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From the Editor – Judith Vidal-Hall 2 Walthamstow Hall – Jackie Lang, Jill Milner and Stephanie Ferro 60 From the SAS President – Hugh Sutherland 3 SAS branch reports 63 From the Principal – Helen King 4 China in Oxford – Yao Li 70 Our Purpose – Helen King 7 Music – Joshua Asokan 72 From the Librarian – Clare White 10 From the JCR – Tom Mitty 73 From the Development Office – Jules Foster 13 Target Oxbridge – Ramani Chandramohan 74 Donor column – Wendy Mantle and Jill Paton-Walsh 16 Oxford admissions 75 Multilingualism – Victoria A Murphy 18 Finals results 2017 77 NHS at Seventy – Judith Vidal-Hall 21 From the MCR – James Edwards 78 NHS at Seventy – Helen Salisbury 23 Graduate degrees 2017 79 NHS at Seventy – Charlotte Williams 27 Governing Body 80 NHS at Seventy – Christine Kiire 30 College news 81 NHS at Seventy – Jenny Ehrhardt 31 Fellows’ news 82 NHS at Seventy – Devora Vinick 33 Alumnae news 83 NHS at Seventy – Amanda Pritchard 34 Alumnae publications 84 Russell Taylor column – Russell Taylor 36 Sacrificial Virgins – Joan Shenton 89 College staff – Jim Meridew 39 Gaudy and Alumni Weekend 91

St Anne’s College Record 2017-2018 Bristol & West Branch: Ann Revill Front cover: The beaver was adopted Journey of a Southern Feminist - Devaki Jain 43 Privacy notice 93 Number 107 Cambridge Branch: Sue Collins as a crest in 1913. RF Butler explained The Real Rock Follies – Annabel Leventon 45 In memoriam 99 Annual Publication of the St Anne’s Society London Branch: Clare Dryhurst why: ‘Beavers live in communities and Refugees – Ellen Wiles 48 Obituaries 100 (formerly known as the Association Midlands Branch: Jane Darnton undertake work of a communal character Refugees – Lucy Popescu 51 Thank you – Plumer Society 114 of Senior Members) North East Branch: David Royal but he returns to sleep in his own little lodge North West Branch: Jane Holmes (remaining at heart a “home student”).’ Refugees – Kit de Waal 53 Thank you – The impact of your gifts 116 Committee 2017-2018 Oxford Branch: Hugh Sutherland This summer, our students have taken the Cara – Anne Lonsdale 54 Benefits for alumnae 120 President: Hugh Sutherland South of England Branch: Stella Charman mascot with them as they travel, volunteer, Oxford letter – Elisabeth Salisbury 56 Vice-President: Jackie Ingram undertake research and mapping projects, Homeless in Oxford – Tom Zagoria 58 Honorary Secretary: Maureen Hazell and learn new skills through internships, Honorary Editor: Judith Vidal-Hall to name just some of the things they are Ex Officio: Helen King, Ali Albrecht doing. Our aim is to show the varieties of experience they gain, often through the support of our alumnae and friends. 2 www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk 3 From the Editor From the SAS President

Celebrations in hard times Let’s go digital? HUGH SUTHERLAND

It’s been a turbulent year since our seemed willing to discuss in this issue – many St Anne’s alumnae. We have an awe Our SAS President weighs the pros encourage everyone to get Social, or take GDPR gives us some reassurance that last issue, but both the College and with the exception of the inimitable Alex, inspiring collection of pieces from younger and cons of resorting to purely this opportunity to remind ourselves of the even if we cannot erase our digital identity, the University have exciting plans for who, thanks to Russell Taylor, has the last members of College who are working in digital means for connections and pleasures of unmediated faces and voices, we can find out how the file on us is being the future word on the matter. a variety of capacities in the NHS, plus a communications of real things like paper and ink? Is a ‘Status used. thoughtful reflection on the importance Update’ the first thing you will do in the None of the issues we highlighted last year An important contribution from the JCR ‘Its time. #deleteFacebook.’ Thus the I hope that the members of the SAS will of ‘kindness’ in the medical profession. morning, or the last thing you will ever do? as potential flashpoints – Brexit, Trump looks at efforts by the University and founder of WhatsApp, Brian Acton, signed agree that staying close to the College Like most ageing bodies, the NHS is not and migration – have gone away; some the College to improve the range and off from his directorship on the board of Many of our members prefer the certainty community is one of the most rewarding without its problems in need of fixing, have got decidedly worse in recent weeks. diversity of students, and the findings of the predominant profiler, originally gained and security of the analogue world. Quite ways to connect with friends. It’s time to but the dedication and commitment with In the UK we have a fractious government the Principal’s ‘2025 Conversation’ offer when he sold his business to them. The apart from the risk of fraud, the issue of engage with St Anne’s past, present and which our contributors write is grounds for divided to the point of meltdown, an a challenging vision for the future. Helen gods of Silicon Valley prevent their children privacy as something to be protected has future, by any media necessary. optimism. increasingly catatonic opposition and a King’s own column gives a more personal, from using social media due to its toxicity. crept onto the list of worries for the modern Following on from the ‘2025 Conversation’ media obsessed with the Brexit issue to behind the scenes glimpse into the And there is more: Rock Bottom tells the In the good old days, software developers correspondent. We are warned of the exercise, the Principal and Fellows have the near exclusion of all else. The World Principal’s world. story of the UK’s first all girl rock group; would write elegant thoughtful applications Faustian pact embedded in ubiquitous and now completed their strategic review and Cup and Trump’s excursion through an exciting young Chinese entrepreneur only to sigh as they were ignored by insistent ‘User Agreements’, 50 sides of In Oxford generally, homelessness have articulated the results as a set of Europe provided temporary diversion now back home offers advice and support everyone as they got on with their lives: grey, regulator-dictated, flannel panel text, remains a major issue, the subject, as statements setting out the purpose of the though little comfort. to today’s students; a pioneering feminist working, reading, chatting, watching telly. pithily rendered as ‘if the product is free: last year, of our ‘Oxford Letter’. Despite College. As the outcome of the review from India takes us on her journey and Now we attend to apps so intensely they you are the product.’ If we are free now, we Refugee hysteria in the UK is less vocal, the many voluntary bodies working to is communicated and discussed, I am we celebrate the centenary of women’s are a detriment to our physical and mental shall soon be sold in chains, at the mercy of though as several of our writers in this alleviate a worsening situation in one of confident that members will recognise their suffrage with particular reference to the health. Many of our alumnae grew up online marketeers, A/B testers and sinister foreign issue remind us, the issue has by no the UK’s richest cities, rough sleeping has understanding of the College and what it is activity of women suffragists in Oxford, and have engaged obsessively with social mind-manipulators. Big Data knows more means gone away and remains a divisive increased. The good news is that students for. We must then decide how the SAS can thanks to our Librarian, Clare White. media, seeing it as an essential part of their about us than we care to admit, even to issue in the EU. are getting involved. Tom Zagoria talks best contribute to achieving the ambitions lives. ourselves. Resistance starts with a blob about the work being done by the aptly We have more contributors from the the College has What of Oxford itself and our College of Blu Tack on the webcam, but things named ‘On Your Doorstep’, and we have younger generation than ever, and I thank Facebook is now proposed as the main way set for itself. I in particular? The impact of Brexit on escalate quickly: do we need to adopt an illustration from a Gatehouse artist. The them for taking the time and trouble to to accomplish the mission of the SAS. Fair look forward to the UK’s universities gets little publicity. techniques associated with the dark web, Gatehouse has been working as a drop-in give the issue a wider appeal. For this, enough since it was after all originally made discussing that However, speaking to the Guardian wear survivalist camo and live off-grid in a centre for the homeless and vulnerable in in particular I want to thank Charlotte for the function of staying in touch with with members earlier this year, Vice-Chancellor Louise bender? Oxford for 30 years. Williams. My thanks to all our contributors, your companions and acquaintances from in the coming Richardson revealed that the UK was one without whom there would be no school, work and college. Digital natives are Surely we prefer to enjoy the benefits of our months. of the biggest beneficiaries of EU research At the heart of this issue we celebrate the magazine, and as ever to Kate Davy in the apparently thoroughly networked and live technological society, even if that leads to funding with Oxford the single biggest seventieth birthday of the NHS, Britain’s Hugh Development Office. in a whirl of virtually crowded events. So inescapable compromises. The most recent institutional beneficiary, receiving grants ‘most cherished institution’ according to a Sutherland should we embrace our artificial future and shakedown of the data miners known as of about £236m. It’s not a subject anyone number of polls and the chosen career of Judith Vidal-Hall (Bunting 1957) (1983)

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and make sure they know where help Getting to know you is available. Sometimes the pressures come from something that is going on at HELEN KING home, or from being a long way from their Oxford, let alone the rest of the world, that I generally start the Interview by telling family. Our international students can’t I have been at a bit of a loss to know what the, perhaps nervous, undergraduate that always afford to go home in the vacations to write about in this year’s Ship. So, after it is nothing to worry about. We’re sitting and some are carrying the huge weight a couple of false starts, I’ve decided to in easy chairs and there are no gowns. It of responsibility of parents investing let you into an otherwise private place: a is important to me that we treat students their lifesavings in their child’s Oxford place that has inspired many emotions in as adults, albeit young ones. I am not education. We also have students who the last year and has quelled any doubts I their teacher or here to tell them how to have been their parent’s carer and who are might ever momentarily have felt about my live their lives or prioritise their energies. I struggling with competing responsibilities career change. That place is the Principal’s attempt to reflect back to them what their or with physical or mental health issues. I Interview. tutors are saying about their progress, try to ensure they know that the College encourage them to reflect on what they In honesty, I have no recollection of will support them through the tough times, have learned about learning, and check Principal’s Interviews or Report Readings that we are on their side and that we are whether they are on track to achieve their from my time as an undergraduate. Either proud of their achievements. Students own goals. Of course, the student has they didn’t happen in the mid-1980s or who have overcome challenges deserve only had their own reports to read, so I have blanked them from my memory. to be told that they should be proud of there is a natural inclination to minimise So I started conducting these annual themselves and that we are proud of them praise and focus on any perceived ten-minute sessions with every St Anne’s too. There are many students at St Anne’s criticisms. It is a privilege to be able to undergraduate with no inherited model or usually they commit to a plan to improve, when I’ve had eight or nine hours sleep!’ who have achieved exceptional things and point out to those who underestimate preconceptions. which frequently is about developing that isn’t always a first class degree. their own achievements that their tutor I also ask them if they are enjoying the their organisational and planning skills. If Of course, we do talk about exams: how I prepare by reading the past year’s digital does not write such glowing reports about work and if they feel they chose the we think it will help, we arrange to meet they revise, if they’re planning ahead and termly tutorial reports about each of the all their students. It is a delight to see right subject. Mostly, this will provoke again in a few weeks to see how they’re what helps them to manage anxiety or The Principal lets us in on her students I am due to meet. Although not individuals grow an inch or two and beam an instantaneous reaction of ‘I love it!’ getting on. Sometimes there are learning stress. I can point them to resources or encounters with students as she lengthy they will often contain themes with pleasure on being told they clearly are and a willingness to describe animatedly difficulties or health issues. Often the sources of help and I try to help them inspires and challenges them to highlighted by tutors across different doing exceptionally well. why Old English, or organic chemistry, or difficulties arise from poor sleep, eating retain a realistic sense of perspective as to achieve their academic potential modules of study and give me some environmental geography is just the most Very occasionally, I find myself needing or exercise habits they’ve got into, about the importance of Prelims, Mods or Finals. and prepare for future careers, insight, not just into the student’s ability interesting thing in the world. to point out that nearly all a student’s doing too little or overcommitting to too as well as offering them support and work ethic, but also their personality, I ask, too, about what they do to relax, contemporaries are submitting the work many activities. One second year, when Of course, some of our students are going through tough times levels of self-confidence and health. what other activities they’re involved in. requested, turning up for tutorials on time asked what he’d learnt from his first through tough times. I make it clear it is Tutors’ reports are individually crafted, The array of responses is extraordinary. There are so many people I have met, so and staying awake in those tutorials. We year at Oxford, enthusiastically told me up to them how much they want to share constructive and insightful. Sometimes Some tell me about what they do with much I have seen, heard and learned in explore what may be holding back such that he’d ‘discovered something really with me and I check whether they are they even make me laugh. their friends: cooking meals, swimming at the past year, and so much going on in individuals, if any help is needed, and amazing: everything is so, so much better already receiving the support they need

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St Anne’s College: Our Purpose

Background • graduate students many stories and insights from the past, It is essential to define the College’s and inspiring and ambitious ideas for the • students’ parents purpose in a clear way if we are to guide future. future decision making and ensure a • College staff from all departments The material gathered from the St Anne’s shared and consistent ethos and direction • SCR members 2025 Conversation was condensed and of travel. used in two sequential Governing Body • alumnae from eight decades The job of Principal is not that of a Workshops held in January in order to Chief Executive but Chair of the Board • donors produce the College’s Purpose on a of Trustees, generally referred to as Page. They listed the themes from the • St Anne’s Society Branches Governing Body. College statutes are clear 2025 Conversation that Governing Body that Governing Body is where significant • Emeritus and Senior Research members were asked to ‘bin’ (reject), ‘bag’ College decisions are made and that its Fellows (endorse) or ‘better’ (re-word or add to). members (over 60 Fellows and five College Tools utilised by the Development Office Over 40 members of GB attended a four- Officers) determine issues in a democratic and our consultants, Betababoon, hour session facilitated by Richard Hytner manner. included: and Inken Dachsel from Betababoon. The products of this workshop were edited to Port Meadow, board games and jamming. something new. Some have very clear and back. Therefore, a priority for me as a new • online surveys remove duplication and brought together Others speak of the many societies or ideas about their future target careers Principal was to establish what Governing Hence, in this short allocation of time, for further sharing and refinement at a activities that St Anne’s students are and many have no idea. Of course, for Body wants the future of the College • paper surveys I try to play my part in being true to one-hour workshop prior to a scheduled participating in or organizing. Sometimes many there is no immediate rush; they to be, ensuring that they were properly the College’s Purpose: to inspire and • individual structured ‘Conversations’ Governing Body meeting. Over 50 what motivates them is career related, will be working for a long time once they informed of the views of all who have an challenge our students to achieve their in person and by Skype and members of Governing Body participated sometimes social, altruistic or even start. However, Oxford is great place to interest in College, including alumnae and academic potential and prepare for future telephone in one or both of these sessions. High accidental. It is fascinating to find out explore ideas and experiment, so I point donors. careers, supporting them to be well and levels of engagement from all attendees what it is about an activity they particularly out that we are the nearest College to the • structured focus groups, specifically do well. St Anne’s 2025 Conversation generated a (perhaps surprisingly) high enjoy and to reflect their answers back to University Careers Service where they can designed for each group Last summer we launched the St Anne’s level of consensus and our Purpose on them when we come to talk about what access not just hundreds of opportunities It is an immense privilege to have this 2025 Conversation. Over more than 6 • workshops, with group and individual a Page was formally ratified at the end of thoughts, if any, they have about life after but also 20-minute individual advice window into the lives of such a widely months, the Development Office and I, exercises, Hilary Term. their degree. It may emerge that they sessions with a careers advisor. I tell them diverse group of intelligent, talented and with support from Fellows and College love working as part of a team towards a that I haven’t yet found a student who committed young people. I hope you’ve • dinner ‘Conversations’ Officers, gathered hundreds of views from: common goal, or the buzz of organizing didn’t find such a session useful and that, enjoyed this glimpse into it too. It was a tremendous privilege to hear something complex to tight deadlines, at worst, it will only be 24 minutes from • prospective students Helen King (1983) Principal the opinions of so many people who or writing for an audience, or creating their life, by the time they’ve walked there • undergraduate students care deeply about the College. We heard

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The Purpose: an explanation 1. to be a diverse community motto Consulto et Audacter, translated We realised early in the process that being as ‘Purposefully and Boldly’. Individually 2. to be an inclusive community Our Purpose part of the University of Oxford is integral and collectively, members of St Anne’s to the identity and purpose of St Anne’s 3. to contribute to the University’s vision carefully consider their purpose and then and that our aspirations and ambitions to lead the world in education are prepared to pursue it boldly. Our Aspiration have to be set in the context of the To understand the world and change it for the better 4. to contribute to the University’s vision Helen King University’s vision. to lead the world in research, and Principal, St Anne’s College Aspiration 5. to secure the College’s legacy Our Ambition This is our highest-level purpose: the ‘why’ Our Beliefs and future To be a diverse and inclusive we exist and why our people do what they 1. As a community, we community contributing to the do. I have seen how dedicated so many Beliefs (a) want to be the home of choice for the brightest and most ambitious University’s vision to lead the world in members of College are to their work and, These capture what St Anne’s is or wants students, including those from under-represented groups education and research, and securing in particular, the pressure our Fellows put to be and do at its best. They form two (b) take pride in supporting, enabling and promoting our academics’ research the College’s legacy and future. themselves under to conduct their world- sections with the lowest three beliefs leading research, tutor their students and specifically representing the commitments (c) inspire and challenge our students to fulfil their academic potential and support the College in a myriad of ways. of trustees, ie. members of Governing prepare for future careers I was inspired to hear their answers when Body. (d) respect, promote and celebrate difference; diversity of people, their ideas, Our Approach they discussed the fundamental ‘why’ that Values and accomplishments are a rich source of learning for us all Purposefully & Boldly motivates them. The strong consensus Our values determine how we do what (e) support and guide all in our community to be well and do well, building their that it is to understand the world and we do and have been paired. In some resilience and readiness for the future change it for the better has been cases the two concepts are clearly Values unwavering since it was first shared. This (f) build on the richness of our history, and the achievements of our complementary (forward looking & • Forward looking & Outward facing aspiration surely captures what education outward facing, diverse & multidisciplinary) predecessors and alumnae in our ambition to make a distinct and enduring and research is for at an individual as well • Diverse & Multidisciplinary in others they contrast, perhaps reflecting contribution to the University’s future as an institutional level. • Ambitious & Down-to-earth a tension but not a contradiction (g) need the funding, facilities and resources of a world class College • Independent & Collaborative Ambition (ambitious & down-to-earth, independent environment for learning, teaching and research in order to attract the brightest • Rigorous & Supportive This is a statement that captures the & collaborative, rigorous & supportive). minds and to support their aspirations, ‘what’: what we are and what we do. It Approach 2. As trustees, we contains ambitions that can at some level This is deliberately a very short memorable (a) have a duty of care to our staff, students and academics University of Oxford Vision: be monitored and measured, so we can phrase that can be applied by any The University of Oxford aims to lead the be clear if progress is being made. (b) must leave the College stronger and better than we found it, fit for the long member of the St Anne’s community to world in research and education. We seek term Although it appears as one sentence, what they do: as applicable to a porter to do this in ways which benefit society on The motto Consulto et Audacter it contains five separate ambitions for or chef in the kitchens, as it is to a new on Hartland House (c) inspire every student with the joys of intellectual pursuit as we advance world a national and a global scale. https://www. planning purposes: student, tutor, graduate, or the Principal. class research ox.ac.uk/about/organisation/strategic- It is based on the St Anne’s College plan?wssl=1

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Regius Professor of Greek and President family home – none other than 35 Banbury All about suffrage of the University branch of the Men’s Road, now part of St Anne’s site and home League for Women’s Suffrage – one of to the MCR – and both Olwen, and her CLARE WHITE the many Oxford men who supported the sister Myvanwy, served as secretary to the ‘It may interest people to realize that former Home-Student, History Tutor and then, that the Principals of the women’s enfranchisement of women. The 1913 Committee. before the War numbers of law- later Vice-Principal. The entry states: ‘At colleges should have decided that their issue refers to student entertainment in the Our third Principal, Grace Hadow, was abiding and peaceful women like Principal’s meeting a week or so before, students should not be given permission form of ‘an excellent suffrage sketch’ and also known to be a strong supporter of the myself got to take being mobbed and it was decided that no student should be to attend the march. It seems at odds to the visit of Millicent Fawcett, President suffragists. As a young woman she was insulted as part of the ordinary day’s allowed to go…Miss Callaghan very anxious with our perception of the early Principals of the NUWSS, noting that the ‘latter an English Tutor at Lady Margaret Hall, but work.’ Grace Hadow 1917 to go…saying she had arranged it long ago. as pioneers of equality in education for deserves special notice for the orderly but gave up residence in Oxford in order to Mrs J. [Bertha Johnson, our first Principal] women at Oxford, but perhaps it was the enthusiastic audience, and for the large In February this year, St Anne’s proudly live with her ailing mother in Cirencester. wrote saying she trusted her not to go.’ anxiety that any association with militant the colleges that led to the decision. There number of “college women” who were flew the flag of the violet, white and green There she was active in a local branch of The entry then discusses some American behaviour could cause reputational are records of funding for scholarships present on the platform or as stewards.’ suffrage colours to mark the centenary the NUWSS, and it is particularly fitting students who had gone to the procession damage, or worse still financial damage, to and some annual subscriptions being of the Representation of the People Act, The war issues of 1914-1917 unsurprisingly that our current Principal, Helen King, was before finishing with, ‘Mrs J. took care withdrawn from Somerville by donors less granting women (those over the age of 30 focus on other events, and nationally the invited to unveil a blue memorial plaque on not to inquire what happened about Miss than impressed with its engagement in who met a property qualification) the right to women’s suffrage organizations put active Miss Hadow’s former home in Cirencester Callaghan (as a matter of fact, I know she pro-suffrage activities. Vera Brittain, herself vote. The anniversary prompted the library campaigning on hold and focussed their on 6 February this year – the very date of went).’ a Somervillian, notes in The Women at staff to delve into the archives for evidence attention on supporting the war effort. the centenary of the Representation of the Oxford that ‘Most Oxford women dons of the College’s – or as it was known then, From the dates given, the procession People Act. In 1917, after the Speaker’s judiciously avoided choosing between the Possibly one of the women most actively the Society of Oxford Home-Students – role would have been the Women’s Coronation Conference on Electoral Reform issued its constitutional and the militant technique, involved with the suffrage movement in in the campaign for women’s suffrage. Procession which took place on 17 June report recommending that the vote be given though the private sentiments of a vigorous Oxford with a strong connection to St 1911, a few days before the coronation to women in some form, Grace Hadow At first glance, examples were somewhat modern-minded few would have been Anne’s was Olwen Rhys. A Home-Student, of King George V. Suffrage societies wrote: sparse. No diaries bequeathed by alumnae worth investigating.’ One thing is clear and later French tutor for the Society, across the spectrum took part, from recording their part in events, no mention from the notebook – Mrs Johnson chose Olwen came from a family of suffragists. It feels quite odd to think that possibly the more constitutional suffragists of of early ‘Stanners’ making sacrifices for to overlook incidents of Home-Students Her father was Sir John Rhys, Professor of – even probably – before long people the National Union of Women’s Suffrage the cause – St Hugh’s have that claim attending the procession and no disciplinary Celtic and the Principal of Jesus College. will neither shout with laughter nor Societies (NUWSS) to the more militant through alumna Emily Davison, who was measures are mentioned! He chaired Oxford’s first public meeting throw things at one if one mentions suffragettes of the Women’s Social and famously trampled by the King’s horse on women’s suffrage in 1878, around the women voting. I am glad to belong to Political Union (WSPU). A few months The Ship, published annually since 1911, at the Epsom Derby. We did, however, same time that the first women’s colleges a generation which has been stoned earlier, the individual suffrage groups of contains only passing references to the discover an intriguing entry in a notebook originated. Sir John was not only a member – not because I like being stoned (it is the women’s colleges had combined to ongoing activities that were part of the under the heading ‘Suffrage Procession in of the Oxford University branch of the Men’s tiresome, and often messy), but since form the Oxford Women Students’ Society suffrage cause. The Editor, Ruth Butler London’. The notebook, dated 1911 and League for Women’s Suffrage, but became some women had to go through that for Women’s Suffrage (OWSSWS), and (again!), records in 1912 that ‘Most ominously titled ‘Notes on constitution the president of the Oxford Women’s to win the thing, it is a bit of luck not to they commissioned a striking banner of interesting suffrage meetings have been and discipline’, appears to have been kept Suffrage Society (OWSS). Committee have been out of it entirely…In years to gold and blue specifically to take to the held, especially that addressed last term by Ruth Butler, Secretary to the Principal, meetings were sometimes held at the Rhys come it may interest people to realize Coronation Procession. It is slightly puzzling by Professor Gilbert Murray.’ Murray was

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that before the War numbers of law- and medical work – or whatever may be as full members. This added strength to the abiding and peaceful women like myself, the substitute for the Poor Law – taken up ongoing cause for women to be admitted It’s your community quite inconspicuous members of a as a real calling, and consequently more as full members of the University and to JULES FOSTER political party, got to take being mobbed efficiently done.’ A century ago, there was be awarded degrees. But that particular and insulted as part of the ordinary a strong belief that the students had an centenary celebration is still a few years It has been an exciting twelve months day’s work…Now the War has brought important role to play in understanding away… at St Anne’s with the arrival of Helen us to a peaceful recommendation that and improving society, just as St Anne’s King and the launch of the 2025 Meanwhile, back in the Library in 2018, at least some women should vote. aims today ‘To understand the world and Conversation through which we were we offer our usual warm invitation for any change it for the better.’ Mrs Johnson able to discuss what the College It was the end of the War, along with reports alumnae to visit and to use the collections further remarked in her address to Old should look like and be doing by 2025. of the devastating influenza epidemic, that for reference purposes whenever you Students at the 1918 Annual Meeting that, Further details on the outcomes of the dominated the content of the 1918 edition happen to be in Oxford. ‘the Parliamentary vote which has perhaps conversation are on pages 8-9 and we of The Ship rather than a focus on the given me most pleasure is your vote for the Clare White (1990) Librarian look forward to keeping you updated extension of the franchise to women. For University Burgess, and that it should have Selected bibliography: the women at the helm of the Society of Somerville for Women: an Oxford In October, the opening of the Tim been given with such absolute fairness Adams, Pauline, Oxford Home-Students, the advantages College 1879-1993, 1996. Gardam Building was a fantastic occasion to this history of women’s education as Brittain, Vera, The Women at Oxford: a Fragment of of the right to vote were inextricably linked History, 1960. for College. It was only thanks to the planned by the University.’ Oxford had the Delegacy for Women Students, Society of Oxford Home-Students, Annual Report, 1918. support of so many of our alumnae and right to elect two members of Parliament Deneke, Helena, Grace Hadow, 1946. friends that we were able to build the as representatives of the University, and John, Angela V, Rocking the Boat: Welsh Women Who Championed Equality 1840-1990, 2018. Library and not only transform the front of herein lay a peculiar anomaly. From 1918, Notes on Constitution and Discipline, 1911. MSS, OHS 5/2, St Anne’s College Archives. College but further support the students in former women students over the age of 30 Robinson, Jane, Hearts and Minds: the Untold Story their studies – thank you. If you were not were entitled to vote for MPs representing a of the Great Pilgrimage and How Women Won the Vote, 2018. able to attend the opening of the Library activities of Dr John Traill (Director of further funds for our Research Centres University which still did not recognise them Society of Oxford Home-Students Old Students’ please do come and visit, alumnae are Association, The Ship, issues 1911-1918. Music) and the St Anne’s Camerata. based in the Library: the Centre for welcome to visit College at any time – get The aim is to create a fund to endow the Personalised Medicine and Oxford in touch with us and we will be delighted post of Director of Music. We have just Comparative Criticism and Translation. to arrange a tour. begun work on a campaign to endow We would like to thank the Dr Stanley Ho Raising Funds the post of Tutorial Fellow in Economics. Medical Development Foundation and the Thank you to everyone who has donated The campaign will formally launch with a Wellcome Trust for their support of CPM to St Anne’s. We are incredibly grateful for reunion in September 2018 and will run for and Maria Willetts, Jane Aitken and Celia your continued support of the College in two years. We have also recently launched Atkin for their support of OCCT. so many different ways. an appeal to support tutorial teaching to furthering the cause of education and Over the past six months, we have been and graduate development scholarships. opportunities for women. Bertha Johnson Our fundraising activities in 2017 and supporting students to fund initiatives You can support this at: https://www. comments on the opening up of both the 2018 include the annual telethon through via crowdfunding. In February/March, campaign.ox.ac.uk/st-annes-college legal and the medical professions, stating, which we raised £180k and a campaign we ran a crowdfunding campaign for five ‘I look to having our Poor Law solicitor in support of music and specifically the This year we have successfully secured students in the St Anne’s Camerata and

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the College’s Plumer Fellow Alberto Sanna Development Office is looking for alumnae questions. to go to Nairobi in Kenya to perform who are interested in serving as year, • Live Streaming - We have a huge concerts in the city, as well as engaging decade or subject reunion champions to number of events already taking place in outreach programmes with Tangaza bring their contemporaries to the College; at the College, and we plan to start to University and with children and young we will handle all logistics for the event share some of these via social media people from around Nairobi. In April/May, and send postal and electronic invitations. so that you can enjoy them wherever we crowdfunded for two St Anne’s Earth We are also looking for champions you are in the world. Sciences students (plus two others) to go who are interested in spreading the on a mapping expedition to Greenland. In word about the event via social media • Oxford Alumni Community - Set up June, we supported Target Oxbridge – an platforms and word of mouth. You are also in 2015, St Anne’s has 548 alumnae initiative to help more black African and welcome to host your own event at the and students registered with the site. Caribbean students and students of mixed College organised independently of the Those signed up are able to offer race with black African and Caribbean Development Office. mentoring to both St Anne’s students heritage increase their chances of getting and alumnae, and connect with Enclosed with The Ship this year is an into Oxbridge (see p.75) – as well as a others within their sector. events brochure which details all our campaign to help provide funding for the upcoming events along with booking St Anne’s Academic Review (STAAR). information. Email invitations will continue We are hoping to launch our first Giving to be sent separately. Day/Week in Hilary 2019. We are very Volunteering and engagement much at the early stage of our planning In addition to our events, communications workshops, informational interviews, what communications you would like to any of these initiatives or how you can get but we know that when the time comes and fundraising activities, we are looking CV clinics and internships. receive in advance of the GDPR regulation involved, please get in touch. we will need support from as many of our into how the College engages with changes on 25 May. Thank you if you have • Outreach - In addition to mentoring, Thank you again for your continued alumnae as possible to help promote it. returned the form. However, just to remind alumnae. After hearing from our Events outreach was one of the most- support. you: if you want to continue receiving Events at St Anne’s Working Group and our alumnae, we are discussed topics among alumnae We continue to hold a number of events emails from the College you may need to Jules Foster Director of Development working on a number of new initiatives during our 2025 Conversations. and reunions throughout the year and including: check your preferences as we may not be • Careers Network - to help students Outreach Officers across the Get in touch with us.... over the past 12 months 836 of you have able to contact you if you have not done • Webinars - through which we hope prepare for future careers, we have University are in the midst of outlining Email: [email protected] attended our events. We hope to see even so. to provide low to no-cost workshops, significantly expanded our Careers a strategy for including alumnae in Post: St Anne’s Development Office, St more of our alumnae in the coming years. for example, on taking the next step Network to help students prepare outreach efforts. The Privacy Notice has been updated and Anne’s College, Woodstock Road, Oxford, At present we are undertaking a review in your career. You will be able to log is available on our website (https://www. OX2 6HS. for the workforce. Our Careers Communicating with College of the events programme and aim to alumniweb.ox.ac.uk/st-annes/privacy- Telephone: +44 (0) 1865 284536 in at the ‘live’ time of the workshop Network is a series of alumnae-to- We hope that you all received your copy of introduce new events in 2018/19. notice) as well as being included with this Facebook and Twitter: @stannescollege to ask questions while it is occurring, student workshops that began as a the Annual Review in April. As part of this, If you are interested in holding your own edition of The Ship (p.93). or log into the session afterwards to careers week in Hilary Term and a we sent out a form offering you a chance Reunion, St Anne’s Development Office access the content and reach out set of summer internships, and has to update your contact details and tell us If you would like to find out more about can assist you with these events. The to the presenter at a later time with now expanded to include career

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missionaries, vicar’s wives, social workers for study at university level. I once overheard sum because of the amount already raised Quacks of gratitude and in voluntary work of many kinds. myself referred to as ‘one of the Principal’s by others collectively. The new kitchen was lame ducks’. For which I can only utter a also made possible with donor support of JILL PATON WALSH AND WENDY MANTLE I found myself, to my own embarrassment, grateful quack. the same kind: donations however small reading embarrassed letters from my peers There’s more than one way of into College each month, quarter or year us turned up, some of us changed greatly, and however given – in one gift, monthly, who told me they simply could not afford Wendy Mantle (Gulliford 1957) giving to College. As one of our helps to strengthen our financial position some hardly at all, and we had a good time annually. the suggested direct debit. I soon had a contributors reminded us last and provide an outstanding educational comparing notes and gossiping together. It Despite the whirl of scandals about some draft letter ready in reply, saying, roughly, All of us whose lives have been enriched year, ‘great oaks from little experience for all students, irrespective of emerged as we talked that a group younger major charities, the clamour of good causes that they had contributed enough to society by the education we received at St Anne’s acorns grow’ background. Every gift really does make a than us had already arranged to sponsor a via the Internet and post has not lessened. and should leave the sponsoring of a know that money is the means by which difference and your support will mean that student bursary, with the idea of seeing at Most of us are tempted, understandably, to A defining moment in the history of student to those of us who could afford it. we can express our gratitude, and it will be we can achieve our vision of understanding least one student through his or her degree react negatively and perhaps resentfully, to the Society of Oxford Home-Students, vital to secure the future of College for future the world and changing it for the better. free from debt. We thought we could In sharp contrast, the group I have calls for our compassion to be translated the predecessor to St Anne’s, was a generations of undergraduate and graduate probably do the same. mentioned above, who had matriculated ten into money. No one has unlimited funds and benefaction from Mrs Amy Hartland, who in students. years later than us, I gathered had had no everyone has their favourite charities. 1929 established a trust for the construction The College still held contact details for trouble at all. Most had gone into well-paid, Apart from making what regular donations and maintenance of the first purpose 65 or so of the year of 55, and some of The main difference between St Anne’s, professional occupations and raised the we can afford we must make provision in built College building. Hartland House us had kept in touch with contemporaries as an educational charity, and the others money, I was told, quite easily. our wills. No one enjoys the memento mori was completed and became available to who had not updated the College on their that daily crave our attention, is that the of will-making but legacies make a lasting students in 1938. On her death in 1945 she whereabouts. I offered to do the writing In the end we fell short of target, and number of potential donors, graduate and contribution to College finances. Between left her entire estate to the Society and an around and Barbara Matthews offered to managed only £10,000 for our student, postgraduate alumnae is finite: 8,300 being 2011 and 2016, £4.7 million was received extension was built in 1952 (followed by an help. We wanted to raise £13,000, the limit which no doubt was some help to the currently known to College. We have the from legacies. Many graduates who live additional wing in 1973). one student could receive in subsidy at recipient. responsibility of trying to meet its needs. in the South East and own houses will be that time. This was to stop richer colleges As we have been throughout our history, St When the three years were up, I totally If St Anne’s is to succeed in remaining a concerned about the impact of the 40 per buying the best students from poorer Anne’s remains reliant on the donations we forgot to cancel the direct debit and so, vital part of a world-class university, its plans cent inheritance tax levied on their estates colleges, an idea of which we approved. receive from alumnae and friends. Though unknowingly, simply went on giving my £5 for the future can only be realised if the after the tax-free allowance is taken into Ever since its foundation, the buildings of St We decided to ask supporters for a monthly fees have increased, state funding for a month. Last year when a member of the majority of us, rich, poor and middling, can account. A charitable gift of 10 per cent of a Anne’s have depended on donations and direct debit of £5 running for three years education continues to decline and we need Development Office came to Cambridge pledge regular donations, whether large or net estate lowers to 36 per cent the rate of the new Library and Academic Centre is no and Barbara and I set about writing the the donations provided each year to provide to have lunch with me, I assumed she had small, over a number of years. This kind of tax on the residue. What’s to lose? exception. There’s more than one way of letters. essential support for our students, staff and come to ask for money, and was astonished funding is essential to support bursaries, giving to College. In response to requests You can find out more about ways to fellows – bursaries, scholarships, tutorial The results cast a sociologically interesting when she said she had come simply to vacation and hardship grants, and of course from younger readers, we look at ways support the College online at: teaching, welfare services, outreach and light. In spite of the advantage of an Oxford thank me. Over time, the direct debit had teaching, as well as access and outreach of making a difference that don’t demand http://www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk/alumnae/ access to schools across the UK, funding education, quite a few of us had spent added up to a significant sum. I certainly programmes. millions. supporting for the Library, sport and travel grants. very little time in employment. We had would not dream of cancelling it now — that The new Library was made possible by 500 Regular donations are especially important Jill Paton Walsh (Bliss 1955) devoted ourselves to supporting husbands’ would be ungracious. And I owe St Anne’s £5 per month really does make a donors from almost every year giving what as they help the College to plan for the careers, raising children or working in a lot: the College gave me a place in spite difference. Donate at: https://www. In 2005 the College held a reunion lunch for they could, as well as several major donors, future: knowing that your gift is coming ill-paid occupations as charity workers, of my almost complete lack of preparation campaign.ox.ac.uk/st-annes-college my matriculation year, 1955. About 30 of of whom one was persuaded to give a large

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The weapon to change the world VICTORIA A MURPHY

‘Education is the most powerful most pertinent to children who are minority specifically examine vocabulary given that weapon you can use to change the language learners – known as English as much research has identified that children’s world,’ said Nelson Mandela. If we an Additional Language (EAL) learners in knowledge of vocabulary is a strong want our educational systems to be the UK – and will present a snapshot of predictor of children’s literacy skill. transformative – with the power some research that my colleagues and I The Simple View of Reading (SVR) (Gough to change the world – we need to have carried out over the years that speaks & Tunmer, 1986) suggests that reading skill educate all our pupils from linguistically to these issues. I conclude by arguing that is a product of two separate components: diverse backgrounds in more than as a society we need to do far better in Decoding or the ability to read words on a one language promoting multilingualism in British schools. page, and Language Comprehension as The majority of the people in the world can Approximately 20 percent of the primary in understanding those words. Decoding speak more than one language (Grosjean, school population in England have English involves understanding ‘the alphabetic 2010). For many children around the as an Additional Language, a figure that principle’, namely that the letters on a world, education is the primary context in is growing each year (DfE, 2016). Despite page represent the sounds of language. which their development into multilinguals numerous well-documented advantages to The importance of decoding in reading begins. Indeed, the significant majority being multilingual, many children with EAL in alphabetic scripts is clear from decades of children internationally will be learning English schools (and indeed, internationally) of research, so much so that many likely to come to school with less well- best ways to develop these important the word ‘dog’ also involves knowing its a second or other language through the underperform relative to non-EAL peers. governments (including England’s) has developed knowledge of English vocabulary. linguistic skills. synonyms (canine), use in multiple semantic medium of education – either through England has made great strides in this area, instituted mandatory phonics instruction. Given that currently, the school system is contexts (afflict, plague, trouble), knowing There are two main components to bilingual education programmes, or where for the first time children with EAL Many studies have demonstrated that (sadly) uninterested in the child’s complete word associates (cat), pragmatic knowledge vocabulary knowledge that are important learning a taught foreign language. A overall matched or even out-performed children with EAL have strength in the area linguistic repertoire, knowing vocabulary (when to use it) and also knowing the in terms of literacy. The first is vocabulary third context in which children can also non-EAL peers on the Attainment 8 score, of decoding, where they either match or in another language other than English idioms and collocations that are relevant for breadth, ie. how many words does an develop their multilingualism is when a a measure of performance at GCSE level. exceed performance of non-EAL pupils is of nominal interest within the context the word (eg. ‘It’s raining cats and dogs’; individual child know. On measures of child speaks a language in the home that However, on closer examination it is clear (Lesaux et al, 2008). However, many of the English classroom. As a result of ‘The book’s pages were dog-eared’; ‘He vocabulary breadth children with EAL often is not the language of the wider, majority that many sub-groups of children with children with EAL have difficulties with the smaller vocabulary size, children with was in the dog-house’). We have spent have lower scores than non-EAL children. society and, importantly, not the language EAL do underperform relative to non-EAL second component of the SVR model, EAL often underperform on measures some time in my research group exploring The second dimension of vocabulary of education. Children in this context are peers, so more work is yet to be done. namely language comprehension. Children of listening and reading comprehension these other depth-dimensions to vocabulary knowledge is depth, where a child with well- known internationally as ‘minority language In our research, we ask questions about with EAL often start school behind non- (August & Shanahan, 2009; McKendry & knowledge in EAL and non-EAL pupils alike. developed word knowledge will understand learners’ because they speak a language in the cognitive and linguistic variables that EAL children in terms of their vocabulary Murphy, 2011; Murphy, 2018). Vocabulary What we have found thus far is that children many different features of a given word. For the home that is the minority relative to the underpin the development of language knowledge (Bialystok et al., 2010). Not knowledge is something that can be with EAL tend to have lower scores than example, the word dog can map directly majority language of the society at large. and literacy skills in EAL pupils because surprisingly, if a child has spent a large developed within the educational system non-EAL children on: i) measures that tap in on to the referent ‘domesticated animal In this paper, I briefly discuss some of the knowledge in this area underpins academic proportion of their early years speaking therefore it is important to understand as to extended meanings of a word (e.g. plant with fur and four legs’. However, knowing linguistic and educational issues that are achievement in school. To that end, we a language other than English, they are much as possible about the nature of the in ‘plant pot’ vs. plant in ‘power plant’);

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ii) measures of collocational knowledge hence allow education to be the force of Currently, EAL and multilingualism is and idioms; iii) measures that estimate positive change envisaged in Mandela’s considered a problem in English schools, Happy birthday their comprehension of texts that contain quote. While our educational system seems one that needs to be overcome. There multiword vocabulary, and importantly to work overall for EAL children in that is much theoretical and empirical work, NHS! here we’ve also documented a lack of as a group they match or exceed GCSE however, that suggests that supporting both awareness that they are misunderstanding attainment relative to non-EAL peers, languages in a multilingual child can actually JUDITH VIDAL-HALL the texts; iv) metaphor, where children with two recent analyses of the National Pupil support their learning of the target majority By the time we celebrate our EAL have some manifest differences in Database (Strand et al., 2015; Hutchinson, language (Cummins, 2000). If we want our seventieth birthday, many of us are their online processing of metaphors in text 2018) have demonstrated that a number of educational systems to be transformative more fragile, more vulnerable than in as measured with eye-tracking methods, sub-groups of EAL do underperform relative – with the power to change the world – we our youth but we don’t give up and v) generally tend to have lower reading to non-EAL. This means then that for many need to be able to educate all our pupils ‘5 July 1948: Creation of NHS heralds new comprehension relative to non-EAL pupils children with EAL, they are considerably to the highest standard. Currently, our era in British healthcare’ ran the headlines (Murphy, 2014; 2018). behind the national expected average. educational policy and practice adopts a in the UK press the day that saw the One of the ways we can work towards monolingual mindset in a multilingual world. In summary then, if we look carefully at the launch of the world’s first comprehensive changing this state of affairs is to accept We need to change this mindset and adopt research literature and findings that address health service. Health Minister Aneurin that multilingualism is a reality in our society a more plurilingual approach which will have questions about EAL children’s reading and Bevan had his publicity photos ready as today. However, this fact is mostly ignored advantages for children from linguistically vocabulary skills, we find that they have he stood at the bedside of a patient in by our current and previous governments. diverse backgrounds but will also benefit little difficulty with decoding, but often have a Manchester hospital: ‘the home of the The term ‘multilingual’ was not mentioned the monolingual children as well, so that difficulty with language comprehension, National Health Service’ as he chose to once in the recent Integrated Strategies they can also take advantage of developing which can be directly related to their lack call it. Green paper , England has no coherent knowledge of more than one language, of vocabulary knowledge. A consistent EAL policy, and the EAL population in UK which is needed now more than ever. Despite initial resistance from GPs, for finding emerging from our research group schools is all but invisible in government the first time, hospitals, doctors, nurses, has shown that children with EAL have Victoria A Murphy is Professor of Applied documents. Research shows that learning pharmacists, opticians and dentists different patterns of performance on depth Linguistics in the Department of Education, a second language can help support were brought together under a single of vocabulary relative to non-EAL, which a Fellow of St Anne’s and Dean At a stroke, inequalities were wiped out: The new service was soon 30 per cent children’s developing literacy in their first organisation to provide services that were makes a unique contribution to reading of Degrees the poor, most of whom could not pay over budget and 40,000 understaffed, language (Murphy et al., 2015), and we also free for all at the point of delivery. The comprehension. for regular health care and died from the especially nurses. Cash-strapped – not know that non-EAL children in schools with central principles were clear: ‘that it meet epidemics rife in the insanitary slums to say bankrupt – post-war Britain found The title of this piece references a quote high proportions of EAL pupils tend to do the needs of everyone; that it be free at in which so many lived, had the same its £437 million (roughly £15 billion at attributed to Nelson Mandela who said, better academically than in schools with the point of delivery; that it be based on entitlement as those who could afford today’s value) budget was quickly under ‘Education is the most powerful weapon low proportions of EAL (Strand et al., 2015). clinical need, not ability to pay.’ Further: medical care. By the day of its launch, 94 strain. Only four years after its launch, the that you can use to change the world.’ In These findings, together with the reality ‘the health service [will be] financed per cent of the population had signed up. government voted to bring in charges for the light of the research described above, that being multilingual is advantageous on entirely from taxation, which means that dental care, spectacles and prescriptions. But that was the start of the problems: it’s worth asking what changes if any we a number of different dimensions, suggests people pay into it according to their Modest prescription charges – one the sheer scale of demand quickly created need to make to our educational system we need to re-orient our thinking about means.’ Seventy years on, these principles shilling/5p – were introduced and a flat a shortage of cash and of personnel. to better support multilingual learners, and education to adopt a multilingual approach. remain the same. rate of £1 for dental treatment. 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charge for spectacles followed. could well have foundered long before its well as a more preventive approach and anticipated ‘three score years and ten’. attention to social care – in short, a new More difficult to deal with were the nursing Passing the grandmother test model of healthcare – is essential for its shortages. On 22 June 1948, the Empire Today, more than a quarter of NHS HELEN SALISBURY future. To be proud of the NHS is ‘not to Windrush arrived in the UK, carrying 492 doctors and 11 per cent of all NHS staff be blind to its imperfections’ said chief Do doctors need to be kind? If concept of kindness as less complete than berth. passengers from the West Indies, many were born overseas and there are plans to executive Simon Stevens at the NHS so, can those of us teaching them that of compassion as it does not include of whom took jobs in the NHS, which recruit another 14,000 foreign nurses to It is by ‘othering’, seeing people birthday celebration in Westminster Abbey. make a difference? Kindness can the perspective of the recipient. This launched only two weeks later. ease shortages, many of them from as explicitly not one of our group, Indeed: while they share their anxieties on require courage but fortunately it is seems illogical to me: to be considerate the Caribbean. that we can exclude them from By the 1950s, aggressive recruitment contagious it is necessary to imagine the other’s its future, not one of those writing here being deserving of our kindness campaigns were being organised in Numerous opinion polls tell us the perspective. regrets her decision to enter its service. Many of our students arrive inspired by the Caribbean as in other colonial and 70-year-old NHS remains Britain’s most When I talk about empathy in the context Paying tribute to the health service’s Dr House (Hugh Laurie in the TV series Etymologically, kindness contains the former colonial territories. By 1954 there popular institution. Paradoxical then, that of teaching clinical communication, there 1.5 million staff at the same event, House): they will be that fabulously clever concept of kin or relationship, and in were more than 3,000 women from the it is both held in higher regard and is in are several predictable responses, the Stevens said, ‘Today we give thanks – doctor who finds the obscure clinical sign judging actions or interactions people Caribbean training as nurses in British greater danger than at any time since its most common being: You can’t teach it – for their service, for their skill and for their that is the key to unlocking the diagnostic will often ask, ‘Does this pass the hospitals. Five years on, the number had foundation. people either have it or they don’t – and I compassion.’ puzzle. They aim to become that doctor- grandmother test?’ In other words, would doubled. And by 1966, only two years wouldn’t want it if it was faked. Underlying If it was the initial huge demand for free as-detective who cures the patient and I want it for someone I care about. In before Enoch Powell’s ‘rivers of blood’ these are twin assumptions: if you have to health care that nearly sank it, that is once saves the day. religious exhortations to altruism, we speech, there were 16,745 foreign trainees teach it, it can’t be genuine; and empathy, again a growing issue. Lack of adequate are asked to treat all men as brothers in the NHS, nearly three quarters from the However, most of modern medicine or lack of it, is a fixed personality trait. On funding also remains a persistent problem; (and presumably women as sisters). West Indies. Life in a hostile and racist is looking after patients with long- closer inspection we will find that it is all a from 1948 until 2010, the NHS budget The limits of kindness may be seen as environment was not easy. Had they not term conditions or at the end of their bit more complicated than that. enjoyed an average 4 per cent annual rise the boundaries of our kinship: it is by persisted in serving the institution of lives and our aims are more modest. above inflation. Since then, according to ‘othering’, seeing people as explicitly not I also want to explore the perceived which the country was so proud, it Our satisfaction comes not just from the King’s Fund think-tank, increases have one of our group, that we can exclude cost to the doctor of ‘genuine’ empathy technical fixing, but from caring, from averaged 1.2 per cent. The government’s them from being deserving of our and the relationship between empathy paying attention to the emotional and £20 billion birthday present represents 3.4 kindness. On a large scale you can see and burnout. psychological wellbeing of our patients, per cent, still not enough for the service to that in the devastation of war, genocides whatever the physical circumstances. How sleep easy. in Bosnia, Rwanda or across Europe in do medical teachers ensure that students World War II. Not only does this lead to the The NHS is envied by other countries are fitted for this purpose? violence itself but also to our ability to turn for its universal coverage, its humanity Kindness, compassion and empathy off the news, close the paper and turn our and its value for money – and despite are used in the literature about the attention back to our daily concerns. flaws, still the best in the developed world August 1948 Credit: The Daily Mail doctor-patient relationship in overlapping according to the international think-tank And how could we survive otherwise? On Absolutely free - but you'd better get cracking before and sometimes interchangeable ways. the Commonwealth Fund. But as our the supplies run out a smaller scale you see it on the streets Kindness has been defined as the quality contributors tell us, radical reform of of our cities as people give the homeless St Thomas’ Hospital June 2016 - NHS nurses from of being friendly, generous or considerate the Caribbean and Africa and former nurses at the structure, funding and management, as men and women in doorways a wide unveiling of the Mary Seacole statue. Credit: WAWI and some commentators regard the

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If you have to teach empathy does it mean make ourselves smile even when we are the world from another’s point of view reactions to events in their training. distress, but then to start afresh with the The problems start when the switch gets it is faked? Does it matter? There is a feeling grumpy, are polite even when we or reading that person’s emotions. Thus Students may object and ask whether it next patient, I need to be good at what stuck, most often in the narrow focus. philosophical and psychological question are feeling cross, it is hard to hang on to they say the wrong thing, are blunt or is my business what they feel; I should Roger Neighbour calls ‘housekeeping’ If we ask patients what they want from here: if you don’t know the Rembrandt those original moods. Acting in a kind way, tactless and appear unfeeling. But if it is concern myself with how they act. If they – the ability to pack away the emotions their doctors, the answers are consistent: you are looking at is a forgery, surely saying kind words, alters how we feel. pointed out to them that they have hurt are permanently grumpy and rude, fail evoked in one consultation, be they ‘I want a doctor who is caring and you enjoy the picture just as much? If Even if it didn’t, the experience of those someone’s feelings they are mortified to engage with patients and colleagues, grief, frustration or joy, and meet the next compassionate, who listens, who treats I can successfully mimic true heartfelt around us is of someone being kind, and and earnestly wish to learn how not it clearly is my business to explore their patient without that baggage. me as a person.’ (Interestingly, technical compassion, does it matter if I don’t feel their responses to us reflect and reinforce to make the same mistake again. The feelings with them, as it is if they are Given that it is such hard work for the competence always seems to be taken as a thing? that. Can it be said of someone that they second type is the psychopathic lack of perpetually on the edge of tears and doctor, is empathy really worth it? Not a given by patients) are unkind if all their actions show the empathy in which our protagonist knows finding the job a strain. But if they are I would go as far as to say that it is really everybody believes so. Paul Bloom, a opposite? exactly what makes his or her interlocutor performing well, have good relationships, If we want to create kind doctors there important to be able to mimic compassion, US psychologist, believes that empathy tick, knows which buttons to press to what right have I to enquire what they may be short cuts we can teach in the to be able to behave deliberately in this Much is written in the sociological leads us to act irrationally and that more achieve the desired outcomes, but really ‘genuinely’ feel about their patients? classroom, habits of listening and asking way even when you do not feel it. It is literature about ‘emotional labour’, the good could be done in the world if we doesn’t care at all about the happiness We are back to the question of private that we can foster. However, a huge part not enough to rely on genuine feelings of work put into being kind or being cheerful considered how to act without having our or wellbeing of the other person. In less emotions and public behaviours. However, of the doctor they become will be shaped kindness because these run out. When that is required in some roles and jobs. A decisions coloured by emotion. The cool, extreme versions I have met both of these if the sociologists are right and superficial by the institutions in which they learn I am cheerful and rested, confident and distinction is drawn between ‘superficial clinically rational doctor is sometimes held as medical students: one will need quite acting is related to burnout, then it may and work, and the role models they see: hopeful, I have great reserves of heartfelt acting’ (smiling even though you can’t up as a role model, with the opinion that a lot of explicit coaching to come up to really be my business to know, if I am how are patients talked to and about? care and empathy for my patients. But stand the person) and ‘deep acting’ patients would rather have a doctor who an acceptable level of consultation skills. looking out for my students and their Does scheduling allow patients to be catch me at the end of the day when I’ve (making a conscious effort to alter your was good at medicine than one who was The second learns quickly and will display future patients. heard in their consultation? How much been flat out for 11 hours and tell me how attitudes and emotions). Research has good at communicating, as if the two were excellent skills in a clinical examination, is the system geared around institutional rotten your hay fever is making you feel, shown that faking emotions is associated There is a common perception that burnout mutually exclusive. but I’m concerned about what might convenience and how much around then I need a collection of learned skills with feeling emotionally exhausted is in part a consequence of doctors opening happen when unobserved. The interesting To practise medicine is to put patients’ needs? What weight is given to and ingrained habits of consulting so and detached, whereas deep acting themselves up to genuine feelings about question then arises as to whether this yourself in the presence of the patients’ wants and preferences when that you don’t feel short changed by an is associated with feelings of personal their patients. Emotional involvement is latter deficit is remediable; we can teach suffering decisions need to be made? uncaring doctor. I need to be intentionally accomplishment. What isn’t clear is just too hard in modern medicine; in some knowledge and skills but can we ‘teach’ kind. the direction of causality; the style of specialties we genuinely fix the broken (set Clearly there are times when it is useful Medicine is still largely learnt as an attitude? I think the answer is yes if you emotional labour used may be a product bones, cure cancers, eradicate infections) to set empathy aside; the sterile field with apprenticeship, so we copy what we see. However, this dichotomy between genuine reframe ‘teach’ as influence, mould and rather than a predictor of burnout. but many of us spend our careers caring bright lights and green drapes enables the We are, anyway, social animals and mostly kindness and compassion as opposed to model. for people with long-term conditions surgeon to concentrate on the intricacies do what is done around us, making an learned behaviours that merely simulate But what can we do to help students who If we return to our autist, or me on a bad rather than effecting miracle cures. In this of the operation without thinking about the effort to fit in. If the prevailing attitude in it is an oversimplification. These are not find empathy really difficult? day in surgery, and we view kindness as context, especially at the sharp end of acute person underneath and their hopes and your emergency department is that people static and independent states; to an Simon Baron-Cohen, in his book Zero something that is performed, that really medicine, can we afford to really care? fears. Neighbour’s concept of ‘Crichton’s who self-harm are an irritating waste of extent we become what we pretend to Degrees of Empathy, describes two should be teachable. switch’ [Roger Neighbour, Past President, everyone’s time, making work when there be. This happens in two ways, from the To practise medicine is to put yourself in different varieties of deficit. One he Royal College of General Practitioners Ed] is frankly already enough to do, then it inside out and from the outside in. Our Reflective writing is one method used the presence of suffering. To be able to be labels the autistic lack of empathy, seen is useful here; the ability to turn your focus takes real courage to swim against that behaviour influences how we feel; if we to encourage students to explore their completely present with the patient in their in people who have difficulty in seeing from the person to the narrow clinical task. tide and treat the difficult and distressed

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with kindness and patience. Revisiting the concept of emotional work, this is not just about painting on a smile Resources are clearly a major factor What makes it all worthwhile when we are irritated but also about and the pressure under which doctors CHARLOTTE WILLIAMS suppressing the grief and anger that may work has a huge effect on their ability arise when bad things happen. In other It offers huge variety, will test and parents’ mild chagrin, I was fairly certain College. I once heard Tim Gardam say that to be kind. If you are working in an caring professions, systems exist for grow your talents and allow you to that wasn’t the right path for me, but I the best thing about learning in College is overstretched, understaffed department, debriefing after difficult events, or even meet some of the biggest-brained and wasn’t closing the door just yet. There was inter-disciplinarity, and the skills you gain in rushed off your feet and fearful that you routinely, where emotions can be shared biggest-hearted people on the planet. something about medicine and healthcare I discussing and debating topics from yours will make a dangerous mistake, it will be and reactions validated. In medicine, What’s not to choose in joining the found compelling. and others’ subjects – and everything in very difficult to have the emotional energy there is still a culture of stiff upper lip NHS? between. I think this was one of the things left for kindness. If we are not careful, a I suppose in terms of what I might do inherited from medicine’s military roots I liked most. I wasn’t sure I was going to siege mentality develops. The language Having finally eventually, whilst keeping my options open, perhaps and perpetuated by ideas of be just one thing in my life, or my career; I we use is important: at a recent seminar got over the I was nurturing the kernel of an idea – fed what counts as professional behaviour. wasn’t sure that that would even be a good we (a group of GP trainers) were berated amazement that I to me by my brother over a fast food lunch Patterns of emotional regulation by junior idea, given how fast I was discovering new for failing to train our registrars for the processes kind to our staff and students?’ was indeed offered one day mid-A levels, whilst he was down doctors during stressful events have been things about the world. That is the sense of ‘combat zone’ ahead. The speaker talked We can fight for appropriate resources for a place – not from college – that I could do science, but summarised as ‘suppression during, opportunity a great education, and I believe of the need for teamwork in terms of our teams so that they have time to be least because I’d working for the government. Now saying it expression after’ or ‘expression during, particularly time at an accepting, open and being ‘all in this fox-hole together’ and of kind. happily accepted like that all sounds very cloak and dagger, regret after’. The former is preferable diverse college like St Anne’s can provide. our juniors’ need to be ‘battle ready’. If We need to remember that kindness my initial rejection or indeed brings to mind a white coat and to the latter, but if the suppression medicine is war, who is the enemy? is not a constant but is contingent on from Trinity and goggles in a lab enabling espionage like In the end it was a comment from a peer occurs without the opportunity for later been almost packing my bags off to London Q, or secretly creating biological weapons that probably caused it. Whilst complaining Our ability to be kind is also shaped by the organisational culture. It can require expression, the chance of burnout is for my degree – I came up to St Anne’s somewhere in a bunker to fight a new Cold about the opaque civil service science kindness we receive ourselves; the bullied courage but fortunately it is contagious. increased. The psychological safety determined to make the most of it all in War (let’s hope we aren’t all about to see fast-stream (for which I had applied – become bullies, the abused, abusers. needed to enable doctors to express Dr Helen Salisbury (1983) is a GP and October 1997. A comprehensive school such a thing….), but actually I just thought ‘government scientist’ remember?), a Unkindness starts at the top of some emotions requires well-functioning, stable leads the communications course for girl, and with the exception of my brother, this sounded like a nice blend of interesting friend reading maths mentioned she was organisations, rude, obstructive behaviour teams, and is sadly lacking for many Oxford medical students who had gone up to New College two years stuff (the science) and sound values (my off to join the NHS Graduate Management is relayed to the level below and patients doctors. Attention to self-care is now a before, no history of university in my family, desire to be useful and probably work in Training Scheme for NHS Finance. She said may be the ultimate victims. Jonathan major theme of professionalism, building St Anne’s seemed a little less ancient, but public service, like my naval father and civil I should look into it, that I might like it, so I Ballatt and Penny Campling’s 2011 book on the concept that it is hard to be kind to much more me. servant mother). did. There was nothing to lose after all, and Intelligent Kindness is about the need others if you are not kind to yourself. the application process was a little more for the NHS to focus on kindness. They I was reading Biochemistry, having opted for Really enjoying my subject, making So, can we teach kindness? We can give interactive and a lot quicker! September observe that, far from being a fixed trait of a hybrid of probably my best subjects, and wonderful friends and sucking the our students some tools and pointers, 2018 will mark 17 years of my career in and individuals or organisations, kindness is realising that I could read enough popular marrow out of the College experience teaching listening skills and the importance around the NHS. So I suppose I owe it all to variable and can be nurtured or squashed: history books to get a flavour of my other with my (squarely mediocre) rowing, JCR of the patient’s perspective. More you, Jenny, thank you! ‘Like any quality, compassion thrives love in my spare time. At school I had the Committee, working in the College bar powerfully, clinicians can be role models. under certain conditions and withers under privilege of undertaking work experience and careers fairs, as well as occasionally I was fortunate enough to be offered a We can look at our working environments others.’ with some medical doctors, and, to my keeping score at the darts, I just loved place on the NHS Graduate Management and ask ‘where is the support? Are these

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Training Scheme for general management knowing the right answer. I regularly feel the to cover on-call and longer-term strategic having a new therapy. I am lucky enough Anne’s to today, I’d like to say it was all upon leaving St Anne’s in 2001. I felt benefits of those skills I learned in inter- programmes of work helped when my to be able to point to published evidence planned, that it was all part of a roadmap rather humbled and a little daunted, given disciplinary conversation and debate from daughter, now seven, was tiny. I wanted to of this in one case that makes me proud, for success, but I’d be kidding you and the quality of people I had met at the College; of getting along with those whose diversify but not slow down, and working the improvements to specialist cancer myself. I could have pushed and been a assessment centres for the scheme – abilities are so strong and yet very different with terrifically intelligent and motivated services in North and East London which I bigger, more senior figure than I am now; I many of them existing NHS staff. I was from one’s own. Finding common ground colleagues and challenging clinical helped lead for a few years. The quiet thrill could have studied harder and have more also thinking about the grey suits I might and matching complementary strengths is academics gave me that; it also showed of seeing improvements you articulated as letters after my name, or perhaps used my have to buy and the frowns from people essential: working in NHS management is me how remarkable our health and care part of a case for change actually coming experience for greater financial gain to me whose view of NHS management was evil working with a succession of different and system is: the innovation we drive, the real three years later when those changes and/or others. All of which is true, but I think bean-counting and budget-cutting. Then temporary teams in different contexts. This breadth of our research and the value are in place, is hard to beat. It makes the in the end I’ve just been very lucky to have I recalled Baroness Ruth Deech, then is how the NHS operates every day. The of a single health system from which to days when nothing goes right and your great people to talk to about my choices Principal, telling me that the NHS would be traditional hierarchies may exist, but they learn. I was fortunate to be offered some plan fails to progress due to poor timing, and options – my brother in sixth form, my overseen by government and at the mercy ‘very lucky to have [me].’ There’s nothing aren’t always helpful to draw upon: they fantastic opportunities during six years lack of resources or simply a change in a peers and tutors at College, my bosses and of national and local, big and small politics, like a bit of Oxford pride to buoy you up, is aren’t always how the work gets done. there, including a secondment to the heart leader’s mind, seem more transient and less leaders in the health service – and as with one can occasionally groan, ‘Does it have there? It makes me smile to this day. of a national flagship NHS programme. consequential. all improvement in healthcare, you may only As a young manager I was seduced into the to be so difficult?’ Or, ‘It just doesn’t seem Some time in that rarefied air was amazingly have a loose hypothesis but you try it out, I started work in operational hospital greasy-pole mantra that you keep taking quite right!’ Coming to terms with this is I love my job, I love the NHS and I would insightful and allowed me to observe some learn as you go, iterate and try again. I’d like management in a spooky old workhouse promotion in the toughest sector of the important and part of the job, but over the always encourage St Anne’s, Oxford, or phenomenal leaders, but it always felt a to think I’ve got quite a bit longer to go on on a hill in Brighton, where I was managing health service (which anyone who works in years I have learned to know where my red indeed any bright and motivated students little removed, and I perhaps felt somewhat my improvement expedition. I’ve never been long waiting lists and projects to replace hospitals will tell you is in hospitals), working lines are and when it is time to move on; to or alumnae, to consider NHS management like an imposter. In summer 2017, I came quite sure we are all just one thing, or will do the Victorian ward blocks. After that I did my way up for eight years to Assistant make sure I am able to make contributions as a career. It offers huge variety, will test back into the provider side of the NHS to a just one thing in life, and at the moment, I’m an elective placement in mental health in Director before realising that with a career I want to and ensure I am in good faith. The and grow your talents and allow you to Group Director role for a hospital group in not ruling anything out. New Zealand and worked in Public Health stretching to the age of 68 and beyond, I’d NHS is so important to us all we cannot risk meet some of the biggest-brained and Essex. I’m back to those values and aims for diabetes prevention and management need six more ‘five-year plans’, many more losing sight of its aims and values. biggest-hearted people on the planet. Of Charlotte Williams (1997) is Director, to feel useful, and I think I am being a better with GP practices on the South Coast. In weapons in my arsenal for the trip and a course there are egos and networks at Strategy and New Care Models at Basildon hospital manager now than I would have I can say that in my NHS career so far I these early jobs I enjoyed the huge diversity longer ladder to climb. I then decided to play as there will be in any occupation, and Thurrock, Mid Essex and Southend been had I stayed on that track eight years have genuinely helped to make care better. of roles and interactions, the slight seat- take some chances and embarked on a few and you aren’t going to be making huge Hospital Group and an associate at Imperial ago. I’m more restless for change and more I know that because one of the things that of-the-pants feel of new challenges daily adventures: motherhood for the first time, a bonuses. However, I do believe the NHS is College Health Partners demanding of what can be achieved. can be hard about healthcare – the visible and realising very quickly that there is no secondment to an academic medical social largely meritocratic for those within it, and targets and the constant measurement typical week in NHS management. I also enterprise linked to the NHS – UCLPartners There is a real sense of family among the its management talent is often neglected, – can also provide feedback and clear learned – both the hard way and I hope in Academic Health Science Partnership – and NHS workforce, even though within this considered a waste of money (mainly by illustrations of improvement, both in the end the right way – that getting things a role outside NHS employment. vast community there are, of course, such those who don’t work in the service or processes and outcomes. Due to the work I done successfully is generally a mix of different tribes and numerous identities. I know the cost of poor management) and To say it was an alien world might be an have helped drive forward, patients got care having good knowledge of your business find that the fundamental question of ‘why almost entirely under-estimated. It needs understatement, but professionally this more quickly in some cases, had access and taking the time to build trust and bother?’ is rarely one I have to ask myself good people to think it’s worth doing. was a change I needed, and personally to better equipment in others, had better credibility; very little is accomplished simply when I get home from work at the end of a more flexible approach, no requirement accommodation or had more choice about Thinking back on my journey from St by working out the rational approach and the week, but as with any system ultimately

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the increasing prevalence of chronic As clinicians in the NHS, we are finding Like so many, I hope to be able to Making the difference conditions such as diabetes. The range new and innovative ways of coping contribute to the NHS for many years of treatments and the effectiveness of the with the increasing volume of work, by to come, and to be able to make use of CHRISTINE KIIRE treatments that we can offer for retinal operating in more multidisciplinary ways, it when I need it. Here’s hoping that as cannot be overstated. At times when who have the power to influence its future conditions have increased significantly in for example. Ophthalmic departments this precious organisation goes forward, people are particularly vulnerable because do not lose touch with those working the past 10-15 years. Unfortunately, these across the NHS have shown how it will be adequately resourced, enabling of concerns either about their own health within the organisation every day, but treatments are very costly, and often need expanding the roles of our colleagues it to keep up with all these competing or the health of their loved ones, it is great listen to their concerns and enable them to to be given repeatedly to maximise vision in allied specialties such as optometry, demands so that we can deliver the that the NHS is there for them without deliver the quality of care that they aspire gain. This leads to specific challenges orthoptics, ophthalmic photography and highest quality of care for all those who adding financial barriers to their anxieties. to. As newer and safer ways of working around capacity within the NHS eye ophthalmic nursing can create great need it. I hope that this aspect of the NHS will be come to the fore, the cost of delivering hospital services, an issue that demands opportunities for career development while Christine Kiire (1997) is a Consultant protected for a long time to come. modern healthcare is higher than it ever careful consideration from the leaders of at the same time enabling eye hospitals to Ophthalmologist at the Oxford Eye has been. I doubt that 20 years ago many each service. deliver a high quality of care. I specialise in looking after the eyes of Hospital, John Radcliffe Hospital could have predicted that in my own people with chronic conditions such field of retinal vascular medicine, every as diabetes. The NHS provides regular clinic room would require a relatively fast and quality-assured screening for eye computer with access to electronic patient problems in those with diabetes, helping records, high-resolution retinal scans, to reduce their risk of loss of vision and ultra-widefield retinal photographs and a enabling them to see well for longer. Strategic planning or daily care? doctor who could type their own letters We want to help them maintain their JENNY EHRHARDT and electronically send them directly to the independence and prolong their working relevant GP! As the cameras and scans In its seventieth year, the NHS is at a to get in to study medicine than maths,’ my and the Financial Management schemes lives. I have worked in other countries – get better, yield more clinically meaningful point where the changing needs of the mind was made up: maths it was! at the same time, which is what I did, but richer and poorer – which do not have a Seventy years after it was started information and set new levels for the population alongside the incredible they were the only jobs I applied for. I really similar system, and have seen first-hand In second year, alongside many in my year, the NHS remains unique across the standard of care, extra investment is advances in medical science mean wanted the Finance one because I felt an the negative consequences of lack of I considered applying to do internships world in terms of its accessibility to all needed in IT infrastructure and this is not services need re-designing additional qualification was generally a good access to regular and affordable eye at City law firms. I was looking for a way regardless of their ability to pay cheap. checks for people with this condition. I joke to people now that if you cut off my to do something that felt meaningful, but The NHS is a wonderful organisation. I feel Investment in the NHS needs to little finger it’d have ‘NHS’ running right the City wasn’t really calling to me, so I The other thing I love about working in the honoured to have the privilege of serving take account of changing population through like Blackpool Rock, but I’ve not eventually spent time working for two MPs, NHS is simply being part of a great cause. within it as a consultant ophthalmologist. demographics and epidemics such as the always desperately wanted to be an NHS one in Westminster and one locally back There are many wonderful people working It is incredible that 70 years after it was one we are witnessing in diabetes, as well accountant! My dad is a paediatrician, my in Yorkshire in her constituency. In my at all levels within the organisation, all started, the NHS is still truly unique in as the cost of newer and more effective mum was a nurse and midwife and I did do third year, I literally tripped over the NHS striving to do their best for the patients the world in terms of its accessibility to but more labour-intensive treatments. work experience aged 15 following various graduate scheme brochure in the Careers around them or in front of them. There is people regardless of their ability to pay. We are treating more patients than ever consultants around the hospital my dad Service; luckily the fall didn’t require a visit dignity in absolutely every role. The difference it makes to have a health in ophthalmology, partly because we worked at. But when Dr Grovenor said at to A&E. At the time, it was possible to service that is free at the point of use My hope for the NHS is that the people are living longer, but also because of the St Anne’s Open Day, ‘It’s much harder apply for both the General Management

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role, I’m currently working on the business case to deliver a new building on one of our A triumph of goodwill sites, which will cost something in the region DEVORA VINICK of £350m, so I’m learning about funding sources, legal agreements, how to influence Maybe there’s never been an GP, but there is no escaping the pressure the Department of Health and the Treasury, unchallenging time to work for the of trying to manage increasing complexity as well as local and national politicians to NHS, but the past five years have felt and demand with diminishing resources. gain huge improvements in the environment increasingly turbulent It can also be extremely demoralising hearing the NHS denigrated in the press within which our clinical staff deliver services I started at St Anne’s studying History and and by politicians when I know that it’s to our patients. In its seventieth year, the Economics, but quickly realised I’d made surviving on the goodwill and dedication of NHS is at a point where the changing needs the wrong choice and after finishing my its employees across all roles and sectors. of the population alongside the incredible first year, transferred to Human Sciences. advances in medical science mean services Human Sciences was definitely the right I grew up in the USA, a country where need re-designing. There’s no question choice for me, sparking new interests in healthcare is dependent on having enough of the intellectual challenge of balancing the biological and social sciences. Having money to pay for it. The NHS has its that strategic planning with the day-to- finished, I found a job as a behavioural faults, but I passionately believe in the day pressures of delivering services. I am therapist working with children with principle of universal healthcare that is privileged to work within a team of people autism. Although I really enjoyed my work free at the point of delivery. I worry that whose core motivation is caring for others. and the feeling of doing something useful the NHS is being gradually weakened as Ultimately, what gets me out of bed in the and concrete each day, I knew I didn’t a service to the point that the public will idea. When I was offered a place on it, I money that meant a relatives’ room on a morning is the knowledge that I help to want to do it forever. stop fighting for it. Medicine is already jumped in, and spent three years gaining ward could be refurbished so it was a nicer make a difference for our patients; that the clearly losing its appeal as a profession, my CIPFA (Chartered Institute of Public place to break bad news, working on a About a year after leaving St Anne’s, I work I do helps to make sure that the right with places to study medicine available Finance and Accountancy) qualification, business case to build a new unit for Cystic ran into a fellow St Anne’s alum who was care can be given in the right place and at in clearing for the first time ever this year alongside leadership and management Fibrosis patients, seeing the very different just starting the then brand new graduate the right time for our patients. There’s lots of and GP training places going unfilled in training at Durham University Business pressures that different parts of the NHS are medicine programme at St George’s job satisfaction and challenge, which highly many areas. In the wake of the very public School and plenty of on-the-job training, under. Working in an ambulance trust was Hospital in London. It seemed like the intelligent folk like St Anne’s graduates can disputes between the government and ranging from detailed technical accounts very different from managing the finances perfect next step for me and I started get their teeth into. I cannot recommend junior doctors, I don’t know that I would to understanding the impact strategic at a commissioning organisation buying medical school a year or so later. a career in NHS leadership highly enough. chose medicine if I were starting now. political decisions have on the finances services for the local population. On graduating, I decided to train in Despite this, I’m hugely proud to work for of your local NHS services. If you fancy a chat, College can put you in I’m now Deputy Director of Finance for touch with me. general practice and have been working the NHS and hope it continues to thrive for That was all quite a long time ago and in Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust, which has as a salaried GP in South London since another 70 years. (1997) is Deputy Director the meantime I’ve had a really varied career, a turnover of £1.2bn and employs 17,000 Jenny Ehrhardt 2012. I’m not sure there’s ever been an of Finance for Leeds Teaching Hospitals Devora Vinick (1997) works as a GP working alongside internationally-renowned staff, delivering services to our population unchallenging time to work for the NHS, Trust in South London medics to set up new services for patients locally and to patients nationally for some of but the past five years have felt quite with rare diseases, finding the little bit of turbulent. For the most part, I love being a our really specialist services. As part of my Devora Vinick

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an NHS for the future that is not just a services, mental health providers, the believe that the NHS needs to have the Butterflies v caterpillars better version of what we’ve got now, voluntary sector and of course, the patient vision and bravery to continue to adapt but something different – as one of my and their carers – to prevent or delay the if it is to survive and thrive for another 70 AMANDA PRITCHARD colleagues says, we don’t just need better onset of chronic illness and then support years. Creating an NHS for the next 70 years caterpillars, we need butterflies. people to live well in their communities So as I sit here and reflect on the last will demand fundamental changes for as long as possible. This will require The NHS has some extraordinary assets, 70 years of the NHS, I feel optimistic a fundamental change in how the NHS is If you had told me when I was 21 and both obvious and more hidden. Most (although it’s probably worth asking me organised, in how we value and respect about to leave St Anne’s to join the NHS obviously it has 1.3m talented and again the other side of the PM’s funding everyone involved in providing ‘care’ Management Training Scheme that I would committed staff, a constantly evolving plan), excited (because I can see some and in shifting from a reactive disease be sitting here, at my desk overlooking the range of medicines, interventions and caterpillars moving into chrysalis form) response approach to a proactive risk Houses of Parliament, writing about life as technologies to enable people to live and grateful, both for what it has done for management approach. Chief Executive of Guy’s and St Thomas’ healthy lives for longer and a funding my family and because it’s an enormous NHS Foundation Trust, I would probably model that provides care free at the point Science and innovation second, but just privilege to be here and to be a part of it. have said something unprintable! It’s a of need. Perhaps less obviously, it also as important: my kids literally don’t believe Amanda Pritchard (Breaks 1994) is Chief massive organisation, employing 15,000 provides education and training for over that smartphones and tablets are relatively Executive of Guys and St Thomas’ NHS people and with an annual turnover of 38,000 nurses and 50,000 doctors every recent inventions (‘But Mummy, how Foundation Trust £1.5bn. And it is hugely complex: it has year and is a world leading research did you live?’) but the digital revolution 2.4m patient contacts a year, provides organisation supporting the UK life is moving at an astonishing pace, services ranging from health visiting to sciences sector generating around £64bn even within the NHS. Combine digital heart valve replacement, and what it does per year. I believe the NHS of the future technology including artificial intelligence really matters. I left university wanting to will need to build on all of this to face the and robotics with the science that is do something that made a difference and future with confidence. emerging around cell and gene therapies thanks to the people I’ve worked with, and with access to the NHS’s almost In particular, there are two opportunities learned from and who continue to support unparalleled wealth of data and it’s difficult urgency, expertise and kindness. Our story cent) than previously (4 per cent) against I believe we need to build on: the first is me every day, I am in the extraordinarily to imagine healthcare looking anything like had a happy ending, but seeing my now a background of increasing demand and about people and the second is about privileged position to be able to do just it does now in 10 years’ time. We should very healthy three-year-old reminds me the cost of modern drugs and technology. science and innovation. that. expect to see significant leaps forward in every day about why I go to work, about This takes its toll on staff and there are People first: the number and variety both quality and quantity of life and a very Two years ago my youngest son had why every individual patient and member currently 27 per cent more nurses leaving of people involved in providing health different NHS career for today’s students, meningococcal septicaemia. I’d been a of staff matters uniquely and about why it’s the profession than are joining it. I very and social care is vast, but mostly they combining the best of what we have and patient before, though never really ‘sick’, part of my job to make sure the NHS is still much hope that the Prime Minister’s still operate in organisational silos. The do now, with the skills and tools to do it and I’d rather enjoyed all three of my here, thriving, for the next 70 years. promised ‘multi-year funding plan’ will population is ageing and the burden of even better. pregnancies, so this was the first time provide the stable platform the NHS, It’s no secret that the NHS is facing chronic disease is growing so we have to I truly, desperately, needed the NHS. I and social care, needs. If it does, then Each of these changes will require major significant challenges: we’ve had a find a better and more integrated way of experienced it at its absolute best, dealing one of my most important jobs is to help upheaval in how the NHS is structured and prolonged period of austerity with NHS allowing everyone to work together – GPs, with a life-threatening emergency with capitalise on this and work to create care is delivered. However, I passionately St Thomas’ Hospital 1960s: Patients on the funding rising at a far lower rate (1.2 per hospital staff, community providers, social terrace by Embankment Credit: Nursing Times

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of the 1980s, it tends to come back. So the world or your life? Write that novel? Tempting fate my priority was now to keep it at bay as Start that business? Learn that language? long as possible. As my haematologist Shall we put a date in the diary? Because RUSSELL TAYLOR reminded me, there are all sorts of some nasty disease might have other There’s more to life than Trump or As well as being scary and slightly in a North London hospital having this amazing new treatments currently in ideas. Brexit – even death does not have surreal, my diagnosis with Non-Hodgkin notorious poison drip-fed into my veins. development so the longer I can stay And despite it being a horrible random total dominion Lymphoma seemed to be profoundly It’s good to know that life has a sense of healthy the better the drugs that will be experience that was inflicted on me, there unfair. I’m a vegetarian. I’ve never smoked humour. And at least, like World War I, this available when the cancer returns. Three years ago, at the age of 55, I are ways in which cancer has restored or taken drugs. I drink in moderation. I grim experience would hopefully be over bought my first house. Fifty five seems The three mantras for staying free of my faith in life. As I mentioned earlier, cycle and run regularly. My parents are by Christmas. rather an advanced age to be doing such cancer are: eat healthily, take exercise Bendamustine is a derivative of mustard both alive in their 80s. All the factors a thing, I know, but I’d put it off for years I decided not to tell most people that I and, most important, maintain a positive gas. Now, mustard gas has got to be up indicate that I should be in a very low risk because I’d been waiting for the London had cancer. More for their sake than mine. mental attitude. As I mentioned earlier, I there in the list of the top ten most evil category. Yet it seemed I had wasted a property market crash, which just about People don’t know what to say. They get already do the first two. But can one take things ever devised by human beings*. But load of time getting up early and going to everyone, apart from estate agents, had embarrassed. They can’t even say the any mental positives out of an experience the fact that I’m still around today proves the gym that my carnivorous couch potato been predicting. Having finally taken the word ‘cancer’. Besides there was no point like having cancer? Well, actually you can. that it can also be put to a positive use. contemporaries had spent more enjoyably plunge, I looked proudly round my proper in alarming them until I knew how effective Something that was devised to destroy drinking in bars or having a lie-in. And I First, it gets your problems in perspective. grown-up home and said (maybe to the chemo would be. Unfortunately the life can be adapted to preserve it. Good was the one who’d ended up with cancer. Most of what we think of as problems myself, maybe out loud): ‘this is the house question, ‘How are you?’ is the prelude to can come out of evil. That’s a nice positive are of a financial or emotional nature: I will die in.’ Three months later I was I didn’t even have any symptoms. My just about every social interaction: when thought to make me want to hang around bills, mortgages, school fees, kids, diagnosed with cancer. diagnosis came up in a routine blood people meet you, when they call you on in this world a good while longer. relationships. While I was doing my chemo test for something else. It was a sort the phone, in emails. Even people you’ve Now obviously when I talked about dying the whole world was stressing about Brexit Russell Taylor MBE (1979) adds: of existential illness: I only had my never met before enquire after your health. I hadn’t anticipated it happening on any and Trump. But what’s the issue? Life will haematologist’s word for it that I was What do you say in reply? Do you tell them *Mustard gas was invented by a scientist immediate timescale. I had planned go on after both of them – provided Trump ill at all. I had to trust him; and, worse you’ve got cancer straight up and put a called Fritz Haber. And how do you think on living through several more happy doesn’t start a nuclear war with anyone. still, I had to trust him when he told me downer on the rest of the conversation? he was rewarded for this in 1918? Was decades, before actually dying: enjoying And life going on is what it’s all about. that I’d need to do chemotherapy. He’s Or just say breezily that you’re fine and feel he (A) taken out and shot, (B) ostracized a few productive middle years, possibly very persuasive, so I signed up to do six you’re living a terrible lie? These days, of course, our lives go on by everyone for evermore, or (C) given a retiring at some point (or, as I’m self- months of chemo starting in July 2016. much longer than they used to, thanks to Nobel Prize? I’d give you a clue, but it’d employed, maybe just cutting down a bit The six months of chemo passed That way, I reasoned, I could get it all out all the advances in medicine and science. spoil my nice upbeat ending… on my workload), dandling grandchildren surprisingly quickly. I had a PET scan of the way by Christmas. But that just gives us an excuse to put on my knee one day, pottering around In January 2017 and was told I had a A version of this article first appeared in off things that we were planning to do. in the garden – all that sort of standard The drug I was treated with was Deauville score of 1. That’s the best. It Lymphoma Matters magazine Oh, I’ve got loads of time, we think. I’m stuff – before actually dying. But now here Bendamustine, a derivative of mustard meant the cancer had totally gone: 100 going to live to be 120 after all. I saw it on it was. Death had muscled its way to the gas. So ironically on the one hundredth percent remission. Unfortunately, the the news. Cancer gives you something front of the queue ahead of those other anniversary of the Battle of the Somme problem with Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma important: a deadline. When exactly are more pleasurable and civilized activities. I found myself in a chemotherapy ward is that, like a villain in a Hollywood movie you going to do those things to change

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Front of house and behind the scenes JIM MERIDEW

Ever thought who really keeps the College up and running? Read on…

They say an army marches on its stomach! I think that is probably true of an Oxford College as well. Food seems to be quite a major topic of conversation and we are fortunate here at St Anne’s to enjoy great food. But we all know that there is more to the College than just food. From my perspective as Bursar, there are many moving parts that come together to make the College work. Catering, long is the excellent team at St Anne’s. We Accommodation, Lodge, Estates... the have both front and back of house and to College, not just the Dining Hall. list goes on. We also know that none of keep this going we need flexibility, honesty, the list above would happen if it were not respect and great management. Malc Waters: Lodge Porter for the people who support the academic endeavour. They are the bedrock of the I do like the diversity of students, fellows, College. So rather than having the Bursar staff and conference guests. I get to meet tell how good they are and what they do, I so many people and have made good thought it best that you hear directly what friends and hear amazing stories. And some of our team think. Here are their we even have a policewoman now as thoughts. I hope you enjoy them. our Principal!

Colin Yon: Hall Supervisor Christina: Hall Assistant

When I first started 100 years ago I did I have been here for three years as a not think I would be here this long! I have General Assistant in the hall. I really like seen lots of changes in my time: the Ruth the people I work with and I get to see lots The Russell Taylor Column: Alex is a cartoon strip by Charles Peattie and Russell Taylor which features in the Daily Telegraph. View recent cartoons at www.telegraph.co.uk/business/alex/. Deech Building, the Tim Gardam Building of interesting people. Working here has and, most important of course, the new improved my English and I have also been I have been a member of the Lodge Team Kitchen. able to help my Spanish friends improve for two-and-a-half years and am currently theirs. I love working as part of the team the new kid on the block as concerns The biggest reason why I have stayed so here and also working in other parts of the permanent porters. I am thoroughly

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enjoying my time so far at St Anne’s, has the old kid seen? Perhaps the biggest students really. J: Always strange when you first come in A: I think it’s very friendly and very working with kind and friendly students, was the first men students enrolled at because they’ve got to get to know us. approachable all around. I don’t feel Q: How do you think your job has members of staff and management alike. a women’s college: the excitement of a there’s anyone we couldn’t approach if changed over the years? A: Second term, end to middle, you get to fresh beginning, a touch of sadness at we had a problem or a concern, although My experiences so far bring the phrase know them a bit more and they know how the end of a pioneer venture in women’s A: It’s got a lot more intense with conference time can be very hard. And it’s ‘feast or famine’ to mind. After the we work, and we’re very approachable education. The Lodge in those days conferences. Conference season seems hard when the students go to turn over mayhem of students arriving en masse, aren’t we? We try to work around them was a cubbyhole in the now demolished to be longer, and now, of course, we have the rooms (from student to conference). with cars abandoned (it seems) anywhere when we can, especially when it’s coming Gatehouse, mostly staffed by the wives of University Rooms B&B, which is a bit of a It takes a good 45-50 minutes a room, that a parking spot can be found, and up to exam season. We always give them the three resident caretakers. There was struggle at times. before you start putting your conference hundreds of keys given out on check-in, the option to change cleaning days if no new Library, no Ruth Deech Building, bits in. Conferences are much more life settles down to more of a routine, Q: Do you think the expectations of scouts they’ve been up all night revising. We try no Claire Palley Building and no Trenaman Anita: I’ve been here 12 years. intense, we never had ironing boards and with plenty of post to sort and plenty of have grown over time? to be flexible. House. But we did boast the beautiful, irons before! patrols to be carried out to ensure our Julie: I’ve been here about 15 years. brutalist Wolfson & Rayne buildings. There J: Well yes, the rooms have to be to a J: Yeah we keep an eye on them don’t students are as safe as we can make J: Sometimes I don’t think people realise was no Ali in his kebab van: he arrived Q: What attracted you to the College and better standard. we, make sure they’re okay if they’re a bit them. Then, once our students have left how long it takes to turn over a room. in the 1980s. The vending machine in to the job? poorly, make sure they’re all right. again at the end of term, we have to deal A: And the College is listening to our Hartland House dispensed KitKats only Q: It’s very professional though, and from with the chaos of conference season, A: I worked here 30 years ago in the complaints and making improvements, A: We have been known in the past – and small ones at that. There was no my perspective I see it as the College with unexpected guests demanding a Buttery for the students’ afternoon tea and which was perhaps ignored in the past. to bring attention to students we’re Amazon delivery, there were no mobile running a business and investing back into room, and expected guests asking to snack bar. I left when the children were concerned about, that we felt might need phones and the only computer we had Q: How do you think College has changed College. move rooms so that they can be with their a little bit older. When I got fed up with intervention by the nurse. was Hal in 2001: A Space Odyssey. And over the years? friends and endless maintenance problems my last job I decided it was time to come A: It is a business. he was switched off! J: You like to think there’s someone such as boilers extinguishing in the middle back to St Anne's. A: It’s certainly got busier hasn’t it? Busier looking out for them. Q: So I guess it must be weird going from of winter. Having a good team at St Anne’s makes with students and outside work. Obviously, Q: What’s the best bit about your job? a pastoral role with the students to going working here a pleasure, but please spare the College buildings have grown so that’s A: Like they were your children being Brendan O’Meara: Lodge Porter to working in a business. a thought for your porters out of hours, A: The company; sometimes satisfaction, made it busier. I think the student-scout cared for. I think the way you relate to when we are pretty much left to ourselves feeling you’ve done a good job. relationship has changed… them usually tells by the time they go… A: It is, and I think that’s why it takes a usually there is a little gift, a thank you while to switch off when the students to cope with everything that comes our J: it’s nice to look back and see the rooms J: I think so too; they take longer to get to card. We’ve had some lovely cards, and come back from the vacation. You have way. The bonus, however, is that I get to look clean, or as clean as we can get know us. work with and for all of our students, and them… gifts. It’s nice to feel appreciated. the business mind-set in the first term I must say that you make me feel young A: It takes longer to get to know them, when they come back, when they’re new Q: Has that been a constant thing the again, which at my age is a very good Q: I imagine there have been some very because you’re still in conference mode and you’ve been so busy. It takes a while entire time you’ve worked here? thing! untidy students in the past. and you need to get back into term to adapt back to the role of scout because routine. A: Most of the time it happens, yeah. you’ve had people in and out all the time. In conversation: Anita (R) and Julie (L), J: (Laughs) Yes and Anita usually seems to Now you have to get to know them. But I Scouts in Trenaman House get those! When you can’t open the door Q: What is the relationship like between Q: Well unless you want to add anything, think on the whole students are amicable, for stuff. I don’t know who's worse, boys scout and student? is there anything you think the alumnae Malcolm is the new kid on the block and I Q: How long have you worked at and if they’re not you soon make sure they or girls… We’ve been quite lucky with our would be interested in hearing? am the old or ancient kid. What changes St Annes? A: On the whole it can be very good. are. We know the ones you can take the

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micky out of and tease. Natalie Smyth: Catering Manager sitting behind a desk Monday to Friday 9-5, I realised I was a caterer through ‘n’ J: And some you know not to so much! Journey of a Southern feminist through. Some are a bit more reserved. DEVAKI JAIN At this point, as College was growing, it was A: But it’s always nice when it's coming One of the leading writers and unaware of this strength. In addition to of the Household: Investigative Essays decided a Catering Manager was required – up to exams and they quite often will talk academics from the South describes statistical mistakes and errors of judgement, on Women’s Work, 1985). Both books so this time I went to speak to the Domestic to us, just to say, ‘Oh gosh I’ve got five her 40-year journey to enlightenment even the vocabulary used to describe the came out in time for the Second World Bursar… exams next week and I’m really worried,’ conditions or situations in our countries got Conference on Women, also known as In 1975, the United Nations brought women and it’s nice to be able to turn around When I started as Catering Manager I had things so wrong. the mid-decade conference, being halfway from all over the world to Mexico for the and say to them that you should be calm, a High Table Butler, a Hall Supervisor, a Bar through what was known as the UN Decade After leaving school I went to catering first ever conference devoted specifically None of this was known or understood by make sure you drink plenty and eat plenty, Manager and two general assistants. This of Women, in Copenhagen in 1980. college. After ten years in the commercial to women. This established the World Plan those in the North who were funding, and and it’s not the end of the world: you’ve small team could manage all the breakfast, catering world I was made redundant. I took of Action and Declaration of Mexico on the therefore designing, development projects, From then on, as women from the got your whole life ahead of you, you can lunches and dinners that College served. off and travelled the world for a year before Equality of Women and their Contribution to general as well as gender specific, for developing countries met each other at the soon make it right, life doesn’t depend on Now, 25 years on, as we’ve increased our starting at St Anne’s in August 1993. Development and Peace. the former colonies. In addition to seeing various forums the UN offered, there was those few years at College. And a lot have student numbers and conference business, them as poor and maybe subordinated a need to form a club of our own, both to really appreciated that and said that we I was employed at a time when the I need a senior dining hall supervisor, four Given this platform, women from the by the men of their countries, most of redefine our agenda as well as to educate put it into perspective for them. University decided college bars should no supervisors, a bar manager and six general Southern continents, mostly former those in the North, whether the USA or the donors and the Northern countries on longer be run solely by students because assistants, as well as numerous casual colonies, woke up to the fact that they were Compiled by Jim Meridew, Europe, perceived women from the South how we would like to see our progress students were spending more time in employees to cover the ever increasing not only different from their Northern sisters Domestic Bursar as illiterate and starving. This perception both within our countries and as developing college bars than in the college libraries. number of events that College now serves. but had a vivacity and a political experience was shared by the UN and the agencies countries. Jim Meridew retired in August 2018. So I was brought in to implement a smooth the latter often lacked. The Catering Team I have around me – that were trying to reconstruct newly John Banbrook replaces him as Domestic transition. As you can imagine, it was felt It was possible then to bring ourselves some have been with me for a number of Engaging in what was then called women’s independent countries that had been Bursar. that if not handled right, there could be a lot together in a forum that could articulate years – have gone through a lot of changes issues – today more commonly called the robbed not only of their wealth but their of animosity among the students. I hasten what was at that time called Third World over the years: new kitchen, new Principals, women’s or feminist movement – in its civilisational strength. to add everything went well and everyone Women but now is called Women from new buildings, new Domestic Bursars to initial stages it revealed most dramatically was happy! The experience of engaging with these the Developing Countries. As a voice name just a few. We have had our ups the extraordinary difference between women whether in terms of their work or from the South I enabled such a network, After two years of enduring a smoky and downs along the way but none of our women and their situation in the economy, their capacity to come together as a group, Development Alternatives for Women atmosphere – the no-smoking law hadn’t achievements would have been possible society and politics in the South, compared both to protest and to build, was striking. for a New Era (DAWN). For the first time, even been thought of at that stage – and without this fantastic Catering Team we to those in the North, broadly defined ‘Development’ was specifically linked with loud music beating from the juke box, I have at the moment. Working so well as European civilisation. Many of these Initially I wrote papers revealing what women in a meaningful way. I was not only decided I was getting too old for this so together we are like a family! I can’t thank women had participated in their nations’ women do as workers in India. I went on recognised for being what is called ‘the turned my hand to accounts. With some the whole team enough for making my life struggles for freedom – they were farmers, to demonstrate the extraordinary capacity voice from the South’, I was one of two trepidation I went to speak to the Treasurer so easy over the years! entrepreneurs, social leaders – yet those that women had to organise themselves women at the conference awarded the and College Accountant and they took the who were attempting to assist the former into groups (Women’s Quest for Power: I wouldn't change the last 25 years for all Bradford Morse Memorial Award by the brave step of employing me for maternity colonies to come out of the poverty and five Indian case studies, 1980) and engage the tea in China. (I don't drink tea!) UN for outstanding achievements through cover – fees plus charges! After 18 months, deprivation that they suffered, remained with the tyranny of the household (Tyranny

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professional and voluntary activities in awareness of the other, but also a coming there was no sympathetic environment promoting the advancement of women and together on issues. nor system for reporting or getting redress Rock Bottom gender equality for 20 years. for such abuse. His assault, followed by When the ‘Me-too’ movement was initiated ANNABEL LEVENTON his dismissing me from the post, almost I was obsessed with the unacceptable in the US, many professional women’s destroyed my self confidence, my sense How a 1970s girl group took on the Thames Television for theft of our idea. It equal, accepted, my voice heard. Oxford condition of both men and women in groups in India and the South published of selfhood. How I then joined St Anne’s is giants of the establishment and won was a bumpy ride. started me on a successful career as an our countries: their poverty was beyond lists of those men who had made sexual another story, one I have told in an earlier an unprecedented victory against actress. Most of all, it gave me self-belief, description. But there was a double issue: advances to them. But the movement did Rock Bottom was formed in 1973 and issue of The Ship. The dons at that time, all odds a self-belief that would be tested to the not only was the data being applied by the not catch fire there as it did in the US, partly lasted only two years. It was another Peter Ady, Iris Murdoch and Jenifer Hart, limit a decade or so later. agencies deeply flawed, thinking within our because our attention is largely directed How strange is this? After a lifetime as seven years before we got to court. It admitted me to the PPE course without an countries on the contribution of women and to the women in the working classes who a professional actress and singer, I’ve took a lot of courage to stand up against In 1973, at the forefront of glam rock, entrance exam and set me on the journeys putting together policies and programmes suffer this assault regularly and helplessly. written a book. It’s called The Real Rock a major television company. In winning, when I formed Rock Bottom, it was a of these volumes – of which more in my that took note of their brilliance, their Women in the garment factories, in the tea Follies and it pretty much wrote itself. I we established the law on Breach of group with a difference. Up till then girl forthcoming memoirs. strength and their contribution to the gardens, already in ill-paid and demanding read English at Oxford but never thought Confidence. Because of us, creative ideas groups were usually black, American, economy, was equally flawed. jobs, are constantly harassed, their wages Devaki Jain (Mandyam 1959) Journey of of being a writer, I was far too busy are now property and you’re not allowed sisters or looked like sisters, with identical and their leave dependent on sexual a Southern Feminist Volume 1 & 2 (SAGE playing leads in Shakespeare and Brecht, to steal them. I don’t think I understood clothes and wigs and one lead singer. Even for me, as I walked this walk, what favours. They cannot gain from a ‘Me- Yoda, April 2018) singing, doing revue and cabaret. First what a huge achievement that was. It’s Think Diana Ross and the Supremes and women do and how they cope was a too’ model: they will be crushed. But the and foremost I was – I am – a performer. only now the book’s out I’m beginning to you get the picture. Rock Bottom was revelation. The papers in my current book middle classes, feminists like myelf, need to Writing the book is a real departure. My life get it. I’m incredibly proud of us and what about as different as it was possible to be. recount these revelations as they occurred. deal with such vulnerabilities in the macro has changed because of it. we did. For a start, we were all actresses as well Today, thanks to the Internet, knowledge spaces of policy and legislation. as singers. We looked and sounded totally not only travels fast but is accessed by The Real Rock Follies is about a period of Women standing up for their rights is different from one another. One of us was interest groups globally. The past pit of It is curious, if not ugly, that I entered St my life so intense it’s as vivid to me now as in the news now. It wasn’t then. I don’t a six-foot, red-haired, upper-crust ex-deb ignorance is now covered by the Internet Anne's in 1959 to redeem myself from a when I lived through it some 40 years ago. remember much about feminism at Oxford with a croaky jazz voice and lethal wit – and we see not only a reduction of sexual assault by my employer, a famous It’s the story of three actresses who broke in the 1960s. A grammar-school girl, I Gaye Brown; the other, Diane Langton difference and increase in knowledge and economist at another college. At that time all the rules and formed their own rock was so astonished to be there at all, I just – tiny, dark-haired, working-class, with a Devaki Jain group, Rock Bottom. I was one of them. grabbed everything on offer and kept my glorious Judy Garland voice; and me in the They called us a cross between the female head down. In my day, girls couldn’t even middle: blonde, middle-class, pop-singing Rolling Stones and the Marx Brothers. join OUDS, let alone the Oxford Union. What others say should be read by everyone concerned to of some of her important contributions Oxford graduate, known for Shakespeare We were way ahead of our time: raunchy, You were invited to play roles. I was lucky: ‘This inspiring book challenges mainstream reduce inequality and end poverty.’ shows how much she has innovated to roles. It was the most hilarious, electrifying rude, funny, glamorous. For a brief, I was invited. I paid my way through ideas about development held in both Diane Elson Emeritus Professor, University expand analytical and empirical approaches rollercoaster I’ve ever been on. On exhilarating moment we were in charge college singing with a student dance band the global South and the global North, of Essex in many other areas, in ways that will stage we felt like goddesses bestriding arguing that we must learn from the lives continue to be useful far into the future.’ of our own lives. We wrote, we sang, we The Fourbeats, still going strong, though ‘Decades ago Devaki Jain highlighted the the world. Audiences went mad. We of low income women to reconstruct ideas Jayati Ghosh Professor of Economics, wore whatever the hell we liked. renamed The Dark Blues and, sadly, significance of unpaid and unrecognised succeeded beyond my wildest dreams. about how economies function and what Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, without me. Despite the fact that girls were women’s work – which is now being And when our concept was stolen and economic policies should be adopted at School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal outnumbered, or maybe because of it, it You won’t have heard of Rock Bottom. recognised the world over as critical for made into a ground-breaking television local, national and international level. It Nehru University, Delhi was the only time in my life when I felt truly You probably never heard any of our economic analysis. 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to make it as a group in the world of case lasted ten weeks. It was gruelling, now getting feedback from all over the I am overwhelmed and grateful. I couldn’t show business. Sound familiar? It should. terrifying and funny in ways I could never world: people who couldn’t put it down, have lived it or written it without my time at The series was written for us, about us – have imagined. When we won, we were people, their lives changed by Rock Follies, Oxford, so thank you St Anne’s for taking and without us. Instead, they cast three astonished and relieved. It was a real test giving me the credit. One woman told a chance on a grammar-school girl with lookalikes. They stole everything: our of friendship and of course there was me it was the first time she’d ever seen not much more than potential. I feel I am names, our heights, the colour of our hair, a cost. We’d gone through too much three strong women on television and it at last fulfilling what you saw in me. Not a our backgrounds. So Rock Bottom died together for there not to be a fall-out, over transformed her life. A famous designer moment too soon. and we lost any chance of real success. money of course. We came through that said watching Rock Follies made him go Annabel Leventon (1961) The Real Rock and our friendship is deeper than ever. into the theatre. A long-lost cousin in It’s not nice being robbed. It’s no fun Follies (NW1Books, £9.99) is in bookstores Canada wants it to be made into a film having your identity stolen. It made me Writing the story after all this time was the and on Amazon and is doing her best to make it happen. angry. My generation weren’t supposed last thing I expected to do. But with the to get angry, we had to be nice. Standing fortieth anniversary of Rock Bottom’s first up for myself in public wasn’t something concert looming, I suddenly felt impelled I’d ever done. But Rock Bottom was my to have a go. As an actor, a scene has idea, my baby. Having it snatched made to come fresh to you, night after night, me angry enough to take on the entire as if it’s never happened before. To my establishment if need be. amazement, writing was the same. The words came tumbling out, pouring, So we sued Thames Television for theft cascading, the pent-up memories waiting of the idea. It was unprecedented. Ideas to be released. At 6.30 every morning I hit weren’t property until written down, when the emotional recall button and scene by they could be copyright. We’d talked scene I re-lived it all: writing our first song, loudly about it all over London, on radio, doing our first concert in our platform on stage, in restaurants. We’d written boots and Hollywood goddess make-up, almost nothing down. Nobody thought we the audience screaming, the jokes, the could win. Nobody had ever succeeded. backstage nerves, the adrenaline, the And Thames were giants in the television betrayal, the fight to get into court, being world. ‘Three little actresses against the a witness, the lawyers’ wigs flying off. It might of EMI? Huh!’ remarked one of the spilled like molten lava onto the page, thieves before it got to court. We had no thrilling, hilarious, daunting, painful, throat- chance. catching. I discovered a stubborn streak. Just as music or came to any of our concerts. Now it’s published and out there, I’m a ground-breaking television series in well, I needed one. It was a test case in But we were hugely successful in another still pinching myself. The feedback from the 1970s, won a Bafta, had a platinum the High Court and it took seven years to guise, which you might just remember. If Stephen Fry – ‘riotous, hilarious, riveting’ album and made stars out of the three get it there. Winning would depend entirely you don’t, your parents will. Rock Follies, leads. It was about three actresses trying – was enough to get it off the ground. I’m on the judge and whom he believed. The Before their time: Rock Bottom in the 1970s

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nagging at me.

Narratives of the Refugee Crisis I wanted to read more about individuals’ ELLEN WILES lived experiences that were so very different from my own as a young, middle-class Author Ellen Wiles reflects on how conscious of the prevailing political and I didn’t know that Eritrea had been an white British woman who has never had to the dominant narratives on asylum media narratives about asylum seekers Italian colony for a time and that its worry about having a home or the prospect seekers in the media, politics and law in the UK. ‘If I succeed in becoming a capital, Asmara, was sometimes referred of leaving it. Even the most dramatic or led her to write a fictional version barrister’, I told myself, ‘I’m going to try to to as Piccola Roma, thanks to its unique harsh biographical details of the individual work on asylum cases.’ collection of futuristic architecture, espresso ‘Are you thinking what we’re thinking?’ asylum seekers lacked resonance when bars and spaghetti joints. I didn’t know A few years later, there I was, working on rendered in legal prose. Good legal prose Well, I am pretty sure I’m not – but why not the scale of drama, terror and suffering an Eritrean asylum appeal and being drawn reduces every sentence to the clearest, come out and say what you’re all thinking? that Eritreans had to endure under its all- even further into the narrative thicket. While most minimal language possible to Who do you think is currently thinking what encompassing dictatorship before they even I was both horrified and fascinated by what communicate an idea or argument, and you’re thinking, about whom, and why are embarked on their terrifying journeys over I read in the legal documents I was poring each word has to be relevant to the case you all thinking it in the first place? the militarised desert borders and towards over, it seemed that the more I learned that needs proving in law. Good legal prose Europe. But I wanted to know more than I I couldn’t stop thinking about the oblique about immigration law and the facts around is not designed to generate emotion or was getting from the contents of the expert language of that election campaign slogan particular cases, the more hyper-aware I spark empathy. reports and witness statements: more when it emerged, in the midst of a barrage became of how much I didn’t know about about what it was like to live in Eritrea and were always profiled in brief as conniving smuggled in, living on vouchers and shoddy But I wanted to be drawn in. I wanted of anti-asylum seeker headlines. It was the realities of the people at the centre then to find yourself living in the UK, going criminals, arriving here on a determined accommodation after making an asylum to dive beneath the surface of the legal 2005 and I was living in London, doing a of them. through the legal process that ended up in a Masters in Human Rights Law, and had mission to damage the people and the claim, unable to work or buy anything with documents and read about the characters’ For a start, it wasn’t until working on that formal hearing before a judge. spent the previous summer working in fabric of the society that had taken them in. cash except the minimal list of basics only loves and losses, mothers and brothers, case that I had any knowledge about Eritrea available from certain large supermarkets. smells and tastes, conversations and Botswana on the legal case contesting All my legal reading material, the facts But almost as glaring as this distortion or about the thousands of Eritreans who There were only cherry-picked caricatures dreams, struggles and secrets. I wanted to the eviction of the Kalahari Bushmen from about Eritreans’ individual and collective and hatred were the omissions. There had made their way to the UK against of ‘bad’ people, usually men, designed to read about the emotional, psychological, their ancestral lands. While living with a suffering under dictatorship, made the were never any articles about ‘good’ or all the odds. If it was ever mentioned in catch attention, to shock, to repulse. sensory, social and cultural detail of couple of these Bushmen, I learned that mainstream media’s narratives about ‘deserving’ asylum seekers who’d fled the media, Eritrea was dismissed with a individual lives that causes people to cry they knew every grain of that ground and all asylum seekers generally seem even more disaster and were grateful for the support The language of the legal texts I was quick brush sweep as one of those African and laugh and gasp, to choose which the plants and creatures that co-existed on acutely distorting. The language with which they received from British people and the reading was at the opposite end of the countries that churned out irritating swarms foods to cook and which clothes to wear their land like the veins on their hands, but they were referred to seemed jarringly UK asylum system, however minimal that spectrum: dispassionate, seemingly of refugees. I knew nothing about the 30- and which conversations to initiate, that they had been moved on by a government sensationalist, derogatory and pervasive, in support was. Neither were there any details objective and fact-based, charting all year war fought for its creation in 1992, or makes people more than just collections of focused on financial gain and with no real contrast to the neutral, objective-seeming about asylum seekers’ lives back home, the the required information about where that, like so many other places, decisions biographical facts. understanding of what the Bushmen’s language of the law. Phrases like ‘swarms’, professions they’d once had, their families, each asylum seeker was born, lived, the of British colonialists had been key to lives were like, beyond the fact that they ‘hoards’, ‘leeches’ abounded and headlines the reasons they had fled, the traumas members of their family in terms of gender I began searching for novels to read about understanding the political dysfunctions were different. Perhaps it was this unusual about one-legged hammer murderers they had faced before leaving or along and age, their profession, their reasons for refugees, asylum seekers and illegal and human crises that followed, including perspective on forced migration, still so and rapists were commonplace. When the way, or what they had experienced leaving. And yet, while reading the legal immigrants, feeling more urgently than not just that war but the flight of refugees. vivid in my mind, that made me acutely individual asylum seekers were named, they after arriving in the UK: hiding after being texts, a similar sense of omission began ever before that fiction was the best way

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to access the sensation of being alive in here. And there were none at all about one of the great opportunities and almost a powerful collection of writing on asylum continue, albeit directed through alternative cognitive science as well as experience, someone else’s skin. Eritrean asylum seekers. So I came up with magical qualities of fiction. seekers, A Country of Refuge (The Ship narratives such as Brexit, and phrased in that it can have a far more profound and the idea of writing a novel of my own. 2016-17), featuring some of Britain and more moderate language. The substance lasting impact on memory and on the But at the time there wasn’t that much I ended up structuring the chapters like a Ireland’s most influential writers. (Her most of policies documented in the media – capacity for empathy than other forms of contemporary fiction on this subject, I started making some notes, then stopped. set of alternative documents in a legal case, recent anthology is featured on p.51. Ed.) caging immigrant children in the US and narrative and storytelling. When it comes particularly by writers who’d had Was I qualified to do this? I didn’t at that imagined into life by a barrister character criminalising the act of helping illegal to asylum seekers, who are open targets experiences of seeking asylum or fleeing point work with or know personally any named Jude. Like me, Jude knows nothing At the same time, nationalism and populism immigrants in Hungary, for instance – are for scapegoating in any society and are Eritrea themselves. The only fiction I found asylum seekers or refugees in the UK, of Eritrea before picking up her first case are rising up with terrifying speed. British becoming even less humane. In the UK, we both greater in number and more at risk about Eritreans, back then, was Thomas apart from those I met regularly as part about it, but when she notices she shares a media headlines are somewhat less overtly still have oppressive policies in place such now than ever before, the more writers Keneally’s gripping novel Towards Asmara of the legal advice centre in East London birthday with the appellant, an Eritrean man hostile than they used to be towards as indefinite detention of asylum seekers, and readers who engage with fiction that (1989, Hodder & Stoughton), which follows where I volunteered. I knew it would take called Yonas, she becomes obsessed with refugees, since the refugee crisis escalated, which rarely make the headlines but represents their experiences the better. a journalist embedded with fighters in the a lot of research. I didn’t know then quite his story. Every other chapter is narrated and media images such as the drowned profoundly affect individual lives. long independence war, before the country how much research, or how long it would from Yonas’s point of view, in the third Syrian toddler Alan Kurdi finally moved Ellen Wiles (2000), The Invisible Crowd existed in its own right and well before all take. But it was research I felt drawn person, like a legal judgment would be, enough people to think differently so that Reading fiction might be a minority (HQ November 2017, p/b July 2018) the regime was in place. There are now to do as a way of deepening my own but replete with all kinds of details about the tone of the old headlines ceased to be pursuit compared to reading the news a couple more: Nadifa Mohamed’s Black understanding while writing, and I was his emotions and experiences that such palatable. But anti-immigration agendas or political slogans, but we know, from Mamba Boy (2009, Harper Collins), a vivid keen to get involved in volunteer work with a judgment would leave out as irrelevant. autobiographical novel about her father who refugees and asylum seekers along the way. In a similar vein, every alternate chapter is left Eritrea, and Michela Wrong’s Borderlines narrated in the first person, like a witness It wasn’t my first go at writing a novel – I’ve (2015, Fourth Estate), which is based on statement in a legal case, by a different loved reading and writing since I was little, the international legal case disputing the person who meets Yonas on his journey had written diaries and poems for years, location of the Eritrea-Ethiopia border. I read after he arrives in the UK. All the chapters and had already tried and failed with a many wonderful novels about arriving in the begin with a headline on asylum seekers, couple of novels that trailed off after just a A Country to Call Home UK or the US as an immigrant of colour and headlines that many readers have assumed few chapters. But this time it was different. feeling displaced – books by Zadie Smith, must be fictional, until they reach the LUCY POPESCU This time I felt a burning compulsion to do Jamaica Kincaid, Samuel Selvon, Colin references at the end. something to rectify the distorting narratives In her new anthology, the author of A this image that made me think of putting new country, and the harsh confinement MacInnes, Vladimir Nabokov, Andrea Levy I’d been reading and to tell stories, not just In 2018, fortunately, there are many more Country of Refuge looks at the situation together an anthology that explores the of some young asylum seekers in camps and Caryl Phillips among others. These for judges in court, but for British readers novels, stories and memoirs available confronting child refugees reality for child refugees and unaccompanied and detention centres. Many contributions novels began hitting the spot, in that they who didn’t have any idea about asylum about displacement, immigration, asylum young adults making these harrowing expose prejudice; others celebrate the related lived experiences of immigration Over half of the world’s refugees are children. seekers’ lives, the system or, in this case, and minority voices, including by refugee journeys in search of safety. Some of our incredible fortitude of child refugees, their in ways I’d been looking for, through the Many arrive on our shores utterly alone. Eritrea. writers – for instance, Pulitzer prize-winning finest children’s writers have contributed hopes and aspirations. The image of Alan eyes of compelling characters, in language Some don’t make it. Remember that image author Viet Than Nguyen has edited a vital stories, poems and flash fiction exploring the Kurdi changed hearts and minds and I hope that moved, entertained and engaged Also, perversely, perhaps, the challenge of Alan Kurdi, the small Syrian boy, just a new collection called Displaced: Refugee reasons people have to flee their homelands, this book will too. me. But I still felt there were not enough of writing about a place I’d never been toddler? His tiny body, face down, washed Writers on Refugee Lives (2018, Abrams the risks they take travelling in the backs contemporary novels about asylum seekers to, and a male character with a life totally up on a Turkish beach? The photograph was The plight of young refugees is nothing new. Press), and in the UK, Lucy Popescu, of lorries, the terrifying sea voyages they specifically, or how they were perceived in different from my own, appealed to me. reproduced worldwide and helped temper Sue Reid and my late mother, Christine former director of English PEN, has edited endure, their arrival and assimilation in a the UK and treated in the asylum system The imaginative leap it required seemed like the negative media for a short while. It was Pullein-Thompson, have written historical

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pieces about crossing borders during the 1960s. Brian Conaghan makes this refugees learn to laugh again. Tony Bradman periods of turmoil in Eastern Europe. My connection in his eloquent poem that offers an uplifting message at the end of his DID YOU SEE ME? mum’s piece is set just before the Romanian opens the anthology, told from the points of poem ‘Words’ and Patrice Lawrence and I KIT DE WAAL revolution in 1989. It is about a young boy view of a Polish and a Syrian refugee. And write about finding solace in music. who has to choose between living without Simon Armitage underlines the timelessness For Alan Kurdi, the boy on the shore camp, sat at midnight on the hard stones I hope that A Country to Call Home will build fear in Britain or remaining in his repressive and circular nature of displacement in his of the beach. Waited again while my father on the success of A Country of Refuge, Did you see me in Kobane, running through native country in order to look after his powerful poem that closes the anthology. tore crusts for our supper. my previous anthology about asylum the square? Did you hear my father’s shout? frail grandmother. Refugees suffer terrible Moniza Alvi writes from personal experience seekers and migration featuring the work We were laughing, my brother and I, and On the boat, I felt his arms outstretched hardship when they are forced to leave about her family’s flight after the partition of of celebrated British and Irish writers, and my father came lumbering after us, his arms around me, mile after mile, even when the their homes and families and are often India and Pakistan, but in her poem ‘Exile’ gain new readers (The Ship 2016-17). I’m outstretched. ‘You’re too far away! I cannot sea was angry, mile after mile. Did you see desperate to return as soon as the situation she writes about refugees from Sarajevo. Kit delighted that many of the contributors to A catch you!’ And did you hear my mother’s me when the waves bounced me up and in their country has improved. Sue’s story de Waal has written a piece of flash fiction Country to Call Home portray experiences laugh, see her hands clasped together away? Did you hear me shout? Did you see takes us back to Hungary in 1956, when inspired by the same photograph of Alan that are so different from their own lives. and the something in her eyes she kept me running in the water? ‘I cannot catch the revolution was crushed by the Soviets. Kurdi that moved me. Some contributors When we start to consider what it must be only for us? you!’ he wept. Sue was fascinated to learn that children – David Almond, Sita Brahmachari, Fiona like to flee our home and arrive in another were among those who fought the Soviet Dunbar and Miriam Halahmy – imagine what Did you see us at the end of the day, lying And when you touched me on the beach, country, without friends or family, we can tanks. Her story reminds us of a time when it is like to be a young refugee adapting to life in the shade with our bellies full, did you see I was cold and wet under your hand, the better sympathise with those people for refugees, in spite of the huge number that in a foreign country. Peter Kalu writes from me dreaming? If you had touched me then, sand in my mouth, the salty sea in my belly. whom this is a reality. They are just like us, escaped, were made very welcome by the the perspective of an asylum seeker working I would have been warm and damp, soft but circumstances in their own country have You only saw me then. West and countries elsewhere. Bali Rai writes in a kitchen and living in limbo. under your hand. proved intolerable. Empathy engenders about a young Syrian orphan’s petrifying Kit de Waal in A Country to Call Home. When you have no rights, no benefits and change. If we can’t put ourselves in others’ My father brought home a puppy only journey by boat. Anna Perera imagines what no ability to earn money legally, inevitably shoes, we lead narrower lives. We are weeks before. It ran into the street and it is like to be a Sri Lankan child in the middle policy of indefinitely detaining asylum seekers grey areas open up. It is easy to exploit richer for recognising and celebrating our under a car and our tears, my brother’s and of a war zone. Michael Morpurgo describes while their applications are processed or they those desperate for employment, as Eoin similarities and our differences. I hope after mine, made salty tracks on our faces. ‘It the flight of an Afghan boy and his mother, await the result of an appeal. This means that Colfer’s short story about young factory reading the anthology that you will want to was quick,’ my mother said. ‘He is sleeping who are smuggled across countries in the those seeking refuge can be incarcerated workers demonstrates. Tracy Brabin show your support for young refugees and now.’ But I wanted him to stay, wanted his back of a lorry. As these pieces prove, there for months or even years. Asylum seekers explores what it is like to have your home asylum seekers the world over, and extend yellow fur and his black eyes, his rough have always been people in need of safety are often referred to as ‘aliens’, and SF Said raided at dawn by immigration officers and, the hand of friendship to all those struggling tongue, his need of me. – it’s just the geography, government or examines this in his wonderful sci-fi story, an together with Michael Morpurgo, writes of to find somewhere safe to call home. conflict zone that changes. extract from his latest novel, Phoenix. You didn’t see when the bricks fell and children imprisoned in the UK’s Yarl’s Wood Lucy Popescu. A Country to Call Home: crushed my mother’s skull. But we watched That’s why I’ve included an interview with detention centre, while Jon Walter explores It’s not all doom and gloom. Hassan An anthology on the experiences of young my father rub the dust into his hair, his the wonderful children’s writer and illustrator the reality for children marking their days in Abdulrazzak has written a touching love story refugees and asylum seekers (Unbound, p/b beard, tear his clothes, raise his arms to Judith Kerr, who escaped from Hitler’s an Australian detention centre on Christmas between a Syrian boy, a Mexican girl and 31 May 2018) heaven. He dressed us in our warmest Germany with her parents and brother in Island. a rescue dog called Frida. 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the doctors, the engineers and all the other Saving the Future experts a country needs? Who will research, ANNE LONSDALE understand and remedy the multitude of problems the country faces? Universities It is the job of academics the world undercurrents of Fascism (Oswald Mosley), here; others need temporary sanctuary, the ‘think globally and act locally’ for the good of over to ‘speak truth to power’. But the the Depression and unemployment, Cara’s chance to use and improve their academic their communities. Just think of the camps consequences can be disastrous. The first fundraising event, in the Albert Hall, was skills and networks, so that one day they can full of families where children cannot get story of a charity that is there to help a success with a stirring speech from Albert return and rebuild their countries. proper schooling. Unless the next generation Einstein. Wars, intolerant regimes and extremist Many who flee to Britain do not want of teachers is trained as soon as stability and groups have, for years, driven exiles to The project worked. Among exiles from to stay here or seek asylum. They love security return, where will those children be Britain, many of them highly-educated men Nazi government, 16 went on to win Nobel their countries and long to go home, but taught and given the tools they need for the out. Only ‘good news’ (‘fake news’, as we and women, who fled from danger to make Prizes in Britain: art and architectural history when risks and dangers have become too difficult task of re-establishing a country? Veterinary Science. After the success from say now) could be reported, so my colleague 2008-12 of an Iraq Research Fellowship great contributions to almost every aspect was transformed by Professors Gombrich great they need a place of sanctuary for Once that country and its government had a choice: self-censor his lectures, keep Programme, Cara has now completed a of British life. Cara, the Council for At-Risk and Pevsner, Karl Popper lived to write themselves and their families. Our global are in place, academics and universities the bad harvest figures secret and keep his pilot project to support displaced Syrian Academics, of which I am Chair, has been a The Open Society and its Enemies and Dr contacts help us identify them, match them need to resume their permanent, ongoing job, or tell the truth and get out. He told the academics in the region, and is promoting part of this story since 1933. Ludwig Guttmann, an expert on tetraplegic with the 117 universities in our network responsibility to tell the Truth, or as near it truth and did get out, at very short notice; it new skills in teaching and research, and injuries in German coal mines, was asked to and others, support them and their host as current hypotheses and experiments On 5 May 1933, William Beveridge, who was was a year before his wife and children could new, international research partnerships on open Stoke Mandeville Hospital, where he universities through the visa process and allow, whether this means telling Truth to to create the framework for the Welfare State join him in Britain. topics relevant to the rebuilding of Syria, pioneered the Paralympic Games. keep a careful watch as the placements Power or Truth to your students or to airport after World War II, was chatting with friends which currently include resilience among progress. Cara guarantees the suitability, planners or those running hospitals or water For some, the threats are generic – they in a Vienna coffee house when they learned The need to protect science and learning Syrian orphans, water quality in camps, indeed the identity, of the candidate, which companies. know they belong to the wrong nationality, that Hitler had closed German universities did not end with Hitler’s defeat; Cara’s work effectiveness of e-learning and ill effects of takes a lot of work if, for example, someone ethnic group, religion or party. For others, to Jews. Appalled at the news of their is as important today as ever. After Hungary, It is the task of academics to tell us what war on plant genetics. We hope this work will has escaped from kidnap in Damascus threats are very specific indeed, like the colleagues’ destitution, Beveridge and others Iran, Apartheid, Pinochet’s Chile, Zimbabwe they see, and know or believe, to be true. help agencies like UNICEF, WHO, FAO with without passport or papers (mobile phones envelope with a bullet inside it slipped under set up what is now Cara, to help them to (among many others), our exiles now come, That is why they are often the first to suffer the task of rebuilding as soon as that time work wonders), or if visas have been the front door of an Iraqi professor in 2004. escape and continue their work in Britain and overwhelmingly, from Syria and Iraq, and in dangerous regimes, ‘canaries in the mine incorrectly refused. Through Appeals, and comes. other safe countries. The method was simple Cara continues its founders’ determination shaft’ detecting poisonous gas, and why Until 2006, Cara worked only in the UK, Judicial Reviews if necessary, Cara has a Anne Lonsdale (1958) Cara is a UK and effective: a British academic would find a to defend not only academics in need, they can be tempted to self-censor. For giving financial assistance, one-to-one very high success rate in bringing people to Charity, dependent on donations from British place for a colleague in his lab or department but also the very foundations of science example, a Zimbabwean professor was interaction and mentoring, both by our safety. universities, Foundations and Trusts, and (yes, most academics were male then); Cara and learning. We have no political agenda lecturing on economics. He reported the true staff and through our university network, individuals. Its ‘10x20’ Campaign seeks would provide accommodation and money and are independent of governments. We But why are academics such a special case? state of Zimbabwe’s harvests: very bad. A helping applicants re-establish a life and a funds from academics and staff of British for living costs and help with visas (I know continue to support academics globally who Universities – those supposedly Ivory Towers friend warned him he was in danger, for in lost career. Since 2006, Cara has also run universities. Its five full-time staff, volunteers it worked because, after the Anschluss, suffer because of who they are, what group – are surely not that important in a crisis? his classes, as in every class in Zimbabwe Regional Programmes abroad, starting with and interns work with a Council of Trustees. my father brought Austrian colleagues, my or party or religion they belong to, or what In fact, they are primary capacity builders then, there was a government spy. The then Virtual Lecture Theatres in Zimbabwe, where The website www.cara.ngo provides best babysitters, to his Physics Department they dared to say, write or teach. Some can for a country after conflict or disaster. President Mugabe did not want bad news professors exiled in the UK or South Africa more information on our history and in Southampton University). In spite of never go home and need to rebuild their lives Without them, who will train the teachers, caused by his tyrannical government to get taught students in Medicine and current activities.

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Still roughing it ELISABETH SALISBURY

Last year we learned of the homelessness problem in Oxford, one of the UK’s richest cities. Since then, the number of people sleeping on the street has doubled and the death toll rises

The winds start to get icy in November and the rain is cold. If you lived on the street this would be a challenge, particularly to your health. If you were a woman you could expect to die at 45, a man even earlier at 43.

Every November, the homeless community and their friends in Oxford come together to had four churches signed up. all night to ensure safety and comfort, and shelter beds, nevertheless managed to remember their fellow rough sleepers who providing breakfast and clearing up in the operate SWEP on 33 nights in the coldest have died on the streets during the year. We I can now report on our first year of morning. There was a generally peaceful and winter for some years. In the face of sing some rousing and well-loved hymns, operations. Yes: it was so successful we are harmonious atmosphere and on no occasion swingeing cuts by central government, they hear readings from the Bible and join in definitely going to continue. Seven churches did we need to call in the police. were forced to choose where to make their prayers. Piano accompaniment has for many in and around the city centre offered their own cuts locally: children’s centres, social yeas been enthusiastically provided by Alan, premises; another seven twinned with The outcomes for some of the guests were care, provision for the elderly, libraries? The who has himself had experience of living on participating churches to offer support, even better than we could have hoped. Two list goes on. What would you have done? the street. volunteers, money and help with jobs such were accommodated by a local charity, two Left the voluntary sector to take up the as washing sheets and so on. The number of found their own accommodation, two more The centrepiece of the service comes when slack? This year there were 24 names. Every month, accommodation for SWEP (Severe Weather beds – ten – was determined by the smallest discussed positive solutions for moving on, Mary Gurr, Chaplain to the Homeless, reads two of our fellow citizens died of neglect, Emergency Protocol) that guarantees shelter venue: it would have been too complicated three took back-to-work tests. Others had And we shall. We’re already planning to run out the names of all those who have died on cold, hunger, preventable disease. And to all homeless people, regardless of where to have a different number each night. the time and space to consider their future in for the same three months next year, but with the streets of Oxford in the previous year and it was horror and shame at this appalling they come from, whenever the temperature a way that had not been possible before. We an increased number of beds. We’ve learned candles are lit for every named person. Each Once the project got underway, all the beds statistic that had inspired a group of us, led is forecast to drop below freezing – 0 believe none of them returned to sleeping on a lot and the volunteers are raring to of these people was loved and cared for, not were filled every night. The total number by the indefatigable Mary, to see if we could degrees centigrade – for three consecutive the street. Guest comments included: ‘Made go again. And perhaps we can help to cut just by the families, who may have lost touch of guests was 35 and the individual length do something about it. nights. We therefore decided on the far me feel welcome.’ ‘Gave me a good night’s that terrible death toll on the streets of this but still cherish them and their memory, but of stay varied between one and 88 nights. better scheme of opening a different church sleep so I wasn’t tired the next day.’ most wealthy of cities. also by their community, the community of I wrote in my ‘Oxford Letter’ last year of how We had an amazing group of volunteers each night of the week from January to the homeless in Oxford. The death of each of Churches Together in Central Oxford (CTCO) whose jobs varied from setting up beds and It should be noted that the City Council, Elisabeth Salisbury (Jones 1956) March. At the time of writing last year, we them is a loss to so many. were frustrated in our attempts to provide the greeting guests on arrival, being present much maligned for closing 62 homeless

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night temperatures drop below freezing, It is true that the loss of shelter provision single greatest cause of homelessness is On your doorstep as it only takes one night of cold weather under austerity is the immediate cause of economic insecurity, simply not being able for people to start dying, as the rising body rough sleeping in Oxford, yet it is also clear to afford rent. I came to understand how THOMAS ZAGORIA count among homeless people across the that the problem is massively exacerbated while some rough sleepers have drug and You don’t have to look far to find found. The crisis on our streets is enormous, homelessness campaign, is involved in country tragically demonstrates. Even more by the huge inequalities in our city. The alcohol addiction problems, others do not, Oxford’s growing number of rough and every winter it grows. The growth in the both directly helping people on the streets than this, however, the current emergency University and its richer colleges are the and those who do face poor and dwindling sleepers number of rough sleepers is a direct result and working to change how they’re treated shelter provision system is woefully major owners of buildings in Oxford, holding resources to help them recover; nobody of the severe inequality in our society and, by authorities. Since I’ve been involved, its insufficient. Underfunded outreach teams vast swathes of property. Not only does is helped by the stigma of rough sleeping. more immediately, shelter closures by local active campaigns have included efforts to rarely reach all rough sleepers to even tell this create the grotesque absurdity of I came to understand that homelessness authorities starved of funding by central tackle the root of the homelessness crisis as them when shelters have been opened, buildings lying empty while people sleep services are often accessible only to those government austerity measures. well as seeking immediate changes to make and homeless people are turned away if on the streets, it also drives up Oxford’s who can demonstrate a ‘local connection’, the lives of rough sleepers in Oxford more Many students arrive in this city wanting to they seek to enter shelters after 9.30pm, no unaffordable cost of living, forcing still more meaning those without a provable link to dignified and secure. make a difference, and from my involvement matter how cold the weather. Because of people into homelessness and poverty. Oxford, including many European and other this, in addition to campaigning to expand migrants, are left with no access to help. in charities and campaigns in Oxford I OYD’s push to repeal the Vagrancy Act, a Challenging the University to open up its provision, OYD led groups of dozens of Even those who can demonstrate a local know that we can. It requires, however, draconian law from 1824 that effectively empty buildings to rough sleepers, and take students around the city on freezing nights connection can be left waiting many years that we understand homelessness not as criminalises rough sleeping, enabling police a meaningful part in community initiatives to notifying homeless people of cold weather for social housing: the other night I spoke a permanent state of affairs that can only harassment, has drawn national attention. end homelessness in Oxford, will take time. provision. A few of us were out until 3.00am to one man who had been on the waiting be ameliorated, but as a problem caused We organised a petition on the parliamentary But there are many other ways you can help or 4.00am some nights, having fundraised list and on the streets for seven years, and directly by worsening inequality in our society. website which gained the requisite 10,000 more immediately. Turl Street Homeless for hotel rooms to give shelter to those another who’d lost his home that day but Helping the homeless of Oxford will require signatures to guarantee an official – though Action is one such way. This is a student- who had missed their chance, or were too had been told he’d need to be on the streets The Oxford bubble is easy to get lost in: not merely charity, but also a willingness unsatisfactory – government response, wrote run group which goes out each night to mistrustful of official provision, to access for weeks before he could be helped by historic buildings, lavish events, a world- to challenge the status quo and challenge articles and contacted MPs and national give hot drinks and sandwiches to rough SWEP. an outreach team; he didn’t even have the class education and equally world-class established interests in our community. charity figures. Layla Moran MP picked up sleepers, and you can turn up with no prior money for a sleeping bag that night. I came opportunities to procrastinate. But around on our petition and proposed a parliamentary When I first came to an OYD meeting I didn’t experience: just fill in your name on a rota on In my own involvement with charities and to understand also, that there is a legacy the edges of that bubble is another Oxford, motion on the subject, as well as raising the know what to expect, but whether you feel their Facebook group beforehand, and there campaigns in this city I’ve found there are of mistrust from homeless people who’ve where our fellow human beings are forced to issue in Prime Minister’s Questions. We want more comfortable going out at nights and will be an experienced member there to lead many people, including students, community had possessions seized, been moved on by sleep without shelter on our doorsteps. to keep the pressure up. directly helping people, or would prefer to the shift. members and homeless people themselves, police or faced abuse from ordinary citizens. work on the campaigning side, protesting or It wasn’t always like this. A decade ago, showing the compassion and initiative that The group also campaigns locally around There are many ways to help the homeless just sending emails, anyone can be of help. So if you want to help, the first step is to counts of homeless people in this city would can make a real difference. expanding winter shelter provision and of Oxford and many students committed find only a handful of rough sleepers – last preventing anti-social behaviour legislation In order to help people and challenge this have conversations with Oxford’s rough So if you want to get involved, where to to doing so. Turn up to an OYD event, year’s official count, by contrast, found from being used against rough sleepers. crisis, we need to mobilise students from sleepers. Be a human face for them, and be start? From my own experience, I can or a TSHA outing, and whatever your 61. Unofficial counts often find far more, Expanding SWEP (Severe Weather every college and across the university; this is willing to challenge a status quo that is so wholeheartedly recommend two groups experience or lack of it you can start making and many rough sleepers, understandably Emergency Provision), is a necessity (see all the more true because of the undeniable jarringly inhumane. that are making a real difference, On Your a difference. When I talked to homeless wary of being moved on or having their Oxford letter pp.56-57). OYD has been role that our university, and our own privilege, Doorstep (OYD) and Turl Street Homeless people in this city I came to understand Thomas Zagoria (2015) is an active possessions seized, do not want to be calling for shelters to be opened up every plays in the developing crisis. Action (TSHA). OYD, Oxford Student Union’s some things. I came to understand how the member of On Your Doorstep

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Kismet? Coincidence? Or simply ‘carelessness’? One of the greatest satisfactions of my JACKIE LANG, JILL MILNER, STEPHANIE FERRO career has been to see how students can be personally transformed and motivated From 1980 to 2018 St Anne’s alumnae each girl in her own personal voyages of the Governors? I don’t believe so. It seems through participation in drama and music, have dominated life at one of the discovery. I have enjoyed embarking on our to me that St Anne’s and Walthamstow and, indeed, other team activities that country’s leading girls schools journey together and look forward to a future Hall have much in common, both in style demand sheer hard work, self-discipline full of exciting possibilities. and substance: unpretentious, principled Walthamstow Hall School, a leading and advanced personal, social and creative and committed to extending opportunity, independent girls’ school in Sevenoaks, Jill Milner skills. There is nothing so satisfying as seeing because enlightened education is so celebrated its 180th anniversary this year by either a pupil or a colleague blossoming as I was struck, and yet not surprised, to precious. welcoming its third successive Headmistress discover that my successor at Walthamstow they discover a hitherto unexplored talent from St Anne’s. Stephanie Ferro succeeds Jill Founded in 1838 to provide a ‘Home and Hall was to be a fellow St Anne’s graduate. or interest. This is a vital area of education, Milner who, in turn, followed Jackie Lang. School’ for missionary daughters, the school I might reasonably have been expected to sadly under threat in many schools, and has continued to have pastoral care and Stephanie Ferro be much more surprised at this coincidence, of crucial importance given the increasing a profound interest in each individual at its Speaking as she took up her post, given that I had myself followed another St dominance of ‘virtual interaction’ using heart. This was also my experience at St Stephanie, who brings 25 years of Anne’s graduate in the role in 2002. Kismet? technology, over the face-to-face kind. Anne’s, facilitated by the tutorial and Moral experience to her new role, having taught Coincidence? Wildean ‘carelessness’? I could not be more delighted that excellence Tutor system which, in the 1970s, might and led pastoral and academic teams at a Even a lack of imagination on the part of in the arts and sport is valued as highly as include sherry or scones as the occasion number of prestigious girls’ schools including required! I have never forgotten the kindness Although I matriculated in 1976 when St academic achievement at Walthamstow Hall, Wimbledon High (Deputy Head, Pastoral), of Mrs Bednarowska, nor her energetic and Anne’s was still an all-women’s College, I which is saying something for a consistently Lady Eleanor Holles (Senior Assistant inspiring teaching and her unnerving ability remember the first male undergraduates high-performing selective school. I am also Headmistress) and Redland High School to pluck a hefty text off the shelf to find a arriving in 1979/80 when I continued as a delighted that, like St Anne’s, the school (Headmistress), said: particularly illuminating sentence. I shall member of the college for a fourth year to has worked hard in recent years to expand never forget making an appointment to see train as a teacher at the OU Department I have found everything about Walthamstow its ability to support students financially, her in my final term to seek her permission of Education in Norham Gardens. From Hall to be inviting. The emblem of the ship through a well-established and long-standing (can that be right?) to marry that summer. there I bitterly disappointed my tutor, Chris may seem an enigma in leafy Sevenoaks Although I was only 20, to her credit she Woodhead, by deciding to take a job at (as is our own ‘ship’ in the heart of the smiled on the idea and even kindly attended a selective Independent Girls’ school, Midlands), but this school has at its heart the wedding ceremony. St Helen’s Northwood. However, I never a commitment to ‘journey’. My very first regretted the decision because I got involved tour revealed not only the strong academic Learning at St Anne’s to be comfortable with with helping to direct plays and developed a foundations of the past and the energetic answering and asking difficult questions, passion for bringing texts to life. This featured excellence of the present, but students who and surviving what at first seemed like an later at Headington School and Tonbridge are purposeful, who take pleasure in being impossible workload, was certainly invaluable Girls’ Grammar, where I had the privilege part of a vibrant learning community, and an preparation for life as a busy mother of three, of working with some extraordinarily gifted outstanding teaching staff who encourage English teacher and then school leader.

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I was there for 14 very good years, becoming head of modern languages and a governor. SAS branch reports (Stephanie Ferro and I discovered that she had been in my form there in my last year: another amazing coincidence.) Then my A touch of gloom at an ageing and group visiting Newark Park, but discovered husband spotted an advertisement for a diminishing membership last year has that the house had been so damaged head for Walthamstow Hall, my own old given way to a new spirit, particularly by a water leak, that another venue was school. I thought it would be fun to try. I’d in the North East suggested – Tredegar House. been very happy there from the age of five Bristol and West of England, which has Subsequent to the meeting, Lyn Urch and was given an incredibly useful education, been struggling to attract new members, offered to help the acting secretary with but I wasn’t looking to move and I didn’t held a meeting with the Principal at Bristol administration and agreed to take on the really expect to be appointed. Grammar School on 31 January, to which arrangements for a Freshers’ event in the However, I was, and had another extremely 16 alumnae and one alumnus came. The autumn. happy time there – nearly 19 years – before visit was lively and all members expressed The proposed activities for the Cambridge Cambridge where our guide gave us a lively retiring in 2002. I hope I was able to give their appreciation of the event. branch in the year ahead were discussed and informative description of the objects back something to the school to which With a few new names to contact, the at the AGM, which we held over a light on display. We then retired to the Graduate I owed so much. As a member of the Bursary scheme. This isn’t easy in an been most unimaginative. While I was at Branch held a meeting on 29 April, where supper at the home of one of our members Centre for a convivial lunch. Our spring committee for 16 years and chairman for educational institution that does not have St Anne’s I fell in love both with mediaeval we heard Liz Cashdan, herself a new in mid-October. We were sorry there were outing this year was to Lavenham in Suffolk. the last five, I also wanted to do my bit for the background of ancient and massive French – inspiringly taught by Marjorie Booth member, read some of her poetry and not enough Freshers in our region for The day was gloriously sunny and it was a the government’s Assisted Places scheme. I endowments to draw upon. Perhaps even and Betty Rutson – and with a handsome describe its source. us to hold our usual welcome supper in real pleasure to be shown the mediaeval was educated free at what was then a Direct more valuable, however, is the fact that undergraduate from Trinity. I had first met September. Some of us attended an event buildings and learn about the history of the Grant grammar school. It had been forced to Chalkwork both St Anne’s and Walthamstow Hall have him when I was 16, four days before I heard in late October to meet our new Principal village from our knowledgeable guide. We go independent when they were abolished, inherited the compelling sense of purpose, about my scholarship from St Anne’s: what I stride the green rim of England at and discuss the future direction of College. started at the Guildhall of Corpus Christi in hope and determination, which drove on a week! but Assisted Places did help to make up for Beachy Head This was a stimulating evening, which also Market Place and ended at the fine parish their far-sighted founders notwithstanding that and I wanted other children to have the When I graduated, instead of staying on in wary of the scalloped overhang, close provided an opportunity to meet other church of St Peter and St Paul, after which the difficulties and opposition they faced. advantages I had been given. Oxford, I did my research at King’s College, enough alumnae living in the area, including the we adjourned to the Angel Hotel for a good As the happy beneficiaries of what they London in order to join him. He was already I also believed very strongly in girls’ single- to watch the sea’s claws scratch the Principals of two Cambridge colleges. lunch. To round off this academic year we achieved, it is perhaps no big surprise that teaching Classics at King’s College School, sex education, so I was delighted to be pebbles, A dozen or so of us thoroughly enjoyed are currently looking forward to our annual so many St Anne’s graduates have felt drawn Wimbledon. We married straight away elected President of the Girls’ Schools its milky tongues of foam catlick the beach, a formal pre-Christmas dinner in the summer garden party in Fen Ditton in to education as a vocation. Long may this and two years later had our first daughter, Association in 1997. Though that was a curl into the meringue-white cliffs. private room of a restaurant in the centre mid-June. difficult year: the incoming Blair government’s of Cambridge; the food and drink were continue to be the case! followed by our second after another two Poem by Liz Cashdan The London Branch has had another busy years. I gave up my research while they were very first act was to abolish those Assisted excellent and put us in the right spirit for the Jackie Lang year. Since our last report we have enjoyed Places... We agreed to attempt an outing in subsequent festivities! babies, but I did a bit of French coaching, a summer Sherry and Tapas tasting at the I didn’t intend to be a school-teacher like September. Alison Jackson, our treasurer, and then heard of a part-time job at the local Jackie Lang (Wicks 1961) Jill Milner In March, a group of us visited the Museum Streatham Wine Bar, run by Jimmy Smith my mother and my sister. That would have offered to sound out the possibility of a Ursuline Convent comprehensive. (Land 1976) Stephanie Ferro (1987) of Classical Archaeology at the University of of the West London Wine School, who,

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as a self-confessed sherry nut, gave us a he left his collection to the National Trust, crushed to make the famous Fenton apple by Bridget Riley, Prunella Clough, Marcel Midlands Branch meets for events twice fascinating talk on the making and history of and this is on display at Fenton House. juice, a tropical garden and parterres, which Duchamp, Henry Moore and Max Ernst. during the year, inviting alumnae, friends sherry and broke open some special bottles Foremost among his favourites were the are frequently replanted by Andy, who came Nos 1 and 3 remain private homes. and family. The summer of 2017 was not for us to taste. works of the Camden Group who met every from Kew, and his volunteer helpers. kind to the Midlands and we had so much On 8 May a number of the branch visited week before World War I to discuss each rain that our country walk routes were The annual Freshers’ event in October, the Charterhouse in Charterhouse Square, others’ work and art movements of the limited. However, a September day was again hosted by Accenture, was much a College-organized St Anne's in the City times. Their credo was to paint life as they kind with the weather and enabled us to appreciated by the Freshers. The ‘St Anne’s event. The current Master is Ann Kenrick saw it: no abstractionism or cubism here. repeat a previous successful walk with on a Plate’ supper club has met several of St Anne’s (1977). The Charterhouse is a Members of the group were Walter Sickert, some sections uphill and therefore drained. times, as has the newly formed Lunch Club. former Carthusian monastery built in 1348. Charles Ginner, Harold Gilman and Spencer The sun was out for our walking but an Both groups extend a warm welcome to Since the dissolution of the monasteries in Gore. almighty thunderstorm happened as we ate you to join them. Beautiful Fenton House was built in 1686 the sixteenth century the site has served as our usual leisurely lunch. The purple sky, and gifted to the National Trust in 1952 by Last but not least is the collection of early a private mansion, a boys’ school and an Our AGM and dinner in November at lightning and rain were almost apocalyptic Lady Binning who provided the furniture, keyboard instruments – harpsichords and almshouse, which it remains to this day. our new venue, the Lansdowne Club in but we were cosy with fish and chips and and much of the superb European porcelain clavichords plus a digital replica you can try Mayfair, was a great success. Our speaker An Architectural Tour of the Barbican Estate ale in the fascinating Castle Inn. The tower collection. Her uncle, who made his fortune for yourself. The collection was the work of 2 Willow Road is part of a terrace ot three was Yolande Young, a specialist in cyber is planned for later in the summer. of the inn was the view point from which in the Australian wool trade, did not always Major Benton Fletcher, who started life in houses designed by Hungarian-born security, who spoke on ‘Under cover of Charles I surveyed the flat plain of the come straight home from Australia to the British army, then fell under the spell of architect Erno Goldfinger and completed in And finally, Samantha Akomeah has Darknet: the effects of Cybercrime on Battle of Edgehill in the Civil War. This part London. Thus the house displays Chinese early music and devoted the rest of his life 1939. It has been managed by the National made some short pilot films of alumnae business and security’. She gave us some of Warwickshire is really lovely and easily porcelain, white and blue, of great worth, to collecting the instruments. One of the Trust since 1995. It was one of the first sharing memories of college. This is being scary examples of how easy it is to have accessible from the wide area served by from the fourteenth to eighteenth centuries. earliest, from around 1594, he salvaged Modernist buildings acquired by the Trust, considered by the Development Office your data compromised and her talk the M40. from a Florentine cellar, where it was being giving rise to some controversy. Goldfinger as a model to share with other branches. provoked some lively discussions. Her Lady Binning was also an accomplished used as a carpenters’ bench! He died in lived here with his wife Ursula and their We thank Joan Shenton for her advice on best advice was to keep changing your seamstress, as may be seen from her Chelsea in 1944, and as the bombs fell children until his death in 1987. interview format and on editing the first passwords and to check the website www. bedroom. She collected embroidery, round him, he bequeathed his beloved versions (p.69). haveibeenpwned.com to see if your email embroidered pictures and caskets. As she A number of cottages were demolished to instruments to the National Trust on two accounts have been hacked. Our next AGM was married to a Scots aristocrat and had allow for the construction of Willow Road, conditions: that the collection be kept intact and dinner will again be at the Lansdowne large estates in the Borders, some of the which was strongly opposed by local and that the insturments be frequently Club on November 8, so please put the embroidered pictures, which had been residents, including novelist Ian Fleming. It is played. date in your diary. passed down in his family, date back to the said Fleming used the architect’s name for seventeenth century. There is a magnificent view out over London his James Bond villain Auric Goldfinger. The This spring we enjoyed a guided walk round and the gardens from the attic balcony. building is supported by a concrete frame, the City of London, which is full of hidden Peter Barkworth was a well-known actor The gardens are magnificent at any time of part of which is external, leaving room for In the winter we retreated to a member’s flat history and remarkably peaceful at the who lived in Hampstead almost all his life. year. Under the gardener Andy’s watchful a spacious, uncluttered interior. Goldfinger in central Birmingham and were delighted weekend. We have also visited two National He appeared in many roles in the West eye they bloom and change colour all year himself designed much of the furniture to be joined by Helen King who stayed on Trust properties in Hampstead, Fenton End, on TV and in the early Indiana Jones round. There is a walled garden, an orchard, of no 2, and the house also contained a for a chat about College and the exciting House and 2 Willow Road. movies. 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prefaced by our invited speaker, Stephen when it comes to Oxford. All agreed that This ensured that the Freshers went away popular visit to Appleton Manor to see the Mill House Garden, near Faringdon, and Maddock, Chief Executive of our world we should look for ways in which we, as a knowing that they would see several familiar gardens surrounding the Manor House. what promises to be a fascinating talk famous City of Birmingham Symphony branch, can support the great work College faces when they arrived in college. We were given a great welcome. The by Michael Pickwoad, the BAFTA Film Orchestra. He had fascinating inside stories is doing in our region. still-evolving reforms to the gardens were Award nominated production designer Mid-November saw a large group of North to tell of the history and present and future attractive, with a new slant on tradition and who has worked with Stephen Poliakoff Although we were relatively small in number West alumnae gathered at the offices of plans for the ensemble, so exciting at the some interesting features such as the spiral and on productions as diverse as Dr Who, at The Bridge Tavern, the response to Weightman’s in central Manchester for moment under the direction of the much- mound and some wonderful trees. The Withnail and I, Cider with Rosie and Agatha the event invitation confirmed two things: the eagerly anticipated Meet the Principal fêted Lithuanian Musical Director Mirga rain held off long enough to enjoy the visit, Christie’s Poirot, at St Anne’s in October. first, that there remains a critical mass event, a chance to get to know Helen King Gražinyte -Tyla. which ended with refreshments and a final of alumnae in the North East keen on and for her to recruit our help in achieving Ann Pasternak Slater will give an illustrated glimpse of some wonderful climbing roses Our Freshers always have a flying send-off maintaining and building our network of The small museum incorporates the her vision for St Anne’s in 2025. We heard talk ‘A Russian Impressionist: the art and life and, for some of us, a visit to the adjacent to College immediately before they go up. northern friends; second, there are just mediaeval vaulted undercroft, built by the the story of her life and the journey that of Leonid Pasternak’ following our AGM in church. The enthusiasm of the returning second as many – if not more – people north of monks but retained within the house built took her from university to the police November. year old hands is a credit to the St Anne’s the border for whom Newcastle feels a bit by the Brooke family as its wine cellar. and back to Oxford. We then watched a Before the start of Michaelmas Term 2017, Details of the Branch and events may be system of picking winners! too far. For those in the region who were Many of the artefacts discovered during brilliant little video https://www.youtube. Elisabeth Salisbury again generously hosted seen on the St Anne’s website alumnae unable to make it in March, we are planning excavations over the past 50 years are on com/watch?v=RlnB8vfUUm4 full of jokey an informal supper for Freshers, which gave Almost a full academic year has gone Pages. All members of the St Anne’s a summer event with details forthcoming show, including a letter by Sir Piers Dutton, but interesting facts about the College, them the chance to meet each other and by since the well-attended meet-up for Society are invited to book for events. shortly and for our friends in the true Sheriff of Cheshire in 1536 telling Thomas designed to entice students from all walks the one undergraduate who was able to North East Branch Freshers in York last north, Branch Chair David Royal raised the Cromwell that he had imprisoned the of life to consider applying. The round table come. He entertained them with stories and September, even though it only feels like possibility of a Scotland Branch at the next Abbot and four canons in Halton Castle on discussions that followed got us all thinking information about his first year and gave last week! Since then, the Branch has Committee meeting in June. charges of fraud. More than 100 skeletons about what we were proud of about the them a warm welcome. been busy confirming and re-establishing were found buried within the abbey complex College and how we could help maintain the network of alumnae ‘up north’. With On a lovely June morning SAS members Our AGM took place in October in a new and small samples from some of these have and build on the traditions of inclusiveness the support of Ali Albrecht we hosted an of the North West branch gathered from venue, St Margaret’s Institute in North been helpful in medical research into bone and non-traditional approaches. The informal evening of drinks on 21 March at north, east and west to visit Norton Priory, Oxford. After our formal meeting, we were diseases such as Paget’s disease. There evening was an excellent chance to get to The Bridge Tavern under the Tyne Bridge on home of the Brooke family since the delighted to welcome Helen King, who was more than enough in the museum and know new alumnae from the region and to Newcastle’s Quayside. We were generously dissolution of the monasteries in 1536. The spoke to us about her appointment as gardens to entertain us for the day and also meet up with old friends too. supported by College and, in particular, 42 acre site outside Runcorn comprises Principal, the excitement of the first few plenty of time for sharing reminiscences It has been a busy, enjoyable and Outreach Officer Dr Lucy Busfield, who the remains of an abbey complex dating In June 2017 Oxford members had a weeks of the Michaelmas term, meeting about our time at St Anne’s. successful year for the South of England was in the region visiting local schools and from the twelfth to sixteenth centuries and students and her plans for the 2025 Branch. Our annual programme of events colleges to help raise awareness of, and an eighteenth century walled garden. We In late September, at the ever reliable Slug Conversation on the future direction for St began in the Spring of 2017 with our annual widen participation in, higher education. met in the museum cafe where Dr Moira and Lettuce wine bar in central Manchester, Anne’s. We finished the afternoon with tea lecture and AGM in April and theatre trip in The St Anne’s spirit was alive and well as Stevenson, Deputy Chair of Trustees, gave the induction of the ‘class of 2017’ into the and cakes. May, which we covered in last year’s issue the conversation turned to the academic us an overview of the history of the site and St Anne’s family took place. Four Freshers, Circumstances intervened to prevent the of The Ship. The year continued with its aspirations of young people in our area and its buildings as it evolved from Priory to five undergraduates and six recent and talk that we had planned for February 2018. usual mix of discussions and visits, with some of the specific challenges they may Abbey to private house and back again to not so recent graduates met to mingle, However, we have a garden visit lined up for both social and educational elements aimed face, and preconceptions they may have Norton Priory. reassure, answer questions, eat and drink. June to see the new layout at Woolstone at extending our networks and exercising

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our brain cells. have heard that in the past ‘our’ Freshers reports about the lack of diversity among On 14 April, Oxford City Archaeologist In conclusion: part of our purpose as have carried on meeting as the ‘Winchester Oxbridge students, the Branch articulated David Radford spoke to us in Winchester a Branch is to promote inclusivity and In July 2017, our book group tried a new group’, and we certainly hope this continues a clear commitment to widening access on ‘Archaeology and The Modern World’. diversity, and we look forward to supporting approach in the spirit of ‘lifelong learning’. and they establish a robust support network and selecting for potential, and we explored This was a fascinating and entertaining the College in broadening its appeal to We selected a popular non-fiction title, for each other, both in and out of term-time. ways in which we thought this could be talk that taught us much about the role of gifted but less socially advantaged students geneticist Adam Rutherford’s A Brief History achieved and supported by alumnae. the modern archaeologist, Oxford’s early in the future. We also believe that education of Everyone Who Ever Lived, and SAS On 14 October, Jill Hooker organised This exchange of ideas generated some history and the secrets to be found under its and lifelong learning, now more than ever, member Di Downie prepared an excellent a tremendous day out at Charleston interesting possibilities and challenges for ‘basements’. David illustrated his talk with have to be promoted collaboratively by all presentation to clarify the key concepts. Farmhouse, including lunch and a visit College to consider when developing its some lovely slides showing digs in Oxford, sections of society learning together and in The discussion worked like a seminar, to Berwick church. Charleston was the approach and long term strategy. We do including activity beneath the new St Anne’s partnership. We want to be a progressive which deepened our understanding of home and country meeting place for the hope Kate and Ali felt we made a useful library. His book The Archaeology of Oxford Branch, one that will move with the times, human biological development and genetics Bloomsbury Group, particularly of Virginia contribution to the ‘Conversation’, and look in 20 Digs should be out in July. We were renew itself and support St Anne’s and (although we were happy not to have to Woolf and her artist sister, Vanessa Bell. The forward to hearing the outcome from the delighted with a turnout of 28 people for Oxford University as a whole to meet the MEMORABLE MOMENTS sit an exam on the subject afterwards). interior of the house was painted by Duncan Principal at the forthcoming dissemination this event, including friends and colleagues needs of young people who have to rise Whilst it was not well attended with only six Grant and Vanessa Bell, and the decoration The London Branch of the SAS has events. from other local organisations such as the to the challenge of the modern world. But members present, it was an exceptional and furnishings form a unique collection of embarked on a pilot to film people Hampshire and Isle of Wight OUS and in doing so, we aim to weave the best of session which was both enjoyable and their decorative style, which can also be We began our 2018 events in March, recalling their time at St Anne’s. So far, Odiham U3A. the past into the future and not forget the enlightening, enabling us to make sense of seen in Berwick church. with a discussion of Nobel Laureate Toni the stories are taken from past alumnae lessons that history has been teaching us. very recent news items about gene editing. Morrison’s controversial classic Beloved. As I write, we are preparing for our annual but we’d welcome the views of current We had an excellent guided tour, which The book provoked a range of reactions Chichester Theatre trip to see The Chalk This year’s reports provided by Ann Revill students. The pilot is designed to capture examined the lives of the sisters, providing and stimulated a great discussion, with Garden by Enid Bagnold on 9 June, have (Radford 1955) Bristol and West, Sarah memories about what College looked and much intimate and fascinating detail. It was those who had not done so before agreeing plans to visit Middle Street Synagogue Beeson-Jones (Beeson 1972) Cambridge, felt like; College rules and customs they particularly interesting and informative for that it was an important if not comfortable in Brighton in July and will continue our Jane Darnton (Baker 1962) Midlands, remember; what they were studying; what those of us reading Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, read. historical theme at Butser Ancient Farm, Clare Dryhurst (1979) London, David was important; memorable events while which we were due to discuss in November. Petersfield in September. We will also run Royal (2007) North East, Lizzie Gent they were there; local haunts; friendships We were especially thrilled to welcome two more book discussions in 2018, and (1976) North West, Jackie Ingram (1976) made, lost and maintained. two new members who had responded to host a Freshers’ lunch in the Autumn. Oxford, Stella Charman (Rees 1975) our ‘Brighton’ letter, sent out earlier in the This pilot is currently being filmed by South of England year. In total, 11 members and five guests Once again, we ended our financial year Samantha Akomeah with support from the In September, we welcomed seven Freshers enjoyed the event. with a healthy bank balance and the St Anne’s London Branch and the College and one current undergraduate to our Committee decided to donate to the new Development Office. Our final events of the year were a ‘St Freshers’ lunch, hosted once again by Ruth Access to Opportunity fund, to which we Anne’s Conversation lunch’, to which we If you would like to get involved with Le Mesurier in Winchester. As usual they gave £600 in September. We sadly lost a invited Kate Davy and Ali Albrecht, followed filming, video editing or being interviewed were very appreciative of the chance to couple of members this year through age by our Mrs Dalloway discussion, both held to share your memories and stories as meet each other before the start of term, and infirmity, but have recruited others so on 1 November. Whilst only seven members individuals or a group, please contact us and also to get information from one of our numbers for 2018, should be between were able to attend, others sent in their at [email protected] last year’s intake, now an ‘old hand’. We 35 and 40. views in writing. Mindful of recent press Samantha Akomeah (2010)

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Entrepreneurship Contest, the 2016 Sino-US The sky’s the limit Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition (Atlanta, USA), the 2017 Seeking China’s YAO LI Entrepreneurs Contest, and as a tutor at beyond mere financially-orientated personal During my time in Oxford, I paid attention to Tsingchuang Space, an incubator for young development and had ideas on how to cure China’s social and economic development. entrepreneurs at Renmin University. In the certain types of cancer, how to extend life, Innovation and entrepreneurship are the past year, I have provided thousands of how to improve the legal system and how to impetus of the development of society and hours of one-to-one advisory sessions reform social welfare. nation. Capital plays an essential role in on innovation and business to young promoting the commercialisation of scientific In my spare time, I enjoyed reading in the Chinese entrepreneurs and provided angel achievements and enhancing people’s College library, listening to classical music investment/financing to some of them. lives. I wanted to make a contribution to the in College concerts and chatted with I act as a Deputy Secretary in CFOFA where evolution of my motherland and community. friends in the College coffee bar. I spent I am in charge of the Private Equity FOF an unforgettable time with lifelong friends On returning to China in 2016, and aspiring Alliance and have a role in establishing the at College balls and formal dinners. I also to help young entrepreneurs realise China Private Securities FOF Alliance and acted as a part-time commentator with BBC their dreams, I started a career in angel FOF Research Centre. I represented CFOFA Oxford and hosted events such as the UK investment. I joined Tsing Ventures and the at meetings with China’s national ministries PhD Forum and the Oxford Chinese New China Fund of Funds Alliance (CFOFA). In and commissions and have also organised frequently to the US and UK, Switzerland young people in underdeveloped areas Year Gala. Tsing Ventures, I act as a partner and lead and hosted a series of national conferences and Germany in search of first-rank start-ups around the world. a team to invest in culture and recreation, I got the top ranking during my promoting the development and cooperation and young entrepreneurs. consumption and education related start- I would like to support St Anne’s students undergraduate years in the Communications of FOF and private equity industry in China. ups. The firms I invested in included, among My story is that of a young woman who and alumnae who want to run or are University of China and masters studies in These included the 2016 and 2017 China others: Chasestone Capital, Zeapa Media, keeps challenging and transitioning herself already running a start-up. I am happy Tsinghua University, and was granted the Private Equity Summit in Beijing, the 2016 Qiyueqicheng, and Coookie9. from first endeavouring to realise her own to be contacted via email for any related China National College Scholarships – Sino-US FOF Summit in Boston and a series dreams to helping more young people enquiries, such as how to write a business awarded to one in a thousand students I acted as a judge and tutor in the finals of meetings of FOF and other financing conferences. to realise their entrepreneurial dreams. plan, how to build a team, how to develop The story of a young woman who set – twice. I published some academic articles of the 2017 China College Student Professionally I transferred from journalism a business model, etc. For those who are out to realise her own dreams and now in national journals in China as well as Internet+Innovation and Entrepreneurship In 2017, I was invited to host a number to finance and from private equity to FOF. I interested in running businesses in China and aspires to help others do the same working as a part-time presenter in China Competition, which was organised by of events including the 2017 China want to stimulate more young people and other regions in Asia, I am able to provide Central Television (CCTV) and interning with China’s Ministry of Education and is the most Entrepreneur Private Equity Summit, the My time at Oxford and St Anne’s was a support them with angel financing and information and resources. Most importantly, UNESCO for six months. I also worked as an authoritative entrepreneurship contest for Third Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship turning point in my life. It opened a door for advice. In the future, I hope to establish a I would like to invest in some of them and associate researcher in a Sino-US think tank Chinese college students. I also acted as a Ceremony of China National-owned me to see a bigger world. In College, I had foundation with the aim of financing scientific assist them during their initial period. and did volunteering jobs in Beijing. After judge and tutor for the 2017 Beijing Capital Enterprises sponsored by the Communist the opportunity to discuss diverse topics research benefiting human development and graduation, I became the first graduate in Culture and Innovation Investment and Youth League of China and the 2017 Oxford Yao Li (2013) can be contacted at in politics, law, literature, culture and even education, building a think tank to conduct Tsinghua Journalism School to continue her Financing Roadshow, the second and third and Cambridge Alumni Annual Conference [email protected] medical science, astronomy and philosophy independent research on social affairs and studies at the University of Oxford. Tsinghua University Alumni Innovation and in China. In the past two years, I’ve flown with different friends. These friends thought organising volunteering teams to assist

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Making music Making space for others JOSHUA ASOKAN TOM MITTY

The Sri Lankan conductor, pianist, and I also enjoy writing my own music and in Activity over the past year has been composer – also student – who won 2015, I was selected to represent Sri Lanka dominated by charitable fund-raising the Oxfordshire Concerto Competition as a Commonwealth Composer for the for a variety of causes – but there has continues to spread his talents around CHOGM conference in Malta. I continue to been plenty of fun in the process the world compose in Oxford and I will be teaching Led by a new Principal and with the new composition as a tutor for the Sound and Coming from Sri Lanka, where progress Library firmly cemented into College life, the Music Summer School 2018. in Western art music is limited, the sheer new crop of first year students was able to vibrancy of the music scene here in Oxford I’m really grateful to my tutors Professor enjoy their first few weeks at St Anne’s to the was a surreal experience for me. I began Martyn Harry, Dr John Traill and Dr Alex full with the College at its best. playing the piano by ear from a very young Buckle for their continued support and I have Motions passed through the JCR this year age, but I started taking lessons much later. been touched by the encouragement given have had a distinctly charitable, equality and Having sat my ABRSM (The Associated to me by the Principal of the College and the equalities committee ran a week oriented crowdfunding platform has proved incredibly access-oriented outlook. We have donated Board of the Royal Schools of Music) piano wider St Anne’s community. at raising awareness of the issues facing useful, having successfully raised sufficient to SolidariTee, a campaign raising money to exams, including diplomas in performance minority groups. Dougal Main ran a number funds to send four geology students on a Joshua Asokan (2016) provide legal representation for refugees; a and teaching, I performed as a concerto of open mic nights in the bar, as well as a mapping project to Greenland, and the St campaign to save turtles in Lampedusa; and soloist in 2014 with the Symphony Orchestra comedy night involving performers from Anne’s Camerata on a tour to Kenya. We Student Action for Refugees. At the same of Sri Lanka. Since arriving in the UK, I Jericho Comedy. Our entertainment reps have also been successful in sport – the time, our BME rep Ramani Chandramohan regularly commute to London for piano have continued to throw a number of bops St Anne’s men’s football team and the passed a motion to implement a racial lessons with Graham Caskie and I have throughout the year. joint St Anne’s-St John’s women’s football Conducting Scholar of the College, I assist awareness workshop in next year’s Freshers’ enjoyed preparing for and performing at the team were both the inaugural winners of with conducting this orchestra, studying with week and Kir West-Hunter, our equalities rep, Our biggest project this term has been to recent Oxfordshire Concerto Competition. the Hassan’s cup. Our sports rep, Juliette Dr John Traill. I also direct my own group has led a programme entitled ‘desexualising raise money for Target Oxbridge, an initiative Winning the competition has given me the Westbrook, organised staff, students and Ensemble Reis and the student-run College the female form through art’. A unanimous that guides students with black African and opportunity to perform a piano concerto and fellows to take part in the Oxford Town and orchestra. Over the past two years, I have motion was also passed to extend the ambit Caribbean heritage through the Oxbridge to give a recital at the Sheldonian Theatre in Gown in May. A fantastic discussion on been fortunate to conduct professional of the living wage. application process (See over). It aims to 2019. entrepreneurship organised by Pranay Shah orchestras and choirs in Estonia, Italy, the help students reach their potential and to The JCR committee has also worked hard was highly commended by attendees from I try hard to balance my piano playing with Czech Republic, Kenya, Sri Lanka and here increase the diversity of the student body. to fulfil its various roles. Lydia Higman built across Oxford. conducting, which I’m equally passionate in the UK. I have also had the opportunity to The St Anne’s Camerata, Joshua on piano, practise We have held concerts, tournaments, an Tortellini, the College tortoise, a fantastic new about. Although St Anne’s College does not take part in conducting masterclasses with with Alberto Sanna (Plumer Visiting Fellow and auction of promises, international food fairs Tom Mitty (2016) JCR President St Anne’s alumnus, 2005) in advance of their trip hutch over the vacation. Freya Thorpe, our have a chapel choir, the St Anne’s Camerata, leading figures in the industry. After my time and a crowdfunding campaign. to Kenya arts rep, organised a busy arts week, which a string orchestra comprising professionals, at Oxford, I very much hope to be able to saw several film screenings, and Outside JCR-led initiatives, the student body students, and sixth formers, functions in a further my studies in conducting. has had real success this year. The College’s similar capacity. As the Senior events such as ‘Pimms and Plays’. The

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A change is going to come In pursuit of change

Target Oxbridge aims to improve access St Anne’s newly published Purpose students were female compared to a and admission of black African and reaffirms its commitment to be a diverse 48.8 per cent university average, the Caribbean heritage students to Oxford and inclusive community, the home highest of any College. of choice for the brightest and most Target Oxbridge is an access programme • Our UK undergraduate population ambitious students, including those that helps students with black African in 2017: BME 12.6%; white 85.4%; from under-represented groups and Caribbean heritage to gain places unknown is 2%. In the University: BME at Oxbridge. The programme is run On 23 May, the University of Oxford 15.5% ; White 82.7% ; unknown 1.8%. and delivered by Rare, a for-profit social published its first Annual Admissions • Between 2011 and 2017, across our enterprise dedicated to creating a more Statistical Report, drawing together data entire student population: BME has equal society. about undergraduate admissions for the increased from 23.1% to 28.7%. In University as a whole, and for individual Aimed at year 12 school students, Target the University BME has increased from Oxbridge provides: colleges and subjects. The report presents of fully funded students on the course from university through arranging a talk by Sarah 20.8% to 27.7%. undergraduate admissions statistics • Contact with black or minority ethnic 45 in 2017 to 160. Atayero about the challenges of working in graduates to help identify aims and for Oxford over five admissions cycles Plans for the future mental health as a black woman and through real difference, and Governing Body has ambitions Ramani Chandramohan, JCR Black and between 2013 and 2017, and also includes A number of areas have been flagged for introducing compulsory race awareness appointed an Advisory Fellow, Tom Ilube, • Advice on choices for higher education Ethnic Minorities Representative, adds: information for Oxford’s colleges and largest improvement and we need to continue to workshops for future Freshers’ Weeks. I feel to support us in increasing diversity. • Guidance on the UCAS application courses, as well as national data on the increase the number of offers to state school I firmly believe that Oxford must be I have also strengthened the ties between process regional distribution of Oxford’s UK student and BME students. Increasing diversity is a St Anne’s current outreach and as accessible and welcoming a place the BME students here through organising • Critical theory discussions and interview admissions. key priority at St Anne’s and the College is access work as possible for students from BME BMEals and formal swaps with BME practice developing a multi-faceted plan. Our plans We are proud of the work already being backgrounds, especially those who are black students at other colleges. St Anne’s statistics • Structured Oxbridge interview practice, will accord with the College's history of undertaken by St Anne’s and across the students. Target Oxbridge is a fantastic test preparation sessions with trained In Trinity term, I helped to raise funds for • 12.6 per cent of the UK students making an Oxford education attractive to and collegiate University, and supported by our markers/assessors and revision programme because of the way it provides Target Oxbridge by putting together a food we admitted were from areas of low possible for those who otherwise might not generous donors and alumnae, to ensure workshops prospective students with invaluable fair with our International Students’ Rep progression to HE (POLAR 1 & 2) have seen themselves at Oxford, and is an that Oxford attracts talented and passionate • One-on-one mentoring. help and guidance from BME mentors at Yoonji Lee. The event involved students from compared with a University average of exciting direction of travel for the College. We students regardless of background. So far Oxbridge. The programme helps to give Students selected onto the programme will college who cooked and sold food from their 11.7 per cent. will especially work to increase the numbers this academic year, we have coordinated those students the confidence to apply here already have demonstrated their academic home cultures. This sense of celebrating and of applications from students from under- or been involved in the delivery of over and promotes a positive cycle of increased • 60.9 per cent of our admitted UK potential, having scored 5A*-A at GCSE. sharing in our diversity is why St Anne’s as represented groups across all subjects, and 75 different outreach events and activities diversity at universities that can often seem students were from state schools, Since launching in 2012, it has helped 81 a College is especially excited and proud to to continue increasing the diversity of our with UK school-age students. Through this closed off to BME communities. compared with a University average of support for Target Oxbridge. student body. We are hoping to introduce activity, we have engaged with students who students secure offers. This year, thanks to 57.2 per cent. unprecedented demand, the universities are At St Anne’s, I have promoted discussions a sustained intervention programme which attend over 140 different state secondary Ramani Chandramohan (2016) funding 115 extra places, taking the number around the issues that BME students face at • 55 per cent of our admitted UK has been proven elsewhere to make a and primary schools in our link regions and

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beyond. We have also supported Target per cent. Oxbridge, the UNIQ programme, and • The proportion identifying as Black and Finals results: Trinity Term 2017 Study Days. To coincide with the University Minority Ethnic (BME) has risen from of Oxford Open Days, St Anne’s College 13.9 per cent to 17.9 per cent. invited students from schools in the North Results are shown for those students McKellar, Laurence 1 Milne, Brodie 2.1 Shi, Yilin 2.1 East to take part in a residential visit to • The proportion from socio-economically who gave permission to publish. Redmayne, Madeleine 1 Williams, Henry 2.1 BA Psychology, Philosophy and MMathCompSci Mathematics and Oxford between 26 and 28 June. We disadvantaged areas rose from 6.8 per Linguistics Computer Science BA Biological Sciences transported 39 students from 25 different cent to 10.6 per cent. BA History and Politics Woodward, Natalie 2.1 Halgas, Lukas 2.1 DoCouto-Azcarate, Andrea 1 Adeniran, Aderike 2.1 Vaskevicius, Tomas 1 state schools across Tyne and Wear and Heard, Elizabeth 1 BFA Fine Art • The proportion from areas of low Maughan, Alison 2.1 BA Jurisprudence Thorpe, Emilia 2.1 MPhys Physics Northumberland to the College, providing Rose, Amelia 2.1 progression to higher education rose Barker, Naomi 2.1 Wang, Tianyou 2.1 Martin, Nora 1 free accommodation and meals while they Beale, Samuel 2.1 Watts, Matthew 2.1 from 9.5 per cent to 12.9 per cent. BA Cell and Systems Biology Church, Thomas 2.2 MBiochem Molecular and Cellular Zwolinski, Sam 2.1 were here. Two teachers also attended, and Allwright, Ceri 2.1 Lim, Shu En Anne 2.1 Biochemistry Chalker, Florence 1 Tan, Daron 1 Gilbride, Ciaran 2.1 Dip Legal Studies two of our own undergraduate students, • The proportion declaring a disability Mitchell, Stanley 2.1 Esser, Joyce BA Computer Science rose from 5.6 per cent to 7.7 per cent. BA Literae Humaniores - Course 1 Wayrojpitak, Worada 2.1 Heimann, Lukas who are from the North East – Matthew Crols, Ilya 3 Haria, Rushabh 2.2 Kirtley and Esme Curtis. We are very grateful Morrow, Matthew 1 MChem Chemistry Medicine – Clinical • The mix of men and women has BA Economics and Management Haigh, Alexandra 2.1 Dobbin, Bethany to all our students, fellows and staff who Chou, Chunyu 2.1 BA Modern Languages (FRE and ITA) Sterling, Alistair 1 Waters, Samuel fluctuated, with men outnumbering Horn, Pia 2.1 Rogers, Madeleine 1 support this work and are tremendous Kostova, Elena 1 women in most years but more women Tetley, Dido 2.1 MEarthSci Earth Sciences Medicine - Graduate Entry ambassadors for Oxford. Haworth, Caroline 2.1 Drysdale, Henry admitted than men in 2017. BA English and Modern Languages BA Modern Languages (FRE) Jamieson, Andrew 2.1 Yacaman Aristizabal, Maria (FRE) Handley, Natalie 2.1 Rees, William 2.1 University figures – UK students only Open Day Helpers in July 2018 Henderson, Rebecca 2.1 Theaker, Christopher 1 The information was published to BA Modern Languages (FRE) and The decision to publish a full account of BA English and Modern Languages Visana, Shital 2.1 increase transparency on the profile of Compiled by Kate Davy, Deputy Director of Lings Wright, Lachlan 2.1 where things stand is a major undertaking (GER) Rees, Sairah 2.1 the undergraduate body at Oxford, to Development and Head of Communications, Carter, Laura 1 Medicine - Preclinical (3yr) by the collegiate University, and you will be BA Modern Languages (SPA) Al-Aidarous, Sumaiyah 2.1 demonstrate that we’re heading in the right Lucy Busfield, Outreach Officer, and BA English Language and Literature Campbell, Anna 2.1 glad to see that the University collectively - Course I Davies, Jessica 2.1 Moore, Charlotte 2.1 direction and to encourage young people Shannon McKellar-Stephen, Senior Tutor Constable-Maxwell, Olivia 2.1 BA Music has been making progress in improving the Tupper, Phoebe 1 who think that Oxford is not for them to Davidson, Fraser 1 Chater, James 1 mix of undergraduates who study at Oxford. Morris, Freya 2.1 Hampton, Philippa 1 MEng Engineering Science apply. There is more to do, and in parallel Schraer, Naomi 1 Sparkes, Sophie 1 Overall, the report tells a story of progress Gungor, Nur 2.1 Luo, Xini 2.2 with the Report’s publication the University BA Experimental Psychology BA Oriental Studies (Chinese) Tam, Hiu Fung Howard 2.1 for UK students from under-represented Hayes, Shannon 2.1 Liu, Kwan Yee 1 announced a substantial expansion of the Vauvelle, Andre 2.1 backgrounds applying to Oxford between Horton, Rachel 1 Mayne, Victoria 2.1 flagship UNIQ summer school for state Smith, Harriet 2.1 MEng Materials Science BA Philosophy, Politics and 2013 and 2017 with increases in the Byrne, Nicholas 2.1 school students. BA Geography Economics Forssberg, Axel 2.1 proportion from state schools and strong Cornwell, Elizabeth 2.1 Evans, Georgina 1 Liu, Shiyun 2.1 increases in the proportion identifying as A summary of the Report is available on the Dean, Rosa 1 Hartridge, Ben 2.1 Godfrey, Isabelle 1 Low, Moira 2.1 Robson, Matthew 2.1 Black and Minority Ethnic and those from homepage of the University website and via Manning, Anna 2.1 Main, Alexander 1 socio-economically disadvantaged areas. the following link: Reynolds, Iona 1 Schulkind, Rudy 2.1 MMath Mathematics Solomatina, Daria 2.1 Khu, Boon Tat Daren 1 http://www.ox.ac.uk/adstats BA History Morrill, James 1 • The proportion from state schools has Glennie, Malcolm 2.1 BA Physics Jaya-Wickrema, Eve 2.1 Manly, Alice 2.1 MMath Mathematics and Statistics increased from 56.8 per cent to 58.2 Lewis, Emily 2.1 McGuinness, Conor 2.1 Chee, Chong 1

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A new lease of life Graduate degrees 2017-2018 JAMES EDWARDS

The MCR is as busy as ever, much of Ben have provided countless unforgettable knew burnt toast could ignite a friendship). Bachelor of Civil Law Vuorinen, Aini Eagle, Andrew Amari, Clare its activity, it seems, focused round evenings. They also epitomise the St Anne’s We are proud Stanners, and for this we are Misra, Shivani Willman, Christopher Eichert, Nicole Ariano, Raffaele varieties of eating and drinking openness to the wider university, with more eternally grateful to St Anne’s and to all who Heaver, Toby Asquez, Ryan Magister Juris joint events than ever before, from exchange make our experiences here possible: porters, Bachelor of Philosophy Hennig, Marcus Bartlett, Robert St Anne’s has always been forward-looking, Vanrie, Wim Fasia, Eirini Houben, Joost Beck, Lukas dinners to joint bar crawls or ‘liquid lounge’ librarians, catering, maintenance, cleaning, Huang, Lulù Browne, Francesco but with a new academic year came a new Doctor of Philosophy Master of Business (Magdalen’s name for happy hour) sessions. administrative and academic staff. Last, but Administration James, Izzy Chang, Cindy lease of life: a new Principal, a state of the art Ahmadov, Farid Javid, Hammad Chapman, Louise certainly not least, we would like to thank Alexopoulou, Zoi Agrawal, Nitisha library and abundant talk of the future with Amidst the high-intensity, and sometimes Chigora, Rutendo Jimoh, Jimoh Eirinberg, Rachel our much-loved Principal, Helen King, who Alsolami, Reem Junker, Alexa Evans, Florence the 2025 Conversation. The postgraduate stressful, challenge of studying at Oxford a Bouisseau, Anais Gates, Allie in a short space of time, has made herself Ghorpade, Gautam Lababidi, Rassin Fecteau, Ariane body saw its fair share of change too, key aim of the MCR is to provide support Bradley, Leanne an indispensable part of College life. Gupta, Niyati Lee, Joseph Minden, Gabriela courtesy of a totally refurbished common to students and the opportunity to relax, Chen, Yu-Chen Leung, Kal Nyiri, Jesse Chigudu, Simukai Nungo, Ana room, for which we extend our thanks to last unwind and socialise. Along with our sports James Edwards (2017) MCR President Zwain, Adam Liu, Xuelian Rajpopat, Rishi Connally, Emily Mahlanza, Londeka Sachs, Carolin year’s committee. With a fresh new space for rep Giuliana’s regular yoga sessions, our Dihal, Kanta Master of Fine Art Manders, Colin Smythe, Emily our students, the MCR has flourished with welfare officers Mimi and Guillaume have Du, Xian Ansell, Christopher Maqbool, Shama Steiner, Ellie Flatten, Lucas Mathur, Mahima Stennett, Tom a renewed vigour to offer the best possible organised regular welfare teas and the now Master of Philosophy Franchino, Allegra Matthews, Ian McInerney, Lucy support for all Stanners to achieve their termly Great St Anne’s Bake Off. Together Fung, Ella Meachon, Emily Master of Studies by Research Soddu, Riccardo Galli, Lucia Muzyk, Alyssa Forni, Federico academic and personal potential. with Hillary and Anna, our women’s and Walsh, Alison Haniffa, Muhammad Rashan Ow, Lorraine LGBTQ+ officers, our welfare officers provide Zhao, Fudie Postgraduate Certificate of A case in point is our academic officer Hicks, Edward Phillips, Danton Hong, Zuliang Education personal help on any issue within the MCR. Master of Public Policy Pilbeam, Victoria Virginia, who has worked tirelessly to Jansen, Friso Furze, Emmalees Gourisankar, Sai Powell, Miles Jozwik, Jan Maly, Anna provide travel grants to students to further Graduate life at St Anne’s is a dynamic Khaiyat, Lama Püttmann, Friedrich Clemens Kom Samo, Yves-Laurent Mead-Herbert, Madeleine their research outside Oxford, secured experience. While a graduate student’s Kong, Ka wai Raabe, Sandro Lenc, Karel Premkumar, Vithya Mikadze, Maria Ravassard, Giulia funding for our own thriving academic life is often said to be focused around his Li, Dongli Pringle, Ciara Podesta ornes, Gabriel Rochau, Denis journal STAAR and organised a graduate or her respective faculty or department, Li, Yang Printer, Izzy Rothschild, Viola Shah, Priyank McGonegle, David Master of Science symposium in Trinity term for any and all at St Anne’s we find that many of our MCR Murder Mystery dinner Russell, Alex Thompson, Hugh Mendoza Smith, Rodrigo Agrawal, Nitin to present their research. personal connections and social interactions Sakamoto, Aya Villacarlos, Eric Moulds, Alison Auf, Afaf Schultz, Emily emerge from our own diverse, international Nixon, Sophie Bellars, Carolyn No one has made better use of our new Wang, Ludi Professional Graduate Certificate and interdisciplinary MCR. This sense O’Donnell, Johanna Bothra, Amit Wang, Bowen in Education common room than our social secretaries, Pellaroque, Alba Burke, Kezia Holifield, David of community grows as much from the Wang, Keji who have outdone themselves this year. Ryan, Natasha Carlyle, James Welihindha, Angelo Nemeth, Dorottya organised events as from the informal Saunders, Alex Comastri, Chiara Wemanya, Amos From wine and cheese to crêpes and cider, Synthetic Biology (EPSRC & moments: conversations over dinner, Scaber, Jakub Da Silva Loayza, Mariana Wright, Lucy from second desserts after formal to second- Scott, Jacob Dec, Marcin BBSRC CDT) Collab solidarity in late-night library sessions, the Zvobgo, Luckson guessing your neighbour at the termly Siddique, Abu Bakr Delano, Ladi Hayes, Clarmyra shared struggle of a 3am fire alarm (who Sun, Chuang Ding, Wenjun Master of Studies murder mystery dinner, Kendra, Sam, Ali and Thomson, Stuart Duan, Haiwen Albiston, Rose

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Governing Body 2018 College news

Principal Tutorial Fellow in Physics (1989) Economics (2002) An update on some of the latest ■■ Ms Helen King (2017) ■■ Professor David Harris, Supernumerary Fellow in ■■ Professor Simon Park, Associate Professor Biochemistry (1984) Tutorial Fellow in Modern Languages: Portuguese College news Fellows ■■ Professor Martyn Harry, Associate Professor (2017) Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize ■■ Professor Johannes Abeler, Associate Professor Tutorial Fellow in Music (2008) ■■ Professor Don Porcelli, Associate Professor Tutorial Fellow in Economics (2011) ■■ Professor Geraldine Hazbun, Associate Tutorial Fellow in Earth Sciences (2003) The winner of the 2018 Oxford-Weidenfeld ■■ Professor Jo-Anne Baird, Professorial Fellow in Professor Tutorial Fellow in Modern Languages: ■■ Professor David Pyle, Supernumerary Fellow in Educational Studies (2011) Spanish (2005) Earth Sciences (2006) Translation Prize was Lisa Dillman for ■■ Professor Dmitry Belyaev, Associate Professor ■■ Professor Chris Holmes, Professorial Fellow in ■■ Professor Roger Reed, Supernumerary Fellow in Andrés Barba’s Such Small Hands Biostatistics in Genomics (2015) Engineering and Materials Science (2013) Tutorial Fellow in Mathematics (2011) (Portobello Books). Lisa Dillman was ■■ Professor Andrew Briggs, Professorial Fellow in ■■ Professor Howard Hotson, Associate Professor ■■ Professor Matthew Reynolds, Associate Materials Science (2003) Tutorial Fellow in History (2005) Professor Tutorial Fellow in English (1997) announced as the winner at the prizegiving ■■ Professor Robert Chard, Associate Professor ■■ Professor Patrick Irwin, Acting Vice-Principal & ■■ Dr Patricia Rice, Supernumerary Fellow in and dinner at St Anne’s on Saturday 9 Tutorial Fellow in Oriental Studies – Chinese (1990) Associate Professor Tutorial Fellow in Physics (1996) Economics (2015) ■■ Professor Helen Christian, Associate Professor ■■ Professor Peter Jeavons, Associate Professor ■■ Professor Stuart Robinson, Associate Professor June 2018. This was the crowning event Tutorial Fellow in Medical Sciences (2000) Tutorial Fellow in Computer Science (1999) Tutorial Fellow in Earth Sciences (2016) of Oxford Translation Day, which boasted ■■ Professor Alan Cocks, Professorial Fellow in ■■ Professor Freya Johnston, Associate Professor ■■ Professor Alex Rogers, Associate Professor Engineering Science (2005) Tutorial Fellow in English (2007) Tutorial Fellow in Computer Science (2015) a varied programme of talks, workshops ■■ Professor Roger Crisp, Associate Professor ■■ Dr Samina Khan, Supernumerary Fellow, Director ■■ Professor Budimir Rosic, Associate Professor and readings. This year’s judges of the Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy (1991) of UG Admissions & Outreach, University of Oxford Tutorial Fellow in Engineering Science (2009) Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize were the ■■ Professor Gareth Davies, Associate Professor (2015) ■■ Professor Tim Schwanen, Associate Professor Tutorial Fellow in History (2000) ■■ Dr Jonathan Katz, Stipendiary Lecturer in Literae Tutorial Fellow in Geography (2015) academics Kasia Szymanska, Simon Park, Humaniores: Classics (2017) ■■ Professor Charlotte Deane, Supernumerary ■■ Professor Sally Shuttleworth, Professorial Jessica Stacey and Adriana X. Fellow in Bioinformatics (2015) ■■ Dr Andrew Klevan, Associate Professor Non- Fellow in English (2005) ■■ Professor Peter Donnelly, Professorial Fellow in Tutorial Fellow in Film Aesthetics (2007) ■■ Professor Francis Szele, Associate Professor Jacobs (Chair). Statistical Science (1996) ■■ Professor Elias Koutsoupias, Supernumerary Tutorial Fellow in Medical Sciences (2007) Fellow in Computer Science (2015) ■■ Professor Roger Firth, Professorial Fellow in ■■ Professor Antonios Tzanakopoulos, Associate the picture above), raced to victory in the Tom Ilube CBE has been elected as an ■■ Professor Liora Lazarus, Associate Professor Professor Tutorial Fellow in Jurisprudence (2012) Educational Studies (2010) annual Corpus Christi Tortoise Race on 27 Advisory Fellow by Governing Body. He will ■■ Professor Bent Flyvbjerg, Professorial Fellow in Tutorial Fellow in Jurisprudence (Law) (2000) ■■ Professor Paresh Vyas, Professorial Fellow in Management Studies (2009) ■■ Professor Matthew Leigh, Associate Professor Medical Sciences (2009) May 2018. focus on diversity and support St Anne’s in ■■ Mr John Ford, Treasurer (2016) Tutorial Fellow in Literae Humaniores (1997) ■■ Professor Sarah Waters, Associate Professor ■■ developing its position in under-represented ■■ Ms Julia Foster, Director of Development (2014) Professor Terence Lyons, Professorial Fellow in Tutorial Fellow in Mathematics (2007) The Queen’s Flowers Mathematics (2000) ■■ Professor Kate Watkins, Associate Professor communities. ■■ Mr Peter Ghosh, Associate Professor Tutorial During the refurbishment of the Dining Hall, Fellow in History (1981) ■■ Professor Neil MacFarlane, Professorial Fellow Tutorial Fellow in Experimental Psychology (2006) in International Relations (1996) ■■ ■■ Professor Andrew Goodwin, Associate Ms Clare White, Librarian (2016) the Queen’s Flowers were removed and Keep up to date with the latest news by ■■ Professor Patrick McGuinness, Associate Professor Tutorial Fellow in Chemistry (2009) ■■ Professor Peter Wilshaw, Associate Professor a number of alumnae have asked what Professor Tutorial Fellow in Modern Languages: Tutorial Fellow in Materials Science (1996) signing up to our email news list, following us ■■ Dr Imogen Goold, Associate Professor Tutorial French (1998) Fellow in Jurisprudence (2009) ■■ Professor Sarah Wordsworth, Supernumerary happened to them. 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Fellows’ news, honours, Alumnae news appointments and publications such as women. Her book BUILT, which aims to make people look at our structure and cities with a new perspective, was released earlier this year to critical praise. In 2017, Professor Martyn Harry, Tutorial Professor Matthew Leigh, Professor, Universities of Oxford and Bristol, and Fellow in Music, was commissioned by the Fellow and Tutor of Classical Languages, has Professor Tarje Nissen-Meyer, along with Find out more at Alban Berg Ensemble to do a compositional been invited to give the Battle Lecture at the Masters student Mr William Rees (who was http://www.romatheengineer.com/. reworking of Alban Berg’s Bruchstücke aus University of Texas at Austin in September an undergraduate at St Anne’s) and Dr “Wozzeck” for only seven players - flute, 2018. Paula Koelemeijer, used small sensors called clarinet, piano and string quartet - with ‘geophones’ to measure the ground-based Dr Beth Mortimer, Junior Research Fellow support from the Alban Berg Foundation. vibrations generated by elephants in Kenya’s in Zoology On Thursday 10 May its world premiere took Samburu National Reserve. The study place at the opening concert of the first-ever A new Oxford University collaboration relied on the application of cutting-edge annual “Bergfrühling” (Berg Spring) chamber with Save The Elephants, has shown that seismological techniques, commonly used to music festival in the composer’s home town elephant behaviour can be determined in a study earthquakes. Rossini Hayward’s (2001) first CD Pieces of Kärnten in the south of Austria. The piece new way: through the vibrations they create. Professor Matthew Reynolds, Fellow and of Mind (Classical Guitar Compositions and received its Viennese premiere at Musikverein The findings of the study, published in the Tutor in English Language and Literature Arrangements) has now been released. on Saturday 19 May. journal Current Biology, offer a new way to As the name suggests, it is a CD of her own detect elephants and discern their behaviour The Oxford Comparative Criticism and Professor Patrick Irwin, Physics Fellow compositions and arrangements including without having them in sight. It also has the Translation research centre (OCCT) is and Acting Vice-Principal, along with other music from the Renaissance, arrangements potential to provide real-time information on collaborating with the humanities research global collaborators has spectroscopically of folk songs, some classical and romantic elephant distress and poaching threats in centres of the universities of Chile, Western dissected the infrared light from Uranus Roma Agrawal (2001) was awarded an pastiches in the style of Beethoven, Sor, remote locations. Cape and California (Irvine) to form a Global captured by the eight-meter Gemini North MBE for services to engineering in the Wagner, and more! Humanities Institute funded by the Mellon telescope on Hawaii’s Maunakea. They found Researchers from the University’s Queen’s Birthday Honours 2018. Roma Foundation. The topic being investigated is Mercia MacDermott (Adshead 1945) hydrogen sulphide, the odiferous gas that Department of Zoology and Earth Sciences has designed bridges, skyscrapers and ‘The Challenges of Translation’. received the Bulgarian ‘Order of the Golden most people avoid, in Uranus’s cloud tops. worked together with Save The Elephants sculptures with signature architects over Age’ on the occasion of her ninetieth The long-sought evidence is published in to develop an innovative way of classifying Poems written by school students as her thirteen year career. She spent six years birthday. This is the highest honour that the journal Nature Astronomy. Astronomers elephant behaviours by monitoring the part of OCCT's AHRC-funded ‘Prismatic working on The Shard, the tallest building Judith Bernstein (Bernie 1975) was Bulgaria can bestow for services in the field have long debated the composition of these tremors that their movements send through Translation’ project at Oxford Spires in Western Europe, and designed the awarded an OBE for public service in the of culture. This is in recognition of her books clouds and these results could help to shed the ground. Academy have been included in the foundations and the ‘Spire’. Outside work, Queen’s Birthday Honours 2018. Judith is on Bulgarian history written over the past half light on how the outer planets formed as collection England: Poems from a School, Roma promotes engineering, scientific joint Head of Coroners, Burials, Cremation To capture the information, the two century. differences between Uranus and Jupiter and edited by Kate Clanchy and published by and technical careers to young people and and Inquiries Policy at Ministry of Justice. lead scientists, Dr Beth Mortimer of the Saturn are analysed. Picador. particularly to under-represented groups

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Margaret (Meg) Peacock (Bennett 1948) studies, plant studies, eco-theory and bio- Catherine Hilda Coppola (Caffery 1951) Translator of Jackson. Bellman, meanwhile, ventures won the 2005 Cholmondeley Award for politics in new and fascinating ways. He is Publications Chanter’s (1977) Immagini del Salento (Images of Salento) by farther and farther from home, across the ‘distinction in poetry’. the author of some 40 essays on mediaeval haunting first novel Fernando E Coppola (Edizioni Grifo, 2017) harsh and alien landscapes of the West in and Renaissance literature and culture, The Well, published reckless pursuit of Helen Robb (2010) is currently at the Carys Davies questions of ecology, the post-human and St Anne’s College is proud to have so by Canongate, is the unknown. University of Pennsylvania working on a (Bowen-Jones literary theory. He is currently working on many alumnae who have gone on to set in a near-future Masters of Public Administration funded by 1978) is the author Gisèle Earle (1964) two projects: a book on Shakespeare’s be successful authors. We have an Britain where it the Thouron Award. The Thouron Award of a novel, West Gómez Manrique, dramaturgy and contemporary ecologies of alumnae section of books in the Library has not rained is a graduate exchange program between (Granta Books, Statesman and refuge titled Cosmopolitical Shakespeares and in addition to The Ship, we list for two years, the the United Kingdom and the University 2018), and two Poet: The Practice and a study of the legacies of Noah’s Ark in books on our website at http://www.st- drought bringing of Pennsylvania, offering a life-changing collections of short of Poetry in contemporary accounts of global warming annes.ox.ac.uk/alumnae/our-alumnae/ social unrest to the opportunity for exceptional students. Its stories, Some New Fifteenth-Century with Jeffrey Jerome Cohen titled Noah’s alumnae-authors. Get in touch if you’d entire country. The only place remaining funding provides generous scholarships for Ambush and The Spain (Legenda, Arkive: Towards an Ecology of Refuge. like to be included in any of these places inexplicably fertile is The Well, Mark and postgraduate study abroad, and recipients Redemption of Galen 2018) Ruth’s country home. The Well was a join a stimulating community of international Frances Burton Pike, which won the 2015 Frank O’Connor Richard & Judy book club pick, was long- After Oxford Gisèle Earle taught French and scholars and Thouron alumni. (Heveningham Pughe International Short Story Award and the 2015 listed for the CWA John Creasey (new blood) Spanish in a variety of secondary schools, 1960) Core Statutes Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize. West is a Christian Smith (Carnegy 1951) was dagger in 2015 and has sold in 12 countries. including Headington School, Oxford. On on Family Law: 2017- spellbinding and timeless epic-in-miniature, awarded an OBE – she is co-founder of the Catherine’s second novel is The Half-Sister retirement, while studying for an MA in 18 (Palgrave, 2017). an eerie parable of early frontier life and Landmark Trust. (Canongate, 2018) a compelling portrayal Spanish and Latin American Studies at King’s Frances Burton has an electric monument to possibility. When of a family imprisoned by the past and their College, London, she became interested Julian Yates (1987), a scholar of mediaeval been selecting and widowed mule breeder Cy Bellman reads in struggle to find the words that will release in the literature of fifteenth-century Spain and Renaissance British literature, has been editing this collection the newspaper that colossal ancient bones them. and returned to King’s to write a doctoral appointed H Fletcher Brown Professor in the Palgrave have been discovered in a Kentucky swamp, thesis on the fifteenth-century poet, Gómez of English at the University of Delaware Macmillan series since it was started in 2005 Catherine has written for BBC Radio 4 he sets out from his small Pennsylvania farm Manrique. This has now been published as effective 1 April 2018. The H Fletcher Brown and has just finished the 2018-19 edition, and has had short stories and poetry to see for himself if the rumours are true: that Gómez Manrique, Statesman and Poet: The Professorship was established through the which will be published in the first week of published in a wide range of anthologies the giant monsters are still alive and roam the Practice of Poetry in Fifteenth-Century Spain estate of H Fletcher Brown, who served on August 2018. Frances is currently a Senior and publications. She has a Masters, with uncharted wilderness beyond the Mississippi (Legenda, 2018). Gómez Manrique has long the University of Delaware Board of Trustees Lecturer in Law at Buckingham University. distinction, in Creative Writing from Oxford River. Promising to return within two years, rested in the shadow of his more famous and received an honorary Doctor of Science Teaching specialisms include Equity & Trusts Brookes University. Besides being an author, he leaves behind his daughter, Bess, to the nephew, Jorge, but he deserves to be better degree in 1930. and Land Law, and Family and Child Law. Catherine has led education provision within tender mercies of his taciturn sister, Julie. known. His long and active life as a soldier, However, it is a unique feature of the Core the NHS for young people with significant With only a barnyard full of miserable animals Julian Yates’ most recent book, Of Sheep, statesman and diplomat is reflected in his Statutes that in addition to English Law mental health problems and currently works and her dead mother’s gold ring to call her Oranges, and Yeast: A Multispecies large and varied corpus of work. This study statutes also include more Conventions than for One-Eighty, an Oxford charity that seeks own, Bess fills lonely days tracing her father’s Impression, won the 2017 Michelle Kendrick focuses on the social, economic and political The St Anne's alumnae section in the Library. other collections and also the Rules of Family to engage excluded and vulnerable children route on maps at the subscription library Memorial Book Prize from the Society for Plenty of room for expansion so please do keep context in which the poet lived and draws Arbitration under the Institute of Family and teenagers in learning. in town and shrinking from the ominous Literature, Science and Arts, which praised sending us copies of your publications. comparisons with some other poets who Arbitrators Scheme. attentions paid to her and her aunt by their its success in bringing together animal were his contemporaries. neighbour and sometimes yard hand, Elmer

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Susan Foreman South (see p.43). Brown and Diane Langton, the first and party of Oxford Jane Thynne (1980) broadcaster on Sky News and Radio 4. (Kremer 1957) After It is a journey over only three-girl rock group in England, Rock children and Faith and Beauty She has been a guest reader at the Arvon Oxford Susan had four decades and Bottom. Since then she has played many mothers to Canada (Simon and Schuster, Foundation and has sat on the broadcasting a succession of presents important times in the West End, including in Jeffrey and the United 2015) is set in Berlin committee of the Society of Authors. Jane jobs – advertising interventions in Bernard Is Unwell (with Peter O’Toole), The States in July in 1939, the fourth has three children and lives in London. copywriter, the design of Dresser, (directed by Sir Peter Hall) and Noel 1940 and their story in the series Sarah Turvey (1973) Prison Reading Librarian at Reading development policy and Gertie. She has also had many TV and stay with families featuring the Anglo- Groups: Annual Review 2016 (2017) University and the both national and film roles such as M Butterfly (directed by there in the years German actress Clara Sarah Turvey read English Literature for her Board of Trade, international. Devaki David Cronenburg) and The Rocky Horror which followed. Vine. As soldiers BA and MPhil (1973 – 1979) and taught for before becoming is the Founder and Picture Show. The Real Rock Follies: The It is composed muster on the streets, 30 years at the University of Roehampton. In Publications Officer at the Department of a former Director of the Institute of Social Great Girl-band Rip-off of 1976 is the true of recollection and contemporary material spies circle in the shadows and Lotti Franke, 1999 she and her colleague Jenny Hartley Trade and Industry (DTI) and later Librarian of Studies Trust, New Delhi, India. She was story of how an unknown girl band created contributed by those who made the journey. a young woman from the Faith and Beauty created Prison Reading Groups (PRG) to the Office of Fair Trading. In 1985, she wrote previously a lecturer at the University of a rock juggernaut and had it snatched Society – the elite finishing school for Nazi Pauline Stainer set up, fund and facilitate reading groups in an Illustrated history of the Board of Trade for Delhi, a member of the South Commission, away. They battled for justice against the big girls – is found in a shallow grave. (Rogers 1963) is prisons. PRG now supports over 40 groups the Bicentenary in 1986, Shoes and Ships founding member of Development boys, stood up against betrayal, theft, and a poet ‘working at Clara Vine has been offered the most in more than 30 prisons nationwide, run by and Sealing-Wax: an Illustrated History of Alternatives with Women for a New Era treachery and lived to tell the tale – just (see the margins of the ambitious part she has ever played. And in volunteers with help from the prison librarian. the Board of Trade 1786-1986. Later came (DAWN) and member of the Advisory Council p46). sacred’ conveying her more secret life, British Intelligence has The groups are voluntary and informal with other books on Whitehall, notably From of the intergovernmental NAM Institute Joyce sensations ‘with an recalled her to London to probe reports that the emphasis on critical sociability and Palace to Power: an Illustrated History of for the Empowerment of Women in Kuala Plotnikoff (1972) economy of means the Nazis and the Soviet Union are planning the pleasures of reading and book talk. Whitehall (1995), and later with Diana Wolfin Lumpur. In 2006, she was presented by the Intermediaries in that is breathtaking to make a pact. Then Clara hears of Lotti’s Becoming a reader is about choice and she worked on courses for helping women President of India with the Padma Bhushan the Criminal Justice … her poems are death and is determined to discover what where possible members decide themselves returners get back to work. Susan has Award for exceptional and distinguished System: Improving not mere artefacts, happened to her. But what she uncovers is what they will read. The result is an ambitious documented Felix Aprahamian’s remarkable service. Communication they have an something of infinite value to the Nazi regime and eclectic mix of fiction and non-fiction, life in music, including a full transcript of his Annabel Leventon (1961) is an actress, for Vulnerable organic life of their own’ (John Burnside). As – the object that led to Lotti’s murder – and classics and current books with a buzz. For detailed 1930s musical diary, for which she singer and writer. She first won a scholarship Witnesses and in all her books, the luminous poems of her she herself is in danger. prisoners it’s a chance to feel connected: wrestled with over 200 pages of closely to St Anne’s and paid Defendants. Edited ninth collection Sleeping under the Juniper with each other, the outside world and written manuscript original. This book was The first in the Clara Vine series, Black her way through her by Joyce Plotnikoff Tree (Bloodaxe, 2017) are minimal but highly themselves. As one member put it: ‘It’s the jointly produced with Susan’s husband Dr Roses, became a number one Kindle studies by singing and Richard Woolfson (Policy Press, 2015) charged, with the presences and hauntings, most grownup discussion I have in prison.’ Lewis Foreman. Among other books they bestseller. In the UK the series is published with a dance band. sensing the spirit incarnate in every part www.prison-reading-groups.org.uk also wrote London: a Musical Gazetteer Faith Raven (Hugh-Smith 1949) Ardtornish: by Simon & Schuster; in the US and Canada Nominated as of the living world. Pauline has published (Yale, 2005). Its Houses, Families and Friends, 1830- the series is published by Random House. Joan Shenton (1961) ‘Actress of the Year’ eight other books with Bloodaxe, including 1930, (Ardtornish Publishing, 2018) The novels have been translated into French, In 1981 Joan founded Meditel Productions, Devaki Jain (1959) has published The for her lead role in The Lady and the Hare: New and Selected German, Greek, Turkish and Italian. As well an independent production company Journey of a Southern Feminist (Sage the original London Ann Spokes Symonds (Spokes 1944) has Poems (2003), Crossing the Snowline (2008) as writing books, Jane now freelances as specialising in science and medical and Yoda Press, 2018), a collection of her production of rock published an updated version of Havens and Tiger Facing the Most (2013). a journalist, writing for British magazines controversies, and has produced over writings and lectures related to the women’s musical Hair! she Across the Sea (Robert Boyd Publications, and newspapers, and also appears as a 150 programmes for network television. movement in India and elsewhere in the went on to form, with fellow actresses Gaye 2015), an account of the evacuation of a

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Meditel has won Lunar Men: The Friends who Made the published in 2015. A Holiday to Die For has Jude Woodward seven television Future and the panoramic In These Times: just been released. (1972) After Oxford Sacrificial Virgins awards and was the Living in Britain through Napoleon’s Wars, Jude worked in JOAN SHENTON Ellen Wiles (2000) first independent 1793-1815. Jenny was awarded an OBE journalism then is a novelist. The documentary series Sacrificial documenting questionable practices company ever to win in 2008 and was Chair of the Royal Society in various roles in Inspired by a case Virgins won Best of Festival award within institutions with the hope of a Royal Television of Literature 2014-2016. Married to Steve politics, including she worked on for its international investigative increasing accountability and initiating Society Award (RSM Uglow, Emeritus Professor of Criminal Law at as an advisor to the as a barrister and journalism at Australia’s Watchdog changes for the betterment of society. International Current the University of Kent, she lives in Canterbury Mayor of London voluntary work with Film Festival Affairs Journalism and Borrowdale, and has four grown up from 2000-2008. Hyams added: refugees, her debut Award - for Aids children and seven grandchildren. In this capacity she The documentary film trilogy, Sacrificial novel, The Invisible Joan Shenton’s documentary questions the Unheard Voices aired on Channel 4 was responsible for the London offices Virgins, which investigates widespread Frances Ware Crowd (Harper the safety of the HPV vaccine by (‘Dispatches’, 1988). The research from in Beijing and Shanghai. After 2008, she global concerns over the safety of the known as Marion Collins, 2017) illustrating that many individuals these programmes led to her book Positively regularly lectured in the business school controversial HPV (Human Papilloma Virus Leigh (1968) delves behind the immigration headlines to correlate the onset of a disability or False – Exposing the myths around HIV and at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and at commonly found in women’s cervixes) Marion Leigh was explore an asylum seeker’s experience in the death of their daughter with the AIDS (IB Tauris, 1998). In 2015, the book other Chinese institutions. Her book, The vaccines Gardasil and Cervarix, was doubly born in Birmingham, the UK. Her first book, Saffron Shadows vaccine. Shenton questions medical was republished as a paperback and e-book US vs China: Asia’s new Cold War, grew honoured in March this year with awards England. After and Salvaged Scripts: Literary Life in professionals about the methodology in a sixteenth anniversary edition with 20 out of her study of Chinese politics and for investigative journalism at the Watchdog receiving her MA in Myanmar Under Censorship and in Transition of the HPV clinical trials and develops updates from scientists and writers. Find out foreign policy in this period. China’s rise is Film Festival in Brisbane, Australia. Modern Languages (Columbia University Press, 2015) combines a case that further scientific research more at www.positivelyfalsemovie.com and already tearing up the established contours from the University of new translations of Burmese literature and As well as the Best of the Festival needs to be conducted to alleviate on p.89. of post-1945 international relations. The Oxford, she worked interviews with the writers. Since being award, Sacrificial Virgins also won the growing concern about the risks and global changes underway are throwing up Jenny Uglow for a year as a volunteer in Indonesia before awarded the Gibbs Prize for Music at Oxford, Watchdog Spirit Award in recognition of benefits of the HPV vaccine. fundamental questions: can US hegemony (Crowther 1966) moving to Canada where she enjoyed a Ellen has gained two Masters degrees: the the investigation ‘in search of truth and prevail? Are the US and China caught in Shenton herself adds that investigative Jenny Uglow’s successful career as a financial and legal first in Human Rights Law from UCL and justice’ by film-maker Joan Shenton and her a contemporary ‘Thucydides trap’ that film making, often done in the shadow of most recent book, translator. Marion divides her time between the second in Creative Writing from Royal colleagues, notably director Andi Reiss and will inevitably lead to war? Does China’s powerful commercial and political concerns Mr Lear: A Life of Europe and North America. She loves Holloway, which she studied for alongside film editor Ollie Richards. rise threaten the stability of Asia? In that don’t want you to be heard, can be Art and Nonsense boating and living close to the water. In her work as a barrister. Having left the law this accessible yet rigorous book, Jude Festival founder and director James Hyams, lonely and sometimes a little frightening. (Faber & Faber 2017) addition to the Petra Minx novels, she has to focus on writing, Ellen is currently doing challenges conventional preconceptions himself an investigative journalist, said: Professional appreciation, especially of such was shortlisted for published two e-books: a collection of risqué a literary anthropology PhD researching live about the implications of China’s rise and a calibre, touches our hearts, not least when Waterstone’s Book of poetry entitled To Love Sex and Cunning literature alongside her fiction writing, and Shenton’s thorough, transnational suggests that with US global influence we are told the awards include Best of the the Year and won the Linguistics, and Rosie Aims High, a children’s directs an experimental live literature project investigation in search of truth and declining, China offers hope for the future. Festival. Harvey Darton Prize and the Hawthornden story about a racoon. The Politician’s called Ark involving collaborations with music justice deserves recognition and Prize for 2018. Her other books include Daughter is the first book in Marion Leigh’s and other art forms. She still plays the flute, thus the Watchdog Film Festival These awards go not only to us as film- biographies of Elizabeth Gaskell, William series of adventure thrillers featuring Marine though mostly these days to entertain her has awarded her and her team the makers but to the families of the medical Hogarth, Thomas Bewick and Sarah Losh, Unit Sergeant Petra Minx of the Royal two toddlers (see p.48). Watchdog Spirit Award. Individuals such victims we filmed, who every day are Victorian architect and visionary, as well Canadian Mounted Police. The second as Ms Shenton and her team play a battling against extraordinary odds to make as the award-winning group study, The novel in the series, Dead Man’s Legacy, was very important role in identifying and better lives for their disabled daughters

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14 – 16 September 2018 of developing good oral language and 5.00 – 6.00pm Annual General Meeting All St Anne’s alumnae are warmly invited communication skills in the early years of of the St Anne’s Society (formerly known to the annual Gaudy on 14-16 September education, and provide evidence for the as the Association of Senior Members) 2018 timed to coincide with the Oxford critical relationship between language and Agenda University Alumni Weekend (https://www. literacy development. We will then discuss 1. Welcome & apologies alumni.ox.ac.uk/alumni_home). We hope you the growing number of children in schools 2. Minutes of the AGM 2017 can join us at some of the St Anne’s events around the world who are multilingual and 3. Matters arising over the weekend and take the opportunity how education needs to adapt to best 4. Report of the President of the SAS to meet old friends and fellow alumnae. serve their needs, which in turn will benefit 5. Committee Accommodation is available in College for monolingual children. We will then turn to 6. SAS Committee Matters alumnae and their guests (due to limited how we assess knowledge and skills in 7. Financial report ensuite availability there is only one guest per education and in particular how we assess 8. Regional Branch updates person in the first instance) on a first come, literacy skills. We will talk about the strengths 9. AOB first served basis for the nights of Friday 14 and limitations of international assessment 10. Date of next meeting and Saturday 15 September. schemes such as PIRLS (Progress in 7.00 – 7.30pm Pre-dinner International Reading Literacy Study) and Saturday 15 September Drinks Reception how these schemes are used and abused From 11.30am Gaudy Registration and in developing educational policy. Bacon may 7.30 – 9.30pm Dinner tea, coffee and pastries not have realised just how accurate he was. Sunday 16 September 12.00pm Founding Fellows’ Lecture: ‘The 1.00pm Plumer Society Lunch (invitation 10.30 – 11.30am Gaudy Service Doorway to Wisdom: The Intersection of only) OR Buffet Lunch and, in some cases, to find justice for the does not produce symptoms and clears up long-term effects is evaluated. Language and Education’ The St Anne’s Supporters’ Day will 2.30pm Gaudy Seminar: Unprecedented daughters who are no longer with them. without treatment or complications. However, Speakers: Professor Jo-Anne Baird and take place from 12 noon on Sunday 16 Our hope is that Sacrificial Virgins helps change, explosive creativity: 2018 from the the films demonstrate plenty of evidence Professor Victoria Murphy September. All donors and volunteers The films establish that there is no evidence the combined efforts of campaigning and perspective of 1500 that, after receiving the vaccines, countless should have received a separate invitation that the HPV vaccines Gardasil and Cervarix, legal action in getting these drugs taken The saying 'knowledge of language is the Speaker: Professor Howard Hotson young women worldwide have experienced to this event. in guarding against HPV, will also protect off the market until independent, ethically doorway to wisdom' is attributed to Roger life-changing neurological damage. Yet these 3.30pm Meet the Principal and Family against future onsets of cervical cancer. conducted research shows that the benefits Bacon. In this presentation we will discuss To book your place at this event, please vaccines are pushed on to whole populations Afternoon Tea While the HPV vaccine is proven to be able properly outweigh the risks. research and evidence which illustrates how book online at http://tinyurl.com/ in many countries through national All St Anne’s alumnae and their families to prevent HPV infection, there is no scientific perceptive Bacon was in understanding the gaudyweekend2018. If you have any queries vaccination programmes. The important Joan Shenton (1961) Sacrificial Virgins is on are invited to meet the College’s Principal, evidence that HPV actually causes such important relationship between knowledge please contact the Development Office at thing now is to stop the vaccination YouTube as a trilogy at http://bit.ly/SV-playlist Helen King, while enjoying afternoon tea in cancers. In almost all cases the infection of language and learning more generally. We [email protected]. programmes until further research into the the beautiful Dining Hall. There will be family will present the argument for the importance entertainment suitable for all ages.

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St Anne’s Student, Joel Lewis Fellows

There is no doubt that Joel had an promising The Principal, Fellows, students and staff of In memoriam In memoriam became the first female Boden Scholar of appointed as senior lecturer in Sanskrit at St Anne's College, Oxford, share with great Joel Lewis (2015) future ahead of him. His tutors describe how Dr Luise Anna Hercus, Sanskrit, in which she gained first-class ANU. sadness, news of the death of Joel Lewis, a 21 March 1997 – 27 April 2018 he was a pleasure to teach and particularly thrived in tutorials, which played to his (Schwarzschild 1943) honours in 1948. In 1955, she married an third year Computer Science student from When her husband contracted cancer, she Croydon on 27 April 2018. The College has Joel Lewis was a loving and much loved strength and preference for learning with and Australian physicist Graham Hercus. They nursed him until he died in 1974. This was a expressed our deepest condolences to son, brother and friend, known to those in from others. As well as his academic abilities lived in Melbourne, where their son Iain was Oxford as a member of St Anne’s College, and interests, he had successfully completed grievous blow, but she bought a farm near his family and continues to do all it can to born in 1957. Jobs for Sanskrit specialists support them and Joel's College friends at a member of the Computer Science a Danson Internship at Global Data in Canberra and learned new skills such as Department and the University’s Taekwondo were scarce, and so Luise taught Sanskrit, this very difficult time. 2017 where he had left an outstanding welding and wool-classing. She continued Club. impression and would have been welcomed unpaid, at the University of Melbourne, and to follow her passion for understanding Close friends, tutors and the Principal back. For the summer of 2018 Joel had continued to write articles on Indo-Aryan Joel’s wide interests and interest in others, attended Joel’s funeral in Croydon. Joel’s secured and was excited about a prestigious Australian languages. Over a period of 50 touched all he met and our community here languages. From 1962, she turned her great family and London friends travelled to Oxford internship with Amazon. His other interests years, she made over 1,000 hours of sound in Oxford is richer for having known him, and energy and skills to documenting Australian on Tuesday 22 May to a memorial service in included being a talented musician and, poorer for having lost him. Fellow students, recordings that cover over 56 languages and the University Church of St Mary the Virgin. despite starting as a beginner at University, aboriginal languages, place-names, songs tutors and College staff have shared their dialects, and published many articles and This was followed by refreshments and much competing in a very successful University of and traditions, especially from Victoria, New memories of Joel; of him playing the piano several grammars and dictionaries. For many informal sharing of memories and music Oxford Taekwondo team, winning two half South Wales and South Australia. This meant in the JCR, joining in late night ice hockey, in the Dining Hall at St Anne’s College. A blues. languages, her recordings and analyses are unexpectedly discovering a fellow ukulele Member of the Order of Australia (AM), getting her husband to drive her and Iain on large number of students, staff and fellows the main records of the languages; many player, catching up with friends to play music Even more importantly, Joel had an Fellow of the Australian Academy of the weekends and in his annual leave through attended from the College, the Computer indigenous groups have found this material Science Department and the University’s into the night, of his humility, enthusiasm and abundance of good humour, enthusiasm, Humanities (FAHA) South-East Australia, seeking Aboriginal enormously valuable. From the start, Luise’s Taekwondo Club. Music at the service was strength when sparring in taekwondo and kindness, determination, sense of fun, and 19 January 1926 – 15 April 2018 people who might be willing to discuss their the furious and brilliant way he engaged in fantastic and loving support from his family gratitude and sense of responsibility towards provided by members of St Anne’s Camerata languages. Collaborating with specialists in and singers from the College performed a online gaming. Words that are repeatedly and friends. Luise Hercus died on Sunday 15 April after the people who taught her their languages used when talking about Joel are humour, other fields became a lifelong practice for specially arranged version of the Christian a short illness. She was born on 16 January shone through her work. She worked fun, inspiration, positivity, energy and joy. St Anne’s College was Joel’s home and Luise and she was brilliant at it. Everything song ‘From the Inside Out’, requested by his community in Oxford. Our heartfelt 1926 in Munich, Germany. In 1938 the tirelessly with the Australian Institute of Joel’s family. interested her, from Aboriginal traditions, Joel attended Sedgehill High School, where condolences are with his parents, Elizabeth family fled to England, where Luise learned Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies he obtained excellent GCSEs and in 2013 he and Robert, Joel’s family, his church family to contact history, to grammar, to kinship On behalf of all at St Anne’s College, our English. In 1943, she gained entrance to to ensure the safe archiving of the material. was recognised at the House of Commons and friends. structure, to how to prepare grass witchetty thanks go to The Revd Dr William Lamb and the Society of Home-Students where she the University Church of St Mary the Virgin with a London Schools and the Black Child grubs. In 1991, Luise retired from the Sanskrit Academic Achievement Award. He gained Joel’s life has been far too short but we are achieved first-class honours in Romance for their assistance. We would also like to department. She threw herself even more entry to the sixth form at St Olave’s Grammar determined to treasure our memories of languages, specialising in mediaeval French. In 1969, her first major publication on thank the University Counselling Service, Joel’s character, talents and achievements wholeheartedly into the study of Aboriginal our Dean of Welfare, College nurse, Dean, School where he committed himself to his She was appointed as tutor in French Australian languages appeared: the two studies with a determination to get into the and to celebrate his life, remembering him languages, going on more field trips, Assistant Deans and peer supporters who with laughter as well as tears. philology, becoming a Founding Fellow of volume book Victorian Languages: a late best University he could. Obtaining a place repatriating material, assisting with language made themselves available to all in need, and St Anne’s College. She became interested survey. It contains information provided by to the whole of the College community who at the University of Oxford was something he Based on a tribute given by Helen King, revival projects, with site-mapping, with described as ‘a lifelong dream come true’. in Indo-Aryan languages, studying Sanskrit the last rememberers of at least 10 Victorian came together in support of each other in the Principal, at Joel’s Memorial Service native title claims. In her late-sixties, she finest traditions of St Anne’s. and Middle Indo-Aryan Prakrit dialects, and languages. In the same year she was took up the study of Wirangu and published

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a grammar of it. She was working on and English. In 1955, with three children Anne’s, Barbara held her tutorials in the a book. Omitting a DPhil had not been an them up. Her time and love were given the powerful affection in which she was Aboriginal languages until a few weeks under seven years old, she became study on the first floor, only occasionally impediment to her career, but she had not unstintingly. She was no longer academically held across generations, but the nurturing before her death. She is survived by her Lecturer in Ancient History and a member interrupted by errant children. The front had the solid research time needed to lay active after 2004 and after a health crisis atmosphere which she created over her four son Iain Hercus, her daughter-in-law Anne- of the Ancient History sub-faculty. She was door was never locked. From time to the foundations of an original monograph. in 2011 began to show increasing signs of decades in College. Mari Siiteri, her sister Dora and nieces and appointed to a CUF lectureship in 1959 and time random strangers drifted in off the The unwritten study would probably have vascular dementia, which largely confined There was something paradoxical about nephews. a supernumerary fellowship at St Anne’s in street; David would appear with a student been about the Greek colonization of Libya, her to the family house in Bainton Road, Betty; or rather, those of us who knew her 1965. or colleague in tow. Saturday lunch-time especially Cyrene, a topic she returned to in where she was supported by a series of Jane Simpson realised that our first impressions were became a joyous institution, which clinched print as late as 2000. excellent carers. The home remained a Barbara’s father was a talented deceptive ones. I won't hide the fact that, to Publications Barbara’s reputation for kindness, warmth hub of family life. Visitors and company mathematician from Wrexham, whose Her own lucid written prose aimed to convey begin with, she terrified me. She was formal, Gara, Tom, (2016). Chapter 2 ‘Luise Hercus’ and generosity. David’s extrovert, ebullient were always welcome, her gentle character undergraduate career at Jesus College was multum in parvo, but her historical interests firm and fierce. For the first term, I was ‘Dr research in the Lake Eyre Basin, 1965-2005’ style contrasted with Barbara’s personal was unchanged, and she was sociable and interrupted by World War I. He taught maths were anything but narrow. Pupils testify to McGuinness’ and she was ‘Miss Rutson’. in Language, Land and Song: Studies in reserve. During this time Barbara established welcoming to the last. at the Deacon’s School, Peterborough, while the range of new bibliography that they were Her French was grammatically impeccable, Honour of Luise Hercus, eds. Peter K close friendships with the Worcester tutors in Barbara became a pupil at Peterborough urged to explore. One, on the brink of finals, Stephen Mitchell but then again, so was her English. It was Austin, Harold Koch and Jane Simpson. her own subjects, the Anglo-Saxon historian County Grammar School for Girls, where remembers being pressed to read at least thanks to Betty that I discovered (while London: EL Publishing. James Campbell, and above all the ancient In memoriam she was a prefect and excelled both a few pages of Geoffrey De Ste Croix’s then discussing Prelims translations) what a http://www.elpublishing.org/PID/2002 historian Martin Frederiksen. Her relationship Betty Rutson (1955) Tutor and Fellow in academically and in sport - at tennis and new book, The Class Struggle in the Ancient ‘costermonger’ was, and it was also thanks with St Anne’s, especially in the 1960s, was French Hercus, Luise A (2008). ‘Listening to the hockey. Barbara shared two of her main Greek World. Barbara herself had strong to Betty (while going through the exam not uncomplicated. She was not one of the 29 October 1935 – 9 August 2016 last speakers’ in Encountering Aboriginal qualities with her father, modesty and socialist views as a schoolgirl, and a life-long regulations) that the word ‘contumacious’ small circle of Founding Fellows, and in the Languages: Studies in the History of precision. Both high achievers, they never sense of social justice. She had an abiding was introduced to me. For a time, I feared College she was an outsider to the Literae Australian Linguistics, ed. William McGregor, drew attention to themselves. interest in Anglo-Saxon history, particularly it might become part of my everyday Humaniores group that was tightly controlled pp163-178. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. Bede, which sprang from her Latin tutoring, vocabulary. Barbara won a state scholarship to by her immediate colleagues Margaret and the last substantial piece of academic White, Isobel M (1990). Introduction to Somerville College in 1942 and read Hubbard and Gwynneth Matthews. The But like everyone else who came to know work among her papers for a 2003 seminar Language and History: Essays in Honour of Literae Humaniores, interrupted by two tensions eased in the later years of her long Betty, things soon changed, and behind series, was on the Synods of Aachen and Luise A Hercus, eds. Peter Austin, Robert terms teaching in Manchester in 1945. She career. that stern façade was someone capable of the role of Benedictine monasticism in MW Dixon, Tom Dutton and Isobel M White, graduated with firsts in Mods and Greats in the most extraordinary and selfless warmth. Academically she established her reputation Merovingian Europe. She was always an pp1-11. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics 1947. A month after finals, she married David When I say that she cared about students, as a Greek historian, lecturing on Greece enthusiastic and adventurous traveller: in Mitchell, then in his first year as Worcester I don’t just mean that she cared about In memoriam and Persia and on the Sophists, but tutoring Europe with a young family; world-wide in College’s philosophy tutor. They had four their performance in exams, or what they Barbara Mitchell (Tutor in Ancient St Anne’s pupils across the full spectrum the 1980s and 1990s; but above all in the children, Stephen (1948), Charles (1950), got in their essays and translations. I mean History from 1949 to 1989) of Greek and Roman History. Her key Near East, to Turkey, Syria and Iran. When Betty retired in 2000, we held an event Nicholas (1952) and Corinna (1959). that she cared about them as people, and 10 October 1923 – 12 October 2017 publications looked to the edges of the to celebrate her forty years of teaching at St After David’s death in 1997 her life refocused that there was nothing she wouldn’t do for Family life centred round the house at 7 Greek world and to the external relations Anne's. The Dining Hall was filled with ex- Barbara Mitchell tutored generations of on other family members, after her second them (this is not an exaggeration, as many Beaumont Street, owned by Worcester of communities, Samos and Cyrene, which students and their families, and there were students between 1949 and 1989. In 1949 son Charles’ wife died in March 2000. They readers will know). I have spoken to many College, which was at the intersection of were confronted by the might of the Persian children everywhere. It seemed to me then, a she became a College lecturer teaching had four young children, and Barbara spent of Betty’s former students over the years, David and Barbara’s domestic and academic empire. She published less than she might new tutor to St Anne's and Betty's recently- Latin prelims in Modern Languages, History much of the next three years helping to bring and all have their stories to tell about how activities. After she began teaching for St have done and regretted not having written appointed colleague, to symbolise not just

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Betty helped them through the kinds of grave My partner Liz Deeble was born in Halifax be useful and initially managed to combine We had always shared an interest in polar crises of mind, confidence or health, through Alumnae and friends to Eric Douglas Deeble (Merton 1934) and this with her love of the outdoors by exploration and last year had booked a bereavements and personal tragedies, in the Eileen Stuart Deeble (née Davison). In 1954, volunteering for the National Trust, clearing trip to go to Antarctica in November. Sadly, days when welfare was barely on the radar a brother, Richard, was born. The family scrub and unwanted vegetation from throughout the latter part of 2017, Liz began of universities. Her students will all have their In memoriam Robert, hence Elizabeth’s title). They lived moved to Hull where they remained for Dunstable Downs. She had to give this up to experience increasing pain in her ribs and own experiences of this, but so do I, so do Lady Elizabeth Andrew OBE in Wimbledon and had two sons, Chris some years before relocating to Leeds. After as her arthritis increased but, having joined a back so much so that, just before our due her colleagues, and so indeed does anyone (Bayley 1954) and John. After the boys had started studying at Roundhay Girls High School, local Age UK health walk, she found herself a departure, we had to cancel the trip. At the with whom she interacted in College, as she 23 February 1935 – 13 January 2018 school Elizabeth embarked on her main Liz gained a place at St Anne’s where she new role as one of the assistant walk leaders. beginning of December, Liz was admitted to did, with no sense of hierarchy or superiority. career as a psychotherapist, which she graduated with a degree in PPP. She then She also took an interest in news from St hospital where she was diagnosed as having went on to further study at Queens University Anne’s, and was keen to offer support to the Plasma Cell Leukaemia. She responded Her fearsomely retentive memory, which pursued for nearly 20 years. On retirement Belfast obtaining an MSc. in 1973. student body via the Development Office. well to chemotherapy but because of her could so easily have been used to nurture she joined Prisoners’ Education Trust, weakened immune system she contracted grudges or to invoke people’s shortcomings, becoming chairman of the charity and greatly After a short spell of working in the Civil Liz had a passion for walking, an interest both flu and pneumonia. With the Yorkshire was instead used to remember people’s expanding its work, enabling large numbers Service, Liz began her career as a Clinical we both shared. One of our first holidays grit that made her such a determined birthdays and the birthdays of their husbands of prisoners to acquire qualifications and Psychologist in the NHS working with adults together was a winter walking course in character, she fought against these but was or wives, the names of her students, their secure employment on release, thus with mental health difficulties. For some Scotland. She later told me that when unable to withstand contracting a second achievements, their personalities and even reducing re-offending. For this she was years she was based in hospitals in South she invited me to join her she hadn’t really round of pneumonia. their precise years at St Anne’s. She had a awarded the OBE in 2000. She had many London and Surrey but, in 1991, she got a expected me to accept – although I am not generous mind, because she always thought other interests, including music, gardening position working in Barnet and it was after sure either of us would have knowingly opted Liz made and maintained friendships the best of people, which meant, naturally, and five young grandchildren. She is greatly this move that I met her. She subsequently to try and eat snow encrusted sandwiches throughout her life as was evidenced at her missed by her family and friends. people wanted to measure up. obtained a post at Goodmayes Hospital, on the top of Cairngorm in a near white out. funeral, which was attended by those who Redbridge and, having completed a course However, we survived the experience and had known her for many years both socially I was moved when, at the recent ceremony Robert Andrew run by the Department of Clinical Psychology went on to enjoy treks in Nepal, Peru and and through work, and by those whom she to scatter her ashes outside the room she In memoriam at Warneford Hospital, she specialized in Tibet as well as walking holidays in Great had only got to know more recently. occupied for so long, her nephews spoke Elizabeth Ann Deeble (1968) Cognitive Behavioural Therapy until her Britain and Europe. of the Betty Rutson that we too knew. I Her brother predeceased her in 1975 whilst a 19 July 1950 – 17 January 2018 retirement. recognised the person they spoke of: caring, Following the change in the law, we were student at Merton. kind and quick-minded, and capable of Liz was a very caring person and strongly able to register a civil partnership in 2006 some of the driest wit available. When we Elizabeth was born in Barbados. She believed in giving something back to society. and continued to share many diverse Judith Tucker talk in brochures or prospectuses, or at came to England in 1939 and a few years Having struggled with an eating disorder activities – these included a memorable development events, of what makes the later attended Putney High School where herself from her teenage years into her trip on a Thames sailing barge, exploring college system special, and what makes the she became head girl. In 1954, she went twenties, Liz had been very much involved archaeological or historic sites, going to collegial community a unique environment to St Anne’s and read modern history. in Anorexic Aid, later the Eating Disorders concerts, theatre and exhibitions but above in which to grow, we mean that people like This was followed by a year at the Sarah Association (now BEAT). Additionally, for all enjoying the varied landscapes and places Betty have helped to make it so. Lawrence Liberal Arts College in New York. some years she was a trustee for the of Great Britain. Women’s Therapy Centre in North London. Patrick McGuinness After returning to England she married On retirement Liz still felt that she wanted to Robert Andrew, a civil servant (later Sir

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In memoriam After graduating from Oxford, Charlotte many teaching skills, her experience of life a Spiritual Director and was licensed to Elizabeth Fowler played a small but on Beaumont Street. It was through Elizabeth Rev Charlotte Evanthia Elvey completed a PGCE at Bristol University and and an understanding of some of the officiate at St George’s Church, Shrewsbury noteworthy role in post-war British that her younger sister, Rosalind, married (Beresford 1963) embarked on her first career as a secondary challenges for a woman with cancer. She in 2015 during the last year before her death. archaeology, but will be remembered at least Hawkes’ son Nicolas. Elizabeth was awarded 19 October 1944 – 5 June 2016 school teacher. Her first teaching post was at served her first curacy at St Bartholomew’s as much for the lasting impact and example her B.Litt. in 1962, three years after her Stockwell Manor, a large South London Church, Sydenham. In 1998, she moved to a Charlotte faced cancer three times during her of her life for her family and the Quaker marriage. She often favoured jewellery comprehensive school. This was followed by Local Ecumenical Partnership, Christ Church life: first was breast cancer in 1988, and then community in and around Welwyn reminiscent of the ‘Celtic Dark Age’ originals appointment as Head of English at Clapham with St Philip, Worcester Park, in the London a second time in 2009, but in November Garden City. that were the subject of her thesis.

County School where she is fondly Borough of Sutton, to serve as Vicar in a 2015 she was diagnosed with secondary She was born in London in 1933 and With a professional position in archaeology remembered for her production of The Owl shared ministry with Methodist Ministers until cancers which proved to be beyond attended Welwyn Garden City’s apparently not an option, despite the fact and the Pussy Cat. It was during her early her retirement in 2014. treatment. There were then months of Sherrardswood School, where she already that her thesis generated several published teaching years that she met and married Ian determined resistance, with a continued This role proved to be her true vocation in displayed the thoughtfulness, assiduousness papers, she made the first of the professional Elvey in 1972. appetite for what life had to offer and times of every sense. She brought to it her personal and attention to detail that would reinventions that would mark her life, and great joy after the birth of a granddaughter The birth of Charlotte and Ian’s two faith, insights from other faiths, her passion characterise her life. started to teach history in Wiltshire. She and namesake, Evanthia. She died on 5 June daughters – Rebecca in 1976 and Katharine for ecumenism, her teaching skills and her remembered just crossing paths at 2016. She is survived by her husband Ian in 1979 – provided a career break during love of performing the church’s rituals and From somewhere came a wish to study Cranborne Chase School with the young and her daughters Rebecca and Katharine. which she completed an OU Diploma in liturgy. She is remembered by her parish- archaeology, then still a relatively young Harrison Birtwistle, then Director of Music Reading Development. Charlotte then moved ioners as a personal mentor and friend, an Ian Elvey academic discipline and not one heavily there.

into teaching Adult Literacy at Southwark inspirational spiritual leader and a great teller populated by women, and she won a place In memoriam As so often for women of her generation and College for Further Education. During this of stories and recalled poetry. She was to do so at Edinburgh University. She Elizabeth Fowler (Burley 1957) background, motherhood interrupted her period she became involved in St Peter’s particularly concerned to support other flourished there, later identifying this as 15 November 1933 – 7 September 2017 career, but for many years, with three young Ecumenical Community, Dulwich, which had women in finding their place in the life of the probably the happiest time of her life, and Charlotte’s love of literature and drama daughters, she taught what were then called been set up by a small Benedictine off-shoot church. conceiving an abiding love of Scotland in stretched through her life, from being an avid extra-mural classes, now, adult education of Worth Abbey. Here she started leading general and Edinburgh in particular. reader as a young child through to her final Prayer and meditation lay at the heart of classes, in archaeology and history at Bristol occasional meditations while gaining from the career as an Anglican priest. She is Charlotte’s ministry. She regularly attended She had already embarked on graduate work University. For many summers, on site, she daily cycle of prayer. remembered by fellow pupils at King Alfred’s annual retreats at Begbroke Priory, in Edinburgh when she met Peter Fowler, also meticulously recorded the finds from her School, London for many performances in This led to exploring the possibilities of Oxfordshire and longer silent retreats at St then still an undergraduate at Oxford and a husband’s excavations, as well as playing her school plays, in particular as Lady Macbeth ordination and she was accepted for training Bueno’s. Specifically she engaged with fellow proto-archaeologist, and she part in keeping the diggers and their children and St Joan. She kept up acting through her on the Southwark Ordination course to Ignation Spirituality and took up further transferred her graduate studies – and her fed and watered. She also developed years at Oxford and in 2015 enjoyed a fiftieth become ordained amongst the first batch of training to practise as a Spiritual Director. Carnegie Scholarship – to St Anne’s, joining indexing skills, indexing not only books by anniversary reunion at a Mad Hatter’s Tea women priests into the Church of England. the MCR in 1957. I remember her recalling her husband but also, in later life, around a Charlotte and Ian fulfilled a long-held dream Party held at Christ Church. Her time at St Sadly, a diagnosis of breast cancer at the fellow St Anne’s students at the time, decade’s worth of the Quaker weekly The to move to Shrewsbury after her retirement. Anne’s strengthened and deepened her love start of her training meant a year’s returning reeling from philosophy tutorials Friend and around 20 years’ worth of the Charlotte wholeheartedly embraced this new of literature. She particularly remembered the postponement. However, she remained with Iris Murdoch. She was supervised by Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of beginning. She enjoyed planning a new inspirational teaching of Dorothy determined and was finally ordained in 1994 Christopher Hawkes, at what had not yet Scotland (of which she was a member for garden, exploring the delights of Shropshire Bednarowska. at the age of 50, bringing into her ministry her formally become the Institute of Archaeology over 50 years). and singing in a local choir. She continued as

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After the family moved to St Albans in 1979 sources of pleasure, along with her family, excavated a structure where St Columba history and to philosophy in the Roman At Oxford, Gillian belonged to a number of she reinvented herself successively as an travel, art and books; she read widely, in probably wrote and others honoured this republic and empire. clubs and threw herself with enthusiasm into editor, at the monthly magazine Popular popular history, science, religion, economics, fact.’ Without the radiocarbon dating that acting for (among others) the Experimental Archaeology; an AO-level examiner; an politics and the arts, and was taking had still been an experimental technique in She was the author of major studies of Theatre Club. She also wrote news items for editor, again, at The Friend; and an Workers’ Educational Association courses the late 1950s, this was met with scepticism. Seneca (1976) and of Nero (1984), and Isis, the undergraduate journal, interviewing administrator at the Friends World into her 80s. With a wish to improve both But, in what was to prove Elizabeth’s last together with Jonathan Barnes produced among others Kenneth Tynan, the Committee for Consultation, the body herself and the world that could be summer, in 2017 a new research team at the two volumes of collected studies on Roman distinguished theatre critic, and George responsible for liaison among Quaker simultaneously straightforward and difficult, University of Glasgow released the results of Philosophy Philosophia Togata i and ii. Devine, the equally notable theatre director. communities worldwide and for the Quaker she remained an indefatigable writer of radiocarbon dating now undertaken on Further works on Roman history and Gillian went down in 1957 and found her way Offices at the United Nations in Geneva and letters, signer of petitions and giver of samples retrieved from Professor Thomas’ philosophy followed in her retirement, and a into several of the newly established New York. donations to a wide variety of, in particular, garage, which proved that the Iona structure volume of her collected papers will appear in independent television companies. Those development, conservation and international was contemporaneous with Columba. She With Quaker elements in her family June from Oxford University Press, entitled were the days when almost all television was causes. Her international friendships, plus her knew before her death, following a sudden background, and having joined the Society of Politics and Philosophy at Rome. live, and consequently very nerve-wracking. position, latterly, as in effect matriarch of a short illness, that the Glasgow team now Friends while at Edinburgh, her life as a However, there were compensations: while much-loved but geographically dispersed regard the evidence as ‘compelling’: that the Miriam came to Oxford as a Fulbright scholar, Quaker became increasingly important to her. working for Anglia Television in Norwich she extended family, meant that on her death structure she helped excavate 60 years after studying at Barnard College and She was an Elder at St Albans and then met her husband, Michael, and together they people and messages arrived from Australia, earlier was indeed Columba’s writing cell. Harvard University, and gained a DPhil in Welwyn Garden City Meeting, after she moved to live and work at ABC Television in Cambodia, Canada, France, Hong Kong, Roman history. decided in 2004 to move back to the town Brigid Fowler - (PPE, 1988) Teddington. Two children, a boy and a girl, Sweden and the United States, as well as In memoriam where she grew up. She became a mainstay From 1967 until 2002 she was Fellow and followed. from across the UK and the local community. In memoriam Gillian Cundall Harrison (Morgan 1954) of the local Quaker community, undertaking Tutor in Ancient History, loved and respected Miriam Griffin (Dressler 1957) 1 January 1936 – 15 August 2017 significant administrative duties of the kind At three important points, her personal life by many generations of Somerville For the next 11 years Gillian combined 6 June 1935 – 16 May 2018 that often fall to those who take the ‘if it’s strangely intersected with the story of the undergraduates in Classics and in ancient Gillian Cundall was born in 1936 in Edgware, raising a family with acting as a personal worth doing, it’s worth doing properly’ archaeological investigation of the life of St and modern history. then a town in the county of Middlesex but assistant to Robert Bolt, the playwright and approach to life; and unfailingly offering Columba and his early Christian monastery later a suburb of London. She passed the film-maker. Then in 1983 she undertook As an Emeritus Fellow Miriam continued to sometimes robust but always kind and on the Scottish island of Iona. She and Peter eleven-plus examination and went to work for the Foreign Office and became publish important scholarly works as well as thoughtful counsel to local meetings and their met, famously, in summer 1956 in the back Woodford County High School, a grammar involved in a department which invited to undertake occasional teaching for the members and attenders and their children. of a car taking them to work on the first year school in Woodford Green, Essex, which she distinguished foreign visitors to the UK to College and to supervise graduate students. of the late Charles Thomas’ excavation on left when she was 18 to go up to St Anne’s learn about various aspects of British life – In St Albans, as a volunteer she had come the island. Professor Thomas never On Miriam’s retirement former pupils Gillian College to read English Language and MPs, editors, trade union leaders, the effectively to run the local Oxfam shop; and published his excavation; but, as their Clark and Tessa Rajak brought out a volume Literature. At that time the College was occasional Prime Minister. Her job was to in Welwyn Garden City she remained active marriage was disintegrating in 1988, with his of essays in her honour, Philosophy and single-sex (as were all the Oxford devise a programme of visits for these people and generous with her time locally, being blessing Elizabeth and Peter published (in the Power in the Graeco-Roman World. undergraduate colleges) and since it was and decide whom they should meet, to involved at various points with groups for Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Miriam, who died on May 16, is survived by also without its own halls of residence, she escort them to appointments and generally Sherrardswood School alumni, the United Scotland) the findings from their own part of her husband Jasper Griffin, daughters Julia, lived in one of the hostels run on behalf of St look after them. Some could be rather grand Nations Association, local history, music and the excavation, with the statement that they Miriam made significant contributions to Miranda and Tamara, and a granddaughter. Anne’s by an order of Anglican nuns, and demanded an elaborate protocol; others horticulture. Music and gardens were ‘believed but cannot prove, that we Roman history, especially to early imperial Springfield St Mary. had never been out of their country before Somerville College

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and found Britain overwhelming. In memoriam how to avoid nonsense and how to write She maintained her interests in history, art My friendship with Maddie (as she was

Marjorie Maslen (Jones 1948) essays: say what you mean to say, say it, say and geology, reading widely. She remained a always known) started through administrative From there she moved to become a 20 February 1930 – 17 April 2018 what you said. This good advice was devoted alumna of St Anne’s, keeping in happenstance on our first day at St Anne’s in Government Press Officer, first at the Home passed on. touch with old friends, always reading The October 1976, at the allocation of tutorial Office and then at the Department of Ship, attending Gaudies for as long as partners. The conversation that began that Transport. Both posts involved advising The war involved her in air-raid duties in possible and speaking to the very end of her day grew over time to become like a golden ministers on press relations for a variety of North Oxford and took a sad toll in plans to do so again. She nursed Keith at thread running through nearly every interest subjects, as well as communicating directly Manchester where the family house was home for the last two years of his life. She and concern of my adult life. with journalists when crises of one sort or destroyed by bombing, leaving her with lived in the house, in Urmston, Manchester, another arose. shrapnel permanently in her legs. After taking Maddie died from cancer last October, two for as long as she could, moving into a her degree, Jean worked at Bletchley Park; weeks shy of her sixtieth birthday. She was nearby care-home for the last period of her By the time Gillian came to the end of her her duties there were never discussed first diagnosed in 2000 and after treatment life, always cheerfully greeting family and time at the Department of Transport she was because top-secret. In 1945, she married a went into remission for 10 years. Throughout friends. She died peacefully on 5 September also responsible for some of the In memoriam fellow Mancunian and Oxford history student, her illness, which returned for the third time in department’s publicity campaigns. 2017. Jean Lindsay McEwan (Ogilvy 1940) Richard Keith McEwan, who had returned 2014, she conducted herself with her usual

21 April 1922 – 5 September 2017 from the army (three times badly wounded) Jean is survived by her three sons, her grace, good humour and courage, fully Gillian retired in 1995 and she and her to finish his degree. They were living in digs in granddaughter Lindsay (Jean had been engaged with the people and events around husband moved from Surrey to Abingdon, Jean Lindsay Ogilvy was born in Manchester, Oxford when Neil was born. Alan and Lindsay to some friends), daughter of Alan her. Just months before she died, she and just outside Oxford. Much of her time was where she grew up attending local schools Malcolm were born when Keith was a history and Pauline, and three great grand-children, her husband had been in Lebanon visiting spent finding out about the history of her On 17 April, 2018, Marjorie Maslen passed and attending the Presbyterian Church. The master teaching at grammar schools in the Matthew (in his first year of Physics at their daughter Claire, who was there with mediaeval house and the buildings of away peacefully at the Otago Community daughter of a Scotsman, she always Midlands. He became a headmaster and Manchester University), Samuel and Victoria. the BBC. Abingdon itself, one of the oldest towns in Hospice with family at her side; aged 88 delighted in holidays in Scotland. She shared later principal of a sixth-form college in the England. Gillian had six grandchildren. Her At her funeral the church was packed with years. Dearly loved and loving wife of Keith with her sister Alison a love of painting. Her Manchester area. Neil McEwan family, friends from childhood onwards, son, Mark, is a professional photographer for 50 years, loved mother and mother-in-law brother Angus (Jock) read Physics at Jean was a loving mother, and a carer for her In memoriam members of her church community and and her daughter, Briony, read English and of Ian and Polly (United Kingdom), Lesley and Cambridge but Jean always said Cambridge parents, an aunt and later for her sister Madeleine Read (Dowdall 1976) colleagues from GCHQ where she spent subsequently worked in publishing and Ashok (Christchurch), David and Olga was a cold place and Oxford much friendlier. Alison. She was a magistrate for many years. 29 October 1957 – 25 October 2017 most of her career. Many of us there felt that publicity. She is now at Oxford’s History (Philadelphia), Ceiddwen and Kevin On leaving school she joined the Oxford faculty. She was active, and a chairman, in the Maddie was our special friend and were (Wellington), loved grandmother of Iris Society of Home-Students and was Women’s Citizens. She helped in the surprised to find others felt that way too. Kahurangi and Shizue, Chantal, Anya and afterwards a loyal member and lifelong Michael Harrison direction of an old people’s home. She was a Donald, Meghna and Tanyi; Maya, Alexandre supporter of St Anne’s. Central to Maddie’s life was her Roman keen amateur painter. She was a loyal and Diana; and Dylan, loved great- Catholic faith. She came up to Oxford from Jean read History. She always spoke at member of the United Reformed Church, grandmother of Sasha, and Jack; Luca; St Maur’s Convent and St George’s College, home with affection and respect of her tutor especially enjoying helping with summer Ruby, Liam and Vaidehi. both in Weybridge in Surrey. At St Anne’s she Marjorie Reeves and retained a love of schools for local children. A service to celebrate Marjorie’s life was read English under the steely, though warm, history, combined with keen interests in held in Hope and Sons Chapel on Friday In retirement, she and Keith made many trips guidance of her personal tutor Mrs pre-history and geology. Another tutor, at 20 April 2018. to Scotland, where she painted, and also, for Bednarowska, with whom she kept in touch Magdalen, was AJP Taylor, who taught her the first time, to France, Switzerland and Italy. until Mrs Bed’s death in 2003 – a relationship

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deepened by their shared faith, and also their highly technological roles, planning and Agnes. When war broke out four years later, clerical capacity. Peter had to retire from the In memoriam forensic, sometimes spiky, intelligence. policy, and intelligence production. She rose the family, now including my mother’s Civil Service in 1985, rather earlier than he Michael Harrison, friend of St Anne's

to lead the organisation’s press office and its younger brother Alan, moved to Harpenden, wanted, and so my mother decided to give 26 March 1970 – 12 June 2017 From St Anne’s, Maddie joined GCHQ in HR department, amongst others, and where my mother attended St Albans High up work in 1988. They enjoyed a very active Cheltenham where she met and married Mike was a special, loving man. He left us became only the second female civil servant School. The family returned to London in retirement together. Both volunteered at the Lindsay and emigrated to his native Australia. too early. His devotion to work and family in GCHQ’s history to sit on the board. September 1945, and Christina went to National Trust’s Calke Abbey in Derbyshire, There she worked for the equivalent service was inspirational. A thoughtful and intelligent Blackheath High School, where she excelled my mother clocking up 25 years of service. for seven years, before returning to Throughout their lives together, Maddie was man he worshipped his daughter Hannah. both academically and at sport, and won She also worked for the Citizens Advice Cheltenham after the birth of their first child. supported by the love of her husband Greatly missed, loved always; daughter numerous prizes. Bureau in Coalville, Leicestershire for some Lindsay, who survives her, along with their Hannah, wife, Dorothy. Passed away Now the four pillars of Maddie’s life were in 15 years, at a time when the local coal three children, Claire, Rachel and Joe. In 1954 she went up to St Anne’s College to suddenly on 12 June. place: her faith, her family, her work and her mining industry had closed and the area study Geography. She loved her time at friendships. All were hugely important to her, faced innumerable social problems. Dot Harrison Isabel Manweiler (O’Keeffe 1976) Oxford and enjoyed sport alongside her though some were, for the most part, private studies, including playing lacrosse for the During their retirement, my parents also passions. She never proselytised or even In memoriam University. On graduation she went to enjoyed many holidays at home and abroad particularly spoke about her faith, apart from Christina Ellen Walter Jordanhill Teacher Training College, now part as well as time with their daughters and their with those who shared it. Our conversation (Chipperfield 1954) of Strathclyde University, in Glasgow, an families. My mother sang with a local choir, only turned that way when my own atheism 31 July 1935 – 10 March 2018 experience she described as both interesting Charnwood Voices, for nearly 30 years, and was challenged by life events. From then on, and challenging. She then taught at after she was widowed in 2016, at the age of discussing spiritual matters with Maddie, with Wymondham College in Norfolk, perhaps the 81, took up classes in Latin, Greek and her usual grounded insight and rare largest state boarding and day school in the Technology with the University of the Third intelligence, was a joy. country at the time, before going on to teach Age, U3A. She retained a sharp mind, and Her faith was most of all practical. She was at Notting Hill and Ealing High School for sharp wit, to the end of her life. very active in her church community where seven years. Before she died, my mother described she co-founded and ran youth outreach Needing a change, she moved to work in the herself as having led an ‘uneventful life’. programmes; wrote the lyrics for the primary Maps Office of the Ministry of Housing and But in truth her life touched so many school’s annual musical shows; and since Local Government, a job she found people, through her work and voluntary her retirement, founded a charity promoting stimulating and demanding. It was there that work, her many friendships and her care educational opportunities for children in a she met Peter Walter, a widower and for her daughters, grandchildren and sister parish in Uganda. Edinburgh Geography graduate, whom she great-grandchildren. She was held in high By its very nature, Maddie’s work was a married in 1968. The following year they regard by all those who knew her and closed book to her friends, but when it moved to the East Midlands with Peter’s two remember her for her keen mind, her wit and crossed into a more public domain, her daughters. In 1972, I was born. sense of fun, her generosity, her compassion My mother was born Christina Ellen thoughts and experiences were always and her deep integrity. Chipperfield in St Thomas’s Hospital, My mother returned to work five years later, interesting and enlightening. What we now London, in 1935, to Walter, an engineer, and working for a local engineering company in a Isabel Walter (St-John’s, 1990 Geography) know about her career is that it spanned

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McCracken, Gabrielle (Chavasse): 1954 Thirlwell, Angela (Goldman): 1966 Legators 2016-17 McDonnell, Marie-Louise (Phillips): 1971 Thomas, Stella-Maria: 1977 Plumer Society Aldworth, Elizabeth: 1940 Moore, Anne (Slocombe): 1955 Thompson, Jean: 1942 Barlow (Finn), Maureen: 1950 Mottershead, Ann (Roberts): 1977 Tindall-Shepherd, Wendy (Dunn): 1963 The Plumer Society has been founded Darnton, Jane (Baker): 1962 Hilton, Catherine: 1965 Gordon (Landau), Sylvia: 1948 Moughton, Elizabeth (Parr): 1951 Tjoa, Carole (Chinn): 1965 to acknowledge and thank those who Davies, Jane (Baxendale): 1970 Home, Anna: 1956 Hardcastle, Margaret: 1954 Munro, Rob: 1982 Tricker, Marilyn (Poole): 1964 inform the College of their decision to Deech, Ruth (Fraenkel): 1962 Honoré, Deborah (Duncan): 1948 Horsfall, Jean: 1942 Murdin, Lesley (Milburn): 1961 Turner, Kathryn (Davison): 1972 include a gift to St Anne’s in their will. Donald, Margaret: 1950 Hudson, Julie: 1975 Kennard (Walter), Therese: 1942 Newlands, Elizabeth (Raworth): 1960 Turner, Clare (Griffiths): 1986 Some members have asked not to be Dowdall, Deb: 1974 Hunt, Ann (Siddell): 1963 King (Haines), Dorothea: 1933 Newton, Clare (Little): 1970 Twamley, Delia* listed. Dyne, Sonia (Heath): 1953 Huzzey, Clem Orr (Stones), Joy: 1944 Nixon, Gill Wagner, Rosemary: 1964 Ellis, Susanne (Barber): 1964 Huzzey, Christine Pountney, Rosemary: 1969 Alphey, Nina: 2005 O’Donnell, Claire: 1977 Wells, Yvonne (Lehmann): 1944 Evans, Elaine (Trevithick): 1953 Hyde, Caroline: 1988 Austin, Michel O’Flynn, Hazel (Brewster): 1946 Wheeler, Heather: 1958 Evans, Lesley (Kruse): 1962 Jack, Susan: 1970 Baker, Ruth (Gibbon): 1955 O’Sullivan, Helen: 1969 Whitby, Joy (Field): 1949 Everest-Phillips, Anne (Everest): 1950 James, Cherry (Lucas): 1977 Bannister, Jean (Taylor): 1958 Orsten, Elisabeth: 1953 Willetts, Maria (Ferreras): 1974 Finnemore, Judith: 1959 Jarman, Richard: 1989 Beeby, Valerie: 1952 Packer, Sally (Sellick): 1964 Wright, Lynne: 1970 Fisher, Sophia (Hibbard): 1966 Jay, Elisabeth (Aldis): 1966 Belden, Hilary: 1966 Pattisson, John: 1952 Yates, Sue (Crawshaw): 1967 Fleming, Joan (Newman): 1957 Jessiman, Maureen (Smith): 1953 Bennett, Eric Paul, Helen: 1994 Young, Margaret (Tucker): 1949 Flint, Joy (Parker): 1942 Johnstone, Harry: 1957 Bennett, Phyllis (Thompson): 1974 Perriam, Wendy (Brech): 1958 Foreman, Susan (Kremer): 1957 Jones, Elizabeth (Smith): 1962 *Delia Twamley is leaving a legacy to St Biggs, Lynn (Perrin): 1972 Pickles, Jane (Wilson): 1953 Forster, Helen: 1946 Julian, Celia (Whitworth): 1964 Anne’s College from her late mother’s estate Blake, Richard (Condon): 1980 Pomfret, Carole (Pearson): 1979 Foster, Tony: 1980 Kenna, Stephanie (Hamilton): 1968 (Phyllis Wray-Bliss, 1920). Boggis, Margaret: 1940 Preston, Barbara (Haygarth): 1957 Fox, Clemency: 1956 Khan, Yasmin: 1991 Breward, Christopher: 1991 Revill, Ann (Radford): 1955 Frank, Tessa (Hoar): 1951 Kielich, Christina: 1970 Legacies Burton, Frances (Heveningham Pughe): 1960 Reynolds, Sian (France): 1958 Gardam, Tim King, Fiona: 1980 Burtt, Audrey (Waite): 1942 Robinson, Crispin: 1979 Leaving a gift in your will gives you the Glynne, Dilys: 1948 Kingdon, Janet: 1976 Bush, Julia (Hainton): 1967 Rossotti, Hazel: 1948 opportunity to make a lasting impact Grange, Natasha (Cross): 1982 Kirk-Wilson, Ruth (Matthews): 1963 Bynoe, Geraldine (Robinson): 1969 Rowe, Barbara: 1942 and help to provide vital funding for Greenway, Ann (Denerley): 1959 Lacey, Juliet (Aykroyd): 1962 Carter, Elise (Palmer): 1942 Sheather, Judith (Hall): 1962 the College. The Plumer Society was Grocock, Anne: 1965 Larkins, Fay (Rees): 1953 Chadd, Linda: 1967 Shenton, Joan: 1961 founded to acknowledge those who Halcrow, Elizabeth: 1948 Lawless, Sally (Freeston): 1971 Chesterfield, Jane: 1977 Simon, Jane (Holmes): 1973 inform us of their decision to make a Hale, Barbara: 1948 Leckie, Liz (O’Donnell): 1981 Colling, Mike: 1979 Skelton, Judy: 1965 bequest to St Anne’s. Members will be Hall, Kathleen: 1941 Lewis, Keri: 1947 Coo, Kathryn (Spink): 1972 Smith, David: 1974 invited to a Plumer Society event every Eleanor Plumer Hallaway, Mary: 1950 Lloyd, Peter: 1983 Cosh, Mary: 1946 Speirs, Christine (Fox): 1947 two years, which allows us to thank Hamilton, Susan (Pacey-Day): 1965 Mann, Paul: 1988 Cox, Frances (Ware): 1968 Spokes Symonds, Ann (Spokes): 1944 our legators for their commitment. If Hampton, Kate: 1977 Marks, Winifred: 1944 Cragoe, Elizabeth (Elmer): 1950 Stanton, Mandy (Beech): 1981 you would like further information about Hensman, Barbara (Hawley): 1956 Mason, Rosemary (Childe): 1958 Crane, Meg (Begley): 1965 Stoddart, Frances (Devereux): 1955 legacies, please contact High, Lucy (Martin): 2004 Massey, Lili (Glaser): 1967 Crawford, Michèle Tayeb, Monir: 1976 [email protected].

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Donations to College, 2016 - 2017 The impact of your support

Thank you Outreach Group: Access Fund £14.5k Student Accommodation and Buildings Your donations have gone towards this summer. It has enabled me to finance week unpaid internship at a sculptor’s studio Student Support Fund £365k Front of College £288k supporting a wide range of areas over spending three months in Brazil, something in London over the summer.’ The Principal and Fellows acknowledge Student Support Fund (Accommodation) Kitchen Circle of Names £1.2k the past twelve months. These are that I would have never dreamt I would have Beatrice Colomb with deep gratitude all alumnae and friends £525 Nursery Fund £1.4k just a few examples of how you have been able to do, and it will be an invaluable for their gifts. At this point in The Ship, we Travel Grants Student Support Fund (Bursaries) £44k helped make a difference to those in the experience for improving my language skills usually include a list of those who made a Teaching Support St Anne’s offers travel and research grants, Student Support Fund (Graduate College community and experiencing Portuguese Brazilian donation to St Anne’s in the previous financial Classics Fellowship £760 built up over the years from endowments Scholarships) £1.6k culture. I am incredibly grateful and thankful year. As many of you will have seen, there Drama JRF £14.5k Bursaries by many generous benefactors, for those Student Support Fund (Outreach and for the money I have been given as it has have been a number of changes to data English Appeal £125 Oxford awards bursaries to students on vacation projects that enhance or support Access) £5k enabled me to take my degree to the furthest protection regulations – we’ve already had a Gabriele Taylor Fellowship in Philosophy £6k University criteria based on parental income. academic experience. Each year the College Student Support Fund (Teaching) £335 limit.’ fantastic response to our update form, and Mathematics Fellowship £4.2k In 2017/18 full Oxford Bursaries were gives approximately £35k to students to Student Support Fund (Library/IT) £900 Katie Day we’d love to hear from more of you to make Music Fund £120k awarded by the University to students whose undertake a broad range of different activities sure that we are communicating with you as Student Bursaries and Scholarships Post Doctoral Research Fellowship £15k combined household residual income was including mapping projects, language you would like. 1990s Campaign Fund £20k Centre for Personalised Medicine £90k under £16k; 35 of our students were on courses, research, presenting papers at ASM Graduate Bursary £500 OCCT £2.4k full bursaries, with a total of 79 students conferences, and medical electives. We’ve also been advised that we need your Bursary Fund £8.8k on bursaries. The total value of bursaries explicit permission to include you in this list - Library Provision During the period of late June- mid August Delbridge Bursary Fund £460 awarded to St Anne’s students in 2017/18 at present we only have this for a very small Library Fund £4k 2017 George Willment, with fellow St Dorothy Bednarowska Bursary Fund £245 was £226k. All students are admitted to St percentage of donors. If you should have PPE Library £3.8k Anne’s Earth Scientist Rob Paver, undertook English Henson Geography Prize £625 Anne’s on the basis of academic potential been listed, we have included further details a five-week independent geological mapping GDST Bursary Scheme £1k St Anne’s College Boat Club alone. It is vital the next generation of with your copy of The Ship about how you project in Kekerengu, New Zealand. Geography Scholarship £50k Student Support Fund (Boat Club) £3.7k students is not dissuaded from applying to can confirm this. All 2016/17 donors who Graduate Development Scheme £745 Oxford through the fear of financial hardship. ‘Travel, food, car hire and all costs were opt in will be included in the 2018/19 edition Other Hardship Fund £3k Bursaries are provided from funds including significantly reduced thanks to the generosity of The Ship. Access and Communications £25k Jeremy Orr Bursary Fund £30k the Harold Parr Charitable Trust Bursary, the of a variety of funds, notably through the Incubator running costs £30k A total of £2,07m was gifted by St Anne’s Jim Stanfield Memorial Fund £912 Danson Programme (that also provides over ‘I am extremely grateful to have received a donation of money from St Anne’s as part Kuala Lumpur Summer School £20k alumnae, parents and friends between Marianne Fillenz Memorial Fund £1.9k 30 internships for St Anne’s students each bursary this year as it has really helped me of the undergraduate travel/research grant Weidenfeld Prize Fund £2k 1 August 2016 and 31 July 2017, to the Marjorie Reeves Memorial Fund £1.2k year), and the College Annual Fund. financially this term. Your generosity has scheme.’ following funds: Sarah McCabe Bursary Fund £250 Many of the fund totals are greater than the also enabled me to apply for a greater range ‘As a second year Spanish and Portuguese The 1979-1989 Endowed Bursary Fund figures stated here which refer only to last of internships, as I can now do an unpaid Annual Fund (greatest current College need): student, this summer and the academic £125 year’s donations. placement without having to worry about the £1.27m year after it, I am expected to begin my Year Tim Gardam Student Welfare Fund £50k financial aspect of it. As the bursary funds Access to Opportunity £10.5k Abroad, and the money that I was given Year of 1955 Bursary Fund £60 went directly to pay my college rent this term, Crowdfunding £5k came off my battels and therefore gave me Year of 1962 Bursary £450 I have found myself able to afford a two- General Purposes £824k an extra £500 to put towards my travels

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The Tim Gardam Building (Library and to work. The computers and facilities are Philosophy, and History. Find out more at Academic Centre) ergonomically designed, which makes it a www.occt.ox.ac.uk. comfortable experience for the long hours I The new Library was officially opened ‘I am extremely grateful for the funding often have to put in as a research student.’ by the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Louise provided by Maria Willetts and Jane Aitken. Current student Richardson, in October 2017. Over 500 OCCT has not only informed my own alumnae and friends from almost every ‘The addition of the new Library has provided research through the running of important single year from 1940 to 2013 played a College with so many plusses, it is difficult and varied events, but has also offered me part in raising the £9m required to build to summarise them all! The impressive the opportunity to publish and engage with this magnificent building in what was the architecture and quality of light in the seminar an extensive network of academics and College’s most successful campaign ever. rooms is often commented on and the roof graduate students who work in the field Ramani Chandramohan attended JACT garden provides a sanctuary for students, of comparative literature and translation (Joint Association of Classical Teachers) staff and conference guests alike, one studies.’ Ancient Greek Summer School at Bryanston organisation recently commented on the Eleni Phillipou, OCCT School, Dorset space as being a ‘wellness garden’ which Crowdfunding ‘The fortnight brought together a wonderful descriptively fits the feel of the area.’ We have run a number of successful community of teachers, professors and Lisa Killick, Deputy Bursar crowdfunding campaigns this year which crowdfunding campaign @ReachfortheSTAAR. ‘The legacy of Mary Kearsley, St students from as far afield as the US, have allowed our students to take advantage ‘The Library for me is a much-needed Thanks to your generosity we raised £1,105, Anne’s first mathematics Fellow, Belgium and Turkey. We were, for all our of a number of opportunities that would and very desirable working space. The which we will invest wisely in order to make helped create the St Anne’s different backgrounds, united by our interest have been otherwise out of reach. Two Earth dedicated office for Visiting Fellows and our STAAR rise higher and higher.’ Mathematical Sciences Fund. Through in Ancient Greek and our determination that Scientists are spending nine weeks of the JRFs is beautifully situated on the top floor STAAR Editors the generosity of former mathematicians a the Classical World be open to everyone. summer geologically mapping an area of with a view of the roof garden and spires to total of over £500k was raised, providing I am extremely grateful to St Anne’s for Aside from housing around 40,000 of the South Greenland; five of our musicians spent Legacies the south of the College. The space is quiet an income of £20k per year. Around half enabling me to access this unforgettable College’s 100,000+ books and periodicals, 10 days on an outreach tour in Nairobi and Legacy income is vital to St Anne’s. Between and allows me time to focus on my projects the annual income goes towards teaching experience, which would not have been the new building almost doubles the number our MCR committee raised money for St 2011 and 2016, £4.75 million was received within the College, which is invaluable.’ and helps fund a tutorial fellowship, helping possible without the travel grant scheme.’ of library reader spaces available, and Anne’s Academic Review (STAAR). in legacy gifts. Each bequest, however big Dr Beth Mortimer, Drapers’ Company ensure the future of mathematical sciences provides group study and meeting spaces. or small, made a lasting contribution. JRF in Zoology ‘A heartfelt THANK YOU to all the at St Anne’s. The other half provides support There is a room for school outreach visits contributors who donated to our 26% Has directly supported our students for students, enhancing their learning and the Centre for Personalised Medicine Oxford Comparative Criticism and including through bursaries and hardship experience and giving them opportunities to and Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation (OCCT) grants make the most of their time at Oxford.’ Translation are both housed on the top floor. Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation Professor Ben Hambly, Tutorial Fellow in 60% Has helped maintain teaching is a centre based in The Oxford Research Applied Mathematics, St Anne’s College All alumnae are welcome to visit the new and the tutorial system (and the old) Library. Centre in the Humanities and St. Anne’s College. It brings together experts in the ‘The Library lets in a lot of natural light, which fields of English, Modern Languages, Oriental 14% Has improved infrastructure makes it a wonderful environment in which Studies, Classics, Music, Visual Art, Film, and facilities

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