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ANNUAL REPORT 2015/16 Tel: +44 (0)1865 270905 Email: Mailing@Rhodeshouse.Ox.Ac.Uk Web: Rhodeshouse.Ox.Ac.Uk THE RHODES TRUST THE RHODES TRUST Rhodes House South Parks Road Oxford OX1 3RG United Kingdom SECOND CENTURY ANNUAL REPORT 2015/16 REPORT ANNUAL SECOND CENTURY Tel: +44 (0)1865 270905 Email: [email protected] Web: rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk facebook.com/RhodesTrust @rhodes_trust Rhodes Scholarships Global Community RhodesTrust Annual Report 2015/16 Trustees Development Committee Welcome… Sir John Hood KNZM, Chairman Donald J. Gogel, Chairman Sean Mahoney (New Zealand & Worcester 1976) (New Jersey & Balliol 1971) (Illinois & New College 1984) his year’s Second Century annual report has a distinctly Mr Andrew Banks Nicholas Allard Jacko Maree (Florida & St Edmund Hall 1976) (New York & Merton 1974) (St Andrew’s College, Grahamstown celebratory feel to it. It has been a remarkable & Pembroke 1978) year – the first Chinese Rhodes Scholars have now Dominic Barton Andrew Banks (British Columbia & Brasenose 1984) (Florida & St Edmund Hall 1976) Michael McCaffery arrived in Oxford, we launched new Scholarships for (Pennsylvania & Merton 1975) West Africa, Israel, Malaysia, the Middle East, the Elleke Boehmer Dominic Barton (South Africa-at-Large (British Columbia & Brasenose 1984) John McCall MacBain O.C. UAE, and have plans to find terrific young people and St John’s 1985) (Quebec & Wadham 1980) globally. We partnered with the Atlantic Philanthropies to establish Shona L. Brown Dame Helen Ghosh DBE (Ontario & New College 1987) The Hon. Thomas McMillen the new Atlantic Institute here at Rhodes House to host mid-career (Maryland/DC & University 1974) T Fellows, and they also contributed more than £20 million towards our Don Gogel Gerry Cardinale (New Jersey & Balliol 1971) (Pennsylvania & Christ Church 1989) Timothy Orton fundraising campaign. The Campaign for the Second Century is now within (Australia-at-Large & Magdalen 1986) £5.5 million of its finishing line! We can get there in true Olympic Mr Glen James Charles Conn (Massachusetts & Balliol Lief Rosenblatt spirit, but will need your help to achieve that by the end of this year. Margaret MacMillan O.C. 1983) (Ex Officio) (Massachusetts & Magdalen 1974) Thank you to all those of you who have contributed to the campaign Tariro Makadzange Sir Roderick Eddington Arthur Scace, CM, QC, LLD so far. Since it was launched in 2013, I have been deeply impressed (Zimbabwe & Balliol 1999) (Western Australia & Lincoln 1974) (Ontario & Corpus Christi 1961) by the commitment of Scholars, not only to contribute financially Michael McCaffery Michael Fitzpatrick John Tudor but also to volunteer in so many ways. We have Scholars serving on (Pennsylvania & Merton 1975) (Western Australia & St John’s 1975) (South African College School selection panels, acting as Class Leaders, moderating at the Character, & Brasenose 1992) John McCall MacBain O.C. Bruns Grayson Service & Leadership programme, helping with outreach to less (Quebec & Wadham 1980) (California & University 1974) The Hon Malcolm Turnbull MP served communities, contributing to the online Rhodes Scholar (New South Wales & Brasenose 1978) Narayana Murthy Patrick Haden Network, and in countless other ways. The Rhodes community is (California & Worcester 1975) Michele Warman remarkable – and that is because of your outstanding efforts. Nicholas Oppenheimer (New York & Magdalen 1982) Sir John Hood KNZM This is a report which looks back at the last financial year (1 July Professor Dame Carol Robinson (New Zealand & Worcester 1976) 2015 to 30 June 2016) but I have to admit to also be looking forward. Judge Karen Stevenson In 2017 we host the inaugural Rhodes LGBTQ Forum, the Generation (Maryland & Magdalen 1979) 1.5°C: The intergenerational Rhodes Climate Workshop and celebrate Ngaire Woods the 40th Anniversary of Rhodes Women. For more information about (New Zealand & Balliol 1987) any of these events, contact [email protected] John Wylie, AM The cover of this report showcases the glories of the Rhodes House (Queensland & Balliol 1983) gardens, the result of a true labour of love for our Head Gardener, Neil Wigfield. The metaphor of growth seems particularly apt – the new Class of 2016 Scholars are finding their roots in Oxford and the global Rhodes community is flourishing and each year seems even stronger than the last. I look forward to seeing many of you in 2017, and I hope you enjoy reading the updates contained within this report. Charles Conn (Massachusetts & Balliol 1983) Warden of Rhodes House 2 SECOND CENTURY ANNUAL REPORT 3 Contents Scholar Voices 6 Registrar’s Update 8 Programmes Update 10 Thank You to our Volunteers 14 Funding collaboration with Oxford 16 Development Update 18 Annual Giving Participation by Country 20 Finance and Investment Report 22 My Time in Oxford 26 Geographical Expansion 28 Atlantic Partnership Update 30 The Rhodes Society 32 Leadership Donors 34 Honour Roll of Donors 40 4 SECOND CENTURY ANNUAL REPORT 5 Scholar Voices Rhodes Scholars consider their time in Oxford and the impact the Rhodes Scholarship has had on their studies and future ambitions. Caroline Leps (Ontario & Trinity 2015) Jessica Glennie (New Zealand & Pembroke 2015) xford’s rich history, culture, and opportunities for ow, a year has passed already, and what a year it O professional development are what make me so W has been! The MSc in Environmental Change and grateful to the Rhodes Trust for the opportunity to Management was often challenging, and sometimes study and live here. Even after a year, I still find it overwhelming. I wrestled with the frightening urgency wonderful to admire Turl Street while biking to work of our changing world, wondering what I can do to make at the Bodleian, row with my College Boat Club, or a difference. My perceptions of beauty and luxury have run through Port Meadow. Most importantly, the been completely redefined. I had the opportunity to knowledge and inspiration provided by my Professors travel to Cape Town over the summer to research the and friends from the Rhodes community have role architects can play in navigating the antagonistic immeasurably enriched my educational experience. grey area between informality and bureaucracy. As an aspiring architect, this area of research has grabbed me in a way that I have never experienced before. Some lessons have been painful, some refreshing; all have made me stronger Alexander Coccia (Indiana & St John’s 2015) and more passionate. Incredible friends have taught me and laughed he Rhodes Scholarship has been an incredible opportunity to explore with me, and I will hold these memories close to my heart forever. T the interdisciplinary nexus of sociology, political science, and economics, through the MPhil in Comparative Social Policy. I’ve been able to expand on my work at the US Department of Health and Human Services by exploring the historical development of welfare and safety net Robert Hortle (Australia-at-Large & St John’s 2014) policies, the policy debates around conditionality within have recently graduated from the MPhil in Development anti-poverty programs, and the normative and legal I Studies, and will continue to the DPhil in International questions around the state’s responsibility of ensuring Development in 2016/17. I’ll be looking at the social economic security and protecting the dignity of the performance of ‘hybrid regimes’ – governments that individual. Beyond academics, my first year as a combine authoritarianism and democracy. Besides Rhodes Scholar was a year of saying “yes” – to studying, I’ve rowed for the St John’s Second VIII in tandem bike rides to the Southern coast of England Torpids and Summer VIIIs, and played a ridiculous with minimal daylight in the dead of winter; to amount of cricket for St John’s, the Rhodes XI traveling to seven countries and falling in love (now affectionately known as the Cockatoos), with three; to learning a new sport in Australian and the University Second XI. Season highlights Rules Football and competing in the Varsity for the Cockatoos included winning the Jack Cox match against Cambridge. Of course, throughout Interdepartmental Plate, and battling to a gritty draw all of these activities and academic discussions, against the Royal Household XI at Windsor Castle. the common thread is the friendships I’ve made I’m already looking forward to next summer: there with some of the most critical, passionate, and caring are few things better than enjoying a cold, post-victory people. I’m reminded of what the Amsterdam footy team cider while watching the sun set at the St John’s Fortress. taught the Oxford team when we visited on our yearly tour: I’ve also been doing my best to bring some low culture to “There are good ships and wood ships, the ships that sail the Oxford as half of the shambolic covers duo Keep Off the Grass sea, but the best ships are friendships and may they always be”. – purveyors of trashy nineties/noughties pop and bad banter. 6 SECOND CENTURY ANNUAL REPORT 7 Registrar’s Update The current Rhodes Scholars in Oxford continue to thrive, and our Registrar, Mary Eaton, provides her annual update on their many activities and achievements. he Rhodes Scholar community in Oxford and Diabetes, Paediatric Enteric Fever and more. and on navigation systems for self-driving cars. the Good Lad Workshop (promoting positive models continues to be stimulating, sociable, Scholars in Computer Science are working on Scholars in the Social Sciences are tackling issues of masculinity), in promoting the campaigns It curious and impassioned. Two hundred cardiac cell and lung function modelling, and surrounding urban power, race, class, intimate Happens Here (making Oxford a place safe from Scholars on stipend are spread across 34 on cyberspace security; Scholars in Engineering partner violence and child literacy and Philosophers sexual violence), It Gets Brighter (to de-stigmatise Tcolleges of the University and involved in every Science are working on non-invasive vital-sign are evaluating free will or asking whether the mental illness) and CRAE (Campaign for Racial facet of Oxford life.
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