquiries Society, January 2009 During January–May 2009 there were 233 enquiries to • Exhibition: John Jones’ Research Consilium, display the archives. The mix of enquiries includes: requests for of original archive documents, Hilary Term 2009 historic administrative documents from within the college, • Talk & exhibition: on Balliol’s history with the a wide range of enquiries from academics in Oxford and advowson of Abbotsley (from 1340) for current other universities in the UK and abroad, and a solid base incumbent and parishioners, February 2009 (about half of all enquiries) of amateur family, local, and • Display: Spring Gaudy (1965–67), March 2009 military historians from around the world enquiring about • Tour: for Dean’s guests, April 2009 individual past members and former Balliol properties. • Exhibition: with PAB, for benefactors’ private event, St Cross project display and exhibition of original books and documents from Library and Archives in the OCR, April 2009 Balliol College Record 83 Work placements College Staff Lonsdale Curator Anna Sander has again been fortunate to work with several excellent current student assistants Deaths this year: Florence (Florrie) Bell, employed as a Scout until retirement, died 16 August 2008. • Corrina Connor (MPhil Mus, St Hilda’s) worked Richard Heaver, employed as a Lodge Porter until on the Concert Programmes database on Tuesday retirement, died 22 January 2009. mornings during most of the 2007/8 academic year. • John Erde (2005, Modern History) did an excellent Retirements job finishing listing the Coolidge papers, and numbering up George Malcolm Papers and several Catherine Deegan (at Balliol since 1993) retired as boxes of Balogh. We are delighted to report that John Buttery Steward November 2008. was appointed to the post of archives trainee in the Patrick Deegan (at Balliol since 1990) retired as Buttery archives of St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, for Manager November 2008. 2008–9. Susan Gawthorne (at Balliol since 1986) retired as SCR • Julia Savage (Queen’s) worked on rationalizing the Housekeeper December 2008. photograph collection. John Harris (at Balliol since 1984) retired as • George Chambers (LMH 2007) and Mike Webb Maintenance Assistant July 2009. Alan Spicer (at Balliol since 2001) retired as Holywell (Balliol 2008, PPE, Organ Scholar) invigilated the Manor Lodge Night Porter November 2008. Adam Smith exhibition. Robinson Wastle (at Balliol since 2002) retired as • James Rawles has completed an Index of the College Maintenance/Advanced Craftsperson December 2008. Record as an Access database. It is used by the Kenneth Watts (at Balliol since 1999) retired as Holywell Development Office, Publications & Web Officer, and Manor Maintenance & General Duties March 2009. Editor of the Record, as well as the Archives office. Departures Continuing Professional Development Jean Alyas, Pastry Chef from 1998, left August 2009. Anna Sander continues to sit on the Computing and Catherine Barker, Development Director’s Secretary from Portraits Committees. She attended the ‘Archive Fervour/ 2006, left February 2009. Archive Further’ conference on literature, archives, and Ana Matak Siviour, Admissions Secretary from 2008, left literary archives in Aberystwyth, July 2008; AMARC July 2009. annual conference on literary archives, BL, December Natalie Perry, Conference & Catering Co-ordinator from 2008; HE Archivists’ Group meeting, Cambridge, May 2008, left August 2009. 2009; Oxford Archivists Consortium meetings on external Jacqueline Rawlings, Senior Housekeeper from 2003, left storage of semicurrent records, management of student April 2009. records, and ADLIB cataloguing software. David Smith, Maintenance Assistant from 2007, left On completion of Anna’s initial four-year contract September 2009. in October 2008 her position as Lonsdale Curator of Diana Smith, Library Issue Desk Assistant from 2005, Archives and Manuscripts was made permanent. left September 2008. Ian Walker, Lodge Porter from 2003, left October 2008. 84 Balliol College Record New appointments Mary Addison appointed Library Issue Desk Assistant November 2008. Laura Bianco appointed Campaign Officer April 2009. Lisa Carpenter appointed Fees/Battels Officer September 2008. Robert Crow, formerly Campaign Officer, appointed Campaign Executive October 2008. Bruce Forman, formerly Tutorial Secretary, appointed Admissions Secretary July 2009. Simon Goddard, formerly Chef de Partie, appointed Pastry Chef September 2009. Elize Guerine (née Rahim), formerly Development Director’s Secretary, appointed Development Assistant August 2009. Melissa Lee appointed Bursars’ Secretary October 2008. Dale Lloyd appointed Microsoft Network Administrator August 2008. Timothy Palmer appointed Head Gardener March 2009. Jo Roadknight appointed Domestic Bursar July 2009. Adrian Rowlands, formerly SCR Steward, appointed Buttery Supervisor November 2008. Jacqueline Smith appointed Publications & Web Officer January 2009. Alison Truesdale appointed Development Director’s Secretary May 2009.

Balliol College Record 85 and undergraduates have played pivotal roles in getting JCR and MCR News the Oxford Living Wage campaign off the ground. The ‘Foody Brothers’ (our resident culinary deities) have done JCR extraordinary work not merely reforming, reviewing, or revising, but revolutionizing the JCR Pantry – previously As the JCR makes its triumphal entry into the Balliol despised by vegetarians the world over, now selling subs, College Annual Record, I find myself wondering what salads, pizzas, pastas, burgers, and burritos. Of course, exactly to say about it. Should I mention that in one meet- they still remain loyal to the deep-fried favourites. ing we made the entire cast and crew of Jurassic Park offi- Almost all of this has been achieved to some degree cial ‘Heroes of the JCR’ – entitling them to a free cooked through the fortnightly meetings – the GM. From the tor- breakfast in Pantry should they ever desire it (and who, tuously pedantic to the hilariously bizarre, GM motions let’s be honest, would not?)? Perhaps the tragic (some continue to function as the core machinery of the JCR. To might whisper conspiratorially ‘suspicious’) demise of take but one further example: as a result of GM motions the College tortoise, Matilda, and the valiant efforts of brought by individual Balliol students, the JCR has given Comrades Tortoise to post her obituary in The Times? tens of thousands of pounds to charity this year. These amount to just a few of the more tangible things Maybe even the things that many old members should the JCR has done this year, for there are countless more recall – Christmas Pantomimes of questionable taste, cases of day-to-day business (as essential to the running of ‘Nepotists’, the Gordouli, the bops, the bar, the Ball, the the JCR as they would be boring to relate here). Perhaps Jamboree, Fresher’s week… it is sufficient to pay tribute here to Denise and Maureen, But perhaps all this makes the JCR sound a rather silly possibly the two biggest friends the JCR has, who con- place. Which it is, sometimes. But uniquely, I think, at tinue to work tirelessly for the students, running many of Balliol, we do get down to quite a bit of serious business the services they request and (arguably more importantly) as well. The year 2008 began with the realization that, as keeping the committee well-fuelled with sandwiches dur- pretty much Oxford’s largest JCR in financial terms, we ing meetings. The JCR would not function without them, were going to have to register as an official charity (the in the same way it would not function without the students many, many, very boring implications of which have been whom it supports, the committee who work for it, and the on the Committee’s mind ever since). College of which, I feel, it forms such an important part. Similarly weighty matters involving the JCR included a review and referendum of our affiliation to the Oxford Iain Large, JCR President 2009 University Student Union (don’t worry, we’re still happily married). We have also negotiated successfully for 24-hour library opening (at once fantastic and terrible news for MCR finalists everywhere). The MCR and JCR have worked hard at establishing a joint response to the College’s dif- The JCR President and I petitioned to have news from ficulties in the financial downturn: through a concilia- the common rooms featured in the Annual Record, as we tory rather than a stubbornly militant approach we have thought that some of our Old Members might be inter- achieved the best possible outcome for all parties. We have ested in what we have been up to. worked to build fairer relations with the MCR in terms of For the first time this year, Balliol had more graduate the money graduates pay to the JCR. We have introduced freshers than undergraduate freshers. This was partly due a Living Wage for all staff employed in the JCR, and staff to a one-off decision to take an extra twenty or so students 86 Balliol College Record on one-year taught Master’s programmes. The result has College has been seeking to increase income and decrease been a particularly lively, diverse MCR. There are current- expenditure. There was a lot of potential for the JCR and ly 310 of us, with over half this number living in. MCR to be up in arms against College over such plans, This is the first year of use of the new lounge, which which would almost invariably have hit students. The JCR opened in summer 2008 following the closure of the cock- and MCR agreed with each other on all points with regard pit kitchen. The new space has a pool table, many leather to such plans, opposing a blanket additional contribution sofas, a dining table, and a home cinema. By day, many from students, and instead proposing a series of measures students work in the lounge with laptops; in the evening which we think will decrease the overall subsidy of Hall it provides another location in which to mingle. There is without decreasing the numbers who use it. In addition, also a new kitchen in the old plate-wash room, so that the students proposed a one-off, opt-out contribution to Manorites can now cook for larger groups of friends. We College in recognition of the sacrifices being made by the have agreed to spend a substantial chunk of our own sav- non-student parties on account of the credit crunch, to be ings on turning the old cockpit kitchen into a new music collected in Michaelmas Term 2009. room. We will seek to sound-proof and divide up the It is generally felt that the MCR should try to foster clos- space, possibly through fundraising for acoustic booths or er ties with the SCR, and this year there have been some ‘pods’. The Megaron continues to be the focal point of the steps in this direction. The MCR now have three floating community. It has expanded greatly in recent years, and as high table spaces fortnightly. A new committee member of this year has two bar managers to run it. will be elected in Michaelmas Term, who will be charged It has been a particularly active social year, facilitated with organizing forums that encourage academic dialogue by an augmented social-secretary team of three people. between the MCR and SCR. Highlights include the re-institution of the three-way There have been a whole host of other initiatives that Magdalen-New-Balliol exchange dinner (memorably, have marked out the year, and I will mention just a few of New College served us deep-fried Mars bar); a fantastic them: the inauguration of the Balliol–Bodley scholarship, Burns Night (the toast to the lads concluded that they the brainchild of recent ex-Manorite Gill Einhorn; the had been very bad at generating any gossip of note); inception of the ‘Balliol Unplugged’ campaign, designed an exchange visit with our sister college of St Johns, by Environment Rep Doireann Lalor to engage all sec- Cambridge; ‘Music in the Manor’, a showcase of the var- tions of College in thinking about energy efficiency; week- ied talents in residence; and of course the Garden Party. ly Manor Yoga; wine-tasting sessions organized by Diego. The theme of the Garden Party was ‘Manor goes to the There are various factors that make us the best MCR to Movies’, and a wonderful evening was had by all. The be in, but our unique set-up in Holywell Manor, where the infamous ‘funny speech’ was given by Chris Jones in the College leaves us much to our own devices, plays a large form of a guitar-accompanied song. part. Yet this is no time to rest on laurels – the graduate Relations with the JCR are very good. With the closure community of New College is moving out of their main of the cockpit kitchen many more graduates now spend site this year, inspired by the Manor model. We are very time on the main site visiting Hall, giving more opportu- lucky to be able to draw on a collection of individuals who nity for undergraduate–graduate mixing. Undergraduates are willing to put the time and energy into the community. can be found around the Manor, using the gym and pool I am convinced that we are still the most lively and active table. As of this year, MCR members no longer pay JCR graduate community in Oxford – long may it remain so. subsidies, previously a bone of contention. With the credit crunch affecting the College’s income Anna Lewis, MCR President 2008–2009 through a reduction in interest from the endowment, the Balliol College Record 87 By way of introducing first years to the Christian Clubs and Societies Union, in Michaelmas Term, OICCU pioneered the ‘DVD project’, whereby students at each college were Bacchus offered a DVD explaining a small amount about the Christian Union and showing some personal stories of Once again it has been another exiting year for the Bacchus Oxford students who have been involved. At Balliol, this society. The year kicked off with drinks in the Massey lead to the formation of a weekly discussion group, run Room mid way through Michaelmas term and included by students from Wycliffe Hall Theological College. A a highly entertaining boat race. Those who attended also number of Balliol students enjoyed this opportunity to witnessed the slowest downing by a president in recent discuss issues of a philosophical nature, whether from a times. Christian perspective or not. Hilary Term saw the return of the much anticipated To start Hilary Term, we were, again, involved in the Bacchus dinner. The event took place in Hall and proved annual Christian Union weekend away. This was a to be a highly entertaining yet informative evening, with fantastic time to meet students from other colleges and such classic anecdotes as the Swiss having the world’s receive teaching, as well as preparing for the tri-annual largest navy, courtesy of a Mr G. Allcroft, typifying the ‘Big Mission’ event to commence in 3rd week. This evening. After dinner everyone hastily retreated to the bar, week, titled ‘Free’, was filled with a number of events after which a splendid trip to Bridge was made to finish both within College and University-wide. The aim was off the night. Again there was a concerted drive to invite a to share with students our beliefs and reasons for them large number of graduates, at the request of Richard Bull. in a fun and interesting way, through open mic nights, The year finished on a high with the traditional garden curry nights, sport, banquets, talks, quiz nights, cafés, party and was attended by the vast majority of Balliol’s and much more. Each college had a guest staying for the chemists and tutors. The weather was tremendous and week to help promote and organize events. Balliol’s guest, gave David Trembath the opportunity to announce his Ranjeet Guptara, became an active part of College life for intentions of becoming an amateur astronomer courtesy the week, preaching in Chapel, running seminars, putting of BidTV®, and everyone else the chance to reflect on a on curry nights, and generally meeting and chatting to fantastic year. students. Many Balliol students attended the events and were left with a keener understanding and appreciation of Stephen Lucas the Christian faith. More recently, we have begun joint meetings with Harris Manchester College as they have no independent Balliol Christian Union Christian Union group. We look forward to seeing how this relationship will develop and seek to support each As a group of Christians in Balliol, we continue to meet other as we endeavour to practise and grow in our faith weekly to pray, worship, and enjoy spending time together. during university. This year we sought to strengthen the relationship between Chapel and the Christian Union and now have weekly Rachel Ashwell joint meetings to pray for each other and Balliol. We have also been involved in the centrally organized meetings and events run by OICCU (Oxford Inter-collegiate Christian Union). 88 Balliol College Record Balliol College Medical Society spoke on the relevance of class in twentieth-century British politics. This year the medical society was delighted to welcome a Trinity was a very busy term, with five speakers within host of distinguished speakers to several events over the the few weeks before finals. The first was our own Sudhir course of the year. Amongst the most memorable was the Hazareesingh, who, after a sabbatical year in Paris, spoke annual dinner at which former President Robin Choudhury on the topic of his new book: the myth of De Gaulle. presented his latest work on cardiovascular imaging, and The second talk was by Thomas Scanlon, on leave from Athar Yawar mused on some of the more social and ethical Harvard for a term, on the question of ‘when does equality aspects of medicine. The evening was a great success and matter?’ It was a great success, as befits a college where saw the return of former members, many of whom are so many members study political philosophy. The third now leading figures in their own field. The society also speaker was John Broome, who considered ‘the ethics hosted an exciting and topical seminar presented by Dr. of climate change’, and asked if we should worry about the possibility of extinction. The discussion afterwards Fadi Issa on composite allografts. These seminars are set was one of the most lively the society has seen in recent to become a regular occurence as the society expands and memory. The penultimate event hosted Scott Blinder grows over the coming year, alongside the social events (Nuffield), who discussed the continuing relevance of which enable the students across all years to socialize with race in American politics. Finally, Don Thompson of the each other. All commitee members wish our graduating University of York in Canada came to speak about the finalists the best of luck in their future careers and we hope ‘curious economics of the contemporary art market’, in to hear about their progress at the next dinner. what proved to be one of the more esoteric, and most fascinating talks of the year. Jessica Jameson Last but not least, Cerberus is planning a garden party for the end of Trinity, a series of great speakers in Michaelmas Cerberus Society term, and the return of the annual PPE dinner.

Cerberus has had an excellent year. Each term has been Frederick Ladbury packed with distinguished speakers, and turnout has been consistently impressive. The Triarchs, Jonathan Buss, Matthew Fraser and The Chapel myself began the programme with a talk by G. A Cohen – until recently the Chichele Professor of Social and This academic year, Balliol Chapel has had the privilege Political Theory at All Souls – on ‘Rescuing Conservatism: of hosting speakers such as Professor Jeremy Waldron, A Defence of Existing Value’, which sparked a highly Professor of Law and Philosophy at NYU, Lord Elis- active discussion afterwards. The second speaker of Thomas of Nant Conwy, Presiding Officer, National Hilary was none other than Jeremy Waldron, of the New Assembly for Wales, and our very own Dr John Jones, York University School of Law, who addressed the issue Senior Fellow. of whether civilian immunity in war is more than a mere We have also supported causes through our termly convention. Many of Balliol’s own politics tutors came retiring collection such as Emmaus House, the Hackney and spoke, in what was the best-attended Cerberus talk CitySafe Campaign, and The Gatehouse, Oxford. Chapel of the year. Finally, Cerberus hosted a joint event with the continues to be a place of worship and retreat for many Dervorguilla Society where Ross McKibbin (St John’s) students and staff of the College. The Chapel community Balliol College Record 89 is warm and welcoming and I have greatly enjoyed my immediate predecessor as organ scholar. Howells’ supporting it in my time as Chapel Secretary and working Collegium Regale canticles were reprised from the first with Douglas Dupree, our Chaplain. Evensong service for many members of the current Choir Rebecca Coleman back in Michaelmas Term 2006, bringing three happy and successful years full circle. All of this would not be possible without the help and encouragement of a number of supporters. In particular, The Chapel Choir we would like to thank the Balliol Society and Prabhat Malhotra (1998) for their generous support of the Choir. This has been another year of success and improvement Douglas Dupree has been unflinching in his support and for the Chapel Choir. Once again, we were fortunate to generosity towards us; none of our achievements would have many returning faces who – along with several new be possible without him. On a personal note, I would like members – made it possible to build upon previous years’ to thank all the Choir and in particular, Mike Webb, the achievements. Junior Organ Scholar. He has brought much musical skill The year was marked by several memorable events. In and dedication to his work, and has already developed an February, the Chaplain and Organ Scholars hosted an excellent rapport with the Choir when directing. The next Evensong and dinner in College to mark a reunion of period of our development, under his guidance, is full of former organ scholars and choristers. This was a joyous promise. occasion, and has already been documented in Floreat Domus. Owain Williams The Advent carol service was another highlight, with the choir leading a packed chapel through the traditional lessons and carols, with musical items including In Dulci Doug’s Lunch Jubilo and the Sussex Carol. Prior to the beginning of Michaelmas Term, the choir The institution that is Doug’s Lunch – a series of lunches were invited to sing at a ceremony held in Divinity Schools held in the Chaplain’s room every Thursday of term from to induct new members into the Chancellor’s Court of 1–2pm – continues to thrive at Balliol. Over the past year, Benefactors. The opportunity to sing in the stone-vaulted more often than not the room was full to capacity during surroundings of Convocation House was not one to be lunches, leading many students to start arriving early in missed, and the Choir rose to the task admirably. This order to grab a much-coveted seat! The lunches invariably also meant that the Choir was in residence for the Balliol drew undergraduates from a wide variety of subject areas, Society weekend, allowing us to sing Evensong prior to and in addition the past year has seen the graduate attend- dinner, which was an enjoyable innovation. ance at lunches steadily grow. In January, the Choir travelled to Dublin to sing a week- As convener of the lunches in Michaelmas and Hilary, end of services in residence at Christ Church Cathedral. my aim was to put together as diverse a programme as pos- The Choir sang very well indeed. Needless to say, the Irish sible. At the first lunch of the year, Balliol’s own John Jones hospitality was wonderful, with many pints and puddings (Senior Fellow) and Anna Sander (Archivist) spoke about exchanged for a rendition of Christmas carols. the ‘skeletons in Balliol’s closet’, sharing many intriguing The year ended with a memorable Evensong in the stories with us about Balliol’s past, with the help of props Chapel, which saw the first performance of a specially from the archives. Dennis Hayes (an education psycholo- composed setting of the Ave Maria by John Lee (2004), gist at Oxford Brookes) visited the week after, in order to 90 Balliol College Record argue against the emphasis on emotions in British school- edly philosophical theme, with Balliol Fellow John Latsis teaching today (this was followed by a heated debate speaking on the philosophy of economics (is it all just a among all in attendance). In line with Oxford Women’s load of bad assumptions?) followed by David Wallace Week, Sung Hee Kim spoke about the role of women (also of Balliol) speaking on the philosophy of physics, in South Asia, and in the following week the lunch was and in particular whether parallel universes exist – this moved to Tuesday to coincide with the US presidential drew quite a crowd of curious students from all subject elections, as we had Stephen Tuck (of Pembroke) speak- groups! The following two weeks shifted to an arts theme, ing about race relations in the US and their bearing on with poet Stephen Tapscott reading from his recent book the election results (unsurprisingly, this was an especially Poems and Translations, followed by retired art history popular lunch!). In keeping with yet more current events, professor Michael Sullivan giving a talk entitled ‘East Alan Barr of the Physics Department came to speak to us meets West: the first interchanges between Eastern and about the opening of the new Large Hadron Collider in Western art’. 5th week saw a visit from next door: Bill Geneva – and to dispel any myths about it causing the end Dutton of the Oxford Internet Institute, who explained of the world! The term drew to a close with Jane Fletcher what exactly went on at that previously enigmatic (at least of Toynbee Hall (a London-based charity which has his- in the minds of Balliol students) institute. And once more toric links to Balliol) in 6th week, and Jane Mellanby (of the year ended with a ‘bang’, with Visiting Fellow and the Psychology Department) in 7th week, who spoke extremely distinguished biologist Lynn Margulis talking about her research on the gender gap. about (and showing some fascinating videos of) the evolu- Hilary Term kicked off with ethnomusicologist tion of sexuality. Katherine Brown of University College London, who gave a fascinating talk on music in Islamic culture, particularly Jasmeen Kanwal in Mughal India. This was followed by Visiting Fellow Carol Sanger (from Columbia Law School), speaking on abortion law, and then Nick Bostrom, Director of the new Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford, who spoke to us about no less than the future of humanity! In 5th week, distinguished philosopher of science and MIT Visiting Fellow Evelyn Keller sparked much excitement by her discussion of the changing face of biology, and in 6th week, Balliol’s own Jeff King (Fellow in Law) led a discussion on human rights law, a topic of interest to many Balliol students. The term ended on a high note, with the new Sanskrit Professor at Balliol, Vesna Wallace, entertaining us with tales about her adventures researching Buddhism (and trying to be a vegetarian) in Mongolia. The responsibility of convening the lunches was handed over in Trinity to first-year PPEist Yuan Yang, a faithful attendee of the lunches in the previous two terms. Her exciting line-up for the term and enthusiastic promotion of the lunches led to an even greater surge in their popu- larity with students. The first two weeks showed a decid- Balliol College Record 91 ments pending – be able to open both batting and bowling Sport for years to come; James with his full array of shots will step into the breach as captain next season, and take over Men’s Cricket Club the wicket-keeping duties. We have only had one away game in the league this sea- In this age of high-octane Twenty20 matches fuelled with son, and rightly so – the tireless duties of Jim Head as reverse sweeps, free hits, cheerleaders, and super overs, Jowett Curator produce a pitch of unrivalled quality in some normalcy returned to cricket when the Balliol team Oxford (one should also include the Oxford University began its 2009 campaign with a two-day warm-up match Parks pitches with those of the colleges in this compari- against St John’s, Cambridge (see photo on facing page). son). To produce a county-standard pitch (the ground Midway through the second day, we declared after Owain seems a bit smaller due to the encroaching of fragile win- Williams was unlucky to fall eight short of his century. dow-laden buildings) with a staff of one is remarkable. What followed was a comfortable win of 169 runs, and Thanks must also go to our own Franco Australis – more importantly, some much needed practice to dust off Albert Alla – for his active role in helping to manage the the cobwebs from the winter. club. With the help of Janet Hazelton in the Development Our cuppers campaign lasted all the way to the semi- Office, Bertie moved the earth to reach former members finals, where we were halted by the team famous for their for an end of season dinner. Beyond this, Bertie has aimed Norrington Table banter: Merton-Mansfield. We scored at shoring up the status of the cricket club by appointing 141 on a pitch which was a bland mix of the Sir Vivian Chris Brooke as our Senior Member. It seems a shame Richards Stadium in Antigua (of recent test match aban- that given the primacy of the facilities at Balliol as well donment fame) and my driveway. In an exciting ebb-and- as the strength of the team, cricket should be seen as a flow match the tension was tangible; the winning runs second-tier sport in College. But, with God on our side, were struck by their number eleven off the penultimate this should all turn around. ball. It was a good tournament run, and a close finish: but Cricket, more than any other sport, is a team game: one a miss is as good as a mile. spends hours out in the field with one’s team-mates. We At the time of writing we are in second position on the have had the good fortune of some splendid individual League ladder, and with four games left to play, we are performances this term, but our strength has been in the eyeing the coveted numero uno, which eluded us last sea- collective-noun sense. From the ongoing comic tension son. For the third year running, we shared a close game between Shekher and Gavin regarding an overhasty lbw with Keble – but they managed to get the better of us, decision in Cambridge, to the mysterious application of whence our only loss in the League. In parallel to the JCR Albert’s Mystery Points System (points gained for wickets team is Simon Thwaite’s MCR side, which has been crush- or runs, lost for dropped catches, etc.) whereby the crea- ing invitational XIs left, right, and centre. James Villalard tor himself emerged with five times as many points as the has captained the Second XI – the Erratics – with distinc- bloke in second place: there has been an undercurrent of tion on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. There is cer- unity, which has led to matches being played in a positive, tainly no shortage of cricket to be played. relaxed yet competitive environment. Well done to all and Two marvellous finds this year are Gavin Sourgen (only best of luck in 2010. half-way through the season was I told that his surname is pronounced ‘surgeon’, thenceforth medical banter ensued) and James Kohn. Gavin will – DPhil commit- Timothy Trudgian 92 Balliol College Record Balliol (men’s fi rst team) vs St John’s College, Cambridge, 25-26 April 2009 at Cambridge. Balliol won the match.

Balliol College Record 93 Water Polo Team. Back Row: Luke Johnson, Liam Rowley, Shaun Hotchkiss, Daniel Carden, Jacobus Cilliers, Middle: Kate Morgan, Front Row: Abby Harrison, Aelwen Wetherby, Laurence Knight (captain), Emma Winter, Sarah Marks

94 Balliol College Record Water Polo With a final score of 6-5 to Balliol, Wadham were left wondering what could have been. Balliol were left With three Blues players in the water polo squad this year celebrating a return of the trophy won previously in 2007, but cruelly stolen by Hertford in 2008. it was always clear that Balliol would be fielding a very Final mention must go to the great organization of the two strong team. Notably, the same was also true of a young captains, Larry Knight and Sarah Marks, who brought the Wadham team, and water polo cuppers this year was a team together from all corners of the Balliol community. story of these two teams. After going through the group (Mention should also be given to Luke Johnson, Sarah phase undefeated (with a surprisingly easy 3-1 victory Marks, and Katie Jones who played invaluable roles in the over Wadham along the way), Balliol continued into the group stages but were unable to make it for the two final semi-finals with confidence. matches). There, Balliol faced the combined might of a joint St Hilda’s/Linacre team. However, from the opening goal Shaun Hotchkiss of the match the result was never in doubt, Balliol being the easy victors, with the score ballooning to 10-1 after Swimming Hilda’s/Linacre got into foul trouble and had to finish the match one player short. In the other semi an ominously Balliol swimmers had success in the pool this year, improving Wadham obliterated Hertford, last year’s winning a closely fought Swimming Cuppers. With little champions, 13-3. (or indeed no) training beforehand, and with many of Having proven that they were comfortably the two best us meeting for the first time at the sports centre foyer teams of this year’s event (and probably any cuppers in on the day of the competition, the team managed some recent memory) Balliol and Wadham faced each other in excellent individual and relay swims. Highlights include the final. This time Wadham were no pushovers. First blood a men’s 50m breakstroke race and the ladies’ team losing went to Balliol with a superb extra man goal to finalist out only to a team of four University Blues swimmers on Daniel Carden (after Larry Knight drew an ejection in the several occassions (surely this should count as cheating?!). first play of the match). However, Wadham returned the Thanks to Shaun Hotchkiss, Katie Jones, Larry Knight, compliment with a goal of their own. Goals were traded and Emma Winter (and a couple of guest swimmers!) for for the rest of the first half, with scores ending tied at 4-4. some fantastic swimming. The second half remained equally tense; however, three key factors eventually brought the balance into Balliol’s Sarah Marks favour. First, a clever tactical change on defence brought the mighty Balliol women (Emma Winter, Abby Harrison, Kate Woodward, and Aelwen Wetherby) into the game and starved Wadhams’ attacking players of the ball. Secondly, two massive saves from the Balliol goalkeeper, Jacobus Cilliers, kept the Wadham team to just one goal all half. Finally, a tactical dump of the ball by Balliol veteran Shaun Hotchkiss, to stifle a Wadham counter attack, led to a goal Swimming Team. Back Row: Douglas Jordan, Shaun for Balliol after a Wadham player inadvertently gave away Hotchkiss, Emma Winter, Front Row: Laurence Knight, a penalty attempting to retrieve the ball (illegally). Sarah Marks (captain) Balliol College Record 95 Rugby needed victory to ensure promotion. The Lions went into the game pumped up in front of a large partisan crowd. The 2008/09 season was an extremely successful one for The result was an overwhelming victory and the fans were the Balliol Lions. With promotion in both stages of the evidently delighted with a showpiece of champagne rugby rugby season, Balliol climbed from Division 3 to Division which the Lions had been showing in glimpses all season. 1, a position the College has not been in for over a decade. The end result was a brutal 57–10 to the Lions, securing The Lions unfortunately missed out on silverware again, promotion to Division 1 among the titans of college rugby. losing to Oriel in the semi-final of Cuppers. So all in all it was a great season for the Lions, taking us Division 3 began with a tough away fixture to St Hugh’s to the pinnacle of college rugby. The team however will be in 1st week. Hugh’s had just been relegated, so it was a real sad to lose a few stalwarts of Balliol rugby including Don test for a Balliol team featuring five new players. We won Mackintosh, member of college rugby’s most formidable 15–5 in difficult conditions and we followed this up with front row, Jack Thomlinson, and Phil Cuthbertson. Also, the team would like to thank all the members of Balliol comfortable victories. After the team had had time to gel who have supported us on our road to glory. Hopefully we put 37 points against Exeter, and the next week beat next season will be just as succesful with Ed Brunet taking Lincoln 24–15. Our final game of the season was away over as captain assisted by Gabriel Davies and Jamie to Wadham, but with promotion already guaranteed, the Undrell. team eased off the pace and ended up losing 17–12 to a team that we should have beaten, and would in fact go on Benjamin Fleet – Balliol Rugby Captain 2008/09 to beat. Laurence Knight – VC After the first league season we had been promoted to Jack Gilbert – Secretary Division 2, which was a considerable step up. Our first game was against a strong Univ side who were unlucky to have missed out on promotion to Division 1 the season before. After a great team performance Balliol emerged Women’s Football Team victorious 30–0, a great start to the new season. Our remaining two scheduled matches of Michaelmas Term Balliol Women’s Football Team has gone from strength were postponed due to the weather. Hilary Term began to strength. We are currently Division IV champions, with a busy schedule and our first match was a tough pushing us up to the third division. Having merged with game against Catz in 0th week, which we lost despite Regent’s Park College at the beginning of the year, our having played some of the best rugby we had all season. team is considerably bigger. As football captain it was Within a few days a much battered and bruised Lions great to see individuals in the team improve their skills. team ventured out after collections to face a Queen’s Training has also been really fun this year with our new side currently top of the league. A great performance saw coach, Craig Lambert, supporting us. Despite being quite Balliol triumph 24–15, and this victory was followed up a new team (about three years old), women’s football in three days later with a ruthless performance crushing Balliol has continued to improve and we hope to enter the LMH 31–0. The final game of the season was extremely second division at the end of next season. important; in the words of the Lions PR officers Ryan Halloran and Jack Thomlinson ‘Defeat is unthinkable; Rebecca Coleman victory will ensure greatness.’ We were faced up against our rivals from Division 3, Wadham, and both sides 96 Balliol College Record Women’s Boat Club With the novices moving up into the senior squad at the start of Hilary, we had three crews training throughout the term for Torpids, which took place in 6th Week. It has been another successful year for the women’s boat Torpids was a difficult week and unfortunately did not club, with 13 bumps, 18 tankards, a set of blades, and go to plan. Various unlucky umpire decisions denied us three blues! The year started as always with recruitment of bumps, but nonetheless it was a useful preparation for of novices, and this year we had another impressive Eights and there were many positives to take away from collection of enthusiastic freshers keen to get out on the it. Each crew bumped and W2 and W3 made progress up river. During Michaelmas we trained up three novice the bumps charts. W3 did particularly well given that they crews who competed in Nephthys Regatta as preparation were the only women’s 3rd Eight who qualified to race in for the novice regatta at the end of term. Our novice A Torpids. At the end of Hilary, the 1st Eight competed in crew reached the semi-final – a fantastic achievement. the women’s Head of the River race. It was the first time For the first time in years, Christ Church Regatta actually any of us had done the race and proved to be a valuable happened, giving all the novices the chance to compete in experience. We learnt about a completely different style of a big regatta and get a feel for what to expect in Hilary racing and kept up our training so that no time at the end and Trinity. of term was wasted.

Members of the 1959 Torpids crew at their 2009 reunion during Summer Eights

Balliol College Record 97 The Women’s Boat Race took place in late March and week second on the river – the highest BCWBC has ever there were three Balliol oarswomen in the Osiris crew, been. a brilliant reflection on BCWBC. Having rowers in the W2 had a fantastically successful week, moving up into University clubs has had a really positive impact on Balliol Division 4 on the first day and continuing to bump for the rowing, helping to motivate people during training and rest of the week. Not only did W2 get blades, they also adding to the experience and strength of the squad as a hardly rowed more than 30 strokes in any of their races whole. Having our three blues back after their boat race before bumping! The 3rd Eight also had a good week, was a great boost to the 1st Eight as well. making two bumps and rowing over twice. BCWBC once The hard work during Hilary put us in a strong position again proved that they are strong throughout the squad, at the start of Trinity. Straight after Easter all those trialling topping the bumps statistics with double the amount of for the 1st Eight came back for a training camp based in bumps as the next best college (amusingly, Trinity). Oxford. By the end of the week we had our crew set and The year ended with Summer Eights dinner where were ready to begin the serious work of becoming the we were delighted to be joined by members of the 1959 fastest crew on the river. Torpids Headship crew, reminding everyone in the club of In May both 1st Eights competed in Bedford Amateur the continuing success of Balliol rowing and the levels of Regatta, where the women won both of their events – the support we have from Old Members. Also at the Dinner Intermediate 3 and the Colleges, beating the Head of the were Neville Mullany (Head Torpids 1954) and Charles River crew in Cambridge in their first race of the day. The Copeman (Head Torpids and Eights 1956). final of IM3+ was a good race against Star Club, with Next year we will be looking to build on the successes some final pushes giving us the lead by 1¼ lengths. In the of this year, hopefully finding some more talent among the College event the final was not quite so challenging; in the freshers to add to the squad. BCWBC has done really well end we beat St Catherine’s College Oxford by so many in Nephthys Regatta and Christ Church Regatta over the lengths the umpires stopped measuring. last two years but not won either of them. We aim to break Starting Eights fifth in division one, the women were that trend next year by having the best novice crews on the within reach of becoming Head of the River for the first river. Although the klaxon in Eights this year delayed our time in the history of BCWBC. The pressure was on but Headship plans, it has also given the club more motivation with Bedford fresh in our minds, the crew felt ready and than ever to finally reach the top of the division. Starting confident. All three women’s crews went into Summer from second place in 2010, chasing St Edmunds Hall, Eights with high expectations, and each had a successful the 1st Eight has every chance of being the first Balliol week over all. women’s crew to ever be Head of the River. The women’s division one race was klaxoned very early on during Wednesday’s racing, giving each crew a Beverley Pannell technical row over. This ruled out the chance of blades but more importantly, meant that we were unable to get the Headship this year. Obviously this was a very disappointing start to the week’s racing, which the crew had been training so hard for. The rest of the week was about proving to everyone else that Balliol should be Head of the River and that we were the fastest crew on the water. We bumped on each of the remaining days, finishing the 98 Balliol College Record Men’s Boat Club of gruelling land training. The novice crews raced hard, but were ultimately beaten by some very well-drilled It’s been a tough year for the men’s side of the boat club. opposition in Christ Church Regatta. In Torpids, the Last year’s success was unprecedented, particularly in third and fourth boats were asked to row on and neither terms of the 1st Eight’s success in both Torpids (blades) managed to obtain a place in the event proper. Special and Summer Eights (the Headship). The 1st Eight, mention goes to the 3rd Eight who had to suffer an early therefore, found itself in among high-quality crews in both morning race-off just before Torpids, having dead-heated events come 2009, and the 2nd Eight was in an equally with two other crews for the final place in rowing on. Alas challenging position. The loss of three of the best and they were ultimately found just wanting of the requisite certainly most experienced oarsmen from last year’s 1st pace. The 2nd Eight then was the men’s boat club’s Eight and the return of so few out of the 2008 2nd and 3rd sole representative in the lower divisions and made an Eights were big blows to recover from. admirable fist of it, exchanging bumps with St Antony’s The squads trained well. As is so frequently the case, 1st Eight. Come the summer, exams and the frustrations the novice squads in Michaelmas and the 2nd and 3rd of a tough Hilary, the lower boats were whittled down to Eights in Hilary suffered from long bouts of red flag on a core of five very enthusiastic 2nd Eight oarsmen who the Isis. Given the lack of water team all of the rowers trained for most of the term in a four before being joined deserve credit for the effort they put in during long weeks by three more to make up an eight for Summer Eights.

Both 1st Eights after their successful day at Bedford Regatta in 2nd week of Trinity Term 2009

Balliol College Record 99 Despite the laudable efforts of Mike Howarth, Will with multiple blues including Olympic bronze medallist Treharne, Chris Arthurs, Tom Harty, and Josh Harvey, all George Bridgewater on board. Behind them were the real of whom were very competent oarsmen by the end of the threat whose Torpids Headship winning crew were all but year and frankly deserved better, the virtually scratch 2nd replaced (only two remained) by six blues, former blues, Eight had a tough time of it in Eights week, eventually and Harvard varsity oarsmen including the stroke of this succumbing to spoons. It is my hope that this does not year’s blue boat Ante Kusurin and American Olympian discourage them from persevering with rowing as it is Jamie Schroeder. Further down in fifth place, Pembroke clear that they have all started to realize their significant had what they considered their best crew in a number of potential. years and believed that they might be able to make four The 1st Eight’s season was a bit of a mixed affair. There bumps in four days to gain the Headship. Balliol rowed were some encouraging early season showings in smaller strongly on the first day, keeping Oriel at bay until Christ boats including a win at Marlow Fours and Pairs Head Church bumped them out at the cross-over. Thursday and creditable results in the Fours Head of the River and presented Balliol with a real task if they were to hold Walton Head. Tobias Witting also continued to enjoy off Christ Church. The crew rose to the challenge and success racing in his single. With the addition of Eddie produced the best start and first minute of the week, but Jacobs, the outstanding athlete from the novice squads, ultimately Christ Church’s superior power told as they ate and Joerg Metzner, who returned after a term in Germany, into the length and a half gap before bumping just after an eight came together towards the end of January and the gut. The most exciting race of the week was on Friday there were even beneficial selection questions throughout when Balliol produced a very good row up to the end of the build up to Torpids. Torpids itself proved exemplary Boathouse Island before the crew’s inexperience showed of the inconsistency shown throughout the year. A solid and cracks appeared in their rowing as Pembroke piled on (and satisfying) bump on a Trinity crew more interested in the pressure in the wind to the line, bumping just a length their singing careers than their rowing on the Wednesday before the finish. The pain of Friday was only worsened was followed up by two days of disappointing rows in when Balliol were bumped by their old nemesis Oriel. It which Balliol failed to catch Exeter and then were bumped was a week of racing that was at the margin between a by a New College crew destined for blades. The crew did success and a failure. Three bumps does not accurately manage to salvage some pride rowing well on the final day, reflect the efforts and the rowing of the crew. but at that point, being chased by Trinity and chasing New Two thousand and eight is doubtless a year that will College, it was all but a dead rubber. loom large over the men’s boat club for a long time, The Summer Eights campaign was really kicked into and it is in this light that 2009 appears particularly gear on training camp in the South of France over the disappointing. However, the men’s 1st Eight lie eighth on Easter vacation. A week of three sessions a day brought on the river in Torpids and fourth in Summer Eights, while individual technique and the crew’s ability to row together the 2nd Eight is solidly in the fixed divisions in both. to such an extent that the crew that finished training camp For the second year running, Balliol and Exeter have was virtually unrecognizable compared to that which had qualified a composite eight for the Temple Challenge Cup raced in Torpids. Hard training at the beginning of Trinity and Henley Royal Regatta. This year we will be the only was rewarded with a very successful outing at Bedford crew representing an Oxford college in the regatta. I am Regatta where the 1st Eight won College Eights, beating sure that the 2009/10 captain, Eddie Jacobs, and his vice good crews from Magdalen and the University of London captains will be relishing the chance to push the boat club along the way. Summer Eights was always going to be a onwards and upwards. different matter, though. Oriel lined up in second place Oscar Schonfeld 100 Balliol College Record Old Members’ Golf Simon Thwaite at the crease started contrasting innings, Bilyard bludgoening a quick-fire fifty while Thwaite was Defending the trophy they won at the University Inter- happy to see out over after over. Bilyard’s wicket brought Collegiate Golf Tournament in 2008, Balliol achieved another aggressive batsman at the crease, Sourgen, who a creditable fourth place in this year’s competition at made 39 in quick time, hitting the only six of the match. Frilford, which was won by St Edmund Hall. Nineteen When he mistimed one to mid-on for 39, the newly elected colleges were represented. Those teeing off for Balliol in skipper James Kohn strode to the crease, ready to face the 2009 were: twin spin combination of Ian Macauslan and Oli Hextall. While the spinners had kept all the other current Balliol David Mills (1961 – Captain) batsmen quiet, Kohn took the attack to them, playing a Geoffrey Clements (1965) number of great hits with the spin, and getting to fifty David Cottrell (1964) before Simon Thwaite reached his. Kohn fell for fifty and John Cottrell (1958) left it to Simon Thwaite (62 not out) to see the current Richard Fletcher (1963) players to the target of 251 in the penultimate over. Chris Jelley (1962) After drinks in the Fellows’ Garden/OCR, dinner was Greg Jones (1987) held in Hall. This fixture will be repeated on the Saturday Peter King (1957) of 7th Week in Trinity Term next year, with dinner open Nigel May (1956) [promoted from Reserve by the to all former cricketers, to whom notice will be sent early withdrawal of Roger Lewis (1963)] in 2010. Colin Sowter (1953)

Next year’s tournament will take place at Frilford and the date will be announced shortly.

Old Members’ Cricket

The Old Boys’ match on the Saturday of 7th Week (13 June) was a declaration match. The Old Boys batted first and posted 250 for 6. Ned Williams played some shots at the top of the order before falling for 39. After losing a few more wickets, Tom (78) and Pete Dunbar (58) regrouped, nudging ones and twos, before starting to play some glorious shots as they approached and passed their fifties. Opening bowler Gavin Sourgen, in his second spell, foxed them both with slower balls, leaving two new batsmen at the crease, who pressed on until Tom’s declaration. The Balliol 1st XI started their innings slowly, losing both openers early. Jim Head was brilliantly caught at second slip off a trademark nudge to third man. Tom Bilyard and Balliol College Record 101 Members’ News Births Honours Births 2009 Professor John Ramsey (1968), a grand-daughter, Julia New Year Honours 2009 Alice Piers Daubeney (1982), a daughter, Beatrice Professor Anthony Bryer (1958), OBE Jason Hubert (1985), a son, Sam Frederick Professor Martin Cave (1966), OBE Tracey Wolffe (1985), a daughter, Daniella Rose Professor David Skegg (1972), Distinguished Companion Bill Lipscomb (1987), a daughter, Sophia of the New Zealand Order of Merit Nicholas Ian Macpherson (1978), KCB Births 2008 Dorothy Elizabeth Gaere (1983, née Stanley), OBE Victor Christou (former JRF), a son, Theodore Samuel Birthday Honours 2009 Professor Bernard Wasserstein (1966), a son, Tomer (Tommy) Pieter Abraham Professor Christopher Ricks (1953), Knight Bachelor Dilip Menon (1984), a son, Zayan Simon Stevens (1984), a daughter, Hannah Eloise Lysandra Honorary Degrees Eleanor Baker (1986), a son, Samuel Joseph Tyrell Adam Bruce (1986), a son, Orlando Antonio Andrew Bill Drayton (1965), Honorary Doctorate of Humane Vicky Clark (1987), a son, Benjamin William Stanley Letters, Yale University Bettis Professor Steven Lukes (1958), Doctor of Letters, Aisling Byrne (1988), a daughter, Amistis honoris causa (LittD), University of East Anglia Anna Pakes (1988), a son, Tom Frederick Redfern Professor Natalie Zemon Davis (Fellow, 1994), Degree Dominic Jacquesson (1989), a son, Noah Honours Causae, Oxford University Dan Margolin (1990), a son, Benedict George Patrick Andrew McMurry (1990), a daughter, Anna Margarida Fellowships of National Academies Gareth Kay (1991), a daughter, Esme Say Beng Tan (1991), twin daughters, Samantha and Professor Ved Mehta (1956), Fellow of the Royal Society Emma of Literature Danny Chapman (1992), a daughter, Hazel Isla Professor Brian Warner (Fellow, 1965), Honorary Fellow, Melanie Davis (1992), a son, Jacob Conan Royal Society of South Africa Binnie Goh (1992), a daughter, Anli Breckenridge Paul Mason (1980), Fellow of the Royal Society of Louisa Miller (1992), a son, Jozef Luka Chemistry Sam Arie (1993), a son, Milo Holmes Jonathan Barfield (1993), a son, George William Henry Charlotte Bigg (1993), a daughter, Ida Valentine Suresh Kanwar (1993), a son, Keshav Shivansh 102 Balliol College Record Vikki Keilthy (1993), a daughter, Katherine Beatrice Martin O’Neill (1993), a son, Tommy Marriages Samir Patel (1993), a son, Edward Alexander Alison Spencer Stephens (1993), a son, Nathaniel Marriages 2009 Merriam Feena Brooks (1995), a son, Edward Finn (known as Sophie Sandner (2003) to Yogesh Daryanani, 16 Ned) January 2009 Robert Harrison (1995), a daughter, Ivy Joy Chris Becher (1996) to Dorota Łyszkowska (1998), Andy Pyle (1995), a daughter, Phoebe Elizabeth 12 September 2009 Clyde Seepersad (1996), a daughter, Paige Olivia Martin Sandu (1995) to Ana Marambio Susan Monk (1998), a daughter, Bethany Grace Mark Harrison (1991), July 2009 Ruth Brown (1999), a daughter, Astrid Jennifer Kristina Parag Prasad (1990), July 2009

Births 2007 Marriages 2008

Fred West (1969), a grand-daughter, Thisbe Vikki Jones (1993) to Paul Keilthy (1992), 26 April 2008 Tim Sowter (1984), a daughter, Katie Beth Adam Killeya (1999) to Merryn Killeya, January 2008 Lady Louisa Collings (1986), a daughter, Catherine Oliver Mears (1999) to Hannah Fairall, 5 July 2008 Gemma Benson (1990), a son, Miles Julius Roland Honekamp (1994), a son, Oskar Ferdinand Zena Ryder (1996), a daughter, Julia Marriages 2007

Helen Paren (1991) to Nick Adams, 18 August 2007 Births 2006 Antony Gardner-Hillman (1975) to Kristin Gardner- Hillman, July 2007 Simon Witty (1981), a son, George Mitch Preston (1982), a daughter, Georgina Laura Carl Garland (1987), a son, Nathaniel William Marriages 2007 Say Beng Tan (1991), a daughter, Sophie Johannes Stawowy (1993), a son, Johannes Jakob Steven Lukes (1958) to Katha Politt Louisa Keeling (1992) to Andrej Miller, 15 April 2006 Births 2005

Angus Jackson (1991), a son, Dylan

Balliol College Record 103 Professor Peter Marshall (1948), 27 July 2008 Deaths Sir John Wall (1948), 1 December 2008 Jerome Leavell, 21 February 2007 Peter Eden (1949), 14 November 2008 Lady Weir, 2 November 2008 Richard Wiley (1949), 12 June 2009 William Woodruff, 23 September 2008 The Revd Allan Boyd (1950), 8 January 2009 John Gelsthorpe (1951), 12 May 2009 Aslan Hamwee (1929), 1 March 2009 Vernon Handley (1951), 10 September 2008 The Earl of Wemyss & March (1930), 12 December 2008 HRH Tuanku Ja’afar ibni Al-Marhum Tuanku Abdul Professor Samuel Beer (1932), 7 April 2009 Rahman (1951), 27 December 2008 Lister Hopkins (1932), 26 October 2008 Richard Smith (1951), 1 November 2008 The Revd Charles Crofts (1933), 7 January 2008 The Rt Revd David Young (1951), 10 August 2008 Arthur (Nicholas) Gillett (1934), 23 June 2008 Humphrey Case (1952), 12 June 2009 Hugh (Robert) Rowland (1934), 8 March 2009 Brian Mitchell (1952), 26 September 2008 Sir John Templeton (1934), 8 July 2008 Ian Smart (1952), 30 August 2008 Kenneth Garlick (1935), 22 July 2009 John Todd (1952), 20 January 2009 John (Ken) Thomas (1935), 30 April 2009 Professor John Barron (1953), 16 August 2008 Sir Charles Gordon (1936), 1 March 2009 Ivor Chapman (1953), 11 July 2009 James Nasmyth (1936), 11 September 2008 David Lloyd (1953), 17 May 2009 Roger Miles (1937), 2 August 2008 Raphael Persitz (1953), 5 February 2009 Lord Carnock (1938), 26 December 2008 Professor Ayub Ommaya (1954), 11 July 2008 John Hamilton (1938), 3 November 2008 Thomas Braun (1955), 24 September 2008 Cyril Stratton (1938), 13 May 2009 Donald Bray (1955), 8 December 2008 Brian Davies (1939), 2 January 2009 David Edwards (1955), 14 July 2008 Frank (Rex) Elgood (1939), 13 January 2009 Max Teichmann (1955), 29 November 2008 Professor David Pears (1939), 1 July 2009 Colin Bound (1957), 19 July 2008 John Hajnal (1940), 30 November 2008 Frank Field (1957), 10 July 2006 Peter Nye (1940), 13 February 2009 Jeremy Wright (1957), 8 March 2009 George Peters (1940), 16 January 2009 J D F Jones (1958), 4 March 2009 Hubert Cove (1941), 14 November 2008 Peter Willey (1958), 22 April 2009 James Galbraith (1943), 23 January 2009 James Lewis (1959), 28 May 2008 John Taylor (1943), 25 April 2009 David Thomas (1959), 15 August 2008 Ken Binning (1946), 15 February 2009 David Stager (1960), 23 July 2009 Georges Brondel (1946), 26 April 2008 Sir Henry Hodge (1962), 18 June 2009 Alec Hill (1946), 27 August 2008 Jonathan Steel (1962), 2 December 2008 Roger Sylvester (1946), 28 July 2008 Professor Sir Neil MacCormick (1963), 5 April 2009 Paul Buxton (1947), 5 January 2009 John Halloran (1966), 20 May 2007 Ian Dinwiddie (1947), 17 August 2008 George Perry (1966), 3 November 2008 Sir Donald Luddington (1947), 26 January 2009 Professor Bruce Sellwood (1967), 2 November 2008 Professor Mark Roelofs (1947), 17 August 2008 Stephen Instone (1973), 25 July 2009 Jim Betterton (1948), 7 April 2009 Mark Hibbert (1975), 2 April 2009 John Blacker (1948), 28 September 2008 Philip Lewin (1982), 12 August 2008 Richard (Dick) Cunningham (1948), 3 July 2009 Barbara Dowling née Naylor (1983), 4 May 2008 Professor Max Hartwell (1948), 14 March 2009 Omar Azfar (1987), 21 January 2009 104 Balliol College Record frequently compared the democracies of Britain and News and Notes the United States. In 1956 he wrote Treasury Control, a pioneering study of public spending. Nine years later, Professor Natalie Davis writes: “I am thrilled and he wrote the seminal work, Modern British Politics. honoured to be receiving a degree honours causae from From 1959–62 Beer was chairman of Americans for Oxford University at the convocation on 18 July 2009. Democratic Action (ADA), a liberal action group in If there are Balliol graduates that day as well, I will be the Democratic Party. He received honorary degrees especially pleased to be part of the event with them.” from American and British universities, and served as Judith Nedderman writes: “Two grand-daughters born president of the American Political Science Association 2003 and 2007. Lived in Australia (Melbourne (APSA) from 1976–77. In 2001 he was the first winner and Perth) 1964–69, then Papua New Guinea, then of the Isaiah Berlin Award from the British Political Brisbane since 1973. Parents both dead – 1951 and Studies Association and the first president of the British 1974.” Politics Group in the United States. Beer is survived by Emeritus Professor Denis Noble writes: “I have been two daughters of his first marriage (a son died in 1991) lecturing worldwide on The Music of Life, following to Roberta Reed, who died in 1987, and his second its translation into various European languages. The wife, Jane K. Brooks, whom he married in 1989.” Italian version was launched with a lecture-concert Lister Hopkins (1932). Peter McCullagh (Australian in Milano recorded by Italian radio and reported in Rhodes Scholar, Magdalen 1963) writes: “Lister La Stampa and Il Manifesto. Korean, Japanese, and Hopkins has died after a very long life, 98 years filled Chinese translations have now been done and will with many quiet achievements. As his son Andrew appear this year or next. The Oxford Trobadors observed at Lister’s memorial service, his father’s life continue to flourish with concerts in the Holywell had encompassed the start and the finish of the Soviet Music Room, fed by royalties from The Music of Life. Union. Lister was born in 1910 in Toowoomba, the In collaboration with the Oxford Internet Institute I second son of Quaker parents who were pacifists. am helping to launch www.VoicesfromOxford.org.” Lister remained a pacifist throughout his life, a Professor Brian Warner writes: “Honorary Fellow, Royal conviction which may be seen in retrospect as having Society of South Africa, 2008. Fellow, University been reinforced by service in many of the twentieth College London, 2009.” century’s most violent locations. He studied Civil Professor Samuel Beer (1932). Jacqueline Smith (Balliol Engineering at the University of Queensland (achieving College Publications & Web Officer) writes: “Samuel first class honours) from 1928–1931. A contemporary Hutchison Beer, Professor of Government, Harvard then was Fred McKay, who became superintendent of University, died on 7 April 2009, aged 97. He was born the Royal Flying Doctor Service. McKay, in preparing in 1911, in Ohio. He graduated from the University in 1998 for a talk on their time at Emmanuel, wrote of Michigan in 1932 and won a Rhodes scholarship to Hopkins, ‘I frankly believe that Lister Hopkins was to read Medieval History at Balliol. Beer then worked the greatest Emmanuel achiever of that period in the in Washington DC, helping to draft speeches for unpretentious way you fused your academic, social, President Roosevelt. He completed his Harvard sporting and religious life within both college and doctorate in 1943. He joined the army and took part in university.’ Awarded the 1932 Rhodes Scholarship, the invasion of France in 1944. On his return in 1946 Lister opted to study Mathematics, again with a first he took over the general education course at Harvard class honours outcome. He competed in inter-collegiate on ‘Western Thought and Institutions’. His work rowing, coxing a Balliol crew, and travelled extensively Balliol College Record 105 on the continent. He visited Russia but, unlike many Australia. The death of Edna in 1996 affected Hopkins of his contemporaries, remained unconvinced of the for the remainder of his life, but its aftermath revealed virtues of communism. After graduation, the university the closeness of the Hopkins family. He continued to live employment agency drew his attention to a Colonial in the house that the family had occupied since coming Office position for a statistician with the British to Canberra. In order to make this possible, two of his administration in the League of Nations mandated sons in succession lived next door with their families to Territory of Palestine. Lister served in Palestine from assist him. His last three months were spent, as he had 1936 until 1944. He returned on leave to Australia wished, in the house, with another son adopting the twice and, on the second occasion, met Edna Leven at role of full-time, live-in carer. Lister’s memorial service a Student Christian Movement conference. In 1941, took place in Canberra on a bright spring day in 2008 Edna joined him in Palestine where they were married. in the Friends’ Meeting House and its courtyard, to In response to a request from the Colonial Office, the establishment of which he had contributed half a Lister undertook, in 1945, the organization of a census century previously. Two contributions recalling events of British West Indian colonies and British Guiana in his life were especially memorable. One person who and British Honduras which was not concluded until had been a child in Palestine at the time when Hopkins 1950. This was recognized by the award of an OBE. was there recalled how, years later in Australia, Hopkins Two sons, Richard and Andrew were born in Jamaica. had been able to explain the significance of much of his At the conclusion of his West Indian assignment, childhood experience. An email from another person Lister undertook census activities in Lebanon before recounted how, as a new employee of the Bureau in coming to Canberra in 1951 to take up a position in 1967, he had concerns about possible adverse career the Australian Bureau of Census and Statistics. During consequences of attending a peace protest. These the following decade, two more sons, David and Nick rapidly resolved when, on arrival, he found his boss were born. In 1958–1960, Lister was seconded to participating. In a testimony on his life, fellow Quakers Trinidad to conduct another census of the West Indies. He continued in the Bureau until his formal retirement recorded, ‘Lister was quietly spoken, knowledgeable, in 1975. When Hopkins was told that including accessible and amiable – he missed nothing. He was Aboriginal people in the census was too difficult a generous, humble man of peace; an extraordinarily because of constitutional impediments, he is said good listener, gently inquiring and demonstrating a to have replied, ‘Then let’s change the constitution.’ great appreciation of other people’s life experiences. Immediately following retirement, Lister undertook His wisdom and integrity, including candid insights of two more United Nations assignments, as usual in his own frailties, inspired great respect and affection.’ politically interesting locations, Sudan (1976–77) and [This is an edited version of an account that was first Cyprus (1977–78). There was much more to Lister’s published in the newsletter of the Association of life than his professional career. While in Jamaica, he Rhodes Scholars in Australia, February 2009).]” followed in the footsteps of earlier generations of his The Revd Canon Lawrence Waddy (1933) writes: “I must family, joining the Society of Friends. On arrival in be one of the oldest alumni, and I am incredibly lucky Canberra, the Hopkins family was one of four involved to be healthy and active. This year, urged by friends at in establishing a community of Friends. In 1968, he my church who put together a fund for the purpose, I became a foundation member of the Canberra North have published in small numbers four books: Memories Rotary Club and, following his retirement, he became and Stories of WWII; Boiled Egg Homilies; The Faith an active member of the United Nations Association of of America; and Abraham to La Jolla, ten lectures on 106 Balliol College Record the long journey of our faith. Also the scores of six which seem to me to be the pre-eminent characteristics musicals, and some dvds to go with all this.” of the College. I wait with interest to see what surprises Tony Howard (1934) writes: “This year Rina (St Hugh’s) my tenth decade has in store for me.” and I celebrate our 70th wedding anniversary, having George Peters (1940). Bob Peters (his son) writes: “I am met at a Labour Association dance in Ruskin. We are very sorry to tell you that my father died suddenly in now fortunate to be heads of a four-generation family January 2009. After his time at Balliol, he had a short with nineteen direct descendants.” spell in the service, before having a long career teaching Kenneth Garlick (1935). Jacqueline Smith (Balliol College foreign languages. For many years he was Head of Publications & Web Officer) writes: Kenneth Garlick, French at Altrincham Grammar School, and many Emeritus Fellow and Keeper of Western Art at the former pupils and teachers there have been in touch. Ashmolean Museum (1968-1984), died at the age of He always spoke very fondly of Balliol, and showed us 92 on 22 July 2009. The Times carried an obituary his old College rooms when we visited Oxford.” on 7 August: www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/ John Watson-Baker (1940) writes: “I continue to lead a obituaries/article6741821.ece. quiet life in Somerset and find everybody exceedingly Ashley Raeburn (1937) writes: “At the age of 90, last year kind.” saw us celebrating our 65th wedding anniversary.” Ian Adams (1941) writes: “I continute with all my local Sir Ronald McIntosh (1938) writes: “Rather to my surprise activities – residents’ association, chairman of Friends I shall, if I am still around, be 90 when this Annual of Lambeth Libraries, member of the City of London Record appears. Coming hard on the heels of my 58th Deanery Synod and of two Parish Church Councils. wedding anniversary this has put me in a reflective And I still go to Aldeburgh, Glyndebourne, and mood. I first went up to Balliol in October 1938, just Buxton. I have not yet had any complaints about my in time to catch the famous Munich by-election in mental state. My body is slower but still, in the main, which the Master, Sandy Lindsay, played the central doing what I want.” role. My fellow undergraduates were a hugely talented lot, many of whom in later years held distinguished John Grant (1941) writes: “Age 85, lame but still game posts in public life. When war broke out the following (just).” September I found the prospect of staying on as an Professor Leonard Minkes (1941) writes: “My son (who undergraduate unappealing and, being of a non- is a criminologist) and I have jointly edited a book on military disposition, joined the Merchant Navy where Corporate and White-Collar Crime, published in 2008. I spent the next six years. On my return to Balliol in We invited nine scholars each to contribute a chapter, 1946 I had the good fortune to be assigned to Holywell and ourselves contributed to a full introductory Manor, which was then presided over by Russell chapter and some concluding comments. We dedicated Meiggs, a fine man with a very civilized outlook on life. the book to the memory of my wife, who died in March My fellow residents were largely younger men who had 2004. Am continuing with other academic work, completed shortened wartime courses before going off within the limits of my energies.” to perform acts of derring-do around the world and The Hon Gordon Samuels (1941). John Postgate (1941) were as impressive and congenial as their pre-war writes: “The University of New South Wales, Sydney, counterparts. What I gained from these encounters, in has just established the Gordon Samuels Professorial a university career which lasted only two years in all, Chair in the Faculty of Law to commemorate the has stayed with me throughout my long life – above memory of Gordon Samuels, the longest-serving all the easy companionship and shared sense of values Chancellor of UNSW. The first incumbent of that Balliol College Record 107 Chair (in Law and Social Theory) has been appointed; decline (The Chairman, Martin Dent, was majority he is Martin Krygier.” shareholder and a fine rugger player, but with none Hyla Holden (1942) writes: “My wife and I have of the skills in business and books of his remarkable established our village as a ‘Transitional Village’ grandfather). Achieved remarkable revival in Dent’s (‘Larkhall saves the Planet’).” prestige and profits, but fell out with Martin Dent Sir Charles Jessel Bt (1942) writes: “Have been elected and resigned (JMD subsequently went into quite Fellow, British Association for Nutritional Therapy, rapid decline and sadly collapsed). 1971–89 Deputy 25 September 2008. Also Honorary Member of the Editor of The Bookseller, ‘The Organ of the Book Institute of Psionic Medicine.” Trade’. Invented at The Bookseller a simple, innocent John Taylor (1943) writes: “Working on Vol. 2 of the bookshop owner called Cyril Pine. In 1970s to 1980s St Albans Chronicle 1394–1422.” published Cyril Pine’s Diary, Opening Account, Emeritus Professor Martyn Webb (1943) writes: “In Dracula’s Diary, and other light-hearted books which November 2008 The University of Western Australia were excellently reviewed in the UK and US and had paid me the signal honour of naming a lecture theatre quite a vogue. Was a book reviewer for the Sunday after me at a special ceremony in recognition of my Telegraph. 1989 and for nearly a decade, Times services to the university and to geography.” obituarist for the great and good in book publishing. Francis Muir (1944) writes: “Living the rustic life in East Over the years: served on the Committee running Tennessee.” the Book Trade Benevolent Society’s Charity and its Douglas Darcy (1945) writes: “Celebrated 90th birthday Residential Home; was in modest demand on radio, in Newfoundland.” TV, and after-dinner speaking in relation to the book Michael Pilch (1945) writes: “Nothing to report except world. Joined Garrick Club in the 1960s, derived that I have self-published during the year a small great happiness and cheerfulness from this, and was booklet of pictures and poems entitled Reflections, delighted to be made an Hon. Life Member of the Club and have placed a copy in the College Library.” Irwin Stein (1945) writes: “Married 1942–2007 to Ruth in 2009.” Esther. Steven Franels Stein born 1946; Kimberley Stein Professor Ernst Wangermann (1946) writes: “On 31 (grand-daughter) 1990. Steven, retired from IBM, now May 2009, the 200th anniversary of Joseph Haydn’s sells Mini Coopers in the US. Kimberley attends La death, I spoke at a symposium in Vienna about Salle University, US.” ‘Enlightened religion in education and in the libretti of Douglas Allison (1946) writes: “Grand-daughter just Haydn’s oratorios’. The symposium was followed by a started reading Engineering at Balliol.” performance of the Creation.” Michael Geare (1946) writes: “Since post-war and post- David Benn (1947) writes: “One grandson (Michael Balliol my career has been unremarkable, I’ve never Hestor), born 10 May 1999. I continue to write articles troubled you with its details. Can’t imagine that’s on international, especially Russian, affairs – mainly interesting for anyone now. But as I head for 91, it’s published in the Chatham House journal International now or never, so briefly: mid 1950s m.d. Tentest, Affairs.” British subsidiary of huge US International Paper of Michael Comer (1947) writes: “Enjoyed receiving a New York. Much transatlantic travel, by sea or by air birthday card from Balliol on my 80th birthday in – New York to London by Constellation then took 16 2008!” hours. Most of 1960–90, GM of JD Dent, Publishers Neville Gittleson (1947) writes: “Will full retirement I am of Everyman and general. End 1950s saw JMD in now able to fight the dandelion invasion of my garden 108 Balliol College Record and enjoy discovering digital photography as well as this later. But the real impact had come with what the film.” 1st VIII achieved. Starting tenth in 1950 they went up William Haines (1947) writes: “I did something recently to seventh and up to third in 1951, activating the first which I should have done long ago, that is, to leave Bump Supper in living memory. And then came 1952! a legacy to the College in my Will. If altruism is not On the Saturday, right in front of the OUBC, Balliol enough, this entitles one to an annual lunch under bumped Merton, with its five blues, to row Head the aegis of the Greville-Smith Society. Those of of the River for the first time in 73 years! Monday’s us remembering the food of sixty years ago can be Times had a memorable first paragraph: ‘The totally reassured, if not amazed, to learn that the current staff unexpected but not altogether unforeseen occurred at win prizes not only for the culinary arts, but also for Oxford on Saturday when Balliol bumped Merton to health and safety. Whatever your motivation, then, the row Head of the River.’ John had put things right. With Development Office has the form of words for your the exceptions of himself, Don, and Ken Keniston, lawyer, not forgetting to make your legacy index- all the other five and the cox were home grown. Our linked. Details from [email protected].” ’54 Head of the River Torpid had only one man who John Blacker (1948). Neville Mullany (1950) writes: had ever rowed before. Very much the same with the “John Blacker was probably the oarsman who had Head of the River VIII of ’56. This continued through the most impact on Balliol rowing in over a century. the Glorious Fifties – with this excellent continuity Exaggeration? Let us see. When John came up in 1948 of coaching. The impact, to which I referred, was he had already won the Ladies at Henley with Eton. immediate. Some, like Jim Hugessen and myself, were One day he was asked to sub in the Leander Grand quickly converted and started tubbing – the original crew – he rowed so well he was given the seat and duly Cadle Pair! The next term, Michaelmas 1952, Don put won the Grand. He got his blue in 1950, but was told together a novice VIII. We won the Novice Pennant not to do the Boat Race again on medical grounds. in the University Long Distance Race (rowed in those Oxford’s loss was Balliol’s gain. Balliol had not been days) by half a minute. The following term this became Head of the River since 1879 and John made up his the 2nd Torpid, which made six bumps in the six days mind to put that right. At London Rowing Club he of racing and never rowed more than 25 strokes. The asked the President, the legendary Jock Wise, multiple 1953 summer 2nd VIII will always maintain that they winner of the Wingfield Sculls, to be the head coach. were faster than the 1st VIII, which was second on He also recruited Tony Rowe, a fellow Etonian, past the river, having destroyed all in their way – shades of President of OUBC and a Trinity man! He got enormous the thirties!! The Balliol VIII duly won the University support from Hugh Stretton, a Fellow of Balliol, who Long Distance Race in 1953. The previous year’s 2nd also coached the 1951 VIII. But this was not enough. Torpid became the 1954 1st Torpid, which regained John wanted more very good coaches. In the 1930s the Headship lost in 1930. The 1959 Torpid won back Balliol had two eights in the First Division and John the Headship. Balliol boats were always at the top – in recruited Stephen Jones and Arthur Pyper from that Torpids and Eights. Success after success seemed to be period. These two, Jock Wise, and Jim Lindars, the the norm in the fifties, too many to mention! John – BCBC President, coached our Torpid to the Headship and Don – had done an incredible job. John’s interest in in 1954. The arrival at Balliol in 1950 of the other BCBC never wavered. I shall always be grateful for the legend, Don Cadle, was just what John needed. With massive support he gave me with the BCBC Training Don we had more superb coaching and continuity of Fund. We spoke frequently and met on the Saturdays coaching. Balliol started winning everything! More of of Eights. This summer he borrowed my blazer and tie Balliol College Record 109 and attended the celebratory dinner, before getting on James Higgins (1949) writes: “Previously unaware that his bike and cycling back to the station for the train to H.W. Fowler, author of Modern English Usage, was London. He would have roared with laughter at seeing a classical Scholar of the College, I was fascinated himself on the cover of the Balliol Record! John’s altogether to read this Balliol life, as reported by timing was always impeccable. He lived long enough Sir Ernest (‘Plain Words’) Gowers in his Preface to to see Balliol row Head of the River again. He died a the 1965 edition. Feasting at their table, one might couple of days before a BCBC Trustees meeting and a perhaps remark that where he and his brother said in Balliol Society dinner to give us a chance to honour his 1916, of treatment already meted out, ‘an incredibly memory. A legend. A great man. A lovely man. Thank ungenerous policy’, one might change the adverb you John.” (how about ‘remarkably’) or simply leave it out. But Professor Gerald Scott (1948) writes: “As inventor (in 1971) otherwise, a good read: strongly recommended.” of the process for oxo-biodegradable hydrocarbon Leonard Hunt (1949) writes: “Currently surviving my polymers at Aston University, I am a member of BSI’s eightieth year in good health.” committee on Packaging and the Environment and Richard Jameson (1949) writes: “I now have eight Co-chair of BSI’s Polymer Biodegradability Panel. grandchildren, the eldest at university, the youngest I also represent BSI on the corresponding ‘mirror barely two. I have recently joined the local branch of groups’ at the European Standards Organisation the University of the Third Age, and, at 78, am leading a (CEN). Polyethylene is now being manufactured from discussion group on American History. What I learned sugar in Brazil and in countries where carbohydrates in my special subject over fifty years ago, ‘Slavery are plentiful, this will be an increasing trend. BSI is and Secession, 1850–60’ is proving useful. I am still a developing a new standard for oxo-biodegradable (Conservative) town councillor.” polyolefins, which degrade by an oxidative mechanism Professor Charles Johnson (1949) writes: “I have moved as opposed to most bioplastics, such as starch, which from Illinois, where I have worked at Argonne National are hydro-biodegradable.” Laboratory and Northern Illinois University for the Ed Spencer (1948) writes: “Nothing changed – except for past twelve years since ‘retiring’: I am now teaching a three-week trip in Iran and the Persian Gulf.” and researching at the University in Tennessee. Not Michael Springman (1948) writes: “My second book, having sold my house near Chicago (thanks to the slow The Guards Brigade in the Crimea, was published last housing market!) I continue my work there.” November.” David Sayre (1949) writes: “The Ewald prize of the Peter Woodford (1948) writes: “Still publishing local International Union of Crystallography (see www. history books and articles, organizing monthly lectures iucr.org, look under people/ewald08) was awarded of the Camden History Society, sponsoring young to me on 23 August 2008, in Osaka, Japan, at the musicians of the highest calibre, who are achieving 21st triennial Congress of the Union. It was the 8th national acclaim (next year, international!), increasing bestowing of the prize. More details can be found at voluntary activity for the elderly in my local borough the above website. I came to Oxford and Balliol in and for the Royal Free Hospital (my local teaching 1949. I was given to Professor Dorothy Hodgkin as hospital).” her graduate student, and left Oxford in 1952 with a Professor Bill Everitt (1949) writes: “I gifted to the College DPhil. Twenty years later, in 1972–73, I returned for Library the complete works of Charles Langbridge another year in Oxford, this time as a Visiting Fellow Morgan (1894–1958), author, novelist, scholar, and at All Souls. But mostly my career took place in the man of letters.” US, from 1955–90 at the IBM Research Center in 110 Balliol College Record Yorktown Heights New York, and starting in 1980 our Golden Wedding and my 80th birthday next year. as an adjunct professor of physics at the Stony Brook Our three children (two boys and one girl) have given campus of the State University of New York. I still hold us five grandchildren and we expect a sixth in August. the latter position. From 1949 to 1975 I contributed Fortunately our children still have good jobs and we mainly to the study of what is called the phase problem are a tight-knit family. I am not really impressed by in crystallography, and then, from 1980 to the present, UK politicians but admire President Obama greatly. to showing that the crystallographic techniques can be However, I think we have no strategy for Afghanistan. extended to non-crystals such as entire biological cells. We need to develop one fast. I have always been against The prize was awarded to me for both, but mainly for our involvement in Iraq – which will continue to cost the latter work.” many American lives if it is to be held securely. Luckily Emeritus Professor Pete Steffens (1950) writes: “Great I am reasonably well and don’t think about old age!” Chinese definition: ‘Crisis brings opportunity...in a Kenneth Cavander (1952) writes: “Currently developing dangerous wind’. US definition: ‘A criminal is a person a film for BBC1 on the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, with predatory instincts, without sufficient capital to theologian and anti-Nazi resister, to be aired in 2010.” form a corporation’ (Clarence Darrow). ‘We’re all in Professor Ian Macdonald (1952) writes: “Re-elected to this together’ (Pete Steffens).” Board of Governers, Royal Commonwealth Society Michael Hell (1951) writes: “Still Hon Treasurer of St of Canada, July 2008; continuing as Chair of the Mary’s, Mosely. In spite of the Net, there is an ever- Advisory Board to the Centre for Studies in Leadership, increasing supply of interesting books to distract me.” University of Guelph; re-elected as Chairman of the Roger Marjoribanks (1951) writes: “In spite of all Board of Directors, McGraw-Hill, Ryerson, Inc., attempts to divest myself of responsibilities as I get Canada, 2009.” older, I seem to do more and more – mainly Masonic – John Poole (1952) writes: “At the end of the spring in both Surrey and London. However, we both remain semester this year, I shall retire from conducting, and cheerful and reasonably fit; the annual spring lunch for teaching conducting, at the Indiana University Jacobs a group of Balliol contemporaries in London is always School of Music, Bloomington, Indiana. Laura and I a most welcome date on the calendar.” have spent a most enjoyable and fulfilling eight years Colonel Andrew Remson Jr (1951) writes: “I am still there. We shall be living in France.” working full time, which at my age may be worthy of Ian Smart (1952). Professor John Simpson (Director of note.” the Mountbatten Centre for International Studies, James Taylor (1951) writes: “I continue: to write and University of Southampton) writes: “Ian Smart was speak about Canadian and international affairs; born in Caterham, Surrey in 1935. He graduated to participate in community affairs and discussion at the age of 20 with first class honours in Modern groups; to go fishing for trout and salmon; to enjoy my History. He started his national service with the grandchildren; to read (history is still a pleasure) and Army Intelligence Corps in 1956. On being recalled travel; to recall my time at Balliol with appreciation to London in 1961 Smart was successively the Private often.” Secretary to the Parliamentary Undersecretary of State, Hugh Barber (1952) writes: “We have moved to Market to the Minister of State, and finally the Head of the Harborough in Leicestershire, mainly for reasons of Foreign Office Parliamentary Office. In 1966, he was proximity to family in our declining years!” seconded for a year to the Institute for Strategic Studies David Burditt (1952) writes: “I spend time investing as a Research Associate. Smart’s final Foreign Office carefully and cautiously!! Margaret and I will celebrate posting was to the UK Embassy in Washington as First Balliol College Record 111 Secretary responsible for politico-military affairs. In and Gas Ltd (1982–88) and was first Secretary (1981), 1969 Smart accepted the post of Assistant Director then Vice Chairman (1985), and finally Chairman to the International Institute for Strategic Studies in (1986) of the British Institute of Energy Economics. London. In 1973 he moved over to the Royal Institute of He was a founding member of the Core Group of International Affairs (RIIA) as Director of Studies and the International Programme for Promoting Nuclear Deputy Director, before serving as its Acting Director Non-Proliferation at the Mountbatten Centre for from 1977–78. In early 1977 Smart wrote The Future International Studies, University of Southampton of the British Nuclear Deterrent, which figured large (1987–90). Smart produced four studies which had a in subsequent parliamentary debates. Smart sat on considerable impact on both the global nuclear industry the Executive Committee of the Contemporary China and nuclear non proliferation policies: ‘Multinational Institute of the University of London from 1973–78; Arrangements for the Nuclear Fuel Cycle’, paper on the FCO’s Advisory Panel on Disarmament (1973– published in 1980 by HMSO for the UK Department 78); and on the Energy Panel of the Social Science of Energy; World Nuclear Energy: Towards a Bargain Research Council (1976–81). He acted as a Consultant of Confidence (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982); to the Rockefeller Foundation of New York (1977–80) ‘Nuclear Fuel and Power: Capacity, Demand and on issues connected with the ongoing International Trade Prospects’ (1984); and ‘Nuclear Fuel and Power: Nuclear Fuel Evaluation; chaired the International A View Towards 2000’ (1986). Smart had an insatiable Consultative Group on Nuclear Energy (1977–80); curiosity about the world, and in his later years this led and was a Scholar in Residence at the Rockefeller him variously to train to be a silversmith; to work on Centre in Bellagio, Italy during 1978. This was also developing his large garden and its plants and produce; the period when Smart started his close involvement in and to search out interesting antiques and Persian the development of the Imperial War Museum (IWM). rugs. He had an outstanding analytical mind, and He served as a Trustee of the Museum (1977–2000); could always be relied upon to offer new insights into the IWM Trust (1984–2000); Deputy Chairman of difficult problems, whether in international relations, the Board of Trustees (1998–2000); and Director of energy issues, or horticulture. His impact on all aspects the IWM Trading Company (1999–2000). He played of nuclear energy policies in the UK and elsewhere was a central role in the creation of the IWM North in considerable. His legacy in terms of bricks and mortar Manchester, and was Vice President of the American can be seen in the way the Imperial War Museum Air Museum in Britain Trust (1986–94), which led developed and thrived during his period as a Trustee. to a new building being constructed for this purpose He was truly a man of many parts. He died on 30 at IWM Duxford. In 1978 Smart created his own August 2008, aged 73.” consultancy on international energy economics and Peter Bailey (1953) writes: “I am on the Executive politics (Ian Smart Limited). He took up a number Committee and the Council of the World Federalist of other advisory positions, including sitting on the Movement (Canada), and President of the Canadian Energy Advisory Committee of the Science Policy World Federalist Fund. I am also on the Board of Research Unit at the University of Sussex (1979–84); Democratic World Federalists, based in San Francisco. the Research Committee of the RIIA (1980–83); the A period of profound and widespread change lies Council of the Royal United Services Institute for ahead which will prepare the way for democratic Defence Studies (1984–87); and the International world federation in due course. This might be the Advisory Board for Oxford Analytica Ltd (1988– top tier of a political wedding cake, the second tier 2000). He also acted as Board Advisor to RTZ Oil consisting of democratic regional federations on all 112 Balliol College Record continents, of which several are at various stages of Geneva adds: “Ali became editor of the bulletin of the development to join those already in existence. It will World Health Organization, before being promoted be a long and difficult process, but democratic world to Head of Periodicals, the position from which he federation and the rule of law are vitally necessary for retired in July 1996. Anyone who knew Ali realized peace, development and coherent governance in the pretty quickly that they were dealing with someone emerging global civilization.” who was exceptional. He had very high personal and Derek Clements (1953) writes: “It gave me great pleasure professional standards and expected the same of those to present the Boat Club with another plaque last year around him. But he was also someone who had great to commemorate their historic place at the Head of compassion and was always ready to help colleagues the River in Summer Eights. My work in retrieving with whatever problem they had to cope with, in or out accounts of service life in the RAF during World War of the office. His wisdom and remarkable intelligence II is also progressing well but I still need more before enabled him to penetrate to the heart of whatever their authors finally pass to the great hangar in the sky the problem to hand might be and to come up with (email: [email protected]).” imaginative solutions. His guiding principle, which Charles Copeman (1953) writes: “One of the great he repeated to whoever was listening, was ‘help, never telegrams – 1 June 1957, when Balliol lost the Head hinder’. He saw the need for a spiritual dimension in of the River, and I was married in Montreal – ‘Bumped all aspects of his life and spent a great deal of his time at last’.” in its pursuit.” Mohamed Hussein (1953). Andrew Dakyns (1953) Robert Kernohan (1953) writes: “I had a short spell in writes: “Dr Ali Hussein passed away on Thursday 30 hospital but escaped in time to lecture in Germany to a November 2006. Ali came up to Balliol in October 1953 seminar of the Edinburgh-Munich Church Partnership as an Exhibitioner from the Royal Grammar School, (Presbyterian and Lutheran). I still write a bit, mainly High Wycombe, and continued to do well academically, in the Scottish Review and the Contemporary Review, despite his first love being music, not medicine. He had and do the occasional radio broadcast. On radio, one been directed toward medicine from an early age and can almost conceal old age (unlike television).” not allowed to touch the piano at home in Colombo, David Watson (1953) writes: “Published Georges as it was thought something suitable only for girls. Clemenceau: France, a volume in a series entitled However, he more than made up for that later, teaching ‘Makers of the Modern World: The peace conferences himself both piano and cello, and taking a year away of 1919–1923’, and chapters on ‘Clemenceau’s contacts from Oxford to study music in Vienna. He completed with England’ and ‘French resistance to Russian his medical training in Oxford. Throughout all the time armaments 1914–1917’, in collective volumes on I knew Ali he took just as much, perhaps more, interest Anglo-French Relations and Arms and Disarmament.” in philosophical questions than in physiological Irving Yass (1953) writes: “I retired from London First matters. As Editor of the WHO Chronicle (a post he at the end of 2008 and am now doing some freelance took up in 1973), he once addressed a letter to the consultancy work on transport issues in London.” periodical under a nom-de-plume, using my address The Rt Hon Lord Bingham (1954) writes: “First recipient in England, in order to take the organization to task of the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation for laying too much emphasis on bodily health and not Prize for Law.” enough on spiritual well-being. He was very much an Jeremy Eyre (1954) writes: “I have been elected President adherent of the adage: ‘Mens sana in corpore sano’.” of the RNR Officers’ Club (Liverpool) for the year Carole Modis of the World Health Organization in 2009–10.” Balliol College Record 113 Kurt Hellmann (1954) writes: “In conjunction with Society on Space, the Evolving Frontier, that was led the US government and US Secretary of Health, by Neil Armstrong, the first man on the Moon, with and Dr N. Greig, discovered a method of reducing fascinating tales on Mars, Tita, and other mysterious amyloid-b peptide levels (WO/2007/146178). This places. Jean and I attended NASA’s 50th birthday party, is of importance to the development of Alzheimer’s a massive event convened at the Virginia location of dementia.” the National Air and Space Museum, an enormous Ernest Lee (1954) writes: “After recovering from a heart structure housing histioric aircraft adjacent to the attack twenty years ago, I gave up smoking and, to fill Washington International Airport. The year 2009 is the resultant void in my social life, deepened my study the 200th anniversay of Darwin’s birth, and I have and appreciation of wines. This interest was fostered already attended many events, including a splendid day by eventual intronization into the Confrérie du at Oxford where there was a programme recalling the Sacavin d’Anjou and the Bannerets du Vieux Chenin et famous Huxley–Bishop Wilberforce of Oxford debate du Grolleau de Ridel (i.e. Azay-le-Rideau). I am Chef 150 years ago, including debate, music, exhibitions, des Expéditions for the British commanderie of the seminars, and dining at the University Museum and Angevin Sacavin, responsible for organizing biennial elsewhere. I was asked to write a letter to Dr Darwin tours of the French vineyards (and other artefacts of and read it on BBC Radio 4. The year 2009 is also cultural interest) Sancerre, Ancenis (for the muscadets, the International Year of Astronomy (400 years after which are greatly underrated outside the area of their Galileo’s publications), and I spoke at the inaugural production), Saumur, and the Côte d’Or in recent event at UNESCO in Paris. In 2007 we (my sons and years.” son-in-law and friends) completed the Cross Britain John Lewis (1954) writes: “I was awarded Order of walk. This year we walked about 50 miles on the Dales Canada December 2009 while my wife Noreen, who Way in Yorkshire. They are both a striking testament deserves it more, was overlooked.” to the beauty of the English countryside. Altogether a Michael McNay (1954) writes: “Published Hidden rich year.” Treasures of England (Random House, 2009); Thomas Braun (1955). Christopher Braun (his brother) Artists and their Studios (Angela Patchell Books, writes: “Thomas died in the early afternoon of 2008) with Eamonn McCabe – my text standing up Wednesday 24 September at the University Hospital, his photographs, launched at the National Portrait Walsgrave, Coventry. He suffered multiple organ Gallery at the opening of an exhibition of his pictures.” failure after 33 days on life support because of severe Leif Mills (1954) writes: “Elected President of Weybridge injuries sustained in a road accident on 22 August. Rowing Club, November 2008.” [Please note that Leif During the previous week he had a series of infections Mills, and not Richard Mills (1963), is author of the and, although twice he rallied unexpectedly, he became book Men of Ice. We apologize for this mistake in the ever weaker. In the end the consultants who had fought 2008 Annual Record.] so hard to save him concluded that he had no prospect Professor Baruch Blumberg (1955) writes: “I have started of recovery. He spent his last hours peacefully asleep working for NASA once again, associated with the and in no pain. Anne-Marie and I are grateful for the Astrobiology Institute, of which I was the director very many letters, cards, messages, and emails sent to ten years ago. I am also working with the newly Thomas and to us. Thomas clearly appreciated those he established NASA Lunar Science Institute that will saw or was told about before he had to go back under lead and fund scientific exploration of the Moon. We sedation. Our whole family has drawn strength from convened a meeting at the American Philosophical knowing that Thomas was held in so much affection.” 114 Balliol College Record Alexander Hopkinson-Woolley (1955) adds: “Tom a blank wall with outlines and capital cities so well and I started at Balliol in Michaelmas 1955. He was sited that it could have been the work of a professional a real scholar while I dressed as though I were. We did and gifted cartographer. His mental capacity to hold not know then how his separation from his family at vast detail in mind with amazing precision and bring the start of the war had left scars that never healed. His that to bear with astonishing rapidity on problems sensitive nature, which made him such a kind-hearted presented to him always impressed me hugely. In gentleman, also meant that any failure on his part later years he seemed as relaxed as did Mohammed could hardly be borne. So when one remembers that Ali with apparently lazy dangling arms as he waited he gained 11 alphas, 2 alpha-betas and one beta+++ in for his opponent to make a move. But, just like Ali, Classical Honour Moderations but was devastated by the moment any proposition provoked his mind the the marks, it was not the actual marks that seemed so resulting fireworks display dazzled: Tom entertained terrible but the remembered errors and omissions in his as wonderfully as he taught.” papers that seared his mind. Similar results in Greats Francis Crawford (1955) writes: “I moved to Rosarito were to be seen as even more devastating. I do not Beach, in Baja California, Mexico on 1 October 2008”. know whether his results were superior to those of Sir The Revd Dr Peter Davison (1955) writes: “I retired in Anthony Leggett who went on to take a first in Physics 2001, but was soon appointed Director of Education at Merton and more recently was awarded jointly for Ministry, Canada. EfM was founded in the USA a Nobel Prize for Physics; they may well have been: over thirty years ago, and now has branches in Canada, Russell Meiggs, who was my tutor as well as Tom’s the UK, Australia, New Zealand, the Bahamas, and in and Anthony’s, told me that of all his pupils Tom was Europe. Its purpose is to provide theologically educated the most able...another was described as the cleverest. lay leadership. There are over 75,000 graduates of this Tom had unparallelled academic ability, and the other four-year program worldwide. Between 2002 and 2006 astounding mental agility. I find this easy to believe. I had four major surgeries for colon and liver cancer, Tom’s ability to find the core of any proposition, dissect it and then evaluate it was terrifying…or would plus two rounds of chemotherapy. I am happy to say have been so in any hands less gentle. I still remember that the doctors now pronounce me ‘normal’ – perhaps saying that I had found Hignet’s constitutional history the only people to do so! Sabine and I now have four of Athens useful and Tom replying that it was just like grandchildren from our three sons and their spouses. I Lindsay Keir’s British constitutional history, so dull sing in two choirs and still write a sermon every week that it would never go out of date. His ability to see for use by lay ministers of word and sacrament and, it structural faults in academic work on an amazing appears, quite a few clergy (sermonoftheweek.co.cc). array of subjects aroused jealousy in some of his Needless to say, I would be happy to see any old Balliol colleagues. Recently he was shown, when staying in friends in this most beautiful part of the world.” France, a nineteenth-century photograph of a building The Hon John Sears (1955) writes: “It has been a time of in Rome. When he had returned a week or so later he repair – I have lost much of a portfolio and all of a gall had remembered the detail so well that he had been bladder in the past two months.” able to unearth elsewhere another picture that enabled His Honour Judge Edward Slinger (1955) writes: him to identify it as the former stock exchange. He “Appointed Member of the Parole Board 2009.” had demonstrated a similar command when we were Jeffrey Stanyer (1955) writes: “Became Devon Dumplings engaged in conversation and had absent-mindedly Cricket Club leading wicket taker of all time with 1078 drawn a map of the world (Mercatot projection) on wickets.” Balliol College Record 115 John Werner (1955) writes: “I am doing a course on Roli has taken the entire dozen ‘Continents of Exile’ dyslexia and would be interested to hear from alumni volumes for “a good six figure advance”. And that’s who are working in this area.” in dollars. Ved started the autobiographical series in William Wilkie (1955) writes: “Still lecturing in the 1972, with Daddyji. But after the publishing scene Department of Adult Education at Glasgow University. changed, the ex-New Yorker staffer found himself I shall be President of the Lanarkshire Philatelic Society, edged out of the market by younger voices.’ [From 2009–10.” Outlook, a New Delhi magazine (2009).] D. Litt. Professor Sir George Alberti (1956) writes: “Have just Panjab University, Chandigarh, 2009. Fellow of Royal given up working for the Department of Health after Society of Literature, 2009.” nearly seven years. I will be devoting more time to Jeremy Syers (1956) writes: “Some of the year I have spent diabetes as Chair of Diabetes UK as well as working compiling a dossier of my father’s career in the Civil part-time for NHS London and Imperial College – and Service, a large part overseas (Balliol 1921–25). This to hill walking in the Lake District.” for family use. I was amused to discover that he was David Benedictus (1956) writes: “On 5 October 2009 my a member of a College classical dining society called new book is being published in the UK (Egmont) and the ‘Hysteron Proteron’ – I think right anglicized the US (Dutton). It is a sequel to the two Winnie the spelling, but am not a classicist as was he – whose main Pooh books by A.A. Milne and is called Return to the activity was to serve dinner backwards, ending with Hundred Acre Wood.” sherry. Members were also set tasks beforehand to Thomas Field (1956) writes: “I continue to teach tax perform at each dinner. Once, apparently circa 1922, policy at the Georgetown University Law Center, everyone had to bring along something beginning with and international taxation at American University, the letter Q. A quoit, quaich, and other items were both located in Washington, DC. I am also active on duly produced on the night. The winner however was the boards of a variety of nonprofit organizations, a quiet man who came in holding a piece of string. including the Military Advisory Council of SLDN, When asked what that had to do with the letter Q, he an organization lobbying for repeal of the US ban on replied somewhat solemnly: ‘This piece of string has open military service by gay and lesbian personnel. As tied round it Queen’s College’. Breaking off from the we have done for many years, my wife and I continue dinner the members checked this was so, and it was. To to welcome Balliol Pathfinders to Washington each unanimous acclamation he was I understand declared summer.” the winner! Am not sure what the prize was; a bottle Malcolm Fluendy (1956) writes: “Now retired from of port? Does this society still exist? I don’t think it did pretty well any form of gainful employment, I manage in my day.” to retain some academic connection by continuing Professor Graeme Clarke (1957) writes: “On Australia membership of committees which offer substantially Day, 2009, I was appointed an Officer in the General more social opportunities than labour. Sailing on the Division of the Order of Australia within the Australian west coast of Scotland continues to help me blow the Honours System (‘AO’), the citation reading ‘For cobwebs away.” services to tertiary education as a leader and academic Professor Ved Mehta (1956) writes: “‘Just when Ved Mehta in the field of classical studies, and through executive had despaired of finding an international publisher and advisory roles with professional bodies’.” who would take on his 12-volume family saga, Osian’s Ken Gee (1957) writes: “When visiting my son in New has got him a deal that seems almost as good as Amitav Zealand I took part in some white-water rafting. Great Ghosh’s ‘Sea of Poppies’ series. In a preemptive bid, fun, as one of the trips involved a seven-metre waterfall. 116 Balliol College Record I record this to give encouragement to anyone with anecdotal than is usual in an exhibition. How many heart problems, as it is now over ten years since my people for example know that Henry Moore was bypass operation.” a Margaret Thatcher supporter and said so? As an Professor Derek Healey (1957) writes: “Our daughter Honorary Alderman and former Chairman of Leeds Sharon was admitted to the Supreme Court of Victoria Leisure Services and on various committees I still play as a Lawyer in August 2008.” a part in the cultural life of my city.” Emeritus Professor Kenneth Hilborn (1957) writes: “My Professor Aaron Sloman (1957) writes: “My 1962 DPhil booklet entitled ‘Nightmares and a Dream: A Story of Thesis, ‘Knowing and Understanding’, was, I believe, the Future Threats to Western Liberty, and How Liberty first Oxford DPhil to be digitized. I have copied it here, Might Win’ was published by Citizens for Foreign with additional information added: www.cs.bham. Aid Reform (as No. 44 in the C-FAR Canadian Issues ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/sloman-1962/. I am Series) late in 2008. Written in the form of an imagined still working on Kantian philosophy of mathematics in diary composed nearly a century from now, it deals the context of robotics and developmental psychology. with dangers already emerging in our own time.” For details see my ‘talks’ directory.” Julian Miller (1957) writes: “The Master visited the Geoffrey Cannon (1958) writes: “Our son Gabriel is Australian Presidents of the JCR recently (and others!). five years old this year. In 2007 I completed work So now I am making the 24-hour flight from Sydney to as chief editor of the WCRF/AICR report, ‘Food, attend the 50th anniversary of the 1959 Head of the Nutrition, Physical Activity and the Prevention of River Torpid. Not to be missed!” Cancer: a Global Perspective’. In 2009 I completed the The Revd Canon David Partridge (1957) writes: “Over same work for a companion report on public policy the last few years I have been helping with the Council implications. I continue to work in international food of Faiths project for Oxford. I am also in the process and nutrition policy and public health generally. I write of organizing a Middle East/Northern Ireland Peace a column which is published monthly in Public Health Project. The Peace Plaque project for Bonn Square, Oxford, looks as if the last hurdle is about to be jumped. Nutrition. My book on The New Nutrition Science Its wording: with 16 surrounding peace, shalom, will be published by Wiley-Blackwell in 2010.” salaam, shanti, outside a 790mm square: ‘To honour Richard Graham-Yooll (1958) writes: “Current total of those of any faith or conviction who in conscience grandchildren: six, with two in Essex, two in Oxford, reject warfare and violence and seek another path.’” and two in Michigan USA.” Jeffery Sherwin (1957) writes: “Since 1986 I have built Sir Richard Heygate Bt (1958) writes: “Setting up the up the largest collection of British Surrealist works London office of Oneida Associes, a McKinsey- in the country and that includes public institutions. originated consultancy that urges companies The surrealist works and other allied Modern British restructure under the ‘social contract’ legislation in art from my collection will be exhibited at Leeds Art force. Also published The Book of English Magic, John Gallery. The exhibition will be titled ‘British Surrealism Murrays, June 2008.” in Context – The Collector’s Eye’, and will run Professor John Hillman (1958) writes: “I was among from 10 July to 1 November 2009. It is anticipated the last cohort of academics in Ontario subjected to that approximately 200 works will be on show, the indignity of mandatory retirement. I return to accompanied by a 200-page illustrated catalogue. As Trent to teach an occasional course on Religion in there are many stories attached to meeting the artists Latin America, but otherwise I am clearing a large as well as acquiring the works, the labels will be more backlog of writing projects. My long-gestating book Balliol College Record 117 on the International Tin Cartel should be published by Martin Dodson (1959) writes: “Piano accompaniment. Routledge later this year.” Obtained Trinity College London diploma (LTCL) in J D F Jones (1958). Jules Cashford (his wife) writes: “JDF 1998 at age 66.” died on 4 March 2009 very peacefully in his chair, Mike Doyle (1959) writes: “I gave the eulogy at the funeral reading his paper, of a heart attack. He always valued of David Thomas (1959) in Brynmawr on 27 August his time at Balliol more than almost anything else he 2008. Howard Northam (1959) read the lesson. Roy did.” Dennett (1959) and Giles Orr (1959) also attended.” Paul Lewis (1958) writes: “Retired after lifetime in Professor Julian Gardner (1959) writes: “In April I shall journalism with the Financial Times and the New York deliver the Berenson Lectures at the Harvard University Times in various postings around the world. Still doing Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Villa i Tatti, some freelance writing, mostly travel. Recent trips to Florence, on ‘Giotto and his Patrons’.” Latin America, China, and Russia. Divide my time John Hole (1959) writes: “My street performers agency between bases in New York, London, and Paris.” Crowd Pullers (www.crowdpullers.co.uk) is now in its Professor Steven Lukes (1958) writes: “Published Moral twenty-first year and is thriving!” Relativism (Profile Books 2009). Doctor of Letters, Professor Robert Leaper (1959) writes: “Continued as honoris causa (LittD) awarded by University of East chairman of ‘Exeter Senior Voice’; trustee of Age Anglia 14 July 2009. Fellowship at Wissenschaftskolleg, Concern; patient representative on advisory group for Berlin 2009–10.” Royal Devon and Exteter Hospital.” Alastair Mack (1958) writes: “Since the publication of The Revd Dafydd Miles Board (1959) writes: “My absence Symbols and Pictures in 2008 (my book on Pictish from these pages this last decade and more was due to symbol stones), the discovery of part of a symbolled disabling illness following directly from a grave health slab – perhaps once a cross slab – has upset my accident I suffered while at Balliol in 1962: a smallpox carelessly loaded applecart: I have had to rewrite part vaccination which nearly became the real thing. Thirty of Symbols and Pictures. As a result I’d much prefer years later the incident turned out to have caused the a second edition rather than a reprint – but without slow collapse of the pituitary gland. Total disablement much hope of either.” followed for a time. Thus my work in Welsh TV came to David Robson (1958) writes: “After a decade as a part- an abrupt end in the mid nineties. So did my exciting pro time property developer I am resolved to become fully bono consultancy in pioneering video and conference retired whilst continuing to dwell mainly in France and media for churches, charities, and the community. Spain.” Eventually community development chairmanships Barry Winkleman (1958) writes: “I have written a play etc. had to go too. Sophistication in hormone therapy – about Samuel Johnson which I am just finishing and particularly latterly with the so-called growth hormone I am translating a book by Balzac for an Asian-based – has now at last helped alleviate a lifetime’s agony, and French publisher.” so has support from my devoted wife, seven children Malcolm Brahams (1959) writes: “The solicitors’ firm, and their partners, and now nine grandchildren. David Wineman, in which I was partner merged with Rich third-generation future Balliol material there! another firm to become DWFM Beckman in July 2008. But creativity continues. Attentive fatherhood (being A month later my seventh grandchild (in less than three much the most important thing I’ve ever done) plus years) was born. These two factors have persuaded me hormonal revelations from the disability and thus loss to aim by the end of 2008 to become a consultant with of testosterone till it was artificially replaced, have the firm and cease full-time practice!” led me on to writing a coming book (nay, primer) on 118 Balliol College Record the meanings of masculinity, Man Enough. I’m also Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, where I was doing new further work on my 1992 multimedia video invited to initiate genetic analysis of a yeast that is the drama-poem cycle and commentaries on St John of main contributor to end stage fermentation of sugar the Cross, ‘The Evening Question’. This time there cane to ethanol. Three weeks after returning to Canberra are second thoughts on human love and its cosmic we flew in the opposite direction to Madagascar. After significance – precisely because Fray Juan never got to an intense three weeks of interactions with wildlife, be father nor grandfather, nor had to cope with modern local guides, and people, we were lemured, birded, and cosmology. Similarly, preoccupation with the values Baobab-treed out, exactly as we hoped to be.” of the Celtic past, sometimes the very remote past, Professor Mark Franklin (1961) writes: “My first are motivating me still to try founding a Welsh Folk three years at the European University Institute in Theatre to re-enact (that is dance, sing...and voice with Florence, Italy, have flashed by. In my first year my fresh meanings) our legends, myths, and lost customs. co-authored The Economy and the Vote was published Did some ambitious productions exploring that. Now by Cambridge University Press. This year Palgrave- also finishing an autobiographical poem cycle, digital Macmillan will publish my co-authored Elections and images and a prose-memoir called ‘Triscel’ too: first Voters.” part of a trilogy on my own self, the media, public Richard Morris (1961) writes: “Quietly retired, doing affairs, and the Church in – to say the least – challenging occasional consultancy work for Open University times. Not all the challenges emanated from the secular and self-contracting to my daughter’s environmental world either, but from some curious developments in consultancy business.” Vatican leadership. But why, at a mere seventy years Nicholas Tate (1961) writes: “I have now been Director- in, does everything take so much more damned time General of The International School of Geneva for to complete?” six years. The school continues to grow and has over Timothy Ades (1960) writes: “My new book of translated 4000 students of 141 nationalities speaking 92 mother poems of Jean Cassou, La Folie d’Amadis, was well tongues. I am also on the governing boards of both received.” the International Baccalureate and the International Michael Lidwell (1960) writes: “MSc, Applied Optics, Schools Association.” London 1969, and DIC Imperial College.” Hindal Tyabji (1961) writes: “Was appointed as an The Rt Hon Sir Alan Beith MP (1961) writes: “Knighted Advisor to the Governer of Jammu and Kashmir State in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List, 2008. Published during the period when there was direct rule under the A View from the North (Northumbria University Governer’s authority (i.e. when there was no elected Press, 2008). Announced that I am definitely standing Government). Served as Advisor 12 August 2008 to 4 again as MP for Berwick in the next general election.” January 2009.” James Bell (1961) writes: “Elected a Fellow of the Noel Younger (1961) writes: “Now too old (!) to continue Rothermere American Institute.” with the Open University, but my consultancy work Professor Des Clark-Walker (1961) writes: “For us 2008 continues and I still set exams for the British Computer passed in a flash of post-retirement activity. Along Society.” with three other Oxford friends since 1964, and our Professor John Beckman (1962) writes: “In May 2008 wives, we shared a villa on the Amalfi Coast in mid I received, on behalf of the NGO ‘Tecnologias en April followed by a week walking the coastal path Desarrollo’, the ‘Energy Globe Award’ for Bolivia from Penzance to Mevagissy. Together with my wife in the European Parliament. In April 2007 I was Jan, July and August was spent in Recife, Brazil at the honoured with a conference dedicated to my forty Balliol College Record 119 years as an astrophysicist, entitled ‘Pathways through speaker at the A and B, especially impromptu. If an Eclectic Universe’, attended by 150 delegates from anybody has anything I’d be glad to have it and just 30 countries.” hope I can begin to do permanent justice in both cases Eric Bodger (1962) writes: “Re-elected to University of to such ephemeral effervescence. I’m also trying to Winchester Senate. Re-elected Secretary of Wessex revive my crime character, Simon Bognor, but despite branch of the Magistrates’ Association.” giving him an unexpected knighthood and a complete Guy Brown (1962) writes: “Now retired and moving to new manuscript I’m not having as much success as I a little village in the country, about 80km north of would hope.” Wellington.” Associate Professor John Liesegang (1962) writes: “I Stephen Coombs (1962) writes: “I have relinquished my retired in August 2005 from Physics at La Trobe post as deputy head of Katarinaskolan, the school I University, Melbourne. I am continuing my research founded together with a colleague in Uppsala fourteen activity in materials and surface science, especially in years ago. I am however still teaching part-time. To brown coal beneficiation and catalytic gasification.” mention a quite different matter, it was gratifying to Professor Sir Andrew Likierman (1962) writes: “Appointed have my proposal for a Dorset flag, the St Wite’s Cross, Dean, London Business School. Appointed Chairman, chosen by 54 per cent of those who cast valid votes National Audit Office.” last year in a competition run under the auspices of the John Lloyd (1962) writes: “Still a non-executive on two county council. Anyone who has seen the flag may well boards, one an investment trust, the other a family- have been struck by its bright colours – a white cross owned agricultural machinery business.” edged in red on a golden field.” Humphrey Morison (1962) writes: “Retired in 2009 from Professor Wieland Gevers (1962) writes: “Order of litigation accounting and representing the defence Mapungubwe in Silver, Republic of South Africa, industry on accounting issues relating to the pricing conferred October 2008. ‘South Africa Medal’ of the of government contracts bringing to an end 43 years Southern African Association for the Advancement of in PricewaterhouseCoopers or its predecessor firms.” Science, awarded November 2008.” Mike Morris (1962) writes: “I am no longer in paid Tim Heald (1962) writes: “On the news front I suppose employment but am busy enough as an HR consultant.” the slightly lugubrious fact is that I seem to be fast Professor the Hon Robin Wilson (1962) writes: “Published becoming more and more of an obituarist and editor Lewis Carroll in Numberland, which has been widely of dead men’s work. I am still editing Richard Cobb’s reviewed, including a rave review in the New York letters for John Nicoll and think I am slowly getting Review of Books.” there. I had an unexpected but welcome tranche from Professor Paul Davies (1963) writes: “Appointed Allen & Professor Dai Morris recently and am about to visit Overy Professor of Corporate Law and Fellow of Jesus Oxford for sessions in Bodley and the libraries at Merton College, Oxford as from October 2009.” and Balliol, all of which contain Cobb correspondence. Richard Fletcher (1963) writes: “Planning to retire from At the same time I hope to be looking at the Arnold EADS (and the world of paid employment) in October and Brackenbury minute books in the College Library 2009. No shortage of projects to pursue, including searching for evidence of Tom Braun, whose lighter managing our forestry properties in SW Scotland, work I am editing with his brother Christopher. Tom spending much more time with our four grandchildren, was brilliant, erudite, and astonishingly witty, funny, and improving my golf handicap.” and inventive. He wrote wonderful verse for, among Michael Heafford (1963) writes: “After retiring from others, the Oxford Magazine, and was an extraordinary my post of Lecturer at the University of Cambridge 120 Balliol College Record Department of Education, I have concentrated on my His Honour Judge Donald Hamilton (1964) writes: research into British travellers on the Continent in the “In July 2008, after twelve years, I relinquished my early nineteenth century. One offshoot of this research post as Designated Family Judge in Birmingham and has been the publication of a manuscript journal under embarked on a career break. I returned to the bench the title Two Victorian Ladies on the Continent 1844- in Birmingham on 1 April 2009 but since 1 June I have 45: An Anonymous Manuscript (Postillion Books been in Reading.” 2008). The quest to uncover the identities of the two David Long (1964) writes: “I have enjoyed being ladies proved as fascinating as the journal itself. I am Chairman of the Friends of the Imperial War Museum currently working on another manuscript journal – five branches, in Lambeth, Whitehall, HMS Belfast, which describes the life of members of the British Duxford, and Manchester – and helping to raise funds community in Naples between 1829 and 1832.” and increase membership. This has involved learning Professor Brian Legg (1963) writes: “Spent six weeks in a lot of twentieth-century history – the (then) Oxford 2008 in Rwanda supporting the charity Send a Cow. course did not enable me to reach into the twentieth Rwanda is remarkably peaceful at the moment, and is century.” developing quickly with international aid.” Professor Tom Rowe (1964) writes: “I retired at the end of Paul Williams (1963) writes: “I retired from my job as 2007 after 32 ½ years teaching at Duke Law School. Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Reading My wife Susan French, who teaches law at UCLA, and I have settled in her house in Marina del Rey, California, in 2007. I am enjoying greater contact with our grand- and bought a 43ft sailboat with proceeds from the sale daughter, Daisy, some writing, more housework and of my North Carolina house. Despite the temptations cinema-going, and use of my bus pass, as well as some of sailing I’m continuing to write and hope to do some trips abroad (Thailand, Spain, Greece, and Bangladesh part-time teaching.” this year). I have had a book published, co-authored David Willington (1964) writes: “Having retired from with a colleague: V. Nzira and P. Williams, Anti- Glenalmond in 2006, I have been engaged in writing Oppressive Practice in Health and Social Care, Sage the modern history of the College since 1948, Alumni Publications, 2009.” Montium. It was published last November. In tracing Dave Wiltshire (1963) writes: “Jackie and I have plunged the fortunes of the school, I have put them in the context into the world of e-business. Welcome to the twenty- of changes in society as a whole, in particular, attitudes first century.” to independent education. Dare I say it myself, it is an Colonel Michael Craster (1964) writes: “Retirement eh? attractive volume, with over two hundred illustrations. Have been busier than ever with running a Tattoo I have just returned (mid-March) from a trip to New in Durham to mark the 100th anniversary of the Zealand and stayed with an old school and Balliol Territorial Army in 2008, and bringing the house chum, TJE Sinclair (1964–67). Poor chap, he is still back into single possession. We are now a holiday working, as a construction engineer, and recently accommodation business – so if anyone wants to stay was responsible for the motorway tunnels just north in the most beautiful part of the most beautiful county, of Auckland. His email address is tsinclair@tonkin. do please get in touch!” co.nz.” Sandy Gray (1964) writes: “A second ginger-headed grand- Stephen Beever (1965) writes: “Since taking early daughter was delivered in Abu Dhabi in February. retirement from teaching in an 11–18 comprehensive Visited west Greenland in summer 2009 to see global- school, have taught Maths in a sixth-form college in warming effects first-hand.” Huddersfield on supply, and now teach in an 11–16 Balliol College Record 121 comprehensive in Saddleworth. Remarried in 2003, I Peter Smith (1965) writes: “Current British and European now have two stepdaughters (12 and 15).” Masters Track Cycling Champion – just like Chris Hoy Sir Michael Burton (1965) writes: “Two more of my but twice as old and half as fast!” daughters are planning to be married this year: Isobel Professor Charles Baden-Fuller (1966) writes: “Whilst (St Hilda’s) and Genevieve (Balliol 2001). An expensive others enjoy retirement I continue to travel the world year!” researching biotech and hedge-fund companies, and David Cleland (1965) writes: “Now that I’ve turned 65, teaching would-be entrepreneurs.” the Open University has made me redundant after Stephen Cooper (1966) writes: “I have agreed to write a being tutor with them since 1970. As St Andrews has biography of Sir John Fastolf, to be published in 2010.” also now shed me I can start enjoying retirement more Nigel Freeman-Powell (1966) writes: “Attended Gaudy in fully, though I still set Greek and Latin national exams March and enjoyed it enormously. Sad so many unable in Scotland. Still very busy with kirk, Fairtrade, and of to make it. Heartily recommend it to all who’ve never course grandchildren.” bothered – we’ll all be 70 next time around! Our third Hubert Murray (1965) writes: “Having conducted a offspring married in September – now only the baby symposium at MIT on cities and climate change last left – and he’s starting at Jesus (Oxford) in October year, I am now directing a sustainability program 2009. No grandchildren yet.” for Partners HealthCare Inc., a consortium of Captain Bill Griffin (1966) writes: “After 36 years in South hospitals concentrated in eastern Massachusetts. This Devon, we have just moved to Alton in Hampshire to professional focus is influenced by the observation be closer to other family members.” that the east coast of the United States (not to mention Richard Heller (1966) writes: “Published children’s book other equally vulnerable seaboards) has much to lose Membear of Parliament, about the first teddy bear to with the projected rise in sea level and the increasing become an MP. Actors, agent, and wonder dog needed frequency of ‘extreme weather events’ (prose to make for screenplay Your Very Own Ricky Rubato, available Conrad cringe). My wife and I had a delightful visit for development as ‘feelgood’ romantic comedy from from Ben White (1965) and his wife last summer. www.richardheller.co.uk.” Forty years on we found we still agreed on most issues, Professor José Hierro (1966) writes: “Due to my age I neither of us jaded reactionaries. So heartening.” retire in September 2009. My appointment as Professor Malcolm Naylor (1965) writes: “I moved into sheltered Emeritus is expected. I must say that any success that I accommodation in January 2009, with a splendid may have had in Philosophy both as a writer and as a view and location. I have had no trouble with my teacher is largely due to the tutors I had at Balliol: Alan schizophrenia since 1998, all down to medication, Montefiore, Richard Hare, and Anthony Kenny.” earlier including zuclopenthixol. Every few weeks I Nicolas Jacobs (1966) writes: “I am kept busy refurbishing play in musical days at friends’ homes in the Sheffield what was once, and I hope may be again, a fine town and Worksop districts, usually on the tenor recorder. house in Bangor. So, for the time being, books have There have been 51 such days, since 2003.” given way to paint brushes and screwdrivers, but I Richard Raeburn (1965) writes: “Retired as Chief hope this is only a temporary aberration.” Executive of the Association of Corporate Treasurers John Wood (1966) writes: “Elected Pro (Deputy) at the end of 2008 – timing could have been better. Chancellor, University of Canterbury, in 2008.” Now active on the boards of two social housing François Dolbeau (1967) writes: “Emeritus Professor organizations and as a trustee of a local hospice.” since 1 September 2008.” 122 Balliol College Record David Gowan (1967) writes: “I have done project work Professor Sir Drummond Bone (1968) writes: “Moved for the United Nations Development Programme in into my ‘portfolio’ career phase having retired as Montenegro and helped run various training courses Vice-Chancellor of the University of Liverpool – for young diplomats. I am also a member of the Chairman of Laureate Inc’s International Advisory Diocesan Synod and Bishop’s Council of the Church of Board, Chairman of the Observatory on Borderless England Diocese in Europe.” Education, President, British and Irish Association of Ian Ibbotson (1967) writes: “Retired from work to the Zoos and Aquaria (yes, really!).” South coast village Burton Bradstock which my wife Edward Eadie (1968) writes: “I was awarded a Doctor Mary grew up in.” of Juridical Science (SJD) in law by the Australian Philip Kenrick (1967) writes: “Since 2005 I seem National University, and I have published a book accidentally to have acquired a new and enjoyable entitled Animal Suffering and the Law – National, calling, as a cultural tour guide. I lead archaeological Regional, and International.” tours mainly (but not exclusively) for the Association Alan Hopkinson (1968) writes: “Awarded £600,000 by for Cultural Exchange (ACE Study Tours) and the European Union to modernize library education in currently take groups to Libya, Algeria, Sicily, and Armenia, Georgia, and Uzbekistan.” Albania. (The Sicily tour this year was in the OU Peter Hutchinson (1968) writes: “Exactly forty years Society Travel Programme.) Partly as a result of this, after rowing in the winning Balliol crew in the Christ I have also written a new archaeological guide to Church Regatta, I enjoyed watching my elder daughter Tripolitania (western coastal Libya), published by the taking part with some success for St Cross, where she Society for Libyan Studies; I hope to follow it shortly is completing a DPhil.” with a volume on Cyrenaica. I am now Hon. Treasurer Professor John Ramsey (1968) writes: “Grand-daughter, of the Society for Libyan Studies and I am President of Julia Alice Ramsey, born to our son David and his wife the RCRF, an international society devoted to the study Kate, on 18 March 2009.” of Roman pottery. I am still active in the field, through Professor Nigel Thomas (1968) writes: “Main highlights involvement with a small excavation in Puglia, Italy, – Children, Politics and Communication published by but domestic interests in a first grandchild are also Policy Press; walked across Morecambe Bay and raised strong!” £700 for Medical Aid for Palestinians.” Robin Nonhebel (1967) writes: “I retired from teaching in Antony Wynn (1968) writes: “Published Three Camels to July 2009, though I shall have to return to St Benedict’s Smyrna – Times of War & Peace in Turkey, Persia, India next year just to finish off my upper sixth. Sad to & Afghanistan 1907–1987. This is the history of the say, I am not being replaced as Head of History by a Oriental Carpet Manufacturers Co. It takes the reader medievalist. Soon no pupils will know anything but through wars, revolutions, and economic crises as seen modern history!” by those in the carpet trade, from the weavers in their Bruce Amos (1968) writes: “Appointed Vice-President of villages through to the financiers in Paris and London the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and Chair behind them. Available through www.hali.com.” of the Management Board of the Society’s company, Peter Yearwood (1968) writes: “I am still a Senior Lecturer Canadian Geographic Enterprises, which publishes in History at the University of Papua New Guinea. I am Canadian Geographic magazine. Since retirement my Joint Editor of the South Pacific Journal of Philosophy main interest is my photography business – see my and Culture, and my first book was published by OUP website www.bruceamos.com.” in January 2009. I am also a senior member of the Balliol College Record 123 African community in PNG. I like to call this ‘rooted Visiting Fellow in Exeter College during Research & cosmopolitanism’.” Study Leave for Hilary and Trinity Terms 2009. I will Professor Lawrence Keppie (1969) writes: “In October be writing up a book on colonial legal history whilst in 2008 I travelled to the town of Ligonier, Pennsylvania residence back in Oxford.” for the 250th anniversary of the French and Indian Robin Aaronson (1970) writes: “I am now living in Devon, Wars, during which my ancestor Brigadier General John growing vegetables and trying to go carbon-negative. Forbes (hence my middle names) led a composite force I was appointed a Member of the Competition of British and Colonial troops across the mountains Commission in April 2009.” to reach the Ohio river, capturing a French fort which David Jones (1970) writes: “Awarded the 2009 medal of in November 1758 he renamed Pittsburgh (note the the Canadian Council of Administrative Tribunals for Scottish spelling of ‘burgh’). The celebrations were outstanding contributions to Canadian Administrative launched by a grand parade, in which, as representative Law (with Anne de Villars). Published the 5th edition of the Forbes family, I processed in an open carriage, of Principles of Administrative Law (Carswell) (with preceded by the United States Marine Corps Band. Anne de Villars). Have a son at Cambridge! Will have a More than 100,000 people visited the town during the daughter at Kent reading Law (Fall 2009).” weekend.” Malcolm Livingstone (1970) writes: “I retired from Sir Julian Priestley (1969) writes: “My book, Six Battles being a deputy headteacher last August, and am now that Shaped Europe’s Parliament, was published by co-ordinating work in six comprehensives in the John Harper Publishing in June 2008. In March 2009, Keighley area aimed at encouraging magic behaviour I was appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors of and attendance, and finding alternatives for kids who EPPA (European Public Policy Advisers) – a Brussels- can’t cope with mainstream schooling.” based political consultancy.” Professor John Williamson (1970) writes: “I shall retire Fred West (1969) writes: “Debbie and I became from the University of Liverpool in October 2009 with grandparents in 2007 when daughter Kate, ably assisted an enormous sigh of relief.” by husband Tim, gave birth to Thisbe at their home Professor Robin Wood (1970) writes: “2008 Special in Bristol on the due date of 16 July. This was rather Medicine Service Award by the South African Medical convenient as we, too, were in Bristol that day attending Association for Academic Input to HIV/AIDS Care in second son George’s graduation in Mathematics from South Africa. 2008 elected to governing council of the Bristol University, our having recently returned from International AIDS Society.” second daughter Amy’s graduation in Latin & Arabic Andrew Craig (1971) writes: “After 34 years in a wide from St Andrews. I remain immersed in beer in deepest variety of roles, I retired from IBM last October. I am Wadworthshire where Debbie’s garden design business currently enjoying spending more time with my family blossoms...and offers special rates to all from Balliol. and also at my sailing club, running events, coaching It was a great pleasure to supply some casks of draught the youth squad, and sailing dinghies. Plans for the 6X to a new and appreciative generation, firstly at future include helping a variety of organizations with the wedding of Phil & Alex Lemanski’s son Max to their accounting.” Helena on 26 April and then to the Balliol Ball on 3 Professor Peter Gilbert (1971) writes: “Appointed May. Floreamus!” Visiting Professor in Social Work with the University Professor David Williams (1969) writes: “I have just of Worcester. Organized a third national Multi Faith completed three years as Deputy Dean of Law at the Conference in January 2009: ‘The Flourishing City: University of Auckland. I am now ‘over the Broad’ as The Role of Spirituality in Regeneration’.” 124 Balliol College Record Andrew McKinnon (1971) writes: “I continue to work Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln (W.W. Norton); on advanced professional arts training. Currently published The Age of Reagan: A History: 1974–2008 Senior Lecturer (English and Humanities) at Birkbeck (HarperCollins) in 2008.” College, University of London, where I lead the new His Excellency Beni Prasad Agarwal (1973) writes: MA in Creative Producing and teach on the MFA in “Am trying hard to promote the idea of a pan-Asian Theatre Directing.” organization on the pattern of the Eurpean Union, in Frederic Mishkin (1971) writes: “As of 1 September 2008, order to usher an era of peace and prosperity in Asia.” I will leave the Board of Governors of the Federal Professor Kim Beazley (1973) writes: “Appointed Reserve System and return to Columbia University.” Chancellor, Australian National University 2009– Mark Orkin (1971) writes: “The newly renamed Palama, 2012. Appointed member of Defence Advisory Board, the Public Administration Leadership and Management Government of South Australia. Awarded Public Academy (‘Palama’ means ‘get aboard’ in Sesotha) Service Award, Woodrow Wilson Centre. Awarded is South Africa’s national school of government. I Companion in Australian Honours Awards.” am completing a three-year contract as its Director- Professor Martin McLaughlin (1973) writes: “I co-edited General, aimed at modernizing the institution and Sinergie narrative. Cinema e lettteratura nell’Italia greatly extending its reach.” contemporanea (Florence: Cesati, 2008). The Italian John Gregson (1972) writes: “Qualified ACCA 2008.” government made me Commendatore dell’Ordine Sanjeev Gupta (1972) writes: “Appointed Deputy Director, della Stella della Solidarieta Italiana.” Fiscal Affairs Department, International Monetary Professor Peter Pierce (1973) writes: “Appointed Honorary Fund, Washington DC.” Research Fellow and Professor in the National Centre His Excellency Bobby McDonagh (1972) writes: “I have for Australian Studies, Monash University.” just been posted as the Irish Ambassador to London, Mike Witty (1973) writes: “Since taking early retirement close to many old friends and within striking distance from Pfizer Animal Health, I have directed my energies of Balliol!” towards supporting several not-for-profit organizations Robert Mellors (1972) writes: “Enjoying the pleasures involved in increasing the availability of vaccines of property development in a plunging market. and medicines for both animals and humans in less- Otherwise continuing to offer whatever wisdom I have developed countries. In addition to being Chairman of accumulated to the largely unchanging challenges of GALVmed (Global Alliance for Livestock Veterinary development in Africa.” Medicines, www.galvmed.org/), I am a member of Professor Stefanos Pesmazoglou (1972) writes: “Since the Expert Scientific Advisory Committees for MMV 2006 up to 2008, Head of the Department of Political (Medicines for Malaria Venture, www.mmv.org/) and Science and History. Visiting Fellow at the European WHO-TDR (World Health Organization Tropical University Institute, Florence (2008) and Birkbeck Disease Research), and support both the Wellcome College London (2009).” Trust and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.” Revd Canon Daniel Weir (1972) writes: “My wife and Professor David Kennedy (1974) writes: “A significant I are looking forward to being grandparents. Our research grant has allowed a major development of my daughter Meghan and her husband Daryl Achilles met aerial archaeology in Jordan project for 2008, 2009... at Oxford while she was at Green College and he was and beyond.” at Worcester.” Sinclair Stockman (1974) writes: “In 2008 my soulmate Professor Robert Wilentz (1972) writes: “Received Suzanne died from a rare form of cancer. Have left Bancroft Prize in 2006 for The Rise of American BT and started a small advisory company, ACTIVE Balliol College Record 125 MINDS, working mainly with small innovative birth in January 2009. I ceased working as a solicitor companies and NGOs to accelerate realization of in 2002 and as chairman of Jersey Trust Company in benefits of web services global platform. Currently February 2008 to focus on a new career direction as working on global health, education, and digital an independent non-executive director, predominantly content.” (aided by my residence in Jersey) in the offshore Giles Vardey (1974) writes: “After four eventful years, I investment funds sector.” have decided to step down as Chairman of the Boat Paul Legg (1975) writes: “I took voluntary redundancy Race Company Ltd, the organizers of the university from the BBC in March 2009, after 29 years of service. boat race. The boat race remains extraordinarily Now working as freelance writer (regular contributor popular, with over 7 million UK television viewers, to obituaries in The Times), and as a media consultant.” showing the best of Oxbridge. Otherwise, I continue Christopher Turner (1975) writes: “Still making a modest to make a living in financial services despite ongoing living supplying consultancy services to the polymer ‘cataclysms’.” industry. More importantly trying to get my six-year- Andrew Whittaker (1974) writes: “Joined the Legal old son Charlie interested in cricket.” Services Board, the new independent oversight The Very Reverend Kevin Alban (1976) writes: “I continue regulator for lawyers, as a non-executive member. to monitor the Order’s finances around the world and Otherwise continuing to be very engaged in the credit to fund mission projects on its behalf in Asia, Africa, crunch and its consequences.” and Latin America.” Carl Worker (1974) writes: “Appointed New Zealand James Ogilvie (1976) writes: “My Everest ascent raised Ambassador to China from late April 2009.” over £15,000 for the charity Tree Aid. Having Michael Bartlet (1975) writes: “Edited ‘Nonsense on summited Mt Elbrus in 2008 I now have two more of Stilts?, A Quaker View of Human Rights’, William the ‘seven summits’ left to tackle.” Sessions Ltd, 2008. Eric Lane Visiting Fellow, Clare Charles Tannock (1976) writes: “Stood as Head of the College, Cambridge, Easter Term 2009.” Chris Bower (1975) writes: “After three-and-a-half years Conservative List for The London Region European on Stokesley Parish Council I resigned in July 2008. Election 4 June 2009.” My daughter and I have recently taken an interest in Professor Andrew Black (1977) writes: “Daughter Jessica archery. Retired from Lucite International in June married Jared Kennedy, 12 July 2009.” 2007 and am thoroughly enjoying life!” Michael Brown (1977) writes: “I took the long-awaited The Revd Michael Cullinan (1975) writes: “Appointed to plunge into self-employment at last. Interesting a one-year position as Course Leader of the B.A. Div. timing; gave my notice two weeks before Lehmans programme at Maryvale Institute, Birmingham with collapsed. The current climate encourages creativity responsibility for running a distance-learning degree and collaboration, which I am enjoying very much. in Catholic theology for lay people.” I am planning to buy a grand piano and relearn my David Fishel (1975) writes: “Published second edition technique now that I can control my time more. I was of The Book of the Board, a handbook for board refused entry into the US last week, for a business members of not-for-profit organizations.” meeting – first green shoots of protectionism? So won’t Antony Gardner-Hillman (1975) writes: “Married the be heading back there for a while, which I see as largely love of my life, Kristin, in July 2007 and became the a positive thing. I plan to run a music-based leadership proud step-father to five children. Our beautiful, event in schools as my main business focus: see details perfect, precious daughter Isabella died just before her on musikscool.co.uk.” 126 Balliol College Record David Christie (1977) writes: “The big news this year was Rod Bunten (1978) writes: “I have left the Foreign Office rennovating two flats in our house in Zurich and then after 25 years, and have started a graduate diploma in moving into them! We will miss the countryside, but education at Canberra University, with the intention the two boys are already realizing the benefits of town of becoming a physics teacher in Canberra. All of my life. Sean passed a double bass audition and made it fellow trainee teachers seem horrendously young – into the special ‘Kunst und Sport’ school in Zurich.” heaven knows what the students will be like!” Professor Nick Couldry (1977) writes: “I was Visiting Barney Wainwright (1978) writes: “Living in Salisbury Scholar at the Annenberg School of Pennsylvania, and flying from Southampton for Flybe. Also involved during autumn term 2008.” in teaching Crew Resource Management and recently Alfred Gossner (1977) writes: “Was appointed to the became editor of their flight safety journal, BeSafe.” advisory councils of Deutsche Bank and of HDJ – Michael Wilcockson (1978) writes: “I have had a busy year Gerling (Life Insurance Group).” writing and publishing three books for the education Mark Hopwood (1977) writes: “Academia has called market: Religious Studies ISEB Revision Guide (Galore the rest of the family with Naomi at Univ, Sarah at Park); Medical Ethics (Hodder Education); and Issues the other place (Selwyn), and Lise now teaching at of Life and Death (second edition, Hodder Education). Manchester University. I am busy with risk and safety Our youngest daughter is half way through her time at projects around the world, which most the time means St Catherine’s reading Human Sciences – hardly seems Teeside and Kent.” a moment ago I was at her stage at Balliol.” George Levy (1977) writes: “I’m developing credit risk The Hon Nancy-Ann DeParle (1979) writes: “I left software for banks and financial institutions.” CCMP Capital in March 2009 to join the Obama Bijoy Mathur (1977) writes: “One stops worrying about Administration as Counseler to the President and how the universe began as one realizes that it may never Director of the White House Office of Health Reform.” end...only matter and energy transforming. Hope you Drummond Miles (1979) writes: “I am now older than like my nirvana! My lovely school students have made the President of the United States without having each day refreshingly endless and December 2008 saw achieved anything worth mentioning in these pages. their work on ‘solid waste management’ invited to the Perhaps I should have been applying myself to life 96th Indian Science Congress.” more diligently.” David Pollack (1977) writes: “The year 2008 witnessed Richard Brait (1980) writes: “Joined the corporate the launch (finally!) of my Web Service (SaaS) for advisory board of Valt.X Technologies (a maker of Engineering Calculations, at www.esiprograms.com. computer security chips) in August 2008. Became Among other things, the site allows engineers to design General Counsel of Siemens Canada Limited in January energy-efficient buildings in the blink of an eye. In 2009. Completed the Directors’ Education Program of other news, I continue to teach and lecture on climate the Institute of Corporate Directors in January 2009.” change (often to hostile audiences).” Gavin Glover (1980) writes: “2008 has seen the birth of a Howard Shaw (1977) writes: “Retired aged 65 in April new venture with other counsel and I am now heading 2009.” a new law firm: Geroudis Glover Ghurburrun.” Paul Anderson (1978) writes: “I am still teaching at City Martin Humphrey (1980) writes: “Still beavering away University. I published and edited Orwell in Tribune: trying to treat personality disorders in Richmond and ‘As I Please’ and other writings for Politico’s/Methuen at Broadmoor. May be doing something right, as for in 2006.” first time I am being paid expenses to go and talk at Balliol College Record 127 a conference rather than sitting in the audience and Fund’s Research Department – a job I have been doing listening.” for about five years now. The ride continues to be Philip Kolvin (1980) writes: “Awarded QC, 2009.” interesting, not least because my immediate boss – the Paul Mason (1980) writes: “Continue to work at the IMF’s chief economist – keeps changing (Ken Rogoff, Technology Strategy Board, developing the strategies Raghu Rajan, Simon Johnson, and Olivier Blanchard in key technolgy and application areas. Was elected have all held the position during this relatively short FRSC.” window!). Some recent publications (with co-authors) Tina Parker (1980) writes: “The credit crunch has made include: ‘Exchange Rate Assessments: CGER fundraising for property-based leisure businesses a Methodologies’, IMF Occasional Paper 261, 2008; challenge, to say the least. During this quiet time I have ‘International Evidence on Fiscal Policy: Is Fiscal Policy rekindled a very old interest in needlework and I am Responsible?’, in the Journal of Monetary Economics; taking the Certificated Course in Hand Embroidery at ‘Reaping the Benefits of Financial Globalization’, IMF the Royal School of Needlework at Hampton Court...I Occasional Paper 264, 2008; and ‘Country Insurance: feel like a grand tudor lady! Otherwise I am spending The Role of Domestic Policies’, IMF Occasional Paper time undertaking all the necessary tasks entailed by a 254, 2007. My current research interests include family.” designing appropriate lending facilities for the IMF Derek Wax (1980) writes: “This year, as an Executive – involvement in the design of the newly established Producer for Kudos, I have made the Channel 4 Flexible Credit Line has been particularly rewarding; comedy series ‘Plus One’, and the BBC1 Iraq drama research into the stability of the global system of ‘Occupation’, which we filmed in Belfast and exchange rates and possible evolution in the dollar’s Marrakech.” reserve currency status; and ‘early warning’ indicators Professor Arthur Burns (1981) writes: “Appointed literary of crisis in the industrial countries.” director of Royal Historical Society. No longer head Jonathan Vernon (1981) writes: “The job that I created of department at KCL, so able to spend more time on to allow me to write is slowly taking over; as an ASA history – currently working on Christian Socialism at qualified Swimming Coach and Teacher a considerable Thaxted – any relevant memories gratefully received.” part of my week/life is taken up developing over 860 Professor Robert Crawford (1981) writes: “In 2009 I swimmers from age 5 to 19 plus. Everything is a published The Bard, a biography of Robert Burns constant round of assessments, training sessions, and (Cape and Princeton UP, 2009); also co-edited with galas as we target county, regional, and national events. Christopher MacLachlan The Best Laid Schemes: A relay team winning a national event by 1/100th of a Selected Poetry and Prose of Robert Burns (Polygon second was thrilling. Hardly a way to pay the mortgage and Princeton UP) and edited New Poems, Chiefly in and a bizarre outcome after a decade or more behind a the Scottish Dialect. Gave lectures on Burns at venues film or video camera.” from the Library of Congress to Keswick.” Jeremy Cohn (1982) writes: “Spreading, balding, and Professor Miguel Orellana Benado (1981) writes: aging appear to have become spread, bald, and middle- “Received the ‘Mejor Docente de Pregrado Award’ aged. Are any contemporaries interested in convening (2006) and elected both as University Senator (2007– a reunion to mark thirty years since matriculation? I’ll 10) and first Secretary to this new body for its first year wear a name tag if you will too! Answers by, or in, the (2007–8), Universidad de Chile.” 2010 Record, please.” Jonathan Ostry (1981) writes: “I continue in my position Piers Daubeney (1982) writes: “I finally obtained my as Deputy Director of the International Monetary doctorate in medicine from Balliol (DM) and was 128 Balliol College Record appointed head of paediatric cardiology research at Advocate for Multi-National Force-Iraq – senior the Royal Brompton Hospital. Most importantly our lawyer of a contingent of 630 judge advocates and second child, Beatrice, was born in May.” paralegal specialists from US, UK, and Australia – with Andrew Keyser (1982) writes: “Approved in 2008 to sit duties to promote the rule of law. Will soon publish as a Deputy High Court Judge in the Queen’s Bench a national security law and policy textbook, Paying Division and the Chancery Division.” Tribute to Reason: Judgments on Terror, Lessons for Mary-Anne Newman (1982) writes: “Second year in Security in Four Trials Since 9/11 (Washington and health department: on third job title. It’s a sign of Charlottesville: Sentinel Case Studies, 2008).” middle age, I think, because so far I’ve volunteered for Daniel Moonman (1983) writes: “In November 2008 I cosmetic surgery, liver disease, trauma surgery, and obtained a Diploma in Men’s Studies (with distinction) pathology. Professionally, that is! And no, I can’t get from Nottingham Trent University. This is a pro- any of you a discount.” feminist course for social care professionals and the Mitch Preston (1982) writes: “Our daughter Georgina first course of its kind to be offered in the UK.” Laura Preston was born on 28 October 2006.” David White (1983) writes: “More involved with local Professor Christopher Williams (1982) writes: “On 1 social and charity work through the Round Table. November 2008 I began a five-year term as a Royal What other way could I be a Fairy Godmother, a Commissioner with the Royal Commission on the Dancing Gnome, raise £40,000 from a bonfire event Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales. This will for local causes, tour a chocolate factory, and still have involve detailed study of many periods of history I time for tea and biscuits? The new family all doing managed to avoid when an undergraduate!” well, and the gorgeous Sally as lovely as ever.” Phoebe Dingwall (1983) writes: “Exhibition with my Anthony Frieze (1984) writes: “I left the City after twenty paintings 1 July 2009, Curwen Gallery, 34 Windmill years in December 2007, with the benefit, partly, of St, London (group show). Currently doing an artist prescience! Aside from voluntary work for the Prince’s in residency in Boulogne Sur Mer, France (Expo in Teaching Institue (PTI – one of the Prince’s charities) June in Boulogne). Also in St Omer (France) in June, and consulting, I continue to pursue my political an exhibition of paintings inspired by the area (while dreams.” doing another art residency there); exhibition of John Gardner (1984) writes: “Have my hands full with lots paintings in July in Szczecin Museum of Art, Poland.” of personal and professional boys and toys. Our two Liz Gaere (1983) writes: “Hugely honoured to have been sons are now 4 years and 18 months old respectively; awarded an OBE for my work with the Department for my employer, Babcock, has extensive interests in International Development in Southern Sudan.” helping to keep R.N. ships and submarines at sea.” Charles Garland (1983) writes: “I enjoyed a rare visit Dilip Menon (1984) writes: “Much has happened over back to Oxford last summer to meet up with those I’d the last year. On 12 November 2008 our son Zayan shared the College house with (Minster Road) twenty- was born and much of our time since then has been odd years ago: Toby and Sarah Miller, Dan Cohen, spent in his wake. Our daughter Naima is now 5, so a Richard Fletcher, Martin Binks, and also Ian Rumfitt. responsible sister who only occasionally has moments My wife, Ailsa, hadn’t been to Oxford before – she of possessiveness regarding her position as first infant. bravely agreed to come punting with us. That river’s As of September 2009 we shall be relocating to South become much bendier...”. Africa where I have been offered the post of Professor Colonel Mark Martins (1983) writes: “Just returned in History and Chair in Indian Studies at the University from a two-year deployment in Iraq as the Staff Judge of Witwatersrand. I remember several friends from Balliol College Record 129 South Africa in my Holywell Manor days (back in the Michael Guy (1986) writes: “I have left investment days of apartheid) and hope that we can get back in banking and bought a race horse that I intend to race touch again. Anyone passing through or resident there myself. I am currently dieting.” please get in touch!” Theresa Heskins (1986) writes: “Currently working with Harriet Quiney (1984) writes: “I finally did it! I now have an aerial dance company on stage version of ‘The Grade 3 piano. Next stop Carnegie Hall (practice man, Wicked Lady’.” practice).” Richard Sutcliffe (1986) writes: “2008 has been a big year Tim Sowter (1984) writes: “Birth: Katie Beth Sowter born for the Sutcliffes. Following a long wait, Macaully (a 4 January 2007. At the moment I am busier than ever, bright and engaging eight-year-old) has been placed with our fourth child due in June. I am cycling twenty with us for adoption. We hope that his adoption miles a day for my daily commute and in my spare time order will go through some time in the summer of I sing tenor in a barbershop quartet and a chorus, the 2009. I was also recommended for training as a non- Bromley Kentones.” stipendiary priest in the Church of England. I am likely Jason Hubert (1985) writes: “Sam Frederick Thornber to start my training in September. I will continue with Hubert born 17 March 2009.” my job as a Head of Policy in the FSA during training Professor Ahuvia Kahane (1985) writes: “I was recently and afterwards.” John Hancock (1987) writes: “Took nearly two hours made a British citizen and given Freedom of the City off my 2008 time at Ironman New Zealand in March of Durham.” 2009. Very pleased!” Tracey Wolffe (1985) writes: “Daniella Rose Wolffe, born Nicola Jones (1987) writes: “Working hard to get family- on son Nathan Jamie’s third birthday, 28 May 2009, at centred care in neonatal units a reality. Poppy Project The Portland Hospital.” on experiences of prematurity nearing completion Adam Bruce (1986) writes: “Following the sale of (www.poppy-project.org.uk). Business as freelance Airtricity to SSE in 2008 for £1.4 billion, I joined a teaching legal skills going well. Scruff and kids on good group of former Airtricity colleagues in a new venture: form.” Mainstream Renewable Power, developing wind, Andrew Lavender (1987) writes: “Enjoyed seeing a few marine, and solar power across global markets. In old Balliol friends at Paul Fremantle’s 40th birthday addition, I was appointed Unicorn Pursuivant at the party in January 2009. Paul put on a good tin-whistle Court of the Lord Lyon.” performance for his captive audience party guests. I Michelle Cale (1986) writes: “I resigned from the Clayman have also been travelling to Moscow a lot with UBS Institute in December 2008; and am happily filling these past twelve months, where I have had the good my time with volunteering, a new exercise regime, fortune to catch up many times with Mike Gibson over vacation, and dabbling in freelance writing, as well as a late-night coffee and even weekend at the Gibson more time with my children (now aged 7 and 9).” dacha.” Tim Diggins (1986) writes: “I have started up a new Bill Lipscomb (1987) writes: “Our daughter Sophia was company creating authoring software for broadcast born on 2 February 2009. She and her sister Emily, and interactive presentations.” who started pre-school this year, are doing fine.” Duncan Greatwood (1986) writes: “PostPath was Michael Pearce (1987) writes: “Discovered painted ceiling acquired by Cisco last year, so I’m working at Cisco from Carnock House and organized display at Stirling now.” Smith Art Gallery & Museum.” 130 Balliol College Record Jorgen Ellegaard Andersen (1988) writes: “Was appointed In 2008 I became an assessor of an environmental Director of the Center of Excellence ‘Quantum assessment system for civil engineering projects Geometry of Moduli Spaces’ funded by the Danish and am already an assessor of the building research National Science Foundation. This center has strong establishment’s environmental assessment method ties to The Oxford Geometry Group led by Professor ‘breeam’. I bought a flat in Walthamstow, which is Nigel Hithin.” wonderful, and got a cat.” Harriet Goodwin (1988) writes: “My first children’s Shed Simove (1989) writes: “My new book, Ideas Man, novel, The Boy Who Fell Down Exit 43, was published has just been published. I have also launched a number in September 2009. It is a fantasty-adventure for of new products including the ‘Gaydar Keychain’ and 9–12-year-olds and was sparked by a very peculiar the ‘Parent-Child Contract Pad’. Plus I performed at dream I had several summers ago. It will be followed Edinburgh Festival 2009 in August.” by a second novel in autumn 2010.” Parag Prasad (1990) writes: “I got married in July 2009 in Paul Nix (1988) writes: “Appointed consultant February Oxfordshire. For the last two years I have been running 2009.” my own business-coaching business (ActionCOACH) Professor Charles Spence (1988) writes: “Awarded helping London business to survive and prosper.” Alexander von Humboldt award & the 2008 IG Professor Ulrich Schollwöck (1990) writes: “I moved my NOBEL prize for nutrition (i.e. the opposite of the real Chair of Physics from Aachen to the University of thing!).” Munich and am so happy to be back in my home town! Claire Tansley (1988) writes: “Most people know that I Albeit only for a short time: next year I am on leave at had Hodgkin’s Lymphoma last year. I had six months the Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin.” chemotherapy and although this was fairly awful, the Alan Taylor (1990) writes: “Since 2007 Guest Lecturing doctors told me, at the end of February, that I am in at the John F. Kennedy Institute, Berlin (US media and complete remission. It was quite difficult and upsetting film). Recent courses have been the representation of for the children, so this year I am looking forward to feeling better and a bit of normality. Many friends teaching and learning in Hollywood cinema (American from College were fantastic in helping and supporting Yodas) and screenwriting histories (Hollywood’s me through my illness.” Lonely Place). The library records made a spelling Lai Yahaya (1988) writes: “I am currently working as slip so it emerged as ‘Hollywood’s Lovely Place’. The a DFID-funded consultant, advising senior policy year so far has sparkled with a very hospitable review makers in the Nigerian government on infrastructure of ‘Jacobean Visions: Webster, Hitchcock & Google planning, management, and financing. I am also Culture’ (2007) by Leland Poague. Since October 2008 engaged as Special Advisor to the Minister of Power. I have been subject to a prolonged job application I have still not re-married and spend much time process that, if once the pending work permit allows, reporting to Yasmin, my obstreperous 4-year-old.” will see me safely installed as Ass. Professor of Drama Matthew Hooper (1989) writes: “Moved out of London & Film at the Arts Faculty, Tshwane University of to Hampshire in 2006 and redeveloped old farm. Technology, South Africa. Ongoing updates: http:// Married to Sarah with three children – Felix (8), Max kinowords.wordpress.com.” (6), and Helena (3) – two ponies and a dog!” Paul West (1990) writes: “I continue to work for HM Dorte-Rich Jørgensen (1989) writes: “In 2007 I became Treasury on schools investment issues. This has a chartered engineer. I still carry out ground-breaking proved to be a very interesting area as the government work in sustainability on an international project. seeks to accelerate some public investment to support Balliol College Record 131 the economy during the downturn, while looking to The book will be published in autumn 2009 (Munich: consolidate public finances in the medium term.” C. H. Beck).” Andrew York (1990) writes: “I’m still employed by Johnson Binnie Goh (1992) writes: “Having successfully delivered Matthey, but I’m now on a five-year secondment to the the Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Act 2008 for Chemical Engineering department in Cambridge. In the Department for Business, I went on to successfully October 2007, I was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal deliver my second daughter, Anli, in August 2008. Am Society of Chemistry.” still not sure which was the more painful experience.” Rod Burns (1991) writes: “Second collection, Greetings Paola Tinti (1992) writes: “Philippe and I have come back from Luna Park, appeared from Modern English Tanka to the UK, to our Isle of Wight home, after five years Press in September 2008. Continuing as Co-editor, spent lazily sailing a 38ft yacht around the Atlantic: Other Poetry.” Isle of Wight to Buenos Aires and back. Previously Mark Harrison (1991) writes: “I am the deputy principal I was in the hedge fund industry, but sailing is more of a private secondary school and I got married in July fun. As they say: better a bad day on the water than a 2009.” good day at the office. The next big project involves an Gareth Kay (1991) writes: “Still enjoying life in Boston overland trip to Japan.” (despite writing this as a foot of snow falls). A fantastic Charlotte Bigg (1993) writes: “Our lovely little daughter 2008 thanks to the birth of our first child, Esme.” Ida Valentine was born on 8 November 2008.” Say Beng Tan (1991) writes: “We had two new additions to Vikki Keilthy (1993) writes: “I married Paul Keilthy our family, Samantha and Emma, born on 4 December (1992) on 26 April 2008 at Camden Town Hall in the 2008. They join big sister Sophie, born on 30 January presence of many Balliol friends. The arrival of our 2006.” first child, Kate, shortly afterwards in June 2008 has Greg Essex-Lopresti (1992) writes: “I have recently brought us both great joy.” embarked on the restoration of a 1968 Land Rover. So Nico Momigliano (1993) writes: “I have become editor far, I have managed to reduce it to a pile of 1968 Land of the Annual of the British School at Athens and I Rover parts and rust. Progress is very much in the eye directed the first fieldwork season of an archaeological of the beholder.” project in Lycia, Turkey. In 2009 I was promoted to a Thorsten Fögen (1992) writes: “From September 2007 Readership.” until August 2008, I was Visiting Professor at the Martin O’Neill (1993) writes: “Highlights of 2008 University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), financed included finally getting around to returning to by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Bonn, Harvard for my PhD defence; standing on the pitch at Germany). From October 2008 until March 2009, I Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium (holding a UEFA banner) was Visiting (Full) Professor of Latin at the University as the players lined up for the Champions’ League of Konstanz. Now I am back at the Humboldt game against AC Milan; and enduring a night of hard University of Berlin, where I have been teaching drinking with French Foreign Legion paratroopers Classics since 2002. In September 2008, I completed in Corsica. But this all pales into insignificance when a book project (my so-called ‘Habilitationsschrift’), compared to the joy of welcoming our son Tommy into Knowledge, Communication and Self-Presentation: the world on 24 November.” On the Structure and Characteristics of Roman Ben Rowland (1993) writes: “RSe Consulting, the firm I Technical Texts from the Early Empire, in which co-founded in 2001, has been acquired by the Tribal I devote particular attention to authors such as Group. Very comfortable in my new tribe, focusing on Vitruvius, Columella, Pliny the Elder, and Frontinus. helping the public sector to cut costs intelligently. Very 132 Balliol College Record proud to have been appointed chairman of Toynbee Drama of 2008, for ‘The Curse of Steptoe’, broadcast Hall (www.toynbeehall.org.uk).” on BBC4. This year I am producing a new drama Alison Spencer Stephens (1993) writes: “I gave birth to my series for BBC2, taking an irreverent look at the lives third son, Nathaniel, in December 2008. Life has been of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood of Artists, entitled busy with a 4-year-old, 2-year-old, and a newborn, but ‘Desperate Romantics’.” it’s a pleasure to raise them.” Carsten Flohr (1995) writes: “I have recently been awarded Edward Vallance (1993) writes: “My new book A a Clinician Scientist Award from the Department Radical History of Britain: Visionaries, Rebels and of Health’s National Institute of Health Research Revolutionaries, the Men and Women Who Fought for (NIHR). As part of the award, I will be relocating from Our Freedoms (Little, Brown and Co) was published Nottingham to London where I will be taking up a in June 2009. This may be of interest to Old Members, Senior Lecturer post at the MRC/Asthma UK Centre but probably not to the current JCR who seem to for Allergic Mechanisms in Asthma.” prefer reading such improving publications as Nuts, Philip Haines (1995) writes: “I will be starting my training FHM, and the Sun. O tempora! etc.” in cardiology (Cardiology Fellowship) in July 2009 at Caroline Hill (1994) writes: “We moved to California 18 the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. I will months ago. Our little Rebecca is turning 2 in June be completing my training (Residency) in General and I have found a job working for Snapfish.com in Internal Medicine in June 2009.” marketing.” Robert Harrison (1995) writes: “Back in the UK for Ali Husain (1994) writes: “We formed a new business a couple of years after postings in Zimbabwe and called Sweetness, LLC. This will be a dessert boutique.” Afghanistan, and reunited with Andy, Rose, and – a Sarfraz Nazir (1994) writes: “Just winding down from new addition to the family – Ivy.” organizing my brother’s wedding which thankfully Olivia Hartridge (1995) writes: “I’ve now been back from went rather smoothly. They’re baking in Kuala Lumpur the EC in Brussels for two years, turning from regulating at the moment but I much prefer the dreaming spires the EU carbon market to working as a carbon market to the towers...that’s not sour grapes...really! Sara has originator at Morgan Stanley. I’m currently living in taken her first steps to superstardom; she’s started East London and travelling to new places as much as nursery.” my holiday allotment allows!” Sneha Patel (1994) writes: “Still living in Sacramento, and Andy Pyle (1995) writes: “This year has been one of working in health care, specifically health care reform dramatic change with the arrival of baby Phoebe in and access. Chris and I love living here, with all the September. We are loving parenthood and all the biking and hiking trails around and easy access to the exciting new discoveries that come with it!” Sierras and the Bay. We’ve become wine afficianados Roderick Rands-Webb (1995) writes: “I’m very pleased to and make regular trips to Sonoma and Amador to announce that Imogen (1994) and I became parents of stock up or attend wine release parties. Chris still has Vincent Rocco Rands-Webb in January this year. He not seen ‘my version’ of Oxford so I’m hoping to get is a happy, healthy lad and we are by turns knackered back and show him around Balliol sometime soon. We and elated. Imogen’s acting now includes running her continue to travel whenever we can, with Portugal, own sketch comedy night in Shoreditch and I’m still China, and India being our latest destinations, and drumming professionally, for artists including Cerys South America in the future, I hope.” Matthews (ex-Catatonia). I have an exciting new Ben Evans (1995) writes: “This year I was given an award signed project for 2010 which will finally whisk me by the Royal Television Society for the Best Single round the festivals!” Balliol College Record 133 Martin Sandbu (1995) writes: “In a year of many Clyde Seepersad (1996) writes: “Clyde Seepersad and changes, I married Ana and shortly after joined the Carolyn (Conner) Seepersad (1996) welcomed their Financial Times as a leader writer. I am living a hectic first child – Paige Olivia Seepersad – on 18 July 2008.” bicontinental existence at the moment, but would Allison Hoffman (1997) writes: “I’ve returned to New York always find time for Old Members getting in touch in from California and was working as correspondent London or New York.” here for the Jerusalem Post. In June I took up a new Charlotte Schmid (1995) writes: “I am now established as role as senior writer with Tablet Magazine, an online an Executive Search consultant and am responsible for publication with daily updates on news, politics, arts, my company’s tax consultancy in German-speaking and culture.” countries. Christian and I moved back to Munich last Christopher Nattrass (1997) writes: “I am taking a September after three years in London and are enjoying sabbatical from teaching in the academic year 2009– the fresh air and our view of the Alps from our living 10 to finish writing a novel.” room!” Dan Snow (1998) writes: “I chose a bad year to become Roopa Unnikrishnan (1995) writes: “Having swum the addicted to Patrick O’Brian.” Hudson river last year, I think I can say that I’ve got Jen Taylor Friedman (1998) writes: “Apparently I’m now that out of my system. I started guitar lessons, I hope to interesting enough to have a Wikipedia entry.” Adam Killeya (1999) writes: “In 2007 I was elected actually be able to strum a tune to the kids, sitting in the to Caradon District Council, and became Cabinet sun in Central Park. Am deep into innovation projects Member for Planning. In January 2008 I married at Pfizer – a truly fulfilling role and organization.” Merryn at St Austell Register Office, and we now live Chris Becher (1996) writes: “After many happy years together in Saltash.” together, I plucked up the courage to propose to Dorota Joanna Kyffin (1999) writes: “Moved in with my partner Łyszkowska (Balliol 1998) last October in the gardens Gus in January; hoping to submit my doctoral thesis of Holywell Manor. Our wedding will take place on (and get my life back!) in June 2009.” 12 September 2009, near Milanówek, Poland. We both Oliver Mears (1999) writes: “Hannah Fairall and I were live and work in Brussels. married on 5 July 2008 at St Mary’s Stoke Bishop, Gerald Clancy (1996) writes: “Resigned position as Head Bristol, a mere six days after she was ordained deacon of Commercialisation at the University of East Anglia in Bristol Cathedral. I will be ordained this summer in in September 2007 to accept an offer to read Medicine Truro Cathedral as we move down from Bristol and (Graduate Entry Programme) at St Peter’s College. begin to minister together in St Austell parish.” Currently in the second year of the programme and Edward Swann (1999) writes: “Moved to Carmel College enjoying the change of direction.” in St Helens to take up the post of Head of Physics. Abigail Cottrell (1996) writes: “Moving back to Bristol Also recently elected as a chartered physicist.” after two years in Brussels. I’ll be working for Business Paul Williams (1999) writes: “I will shortly take up a in the Community.” Royal Society University Research Fellowship in Ben Lynch (1996) writes: “Contrary to all the odds, I climate modelling at the University of Reading.” managed to get engaged.” Douglas Ashton (2000) writes: “I completed my PhD in Tom Pravda (1996) writes: “I am at present with the Physics from the University of Nottingham. I’m now Foreign and Commonwealth Office in Goma, working at the University of Bath as a post-doctoral Democratic Republic of Congo.” researcher.” 134 Balliol College Record Siobhan Dickerson (2000) writes: “In July 2008 I completed my final day as an English teacher in the state sector; it was a very sad day as I had grown to love the staff and pupils at Mount St Joseph over the three years I had worked there. Now, six months later, I can say the same about my new position! My appointment at Bolton School Girls’ Division has allowed me to become more involved with ‘gifted and talented’ pupils and to do some good work with the Oxbridge applicants in the hope that they too can attend a fantastic university. I am enjoying bringing a modern outlook to a traditional school and using my own knowledge, enhanced by my time at Balliol, to enthuse and empower the girls in my care.” Genevieve Burton (2001) writes: “I am planning to be married in December to Tim Seaton, a fellow teacher at Harrodian School.” Rahul Rao (2001) writes: “I began work as a Lecturer in International Security and Diplomacy at the School of Oriental & African Studies, London, in September 2008. I’m also working on transforming my DPhil thesis on cosmopolitanism in postcolonial social movements into a book manuscript, which will be published by Oxford University Press in 2009.” Frederick Stone (2001) writes: “Have just got into the second year of running my own business, the arch climbing wall in London Bridge, and things are well and good despite the economy.” Seb Sequoiah-Grayson (2003) writes: “Currently enjoying the atmosphere of a stimulating research environment.” Rachael Wagner (2004) writes: “Working in NYC in private equity, focused on retail and consumer businesses.” Frances Flanagan (2005) writes: “I migrated to Hertford College in October 2008 to take up a Senior Scholarship.” Lorna Wellings (2005) writes: “September 2009 – I am studying as a postgraduate at St Andrews.”

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