TW St John’s College, Oxford spring 2012

1 - tw newsletter, summer 2002 St John’s College, Oxford contents

3 Editorial 34 The Next President Writes

4 News in Brief 36 Guilty Pleasures

8New Fellows 38 Hub of the University

10 Natural Language? 40 From Committees to Nude Calendars

16 The President Writes 42 Which Church? Which Queen?

17 Arab Spring Break 45 Sport

19 Calling all Composers 49 Letters to the Editor

20 Open Access 51 Farewell

28 More than Consumers 59 College Notes

30 Vital Statistics 67 News of Alumni

post. As I write, the Guardian has just published an editorial praising our current president, Sir Michael Scholar, for his role as chair of the UK Statistics Authority. At the same time, our next President, Professor Maggie Snowling, has been working in Washington DC as part of the pioneering Education for All: Fast-Track Initiative, intended to achieve the universal provision of primary schools across the world. This all seems a long way away from Herbert James and his philately. And it’s not just our Presidents who seek to make a difference. As this edition of TW shows, the last year has seen our Fellowship involved in life beyond the College walls in numerous important ways. From John Kay’s commission on the equity market to Jaideep Pandit’s investigation into Dr William Whyte, Editor of TW anaesthesia to Dorothy Bishop’s work on childhood T HE S TAMP OF A UTHORITY

ust over a hundred years ago, in 1909, Herbert language disorders: the Fellows of St John’s Armitage James was elected President of St continue to do important public service. Our JJohn’s. He had many qualifications for the job: students, too, are impressive for more than just a distinguished career as a public school their academic ability. Both the current Oxford headmaster, an impressive beard, the best stamp University Students’ Union President, Martha collection in the country. But he was scarcely a Mackenzie (2008), and the next President, David noteworthy head of house, devoting more time to Townsend (2007) are St John’s graduates. Students philately than to public life. In his memoirs, John in Oxford and half a dozen other universities are Mabbott, who was himself President between 1963 also being helped to volunteer their services by an and 1969, recalled that in one meeting about a organisation founded by two other St John’s alumni problematic student James suddenly and – Adam O’Boyle (2005) and Rachel Stephenson dramatically fell to his knees. Assuming that this (2005). There’s more about their Oxford Hub later was invitation to prayer, the senior dean also in TW. politely knelt, and then heard James expostulate, That St John’s is more than just an ivory tower ‘It’s only a penny red’. He had seen a stamp on the – that it contributes to the public good in all floor and forgotten about the issue they were meant manner of ways – scarcely needs mentioning. Or, at to be discussing. any rate, it would hardly necessitate this emphasis Since 1909, there have been ten presidents of were it not for the fact that ‘impact’ has become St John’s. Some have been scholars, some public one of the key ways in which the government servants, some a bit of both. The role is really what proposes to rate universities. Quite what ‘impact’ the individual makes it. Cyril Norwood, who took means remains unclear; what is evident is that this up the reins in 1933, resembled James in many nebulous term will become increasingly important ways, not least in coming to the job from a career for higher education in the next few years, not least in school teaching. But he was an altogether more in determining how we are funded. Our Fellows – serious figure, whose 1943 report on secondary and students – certainly do have impact, though education shaped British schools for at least a whether it’s the sort that will satisfy our paymasters generation. remains to be determined. But in the current Most recent presidents have tended to follow climate it seems vital to celebrate our existing work the Norwood rather than the James approach to the in the wider world.

tw magazine, 2007 - 3 NEWS IN BRIEF Order! Order! collection across all acute Trusts in the UK. It is a It is a little noticed fact that St John’s now has more multi-disciplinary effort involving Trust legal MPs in the House of Commons than any other departments, managers, clinicians, psychologists, Oxford college. Due to the kind intervention of one the Royal College of Psychiatry, and patient of the most recent recruits, Gregg McClymont representatives. This will be the largest study of this (1999), this ensured that history alumni were able nature since 3 million general anaesthetics are to celebrate the career of one of the College’s most administered in the UK each year. distinguished tutors, Ross McKibbin, in the literally palatial surroundings of the Speaker’s state rooms Playing FTSE in May. Timed to coincide with the launch of a John Kay, Investment Officer and Supernumerary Festschrift dedicated to him, the event drew more Fellow in Economics, has won the Wincott Senior than a hundred of his former students, as well as Award for Financial Journalism for his weekly journalists and politicians. The Festschrift, entitled column in the Financial Times. He has been asked Classes, Cultures, and Politics is published by OUP at by the UK Business Secretary Vince Cable to chair the inviting price of £65 and includes several essays The Kay Review into investment in UK equity by St John’s alumni – from Joe McAleer (1983) on markets and its impact on the long-term Mills and Boon to Rosemary Sweet (1987) on Ross performance and governance of UK quoted as a fashion icon. companies. This will report in July 2012. Ready, Steady, Gold? As the 2012 London Olympics draws near, fingers remain firmly crossed for our two St John’s Olympic hopefuls, alumni Rosara Joseph (2006) and Andreas Heger (2010). Rosara studied Law between 2006 and 2011 and represented New Zealand in cross country mountain bike racing in Beijing 2008, coming ninth overall. She is hoping to qualify again for London 2012 and has been training hard since completing her DPhil last May. Andreas recently completed his Bachelor of Civil Law and is hoping to compete for Australia in rowing at the London 2012 Paralympics before returning to Oxford to continue his postgraduate studies. Andreas is legally blind and began rowing in 2007. Perhaps Rosara and Andreas can take inspiration from our medal-winning alumni of earlier years. St John’s has four alumni, all representing the USA, who have achieved Olympic Dr Ross McKibbin, General Anaesthetic gold, the ultimate sporting success: Jennifer Howitt Emeritus Research Jaideep Pandit, Supernumerary Fellow in (2005) in wheelchair basketball in 2004; Annette Fellow in History, physiology, has been appointed Professor of Salmeen (1997) in the 800m freestyle swimming holding the Festschrift Anaesthetics by the Royal College of Anaesthetists, relay in 1996; Christopher Penny (1986) in the written in his honour, in recognition of his pioneering researches. He has rowing eight in 1984; and Norm Taber (1913) in the ‘Classes, Cultures and also been named as the national lead of the Royal 3000m athletics in 1912. We also have one College Politics’ College’s National Audit Project on ‘Accidental Olympian who won a medal for Great Britain: Awareness under General Anaesthesia’. This is a alumnus Richard Norris (1952) who was part of the three year, comprehensive co-ordination of data bronze medal-winning GB hockey team in 1952.

4 - tw magazine, 2012 Winning Arts and Minds geothermal energy, biomass boilers, heat recovery, low- Fifth week of Hilary 2011 saw the first Arts Week in energy lighting and controls leave little that could be College, conceived and successfully organised by bettered. All this has been achieved without the slightest student Katie Slee (2009) and the newly re-formed hint of compromise to the architecture. Arts Committee. St John’s played host to a week- Our congratulations to MJP Architects and long celebration of all things arty, with activities everyone in College connected with the build. including exhibitions, classes, tours, and performances, covering everything from still life to Weighty Matters silent films, models to manuscripts. A year after the main Quad was officially launched, Highlights included still life drawing classes for the new Kendrew gym opened in time for the both beginners and experts, an Open Mike Night arrival of our new freshers. The gym now houses where budding musicians, poets and thespians aerobic exercise equipment including treadmills, performed, and a St John’s Art Attack in which exercise bikes and cross trainers, as well as mats students took part in creating the biggest St John’s and gym balls. The free weights – beloved by our Crest ever seen. The week ended with a St John’s rowers over the years – are housed in a second Showcase, a fashion, music, drama, and dance gym in College located near Thomas White Quad, extravaganza in which some of the work created by across the Lamb and Flag passage (see new College the members of College throughout the week was Map, p.68). on display. Following on from the success of Arts Week, the Music and Visual Arts Committee has agreed to sponsor regular life drawing classes in Hilary 2012, held in the new Kendrew Arts Area, to which all members of the St John’s community are invited.

Top Quad It is not only our students who appreciate the winning qualities of the Kendrew Quadrangle. We were delighted to hear last summer that our newest quadrangle was one of the ten buildings in the South/South East region to win a 2011 Royal Institute of British Architects’ Award. The RIBA Awards recognise excellence in architecture and are respected worldwide. Judges assess buildings on a range of factors including budget, size, complexity of brief, detail, invention and originality, sustainability and delight. The award citation for All Souls and the The new Kendrew the Kendrew Quadrangle acknowledges the quality Faithful Departed Gym and those of its architecture as well as the range of Fresh from winning a University award for involved in its environmental features embraced: achieving the top first in history Finals, George development, from left This building sits very comfortably in its setting: a Woudhuysen (2008) has been elected a Prize to right, Keith Pearce, south-facing courtyard focused on a mature beech tree. Fellow of All Souls. He follows a small, but formerly Clerk of In its covered cloisters and glazed common room roofs, distinguished line of other St John’s alumni – Works, Ian Stokes, in the student rooms and the external terraces, this is a including Euan Cameron (1976), Scott Mandelbrote Estates Manager, and building that blurs the definitions of inside and out. (1987) and Patrick Finglass (1997) – who have Professor Zoltán The building is a journey of discovery with a series of similarly succeeded in the competition to win this Molnár, Sports Officer delightfully framed views through architectural spaces most prestigious and desirable of prizes. on to the garden. A historian of the late-Roman empire, George now In this way the architecture complements the has seven years in which to pursue his studies. As a environmental agenda. St John’s College wanted to use previous captain of the St John’s University the latest thinking in sustainability. A combination of Challenge team, this also gives him time to train up building orientation, excellent insulation, solar and an All Souls equivalent.

tw magazine, 2012 - 5 Memorial plaque to Howard Colvin located by the entrance to the Library in Canterbury Quadrangle

Si Monumentum His research interests embrace inclusive fitness, Requires … biological game theory, strategic signaling, and Howard Colvin was a Fellow of St John’s for six statistical techniques for analysing cross-species decades. A medieval historian by training, in his data. The Royal Society is a Fellowship of the own words he found ‘that Oxford was a place world’s most eminent scientists and is the oldest where, once established, one could do whatever one scientific academy in continuous existence. Its liked provided only that one did not neglect one’s Fellows, who are elected for life on the basis of pupils’. The result was a wholly unexpected career scientific excellence, have included Isaac Newton, in architectural history; one that saw him effect Charles Darwin, and Albert Einstein. With this what other historians have termed ‘the Colvin election, Alan joins two other current members of revolution’. Using the techniques he had learnt as a the Governing Body as an FRS: Professor Fraser medievalist, he transformed our understanding of Armstrong and Professor Nick Harberd. English architecture, writing and editing books that Martin Stokes, Tutor in Music, has won The have still not been superseded. On 21 May 2011, Royal Musical Association’s 2010 Dent Medal, ‘pro the College, in association with the Society of meritis erga musicae scientiam’. This prestigious Architectural Historians of Great Britain, held a award recognises Martin’s research in one-day conference in his memory. More than 200 ethnomusicology and the anthropology of music, people attended, and at the end of the event Sir with particular emphasis on social and cultural Keith Thomas unveiled a memorial plaque in theory. A study day was held in his honour by the Canterbury Quad. RMA at Senate House in London on 17 September 2010. Martin also won the 2010 Merriam Prize for Prizes Galore his book The Republic of Love: Cultural Intimacy and Our Fellows continue to excel. During the last Turkish Popular Music, a prize awarded annually by academic year more Fellows of St John’s have won the Society for Ethnomusicology ‘to recognize the prizes, been elected to Fellowships by leading most distinguished, published English-language academic bodies, and achieved recognition for their monograph in the field of ethnomusicology.’ scholarly contributions. Richard Compton, Tutor in Chemistry, has received a number of honours this year. He has Alan Grafen was elected to the Fellowship of won the 2011 Sir George Stokes Award of the Royal The Royal Society in May 2011. Tutor in Society of Chemistry for his work ‘translating Quantitative Biology at St John’s and Professor of original and fundamental insights in interfacial Theoretical Biology at the Department of Zoology, charge transfer mechanisms and their kinetics into Alan is distinguished for his mathematical and innovative and robust analytical sensing protocols conceptual contributions to behavioural ecology. which have revolutionised the field of

6 - tw magazine, 2007 electroanalysis’. He was also appointed Aldrichian Nicholas Purcell, Emeritus Fellow and Praelector in Chemistry at the University of Oxford formerly Tutor in Ancient History, was appointed and awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Kharkov to the University’s Camden Chair of Ancient National University, Ukraine. History with effect from October 2011 and is now Andrei Starinets, Tutor in Physics at St John’s, a Fellow of Brasenose College. has won the 2011 Maxwell Medal. The award was Zuzanna Olszewska, Junior Research Fellow given for his work on the gauge-gravity in Oriental Studies, was awarded the Best correspondence which relates quantum gauge Dissertation of the Year prize by the Foundation theories to gravitational systems. The medal is for Iranian Studies in November 2010 for her awarded for outstanding contributions to DPhil thesis ‘Poetry and its Social Contexts among theoretical, mathematical or computational Physics, Afghan Refugees in Iran’. Zuzanna was praised by and was previously won in 1976 by Stephen the awarding committee, for ‘her empathy with Hawking. Dr Starinets joins two other past winners her subject, sensitivity to language, and ability to from St John’s, Sir Roger Elliott (1968) and Sir render in English the near exact sentiment and Chris Llewellyn Smith (1979). nuance in the Persian verses she translates.’ Linda McDowell, Professorial Fellow in A number of our College Lecturers have also Geography, has been honoured by the University of received recognition for their work this year. Oxford with a DLitt, awarded for ‘conspicuous Natalia Gromak, Lecturer in Biochemistry, was ability and originality and research that constitutes awarded a prestigious Royal Society University a distinguished or sustained achievement’. The Research Fellowship in June 2011. This fellowship examiners’ report describes Linda as ‘the world’s has allowed Natalia to set up her independent leading feminist geographer’ who has ‘been at the research group at the Sir William Dunn School of forefront of thought on the economy as a cultural Pathology, University of Oxford, from October negotiation.’ 2011. Natalia’s research interest lies in the field of Frédérique Aït-Touati, Supernumerary Teaching gene regulation. In particular, she will investigate Fellow in French, has won the 2010 Malcolm Bowie how mutations in proteins, governing Prize, awarded by the Society of French Studies, for fundamental steps of gene expression in each ‘the best article published in the preceding year by human cell, can lead to diseases. Alan Strathern, an early-career researcher in the discipline of Lecturer in History, was awarded a 2010 Philip French Studies’. Leverhulme prize to undertake research on the Maya Tudor, Supernumerary Fellow in Politics, space between religion and politics in the early has won the 2010 Gabriel A. Almond Prize modern world. awarded by the American Political Science Michael Riordan, College Archivist, has been Association for the best doctoral dissertation in the elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in field of Comparative Politics. Her thesis explored recognition of his expertise on the history of democracy in India and Pakistan, 1920–58. Oxford University and the study of politics and Iain Campbell FRS, Emeritus Research Fellow religion in early modern England. in Biochemistry, gave the Gregor Mendel Lecture in the Mendel Museum in the Czech Republic on 4 Best in Class November 2010. His lecture on ‘Cell migration and Our students have also been excelling this year. protein-protein interactions’ was delivered in the Ben Martindale, has been named ‘Best Chemistry refectory of the Augustinian Abbey in Old Brno Student’ at the European Science, Engineering where Mendel, the founder of genetics, worked and Technology Awards 2011. A Finalist this almost 200 years ago and was part of a lecture summer, Ben won this award after impressing an series attended annually by almost one thousand eminent judging panel at the Royal Society of students and academics in the field of genetics. Chemistry with his project on ‘What constitutes Jack Langton, Emeritus Research Fellow in the flavour of garlic?’ Impressing another Geography, has been awarded an Honorary European panel of judges, Rahul Prabhakar, a Doctorate at the University of Uppsala, which was current graduate student in International conferred on 24 January 2012, in recognition of his Relations, has won the 2010 Daadler prize, theoretical and empirical work on the emergence in awarded by the European Consortium for Political and effects on agrarian societies of social Research, for his paper ‘Globalized Finance and modernisation, capitalism, and urbanisation. National Regulation’.

tw magazine, 2007 - 7 NEW FELLOWS

Patrick Hayes (Tutorial Fellow in English) teaches literature from the Institute of Child Health at University College in English from 1740 to the present day. His research is on the London, where he was Professor in Tropical Neurosciences debate over literary value in the modern period, especially on and Paediatrics. how 20th and 21st century writers have explored this debate and the ways their work has been received and evaluated. His Maya Tudor (Supernumerary Teaching Fellow in Politics) particular interest is in the modernist novel and its legacies in is a comparative political scientist who seeks to understand the post-war period, and he is currently working on the the origins of democracy and authoritarianism in India and relationship between fiction and cultural criticism in post-war Pakistan. Her forthcoming book argues that the origins of America. He was a Supernumerary Teaching Fellow at St John’s these dramatically different regime trajectories lie not in before being appointed to this Governing Body position. broader patterns of poverty or inequality (the dominant explanations for democratization today), but in the Angela Russell (Tutorial Fellow in Chemistry) works in the differential class groups leading the respective independence field of medicinal chemistry and is engaged in a number of movements and the kinds of political parties that those ongoing multidisciplinary research collaborations in this area. classes created before independence in 1947. She comes to These include the development of arylamine N-acetyltransferase St John’s from Research Fellowships at the Oxford Centre for inhibitors for the treatment of tuberculosis and cancer, and the the Study of Inequality and Democracy and the Belfer Center understanding of protein tyrosine phosphatase inhibitors in the for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University. treatment of cancer, diabetes, and inflammatory disorders. She held a Research Councils’ UK Fellowship in Medicinal Jeramias Prassl (Supernumerary Teaching Fellow in Chemistry at the Departments of Chemistry and Pharmacology Law) is a lawyer with an interest in corporate and in Oxford and was a Supernumerary Fellow at St John’s before employment law. His current research focuses on the being appointed to this Governing Body position. Alternative Fund Management Industry, specifically Private Equity firms in the United Kingdom and continental Europe, Kate Doornik (Supernumerary Fellow in Economics) is an looking at the legal implications of close shareholder economist whose research uses game theory to study issues involvement on traditional notions of the employer. He relating to the internal organisation of firm and inter firm- comes to St John’s from his doctoral studies at Magdalen relationships. She came to St John’s in January 2009 from College and a Stipendiary Lecturership at Jesus College. University College where she was a Fellow in Management Studies and was a Supernumerary Teaching Fellow before being Judith Wolfe (Supernumerary Teaching Fellow in appointed to this Governing Body position. Theology) comes to St John’s from a post-doctoral fellowship at the European College of Liberal Arts, Berlin. Her primary Elizabeth MacFarlane (Chaplain and Supernumerary area of research is the interface between early-twentieth- Fellow) comes to St John’s from Marlow, Buckinghamshire, century European theology and philosophy, and she is where she was working as a parish priest. She was an currently working on a monograph on Heidegger’s Secular undergraduate at St Hugh’s College before training for the Eschatology for Oxford University Press as well as an priesthood at Ripon College, Cuddesdon. Her graduate work has introduction to Heidegger and Theology for Continuum. looked at the ways in which ideas of the saints have been used to influence church practice, from church restoration projects to Katherine Butler (Research Fellow in Music) holds a pageants. British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship to research the changing cultural significance of music in early modern Charles Newton (Professorial Fellow) is a paediatric England by examining the myths and stories which informed neurologist and the Cheryl and Reece Scott Professor of beliefs about music. Her doctorate explored the political uses Psychiatry based in the Department of Psychiatry. He leads a of music at the court of Queen Elizabeth I, considering the programme of research looking at the epidemiology, role of music in constructing royal and courtly identities and mechanisms, and consequences of brain damage caused by in influencing the Queen’s policies and patronage. An infections of the brain and sickle cell anaemia, particularly in alumna of The Queen’s College, she comes to St John’s from poor children living in Africa. He comes to Oxford and St John’s Royal Holloway College, University of London.

8 - tw magazine, 2012 Dianne Newman (Visiting Senior Research Fellow) is understood in the sixteenth-century Protestant theology of visiting St John’s from the California Institute of Technology Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon, and how their where she is Professor of Biology and Geobiology and principal fundamental ambivalence about affect has had significant investigator at the Newman Laboratory. She is interested in the consequences for later Protestant theology. He has a doctorate co-evolution of life and Earth and her interdisciplinary research from Peterhouse, Cambridge on Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt group studies the molecular mechanisms that underlie (1842–1919), a German Pietist theologian and social activist. He putatively ancient forms of metabolism. comes to St John’s from a post-doctoral research position at the Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge. Jonas Peters (Visiting Senior Research Fellow) is also visiting St John’s from the California Institute of Technology Nathan Rose (Junior Research Fellow in Biochemistry) is where he is the Bren Professor of Chemistry. His research interested in how the interactions between DNA and the histone concerns the design and synthesis of unusual molecules whose proteins that package it into chromatin work together to control geometries and electronic structures press the boundaries of our gene expression. His current work focuses on interactions ideas about chemical bonding and offer insights into between histone modifications, the enzymes that catalyse them, fundamental metabolic transformations including nitrogen and unique regions of the genome known as CpG islands. fixation and photosynthesis. Originally from South Africa, he completed his doctorate at Merton College and comes to St John’s from a post-doctoral Daniel Marszalec (Junior Research Fellow in Economics) research post in the Department of Chemistry. is an economist specialising in auctions. His research offers policymakers and practitioners practical insights into multi-unit Stephanie Simmons (Junior Research Fellow in Materials and multi-dimensional auctions using theoretical, empirical, and Science) is a quantum information scientist who works on the experimental methods. An undergraduate at Merton, he comes experimental development of spin-based quantum computers, to St John’s from his doctoral studies at Nuffield College. where the quantum information can be stored within the spin degree of freedom of individual electrons and nuclei. Originally Simeon Zahl (Junior Research Fellow in Theology) is from Canada, she comes to St John’s from Magdalen College currently interested in how emotion and the affections were where she gained her doctorate.

Leavers & Retirees Once again we said goodbye to a number of College Fellows and Lecturers at the end of the academic year. We thank all leavers and retirees for their teaching, research, and good company at St John’s and wish them well for the future. We shall miss them.

Professor George Fleet, Dr Kevin Foster, Tutorial Fellow in Chemistry (now Emeritus Research Fellow in the Sciences Research Fellow) Professor Robert Young, Mr Nicholas Purcell, Senior Visiting Research Fellow Tutorial Fellow in Ancient History (now Emeritus Dr Tania Demetriou, Fellow) Junior Research Fellow in English Revd Dr Elizabeth Carmichael, Dr Camilla Murgia, Chaplain and Tutorial Fellow in Theology (now Junior Research Fellow in Art History Emeritus Research Fellow) Dr Sheehan Olver, Dr Robert Saunders, Junior Research Fellow in Mathematics Supernumerary Fellow in History Dr Mark Stokes, Mr Vijay Joshi, Junior Research Fellow in Psychology Supernumerary Fellow in Economics Dr Wyeth Bair, Research Fellow in the Sciences

tw magazine, 2012 - 9 NATURAL LANGUAGE?

Professor Dorothy One of the biggest changes to hit the f you’d told me at the age of 18 that I’d end up Bishop, Supernumerary University in the last thirty years is as a psychologist, I’d have been amazed. My Fellow and Professor of the huge and unprecedented growth in Ipath from grammar school to university had a Developmental medical and psychological research great many random elements, but one thing was Neuropsychology, done here. This has resulted in massive clear to me. Freud and Jung were not my cup of assesses a child for leaps forward in scholarship, but the tea. I was interested in what made people different specific language speed of change has been such that it from one another, but my forays into impairment (SLI) has also created a whole category of psychoanalytic literature had turned me off internationally-important scholars psychology completely. When I applied to Oxford, who have no association with any I decided that the course that offered the best college. To help rectify this, St John’s match to my interests was PPP, but without the has taken the decision to elect a psychology. Disappointed to find that I was number of these world-leaders as debarred from over 80 per cent of colleges because Supernumerary Fellows. Here, Dorothy I didn’t have a Y chromosome, I had ended up Bishop, Professor of Developmental picking the one with a man’s name, and so found Neuropsychology, writes about myself trekking up the Banbury Road to St Hugh’s her work as a leading expert on on a cold winter’s day. I was struggling to suppress developmental language disorders. the sense of shock that I’d been summoned for

10 - tw magazine, 2012 interview, since I’d felt the admissions examination that interested in children, and indeed, hadn’t even had done no more than reveal my extensive done the developmental psychology option in my ignorance, and I’d been forced to make up answers undergraduate degree. Yet, once I’d encountered out of my own head. Nobody had told me that this my first handful of paediatric referrals, I was was the goal of the exercise. It quickly became hooked. apparent that philosophy was not the subject for Most young children are highly vocal beings. one of my empirical turn of mind: when asked how Even as babies they will use cooing and babbling to we could tell if someone else could feel pain, I interact with those around them. Then at some suggested setting up an experiment that involved time around their first birthday the first words looking for physiological indicators that correlated emerge, typically escalating to a sizeable vocabulary with people’s subjective reports. Yes, I know, I over the next 12 months. And as the number of know; the philosophers in College will be words increases, they start to put them together in shuddering at such a mindset. Fortunately, the phrases, and by three years of age most children philosophy fellow at St Hugh’s was sufficiently will be chattering away in simple but effective forgiving to suggest that I might be more suited to sentences. This developmental pattern is difficult to psychology, and I duly set off back down the disrupt, regardless of the culture or language. Most Banbury Road for an interview in the little house at children will learn to talk despite physical or visual 1, South Parks Road that then accommodated the impairments. A severe hearing loss will impair department. ‘What sort of psychology do you like?’ learning of spoken language, but if parents use I was asked. I had no idea. I remembered the sign sign language with the child, then language at the entrance of the building and replied milestones are seen in gestural form on a similar ‘Experimental psychology!’ The tutor, who had no timetable to those seen for spoken language. As doubt spent the morning seeing rafts of candidates Steven Pinker memorably remarked: ‘In general, interested in Freud and Jung, brightened up language acquisition is a stubbornly robust process; considerably at this point, and my path thereafter from what we can tell there is virtually no way to seemed assured. prevent it from happening short of raising a child When I arrived as a fresher a few months later, in a barrel’. Experimental Psychology was transformed, having I was, however, seeing the exceptions: children just moved into the glittering new concrete edifice who struggled to learn their native language, on South Parks Road. The building has not despite having normal hearing and intelligence, withstood the passing of the years very well, but the and in the absence of any social or medical factors discipline has flourished, with Oxford retaining a that might readily account for this. Often the child position at the top of the Guardian league tables for would have a history of being slow to start to talk, 2012. And the subject matter was just what I had so that the milestones noted above might occur one been hoping for: the study of mind and behaviour or two years later than usual. Eventually, most of through empirical experiment, rather than these children do learn to talk in sentences, albeit introspection. After three years of study, I decided later than usual, but typically their utterances are to take further my interest in what made people short and simple. different from one another, and embarked on a The first question I wanted to ask was whether master’s in clinical psychology at the Institute of these children just had problems with speaking, or Psychiatry in London. I was not, though, a natural whether there were also issues with understanding clinician and I was always dissatisfied with our level language. I soon found it was difficult to answer of understanding of psychological disorders. So this, because we didn’t have adequate instruments, when the opportunity came to do a doctorate in and so my thesis involved developing tests that neuropsychology at Oxford, I leapt at it. And at this allow one to check whether the child fully point, I was given a definite steer that shaped my understands what others are saying. This entire career. I’d always been fascinated by studies confirmed that a child might appear to understand of neurological patients, but my supervisor, Freda well, but a carefully-designed test could reveal that Newcombe, wanted someone who would specialise he or she may be succeeding by taking in two or in children. She was increasingly getting referrals three key words and working out a meaning – of children with language disorders from the local much as you and I might do if listening to a children’s psychiatric hospital. I’d never been all foreign language in which we have only

tw magazine, 2012 - 11 rudimentary competence (See Figure 1). Language problems like this are much less well-recognised than the related condition of developmental dyslexia, yet they are as common as dyslexia, affecting around five per cent of children, and their impact on educational progress can be severe. One reason for the relative neglect of language impairment is that it is a hidden disorder; the children do not look abnormal and their behaviour does not usually give cause for concern. Another reason is that there has been little agreement about terminology: a whole host of labels has been used, ranging from the more medical – ‘developmental dysphasia’ – to the rather vague and over-general ‘speech, language, and communication needs’. I prefer the term ‘specific language impairment’ (SLI), which indicates that the child’s difficulties Figure 1 are specific insofar as they are not accompanied by Test item: The child hears the spoken sentence: more general intellectual handicaps. Children with ‘The star in the square is blue’, and has to select the SLI have some features in common with autism, correct picture. Note that this involves ability to where communication is also affected, but in SLI, interpret word order and syntax, rather than just there are not the pervasive difficulties with social relating each word to the next. interaction that are found in autism. Having made progress in diagnosing the nature of language problems, a much juicier question beckoned: if most children learn language effortlessly, what is different about these children, in either their experiences or their constitutional make-up, that makes language-learning so difficult? As shown in Figure 2, we can distinguish between explanations in terms of inadequacies of the language input to the child (A), transient problems with hearing (B), damage to the neurological centres that mediate language (C), or abnormal neurodevelopment (D). When I started out, it was not uncommon to find experts blaming the parents. ‘His parents don’t talk to him’ was a common response, and parents would be advised to attend parenting classes, or to give up work to devote more time to the child. Although this line of explanation is revived in the media from time to time, it is not given much credence by researchers. For a start, there is evidence from hearing children of congenitally deaf parents. When such children were first studied, it Figure 2 was anticipated they would have major problems Possible causes of language impairment. with spoken language development, because they A. Inadequate language input from parents; heard much less in the way of intelligible speech B. Middle ear disease causing fluctuating hearing loss; from parents, and might get only a few hours per C. Focal brain damage; week of clear oral language input. Surprisingly, this D. Abnormal brain development, caused by genes or limited language input proved quite compatible other prenatal influences. with normal language development, provided the

12 - tw magazine, 2012 child had some exposure to normal speech. to language development if a child does sustain Another source of evidence came from twin clear trauma to the brain regions concerned with studies. Non-identical twins growing up together language. The answer was remarkable: a child can differ substantially in language skills, despite could suffer from brain damage that destroyed being exposed to the same language input from large areas of the left cerebral hemisphere – the parents. In studies that I have done, it was not side of the brain that usually controls language – uncommon to find one child who was a clear case and yet the language outcome was much better of SLI, while their non-identical twin had normal than is seen in SLI. Yes, language development language skills. This is strong evidence against would typically be rather delayed at first in such a parental language as the major causal factor child, but there seemed remarkable ability to catch for SLI. up, as brain functions became reorganised to How about hearing loss? In the 1980s there compensate for the injury. was a surge of interest in the possible impact of The last remaining explanation was the final middle ear disease on language development. ‘Glue model in Figure 2, i.e. some kind of constitutional ear’, where the middle ear fills with fluid, is a very abnormality of neurodevelopment. When I common childhood ailment in the preschool years. conducted a simple questionnaire study in the It can have an effect on hearing like that 1980s, I asked parents about a range of factors that experienced when you wear the not-very-effective might be expected to cause language impairments, foam earplugs that are provided by some airlines. including problems around the time of birth, ear Some early studies of children identified with glue infections and neurological diseases. None of these ear at hospital clinics indicated they often had poor was more common in families with a child with language skills. However, this association proved to SLI compared to control families. However, there be due to what the medics call ‘ascertainment bias’. was a marked difference in family history: around Children would be referred to an otolaryngologist one third of children with SLI had a close relative precisely because they were having language with reported problems in language development problems. Other children with equivalent levels of compared with three per cent of control children. middle ear disease but normal language would be This suggested there may be a genetic basis for treated more conservatively by their GP. To test for SLI, but it wasn’t conclusive. Family members a genuine association between glue ear and share environments as well as genes. To language problems, one needed to screen a whole disentangle these effects one needs a twin study, population of children, and when this was done, and so this is what I set out to do in the early the evidence for a link with language problems was 1980s. People often think that to do a twin study much weaker. This does not mean we can you need to find twins separated at birth, but this is completely rule out a contributory role for middle not the case. If you study twins growing up ear disease in causing language problems in together, then you can contrast pairs who are children, but it is unlikely to be the main factor genetically identical (monozygotic twins) with those responsible. who are fraternal (dizygotic twins). In both cases How about the third explanation shown in you would expect two members of a twin pair to Figure 2? In the 1970s, when I started in the field, resemble one another because they have been it was popular to blame language and other exposed to very similar environments. However, if developmental problems on ‘minimal brain genes are important for a trait, then the similarity damage’. The idea was that the child might suffer on that trait will be greater for the monozygotic some mild oxygen deprivation or physical trauma than dizygotic twins. I needed therefore to find around the time of birth, and this could lead to twin pairs where at least one twin had a language subtle developmental difficulties. But here again, impairment, and assess both twins to calculate the when examined, the evidence was found to be degree of similarity in language development. The lacking. Comparison of birth histories of children result indicated that genes were implicated in SLI; with and without language impairments did not if one monozygotic twin had SLI, then their co- find evidence of any excess of prematurity or birth twin almost always had language problems as well. trauma compared to typically-developing children For dizygotic twins, around half the co-twins of of similar background. Also, it was instructive to affected twins had SLI; the remainder had normal turn the question on its head, to ask what happens language.

tw magazine, 2012 - 13 You might think that, having found evidence for exposure to a game that requires them to move a genetic influence on SLI, the next part would be items on the screen to the right position in order to easy – we just need to find the genes! It was not so get a reward. However, whereas typically developing simple, however. The study raised many questions children progress to complete mastery after several about exactly how SLI should be defined. Children exposures to ‘The X is above the Y’ or ‘The X is vary in both the nature and severity of their after the Y’, the language-impaired children language difficulties, and results depended on how continue to make errors. They aren’t random, and this was handled. In general, the strength of are more often right than wrong, but nevertheless, genetic effects depended on the aspects of language their understanding is shaky. Using games like that were impaired in SLI, rather than on severity these, we hope to pinpoint the nature of the or persistence of language problems. Vocabulary, learning problem to identify intervention for instance, showed less evidence of genetic approaches that will allow meanings to be accessed influence than measures implicating grammar or more automatically. memory for speech sound sequences. This made I’ve been very fortunate in being funded sense both in terms of conventional wisdom and throughout my career to do full-time research, first neurobiology. For a start, we might expect a child’s by the Medical Research Council, and since 1998 as vocabulary to be heavily dependent on the language a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow. The they hear spoken around them, i.e., the home Wellcome Trust encouraged my move from an environment. You might also think that mastery of MRC Unit in Cambridge to Oxford University, and grammar would depend on parental input, but it is this proved ideal for me to pursue my research on important here to recognise that we are not talking neurobiological bases of developmental disorders. about grammar in the sense of ‘correct’ usage, but First, my Supernumerary Fellowship at St John’s rather ability to apply inflectional endings provides a wonderful environment in which I can appropriately, or to embed clauses within one enjoy a unique intellectual atmosphere provided by another – these are aspects of language competence a community of scholars. Second, here in Oxford that are seen in all dialects but which some I have excellent colleagues in Experimental children struggle with. Similarly, a child’s ability to Psychology with expertise in such areas as repeat a nonsense word such as ‘blonterstaping’ is neuroscience, psychological methods, and language a very good predictor of language impairment, but and literacy development. Third, I have benefitted is largely unaffected by social background. So, from the opportunity to interact with molecular overall, the language measures that showed geneticists at the Wellcome Trust Centre for strongest genetic influences were those that tapped Human Genetics, and I’m delighted that one of my into aspects of language that are not explicitly molecular genetics colleagues, Dr Dianne Newbury, taught, but are usually acquired effortlessly without is now a Junior Research Fellow at St John’s, instruction. Furthermore, these skills involve providing even more opportunity for fruitful specific brain regions that are distinct from those interactions. It’s been challenging to try and involved in learning of vocabulary. understand concepts and methods from such a One insight from my work to date is that some different area, but I was surprised to find that it popular interventions for children with SLI may be was a two-way process: in our joint journal clubs, misguided: for example, some methods focus on the geneticists found the psychology just as trying to sharpen up children’s ability to perceive impenetrable as we found the genetics. I’ve learned speech sounds, but that doesn’t seem to be the a huge amount from geneticists, but after many main problem. Remembering and learning to years of study, I increasingly realise that the ability interpret complex sentences seem a core difficulty to assess and characterise behaviour that I learned for many children. We are now studying how in those early undergraduate years is key to children learn to understand different types of understanding the complex neurodevelopmental material, using computerised methods that allow disorders that I work with. You can measure us repeatedly to present them with different tasks neurons firing or identify genetic variations, but in an interactive game. We can teach children to without a good characterisation of the relevant respond correctly to sentences like ‘the ball is above behaviours, you won’t arrive at a sound the car’ or ‘the dog is below the chair’ with repeated understanding of biological bases of a disorder.

14 - tw magazine, 2012 tw magazine, 2012 - 15 THE PRESIDENT WRITES:

adly this is the last in the series of articles I have written in our Fellowship, both in numbers and in the range of subjects for TW. My term as President finishes at the end of the studied. We have built the Kendrew Quad so that we can Sacademic year immediately following my seventieth accommodate all the newcomers; in fact, we can now house as birthday. So, after eleven years, I will lay down my many of the student body as want to live in College, and save responsibilities here, with regret, but also with a strong belief them from the high commercial rents outside. We have that institutions like St John’s benefit from a regular process extended the Senior Common Room (again!), and rebuilt the of change and renewal of their senior officers. I have already College kitchens and senior guest rooms. And we have improved offered my successor, Professor Snowling, my warm important elements in the College’s infrastructure, from the congratulations and good wishes for her tenure of the rebuilding of the Sports Pavilion to the construction of the new Presidency – and am happy to do so again here. organ in Chapel and the purchase of a chamber organ, a When I arrived at St John’s ten years ago I came to a College harpsichord, and a new Steinway concert grand piano for the which was successful and flourishing. It had become, over the Auditorium. Through our new Alumni and Development Offices previous fifty years, one of the top academic colleges in Oxford, we have re-established contact with many alumni, and have strong in both teaching and research. It was socially successful, received generous donations which have allowed us to retain our both as a place in which people were generally very happy to be Tutorial Fellowships in German and Ancient History and to and very sorry to leave, and in admitting students from many create a new Junior Research Fellowship, together with countries, and from a wide range of social and economic additional financial support for students, including new backgrounds. And I found the College to be financially strong, scholarships for graduate students. well-managed, and well-endowed. All this has been the work of many hands in the College over All that has continued, and continues. It would be surprising the past ten years. It has been, for me, a joy to participate in the if it were not so, since the College has, over its 456 years, College’s life and development over this time. acquired an enviable momentum. It goes from strength to Floreat St John’s! strength. The last ten years have seen many changes here. There has been a considerable expansion in our graduate student body and

Sir Michael Scholar, President of St John’s, 2001-12

16 - tw magazine, 2012 ARAB SPRING BREAK

College Society Travel Each year, dozens of St John’s students fter one of the Arab world’s most turbulent Scholar Will Todman travel round the world with help from years in living memory the chance to (Oriental Studies, the College. Some are going in search Ajourney through the Middle East and 2010), takes time out of archives; others are seeking Europe, as the College Society’s second Travel to visit the desert in archaeological digs, laboratories, or Scholar, was an immensely exciting opportunity. Wadi Rum, Jordan, opportunities to improve their Having just completed my first year of studying during his three week languages. Only one, however, is Arabic, I was keen to encounter the many faces of visit to the Middle East elected to a College Society Travel the Middle East, and because of my interests in last summer Scholarship, intended to expose them politics, diplomacy, and journalism, I chose to to a sustained period of mind-expanding conclude my trip with a visit to Brussels. travelling. This year’s scholar was Will My travels through seven countries took me to Todman (2010), who used the contrasting places including the top of the world’s scholarship – and the connections with tallest building in Dubai; Jerusalem, the holiest of alumni that it brings – to explore cities in the world; the Jordanian desert, where I politics in the Middle East and the EU. slept under the stars in a Bedouin camp; Beirut’s

tw magazine, 2012 - 17 chic Corniche; and the European Parliament in reality, yet walking through the ancient alleys of Brussels. Leaving cloudy, riot-torn England, I the vibrant Old City it was easy to forget their headed for Dubai’s searing 50 degree heat. existence. However, talking to alumni, including Everything in the UAE seemed to come with a John Edwards (1992) in the British Embassy, gave world record: the world’s largest mall, tallest me a personal insight into the realities of the building, most expensive mosque, fastest lift… the conflict. list went on. But I found Dubai to be a city of Obviously, Belgium and Luxembourg formed contradictions. Incredible opulence masks a state a complete contrast. In addition to the European of near bankruptcy; Arabic is the official language Parliament, I visited other EU institutions yet I did not encounter anyone who could speak it; including the Courts of Justice, the Commission the city is highly westernised but still maintains a and the Economic and Social Committee. Alumni strict ban on eating or drinking in public during here (Stephen Mazurkiewicz (1978), John Bell Ramadhan. My personal fast was broken (1989), Marcus Pollard (2000), Nicolas magnificently in Abu Dhabi by a delicious meal Mathioudakis (2002), and Paul John Loewenthal with alumni Alistair Holland (1992) and Angie (2002)), gave me a new understanding of just Fuessel (2001). how powerful Europe now is, along with a taste After Dubai, I continued to Beirut, Lebanon’s for Belgian cuisine – mussels, frites and of war-scarred and throbbing capital, where I carried course their beer! out work experience with Jim Muir in the BBC’s I should like to extend my deepest gratitude Beirut bureau, helping to find internet clips of the to the College Society for giving me such a protests in Syria. I experienced my first taste of the unique opportunity to travel so widely at this difficulties journalists encounter daily, when fascinating time. I am also particularly grateful to reporting on the revolutions sweeping the Arab all the alumni who so kindly met me throughout world, but also the excitement of breaking news. my travels and especially to Alistair Holland, My next stop was Jordan where alumnus Riad al Angie Fuessel, and Riad al Khouri for their Khouri (1968) had kindly arranged meetings for generosity. My thanks must also go to Sophie me with prominent journalists, British diplomats, Petersen (1982), Jonathan Snicker (1986), and and even a member of the Jordanian royal family! the other staff of the Alumni and Development Will meets alumni My night in the desert showed me a more Offices for patiently helping me with the Angie Fuessel (2001) traditional element of Middle Eastern culture. planning of this trip, and finally to last year’s and Alistair Holland Jerusalem appears so frequently in news Travel Scholar, Faise McClelland (2009), for his (1992) in Abu Dhabi headlines, and its divisions are an ever-present invaluable advice.

Enjoying a meal with alumni in Jerusalem, Will and, from left, Rammy Winograd (1995), Donna Shalev (1989), and Alfred Frohlich (1957)

18 - tw magazine, 2012 CALLING ALL COMPOSERS: NEW ST JOHN’S COLLEGE GRACE COMPETITION

or better or worse, knowledge of Latin was dropped as This competition is open to the junior, middle, senior, and an entry requirement to the University in 1960. Indeed alumni common rooms, and to current staff, and it is hoped that Fnowadays, perhaps with the exception of classicists, the as many alumni as possible might want to take this opportunity average student is able to pass his or her time at the College to leave a very audible legacy to the college. without much interaction with the language, let alone a working Entries for the competition will be accepted until 12 noon comprehension. on 16 April 2012. Two copies of your handwritten or computer- Surprisingly, however, one place in College where the ancient processed scores, plus the covering sheet available from the tongue is still going strong is the dining hall. Every day at 19:15 College website, must be sent via (internal or external) post to sharp, the fellow presiding at high table strikes the well-worn the organ scholar. A winner will be announced by 1 May 2012 gavel and, Monday to Friday, the College grace is recited by an and will be awarded £100. Two runners-up will receive £50. attending classicist. This is all very pleasant, but Sunday evening The three will be then invited to dine at high table at Sunday is where the real pomp and ceremony is to be found. Charged formal hall for the first performance of the new Grace before the from the excitement of evensong (and the sherry thereafter), the end of Trinity term. From then on, this new setting will be used occupants of the seats of the central table – the College choir – alongside the Tolman version. rise to their feet simultaneously with the gavel-clout and, after a What are the judges looking for? Well Christopher Tolman, preparatory beat from the organ scholar, burst, at a very hearty now Head of Economics at Harrow School, who will be tempo (a sign of enthusiasm or hunger) into song. sitting on the judging panel, describes the current setting as The version sung – the current ‘short’ grace – was set to ‘deliberately rousing, but also purposefully over-the-top.’ music by Christopher Tolman. It was written in May 1998 Whether or not the new version is true to this description, he during his time in the College Choir and studying PPE at Christ states he will be looking for ‘a crowd-pleaser’. Other judges will Church, with a dedication to Gavin Milmer, the then organ include the chaplain, the Revd Elizabeth Macfarlane, and Francis scholar, and to the choir. Ever since, it has been used every Goodburn, the current Organ Scholar. Sunday in term time to give thanks for the evening’s feast. The compulsory covering sheet, words to be set, and full At Gaudies and special college meals, however, the Long competition rules are available on the College website or upon Grace is used: this is a composition of the 17th century by John request by writing to the Organ Scholar at the College’s postal Reading, with words giving thanks for Sir Thomas White and address. If you have any questions about the competition, please his family. The latter work, part of the tradition of St John’s, and email [email protected]. an old friend of many alumni (if those attending the September 2011 Gaudy are anything to go by) will be kept, but the College is Francis Goodburn, Organ Scholar opening a competition to compose a new setting of the (Mathematics and Computer Science, 2011) short grace.

tw magazine, 2012 - 19 OPEN ACCESS

Professor Kate Nation The undergraduate admissions process or the assassination of John Lennon, for example, (right), Tutor for has always been nerve-wracking for we remember details of where we were, who we Admissions, and applicants, their schools and families, were with, or the voice of the newsreader. They may Helen Hall, Schools and for the College. Recent changes be more personal and smaller in scale but, for Liaison Officer to student funding threaten to make many students and alumni, the Oxford admissions life even more uncertain. Here, our interview can be added to these textbook examples. Fellow in Psychology and Tutor for Many things have changed about the Admissions, Professor Kate Nation, and admissions process over recent years. At heart the Schools Liaison Officer, Helen though, the fundamental principles remain Hall, seek to set the record straight. constant. We want to encourage academically- gifted students to apply to us, regardless of an you remember those days, early in social, cultural, or educational background. December, some years ago? When I meet We work hard to make our processes and Calumni, I’m struck by the powerful procedures fair and transparent, reliable and memories that uttering the words ‘admissions’ valid. Applications are evaluated by academic or ‘interview’ can elicit – intricate details of the tutors, not administrators. Tutors are looking for questions asked, the smell of the room, its a record of outstanding academic achievement to furniture, the attire of the interviewer. As Tutor date, and to further potential for the future – in Psychology, I teach about ‘flashbulb memory’, nothing more and nothing less. And for those a special form of autobiographical memory that students offered a place to study with us at St leaves a lasting imprint on our minds. When we John’s, financial concerns should not be a barrier recollect hearing about the death of Diana, 9/11, to taking up that place.

20 - tw magazine, 2012 Positive Role Models: SJC Student Ambassadors

For many years students at St John’s have been For prospective applicants, meeting a current actively engaged in a variety of access initiatives. student who is from the same area, who went to This enthusiasm is the driving force of the SJC the same type of school, or who simply shares Student Ambassador scheme, which sees similar interests goes such a long way towards current undergraduates supporting our work breaking down the stereotype of the ‘typical with schools and prospective applicants. Now in Oxford student’. In fact, many of our its fifth term, the scheme has around 75 active undergraduates volunteer to help partly because ambassadors who volunteer their time when they remember how important their own first schools and young people visit College – encounter with a St John’s student was in their running tours, taking school pupils to lunch in decision to apply. Hall, and participating in question and answer JCR involvement has been key to the sessions. They also share their experiences of scheme’s success, and having recently voted to Oxford by going out into schools and offering establish a separate Access Officer position on the ‘student life’ talks for students in their local area. JCR committee, this support is set to continue.

Student Ambassador, Helen Brooks (Classics, 2009), welcomes prospective students at a College Open Day

The Admissions Process many hundreds of very able people who apply? – what’s changed? Nationally, more than 40,000 people achieved at The number of people applying to Oxford has least AAA last year (until recently, our standard increased dramatically. Over recent years, we have A level offer), so it is not surprising to learn that received more than 17,000 applications per year for the majority of our applicants meet or exceed the approximately 3,200 places. This increase is minimum standard of school achievement required mirrored at the College level – this year, we are on for application. Secondly, how do we make these course to receive nearly 700 applications for about choices in a way that is not only fair and 115 places. Five years ago, we received 445 for transparent to applicants, but also practical in approximately the same number of places. This is terms of the resources we have available to wonderful news in that many more people, and a administer and run the admissions process? more diverse set of people in terms of social Critical to understanding how the admissions background, are considering Oxford as a place to process works is an appreciation of the Common study. Pleasing as this is, though, it presents a Framework. This was agreed by the Colleges and challenge for those involved in admissions. Most the University in 2006 and since that time, all importantly, how do we choose applicants from the colleges, Departments, and Faculties have been

tw magazine, 2012 - 21 working within its procedures and guidelines, which might have affected candidates’ which centre on three core goals: to attract performance at school, some applications can be applications from the most academically able rejected without interview on the basis of the individuals, regardless of socio-economic, ethnic, information provided on the UCAS form, as they or national origin; to ensure applicants are selected fail to demonstrate a strong record of academic for admission on the basis that they are well achievement or enthusiasm for their chosen qualified and have the most potential to excel at subject, according to criteria specified for each their chosen subject; and to ensure that the subject. A number of subjects ask for candidates prospects for admission are not affected by the to send in examples of written work; these are college an applicant has chosen (or were assigned marked by tutors according to criteria determined to – many candidates now choose to make an open by faculties or departments and also assist in application). Exact procedures vary at a subject helping us decide whom to invite for interview. level. That is, applications to St John’s for one Perhaps the biggest change of recent years is the subject might be assessed differently and to introduction of pre-interview aptitude tests. Many different criteria than those for another subject – subjects use these – and a new set of acronyms naturally, the requirements for English or Modern needs to be learned by those involved in Languages are likely to differ from those for admissions: BMAT for Medicine and Biomedical Biological Sciences or Engineering. Crucially, Sciences, LNAT for Law, ELAT for English, TSA however, the requirements, selection criteria, and for PPE and PPP, PAT for Physics and decision-making processes are the same for all Engineering, HAT for History; the list goes on. applications to a particular subject, regardless of These provide additional data about academic which college a candidate applies to. So, a strengths which tutors can use to help them candidate applying to St John’s to read Engineering decide whom to invite for interview. will be judged in exactly the same way as a The proportion of applicants shortlisted for candidate applying for Engineering to all other interview varies between subjects. Medicine, Law, colleges, and in competition with them. The same PPE, Economics and Management, for example, is true for all subjects and joint schools. are very popular and heavily oversubscribed, Generally, St John’s is an ‘exporting’ college. meaning that only a relatively small number of We receive a large number of very high quality applicants are invited for interview. Regardless of applications with demand outstripping supply; as subject, all candidates shortlisted for interview well as making offers to many of these candidates are guaranteed two interviews, and for many ourselves, we are able to ‘export’ a good number of subjects, there are automatic interviews at candidates each year to other colleges. We also another college, helping us to maximise transfer ‘import’ too, when a candidate applying to another between colleges. As with all parts of the college for a particular subject (and not gaining a selection process, interviews are scored according place at that college due to demand on places) is to agreed subject-level criteria, all of which are academically stronger than those who might have described on the University website. Interviews applied to us. Sounds complicated? It is. But it take place in December and decisions are does ensure that the strongest candidates receive communicated soon after. It’s a mixed set of an offer from Oxford. Year-on-year, the amount of emotions for tutors – we are pleased to have importing and exporting is increasing and last year, chosen the next generation of students who will 24 per cent of offers from Oxford were not from fill St John’s, inspiring us year after year with the college specified in the application. their enthusiasm, intellect, and promise for the Alongside a big increase in transfers between future; but there are many very talented people colleges, what else has changed? Older alumni may whom we aren’t able to offer places. Our remember that everyone applying to St John’s decisions are extremely hard to make and it is came for interview. The numbers now applying difficult to communicate disappointing news. If mean that this is no longer possible. Our view is you are helping a family member or friend with that we should make decisions – hard as they are their application, please encourage them to apply to make – to invite to interview only those who but do remember to tell them it is a hugely have a realistic chance of getting a place. But how competitive process, more so as each year passes, do we do this? Although tutors do take into and that not everyone is invited for interview and account mitigating circumstances, such as illness, even fewer secure a place.

22 - tw magazine, 2012 Engaging Academically and Informing Choices

We know that it is the quality of teaching, the 130 essays submitted from more than 70 research-focussed environment, the breadth and schools and colleges from around the UK. depth of our courses, and of course the tutorial Our tutors were impressed by the obvious system that makes an Oxford education so enthusiasm for the study of the ancient world, special. We want students to apply to us not and more generally, with the high standard of because we’re ‘Oxford’, but because they have writing seen in many of the essays. made an informed choice about the courses we 2012 will see a number of Academic offer and the style of teaching we give. To Study Days for sixth-form students. Designed promote this, we feel it is vital to engage and led by subject tutors, these one-day events academically with school pupils and their will offer a taste of university study for those teachers. This way, we hope not only to inspire who attend, helping individual students focus and motivate young people to higher education, their subject choice in the year leading up to but also to help them make well-informed and their university application. Each day will give competitive applications to university. the opportunity to meet current students, find We are doing this in a number of ways. out about the Oxford course, learn about the For example, in 2010 we launched a new essay admissions process, and – most importantly – competition in Classics and Ancient History. to attend academic sessions run by our tutors The competition was open to any student and lecturers. Participants will experience a studying in the lower sixth, whether or not they lecture and a tutorial, and be expected to had previously studied the ancient world. Tutors produce an essay! Having jointly hosted a set essay questions and marked the competition Women in Politics Day with OUSU for a entries, with topics including ancient history, number of years, these College-specific days archaeology, ancient literature, and philosophy, will broaden the scope to other subjects that reflecting the expertise of our College Fellows. are keen to bridge the gap between school The response was incredibly positive with over and Oxford.

David Lee, Supernumerary Teaching Fellow in Philosophy, congratulates the winner of the Classics and Ancient History Essay Competition, March 2011

tw magazine, 2012 - 23 Alumna and teacher, Fran Hamilton (English, 2003), enjoys lunch in Hall with her pupils from Kingsdown School, Wiltshire, on a visit to College in Michaelmas Term 2011

In addition to subject-specific Academic Study a visit to a department or University museum Days for sixth-form students, school groups and for an academic ‘taster’ session. Evaluation of individual students are welcomed to College on these events reveals they have a consistently most Wednesdays in term time. Attendees meet positive impact on students’ understanding and some of our Student Ambassadors, learn about perceptions of the University. the College and the courses we offer, and hear We also host residential events where high- about the admissions process. Lunch in Hall and achieving students can stay for a few days to academic visits to laboratories or museums experience College life. Established by provide a real taste of student life. These visits Aimhigher, a national widening participation can be booked on our website project, these events are targeted at students Understanding the importance of achieving who will be the first in their family to enter high grades at GCSE and making appropriate higher education, or who currently attend post-16 subject choices is essential if a student is schools with below average attainment at GCSE to make a strong application to competitive and with low progression rates to higher universities in the future. For this reason, we education. Despite the ending of government have a number of initiatives designed to support funding for the Aimhigher project, we hosted 14–16 year old students during this very this once again in September 2011. In a very important period. Some of our Wednesday personal example of the impact these events can events are designated for students preparing for have on individuals, this year’s event was their GCSEs (Years 10 and 11). These allow supported by a current St John’s undergraduate schools to bring an academically well-motivated who had herself attended the residential as a 15 group of young people to St John’s where they year-old. Katie Slee is now in her final year have an introductory session explaining the reading History of Art – one of our most over- College and tutorial system, meet current subscribed and competitive courses. Katie undergraduates, have a tour of the College, and credits the residential event with giving her the enjoy lunch in Hall. Often the visits will include confidence to apply.

24 - tw magazine, 2012 Academic Achievement contextualized score, relative to the average GCSE in Context score obtained by other pupils at that candidate’s You may have read in the press about social school. This allows us to identify pupils whose inclusion initiatives by some of our elite GCSE performance might be relatively modest in universities to assist widening participation. terms of raw grades compared with many other Although we wholeheartedly agree with the candidates, but is nevertheless exceptionally strong principles of social inclusion, we don’t operate for their school. These data are not used directives such as positive discrimination, quotas, algorithmically or to fill quotas, but we do use or differential offers. We say that we wish to have them to help inform shortlisting decisions, the most academically able students at St John’s, meaning that a candidate from a poorly-performing regardless of social, national or educational school or a socially-disadvantaged background background. We mean this – as tutors, we wish to might be invited for interview, even if their GCSE teach those who share our passion and enthusiasm scores are a little lower than those achieved by for our subject – but what are we doing to achieve it? other candidates selected for interview. And at There are two ways we are working to this goal. interview, we use questions and problems designed First, we wish to encourage potential students to to tap academic potential as well as taught realise that Oxford and other elite universities knowledge. We are not interested in grace or might be right for them. We are working with eloquence but in passion and enthusiasm as well teachers and pupils from the primary school years as evidence that the person has the talents and onwards: these pages document some of our attitudes needed to participate in the special initiatives and more information is on our website. education we offer. When making final decisions, Recognising the power of positive role models, tutors use all the sources of information they have St John’s undergraduates are playing a very – school record, predicted and achieved exam important role in our access and recruitment work, grades, aptitude test scores, personal statement, meeting school pupils up and down the country and performance across a minimum of two and contributing to events, summer schools, and independent interviews. open days that we run in College. We aim to help By working hard to encourage applications potential applicants make informed choices about from serious and talented individuals from all their future and if they choose to apply to us, to social backgrounds, by supporting those who might help them make as strong an application as have less support from home or school to make possible. Together with our tutors, Helen Hall, our informed decisions and submit as strong an Schools Liaison Officer, works with all schools, be application as possible, and by providing tutors they state or independent, although some of our with contextualized data, we hope to be socially initiatives are specifically designed to support and inclusive and not exclusive, open and welcoming to inform potential applicants from the less- all. This is a challenge. Social and educational advantaged parts of the state school sector. differences run deep and no matter how much Alongside our outreach work with teachers and work we do with young people in school, we as a pupils, widening participation is also considered college cannot expect to change these differences in during the admissions process itself. Once a fundamental way. But what we can do – and what applications are received, tutors have a range of we are doing – is to provide information, to debunk data available to help them assess each application myths, to mentor and support potential applicants, in context. Postcode data provide an indication of and to make our admissions process fair and social disadvantage. Applications from people who transparent to all. And we would be delighted to have spent time in care are flagged. For each hear from alumni who are interested in helping us candidate, GCSE record is calculated as a to continue our work.

tw magazine, 2012 - 25 Students from Evelyn Grace Academy, Brixton, visit College for a tour and talk, May 2011

Year 11 high-achieving pupils get a taste of College life on the Durham Schools Residential, September 2011, photographed with some of our student ambassadors

26 - tw magazine, 2012 Student Finance both. Students with a household income of up to One of the most common misconceptions we hear £42,600 will receive some form of support, with voiced in schools is that Oxford is somehow more greater amounts of support being provided to those expensive than other UK universities. In the from lower-income families. Based on current context of recent changes to tuition charges student profiles, one in six students will receive a announced by the government, concerns over fee waiver and a quarter will receive a bursary. finance are one of the biggest perceived obstacles Combined with the support St John’s provides for for students from non-traditional backgrounds. all students, and our very generous hardship fund The key message we want to convey to potential for those experiencing financial hardship, St John’s applicants is simple: St John’s is committed to is a place that is affordable for all students, ensuring that as far as it is possible, no UK student regardless of family background. is prevented from coming to study with us solely Funding arrangements are complex, depending on financial grounds. on a range of factors such as a student’s household The University has put together what is income, and where they live, with different considered to be the most generous package of arrangements being in place for students from support nationally: while many universities are England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. offering either fee waivers or bursaries in response If you wish to learn more, please visit to the new tuition charges, Oxford will provide www.ox.ac.uk/fundingupdate.

Wo rk ing with teachers

While much of the work we do focuses on one of its kind in Oxford. The event is open to engaging directly with students, we also anyone working in education. Each July, around recognise the value of building relationships 30 teachers join College for a week, with with teachers who, in many cases, can be a key accommodation and meals provided, along with influence on a young person’s decisions about reading access across the University libraries. the future. Working with schools and colleges in While with us, teachers have time and space to our link outreach regions has allowed us to further their subject knowledge as well as create establish and sustain contact with individual course content and resources designed to stretch members of staff. This has allowed us to put in the brightest students. Lively conversation flows place coherent plans for events with students, over dinner each evening, with teachers, Fellows, which over time are building to provide and admissions staff sharing experiences and increasingly targeted information and tailored making plans for the future. It is enjoyed by all support. In schools without a history of and the event has a very real and positive impact applications to Oxford, it also gives the teachers on teachers’ understanding of the University a known contact within the University, to whom and its admission process; as one of the 2011 they can refer questions which the school may attendees noted: ‘although I already thought not otherwise have the expertise to answer. Oxford was really trying to widen participation, A prominent event in the College’s outreach this week confirmed this in a tangible way, by calendar is the Study Week for Teachers and explaining the admissions procedure in such Education Professionals, which is now the only detail. This was invaluable.’

tw magazine, 2012 - 27 The student protests of the last similar to that of College families, has been eighteen months have finally silenced established, with each incoming international those who until recently were student paired up with an older undergraduate sneering at the apparent apathy of from the same country, able to help them settle in undergraduates. But there was little smoothly on arrival. International students lunches evidence of any political disengagement have provided a forum for internationals to share at St John’s even before this. The JCR their experiences, and for the JCR to understand remains vibrant – and active. This year’s better the issues facing international students. President, David Messling, reflects on Standing in the background of the day-to-day a turbulent time. pursuits of St John’s undergraduates have been the MORE THAN CONSUMERS: THE JCR PRESIDENT WRITES

very year of an undergraduate’s life at far-reaching changes to higher education funding St John’s is an eventful one, with Oxford over the past year. Next year’s freshers will be the Econstantly providing new opportunities and first to pay fees of £9,000 per year, and the debates fresh challenges. The past year has been no on policy have triggered discussions over how exception, with the members of the Junior undergraduate life, and the University as a whole, Common Room illustrating the abundance of will look under the new fees system. student life at Oxford. The student body played a dynamic part in the The JCR exists as a community continually debate, concerned about the impact on potential working to improve the experience of St John’s students of the future who might be deterred from undergraduates. For the past year this has applying to Oxford. The Common Room Officers manifested itself in an eclectic mix of ways, from worked with the Oxford University Students’ Union debates over student fees, to the first St John’s to argue for the importance of the bursary scheme College Arts Week in many years. The Student and an extensive fee waiver, and the resulting Ambassador scheme is entering its second year, Oxford fee package is the most generous in the and is already a model for students working with country. their College to inspire school pupils and enable Within St John’s an open discussion took place them to realise their potential. Academic Feedback in the auditorium, with all members of College able Sessions, now looking forward to their third year, to share their thoughts and thus shape the are a further example of partnership between College’s response. The same dynamic seen in the Tutors and students in seeking to improve teaching tutorial system was on display in the auditorium – and learning at St John’s. tutors and students seeking a better understanding Another memorable highlight of the year was as part of the same academic community. the Music Society’s excellently put together Undergraduate life at St John’s continues to ‘Collaborative Performance.’ For one night only, the stand as a testament to the fact that students are Auditorium witnessed a programme containing the more than merely consumers. Relationships with Senior Dean (Martin Stokes) on the Kanun, the each other and with tutors continue beyond Domestic Staff musical troupe, the College Choir a graduation, and it is always heartening for current capella, and the President delighting the audience students to see the affection and excitement with a performance of Bach on the College expressed by alumni returning to the College for Steinway. Gaudies. The Junior Common Room isn’t a David Messling The Junior Common Room doesn’t just contain consumer organisation, but a body of students (History and UK students, and an exciting recent development living and working together, and seeking an Economics, 2009), has been the revival of the JCR’s International abundant university life. Students don’t just buy an JCR President 2011 Students’ Reps. An international ‘buddy system’, education, they enter into a community.

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St John’s College, In addition to his role as President years later, I reluctantly abandoned academic life, in Cambridge, the Sir Michael Scholar has been head of order to pursue the career which I then felt – and President’s the UK Statistics Authority, charged still feel – to be a high calling: to be a civil servant, undergraduate college with reforming the government’s use with deep involvement in the business of governing and where he gave the of statistical information. This has the country. I did not want to be a politician, at the Johnian Lecture in 2011, involved battles with ministers, top of the government tree. I had a vision of reproduced in a opposition leaders, and the Mayor of rationality in government, of knowledge and shortened version here London. In this shortened version analysis. To be a civil servant; to be required to offer (The Bridgeman Art of a talk given at St John’s College, advice, information, and help to those elected by Library) Cambridge, he explains why it’s all the British people, who, as politicians, were been worth it – and reveals his fears necessarily bound by the constraints of democratic for the future. politics; to administer and implement the resultant policies: all of this, I felt, would be difficult and I came up to St John’s College, Cambridge to read satisfying – and so it was. I was, of course, wholly classics in 1960, and was taught by a formidable unsure whether my abilities and my skills would fit group of tutors. After Part I of the Classical Tripos me for this role. I switched to Part II of the Moral Sciences Tripos: This is a question on which I have often a move which led to my embarking upon an pondered. Was a classical and philosophical academic career as a philosopher, beginning with a education a suitable foundation for my subsequent Research Fellowship at the same college. A few career, which at different times put me in very

30 - tw magazine, 2012 senior posts with responsibility, for example, for processes of individual academic disciplines, or to UK monetary and fiscal policy, financial regulation, influence the conclusions they reach. tax and energy policy, the administration of British In government the situation is different. There science, trade and industry and much besides? are strong forces at work whose natural outcome is, What I have come to realise is that, when you I suggest, to demote rationality, analysis, and the are at or near the top of any big institution – and, pursuit of knowledge within government. most particularly, near the top of government – you There has been much discussion of these need a huge range of skills and experience, a range forces, and of their origins: the sound-bite, the far beyond the capability of any mortal to acquire in three bullet-point interview, the need to respond one lifetime. As a senior Treasury official you instantly to every event which may be used to should, ideally, be an expert in macro- and micro- criticise government, preferably with action or with economics, a statistician, an accountant, a lawyer; a new initiative. There is also, more generally, the someone expert in constitutional and Parliamentary large and growing power of the new information theory and practice, in management, behavioural media, and the challenge to, and weakness of, all psychology, and leadership; never mind the authority. expertise you should have in the actual subject- At the heart of all of this there is a deep flaw in matter of government with which you are at democratic government. Ministers, naturally, want different times concerned: health, education, to be elected and then re-elected, and their rivals transport, foreign affairs, defence, and so on. want them to be thrown out. Ministers need to My time at university gave me absolutely none persuade the electorate of the rightness of their of this expertise. What did it give me? First and actions, and of their power to right the wrongs foremost, intellectual self-confidence: the appetite which afflict us, wrongs which are constantly to confront an entirely new field, a new set of paraded by their rivals as evidence of Ministers’ problems, to read and listen to the principal unfitness for office. A powerful alliance springs up sources to which we were guided by our tutors, to between Ministers pursuing those objectives and work out what we thought, then to discuss it with those in the press and media who wish to make these teachers on the basis of pretended or money and to exercise power. This alliance is, I sometimes actual equality, and also to discuss these believe, the greatest source of corruption in modern issues with our contemporaries. We were engaged times. It dwarfs the petty corruption revealed in the in the pursuit of knowledge, in analysis, in enquiry, Parliamentary expenses scandal. It is the genus of and in rationality. A close attention to argument which the Murdoch affair is a species. was required, to the nuances of meaning, to words In the face of a hypercritical stream of – but not, alas, to numbers, the signal omission in comment, 24 hours a day, seven days in every my preparation for later things. week, broadcast to a public with, in general, little These values of rationality and enquiry are, I respect for any person or body which dares to believe, core characteristics of St John’s Cambridge, assume a role of authority, Ministers and their as they are of another St John’s, the College whose advisers strenuously seek to present their case as President I have had the honour to be over the past persuasively as possible. It is entirely right that they ten years; and they are the core characteristics of should do so. But it is not right if they make deals many other colleges and universities. These values with individual journalists or editors or proprietors are not, in the main, under attack at the present – to provide, say, news now in exchange for later time, and for that we should be very grateful. The favours. Nor is it right if they cross the line from attack on these institutions is on other grounds: persuasive presentation of their policies and actions principally the question of who will finance higher to the manipulation of information, or to education and the implications of that decision on interference with the publication of Departmental the range of subjects which may be studied in information and statistics. universities and on the institutions’ freedom to In Whitehall these developments have led to a select those students they believe most capable of hyper-sensitivity to the media and outside profiting from the education they offer. These are commentary and criticism, and to the huge growth serious attacks, which could be the subject-matter in influence first, in the 1980s, of Departmental of another lecture on another day. But, let us Press Offices, then of Special Advisers; then to the record, with gratitude, there is in our country at growing influence of a new kind of Departmental present little or no attempt to interfere with the Minister whose consuming interest is in what the

tw magazine, 2012 - 31 next day’s press will say – or, if he has a longer public debate in an area of great political time-horizon, what the weekend’s press will say. controversy, would, I can assure you, not have been A growth in such influences means, necessarily, published under the pre-Statistics Act regime. a reduction in other influences. In Whitehall it My second example is of the Statistics Authority has meant a diminishing interest in analysis in our second role, as the regulator of all official and enquiry, and, in the field of government statistics. In December 2008 the then Prime information, a growing interest in the persuasive Minister’s office arranged a photo-opportunity to press release, with its careful selection of facts and demonstrate how well the government’s policies in numbers, designed to communicate as effectively combatting knife crime were working. There were as possible some pre-determined message. interviews with the families of knife-crime victims, Others have charted this familiar history in with celebrities and so on. Some statistics were greater detail and depth than I can do today. But it paraded around the Newsrooms of Fleet Street, brings me to the substance on which I want to which purported to show a reduction in knife-attack speak in this lecture, and also to a point in my hospital admissions in the areas in which the personal history. It was six years since I had retired government’s initiative had been introduced. The from the Civil Service when, in 2007, I was asked if professional statisticians in the NHS immediately I would be interested in becoming Chair of the new protested that their advice about these statistics had Statistics Authority, which was then the subject of a been ignored by the Prime Minister’s office: the Bill before Parliament. I was interested, because it statistics were not ready for publication, were seemed to me that the Statistics and Registration unchecked, and incomplete. I then wrote to the Service Act 2007, as the Bill subsequently became, Prime Minister’s office, and said, in a letter which offered an unparalleled opportunity to arrest, or to I sent to Parliament and placed on our website, push back, the mischief which I so much deplored: that the Prime Minister’s use of these statistics the manipulation of this highly important species had been irregular, premature, selective, and of government information – official statistics – deeply corrosive of public trust in official statistics. for political ends. Here was an opportunity to A political and media storm followed. The Prime strengthen the forces of rationality in government, Minister’s Office, and the Home Secretary, made which have always been, and are, there, but are in public apologies for their misuse of these statistics, recent times on the defensive; the forces for and the Cabinet Secretary later issued instructions objectivity, dispassionate analysis, impartiality, to every official and Special Adviser in Whitehall and honesty. that the Code of Practice for Official Statistics, The Statistics Act, and the Authority it created, which clearly outlawed such practices, must always have certainly improved the environment in which be followed, and that the last word on statistical this critical component of government information matters must always be with the Department’s operates. Let me give you two examples of how we professional statisticians. This was a major break- have, I believe, been effective over the past four through. There is a large and growing volume of years. evidence that these radically new instructions, First, an example of us in our role as governing repeated at the beginning of the Coalition body of the Office for National Statistics. In March Government, and addressed also to incoming 2009 the ONS published a statistical release on the Ministers, have been very influential and effective. country of birth and nationality of workers in My time as Chair of the Statistics Authority is employment which provided evidence for the view approaching its end. I have been privileged to have that a large proportion of the new jobs created since been given the opportunity, in my last public 1997 had been filled by people born abroad. The service post, to make a contribution towards ONS was immediately subjected to a fierce political strengthening the values within government attack, in which it was suggested that their analysis, which have all along inspired me, and which my which undermined one important element in the education taught me to hold dear. Objectivity, then Prime Minister’s political platform, was impartiality, enquiry, and analysis have been valued politically motivated. It was not politically by the Civil Service for many years, certainly as far motivated: the Authority said, in a high-profile back as the Northcote-Trevelyan reforms of the mid- public statement, that it was not; the Authority was nineteenth century. They are valued to this day in believed; and the storm blew over. That analysis, many quarters. They should be powerful which was published by the ONS to assist informed characteristics of any government, in any country.

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am honoured to be chosen as successor to Sir Psychology Unit, which had pioneered the Michael Scholar and excited to think I will be application of experimental psychology to language Ijoining St John’s in just over six months’ time and learning disabilities. My supervisor, Uta Frith to work with so many gifted people. Since I do not (an expert on autism), was at the time interested in have any experience of Oxford, either as a student spelling and I was very lucky to complete my or an academic, I am especially looking forward to doctorate on dyslexia with her guidance. meeting the current members of College and An early obstacle to my research was to find alumni who will be able to give me their sense of children with dyslexia. At the time (the mid-1970s), St John’s values: exploring what has changed in the most education professionals held the view that College and indeed what their views are on its dyslexia did not exist! After much searching, by future. turn of fortune, I discovered the Dyslexia Clinic at To give a sense of what I bring to St John’s it is St Bartholomew’s Hospital, the head of which was important to know a little about my family, my a really go-ahead speech therapist called Bevé education and the experiences which have shaped Hornsby. Never being one to let an opportunity my approach to university life. My research pass, Bevé set about training me to assess and to concerns developmental disorders of language, teach the children who came to her clinic for a learning, and cognition, and I have for many years weekly lesson from as far away as Birmingham. In been interested in how spoken language is a return I had a supply of willing participants for my foundation for literacy. Like many in this field, it research. I never regretted this opportunity; my was experiences in my family that ignited an teaching experiences were formative and shaped interest in trying to understand the cognitive causes my approach to dyslexia. I also decided a few years of learning disorders, dyslexia in particular. My later to hone my professional skills and, whilst father, by his own admission, was ‘not a great working as a junior lecturer at the National reader’ and my brother was severely dyslexic. As Hospital’s College of Speech Sciences (now part of the older sister, I was from an early age responsible UCL), I undertook training in Clinical Psychology. for ‘translating’ what my ‘unintelligible’ brother I remained at the National Hospital for several said and later, as a teenager, I was a bit of a prop for years, eventually becoming Principal, before I went my mother who was by then fighting for his first to Newcastle and then to York as Professor of educational needs to be recognized. Looking back, Psychology. I’ve been at York since 1994. I feel dyslexia had a profound effect on the whole Looking back, my academic life has been family and certainly got me interested not only in fuelled not only by intellectual curiosity but also the causes of dyslexia but also in how it could be by a desire to improve the lot of people with identified and treated. During my undergraduate specific learning difficulties. I have, together with degree in Bristol, I became fascinated by cognitive my collaborators, investigated the cognitive skills accounts of what was then called mental retardation of children with dyslexia, specific language and following graduation, I sought a place to work impairment, autism-spectrum disorders, and Down in the Medical Research Council’s Developmental Syndrome in order to understand the causes of

34 - tw magazine, 2012 their learning difficulties. With findings such as these as the starting point, my husband Charles Hulme and I, together with many talented post- docs, have developed and evaluated educational interventions to promote oral language and reading skills using randomized controlled trials – regrettably this rigorous methodology is still not widely used to inform education policy. Our group has shown that structured programmes which link phonological skills – the development of an awareness of how language sounds – with practice in reading text are highly effective for children with dyslexia, but that children with additional impairments of oral language fare less well. To address the needs of such children, our team has recently turned to the design of interventions for children who enter school with poorly developed speech and language skills. Thus, our research is changing its focus from remediation to prevention of reading difficulties. Alongside this, our team is involved in developing assessment instruments and we run a research clinic for the diagnosis of learning difficulties at the Centre for Reading and Language in York. I continue to work in this clinic in which we see children for educational assessment and provide management advice to their families. Outside the university, I have been involved with the work of charities, such as the British Dyslexia Association, and I have been called upon As I hope this suggests, throughout my career President-elect, by the Department of Education to advise on I have aimed to bring together research and Professor Margaret aspects of the teaching of literacy and on provision practice. My earliest ambition was to be a doctor Snowling, FBA for children with special educational needs. Under and, although this never came about, I have found the previous government, I was involved in the study and practice of psychology extremely developing national programmes for the teaching fulfilling, spanning as it does science and social of literacy and served on Sir Jim Rose’s Advisory science. Psychology has provided a valuable Group which produced a review of provision for framework within which to study how children with dyslexia in English schools. In developmental cognitive disorders with a addition, I have helped in the development of the neurobiological basis affect the lives of individuals, ‘Phonics Screening’ test for children in Year 1 and how a range of environmental factors can which will be implemented in schools nationally ameliorate their impact. The kind of work I do from 2012. By enabling the identification and flourishes through partnerships with professional ongoing monitoring of children with language colleagues and voluntary agencies and I believe learning difficulties, it is hoped that this screening that, with them, the research of our group has had should lead to the timely implementation of significant impact by feeding into national policies interventions for those who need them. Currently for education and informing the debate on we are working with the charity ICAN and the inclusion for those with special educational needs. Nuffield Foundation to develop a training course When I join St John’s, I am sure that my research for teachers and other providers in Early Years agenda will change. I am sure however that I will settings which will enable them to deliver an not abandon my interests in improving the quality intervention for children with spoken language of education in our schools and in increasing the difficulties. expectations which are held for young people.

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Although it is presumably almost in Asia, a bonnacon boasts horns that curl impossible to study at St John’s inwards, making them useless for defence. without ever entering the Library, it’s To compensate the animal turns around and all too easy for students – and Fellows ‘emits a fart three acres long’, which is ‘so hot – to remain unaware of the many that it scorches whatever it touches’. The treasures it holds. The College Yorkshire bonnacon is a solemn soul, bearing an Librarian, Stewart Tiley, introduces us expression of deep regret as it repels its attackers, to one or two of them – from books of whereas the Westminster bonnacon capers away hours to farting beasts. with a grin. These lavish volumes were produced for monastic libraries, furnishing inspiration for religious life, rather than as repositories of zoological knowledge. Even so there is a continuing legacy of books listing animals, fabulous and factual, and the exhibition followed this, through such works as Gessner’s encyclopaedic Historia Animalia (1551), until the twentieth century, represented by an original illustration from Spike Milligan’s Milliganimals. It also took in depictions of sea monsters and dodos, Robert Hooke’s pioneering engravings of insects, and an attempt to notate the noises made A bonnacon repelling ne of the guilty pleasures of being by bees which developed into a four-part madrigal. attackers in a 14th c. librarian in a place with collections of The subsequent exhibition was on language bestiary from Ofascinating and beautiful historic books, and writing. Amongst the items on display Westminster (SJC like St John’s, is getting them out so that you can were an alphabet used by angels, examples of MS 178) play with them. You need an excuse to do this, of medieval cryptography, a universal philosophical course, but luckily these present themselves fairly alphabet intended to replace Latin as a scholarly regularly. The exhibitions in the display cases in the medium, and the first American Bible (printed in Old Library are useful here. Ostensibly put on to the local Massachusetts language in 1663). engage visitors, they also allow librarians to explore During Michaelmas and Hilary Terms 2011–12, shelves, safes and cupboards, pull out their we’re offering something on the exploration of favourite stuff, and show it off. America, using Theodor de Bry’s exquisite, if Last year the Library hosted two exhibitions. fanciful, engravings of indigenous cultures as a The first was inspired by two of the College’s starting point. For Trinity Term we aim to show more striking medieval manuscripts – its bestiaries our prayer books, both beautifully illuminated or books of beasts. A particularly English medieval Books of Hours, and the more sober phenomenon, there are only around 90 of these Books of Common Prayer that form milestones still extant. They are usually highly illustrated, and of the English Reformation. So please continue the St John’s specimens are no exception. One to give us an excuse to do this, and come and visit. was made in York in the thirteenth century, and Alumni are very welcome to visit the its lions, elephants, and dragons are depicted Library and to bring guests. During term our The Lion, from a on backgrounds of gold-leaf. The other, from opening hours extend into the evening, although 13th c. bestiary once fourteenth-century Westminster, is smaller and it is advisable to ring ahead on 01865 277331 or owned by a priory in less ostentatious, but perhaps more fun. email [email protected] to check we can York (SJC MS 61) Compare their bonnacons. Apparently dwelling accommodate you.

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For decades, students have After rallying more student charities for support volunteered to work with charities and securing seed funding from the Oxfordshire in all sorts of different ways: from the Community Foundation, Oxford Hub was launched East End settlement at Toynbee Hall in October 2007. Starting out with a few hastily to Voluntary Service Overseas; from printed flyers on a Freshers’ Fair stall, the charity rag week to the Oxford home teaching set out to bring together all student groups scheme, Jacari. Nearly five years ago, working on social and environmental issues, to two St John’s undergraduates founded raise awareness among the student body of the an immensely ambitious organisation opportunities on offer to create social change, and designed to co-ordinate much of to support students do so effectively and this good work. Now, with its own sustainably. central Oxford location and It became clear early on that if Oxford Hub was adjoining café, Oxford Hub is making to be a success, a summer’s worth of volunteer headlines internationally. Rachel time might not be enough. Happily, the College Stephenson (2005) and Adam O’Boyle granted Adam a year’s leave from his studies to (2005) explain all. support the charity as a part-time staff member. This sabbatical afforded the team the extra capacity HUB OF THE UNIVERSITY

n the second floor of an old Georgian that was needed, and Oxford Hub began very townhouse, right in the heart of Oxford’s quickly to attract students from across the Ohistoric centre, the student charity Oxford University, even setting up in a small office in the Hub is settling into its new home. Among new Careers Service. In early 2008, the Hub’s steady phone lines, printers, a newly-opened café, and growth in Oxford also led to national expansion, 9,000 square feet of central Oxford real estate, the and the model was implemented in other charity is looking ahead to new, exciting, and universities: initially Cambridge, Bristol, and unchartered territory. Oxford is now home to the Southampton, and since then Oxford Brookes and first ever centre in the UK to be dedicated to Warwick. student social action and volunteering. And the By the summer of 2008, the charity was story begins in St John’s. operating as Student Hubs, a national network of Oxford Hub was set up in 2007 by a group of operations in local Universities, headed up by the students including two St John’s undergraduates, flagship Oxford Hub. At this time, Rachel Adam O’Boyle (History and Economics, 2005) and completed an internship at Oxfam GB to learn Rachel Stephenson (French and Linguistics, 2005). more about fundraising and Adam supplemented The aim was to help students become aware of and working for the Hub with a role at New active in social action and volunteering; to make it Philanthropy Capital. As the charity entered its easy to make a difference in the world. second year of operation, and Adam and Rachel The initial concept came about in January entered their final years at St John’s, corporate 2007, as Adam was running a one-day lecture sponsorship was secured, and new staff members series on international development for students, were taken on. the International Development Course. At the same Extra staff capacity enabled Oxford Hub to time, he and Rachel, and a group of students pursue a more local focus, and the 2008–09 working on charities including Students Supporting academic year saw the development of a Street Kids and UNICEF, began collaborating on community volunteering programme for students. fundraising and awareness-raising events, This was set up to harness the capacity of students discovering how much more effective they could be to meet local community needs, enabling students when they worked together. They found that not to be able to make a positive difference in their only could students be informed and inspired about adopted city of dreaming spires. To help combat global social issues alongside their academic some of the problems faced by the divided city of studies, but through networks they could support Oxford, student volunteers began to volunteer in each other in taking action on causes they cared about. local schools, with refugees and homeless people.

38 - tw magazine, 2012 This programme has since developed, and Oxford charity groups within the University. This growth Hub now places around 600 students in over prompted the charity’s biggest development to date: twenty community volunteering projects, opening a central venue dedicated to student benefitting local groups across the city. volunteering and social action. In March 2011, A great example of Oxford Hub’s work in the Oxford Hub took on the lease of a City Council- community is Maths Plus, a programme which owned building on Turl Street, which has a rich matches students with local GCSE pupils on the and varied history including the QI Club and the C/D grade borderline. Students give tailored, one- Taj Mahal Indian restaurant. to-one support which directly enhances classroom This building not only houses Oxford Hub, but teaching whilst meeting individual needs. At the also six other student-facing charities, events and end of its first year, Maths Plus had helped all the meeting space for community projects, a specialist GCSE pupils on the programme to achieve their C resources library, and a sustainable café-bar- grade, with two achieving B grades and one an A. restaurant, Turl Street Kitchen. It serves as a space Oxford Hub programmes like Maths Plus, which to learn, to meet others, to be inspired to make a facilitate interaction between Oxford students and difference, or simply to take in a locally-sourced, local communities, help to build educational seasonal meal. Turl Street Kitchen, which operates aspirations as well as attainment levels. This is from the ground floor, is set up to support the

Alumni and Oxford Hub founders, Adam O’Boyle (History and Economics, 2005) and Rachel Stephenson (French and Linguistics, 2005) in the new Turl Street Kitchen crucial in a city with the worst Key Stage 1 results charity with any profits made securing its funding in the country. for the years to come. Now, some four and a half years since opening, Oxford Hub is looking forward to this bright Oxford Hub maintains the key goals and activities it future built upon sustainability and forged through started out with in 2007. Andrew Hamilton, the the new Turl Street centre. Perhaps this is the first current Vice-Chancellor has stated his firm belief time in Oxford’s history that simply patronising a that ‘universities should produce not only world- local café-bar-restaurant has the power to transform class academics, but also world-class citizens. It is student culture, making giving back to society the our duty to enable students to do the best that they norm, not the exception. can in the world – for themselves and, crucially, for the global communities they live in’. This well There are many ways to support Oxford Hub. articulates the motivations of Oxford Hub: students If you would like to donate directly visit are the leaders, thinkers, and decision-makers of www.oxfordhub.org/donate and if you’re local tomorrow, and they can create enormous social to Oxford, visit Turl Street Kitchen for a meal or drinks. To find out more about Oxford Hub good not only now but also in the future. or to offer any advice, contact Adam and Rachel Oxford Hub now reaches over 7,500 of these on [email protected] future leaders, and supports around 35 student

tw magazine, 2012 - 39 Michael Klaput (Theoretical Physics, 2009), MCR President 2010/11 FROM COMMITTEES TO NUDE CALENDARS: THE MCR PRESIDENT WRITES

The growth of Oxford’s graduate might be Garden, Equality, Domestic, Educational community is one of the big stories – Policy, Decanal, Library, Web committee or the and one of the success stories – of the Governing body: the MCR President sits on all of last thirty years or so. But this doesn’t them. Topics to be discussed in as large and diverse mean that everyone understands the college as St John’s are manifold. New welfare place of the MCR within College or strategies, library loan periods, the new gym, the University. The current MCR choosing roses for the gardens, admissions President, Michael Klaput, lifts the lid statistics, changing the informal hall signup on a busy year. scheme (with success), Arts Week… Of course, there is much more to the Oxford’s Vice Chancellor Andrew Hamilton chose President’s life than just committees. I work with in this year’s oration to draw attention to the a great team of MCR Officers who are responsible growing graduate student community at the for organizing the graduate life at St John’s: guest University. The number of graduates at St John’s dinners, bops, cultural trips, dessert nights, grad will not perhaps surprise readers of TW, who will lunches, cheese and wine tastings, welfare teas, already have read a recent article by my predecessor women’s dinners, and much more besides. as MCR President David Townsend. However, what It is these Officers who define the MCR at may be new to you is the way in which the MCR St John’s by all their hard work and a dominant functions as part of the College and, indeed, the part of my job is to make their lives as easy as wider University community. Let me take you on a possible. But managing the team is only one part of quick tour through this lesser-known side of MCR the job; another is close liaison with the Fellows, life, as seen through the eyes of the MCR College staff, and the JCR. Consequently, I am a President. Find out how we participate in College regular visitor to the domestic office, works governance, graduate student politics, and maybe department, and College stores. I meet termly with even in University history. the President and still more regularly with the Our freshers this year asked me, ‘What is it that Tutor for Graduates. In particular, I enjoy the you do as MCR President?’ Well, for a start: plenty interaction with the JCR President whom I meet of committee meetings. Any Wednesday in term it almost weekly to discuss current matters.

40 - tw magazine, 2012 The benefit of having a good relationship This disconnection between OUSU and 44 per cent between JCR and MCR is revealed most clearly of its members has been investigated by its every Trinity term, when the annual rents and President Martha Mackenzie (History and Politics, charges negotiations with College take place. The 2008) and a ‘post graduate representation review’ Bursar invites the executive committees of both committee formed. During this process, another common rooms – consisting of the respective important shortcoming was identified: while an President, Secretary, and Treasurer – to talk about undergraduate’s academic life happens mostly at changes in rents and food prices, as well as a college – where the common room represents scholarships and grants in College. In a series of student interests – a graduate’s academic life between four and six meetings, College accounts happens almost exclusively in the departments. are revealed to student eyes; inflation indices Here, no coherent system of student representation examined (featuring the famous Van Noorden exists apart from a board elected by OUSU council index of Oxford college inflation); student funding – or, in other words, by a majority of JCR developments researched; and in the whole process Presidents. It is a historic challenge to instate a legion of numbers is carefully examined: all with democratic student representation in every single the aim of negotiating a fair settlement for rents department at Oxford. There are about 70 and charges. This year’s negotiations were departments which themselves split into a total especially difficult given the current time of serious of several hundred sub-departments. economic downturn. It is, therefore, particularly A central role in the ongoing developments noteworthy that College appreciated the difficult across the University is played by the assembly of funding situation for students, resulting in an MCR Presidents, the MCR Presidents’ Committee increased rent below the predicted rate of inflation. (PresCom). While most of the time the MCR President’s Twice each term, all MCR Presidents meet to duties happen in College close to his constituency, discuss matters of common interest, share a significant part of them also leads him outside experiences and consult their fellow colleagues. St John’s. To be honest, I had little clue about this The atmosphere at meetings is open, friendly, and aspect on the day of my election, but I quickly came welcoming – the adjourned discussions at Oxford to recognize its importance, for the University is pubs are shrouded in legend and many Presidents currently in an exceptional period of transition. become close friends over time. The undergraduate dominance in numbers at Last Trinity term, PresCom initiated an unusual Oxford has ended: graduates now make up 44 per charity initiative: the first MCR Presidents’ naked cent of the student body. charity calendar. The selected charity, Gold Coast This change has also reshaped St John’s. Only Fund, was set up by former St Hilda’s MCR Vice- a few decades ago, graduate numbers were low and President Kojo Minta and supports education in graduate students were considered merely a subset Ghana through building village libraries. Minta of the JCR. Today, MCR and JCR are comparable in died in a tragic accident last August and the We are delighted to size for the first time in College history and last proceeds of the calendar will help to sustain his report that current year both were declared to be independent student charity. The calendar itself features fourteen current DPhil student and bodies at St John’s. Graduates are thus involved in or former MCR Presidents from eleven different former MCR College governance together with the JCR on an colleges and was shot all across Oxford. The photos President, David equal footing. display students at croquet, punting, rowing or Townsend (Law, However, this picture looks different beyond the chess; at medieval buildings, modern quads or 2007), has recently College walls. There, the change in reality meets a beautiful gardens; in short: at Oxford life with its been elected President mismatch in many of the University’s structures, many facets. of OUSU. He will which evolved in times when the student body was I feel that this is a good point to conclude my follow on from SJC mostly undergraduate. A prominent example is our little tour. Looking back at the scenery, I am alumna Martha students’ union, OUSU. While it is the union of all reminded of a well-known truth: every institution Mackenzie (History students at Oxford, until recently it did not reflect can only be as strong as the people who make up and Politics, 2008) the interests of graduates in any noticeable way. its community. It is a time of change at Oxford and this summer and The number of MCR Presidents at OUSU councils it is an exciting time to be an Oxford graduate. No becomes the first rarely amounts to much more than five and less importantly – and I am sure that you will agree graduate student ever several MCRs have even disaffiliated themselves with me on this – it is a great time to be a member elected to the role. from OUSU. of St John’s College.

tw magazine, 2012 - 41 Although the College has been But one of the others is just as interesting, and fortunate in inspiring a number of deserves to be better known. In fact St Cuthbert scholarly histories, the first century Mayne can claim pre-eminence amongst all the of St John’s remains a relatively sixteenth-century English saints as the first of the unknown story. This year, however, all Roman Catholic missionaries to be executed by that began to change as Dr Andrew Elizabeth I. Hegarty published his biographical Mayne’s origins are obscure. He was born to a register of the College from 1555 to Barnstaple farmer in 1544 and seems early to have 1660. This not only completes our run of come to the notice of his father’s landlord Sir John registers, but gives an unrivalled and Chichester, who made him rector of the parish of unique view of the early years of life in Huntshaw in Devon aged only seventeen. St John’s. Amongst his many important Chichester then sent him to St Alban Hall in findings, as the College Archivist Oxford, where he must have attracted the attention Michael Riordan shows here, was one of another powerful patron, for he was made that casts light on the religious life chaplain of St John’s. Since he took his BA from of the College in the first decade of St John’s in 1566 and the founder did not die until Elizabeth’s reign, suggesting that this 1567, his appointment must have had Sir Thomas was not quite the orthodox place it White’s approval. pretended to be. At St John’s, Mayne seems to have come under WHICH CHURCH? WHICH QUEEN?

On 1 May 1555 Queen Mary of England and King of the influence of the two Fellows of the College with Philip of Spain jointly signed a decree founding St whom he shared his room. These were Edmund John’s. Twenty-eight days later, on 29 May, Sir Campion and Gregory Martin. Campion is, as we’ve Thomas White issued the first set of statutes, already noted, well known as one of the most establishing exactly what his new College would influential seminary priests and martyrs of the late look like. A few months after that, on 16 October, sixteenth century. But Martin is just as important in the two Protestant bishops, Hugh Latimer and the history of English Catholicism. From his base at Nicholas Ridley, were burnt at the stake in nearby the English College at Douai, he was the moving Broad Street. This concatenation of events is a stark spirit of the papally-sanctioned project to translate reminder of the fact that the College’s early history the Bible into English that has become known as is strongly bound up with the story of the English the Douai-Rheims Bible and which was finished Reformation. After all, Thomas White was one of just a few years before the Church of England the men who tried the Protestant Archbishop finished its own Authorized Version. It seems likely Thomas Cranmer, who was himself burnt to death that Mayne was already sympathetic to Catholicism in Broad Street in March 1556. (the South-West was a hotspot for recusancy), but Nor did the College’s involvement in religious his association with Campion and Martin can only politics end with the death of Queen Mary and the have hardened his beliefs. By 1570 Martin had fled accession of Queen Elizabeth in 1558. In the late- England and was inviting Mayne to join him. sixteenth century several men attended St John’s Unfortunately, their letters fell into the hands who would go on to be canonized as saints by the of the authorities and Mayne, who was away Roman Catholic Church for their work in seeking from Oxford at the time, went into hiding. His to undo the Elizabethan religious settlement. Of movements in the next few years are obscure, but it these, Edmund Campion is by far the most famous. is unlikely that he ever returned to St John’s and in

42 - tw magazine, 2012 Engraving of Cuthbert Mayne (The Bridgeman Art Library)

Portrait of Gregory Martin

1572 he was with his old friend in Douai. Here he was re-ordained as a Catholic and studied for the Bachelor in Divinity. In 1576 he was ready to return to England, and did so in the company of John Payne who may also have been an undergraduate at St John’s (and therefore may count as our fourth sixteenth-century saint). Mayne returned to his native South-West, serving as chaplain and steward to Sir Francis Tregian at Golden, near Truro. Both the chaplain and his employer were arrested on 8 June 1577 and Mayne spent three months in the dungeon of Launceston Castle before being tried and found guilty of treason. Tregian lost all his property and was sentenced to life imprisonment; Mayne was not so lucky. On 29 November 1577 Mayne reaffirmed that ‘the Queen neither ever was, nor is, nor ever shall be the head of the Church in England’, and admitted that he believed that all true Catholics should support any invading Roman Catholic prince. The following day he was hanged, Engraving of drawn, and quartered. Edmund Campion This is interesting enough in itself, but Dr (The Bridgeman Hegarty has found something more. Hidden away Art Library)

tw magazine, 2012 - 43 in an early hagiographical account is a curious years spent holding these positions were statement. It is said that Mayne only once at St considered not to count towards the ordination John’s gave the Lord’s Supper according to the deadline. But this still begs a question: why did so Prayer Book and that otherwise ‘every Sunday gave many Fellows resist being ordained? those attending only a dry Communion’. Now what, It seems likely that there was a large number we might ask, does this mean? We might take it of Fellows who were undecided about the Church literally and read it as giving out only the bread and of England. By 1560 there had been thirty years of not the wine. Or perhaps no-one communicated at religious change – change which had accelerated all. Or perhaps part of the rubric was left out in the last decade. Edward VI had moved Henry making it only a pseudo-communion. But whatever VIII’s church closer to Calvinism, but Mary I had it means precisely, it is clear that there was converted it back to Rome in 1553, and Elizabeth I something not quite proper about the way the in 1558 had changed it once more to something weekly communion service was performed at St akin to the early years of Edward VI. If Elizabeth John’s and in a college with so many ordained men were to die in the 1560s (either naturally or by an studying theology it is inconceivable that the secret assassin – both genuine possibilities), then her was Mayne’s alone. We can only come to the cousin Mary Stuart (better known as Mary, Queen conclusion that the whole College was conspiring of Scots) would probably have acceded to the so as not to use the form of service laid down by throne and converted England once more back to the established Church. And, as it was done in his Roman Catholicism. The future was not clear in lifetime, not just the College, but the founder was the 1560s and the conservative Fellows of St John’s complicit in this too. may not have wanted to commit themselves. It was Can this be true? It seems likely that the one thing to take communion or even to subscribe founder had a conception of how to manipulate to the Thirty-nine Articles, but to be ordained in a liturgy to make it appear – or even be – more heretical Church was probably too much for them. traditional. Despite having been associated with They would therefore postpone ordination until London all his life, when he died Sir Thomas was they were sure. brought to Oxford for his funeral. It is certainly not Between 1567 and 1574 twelve Fellows of the unusual for a founder to be buried in his college College (all appointed by the founder) converted but White may also have been tempted by the 1560 openly to Roman Catholicism; as did many other Latin Prayer Book which had been created members of the College, like Mayne. Various specifically for the two universities. By using the matters may have forced them to make up their funeral service from this and by having it said by a minds; at a national level the excommunication of Fellow who had been ordained under Mary I (and Elizabeth in 1570 forced Catholics to choose their was therefore part of the Catholic Church) this was loyalties, while at the local level the election of the to all intents and purposes a traditional requiem staunchly Calvinist Toby Mathew as President in mass. It therefore seems credible that the founder 1572 made St John’s a less comfortable place for would have acquiesced in (or perhaps even crypto-Catholics. But above all, it was becoming instigated) Mayne’s practices within the College. clear that Elizabeth was here to stay. It is unlikely that many of the Fellows would The 1560s was therefore a unique decade in have objected either. The College statutes had laid which many people were able to keep their down that to retain his Fellowship, a Fellow had to confessional identities a little fuzzy, conforming be ordained within three years of taking his MA with the Elizabethan regime without committing (usually about eleven years after entering the to it. As the decade wore on it became more College); there were even significant financial difficult to do so and the men of St John’s had to incentives to take orders. Yet very few Fellows in make up their minds. Some committed to the the 1560s were ordained. Some even developed Church of England, others fled to Douai. But they schemes (one is tempted to say scams) to avoid did so not only as individuals. A stray comment in taking orders – the statutes were generously a Latin hagiography, that Dr Hegarty has now interpreted so that by transferring to law or brought to light, suggests that as an institution, medicine after taking the MA, the day of ordination St John’s was itself biding its time in the 1560s was postponed. This could also be achieved by and not quite – yet – committing itself to Church accepting one of the College lectureships, as the and Queen.

44 - tw magazine, 2012 SPORT: 2010-2011

Badminton what a start it was. Playing away to Oriel, an It has been another successful year for St John’s impressive 228 off 30 overs was amassed before the Badminton Club. Our Women’s team dominated Oriel top order was removed in three destructive their league, ending the season five clear points overs from Phillimore and Dr Jones, leaving the ahead of second place Wadham. Our Mixed team home side reeling at 0–5 before being bowled all was similarly successful, also coming top in their out for 40. The good start to the League campaign division by a good margin. The Men’s first and with wins against St Anne’s and Nuffield, coupled second teams both came second in their respective with a win against the Demi-Johns team of alumni, divisions, in each case losing out to their St Hugh’s was echoed in the Cuppers competition and after counterparts, with the first team missing out by a six games of the season SJCCC remained unbeaten. single point! Both of our Cuppers teams also put in Unfortunately, the Cuppers dream came to an a respectable performance; the Men’s team were end in the quarter finals when a strong Lincoln side delighted to walk away with the third prize (along played exceptionally well to overcome us. The vast with shiny medals) while the Women’s team were majority of the game was in the balance but sadly robbed of a similar honour, narrowly missing unfortunately the 176 which was reached in testing out in the playoffs to finish fourth overall. conditions was not quite enough on the day; for the Thankfully the Club will retain most of its second year in a row the semi finals had only just members for the coming year (and will hopefully evaded us. Following on from this defeat, a close pick up some talented freshers), so we anticipate League match against LMH which went down to yet another strong season. the wire (40 required off the last four overs; six required off the last ball) was lost, as was a friendly Kris Ward (Chemistry, 2006) against the touring Hetaroi. It would have been easy at this point to slump Cricket into mediocrity and lose the spirit with which we Ten months away from the beautiful SJC oval was had been playing throughout the season. Luckily, enough to generate a huge amount of anticipation this was not the case, and good wins against Exeter for the 2011 season. In fact, the season was looked and Magdalen (a close game which was won by a forward to so greatly that the captain was not even solid partnership between Howe and Chatterji) back in Oxford before the rest of the team were ensured that we went into the final round of the organising their own net sessions. This enthusiasm season at the top of the league. Sadly, a poor from a set of dedicated players who constituted the performance against Trinity meant that the League core of the team would go on to characterise the was lost by a mere three points. However, coming season. second, we won the second promotion spot and The year started with the traditional early- look forward to next season where we will be season friendly against Westcliffe-on-Sea, nicely captained by the veteran Oliver Adams, now in his scheduled so as to fall on 1 May. Needless to say, sixth (and final) season for SJCCC. I wish him and the team was not at its freshest. However, chasing the rest of the team all the best and hope 204, we rallied at 70–7, and with 17 runs coming captaining SJCCC will be as much of a pleasure for off the final over, we ended up on 204. him as it was for me. SJCCC then started their League campaign: and Mo Chatterji (Modern Languages, 2009)

tw magazine, 2012 - 45 Croquet in the back row by Alex Dungate and Matt Thain, Croquet might not be the most prominent sport and the pace in the backs was blistering, led by played at St John’s, but it is the best. After a the superb running and handling skills of Ben competitive trial process we managed to reduce a Butterfield at fly-half. Nonetheless, what started as a field of 28 would-be Croquet champions to seven dream soon descended into a nightmare. The final teams of four people. With seven teams, four score read 22–27 to Worcester as they scored the mallets, and three matches played we had a year winner in the final few minutes. Moreover in our of unprecedented success, building on the next game against Exeter, we lost 27–15 to a hard- foundations laid down by our long-standing former working and determined team who went on to Croquet Captain Henry Venmore-Rowland. Special achieve an undefeated double promotion this year. congratulations must go to the A-Team of Beau It was do-or-die time at our next match against Woodbury, Joe Stenson, Alex Harvey, and me, who Jesus, which had more than just a relegation feel managed to reach the third round of Trinity Term’s about it with the Parry twins facing each other in Croquet Cuppers Tournament. We look forward to the centre. The troops were rallied. After a very next year’s tournament where we hope we can tense first-half with no score, the second half build on the experience we gained this year to erupted into life with a storming 80m try by bring home the silverware. Richard Antwi-Boasiako, soon followed by two Ben Lewy (Philosophy, Politics, and more tries. Unfortunately a lack of talent with the Economics, 2009) boot meant that the final score remained 15–0. Suddenly aspirations were raised again and, like a phoenix from the ashes, Saints rose to Hockey ‘champagne-rugby’ heights as we smashed New The 2010–11 season has reflected exactly what the College 34–7 in arguably the best game I have ever St John’s-Christ Church hockey team is all about: been involved in while wearing a Saints’ shirt. mixed success, but lots of fun! At the end of Hilary Fantastic all-round athleticism by Josh ‘The we finished third in Men’s Division three, just Beautiful Game’ Stone, combined with the sheer missing out on promotion. Mixed Cuppers was might of our front row, Olly Adams and Charles once again a highlight but unfortunately we were Macfayden, laced with brutal tackling by Ellis Parry put out in the quarter-finals by Oriel, the runners- resulted in a fine victory. This momentum up of the competition, on penalty flicks. It has been continued as we walloped Wadham in our final great to see the St John’s representation in the team game, 37–10, sending them into the pits of division increase since last year. This is something we hope four. Unfortunately this late surge was not to build upon next season, with the intake of some sufficient to bring us promotion. new enthusiastic freshers and older members of In the second season, a string of injuries led to the College alike. Thanks to everyone who played a frustrating time in the New Year. However, this year; here’s to an even more successful glimpses of what epitomises the Saints’ spirit were season next. shown – especially in our first game of the season Rosanna Le Voir (Human Sciences, 2009) against Merton/Mansfield where we played with twelve men, beating them in the second half by three tries. It was a truly inspiring game to be a Rugby part of. Great commitment was shown by both the Following relegation from the previous year, and veteran guard and by freshers who fought together with a large number of key players leaving, the in an incredible game, where Will Hancock at outlook going into the 2010 season appeared flanker shone. Nonetheless, a heavy loss to Lincoln relatively unhopeful. However, following an and a draw against Oriel resulted in St John’s- exceptional turnout at both colleges’ freshers’ fairs, St Anne’s being placed in the relegation zone at it appeared positive with a great deal of talent being the end of the season, just above Jesus. discovered in the fresher intake. In Cuppers we were knocked out in the first- Our first game in the third division was against round by first-division team LMH, 25–7. But the Worcester and, having generated a 22–0 lead at half score did not accurately reflect our performance as time, it looked a certain bet for a Saints’ promotion we were drawing 7–7 for most of the game, and this season. The forwards’ strength was again we played with two few men. indomitable in the scrum, with huge performances In the end we didn’t see the tangible results

46 - tw magazine, 2012 that we were hoping for in a fast promotion or a beginning to show when Claire, after first strong Cuppers run, but I believe that the Club is inadvertently incapacitating the referee, drove still in a rebuilding process following last season. the ball into the back of the net. This opened the It has been a pleasure to play alongside so many proverbial floodgates, and by half time we were great players, and an even greater one leading them 3–0 up. In the second half Jesus were visibly there. We say goodbye to two die-hard Saints, Josh disheartened, but the strikers showed no mercy, Stone and Ben Butterfield, who undoubtedly played scoring five more goals before the end of the their best season of rugby this year. We have also match, and thus giving us both our ticket to the exciting ability surfacing in Will Balcombe and semi-finals, and overall victory over Jesus! Charlie Dumeresque, and I wish Ellis Parry, the The semi-final saw us up against New College, next Saints’ captain, the best of luck next season in who, with seven or eight regular Blues players, had earning that elusive double-promotion. This season won every match so far that season. Although we we never gave in, and put in everything we had lost the match 5–1, the fight that the team put up until the final whistle. Next season, we must again against such a strong side was admirable. Nyasha stand up and not just be counted in that starting 15, Weinberg was fearless in goal and Magda Lomacka, but want to earn that spot, and make a difference. who had played left wing for most of the season, Good luck boys. proved to be ruthless in defence. Judith Roberts and Arthur Coates (Engineering Science, 2009) Sophie Graham were as solid as ever on the right side of defence, and every single player worked tirelessly against what was quite simply a superb Women’s Football football team. This was a tough year for SJCWFC, with the Despite relegation, it was a very positive season majority of the side that made it to the Cuppers for SJCWFC. With only a few players left from last final last year having inconveniently graduated. year, we managed to form a cohesive team very Things were looking bleak after our first match, quickly with the new players, whilst the third years, which, with only eight players, we lost 7–0 to Jesus. despite their busy run up to finals, were unfaltering Thankfully that was by far our worst defeat of the in their dedication. This year the team will be in a season, as with a couple of fresher recruitments more suitable league; and, under a very capable from both common rooms, a substantial amount of new captain, I’m sure they will do well! pleading with friends, and the occasional guest Kathryn Phillips (Modern Languages, appearance by former teammates, we managed to 2009) put out a good team for the rest of our matches. Despite our shaky start, the team steadily improved throughout the season, thanks largely to our Boat Club dedicated team of coaches, who relished the This year has been one of the most successful in opportunity to throw balls at girls’ heads. recent history for SJCBC. During Michaelmas, the Although we never managed to assert ourselves Men’s Novice Bs reached the fourth round of Christ in the League, our Cuppers run was enough to Church Regatta and the semi-final of Nephthys make any captain proud. After coming second in Regatta, whilst Christ Church Regatta also saw the our group on goal difference, we found ourselves Men’s Novice As reach the semi-final and the up once again against Jesus in the quarterfinals. Women’s Novice As reach the third round. Both Understandably, the team was a little nervous, but Development Squads made great progress, with everyone was equally eager to prove a point. I joked the Men moving to train at Wallingford and the at the beginning of the match that we needed to Women hiring Allan French as the new Head win by more than seven goals to be the overall Coach. Allan has himself rowed in the Oxford victors, but little did I imagine the extent to which Brookes First Eight and coached a Brookes’ novice the team would heed my advice. From the very crew to win at Henley. beginning of the match we dominated completely, In Torpids, SJCBC finished on a net +8 for the with Claire Stockdale and Maija Sequeira week, one of the highest-climbing boat clubs. The controlling the midfield, whilst our strikers, Doran week was filled with excellent performances all Boyle and Clare Webb, gave the Jesus defence a lot round. This included blades for the Women’s First to worry about. However, the first 15 minutes did Torpid who climbed up to fourth in division two, not see any goals, and the team’s frustration was gaining both an overbump on Somerville and a

tw magazine, 2012 - 47 triple overbump on St Hilda’s in the process. The incredible over the last seven years. At the start of Men’s First Torpid bumped Hertford on Wednesday 2005 they were second in division three and have and after some intense battles all week bumped the risen an average of over three places a year since rowing powerhouse of Oriel on Saturday and so then. We hope that this continues in 2012 when climbed two places up to sixth on the river, our our women will be in reach of the Headship for highest position for around 40 years. The Women’s the first time ever. Second Torpid finished up three places and the The Men’s First Eight entered Bedford Regatta Men’s Second Torpid ended down one place. where they won the College Eights category, We also had excellent representation at beating Magdalen, Christ Church, and Downing University level again. Paul Crewe was the College, Cambridge (who finished second in President of Oxford University Men’s Lightweights Cambridge’s May Bumps), in the process. In this year. He rowed in the OULRC Blue Boat along Summer Eights, the Men’s First Eight bumped with Andrew Craig. Remi Drouin made OULRC’s New College on Wednesday returning to division Nephthys and former SJCBC Captain Alex Woods one after a 14-year absence. This was followed with made Isis, a fantastic achievement for someone quick bumps (all before or around Donnington who learnt to row at St John’s. In April we also held Bridge) on Worcester, Teddy Hall, and Magdalen, the second Triennial Dinner of the SJCBC Society, taking them to ninth on the River, their highest with a good attendance from current and former position for about 15 years. The Men’s First Eight members. have now bumped for nine consecutive Summer Summer Eights was one of the most Eights days, an incredible achievement. There memorable that St John’s has ever had. Both the were also some valiant performances from the Men’s and the Women’s First Eights won blades in lower boats, all of whom were starting in high division one. This is the first time (as far back as positions. An inexperienced Men’s Second Eight detailed records exist) that both the Men’s and finished down one place and a graduate boat Women’s First Eights of the same college have rowing as the Men’s Third Eight finished down simultaneously won blades in the top division. three places. The Women’s Second Eight finished The Women’s First Eight climbed up to fourth in down three places and the Women’s Third Eight, division one, proving themselves a class apart from dressed as the 118–118 men, finished down two other crews around them. They bumped Magdalen, places. Christ Church, Osler House, and Teddy Hall to With a large number of oarsmen/women finish the week in their highest ever position. Their returning this year, we hope to capitalize further blades were also the highest set of blades won this on these achievements in 2012. year. The rise of the Women’s First Eight has been Ben Pilgrim (Chemistry, 2005)

48 - tw magazine, 2012 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Reflections on the second floor. He had his rooms on the first Dear Dr Whyte, floor, with the dining room and kitchen beneath. I once asked William Hayes how he explained the He prepared breakfast for us promptly at 08.15 way that St John’s had moved from middle of the each morning – always grapefruit and toast, usually road, in terms of academic results, to top of the boiled eggs but just occasionally an omelette with tree. He said the answer was simple. At some point herbs picked freshly from the garden or herring (date unspecified) the Governing Body had decided fried in oatmeal. Breakfast was over by 08.45 and to focus its investment in two areas, facilities (in for the rest of the day we lived our separate lives. fact, I think he said ‘the kitchen’), and the He never intruded but occasionally, if I returned to Fellowship. A simple strategy: attract the best the house at about 18.00, he would call to me as I students through their stomachs (more broadly, by passed his room and invite me for a drink – always offering a high standard of living) and then provide a generous and very dry Gin and French. the best possible food for their brains. For me, it was perfect. Setting aside the Mike Riordan’s piece (Morphing Maufe) in convenience and comfort of the digs (which were TW, Summer 2011, illustrated the spectacular way unrivalled), listening to his tales (from medieval that the first of these strands has been popes to his own life – anything except implemented. It has prompted me to wonder about commanding machine guns in the trenches), the second because, during my time at the College watching the way he worked and thought, (I matriculated in 1962), the Fellows were already a benefiting from his advice and enjoying his trust, pretty impressive bunch. Everything was half the have all had a lasting impact. He was forthright, size compared to today but then, as now, about 20 decisive, and interested in almost everything. He per cent had been elected to the Fellowship of the combined this with utter respect for the right and British Academy or Royal Society. A further 30 per responsibility of each individual to make their own cent of the Fellows listed in College Notes of 1966, decisions. For example, after the first four weeks of mostly the relative youngsters, were elected to the each Hilary Term whilst he was President, he Academy or Society subsequently in their careers. would discover which freshman had the largest It will not be known for about 30 years whether and which the smallest account with the Buttery. their 2011 successors are able to emulate this, He would summon them to see him in turn and which means that I may never know. say, ‘I understand you have the largest/smallest The class of 1962 was the last of W C Costin’s expenditure in the Buttery: are you confident that Presidency. Gareth Jones quotes Prys Morgan you are not overspending/failing to enjoy yourself describing him as ‘very nice but eccentric’ (TW, enough? I don’t want an explanation, the decisions Summer 2011) and also referring to him as about how you spend your money are entirely for ‘William Costin’. I agree with the ‘very nice’, think you, but you should know the facts.’ If this is a that ‘eccentric’ though possibly accurate risks being description of eccentricity, Costin was, indeed, misinterpreted, and doubt that Professor Morgan eccentric. ever referred to him as ‘William’. In College he was Although I got to know Costin better than any universally known as ‘Costin’; to his sister and other don, and it was he who ensured that my other members of his biological family he was wedding was described in the Obituary pages of ‘Conrad’. The closest he ever got to William in my The Times, I learned much from many of the other experience was a note inscribed on the front page Fellows. For instance, how to combine the sharpest of a book he gave me, ‘Galfrido d.d. Guillielmus’. of incisive thinking with grace and impeccable I got to know Costin particularly well because manners (John Mabbott); how to chair a difficult for two years, after he retired from the Presidency, meeting (Will Moore); how to write better minutes he was my landlord in Wellington Place. I had the (Keith Thomas); how to read the poetry of Gerard attic and shared a bathroom with the guest room Manley Hopkins (John Carey); how to calculate

tw magazine, 2012 - 49 dates (Howard Colvin). I wish I could say that I research scientists, businessmen, journalists, learned how to score runs reliably past third slip, as poets, international sportsmen, and a world-record- Paul Grice could, but I never approached his skill. breaking balloonist. We did not produce many And there were the insights into other worlds, such bankers (the only one I can think of was a central as George Richardson fearing that academic banker), which is a sign of the times. Firsts were economics would rapidly lose credibility when good things to get, of course. A Fourth required Harold Wilson started relying on the advice of eccentricity; it was not a sign of stupidity (unless, academics, and H W Thompson (Tommy) that is, you take the view that anyone with the basic commenting how impossible it was to give intelligence to get a First has to be stupid not to scientific advice to government and especially to make it their top priority to do so: many of my ‘that man Hogg’. generation did not). Enough of rose-tinted retrospect. Why did my Last word to Costin. He broke the generation not get better results in Final Schools opportunities of life at Oxford into three broad (in 1966 there were six Firsts, 38 Seconds, 22 categories – getting a First, winning a blue, and Thirds, one Fourth and one Pass)? In part, falling in love. On the basis of many years probably, because we were intellectually more experience, he reckoned that most people were heterogeneous than current intakes. Partly, I able to excel in two of these areas but that those suspect, because there was not the same pressure who attempted all three were at serious risk of all- that there is today to do well academically. It was round underperformance. I doubt if much has not because our dons were dim. changed. Despite the results, we nevertheless produced Yours sincerely, top public servants and diplomats, eminent Geoffrey Penzer (Chemistry, 1962) academics, teachers, doctors, lawyers, clerics, August 2011

Art Committee – to the best of my recollection that never Lives Again happened. Dear Dr Whyte, Anyhow the Art Committee had some funds I was interested to read in the summer issue of TW again and we set about buying what we thought that the JCR Art Committee has been resurrected were suitable and interesting – trips to London (again!) and has catalogued the JCR Art Collection. and e.g. the Marlborough gallery where I This mirrors more or less exactly my own remember I bought a Bernard Buffet print. experience in the 1960s. I came up to St John’s in I’d be interested to know how many, if any are October 1964 with an Open Scholarship to read to be found in the catalogue that Katie Slee has Chemistry. This proved to be no handicap to being prepared. I’m sure I’d recognize some of the elected President of the JCR Art Committee in names of pieces we bought, if any survived 1965. Despite the grand title the Committee was this long. essentially defunct, and the Art Collection We never managed an Art Week, though we dispersed who knows where. The only information did have an exhibition in the old JCR rooms over a I had was an insurance policy held by one of the weekend in 1966 devoted to a one-man show of Fellows which had a listing of works (with values) rather strange paintings and ‘things’; conceptual that the JCR claimed to own. I set about retrieving art was rather new then, and the exhibition caused as much of the collection as I could from rooms in quite a stir. I don’t recall it being very popular with and out of the College; many on the list were never the JCR body! I wonder if anybody else can found and our insurance claim was settled for a remember these happenings? sum near to £1000, not a trivial amount in 1965. Kind regards, Of course we gave an assurance that we would Guy Woolley (Chemistry, 1964) refund anything due if a missing picture was found August 2011

50 - tw magazine, 2012 FAREWELL

FRITZ CASPARI IAN SAMUEL After the War, Riasanovsky took a master’s Professor Sir Fritz Caspari KCVO was Adrian Christopher Ian Samuel was in history at Harvard and came to St John’s as born in 1914 and came up to St John’s born in 1915 and came up to St John’s a Rhodes Scholar in 1947. Here he wrote a as a Rhodes Scholar in 1932. He went in 1934 to read modern languages. DPhil on Russian history, supervised in part by on to become both a first-rate After war service in the RAF, and Isaiah Berlin. Such was his supervisor’s fabled academic and an important public a career in the foreign office, he garrulousness that President Lane Poole once servant. He died on 1 December 2010. became a successful businessman. asked him in collections, ‘When you are with He died on 26 December 2010. Mr Berlin, do you ever get to say a word?’ A brilliant international diplomat, a talented Riasanovsky replied that he too was quite historian, and a staunch opponent of A man of many talents – linguistic, political, talkative, and did manage to say something totalitarianism, Fritz Caspari was born in and commercial – Ian Samuel was born on 20 now and again. Although he rarely participated Switzerland on 21 March 1914. He grew up in August 1915 and educated at Rugby School. At in the College’s social life, he was president of his parents’ native Germany and was educated St John’s he read modern languages and the history society, and recalled St John’s with at Heidelberg University before winning a excelled at sport, playing for the first hockey fondness, not least its having ‘one of the Rhodes Scholarship to St John’s in 1932. Here, and lawn tennis teams. He was also a member world’s great gardens.’ he read for a diploma in economics before of the debating society and essay society. In Returning to the States in 1949, writing a BLitt on the impact of the 1938 he entered the consular service, having Riasanovsky was Professor of History first at Renaissance on English conceptions of the taught himself Arabic for the purpose. He the State University of Iowa and then at UC state. He also rowed for the College as well as served in Beirut, Tunis, and Trieste until the Berkeley. It was there that he wrote his now serving as president of the essay society and war. famous History of Russia; to all intents and treasurer of the Archery Club – a role that In 1940 he entered the RAF and served purposes, the first college textbook available on particularly appealed, as it enabled him to with distinction in anti-submarine operations, the subject, written in the depths of the Cold entertain female undergraduates. single-handedly sinking a U-Boat off the War. This was followed by a series of other On leaving St John’s, he went first to Hebrides in 1943. A year later, he was released important works, including major studies of America and then wrote a doctorate on into the diplomatic corps, where he remained nineteenth-century Russian thought. Humanist thought in Tudor England at the for the next twenty years, serving in embassies Professor Riasanovsky married his wife University of Hamburg. But his profound from Ankara, to Cairo, to Damascus. Between Arlene when at the University of Iowa. They hatred for Nazism drove him into what he 1959 and 1963, he was principal private had two sons and a daughter. He died in a termed ‘voluntary political exile’, and in 1939 secretary to the Foreign Secretary, before nursing home aged 87 after a long illness. he returned to the USA to work as an concluding his career as minster to Madrid. academic. Interned repeatedly during the war Thereafter, Ian Samuel pursued a EDWARD (TED) JONES as an enemy alien and – absurdly – as a successful life in business. He was successively Professor Edward G Jones was born suspected Nazi spy, he nonetheless remained director of the British Chemical Engineering in 1939 and came to St John’s in 1966 in the States until 1954, when he made the Contractors’ Association and the British to write a DPhil in neuro-anatomy. journey back to Germany. Agrochemicals Association and director He went on to become one of the This was the start of a glittering career in general of the Groupement International des most original and important public service. From 1963–68, Caspari served Associations Nationals de Fabricants de neuroscientists of his generation. as part of the German delegation to the UN. Pesticides. He also wrote a biography of He died on 6 June 2011. He then took charge of the country’s relations General Sir Robert Wilson. with the developing world, before becoming A keen sportsman and yachtsman Ted Jones was born on 26 March 1939 in chief adviser on foreign affairs to the German throughout his life, Ian Samuel married Sheila Upper Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand. President. In 1974 he was appointed Bassett in 1942. They had three sons and a Educated at the University of Otago, he came Ambassador to Portugal and, at considerable daughter, all of whom survive him. to St John’s in the Hilary term of 1966 to write risk to himself, he was instrumental in helping a doctorate. Although he remained here rather to sustain the fledgling democracy that was NICHOLAS RIASANOVSKY less than three years, he was nonetheless being established there. He later recalled that Nicholas Valentine Riasanovsky was associated with the College for the rest of his he took a deeply personal interest in born in 1923 and came to St John’s life, returning as a Visiting Fellow in the 1980s. sustaining the hard-won freedoms of the as a Rhodes Scholar in 1947. A In the course of a forty-year career, Jones Portuguese, comparing their success in distinguished historian and professor worked in Oxford, Otago, and St Louis, overthrowing a dictatorship with his own at Berkeley, he was the author of a Missouri. But it was his time in California, first countrymen’s failure to do the same a standard history of Russia, now in its at UC Irvine and then at UC Davis, that made generation before. tenth edition. He died on 14 May 2011. his name. He was one of the heroes of the Fritz Caspari’s integrity and achievements heroic age of functional neuro-anatonomy, were rewarded by international honours. He Nicholas Riasanovsky was born in Harbin, adopting all manner of new procedures in the was recognized by the Portuguese state and China, on 21 December 1923. The son of two search for a better understanding of the brain. granted the Grand Cross of the German Order Russian émigrés, his father was a noted legal The author of 20 books and more than of Merit. In 1972 he was knighted and made scholar whilst his mother was an award- 400 academic papers, Ted Jones was not an Honorary Fellow of St John’s. Married in winning novelist. He emigrated to the United merely prolific but profound. He had a specific 1944, to Elita Galdós Walker, who died in States in 1938 and read history at the interest in psychiatric disorders, and was able 2008, they had four children and several University of Oregon. In 1943 he was granted to show that minute abnormalities in the brain grandchildren. American citizenship and enlisted in the army. were related to diseases like schizophrenia. In retirement, Fritz Caspari increasingly He saw action at the Normandy landings and He was also interested in how the brain lived in England and was a regular visitor to St at the Battle of the Bulge, where his knowledge recovered from trauma and sought to find John’s, recalling that his scholarship here had of sport saved his life. Asked by an American ways in which insights gained from this not only changed his life but also probably soldier, who suspected he was a German spy, research could be applied to brains that were saved it, allowing him to escape a tyranny to identify the third base-player for the St Louis undamaged but poorly functioning, as in some which would otherwise have sought to Cardinals, he was able to reply immediately learning disabilities. Perhaps most importantly, eliminate him, just as it eliminated many of that it was Whitey Kurowski. He never lost his his work on the thalamus – the part of the his friends. love of American pastimes. brain responsible for coordinating sensory

tw magazine, 2012 - 51 perceptions and motor functions – led him to doctor, part campaigner, part stalker’, such was Denis’s loyalty to the subject he revered develop a model which may help to explain the her determination to get him involved. Latterly, continued unwaveringly to the end; he was nature of consciousness. she was also deeply involved in the campaign reading Thucydides days before his death. Ted Jones was the recipient of numerous to decriminalize assisted dying, using her own He was gregarious. At Oxford he forged honours and awards. He was president of the experience of terminal illness as evidence for many friendships, male and female. He never International Society for Neuroscience, a the need for legal euthanasia. married and accumulated godchildren whom member of the National Academy of Sciences, he cherished generously. I shared lodgings and winner of the 2001 Karl Spencer Lashley with him and others for two years; his robotic Award from the American Philosophical routines could be unsettling, but he was kind, Society for his work on consciousness. His APPRECIATIONS a humorous and enjoyable companion, achievements as a historian of science were anything but dull – the forthright acknowledged with an honorary doctorate from DENIS BOTT Yorkshireman who flirted innocently with the the University of Salamanca. Denis Henry Bott was born in 1927 and landlady’s daughter, invoking her as ‘a right Despite his busy working life Ted Jones came up to St John’s in 1951 to read buxom wench’ or ‘Britannia’. They loved him found time to cultivate a vineyard and olive Theology. He died on 14 February 2011 for it. trees, and produced his own wine and olive oil. and we are grateful to Anthony Bird Denis now turned to theology, his goal His wife of 48 years, Elizabeth Sue Jones, (1950) for this appreciation. ordination in the Church of England, and described him as ‘a loving father and husband having obtained his degree went to Ridley who was devoted to his family and his work.’ ‘We shall never see his like again.’ This tired Theological College in Cambridge. He had all A father of two, and grandfather of three, cliché acquired new lustre when Denis died at but completed his course there when ‘my he died suddenly whilst attending a scientific home, aged 83, in Great Easton, Leicestershire bishop deemed my interest in teaching to be meeting. on 14 February 2011 after a debilitating illness paramount and so refused to ordain me’. His which over three years increasingly diminished university days over, he remained loyal to St ANN McPHERSON his activities, frustrating his appetite for a life John’s, attending gaudies and garden parties, Dr Ann McPherson was born in 1945 rich in physical, intellectual, social and corresponding with and occasionally visiting and served as College doctor for spiritual pursuits. Donald Russell who had encouraged him to more than twenty years. She was In his autobiographical ‘Scholastic publish a text of Nepos for use in schools. also a noted author and campaigner. Vignettes’ he wrote: ‘Coming from a long line Denis defined himself as schoolmaster She died of pancreatic cancer on of farmers, minor gentry and professional and Lay Reader. Daily cycling 23 miles in all 28 May 2011. people I was inevitably a Tory as they all were weathers he taught at Corby Grammar School in Lincolnshire. Even so my Toryism was not where his friends and colleagues included As principal partner of the 19 Beaumont Street only inbred it also became thought out. My Colin Dexter and Malcolm Fuller who says of practice, Dr Ann McPherson was the College early Sheffield background made me detest him: ‘The extreme rigor, indeed severity, of GP for more than two decades. With what uncouth radicals whose principles were based Denis’s style in teaching the Classics was colleagues described as a ‘sixth sense for on envy, ignorance and humbug. After an early perhaps better suited to dealing with Oxbridge diagnosis’, she was a brilliant doctor. She was private education I went through an excellent entrants in the sixth form than with classes also deeply concerned to understand patients’ grammar school and graduated in classics at lower down in the school. Even so, he taught experiences and much of her life was devoted Sheffield University in 1949. After an with great success. The Classics department, to this study. Indeed, shortly before she died, inconspicuous two years of National Service later led by Denis himself, achieved she was given the British Medical Journal’s I took up a mature scholarship at St John’s, outstandingly good results in examinations. Health Communicator of the Year award in Oxford’. He could be a harsh and exacting taskmaster. recognition of her work. When I first met Denis in 1948 he was Yet in those boys and girls who stayed the Born in London on 22 June 1945, to two already interested in politics, later to become course with him, he inspired a loyalty and secular, socialist Jewish parents, Ann Egelnick Chairman of his local Conservative affection that long outlasted their school days.’ was a strikingly able student. She was one of Association. He omits mention of the first- Teaching at Rutland sixth Form College (14 the few women admitted to St George’s class honours awarded him by Sheffield. Nor years) followed Corby (13), then at Uppingham medical school and graduated with distinction was his military career inconspicuous; and other schools as well as privately, he in 1968. A passionate campaigner for left-wing stationed at Catterick he acquired near ranged over six subjects, including, to the causes, she met her husband, Kim McPherson legendary status. Marched before the colonel astonishment of all, computer studies. at an anti-apartheid rally. They went on have on a charge of persistent lateness, Sergeant Denis’s 50 years as Lay Reader in Great three children and five grandchildren. Bott of the Education Corps was asked whether Easton and neighbouring churches were As a doctor, Ann McPherson combined he had any defence: ‘Yes, sir. I have always marked by relentless energy. His tall, slim clinical excellence with real compassion. She considered punctuality to be a mediocre figure bent over the handlebars became a also had a deep conviction of the need both to virtue.’ familiar sight, pedalling wide areas. He was explain medicine to those without medical Denis arrived at St John’s in 1951 to read devoted to leading worship and to his education and comprehend how patients Classical Moderations, his tutors Colin Robert Christian discipleship. Liturgically understood their treatment. To that end, she and Donald Russell, and Oxford became the conservative, he approved only the King James wrote more than 30 papers and 20 books, and citadel of his conviction that the classics Bible and the Book of Common Prayer, and also established the Health Experiences constituted the fount and origin of true promoted archaisms as when praying for Research group within the University. Her learning. Compromise on this article of faith ‘Mesopotamia’; ‘Iraq’ he deemed ‘undignified’. popular writing was especially successful, with was for him anathema. Denis was no He immersed himself in communal activities The Diary of a Teenage Health Freak (1987) compromiser and argument with him was and visited the infirm assiduously. His house being translated into 27 languages and selling usually futile. In the event he narrowly missed was crammed with books he read voraciously, more than 1 million copies. a first and sensed that his army years had Trollope and P.G. Wodehouse being particular Granted a CBE for her work in medicine, blunted his academic edge. The College forbad favourites, second only to Greek and Latin Dr McPherson was an active campaigner for him to read Greats; this involved philosophy texts. He enjoyed classical music and the patients’ rights, establishing a number of and a flexibility of mind and approach which ‘wireless’, never missing The Archers. He organisations which sought to provide support he could not deploy. His work rate was eschewed TV. for those experiencing ill-health. In her role as formidable, his motivation unquestionable but Denis was given to hospitality but you founder of DiPEX, an Oxford-based charity his intellectual style was that of a locomotive learnt not to forget that he’d removed the intended to disseminate research into personal on fixed rails, not that of a car weaving through central heating. On one of my visits I counted experiences of health and illness, she was traffic. Any notion of a university career his bicycles and antique clocks just to confirm described by the actor Hugh Grant as ‘part evaporated. But there was no bitterness. that he had eight of each.

52 - tw magazine, 2012 To conclude, three brief appraisals of this number of people held unnecessarily in Hugh took on the editorship of the British endearing man. His grave is close to St mental hospitals. At that time, in the sixties, Journal of Psychiatry for ten years. He Andrew’s Church, Great Easton. mental patients had sometimes been developed it from a relatively parochial His own: ‘Many may think that my formal incarcerated for most of their lives. Although publication to one which is now ranked second education, from the age of four until I was some were indeed seriously ill, others were in the world. It involved him travelling twice a thirty, was excessive and unjustified by my considered a risk to society for their moral week to London from our home in Manchester inability to climb any professional or social degeneracy, such as girls who gave birth out of – in addition to his day job. This began to take ladder thereafter. My reply is simple and I wedlock, while yet others had cognitive its physical toll and so we moved to London. hope not in arrogance: let my epitaph be “Bene problems. Hugh’s major edited books, among very docuit, bene vixit”.’ Taking them out of the secure many (in no particular order), were Progress in My own: his particular gift was a generous- environment they might have known for Behaviour Therapy, Quality of Life in Mental hearted capacity for friendship. Blossoming in decades was conditional on the presence of Disorders, A Century of Psychiatry, Community his Oxford days, it became the pearl of great what Hugh set up – teams of professionals in Care & Schizophrenia, Mental Health & the price at the core of his future strivings in work the community. He spent a good deal of his Environment. His next one on the psychology and worship. He is held in deep affection. time in home visiting, supervising psychiatric of terrorism, Cycles of Violence, will be From Donald Russell: ‘I have very happy nurses, social workers etc. He set up the published posthumously. He wrote hundreds memories of him and I think we should all staging post of half-way houses to help people of papers. His Oxford doctorate was awarded value independent people like that, even if get back to normal life. He also used long-term for his thesis on ‘Comprehensive Mental established authorities find little use for them.’ drugs which were new and had to be handled Health Services and Psychiatric Disorder: with carefully. These often enabled mentally ill Studies of an Urban Population’. Among his HUGH FREEMAN people to return home, but only if the other Oxford appointments, he was a Visiting Hugh Lionel Freeman was born in 1929 psychiatric team was on hand to make sure Scholar at St John’s. and came up to St John’s in 1947 to they took them. Hugh’s contribution to medicine was read Psychology, Philosophy, and Without that solid backup, other countries world-wide and effective. I am proud of his life Physiology. He died on 4 May 2011 and which tried to follow suit got into awful as a doctor, as father of our four children, and we are grateful to his wife Joan for trouble, the mentally ill ending up on the as my husband. this appreciation. street, particularly in Italy and the United States. Thousands of ill people who found MICHAEL HOWARD JENNER Hugh arrived at St John’s College as an themselves without their familiar daily Michael Howard Jenner was born in undergraduate in 1947, a rather shy structured lives or any long-term care, suffered 1946 and came up to St John’s in 1965 to Altrincham Grammar school boy not only with a great deal. Hugh reckoned that there always read Modern Languages. He died on 3 State and County Major University had to be an institution for those who needed October 2011 and we are grateful to Scholarships, but also an Open Scholarship in it, but not in the ways they had been run. Mark Mascall (1965) who wrote this Modern History. This made his first years of Hugh was not the first to set out on this appreciation (with additional medicine somewhat difficult, as he had not path, but he was an early pioneer. At our home information from Michael’s sister, studied any science since he was fifteen. His we entertained many foreign visitors who Hilary Simpkin). BA was Psychology, Philosophy, and came to see his set-up. It astonished me that Physiology. Along with John Westhead and so many American psychiatrists came. Did Mike and I read German and French under Martin ffrench Constant, he was one of just they not make their livings by keeping people Will Moore and T J Reed. After graduating in three very clever youths in the College that in hospital rather than out? 1968, Mike joined The British Tourist year. The others were all ex-servicemen in their Academically, Hugh produced hundreds of Authority (BTA) which has the mandate to new demob suits after the war. The three papers and books. They described new forms promote Britain abroad, while helping third remained friends all their lives and celebrated of treatment for the mentally ill, how world countries to develop their own tourist their 50 years together with a dinner at the medicines could be used in their care and the industries. College. environmental aspects of mental illness. This Michael’s training took him to Canada and The long letters to me flowing in after his was in opposition to the popular view of R D Paris, and he was eventually posted to Zurich – death say the same things over and over again. Laing in the 1970s that mental illness is all a lovely office overlooking Limmatquai. While They tell me how much people appreciate what due to the family, an idea that students were he was in post his superior was ill and he ran he did to help them on their way. They particularly keen on. Yet Hugh understood the whole show very well, accompanying Swiss appreciated it at the time and as they went perfectly well that it was not unreasonable to tourism journalists on tours of Scotland and through life. He meant so much to so many, be depressed if you were a woman with an ordering an old-style London bus for an out-of- and so much to me over the fifty-four years we abusive alcoholic husband or a man who lost town shopping centre’s British Week. All the were happily married. his livelihood with ‘rationalisation’ at work. He while he was doing travel journalism and this Descriptions of him include ‘a great man’, began follow-up research on schizophrenia, prompted him to leave BTA and strike out a ‘good man’, ‘a quiet, thoughtful and building up a city-wide case register with alone. He was certainly doing this in 1976 compassionate person’, and ‘a good listener Mervyn Susser. when I was finishing my MA in Linguistics at with a first-class mind’. They find his loss The World Health Authority sent him to Reading University. Mike, a Public Relations ‘grievous’. His obituaries in national and local Granada in the West Indies for three months. Manager from British Airways, and a Swiss papers also describe his modesty, kindness, Our family went too. He found the mental travel agent were erratically steering a cabin and concern for others. I had not realised in hospital in an old British fort. There were new cruiser down the Thames. It was that what esteem and gratitude he was held by so double beds in the corridors, too big to get into incredible summer when we even swam in the many others. the wards – our first experience of how some Thames. After his National Service, his training at of the locals used public money to make the Some time later Mike rejoined BTA on the Maudsley Hospital, London, and at most profit they could. He exchanged them for the understanding that he would have a Littlemore Hospital, Oxford, Hugh was swiftly single beds. Just one psychiatric nurse served harder posting: Bahrain. I worked as a lecturer appointed Consultant Psychiatrist in North the whole island. But he got a care system up in Kuwait from 1981–84 where Mike was a Manchester at the tender age of thirty-one. and running. It was there that he continued regular visitor, producing copy for an Arab At that point he began to change the his research on schizophrenia, concluding that newspaper and liaising with the British practice of medicine; something not many it was just as prevalent among that rather Council and Embassy. Due to its remit to doctors manage to do. It came through his simpler society as anywhere else. But there develop tourist industries, Mike was strongly-held belief in quality of life, they were more likely to stay put in their dispatched to Yemen. He wrote and something he sustained throughout his years villages, whereas in the big cities the mentally photographed a book jointly funded by of hard work. His goal was to diminish the ill tend to sink to the lowest levels. Longmans and the Yemen Tourism Company

tw magazine, 2012 - 53 – Yemen Rediscovered (1983). As this was to be unobtrusive conviction, totally to be trusted. knew by sight who sailed past like ships in the more than a coffee table book, a chapter was The gang of four, and our spouses, had a night. I well remember the ‘Queen of Sheba’, devoted to the ancient scripts in which various reunion last summer, the first chance we had for example. And then we’d return to his room Southern Arabian dialects were couched, and to be together in Oxford; we’re glad of that, for a post mortem: where did we go wrong? Mike received the generous advice and help and shall miss him. Eventually, we both had success at the Ox from Freddie Beeston, Laudian Professor of and Cow and I remember glorious evenings in Arabic at St John’s. Two similar books CHRISTOPHER MATHIESON our second year, dancing, partying, punting, followed: Bahrain – Gulf Heritage in Transition Christopher (Chris) Liam John and going to all-night balls. That was a truly and Syria in View. Mathieson was born in 1954 and came magical summer, 1976. Mike left BTA for the second time to up to St John’s in 1974 to read Chris had no trouble satisfying his tutors. become a freelance writer and photographer, Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. For PPE all he seemed to require to pass and produced several beautiful, critically- He died on 9 December 2010 and we are muster was a daily scan of the Guardian, a acclaimed, travel books covering the British grateful to Stephen Barber (1974) for little reading here and there, and a thorough Isles as well as magazine articles and this appreciation. application of natural intelligence. He’d write photographs. He also produced a thin volume out his essays in that distinctive, spidery long for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office: In a place where the concentration of unusual hand, its flat profile creeping evenly across the Scenes from a Relationship/Britain’s German characters was notably high, Chris stood out as page, punctuated by tall, looped l’s, t’s, d’s and Heritage, and stayed with me in Celle while unique. In the first place, he wore a strange, so on. Once again, it was utterly distinctive. photographing the orangerie of Herrenhausen neatly-trimmed ginger beard that framed his No-one’s handwriting can ever have looked like Palace in Hanover. In the meantime he face, narrowing to a distinctive chin. He that before or since. married BTA’s Arab bilingual secretary, Diana carried a full head of fair hair that curled And it never varied in style or appearance, Neayem, an Iraqi Christian from Baghdad. tightly across his upper forehead. His eyes as his annual Christmas card testified. In fact Computer technology and digital were set in a permanently wry expression, his handwriting said a lot about him. Not only photography opened up wonderful new reflecting, one felt, his witty appreciation for did it reflect his uniqueness, but it mirrored opportunities for Michael to experiment with the ironies of life – great and small. The his character as a man of settled habits that, as images using exciting and vibrant colours. He overall impression was of a nobility of far as I know, never changed. Our paths also manipulated his photographs to produce a character that was fully confirmed as we got to diverged after graduation, but not immediately. wide range of original artistic designs. He know each other. Within a few months we were sharing a flat in wrote a small body of varied literary work full His distinctive appearance instantly Cornwall Gardens in London. Fortunately, I of his special humour and surreal imagination. attracted the nickname Plato. I think I may had a full-time job to protect me against his These include a child’s magic adventure full of have coined it myself. It was nothing to do blandishments during the day, but the action and excitement as well as pathos, a with his prowess at PPE. That’s not to say Anglesea Arms was too close to resist a nightly romp in a country house combining comedy, Chris lacked intellectual vigour. On the pint or two after the laundromat. What did we mystery and tragedy, and a lengthier work with contrary, as the first boy to get into Oxford talk about, I wonder? I think we just found more complex and serious thought processes, from Snitterfield Comprehensive (how we each other’s company constantly amusing. but still laced with fun – just like Michael loved that name), he was used to academic When we last saw each other at his 50th, himself. His work can be seen on his website success. But he did take a decidedly he was the same cheerful, amused, ironic man, www.michaeljenner.com, with more recent books philosophical approach to work – it was laughing at his own wit, that I’d grown so fond available from the online publishing company something to be avoided if at all possible. of a third of a century before. He’d since made Lulu. Michael was producing new work up to Chris was a past master at passing time. an attempt at qualifying as a solicitor, soon within a few months of his death and three of He would begin the day with an alarm call at abandoning this course in favour of teaching his pictures are to be hung in the new 11am, followed by a cup of tea in his pyjamas economics and politics at sixth form colleges, outpatients’ cancer unit at University College and perhaps some music. Probably Delius. If most recently in Oxford. Hospital. He has bequeathed to St John’s you knocked on his door before 11, you’d get a I don’t remember exactly, but I think Chris College any royalties from his work after the snuffled and irritable ‘go away!’ So we’d and I briefly shared a room. Two other rooms death of his widow Diana. normally meet in College Hall for lunch. After had a girl each in them. Anyway, one girl was that, it would be back to his or my room for strikingly charming, very friendly and quite HUGH MACDONALD, coffee. dizzyingly beautiful. In short order, Chris had Hugh Francis MacDonald was born in In the early evening it was necessary to go moved into her room and he never left her side 1941 and came up to St John’s in 1960 to to the College bar to quench our thirst, and until his last, tragic days. read Physics. He died on 17 September enjoy a chicken-and-mushroom pie and beans. Chris was completely devoted to Claire. 2011 and we are grateful to his friends Is this what the Glittering Prizes is all about, I doubt he ever looked at another girl again. Malcolm Day, Peter Jarman, and Peter we wondered. ‘Not all it’s cracked up to be,’ You could see on his face, every day of his life, Selby (all 1960) for this appreciation. Chris would mutter, philosophically. I really an expression that said, ‘I’m the luckiest man must do some work, I’d say. ‘Aw, come on!’ alive’. And he was. For thirty-three years. Not Hugh’s sudden death in September was a he’d say, ‘Just a swift half. Anyway, Thursday many people can say that. He had a wonderful tragic blow to Maighread (Midie), his wife, and night is townie spare night!’ life-partner, a wonderful son Will, a wonderful to his children and grandchildren. It also came So, optimistically at first, we’d go out of daughter Rachel, and a, well, philosophical with a special sense of loss to the three of us the main gate, turn sharply left and march in outlook that meant his life was completely his who came up to St John’s at the same time as the direction of the High Street. ‘And they’re own creation, almost a work of art. This was Hugh and after a chance meeting at our first off,’ he’d exclaim, ‘Mathieson ahead by a nose, his gift to us. Not many people can say that breakfast in College became a ‘gang of four’, Barber just behind. Coming up to the first either. regularly lunching together and forming a obstacle. Will they fall at the first fence? Will And so, I think he was a very fortunate friendship across disciplines (Hugh was a they even find the fence? Do they know how to man, and we who knew him were very physicist; the three of us were respectively jump?’ fortunate to have shared part of his life. metallurgist, zoologist, and classicist). This It was a delicious metaphor for our failure Chris died aged 56 after an operation to friendship endured across the years during to ‘score’. We tried everywhere: the Ox and insert a stent at the John Radcliffe Hospital, which Hugh spent virtually his entire Cow Secretarial College, the Westminster, the Oxford. professional life rooted in Gloucestershire Nurses’ College, St Clare’s, the sixth-form employed at the Berkeley Nuclear Laboratories. college…we even made the occasional foray to MICHAEL MC ALISTER We’ve prematurely lost a gentle, strong, and a women’s college, though this was distinctly Michael Ian McAlister was born in warm friend, someone of firm and yet alien if not virgin territory. There were girls we 1930 and came up to St John’s in 1951

54 - tw magazine, 2012 to read Philosophy, Politics, and stock exchanges into one primary exchange. As proudest achievement. His leadership of the Economics. He died on 5 April 2011 and President he managed this integration with the TAM Programme, with its delivery of we are grateful to his son-in-law energy, diplomacy, and competence for which considerable economic, cultural, and Richard Walker for this appreciation. he was renowned. humanitarian benefits, gave him the greatest He also brought additional skills to the satisfaction of his distinguished career. Michael Ian McAlister was the first President role. He was a gifted linguist and could speak Outside work, Michael had a keen interest of the Australian Associated Stock Exchanges. Portuguese, French, Russian, and Arabic. The in politics. He was a former chairman of He had a reputation as one of the most importance of Australian trade with Asia Woking Conservatives and a former vice- dynamic and well-connected financiers of motivated Michael to learn yet another chairman and treasurer of the Braintree his day. language: Japanese. He deployed this skill to Conservative Association. His love of politics After school in Wakefield and National the full and became the catalyst for continued well after his retirement as did his Service in the Intelligence Corps, where he substantially increased Australian trade with love of carpentry. Many pieces of his home achieved the rank of acting-captain, Michael Japan. furniture are testament to his carpentry skills. went up to St John’s to read PPE. An accomplished public speaker and Michael McAlister married Patricia Evans Thereafter, his career was anything but media performer, he was an ideal ambassador in 1953 with whom he had four sons and three conventional. Shortly after qualifying as a to promote the Exchange throughout those daughters. The marriage was later dissolved. Chartered Accountant with Price Waterhouse, early years. Today, approximately 2200 In 1984 he married Elizabeth Hehn. She, his he was appointed Private and Financial companies are listed on the Australian Stock former wife and their seven children survive Secretary to HRH the Duke of Windsor (the Exchange; it has become the eighth largest him. former King Edward VIII). Inevitably this gave equity market in the world. him knowledge of the most highly-charged Michael returned to the UK with his ALFRED ROUT political story of the age. However, he family in 1975, later becoming a director of Alfred (Alf) Edgar Rout was born in remained a model of discretion throughout his Cluff Resources. He held this role for nine 1918 and came up to St John’s in 1936 to life and rarely referred to that period. years before being headhunted for yet another read Chemistry. He died on 5 April Leaving the employment of the Duke of irresistible career opportunity. He became the 2011 and we are grateful to his family Windsor in 1961, he became Managing first Managing Director of the European Bank for this appreciation. Director of the Ionian Bank Trustee Company, for Reconstruction and Development’s a London-based merchant bank. He followed Turnaround Management Programme (TAM). Born in Cardiff, Alf was one of five children this with a move to Australia and a three year The TAM Programme is a funding and attended local schools and scout meetings stint as Chairman of Slater Walker Securities, initiative designed to support former East in Battersea where the family had relocated Sydney. European state controlled industries to trade from Wales. In his last year at junior school In 1972 he was offered an irresistible within capitalist markets. It is a great success Alf’s academic potential was spotted by a new opportunity to become the first President of and during McAlister’s tenure it carried out headmaster who mentored him, helping him the Australian Associated Stock Exchanges. over 1000 enterprise-restructuring projects pass his eleven plus and then win scholarships The role involved merging several provincial throughout Europe. This was Michael’s to Sir Walter St John’s School in 1929 and to

tw magazine, 2012 - 55 St John’s College in 1936. Here he was a involved in research into the treatment of HAMPTON DAVIES, David Arthur Guy member of the essay society and the debating neonatal tetanus and founded a specialist unit (1948). David Hampton Davies was born in team, enjoyed football, boxing and athletics, at Natal dedicated to its management. During 1927 and died in the spring of 2011. He was and gained his BA in Chemistry in 1939. the apartheid era he made a principled and educated at Brighton College and completed The breakout of the Second World War unwavering stand against the forces which National Service as Signalman in the Royal prevented further study and in 1940 Alf was threatened the high ideals that his department Signals from 1945–48 before coming up to sent to work as a research chemist at ICI upheld. The Medical School later honoured St John’s to read English. He took his BA in where he continued in employment for over him by naming the main lecture room in the 1950 and stayed on at College to take a one three decades. After settling in the North East Department of Medicine after him. He married year Diploma in Theology followed by training with ICI, Alf met and married his wife Patricia Sybil Rosalie North in 1943 and they had twin for the Church at Ely Theological College. He Hood in 1945. Their honeymoon was spent sons and two daughters. They retired to Long was ordained in 1953 and became curate in climbing peaks and exploring glaciers in the Melford in Suffolk in the 1980s. Somers Town, London. After further curacies Alps and was one of the many holidays they in Cranford, 1955–60 and Shrewsbury, 1960– enjoyed riding their 150cc Velocette ALLEN, Reginald (Rex) Frank (1938) 62, he was appointed rector of St Mary’s motorcycle. Involved in rambling and climbing Rex Allen was born in 1919 and died on 16 Church, Stamford where he stayed until his all his life, Alf was a founder member of the September 2011. He was educated at King retirement in 1990. He married Barbara Lee in Cleveland Mountaineering Club and enjoyed Henry VIII School, Coventry and came up to 1962 and they had three sons. He was a numerous camping holidays in the Lakes, St John’s in 1938 to read Modern Languages. generous donor to the Organ Appeal. Cornwall, North Wales, Sweden, and Norway His studies were interrupted in 1940 when he with Pat and their four children. joined the war effort as a Captain in the Royal de SALIS, Rodolph Patrick Fane (1949) After his long career with ICI, in 1977 Alf Regiment of Artillery. After serving in the 6th Rodolph de Salis was born in 1930 and died took a job with the British National Oil Airborne Division from 1944–45 he joined the on 16 October 2010. He was educated at Corporation, working away from home during staff of the British Liberation Army. Awarded Rugby School and completed National Service the week. He returned to Middlesbrough a War Degree in 1945, he joined Macmillan as a sergeant in the RAF from 1948–49. permanently when he retired in 1989. Publishers Ltd, working first as an Editor, He came up to St John’s in 1949 to read Enjoying education all his life, Alf gained an from 1946–62, and then as a Director, from Modern Languages, graduating in 1953 and MSc in Mathematics from Durham University 1963–74. He was a member of the Territorial taking an MA in 1968. He represented the in 1990, with a thesis entitled ‘The Quantum Army from 1947–60. In 1976 he moved to the College in hockey and was a member of the Theory and the Mind Brain-Relation’. Readers’ Union Group of Book Clubs as their Debating Society. After graduation he worked During retirement Alf continued to work Literary Director until his retirement in 1984. for the Bristol Aeroplane Company and as on private projects, dabbling on the stock He married Shirley Stanion in 1946 and they a Commercial manager for Rolls Royce, market and presenting talks and lectures to the had one daughter and two sons. and trained as a Lay Reader in the Diocese many societies he was a member of. He was a of Bristol. He married Jenefer Wiltshire very loving grandfather and was fascinated by in 1958 and they had two sons and two BATEMAN, Geoffrey David (1959) his grandchildren and how they played daughters. together. His office was their playground and Geoffrey Bateman was born in 1940 and died quite often became a school room, a train on 12 November 2010. Educated at Dulwich HJORTH, Rolf Gunner Leer (1943) station, or shop! College, he came up to St John’s in 1959 as an Rolf Hjorth died on 6 January 2010. He was Sadly in 2008 Pat passed away and having Exhibitioner to read Oriental Studies. He was a educated at University College School in shared in each other’s lives for over 63 years member of the Classics Society and took part in London and came up to St John’s to read Alf was understandably devastated: his life was the Oxford University expedition to Nubia in Engineering Science in 1943. After graduating never the same again. Realising that staying at 1961. After graduation, he was appointed he worked in Malaysia as the Deputy City home alone would not be good for him he Verger at St Mary the Virgin in Rye. He was very Water Engineer in Penang from 1951 to 1960. reinstated his interest in the many clubs, fond of St John’s and was a regular donor to the He returned to Oxford to study at Wycliffe societies and scientific organisations he was a College. College and was ordained in 1961. Appointed member of and also joined some new ones to a curacy in Cumnor from 1962–65, he including a U3A group, the Humanist Society, CANNELL, John Corjeage (1953) moved to Bramfield then Oulton to work as a and a local history group. In his nineties he John Cannell was born in 1932 and died in vicar. The last part of his career was spent in was still a keen swimmer, only stopping when the winter of 2011. He was educated at King Europe, first as a Chaplain in Ostend and his local pool closed. He will be sadly missed William’s College, Isle of Man, and completed Bruges 1978–84, then in Christ Church, by his children Helen, Anne, Chris, and Adam. National Service in the RAF from 1951–53. Dusseldorf 1985–1990, before retiring in He came up to St John’s in 1953 to read 1990. He married and had three daughters Chemistry. After graduation in 1957 he worked and one son. as a metallurgist for Mount Isa Mines Ltd in Australia. IN MEMORIAM LEGATT, Jeremy John (1955) Jeremy Leggatt was born in 1936 and died on ADAMS, Edward Barry (1946) COWAN, John Vernon (1938) 14 April 2011. Born in Uttar Pradesh in India, Edward (Barry) Adams was born in 1918 and John Cowan was born in 1919 and died on 22 the son of a British Army major, he lived in died on 18 November 2011. He attended March 2011. Educated at Merchant Taylors’ Mount Abu, India until the age of eleven when Durban High School and then studied for his School, he came up to St John’s in 1938 to read his family returned to England. He was BSc at Natal University College. After Law. His studies were interrupted in 1939 educated at Epsom College and came up to St qualifying in medicine at Witwatersrand when he joined the war effort as a Captain in John’s as an Open Scholar in 1955 to read University he won a Rhodes Scholarship to the Royal Regiment of Artillery. Awarded a War Modern Languages. His entire career was Oxford and came up to St John’s in 1946. Here degree in 1945, he trained as a solicitor, shaped by his skill in languages, working at he pursued postgraduate clinical research in qualifying in 1948. He worked as Chief Realities magazine in Paris, as a senior editor the field of aplastic anaemia and was a Executive Officer and Town Clerk for Luton for Reader’s Digest, in both the English and member of the Rugby First XV. Returning to County Borough Council from 1968, retiring French press sections at the United Nations, South Africa in 1948, he pursued a long and from this post in 1974. From 1975 he worked and as a freelance translator with over twenty successful medical career, ending up as for some years in private practice as a solicitor books to his credit. He travelled widely for both Emeritus Professor of Medicine at the Nelson in Norwich. He married Pauline Bird in 1945 business and pleasure and for the last third of R Mandela Medical School of the University of and they had a daughter and a son, Richard his life made his home in Dallas, Texas. He Natal. A specialist in haematology, he was also Cowan (1971), also an alumnus of St John’s. married Claire and they had two sons.

56 - tw magazine, 2012 LINDLEY, Geoffrey (1940) Honorary Secretary of the Association of Geoffrey Lindley was born in 1922 and died on Rhodes Scholars in Australia, 1976–80. He Elizabeth Collins (2007) 17 November 2010. He was educated at Leeds married Margaret Poole in 1956. Grammar School and came up to St John’s in Betsy was a Chemistry student 1940 to read Theology. Like so many of his PAUL, Julian Braithwaite (1963) who tragically died on July 4, generation his studies were interrupted by war Julian Paul was born in 1945 and died on 1 service: he served as a Second Lieutenant in March 2011. He was educated at Wrekin 2011. Her family is establishing the East Lancashire Regiment from 1942 to College, Shropshire and came up to St John’s a Hardship Fund in her name 1945. After being awarded a War degree in in 1963 to read PPE. In his second year he was which will provide financial 1945 he attended Westcott House Theological elected to a Casberd Exhibition in College and College in Cambridge and was ordained in to the Presidency of the Oxford University support for gifted Chemistry 1947. Curacies followed, first at St Michael’s, Conservative Association. After graduating he undergraduates, ordinarily East Wickham, 1947–51, and then at St Mary qualified as a chartered accountant with Arthur the Virgin, Welling, 1951–52. Appointed vicar resident in the UK or USA, Andersen & Co, 1969–71, and then moved into who encounter unforeseen of St Philip’s Church in Lambeth, he was also merchant banking, first at First National City chaplain at Lambeth Hospital from 1952 to Bank of New York, 1971–74, and then as need. If you are interested in 1956. He returned to Oxford in 1956 where he Executive Director of the Banco Urquijo contributing to this Fund, please was vicar at St Margaret’s Church for 17 years. Hispano Americano Ltd., 1974–87. contact: Lindsey Davis, After officiating in Lewknor, 1972–79, he Subsequently he held many senior positions in moved to Milton and Shipton-under- the media and entertainment sector, co- University of Oxford Wychwood until his retirement in 1987. He founding Eagle Rock Entertainment in 1997. Development Office. married Jeanne Cammaerts in 1945 and they Between 1994 and 1999 he was a shareholder, had a son and a daughter. director, and consultant to Sanctuary Group which acted as manager to Iron Maiden MAHONY, Antony Damian (1978) amongst other artists. More recently he held a WATTERSON, Melvin Outram (1940) Antony Mahony was born in 1954 and died number of directorships, including board Melvin Watterson was born in 1921 and died on 6 January 2011. He took his first degree in membership of Edge Performance VCT plc. on 26 November 2010. He was educated at French and English at Exeter University and He married Diana Davies in 1973 and they had Merchant Taylors’ School, Crosby and came up came up to St John’s to read for a Postgraduate two daughters, Arabella and Henrietta, and a to St John’s in 1940 to read Geography. His Certificate in Education in 1978. On son, Rupert. His brother is alumnus Patrick studies were interrupted by War service from graduation he became a languages teacher at Paul CBE (1966). 1942 to 1946 in India, Burma, Malaya, and Lord Williams’s School in Thame for a Java as part of the Indian Army, where he achieved the rank of Major. He returned to St number of years until in 1989 he joined SPAFFORD, Christopher Garnett Jowsin John’s in 1946 to complete his degree, and Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) to teach in (1946). Christopher Spafford was born in 1924 represented the College in hockey before the Gambia. The rest of his career was in the and died on 29 April 2011. He was educated at graduating in 1948. After university he built a voluntary sector, first with VSO where he was Marlborough College and completed war successful career in the oil industry, working responsible for the posting of English teachers service as a Captain in the Royal Artillery from firstly for Iraq Petroleum Co Ltd, 1948–62, to various Eastern European countries 1942 to 1946. He came up to St John’s after then Petroleum Development Oman Ltd, following the fall of the Iron Curtain. He later the War to read Modern History. He 1962–73, and finally Shell Co. of Qatar Ltd. worked for Christian Aid and CAFOD where represented the College at tennis and rowing After twenty five years he changed direction his final role involved supporting people and was treasurer of the University History and was employed at Larchfield School, affected by the civil war in Darfur. He died Society. On graduating he attended Wells Helensburgh as a schoolmaster in 1974, before prematurely of kidney cancer. Theological College and was ordained in 1950. joining the Ministry of Defence in 1975. In After curacies in Brighouse, 1950–53, and retirement he moved to the Isle of Man, where MILLER, Charles Harcourt (1946) Huddersfield, 1953–55, he was appointed Vicar he died at home after a short illness. He Charles Miller was born in 1921 and died on 8 of Hebden Bridge, 1955–61, Rector of married Sylvia Winstanley in 1962 and had April 2011. An Australian citizen, he was Thornhill, Dewsbury, 1961–69, and Vicar of two sons. The marriage was dissolved in 1974. awarded an Engineering degree at the St Chad’s, Shrewsbury, 1969–76. His long He kept in touch with the College and was a University of Tasmania before serving as a and distinguished career culminated in 1976 generous donor to the 450 Fund. lieutenant with the Electrical and Mechanical with a move to Newcastle where he was Engineering Corps of the Australian Imperial Provost and Vicar until his retirement in 1989. Forces from 1942 to 1946. After the War he Interests in retirement included reading, was elected to a Rhodes Scholarship and came gardening, and walking. He married Stephanie up to St John’s in 1946 to read for his DPhil in Peel in 1953 and they had three sons, Martin, Engineering Science. He returned to Australia Timothy, and Jeremy. after his doctorate and was engaged in research from 1951 to 1960, first for TURNBULL, Colin Richard (1954) Amalgamated Wireless Australasia Limited, Colin Turnbull was born in 1933 and died and then for the National Standards Laboratory on 12 October 2010. He was educated at in Sydney. He joined the University of New Merchant Taylors’ School and, after completing South Wales in 1961, working first as a Senior National Service as a Second Lieutenant in Lecturer and then as Associate Professor of the Gordon Highlanders, 1952–54, came up to Electrical Engineering. Moving onto a chair in St John’s as a Fish Exhibitioner to read Law. Electrical Engineering at the University of A talented sportsman, he was a member of the Tasmania in 1966, he worked there for two SJC Rugby XV as well as representing the decades until his retirement in 1986. He College in athletics. He played for Oxford served as Pro Vice Chancellor, 1977–78 and University as part of the OU Greyhounds Chairman of the Professorial Board, 1984–85, Rugby Football Club and was a member of was a Member of the Hydro-Electric Vincent’s Club. Commission of Tasmania, 1984–92 and, keeping up his Oxford connections, was

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First in Finals 2011 JOSHUA HARRY McFARLANE ANNA COLERIDGE (King’s School, Ely), (Colyton Grammar School, Colyford), Human Sciences Engineering Science NICHOLAS JOHN BAKER (Poole AIDEN COOPER (Royal Latin School, Grammar School), Engineering Science ISLA MUNDELL-PERKINS (Cheney Buckingham), Chemistry School/Faringdon School, Oxford), Music EDWARD OWEN BARNES (Backwell INES LAURA DAWSON (San Francisco School, Bristol), Chemistry HIRA OMAR (Karachi Grammar School, de Paula, Sevilla, Spain), Biological Sciences Pakistan), Economics and Management PHILIP STEPHEN BARTLETT CHARLES DEARMAN (Chesham High (Saltash Community School), English MARCO PAOLETTI (Scotch College, School), Medicine Melbourne, Australia), History GEORGE FELIX BARTON (Westminster RUTH EVANS (Joseph Rowntree School, School, London), Philosophy and Modern FRANCIS-CHRISTIAN PARHAM York), Psychology, Philosophy, and Physiology (Eton College, Windsor), Classics and Modern Languages SUZANNE ABIGAIL FORD Languages MALCOLM BEGG (Perse School, (Beauchamp College, Leicester), Biological Cambridge), Engineering Science ALED RICHARD-JONES (Queen Sciences Elizabeth Cambria School, Carmarthen), LUCIAN FREDERICK GEORGE BARNABY BLACKBURN (Charterhouse, Chemistry Godalming), Engineering Science (Highgate School, London), History REBECCA CLAIRE RICHMOND DAVID PHILLIP GILLOTT (Alton HENRY BRADFORD (Greenhead College, (Lancaster Girls’ Grammar School), Human College), Chemistry Huddersfield), Mathematics Sciences CECYLIA GRENDOWICZ (St Paul’s CHARIS EILEEN BREDIN (Hills Road MAIJA-ELIINA SEQUEIRA (Alleyn’s Girls’ School, London), Modern Languages Sixth Form College, Cambridge), European and School, London), Human Sciences Middle Eastern Languages LAYLA BARBARA GUSCOTH (King MARCUS SIMS (Carmel School, Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls, SIMON BROWN Darlington), Chemistry (Monmouth Comprehensive School), Birmingham), Medicine CHRISTOPHER SPARROW Philosophy, Politics, and Economics SIYI HAO (John Leggott College, (Dr Challoner’s Grammar School, Scunthorpe), Engineering Science PHOOM CHAIRATANA (Rochester Amersham), Physics Independent College), Chemistry SAM HODGSON (Brigshaw High School, MARTA KLARA SZCZERBA (Sevenoaks Castleford), Medicine CARMEN CHAN School), Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (Kendrick School, Reading), Chemistry THOMAS JEE (Warwick School), History DUNCAN FREDERICK WANE BENEDICT PETER CONNERY (McClintock High School/Payne Academy, ELIZ KILICH (Dame Alice Owen’s School, (Ampleforth College), Oriental Studies Phoenix, USA), European and Middle Eastern Potters Bar), Medicine Languages RACHEL JESSICA DEDMAN DANIEL CHRISTOPH (North London Collegiate School, Edgware), FREDERICK WOJNAROWSKI KRANZELBINDER (Individual), Literae History of Art (Stowe School, Buckingham), Archaeology Humaniores and Anthropology MICHAEL DOCHERTY (Royal Grammar JOSEPH THOMAS LARVIN (St Peter’s School, Newcastle), English GEORGE WOUDHUYSEN (King’s School, Bournemouth), Medicine College School, Wimbledon), History EUGENE DUFF (Eton College, Windsor), LENA LEE (Ecole Active Bilingue J Manuel, Theology Paris), Human Sciences BEN ELLIS (Kesgrave High School), History Distinction/First SALLY CHINA Le PAGE (King’s High JEREMY MARK EVANS (Stanwell School, Class in Public School for Girls. Warwick), Biological Sciences Penarth), Engineering Science Examinations 2011 REBECCA LOWE (Kendrick School, JAMIE YATES FINDLAY (Bedford Reading), Engineering Science School), Modern Languages JOSEPH MASON (Clevedon Community DINA AKHMADEEVA (Grey Coat School), Chemistry SOPHIE GRAHAM (Tiffin Girls’ School, Hospital School, London), History of Art Kingston-upon-Thames), Classical Archaeology DAVID McHARDY (Peter Symonds GRACE ATWELL (St Peter’s School, and Ancient History College, Winchester), Physics Bournemouth), Theology MIRIAM HILLYARD (Woodroffe School, BETH O’LEARY (Peter Symonds College, GAOANG BIAN (Peter Symonds College, Lyme Regis), Medicine Winchester), English Winchester), Mathematics and Computer WILLIAM KELLEY Science DOMINIC PARIKH (St Paul’s School, (Highgate School, London), History London), Philosophy, Politics, and Economics DORAN BOYLE (Hills Road Sixth Form DAVID KEYS (Regent House Grammar College, Cambridge), Modern Languages MICHAEL PATEFIELD (Winchmore School, Newtownards), Law School, London), History and Economics JONATHAN PETER BRADFORD (Peter MARC KUSICKA (Bishop Wordsworth’s Symonds College, Winchester), Mathematics ALEXANDER PESHEV (Paisij School, Salisbury), Psychology, Philosophy, Hilendarski, Sofia High School of BRYNMOR KENTARO CHAPMAN and Physiology Mathematics, Bulgaria), Computer Science (Individual), Mathematics and Computer SEAN LEDGER (Dronfield School, Science THOMAS ROBERT PRESTON Sheffield), Mathematics (Somervale School, Radstock), Physics

tw magazine, 2012 - 59 ALEXANDER DAVID PROCTOR ARTHUR SAMUEL COATES (University SIYI HAO (John Leggott College, (Allerton Grange School, Leeds), Mathematics College School, London), Engineering Science Scunthorpe), Engineering Science ALEXANDER PHILIP ROBERTS ANNA COLERIDGE (King’s School, Ely), WILLIAM HANCOCK (Portsmouth (Grange School, Hartford), Mathematics Human Sciences Grammar School), Engineering Science IMOGEN PATRICIA BEASLEY AIDEN COOPER (Royal Latin School, MAXWELL HODGES (King Edward VI ROBINSON (Moreton Hall, Oswestry), Buckingham), Chemistry School, Stratford upon Avon), Chemistry Geography THOMAS JOSEPH CRAWFORD SAM HODGSON (Brigshaw High School, EDMUND SINGER-KINGSMITH (Bridgewater High School, Warrington), Castleford), Medicine (Brighton College), History Mathematics THOMAS JEE (Warwick School), History WILLIAM ROBERT JAMES TODMAN JONATHAN ALBERT DALY (Reading KRISTOFOROS JOANIDIS (Individual), (Warwick School), Oriental Studies School), Engineering Science Mathematics and Computer Science LAJOY SOPHIA TUCKER (Woodhouse SOPHIE DAPIN (Leeds Girls’ High GERAINT RHYS JONES (Brynhyfryd Sixth Form College, London), Chemistry School), Chemistry School, Ruthin), Chemistry UCHECHUKWU GREGORY UKACHI INÉS LAURA DAWSON (San Francisco ELIZ KILICH (Dame Alice Owen’s School, (Notre Dame Sixth Form College, Leeds), de Paula, Sevilla, Spain), Biological Sciences Potters Bar), Medicine Engineering Science CHARLES DEARMAN (Chesham High DANIEL CHRISTOPH MADELEINE LUCY MAY WARD School), Medicine KRANZELBINDER (Individual), Literae (Ackworth School, Pontefract), Theology JAN RONG-XUAN DEEG (Stanwell Humaniores YVES-LEON WEISSENBERGER (St School, Penarth), European and Middle FLORA ALICE KENNEDY- Brendan’s Sixth Form College, Bristol), Eastern Languages McCONNELL (Guiseley School), Medicine HARRY DESMOND (Abingdon School), Engineering Science GARETH ROBERT WILKES (Grange Physics HARRY KERSHAW (Radley College), School, Hartford), Mathematics CHARLOTTE JANE DIFFEY (Sherborne Engineering Science HELEN FRANCES WILLIS (Mary Hare School for Girls), Archaeology and TIM KIELY (King Edward’s School, Grammar School, Newbury), Psychology, Anthropology Birmingham), English Philosophy, and Physiology LUCY DUCKWORTH (Headington SUPAPIROM KRAISORAPHONG DAVID MATTHEW WRAY (Derby School, Oxford), Chemistry (Charterhouse, Godalming), English Grammar School), Chemistry BENJAMIN DUFFIELD (Wyedean NOEL YUN PUI LAM (Harrow School, School, Chepstow), Mathematics Harrow-in-the Hill), Engineering Science DUNCAN TERENCE EDWARDS Undergraduate MARINA ELIZABETH LAMBRAKIS (Crossley Heath School, Halifax), Engineering (Queen’s School, Chester), Classics and Scholars Science Modern Languages HANNAH EVANS (King Henry VIII DINA AKHMADEEVA (Grey Coat JOSEPH THOMAS LARVIN (St Peter’s School, Coventry), Physics Hospital School, London), History of Art School, Bournemouth), Medicine RUTH EVANS (Joseph Rowntree School, PHAKPOOM ANGPANITCHAROEN LENA LEE (Ecole Active Bilingue J Manuel, York), Psychology, Philosophy, and Physiology (Rochester Independent College), Chemistry Paris), Human Sciences KEVIN FERRITER (Haberdashers’ Aske’s GRACE ATWELL (St Peter’s School, SALLY CHINA Le PAGE (King’s High Boys’ School, Eltree), History and Economics Bournemouth), History and Modern School for Girls. Warwick), Biological Sciences Languages ANDREW FOO (Hwa Chong Junior ROSANNA LE VOIR (Alleyn’s School, College, Singapore), Law GAOANG BIAN (Peter Symonds College, London), Human Sciences Winchester), Mathematics and Computer SUZANNE ABIGAIL FORD GEORGE LEWIS (Bishop Vesey’s Science (Beauchamp College, Leicester), Biological Grammar School, Sutton Coldfield), History Sciences JEREMY BOWLES (Sevenoaks School), and Modern Languages Philosophy, Politics, and Economics THOMAS MICHAEL FRANKLIN BENJAMIN GILBERT LEWY GAMMAGE (King Edwards School, DORAN BOYLE (Hills Road Sixth Form (Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School, Elstree), Birmingham), Engineering Science College, Cambridge), Modern Languages Philosophy, Politics, and Economics LUCIAN FREDERICK GEORGE JONATHAN PETER BRADFORD (Peter JARED LIM (The Latymer School, London), (Highgate School, London), History Symonds College, Winchester), Mathematics Chemistry DAVID PHILLIP GILLOTT (Alton JAMES ALEXANDER HAMILTON LESLIE SHEN MING LIM (Harrow College), Chemistry BRIDGES (Dr Challoner’s Grammar School, School, Harrow-on-the-Hill), Engineering, Amersham), Philosophy, Politics, and JULIANE QIAOCHU GONG (Lessing Economics and Management Economics Gymnasium, Norderstedt, Germany), Physics TSZ WOON BENEDICT LO (Reading LAURA BUNCE (Furze Platt School, CECYLIA GRENDOWICZ (St Paul’s School), Chemistry Maidenhead), Psychology, Philosophy, and Girls’ School, London), Modern Languages Physiology REBECCA LOWE (Kendrick School, LAYLA BARBARA GUSCOTH (King Reading), Engineering Science BRYNMOR KENTARO CHAPMAN Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls, CLAIRE MARIE DOMINIQUE (Individual), Mathematics and Computer Birmingham), Medicine Science MacNEILL (St Mary’s Hall, Brighton), GEOFFREY DAVID HALL (Pate’s Modern Languages PHILIP CHAPMAN (Backwell School, Grammar School, Cheltenham), Mathematics BENJAMIN MARTINDALE (Steyning Bristol), Biological Sciences and Computer Science Grammar School), Chemistry

60 - tw magazine, 2012 JOSEPH MASON (Clevedon Community JOHN CHRISTOPHER GEORGE RONNIE DENNIS, Law Faculty Graduate School), Chemistry SYKES (Westminster School, London), Prize in Punishment, Security and the State Physics FAISE McCLELLAND (St Paul’s School, JEREMY EVANS, Institute of Civil London), History and Economics WILLIAM ROBERT JAMES TODMAN Engineers Student Prize for best performance (Warwick School), Oriental Studies in Civil Engineering in the Final Honour DAVID McHARDY (Peter Symonds School of Engineering College, Winchester), Physics LAJOY SOPHIA TUCKER (Woodhouse Sixth Form College, London), Chemistry LUCIAN GEORGE, HWC Davis Prize for OLIVER MONTAGUE (Chew Valley the best performance in the Preliminary School, Chew Magna), Engineering Science UCHECHUKWU GREGORY UKACHI examinations for the Honour School of History (Notre Dame Sixth Form College, Leeds), WILLIAM GILES RICHARD MOYLE and associated joint Honour Schools Engineering Science (Monmouth School), Mathematics GEORGE HOBDAY, Thomas Whitcombe MADELEINE LUCY MAY WARD CHRISTOPHER NEUMANN Greene Prize, proxime accessit, for the best (Ackworth School, Pontefract), Theology (Cheltenham College), Chemistry performance in a Classical Art or Archaeology EDWARD AIDAN ROSEVAER paper in the Honour Schools of Literae BETH O’LEARY (Peter Symonds College, WARREN (Adams’ Grammar School, Humaniores, Ancient and Modern History, Winchester), English Newport), Medicine and Classical Archaeology and Ancient History CLARE PALMER (Eltham College, YVES-LEON WEISSENBERGER (St KRISTOFOROS JOANIDIS, The Ocado London), Psychology, Philosophy, and Brendan’s Sixth Form College, Bristol), Prize for Best Project 2011, as part of the team Physiology Medicine the Judging Panel for the Group Design DOMINIC PARIKH (St Paul’s School, Practicals awarded as best project in the MACIEJ MATEUSZ WENCEL (III London), Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Honour School of Computing Science Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace, Gdynia, Poland), MARIANNE ELIZABETH Archaeology and Anthropology WILLIAM KELLEY, proxime accessit, Gibbs PARKINSON (Woldingham School), Prize in History for performance in the Final GARETH ROBERT WILKES (Grange English and Modern Languages Honour School of History and associated joint School, Hartford), Mathematics Honour Schools MICHAEL PATEFIELD (Winchmore HELEN FRANCES WILLIS (Mary Hare School, London), History and Economics SEAN LEDGER, Junior Mathematical Prize, Grammar School, Newbury), Psychology, for excellent performance in Final Honour EMILY PEARCE (Heathland School, Philosophy and Physiology School of Mathematics (Part C) Hounslow), Mathematics BEAU ANTONIE HUNTER BENJAMIN MARTINDALE, Gibbs Prize ALEXANDER PESHEV (Paisij WOODBURY (Southbank International for results in Final Honour School of Hilendarski, Sofia High School of School), History Chemistry Part IB Mathematics, Bulgaria), Computer Science DAVID MATTHEW WRAY (Derby JOSHUA McFARLANE, The Head of JONATHAN PHILLIPS (Leeds Grammar Grammar School), Chemistry Department Prize for excellent performance in School), Chemistry the final examinations in the Honour School of Engineering Science ROBERT STEPHEN POPE (Richard University Prizes Huish College, Taunton), Mathematics NIGEL NGO, Organic Chemistry Thesis Prize Commendation for thesis in Final THOMAS ROBERT PRESTON 2010/11 Honour School of Chemistry Part II (Somervale School, Radstock), Physics EDWARD BARNES, Physical and EDWARD PEVELER, CE Stevens and ALEXANDER DAVID PROCTOR Theoretical Chemistry Thesis Prize, proxime Charles Oldham Scholarship in Classical (Allerton Grange School, Leeds), Mathematics accessit, for thesis in Final Honour School of Studies, for travel abroad in 2011 DAVID RAINSLEY (Barton Peveril Chemistry Part II RAHUL PRABHAKAR, Malone Prize for College, Eastleigh), History GEORGE BARTON, Gibbs Prize for the best thesis in the M.Phil. in International RICHARD ANTHONY RALPH outstanding performance in the Philosophy Relations (Silverdale School, Sheffield), Geography papers in the Philosophy and Modern Languages Final Honour School examinations GARETH WILKES, IBM Prize for the SANDRA RANKOVIC (Mathematical (joint) best performance in Honour High School, Belgrade), Mathematics MALCOLM BEGG, Institution of Moderations in Mathematics Mechanical Engineers Best Student Certificate ALEXANDER PHILIP ROBERTS for performance in the Final Honour School of GEORGE WOUDHUYSEN, Gibbs Prize (Grange School, Hartford ), Mathematics Engineering in History for best performance in the Final Honour School of History and associated joint IMOGEN PATRICIA BEASLEY CHARIS BREDIN, Mustafa Badawi Prize Honour Schools ROBINSON (Moreton Hall, Oswestry), in Modern Arabic Literature for the best essay Geography in English on any aspect of modern Arabic JANE-MARIE SALDANHA (Cardinal literature in the Final Honour School College Prizes Vaughan School, London), Physics examinations; and James Mew Junior Prize for outstanding performance in the Arabic 2010/11 EDMUND SINGER-KINGSMITH language papers in the Final Honour School (Brighton College), History examinations STEPHANIE BELL, Burke Knapp Travel KATHERINE OLIVIA SLEE (Durham PHOOM CHAIRATANA, Organic Scholarship Johnston School), History of Art Chemistry Thesis Prize, proxime accessit, for JEREMY BOWLES, Hans Michael Caspari thesis in Final Honour School of Chemistry MICHAL SPISIAK (Gymnazium UN Travel Grant Part II Grosslingova, Bratislava), Mathematics JACK BRADLEY-SEDDON, Duveen JONATHAN DALY, jointly awarded a CHRISTOPHER JAMES STOKES Travel Scholarship Gibbs Prize for best Part I Project in Final (Chester Catholic High School), Mathematics Honour School of Engineering Science

tw magazine, 2012 - 61 MOHINOOR CHATTERJI, proxime IFAN BETINA IP, ‘Effects of Visual MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION accessit, Nicholas Hanlon prize in Modern Attention on Stereoscopic Depth Perception in NIGAR GAHRAMANOVA Languages the Human Visual Cortex’ ALLID FERROW WILL COURTLEY, St John’s Ancient ROSARA ANN BETHAM JOSEPH, History Prize, for general excellence in ‘The Executive, Foreign Policy and Separation undergraduate work connected specifically to of Power’ BACHELOR OF MEDICINE AND ancient historical themes BACHELOR OF SURGERY ELIZABETH JAMES KISTIN, ADRIAN DEEN, proxime accessit, Mapleton- ‘Critiquing Cooperation: The Dynamic Effects OMAR ASSEM ABDEL-MANNAN Bree Prize for original work in the creative arts of Transboundary Water Regimes’ JASON ARORA ANDREW FOO, Lovells Prize for the best SABINE KOBAYTER, ‘The Actions of performance by a second year law student Prostaglandins on the Urinary Bladder’ STEPHANI BERNARD JAMES FOWKES, proxime accessit, Nicholas ANDREW LESLIE LAWRENCE, ANISHA RAJNEE ANANDA Hanlon prize in Modern Languages ‘Biomimetic and Domino Pericyclic RAMESSUR Approaches to Natural Products’ ANDREAS HEGER, Sir Roy Goode Prize NAMRATA TURAGA for best performance among St John’s students BRUNO JEROME SEBASTIAN in the BCL/MJur programmes MARNETTE, ‘Tractable Schema-Mappings BACHELOR OF CIVIL LAW/MAGISTER under Oblivious Termination’ ALEX NIVEN, proxime accessit, Mapleton- JURIS Bree Prize for original work in the creative arts DAVID ALEXANDER MISCHA BALEN NORDSLETTEN, ‘Fluid-solid Coupling for ELIZABETH PORTER, Nicholas Hanlon the Simulation of Left Ventricular Mechanics’ ROSARA ANN BEETHAM JOSEPH prize in Modern Languages JOSHUA ALEXANDER SUZMAN RAHUL PRABHAKAR, Hans Michael NUNN, ‘Quantum Memory in Atomic MASTER OF SCIENCE Caspari UN Travel Grant Ensembles’ JESSICA SARAH FLIEGNER, IMRAN TEHAL, Lovells Prize for the best PATRICK CAMPBELL O’BRIEN, ‘The Environmental Change and Management performance by a second year law student Democratic Objection to Judicial Review’ JOHN MAYHEW, Forestry WILL TODMAN, College Society Travel CAMILLA LISA OXLEY, ‘Post Scholarship WANLING TUNG, Neuroscience Translational Modifications in Integrin GINGER TURNER, Burke Knapp Travel Signalling and Proteasome Targeting’ Scholarship MASTER OF STUDIES HECTOR MANUEL PEREZ-URBINA, DAVID WRAY, proxime accessit, Mapleton- ‘Tractable Query Answering for Description MATTHEW GRAHAM COLLINS, Bree Prize for original work in the creative arts Logics via Query Rewriting’ Modern Languages GREGORY WYATT, Alister Sutherland ARMIN SHALILE, ‘Representations of ZOE HOPKINS, English Award for a journey in the high mountains Brauer Algebras’ ADRASTOS OMISSI, Late Antique and ANYA YERMAKOVA, Mapleton-Bree Prize SACHI SRIVASTAVA, ‘Laplace Byzantine Studies for original work in the creative arts and the transforms, Non-Analytic Growth Bounds and LUISA JOYCE SEELBACH, Theology John Heath Music Scholarship C_{0} – Semigroups’ SIMON WILLIAM WARDLE, English AARON JOSEPH TRACHTENBERG, ‘The Effects of APOE Genotype on Brain Graduate Degrees Function’ Conferred ANDERSON TSUN-WU WANG, Graduate Scholars ‘The Role of Human Snm1A in DNA DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Interstrand Cross-link Repair’ NORTH SENIOR SCHOLARS MICHAEL BROWNING, ‘The WAI LAP WONG, ‘A Longitudinal Twin STEPHEN BELDING, Chemistry Study of Chinese Children Learning to Read Mechanisms and Effects of Modifying ALBERTO RIGOLIO, Classics Attentional Biases to Threatening Information’ English as a Second Language’ MATTHEW TARBARD, Mathematics SARAH JOANNE CARRINGTON, LOUISE MARY WESTON, ‘Functional ‘A Neuroimaging Study of Theory of Mind and Studies on the P53 Co-Factor JMY’ Imitation in Typically Developing Individuals KENDREW MUSIC SCHOLAR and Autism Spectrum Disorder’ MASTER OF LETTERS RORY McCLEERY, Music JAMIE DAVID CASSELS DARLING, LEA-REBECCA LAHNSTEIN, ‘High Power Pulsed RF Generation by Soliton ‘Conceptions of Governance and Constructions KENDREW SCHOLARS Type Oscillation on Nonlinear Lumped of the Social/Biological in Genomic Databases’ Element Transmission Lines’ MIN-WENG CHUNG, Chemistry (joint with Clarendon Scholarship) WING-YIN CHOW, ‘Genetic and MASTER OF PHILOSOPHY Environmental Influences on Learning DANU SUWATCHARA, Chemistry Chinese Language and Literacy Skills’ ADRIAN JOHNSTON, International Relations YIGE ZHOU, Chemistry BEN COLIN GAUNTLETT, ‘Article 82 of the European Community Treaty and CHRISTIAN CASEY SAHNER, History Exclusionary Conduct – The Need for a Clearly LAMB AND FLAG SCHOLARSHIPS DAVID JAMES TOWNSEND, Law Defined Approach’ JESSICA FAY, English FELIX GEYER, Mathematics

62 - tw magazine, 2012 THOMAS HODGSON, Music JOHN ANDERSON KAY, M.A., (M.A. LIONEL TARASSENKO, M.A., D.Phil., Edin.), F.B.A., Supernumerary Fellow in C.Eng., F.R.Eng., F.I.E.E., Professorial Fellow MICHAEL KLAPUT, Physics Economics, Investment Officer in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Vice- ARNAUD LIONNET, Mathematics President DAVID ROBERT STIRZAKER, M.A., ROBIN LITT, Psychology D.Phil., Tutor in Mathematics, Safety Officer PAUL PHILIP CRAIG, M.A., B.C.L., (College), Establishment Bursar F.B.A., Hon. Q.C., Professorial Fellow in PAOLO RONCHI, Law English Law, Keeper of the College Silver, MALCOLM DAVIES, M.A., D.Phil., Tutor Information Reviewer YIJUN WANG, Chemistry in Classics GERARD JAN HENK van GELDER, FARNIYAZ ZAKER, Fine Art JOHN CHARLES GEORGE PITCHER, M.A., (kandidaatsexamen Amsterdam, M.A., D.Phil., Tutor in English doctoraal examen Leiden and Amsterdam, P.D. ANDREW FRASER SCHOLAR KENNETH PAUL TOD, M.A., D.Phil., Leiden), F.B.A., Professorial Fellow, Laudian Professor of Arabic MICHAEL HART, History Tutor in Mathematics and Professor of Mathematical Physics, Keeper of the College ZOLTÁN MOLNÁR, M.A., D.Phil., (M.D. Pictures Szeged), Tutor in Human Anatomy and ELIZABETH FALLAIZE SCHOLAR CHARLES JAMES KEITH BATTY, Professor of Developmental Neuroscience, JENNIFER OLIVER, Modern Languages M.A., D.Phil., Tutor in Mathematics and Sports Officer Professor of Analysis MARK CANNON, M.A., M.Eng., D.Phil., DANIEL SLIFKIN SCHOLAR RICHARD GUY COMPTON, M.A., (S.M.Mech., M.I.T.), Tutor in Engineering, D.Phil., Tutor in Chemistry and Professor of Safety Officer, Secretary to Governing Body SARAH OSPREY, Law Chemistry KATE ANNE NATION, M.A., (B.Sc., Ph.D. IAN JOHN SOBEY, M.A., (B.Sc. Adelaide, York), Tutor in Psychology and Professor of DR YUNGTAI HSU SCHOLAR Ph.D. Cantab.), Tutor in Engineering Science, Experimental Psychology, Tutor for YINGGI LIU, Geography Senior Tutor, I.T. Officer, Wine Steward Admissions SIMON JOHN WHITTAKER, B.C.L., WALTER MATTLI, M.A., (B.A. University 450 FUND SCHOLAR M.A., D.Phil., D.C.L., Tutor in Law and of Geneva, M.A. New York, Ph.D. Chicago), Professor in Comparative European Law, Tutor in Politics and Professor of International MIMI ZOU, Law Steward of High Table, Sigillarius, Tutor for Political Economy, Estates Bursar Graduates JOEL OUAKNINE, M.A., D.Phil., (B.Sc., ST JOHN’S GRADUATE SCHOLARS PAUL KEVIN DRESCH, M.A., D.Phil., M.Sc. McGill), Tutor in Computer Science and ANDREAS BACHMEIER, Chemistry Fellow by Special Election in Social Professor of Computer Science, Domestic Anthropology Bursar, Warden of St Giles’ House JONATHAN BALLS, Geography (joint with ESRC) ALAN GRAFEN, M.A., M.Phil., D.Phil., LINDA MARGARET McDOWELL, F.R.S., Tutor in Quantitative Biology and M.A., (B.A. Cantab., M.Phil., Ph.D. Lond.), SIMON BROWN, Philosophy (joint with Professor of Theoretical Biology, Steward of F.B.A., DLitt., Professorial Fellow in Human AHRC) Common Room Geography, Director of the Research Centre JOHANNES BUERGER, Engineering ANTHONY ROBIN WEIDBERG, M.A., PHILIP KUMAR MAINI, M.A., D.Phil., GAELLE COULLON, Clinical Neurology D.Phil., (B.Sc. Lond.), Tutor in Physics and Professorial Fellow in Mathematical Biology University Reader in Physics, Web Editor SVEN ERNST, Chemistry CAROLYNE ANN LARRINGTON, M.A., KEVIN CHARLES GATTER, B.M., M.A., D.Phil., Supernumerary Fellow in English, SASO GROZDANOV, Physics D.Phil., Fellow by Special Election in Clinical Equality Officer Medicine and Professor of Pathology, Fellow PETER HILL, Oriental Studies (joint with WILLIAM HADDEN WHYTE, M.A., for Alumni AHRC) M.St., D.Phil., F.R.Hist.S., Tutor in Modern History, Senior Dean, Editor of TW ANATOLE OUDAILLE-DIETHARDT, ANDREW JOHN PARKER, M.A., D.Phil., Tutor in Physiology and Professor of Modern Languages DARIA MARTIN, M.A., (B.A. Yale, M.F.A. Physiology, Principal Bursar California), Supernumerary Fellow in Fine Art BENJAMIN PILGRIM, Chemistry FRASER ANDREW ARMSTRONG, ALISON HILLS, M.A., (B.A., Ph.D. ALBERTO RIGOLIO, Classics M.A., (B.Sc., Ph.D. Leeds), F.R.S., Tutor in Cantab.), Tutor in Philosophy, Tutor for Inorganic Chemistry and Professor of NEAL SHASORE, History of Art Women Inorganic Chemistry (joint with AHRC) ROSALIND MAY HARDING, M.A., STEPHEN JOHN ELSTON, M.A., (B.Sc., DAVID TOWNSEND, Law (B.Sc. Brisbane, Ph.D. La Trobe), Tutor in Ph.D. Exeter), Tutor in Engineering Science Human Sciences, Keeper of the Groves PHILIP WULFF, Chemistry and Professor of Engineering Science HEATHER BOUMAN, M.A., (B.Sc. CATHERINE WHISTLER, M.A., (Ph.D. Guelph, M.Sc., Ph.D. Dalhousie), National University of Ireland), Supernumerary Fellow in Biogeochemistry Members of Supernumerary Fellow in Fine Art, Assistant Governing Body Keeper of Western Art at the Ashmolean NICHOLAS PAUL HARBERD, (M.A., Museum Ph.D. Cantab.), F.R.S., Professorial Fellow and Sibthorpian Professor of Plant Sciences, RONALD LEE BUSH, M.A., (B.A. SIR MICHAEL SCHOLAR, K.C.B. (M.A., Keeper of Bagley Wood Ph.D. Cantab.), A.R.C.O., President Pennsylvania, B.A. Cantab., Ph.D. Princeton), Professorial Fellow, Drue Heinz Professor of MARTIN STOKES, M.A., M.St., D.Phil., MARK ROBERT FREEDLAND, M.A., American Literature Tutor in Music D.Phil., (L.L.B. Lond.), F.B.A., Tutor in Law and Professor of Law, Statutes Officer SIMON MYERS, M.Math., D.Phil., Supernumerary Fellow in Bioinformatics

tw magazine, 2012 - 63 ALASTAIR IAN WRIGHT, M.A., (B.A. SUPERNUMERARY JONAS CHRISTOPHER PETERS, Cantab., M.A. Minnesota, Ph.D. Columbia), TEACHING FELLOWS (B.Sc. Chicago, Ph.D. MIT), Inorganic Tutor in History of Art, Keeper of the Archives, Chemistry DAVID LEE, B.A., (M.A. Nottingham, Ph.D. Keeper of the Laudian Vestments, Fellow Bristol), Philosophy Librarian RESEARCH FELLOWS SUSANNAH MURPHY, M.A., M.Sc., ANDREI STARINETS, (Cand.Sci., Dipl. D.Phil., Psychology JUSTIN BENESCH, M.Chem. (Ph.D. Moscow, Ph.D. New York), Tutor in Physics Cantab.), Biophysical Chemistry FREDERIQUE AIT-TOUATI, (D.E.A., JASON SCHNELL, (B.S. Minnesota, Ph.D. Ph.D. Sorbonne), French JOHN MORTON, B.A., D.Phil., Physics La Jolla), Tutor in Biochemistry KATHERINE EARNSHAW, (B.A., M.A., KATHERINE ANNE BUTLER, M.A., CRAIG JEFFREY, (M.A., Ph.D. Cantab.), Ph.D. Manchester), Classical Language and M.St. (Ph.D. Lond.), Music Tutor in Geography Literature THERESA BURT de PERERA, D.Phil., MAYA JESSICA TUDOR, (B.A. Stanford, JUNIOR RESEARCH FELLOWS (B.Sc. University of Wales), Tutor in Zoology M.P.A., Ph.D. Princeton), Politics ROBERTO BONFATTI, (Laurea Milan, JONATHAN GREGORY CLIFFORD JEREMIAS BENEDIKT BARUCH M.Research, Ph.D. Lond.), Economics SNICKER, M.A., D.Phil., Director of PRASSL, B.A., M.St., (LL.M. Harvard), Law Development EFTYCHIA BATHRELLOU, (B.A. JUDITH ELISABETH WOLFE, M.A., Athens, M.Phil., Ph.D. Cantab.), Classics SALLY JAYNE LAYBURN, M.A., A.C.A., M.Phil., D.Phil., (B.A. Hebrew University of Finance Bursar ZUZANNA MARIA OLSZEWSKA, Jerusalem), Theology M.St., D.Phil., (B.A. Harvard), Oriental Studies MOHAMED-SALAH OMRI, (Maitrise Tunis, M.A. Ph.D. St. Louis, Missouri), Tutor KATHERINE HORTON, M.Phys., D.Phil., EMERITUS RESEARCH FELLOWS in Arabic Language and Literature Physics TERENCE CHRISTOPHER CAVE, NIKOLAJ D’ORIGNY LÜBECKER, ANDREW DAVID TWIGG, (B.Sc. M.A., D.Phil., F.B.A., formerly Tutor in French (D.E.A. Paris, M.A. Copenhagen, Ph.D. Paris), Warwick, Ph.D. Cantab.), Computer Science and Professor of French Literature, Delegate of Tutor in French Oxford University Press PHILIP WILLIAM FOWLER, (B.A., HANNAH SKODA, B.A., M.St., D.Phil., M.Sci. Cantab., Ph.D. Lond.), Biophysics DAVID LLEWELLYN BEVAN, M.A., Tutor in History formerly Tutor in Economics JOHN PHILIP FILLING, B.A., M.Phil., PATRICK HAYES, M.A., M.Phil., D.Phil., D.Phil., Andrew Fraser Junior Research Fellow ROSS IAN McKIBBIN, M.A., D.Phil., Tutor in English, Assistant Dean of Degrees in Political Philosophy (M.A. Sydney), F.B.A., formerly Tutor in ANGELA RUSSELL, M.Chem., D.Phil., History RICHARD GUNN ALLEN, (B.A., M.A, Tutor in Chemistry M.Litt., D.Phil. Glasgow), History PETER MICHAEL STEPHEN KATHERINE DOORNIK, B.A., M.Phil., HACKER, M.A., D.Phil., formerly Tutor in JORN BRUGGEMAN, (M.Sc., Ph.D. Vrije D.Phil., Supernumerary Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy Universiteit of Amsterdam), Biology Economics MARLIA CORDELIA MUNDELL JAN HENNINGS, (B.A. Rostock, M.Phil., CHARLES RICHARD JAMES MANGO, M.A., D.Phil., (B.A. Newton, Mass., Ph.D. Cantab), History CARRUTHERS NEWTON, (M.B.Ch.B., M.A. Lond.), F.S.A., formerly Fellow by Special M.D. Cape Town), Professorial Fellow, Cheryl Election in Byzantine Archaeology and Art MICHAEL ALAN CHAPPELL, M.Eng., and Reece Scott Professor of Psychiatry D.Phil., Engineering THOMAS STAINFORTH KEMP, M.A., D.Phil., formerly Tutor in Zoology CHRISTOPHER RAYMOND JONES, SUPERNUMERARY FELLOWS (M.A., Ph.D. Cantab.), Chemistry JOHN STEPHEN KELLY, M.A., D.Phil., JAIDEEP JAGDEESH PANDIT, M.A., (M.A. Dublin), formerly Tutor in English SAMUEL NICHOLAS COHEN, B.M., D.Phil., F.R.C.A., F.F.M.R.C.A., (B. Mathematical and Computer Sciences, JOHN LANGTON, M.A., (Ph.D. Wales), Physiology B. Finance, B. Mathematical Sciences, Ph.D., formerly Tutor in Geography Adelaide), Mathematics DAVID ANWYLL COLEMAN, M.A., IAIN DONALD CAMPBELL, M.A., (Ph.D. LSE), Human Sciences, Professor of DIANNE FRANCES NEWBURY, (B.Sc., Ph.D. St Andrews), F.R.S., formerly Demography, Dean of Degrees D.Phil., (B.Sc. Nottingham), Physiology Tutor in Biochemistry DOROTHY VERA MARGARET PETER DAVID FIFIELD, (B.A., M.A. ROBIN CLAYTON OSTLE, M.A., D.Phil., BISHOP, M.A., D.Phil., (D.M. Lond.), F.B.A., Glasgow, Ph.D. York), English formerly Tutor in Modern Arabic Professor of Developmental Neuropsychology HANNAH MARGARET WILLIAMS, MALCOLM GRAHAM ALLAN VALE, NICHOLAS JOHN WHITE, O.B.E., (B.A. Sydney, M.A., Ph.D. Lond.), History of M.A., D.Phil., F.R.Hist.S., formerly Tutor in M.A., (B.Sc., M.B., B.S., D.M., D.Sc. Lond.), Art History F.R.S., Professor of Tropical Medicine EMILY TAMARISK TROSCIANKO, GEORGE WILLIAM JOHN FLEET, DOMINIC PETER KWIATKOWSKI, B.A, M.St., D.Phil., Modern Languages M.A., D.Phil., formerly Tutor in Chemistry M.A., (M.B., B.S., Lond.), F.R.C.P., DANIEL JANUSZ MARSZALEC, B.A., F.R.C.P.P.C.H., F.Med.Sci., Professor of ELIZABETH DOROTHEA HARRIET M.Phil., D.Phil., Economics Tropical Paediatrics CARMICHAEL, M.B.E., M.A., D.Phil., B.M., B.Ch., (M.R.C.S. Eng., L.R.C.P. Lond.), SIMEON McLEAN ZAHL, (A.B. Harvard, KATHERINE MARY BLUNDELL, M.A., formerly Tutor in Theology Dipl. Theol., Ph.D. Cantab.), Theology (M.A., Ph.D. Cantab.), Professor of Astrophysics NATHAN ROLF ROSE, D.Phil. (B.Sc., VISITING SENIOR RESEARCH M.Sc. Rhodes University, South Africa), SANDRA CAMPBELL, (B.Sc. Edin., M.Sc., FELLOWS Biochemistry Ph.D. Dundee), Physiology DIANNE KATHERINE NEWMAN, STEPHANIE SIMMONS, D.Phil. ELIZABETH CLARE MACFARLANE, (B.A. Stanford, Ph.D. MIT), Microbiology and (B.Math. Waterloo, Ontario), Materials Science B.A., B.A., Chaplain Molecular Genetics

64 - tw magazine, 2012 BALZAN RESEARCH FELLOWS MILENA GRABACˇ IC´, M.St., D.Phil. (M.A. PATRICK SELIM ATIYAH, Q.C., M.A., Belgrade), Medieval History D.C.L., F.B.A., formerly Fellow and Professor KARIN KUKKONEN, (Ph.D. Mainz), of English Law Literature NOEL JAMES LOBLEY, M.Sc., D.Phil. (M.A. St Andrews), Music GEORGE BARCLAY RICHARDSON, OLIVIA SMITH, (B.A. East Anglia, M.A. C.B.E., M.A., Hon.D.C.L., formerly Ph.D. Lond.), Literature ABIGAIL STONE, M.A., D.Phil. (M.Sc. Professorial Fellow and Tutor in Economics; Lond.), Geography sometime Secretary to the Delegates of the LECTURERS JORG DHIPTA WILLHOFT, B.Phil. Oxford University Press; formerly Warden of (B.A. Essex, M.A., Ph.D. Lond.), Philosophy Keble College SIMON DADSON, B.A., (M.Sc. British Columbia, Ph.D. Cantab.), Physical Geography, DAVID JOHN CUNNINGTON, M.A., SEAMUS JUSTIN HEANEY, M.A., (MT11) D.Phil., English Hon.D.Litt., (B.A., Queen’s, Belfast), F.B.A., M.I.R.A., sometime Professor of Poetry; Nobel MARIE ELVEN, (D.E.A. Paris III), PAVLOS AVLAMIS, (Ptychio Athens, M.A. Laureate French Language Virginia, Ph.D. Princeton), Classics JOHN CAREY, M.A., D.Phil., F.B.A., JULIE ALEXANDRA CURTIS, M.A., JANE ELIZABETH ANN ANDERSON, F.R.S.L., formerly Lambe Scholar and Fellow D.Phil., Russian M.A., M.Phil., D.Phil. (P.G.C.E. Lond.), and Tutor in English; sometime Merton Classical Archaeology DAVID BARRON, (B.A. Cantab., M.A., Professor of English Literature Ph.D. Cornell), Management Studies SIMON JAMES THWAITE, (B.Sc. SIR ALAN MARSHALL BAILEY, Waikato, M.Sc. Auckland), Physics (MT11) JOHN CHARLES SMITH, M.A., French K.C.B., M.A., B.Phil., formerly Exhibitioner Linguistics FARRUKH AMIN AZFAR, (B.Sc., M.Sc. and Honorary Scholar; formerly Permanent John Hopkins, Ph.D. Pennsylvania), Physics Secretary, Department of Transport; Hon. EMMANUELA TANDELLO, M.Phil., (MT11) Treasurer, History of Parliament Trust D.Phil., (B.A. Padua), Italian THOMAS EDGAR WOOLLEY, M.Math., SIR GEOFFREY HOLLAND, K.C.B., PAUL GRIFFITHS, (B.Sc., Ph.D. Mathematics (TT12) M.A., formerly Andrew Scholar; formerly Liverpool), Quantitative Methods and Statistics Permanent Secretary, Department of Employment and Department of Education; NATALIA GROMAK, (B.Sc. Edin., Ph.D. sometime Vice-Chancellor, Exeter University; Cantab.), Biochemistry Honorary Fellows member of the Court of the Merchant Taylors’ GEORG VIEHAUSER, (Ph.D. Vienna), SIR REX RICHARDS, M.A., D.Phil., Company; President of the Institute of Physics F.R.S., Hon.F.B.A., F.R.S.C., Hon. F.R.C.P., Personnel and Development; Chairman, Government’s Advisory Panel on Education for SABINE MUELLER, M.St., D.Phil. Hon. F.R.A.M., F.R.I.C., formerly Exhibitioner, Sustainable Development (M.A. Tubingen), German sometime Fellow and Tutor of Lincoln, Dr Lee’s Professor of Chemistry; sometime SIR MICHAEL JOHN ANTHONY PAUL HUNTER, (B.Sc. Tasmania, Ph.D. Warden of Merton; formerly Vice-Chancellor, PARTRIDGE, K.C.B., M.A., formerly Fish Cantab.), Computer Science University of Oxford Scholar; formerly Permanent Secretary, CHARLES McFADYEN, B.A., Medicine SIR MICHAEL JAMES KERRY, K.C.B., Department of Social Security; Pro-Chancellor Q.C., M.A., formerly Scholar, sometime H.M. and Governor of Middlesex University; DANIEL THOMAS, B.A., M.St., English Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor Member of Council, Sheffield University; ANJA DRAUTZBURG, (M.A. Trier), President, Old Merchant Taylors’ Society; HECTOR WILLIAM CATLING, C.B.E., German Lektorin Director, Aviva Plc M.A., D.Phil., F.S.A., formerly Exhibitioner, ROBERT SAUNDERS, M.A., D.Phil., sometime Director of the British School at THE MOST REVD. FATHER British History Athens TIMOTHY PETER JOSEPH RADCLIFFE, O.P., M.A., D.D., formerly DEVINDER S. SIVIA, B.A., D.Phil., THE RIGHT REVD. ANDREW Commoner; sometime Master General of the Mathematics for the Sciences ALEXANDER KENNY GRAHAM, M.A., Dominicans (D.D. Lambeth), formerly Scholar; formerly JAMES ANDREW UNWIN, Bishop of Newcastle, Hon. Assistant Bishop, ANTHONY CHARLES LYNTON (M.Math.&Phy. Manchester), Mathematics Diocese of Carlisle BLAIR, formerly Commoner; formerly MP HENRIETTE VAN DER BLOM, M.St., and Prime Minister; Special Envoy to the SIR KEITH VIVIAN THOMAS, M.A., D.Phil. (B.A., M.A. Copenhagen), Ancient Middle East F.B.A., formerly Professorial Fellow and Tutor History in History; sometime President of Corpus JOHN WILLIAM WHITE, C.M.G., M.A., DOMINIC ZENG WANG, M.Eng., Christi College, Oxford; formerly President of D.Phil., (B.Sc., M.Sc. Sydney), F.R.S., F.R.S.C., Engineering (MT11 and HT12) the British Academy F.A.A., formerly Fellow and Tutor in Chemistry; Science Policy Secretary, Council of MARK WHITTOW, M.A., D.Phil., SIR ROGER JAMES ELLIOTT, M.A., the Australian Academy of Science; Professor, Early Medieval History D.Phil., F.R.S., formerly Fellow and Tutor in Research School of Chemistry, Australian Physics; sometime Secretary to the Delegates National University CLAUDIA KAISER, German Language and Chief Executive of the Oxford University PETER DAY, M.A., D.Phil., (D.Sc. ALAN LEIPER STRATHERN, B.A., Press; formerly Wykeham Professor of Newcastle), F.R.S., F.R.S.C., F.Inst.P., formerly D.Phil. (M.A. Lond.), History Physics; Emeritus Fellow of the Leverhulme Trust Junior Research Fellow, Fellow and Tutor in GEORGE SOUTHCOMBE, M.A., M.St., Chemistry; sometime Fullerian Professor of D.Phil., History IOAN MacKENZIE JAMES, M.A., Chemistry and Royal Institution Professorial D.Phil., F.R.S., formerly Fellow and Tutor in Research Fellow at University College, London BEN ALEXANDER FRANCIS Pure Mathematics; sometime Savilian BOLLIG, (B.A. Nottingham, M.A., Ph.D. Professor of Geometry TERENCE JAMES REED, M.A., F.B.A., Lond.), Spanish formerly Fellow; sometime Taylor Professor of ARTHUR NAPOLEON RAYMOND German Language and Literature; NATHALIE PATRICIA RAUNET, ROBINSON, M.A., (LL.B. Lond.), T.C., Corresponding Fellow, Göttingen Academy of (B.A. Nanterre), French Lectrice O.C.C., S.C., President of the Republic of Sciences Trinidad and Tobago and sometime Prime Minister

tw magazine, 2012 - 65 PAUL ALEXANDER SLACK, M.A., SIR MICHAEL PERRY, G.B.E., M.A., D.Phil., F.B.A., F.R.Hist.S., formerly Casberd formerly Commoner; sometime Chairman, Emeritus Fellows Exhibitioner and Scholar; sometime Principal Unilever Plc and Centrica Plc of Linacre College HARRY KIDD, M.A., formerly Scholar, MARTIN LITCHFIELD WEST, M.A., Fellow and Bursar; Steward of the Manors QUENTIN BONE, J.P., M.A., D.Phil., D.Phil., F.B.A.; formerly Woodhouse Junior F.R.S., formerly Exhibitioner and Casberd Research Fellow, formerly Fellow and DONALD ANDREW FRANK MOORE Scholar; Hon. Research Fellow, Marine Praelector in Classics, University College, RUSSELL, M.A., D.Litt., F.B.A., formerly Biological Association UK Oxford; sometime Professor of Greek, Fellow and Tutor in Classics and Professor of University of London; Emeritus Fellow All Classical Literature SADAYUKI HAYASHI, Hon. G.C.V.O., Souls College M.A., formerly Commoner, Ambassador of LESLIE JOHN MACFARLANE, M.A., Japan to the Court of St James KEITH BURNETT, M.A., D.Phil., F.R.S., (B.Sc., Ph.D. Lond.), formerly Fellow and Tutor F.A.P.S., F.O.S.A., F.Inst.P., formerly Tutor in in Politics SIR CHRISTOPHER HUBERT Physics and Professor of Physics, Head of LLEWELLYN SMITH, K.B., D.Phil., F.R.S. IAIN McLAREN MASON, M.A., (B.Sc. Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences formerly Professorial Fellow and Tutor in Cape Town, Ph.D. Edin.), F.R.S., formerly Division; Vice-Chancellor Sheffield University Physics; formerly Director General of CERN; Fellow and Tutor in Engineering Science; Director, Culham Division, U.K. Atomic THE RT. HON. SIR STEPHEN PRICE Professor of Geophysics, University of Sydney Energy Authority RICHARDS, Kt. P.C., M.A., formerly MICHAEL CHARLES HURST, M.A., Scholar, Lord Justice of Appeal; Privy ROBERT GEOFFREY ANDERSON, F.R.Hist.S., F.R.G.S., F.R.A.S., formerly Counsellor M.A., D.Phil., F.R.S.C, F.S.A., F.R.S.E., Supernumerary Fellow in History and Politics formerly Casberd Exhibitioner, formerly BERNARD JOHN TAYLOR, F.R.S.C., WILFERD FERDINAND MADELUNG, Director of the British Museum C.Chem., C.Si., L.R.P.S., M.A., formerly (Ph.D. Hamburg), formerly Laudian Professor Scholar, formerly Vice-Chairman of JP ROBERT DARNTON, D.Phil., formerly of Arabic Morgan; Member of the Council of the Rhodes Scholar, sometime Professor of University of Oxford. Co-Vice Chairman, SIR ROYSTON MILES GOODE, C.B.E., European Literature, Princeton University; Carl Evercore Partners Q.C., M.A., (LL.B., LL.D. Lond.), F.B.A., H Pforzheimer University Professor and formerly Norton Rose Professor of English Law Director of the Harvard University Library PETER ULICK BURKE, M.A., F.B.A., F.R.Hist.S., formerly Scholar, formerly SIR ANTHONY JOHN PATRICK WILLIAM HAYES, M.A., D.Phil., (M.Sc., Professor of Cultural History, University of KENNY, M.A., D.Phil., D.Litt., F.B.A., Ph.D., National University of Ireland), Hon. Cambridge; Life Fellow of Emmanuel College, sometime Master of Balliol College; formerly M.R.I.A.; formerly Professorial Fellow and Cambridge President of the British Academy; formerly Tutor in Physics; sometime Bursar; formerly Chairman, British Library Board; sometime Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Oxford University, and JOHN LAWSON THORNTON, M.A., Warden of Rhodes House; formerly Pro-Vice- President of St John’s formerly Commoner, formerly President of Chancellor (Development); formerly President Goldman Sachs; Professor and Director of SIR STUART HAMPSON, Kt., M.A., of the Development Office Global Leadership at Tsinghua University, formerly Commoner; formerly Chairman, John Beijing and Chairman, Brookings Institution OLIVER LOUIS ROBERT JACOBS, Lewis Partnership M.A., D.Phil., (M.A., Ph.D. Cantab.), formerly ANDREW FREDERIC WALLACE- HYWEL RHODRI MORGAN, B.A. (M.A. Fellow and Tutor in Engineering Science HADRILL, O.B.E., M.A., D.Phil., formerly Harvard); formerly Exhibitioner, formerly First Senior Scholar, formerly Director of the British PAUL LANSLEY HARRIS, M.A., D.Phil., Minister for Wales; Privy Counsellor School at Rome; Master of Sidney Sussex F.B.A., formerly Professor of Developmental SIR TIMOTHY PATRICK College, Cambridge Psychology and Tutor in Psychology, Victor S. LANKESTER, K.C.B., M.A., formerly Thomas Professor of Education, Harvard ANTHONY JOHN BOYCE, M.A., D.Phil., Fereday Fellow; formerly Permanent Secretary, formerly Scholar, formerly Tutor in Human DESMOND STEPHEN KING, M.A., Overseas Development Administration and Sciences and Principal Bursar (B.A. Dublin, M.A., Ph.D., Northwestern), Department of Education; formerly Director of F.B.A., formerly Fellow and Tutor in Politics; the School of Oriental and African Studies; IAN BOSTRIDGE, C.B.E., M.A., D.Phil., Andrew Mellon Professor of American Deputy Chairman, British Council; President, (M.Phil., Cantab.), formerly Scholar; Concert Government and Professorial Fellow, Nuffield Corpus Christi College and Operatic Tenor College ANDREW WILLIAM DILNOT, C.B.E., C. RICHARD CATLOW, M. A., D.Phil., JOHN ALEXANDER MONTGOMERY, B.A., formerly Commoner; formerly Director, F.R.S., F.R.S.C., formerly Exhibitioner, M.A., F.C.A., formerly Finance Bursar and Institute of Fiscal Studies; Principal, St Hugh’s formerly Wolfson Professor of Natural Supernumerary Fellow College, Warden-elect, Nuffield College Philosophy; Professor of Solid State Chemistry and Dean, Mathematics and Physical Sciences CHRISTOPHER JOHN LEAVER, SIR SIMON DAVID JENKINS, B.A., Faculty, University College London C.B.E., M.A., (B.Sc., A.R.C.S., D.I.C., Ph.D. formerly Commoner; sometime editor, London Lond.), F.R.S., F.R.S.E., formerly Professorial Evening Standard; sometime editor, The SIR BRIAN HARRISON, Kt., M.A., Fellow and Sibthorpian Professor of Plant Times; Chairman of The National Trust. D.Phil., F.B.A., F.R.Hist.S., formerly Scholar, Sciences formerly Professor of Modern History, PETER JOHN PRESTON, M.A., formerly University of Oxford and Joint Editor of the RITCHIE NEIL NINIAN Commoner; sometime editor, the Guardian; Oxford Dictionary of National Biography; ROBERTSON, M.A., D.Phil., formerly Co-Director, Guardian Foundation Emeritus Fellow of Corpus Christi College Tutor in German; Taylor Professor of the EDWARD BRIAN DAVIES, M.A., F.R.S., German Language and Literature, Fellow of HENRY REECE, M.A., D.Phil., (B.A., formerly Fellow and Tutor in Mathematics; The Queen's College Bristol), formerly graduate student, formerly Professor of Mathematics, King’s College, Secretary to the Delegates and Chief Executive, NICHOLAS PURCELL, M.A., F.B.A., London Oxford University Press; Emeritus Fellow of formerly Tutor in Ancient History; Camden JOHN GRAHAM COTTINGHAM, Jesus College Professor of Ancient History, Fellow of M.A., D.Phil., formerly Thomas White Scholar; Brasenose College Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Reading University

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Peter Harvey 1940 married Judith Bray, Stephen Ferruolo 1971 has returned to Mike Dargan 1996 and his wife Clarice an American citizen, at the Bonhomme academia after 25 years. He was appointed are delighted to announce the birth of their Presbyterian Church in Chesterfield on 29 Dean of the University of San Diego School of daughter Olivia Min Elizabeth. She was born April 2011. Judy, as she is known to her Law in August 2011. He moves from the San on 7 May 2011 and weighed 3.5kg. friends, holds two degrees in Nursing and is Diego office of the Goodwin Procter law firm Peter’s second wife. He lost his first wife Mary where he had been chairman since 2007. Ben Sheriff 1996 married Corinne Berg in 2007, and Judy, an old friend of the family Before graduating with honours from Stanford (Pembroke and Linacre) in November 2010. who was widowed a year earlier, was a great Law School in 1990, he was an Assistant support to Peter at this time. Gradually ‘we Professor of History at Stanford. Aaron Bell 1998 and Emily Bell (née came to feel that the natural thing was to get Bennett) 1999 were married on 5 married’. The happy couple is making their Nigel Bourne 1979 continues as Vicar of September 2008 in Staffordshire, with Jack home in Cromarty, Scotland. Chalk in Kent. He received an MBA degree Waley-Cohen (1998) acting as Best Man, and from the Open University in 2009 and was Alison Lakey (1998) and Ruth Sheppard (née John Possingham 1954 has retired elected as a member and trustee of the Church Shepperd) (1999) amongst the bridesmaids. from the position of Chief of Research in of England Pensions Board in the same year. Aaron and Emily are delighted to announce Horticulture with the Australian Government’s He welcomes feedback from any clergy about the birth of their first child, Thomas Henry, premier scientific body CSIRO. Together with pensions policy and implementation and can be born on 8 November 2010. his wife he has established two vineyards and a contacted by email at [email protected] modern winery in the McLaren Vale wine Greg Little 1998 married Rachel Huitson region of South Australia. They produce a wide Myles Allen 1984 was appointed this year in St Mary’s Church, Warwick on 4 June 2011. range of Estate wines which are sold under the to a statutory professorship in the School of Rachel has a degree from Cranfield and works brand name of Possums in the UK, Germany, Geography and the Environment at the for a Flood Risk and Environment Denmark, Hong Kong, and in Australia. Their University of Oxford. He is group leader of the Management Consultancy and Greg continues wines have won numerous Wine Show Awards Climate Dynamics Group and delivered his to work as a Forensic Accountant at Deloitte both in Australia and overseas. inaugural lecture on 24 November on ‘The LLP in London. They are combining surnames People’s Planet: reconnecting climate science, and will be known as Gregory and Rachel Martin Zissell 1955 is happy to announce climate policy, and reality’. Huitson-Little. the birth of his first granddaughter this year. He now has three grandchildren, two Jeremy Yarnell-Davies 1988 entered a Jon Sheppard 1998 and Ruth grandsons at secondary school, as well as his Civil Partnership on 19 August 2010 with Sheppard (née Shepperd) 1999 had a baby granddaughter. David Anthony Farmer, who has adopted his son, Jacob, on 12 April 2011, a little brother for surname. Ben. Jon is now head of physics at Cherwell Allen Scott 1958 has recently been School, Summertown, while Ruth continues to awarded the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa Simon Winter 1992 married Ellodie work as a freelance editor and writer. by the Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena, Gibbins on 28 August 2011 at the Ashton Germany. Memorial in Lancaster. Ellodie read Law at Jonathan Fishman 2001 was awarded a Emmanuel, Cambridge, matriculating in Royal College of Surgeons of England Research Roger Fielding 1960 was elected 1994, and is, ‘even more importantly’, Fellowship in 2009. This year he was awarded President of the Cheshire Union of Golf Clubs Enfranchisement and Right to Manage a prestigious Medical Research Council in 2011. He invites local golfers or other Barrister of the Year 2011. With apologies to Clinical Research Training Fellowship. alumni visiting or passing through the County Dr Johnson, Simon hopes that all readers who to get in touch via the Alumni Office. remember him will share his joy in this Wang Ruobing 2006 announces with love particular triumph of hope over experience. and joy the arrival of a daughter, Chen Siyi Peter Griffiths 1961 will receive the (nick name Lele), born on 14 August 2011, Anachem Award in analytical chemistry in Tim Hill 1995 and Rachel Hill (née weighing 2.5kg. 2012. He retired a couple of years ago from the Gardner) 1995 happily report that their first Department of Chemistry of the University of baby, an enchanting daughter, Abigail Eloise Idaho where he was chair for 12 years. He is Sophie, was born on 18 October 2010 at currently the Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Epsom Hospital, at 3:26am and weighing Please send news for Applied Spectroscopy and acts as an occasional 6 pounds 9 oz. expert witness in pharmaceutical law suits. the next edition of TW to Twenty years of playing tight-head prop [email protected] (finishing in 1973) finally took its toll and he received a new right knee in July.

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DATES FOR YOUR DIARY 2012

16 March GAUDY LUNCH (1991-1992) 22 June GAUDY DINNER (1977 – 1979) Invitations for this Gaudy have been posted to all alumni who Invitations for this Gaudy will be posted in plenty of time to all alumni matriculated in 1991 and 1992. If you have not received an invitation who matriculated in 1977, 1978, and 1979. If you would like to register please contact the Alumni Office. an interest in this event please contact the Alumni Office.

17 March RETIREMENT DINNER FOR THE PRESIDENT 23 June GARDEN PARTY Our President, Sir Michael Scholar, is retiring in August 2012 and this The Garden Party is held once every three years and all alumni are spring we are holding an alumni dinner in his honour. Our benefactors invited to this traditional summer event. While the Garden Party is still were invited in November 2011 and all other alumni received an email subsidised, this year we are introducing a small charge to cover some of invitation before Christmas. Tickets for this event are £60 (£45 for the costs and we hope that alumni will not be deterred from joining the alumni who matriculated in 2001 and after). If you have not received an President, Fellows, staff, pensioners, and other alumni at this family invitation and would like to attend, contact the Alumni Office as soon as friendly event. Further details and a booking form are enclosed with this possible. TW mailing.

25 March GAUDY LUNCH (1993 – 1996) 30 June GAUDY LUNCH (1957-1960 and up to 1950) Invitations for this Gaudy have been posted to all alumni who Invitations for this lunchtime Gaudy will be posted in plenty of time to matriculated in 1993, 1994, 1995 and 1996. If you have not received all alumni who matriculated in 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, and up to 1950. an invitation please contact the Alumni Office. If you would like to register an interest in this event please contact the Alumni Office. 14 April ST JOHN’S IN NEW YORK To coincide with the University of Oxford’s North American Reunion in 21 July RETIREMENT LUNCH FOR MARK FREEDLAND New York, we are holding a St John’s dinner in New York on 14 April To mark the retirement of Professor Mark Freedland, Tutor in Law, a 2012. All North America based alumni have recently received an lunch will be held in Hall in his honour. Invitations will be posted to all invitation to this event. Alumni who will be visiting the States during Professor Freedland’s former pupils in the Spring. If you would like to this time are also welcome to join us at this dinner which will be an register your interest before then, please email opportunity for alumni living in the USA and Canada to say goodbye to [email protected]. Sir Michael Scholar before he retires. 14–16 September ALUMNI WEEKEND, 16 April ST JOHN’S IN WASHINGTON D.C. INCLUDING COLLEGE SOCIETY DINNER Following on from the New York event, we will be holding an after work The University Alumni weekend is an annual event to which all Oxford gathering in Washington D.C. on 16 April 2012. Alumni in the area are alumni are invited. St John’s will also be offering a number of College- invited to join the President and other members of College for drinks based events, including the Society Dinner on 14 September to which all and dinner at the home of alumnus John Reppas (1989) who is very SJC alumni are invited with a guest. generously hosting this event. To register an interest, please contact the Alumni Office. This year we will be inviting alumni to the Alumni Weekend and the College Society Dinner by email rather than post, saving the College 10 May FOUNDER’S LECTURE several thousand pounds. If you do not have an email address and The Founder’s Lecture 2012 will be given by the eminent psychologist wish to attend, please let us know and we will send you hard paper and Emeritus Fellow, Professor Paul Harris, Victor S. Thomas Professor details and a booking form when they are available. of Education at Harvard. Professor Harris was Tutor in Psychology at St John’s from 1980 to 2001 and will be speaking on ‘Imagination and For further details of these and the many other events which will be held Testimony: Trusting What You’re Told’. All alumni are welcome to attend over the coming year, please visit the events section of the alumni pages the lecture and the drinks reception that follows. Further details can be at www.sjc.ox.ac.uk found on the St John’s website.

The University of Oxford Alumni Office organises a wide range of events to which all Oxonians are welcome. These include professional networking events, regional gatherings and Oxford10 events for recent leavers.

To receive details by email, sign up for the University’s E-Pidge at www.ox.ac.uk/alumni We are always delighted to hear from St John’s alumni and warmly invite you to make contact with the Alumni Office and let us know your news or update us with your contact details. We would also appreciate your comments and suggestions on what you would like from us.

Do come and see us if you are in Oxford. You can visit the Alumni Common Room, at 21 St Giles, any weekday from 9.30am to 12.30pm and 1.30pm to 5pm, and on Saturday from 9am to 5pm. Here you will find SJC gifts to view and buy, details of upcoming events, and information about alumni guestrooms. There is a coffee machine, comfortable chairs, and internet access for your use.

Alumni Office St John’s College Oxford OX1 3JP +44 (0)1865 610873 [email protected] www.sjc.ox.ac.uk

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