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The Ship 2015/2016 From lights over London to a village in College St Anne’s Ethiopia; from reflections on Dublin’s Easter Rising of 1916 to the role of African women in transforming their continent; from the hyperactivity of life on the trading floors of the Square Mile to the more leisurely activities University of Oxford enjoyed by the members of our SAS. St Anne’s people are everywhere, changing, shaping and enjoying the world in which they move. The range and scope of this year’s issue of The Ship is as varied and engaging as ever. I thank St Anne’s College Record all those who have taken the time and effort to make it so by responding to the demands of an importunate editor. There are times when I feel more like an elderly worker in Shepherd Market than a professional journalist. I hope you find the product worthwhile. My thanks to all the College staff who have 2015 – 2016 contributed to the issue, in particular Kate Davy in the Development Office. And above all, our thanks to St Anne’s Principal Tim Gardam, whose departure we regret, but whose - achievements in his 12-year tenure, this issue Number commemorates and celebrates. 105 – The Ship Annual Publication of the St Anne’s Society 2015 – 2016 The Ship St Anne’s College @StAnnesCollege 2015 – 2016 Woodstock Road @StAnnesCollege Oxford OX2 6HS UK The Ship +44 (0) 1865 274800 [email protected] 2015 – 2016 www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk St Anne’s College St Anne’s College Alumnae log-in area Development Office Contacts: Lost alumnae Register for the log-in area of our website Over the years the College has lost touch (available at www.alumniweb.ox.ac.uk/ Jules Foster with some of our alumnae. We would very st-annes) to connect with other alumnae, Director of Development much like to re-establish contact, and receive our latest news and updates, and +44 (0)1865 284536 invite them back to our events and send send in your latest news and updates. In the [email protected] them our publications such as The Ship coming months, we will be developing this and Annual Review. A missing alumnae area of our website. If you already have an Robert Nodding directory is available on our website (this account with one of the other Oxford Alumni Senior Development Officer can be searched by matriculation year Online communities, you can use those +44 (0)1865 284943 https://www.alumniweb.ox.ac.uk/st-annes/ details to login. [email protected] lost-alumnae-directory). Please do let your contemporaries know if they are on these E-group Helen Carey lists and ask them to contact us if they’d St Anne’s e-group is open to all alumnae Senior Development Officer like to be back in touch. and supporters of College. Our 2,400+ +44 (0)1865 284622 members benefit from updates and the [email protected] latest news from St Anne’s, as well as receiving the monthly e-zine st@nnes. To Kelly Roddy subscribe please send an email, including Alumnae Relations Officer Open to the world: new Library your name and matriculation year to Kate +44 (0)1865 284517 Davy in the Development Office at [email protected] [email protected] St Anne’s College Record 2015-2016 Bristol & West Branch: Liz Alexander Photographs Kate Davy Number 105 Cambridge Branch: Sue Collins Personal News Communications Officer Annual Publication of the St Anne’s Society London Branch: Clare Dryhurst All photographs unless otherwise credited Please send personal news for +44 (0)1865 284672 (formerly known as the ASM) Midlands Branch: Jane Darnton are the property of St Anne’s College, The Ship 2016-2017 by email to [email protected] North East Branch: Gillian Pickford Oxford. [email protected] Committee 2014-2015 North West Branch: Maureen Hazell Front cover photo – Students on the Quad or by post to: Thomas Williams President: Vacant Oxford Branch: Hugh Sutherland – Trinity term 2016/Keith Barnes Database and Research Officer Vice-Presidents: Clare Dryhurst and Jackie South of England Branch: Maureen The Ship (Editor) +44 (0)1865 274804 Ingram Inside front cover, p.6, p.9, p.12 (top Gruffydd Jones/Stella Charman Development Office [email protected] Honorary Committee Chair: David Smith right), p.13 (top left), p.14 (bottom). P.15, St Anne’s College Honorary Secretary: Maureen Hazell Designed and printed by Windrush Group p.20, p.42, p.43, and back cover – Keith Oxford Mary Rowe Honorary Editor: Judith Vidal-Hall Windrush House, Avenue Two. Barnes (www.photographersworkshop. OX2 6HS Development Assistant Ex Officio: Tim Gardam, Kelly Roddy Station Lane, Witney, Oxfordshire OX28 4XW com); p.12 (left bottom) – Chris Honeywell, +44 (0)1865 284536 Tel: 01993 772197 p.14 (top) – digital images of new Library [email protected] Until 2016: David Royal and Academic Centre supplied by Fletcher Priest Architects. Contents Contents From the Editor – Judith Vidal-Hall 2 International aid – Diana Good 71 SAS report – Hugh Sutherland and Maureen Hazell 3 Doing good better – William MacAskill 75 From the Principal – Tim Gardam 5 SAS regional branch reports 77 From the Librarian – Clare White 10 From the JCR 83 New Library and Academic Centre 12 From the MCR 84 From the Bursar – Jim Meridew 15 Finals results 2015 85 From the Treasurer – John Ford 19 Graduate degrees 2015 86 From the Development Office – Jules Foster 21 Governing Body 87 From the Vice-Chancellor – Louise Richardson 23 Fellows’ news, honours and appointments 88 Oxford letter – Jackie Ingram 28 The Penultimate Curiosity – Howard Hotson 89 Russell Taylor column 31 Alumnae news: publications 92 Donor column – Gareth Hunt 34 Alumnae news: updates, honours, news and appointments 94 Careers column – William Galinsky 36 Obituaries 96 Careers column – Helen Marriage 38 - Elizabeth Aldworth 97 - Ursula Hill Bowen 97 Devaki Jain Lecture – Devaki Jain and Graça Machel 42 - Clare Currey 98 Gaudy Seminar 2015 – Frances Cairncross 47 - Konstanty Czartoryski 100 Gaudy Seminar 2015 – David Willetts 47 - Christine Davis 100 - Margaret Hardcastle 101 Gaudy Seminar 2015 – Ian Goldin 50 - Deborah Jackson 102 Gaudy Seminar 2015 – Terry O’Shaughnessy 52 - Terry Jones 103 - Valerie Pearl 105 Gaudy and Alumni Weekend 2016 55 - Rosemary Pountney 106 George Weidenfeld: a tribute – Matthew Reynolds 57 - Elisabeth Prideaux 107 The Wake – Paul Kingsnorth 60 - Rosalind Richards 108 - Virginia Rushton 109 Iris Murdoch – Gary Brooking 62 - Joan Saxton 110 Ireland 1916 – Patrick Gaul 64 - Ruth Tait 111 From Anschluss to Albion – Elisabeth Orsten 68 Thank you to donors 112 www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk 1 From the Editor Moving on JUDITH VIDAL-HALL Change is all around, in the University, the heart of this new centre of the University. using it to the best possible effect. Diana the town and in St Anne’s. It does not Good links the two in a piece that looks at And it’s not only the University itself that’s come without its challenges, but core the successes and failures of international changing, at times so fast and frequently values remain intact aid. that, as Jackie Ingram says in her Oxford My editorial for this issue of The Ship has letter, it’s hard to keep pace: from Co- And you will all welcome the return of very much taken on its own shape, a shape operative Society Hall to multi-media centre Russell Taylor with his inimitable Alex, dictated by events. The departure of our in the blink of an eye – and further change never short of a word or two on absolutely Principal, Tim Gardam, who will be much promised in the ‘golden triangle’ of the everything. missed after 12 highly successful years, Cowley Road. It is never possible in the limited space of an is at the centre of this. The departure of But there is far more to celebrate in this editorial to do justice to every contributor, a head of house is always a moment of issue than the, at times, disruption of but I would like to single out one more change, and Tim emphasises this in his change. The enduring pleasures of the feature: the first of the Devaki Jain Lectures, Domus seminar: time not only for Oxford as garden are recalled in this ‘Year of the given in 2015 by the distinguished African a whole to move on, but for the College too English Garden’, which marks 300 years campaigner Graça Machel. This unique if it is to remain at the top of its game. since the birth of the great gardener of the series of annual lectures will highlight the It’s a theme echoed by Oxford’s new Vice- English landscape, Capability Brown. The often unrecognized contributions of women Chancellor, Professor Louise Richardson, Bursar honours our own gardeners, who, in the South to the development of their the first ‘non-male, non-traditional and not over the past 20 years, have done so much countries. They, too, are the movers and even British’ incumbent in almost 1,000 to transform the setting of the College changers of their world. years. We are lucky to have her Inaugural into the enchanting environment of today. As always, I thank all our contributors who Address in which she, too, argues the need Gardens also figure prominently in our SAS have taken the time to make this issue of for change in Oxford if it is to meet the branch reports.
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