St Anne’s College Record 2013 – 2014 - Number 103 - Annual Publication of the ASM

2013 – 2014 The Ship St Anne’s College

St Anne’s Careers Day 2014 - an initiative of the JCR, MCR and ASM/Keith Barnes

St Anne’s College Record 2013-2014 Bristol & West Branch: Liz Alexander Photographs Number 103 Cambridge Branch: Sue Collins Annual Publication of the ASM London Branch: Clare Dryhurst All photographs unless otherwise credited Midlands Branch: Jane Darnton are the property of St Anne’s College, Committee 2013-2014 North East Branch: Gillian Pickford Oxford. Presidents: Clare Dryhurst North West Branch: Maureen Hazell and Jackie Ingram Oxford Branch: Stephanie North Front cover photo: Students hide their faces Honorary Secretary: Pam Jones South of England Branch: Maureen during Matriculation (reason unknown), Honorary Editor: Judith Vidal-Hall Gruffydd Jones October 2013/Keith Barnes; p.3, p.10, Ex Officio: Tim Gardam, Kate Davy p.71, inside back cover, and back cover – Designed and printed by Windrush Group Keith Barnes; p.24 – Digital images of new Until 2014: Kate Hampton Windrush House, Avenue Two. Library and Academic Centre supplied by Until 2015: Hugh Sutherland Station Lane, Witney, Oxfordshire OX28 4XW Fletcher Priest Architects Until 2016: David Royal Tel: 01993 772197 Contents

Contents

From the Editor 2 Gaudy Seminar 2013 – Tim Benton 40

ASM Presidents’ report 3 Gaudy Seminar 2013 – Mary Atkinson 42

From the Principal 4 Gaudy and Alumni Weekend 2014 44

Interview with the Principal 6 Careers – Will Harvey 47

From the Development Office 10 Friends reunited – Wendy Mantle 49

From the Bursar 11 Friends reunited – Caroline Dalton 51

Governing Body 14 Interview with Devaki Jain – Helen Thomas 53

Fellows’ honours and appointments 15 Commemorating WWI – Ann Revill 56

From the JCR 17 ASM regional branch reports 58

From the MCR 18 South of England ASM interviews 61

Finals results 2013 19 A mystery solved 64

Graduate degrees 2013 20 Retirement – Gilia Slocock 66

Boat Club news 21 Travel – Hannah Blustin 68

From the Librarian 22 Jim Stanfield Memorial Fund – Mike Colling 71

New Library and Academic Centre 24 We were there: Brazil – Simon Hart 72

Libraries in the digital age – Margaret Davies 25 We were there: South Africa – Marcia Schenck 74

Trinity Old Library – Jackie Ingram 27 Alumnae news – Liz Cashdan 77

London Library – Elizabeth Wilson 29 Alumnae news – Gina Pollinger 79

Donor column – Michelle Clayman 30 Alumnae news 83

Donor column – Claire O’Donnell 32 Alumnae news – Joy Whitby 87

Research Centres – Matthew Reynolds 33 Obituaries 88

Research Centres – Claire Cockcroft 36 Thank you to donors 104

www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk 1 From the Editor

From the Editor All change on the College Front

As I said in my editorial last year, significant proudly to the opening of the coffee shop, remembering their time in College during anniversaries are gifts that give focus to STACS and its introduction of a decent World War II and we have an extraordinary the magazine, guide the commissioning cup of coffee on site as one of his finest memory chain back to World War I. In and, to a large extent, ensure that the copy achievements. the Obituaries, of which there seems a ‘writes itself’. Even without them, as we longer roll call than usual, memory by discovered, the richness and variety of And with facilities in mind, another important proxy recalls, among others, the lives of experience of our graduates, and their roles focus of the issue is the new Library and three of our alumnae who served in the in key places and events both in the UK and Academic Centre on which work will start in Special Operations Executive in World War further afield, made that issue of The Ship September. This will transform the College II. ‘Haunt’ may be a poor choice of words: compelling reading. both in its aspect to the world and in the there is nothing vague or ghostly in these cutting edge research that will occupy the voices, which are lively, compelling, often It seems important that the role of our buildings. amusing and at times moving. We need to alumnae in the wider world continues to be gather more of these voices before it is too reflected in the magazine. This year is no In addition, we have most of our usual late. Do contact us if you’d like to write for exception, with pieces from South Africa columns: how about a career in the The Ship or be interviewed. We welcome at the time of Nelson Mandela’s funeral Civil Service? There are two different your contribution, not only for these pages and our own special correspondent at the aspects of giving to the College in our but as part of our College archive. 2014 World Cup in Brazil. An interview with Donor’s columns, and several pieces Devaki Jain takes us out to India and to the that demonstrate that age is no barrier Sadly, we must also say our farewells. role and position of women in that country. to exciting projects. One of the most Martin Jackson, for 13 years our Domestic The speakers at last year’s Gaudy Seminar, fascinating, and at times moving, of my Bursar, is finally retiring. It is to him more both of whom have contributed to the issue, visits in pursuit of the magazine this year than any other that we owe the smooth give us an equally global perspective, this was to the South of England ASM branch, running of College and its status in the time focused on the challenges of feeding where some of our most senior members conference business, not to mention the an ever-expanding population. recalled Oxford in wartime. Continuing many occasions on which we gather for a that theme, we are lucky to have our own variety of reunions. This year we are celebrating events nearer memorial to 1914: Ann Revill recalls the life home. Tim Gardam has just completed of her father, a young seaman present at And finally, my thanks to all those who have his tenth year at St Anne’s, a decade that the Battle of Jutland, one of the most critical helped with The Ship this year, particularly has seen great changes both visibly, most encounters of World War I. Kate Davy and Linda Deer Richardson, and notably in the Ruth Deech Building, and to all our contributors. My apologies for its behind the scenes in the expansion of Memory haunts these pages more late arrival; that is entirely my responsibility. I College numbers and the refurbishment noticeably this year. The conversations hope this will not diminish your enjoyment. of buildings to accommodate them and with the South of England ASM branch improve facilities. Ever modest, Tim points include some of our most senior alumnae Judith Vidal-Hall (Bunting 1957)

2 www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk ASM Presidents’ report

Getting out more The joys and benefits of staying involved

The injunction ‘you should get out more’ the work they do to help the ASM with The Development Office has put in a is considered an insulting jibe, but we are the beautifully catered events we help to gargantuan effort to prepare for the switch growing to appreciate its wisdom. As we organise, many of course in our wonderfully to the Development and Alumni Relations attempt to follow a string of truly formidable restored Dining Hall. We salute the System (DARS), which has now been predecessors in our role as joint Presidents continued dedication of ASM colleagues adopted by many colleges in the University. of the ASM, we are coming to realise just who provide immense personal support to We urge you to keep in touch with College how much is going on in and around St College, as well as ensuring strong social and opt in to receiving communications Anne’s. Not only do the regional branches bonds between alumnae, freshers and from St Anne’s, which are available to you lay on a scintillating array of interesting and existing students locally. all. You can find out what is happening at enjoyable activities for branch members, but St Anne’s from the newly revised College the opportunities for all ASM members to Our central programme continues. This website. It brings College to life, is easy to keep participating in life and learning at St year, the Careers Day we helped pioneer in navigate and will provide many answers Anne’s itself are extraordinary. 2013 became a fixture, with a wide range of to your questions, whether you’re new to contributors talking to current students. College, already associated or considering Members of the Senior Common Room, joining one of the regional branches. MCR and other members of College The Gaudy in 2013, on the subject of Food We hope to build further on our good are very generous in the effort they put Security (pp.40-43), was very well attended relationships with the JCR, MCR and SCR into the ‘extra-curricular’ activities and by alumnae and guests from all over the so that even more St Anne’s alumnae can entertainments on offer, enabling students University, and the speakers gave us a good benefit from being part of the College’s to broaden their experience and learning deal to chew over – (sorry!). In keeping past, present, and future. well beyond their own subject area. A with the topic, the excellent buffet lunch plethora of concerts, talks, exhibitions, afterwards provided an additional incentive lectures and seminars is available to to continue discussion and showcased our current students and many are also open great new kitchen. to alumnae. We didn’t realise it – you might want to have a look at events you might like. This year’s Seminar is entitled ‘Is The Printed Word Dead?’ This, by happy We are consistently impressed by how serendipity, is planned to tune in with the the Development Office and Conferences timing of the exciting development of our Joint Presidents ASM and Catering teams at St Anne’s put on new Library and Academic Centre which we one impressive event after another and hope all alumnae will support in whatever Clare Dryhurst (1979: London Branch) we particularly wish to thank them for all way they can. Jackie Ingram (1976: Oxford Branch)

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From the Principal TIM GARDAM

The changing life of and LinkedIn, it is doubtful that the with far greater debts than those of a St Anne’s University in term time could function; decade ago. However, they are not being Despite the changes in the wider world, the ancient network of Oxford’s colleges deterred from applying to Oxford thanks the College remains committed to is now mapped by a myriad of different to our bursary schemes. For this they are opportunity, to intellectual collaboration social networks, stretching far beyond indebted to our alumnae whose generosity and excellence, and to the intermixing the University. As noticeable have been ensures we can fund the bursary costs. of cultures and nationalities, all the aftershocks of the financial crash of My impression is that the students of the of which open up a wide range of 2008/9. Though many of the brightest past three years are noticeably different; experiences and possibilities for its are still snapped up by the City, many they have been described as ‘generation students more scientists are committing to a career sensible’ and it is true that they are which will keep their science at its centre, relentlessly focused, both on their academic Student generations are, by their nature, conscious that the UK’s future rests in large work – the Library has never been more very short; even so, in the past decade I part on its research competitiveness. The full – and at the same time thinking ahead have been at St Anne’s, the changes in strength of science and mathematics at St to each vacation’s internship, building a student experience seem very pronounced. Anna’s is one of our pre-eminent features. CV as they study. There are times when I The world, of course, has changed This has also been an entrepreneurial rather wish some of them gave themselves dramatically. The globalisation of our generation. This year, I met in San Francisco permission to be a bit less driven, or at least working lives has been reflected in the two mathematicians, a computer scientist that they allowed themselves the peripheral way both the College and our students and a biochemist whom I remember vision that ought to be so much a part of an have reshaped our sense of ourselves. In as students in my first year here. They Oxford degree. However, the opportunities 2004, Facebook had only just crossed from are now forging their careers in Silicon of internships offered to our students by St Harvard to Oxford – membership was not Valley in their own start-ups. As the old Anne’s alumnae allow them to navigate that available outside student communities; Humanities professions of journalism and evolution from academic to working life that undergraduates had few real financial publishing have been reconfigured, our is such a formative part of early adulthood. concerns – the fee was £1,000 increasing students enter a far more entrepreneurial to £3,000 in 2006; the City of London world of digital media. At the same time, This new intensity is in large part a result seemed to suck into its great maw every the years since the Crash have resulted in of the globalisation that surrounds us; talented scientist and mathematician. more undergraduates choosing careers students must carve future careers amidst in teaching, many on the extremely uncompromising international competition, Ten years on, the assumptions of student competitive Teach First programme. (and nowhere more so than in academia). life are, in many ways, altered beyond Many St Anne’s Freshers, often the first in recognition. Without Facebook, Twitter Today’s student generation is leaving Oxford the family to come to Oxford, arrive with

4 www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk From the Principal

Students celebrate the end of their time at St Anne’s at Leavers’ Dinner/Keith Barnes little or no experience of this wider world. potential applicants in Hong Kong. This was our challenge is to offer as supportive an However, our commitment to opportunity, a natural extension of the open days and experience to our Masters and Research to intellectual collaboration and to the outreach events that we hold throughout students who now make up one third of the intermixing of cultures and nationalities, the year in the UK. college. offers them such possibilities. The College’s identity is underpinned by its origins The keystone that holds the College My most abiding impression of each in female emancipation – the Feminist together remains its academic seriousness. generation of students has been the Discussion Group that meets throughout For all the changes in the world beyond extraordinary intellectual flourishing and term is one of the most intellectually Oxford, the depth of knowledge required of growth in personal confidence that emerges lively aspects of College life – but our an Oxford undergraduate degree remains out of the diffident 18-year-old Freshers longstanding commitment to opportunity its distinguishing characteristic. Our North who arrive for their first October. Three and difference is now further reflected in American competitors favour a ‘liberal arts’ or four years later, when they set out for the diversity of backgrounds that meld into wider range of courses at undergraduate graduation on a July morning, they have a friendly and supportive student culture. level, reserving the depth of a single subject acquired the intellectual resilience and In the past ten years, our undergraduates until a Masters degree. There is a case to originality, and the lifelong network of friends have elected Presidents of the JCR from be made for this, but such courses are that will give them the capacity to take South Africa, China, Bolivia, Germany invariably taught only by graduate students whatever path they choose and navigate and Malaysia. Our Graduate Committee, and would inevitably be at the expense of whatever changes come their way. the MCR, is even more international. This the engagement and commitment of the summer, thanks to a generous donation, 15 Tutorial Fellow as personal tutor whose Tim Gardam Principal of our Fellows and tutors, led by the Senior influence is every alumna’s defining memory Tutor, held a week-long Summer School for of their undergraduate experience. Today,

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Looking to the future TIM GARDAM

It’s ten years since Tim Gardam joined Tim read English at Caius Cambridge and and Magdalen tried it with great success St Anne’s in 2004 as its first male won a double First. He might well have some years ago with Anthony Smith, also Principal. He talks about the transition gone on to do a PhD, but as he says, from the BBC. St Peter’s has followed up from broadcasting to the academic life ‘this was the path not taken’; instead, he most recently with the appointment of Mark and looks back at how the College has joined the BBC as a trainee in 1977 and Damazer, a fellow student at Caius and a changed over the past decade went on to produce a number of its iconic colleague at the BBC. But what made Tim programmes – Newsnight, Timewatch Gardam leave a highly successful career in We meet in Tim Gardam’s study in and Panorama. From there, he went on broadcasting with all still before him for St College. He’s relaxed, at ease in his rooms to Channel 5, launched in 1997, where for Anne’s? surrounded by some of Elisabeth Frink’s three years he was one of the founding more savage images – ‘mine not the team and responsible for news and Did he think he stood a chance? The first College’s’ he’s quick to point out – and a documentaries. Some of his at the time male principal and a Cambridge man to range of books at either end. One wall is colleagues thought it an odd choice but he boot? ‘I didn’t for a minute imagine I’d occupied by literary biography, criticism is reported as saying that ‘this was where be elected, but once I was short-listed I and poetry, reflecting the one time English I learned to make programmes without worked extremely hard, thinking about what student, the other by an eclectic range any money’, a strategy that would stand exactly a Head of House does.’ of history and political biography, and a him in good stead when it came to College section on media policy. He’s just got back finances. From 1998-2003, he was Director There were, in addition, more personal from a funeral for one of the older alumnae, of Programmes and Director of Television reasons. Tim’s wife died in 2002 after a one of the 1940s St Anne’s generation, at Channel 4. In 2004, he was the author prolonged illness and he became a single and a member of the Special Operations of the independent review of BBC digital parent with a 10-year-old daughter. ‘We Executive, founded in 1940, to conduct radio, commissioned by the Department of were living in Oxford – my wife was a espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance, Culture, Media and Sport, and a member publishing director at OUP – and the daily and to aid local resistance movements in of Lord Burns’ panel reviewing the future of commute to London in addition to looking occupied Europe. He speaks movingly the BBC. after my daughter, who was at school here, about the role this generation had played became impossible.’ It wasn’t, he stresses, in the life and character of the College. ‘It On the face of it, it seems a far cry from the simply a ‘prudential’ choice made because was these women who shaped the modern world of television to the daily hustle of an of his daughter; having heard the job was College, coming up to Oxford after the war, Oxford college. Not that it’s unprecedented on offer and encouraged by colleagues he every bit as much as the arrival of the men for the media to supply Heads of Houses: went for it, attracted by the ‘commitment did in 1979.’ our own Frances Cairncross came from to intellectual emancipation enshrined in a distinguished career at the Economist the beliefs of the remarkable women who

6 www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk Interview: Tim Gardam

Tim thanks St Anne’s supporters at the Donors’ Garden Party 2014/Keith Barnes founded St Anne’s’. He was up against a leave your previous identity at the door that make this place what it is: somewhere strong list of candidates and on the face of on coming up to Oxford. Students come unique in Oxford. The role of a Head of it, seemed far from an odds-on favourite. from a huge range of backgrounds but House is to offer a joined-up definition of they hang together and look after each what collectively we are and to make that ‘By the end of the interview process I other. The College has always taken risks work. You create that around the people really wanted the job. This was a college on its undergraduate admissions. I think you work with. Public Service Broadcasting with something counter-cultural to the the Fellowship did the same in appointing is about intellectual emancipation; whatever conventional image of Oxford: down- me. They decided to take a risk on a new background you come from, you should be to-earth, friendly, domestic, no airs and principal – just as they do with students. able to understand and participate in the graces. What St Anne’s said to those As you say, the first man and one with no ideas that shape our time. I felt St Anne’s applying was that you could be here what academic background after my first degree. had the same ethos.’ you always were; you did not have to I hope I’ve encouraged those characteristics

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‘Much of what one can do, whether it’s donations. The loss of government funding connect teaching and research. We teaching, our research agenda, expanding for the University is not, he emphasizes, have two research projects under way the buildings and facilities within College, made up for by the increase in student fees, – The Centre for Personalised Medicine, the shape of the student body, depends on of which the College gets roughly half. ‘My a partnership with the Wellcome Trust the funds available. As public funding has job is to keep the College viable, to ensure Centre for Human Genetics in the Medical almost disappeared so St Anne’s has to that it is self-sustaining. It costs roughly Sciences (the Co-Chair of its Steering be increasingly self-reliant.’ And there, he twice what the College gets from the fees to Commitee, Professor Peter Donnelly is goes on to say, is where the fundamental educate the undergraduates, and I’m totally a Fellow of St Anne’s) which will explore difference lies between Public Service committed to keeping the tutorial system, the impact of genetic medicine on the Broadcasting and the College. Is it then expensive though it is, because it defines doctor-patient relationship and bring simply about money? how and what the students learn and how together research scientists, clinicians and they learn to think.’ medical practitioners. It will connect our ‘Well, not entirely, but it does mean colleges undergraduate and clinical medics to the grow more slowly. Compared to the ‘At present, our main funding drive is for a leading edge of medical research. The resources one had at the BBC or Channel new building, the new Library and Academic Centre for Comparative Criticism and 4, you can take a couple of noughts off any Centre (Hartland House will remain a Library Translation has a comparable role.’ As decision here, but the significance of the but it was built for a far smaller college). Matthew Reynolds, College Fellow and decision remains every bit as critical. Every We’ve never raised such a large sum – Tutor in English Language and Literature, pound has to be raised by us: donations, £8.5 million to date and £500,000 to go its Director says elsewhere, ‘Literature bequests, gifts, legacies, our annual to reach our £9 million target. We would is changing in our current multicultural, telethon and so on; and, unlike in television, never have reached this target without the multilingual and multimedia circumstances we can’t simply assume an income; support and continued commitment of so and the way we study it needs to adapt as students are going into debt to come many of our alumnae, parents of students well’ (see pp.33-35). Tim’s delight that St here and, increasingly, we depend on the and supporters. The library is the heart of Anne’s has taken the lead in establishing personal generosity of individuals to support any college. It exemplifies the relationship these intellectual innovations with university those students; we cannot take this for between teaching and research. If Oxford departments is evident: ‘We shall present a granted; we are extremely grateful for all the is to retain its ranking in the world, it has more open face to the world, less forbidding support we receive from literally thousands to be pre-eminent in research. However, and fortress-like than Oxford is often seen of our former students.’ the increasing emphasis on research in to be.’ the global league tables of top universities ‘St Anne’s is one of the poorer Colleges in must not obscure the importance of How does he see his achievements over the Oxford; it has no great assets, such as land, undergraduate teaching. The colleges are past decade? What are the most obvious for instance, and its capital endowment the champion of the student interest in the changes in College? In Oxford? was only £19 million when I arrived. It’s University.’ gone up to £34 million despite the crash, ‘Obviously the face of the College has largely enhanced by legacies and generous ‘As for the Academic Centre, it should changed as the University has changed,

8 www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk Interview: Tim Gardam

almost out of recognition. The Ruth Deech catering and conference business into the commonly known as Ofcom, the Building (a project he inherited but that top three in the University. He mentions government-approved regulatory and opened soon after he joined the College) is Chris Wigg, the College Treasurer, ‘who has competition authority for the broadcasting, the most tangible change but there’s much transformed the accounts’, and the huge telecommunications and postal industries more behind the scenes.’ He mentions the part played by Anne Mullen the Senior Tutor, of the UK, where he chairs the Content refurbishment of the Dining Hall and the who, as I write, is about to set off for Hong Board. It has wide-ranging powers that total reconstruction of the kitchen. This, he Kong to run a summer school there. include representing the interests of citizens suggests, is no more than a metaphor for and consumers by promoting competition what is happening at another level. ‘The His proudest achievements? Those and protecting the public from harmful or College is constantly re-inventing itself he names with a smile turn out to be offensive material. He is also Chair of the intellectually, as it has always done since surprisingly modest: ‘I out-sourced the Steering Committee of the Reuters Institute the days of the Home Students. As Oxford care of the gardens to the University Parks for the Study of Journalism in Oxford, which itself changes to reflect the changing shape Department and they have never looked he helped found when he arrived. It is now of the world, so St Anne’s is pre-occupied so good thanks to our gardener John. But the largest research institute in the Politics with “repurposing” itself. The student body my real achievement,’ he emphasizes, ‘is Department. – undergraduate and graduate – is bigger the creation of STACS, our coffee bar in than ever and from a far wider geographical Trenaman House. It’s become the centre In addition to which, he now has a second range; 20 per cent of undergraduates are of college life and you get a very good cup family. I’ve seen him playing with his young not British, of whom half are from the EU. of coffee there, something that was not daughter in a way that suggests she We invariably have more British students possible before.’ It’s said with a certain occupies a central place in whatever time who qualify for bursaries than any other lightness, but I’ve no doubt he means it. he has away from the ‘business’. college. The number of graduates has The achievements we have discussed over doubled, and they are now central to the past hour speak for themselves; these Judith Vidal-Hall college life. The number of early career are his private delights. Research Fellows has grown from five to 30. Undergraduates are reading a wider range We end on a cautionary note: ‘I hope you’re of subjects and cover more disciplines. And not planning some sort of valedictory piece,’ for the first time, are all housed on site.’ he says. ‘Certainly not. More celebratory I thought.’ He’s clearly excited by the All of which, he insists, has only been challenges ahead and has no intention of possible because of the superb staff that leaving them to anyone else. support him. He mentions in particular the soon to depart Domestic Bursar, What of the man outside college? Tim Martin Jackson, who has not only been retains an active interest in the media and responsible for supervising the building is currently serving his second term on the programme, but has brought the college board of The Office of Communications,

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From the Development Office JULES FOSTER Careers Day 2014/Keith Barnes

This year our Development Office has Office managing internal communications with a student. The College continued to concentrated on building the St Anne’s and the website. fundraise for the Mathematical Sciences community Fund and at the Mathematics Reunion in Kate Davy, Alumnae Relations Officer, has November we welcomed many former This year has been spent reaching out continued to send out communications students, current students and Fellows. The to alumnae as we develop the St Anne’s including the Annual Review and the campaign has resulted in over £320K in community, forging links between alumnae new and improved e-zine. Kate has run gifts and pledges. Our thanks go to the 16 of all ages, and between students past successful events in London including the alumnae volunteers as well as the Fellows and present. A key aim is to continue to launch of the capital campaign for the new who have helped make this campaign a build the College community in order to Library and Academic Centre in October success. The College continues to receive a provide support for our activities. We are at St Anne’s in the City, at which Sir Win number of legacy gifts from senior members very grateful to those senior members who Bischoff spoke about the future of the for which we are extremely grateful. have given their time and expertise, offering global banking sector in the UK context. We internships, speaking to current students also had a very well-attended drinks event We are delighted that, with your help, we at careers days, offering careers advice in the Punch Tavern in February, with over have now raised £8.5m of the total £9m and supporting our outreach programme, 100 of you stopping by. Events in College needed to build the Library and Academic helping to raise aspirations. As ever, a large have included pre-1961 and 1994-2000 Centre. One of the key factors in releasing number of you also contributed financially. reunions, and the Gaudy and Alumni funding for the new Library has been the This year, you helped us to raise substantial Weekend. St Anne’s also held international participation of so many of our alumnae funds for the Library and Academic Centre, events in Hong Kong, New York and – almost 300 friends and alumnae have and have continued to give money for the Washington, DC, through which we donated to the project. Especial thanks everyday costs of the student experience connected with over 100 of our international go to the South of England Branch who at College via the Annual Fund. We are truly alumnae. As a result of the alumnae survey organised a Library Lunch to raise funds grateful for all the different ways that St sent out in June, we hope to further develop with many of their branch members Anne’s alumnae ‘give back’ to their College. our events programme. contributing to the fund.

Over the past 12 months the Development This year, following the migration to the Thank you to everyone who has supported team have seen some changes. We University database and immense work the College in so many different ways and I have said goodbye to Lizzie Sayer, and done by the team to clean up records, the look forward to meeting many of you at our welcomed Helen Carey, our Senior College ran a Telethon Campaign in January events in 2014-15. Development Officer, who has been working supported by a team of 15 student callers. on the Maths Campaign, and Alicia Cleary- In total an outstanding £220,000 was raised Jules Foster Development Director Venables who supports both the work of in gifts and pledges from 376 donors, and the Development team and the Academic we are very grateful to all those who spoke

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Thirteen years a growing MARTIN JACKSON

After 13 years in office, our Domestic also because Ruth Deech went out of her responsibilities that cover day-to-day Bursar Martin Jackson is retiring. All way to encourage me to apply for the post. operations, but I also need to step back and but invisible to most of us most of the Frankly, it has been the best job I have ever ensure that – strategically – we are always time, it is to him we owe the smooth had. St Anne’s has been a most congenial moving in the right direction to support running of the College, the delicious place to work in and my staff are excellent what we are here to do: namely to support food and welcoming staff that grace in all respects and very loyal to College. I scholarly activity for all Fellows, Lecturers our reunions, and the changing face really will miss coming to work each day. and junior members. Given the variety of my of St Anne’s evidenced in the range responsibilities, no day is the same. Dealing of new and refurbished buildings. We Before coming to Oxford, I spent 32 years with a junior member who wanted to keep a thank him and wish him well in the new in the Royal Air Force: my final 10 years dead hamster in their bedroom, just before life of which were the most interesting. As a going to Governing Body to justify spending Group Captain, I spent two years leading £14 million on the Ruth Deech Building will When Miss Rosalie Smith, Domestic the tri-Service team responsible for military always remain in my memory. Bursar at the time, retired in 1965, she pay, allowances and pensions in the Ministry was commended by Governing Body, not of Defence. I was then selected for the one- I have five departments reporting to me, of only for her ‘elegant parties and flower year course at the Royal College of Defence which Conference and Events is perhaps arrangements’, but also for coping with Studies and this was followed by two years the most important given the income it ‘transient hordes of conference people who commanding the RAF station at Hereford: a generates. We co-ordinate 930 events per flood into St Anne’s during the vacations large training base that also supported other annum, of which 66 per cent are for College and without whom College finances would organizations. I was lucky enough to be and 34 per cent for external customers. be in difficulties’. College no longer regard promoted to Air Commodore and became our clients as ‘hordes’ and I failed my Director of Personnel for officers and then, St Anne’s has been a ‘Top Five’ college flower-arranging course! However, the final two years later, for airmen and reservists; in for conference income for many years; phrase of the quotation is as true today as it this final post I was responsible for the task the other four are Christ Church, Hertford, was nearly 50 years ago. of making 11,000 staff redundant as part Keble and St Catherine’s. We are some of the benefit from the ending of the Cold way ahead of the remaining colleges and I have been the Bursar at St Anne’s since War. I had been selected for promotion for all five are now achieving a turnover of £2m September 2001, before that I had been Air Vice-Marshal, but I knew that I wanted per annum. Clearly, our most important the Bursar at St Catherine’s from 1997. I to start another career and so I moved to St income-earning period is late-June to made the move to St Anne’s for a variety Catherine’s College. late-September and we do close for two of reasons, but mainly to help develop the weeks in the second half of August. In estate and the conference business, and At St Anne’s, I have a broad range of the remaining 100 days, we earn £1.3m

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Martin Jackson at Leavers’ Dinner 2014/Keith Barnes

from 7,000 customers and serve about ensuite. The Accomodation Department meals per annum with 27,000 of them in 50,000 meals. On a challenging day, we allocates bedrooms, teaching rooms and July, our busiest month, plus it runs a busy turn around 200 bedrooms in three hours. ensures that all internal areas of College coffee shop and bar. We are exceptionally lucky with the high are clean; they also have responsibility for quality of staff who support our day-to-day furniture, carpets, and curtains. Just to give The Estates Department comprises operations to produce this level of turnover. an idea of the scale of all this: the Randolph 27 buildings – that means 514 fire Hotel has a mere 150 bedrooms! extinguishers! Since we are in a constant Then there’s the accommodation: we state of refurbishment somewhere in manage 525 bedrooms, of which 184 are The Catering Department provides 200,000 College, managing major projects takes up

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much of my time. The Lodge also reports ■■ the new Kitchen; of IT support are very high and any failure to me: it operates 24/7 with two porters induces near hysteria. ■■ and now the new Library and Academic always on duty to cover reception, security Centre. The contractor arrives on site on and a wide variety of other services. On a less positive note, junior members are 15 September with demolition starting now very focused on costs and job search. on 29 September. Construction of the My other main responsibility is working with This is hardly surprising given the level of building will begin on 5 January 2015 the Principal, Senior Tutor and Treasurer to student debt now being incurred. and be completed by 31 March 2016. maintain a broad overview of what we are doing, where we are going and ensuring There have, of course, been major changes How do I spend my time? Mainly on College that College runs smoothly. A particular in my 13 years, many of them reflected business! This is somewhat compounded responsibility that I will retain when I retire in the list above. In addition to the visible by the fact that my wife does the same is sustaining College’s relationship with our changes, however, others, behind the job at St Cross College. For many years, Japanese benefactor. scenes, are less obvious. For instance, I ran University Rugby and, for the past there has been an overall increase in three years, I have been the Colleges’ In addition to tidying up what was, sadly, junior members from 565 to 754. Whilst representative on the University’s Sports a slightly shabby estate there have been undergraduate numbers have changed Committee. Given that my wife and I buy several major projects during my 13 years at very little – 423 in 2001, 430 in 2013 – our the wine for our respective colleges, it is St Anne’s: graduate numbers have grown significantly, not surprising that we share a significant from 124 in 2001 to 295 in 2013. interest in the subject. Finally, I have six ■■ the temporary Kitchen; grandchildren ranging between eight years Our estate has become more coherent and six months; this keeps us both very ■■ the Ruth Deech Building; in that academic support activity is in busy. ■■ the conversion of both 48 and 50 one area and bedrooms are in another. Woodstock to Fellows’ teaching rooms When I arrived, many Fellows’ teaching Martin Jackson Domestic Bursar 2001- and College seminar rooms; rooms were located on student staircases: 2014 not necessarily a happy combination. In ■■ converting 35 Banbury to graduate-only addition, the demands of legislation and accommodation with a new and larger compliance, such as health and safety for MCR; We needed this because our instance, are today five times what they graduate population has doubled in the were when I arrived in Oxford in 1997. past eight years;

■■ converting the old MCR to the STACS Our IT provision has changed completely coffee shop. This has been a real and – because I am so old – I am still success story with 33,000 transactions amazed that most conference delegates a year in the 27 weeks of term it is arrive with a laptop, a notebook and a open; top-of-the-range smartphone. Expectations

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Programme Management ■■ 2007 Klevan, Andrew, BA Oxf, MA ■■ 2009 Rosic, Budimir, MSc Dipl Ing Governing Body ■■ 1981 Ghosh, Peter, MA Oxf ¶ Tutor in PhD Warw ¶ University Lecturer in Film Belgrade, MA Oxf, PhD Camb ¶ Tutor Modern History, Jean Duffield Fellow in Studies in Engineering Science Modern History ■■ 1999 Lancaster, Tim, MB BS MSc ■■ 2005 Shuttleworth, Sally, BA York, 2013-2014 ■■ 2009 Goodwin, Andrew, BSc PhD Harvard, MA Oxf ‡ § Reader in General MA Oxf, PhD Camb ¶ § Professor of Sydney, MA Oxf, PhD Camb ¶ Tutor in Practice English Literature Principal Chemistry ■■ 2000 Lazarus, Liora, BA Cape Town, ■■ 2001 Sibly, Michael David, MA ■■ 2004 Gardam, Timothy David, MA ■■ 2009 Goold, Imogen, BA LLB PhD LLB Lond, MA DPhil Oxf ¶ Tutor in Law Camb, MA Oxf ¶ § Camb, MA Oxf Tasmania, MBioeth Monash ¶ Tutor ■■ 1997 Leigh, Matthew Gregory ■■ 1988 Smith, David Francis, MA DPhil in Law Leonard, MA DPhil Oxf ¶ Professor Oxf, MCLIP Librarian Fellows ■■ 2006 Grønlie, Siân, BA MSt DPhil Oxf of Classical Languages and Literature, ■■ 1978 Speight, Martin Roy, BSc ■■ 2011 Abeler, Johannes, BSc Aachen, ¶ Tutor in English, Kate Durr Elmore Tutor in Classics, Dean of Degrees Wales, MA Oxf, DPhil York ¶ Reader MSc Karlsruhe, PhD Bonn¶ Tutor in Fellow in English ■■ 2000 Lyons, Terence John, MA in Entomology, Tutor in Biological Sciences Management ■■ 1990 Grovenor, Christopher Richard Camb, MA DPhil Oxf, FRS, FRSE ‡ ■■ 2011 Baird, Jo-Anne, BA Strath, MA Munro, MA DPhil Oxf ¶ Professor of Wallis Professor of Mathematics ■■ 1996 Sutherland, Kathryn, BA Oxf, MBA Sur, PhD R’dg ‡ Pearson Materials, Tutor in Materials Science ■■ 1996 ρ MacFarlane, S Neil, AB Lond, MA DPhil Oxf ‡ Professor of Bibliography and Textual Criticism Professor Educational Assessment and ■■ 2012 Hall, Todd, MA PhD Chicago ¶ Dartmouth College, MA MPhil DPhil Directorship Tutor in Politics (International Relations) Oxf ‡ Lester B Pearson Professor of ■■ 2007 Szele, Francis, PhD ■■ 2006 Banister, David, BA Nott, MA and Balfour Fellow in Politics International Relations Pennsylvania ¶ Tutor in Medicine Oxf, PhD Leeds, MCIT, FRSA, CMILT ¶ ■■ 2000 Hambly, Benjamin Michael, ■■ 1998 McGuinness, Patrick, MA ■■ 2012 Tzanakopoulos, Antonios, LLB ‡ Professor of Transport Studies, Tutor BSc Adelaide, MA Oxf, PhD Camb Camb, MA DPhil Oxf, MA York ¶ LLM Athems, LLM NYU, DPhil Oxf ¶ in Geography ¶ Professor of Mathematics, Tutor in Professor of French and Comparative Tutor in Law ■■ 2011 Belyaev, Dmitry, MSc St Mathematics Literature, Tutor in Modern Languages ■■ 2009 Vyas, Paresh, MA DPhil Oxf ‡ (French), Sir Win and Lady Bischoff Petersburg, PhD Stockholm ¶ Tutor in ■■ 1989 Harnew, Neville, BSc Sheff, MA Reader in Clinical Haematology Fellow in French Mathematics Oxf, PhD Lond ¶ Professor of Physics, ■■ 2007 Waters, Sarah, MA Camb, PhD ■■ 2003 Briggs, George Andrew Tutor in Physics ■■ 2005 Mullen, Anne Winifred, BA Leeds ¶ Tutor in Mathematics Strath, MA DPhil Oxf Senior Tutor Davidson, MA Oxf, PhD Camb ‡ ■■ 1984 Harris, David Anselm, MA ■■ 2006 Watkins, Kathryn, BA Camb, Professor of Nanomaterials DPhil Oxf ¶ Tutor in Biochemistry and ■■ 1989 Murray, David William, MA MSc PhD Lond, MA Oxf ¶ Tutor in ■■ 1990 Chard, Robert, MA Oxf, PhD Vice-Principal DPhil Oxf ¶ Professor of Engineering Psychology Science, Tutor in Engineering California ¶ Tutor in Chinese ■■ 2008 Harry, Martyn, MA Camb, MPhil ■■ 2006 Wigg, Christopher, BSc Lond, ■■ 2000 Christian, Helen Clare, PhD City Lond ¶ Tutor in Music, Dorset ■■ 2011 Penslar, Derek Jonathan, BA MA Oxf, FCA Treasurer Stanford, MA PhD Berkeley ‡ Stanley BSc PhD Lond, MA Oxf ¶ Tutor in Foundation Lecturer in Music, Annie ■■ 1996 Wilshaw, Peter Richard, BA Biomedical Science Barnes Fellow in Music Lewis Professor of Israel Studies Camb, MA DPhil Oxf ¶ Reader in ■■ 2005 Cocks, Alan, BSc Leic, MA Oxf, ■■ 2005 Hazbun, Geraldine, BA MPhil ■■ 2012 Phillips, Ian, BPhil MA Oxf, Materials, Tutor in Metallurgy and PhD Camb ‡ Professor of Materials PhD Camb, MA Oxf ¶ Tutor in Spanish, PhD UCL Gabriele Taylor Fellow in Science of Materials, Wolfson Fellow in Engineering Ferreras Willetts Fellow in Spanish Philosophy and Tutor in Philosophy Materials Science ■■ 1991 Crisp, Roger Stephen, BPhil ■■ 2005 Hotson, Howard, BA MA ■■ 2002 O’Shaughnessy, Terence Note on symbols MA DPhil Oxf ¶ Professor of Moral Toronto, MA DPhil Oxf ¶ Professor of Joseph, BSc BE Adelaide, MPhil PhD * Fellow or Honorary Fellow of another Philosophy, Tutor in Philosophy, Uehiro Early Modern Intellectual History, Tutor Camb, MA Oxf Tutor in Economics college. Fellow in Philosophy in Modern History ■■ 2003 Porcelli, Donald Rex, BSc ¶ Holder of a university post (including ■■ 2000 Davies, Gareth Bryn, BA Lanc, ■■ 1996 Irwin, Patrick, MA DPhil Oxf ¶ Yale, MA Oxf, PhD Camb ¶ Tutor CUF appointments) other than a MA DPhil Oxf ¶ Tutor in American Reader in Physics, Tutor in Physics and Ferreras Willetts Fellow in Earth statutory professorship or readership. Sciences and Lobanov-Rostovsky History ■■ 2001 Jackson, Martin Lawrence, ‡ Holder of a statutory professorship or University Lecturer in Planetary ■■ 1996 Donnelly, Peter James, BSc OBE, MA Oxf Domestic Bursar readership. ρ Geology Queensland, MA DPhil Oxf, FRS ‡ ■■ 1999 Jeavons, Peter George, MSc ρ Former Rhodes Scholar ■■ 2006 Pyle, David, BA PhD Camb, Professor of Statistical Science Leic, MA Oxf, PhD Lond ¶ Professor of A date in the left-hand column indicates MA Oxf ¶ Professor of Earth Sciences, ■■ 2010 Firth, Roger, BEd Lanc, MEd Computer Science, Tutor in Computer the year of election to the current Tutor in Earth Sciences Birm, PhD Nott Trent ¶ Tutor in English Science fellowship (or other position) held. ■■ 1997 Reynolds, Matthew, MA PhD ■■ 2009 Flyvbjerg, Bent, BA MS PhD ■■ 2007 Johnston, Freya, BA PhD Camb, MA Oxf ¶ Tutor in English, Camb, MA Oxf ¶ Tutor in English and Aarhus, MA Oxf, DrTechn DrScient Times Lecturer in English Language Aalborg ‡ Professor of Major Hazel Eardley-Wilmot Fellow in English

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Fellows’ publications, honours and appointments

Dr Will Abberley, St Anne’s Leverhulme edited by Vincent Gillespie and Anne Early Career Fellow in English, has been Hudson (Brepols N.V., 2013). selected as one of the ten academics who have won the title of BBC Radio 3 New Dr Andrew Goodwin, Fellow and Tutor in Generation Thinkers 2014. Chemistry, University Lecturer in Chemistry, was nominated for the Outstanding Tutor Professor David Banister, Professor in Award in the OUSU Student-led Teaching Transport Studies and Tutor in Geography, Awards. Transport, Climate Change and the City, Robin Hickman and David Banister Professor Julian Johnson, Reader in (Routledge, 2014). the Faculty of Music and Fellow in Music at St Anne’s College, Oxford, 2001–7, has Dr Edward Bispham, Lecturer in Ancient been appointed Regius Professor in the History, contributor to The Fragments of the Department of Music at Royal Holloway St Anne’s second year English students and Roman Historians (3 vols.), general editor T. University. Awarded to Royal Holloway by visiting students, dressed up in Regency J. Cornell (Oxford University Press, 2013). the Queen to mark her Diamond Jubilee, costumes at Jane Austen’s house in Chawton. this prestigious position is a rare privilege, Freya Johnston takes a group of students there Professor Roger Crisp, Professor of given in recognition of exceptionally high every year. Moral Philosophy, Uehiro Fellow and Tutor in quality of research and teaching. Dating Philosophy, became Curator of the Bodleian back to the sixteenth century, only two and University Lecturer in Film Studies, Libraries on 1 October 2013. honours have been created in the past Barbara Stanwyck (British Film Institute, century and this is the first time it has been 2013). Professor Bent Flyvbjerg, Professorial awarded to a music department. Fellow at St Anne’s in Major Programme Professor Patrick McGuinness, Management, was shortlisted for the Most Dr Freya Johnston, Fellow and Tutor Professor of French and Comparative Acclaimed Lecturer Award in the Oxford in English Language and Literature, Literature, Sir Win and Lady Bischoff Fellow University Student Union (OUSU) Student- contributor to Dickens’s Style, edited by in French and Tutor in Modern Languages led Teaching Awards for his teaching on the Daniel Tyler (Cambridge University Press, at St Anne’s College, has launched a new MSc in Major Programme Management. 2013). Dr Johnston was also nominated for book entitled Other People’s Countries: A the Outstanding Tutor Award in the OUSU Journey into Memory, which focuses on his Professor Vincent Gillespie, Honorary Student-led Teaching Awards. childhood experiences in the Belgian border Fellow, Probable Truth: editing medieval town of Bouillon. texts from Britain in the twenty-frst century, Dr Andrew Klevan, Non-Tutorial Fellow

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Professor David Pyle, Fellow and Tutor celebrates the aesthetic and intellectual of an orchestral poem, and the composition in Earth Sciences, Professor of Earth contribution that women artists based in the considers battalion bugle calls, regimental Sciences, Remote sensing of volcanoes and UK bring to the contemporary art scene. marches, and rhapsodic variations on the volcanic processes: integrating observation National Anthem. The symphonic spectacle and modelling, edited by D.M. Pyle, T.A. Dr John Traill, Director and Lecturer in is a unique and formative experience Mather and J. Biggs (Geological Society, Music at St Anne’s College, premiered two for many young musicians from across 2013). of his new pieces, Lightbobs, on Saturday, Oxfordshire. 15 March 2014, in Birmingham. He Dr Matthew Reynolds, Fellow and conducted the Oxfordshire County Youth Dr Antonios Tzanakopoulos has been Tutor in English Language and Literature; Orchestra which also included musicians appointed to the Advisory Panel for Public Leverhulme Major Research Fellow 2006- from the College, as they set the scene International Law of the British Institute 9, Likenesses: Translation, Illustration, for performances featuring children from of International and Comparative Law. Interpretation (Maney Publishing, 2013). schools and choirs across Oxfordshire. Assistant editor of The United Nations convention on jurisdictional immunities of Corin Sworn, St Anne’s Fellow and Lightbobs tells the story of the Light Infantry states and their property: a commentary, Lecturer in Fine Art at the Ruskin School in World War I, with a particular focus on edited by Roger O’Keefe, Christian J. Tams; of Drawing, has won the prestigious Max the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the ‘Ox and assistant editor Antonios Tzanakopoulos Mara Art Prize 2013-2015 in collaboration Bucks’ regiments (the ‘Lightbobs’). It (2013). with the Whitechapel Gallery. The Prize comprises five songs, presented in the form

Time to party My photo exhibition, which I’ve held annually for 35 years now, is in large part an excuse for a party. In 1980, someone suggested that I show a few photos in the first floor library corridor (which then had no shelves). I asked one or two friends and produced a bottle of wine and my six glasses, but conversation was muted because of all the nearby reading rooms. So the next year I moved it to what I must now call the Danson Room and asked many more guests, including my pupils. A decade or so later, I was shifted to MOLT, which is vastly better for hanging pics, but much worse for a party, whether the guests want to sit or to circulate. The Bursarial squad are marvellous in having my stuff carted from and to the loft and organising the Dining Hall staff to do exactly what I would wish (or sometimes even better). I hope I can still manage it next year and that you will be able to come.

Hazel Rossotti Senior Research Fellow

A small church in Livadia, Tilos, Dodecanese, dedicated to the island’s patron saint, St Panteleimon, a young doctor said to have given his services free to the poor. Black and white (analog). Photo by Hazel Rossotti

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From the JCR CHRISTINA TOENSHOFF Students support students The JCR is fun, but it never forgets to support current students who struggle JCR Halfway Hall and future applicants Dining Hall in a long time, which was a great and dramatic score of 14-12, against St It has been a very active and enjoyable success. Edmund Hall, who had been champions on year for the JCR. Michaelmas term started 32 occasions in the past. out with a fantastic Freshers’ Week, One of the most noteworthy activities within organized by JCR Vice-President Rob the JCR has been the St Anne’s Living As always, the JCR is also concerned with Macquarie. As always, there were plenty Wage Campaign. A few students, including welfare and access. Our Access Rep, Will of fun events, ranging from ice cream trips JCR OUSU Rep George Gillett, led the Carter, is now working with the Academic to a sports afternoon where we discovered campaign that was widely supported within Office on offering a ‘Reach Scholarship’ to that the ‘six-legged-race’ is the ultimate the JCR and collected more than 400 a student from a developing country. The way of bonding. This year, we particularly signatures to petition the College to become Welfare Team will introduce the first peer concentrated on guiding Freshers through a Living Wage employer. It has successfully support drop-in sessions in Trinity term and their first weeks and offered essay-writing raised awareness of the Living Wage within is working tirelessly on raising awareness advice for all subjects and an IT drop-in Governing Body and expressed the general of various issues. Women’s Rep, Camille session. respect we students have for the College Fenton, has organized sexual consent Staff. workshops and harassment training for JCR Our focus this year has been the revival of members. We have hosted a self-defence the Danson Room (formerly known as the The JCR Sports Rep, James Baker, has class in the Danson Room and had a very JCR). With a new table-football table, Sky worked tirelessly to further improve the gym successful Queer Week with events ranging TV, board games and a PlayStation, the and has brought yoga classes to St Anne’s. from speaker events to a drag-queen Danson Room is now well-equipped for Maybe it’s partly because of the improved competition. student entertainment. Our Entz Officers gym facilities that our sports teams have have introduced a Fifa-football league and done increasingly well this year. Both the The JCR and its committee remain one the JCR committee is now providing coffee netball and the rugby team have been of the main forces in improving students’ and tea in the Danson Room at night. promoted to the highest division and the St lives and making St Anne’s the welcoming The JCR has turned into a vibrant place Anne’s squash and rugby teams reached community we are. for students to turn to when they need a Cuppers finals. The rugby team, who had break from work or wish to seek support. not been victorious since 1998, won the Christina Toenshoff (2012) JCR President This year has also seen the first Bop in the Rugby Cuppers Final 2014 with a close

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From the MCR THOMAS REUSS

Working on the life There are also frequent opportunities to and Science discussion groups. Among balance socialize with students from other Colleges the highlights for the sciences were Lord A lively programme of social and and to visit their dining halls, bars and Robert May, former President of the Royal intellectual activities keeps the MCR in common rooms. Society and scientific advisor to Tony good shape Blair; and Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who It is important for us regularly to run events discovered pulsars. Notable talks for the The St Anne’s graduate community has that allow students to relax in informal Arts & Humanities were given by Kate continued to grow further in diversity and settings and to socialize in more intellectual Rundell, children’s author and All Souls in size. With more than 280 graduates of environments. A successful event this term Fellow who discussed ‘Food, Fairy Tales 58 different nationalities coming from very was our nature trail in Wytham Woods, and Finance in Children’s Literature’ with different cultural, personal and academic which included a picnic lunch and a walk us, and by Professor Jon Stallworthy, who backgrounds, we strive to offer many in the woods where participants could asked ‘Iraq and Afghanistan: Where are the opportunities for students to integrate learn about birds and environment. Social War Poets?’ themselves into a warm and welcoming teas and movie nights provide a further graduate community. We provide social and opportunity to relax from an exhausting In addition to the discussion groups, our extra-curricular balance for our graduates academic day or week. Careers Week turned out to be a success. whose lives are usually based around their St Anne’s students were able to inform faculty or department. themselves about potential future careers and meet alumnae, discuss their job ideas One of the most popular events, which with them and profit from their insights. we run jointly with senior College Staff, is the termly wine tasting. At this event, we On behalf of the MCR and Committee, combine a buffet with an introduction to I would like to thank the College Staff a selected choice of international wines. and senior members for their constant There are many more dining experiences we support and encouragement. The good offer. A very special one among them is the relations with College are a crucial reason ‘murder mystery dinner’ where we combine for our successful and friendly graduate a role-playing factor involving a historic community. crime and a good College dinner. Usually, MCR students at Wytham Woods participants of the dinner dress up and Thomas Reuss (Mathematics, 2007 and various accessories are provided to make We have further continued to host our DPhil Mathematics, 2011) MCR President the experience as entertaining as possible. weekly speakers at our Arts & Humanities,

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Finals results: Trinity Term 2013

Results are shown for those Bachelor of Arts in History Bachelor of Arts in Modern Bachelor of Fine Art students who gave permission to Cuthbertson, Charlotte 2.2 Languages (French) Ward, Finbar 2.1 publish. A total of 116 students sat Gardner, Tom 1 Hamblen, Eleanor 1 Master of Biochemistry in Molecular finals McGregor, Sean 1 Hawley, Mark 2.1 and Cellular Biochemistry Morris, Hannah 2.1 Taylor, Henrietta 1 Bachelor of Arts in Biological Gee, William 1 Nicol, Matthew 1 Sciences Bachelor of Arts in Modern Prescott, Jack 1 Richardson, Samuel 2.1 Albert, Florence 2.1 Languages (French and German) Stanger, Nathan 1 Foley, Cara 2.1 Bachelor of Arts in History and Bartholomew, Paul 2.1 Master in Chemistry Economics Bachelor of Arts in Classical Bachelor of Arts in Modern Blyghton, David 1 Ali, Zareen Farzana 2.1 Archaeology and Ancient History Languages (French and Italian) Field, Gabrielle 2.1 Fisher, Joseph 1 Naydenova, Maria 2.2 Houghton, Sara 2.1 Shellard, Philippa 2.1 Bachelor of Arts in History and Bachelor of Arts in Classics and Bachelor of Arts in Modern Master in Earth Sciences Politics Oriental Studies Languages (French and Spanish) Flanders, Robert 2.1 Jeniec, Thomas 2.1 Crean, Chiara 1 Davies, Ben 2.1 Parry, Luke 1 Weinberg, Samuel 1 Hannay, Mark 2.1 Perkins, Rebecca 1 Bachelor of Arts in Modern Bachelor of Arts in Jurisprudence Phillips, Thomas 1 Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Languages (German) Aston, Nicola 2.1 Walker, Fiona 2.1 Management Kaulfuss, Sandra 2.1 Bruce, Lauren 2.1 Chan, Zi Teng 2.1 Sage, Alison Jane 1 Master in Engineering Science Castle, James 1 Pabari, Shiv 2.1 Bailey, Sarah 2.1 Fox, James 1 Bachelor of Arts in Modern Vibert, Callum 2.1 Donohoe, Andrew 2.1 Harrison, Jack 2.1 Languages (Spanish) and Lim, Christopher Say Liang 1 Bachelor of Arts in English and Heaton, Thomas .1 Linguistics Modern Languages (Portuguese) Loy, Xuewei 2.1 Burne James, Sarah 2.1 Master in Materials Science Cearns, Jennifer 1 Bochereau, Serena 2.1 Pluta, Mateusz 2.1 Bachelor of Arts in Music Faulkner, Ian 1 Bachelor of Arts in English and Williams, Abigail 2.1 Hewlett, Sarah 2.1 McGuire, Rachel 1 Modern Languages (Spanish) Bachelor of Arts in Literae Hinds, Alison 2.1 Campbell, Jaya 1 Humaniores MacGillivray, Stephanie 2.1 Master in Mathematics Patten, Yogun 2.1 Bachelor of Arts in English Hopkins, Kira 2.1 Bachelor of Arts in Oriental Studies Vaicekauskas, Marius 1 Language and Literature Reece-Trapp, Camilla 2.1 (Chinese) Waring, Oliver 1 Derbyshire, Libby 2.1 Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics Potter, Grace 1 Hough, Benedict 1 Master in Mathematics and Chang, Jiawei 1 Bachelor of Arts in Oriental Studies Sayers, Alexandra 2.1 Computer Science Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics (Hebrew Studies) Schneider, Timothy 1 Hydon, Christopher 1 and Computer Science Cukier, Martyn 1 Shannon-Jones, Samantha 2.1 Nichol, Daniel 1 Sizikova, Elena 2.1 Yandle, Emma 1 Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, Master in Mathematics and Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics Politics, and Economics Bachelor of Arts in Experimental Statistics and Statistics Anderson, Isabella 2.1 Psychology Zhang, Yuqing 2.1 Patel, Jocasta 2.1 Arnott, Victoria 2.1 Glynne Jones, Stuart 1 Lynes, Hannah 2.1 Master in Physics Lee, Ilse 2.1 Bachelor of Arts in Medical Robb, Helen 2.1 Elliott, Thomas 1 Prior, Samuel 2.1 Sciences Uddin, Muhammad Burhan 2.1 Hunt, Kieran 2.1 Spencer, Lucy 2.1 Balai, Edward 2.1 Yadin, Benjamin 1 Clements, Katharine 2.1 Bachelor of Arts in Physics Bachelor of Arts in Geography Hill, Matilda 1 Hodkinson, Peter 2.1 Gowell, Matthew 1 McGrath, Conn 2.1 Khan, Ali 2.2 Olcott, Flora 2.1 Waters, Samuel 2.1 Rusaitis, Liutauras 3 Smith, Richard 2.1

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Graduate degrees 2013

Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) Magister Juris (MJur) Logan, Iain Perski, Larisa McAloon, Gareth Graciano, Annabelle Mendoza Smith, Rodrigo Sancho Rodriguez, Eva Sadjadi, Shahrzad Zhang, Xin Meyer Forsting, Richard Sheldrake, James Alexander Wargan, Pawel Paramour, Alexandra Sephton Zayyan, Hafsa Master of Business Popa, Stefan Tanner, Julia Administration (MBA) Puges, Laura Bachelor of Medicine and Hodges, John Rimbault, Lynsey Post-Graduate Certificate of Bachelor of Surgery (BM) Roberts, Sarah Education (Cert Ed) Lada, Karolina Master of Philosophy (MPhil) Sairoglu, Sevgi Ceyda Bagshaw, Michael Mather, Helen Gergely, Olivier Santos, Priscilla Cawdron, Richard Searle, James Serksnas, Dominykas Davidson, Samantha Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) Van den Boogaart, Monique Shaw, Robert Hamlyn, Susanna Baderin, Alice Johanna Maria Sugano, Makoto Hughes, Kieran Beyazit, Eda Tanaka, Keisuke Hutchinson, Mark Ebejer, Jean-Paul Master of Public Policy Taslakyan, Lusine Matthews, Sian Gehrmann, Jan Vilakazi, Ntokozo Vaskovic, Milos Nuamah, Carrie Gomes, Mireille Zapata B Perez, Enrique Wang, Yijing Robson, Jessica Jiang, Meng Wang, Xiaotian Selkovaja, Aleksandra Khan, Faisal Master of Science (MSc) Zhu, Buyi Smith, James Lai, Yi Ming Bartlett-Imadegawa, Rhyannon Suter, Liam Maller, Julian Blanchette, Jude Master of Studies (MST) Thom, Sally Mbasuen, Timothy Cornforth, Daniel Alonso, Alexander White, Matthew Modenese, Chiara Correal, Jaime Cleary-Venables, Alicia Noori, Keian Deng, Jiewen Donhowe-Mason, Vanessa Ramos-Alvarez, Antares Dong, Wenzhen Dunlop, Emma Redford, Sophie Downs, Fabian Dysart, Thomas Rosser, Gabriel Frosina, Natasha Hicks, Edward Scott, Jeannie Goodrich, Bethany Hoyle, Philip Shah, Rushabh Griva, Maria Anna Jakobson, Christine Sutcliffe, Nadine Hand, Didi Leahy, Conor Tal, Nimrod Iberl, Michaela Mastrandrea, Matteo Thorstensen, Evgenij Khalif, Abdulkhaliq Muldrew, Lynn Zayer, Adam Killada, Narendra Okoth, Christine

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St Anne’s Boat Club news JASMINE SPENCER

Accepting the challenge! whom we owe a great debt. The 1985 row we propose a twist of our own: all St Anne’s September 2015: thirtieth anniversary raised funds for the Boat House, this time rowing alumnae are invited to try to beat us sponsored row all funds will go towards enlarging the fleet in a head-to-head race across the 50 miles and helping the club to become Head of the and 17 locks that lie between Oxford and Last year, Matthew Ridgwell proposed a River! Henley! re-row of the landmark 1985 sponsored row event which raised money to build the St Anne’s Boat Club attracts a wide range If you think that you are up to the challenge, St Anne’s Boathouse (pp.22-23 The Ship of members from freshers to finalists, or just want to take part, please contact 2012-13). members of the JCR and MCR, and visiting the Development Office (development@ students to the club, many of whom have st-annes.ox.ac.uk). SABC are proud to announce that they never rowed before coming to university. accept this challenge and are proposing a The Club has come a long way since 1985 Jasmine Spencer (2011) SABC re-row of the Oxford to Henley row on 5-6 with both the first VIIIs in Divisions 1 and 2 Development Offcer 2013-14 September 2015, the thirtieth anniversary of Torpids and Summer Eights. of the original event. SABC would like to Name the men’s first VIII! take this opportunity to build on the history The 1985 sponsored row was unique as a Donate £25 to St Anne’s Boat Club to of the club and re-engage with alumnae to race between men and women. This time suggest a name for their newest boat, the men’s first VIII. Visit http://tinyurl. com/boatnaming.

All names will be entered into a hat based on the number of times they have been submitted. I.e. if you submit a name four times (at £25 per name submission), it will go into the hat for selection four times. You can either suggest a new name, or one of those which have already been submitted. All names suggested so far can be viewed online at http://www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk/. The successful name will be announced on 21 September. Please note that we cannot Negotiating the locks between Oxford and Henley during the 1985 sponsored row / Ed Bradshaw (1983) use any name that may cause offence.

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From the Librarian DAVID SMITH Farewell to the Gatehouse Undoubtedly both a good and a clever idea in 1966 but now sadly unloved by the majority, the Gatehouse, so familiar to generations of students, is on its way out, demolished to make way for the enlargement of the library and a new academic centre. Some might mourn; most, says our Librarian, will welcome the new development and the visibility it gives to the College as a whole

Because of the remarkable generosity of readers of The Ship and others, our re-development of the Woodstock Road frontage of St Anne’s is now looking like a reality. All being well, work will start at the end of September this year, with completion and opening scheduled for Summer 2016. Getting to this point has been a long and tortuous process, and now seems a good Farewell to the Gatehouse. RIP 1966-2014 moment to remind ourselves, and our very many generous helpers, why we are doing many by our charmingly varied and eclectic whole effect is generally found to be what we propose to do. collection of buildings. Many, however, jumbled and inharmonious, and a poor seem to pass by without even realising we advertisement for our excellent College. A I joined St Anne’s in January 1987, and I are a college. Handsome listed Hartland number of schemes for improvement have can’t remember a time when Governing House is mostly concealed from view by foundered on finance, planning difficulties, Body hasn’t been worrying about the a curiously marooned Edwardian cottage or both, but at last it seems we are in a potential negative effects of the entrance and by the Gatehouse, undoubtedly both position to move forward. to College. People who make it across the a good and a clever idea in 1966 but now threshold are generally impressed by what sadly unloved by the majority, dedicated Our Principal, Tim Gardam, has been the they see, all by our lovely gardens and though its minority admirers still are. The driving force behind the project, and it is his

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enthusiasm that has inspired the donors the University because they serendipitously visitors and to show them something of who have made the project possible. It bring together academics and students what we do. And talking of gardens, there was after hearing my termly moan about from the whole range of disciplines across will be two new ones between Woodstock the Library’s chronic space problems (for a lunch table or over a cup of coffee. We Road and the (newly visible) handsome readers as well as for books) that Tim had don’t see the research centre and the library western façade of Hartland House: a the idea of putting a new library building as separate entities but as natural partners garden at ground level and a sunken at the front of College, not to replace Giles where the core work of the College in garden, with romantic yew hedge, to allow Gilbert Scott’s beautifully designed original teaching and research can sit together, in a daylight into the building’s lower ground library but to extend and modernise it. In position where their work is clearly visible to floor. Surely no one will fail to realise we are today’s digital world libraries have to justify the world outside. a college when all this is ready! their existence, let alone any plan to enlarge them, and as I wrote last year, what we This visibility is key to the building’s third As always, donations to the Library are aim for is to extend the understanding main function, as a place to focus our gratefully acknowledged further on; and of what a library can provide, to make a ‘outreach’ activities to potential applicants, senior members are reminded that they are place where students and researchers can teachers and other visitors to College – a permanently entitled to use the Library (old find and use material in whatever medium large room on the first floor, opening onto and new!) for reference. suits them best, where they can work in the garden roof of our already rebuilt David Smith Librarian companionable silence or in groups, in kitchen, will enable us to welcome all these formal or informal atmospheres.

The new building, though, won’t be just a library but a library and academic centre. On the second (top) floor will be a research centre that will provide a home for inter- disciplinary research institutes with a strong connection to Fellows of St Anne’s. The Centre for Personalised Medicine (see pp.36-39) (http://www.well.ox.ac.uk/cpm/ home) and the Centre for Comparative Criticism and Translation (http://www.torch. ox.ac.uk/comparativecriticism) (see pp.33- 35) are already established and awaiting the home where they will be able to co- ordinate their activities and hold seminars and meetings, and we hope other initiatives will follow. Colleges have a special place in Taking one last look at a Gatehouse room/Keith Barnes

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St Anne’s new Library and Academic Centre

The interior of the ground floor of the new Library and Academic Centre

The new Library and Academic Centre will transform both the intellectual life and the architecture of St Anne’s

It will be built on the Woodstock Road, opposite Oxford’s new campus, the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter. It will become a focal point for the college’s academic life, making us the exemplar of a modern Oxford college at the heart of the 21st Century University.

For further information see www.st-annes. ox.ac.uk/new-library Transforming St Anne’s – a landmark to defne the intellectual life and architecture of the College

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On libraries in the digital age MARGARET DAVIES

A former librarian considers the quarters. William Geldart, a classical scholar Library occupied one end of the Hartland advantages of the new Library and who became Vinerian Professor of Law, building, and it has now extended down Academic Centre was a tireless advocate of the admission of into the former lecture rooms, and along women to the university. He bequeathed his the main corridor as well. At that time the In any consideration of what is essential books to the nascent Society of Home- Library was well supplied with books and for a civilised life, we can only agree with Students, and the College Law Library journals, but everything was in printed Prospero, who when shipwrecked upon an perpetuates his name. Another unexpected form on paper. The world of electronic inaccessible island, tells his daughter: benefactor was Canon Claude Jenkins, information technology was part of an Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History, unforeseeable future. With its arrival, By Providence divine. whose rooms in Christ Church were filled libraries and librarians would have to adapt A noble Neapolitan ... with many thousands of books. Although their premises and their procedures to Knowing I lov’d my books, he he may not have been so convinced a accommodate the new approaches, and St furnished me ... supporter of female education – he always Anne’s has been exceedingly successful in With volumes that I prize above my prefaced his lectures by saying ‘Good doing so. dukedom. morning, gentlemen’ even when the The Tempest students before him were exclusively female Although the accessibility of many essential – he was generous to St Anne’s in his will. texts in electronic form reduced the Thus reunited with his books, Prospero He bequeathed a choice of the books from importance of joining a queue to borrow has been able to give his daughter Miranda his voluminous library to the Oxford colleges the library’s copy of a much sought-after a good education. It was with this same in a named order, with St Anne’s in first text, at first only the contents of the book motive that St Anne’s was founded place, and the College Library acquired were available in electronic form. Now to extend that privilege to the world’s about eight thousand volumes from this almost every variant reading or other aspect daughters, and more recently, to their bequest. of bibliographical search can be done by brothers too. computer, and many modern scholars A well-equipped library has always been take as much pleasure in the astonishing Throughout the years when university the heart of any institution whose purpose dexterity of their machines as in the early education for women was gaining is the pursuit of education, and St Anne’s printed books to which their research is acceptance, the central role of the library has built upon this importance, making directed. was never in doubt. The core stock was the Library the central pivot of the College. works recommended by the tutors as Many generations of former students have The provision of more shelving is not essential for the various undergraduate given copies of their own published works the only requirement in a modern library. courses. Supplementary collections to the College Library. In my days as an Students often prefer to leave their rooms sometimes came from unexpected undergraduate, half a century ago, the and do their academic work in another

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Changing times: St Anne’s Library then and now, 1952-2014 environment. Since all students now take from across the world no longer finds What a place to be in is an old library! notes and write essays on their laptop insularity in the syllabus appropriate, and It seems as though all the souls of computers, a library needs to have a so welcomes the opportunity to study and all the writers that have bequeathed generous provision of desk space for compare both the written literature and their labours to these Bodleians were students, well equipped with electric the visual arts from across the world. The reposing here ... I seem to inhale terminals. The plans for a major expansion diversity of languages is a challenge here – learning. Essays of Elia, 1823 will not only make space for the growth for scholars have never been able to reach of the existing library collections, but total agreement when an exact translation The atmosphere of an academic library will offer specialised facilities in two new of a word or phrase is required. But this still has this effect. Happily the traditional fields. Electronic retrieval is especially facility will be greatly aided by the Centre libraries still exist, though electronic valuable where large quantities of statistical for Comparative Criticism and Translation, media have opened their treasures to a data need to be stored. The Centre for an area which is already established in far wider reading public, at the same time Personalised Medicine, one of the two the College by the Weidenfeld Chair in protecting the original works from excessive new initiatives the College plans to open Comparative European Literature. The handling. How good it is to know that St in the new Library and Academic Centre, new building will enhance the entrance Anne’s continues to be a leader in making will combine information gleaned from the to the College on the Woodstock Road knowledge available and encouraging each recent advances in genetic variation with side and link it visually with the northward new generation of students to engage with many other clinical disciplines. Partnership progression of major University buildings it. Throughout the world, wherever there is a with the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human into the Observatory Quarter. nucleus of people of enquiring minds, there Genetics illustrates how academic research will continue to be libraries and librarians to can be linked with the world of applied This leaves the bibliophiles, that group of assist them in furthering their curiosity. sciences; and those working in this field can people who still take great pleasure in old move between the two aspects. books, for the aesthetic pleasure of contact Margaret Davies (Mornement 1956) with the fine paper and print of the original worked for many years at the Bodleian In the field of literature, a college in which works. On this point I can only agree with Library where she now volunteers both the faculty and the students are drawn Charles Lamb, who felt the same thrill:

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Trinity Old Library JACKIE INGRAM

A most unusual collection Codrington; it doesn’t impose its presence working there in preference to the libraries Oxford is full of libraries. As St Anne’s on the environment as the Radcliffe Camera of Christ Church and All Souls. makes plans for its new Library and does, but it does have great atmosphere. Academic Centre, a recent visit has The Library was constructed between Gesner’s Studies on Animals, written in prompted thoughts that libraries are 1417 and 1421 and is in the last remaining Latin and other languages, was a marvel places with history and heart building of the original Durham College. Built of its age (1550-60s) and was lavishly for use by Benedictine monks, who could illustrated with woodcuts. It is a 4,500- The visit by members of the Oxford Branch assume that they had access to much of page, five-volume, encyclopaedia, which ASM to the Old Library of Trinity College the written knowledge of the Western world, remained an influential reference book for last October made me reflect on libraries in the Library still houses fascinating and over 300 years. general. precious printed books, (the oldest dates from 1481), which cover a marvellous range A chair belonging to Robert Raper, who While I was reading Law at St Anne’s, my of subjects: from architecture, botany and is remembered as the founder of the experience of libraries was confined to classics to history, theology and zoology. Appointments Committee (now the Careers the Bodleian Law Library in the St Cross A more recent and unusual addition is the Service), is on display, as is a book owned Building, which could not, in my eyes, be oldest and most extensive collection of by Henry VIII. The room next door, the described as ‘soulful’ and to the cosier pornography. renovated home to the Danson Collection, Geldart Law Library in Hartland House, which was a much more congenial place. The bookshelves, built in oak and rising to I do remember, in summer, rather wishing I the ceiling, bow very slightly and the library had chosen a subject that required one to floors had to be re-enforced in the 1970s read novels while lying on a lawn, but since because the sheer weight of all that paper I have made use of other libraries in Oxford and leather threatened to collapse the room and elsewhere, I now appreciate how into the ground floor below. The Library is important they are, not only for their content lit with windows along each side, and at but also for their ambience. one end; some of them are decorated with stained glass. Trinity College’s Old Library is a little gem – not a glitzy diamond but one of those The Old Library contains a volume of Virgil interesting, rich stones, like garnets or given by a grateful Samuel Johnson who, amethysts. It doesn’t have the grandeur although a Pembroke man, sang the praises of Merton or the stately qualities of the of the Library at Trinity and greatly enjoyed Trinity Old Library

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includes a copy of Winnie-the-Pooh autographed by author and artist, and a 1776 edition of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations.

Trinity’s Old Library can no longer cater for the technical needs of a modern student, but it is a wonderful resource and example of the potential for longevity of a room built for a purpose and imbued with centuries of intent to learn, expand and share knowledge. It acts as a reminder of all those individuals, geniuses or not, who invested their time and energy there. The ‘modern’ undergraduate Library at Trinity was built as a memorial to Trinity members who died during World War I.

To work in a library that has been designed with the reader in mind is a joy. Enough space to have elbow room, good lighting and seats that are not built solely for those who are over 5’10” makes so much difference, not only to comfort but to the ability to concentrate. As Trinity’s Old Library demonstrates, the history of the old can act as an inspiration for the new.

I am looking forward to seeing St Anne’s new Library and Academic Centre soaking up some of that inspirational spirit from its existing libraries and instilling the love of learning in great space in many generations to come.

Jackie Ingram (1976) Trinity Old Library windows

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London Library ELIZABETH WILSON

Adventure in the stacks and gentlemen’s outfitters and then to enter storage space for books, created more Founded in 1841 to allow subscribers its mahogany portals is, in fact, rather like reading spaces and a convenient members’ to enjoy the riches of a national library re-entering the 1950s. Red carpeting, the room. in their own homes, the London Library beautiful reading room, the labyrinthine is one of the city’s most venerable back stacks, described by one member as Many St Anne’s alumnae will know and institutions, but don’t be misled: its Piranesi-like, the portraits of distinguished belong to the Library. I would urge all those discreet façade hides a wealth of digital former members and, yes, the white tiled who do not yet belong to join and support technology as well as one million books Edwardian lavatory, all create the ambience it. Membership not only helps preserve a from the sixteenth century on. Join of a club. It is a timeless place, dedicated to unique part of the British cultural heritage now; it needs you scholarship undertaken in an atmosphere but also strikes a blow for the survival of the untroubled by the demands of social book in an increasingly technological age. It was as an undergraduate at the end media and 24-hour news. The courtesy Indeed, it is its combination of state-of-the- of the 1950s that I first heard my friends and helpfulness of the librarians and the art technology and the preservation of – in talking about the London Library, to which astonishing and unique collections of books many cases extremely rare – books and some of their parents belonged. It sounded create a refuge, but also the opportunity papers that makes the Library so special. like a thrilling and wonderful place. You for intellectual adventure. Here it is equally The atmosphere of silent absorption in its could borrow books for long periods of time possible to find a forgotten 1950s novel reading rooms and the joy of wandering and fines were never charged. On a group or volumes of Walter Benjamin in German, through its miles of books on open stacks visit to the South of France, one friend unique scientific papers from the time of are unmatchable. Join and see. borrowed from the Library an 1844 copy of Charles Darwin (along with Thomas Carlyle Murray’s Guide to the region and, like the – one of the library’s founders) and other Elizabeth Wilson (1955). Her most shallow undergraduates we were, we fell outstanding Victorian intellectual figures, or recent book is Love Game: A History of about in hysterics as he read out passages the latest literary biography. Tennis from Victorian Pastime to Global of the stiff prose in a sarcastic tone of voice. Phenomenon (Profile Books, 2014). See It was not until 30 or so years later, that I felt Yet it would be a mistake to view the Library page 83 grown up enough to join the Library myself. as a relic of the past lost in a time warp. I have never regretted it and was proud to It has the most up-to-date collection of be elected a Trustee in 2012. electronic journals, the current numbers of a huge range of academic, political and art It is situated in St James’s Square. To walk publications are free to read in the reading south from the bustle of Piccadilly into the room and it recently underwent a massive quiet back streets with their art galleries expansion which greatly extended the

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Why I am such a St Anne’s fan MICHELLE CLAYMAN

school at 14 to go to work in his father’s and on Bevington and Banbury Roads. workshop in the East End. My mother and her younger sister had been sent to live The UK was going through an enormous with relatives in the US during World War II financial and economic crisis in the 1970s. (her older sister, who was 16, stayed and It dominated the newspapers, radio and served in the Women’s RAF). My mother television. I didn’t understand what was had the chance to go to college (as did going on but thought it would be fascinating all her US cousins) and earned a degree to try. A neighbour, who worked in finance, in Mathematics (which probably wouldn’t recommended I apply to US banks saying have happened if she’d stayed in England). ‘they wouldn’t mind that I was a woman’ More importantly, she had seen the power and would train me well. I had no luck of education to transform children from applying for journalism jobs but did land modest backgrounds into doctors and a job with Bank of America in London, dentists and lawyers. So she insisted that as one of two BAs in their MBA training my brother and I be educated, over my programme. father’s scepticism. My brother and I were the only two of our English cousins to go My job was to ‘spread statements’ – read to university (though all of our US cousins company reports, crunch numbers and How one former student is repaying her went). enter them in ‘spreadsheets’ (this was debt to the College and helping other before Excel). I found it fascinating. The students find their way When I came up, I thought I’d be interested other BA student, from Cambridge, was in Economics, but I was drawn more to always talking about going to business I came up to St Anne’s to read PPE in 1972. Philosophy and Politics and thought I could school and doing an MBA. One day, two I had been fortunate enough to go to North always pick up Economics later. At school of the Vice Presidents I worked for took London Collegiate School, which in those I’d been involved in journalism, editing both me aside, said I was a bright girl and days was a Direct Grant school. It prepared the unofficial and official school magazines, should also apply, and offered to write my my schoolmates and me well for Oxford – and I worked on Isis at Oxford. I also had a references. The only business school I we knew how to cope with a reading list number of friends in the theatre world and applied to was Stanford in California and, and write essays. worked on a few productions. I made very luckily, I was accepted. good friends in College. Four of us who My mother was the person in our family read PPE were close, as were the women So, off I went to Stanford, which was who pushed education. My father had left with whom I shared houses in Park Town wonderful, but a huge cultural shock. There

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I met computers and modern portfolio the tenets of my religious tradition where thrilled that the first St Anne’s student is an theory, which shaped the rest of my career. ‘tzedakah’, sometimes translated as intern this summer at the Clayman Institute I also realized that it was possible to start ‘charity’, has a connotation of ‘justice.’ for Gender Research at Stanford University one’s own business. But since, back then, in California. 26-year-olds didn’t start businesses and I Early on, I became a supporter of St Anne’s. didn’t know what my business would be, When Baroness Deech was in New York When Tim Gardam became Principal, I headed to Wall Street and got in on the in the early-1990s for a North American I asked him what would be helpful for ground floor of quantitative equity research. Oxford Reunion, she mentioned to me College. He suggested a Junior Research I built models, published research papers that students didn’t have much of an idea Fellowship in Politics, which I was happy to and my team designed and developed about careers. Since I was already hiring fund. I am now planning to support the new the precursor of an online system where US summer interns, I suggested we start Library and Academic Centre project. clients could either access our models or an internship for a St Anne’s student; this design their own using our programming became the Michelle Clayman Scholarship. St Anne’s was the first place to allow language. I spent a lot of time talking to The first intern arrived in 1995. My directive women an education at Oxford, and I am investment managers all over North America to College was that I wanted the student for delighted that it is now the gateway to and Europe about how to use quantitative whom it would make the most difference Oxford for students from non-traditional methods in investment processes. And, in their lives, with a preference for students backgrounds. I am a strong believer in along the way, emerged the genesis of from non-traditional backgrounds. There social mobility as an important factor my own investment firm, one that would have been women and men, state- and in keeping societies vibrant. Access to combine quantitative and traditional independent-schooled, and from many education is one of the best ways to ensure methods. So, in 1986, I was young, bold subjects, not only PPE, but Medicine, it. An Oxford education is a tremendous and foolish and founded New Amsterdam Materials Science, Geography, Chemistry, gift for bright young people: it expands Partners. History and Modern Languages. Many have their minds and horizons, and opens up gone on to careers in finance or business opportunities that might not otherwise be In the UK we were very fortunate in but two are doctors and two academics. available. St Anne’s provides a welcoming having our higher education pretty much One later followed my path to Stanford and supportive environment to students taken care of by the government post- Business School. The goal was for them who might be intimidated by more WWII – a great gift, which I don’t think we to spend a summer in New York, work on traditional settings. Hopefully, it also allows necessarily appreciated at the time. The US a meaty investment project related to their them to thrive. And that is why I am such a had a different model: a mixture of state- interests but useful to us, and think about St Anne’s fan. funded and private universities. One of how they wanted their lives to unfold. Many the ‘messages’ to students at top private of the scholars stay in touch with me, which Michelle Clayman (1972) is Chief universities was that it was a huge privilege is wonderful. Unfortunately, the programme Investment Officer of New Amsterdam to be there and, if we were successful, we is now in hiatus as a result of complications Partners and the Chair of the Michelle R should help ensure the same opportunity in the tightening of US visa rules, but I hope Clayman Institute for Gender Research for future generations. This meshed with to be able to restart it. Meanwhile, I am Stanford University

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Time can equal money CLAIRE O’DONNELL

There are more ways than one of giving my own I had managed to sew up my different professions and the sponsorship to College pockets (a needlework triumph that I have of internships. Others have provided spookily achieved more literally in the past) speakers and venues for St Anne’s events. Seven years ago I walked away from a and family priorities trumped any well- Less publicity is given to the many acts career in the City blissfully ignorant of the intentioned desire to provide meaningful of kindness and support undertaken on impending global financial crisis, which financial support to College. However, what an individual basis within the St Anne’s rather suggests that I was indeed in I could offer was my time, and 25 years of community, including one alumna who the wrong job. The crisis confirmed my experience of corporate life. offered a home in London to a graduate disillusionment with the world of finance. who would otherwise not be able to take up I went back to university, this time in I have since discovered that there are many an unpaid internship. London, and happily immersed myself and varied ways to support St Anne’s. To once more in the academic life. If the begin with, I was a member of the working Today I am working with the Development timing of my departure from City life felt party charged with raising £1.2 million to Office to update our legacy efforts. It is fortuitous it came at some cost. I was fund a philosophy endowment, named after another project close to my heart. Like turning my back on a lucrative financial Gabriele Taylor, our much loved philosophy many of my contemporaries, even if cash package, including generous bonuses, and tutor. The work might appear prosaic: we strapped today, I am nonetheless asset rich I was the breadwinner in our household wrote letters, set up meetings with potential due to the peculiarities of the UK housing with two daughters themselves on the donors, scoured our network of contacts market. I like the idea that I will one day be verge of university. It also meant that my and arranged events. But we were fuelled able to offer financial support to College to appointment to the inaugural St Anne’s by a belief in the value of what we were say thank you for setting me up for life. It’s Development Board, created shortly doing – securing philosophy tuition at St just a shame that I won’t be around to enjoy afterwards, looked anything but well timed. Anne’s for generations to come – and seeing it put to good use! rewarded by the opportunity to meet with The Board was established in 2008 to fellow philosophers, enthusiastic and Claire O’Donnell (1977) develop and support the fundraising interested supporters, whose generosity function of the College. Following the sealed the eventual success of the withdrawal of government funding – entirely endowment. for arts and humanities subjects – and the challenges posed by a steep rise in Other alumnae have found even more student fees, we set an initial and ambitious creative ways to contribute to College. target to double the annual income from Recent initiatives include career talks from fundraising. With no earned income of alumnae representing a wide range of

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Bringing it all together MATTHEW REYNOLDS

Among other things, the new Library Goethe told Johann Eckermann: ‘the epoch the Ruskin School, with eight fellows of St and Academic Centre St Anne’s, on of world literature is at hand’. But literature Anne’s among its leaders; a similar number which work is due to start in September has always been world literature, it has of graduate students are involved and many this year, will house the Centre for always reached beyond the language in collaborators internationally. OCCT creates Comparative Criticism and Translation. which it is written; and it is doing so now an intellectual space in which these various Its director Matthew Reynolds explains more than ever before. experts can explore what spans their what it’s all about and how it will disciplines, creating new ways of thinking change the culture and teaching of the This fact is obviously fundamental to the about how languages, cultures and media literary humanities literary humanities. But it is tricky to hold mingle and cross. in focus and to study. You need to bring The Idea experts in different languages and literatures What we do together. You need to alter established Literature sparks across languages and critical ideas – for instance by accepting Four times a term we block out most of an cultures. Think of TS Eliot: of course that translations can be as generative and afternoon, bring together several speakers Shakespeare and Tennyson mattered to interesting as their source texts. You need from within and beyond the University, and him, but Laforgue and Dante mattered to look beyond writing alone because discuss. The research of St Anne’s Fellows more. The fact that he was neither wholly other media – illustration, music, film and has been prominent in these workshops. American nor wholly English is crucial to now the Internet – tend to mix with print For instance, Peter Ghosh and Jonathan his writing; and his poetry now probably as texts cross cultures. Of course, Oxford Katz explored the role of imaginativeness has more readers internationally, through has experts in almost every literature. But, in translation in a session chaired by translation, than in its original tongue. until now, they have been divided into Adriana Jacobs (an expert in Hebrew from Similar points hold true of many, perhaps separate faculties and sub-faculties built on St Cross College). Robert Chard and our most writers, in any culture. The Japanese nineteenth-century ideas of national literary Junior Research Fellow Xiaofan Amy Li novelist Haruki Murakami formed his style history. Oxford Comparative Criticism and joined with Stephen Harrison (Professor of through translations of Raymond Chandler, Translation (OCCT), a collaboration between Latin at Corpus) to explore how editorial Scott Fitzgerald and Truman Capote. Mme St Anne’s and the new Oxford Research commentary, in both Chinese and European de Staël was a European writer more than Centre for the Humanities (TORCH), is traditions, can alter texts in the process of a Swiss (or French) one. WG Sebald lived changing this long-established way of elucidating them. I took part in a discussion in East Anglia, wrote in German and was doing things. It draws together about 40 with Martyn Harry, Andrew Klevan and initially published in Germany; but he had his academics from the Faculties of English, Jason Gaiger (the head of the Ruskin first real success in the English translations Modern Languages, Oriental Studies, School, from St Edmund Hall) about the by Michael Hulse and Anthea Bell. In 1827, Classics, Music, History, Philosophy and differing practices of critical writing across

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‘So Krishna, as when he admonished Arjuna On the feld of battle. Not fare well, But fare forward, voyagers.’ TS Eliot ‘The Dry Salvages’ from Four Quartets quoting from the Sanskrit classic Bhagavad Gita contained within the Mahabharata

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literature, music, art and film. at undergraduate level is already proving a literary humanities can be researched and success. taught at Oxford. Students will be taking In tandem with these seminars there is a our courses; our books and our website graduate discussion group, again led by We also want to influence literary culture will be influencing debate worldwide. How someone from St Anne’s (currently Rosie beyond the academy. So we have set up to reframe literary study in a global context, Lavan) but open to students throughout the annual Oxford Translation Day, in fact paying attention to translation while also the University. Every September we host a day-and-a-half of workshops, talks and insisting on the importance of cultural an international conference: last year it readings, culminating in the awarding of specificity and linguistic expertise – this is was on ‘Comparative Criticism: Histories the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize: perhaps the key question facing the literary and Methods’; this year it will explore how all these events are open to alumnae humanities today. St Anne’s is helping to new thinking about borders in geography and the public. Other public events answer it. can change our understanding of borders in prospect include the Goethe Song between literatures, genres and academic Translation Project, in collaboration with Matthew Reynolds is a Tutorial Fellow disciplines. We are launching a book series, the Music Faculty and the Oxford Lieder at St Anne’s and The Times Lecturer in Transcript, which will publish not only our Festival, which will involve new translations the English Faculty. His recent books own research but also related work from and settings of Goethe poems, and a include The Poetry of Translation: From around the world. Our website is a key performance in the Mary Ogilvie Lecture Chaucer & Petrarch to Homer & Logue element in the collaborative environment Theatre exploring translation across fiction, (2011), Likenesses: Translation, Illustration, we are creating; through it, we release our photography and dance. Interpretation (2013), and the novels discussions as podcasts, together with Designs for a Happy Home (2009) and The reports on the sessions and reviews of Where we are heading World Was All Before Them (2013). key publications written by early career academics and graduate students. The One of the beauties of our collaborative Matthew also delivered the Founding website is already starting to influence structure is that a comparatively small Fellows Lecture on ‘Translations as thinking about comparative work worldwide. investment by College has secured Literature’ at last year’s Gaudy and Alumni ongoing match-funding from TORCH Weekend This being Oxford, new research is giving and a significant seed-corn grant from rise to new teaching. We have constructed the University. We are now fundraising a Masters option in Comparative Criticism for the part-time administrator role, so as which, starting in 2015-16, will slot to guarantee St Anne’s leadership of this into Hilary term of the existing Masters university-wide endeavour, which in due courses in English, Modern Languages, course – we hope – will have its base in our Oriental Studies, Classics and Music, new Library and Academic Centre. enabling students to work across those languages and art forms; a similar course If that can happen, St Anne’s will be at the bridging English and Modern Languages heart of a significant change in the way the

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Personalised Medicine at St Anne’s Claire Cockcroft

As the sequencing of the human further basic science, clinical and policy- the generous support of the Dr Stanley Ho genome becomes quicker and cheaper, based research, an investment in health Medical Development Foundation in Macau. the possibility of combining this informatics and infrastructure, as well genomic data with individual health as continued exploration of the resultant ‘Advances in understanding genomic data is becoming more of a reality. ethical, legal and societal considerations. medicine offer the potential for huge This will enable a more personalised The multidisciplinary and collaborative benefits to patients and will lead to approach to medicine, a tailoring nature of St Anne’s offers a perfect significant changes in the way medicine will of diagnosis and management to environment for advancing dialogue and be practised in the future,’ explains Dr Tim each person to optimize their clinical providing leadership in the transformation Lancaster, a member of the CPM’s Steering care. Claire Cockcroft reports on an of personalised medicine within healthcare. Group and College Fellow. ‘Integrating innovative partnership between St The Principal’s vision – for an academic advances in science with clinical practice Anne’s and The Wellcome Trust Centre hub with a focus on personalised medicine and medical education presents a number for Human Genetics (WTCHG) – the – has recently become a reality through of challenges. Meeting these challenges Centre for Personalised Medicine (CPM)

As government invests in initiatives like The 100,000 Genomes Project, which aims to sequence 100,000 whole genomes from NHS patients by 2017, embedding genomic information into routine clinical care is on the agenda. With healthcare budgets increasingly under pressure, deploying genomic knowledge to diagnose or assess the risk of disease, improve patient outcomes and increase the cost- effectiveness of management options is an exciting proposition.

Integrating genomic information, with healthcare data in the clinic, however, presents several challenges: a demand for Dr Ingrid Slade, Director of the Centre, with St Anne’s alumnae at the launch event in November 2013/ Keith Barnes

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will require cross-disciplinary thinking from Mary Archer (1962), former Chairman Oxford, now sits on the CPM’s External fields such as law, ethics and economics. of Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Advisory Board. The Centre for Personalised Medicine Foundation Trust; Richard Girling (1984) aims to stimulate these cross-disciplinary healthcare investor; Dr Tim Lancaster, The CPM’s inaugural public lecture, ‘Making dialogues.’ Director of Clinical Studies at the Medical medicines for individuals and populations’ School and Dr Imogen Goold, Fellow by Professor Patrick Vallance, President of The CPM has had an active first year and Tutor in Law – considered the Pharmaceuticals R&D, GlaxoSmithKline, in with a variety of academic lectures, challenges and systems that need to be Oxford’s new Mathematical Institute, was public discussions and consultations with implemented before personalised medicine attended by over 250 people, including communities working in the field. Its first becomes embedded in clinical practice. the Vice-Chancellor, the Regius Professor event on 9 November 2013 featured an They engaged in lively dialogue with the of Medicine and other senior figures from expansive programme of talks explaining audience, addressing questions about Oxford science and healthcare as well as the current landscape of personalised personal genomic data and insurance, the students from across the University. He medicine, the challenges and realities impact of personalised medicine on the of applying genomic research to clinical doctor-patient relationship and the role of ‘The establishment of the Centre practice and the aspirations of the Centre. personalised medicine in global health. for Personalised Medicine as a joint College alumnae, current undergraduate venture between the Wellcome and postgraduate students, clinicians High profile talks to celebrate the CPM Trust Centre for Human Genetics and research leaders from the University and St Anne’s College recognises heard Professor Peter Donnelly (Fellow of The CPM celebrated its inception with the importance of education and the College, WTCHG Director and Co- two high-profile lectures and a dinner at research, from basic science through Chair CPM Steering Group) set the scene St Anne’s on 7 March this year. Professor to the clinic, in an area which will have with a thought-provoking lecture on ‘The Dennis Lo, Director of the Li Ka Shing a major impact on our health and Genetic Revolution: Implications for the Institute of Health Sciences at the Chinese healthcare.’ Future of Medicine’. CPM Director Dr Ingrid University of Hong Kong, gave a lunchtime Professor Peter Donnelly, Director of Slade, Dr Chris Spencer and Dr Gabriele lecture on ‘Non-invasive prenatal diagnosis’. the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human De Luca (CPM Steering Group Members) Professor Lo described how his work led Genetics. presented examples of personalised to the discovery that fragments of a baby’s medicine in practice, in the treatment of DNA circulate in the mother’s blood and ‘The CPM aims to provide a focus for cancer and the diagnosis of rare diseases, how these fragments can be decoded. This educational activities, multidisciplinary as well as introducing the concept of has elicited a powerful means of diagnosing collaboration and knowledge how a person’s genetic makeup affects genetic conditions before birth, with the exchange, to help drive forward a more the way they respond to certain drugs potential to eliminate the need for invasive integrated, individualised approach to (pharmacogenomics). tests like amniocentesis. Professor Lo, who medicine and healthcare’ undertook his clinical training, postgraduate Tim Gardam, Principal. A panel of alumnae and Fellows – Dame studies and early academic career in

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defined personalised medicine as, ‘the right of managing personal data and the ethical medicine, the right patient, the right dose implications this poses for society. and the right time,’ and explained how Interview with differentiating patients according to their The year ahead sees several initiatives Dr Ingrid Slade, genetic make-up would help to achieve this evolving which have been informed by Director of the CPM goal. He advocated academic-industrial consultation with different communities partnerships and open innovation in target in the field of personalised medicine. Claire Cockcroft: Why are you discovery, providing much food for thought Discussion workshops at the WTCHG interested in personalised medicine? as conversations continued over a convivial have explored the perspective of scientists dinner in college. working in the field and suggested how Ingrid Slade: During my medical the CPM could further contribute to the training I was fascinated by genetics Broadening horizons and wider research community. The CPM will also be and the potential benefit that consultation building on its international relations in the genetic knowledge could bring to year ahead, with the Director and members medicine. I began training in clinical Discussion and engagement around some of the Steering Group leading a seminar at genetics and during my PhD studies of the issues in personalised medicine, the Chinese University of Hong Kong during I witnessed extraordinary advances with different communities, is an important Michaelmas term. In addition, the CPM is in the field with the development part of the CPM’s approach as it gains delighted to be co-hosting the Personalised and application of new sequencing momentum. The Cheltenham Science Medicine World Conference in Oxford in technologies. The questions I began Festival, at which the CPM organized a April 2015. asking were increasingly focused panel debate, ‘Your Genome and Your on how these advances might be Health’, on 7 June, is one of the country’s The development of personalised medicine implemented in clinical practice leading science festivals, and provided an has the potential to impact significantly on for the benefit of patients. I began ideal forum for discussing personalised individual, population and global health, training in Public Health to combine medicine and listening to public opinions. provided that the research scientists, an understanding of healthcare Professor Peter Donnelly set the scene clinicians and those involved in policy, systems, population health and before he was joined by panellists Dr Ingrid translation and implementation work genomics. I retain a strong research Slade and Mark Henderson, Director of together to this aim. Recognizing this, the interest and work with the Health Communications at the Wellcome Trust CPM is committed to enhancing education, Economics Research Centre and and formerly Science Editor of The Times. facilitating the connecting of communities Ethox, a multidisciplinary bioethics Chaired by Dr Gabriele de Luca, the and the dissemination of knowledge across research centre, both in Oxford’s panel tackled the questions posed by the disciplines within this exciting and fast- Nuffield Department of Population audience covering some of the challenges paced field. Health. Drawing on my broad of integrating whole genome sequencing experience in this field, the CPM and biomedical research into routine Claire Cockcroft Programme Coordinator offers a great opportunity for me clinical practice as well as the difficulties for the CPM

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to focus on addressing some of the excitement and interest in the field, ideas, establish new networks and challenges in realizing personalised laying a foundation on which to build our foster new opportunities. I am also medicine in practice, adopting a coalition networks with individuals, groups and keen that the University undergraduate approach between academia, clinical communities. We’re keen that our work and postgraduate student community medicine and those involved more programme engages with the needs is engaged with and involved in the broadly in healthcare systems. identified by these communities and conference and I think that the role of therefore we have initially focused on the CPM in facilitating these interactions CC: What are the strategic aims of the information-gathering and consultation. is very important. I am also looking CPM? We’re incorporating the ideas generated forward to strengthening our own by these activities into our strategic plan. relationships with the Chinese University IS: It provides a point of convergence We were delighted to have such an of Hong Kong through our visit in for multidisciplinary interaction and excellent response to our events, which November. Closer to home I am happily knowledge dissemination between have raised our profile, discovered keen anticipating continued engagement with the many and varied constituent volunteers, facilitated interaction with the many communities here in Oxford, communities that work within, or are an extensive array of interested groups particularly the student body, working interested in, personalised medicine. and led to invitations to present at the or interested in personalised medicine, But at the heart of our strategy we aim London School of Economics, The through local events and the Centre’s to increase engagement and dialogue Society for Medicines Research and at education strategy. as well as enhance the educational events within Oxford itself. experience in this exciting field, for undergraduate and postgraduate CC: What are you looking forward to in students across disciplines, faculty, the year ahead? medical professionals and the public. IS: I’m looking forward to welcoming CC: How has the frst year been? delegates from across the world to Oxford for the Personalised Medicine IS: It’s been tremendously exciting! We World Conference, which we are co- are extremely fortunate to have such a hosting in April 2015. It will be incredibly strong and enthusiastic Steering Group inspiring to listen, learn about and and External Advisory Board, which have discuss some of the most cutting-edge been instrumental in these early days. advances in the field. The conference We have introduced ourselves onto the will also provide an opportunity for local landscape through launch events delegates from across academia, and public lectures designed to foster healthcare and industry to meet, discuss

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Food matters: how we can feed the future TIM BENTON

The Gaudy Seminar posed the question increasing and getting richer, demand for technological advances allow yield to ‘Where will tomorrow’s food come from food is growing faster than we can supply continue to increase? and what will be the consequences?’ it. To contextualise this: if current demand Tim Benton provided a provocative and trends continue, over the next 36 years How to manage yield growth at times disturbing set of answers we would require more food than we have sustainably? Agriculture currently grown throughout human history. The gap accounts for one third of the world’s Food security occurs when all people, all between demand and our ability to supply is greenhouse gases and utilises 70 per cent of the time, have access to sufficient, safe, already growing. Climate change is further of all extracted water on about five billion affordable and nutritious food for a healthy exacerbating this and has the potential hectares of land. Competition for land diet. Clearly, with close to one billion people to halt any yield growth over the coming and water will increase over the coming who are chronically hungry in the developing decades. decades, and GHG (Green House Gas) world, we are already far from this. But food emissions, unless we are willing to put security is not just a developing world issue; Furthermore, increasing demand puts ever up with ‘dangerous’ climate change, will as developed world economies grow, and greater pressure on natural resources: have to be curtailed. Furthermore, the land on average we get richer, growing income more food, from less land, using less water provides, and needs to continue providing, inequality means that the number of those makes it harder to reduce the environmental food as well as the host of other important struggling to provide a family food budget damage agriculture causes. services from flood protection to recreation, is also increasing. In the UK, close to one biodiversity management and clean water. million people needed some form of food To defuse the potential for crisis, we need to To maintain the land to provide all these aid, according to the Trussell Trust, in 2013. address the following five questions: services, agriculture needs to get smarter. This requires increasing efficiency (such There is a considerable body of evidence What can we do to grow more as with ‘precision agriculture’), but goes that food price inflation is a potent spark food without expanding the area of beyond this: improving sustainability creates for civil unrest: sufficiently rapid food price agricultural land? Finding new land for a ‘yield penalty’ via farming in a softer way inflation can contribute to the breakdown agriculture would require the conversion (e.g. organically) or via ensuring that some of law and order; at least one analysis of land, like rainforests, which have agricultural land is maintained for other indicates it contributed the vital spark for the enormous ecological value. How can functions (such as for biodiversity, flood Arab Spring. we grow more per unit area of existing protection or water quality). We cannot agricultural land? Given societal pushback just export our environmental impacts by Food security is becoming more of an against new technologies, especially farming less in the UK and importing more issue because the size of the challenge is around intensification of agriculture and from overseas. growing daily. As the world’s population is use of biotechnology, can acceptable

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How can we provide food in a way that How can we eat healthily and The question then becomes: how will a is equitable? Food price rises are inevitable sustainably? In the UK, obesity is change in demand come about? Some so how will we ensure that the poor are increasing; this implies over-consumption people have argued that we are ‘locked- not further disadvantaged, whether in the of calories relative to use at a rate of about in’ to a food systems business model that developing world, or those in food poverty 20 per cent. In the UK, diabetes alone cost sells cheap food at volume and promotes in the developed world? Our experience in the UK £24bn in 2010/112; on top of which waste and over-consumption, and that the UK is that when food prices increase, are other costs associated with increased ‘economics’ means it can’t change. the poor pay more, trade down and buy cancer and heart disease associated less. Given the high calorie but poor nutrient with obesity. Given there are about 20m Alternatively, we could all work together composition of cheaper foods, eating households in the UK, this amounts to for change. Citizens, especially cheaply can create chronic health issues as household costs of greater, perhaps much recognizing the rising burden of obesity well as the acute issues of hunger. Equity greater, than £1,250. With diet-related, and the environmental costs of our also plays out in the economics of the food non-communicable diseases becoming food, may increasingly demand better, supply chain. Intensive production can the global driver of ill-health and mortality, more sustainable diets. Within the same reduce water quality, increase downstream changing diets becomes a win-win strategy household budgets, we could buy less, flood risk, degrade the cultural value of the for health and the environment. waste less and make better purchasing landscape and enhance GHG emissions. All decisions via buying ‘better quality’ food these may negatively affect people who do In the long run, we probably can’t grow that aids our nutrition. This would reduce not benefit from the increased production. enough food to meet demand in a way the amount of waste going to landfill, How can we get this balance right? that does not significantly degrade the reduce the amount of carbon going into the environment (including the climate) atmosphere, improve our health and make How can we reduce waste? Work by making the food shortage problem worse. space for food production to be sustainable. WRAP1 estimates that the UK wastes For me, the change has got to come around 12 million tonnes of food, 75 per from moderating our patterns of food Tim Benton is the Champion of the cent (with a value of more than £19 billion) consumption and wastage: we need to UK’s Global Food Security programme, a of which could have been avoided. This is change demand to tune it to the available partnership of the government departments, equivalent to over 20 per cent of all food global supply. WWF has estimated that if devolved administrations and research purchased or, putting it in land-use terms, everyone on the planet consumed materials councils that have an interest in food the UK throws away food that takes an at the same rate as the average citizen security. He is also a Professor of Ecology at area the size of Wales to grow. Waste, on of the United States, we would need four the University of Leeds, where his research this scale, is unsustainable in a world where worlds to provide the materials3. This stark is focused on understanding how to make food is becoming scarcer. analysis shows that current patterns of agriculture environmentally sustainable. consumption are globally unsustainable, He was an undergraduate at St Anne’s or if they are sustainable, only for a small (Zoology) 1983-86. portion of the global population. 1 http://www.wrap.org.uk/content/household-food-and-drink-waste-uk-2012 2 http://www.nhs.uk/news/2012/04april/Pages/nhs-diabetes-costs-cases-rising.aspx 3 http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/all_publications/living_planet_report/2012_lpr/

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We are all responsible MARY ATKINSON

As a nutrition and food security Who are the hungry? perceived either to be too inefficient to grow specialist working in the international food at all or as part of the solution through aid sector, Mary Atkinson has a About 70 per cent of those living in poverty modernised production for the global particular interest in alleviating and hunger in Low Income Countries (LIC) market. hunger. Her hunger-focused viewpoint are dependent on small-scale agriculture, concentrates on how two billion more including livestock keeping and fishing, for Others believe that this ‘business as people will be fed in 2050 their livelihood. Unfortunately, investment in usual’ model is unsustainable, even with agriculture in LIC has dramatically declined the promotion of greener ‘sustainable How is the world currently fed? since the 1960s as a deliberate policy of intensification’ approaches. They argue donors and the Bretton Woods institutions that such industrialized methods pollute At present we have an oversupply of food, such as the International Monetary Fund. and degrade precious natural resources – so much so that we throw away one third So while agriculture boomed in Europe and such as land, soil, water – vital for future of it! This oversupply also allows us to the US, yields in many LIC stagnated and food production. They are also completely over-consume, with one in three of us (2.1 even declined. With increased reliance on reliant on increasingly scarce and expensive billion) now overweight or obese. We have cheaper imports of surplus food on the fossil fuels required for the production of been extremely successful in feeding a global market, national self-sufficiency in fertilisers, pesticides, use of machinery and rising global population. Whilst the world many LIC was consequently reduced. transportation of food around the world. population doubled from 1960 to 2000, global food production trebled, largely due What are the options for the future? At the other end of the opinion spectrum to the rise of industrialised methods of food are those who argue for greater investment production. There is a lack of consensus on how to feed in smallholder agriculture using more a growing global population. sustainable agro-ecological practices that Despite this plentiful supply of food, conserve the environment, reduce Green however, hunger still persists for 13 per There is a range of viewpoints. On one House Gas emissions and promote greater cent of the population. This is because end of the opinion spectrum are those resilience to climate change. Evidence the primary cause of food insecurity in the who perceive the problem as a lack of shows that yields from such small-scale modern era is not a lack of food but a lack supply that can be solved by a ‘business agro-ecological farms can be as great as of money to buy the food available in local as usual’ model of large scale corporate and even higher than those from large-scale markets. Even in times of famine, food is driven industrialised agriculture to boost farming. Smallholders also represent the sufficiently available. Food insecurity is a food production for global markets. For poorest and most food insecure; investing result of poverty and has been rising in line them, a technical fix of improved agricultural in them helps tackle poverty and hunger with rising inequalities since 1995. practices is the answer. Smallholders are while boosting local food supply, markets

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and the rural economy. for the globe’s limited natural resources to Mary Atkinson is a food security and feed an expanding global population who nutrition specialist. At the time of the Gaudy Which way will it go? increasingly want to eat and waste food as Seminar she was working for the British we in the West do. So a switch to a more Red Cross. She now works for the Food Which way it goes will be determined by sustainable and healthy diet is also part of Research Collaboration network based at a battle for power and control of the food the solution. City University, London. system.

Agribusinesses and governments currently in control have a vested interest in protecting the status quo and believe that deregulated markets can solve the problem of food security.

Smallholders (supported by some civil society groups) have a vested interest in maintaining their livelihoods and boosting their production to take them out of poverty and hunger, but currently lack the power to make the paradigm shift required to achieve the fairer and more sustainable food system required. Although there is consensus that more food needs to be produced in LIC, the ‘how’ and ‘by whom’ and ‘for whom’ questions critical for the eradication of hunger remain contested and are dependent upon how power plays out.

From my own perspective, I think hunger is a social and political problem that cannot be solved by technology and global markets. I believe that ecological, social and health objectives are also critical for a healthier and more sustainable food system. I also think that we need to recognize that all of us are responsible. It is just not possible Bolosso Sore, Ethiopia: small farmers are important

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Gaudy and Alumni Weekend 2014

19-21 September 2014 For how long might books, magazines, misprints. He is currently Editorial Director newspapers, etc., continue to be printed in at Sceptre, having previously worked at This year the St Anne’s Gaudy will take volume? If they were to vanish how much Jonathan Cape, Bodley Head and William place in September on Saturday 20 and might it matter? Heinemann, all part of the Random House Sunday 21, to coincide with the Oxford Group, during which time he published the University Alumni Weekend. This allows The seminar will be chaired by Kathryn group’s first straight-to-digital book, Beyond College to provide bed and breakfast Sutherland, Professor of Bibliography & Bin Laden. accommodation to those attending the Textual Criticism, University of Oxford and Gaudy events. We look forward to seeing Professorial Fellow in English, St Anne’s Tea and Cakes, 3.45pm followed by the as many of you there as possible. Based College. Her interests include the private Annual General Meeting of the ASM on past feedback, we have amended the and social effects as well as the cultural programme slightly for 2014. All events values we attach to the forms of documents Alumni Weekend Drinks and Dinner, listed below will take place at St Anne’s (whether handwritten, printed or digital). She 6.45pm College and the Danson Room will be open is currently researching and writing about all weekend. authors’ literary manuscripts and has just Sunday 21 September been appointed to chair the advisory board Gaudy Service, 10am Saturday 20 September for the AHRC-British Library study into ‘The Gaudy Lunch, 12.30pm Academic Book of the Future’. Tea and Coffee, 10.45am

Gaudy Seminar: Is the printed word The second panellist is Sara Lloyd (1990), Founding Fellows Seminar: ‘Diseases dead? 2.30pm Digital and Communications Director at Pan of Modern Life: Stress, Strain and Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre Macmillan who has experience of scientific, Overload in the 19th and 21st technological and medical publishing. Sara Centuries’ Three authoritative speakers with different is responsible for product innovation and Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre experiences of the printed word will discuss brings knowledge of how book, author and its place today, factors contributing to its brand communications are evolving as the It is frequently claimed that we live in an era decline and possible consequences if it publishing industry moves from printed of unprecedented stress, as we struggle should indeed be dead. books to e-books. with a bombardment of information and long-hours culture. Through a series of short Will the printed word as a medium of fiction, Our third contributor is Drummond Moir talks, researchers will place our current factual and academic publishing, survive the (2002), author of Just My Typo (2012), a concerns in the context of the nineteenth increased speed and affordability of digital collection of history’s most embarrassing century, when the Victorians encountered technology? what they termed the ‘Diseases of Modern

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Life’. We will consider a range of conditions also consider how the Victorians used a OARS Generation Races with intriguing parallels to contemporary form of music therapy to treat frayed nerves, OARS Generation Races will take place times, from drug-taking bankers suffering and to relieve the stresses and strains of a during the Alumni Weekend on Sunday 21 from diseases of speculation, to clerks in cacophonous modern life. September. The event starts at 2pm at the offices who, like today’s computer users, SABC Boathouse, (on the Isis stretch - it’s developed various forms of muscular Talks will be given by Professorial Fellow, the first boathouse on Boathouse Island, disorders. We will also look at the Sally Shuttleworth, and researchers from accessible via Christ Church Meadows.) development of health resorts, and the the ‘Diseases of Modern Life’ project, which There will be a few informal outings and impressive array of medical technologies is based at St Anne’s, Dr Amelia Bonea, Dr races from 2pm-5pm but the exact plan will devised to treat the ever-hopeful clients, Melissa Dickson and Dr Jennifer Wallis. depend on the number of rowers/coxes/ such as the compressed-air bath, which non-rowers. For further information about promised to cure asthma, bronchitis and To book your place at this event, please Generation Races, please contact Felicity even sterility. Excessive noise, sound book online at http://tinyurl.com/ Shelley via the Development Office at pollution and the unhealthy effects of over- gaudy2014 or complete and return the [email protected]. sensory stimulation were then, as now, booking form to the Development Office questions of considerable concern. We will (mailed in mid-June).

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In the thick of it WILL HARVEY

Complex and challenging with a variety law, accountancy, banking, consultancy pretty PowerPoints and vast spreadsheets. of experience unparalleled in most – we all had some idea about what each I looked at some of the consumer goods businesses, the Civil Service offers other’s jobs actually meant and it wasn’t companies, they were large and their a range of activity that keeps Will uncommon to change profession a few management schemes were well regarded Harvey on his toes and takes him from years in for those of us without a vocation and offered plenty of options for internal Shropshire to the White House or a strict master plan. movement. This was important at the time because it felt as though it might increase This said, Government remained unknown the odds of finding something that’d work and off the radar. Pre-economic crisis, the for me. City was very much the centre of gravity and the few Civil Servants I knew didn’t I also spoke with Civil Servants. I still help illuminate things either. I’d no idea what couldn’t get a real sense of what it was their jobs actually meant and none of them they did and that was intriguing in itself. seemed to sound like they did anything More digging led to discovering people in remotely similar to one another. Initially, hugely diverse roles, all of whom seemed to I assumed that this impenetrability was enjoy great freedom of movement between simply due to some unspeakable tedium them. This appealed to me, at least enough and that the few things I had chalked up to go online and chance my arm at the in my mind against the term ‘Civil Servant’ Government’s Civil Service ‘Faststream’. It were probably right: something about wasn’t uncommon for people to go for a With the opaque job title of ‘Civil Servant’ umbrellas, bowler hats, Sir Humphrey, dull graduate scheme, begin a new professional I get asked a fair amount both about what committees and small pay cheques. training scheme or return to University three I actually do and why I decided to go and to four years after graduation. Today, the work for the Government in the first place. It wasn’t until I was looking for a change higher fees may be a big deterrent, but it’s I’ll confess it wasn’t the execution of a that I looked at other options in more worth bearing in mind you don’t need to well-laid plan but it wasn’t the result of detail. Still lacking a concrete sense of stick with something that doesn’t work for some disaster either. I didn’t join straight what I wanted to do other than knowing you. after university and so I’d had the benefit of it needed to be different from my current a few years working in a couple of different day job, which at that point felt as though The application was a slow process and jobs by the time I made the move. Oxford it only involved solving fairly uninteresting when I got the job I still didn’t have much being Oxford, I’d plenty of friends in all problems for clients I didn’t really care more of an idea about what I’d do; the offer the obvious professions you’d expect – about and mainly through the medium of didn’t say which of the 30-odd Government

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departments I’d join but once that was variety of interesting work and challenges department and the stage of your career, worked out things moved fast. I went to that keep me coming back for more. you could be managing anything from one meet someone from the Human Resources small team through to a couple of hundred department, was given a few dozen role I’ve still not come up with a decent staff in several locations. What those teams descriptions to choose from there and then answer for what it is we actually do: there will be doing is anyone’s guess but it is likely – they were fairly impenetrable – and the isn’t a ‘typical day’ but there are some to be complex and challenging, and highly initial offer was to start the following week, commonalities in the work and similarities to unlikely to be glamourous. After all, the Civil which wasn’t going to work given I’d snuck that outside Government. Service does things like administering the over on my lunch break and still needed to benefits system not selling perfume. resign. Like any other organisations, Government Departments have back office functions Project delivery is as diverse as operations As a programme, things were fairly odd; familiar to any other large organisation: and can vary from tiny internal projects people are recruited centrally and then finance, HR, technology, legal and so through to enormous national endeavours assigned to different Departments, some on. These are increasingly becoming such as the Olympics. Many projects will training was central, other departmental. professionalised, but Government is big and be around improvement not new delivery Terms and conditions also varied across we can find ourselves improving areas that and they can resemble some classic Departments. As a cadre of about 250 haven’t had any investment in technology, management consultant roles, a time- people in very varied roles, the basic idea business process or staff capability in bound period for you to go into a business was that through training and rotating a long time. At the moment, there is a unit and try to improve things. I’ve also through different roles people could gain the huge amount of change going on in both had call to bring in people from the world skills they needed. Typical postings were back-end technology and front-end digital of consultancy I used to work in. Being the up to a year but we could get involved in services, more skills are coming back in- customer is definitely more enjoyable! short-term projects. If a role wasn’t working house after a long period of stripping out out there was always someone to go to and those skill sets and outsourcing technology The area that lacks any obvious parallel get reassigned but everyone had a mentor delivery. As a result, there is much more outside Government is the policy area itself, to try to get the balance right between scope to get stuck in directly. closest perhaps to think tanks and lobby short-and long-term. With hindsight, some firms. The policy realm is far smaller in staff of the things I worked on that felt just wall- The actual operational delivery varies by numbers than actual operations but by far to-wall awful at the time, taught me a great department and spans many different the highest profile. Typically, small teams will deal and I’m glad I persisted. Conversely, things, from those on the border to job be advising ministers and special advisers there are some projects I’m glad I got out centres, from jails to organising trade on a policy area. This area could be more of fast. This kind of freedom of movement delegations. The work is nationwide or less interesting, high profile, impactful or is probably why I’ve stuck with the Civil but head offices will likely be London. technical. Where new legislation is being Service so long. Initially, I thought I’d do it Experience of operational delivery is developed, a ‘bill team’ will be responsible for a couple of years, four years tops, but increasingly encouraged at promotion for getting this coordinated from initial eight years later I’m still being thrown the boards and, depending on the size of the consultation, drafting it, running it through

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the lawyers and getting it through the House of Lords and Parliament. This can ‘Two lovely Madams be a tricky process, particularly if you’ve got complex or controversial legislation. The from Oxford’ exception here would be the Treasury, who deliver policy through the Budget presented WENDY MANTLE to Parliament each Spring. Policy making A visit to India reunites friends after 50 Rajani invited me and our friend Caroline follows the parliamentary cycle so the old years and provides more than the usual Dalton to visit her in Mumbai in February, stereotype that it is dead in summer is true: tourist experience our first trip to India. On Rajani’s suggestion, parliament is in recess. our travel agents included in our journey There is a bronze Hindu temple bell I have In my time I’ve had the opportunity to work the Ellora and Ajanta Caves a few hundred kept near me in the many places I have in all of these areas and in more than one miles from Mumbai. The 33 cave temples lived since 1968. It served as a reminder of department; that’s pretty standard. I’m –12 Buddhist, 16 Hindu and four Jain Rajani Desai (Pandit 1958) who had sent currently working in the wordily titled ‘Office – scooped out of a vertical linear basalt it to me. I had last seen Rajani at Victoria of Cyber Security & Information Assurance’, escarpment were constructed between the Station in 1961 when she took the boat which sits under the mercifully briefer but sixth and tenth centuries AD. It was worth train for her return to India. equally non-descriptive ‘Cabinet Office’. I toiling through heat of 30 degrees to see had precious little conception of where my these extraordinary sculptures. The Ajanta Last year, thanks to the Development work would take me – everywhere from monastery caves next day, excavated Office, my letter summarising my personal business parks in Shropshire to the White between the second century BC and the history of the past 40 years was forwarded House. There have, of course, been highs seventh century AD from the sides of a to Rajani and I was delighted to get an and lows, but the former are far out in the gorge, were accessed by flights of steps: email reply. Although she was unable to lead. Overall, I’ve had the opportunity to ‘Two miles up’, cried the renters of chairs to come to the reunion dinner in College work with some fantastic people on some the faint-hearted. The caves are renowned last June, I was able to send her the interesting and impactful topics and even not only for their remarkable sculptures but photographs of several friends. where a project has been more tedious, it’s for murals of exceptional quality depicting been far easier to see the link to its outside historical and mythical scenes. Our first meeting after more than 50 years relevance and impact. It’s true I could be took place at short notice. In August, Before embarking on the Tamil Nadu stage earning a lot more elsewhere but so long when visiting her daughter in Amsterdam, of our journey we returned to Mumbai as I keep having the opportunity to work shortly before her departure Rajani finally where we enjoyed discussions about India on something I care about and am being succeeded in reaching me on her mobile with Rajani and other economists. thrown interesting challenges, I’m more after many failed attempts. I decided to go than compensated and won’t be leaving to Amsterdam for an overnight trip. It was Our travels in Tamil Nadu began in Madurai any time soon. a joyous reunion but inevitably tinged with where Caroline has described our visits sadness for the lost years. to the villages and schools of the Joe Will Harvey (2000)

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Homan Trust. Our guide Malar enhanced our visits to the palace and temple with her charm and humour. When we bade her farewell she wrote our email addresses in her notebook, telling us that she would remember us by the description she penned against our names: ‘Two lovely Madams from Oxford’. We had noticed that everyone who asked us where we came from was familiar with Oxford and Malar’s words flattered us with their implication of enterprise and authority.

Although ours was a tourist journey, our travels through countryside with rivers dried up from two years of inadequate monsoons and deserted by some of their usual birds, gave us a picture, however incomplete, of the consequences of long-term water shortage. Nevertheless, there were three harvests of rice each year.

One of the most interesting parts of the trip was our stay in a Chettinad village. Of the original 92 villages there remain only 76. They occupy an area of South East Garlands galore: Caroline and Wendy received at Sevashram India developed in the nineteenth century Until we reached the Franco-Indian We returned from Chennai conscious that by Chettiar traders, who built impressive hotel where we stayed in Pondicherry we had seen only a few of India’s many palatial homes with wood from South East we encountered few Europeans. The faces. Asia and iron pillars cast in Birmingham. We architecture of Pondicherry reflects its stayed in the famous Chettinadu Mansion: French colonial past. From the esplanade The renewal of our friendship with Rajani its arcaded courtyards, colourfully tiled the streets leading from the sea form a has opened new doors for us, but it will take halls and benevolent owner, descendant of grid pattern, their houses in muted pastel many more journeys to go through sufficient the original builder, provided a welcoming, colours giving a handsome uniformity to the of them to gain real understanding. peaceful atmosphere. town. Wendy Mantle (Gulliford 1957)

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Celebrity afternoons CAROLINE DALTON

A visit to India highlights the work of a are therefore secular, while the children’s We went to Sevashram in the care of Gobi, remarkable educational charity religious beliefs are respected. an ‘old boy’ and an expert in negotiating Madurai’s chaotic traffic. There we met the Being presented with garlands of In the early days, Joe and the boys worked girls, or rather they met us with garlands flowers, toffees, cool drinks, cups of tea, side by side to feed themselves, fitting of flowers and huge shy smiles. We took personalised homemade greetings cards, education into the gaps in a tough life a tour of the premises among a crowd of more garlands of different flowers; being on the land. Now that support from the small- and middle-sized people, at least anointed with sandalwood and turmeric wealthy part of the world has become three holding each of our hands, while they bindi and treated to a display of Indian well established, while the infrastructure of drew our attention to anything they were dancing, then being given tours of the Tamil Nadu state has also improved, all the particularly proud of with cries of ‘Sister, premises of three children’s villages and children and young people attend school Sister!’ We went to the dormitory, where one primary school, all in the space of full time, for the most part the local one. At the girls sleep on mats under blankets, two days, Wendy and I could easily have 84, Joe still runs weekend ecology courses and above it the room where each of them thought we had fallen into a parallel reality, for secondary schools. Meanwhile, his keeps personal possessions in a private where we were at last celebrities. All this former protégés, some of whom are now Billy Bunter-style tuck box and a big plastic took place in parts of the Joe Homan also pensioners, have organised themselves bag of clean clothes. We went to the library Charity’s organisation in and near Madurai, into another philanthropic body to spread and the computers, passing a garlanded Tamil Nadu. Never heard of it? The founder his ideals further. It was always part of the statue of Ganesh. We also saw the began it in 1965 with £300 and five boys, long-term plan that Indians would gradually traditional kitchen, where two adults were who, until Joe’s arrival, had been living take over the running of the Indian end of preparing supper in a huge pot over a wood rough in Madurai Railway Station. It now the operation and this is now the norm. fire. The gracious superintendent and some comprises 11 residential communities each Sevashram, a walled, gated girls’ village of her staff entertained us and answered with 70 inmates and staff, five for boys in Madurai, with adjacent government questions. In return, they asked us to tell and three for girls, with three children’s primary and secondary schools, where we the children, who by now were neatly lined villages and a primary school. Joe, who first experienced the celebrity lifestyle, is up cross-legged on the ground, why we grew up on a farm near Peterborough, now managed by the women of the area. had come to see them. I could not say came from a background as a teacher and Another welcome aspect of the endeavour that I was fed up with constant drivel from Roman Catholic Christian Brother. He first is that salaries of employees are punctually the British media and others about asylum came to India under the auspices of his paid in full. This must mean a lot in a society seekers being feckless scroungers so had order but decided that it was not ethical where the ears of influential people often felt the need to refresh the parts of my core to require children to become members of seem to be in their wallets, rather than on beliefs that want to respect the potential his or indeed any church in exchange for their heads. worth and value of any small human being. a route out of poverty. All the communities In the end I stammered out something

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feeble, that Gobi kindly translated as I while for the seriously ill, there is a hospital from everyone whether adult or junior, spoke. By coincidence, it was an exciting in Madurai). The children maintain contact combined with the evident health and day at Sevashram, because while we were with their origins, going home up to five happiness of the inhabitants. We were there, a team struck water from a borehole. times each year for school holidays or especially touched when two boys, who This was especially welcome to the village; festivals. In the primary school, every class in western material terms have nothing, the monsoons of 2012 and 2013 had failed performed a special number for us, ranging presented each of us with a peacock’s in Tamil Nadu state. Now the storage tank from the infants, who could manage the feather. Before our visits, we had wondered will always fill up. alphabet in English, to the top class, who how we could take a small present to each gave a spirited rendering of ‘If you’re happy individual. We need not have worried. Our next visit was to the historic heartland and you know it, clap your hands!’ The answer came in four Tamil syllables, of the Joe Homan Charity near the town ‘chocolatu’. I think this is the first and of Tirumangalam, about 25 miles from Rengasamy Children’s Village is called after probably the last time I have bought more the city. We spent time in the rest house, a friend of Joe’s, who gave the land. The than 200 bars at once. formerly Joe’s home, the offices in a nearby girls and boys here live in groups of ten, building, the Francois Meyer Primary each with a housemother, and are just as It is commonplace for leaflets to fall from School, the Rengasamy Children’s Village welcoming as the girls of Sevashram. The newspapers encouraging us to make a and the original Boys’ Town. While we party piece here was a display of Tamil difference to some disadvantaged child were entertained over a welcome cup of dancing, performed willingly, gracefully and overseas by sponsorship. I wanted to see tea by Siva Kumar, we discussed how the without any of the self-consciousness that boys and girls are regarded outside the might have marred such an event back villages (well, because they are disciplined home. and want to learn); when and how the children are selected (in April, just before The Boys’ Town is for youngsters of the new academic year starts, with absolute secondary school age, so the boys we preference to those who have no parents, met were not quite as demonstrative as then from those who have a single parent the younger ones. Even here though, an and finally from those who have two parents 11-year-old wanted to hold my hand, in abject poverty); whether there is a role while some of the older boys asked me to for European volunteers (yes); how the photograph them. Life here has aspects of children are supported in the transition a boarding school about it. The boys elect to independent adult life (the charity will their own ministers, who have autonomy in support a former resident in up to two decision-making, with support from adults. courses of training); the primary school Every boy is also encouraged to choose syllabus (Tamil, English, mathematics, a hobby, be it stamp collecting, sport, science and social science); health (there cultivating a garden or learning about the is a sick room for minor ailments, children environment. Everywhere, however, the Rengasamy Children’s Village go home if they have an infectious disease common feature was the warm welcome

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how it worked out in practice, having always had doubts about supporting one child A celebration of women who lives in a family, while equally deserving HELEN THOMAS siblings might not get a sponsor. Some charities also query the value of this type of Leading feminist Devaki Jain (PPE, know if I was not aware of it or if it wasn’t involvement, preferring donors to provide 1959), talks about the rise of Indian there.’ It was Indian Women that helped benefits that a whole community can share. feminism, economics and her friendship her realise there was a problem. ‘I came Wendy and I both agreed, however, that with Alice Walker to understand there was an issue about these youngsters compare favourably with women’s subordination very late. When the their European contemporaries in morale, In the front room of an on-site apartment publisher first approached me asking if I progress at school and behaviour towards in St Anne’s College, one of the world’s would like to write or edit a volume on the adults and each other. Everyone is on most famous feminist economists is offering status of women in India, I said I didn’t have the same footing, while their communal me biscuits and tea. Now an 81-year- a clue about the subject, but I said I would upbringing breaks the cycle of poverty and old Oxford alumna, in 1975, Devaki Jain compile some essays. is clearly better than their becoming street published Indian Women, a book that children. My final decision was not to let would permanently change the way women ‘When I tried to put together the book, I the ideal be an enemy of the excellent but in the developing world are treated and didn’t know feminists or people from the to sign up as a sponsor for less per annum considered, from historical, social and women’s movement, but I chose academics than the price of my new glasses. economic perspectives. because, as a lecturer in Economics at Delhi University, I was in an academic Caroline Dalton (Fletcher 1958) It would be taken to Mexico for the UN’s space. I met sociologists, educationalists, Should you wish to learn more about the first World Conference on Women in 1975 historians, and we wrote a fantastic book charity or donate to its work, details are as to represent the status of women in India. together. I got involved in learning more follows: Indian Women was the first of a plethora of about women and I focused on the lives of academic books and work with the UNDP women in poverty zones. That was like a The Joe Homan Charity, PO Box 54, during Jain’s career as a feminist economist; burst of knowledge. I found that women, Peterborough, PE4 6JP, UK a career that would lead to her receiving the even amongst the poorest of the poor, Padma Bhusan, India’s third highest civilian landless, houseless, were struggling to bring Website: www.joehoman.org.uk award, in 2006, for her contributions to a livelihood to their family, much more than Tel: 01733 574886 female empowerment. their menfolk. Email: [email protected] Charity Reg No 1006060 Forty years later, she’s returned to St ‘I went to the US on two occasions, and Anne’s as a Plumer Visiting Fellow. A lot has Company Reg No 2661333 met Gloria Steinem both times. She came changed since 1959 when she came here to India as a scholar in 1958 when I was Facebook: to read PPE. ‘When I was in Oxford there teaching, and so we had a lot of fun. We www.facebook.com/JoeHomanCharity was never anything about feminism. I don’t were both unmarried, young girls, and

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neither of us identified as feminists. When I returned, she had established Ms Magazine and I had written Indian Women. She explained so many things to me about how women collectively empower themselves by affirming some kind of an ideology of themselves. When I came back and told people in India that I was a feminist, they all said “Feminism is a bra burning, crazy American thing, and we don’t like it. It’s very un-Indian”.’

Jain applied her knowledge of statistics to her knowledge of women’s issues, and noticed that, ‘in statistics, you define a worker as main, subsidiary, supplementary, St Anne’s 2014: Devaki Jain with Helen Thomas etc. Women are usually categorised as somehow related to women. I haven’t yet The modern feminist movement in India supplementary. But I was able to argue figured it out. It’s kind of a philosophy of is moving at a fast pace. In the face of nationally that amongst the poor, women freedom and affirmation of self, of rights: the discrimination and patriarchy, their voice has are the main breadwinners as they are freedom to be what you want to be. But it been loud and defiant, especially in light of willing to do anything: sweeping, cleaning, has to have a political edge.’ 2012’s Delhi gang rape case. selling scraps, anything to put food on the table. Then I realised that I had to visualise ‘Not party politics, but a presence in ‘Unfortunately, or fortunately as the case what women are as economic agents. I had political space. There are so many different may be, when we were doing the protest to just concentrate on the economic aspect dimensions which I haven’t sorted out. I marches and so on in Delhi, women in the of the women’s life. Now, for the past 40 often say that women’s experience of life, interior of India wrote to us saying that we years, that has been my song. Each time and their capability to do a million things, were making a big thing of this because you can bring out something more.’ needs to be celebrated and shown off so there is media in Delhi, but that they that we are not always shown to be people experienced these things everyday; women It says a lot about feminism that even Jain who only do housework and childcare. But being brutalised by drunken men, girls finds it difficult to define it. ‘If I say it’s an the young Indian women know who they being raped and thrown into the well.’ identity of woman, then I am excluding the are. They say “we are feminists”, and they transgendered people. But maybe I should celebrate their identity, and they’re inclusive ‘They’re common, these kinds of attacks. say that it’s affirming who I am, but with a of men, but they are a solid form now.’ But we began to feel that it was good it got special affirmation of an identity which is sensationalised, because as a result of that,

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so much else happened which has been just creating awareness. So they are not excluding of men. There is a universality very healing for us: the law, the police, a alienated from the masses, but the masses and a particularity about feminism. The huge change in attitudes. That I think is the do have less space in this communication. political spaces and economic and social first step, but it doesn’t deal with caste- The anti-feminist, conservative male world, spaces are different, so I think sometimes it related brutal rape, or rape in traditional which includes the conservative female will be difficult to do a universalisation. But families where the hierarchy of male-female world, will call us all elites. They try to kill us. I have been writing a great deal about how is extraordinary.’ It’s a very good way of turning the tables something called indigenous feminism is against you.’ different from universal feminism. I challenge I ask what Jain admires about the new all that now that I have grown. You don’t young feminists in India, and why their It’s not a criticism that’s foreign to Anglo- need to have feminists of different types.’ recent campaigns against sexual violence American feminism. The question of have been so powerful. ‘They have a exclusion and intersectionality, particularly Jain ends by telling me that feminism is great ability to work together, across the in relation to questions of race, are being now more vital than ever before. ‘The fact country of India, despite differences in discussed with increasing velocity. I ask that there is a whole generation of people class, caste, religion, language, location and Jain for her view on whether different like you, who have identified yourselves preoccupation. They enable each other. If backgrounds, national and ethnic, make a with feminism, which has meant self- one is writing but can’t speak English, the difference to feminist concerns. ‘I stayed strengthening and participation, is a fire other can do it quickly for her. They are also with Alice Walker last year. She is someone that I would like to grow bigger. Feminism independent. There may be Marxists among who admires me and I her. In an interview has a moral edge. It fights for justice for all, them but they do not support the Marxist with Rudolph Byrd, Walker once said, “I for men and for women. I find that we are party. But they do support every kind of have no problem being called ‘feminist’ or full of fire. So now, not only because there rebellion. So there is a radical edge. There is ‘womanist’. In coining the term, I was simply is an economic crisis, but because there a lot of energy.’ trying myself to see more clearly what sets are a lot of disturbance and divisions in our women of color apart in the rainbow that is countries, feminism can be like a torch that Contemporary Indian feminists face a great a world movement of women who’ve had recalls what human beings really want: a deal of questioning as to whether their enough of being second- and third-class just world, and an inclusive world. We fight movement is exclusionary of the illiterate citizens of the earth. I don’t ‘hate’ the word for that.’ masses, and reserved for the privileged, feminism. I have carefully written about my educated middle classes and students. own use of both feminism and womanism, Helen Thomas (2013) ‘This new feminism is all social media. and what is the distinction between the two Social media which require Indian languages for me. Womanist is to feminist as purple This article was originally published or English would be unavailable to the to lavender”.’ Jain picks up on this point, in Cherwell on Monday 26 May 2014 masses in poverty. But the majority of these saying that, ‘“Womanism” is very popular in (http://www.cherwell.org/comment/ feminists are activists. They are working Africa. They want men to be included, not interviews/2014/05/26/interview-devaki- with the deprived sections of women. They in the sense that they can also be feminists, jain). The Alice Walker quotation has been are organising their rights, water, credit, or but in that feminism is too militant and amended.

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Landlubber at Sea: the Battle of Jutland 1916 ANN REVILL

It was the biggest and most critical reduce the British Grand Fleet’s numerical sea battle of World War I. One of our superiority. At first the plan worked, and members recalls the grim experience inadequate armour led to the total loss and vivid memories of her father of three British battle-cruisers. However, code-breaking meant that the Admiralty had My father, Victor Radford, was born in 1896 advance warning, and the battleships sailed in Derby. When he left Gerrard Street School from Scapa Flow in the Orkneys in time to at the age of 14, he went as an office boy engage the German Fleet, though too late to the Midland Railway, one of the major in the day to inflict a decisive defeat before employers in Derby at that time. Showing an nightfall, when the Germans were able to aptitude for figures, he was soon attached escape back to port. to the accountants’ department. When war broke out he volunteered and joined the The men realised that something big was Royal Naval Reserve in December 1915, afoot when the battle-cruiser fleet left although his only experience of the sea was Rosyth with its attendant destroyers and in rowing boats at the seaside! I suspect he light cruisers. Vic’s squadron consisted was looking forward to a life more exciting of the flagship HMS Southampton and and different from his desk job, as well as Victor Radford: 1896 – 1978 three other ships, under the command of seeking to serve his country. Commodore Goodenough, whom my father nothing of naval discipline or what was described as ‘a dapper little man wearing a Victor, known to his family as Vic, got his required of the men on board. Four days monocle’. The task of the light cruisers was initial training for maritime experience in the later, he found himself in the midst of one to screen the battleships from destroyer exotic surroundings of the Crystal Palace of the biggest naval battles the world has attack and do scouting work. on Sydenham Hill, but he described this as seen. mainly square-bashing. Transferred to the The Royal Navy’s Grand Fleet encountered Signal section of the Royal Naval Volunteer The Battle of Jutland was fought in the the Imperial German Navy’s High Seas Fleet Reserves, he received five months’ training North Sea, about 100 miles off the coast on 31 May: the battle commenced that in reading and sending visual signals in of Denmark, on 31 May and 1 June 1916. afternoon and went on through the night. In Morse code and semaphore. Later trainees The German plan was to lure the British the afternoon Vic was ordered to relieve the received 12 months’ training, but the navy battle-cruiser force, based at Rosyth on the sailor in the crow’s nest and communicate was short of signalmen and Vic boarded Firth of Forth, into an encounter with the with the bridge down a speaking tube if the light cruiser HMS Birmingham, knowing whole German fleet: victory would greatly he saw any ships. The crow’s nest was an

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empty rum barrel fixed at the junction of the battle, although Vic saw a salvo drop a 100 British fleet. Germany determined to avoid top yardarm and the foremast. To access yards away and one shell ricochet and pass another pitched battle and concentrated on this, Vic had to climb a rope ladder for between the third and fourth funnels before submarine warfare from this point on. the first time in his life and balance on the hitting the sea. yardarm until the occupant of the barrel had The rest of Vic’s war was less traumatic. got out on the other side. Unfortunately, the The night battle was even more terrifying He served on minesweepers and was previous occupant had been seasick, Vic’s to the novice signalman, who was on duty discharged in February 1919. His worst foot slipped on the vomit and he nearly fell logging signals on the first watch from memory of those years was of the horribly the 80 feet to the deck below. Managing to midnight to four in the morning. He saw filthy task of ‘coaling’, when the seamen grasp a stay, he was able to right himself destroyers glowing red hot from stem to had to manhandle coal for the boilers and enter the barrel, where he was handed stern after being pounded by the German aboard. the first pair of binoculars he had ever cruisers. The fate of the seamen horrified encountered. him. He remembered one ship sailing round Returning to Derby, he eventually joined the and round when its steering gear had been London, Midland and Scottish Railway and Having had no training in recognition of disabled. The noise and smoke of battle left was appointed as Assistant to their Chief different classes of shipping, when the Vic feeling lost and confused. Fear gripped Accountant in 1934. Moving to Watford in bridge ordered him to report on what he him when some German ships broke World War II, where he served in the Home could see on the starboard side, all Vic through the British lines and he saw the vast Guard, he eventually ended his career as could do was to indicate two ships, which, bulk of a German battle-cruiser looming Chief Financial Officer of British Rail, never as far as he was concerned, might have ahead, as the Birmingham swiftly spun having taken an accountancy qualification. been cruisers, destroyers, or what they away to starboard. Fortunately no shots However, he was very much aware of the were finally identified as – fishing trawlers. were fired. value of education and was determined that The bridge soon realised that Vic would be his daughters should be supported in theirs. better set to logging signals and he was The terrors he experienced during the battle He enabled the elder, Brenda, to study called down. were brought home to him a few days later, medicine at LMH and St. Bartholomew’s when the log-books were called for to be Hospital and the younger, Ann, to read Of the battle itself, some memories written up as a permanent record. Asked Modern History at St Anne’s. never faded. During the afternoon, while if he had been responsible for this illegible the Birmingham was three miles ahead script, he could not recognise his own Ann Revill (Radford 1955) screening the battle cruisers, Vic saw the handwriting, as his hand had been shaking Queen Mary disintegrate, having received so much during the night. a direct hit. He remembered seeing the forward gun turret spinning high into the Both sides claimed to have won the battle: air after the explosion. The Birmingham the British lost more ships and crew than herself was not damaged by the heavy the Germans, but the enemy had failed in shelling either in the afternoon or night its attempt to destroy a major part of the

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Come and join the fun! Get contacts for tour of all there was to offer including the wine tasting at Vinoteca in Farringdon and your nearest branch from Kate Davy grotto and the pleasure gardens. We were regular drop-in drinks events, including ([email protected]) welcomed again in July to the garden of participating in College-hosted events. the Old Vicarage, Grantchester, home of Twenty-one Bristol members and guests Mary Archer. This was our tenth Garden At the AGM we heard that the Jim Stanfield joined our summer outing to Badminton Party, and we were delighted to have with Memorial Fund had reached its target of House in July, 2013. We were introduced to us Rosie Lavan, a recipient of the Sarah £50,000. Our speaker was Janina Ramirez, the ancestry of the Dukes of Beaufort, and McCabe bursary, and donor Colin Low. a St Anne’s alumna who has featured on then taken on a tour of the ground floor of BBC TV history productions. In 2014, the the present Duke’s home. In the Great Hall, The branch visited Kettle’s Yard house and Spring outing was to the Charles Dickens the game of badminton was introduced gallery in Cambridge in March, 2014. Our Museum. In June we joined a Cookery to Britain: The eighteenth century church most recent visit was to Royston in May Class at L’Atelier des Chefs. We hope to seemed mainly designed to display the florid 2014. We had a private tour of Royston have a picnic during the summer. monuments of past Dukes. Lord Raglan, Cave and walked the ‘town trail’. Many of Charge of the Light Brigade notoriety, is thanks to Sheila Porrer for organising a The Midlands traditional circular summer buried in the family vault. The many garden series of excellent visits. walk in July 2013 was on an extremely hot ‘rooms’ were a delight. We completed day, in contrast to last year’s flooded fields. the afternoon with tea and left with many We started at Middle Tysoe on a route ably expressing their thanks for one of the most planned by two of our members. Lunch was interesting and enjoyable outings we have at The Bell at Shenington. People can walk experienced. and eat or just meet to eat, if walking is a bit too much. In February 2013, a group from the Cambridge branch visited the Whipple The focus of our February visit to Hanbury Museum of the History of Science. The Hall was the eighteenth-century scandal rooms are crammed with exhibits and Rosie Lavan centre; Colin Low (Lord Low of described in the book A Noble Affair: The Dalston) second from right. displays of all kinds. The principal room Remarkable True Story of the Runaway dates from the seventeenth century. The London Branch tried out new events Wife, the Bigamous Earl and the Farmer’s to complement our traditional spring outing, Daughter by alumna Rebecca Probert In April, 2013, Sarah Beeson organised AGM dinner, and Freshers events hosted by (1991) and colleagues. The marriage of a visit to Burghley House. The visiting Accenture. Events in 2013 included: a tour Henry Cecil of Burghley House to Emma, group met for lunch before enjoying a and recital at the Handel House Museum, the heiress of Hanbury Hall, ended in

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disaster when Emma eloped with Henry's Micklem, were joined by four freshers. We early October, we welcomed this year’s friend. Henry married a farmer's daughter, enjoyed one another’s company and shared Freshers at The Slug and Lettuce in without having divorced his first wife. perspectives from different generations. Manchester. Shyness quickly dispersed Rebecca very ably disentangled fact and We were sorry to learn of the death of one over food and drink. All five are settled in fiction, illustrating how limited the options of our members, Gillian Mann (1964), in and eager to take part in next year’s event. once were for those who experienced October 2013. marital breakdown. Later in October, 10 members and friends North West members joined parents, walked along the coast from Morecambe friends, and guests at a St Anne’s in the City to Heysham. Fortified by a pub lunch, we event in Manchester in April 2013. About yomped back to Morecambe in howling 50 people gathered for drinks followed by a wind. We seized the opportunity to pose talk by Senior Tutor Dr Anne Mullen. Some with a statue of the town’s best-known of the alumnae present had no previous citizen, Eric Morecambe. Others joined us contact with the branch, so we were keen for afternoon tea at the excellently restored to seize the opportunity to tell them about Midland Hotel where we feasted amid its art us. deco splendours.

The heat of summer put paid to our plans We ended the year with pizza and Midlands group in the ladies’ drawing room of to walk in the Peak District but we managed Manchester’s Christmas markets and spring Hanbury Hall, listening to the scandals of Emma and Henry. tea at a member’s house nonetheless. In found us eating (again!) and plotting 2014’s

The North East Branch Annual Lunch and North West branch in Morecambe with Eric of that town AGM for 2013 was held at the Bar Convent in March. Five of our members were unable to get to York because of the snow. Our speaker was Liz Cashdan (1947) who gave an illustrated talk about her recently published book of poems. Iceland Stories paints an evocative picture of life on that far-away island (see pp.77-78).

In September, nine people gathered in the Aspinal Room of the Bar Convent for a buffet lunch, drinks and chatter. Five senior members, including mother and daughter Ruth (1947) and Judith (1978)

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events, including the Buxton Festival and a In October 2013, 11 branch members and spanned nearly 40 years of the College’s tour of Manchester’s beautifully refurbished friends enjoyed a tour of Trinity College. The development, and all agreed that St Anne’s and extended Central Library. highlight was undoubtedly our visit to the had a profound effect on their lives. Kate Old Library, where Sharon Cure the Librarian Davy of the Development Office, spoke Talks, gardens and libraries were three had displayed a fascinating selection. In about the proposed new Library and themes for Oxford in 2013-4. In April 2013, October 2014, we shall have tours of the Academic Centre. £750 was raised for the 50 people heard Ann Bonsor talk about her Codrington and Queen’s College libraries. Library Fund. time with the Special Operations Executive David Smith, the St Anne’s Librarian, has (see Obituaries, pp.90-91). Our 2013 AGM agreed to talk to us in November after our was followed by a talk by Andrew Davies, 2014 AGM. ‘Emergency Response: stories from the front line of humanitarian operations’, and In October, 2013, South of England then a seasonal drinks party. In May 2014, members and guests attended a we had a guided tour of the Mathematical talk in Chichester by Carly Raby, a Institute and Dr Sarah Waters spoke to us psychotherapist, psychologist and children’s on ‘Mathematics in Medicine and Biology’. rights specialist, on ‘What everyone should know about stress, emotional trauma and the brain’. Carly Raby founded Luna Children’s Charity to train professionals to treat children suffering from post-traumatic South of England Library Lunch: Joan Aubrey- stress disorder in war-torn countries. A Jones raises a glass collection raised £150 for this valuable work. Compiled and edited by Linda Deer Richardson (1966) with reports from Ann Our Book Group met twice in the year, Revill (Radford 1955) Bristol and West reading works by Doris Lessing and Alice (her swan song!), Sara Cooper (Turner Munro. In March, 2014, several members of 1969) and Sheila Porrer (Dunkerley 1963) Trinity College Library the Music Group attended a chamber music Cambridge, Clare Dryhurst (1979) and concert in Chichester. Lynn Biggs (Perrin 1972) London, Jane In June 2013, a party visited the Frampton Darnton (Baker 1962) Midlands, Gillian Estate in Gloucestershire to see the garden Our Spring Event was a ‘Library Lunch’, Pickford (Atkin 1979) North East, Maureen of the mediaeval Frampton Manor and have held at Beech Village Hall, near Alton Hazell (Littlewood 1971) North West, a guided tour of Frampton Court and its in March 2014. Seventeen attended, Stephanie North (Chadwick 1956) Oxford, grounds. A year later, the Head Gardener at including Judith Vidal-Hall, who interviewed Maureen Gruffydd Jones (Woodhall 1959) Worcester College showed us the wonderful three members about their memories South of England. gardens there. of St Anne’s. The three interviewed

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Talking among the family

A conversation with South of England long friends, one of whom introduced me to Maureen Gruffydd Jones had focused ASM Branch focused round the themes my husband. I had a most interesting and the meeting around a discussion of ‘how ‘Why St Anne’s?’ and ‘How did it satisfying career, which took me all over the St Anne’s changed my life’. It was a change your life?’ Participants ranged world. I recently discovered that I must have lively discussion centring round three key from some of our most senior members been one of “The Principal’s Funnies”, and moments in the life of the College: 1938 and to the generation that saw in the realize that this had a profound effect on the opening of Hartland House; the opening arrival of the men. Experiences vary; my life and career. Marjorie Reeves, in her of the Dining Hall in 1959; and the arrival of sentiments are interestingly uniform History of St Anne’s, talks of Lady Ogilvie the men in 1979. All three, it was agreed, keeping back some undergraduate places had a profound influence on the corporate ‘I thought this conversation was going to be each year for students she found interesting life of College. Given the constraints of time, about St Anne’s,’ said Cynthia King (Moore and unusual, those she termed “The Maureen had selected three members to 1941), when we met to talk some time after Principal’s Funnies”.’ share their thoughts on what these events our Library Lunch with South of England had meant to them. Branch, ‘but it’s all about me.’ ‘But didn’t Jo Constantine (Leith 1977) agrees about St Anne’s make a difference to you? Didn’t the life-long friendships and talks of the ‘The Library in Hartland House was opened it change your life?’ ‘Of course,’ she said. ‘family of St Anne’s’. ‘I was proud to be in in my first year,’ says Joan, who remembers ‘St Anne’s made me what I am. It opened Oxford and did whatever I could to stay it as a ‘wonderful library’ with ‘a most lots of doors and I was keen to go rushing up during the vacations. I eventually did helpful librarian who always knew where into as many of them as I could. It changed my teacher training there and my first job you could get hold of a book, even if it everything and I loved it.’ teaching, at Alleyn’s School in London, wasn’t in the library.’ When Joan went up, was entirely due to the fact that I had been the Principal was Grace Hadow. She died Joan Aubrey-Jones (Godfrey-Isaacs 1938) at Oxford, at St Anne’s. The world was in Joan’s first year and was succeeded by echoed her thought: ‘St Anne’s transformed brought to us. We could dip our toes in Eleanor Plumer. In the early days of the my life. How did a conventional middle- and try all sorts of things. Though we didn’t library, Joan recalls Miss Hadow’s words, class girl end up as the wife of a Cabinet realize it at the time, the seeds were planted also from Marjorie Reeves’ History: ‘I am Minister and an internationally recognized that came to fruition in later life.’ really rather horrified to find that the new expert in office design? The answer is by Library is attracting people so much that reading Geography at St Anne’s.’ We are meeting for lunch with 15 members even on fine sunny afternoons it is full of of South of England Branch in Hampshire. young women industriously reading. The Maureen Gruffydd Jones (Woodhall 1959) The main purpose of the event was to Librarian tells me that never has our Library agrees. ‘Yes, it transformed my life. As a raise money towards the new College been so constantly in use.’ Both Cynthia result of my time at St Anne’s I made life- library building, but South of England Chair and Joan agreed that despite Miss Hadow’s

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misgivings, Hartland House for the first time well as for the body’. By then, she recalls, gave a sense of community to the College, there was, ‘a menu board with individually bringing together people who, scattered priced choices, which we paid for with across North Oxford, had little sense of brightly coloured paper “money” with community. denominations ranging from £1 to 1p.’ All very different from 1959, when the food was Much the same happened with the still more of the nursery style with jelly for completion of the Dining Hall in 1959 pudding ‘to aid the young ladies’ digestion’ Maureen remembers: ‘The new Dining Hall as one student of the time recalls. had just been built, enabling all members of the College to eat together for the first time. On to the arrival of the men, another Left to Right: Cynthia King, Mary Withrington St Anne’s had received the Royal Charter of profoundly transformative moment, Jo (1953) and Jo Constantine Incorporation in 1952, but in 1959 it finally recalls: ‘What did I feel? It was a novelty. factor: ‘I didn’t choose St Anne’s, St Anne’s became a College and in 1960 the Queen We were a mixed College, but fortunately chose me!’ says Maureen. ‘In October 1958 came to open the Dining Hall officially. So we were still in the majority! However, many I applied to several Oxbridge colleges to it was a momentous time for the college, would agree that life, love and learning on read English and was rejected by them all. but we were not always aware of that at the human front were much better than any In January 1959 I applied to St Anne’s.’ It the time. We were too busy enjoying life subject learning.’ was, as she implies and Jo puts so well, in our Bevington Road and Woodstock ‘the last chance saloon’ for so many of us. The importance of lifelong friendships Road houses, making lasting friendships It was also the place, then as now, that took formed as students was a common theme and struggling to meet essay deadlines, to more state-educated girls than any other with all our interviewees. Unlike the answers realize that we were witnessing a key period college and as Maureen points out above, to the question, ‘Why did you choose St in College history.’ it took chances. Maureen failed on the Anne’s?’ These ranged widely from chance English front but was offered a place to read Jo, who was up when the men erupted to dictat. Joan’s answer: ‘I was summoned PPE. ‘Lady O must have thought I was into College for the first time, has written to the headmistress’s study and told I “interesting” and worth taking a chance on. elsewhere about the continuing importance should apply to Oxford, and should apply to This taught me how to think and write, and of the Dining Hall. ‘Of all the University the Society of Oxford Home-Students. You led to a far more rewarding and satisfying buildings, whether ancient or modern, noisy didn’t argue with the High Mistress of St career for me than English would have or hushed, vast or intimate, the place where Paul’s!’ In Cynthia’s case it was her father’s done.’ I spent most time as an undergraduate was decision: ‘My father, who was a lawyer, was probably the [Dining] Hall of College. I went determined that his daughters – there were ‘You don’t appear to know much history, there every day, usually three times a day, four of us – should go to Oxford. Three of your Greek was all but non-existent and so it became a very comforting ritual to us did. I was the one at St Anne’s.’ your Latin little better, but you had read approach, queue, chat, eat.’ Time spent in such a lot of books. Some of which I hadn’t For others chance was the determining Hall offered ‘food for the mind and soul as read. You seemed worth the risk,’ Iris

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Murdoch told one candidate long after the ‘which she kept to help the war effort. My teachers. While Cynthia continued and interview. friend and I cleaned them out and fed them rose in the profession, Jo decided to dandelion leaves. We also chopped wood, become a full time mum, though this Some of the most fascinating stories of which was used to save electricity. I loved did not prevent her from working in a life during their time at St Anne’s came it.’ In addition, she would regularly cycle up voluntary capacity, particularly with Church from Cynthia and Joan, who were wartime Headington Hill early in the morning to give groups. Joan founded her own business, students. Joan loved her time at Oxford; breakfast to children whose mothers were a pioneering venture to implement the new she played the violin in the University working in munitions factories. ‘They were Bürolandschaft, or ‘Office Landscape’, the Orchestra, and got to know Edward Heath, so accepting; no tears or fuss.’ She also introduction of the open-plan office into the who played the piano in concerts with the earned ‘five bob (shillings to us older ones, British context. orchestra. Like so many, she made lifelong the equivalent of 25p in decimal currency) friendships with fellow students from St a week sleeping as a fire warden in the Maureen became a research assistant in Anne’s. But when war broke out she felt she Bodley. ‘That was a lot of money then: it the newly formed Research Unit exploring should leave Oxford and sign up for one cost five bob to join any of the University the economics of education at the London of the women’s services. It was her father clubs.’ ‘I only did two jobs a week,’ she Institute of Education. ‘Fifty years later I am who persuaded her to stay at Oxford: ‘You’ll clarifies, ‘but I liked the variety.’ still grateful that it was the offer of a place be far more use to the country if you learn to read PPE at St Anne’s that enabled me something,’ she recalls him saying. ‘He was And work? ‘We did our essays at night. to move into this fascinating field of work.’ absolutely right. But it was not,’ she says What’s different?’ She ends with a She went on to spend 40 years in university reflectively, ‘easy to have a pleasant life in fascinating detail: ‘Do you know why no teaching and research on the finance of those days. Memory has sunk back, but I bombs were ever dropped in Oxford? We education, including work with UNESCO think it seems more pleasant now than it didn’t know it at the time, but it seems it and many international agencies. ‘I was actually was at the time.’ was because Hitler wanted Oxford as his extraordinarily fortunate to have these headquarters after he’d conquered Britain!’ opportunities to conduct research and But it is Cynthia who has the most vivid And a bit of a show stopper: ‘Men in my publish in a rapidly growing field of study so recall of those days – and what appears time did two terms and were then drafted early in my career. I owe it all to St Anne’s. It from her stories the most impossibly active into the forces or the Land Army if they were transformed my life.’ line of duties. She talks first about her ‘war conscientious objectors. Yes there was a work’. ‘This ranged from making cases shortage of men, but polio could be a great Compiled from interviews organized by for the shells fired from Spitfires in the salvation: dons could keep their jobs and Maureen Gruffydd Jones (Woodhall 1959) workshop Miss Plumer set up in Hartland students stay out of the forces!’ House to doing the humblest jobs in the Radcliffe Hospital, where I had the right to All the women we spoke to had full lives wear the Red Cross uniform because I’d following St Anne’s. All four married and done the training.’ She also helped Miss had children, which they combined with Deneke, her moral tutor, with her rabbits, careers. Two, Cynthia and Jo, became

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A mystery solved

Ever since we used it as the cover of our centenary edition of The Ship in 2010/2011, the photograph has been the subject of controversy. Who are the people in front of Hartland House? What year was the photo taken? What was the occasion and why?

Happily, thanks to Anne Hogg (Cathie 1957), a leading lady in this and other photos taken at the time – yes, there are many more – we are in a position to answer all your questions and solve the mystery. 1959: Class of 1957 left to right: Anne Cathie, Jenny Strage, Barbara Haygarth, Miriam May, Ann Mason

In its October 16 1959 issue, the Times Educational Supplement published the Women at Oxford Union still bars its mid-Victorian doors to following article along with 13 photographs These pictures feature life at St Anne’s, them. of St Anne’s undergraduates in and around the newest and largest of the five the College, on the river, around town and women’s colleges at Oxford. The facts, then, do not support two at an ‘Open air rehearsal of the St Anne’s contradictory views often held about dramatic society’. Quite apart from the The first two women’s colleges at Oxford, women at Oxford. They are neither all blue intrinsic interest of the photographs, the Somerville and Lady Margaret Hall, were stockings who get bad seconds nor all piece reflects the dramatic changes that founded 80 years ago. Today women form social butterflies looking for husbands. They have taken place between then and now, about a sixth of the university population. get firsts, they get thirds; they go to parties particularly in the role and ratio of women: There are five colleges – LMH, Somerville, and they go punting. Few Oxford women in 2012, the ratio was about 46 per cent/54 St Hugh’s, St Hilda’s and St Anne’s – pursue one type of activity to the complete per cent in men's favour and the number compared with 23 for men. In 1958 there exclusion of the other. Most graduates of colleges 38. How reliable the article is were 1,207 women taking first degrees or marry within a few years of going down in reflecting the ‘contradictory views’ to doing research compared with 7,492 men. – but this is no longer seen as a waste. If which it refers is questionable. Other issues, This year LMH had the highest proportion of there is a tendency for the competent but such as the lack of financial assets, are as firsts and seconds of all the Oxford colleges. dull scholar to predominate, this is probably relevant now as then, as this issue of The Women are active in university acting, caused by the intense competition for Ship reveals. journalism and politics although the Oxford places. The way the entrance examinations

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are organized reflects the high standard perhaps natural. It is hard enough, even in erect buildings, buy lands and endow required. Just as all undergraduates at the an ideal situation, to discern potential from fellowships. The expansion of women’s end of their university career take the same attainment. In January 1957, the quota education is thus dependent on finding examination, so do candidates for entrance. system limiting the number of women more money. Awards are given to those who do best. undergraduates was abolished. The If there are not enough places available women’s colleges now all want to expand. From the TES 16 October 1959. for all those with suitable qualifications, But their will to do this is severely cramped a tendency to chose the safe second is by lack of capital. Funds are needed to

Time out: with the men and the mopeds

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The lost artists of Hammersmith GILIA SLOCOCK

Retirement gives time for voyages of of the ordinary municipal library. So I found Hall), was due for refurbishment, which discovery in ones’ own backyard, as out more about ‘my’ artists and the blue meant that a handsome room upstairs, not Gilia Slocock discovered in researching plaques, one of which marked what had normally open to the public, would have the ‘blue plaques’ in her neighbourhood been a whole studio full of designers, The to be emptied of office clutter anyway, Silver Studios. In the process, I discovered and it was offered to me. I investigated the As a natural part of getting older, I that a friend of mine was descended from possibility of borrowing picture hangers downsized from Oxford to a pleasant part the family. without being able to ascertain whether of Hammersmith seven years ago. Looking there was a functioning picture rail in the around I saw that there were two houses I found what I thought would be a elaborate cornice of the lofty room, as no nearby with blue plaques and tried to find perfect venue, a house belonging to a one had a long enough ladder. So I pointed out more about the inhabitants. Then, by charity which was used for meetings out that I should have to use picture pins; it chance, I came across a well-loved image and training sessions, and which had a is not possible to have a picture exhibition of a rowing Eight seen from above, which long double room upstairs and a lovely turned out to have been first sketched from garden. Negotiations started pleasantly but Hammersmith Bridge by a linocut artist, imprecisely, and then increasingly vaguely. Cyril Power, who had lived very near me. Pressure built up for details for insurance Other images by him and his colleague, purposes, I had nothing in writing, and it Sybil Andrews, became available as became clear that it was all going to be greetings cards, yet no one local knew they difficult. In the end, after six months, the had lived and worked here; and finally one offer was withdrawn, which was a huge friend from the art world told me about relief; but by then I had made myriad a versatile and wonderful artist who also arrangements about borrowing items to had lived near. The moment was ripe for show. A local design firm was waiting to spreading a bit of information and pleasure! design the flyers, a local estate agent was waiting to get them printed and to pay for It was immensely helpful that I had been them, and I was waiting to distribute them. spending time in the local archives, working Crisis. as a volunteer to help with inquiries, under the supervision of a qualified archivist. One At that point the Leisure Services of the is not necessarily occupied all the time and local authority came to the rescue. The local can pursue ideas and find old books and library, a fine Carnegie building by Henry catalogues that would not be on the shelves Hare (who also designed Oxford Town The Eight by Cyril Power

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without attaching pictures to walls! In who himself sold framed copies, and who utterly charming originals by a local friend; spite of the fact that the room was to be allowed me to have some of those on sale otherwise it was back to the photocopying. redecorated anyway, it took about three or return, so that viewers could have an Anyone in the art world would be horrified weeks to get a definite answer that I could idea of how fine they could look. I ordered and one lofty visitor obviously was; his do so. a full set of what was available and some critical remarks irritated me, and I said that extra, unframed copies. In the end I sold 26 I was sorry he was disappointed, but that Some of the negotiations were surreal, pictures, both framed and unframed, and the exhibition was meant for the pleasure and my every request was treated with afterwards was able to take the unsold ones and information of local people. He had the suspicion. Later, when I was dealing out of the clip frames, very carefully, put grace to thank me politely when he left. directly with the personnel involved on them back in their protective envelopes and the ground, the atmosphere relaxed; I take them back to the producer. I was also able to help the finances along became a reasonable human and was by bulk buying greetings cards to sell, and even entrusted with the entry code for the The Silver Studio presented a separate a few books. One of the Mayfair galleries room so that I did not have to drag some problem. One of their best-known fabric also gave me some very beautiful back poor library person upstairs every time I designs is still used by Liberty’s, who gave catalogues, to sell for charity. needed to go in through the main door. And me some samples. Their main archive is although the seven small etchings (not even in a part of Middlesex University, and the drawings) I was borrowing from the borough archivist kindly prepared four posters for archives were to be transported from me. The family produced an item or two, borough property by borough personnel and otherwise I ransacked books and was for exhibition in borough premises, I was able to show a wide range of their designs obliged to take out a separate insurance at from photocopied pages. I made similar a not inconsiderable cost. collage pictures for the linocut artists too, including photos of them and of the building So, what was I going to show? I found that they had lived and worked in, and some many of the images by the linocut artists biographical material. had been reproduced in enlarged modern prints, and I was able to borrow them on The last artist, Leon Underwood, was a sale or return basis. They could not, of tricky, as he was primarily a sculptor, and course, be framed normally, as that would no one was going to lend one of those. involve bespoke frames and perhaps some The borough owns a large and important trimming, after which return would be one, given after his death by his widow, impossible and the frames would have cost and I was able to make up a composite a lot. They had to be in large clip frames, picture with information and photographs, which are cheap and reusable. By chance which will, I hope, create more interest I met the grandson of one of the artists, than it attracts now. I was lent a couple of Water Jump by Sybil Andrews

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As you can tell, it all involved a lot of work and some risk. Each difficulty made me Discover Israel more determined, and in the end it was a HANNAH BLUSTIN great success. It was well attended, the mayor came, and I think it was genuinely Batten down any misgivings and with a taste for luxury travel, my multi- enjoyed. Apart from the cost of the flyers, discover the delights and complexity of screened trading floor desk always a and the fact that the room was free, it more Israel in the hands of an unusual guide window to a luxury travel offering in addition or less paid its own way, with a chunk over to Bloomberg and Outlook. for local children’s charities. When I first At the beginning of last year, I abandoned had the idea, I asked an artist friend about my carefully cultivated finance career to Indeed, in today’s world where reality doing it. ‘Don’t,’ she said but relented a launch Pomegranate Travel, a luxury travel is interfaced through technology, travel little when I explained that all the artists company focused on one of the world’s presents a rare opportunity for unmitigated were safely dead, and she agreed I had a most controversial and poorly understood sensory being in the world. There is chance. By the way, does anyone need any destinations: Israel. A year into this journey, something about the newness of a place clip frames? I recognise that time at St Anne’s (albeit that opens us to strange smells, unfamiliar 11 years ago) prepared me for this radical noises, bright colours and unusual tastes. Kind friends said they would love me to do change in all sorts of unexpected ways. When post-Oxford reality calls and we another! They have no idea how much my embark upon the greater predictability and wonderful family and close friends had to do Like many of my contemporaries, on stability of ‘adult life’, the imperative to travel and put up with to get that particular show graduating I embarked on a ‘sensible’ redoubles itself as an opportunity to learn, on the road. It was all worth it, but only just. career. I started as a lawyer, but with an to see the world afresh. eye for business soon moved to banking Gilia Slocock (Whitehead 1955) at Merrill Lynch (later to become Bank Sure enough, travel was in my destiny. In of America), a US investment bank. The 2006, I met and fell in love with an Oxford The Eight, Cyril Power: limited edition overall package at the bank was appealing. DPhil student who happened to be from giclée print (1/950) £215.00 and Water It would, however, be telling a lie to claim Israel. Some years later, I found myself Jump, Sybil Andrews: limited edition that the stock market ever stirred my inner living in Tel Aviv, and falling in love all over giclée print (1/850) £138.00 both available passions. again, this time with my new home. The from The Bookroom Art Press: www. relationship was, and is, rich and complex. bookroomartpress.co.uk; T: 01273-682159 My true passion was always travel. Many Tel Aviv’s intellectual intensity (it boasts more of my happiest and most vivid childhood tech start-ups per capita than anywhere memories are of family holidays, near else on earth) is somehow perfectly offset and far. Oxford and law school provided by the joie de vivre and sensuality one finds ample opportunity for lengthy backpacking here. When, together with my first love, adventures in Africa, Central America and I started to explore the wider – but still Southeast Asia. Then the City spoiled me tiny – country, we would return from each

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weekend flabbergasted by our wondrous finds: UNESCO world heritage sites, buried deep in the desert, showcasing ancient Nabatean water systems and Byzantine churches. Crusader castles, halls and other ‘ruins’ so complete you’d swear you were on a period drama set. Prize-winning family wineries self-consciously modelled on ancient traditions. Astonishing waterfalls and hikes alongside the sources of the River Jordan. The list could go on and on, but one thing I simply cannot omit to mention is the food. I swear to the God of the Jews, Christians, Muslim, Druze, Bahai and any other peoples with a claim to this land, that the food in Israel is heavenly. All over the country, it is outstandingly fresh and somehow simple and creative all at the same time.

From a career perspective, moving to Israel and becoming a mother provided a natural break and opportunity to evaluate. As any good PPE student would have done, I The Heights of Masada, Israel turned to my bookcase of philosophical see that in the long run – in the long run, vocation or Mission’. I understood that I texts, and spent some time with Victor I say! – success will follow you precisely was done with banking. Frankl’s Man’s Search For Meaning. The because you had forgotten to think of it. following particularly resonated: As a good philosophy student, I was Some of us found ourselves at Oxford also not afraid to embark on a vocation Don’t aim at success – the more you aim precisely because we are the type of people which would ask people to challenge at it … the more you are going to miss who care deeply about excelling, about their preconceptions. In philosophy we it. For success, like happiness, cannot success. Yet Frankl’s point, which I had are mindful to challenge our most basic be pursued; it must ensue … Listen to not quite appreciated in my 20s, is that it is assumptions about existence (Does this what your conscience commands you to dangerous to let the outside world define laptop exist? Do I exist?) and knowledge do and go on to carry it out to the best what success means; each of us must be (but do I really know that I know?). I was of your knowledge. Then you will live to successful according to our ‘own specific ready to challenge some assumptions

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and made an enormous ‘to do’ list. Again my Oxford education served me well. The tutorial system makes self-starters of us, and meshes nicely with the prevailing entrepreneurial culture of Tel Aviv.

Today, the list has developed into a fully-fledged specialist tour operator providing personally tailored, complete Israel itineraries. We nurture our close local relationships with the managements of leading luxury and boutique hotels, owners of smaller characterful properties, engaging and sophisticated tour guides, and the best restaurants in the country – of which there are many. We have a healthy client list, which includes academics, journalists and Nimrod Castle, Israel culturally-engaged types, and are starting to about my new home. Israel often receives Druze who follow the Seven Pillars of Islam sell through some of the UK’s leading luxury an unflattering press in the UK. This is but serve in the Israeli army, Jewish West travel providers who had not previously not the place to discuss politics, but my Bank settlers who relate to the land as offered Israel as a destination. We were also observation from living here is that the area sacred and politically apathetic, secular Tel recently featured in Condé Nast Traveller. is riddled with complexity, and that it is more Avivians who hold only partying as sacred. interesting to open oneself to the multiplicity Narratives are multifarious, fascinating and Life does not seem to flow in straight lines of often-contradictory human narratives, rich. Unlike Myanmar, China or other travel and my path towards the right kind of than to proclaim absolutist motifs. destinations, in Israel you won’t find people fulfilling and challenging career has been guardedly whispering their histories; here meandering. However, I do believe there is Whatever one may say, Israel is a a cacophony of oral biographies is readily a direct connection between having spent democracy where free speech is sacred shouted out and served up. time at St Anne’s and my willingness and and readily accessible in English. Engaged ability to bring about this change. visitors can easily talk with people Returning to my own narrative, having across the political spectrum: Christian decided I was done with finance, I was Hannah Blustin (1999) Israeli Arabs, East Jerusalem Arabs who ineluctably drawn to the idea of running refuse Israeli nationality, Jewish pioneer my own business focused on high-end, Pomegranate Travel can be found at: www. Kibbutzniks, Israeli soldiers on active duty, deep content, travel in Israel. And so, at the pomegranate-travel.com Palestinians in refugee camps, traditional start of last year I opened a spreadsheet

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Remembering Jim MIKE COLLING

In the last issue of The Ship we ran an One year on, and with the support of many support this memorial fund. It will bring obituary for Jim Stanfield, past President of of his contemporaries, we have raised a smile to his face to hear generations the ASM and one of the badly behaved first £52,155 including pledges and gift aid. This of students ask, ‘Who the hell is Jim cohort of men in college back in 1979. In will enable college to award the first bursary Stanfield?’ the same issue, we announced the launch in October this year. of the Jim Stanfield Memorial Fund. Its aim: Mike Colling (1979) to fund a bursary for a student studying Thank you to all those who knew Jim and Chemistry or one of its related subjects. loved both him and college enough to

Jim Stanfeld (far right) with the Gaudy Seminar speakers Andy Swiss (1993), Jackie Ashley (1974), Susan Ward (1969), and Victor Ubogu (1987), and his predecessor as ASM President, Lesley Evans (Kruse 1962, third from the left), in 2009.

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Beyond the World Cup SIMON HART

Despite Germany’s eventual triumph, This was my first the World Cup offered an important World Cup writing reminder that there is a football world for a newspaper beyond the Premier League and and I had arrived Champions League. It also underlined with a sense of the social divide symbolized by trepidation. After gleaming new stadiums and crumbling spending the favelas 2006 and 2010 World Cups on Salvador’s Arena Fonte Nova with Simon Hart Even a football writer at a World Cup can the editorial team have too much of a good thing, it seems. of FIFA’s website, staying in five-star hotels as ever, but dogged by a dodgy knee. He The England-Costa Rica match was playing and wearing FIFA suits, this time I was dominated the press conference before his on a TV screen several feet away but there renting a room from a local family while side’s game against Germany to such an sat a long-serving reporter from a leading working for the Independent and Evening extent that a good number of journalists British broadsheet with his head stuck in a Standard. walked out as he passed the mic on to book on northern England. Now and again the Portugal coach. As it was, Germany he let out a laugh, which is more than can Working within an organization like FIFA crushed Portugal and I found myself flying be said for fans of Roy Hodgson’s team. entails a certain degree of discretion: in 400km south on a fact-finding mission to 2010, for instance, it had not been possible their training base, where I discovered that Football fatigue is inevitable in a job that to write anywhere that Frank Lampard’s old stereotype about German efficiency involves much waiting around to speak to shot actually bounced down behind the alive and kicking on the edge of a mangrove media-wary young millionaires along with goal-line after striking the crossbar during forest. watching a fair few mundane matches in England’s defeat by Germany. Now cold stadiums at unsociable hours. This there were no such constraints and, as I Certainly, no other team had their own was not the Britannia Stadium, though, but discovered, the beauty of reporting from brand-new hotel complex to stay in (built Brazil’s World Cup and my colleague was the World Cup, the epicentre of Planet by a Munich architect). It was a place in a minority of one. We were in the vibrant Football, is you do not have to look hard accessible only by car ferry – and the venue of Salvador in Northeastern Brazil for a story. This was certainly the case in German FA (DFB) had cannily booked – the country’s most African city, a place Salvador. Game One at the Arena Fonte reporters into lodgings on the other side where the rhythms of samba were born and Nova brought the ending of an era with of the river. As an olive branch, perhaps, where the goals flowed more freely than holders Spain’s disintegration against the the DFB had actually shipped over a anywhere else during an enthralling 2014 Dutch. For Game Two we had Cristiano McDonald’s cafe for their on-site press tournament. Ronaldo in town; impeccably groomed centre complete with waitresses flown in

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from Germany. Despite Germany’s eventual conveyed a sense of relief that Brazil’s journalists after a game. Some players triumph, this South American showpiece World Cup had actually come off, yet there will hold a phone to their ear – or even a offered an important reminder that there is was an equally strong feeling that this was child in their arms – to avoid stopping. Yet a football world beyond the Premier League not a World Cup for the people. Tickets for swallowing his disappointment, Dempsey and Champions League, underlined by the games cost more than 10 times the price took us back to his schooldays in a Texan efforts of teams like Colombia and Costa of attending a domestic fixture, hence the town and a borrowed video from the Rica. complaint that the stadiums were full of 1986 World Cup, which gave him his first white, wealthy, middle-class Brazilians. As appreciation of football’s global appeal. That Equally compelling, though, were the stories for the question of a legacy, Salvador’s new soccer-loving ‘outsider’ – as he described found on the fringes of the tournament. metro system had opened on the eve of the his boyhood self – was now part of the One day I went to the training ground of finals – albeit still unfinished 14 years after World Cup story and even a cynical hack Salvador’s biggest club, Esporte Club work began – yet there was a prevailing could see the romance in that. Bahia. The taxi took us through a favela lack of faith that ‘corrupt’ politicians would with its unfinished homes and potholed deliver change. One taxi driver I spoke to, Simon Hart (1991) is a freelance sports roads to a training ground whose grass Eduardo, was dreaming instead about a life journalist pitches offered hope of a way out. It was for his young son in Europe. ‘I want him to here that the Barcelona and Brazil full-back be able to speak English and to have the Daniel Alves had begun his career, though opportunities people don’t have here today,’ his first coach noted there was just a ‘0.01 he said. per cent’ chance of anybody following that path. Gervasio Xavier Junior, a canteen Back in the football bubble, my biggest worker in the media centre back at the headache was the time difference. The fact Fonte Nova, told me all about the pitfalls. that the UK was four hours ahead made He recalled proudly his trial, aged 16, at for some tight deadlines: indeed, for each the Sao Paolo club Corinthians, but the of the two matches in Salvador which went ensuing tale was one of doors slammed in to extra time, I had to file the top and tail his face, bogus agents ripping him off and of my report 15 minutes before the actual an eventual brush with the professional finish. This meant a rare opportunity to look game that brought no more than £160 a up from my laptop and simply enjoy the month. Despite all that, simply working in moment – notably when a spirited US side the World Cup stadium was, he said, ‘like a fought vainly for an extra-time equalizer gift for me’. against Belgium in a thrilling last-16 tie. That night was memorable for an exchange This love of football was everywhere – even afterwards with the US forward, Clint the supermarket cashiers wore canary- Dempsey. The mixed zone is the place, yellow shirts – but it did not dilute people’s usually deep in the bowels of a stadium, More than a game: Brazilian supporter outside scepticism. Conversations with locals where players must file past quote-hungry stadium

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Mandela: how South Africa saw him MARCIA C SCHENCK

state commemorations, what stood out was ‘He had the right to walk with pride, but he the very personal nature of South Africa’s chose to walk with humility.’ The air was farewell to a man to whom people felt a thick with meaning as people opened up. deep connection. Throughout the public screening of Many South Africans chose to Mandela’s funeral, at times it was so quiet commemorate Mandela privately, in you could have heard a needle drop, the conversations with friends and family, next moment the crowd became alive on long walks, or through offering shouting with once voice, ‘Viva, Mandela, flowers, candles and messages for Viva, Viva, Viva!’ fists raised high in the air. Mandela’s long walk is over but not Madiba in meaningful places. The night After the cathartic ceremony, people offered the struggle for equality and dignity he I visited Mandela’s Houghton house, the their presents for Mandela. Lego, a sand began atmosphere was sombre; people spoke in bottle, seashells, toy cars, teddy bears, whispers as thousands of Mandela images flowers, poems, pictures, candles, flags – Freedom. Equality. Reconciliation. These eerily lit by flickering candles glanced at the the list of objects that people placed in front are big words. Ambitious words. Quixotic spectator from among a sea of flowers. The of the City Hall in Cape Town did not cease words even. They were all the more so in atmosphere was very different during the to amaze me. apartheid South Africa, a country shackled wake held on the night of 14 December in and chained by its racial segregation. Cape Town. Here, sadness and joy seemed There was a poster made by two little boys, They were also lifelines for many a political intertwined; people cried, sang and danced Ludwe Sokani and Nathan McCabe, that prisoner who believed that one day a free, together in a colourful celebration of a life simply read: ‘Because of you, Mr Mandela, democratic South Africa could exist. None that liberated millions. we could be friends, be in the same class at achieved more worldwide fame than the the same school. We do not have to live the inimitable Nelson Rholihlahla Mandela Ordinary people shared with the crowds way our parents did. We will never forget who promoted these concepts with how Mandela inspired them: ‘Mandela is you.’ There was the Dali-esque picture that unprecedented integrity and credibility. right up there with Jesus, Mother Teresa depicts a pensive Mandela, surrounded by and Gandhi!’ ‘We shall always remember, candles, his heart floating in a tunnel that Along with over 100 world leaders, I there is only one race, the human race!’ ‘Let curves, so that the end of the road remains arrived in Johannesburg on 10 December us follow in the footsteps of him who led hidden from sight. There were countless to witness how South Africans mourned, us to freedom!’ ‘What was special about messages like the one by the Kohler Family: celebrated and remembered Tata Madiba. Mandela is that he always stayed true to ‘RIP Mandela, Kind Heart, Great Mind, Despite the media circus and countrywide himself and his ideals. Let us be ourselves!’ Super-Human, Worldly Treasure, Pride of

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Mandela the Icon

As could be anticipated when a man of the stature of Mandela dies, South Africa in December was a country in a state of exception. For weeks it was almost impossible to see anything on TV that was not connected to Mandela; the radio incessantly replayed his speeches and those of the international Heads of State present at his memorial service in Johannesburg; the newspapers were full of tributes; Mandela’s face smiled at us from many a billboard across town, and even from Table Mountain, where it was projected in a light installation.

The line between branding, commercialization and personal tribute was blurry: Mandela T-Shirts were seemingly omnipresent, my car rental company sent an email with 20 inspiring Mandela quotes, my Yoga teacher started her class with an emotional reflection on Mandela’s famous Nelson Mandela Funeral Tributes quote from the Freedom Trial and every major company sponsored billboards in our Nation, Generous Soul, Everlasting During the festivities in front of Cape Town’s Mandela’s honour. Spirit, Brightest Star! May Mandela’s ideals City Hall, an international microcosm be remembered and applied by present and emerged, reflecting Mandela’s meaning for The state provided public commemoration future generations. Thank you for teaching the world at large: the Cameroonian and events and concerts that filled stadiums us!’ The display of people’s offerings speaks Nigerian Associations colourfully danced around the country to varying degrees. to the very personal character that the their condolences, people from Zambia, People stood in line for hours to get a relationship between Mandela and many Malawi and Mozambique spoke out. The glimpse of Mandela’s coffin as he lay in a South African took. In countless creative Chinese Association left a message and the State in the Union buildings, soon to be ways people expressed their passionate sea of South African flags was interrupted renamed in his honour. personal commitment to a South Africa by German, Italian and US ones. united in diversity.

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Mandela inspired the world as a political run the risk of a cartoonish empty signifier While Mandela arrived at the end of his prisoner, who was able to forgive his that can be imbued almost at will with our long walk to freedom, South Africa is still captors and work alongside them to bring own meanings. The meaning of Nelson on its way to unity. The country might have about a free South Africa. Mandela was Mandela’s life will become more contested achieved political equality but it is a long a freedom fighter, a skilled negotiator, a as historians unearth a nuanced picture, a haul away from achieving an economy in shrewd statesman, a leader but also a team testimony to Mandela the human with flaws which all citizens can live with dignity. Too player. South Africa’s transition to multi- and weaknesses. I would think such a role many South Africans still live in poverty, party democracy might carry the imprint of model all the more powerful. A farsighted suffering the legacy of past inequalities. his face, but it was the work of many, as South African reminded the crowds: ‘Let Now it is for others to continue on the walk Mandela himself never tired of pointing out. us not idealize the man, for he was human, towards equality. like all of us. But let us follow his ideals and Did Mandela make mistakes? As a be guided by his spirit of forgiveness and Who better to be inspired by than Mandela, president, he acknowledged the real danger his vision of unity.’ Nobody would like this a person who continuously worked to of HIV/AIDS much too late. As a young better than Mandela himself. better himself and was not afraid to admit husband, he was no stranger to domestic mistakes; a person who had the courage violence. As a father and grandfather he Mandela’s Long Walk to Freedom is to lead but remained humble; who had could be distant. However, in his saint-like finally over, but South Africa’s is still the ability to forgive and overcame his portrayal we hear little about what makes continuing fears and anger; a person with the gift to Mandela human. We easily recognize the envision a better life; and the work ethic idol but how many of us know Mandela the Extremely pessimistic voices feared an and perseverance to dedicate his life to this man? immediate collapse of South Africa’s idea? rainbow nation after Mandela’s death. While The idealized representation of Mandela that his death may have come as a surprise Marcia C Schenck was a St Anne’s Ioma also marked his death fulfills an important to the world, South Africa was prepared. Evans-Pritchard scholar 2009-10 where role in nation building. His legacy is that of Mandela had retired from political life in she read for the MSc in African Studies. a national hero; an impeccable freedom 2004 at the age of 85. During the last Currently she lives in Maputo, Mozambique, fighter; the wise father of the nation. Like no couple of years South Africans saw an where she conducts fieldwork for her PhD other South African, he personifies the ideal increasingly fragile Mandela on TV; several in African history at Princeton University. of a rainbow nation built on forgiveness and times they united in song and prayer when Originally from Germany, Cape Town has reconciliation. However, the way in which the end seemed near. His death then is been among Marcia’s homes since 2002. Mandela has become idealized and idolized not so much a caesura in South African tells us more about South Africa’s and the politics but a time of national reflection and world’s need for such a figure, than about the reaffirmation of Mandela’s legacy of a Mandela himself. democratic and free South African rainbow nation. The more we stylize an idol, the more we

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Lines across landscapes LIZ CASHDAN

Walking in the footsteps of others In Laughing All the Way, I had written two basalt rock, the lack of trees, the wildness provides fertile ground for poetry sequences, one about an eleventh-century really inspiring and the people welcoming Jew in Cairo and Tyre, and another foot- and willing to share their stories. I always I suppose since I was at St Anne’s from stepping my own parents back to Bialystok like to combine teaching and writing so I did 1947 to 1950, I could well be expected to in Poland. My writing owes a great deal a workshop in Skagaströnd school. Using be writing about a gentle if impoverished to three of my Oxford tutors, Marjorie Moniza Alvi’s poem Map of India and Carlos retirement. The great thing is that as a writer Reeves and Miss Leys at St Anne’s, and Williams’ This is just to say as models, this you don’t have to retire. However, writing Christopher Hill at Balliol, but I’m not sure is what one 14-year-old wrote: poetry doesn’t bring in much money so I where I got my love of walking from. I think go on teaching as well. I read History at St it’s something to do with the idea of lines: Iceland is a cruel little place. Anne’s, worked in the Press Library at the History/Ancestry, writing and walking are I’m sorry, really sorry, Royal Institute of International Affairs for four all activities that depend on making or will you forgive me, little island? years and then went into teaching. I taught following a line. I’ve just been reading Tim Answer me. History and English in secondary schools Ingold’s Lines: A Brief History (Routledge from 1957 to 1991 and then got into Adult 2007), a wonderful read for all lineswomen/ On the next page is one of my poems and and Higher Education to teach creative linesmen whether they be historians, an image by Pat Hodson. writing. I took an MA at Sheffield University writers, weavers, singers or any others who in 1996 and completed a PhD on women make traces or threads. My most recent poetry book came out novelists of the Romantic period in 2004. in 2013: Things of Substance: New and In 2009, I went to Iceland on an arts Selected Poetry (Five Leaves Publication; My first single collection of poetry, Laughing residency with digital artist Pat Hodson, and £8.99). Since then I have been working All the Way, came out in 1995, though I sound artist Jessica Rowland. We spent on a new sequence based on the voices had two shared collections before that, four weeks based in Skagaströnd exploring of sisters talking to their more famous both of which were based on three of my the life of this one-time fishing village in the brothers: Nanerl Mozart, Caroline Herschel, passions in life: history, writing and walking. Northwest, touring Northeast to Mývatn and Mary Lamb, Fanny Mendelssohn, Gwen I foot-stepped Coleridge, Wordsworth and South to the roaring waters of Gull Foss and John among many others. Fletcher Christian round the Quantocks, the historic site of Thingvellir. the Lake District and the Isle of Man for I now teach for the WEA and the Open one book; wrote about walking round Mont We responded to landscape and people College of the Arts. I recently co-authored Blanc in the other; and in a third pamphlet individually and to each other’s writing and the OCA’s new short fiction course materials foot-stepped Mary Wollstonecraft across artwork, all of which resulted in Iceland and am one of their assessors for creative Denmark, Sweden and Norway. Stories. We found the landscape of black writing as well as being a tutor. I love doing

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writing workshops in schools as well. I am Chair of the National Association of Writers in Education; this keeps me on my toes as far as bringing writers and tutors of writing together across communities and educational establishments, and across all age ranges.

This summer I am off to track down the Jewish conversos or marranos in Portugal, which I hope might lead to a poetry sequence, and later to Johannesburg where I have family and where there is no shortage of things to write about or writers eager for workshops including Wits University Writing School and my granddaughters’ pre-primary and primary schools. Reading history at St Anne’s has been a brilliant starting point for all my work.

Liz Cashdan (Trilling 1947). Iceland Stories (Blurb, 2012) is available as an ebook from the Blurb bookstore at http:// www.artinthefreezer.co.uk/ http://store. blurb.co.uk/ebooks/368135-iceland- stories £9.49+vat. The book can also be purchased from Liz at lizcashdan@onetel. com for £25.00

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‘Not of an age but for all time’ GINA POLLINGER

The eminent literary agent Gina course, his amazing characters, and plots. scholar Jonathan Bate came to a similar Pollinger shares her passion for Included in the ‘overture’ are extracts from conclusion: ‘Shakespeare is always our Shakespeare in an anthology of every one of Shakespeare’s plays, as well contemporary’ and, even more daringly, his verse directed at the younger as some of the poetry, thematically linked, suggested that ‘Reading a Shakespeare generation sequence to sequence, and section to play prepares us to read life’. section: for example: Power to Charm, It With the utmost respect for the maturity, Was A Lover And His Lass, The King is But There are two other Shakespeare scholarship and wisdom of so many friends, A Man etc. Such colourful and, I hazard a scholars whom I want to quote: one, Neil former colleagues and fellow-enthusiasts, guess, irresistible content is rounded off MacGregor, who concludes his remarkable I do want to stress from the start that The with a short biography, a simple glossary book, Shakespeare’s Restless World, Orchard Book of Classic Shakespeare and a user-friendly index of first lines. The with the following words: ‘For those living Verse is an anthology in which my own Orchard Book of Classic Shakespeare the dark moments of history, as for those lifelong enthusiasm for Shakespeare has Verse thereby enables us to share some of exploring the wilder or the sweeter shores of been combined with that of the renowned Shakespeare’s most powerful poetry with love, Shakespeare’s words console, inspire, illustrator, Emma Chichester-Clark. Our aim, the young, and indeed, to bring newcomers illuminate and question.’ And last but not quite simply, is to compile what I hope to be of all ages to the verbal and visual feast that least, I give you a quote from a very recent an enticing, perhaps uniquely-approachable lies between its covers. issue of Country Life that features ‘The anthology, ultimately, an empowering Best of British’, where the theatre director delight, whether you are (gratefully) familiar In his First Folio, Shakespeare’s Trevor Nunn declares: ‘Shakespeare’s plays with Shakespeare already or, my priority, for contemporary, Ben Jonson, paradoxically remain searchingly relevant, as the priorities the young ones, coming to his matchless described him as ‘the soul of the age, of different ages find new and unexpected poetry for the very first time. but also, significantly, as ‘not of an age emphases in his language, characters, but for all time.’ And those encountering dramatic situations and underlying themes Accessibility is the touchstone and Shakespeare’s sixteenth-century language … Humanity is Shakespeare’s focus: our immediacy the keynote and, almost always, for the first time can take comfort from ideas and our ideals; who we are – beast or it is passion that underpins the movement the words of the eighteenth-century critic, angel? – and who we aspire to become.’ of heart, hands, mind, feet and tongue. It Dr Samuel Johnson, who observed that: might sound like a contradiction in terms ‘Shakespeare’s creations act and speak Allow me to prioritize our young ones for but, from the first, I planned this anthology as the reader thinks he himself should a moment. Children, when I began to as a single composition, as an overture have spoken on the same occasion … the collect my favourite quotations from William to newcomers’ lifelong relationship with dialogue is level with life’. Centuries later, a Shakespeare’s poetic dramas (plays) and Shakespeare’s poetry and, ultimately, of year or two ago, the brilliant Shakespeare poems (mostly songs and sonnets), I called

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it A Treasury of Shakespeare’s Verse. I am characters – many of them victims of rivalry, the homespun – such as milk, meat, drink, sure that you know that ‘verse’ means all of them hungry for success – male and salad, slipper – to the world of nature – ‘poetry’ and I am sure you know – or can female, young and old, some heroic and stars, moon, weed, lily, snail and so on. A guess – that a ‘Treasury’ means a collection some helpless, some rural, some royal. All perfect marriage of sound to sense ensures of the extra-special things that belong of them are driven by love or loss, fancy or and enhances the effect: to you, tucked away from harm (maybe fury, ambition or fear of failure - but if their under your bed, maybe up in the attic), but hope and courage score by the end of the ‘There was I as a tree always easy to find, see or hear, whenever day, they will be saved – amid family, friends Whose Boughs did bend with fruit; but in you want to liven and brighten your day. and fellow-countrymen, by compromise, one night So what you have in front of you now is forgiveness, a hug and a kiss. a new and, I trust, eye-opening ‘treasure’ A storm or robbery, call it what you will, – a sparkling variety of glimpses into that Likewise, such fabulous figures of pure Shook down mellow hangings, nay, my world of wonder, created in the sixteenth fantasy as Titania, Queen of the Fairies, or leaves, century by William Shakespeare – intended Puck, the spritely goblin in A Midsummer to awaken your curiosity and your hunger Night’s Dream – and certainly, the wicked And left me bare to weather.’ witches in Macbeth and the ghost in Hamlet to experience Shakespeare’s plays in Cymbeline, Act III, Scene iii their entirety – for yourselves quite soon. are not to be overlooked. These amazing, A further word in your ear, children: never super supernaturals are fundamental to the Such simplicity demonstrates that pay any attention to maddening people storylines in which they play a significant Shakespeare’s poetry and poetic drama who claim that Shakespeare, born 450 part, be they haunting, magical, murderous were indeed written for all to enjoy, years ago, is ‘marginal to modern life’. It or purely mischievous. They, too, are hungry regardless of social class and education, was seeing this comment in the press, and for success and, like Romeo and Juliet, their history or their geography. hearing it repeated across the media 20 Hamlet, Othello and many other heroes years ago, that drove me to compile this and heroines, will eventually triumph over, In one sense, any anthology is likely to special selection – living proof, I hope you or surrender to circumstances beyond their be unsatisfactory: something important will agree, that Shakespeare still reaches control. Shakespeare enables all of us, all will be missing! Since this is an anthology out to us today. Shakespeare’s fame as a the time, to share his own ever-ready wit of Shakespeare’s poetry, character and truly outstanding playwright will never die and wisdom, and his unique open-minded plot are inevitable casualties. However, because he was – is – a genius. sympathy for each and every beating heart isolating the poetry does yield certain – and spoken word. positive benefits. It concentrates the mind Although I am focussing ostensibly on the flexibility and range of Shakespeare’s on Shakespeare’s verse today, one Consider the imagery that links chosen medium, blank verse. It also cannot deny the vital – albeit, eventual – Shakespeare’s powerful imagination to our demonstrates that Shakespeare’s poetry contribution of character and plot every step own. It may be startling in colour, form and enjoys a life of its own, regardless of of the way. Shakespeare spent his whole meaning, but it draws upon objects that dramatic context, ie the storyline. When a working life burrowing under the skin of his are universally familiar. These range from besieged and bereaved Macbeth surrenders

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to despair, the details of his personal tragedy become, for the moment, curiously unimportant:

‘Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow

Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,

To the last syllable of recorded time,

And all our yesterdays have lighted fools

The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle.

Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player

That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,

And then is heard no more. It is a tale

Told by an idiot full of sound and fury

Signifying nothing.’

Macbeth Act V, Scene v

The poetry speaks for itself and, in this particular case, for anyone who has – even for one moment – given up hope.

It is important to remember that Shakespeare’s verse is meant to be spoken out loud, not read to oneself. Thereby the sense becomes more obvious and the feeling twice as stirring. Listen carefully to the following tiny excerpts:

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‘Except I be by Silvia in the night ‘Merrily, merrily the live theatre. Then and there, you will hear much of this poetry again – and There is no music in the nightingale.’ Shall I live now much more on themes that ring a bell – Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act III, Scene i Under the blossom that fabulously, firmly, unforgettably attached to character, plot and stage: Shakespeare in Hangs on the bough.’ ‘How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is action, Shakespeare in the round, ageless The Tempest, Act V, Scene i To have a thankless child’ Shakespeare in all his glory.

King Lear, Act I, Scene iv Are you not impressed by the imagery – the Gina Pollinger (Conquy 1954) tenderness, the passion, the liveliness, the ‘I think the king is but a man as I am logic? And can you not hear the rhythm The above is Gina’s speech at the launch, that underpins the lines? Both imagery and The violet smells to him as it doth to me’ on 19 June 2014, of the new edition of her rhythm help to make the verse magical, original work, Something Rich and Strange, Henry V, Act IV, Scene i and memorable too. And don’t hesitate to published in 1995. The Orchard Book Of sample and digest the miraculous Sonnets Classic Shakespeare Verse, selected by ‘Give me my Romeo, and when I shall – those within and, of course, beyond this Gina Pollinger and illustrated by Emma die anthology. So many of them are exquisitely Chichester-Clark is published by Orchard Take him out and cut him out in little rhythmic, rhyming, immaculately conceived Books, price £12.99 stars, 14-liners – poetic masterpieces in their own right – classic words of wonder, whoever And he will make the face of heaven so the inspiration, whatever the motivation, as fine lyrical as they’re robust. ‘Treasures’, shall That all the world will be in love with we say? Yes! So, to be practical, write out night your favourites and tuck them away under that bed or up in that attic. That way, they And pay no worship to the garish sun.’ will be readily accessible for stimulus and Romeo and Juliet, Act III, Scene ii uplift on any dull or rainy day to come.

‘Oh, beware, My Lord, of jealousy. I have tried in this book to convey in miniature the richness, gusto, intelligence It is the green-eyed monster which doth and scope of Shakespeare’s immense mock world of poetry. I do hope that you will The meat it feeds on’ be encouraged to look beyond these appetisers – the classic quotations I’ve Othello, Act III, Scene iii chosen for this book – to even more spectacular discoveries – this time, in

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Paul Donovan (1990) and Julie Hudson: Paula Iley (1973): Despite her girlhood Publications Paul and Julie have co-authored Food ambitions to be a novelist, on graduation Policy and the Environmental Credit Paula Iley went into the more nine-to- Denise Bates (Sharpe 1978): Breach Crunch: From Soup to Nuts (Routledge, five though enjoyable worlds of book of Promise to Marry: A History of how 2014) author royalties from which are publishing, freelance journalism, teaching Jilted Brides Settled Scores 1780-1970 being donated to St Anne’s College. The then educational consultancy. For many (Wharncliffe Books, January 2014). Breach book elaborates on the issues addressed years she was inhibited as a fiction writer of promise was a legal claim entitling a in the authors’ first book, From Red to by her informal, generous mentoring when jilted person to demand damages from Green? (see The Ship 2011-2012) and asks young by JRR Tolkien, who lived next door the person who broke the engagement. whether the financial credit crunch could to her grandparents and gave her epistolary This book studies breach of promise as ameliorate or exacerbate the emergent feedback on the flaws of her puerile literary social history, demonstrating how it fitted environmental credit crunch. The conclusion efforts that was uncondescending and into the changing fabric of society across drawn here is that a significant and positive frankly critical. She has written several two centuries and what it revealed about difference could be made by changing worthy tomes for the educational market, class and gender assumptions. Further some of the ways in which we procure, but her novels have never seen the light of information is available at www.denisebates. prepare, and consume our food. day – until this year. co.uk

Kersten Hall (1988): The Man in the Frances Burton (Heveningham Pughe Monkeynut Coat: William Astbury and the 1960): Core Statutes on Family Law: 2013- Forgotten Road to the Double-Helix (OUP, 2014 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). June 2014) tells the story of the pioneering Leeds-based physicist William Astbury who Simon Cushing (1986): The Philosophy made the very first studies of the structure of Autism, Jami L Anderson and Simon of DNA and paved the way for James Cushing (eds.) (Rowman & Littlefield Watson and Francis Crick’s later triumphant Publishers, 2012) discovery of the double-helix. Yet whilst Carys Davies (Bowen Jones 1978): a new Watson and Crick went on to win a Nobel collection of short stories The Redemption Prize, Astbury has largely been forgotten. of Galen Pike is out in October from Salt. Find out more at: http://ukcatalogue.oup. Further details available at: http://www. com/product/9780198704591.do saltpublishing.com/shop/proddetail. Sarah Hegenbart (2008): Co-author of php?prod=9781907773716 Mythos Berlin: A London Perspective a Margaret Doak (1969): The Wedding Feast project by Sarah Hegenbart and Sven (Pen Press, 2nd edn, 2013) and The Dance Mündner (The White Review, 2012). of Life: Out of Silence (Pen Press, 2nd edn, 2013)

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Started on Skyros three years ago from a Judith Sheather (Hall 1962): Greek Elizabeth Wilson (1955): Love Game: A conversation with new friends that made Worship and its Public Face (Alpha Books, History of Tennis from Victorian Pastime to Paula see stories from her own life in a 2013) Global Phenomenon (Profile Books, 2014) whole new light, On the Far Side, There’s a Boy (Roundfire, 2014) is the tale of a Anne Sheppard (Raphael 1969): edited London woman from the 1980s coming to ‘Ancient Approaches to Plato’s Republic’ terms with her singlehood and childlessness in the Bulletin of the Institute of Classical through a connection with a Sri Lankan Studies Supplement 17. (Institute of child. It was released on 27 June in Classical Studies, School of Advanced paperback and e-book worldwide under Study, University of London, London, 2013) her pen name, Paula Coston, and has been hailed by Whitbread-award-winning Monir Tayeb (1976): ‘Geert Hofstede’, Jamila Gavin as ‘an absorbing tale... written in The Oxford Handbook of Management by a new writer in a new, wonderfully Theorists (Oxford University Press, 2013) contemporary voice’. Lynn Urch (1995): Co-translator of Oliver Noble Wood (1997): A Poet for all Foundations of a pure cost theory written Seasons: Eight commentaries on Góngora by Heinrich von Strackelberg; translated by (New York: Hispanic Society of America, Damien Bazin, Lynn Urch and Rowland Hill 2013). (Springer, 2014).

Dr Kaori O’Connor (1968): The English Sheila Ward (Hawking 1949): Sheila Breakfast: The Biography of a National has published a new e-book entitled Meal, with Recipes (Bloomsbury, 2013) Omega God Humanity Evolving. The book http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/the- suggests that the prophecy of Teilhard english-breakfast-9780857854919/ and de Chardin that humanity is on the verge Pineapple: A Global History (Reaktion, of an evolutionary leap is already taking 2013) http://www.reaktionbooks.co.uk/ place. This is coming about as increasing reaktion/display.sp?K=e201304231432333 numbers of people understand and embody ‘A sporting history unlike any I’ve read – one that, 4&m=43&dc=661 the meaning of love. Although Greek in its sophistication and thoughtfulness, shows up philosophers studied the various meanings the hollowness of most other accounts.’ William Skidelsky, Observer Jancis Robinson (1968): The World Atlas of love, it is ignored by philosophers today of Wine (7th edn, Mitchell Beazley, 2013) so that our society is largely unaware of the The only comprehensive narrative history of the immensity, the variety and the potential of world’s most international sport, from Victorian Jill Paton Walsh (Bliss 1955): The Late love. The book is available through Amazon. lawn tennis to Andy Murray’s Wimbledon 2013 Scholar (Hodder and Stoughton, 2013) triumph.

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Senior members’ updates honours, appointments and personal news

Stephen Coote (1981) is a PhD student Williams in 2006 for work at her charity that ‘this weekend had made her realise researching philosophical botany during the Shalom Centre (Maidstone): A Centre that she should spend her last three months the late Enlightenment at Anglia Ruskin of Christian Healing, Wholeness and meeting English people and getting more University, Cambridge. Counselling. In April 2013, Margaret raised involved in things’. £6,417.30 for Action Aid by rowing 20,000 Jo Delahunty (1982) has been awarded metres (a 13 mile half marathon) in 9 hours Kim is hoping that other alumnae from Family Law QC of the Year at Jordan at the age of 79 at Maidstone Leisure St Anne’s might be interested in offering Publishing’s third Family Law Awards. Centre Gym. occasional hospitality through HOST, as more invitations are always needed to avoid This prestigious award celebrates a QC Kim Melhuish (Fuller 1976) has kept up disappointment. The commitment is small, who has made a major contribution to an interest in the international students who the remuneration zero, but the reward is in the field of family law through their advice come to Oxford and other UK universities knowing that a HOST visit almost invariably and advocacy. The awards were launched to pursue their studies. Once or twice a becomes a highlight in the memory of any by Jordan Publishing to recognise the year, Kim and her husband offer HOST an student who has been lucky enough to important work of family lawyers and invitation for one or two students to spend experience it. Please see www.hostuk.org celebrate their many successes and a weekend, or sometimes Christmas, as for more information. outstanding achievements. their guests at home in Devon. Kim says: ‘Our guests are so interested, appreciative Lauren Sumner Rooney (2009) is Jo Delahunty specializes in contentious and wanting to give us something back - currently working for a PhD in the sensory and highly complex cases at High Court they cook, and talk, ask lots of questions, biology of marine invertebrates at Queen’s level and above involving allegations of and really enjoy the whole stay - it is quite University Belfast. She has been successful severe child abuse. In a highly competitive invigorating!’ It is also fun introducing them in her application for a short-term fellowship and specialist silk field, Jo has gained a to some of our customs. Kim mentions at the Smithsonian Tropical Research reputation for ‘formidable’ advocacy and taking two Chinese girls ‘to see two local Institute to study the eyes of a brittle star tactical trial management. Jo was presented English folk musicians at a concert in our (Ophiocoma wendtii) in Panama. The Ernst with her award at a ceremony attended by Village Hall’. Mayr Fellowship will fund her to work at more than 400 family lawyers from across Bocas del Toro research station for two England and Wales. These visits are an important experience months next spring, performing behavioural for students who tend to spend their time experiments and anatomical studies in order Margaret Doak (1969) was awarded the either studying or socialising with their to improve understanding of vision in this Lambeth Cross by Archbishop Rowan compatriots. One of Kim’s guests told her fascinating animal.

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Monir Tayeb (1976) and her husband Cumbria until 27 July 2014. See http:// Michel Austin were awarded the honorary www.breweryarts.co.uk/art/open-up- citizenship of the Départment de I’isère, north/ for more info about the exhibition, France for their ‘contribution to the which was open to artists from the north of enrichment of the collections of the Musée England. Hector Berlioz in La Côte-Saint-André’. Felicity is also taking part in C-Art 2014 - Elizabeth Moir Tenduf-La (Moir 1959), a an open studios event across Cumbria in well-known educator, has been awarded September. an MBE by Her Majesty The Queen in her Birthday Honours List 2014, for her services to British education and the teaching of English in Sri Lanka. You can find out more about the work Elizabeth has undertaken in Sri Lanka via the British High Commission in Colombo webpages: https://www.gov.uk/ government/world-location-news/english- teacher-in-sri-lanka-receives-queens- honours.

In response to this honour, Elizabeth gave the following statement:

‘I am highly honoured by this award that also honours my late husband Kesang Tenduf La and all my former and current Sitting by Felicity Watts colleagues and students in Sri Lanka. I hope that in some way we have all made the Audrey Stanley (1952) won the world a better place and that I have made Christchurch Writers’ Quill Award for a a contribution to developing my profession. poem she wrote about Christchurch’s I also hope the award recognises the vital Regent Centre in September 2013. role that education plays in Sri Lanka.’

Felicity Watts (1978) A painting by Felicity Watts, Sitting, received a Judges Commendation in the Open Up North exhibition, which took place at the Brewery Arts Centre and other venues in Kendal,

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A life spent telling stories JOY WHITBY

She changed the nature of children’s broadcasting and half a century later is still at it

There was a power failure on the opening night of BBC2 so Play School was the first programme to be aired on the new channel. If you were a five-year-old in that year, 1964, you would probably have been watching. Millions of children became regular viewers over its 24-year run. In May this year, the BBC and the Children’s Media Foundation co-hosted a party to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary, attended by 175 guests, many of them presenters or production people from those pioneering days. At least two of us, one of whom was Anna Home, had been students at St Anne’s.

Play School began because there was a The 50th anniversary of Play School/David Jensen dearth of nursery schools in the country. I was appointed to devise a daily programme made films took children to places many of Joy Whitby (Field 1949) created and that would help fill the gap and replace them would never have seen: the seaside, produced Play School as well as many the puppet-based provision of Watch With a farm, the top of a bus, distant countries. other iconic children’s programmes Mother with a more robust agenda. A team Three windows looked out into this wider including Jackanory and The Magic of interchanging presenters, male as well as world: round, square and arched. Which Roundabout. In 1979, she received the female, some from overseas, sang, danced, would they go through today? The hidden Eleanor Farjeon Award for services to told stories, played with toys, handled pets, message that there is choice in life was a children’s literature dressed up and did scientific ‘experiments’ key feature of Play School thinking – the with bubble puddings and broken clocks. direct result of an Oxford education where I They invited guests from mainstream learned that most questions have more than entertainment. And a library of specially one answer.

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Helen Christine Halstead (Townson 1978) Angela Nosley (Allen 1936) 6 December Notice of 10 September 2013 2013 Christina Mary Harris (Cavenagh 1946) 2 Elisabeth Joyce Emily Openshaw deaths January 2014 (Lawford 1933) 18 February 2013 Dorothy Kathleen Havergal-Shaw (1943) Margaret O’Shea (1940) 20 February 2014 December 2013 Margaret Grozier Pawley (Herbertson Margaret Hilary Andrew (Whitworth 1947) Alessandra M B Heaven (Perrigo 1978) 1948) 28 February 2014 24 March 2014 26 June 2013 Iris Plaister (McKay 1948) 22 April 2013 Janet Mary Atkinson (Alty 1951) 31 Gladys Iris Jenkins (Baugh 1943) 1 Olive Stevenson (1949) 30 September January 2013 November 2013 2013 Margaret Anne Barton (Beer 1973) 4 Barbara Jones (Hughes 1953) 12 June Noel Florence Sumner (Brandon 1936) 17 September 2013 2014 May 2013 Jennifer Anne Bispham (Gordon 1957) 30 Mary Jennifer Kearsley 23 May 2013 Fabia Tallintire (Shutler 1990) 3 May 2014 November 2013 Patricia Margaret Keen (Wordingham Monica Mary Turner (Betts 1948) 9 Ann Elizabeth Bonsor (1946) 25 April 1947) 25 November 2013 October 2013 2014 David Howard Keith (1987) 21 January Gwyneth Mary Weston (Jones 1950) 27 Anne Farris Brew (Hutton 1934) 13 July 2014 January 2013* 2013 Enid Kirchberger (Albagli 1960) 1 March Joan Wheare (Randell 1935) 4 November Anne Colvile (Watson 1938) 22 September 2014 2013 2013 Margaret Edith Lang (1944) 10 March Mary Yates (Gerrard 1939) 16 October Chloe Elizabeth Dance (Baker 1949) 8 2014 2013 January 2014 Elizabeth Jillian Leech (Hampton 1942) * Gwyneth Weston’s ashes were scattered Phyllis Ruth Vaughan Firth (Jones 1937) 30 July 2013 at St Anne’s College on 10 October 2013 in 2 March 2014 Gillian Elizabeth Mann (1964) 5 October the presence of a small group of friends. Helen Benedicta FitzGerald (Burns 1944) 2013 Please note that some dates are 20 May 2013 Marion Boyd Mcleod (Thomson 1936) 7 approximate as no exact date was provided Eileen Lucy Fraser (Andrew 1938) 1 May January 2014 when College was notified. 2013 Ann Middleton (Hobbs 1951) 29 May Correction Janet Hazel Goldman (Damant 1948) 28 2013 In the 2009 edition of The Ship Felicity Anne February 2014 Margaret Joan Monroe (Burgess 1941) Avery (Bridgen 1946) was listed with the Mabella Mary Green (Walley 1935) 5 13 July 2013 incorrect date of death. The correct date is October 2013 11 November 2008. Vivienne Claire Morris (Wilkinson 1967) 5 Sebastien Beatrice Grifnee (2007) 12 April 2013 June 2013

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In memoriam her formidable intellect and drive, her Felicity Anne Avery (Bridgen 1946) unrelenting championship of her students, 1928 – 11 November 2008 and her passion for music. It was Marjorie Reeves, Tutor in Modern History, however, who had the greatest influence on Felicity’s future career, instilling a life-long interest in history which would inform her entire literary output.

After leaving St Anne’s, she worked as that it also encapsulated our ethos: each an historical archivist before turning to exhibition representing a temporary ‘flash of journalism and, eventually, her own writing, splendour’ permanently transforming and which was initially published in the form of illuminating lives. short stories and serials in magazines and journals. Composed under the nom de Anne Louise Avery guerre of Anne Stevenson, her first novel Ralph Dacre was immediately snapped up In memoriam by Billy Collins in 1967 and quickly became Margaret Hilary Andrew (Whitworth Flash of Splendour Arts is a pioneering a best seller. It was followed by eight further 1947) children’s creative arts organisation, working novels that spanned various genres from 20 February 1929 – 24 March 2014 with music, literature and poetry, the visual thrillers to historical sagas. arts and theatre to transform lives, and was founded by Anne Louise Avery in memory of Felicity combined an unbounded her mother, novelist Felicity Anne Avery (née imagination and rigorous intellect with Bridgen; 1928-2008), who read History at enormous kindness and humanity, and it is St Anne’s from 1946 to 1949. those qualities that we hope to reflect within each Flash of Splendour project. In the late 1940s, the Principal of St Anne’s was Eleanor Plumer, who guided the then The name of the company was inspired St Anne’s Society (formerly the Society by her 1968 eponymous novel exploring of Oxford Home-Students) through the the 1848 revolutions. Felicity in turn had war years and towards incorporation as taken its title from a passage in Dante’s Margaret was born in Blackburn and a full college of the University in 1952. Purgatorio, which she had studied with christened in Blackburn Cathedral, but Miss Plumer, who interviewed Felicity for Marjorie Reeves. Whilst Felicity had her family moved to live in Eastbourne her place, made a considerable impact used the phrase to invoke the transitory when she was only a few years old. Her on the young historian, who recalled radiance of the revolutionary spirit, we felt memories of her short time in the North

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showed that she much preferred Sussex. her many cats and dogs, particularly the Educated at Eastbourne Girls’ High School, latter, and her garden, which she tended all she soon developed an interest in the the time that she could. French language, which was enhanced both by family visits, and by exchange visits with Peter passed away in 2006, on their fifty- French girls. fifth wedding anniversary, Margaret having nursed him devotedly. Sadly, she was also She won a place at St Anne’s College to afflicted by Alzheimer’s disease, as he had read French, and matriculated in 1947. been, and for her last 18 months lived in While at Oxford, she was an active member an excellent Sussex care home. She is of the Christian Union, where she made a much missed by her children, her eight number of life-long friends, some of whom grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. became godparents to her four children, and to whom she wrote regular letters for David Andrew most of her life. It was in the Christian Union that she met Peter Andrew, who In memoriam himself came late to Oxford having served in Ann Bonsor (1946) the Second World War. They were married 22 September 1923 – 25 April 2014 in St Mary’s Church, Eastbourne on 28 July 1951. A Second World War secret service recruit and Oxford University lecturer has died, Margaret taught French for a short period aged 90. in Muswell Hill School in London, but invasion of Britain. It employed about then concentrated from 1953 on bringing Ann Bonsor worked for MI5 at Blenheim 13,000 people, a quarter of whom were up her family – Elizabeth, Mark, David Palace during the war and later joined women. She would later serve in Algiers, and Christine. Peter’s work as a Physics the Special Operations Executive (SOE), North Africa, as well as Bari, and then Siena teacher took them thence to Hendon, also known as ‘Churchill’s Secret Army’, in Italy, with her role involving ‘imparting Marlborough, Worcester, Bushey Heath and or the ‘Baker Street Irregulars’ – named culture’ to the army. finally to Brighton in 1966, a return to her after the errand boys for fictional detective beloved Sussex. Sherlock Holmes – as a wireless Morse Ann Elizabeth Bonsor was born in London code operator. Formed in 1942, the on September 22, 1923. Aged seven, she Margaret enjoyed travelling, with family SOE’s mission was to conduct espionage, and her sister moved to live with her uncle holidays in a Volkswagen camper van being sabotage and reconnaissance in Nazi- and aunt, Sir Reginald and Lady Bonsor, fondly remembered, but she also visited her occupied Europe and help create pockets in the Bedfordshire Elizabethan manor cousins in Tasmania and friends in the USA. of resistance. It was also directed to plan Liscombe Park. There she fostered a love Apart from her family, her chief loves were for guerrilla war in the event of a German of the arts and literature, preferring them to

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traditional country activities such as hunting. sessions in the ocean and she celebrated Miss Bonsor did not marry. She is survived her twenty-first birthday party on the beach. by her three nieces. She attended primary school in London After 15 months, she was posted to Bari before heading to Langford Grove boarding and then Siena, Italy, where she trained at Source: Oxford Mail, 8 May 2014 school in Essex. the Army School of Education. In memoriam In 1942 she left school to work for MI5 At that time she was told to apply to Oxford Benedicta FitzGerald (Burns 1944) at Blenheim Palace. The British domestic University, which she did successfully 6 September 1920 – 20 May 2013 intelligence service had been relocated in 1946 to read English language and to the estate in 1940 after its Wormwood literature at St Anne’s College. One of Scrubs prison headquarters were bombed her tutors was Hugo Dyson, an author during the London Blitz. of the time alongside JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis. After returning to Oxford she She lived out of rooms at Keble College and became involved with the Convent of the caught the bus to work where she mainly Incarnation in Fairacres, Parker Street, carried out administrative tasks. During and rekindled friendships made during her her time at Keble, she made friends with time at Blenheim. She bought a house in the warden of the College and his wife, Observatory Street in the early 1950s. Harry and Urith Carpenter. She would later befriend their son, Humphrey, a friendship Upon completing her degree she stayed which would lead to regular broadcasting on at St Anne’s to teach her subject to jobs at BBC Radio Oxford in the 1970s. She undergraduates and exchange students joined the SOE in 1943 and was trained in for 20 years. She also reconnected with wireless and Morse code. Humphrey Carpenter, who joined BBC Radio Oxford, and he was to give her many Working from a radio station codenamed commissioned broadcast jobs, interviewing Massingham in Algiers, she worked people about Oxford’s eminent authors and On 6 September 1920, Helen Agnes alongside agents being sent into occupied eccentrics. Benedicta Burns was born in St Leonards- Europe, whose messages she would on-Sea, East Sussex, daughter of Sir Alan receive and decode over the radio. That In her later years she maintained a host Burns, (who served as Governor in the Gold sometimes meant hearing them go off of close friends around the city and was a Coast, Nigeria, and British Honduras), and the air and signing “bosch” – the code for regular member of the congregation of St Kathleen Fitzpatrick Hardtman. capture and probable death. Mary Magdalen’s Church. She spent her school days at St Leonard’s, There was some relief in the base’s location, Ann Bonsor died peacefully at Oxford Mayfield, Convent of the Holy Child. After by the sea, where a lack of baths could retirement development Pegasus Grange on leaving school around 1938, she worked for easily be replaced by night-time bathing 25 April.

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Ditchling Press and it was probably there printmaking. She had two of her own that she learned the art of lettering in the prints displayed in the Victoria and Albert style of Eric Gill. She went on to study at St Museum. She also contributed the Anne’s where she graduated with a degree Printmakers’ Flora book, made by the in History. members of the Dartington Print Workshop, which also sold to the V&A. She held an Just before World War II, the Burns family exhibition of her art at St Anne’s College moved to Rutland Gate, Knightsbridge. She in the mid-90s. During her time in Devon, signed up for the Military Intelligence Service she also took up the art of campanology, and went to work at Blenheim Palace in and rang church bells in most of the local Woodstock, Oxfordshire. In 1959, she churches throughout the years. co-founded the ‘League of Friends’ for the patients of Shenley Hospital, and became In 2006, she moved to St George’s chairman. Park, near Ditchling, East Sussex where Home-Students (as we then were) did not she enjoyed several years of beautiful appear in the class lists for Mathematics On 2 March 1957, Benedicta married Dr countryside and, latterly, at the Sunrise Care until 1915 (Mods) and 1927 (Finals). In Otho William Strangman FitzGerald at the Home in Banstead where she spent the final the 1930s, our few students were looked Church of the Sacred Heart in Kingsbridge, two years of her varied and colourful life. after by the colourful Dorothy Maud Devon, and in 1963 they moved down to Wrinch, who had worked with GH Hardy, Devon where she would live for the next 45 Andy FitzGerald Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein. years. But essentially a scientist, and now In memoriam remembered as a pioneer of protein For nearly 25 years she dedicated much Mary Jennifer Kearsley structure in biochemistry, Wrinch had long energy to serving the local region as a 16 April 1931 – 23 May 2013 since emigrated to the USA by the time member of the Plymouth Health Authority in the Society took the name St Anne’s. We her role as chairman of the sub-committee The achievement of Mary Kearsley, who then had no maths tutors at all: though we for the local community. She also served died last year aged 82, was to bring the might have two or even three students at on the Community Health Council in mathematics school of St Anne’s College once, they would take their tutorials with Plymouth, which had been established in into being as a continuous community: one Ida Busbridge of St Hugh’s, perhaps, or 1974, as chairman of the League of Friends in which students of each generation knew Margaret Rayner of St Hilda’s. for Moorhaven Hospital and as a member and overlapped with the next. Mary served continuously as a Tutorial Fellow from 1959 of the council for the League of Friends at The arrival of Miss Kearsley as a Tutor in to 1998, an enormous span of time and Derriford Hospital in Plymouth. January 1959 was therefore a landmark change in our history. moment. She was nobody’s successor Benedicta had a keen interest in art and was not so much joining an existing and taught watercolour painting and Though dating from 1879, the Society of college as participating in a re-launch.

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The women of 1959 ate in the brand-new Acting Director of Studies in Mathematics University’s offer to place a statistics post Dining Hall, and used the brand-new drip at Somerville, providing sabbatical cover. at St Anne’s in hopes of securing a pure dry laundry in Bevington Road. Soon there But postdoctoral opportunities for women mathematician instead. She never did a were six mathematicians each year, living were few in Oxford. In 1956, Mary took up a better day’s work than when she hired Miss for the most part on-site, and getting their post as Assistant Lecturer at the University HA Priestley in 1969, successfully lobbying Applied tutorials from Miss Kearsley. Tutors of Manchester, again covering what we now colleagues to elect her to a full Fellowship at St Anne’s were routinely called Miss or call ‘physical applied’: electricity, gravitation, in 1971. Professor Priestley went on to Mrs rather than Dr, and students, too, were and wave-scattering. It was to be a brief serve as Dean, Senior Tutor and Senior sometimes Mrs by the time they graduated, apprenticeship but it left her perfectly Fellow, and continues to teach algebra but a certain social distance remained. No placed when St Anne’s wanted a hard- and complex analysis for us today, so it is undergraduate called her Mary to her face, working young tutor at £750 pa two years hard to imagine a more lastingly successful then or ever, despite close ties of loyalty and later: perks were one bedsit room next to appointment. Mary could be a good judge affection on both sides. a building site with a screeching circular of potential, and many of us will remember saw and one free lunch per week. ‘As you our first sight of her — shrewd, amused and Though born in Romford, Mary was know,’ wrote the Principal anxiously, ‘our benign — across an interview table. educated at Cambridge High School and needs for teaching Mathematics are urgent.’ came up to Somerville College, Oxford, in Mary was persuaded to accept. Across other tables Mary was a raconteur, 1949 with a scholarship in Physics. She in tutorials or College lunches, and her life soon switched to maths, but kept a foot in This is a tale of glittering prizes, but there story came out in picaresque and wholly both camps. Her doctoral research, under was another side to her life as a young unreliable anecdotes. If her imaginary the atomic physicist Maurice Pryce, was adult. Mary was only 25 when her mother picture of herself was an enlargement, on energy levels in the nucleus of lead- Rose Parr (1903-56) died and her father her life was nevertheless not as humdrum 206. Pryce was a virtuosic calculator and James Kearsley (1893-1962), a public as some people thought. Though largely a remarkable man, who had been a radar librarian, followed only five years later. An solitary, she was far from being concerned boffin during the war because he had only child, who had lost touch with her only with the life of the mind. She had a calculated the potential force of the atomic more distant connections, she found herself passion for the exotic, travelling to the bomb and wanted no part in it. After the bereft of all family. But she threw herself into Orient as something of an adventuress. war, however, he felt a sense of mission to teaching; she needed to be hard-working She was combative in spirit, bludgeoning make safe nuclear power possible. Another since she remained for 10 years the sole her way through any College issue which influence on Mary was Charles Coulson, mathematician in a college whose cohort of arose. Lengthy memos survive in which, who worked with great distinction on students was steadily growing. in her blue fountain-pen ink, Mary was quantum chemistry and took an avuncular totally opposed to something, with ‘totally’ interest in the careers of all of Oxford’s By the late 1960s, the need for more tuition underlined at least once. She could be younger applied mathematicians. Mary was was pressing, but in concert with Nancy fabulously rude and unconstructive with making herself known, and towards the end Fisher (later Trenaman), who had become her peers, and what she considered a of her time as a graduate student was the Principal, Mary rather cannily declined the mordant wit was sometimes not witty at

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all. But thunderstorms could pass quickly accommodation where, again, she made In memoriam to be followed by sunshine. She was quite friends. Her funeral was well-attended, and Enid Kirchberger (Albagli 1960) spectacularly bad at keeping to a timetable, her solicitor, by then her legal guardian, 1940 – 2014 and her tutorials ran to the length of a traced family connections long lost: a Russian novel; she admired Russian novels, cousin, for example, whom she’d last and could also read Japanese. known in the East End of London during the Blitz before he was evacuated from the By 1998, Mary had lived in College for 40 bombing. All the same, one cannot really years and, like her old friend Betty Rutson, end this obituary with the customary phrase our Tutorial Fellow in French, she had an ‘She is survived by...’. The house in Redhill upheaval to cope with when she retired. was demolished and the land snapped up She opted for a clean break, enlisting the by developers. Some of Mary’s books came help of Chris Breward, one of her former back to the College Library and she left us a Enid Kirchberger died unexpectedly at students, to move everything out to her substantial bequest, as many from her circle the beginning of March at her home in father’s old house in Redhill. It had been of early Fellows did. That will have a real Burgundy. largely vacant since 1962, except for and lasting effect. But her greater legacy is occasional vacation stays, and was getting to her students, on whom, for 40 years, she Between 1960 and 1963 Enid read French very run down. A capable householder made an indelible impression. As for those and Italian at St Anne’s. After graduation, might yet have saved it. Mary, however, was who came up after she retired, the Kearsley she married her first husband, David anything but, 40 years of College residence Prize for Applied Mathematics has been Gordon of Balliol, and began a successful having left her with no clear idea of how awarded after a convivial annual dinner for career in publishing. In the 1970s, her first to manage property. But her quirky charm 15 years now. Perhaps today’s winners marriage ended and she later met and and essential good nature, which never have only the haziest idea of who Kearsley married André Kirchberger, They lived for left her, served her well in retired life. Her was, but then, probably Mary didn’t know several years in Paris, where their son new neighbours adopted her, looking after much about Seymour, Hovey or Blake Alexandre was born. Moving to Brussels for her best interests, and cherishing her as whose prize scholarships she herself had André’s career, she trained and practised as the unique person she was. She was not won, back in the day. She was nevertheless a psychotherapist, also writing two books, idle: characteristically, she taught herself part of a rich intellectual tradition at one on Belgian food and the other on the New Testament Greek — her interest being Somerville in the 1950s, and in just that effects of life as an expatriate. linguistic not theological — and became a same sense, the mathematicians who arrive lively member of a reading group of amateur at St Anne’s next October will be joining a After retiring, Enid and André spent many classicists. Surprising things go on in Surrey community which Mary was instrumental in happy years in Burgundy, and shortly before and it turned out not to be the drab land forming. her death they had the joy of seeing their she’d been wary of. first grandchild born. Dr Graham Nelson, Supernumerary Mary passed her final years in sheltered Fellow and Lecturer in Mathematics Barbara Littlewood

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Gillian Elizabeth Mann (Ditchburn 1964) ‘beaten the disease’ or won your battle already been cancelled twice. I was all set 7 April 1943 - 5 October 2013 against it. to nurse her through convalescence. So, yes, my world did feel as though it had tilted ‘Living Well with Cancer’ – extracts When I was told that I had advanced but it prompted me into pretty frantic action from a talk that Gillian gave to friends ovarian cancer, I didn’t feel it was the worst and decision-making in the three weeks I and colleagues during one of the day of my life. I had suspected from the had before the op. It was a great incentive periods she spent in Dove House tests I was having what the diagnosis would to focus on what really needed to be done Hospice in Hull, August 2013 be and so it was not totally unexpected and even helped me with relatively trivial though, of course, it was a shock. I didn’t decisions I had been putting off, such as This is a personal story – because it’s my act as they invariably do in soaps by getting a properly comfortable office chair story and I’m telling it. No one else can tell demanding results from the radiologist for my study. it and I couldn’t tell anyone else’s. The point or asking the consultant ‘How long have I’m making is that everyone’s experience I got?’ In fact I don’t recall asking any I think it helped that I didn’t waste any time of cancer is different. So this is not a guide questions – I was too busy trying to take in wondering ‘Why me?’ That’s not a boast on how to cope with cancer. I would not what I was being told. It was the surgeon or a claim to virtue; it just happens to be be so presumptuous. I’m a strong believer who told me in his consulting room and, my philosophy in life to accept whatever that how people deal with a serious illness in the way of surgeons I expect, he was challenge comes with the view that these depends very much on their character – pretty bullish. He told me it was serious and things are sent to try us. I think it comes in other words the character affects the that I’d need a major operation to remove from some deeply buried faith – the idea experience of the illness rather than the as much disease as possible followed by that I am being tested and must behave as illness affecting the character. This is an chemotherapy to clear up whatever was well as I can. (I’m only speaking of major account of how I have dealt with it. I believe left. issues here – I’m as capable as anyone of on the whole it’s a positive message. being extremely petty over minor things!) I So how did I react? My recollection is that also saw it as an interesting experience to The title has a deliberate double meaning: my brain immediately went into overdrive, be undergone. living ‘well’ both as in feeling well and in rather like with a sudden bereavement enjoying a good quality of life. I believe I when there is so much to do and plan. Over the next few months, I had some have been fortunate to achieve both of How should I react? How do I tell people? bad times but the mood was underlyingly these in the almost four years since I was What do I need to do before I submit to positive. It was a case of recovering from diagnosed. Equally important is the word medical treatment? I had never spent a the operation, dealing with the chemo ‘living’. It seems there is still a widespread night in hospital before and I wasn’t at all and then seeing what happened. With an belief that cancer is an automatic death used to being ill. I rarely even got colds. I enormous amount of help from friends sentence and that death will probably follow was used to pulling my weight in a smoothly I made a good recovery from the op. quite quickly or, if you’re lucky, not at all, run household, doing all the driving and Because I’d always been vain about my when you will be described (wrongly in most of the catering and my friend Beryl good health, in a way some people are my view but I’ll come on to that) as having was unwell, awaiting an operation that had about their looks, to have become so

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temporarily helpless felt like a loss of self- have eaten more or less what I liked, while after the original diagnosis, that I was told esteem. I compensated for this by enjoying retaining my weight and drunk champagne a blood test indicated things were getting my natural powers of resilience which have fairly regularly. worse again. That was my worst moment also carried me through five successive because it pricked any delusion that it courses of chemotherapy. One of the most important things to me has would stay away for much longer. It was a been being myself. I’ve wanted as far as major reality check. As it turned out, it was In most cases chemotherapy was once possible to stay the same (for good or ill!) another six months before it had progressed every three weeks for six treatments and for my friends and family. Partly it’s a sort of to the point where I needed to resume in every case I had a varied reaction. I denial, I suppose, but also it’s a desire not chemo and I had many more days of good should stress that these reactions only ever to be defined by my illness. Maybe that’s living to come. So I continued to enjoy lasted a few days and often did not kick another reason I’ve never (until now) asked life, employing my carpe diem principle. I in until a few days after the treatment. In how long I’ve got. Of course I’ve looked became used to thinking short term but between, that is, most of the time (once up statistics and I’ve always known that, nevertheless planning longer term activities, I had regained my strength after the op.), given the advanced state of my cancer at some of which had to be cancelled but I was able to lead a perfectly ordinary, diagnosis, I would be very lucky to survive most of which were achieved: a day trip on fully-functioning life and I made the most five years; but I don’t really want to be a the Orient Express up to Edinburgh, several of it. Perhaps the best illustration of how statistic. I want to do my own thing and I’ve theatre trips to London, a friend’s birthday un-traumatic chemo can be is the course I been lucky enough to defy the odds for as tea at the Savoy, etc. was on last summer which, for some reason long as I have. had to be infused in short sessions every Being brave day for five days every three weeks. I would Prognosis take myself to these sessions and arranged From time to time people have told me them for late afternoon when it was easier Half way through my first course of chemo I’m being brave. I won’t pretend this isn’t to find a parking space. Quite often I would I was told by my oncologist that the cheering but I also find it rather baffling attend on my way home from a couple of disease would never go away, that even because I don’t feel particularly brave. I hours playing tennis. Even the nurses were if it was invisible to a scan, there would tend to associate bravery with making hard amused by that. be microscopic particles meaning it could decisions whereas putting up with an illness flare up again at any time. For me, that was is really a passive thing – something that’s Amongst other things I’ve achieved in the good timing. I think if I’d been told that at happening to me that I don’t have any last four years have been three boating the beginning I would have been much choice about. I suppose the answer is that holidays, when I did virtually all the steering, more discouraged. But by this stage, I was I can make a decision as to how I deal with one of my largest scale Fred Astaire talks, a doing well – the chemo was doing its job it – how I behave. cruise and several other holidays in England and I concentrated on the possibility that I (driving). I also served a year chairing my could go for quite a while before anything Also, there’s the tried and tested maxim GP practice’s first patient support group bad happened. In the event it was after my of looking beyond oneself. I’ve not felt and have generally tried to be useful. I second three-monthly check-up, 12 months sufficiently motivated to throw myself into

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a major fundraising effort as many cancer to be lucky enough to survive cancer only into grammar school. In 1941, she achieved patients seem to do. I think this is partly to die of heart disease, dementia or even entrance to what was then the Society of again a denial or at least a postponing of suicide. We all die and when I do I hope Home-Students and became the St Anne’s facing up to the reality of my shortened people may feel I have battled well but not Society in the following year. life. The main thing I’ve wanted is to carry ‘lost’. on as normal. I’ve found it a comfort to Joan’s Oxford days were right in the middle consider the problems of those closest to Gillian Mann of World War II. Though shy and somewhat me and to try and help. I don’t like it (though nervous at this age, she was dragooned I understand it) when people stop short of In memoriam into showing servicemen and foreign visitors telling me their problems and say, ‘Oh but Joan Monroe (Burgess 1941) around Oxford. The man she eventually compared to your situation…..’ It may help 1922 – 13 July 2013 married came from a distinguished Polish them put things in perspective but I don’t family, son of a burgomaster of Limburg want to feel excluded from their concerns. (Lviv).

Battles Along with the other Home-Students Joan lived in a variety of digs. Their meeting point Finally, don’t call me a loser! It occurred and common room at this time was in Ship to me long before I was diagnosed as Street. Hence, of course, the name of this strange that people with cancer were publication, The Ship. always regarded as ‘battling’ the disease, whereas those with dementia, arthritis The choice of careers for women in the After a BA in Modern Languages, Joan took or heart disease, for example, were not. 1940s was limited, but Joan Burgess was an Oxford Dip Ed. A long teaching career Worse, those who die from cancer tend to never in doubt of her destiny. She was a followed. She declared that she thoroughly be described as having ‘lost their battle’. born teacher. enjoyed her teaching posts, with pupils Even if this is described as a ‘brave’ battle ranging from nine-year-olds to adults, in it is a deeply depressing comment as it Devotion and enthusiasm was not all Joan grammar schools, comprehensives and implies that the patient is at fault, that she gave to teaching. In recognition of what colleges. hasn’t ‘battled’ hard enough. I have no St Anne’s did for her, she made the very problem with the word battle inasmuch as generous bequest of her house in New Among her more unusual assignments living with cancer is sometimes a real battle Malden, Greater London, to the College. was a stint teaching Jesuit novices public and I know that I can have some input on speaking and the social graces with the how well I live while I’m doing so. But I don’t Joan came from an academic family. Her aid of a video camera. She kept up with believe in miracle cures and I don’t believe I grandfather had been Head of Heaton the technology of the times and even in have the power ultimately to defeat what is Board School outside Bolton. Her mother her nineties checked her email daily on the in my case a deadly disease. I really don’t and several cousins all taught. They were computer in her study. She also took pride see why it should be considered a triumph not well to do, but as expected, Joan got in her driving, made sure her skills were up

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to scratch by taking the Advanced Driving In memoriam fluently, which might be useful. At her first Test and kept her car to the end. Margaret Pawley (Herbertson 1948) interview at the Baker Street headquarters 22 March 1922 – 28 February 2014 of the Inter Services Research Bureau, or After retiring, Joan continued to do ‘the firm’, as its members referred to it, she voluntary work. She loved dealing with the was told, ‘I hear you have volunteered for public and appreciated her weekly task of Cairo as a decoder’; it was the first she had manning the front desk at the Police Station heard of this but she accepted the job and in New Malden, where she now owned the was duly despatched with nine other girls house she has bequeathed to the College. to the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY) Cipher School attached to St Paul’s Church, Her services to the Metropolitan Police Wilton Place off Knightsbridge. It was here earned her an invitation to a Buckingham that she learned of SOE’s clandestine Palace tea party, for which she was greatly work, supporting resistance movements in exercised in buying a hat. Her taste in occupied countries in Europe. From Cairo, clothes was plain, even severe, though with where she was bound, they would be in her tall slim figure, she remembered her Margaret Pawley was born in Coblenz, contact with the resistance movements mother telling her she could have been a Germany on 22 March 1922. Her father, in Yugoslavia. She was recruited into model. James Herbertson, was with the British the FANYs as an Intelligence Officer the High Commission and was later to be following year, before being commissioned In her retirement Joan was also a part appointed the High Commissioner of the as second lieutenant and then posted to time librarian at the RHS gardens in British Occupied Forces in the Rhineland. Mola di Bari in Italy. She subsequently joined Wisley, knowledgeable about birds as Although the family left Germany in 1930, No.1 Special Force in Siena where she well as plants. In addition she acted as an when she was only eight, Margaret vividly remained until the end of the war. occasional guide at Ham House for the remembered her father lowering the Union National Trust. Jack for the last time, heralding the rise of Following the war, Margaret gained a Hitler and the Third Reich. Diploma in Social Studies at Barnet House It was always a pleasure to talk with Joan. before going up to St Anne’s College to She stood no nonsense but was always On returning to England, Margaret went read History. She loved her time there and kind, interested as well as interesting and to school at Stratford House in Kent and was subsequently very actively involved with sharp witted to the end. in 1939, when war broke out, she went to the alumnae association, attending dinners work as a secretary at the New Zealand Air and talks at St Anne’s right up until the last Joan’s husband, Adam Monroe, died in Force Headquarters. In September 1943, years of her life. 1989. They had one son, Bob, who now at just 21, Margaret was recruited by the lives in Italy. Special Operations Executive (SOE) as On leaving university, she moved back her father had friends in the organisation to London and taught at the Women’s Valerie Beeby and they knew that she spoke German Institute. In 1952, she was invited by the

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Malaysian High Commissioner, Sir Gerald and examined the estrangement and Margaret also continued to be involved Templar and his wife, to go to Malaysia to reconciliation of the two churches from the with the Anglican Centre in Rome, establish the Women’s Institute in outlying reformation up to the end of the Vatican played an active role on the Committee villages. By the time she left, seven months Council. A revised second edition appeared to St George’s, Jerusalem and was an later, she had organized 39 territorial in 1981, the year of Archdeacon Pawley’s advisor to the Focolare, an ecumenical associations and 150 institutes consisting of death. movement, which she and Bernard had first some 6,000 women. encountered during their time in Rome. She While living in Canterbury, Margaret had still made time, however, in her busy life, to After returning from Malaysia, Margaret started teaching history for the Open visit her wide circle of friends and growing moved to Cambridge to work as a county University and this would prove to be a family. education organiser. It was here that she lifeline in those early days following her met Bernard Pawley, an ordained minister, husband’s death. She also led pilgrimages In 1994, Margaret was awarded the who was 11 years her senior. They were to the Abbey of Bec in Normandy and Cross of St Augustine by Archbishop married in Cambridge on 11 January 1958 continued writing and editing. She in fact Carey at Lambeth Palace; a prestigious and shortly afterwards the Revd Pawley was wrote a further four books: Servant of honour for those who have given long and appointed Canon of Ely Cathedral. Christ, the official biography of Archbishop exceptionally distinguished service to the Donald Coggan, and Faith and Family: the Church of England. In recent years she In 1961, when Pope John XXIII announced life and circle of Ambrose Phillips de Lisle, reviewed books for the Church Times. his intention to call the Second Vatican describing the life of Ambrose de Lisle. In Council, Archbishop Fisher appointed the preface of this book, Margaret writes: ‘I Bernard as his representative to the Holy wish to thank the Principal and governing See, Observer to the Council and the body of St Hugh’s College, Oxford, for Archbishop’s liaison with the Secretariat the research award in the shape of the for promoting Christian Unity, attached Yates Senior Scholarship in Divinity which to the Anglican Centre in Rome. For five they gave me towards the preparation of years in the early-60s, the Pawleys travelled this book.’ She also acknowledges Lady backwards and forwards to Rome, initially Margaret Hall, who gave her a travelling on their own and then with their two very grant to look at archives in Rome, and the young children, Felicity and Matthew. British Academy, who gave a grant towards research expenses. In Obedience to On their return to England in 1965, Instructions, about her wartime experiences Bernard became a Canon at St Paul’s and in the SOE and the FANYs, and The Watch Margaret Pawley is survived by her two in 1972 was appointed as Archdeacon on the Rhine, detailing the inter-war period children, Felicity and Matthew, seven of Canterbury. During this time, he and as witnessed during her father’s time with grandchildren and a great-granddaughter, Margaret started work on their first the High Commission in Germany complete whose birth in 2013 delighted her. book, Rome and Canterbury Through the list. This final book was published when Four Centuries. It was published in 1975 she was 85. Matthew Pawley

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In memoriam a change of schools in London, she was twice, the Panama Canal, a Mediterranean Iris Plaister (McKay 1948) sent to Teignmouth, in Devon, and she was cruise and to the Pyramids in Egypt. 7 February 1929 – 22 April 2013 so unhappy that she and another girl ran away and got the train back to London! Throughout her life Iris maintained a love of literature and language. We used to Iris came up to St Anne’s in 1948 to study enjoy playing Scrabble, but I nearly always English; later she changed to Greats. During won because I played to win whereas she her time at College she was tutored by Iris played for the sheer love of words. She was Murdoch, something she was immensely always deeply religious. While studying at proud of. St Anne’s, she lived for a while in the hostel at Springfield St Mary and did contemplate She returned to London after College and becoming a nun herself; later in life she qualified as a chartered librarian. By her made visits to Lourdes and Chartres. late-20s, Iris was singing semi-professionally under the stage name Julia Kay. During this Iris married twice more. While living in period she met her first husband (and my Hastings she married Tony Blazier, who father) – Oscar Tapper. Unfortunately Iris unfortunately became ill with cancer and and Oscar separated and Iris was left to died in 1990. And in 2004 she married Iris was born in 1929, in Greenwich, bring me up on her own. Stephen Plaister and they lived together in London. Her mother Ivy was born and Salisbury. Iris and Stephen had a shared brought up on the Isle of Wight, came In the following years, Iris continued to work love of religion, books, language, culture, over to London in her 20s, and worked as a librarian and in her later years, before and these last nine years with Stephen were as a cook for a naval officer. She met Iris’s retirement, set up her own small company some of the happiest years of Iris’s life. father, Frank McKay, at Speakers Corner, in doing freelance cataloguing work. She London, and they were married on the Isle moved to many different houses in South I myself came up to St Anne’s in 1981 and of Wight in 1923. Frank McKay was much London, and she also lived in Hastings, met my wife here (Mary Barnes); one of our travelled: he had worked in the USA with Tunbridge Wells and Salisbury. She always daughters, Alice Tapper, also came up in Buffalo Bill and travelled with the Barnum enjoyed moving to a new house and making 2012. Iris was diagnosed with advanced and Bailey circus, but during the years when alterations to her liking. She also loved cancer in December 2012 and when she Iris was born and brought up, he worked gardening – she took particular pride in her learnt of this, one of the things she was mainly as a dock labourer. sunflowers and runner beans. most sad about was that she would not get to visit Oxford again so that all of us could When the war started in 1939, Iris was She enjoyed singing throughout her life, attend the St Anne’s Gaudy together. She 10 and was evacuated to several different was a lifelong member of the Youth Hostel passed away peacefully at home on 22 April places. She very much enjoyed her time at Association and enjoyed walking and 2013 surrounded by close family. her first billet, in Brightling, Sussex, but after camping. In the late 1990s and early 2000s Iris embarked on several journeys: the USA Edward Tapper

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In memoriam old, the unemployed and, from personal In memoriam Professor Olive Stevenson, CBE experience, the unwell. Fabia Tallintire (Shutler 1990) 13 December 1930 – 30 September 2013 1962 – 3 May 2014 Despite her university and public work, Olive Only a few of our readers will have been was an active member of our Governing lucky enough to have known Olive, who Body, focusing on fairness and good died on 30 September 2013 aged 82. sense, and aiming for consensus rather She was described in the Guardian as the than confrontation. Although she had leading UK academic in her field of Social no contact with JCR members, she was Policy and Administration. She read English very supportive of her graduate pupils, at LMH, and during her summer vacs particularly of their field work. worked in a residential school for disturbed children. After some years of practical social The obituaries rightly celebrated her gift work, she returned, via Bristol and London, of friendship. This extended to dogs and to Oxford as University Lecturer in Social garden birds, but emphatically not to cats. Policy and Administration. On promotion to With humans, she seasoned her warmth, Reader in 1970, she became a Professorial generosity, compassion and insight with a Fellow of St Anne’s and a member of our lively, often earthy, sense of humour. She Governing Body. But other Universities enjoyed travel to other cultures, particularly sought her expertise. In 1976, she became if free from physical effort or discomfort Fabia was born in Kettering in 1962 and it the first female professor at Keele and in and accompanied by a diet of freshly was here at the age of three years that she 1984 settled at Nottingham, where she caught fish. But her main non-professional showed her first sign of affinity with animals; worked, well beyond her formal retirement, pleasure was listening to music, to which she was found with three snails in a line until prevented by ill-health. she applied near-professional standards. To moving up her bare arm. my untrained ear, she had a fine contralto During her time with us, Olive chaired the voice; but she abandoned singing lessons She moved with her family to London as inquiry into the death of seven-year-old when she felt she could never achieve the the eldest daughter of three, and from there Maria Colwell. She publicised the challenge level she thought acceptable. This was to Kenley, Surrey, in 1968, attending Roper faced by social workers, emphasising the typical of Olive. Even after the strokes which Catholic Primary and Croydon High School. importance of full collaboration between much reduced her energy and mobility, she While growing up in Kenley located close them and schools, the police and the expected the best of herself. We were lucky to woodlands, she maintained her great families. Someone Else’s Child was her to have had her among us, albeit briefly. interest in animals and had pet geckos, first of a number of books on such topics, chameleons, tortoises and rats. Living in written in a style accessible to busy (and Hazel Rossotti her back garden under an open wood often stressed) workers in the field. Later, compost heap was a colony of slow worms she also championed vulnerable adults: the of which she made a study, finding out a

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great deal about them including that they slow worms, various birds, foxes and Ottley School in Worcester she gained a communicated with each other by clicks hedgehogs. One jay chick she rescued place on an exhibition at St Anne’s, reading which only young people could hear. still returns to the garden with her offspring Modern History. During her time at St each year. We have had a number of dogs Anne’s she sang in the St Anne’s/Jesus Fabia left home at the age of 17 and over the years but her love of Rhodesian choir, and joined the Christian Union and trained to become an insurance broker in Ridgebacks was foremost. The latest the Bishop Jewel Society. Through these, Caterham. two are the ones she got from rescue she met David Weston (St Edmund Hall) kennels and were still being walked in local and a shared interest in the Ruanda Mission At the age of 25, she took her A Levels woodlands by Fabia until very recently. and the Church Missionary Society (CMS) and applied to St Anne’s College to study developed, which set them both on a path Biology matriculating in 1990. Her mother, She first became seriously ill in late 2012 to Africa. Josephine Anne Shutler (Boulding) had also and again early this year with lung issues; attended St Anne’s matriculating in 1950. more recently she had to return to hospital She taught briefly at Clarendon School, Fabia supplemented her student grant by and passed away on 3 May 2014. then situated in North Wales, before training working and was always very independent. with the CMS, and then in Brussels to Fabia will be sadly missed by all those improve her French and to start learning After gaining her BA in Biology in 1993 she knew. She always came across as Kinyarwanda. Once her training was she went to work in the laboratories of an intelligent and informed woman and finished, she travelled alone to Africa by ship University College London working in she will be remembered for her kindness, and overland across Kenya and Uganda to genetics. In 1997, she moved to the understanding and the help she gave to marry David in Ruanda in 1957. Babraham Research Institute in Cambridge others which she continued to do right until and continued to work in this area. This is the end. The next 25 or so years were spent in where we met (I worked as an electrician Africa, where the political situation meant there) and we were married in 1998. She never complained about her own health that they moved from Ruanda to Uganda, and disposition and will always be in my to Ruanda again, and so on. They stayed We moved to Caterham, Surrey in late 1998 thoughts. in Ruanda until 1963, working at Mission so that Fabia could be within easy reach Schools at Remara and Shyogwe. Gwyneth of her mother and sister who were both Dennis Tallintire taught sewing, childcare and piano playing, unwell and later passed away. She worked as well as translating religious leaflets and for a while as a private tutor but became ill In memoriam a devotional book into Kinyarwanda. She herself with various issues. Gwyneth Mary Weston (Jones 1950) set up homes, wherever they were, for their 11 February 1932 – 27 January 2013 growing family (two girls and a boy) while Even when ill, Fabia still managed to keep having to get used to no electricity or gas, her interest in animals and their well-being, Gwyneth and her two siblings were brought no shops near, boiling the milk and water, a rescuing them and putting them back up in Malvern and Worcester, where their wood-fired stove and paraffin lamps. into their natural habitat. These included parents owned a pharmacy. From Alice

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The family moved to King’s College, Budo parents were overseas, or when possible, tapes and cassettes, also helping family near Kampala in Uganda (originally a CMS travelling to wherever their parents were – history researchers to use the documentary school and run on English public school such was the life of ‘missionary’ children and computer resources. Her life remained lines). David was Vice-Principal with a then. very busy until dementia started to take particular interest in helping Ruandan its toll. She died in January 2013 in a refugees who had fled to Uganda from In 1980, the family moved from Standlake residential nursing home in Merton, near Ruanda. Gwyneth did some teaching to Iffley, though David continued to work Bicester. The funeral took place at St (History, this time) and helped with the mostly overseas. Once again, Gwyneth was Ebbe’s, well attended by family and friends girls’ boarding house and many of the teaching, first at Wychwood School, then at from all aspects of her life. Later her ashes school’s activities. She also joined a choir in Oxford Intensive School of English, teaching were scattered in a quiet garden at St Kampala. I was able to visit them there for English as a foreign language. She joined Anne’s in the presence of a small group of an unforgettable holiday in that beautiful and the Bach choir, was a regular member of St friends. fascinating country. Ebbe’s Church and, continuing her passion for learning, taught herself Italian to A Level David had died in London, a few years In 1970, the family returned to the now and then did some research in Italian history earlier; Gwyneth is survived by their three renamed Rwanda. David worked at the at St Anne’s. In 1990, her MLitt thesis on children and four grandchildren. Wherever University and Gwyneth again taught, Education in Fascist Italy was accepted. she was, and particularly in her later years including some teaching of the local She later worked as a translator for an when she lived near or in Oxford, Gwyneth language to expatriates. At the same time, Italian academic, translating his book on retained her links with St Anne’s and her they maintained links with their missionary philosophy into English. He very much Oxford friends, and revelled in all that colleagues in Rwanda and Uganda. When appreciated not only her translation but also Oxford could offer. the political situation became difficult, her ability to draw on the wide historical and Gwyneth evacuated to Kenya for a while cultural background. Gillian Sainsbury (Burrows 1950). Mainly and in 1973 to Dakar in Senegal to join based on a memorial note included in the David for a further period. As no work was When David retired from working overseas, service sheet at Gwyneth’s funeral and available for her in Senegal, she decided they decided to separate, and in 1993 written by Jane, her younger daughter. to move permanently back to the UK to Gwyneth moved to her own flat in Iffley. live in a house which they had purchased With flexible work and the children now in Standlake (near Witney) several years adults, she was able to travel more and before. made many trips to Italy and, as two of her children were now in Australia, to South Their three children were by now in schools Australia and New South Wales. (two boarding) in the UK. The two older children had gone to boarding school from Her history and research skills were much the age of five or six, at first in Uganda or used when she volunteered to work at the Kenya and then in the UK, spending their Oxfordshire History and Records, digitising holidays with relatives in the UK when their and building the database from oral history

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In memoriam Marjorie Reeves: St Anne’s College Boat Club: THOMPSON, Jean: 1942 List of £1,644 £3,306 BRIDGART (Arkell), Christine: In memoriam Mrs Bednarowska: Hong Kong Summer School: 1943 Donors to £125 £97,687 STEPHENSON (Berry), Joy: 1943 Irene Dorner Bursary Fund: BATCHELOR (Brown), Jean: 1944 College, £25,000 (NB: Many of the fund totals are BEATTY (Cocker), Audrey: 1944 Law Fund: £1,000 greater than the fgures stated CHAPMAN, Gwendolen: 1944 Jim Stanfield Memorial Fund: here, which refers only to the last CLARK, Ailsa: 1944 2012-13 £24,434 year’s donations.) GRAY (Edmunds), Joyce: 1944 A total of £3,005,697 was gifted Marianne Fillenz Memorial Fund: LORIMER (Packard), Priscilla: by St Anne’s alumnae, parents £10,725 The Principal and Fellows 1944 and friends between 1 August Materials Growth and Travel Fund: acknowledge with deep MCHUGH (Barlow), Jean: 1944 2012 and 31 July 2013, to the £11,250 gratitude the following WELLS (Lehmann), Yvonne: 1944 following funds: Michelle Clayman Research alumnae, parents and friends ORR (Stones), Joy: 1944 Scholarship: £49,089 for their gifts (1 August 2012 to Student Support Fund Sarah McCabe Bursary Fund: 31 July 2013): Total given: £184,247 Greatest current college need: £250 £386,210 Year of 1955 Bursary: £60 Pre-1940 1945-1949 Year of 1962 Bursary: £1,204 BEESLEY (Ridehalgh), Ruth: 1938 BAIRD (Dutton), Audrey: 1945 Student Bursaries and BADENOCH (Forster), Anne: 1940 BARNES (Ponsonby), Mary: 1945 Scholarships Student accommodation and GAULD (Marshall), Doreen: 1940 BUDGE (Parry), Megan: 1945 Archer Medical Fund Bursaries: buildings LUCEY (Denham), Mary: 1940 EDWARDS, Hilary: 1945 £11,250 Accommodation: £13,079 JACKSON (Hurley), Barbara: Bursary Fund: £226,875 Building Fund: £813 Total given: £61,395 1945 Claire Palley Bursary Fund: Kitchen: £24,009 PEADEN (Morris), Valerie: 1945 £82,500 New Library and Academic 1941-1944 WOLFFE (Bailey), Mary: 1945 Danson Bursary Fund: Centre: £275,900 BISGOOD, Jeanne: 1941 BONSOR, Ann: 1946 £1,500,000 BLAKE, Mary: 1941 COSH, Mary: 1946 Delbridge Bursary Fund: £455 Teaching Support BOUSFIELD (Calvert-Smith), CRAIG (Clarkson), Mary: 1946 English Henson Geography Prize: Classics: £156,198 Pamela: 1941 CRAWSHAY (Reynolds), £625 English: £125 WATTS (Budge), Grizel: 1941 Elizabeth: 1946 Ferreras Willetts Modern Mathematics: £519 BROWN (Green), Margaret: 1942 FORSTER, Helen: 1946 Languages Scholarships: £50,000 Philosophy: £74,198 BURTT (Waite), Audrey: 1942 MOFFAT (Black), Margaret: 1946 Graduate Development Scheme: DUNCOMBE, Ruth: 1942 O’FLYNN (Brewster), Hazel: 1946 £375 Library provision HORSFALL, Jean: 1942 STRAWSON, Ann: 1946 GDST Bursary Scheme: £1,000 Library Fund: £2,978 KENNARD (Walter), Therese: ANDREW, Margaret: 1947 Hardship Fund: £61,000 PPE Library: £2,938 1942 BORTHWICK (Orton), Betty: 1947 Ioma Evans-Pritchard Fund: £608 STUDDERT KENNEDY (Leathart), CAVALIERO (Mcdonnell), Mary: Gillian: 1942 1947

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KEEN (Wordingham), Patricia: SWORD (Boyle), Beatrice: 1949 BUXTON (Aston), Margaret: 1951 PICKERSGILL, Mary: 1952 1947 THURLOW (Yarker), Molly: 1949 EVANS (Wightwick), Sylvia: 1951 POWELL (Masters), Hazel: 1952 LEWIS, Keri: 1947 TUCKWELL (Bacon), Margaret: FARRIS, Dianne: 1951 SECKER WALKER (Lea), Lorna: MARSLAND, Pauline: 1947 1949 FOX (Wheeler), Rosemary: 1951 1952 MERRICK (Richards), Celia: 1947 VENABLES (Richards), Ann: 1949 GAZDZIK, Barbara: 1951 SHAND (Abbott), Anne: 1952 WOLF (Eliot), Elizabeth: 1947 WALTERS (Purcell), Anne: 1949 HARTMAN (Carter), Pauline: 1951 SHERWOOD (Briggs), Shirley: BAILEY, Margaret: 1948 WARD (Hawking), Sheila: 1949 HICKS (Gander), Jennifer: 1951 1952 CLUTTERBUCK (Romeril), WHITBY (Field), Joy: 1949 HUMPHREYS (Smith), Carol: STANLEY (Franklin), Audrey: 1952 Margaret: 1948 WOLSTENCROFT (Browne), 1951 TAYLOR (Rumelin), Gabriele: 1952 DAVIS (Mcgaw), Christine: 1948 Valerie: 1949 HUTCHINSON (Nutbrown), TAYLOR, Kate: 1952 GLYNNE, Dilys: 1948 Daphne: 1951 TOMKINSON (Minster), Norah: HALE, Barbara: 1948 Total given: £114,199 LEWIS (Keir), Ann: 1951 1952 HONORÉ (Duncan), Deborah: LIPTON (Alis), Vera: 1951 WEST (Adamson), Addy: 1952 1948 1950-54 LIVELY (Low), Penelope: 1951 WOOD (Gunning), Maureen: 1952 HORTON (Butler), Carol: 1948 BARLOW (Finn), Maureen: 1950 LUTHI (Wilkinson), Ann Louise: BARLOW (Davis), Betsy: 1953 KAYE, Elaine: 1948 CONGDON (Hammond), Mary: 1951 BIRCH, Margaret: 1953 LEDGER (Lloyd-Jacob), Jenny: 1950 MIDDLETON (Hobbs), Ann: 1951 BRISTOW (Turnbull), Jeannette: 1948 EVEREST-PHILLIPS (Everest), MOUGHTON (Parr), Elizabeth: 1953 MARQUARDT (Lindsay-Rea), Anne: 1950 1951 BROOKING-BRYANT (Walton), Mary: 1948 HALLAWAY, Mary: 1950 PALMER (Theophilus), Elizabeth: Audrey: 1953 MARTIN (Sandle), Patricia: 1948 HEATH, Mary: 1950 1951 DUNKLEY (Eastman), Shirley: MILTON (Ward), Irene: 1948 HUGHES (Chetwyn), Mary: 1950 ROUND (Church), Pat: 1951 1953 PAWLEY (Herbertson), Margaret: MELLORS (Williamson), Wendy: RUTHERFORD, Jean: 1951 DYNE (Heath), Sonia: 1953 1948 1950 TAYLOR, Rosemary: 1951 HOWARD, Christine: 1953 PRICE, Maureen: 1948 MURRAY (Goffart), Claude: 1950 TUNSTALL (Mitchell), Olive: 1951 JACKSON (Mansergh), Deborah: STUART-SMITH (Motion), Joan: POLLON (Waywell), Joyce: 1950 UNWIN (Steven), Monica: 1951 1953 1948 ROBSON (Moses), Anne: 1950 WHITE, Gillian: 1951 JESSIMAN (Smith), Maureen: BARCLAY (Hurst), Joan: 1949 SAINSBURY (Burrows), Gillian: BAGLEY (Tong), Margaret: 1952 1953 BOWEN (Williams), Ursula: 1949 1950 BULL (Fife), Anne: 1952 JONES (Hughes), Barbara: 1953 GIBBONS, Peggy: 1949 SAUNDERS (Topley), Ann: 1950 COCKERILL (Brewer), Charlotte: JONES (Strand), Kathleen: 1953 HYDE-THOMSON (D’Erlanger), STEWART (Holloway), Kathleen: 1952 LARKINS (Rees), Fay: 1953 Zoë: 1949 1950 FAIRN, Alison: 1952 LAWRENCE (Gilbert), Anne: 1953 JONES, Madeline: 1949 WERNBERG-MOLLER, Sasha: HARMAN (Bridgeman), Erica: MARLOW (Evans), Iris: 1953 LAISHLEY, Anne: 1949 1950 1952 ORSTEN, Elisabeth: 1953 LOWIS (Harding), Olive: 1949 WIGHTWICK (Layzell), Pamela: HODGSON (Giles), Dawn: 1952 PEELER (Wynne), Diana: 1953 MICKLEM (Monro), Ruth: 1949 1950 HOLLAND (Wilson), Valerie: 1952 PENNY (Gross), Jennifer: 1953 OSBORNE, Marian: 1949 ALLEN (Franklin), Jennifer: 1951 MAKIN (Winchurch), Margaret: ROSE (Clark), Sonia: 1953 SCOTT (Gregory), Rita: 1949 AMHERST (Davies), Ann: 1951 1952 STRINGER, Judith: 1953 SMITH (Gane), Ann: 1949 BARRY (Morris), Elaine: 1951 PARRY (Lonnon), Shirley: 1952 WEBBER (Kiewe), Ruth: 1953

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ARNOLD (Roberts), Anthea: 1954 HEWITT (Rogerson), Paula: 1955 PATERSON (Hargreaves), Sylvia: TRITTER (Shorland-Ball), Gill: BEER (Thomas), Gillian: 1954 LINTOTT (Stone), Dinah: 1955 1956 1957 BRUMFITT (Ford), Margaret: 1954 MOORE (Slocombe), Anne: 1955 RUTTER, Mary: 1956 YOUNG (Clifford), Barbara: 1957 CARUS (Bishop), Sally: 1954 OCKENDEN (Askwith), Ann: 1955 SALISBURY (Jones), Elisabeth: BANNISTER (Taylor), Jean: 1958 DOUGLAS (Mills), Audrey: 1954 ONSLOW (McGrath), Barbara: 1956 COLLINS, Norma: 1958 EYSENBACH, Mary: 1954 1955 VARLEY (Stephenson), FOWLER (Lloyd), Lorna: 1958 HARDCASTLE, Margaret: 1954 PATON (Hodgkinson), Anne: 1955 Gwendolen: 1956 HARDY (Speller), Janet: 1958 HEADLEY (Pinder), Mary: 1954 PATON WALSH (Bliss), Jill: 1955 ATHRON (Ogborn), Ruth: 1957 HARTMAN, Joan: 1958 HEATH (Richmond), Pamela: REVILL (Radford), Ann: 1955 BACON (Mason), Ann: 1957 HAYMAN (Croly), Janet: 1958 1954 ROBERTSON, Valerie: 1955 BELL (Watt), Christine: 1957 JALLOQ (Taylor), Monica: 1958 LINDLEY (Ratcliff), Judy: 1954 SHORE (Smith), Gill: 1955 BISPHAM (Gordon), Jennifer: KENWRICK, Patricia: 1958 MCCRACKEN (Chavasse), SLOCOCK (Whitehead), Gilia: 1957 MALPAS (Bassington), Ann: 1958 Gabrielle: 1954 1955 BOYDE, Susan: 1957 MATTHIAS (Leuchars), Elizabeth: NEWSON (Dawson), Janet: 1954 SMITH (Philpott), Christine: 1955 CHRISTENFELD (Vincent-Daviss), 1958 NICHOLS (Cleave), Maureen: STEVENSON, Patricia: 1955 Liddie: 1957 MORGAN (Roberts), Enid: 1958 1954 VON BIBRA (Johnston), Berta: CLARKE (Gamblen), Alice: 1957 ROBINSON (Neal), Patricia: 1958 PIOTROW (Tilson), Phyllis: 1954 1955 DRAPER (Fox), Heather: 1957 SCOTT (Groves), Miriam: 1958 PULLAR-STRECKER (Fraser), WILSON, Elizabeth: 1955 FLEMING (Newman), Joan: 1957 SMITH (Treseder), Judy: 1958 Anne: 1954 ANDREW (Cunningham), Sheila: FUECKS (Ford-Smith), Rachel: SUMNER (Palmer), Gill: 1958 REYNOLDS (Morton), Gillian: 1956 1957 WOOD (Chatt), Sara: 1958 1954 BETTS (Morgan), Valerie: 1956 GRAHAM (Portal), Mary: 1957 BARCLAY (Thomason), Sally: SNAITH (Chislett), Josephine: CLARKE (Wood), Peggy: 1956 GRIFFIN (Dressler), Miriam: 1957 1959 1954 CROSS (Barlow), Rosemary: HOGG (Cathie), Anne: 1957 BERNSTEIN (Kidson), Sandra: TAYLOR (Macadam), Helen: 1954 1956 MACLENNAN (Cutter), Helen: 1959 WALTER (Chipperfeld), Christina: DAVIES (Mornement), Margaret: 1957 BOTTOMS (Wenger), Janet: 1959 1954 1956 MORETON (Stone), Jane: 1957 BRENDON (Davis), Vyvyen: 1959 WHARTON (Mccloskey), Barbara: DAVISON (Le Brun), Pauline: 1956 PARTRIDGE (Hughes), Joan: CAMERON (Ungoed Thomas), 1954 FANN, Bridget: 1956 1957 Katherine: 1959 WOOD (Russell), Margaret: 1954 HENNESSEY (Tildesley), Freda: PATERSON, Mary: 1957 DE FREITAS, Frankie: 1959 1956 PHILLIPS (Simmonds), Anna: EVEREST (Lupton), Diana: 1959 Total given: £166,053 HENSMAN (Hawley), Barbara: 1957 FINDLAY (Boast), Judith: 1959 1956 PRESTON (Haygarth), Barbara: FINNEMORE, Judith: 1959 1955-59 HOME, Anna: 1956 1957 GREENWAY (Denerley), Ann: BROD (Sofaer), Jessica: 1955 LECOMTE DU NOUY (Welsh), ROBERTS (Forrest), Dominica: 1959 CHARLTON (Nichols), Anne: 1955 Patricia: 1956 1957 GREY (Hughes), Mary: 1959 CVIIC (Antrobus), Celia: 1955 LEWIS (Hughes), Pauline: 1956 ROBERTS (Armitage), Judith: GRUFFYDD JONES (Woodhall), DAVEY (Watson), Audrey: 1955 MAGNE (Lisicky), Vera: 1956 1957 Maureen: 1959 GOSLING, Margaret: 1955 MCMASTER (Fazan), Juliet: 1956 STEWART, Annabel: 1957 JONES, Grania: 1959 NEWELL, Wendy: 1956 STRANG (Nash), Jennifer: 1957 MERCER, Patricia: 1959

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SAYCE (Papworth), Julia: 1959 WINTER (Fountain), Julia: 1960 JONES (Smith), Elizabeth: 1962 PRIDEAUX (Griffn), Elisabeth: VERRALL (Silvester), Peggy: 1959 BAKER (Grattan-Doyle), Sarah: MACE, Anne: 1962 1963 1961 PALMER (Allum), Marilyn: 1962 RUSHTON (Jones), Virginia: 1963 Total given: £34,497 BRYANT (Chapman), Anne: 1961 PEAGRAM (Jackson), Christine: SEYMOUR-RICHARDS COMPTON (Fennell), Jennifer: 1962 (Seymour), Carol: 1963 1960-64 1961 REMNANT, Mary: 1962 SWANWICK (Moody), Bernadette: ANDREWS (Devonshire), Irene: COURT (Smith), Rosie: 1961 SALINSKY (Fasnacht), Mary: 1963 1960 FORBES, Eda: 1961 1962 TINDALL-SHEPHERD (Dunn), BACK, Patricia: 1960 GOODELL, Grace: 1961 SAUNDERS (Popham), Mary: Wendy: 1963 BLATCHFORD (Rhodes), Barbara: KILLICK (Mason), Rachel: 1961 1962 TURNER (Chang), Mei Lin: 1963 1960 LAMBERT (Bostock), Nina: 1961 SCHULTE (Gardner), Susan: 1962 BARRON (Taylor), Enid: 1964 BROOMHEAD (Lemon), Christine: LANG (Wicks), Jacqueline: 1961 SHEPHERD, Gill: 1962 ELLIS (Barber), Susanne: 1964 1960 LEWIS (Tye), Christine: 1961 STUART (Garlant), Julia: 1962 EVANS (Moss), Isabel: 1964 CARLIN, Norah: 1960 MANN (Ditchburn), Jill: 1961 WARD (Tubb), Christine: 1962 GRIMOND (Fleming), Kate: 1964 DAVEY (Macdonald), Elizabeth: REID (Massey), Susan: 1961 WEIR-JEFFERY (Scrymgeour), HARRIS (Telfer), Judy: 1964 1960 SHENTON, Joan: 1961 Jean: 1962 HIBBARD, Caroline: 1964 DUSINBERRE (Stainer), Juliet: SHIPP (Nightingale), Phillida: 1961 WHITE (Pippin), Ailsa: 1962 HOFFMAN (Hilson), Rosalind: 1960 TAYLOR-TERLECKA, Nina: 1961 WILLIAMS (Ferguson), Fiona: 1964 HOWE (Shumway), Sandra: 1960 WATERHOUSE (Wraight), Virginia: 1962 JULIAN (Whitworth), Celia: 1964 JACKSON (Edenbrow), Anthea: 1961 WILSON (Higgins), Margaret: MALONE-LEE (Cockin), Claire: 1960 WILSON (Ridler), Kate: 1961 1962 1964 JONES FINER (Jones), Catherine: WOODWARD (Hagestadt), ATKINSON (Pearson), Helen: MANN, Gillian: 1964 1960 Margaret: 1961 1963 MILLER (Robertson), Mary: 1964 NEVILLE (Clark), Susan: 1960 YOUNG (Cowin), Pat: 1961 BAINES (Smith), Jennifer: 1963 MOLE (Atkinson), Nuala: 1964 NEWLANDS (Ragworts), ARCHER (Weeden), Mary: 1962 BARLING (Brown), Lynette: 1963 MONK, Sarah: 1964 Elizabeth: 1960 BOWEN (Stevens), Naomi: 1962 ELEY (Quirk), Joanna: 1963 PACKER (Sellick), Sally: 1964 PATON (Parftt), Sarah: 1960 BURNETT (Matson), Stella: 1962 HAGUE (Hannington), Judy: 1963 ROBBINS (Cast), Stephanie: 1964 SANDFORD (Curry), Janet: 1960 CAIRNCROSS, Frances: 1962 HARRIS (Dixon), Jenifer: 1963 ROBINSON (Hinchliffe), Susan: SIMONS (Phillips), Angela: 1960 COATES (Symons), Liz: 1962 HUNT (Siddell), Ann: 1963 1964 SPENCER (Turnbull), Maureen: COOK (Gisborne), Janet: 1962 KIRK-WILSON (Matthews), Ruth: SOUTH (Hallett), Vivien: 1964 1960 DARNTON (Baker), Jane: 1962 1963 VAN HEYNINGEN, Joanna: 1964 TATE (Hardy), Valerie: 1960 DAVIDSON (Mussell), Jenny: 1962 LEECH (Bailey), Barbara: 1963 WAGNER, Rosemary: 1964 TURNER (Salvesen), Katrina: DEECH (Fraenkel), Ruth: 1962 LIPSCOMB (Rickman), Christine: WALTON (Turner), Gillian: 1964 1960 DENNEN (Howard-Johnston), 1963 WHITELEY (Wilson), Linda: 1960 Xenia: 1962 MOSS (Flowerdew), Barbara: Total given: £55,362 WILLIAM-POWLETT (Silk), Judith: EVANS (Kruse), Lesley: 1962 1963 1960 FREEMAN (Davies), Gillian: 1962 PAUL (Simmons), Anita: 1963 1965-69 WILLIAMSON (Hodson), Valerie: GRAVES (Farron), Lucia: 1962 PORRER (Dunkerley), Sheila: ALEXANDER (Holland), 1960 HOWARD (Warren), Liz: 1962 1963 Marguerite: 1965

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BAZLEY (Hainton), Joanna: 1965 EDWARDS (Cuffe), Barbara: 1966 WHELAN (Gray), Pamela: 1967 BYNOE (Robinson), Geraldine: BEGENT (Thomerson), Nicola: EDWARDS (Kent), Pamela: 1966 WYLIE, Fiona: 1967 1969 1965 FISHER (Hibbard), Sophia: 1966 YATES (Crawshaw), Sue: 1967 CLEVERLY (Martin), Irene: 1969 BOEHM (Lees-Spalding), Jennie: HALL (Wills), Caroline: 1966 AXFORD, Shelagh: 1968 COLLINS (Blandford), Sue: 1969 1965 HART (Salt), Christina: 1966 BOOTH, Frances: 1968 CONSTABLE, Jeanne: 1969 BREEZE (Horsey), Fiona: 1965 HYDE (Davis), Ann: 1966 BROWN (Harvey), Carolyn: 1968 CONWAY (Nicholson), Sheila: BROWN (Lichfeld Butler), Jane: JONES (Farror), Shelagh: 1966 BROWN, Elaine: 1968 1969 1965 LAMBLEY (Booth), Janet: 1966 CADWALLADER (Eckworth), ELY (Masters), Hilary: 1969 CURRY (Roullet), Anne: 1965 LEE, Judy: 1966 Debby: 1968 FERNER (Moss), Celia: 1969 DERKOW DISSELBECK (Derkow), MORRISON (Hammond), Penny: COOPER-SARKAR (Cooper), FOSTER, Shirley: 1969 Barbara: 1965 1966 Amanda: 1968 OWEN (Lytton), Stephanie: 1969 DREW, Philippa: 1965 NEWILL (Sykes), Bridget: 1966 COURT (Lacey), Liz: 1968 PAICE, Patsy: 1969 GALLANT (Cox), Rosamond: NICOLL (Sampson), Cathy: 1966 DEEBLE, Liz: 1968 PARSONAGE (Cox), Linda: 1969 1965 SEGAL, Miriam: 1966 FORBES, Anne: 1968 REEVE, Antonia: 1969 HAILE (Tovey), Helen: 1965 SULERI (Smith), Jane: 1966 FORRESTER-PATON (O’Toole), SHEPPARD (Raphael), Anne: HANES (Foster), Katharine: 1965 WHITEN (Challoner), Susan: 1966 Josephine: 1968 1969 HARVEY, Judith: 1965 WILLIAMS, Marylin: 1966 JOHNSTON (Maier), Susanna: SMITH (Taylor), Shirley: 1969 JORDAN (Draper), Cheryl: 1965 BEAULIEU (Nadin), Linda: 1967 1968 SONDHEIMER (Hughes), Philippa: KITSON, Clare: 1965 BUNKLE, Phillida: 1967 KAVANAGH (Harries), Shirley: 1969 LUMLEY, Margaret: 1965 BURNS (Ashe), Jenny: 1967 1968 SUTHERLEY, Susan: 1969 MCKENZIE (Boswell), Belinda: BUSH (Hainton), Julia: 1967 KENNA (Hamilton), Stephanie: WILLIAMS, Vicky: 1969 1965 CARTER (Gracie), Isobel: 1967 1968 WILSON (Hay), Lindsay: 1969 MILAN (Kistruck), Melanie: 1965 COOTE, Hilary: 1967 KERSLAKE, Celia: 1968 WRIGHT, Joan: 1969 MOULT (Stanford), Jane: 1965 FRASER, Helen: 1967 LANNING (Creek), Rosemary: OGILVIE (Milne), Moira: 1965 HALLS (Pett), Judy: 1967 1968 Total given: £34,943 OLIVER (Marlow), Sylvia: 1965 HANCOCK (Knox), Janet: 1967 LAYCOCK, Deborah: 1968 ROOKE (Perrett), Anne: 1965 HARE, Diane: 1967 LEES (Nelsey), Pamela: 1968 1970-74 SKELTON, Judy: 1965 HOWATSON, Margaret: 1967 MAITLAND, Sara: 1968 ASTON SMITH (Johnson), Julia: TAYLOR, June: 1965 JEFFERSON (Glees), Ann: 1967 O’CONNELL (Taylor), Miranda: 1970 TJOA (Chinn), Carole: 1965 KUTER (Howie), Irene: 1967 1968 CHRISTIE (Fearneyhough), Sue: WILSON (Szczepanik), Barbara: LAMMING, Robbie: 1967 STUBBS (Barton), Heather: 1968 1970 1965 MARETT, Karen: 1967 STUSEK (Gerritts), Mary: 1968 COCKEY (Ward), Katherine: 1970 BELDEN, Hilary: 1966 MCKENZIE (Smith), Hannah: SWINDELLS (Inglis), Heather: DAVIES (Baxendale), Jane: 1970 CLEMENTS, Patricia: 1966 1967 1968 FERGUSON (Marston), Tessa: COLLIN (Barlow), Trixie: 1966 PRICE (Fox), Meg: 1967 TAYLOR (Moses), Karin: 1968 1970 COOK (Clark), Cornelia: 1966 RANDOLPH, Sarah: 1967 WILLIAMS, Sally: 1968 GIBSON, Elizabeth: 1970 DORAN (Savitt), Susan: 1966 ROBINSON (Sutton), Jill: 1967 WILSON (Kilner), Anna: 1968 GOLODETZ, Patricia: 1970 EDGELEY (Richards), Wendy: SCOTT-BARRETT (Lindley), BELAM , Caroline: 1969 HIGGS (Blackett, Nee John), Lyn: 1966 Charlotte: 1967 1970

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HUGHES (Marshall), Susan: 1970 WALKER, Margaret: 1971 DYE (Shrimpton), Alyss: 1973 MCGHEE (Kingham), Helen: 1974 ISTED (Rogers), Linda: 1970 ARCHER (George), Andrea: 1972 ELLERY, Susan: 1973 NORTON (Pirkis), Anne: 1974 JACK, Susan: 1970 BIGGS (Perrin), Lynn: 1972 GODFREY (Davies), Gwen: 1973 OVEY, Elizabeth: 1974 KING, Rosanna: 1970 BRONWIN (Baldwin), Lucy: 1972 GRANT (Ward), Melanie: 1973 ROWSWELL, Ann: 1974 LE VAY (Dobry), Jo: 1970 CLAYMAN, Michelle: 1972 HERSHKOFF, Helen: 1973 TAIT, Ruth: 1974 LEIGHTON, Monica: 1970 FALLON (Geldart), Kathleen: 1972 HUGHES-STANTON, Penelope: TAYLOR (Clouting), Nicola: 1974 LLOYD-MORGAN, Ceridwen: FOISTER, Susan: 1972 1973 THOMAS (Covington), Anne: 1970 GIBSON, Anna: 1972 JOHNSON (Davies), Helen: 1973 1974 MARRON, Kate: 1970 GOWER (Ellis), Pauline: 1972 KNOX, Bernadette: 1973 UNSWORTH, Isabel: 1974 TONKYN (Mcneice), Shelagh: HAVELL, Jane: 1972 KROLL (Askew), Catherine: 1973 VODDEN, Debbie: 1974 1970 HUTCHISON (Keegan), Ruth: LE PAGE (Inge), Susan: 1973 VON WULFFEN (Mazurkiewicz), WILKINSON (Spatchurst), Susan: 1972 LEWIS (Glazebrook), Jane: 1973 Anna: 1974 1970 IRONTON (Montgomery), MAULDON, Jane: 1973 WALLER (Foster), Elizabeth: 1974 AHLBERG (Clarke), Vanessa: Frances: 1972 MORGAN (Egan), Clare: 1973 WARD, Jean: 1974 1971 MAUDE, Gilly: 1972 NORTHOVER (Granshaw), WHEATER (Jones), Isabella: 1974 BOLTON-MAGGS (Blundell MCINTYRE, Elizabeth: 1972 Lindsay: 1973 WILLETTS (Ferreras), Maria: 1974 Jones), Paula: 1971 MONTEFIORE (Griffths), Anne: PEMBERTON (Scott), Tessa: BUXTON, Richenda: 1971 1972 1973 Total given: £190,390 CLARKE, Felicity: 1971 NISBET, Isabel: 1972 SETCHIM (Andrews), Elizabeth: DARLINGTON (Hill), Moira: 1971 O’CONNOR, Marian: 1972 1973 1975-79 DELANEY, Christine: 1971 ONSLOW (Owen), Jane: 1972 SIMON (Holmes), Jane: 1973 ASHLEY, Kate: 1975 DERRINGTON (Nicholson), ORMEROD (Tudor Hart), Penny: TAUNT (Hughes), Barbara: 1973 ASTLES, Rosemary: 1975 Elizabeth: 1971 1972 THURSTON (Hansford), BAATZ (Watson), Yvonne: 1975 DORNHORST, Anne: 1971 PEARCE, Shirley: 1972 Penelope: 1973 BARDSLEY (Riddell), Kate: 1975 FAURE WALKER (Farrell), Vicky: REDGATE, Elizabeth: 1972 TOVEY (Williams), Maureen: 1973 BERNSTEIN (Julius), Judith: 1975 1971 RUHLMANN, Dominique: 1972 WILLIAMS (Hendrie), Anne: 1973 BRIDGES (Berry), Linda: 1975 FOX, Jane: 1971 SALKELD, Cecilia: 1972 ASHLEY, Jackie: 1974 CASSIDY (Rhind), Catriona: 1975 GROUT (Berkeley), Anne: 1971 SZWER, Gita: 1972 BAYLISS (Dakin), Sue: 1974 CHARMAN (Rees), Stella: 1975 HARNETT (Turner), Penelope: THOMAS (Struthers), Doreen: BOWEN (Horsfall), Jane: 1974 CLOUT, Imogen: 1975 1971 1972 CARTER, Miranda: 1974 COHEN, Shelly: 1975 HATFIELD (Bratton), Penny: 1971 UPDALE, Ellie: 1972 CLAYDEN (Dew), Ann: 1974 DEY, Jennifer: 1975 HILL (Davies), Valerie: 1971 WALKER (Burrows), Susanne: FILLINGHAM (Dewhurst), Janet: EADE, Deborah: 1975 LAWLESS (Freeston), Sally: 1971 1972 1974 ELLIS (Eton), Rachel: 1975 NASMYTH (Mieszkis), Lalik: 1971 AIRLIE (Marsack), Robyn: 1973 GALLEY (Rice), Katie: 1974 FRESKO (Marcus), Adrienne: OSBORNE (Neal), Joelle: 1971 ANDREW, Elizabeth: 1973 GILLINGWATER (Davies), Helen: 1975 PAUL (Driver), Anne: 1971 BARRETT, Jane: 1973 1974 HALL, Jan: 1975 RACE (Seligmann), Eve: 1971 BRAND (Windeyer), Kyla: 1973 HASLER (Abbott), Judith: 1974 HARRISON, Carol: 1975 THOMAS (Parry), Kathleen: 1971 CLARKE, Aileen: 1973 HOOKER (Dussek), Gillian: 1974 HUDSON, Julie: 1975 TOLMAN (Glanvill), Jenny: 1971 DORNER, Irene: 1973 LOGAN, Ruth: 1974 HUGHES, Holly: 1975

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HUGHES, Rosaleen: 1975 RAWLE, Frances: 1976 BLANDFORD (Hawkins), Sally: GILES (Jones), Amanda: 1979 KILPATRICK (Kitcher), Lucy: 1975 RICHARDS (Machin), Gillian: 1976 1978 HARDY (Hurst), Alison: 1979 LANDOR, Gina: 1975 SCOTT-THOMPSON (Fox), Jane: CARNEY, Bernadette: 1978 HAYWOOD, Russell: 1979 LLOYD (Wallace), Sarah: 1975 1976 CARSON, Denise: 1978 JILLETT, Rosi: 1979 MCCLENAGHAN, Pauline: 1975 SLATER (Knight), Beverley: 1976 DAVIES (Bowen-Jones), Carys: PETERS (Bigg), Suzanne: 1979 MICKLEM, Ros: 1975 SUGRUE (Janaway), Meg: 1976 1978 PICKFORD (Atkin), Gillian: 1979 MURPHY (Braune), Lindsey: 1975 TAYEB, Monir: 1976 EVANS (Guest), Amanda: 1978 POMFRET (Pearson), Carole: NAUGHTON (Cope), Jane: 1975 THOMPSON (Lomas), Vivian: FISHER, Elizabeth: 1978 1979 REGENT, Petra: 1975 1976 GALBRAITH, Anne: 1978 ROBINSON, Crispin: 1979 TAPLIN (Canning), Angela: 1975 WOOLLEY, Polly: 1976 HAZLEWOOD (Hazelwood), ROBINSON, Justin: 1979 VALENTE LOPES DIAS, Isabel: ABERNETHY (Salveson), Rikki: Judith: 1978 RUSSELL (Gear), Moya: 1979 1975 1977 ISARD (Mccloghry), Nicky: 1978 SCOTT (Wilkinson), Veronica: WOOD, Lucy: 1975 BERKMAN (Winston), McKey: JAGGER (Capel), Judith: 1978 1979 ALMOND, Cathy: 1976 1977 KEEBLE (Jaques), Helen: 1978 STAINER, Mike: 1979 BENSON (Graham), Julie: 1976 BEVIS, Jane: 1977 LANCASTER, Helen: 1978 STAUFENBERG (Hill-Wilson), BOERMA-COLLIER (Boerma), CHESTERFIELD, Jane: 1977 MCGUINNESS, Catherine: 1978 Penelope: 1979 Pauline: 1976 ELKINS, Louise: 1977 NEALE (Lunghi), Xanthe: 1978 STEPHENS (Macaulay), Penny: BOWMAN (Ward), Christine: 1976 GRIFFITHS, Hannah: 1977 NEVRKLA (John), Sara: 1978 1979 BRUCE-GARDNER (Hand- GROOM (Withington), Carola: OVEREND (Old), Sarah: 1978 VERNON (Mcardle), Sarah: 1979 Oxborrow), Veronica: 1976 1977 PHILLIPS, Susie: 1978 WIGHTWICK (Lombard), Helen: CAPRIOLO, Pepita: 1976 HAMPTON, Kate: 1977 ST JOHN-HALL (Browne), Anne: 1979 CLARKE, Mary: 1976 HOBBS (Galani), Efrosyni: 1977 1978 YATES (Haddon), Madeleine: CONNORS, Adrienne: 1976 HODGKINSON (Coe), Penelope: TUFFS, Helen: 1978 1979 DESNICA, Olga: 1976 1977 WATTS, Felicity: 1978 YELLOWLEES-BOUND FEENEY (Matthews), Pauline: HURRY (Williams), Olwen: 1977 BARNARD (Langford), Caroline: (Yellowlees), Joanna: 1979 1976 JAMES (Lucas), Cherry: 1977 1979 FURBACHER (Jones), Lucy: 1976 KENRICK (Warby), Ann: 1977 BERTLIN, Piers: 1979 Total given: £60,286 GENT, Lizzie: 1976 LLOYD (Chanter), Catherine: 1977 BLYTHE (Tompkinson), Clare: GODDEN (Perry), Joanna: 1976 NIGHTINGALE, Linda: 1977 1979 1980-84 GORNALL, Gill: 1976 O’BRIEN, Sue: 1977 BLYTHE, Christine: 1979 BAKER, John: 1980 HADWIN, Julie: 1976 ONIONS (Hine), Sally: 1977 CLOSE, Timothy: 1979 CAREY, Juliet: 1980 HAGUE, Helen: 1976 PHILIPS (Palmer), Wendy: 1977 COCHRANE (Sutcliffe), Jennifer: CARTER, R: 1980 INGRAM, Jackie: 1976 SMITH, Lizzie: 1977 1979 CLARKE (Hopper), Wendy: 1980 JACOBUS, Laura: 1976 STEAD (Mcfarlane), Jane: 1977 COLLING, Mike: 1979 EMERY, Dominic: 1980 KEARNEY, Martha: 1976 TURNER, Elizabeth: 1977 CRISP, Roger: 1979 FEENEY, Catherine: 1980 LEPPARD (Allen), Jo: 1976 WELLER, Isobel: 1977 DRYHURST, Clare: 1979 FOSTER, Tony: 1980 LIGHTLEY (Edwards), Janice: WRIGHT, Ellen: 1977 DYE, Julian: 1979 GARVEY, Stephen: 1980 1976 BAIGENT, Kate: 1978 ENGLISH, Kirsten: 1979 GAUL, Pat: 1980 MASHMAN, Valerie: 1976 FAUX (Cook), Penelope: 1979 GLASGOW, Faith: 1980

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HALSTEAD, Jonathan: 1980 TAYLOR, Jeffrey: 1981 CANNING, Ian: 1983 BRAY, Heather: 1985 HUGHES (Goldsmith), Katy: 1980 THOMAS, Roy: 1981 GODFREY, David: 1983 BUTLER, Jenny: 1985 KAM, Anthony: 1980 WATES, Julia: 1981 GUY, Wesley: 1983 CUNLIFFE, David: 1985 LAILEY (Nicholson-Lailey), Janet: WILLIAMS, Edmund: 1981 RAVKIND, Lauren: 1983 EADES, Cynda: 1985 1980 ALEXANDER, Richard: 1982 RUMFORD (Margrim), Kay: 1983 HART, Christopher: 1985 LATTO, Andrew: 1980 ARTINGSTALL, David: 1982 SCOTT, Alastair: 1983 NEBHRAJANI, Sharmila: 1985 MAYO, Timothy: 1980 CRABTREE, Timothy: 1982 SEABORN-JONES, David: 1983 NUNN (Bright), Anne: 1985 MONTGOMERY, Bill: 1980 DANSON, Mike: 1982 SHAIL, Robin: 1983 O’NEILL COLLINS (O’Neill), MYERS (Pye), Kathryn: 1980 DAS GUPTA, Mani: 1982 SPYVEE (Herbert), Rachel: 1983 Cynthia: 1985 PARKMAN, Timothy: 1980 DELAHUNTY, Joanne: 1982 STONE, Edward: 1983 RICHARDS, Nicholas: 1985 READ, Justin: 1980 DUFTON, Mark: 1982 SWINFEN, Sally: 1983 SHUTTLEWORTH, Gregory: 1985 ROBERTS, Nicholas: 1980 ENGLAND, Richard: 1982 BONE, Ian: 1984 SLADE, Edward: 1985 SHAKOOR, Sameena: 1980 FILER (Bernstein), Wendy: 1982 CASARES (Knight), Philippa: 1984 TSANG, Michael: 1985 SOCHACKA (Martin), Sheila: 1980 FUNNELL, Sarah: 1982 CITRON, Zachary: 1984 TSANG, Rhiannon: 1985 STACEY, Martin: 1980 GALLOIS, Gillian: 1982 DAYAN, Margaret: 1984 WHITE, Richard: 1985 TITCOMB, Lesley: 1980 GRAHAM, Mark: 1982 DUMBILL (Weiss), Charlotte: 1984 WUNSCH-GRAFTON, Benjamin: WILLIAMS, Anne: 1980 HORN, Tim: 1982 FLUCK, Ghislaine: 1984 1985 WOOD, Edward: 1980 HORROCKS, Richard: 1982 FOGGO, Andrew: 1984 ADEBIYI, John: 1986 BRODIE, Pete: 1981 HUGHES, Simon: 1982 FRANCIS, Rebecca: 1984 BAXTER, Jonny: 1986 BURNS, Julian: 1981 KHANGURA, Jasbir: 1982 GOUGH (Cobham), Catherine: CHOWDHURY, Mohammad: DAYMOND, Andrew: 1981 KING, Martin: 1982 1984 1986 DUMBILL, Simon: 1981 LEES (Fielden), Gillian: 1982 HEWITT, Peter: 1984 DONALD, St John: 1986 EMERY (Hardy), Sandra: 1981 MUNRO, Rob: 1982 HODGSON (Chan), Caroline: EATON (Cockerill), Sara: 1986 GRIFFITHS, Simon: 1981 NACHOOM (Wiener), Sharron: 1984 FERRETTI (Holmes), Liz: 1986 JENKINS (Bannister), Catherine: 1982 HOLME (Simon), Philippa: 1984 GREGORY, Vanessa: 1986 1981 ROBERTSON, Struan: 1982 HOPKINSON, Christopher: 1984 GRIFFIN, Oliver: 1986 LECKIE (O’Donnell), Elizabeth: SEAGER, Edward: 1982 INNES, Chris: 1984 GROWCOTT, Simon: 1986 1981 STOKES, Simon: 1982 LAWRENCE, John: 1984 HANSFORD, Paul: 1986 LOVERIDGE (Knight), Fiona: 1981 THOMAS, Martin: 1982 ORR, Frank: 1984 POLLITT, Graham: 1986 MILL, Cherry: 1981 THOMSON, Amanda: 1982 PERRETT (Parsons), Isabelle: SANDERSON, Andrew: 1986 MILLER (Oakes/Romanczuk), TREVELYAN, Jon: 1982 1984 SCOTT, Andrew: 1986 Jane: 1981 TSE, Angela: 1982 RAVKIND, Lauren: 1984 STEWART, Philippa: 1986 MONAGHAN, Elizabeth: 1981 TURNER (Ellis), Judith: 1982 WARD, Susan: 1984 STREET, Michael: 1986 NUGEE (Browne), Judith: 1981 VERCOE (Cowling), Henrietta: WILSON (Latham/Hill), Kate: 1984 TURNER (Griffths), Clare: 1986 NUGEE, Andrew: 1981 1982 WILLIAMS (Parry), Kate: 1986 OSBORNE (Billen), Stephanie: ALLUM, Gina: 1983 Total given: £1,564,554 BAKER-CRESSWELL, Ralph: 1981 ARAH (Griffn), Jessica: 1983 1987 PARR (Mayo), Elizabeth: 1981 BENNETT, Sara: 1983 1985-89 BERRY, Duncan: 1987 TANEGA (Donnelly), Kara: 1981 BENSON, Chris: 1983 ABEL (Roden), Melanie: 1985 CUNNINGHAM, Paul: 1987

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HITCHINGS, Katharine: 1987 MORGAN, Rob: 1989 JACKSON, Gregory: 1991 COLVILLE, Johnny: 1993 HOWARD, Andrew: 1987 OKASHA, Samir: 1989 LIPSCOMB, Nick: 1991 DIXON, Christopher: 1993 ISAAC, Daniel: 1987 STEPHENSON (Gratton), Dawn: LOUGHLIN-CHOW (Loughlin), EDRICH, Benjamin: 1993 JOHNSON (Davies), Rhiannon: 1989 Clare: 1991 HAMMOND, Nicholas: 1993 1987 SWANN, Simon: 1989 MILLS (Davies), Catherine: 1991 KATZARSKA, Boriana: 1993 ROBERTS, James: 1987 PRICE, Fiona: 1991 KENNY, John: 1993 SHEPLEY, Richard: 1987 Total given: £56,261 PROBERT, Rebecca: 1991 KINGSTON, Charles: 1993 SPRAKE, Carl: 1987 SHAPIRO, Leonid: 1991 MARKEN, Gareth: 1993 STANCLIFFE, Rachel: 1987 1990-94 SIAME, Sebako: 1991 MODY, Sanjay: 1993 THORNLEY (Gluning), Rachel: ALEXANDER, Danny: 1990 SPEARING (Allhusen), Elnor: 1991 MYATT, Sarah: 1993 1987 BAIRD, Rachel: 1990 TURNBULL (Florio), Joanna: 1991 O’MAHONY, Andrew: 1993 URMSTON, Richard: 1987 BANKS (Healy), Allison: 1990 VASSILIOU, Evelthon: 1991 POTTERTON, Adam: 1993 WHITWORTH, Michael: 1987 BUCKRELL (Mason), Jo: 1990 BECK, Sarah: 1992 SMITH (Parker), Helen: 1993 WILLIAMS, David: 1987 CLEMENTS, Sam: 1990 BOOTH, Heather: 1992 SUTTON, Rebecca: 1993 WREN, Tim: 1987 CRABTREE, Paul: 1990 BROWN, Camilla: 1992 THANASSOULIS, John: 1993 BOSHOFF, Alison: 1988 DONOVAN, Paul: 1990 CHEA, Henry: 1992 TURANO, Leslie: 1993 BRETTELL, Francesca: 1988 GIRARDET (Schafer), Ruth: 1990 EGER, Helen: 1992 WESTON, Mark: 1993 DOWNES, Andrew: 1988 HAWKER, David: 1990 ENDEAN, James: 1992 BAKER, Simon: 1994 FAZZIO (Davies), Sarah: 1988 JAMES (Kramer), Rebecca: 1990 FRIAR, Sarah: 1992 BRADLEY, Greg: 1994 FOWLER, Brigid: 1988 MARTIN (Lovegrove), Clare: 1990 GIDDINGS, Benjamin: 1992 BROWN (Page), Sarah: 1994 HURRELL, Richard: 1988 SCHMIDT, Simon: 1990 HAMMOND, Ben: 1992 CRUMP, Laurie: 1994 HYDE, Caroline: 1988 SLATER, Shane: 1990 JOHNSON, Robert: 1992 HAMPSON (Makepeace), Anna: KOEHNE, Ludwig: 1988 TRUESDALE (Upton), Alexandra: KILLEEN (Fenton), Louise: 1992 1994 PARR, Simone: 1988 1990 MCDOWALL, Alex: 1992 LLOYD, Matt: 1994 QUINN, Brian: 1988 VIALA (Lewis), Katharine: 1990 MOORE, Matthew: 1992 MASSEY (Taylor), Ann: 1994 RILEY, Simon: 1988 WAREHAM, David: 1990 NICHOLSON, Paul: 1992 MOORHOUSE, Robert: 1994 TAN, Mei-Hsia: 1988 WARNER, Steven: 1990 PUTTOCK, Neil: 1992 PAUL, Helen: 1994 WILLIAMS, Simon: 1988 WHITE (Muddyman), Clare: 1990 SCROOP, Daniel: 1992 PERCY (Truman), Sally: 1994 CLIFF, Jackie: 1989 BATES, Jonathan: 1991 SMITH, Rachel: 1992 PETER, Kai: 1994 COLLINS, Susanna: 1989 BORROWDALE (Nichols), Claire: TYLER, Toby: 1992 PRITCHARD (Breaks), Amanda: FAULKES (McNeile), Fiona: 1989 1991 WATSON, James: 1992 1994 FITZSIMONS, Mark: 1989 BREWARD, Chris: 1991 WEBB, Matthew: 1992 SANDIS, Constantine: 1994 FULTON, Guy: 1989 CORSELLIS, Peter: 1991 WRAY, Richard: 1992 WEST, Colin: 1994 HAYNES, Gavin: 1989 FAULKNER, Stuart: 1991 BOWLEY, John: 1993 WORTHINGTON, Elisa: 1994 HAYTON, Michael: 1989 GASKELL, Alexander: 1991 BRIGHT, Daniel: 1993 WRIGHT, Nicholas: 1994 JARMAN, Richard: 1989 HINXMAN (Jackson), Harriet: BYRN, Francis: 1993 WULWIK, Kevin: 1994 LAUGHTON, Stephen: 1989 1991 CARPENTER (Barker), Nancy: LITTLE, Karen: 1989 HUGHES, Benedict: 1991 1993 Total given: £36,598 LYNCH, Fionnuala: 1989 INGHAM, David: 1991 CAYLEY, Emma: 1993

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1995-99 FAULL, Nick: 1997 TRAVIS, Emily: 1999 FISHER, Philip: 2002 ALLEN-PENNEBAKER GARDNER, Rob: 1997 FOX, Sebastian: 2002 (Pennebaker), Betsy: 1995 GRAY, Anna: 1997 Total given: £141,857 HURST, Chris: 2002 COTTINGHAM, Faye: 1995 HEARN (Allton), Sarah: 1997 PRICHARD, Lorna: 2002 DIXON, Clare: 1995 KANJI, Gulzar: 1997 2000-04 ROBERTS-EVANS (Roberts), Elin: DONALDSON, Sarah: 1995 LEVI, Nathan: 1997 ABRAHAMS, Daniel: 2000 2002 HOPKINS, Lynsey: 1995 NEUMANN, Sarah: 1997 CARVOUNIS, Katerina: 2000 SHERRINGTON, Alison: 2002 MAN, Bernard: 1995 PHILLIPS, Dan: 1997 CASTLO, Paul: 2000 SHERRINGTON, Richard: 2002 PATEL, Alpesh: 1995 PURCHASE, Mathew: 1997 DYKE, Chris: 2000 TANG, Alexander: 2002 PRATT (Weidner), Valerie: 1995 ROOKS, Gemma: 1997 GREAVES, Mark: 2000 TAYLOR, Carly: 2002 PRATT, Neil: 1995 WARREN, Joseph: 1997 GRISCTI-SOLER, Andrew: 2000 TOBIN, Jonathan: 2002 ROSSAN, Benjamin: 1995 WILLIAMS, Charlotte: 1997 IRVING, Paul: 2000 TUCKER, Matthew: 2002 ROYDON, Karen: 1995 WILLIAMS, Mark: 1997 LEWIS (Robinson), Daisy: 2000 WAGHORN, Philip: 2002 VAUGHAN, Nicholas: 1995 BUCKNALL, Christopher: 1998 NEWMAN, Terry: 2000 WILDY, Samuel: 2002 WYATT, Paul: 1995 BUTT, Sarah: 1998 NOBLE, David: 2000 YATES, Lorna: 2002 ASHLEY (Nevill), Sarah: 1996 EWART, Isobel: 1998 STAWPERT, Amelia: 2000 ATKIN, Lara: 2003 ASHLEY, Paul: 1996 GEORGANTA, Fonteini: 1998 WAGNER, Adam: 2000 AUBRY, James: 2003 BOURNE, Jon: 1996 GERBER, David: 1998 WITTER, Mark: 2000 BURGHALL, Johan: 2003 BRYSON, Andrew: 1996 JELINSKI, Philippe: 1998 BROOKS (Gilmore), Lindsay: BUSH, Sarah: 2003 CAMPBELL-COLQUHOUN, Toby: MATHER, Christopher: 1998 2001 DYKE, Hazel: 2003 1996 MCDADE, Barbara: 1998 CHIVERS, Tom: 2001 GRIFFITHS, Michael: 2003 COLVILLE, Ned: 1996 MCMORDIE, Adam: 1998 CUFF, Philip: 2001 GRIFFITHS, Robert: 2003 CRICHTON (Hunter), Ele: 1996 NICHOLS, Jim: 1998 HUMPAGE, Neil: 2001 HUNT, Tim: 2003 DAVIES, Mike: 1996 STONE, Chris: 1998 JONES, Gareth: 2001 KAY, Danielle: 2003 GRIMES (Williams), Vanessa: STRATFORD, Owen: 1998 KAHLOON, Hamzah: 2001 MAHMOOD, Uzma: 2003 1996 TAPSON, James: 1998 KEMPTON, Oliver: 2001 NISSEN, Clara: 2003 HOGWOOD, Andrew: 1996 WESTON, Daniel: 1998 LEE, Edward: 2001 PATEL, Hiten: 2003 HORSLEY, Alexander: 1996 BARCLAY, Harriet: 1999 MARLOW, Julia: 2001 ROGERS, James: 2003 HOULDING, Mark: 1996 BRAY, Francis: 1999 MCDEVITT, Joseph: 2001 SARIGAT ABRAHAM (Abraham), INGRAM, Jonathan: 1996 COPESTAKE, Phillip: 1999 MICHAELSEN, Allan: 2001 Aarif: 2003 INNES-KER, Duncan: 1996 DAVID, Huw: 1999 OPOTOWSKY, Stuart: 2001 STILL, Simon: 2003 KENT, Simon: 1996 HALLWOOD, Janie: 1999 REES, Kathryn: 2001 TA, Lau-Cuong: 2003 SARGEANT, Tom: 1996 HENRY, Simon: 1999 ROBERTS, Sara: 2001 WYATT, Nicholas: 2003 SKEA-STRACHAN, Nick: 1996 JENKINS, Gwyn: 1999 ROBINS, John: 2001 AIDAM, Sedina: 2004 SUTERWALLA, Azeem: 1996 MUES, Gabor: 1999 TSAYLA, Melina: 2001 ALEXANDER, Keith: 2004 WILES, Michael: 1996 SINGER, Adam: 1999 YOUNG (Smith), Caroline: 2001 GARBETT, Briony: 2004 AKHTAR, Adnan: 1997 SOBEL (Cowen), Leanne: 1999 BOOTH, Penny: 2002 GUY, Thomas: 2004 BEAUCHAMP, Rose: 1997 SUTHERLAND, Andrew: 1999 CHANA, Manisha: 2002 HANRETTY, Christopher: 2004 SWIRE, Hugh: 1999 DEVENPORT, Richard: 2002 JAYANTH, Meghna: 2004

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JONES, Timothy: 2004 Parents FOX, A.M SCOTT, Jon and Diane LALLY, Jagjeet: 2004 ADAMS, Colin and Rosemarie FOX, Lorraine SELBY, Sally Ann and Michael NANJI, Sabrina: 2004 ADAMS, David and Pam GOLDHILL, Carolyn and Michael SHAW, Ben and Jacqueline PANG, Stacey: 2004 ALLBUTT, Wendy and John GOWELL, Ross and Ruth SHELLEY, Sue PIDSLEY, Erin: 2004 ANDERSON, Jane and Clive GREANEY, Declan and Andrea SHEPHERD, Neil and Patricia SHAO, Ruobing: 2004 ARDREY, Raymond and Jennifer GRICE, Barbara STOCKWELL, Peter and Angela TOBIN, Benjamin: 2004 BAKER, Clare and Andrew HAM, Bob STOLBRINK, Annette WATSON, Ruth: 2004 BALL, David HARIA, Bindu TRAYNOR, Andy ZENG, Wenjin: 2004 BATES, Chris and Rosemary HIBBIN, Jill and Russell TSANG, Steven and Grace BECKETT, Michael and Deirdre HO, Angela and HUI, Herbert VAN DEN BOGAERDE, Lucas Total given: £28,499 BELTON, Kevin and Valerie HOOPER, David and Victoria BIDD, Ilesh JONES, Alan and Dawn VEDPATHAK, Vinit 2005-present BLACK, Hilary and David KELLY, Margaret and Matthew VUCETIC, Vladislav AVESON, John: 2005 BLACKWOOD, Roger and Libby KHAWAJA, Moeen WEEKES, Edla and AIDAM, DAVIS, Jenny: 2005 BLYGHTON, Alan and Geraldine KHNG, Pauline Edward FARMER, Sinead: 2005 BORNSTEIN, Monika and Stefan KING, Graham WOOD, John PAJAK, Mark: 2005 BUGNION, Janie and Francois KYNASTON, David PATRICK, Christopher: 2005 BULLIMORE, Kevin and Ann LEE, Anne Friends RAMSDEN, Isobel: 2005 CAPLE, Leslie and Alyson LEE, Fook Kiong and Tan ADAMS, Paul REINECKE, Christian: 2005 CARR, Simon and Paola LEVY, Marcia AHLBRECHT, Antje SCHOLZ, Anna: 2005 CARROLL, Joseph and Gillian MACDONALD, Muir and Sian ALLPORT, Alan SEATON, Emma: 2005 CHACHAMU, Miriam and MANSELL, John and Clare BACHARACH, Ana SHAH, Sagar: 2005 Mordechai MARRIOTT, Robert and Helen BAKER, John WOOLFSON, Deborah: 2005 CHITTY, Geraldine and Roger MARTIN, Ralph and Judith BOA, Frances CLARKE, Stephen: 2006 COLLIN, Martyn and Susan MCDEVITT, Joseph and Won BRUDNEY, James KUETTERER-LANG, Hannah: COOKE, Stephen and Judy Young BURGESS, Peter 2006 CUNNINGHAM, Martin and MCGILL, Sarah and James CHOO, Wah Hing MAXWELL, Tobyn: 2006 Christina MCKERNAN, Anne CLARK, Terence YIN, Ying Xu: 2006 DALLISON, Rose MCPHERSON, Stuart CLARKE, Eric GIBB, Gary: 2007 DAVIES, J MCSHANE, Martin CLOTHIER, Liza LEAVITT, Joanna: 2008 DIXON, Sheila and John OSTERRIETH, Catherine CUTTING, Geraldine MIAH, Nishat: 2008 DONOHOE, Bernadette and Peter PATEL, Raj DAVIES, Grahame O’BRIEN, Nanette: 2008 DUSTAGHEER, Hamad and PLAAT, Felicity and RICHRDSON, DRINKWATER, Lynn ZOLOTAREVA, Anastasia: 2008 Angela Graham FARRAR, Dawn ARDEN, Jane: 2009 ELLIS, David PREUSS, Andreas and FERGUSON, Sian SIKKA, Munish: 2010 EVANS, Gwyn and Elena BERTRAN, Cristina FOARD, Christine COX, Octavia: 2011 FAULKNER, Kate PURSLOW, Jayne and Christian FOY, Peter MILLER, Sydney: 2011 FIBERT, Philippa and Zigi RAY, Sutapa and Jayanta GARDAM, Timothy FIRTH, Carole and Steven RICHARDS, Derek and Veronica GRAFTON GREEN, Paddy Total given: £16,063 FLEMING, Mark and Elspeth RUSSELL, Libby and Alexander GROSE, Jeremy

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HARE, Lizzie Organisations and Charitable Legacy Gifts BYNOE (Robinson), Geraldine: HARVEY, Halina Trusts Madeline J. Barber (Steventon): 1969 HEATON, Carol Aerogility Limited 1943 CARTER (Palmer), Elise: 1942 HOPKINSON, David Americans for Oxford Interest Joan C. Bernard: 1936 CHADD, Linda: 1967 ILUBE, Tom Account Margaret E. Hubbard CLARK, Ailsa: 1944 KEYMER, Tom ASM Cambridge Branch Elizabeth J. Knowles (Watkins): COLLING, Mike: 1979 LAMBERT, Claire ASM London Branch 1946 COO (Spink), Kathryn: 1972 LEE, Stephanie ASM Oxford Branch Helen J. Lock (Somerset): 1943 COSH, Mary: 1946 LEWIS, David Goldman Sachs & Co Matching Annette C. Marshall (Mathews): COX (Ware), Frances: 1968 LIPTON, Lini Gift Program 1939 CRAGOE (Elmer), Elizabeth: 1950 LLOYD, John Mayer Brown International LLP Gwynneth M. Matthews CRANE (Begley), Meg: 1965 MACGILLIVRAY, Rod Taylor & Francis Dorothy M. Owen (Sammons): DARNTON (Baker), Jane: 1962 MCCALL, Marsh Thorpefield Partnership Ltd 1943 DEECH (Fraenkel), Ruth: 1962 NICHOLSON, Shona Tsuzuki University Jillian M. Rennie: 1953 DONALD, Margaret: 1950 PALLEY, Simon Nell Robinson (Truman): 1964 DOWDALL, Deb: 1974 PATTISSON, John Ann Sheldon (Sunderland): 1974 DYNE (Heath), Sonia: 1953 POYNTON, Audrey Mervyn Trenaman EVANS (Kruse), Lesley: 1962 POYNTON, Roger FISHER (Hibbard), Sophia: 1966 PYLE, David The Plumer Society has been FLEMING (Newman), Joan: 1957 ROBERTS, Timothy founded to acknowledge and FLINT (Parker), Joy: 1946 ROSSOTTI, Hazel thank those who inform the FOREMAN (Kremer), Susan: 1957 SAYERS, Nicholas College of their decision to FORSTER, Helen: 1946 SCHMITZ-STOLBRINK, Annette include a gift to St Anne’s in FOWLER (Burley), Elizabeth: 1957 SHEPLEY, Richard their will. Some members have FOX, Clemency: 1956 SIMPSON, Ann asked not to be listed. FRANK (Hoar), Tessa: 1951 SMITH, Julie GLYNNE, Dilys: 1948 SNELL, Catherine ALDWORTH, Elizabeth: 1940 GREENWAY (Denerley), Ann: SNOW, Stephanie BAKER (Gibbon), Ruth: 1955 1959 SPARROWHAWK, Zoe BANNISTER, Jean Audrey GROCOCK, Anne: 1965 SPENCER, Neil (Taylor): 1958 HALE, Barbara: 1948 STENNETT, Caroline BARLOW (Finn), Maureen: 1950 HALL, Kathleen: 1941 STONE, Caroline BELDEN, Hilary: 1966 HAMPTON, Kate: 1977 TRENAMAN, Mervyn BOGGIS, Margaret: 1940 HARDCASTLE, Margaret: 1954 WILLETTS, David BREWARD, Chris: 1991 HENSMAN (Hawley), Barbara: ZHANG, Qing BURTON (Heveningham Pughe), 1956 Frances: 1960 HILTON, Catherine: 1965 BURTT (Waite), Audrey: 1942 HOME, Anna: 1956 BUSH (Hainton), Julia: 1967 HONORE (Duncan), Deborah: BUXTON (Aston), Margaret: 1951 1948

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HUDSON, Julie: 1975 MURDIN (Milburn), Lesley: 1960 WHEELER, Heather: 1958 Other gifts have been received HUNT (Siddell), Ann: 1963 NEWLANDS (Raworth), Elizabeth: WILLETTS (Ferreras), Maria: 1974 from HUZZEY, Clement & Christine 1960 YATES (Crashaw), Sue: 1967 Allen & Overy LLP, Jane Annesley HYDE, Caroline: 1988 NIXON, Gill YOUNG (Tucker), Margaret: 1949 in memory of her mother Clare JACK, Susan: 1970 O’FLYNN (Brewster), Hazel: 1946 Veronica Holder, Peter Appleby JACKSON (Mansergh), Deborah: ORR (Stones), Muriel: 1944 Library Donations and Gifts (from the estate of Mary Appleby), 1953 ORSTEN, Elisabeth: 1953 Gifts of their own work have Tess Cameron Bentall (a bequest, JARMAN, Richard: 1989 O’SULLIVAN, Helen: 1969 been received from David delivered by Alan Bentall), Lauren JESSIMAN (Smith), Maureen: PACKER (Sellick), Sally: 1964 Banister, Denise Bates, Margaret Canvin, Christ Church Library, 1953 PATON (Hodgkinson), Anne: 1955 Bird, Ruby Blondell, Frances Ruth Deech, Paul Donovan, JOHNSTONE, Harry PATTISSON, John Burton, Tom Chivers, Simon Margaret Duvall, Tim Gardam, JONES (Smith), Elizabeth: 1962 PERRIAM (Brech), Wendy: 1958 Cushing, Celia Cviic, Margaret Peter Ghosh, Zhongliuchang JULIAN (Whitworth), Celia: 1964 PICKLES (Wilson), Janet: 1953 Doak, Paul Donovan, Vincent Huang, Daphne Hutchinson, JCR KAYE, Elaine: 1948 POMFRET (Pearson), Carole: Gillespie, Rodney Gilmour, Mary Film Society, Devaki Jain, Andrew KENNA (Hamilton), Stephanie: 1979 Grey, Miriam Griffin, Tony Howe, Klevan, Cathy Knapp, Matthew 1968 POUNTNEY, Rosemary: 1969 Nancy Hubbard, Julie Hudson, Leigh, Xuewei Loy, Patrick KING, Fiona: 1980 REVILL (Radford), Ann: 1955 Devaki Jain, Andrew Klevan, McGuinness, Ohio/Georgia KING (Haines), Dorothea: 1933 ROBINSON, Crispin: 1979 Morten Kringelbach, Matthew Programme, Derek Penslar, KIRK-WILSON (Matthews), Ruth: ROWE, Barbara: 1942 Leigh, Francesca Lessa, Dominic Christopher Ricks in memory 1963 RUSHTON (Jones), Virginia: 1963 Lutyens, Patrick McGuinness, of Marianne Fillenz, Crispin LACEY (Aykroyd), Juliet: 1962 SHEATHER (Hall), Judith: 1962 Nick Middleton, Jane Moreton, Robinson, Kathryn Sutherland, LARKINS (Rees), Fay: 1953 SHENTON, Joan: 1961 Hélène Neveu Kringelbach, June Taylor, Virginia Programme LARMOUTH, John & Carole SIMON (Holmes), Jane: 1973 Sarah Newman, Oliver Noble at Oxford, and Berta von Bibra. LAWLESS (Freeston), Sally: 1971 SKELTON, Judy: 1965 Wood, Miranda O’Connell, Jill LEWIS, Keri: 1947 SPEIRS (Fox), Christine: 1947 Paton Walsh, Helen Paul, Wendy LUNN, Fiona: 1977 SPOKES SYMONDS (Spokes), Perriam, Gina Pollinger, Matthew MAGNE (Lisicky), Vera: 1956 Ann: 1944 Reynolds, Helen Small, Samantha MANN, Paul: 1988 STANTON (Beech), Mandy: 1981 Shannon-Jones, Shirley MARKS, Winifred: 1944 TAYEB, Monir: 1976 Sherwood, Audrey Stanley, Ashley MARSLAND, Pauline: 1947 THIRLWELL (Goldman), Angela: Stokes, Antonios Tzanakopoulos, MASSEY (Glaser), Lili: 1967 1966 and Elizabeth Wilson. MCDONNELL (Phillips), Marie- THOMPSON, Jean: 1942 Louise: 1971 THURLOW (Yarker), Molly: 1949 MCEWAN (Ogilvy), Lindsay: 1940 TJOA (Chinn), Carole: 1965 MOORE (Slocombe), Anne: 1955 TRICKER (Poole), Marilyn: 1964 MOTTERSHEAD (Roberts), Ann: TURNER (Griffths), Clare: 1986 1977 WAGNER, Rosemary: 1964 MOUGHTON (Parr), Elizabeth: WALTER (Chipperfeld), Christina: 1951 1954 MUNRO, Rob: 1982 WELLS (Lehmann), Yvonne: 1944

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The Ship (Editor) Kate Davy Development Office Alumnae Relations Offcer St Anne’s College +44 (0)1865 284672 Oxford [email protected] OX2 6HS Alicia Cleary-Venables Development and Communications Assistant +44 (0)1865 284536 [email protected] This year we have much to celebrate in The Ship. Tim Gardam completes his first ten years as Principal and recalls a decade of change and ferment. By the time this issue reaches you, the builders will be about to break ground to start the building of the new Library and Academic Centre that will transform the College both visually and intellectually. We congratulate Tim and look forward to the transformations that will occupy much of his next decade!

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