The Brazen Nose 2011-2012 BRA-15210 The Brazen Nose 2012.indd 1 28/01/2013 08:00 Cover Images: Photography by Andy Spain, courtesy of Berman Guedes Stretton Printed by: The Holywell Press Limited www.holywellpress.com BRA-15210 The Brazen Nose 2012.indd 2 28/01/2013 08:00 CONTENTS Records Dancesport ...................................80 Senior Members .............................9 Tennis ...........................................81 Class Lists .....................................18 Croquet ........................................82 Higher Degrees ...........................22 Badminton ...................................83 Matriculations...............................26 Articles College Prizes ...............................29 Brasenose Royal Connections – Elections to Scholarships and Elizabeth Boardman ......................86 Exhibitions 2011 ...........................32 In Piam Memoriam Denys Jupp ....96 Student Finance: A Message from the Principal .................................36 Diving Deeper into the Past: A Brasenose Archaeologist in Bursar’s Report .............................38 Gibraltar and Egypt - Reports Giles Richardson ..........................98 JCR Report .................................41 Penguins in the Post Offi ce – Cat Totty ....................................101 HCR Report ...............................44 Library and Archives Report 2012 ..47 Richard Boyd – A Tribute ...........105 Chapel Report .............................50 Travel Music Report ...............................51 The Holroyd-Collieu-Stelling-Hall Tanner Lectures ............................54 Memorial Travel Grant ................109 Arts Week .....................................55 The Michael Woods Travel Grant ..111 The King’s Hall Trust for the Arts ..57 Annual Fund Grant .....................118 The Ashmole Society ....................58 News & Notes ......................121 Ellesmere Society ..........................59 Brasenose Society .................130 Ale Verses ......................................60 Year Reps and Gaudies ..........135 Clubs Alumni Events 2013 ..............139 BNCBC .......................................65 Alterations to the Rules of the Ladies’ Football Club ....................71 Society ................................ 140 1st Team Football ..........................72 Campaign Report .................145 HCR Football ..............................74 Obituaries ............................148 Rugby Football .............................76 Donors to Brasenose Cricket .........................................78 2011-2012 ............................ 203 Netball .........................................79 The Alexander Nowell Circle .. 213 BRA-15210 The Brazen Nose 2012.indd 3 28/01/2013 08:00 4 THE BRAZEN NOSE BRA-15210 The Brazen Nose 2012.indd 4 28/01/2013 08:00 EDITOR’S NOTES 5 EDITOR’S NOTES Is it possible to look down a Brazen Nose? If it is, then, at the end of this last academic year, we look down our Brazen Nose at our collegiate rivals with a certain glee. The Norrington Table is a funny thing. When your position in the table is low, it becomes clear that the whole enterprise is a bouquet of horse-feathers, a statistician’s dream of neatness that tells as much of the whole story of Oxford achievement as an episode of Lewis. But a high placing in the table prompts an epiphany. We now see that the Norrington Table is an unimpeachably scientifi c and worthy enterprise, rewarding the virtuous and chastening the indolent. And this year Brasenose was second in the table – second! As with the assassination of JFK, everyone remembers where they were when they fi rst heard this news. We were behind only Magdalen (which, with its rather vulgar extensive grounds to the east of Carfax is really a Cambridge college and so doesn’t count). Those below us include those academic powerhouses St John’s (6th), Christ Church (9th), and (oh, sweet joy!) Merton (14th). Mention should also be made of our plucky neighbours, who did jolly well indeed to wheeze in 5th : well done, Lincoln. Next year, of course, the Norrington Table may well return to its old habits of inaccuracy and unfairness. For now, though, we glory in the achievements of our fi nalists of 2012. All of them were a credit to themselves and to Brasenose. Alongside those spectacular results, BNC saw another signifi cant success this year: the end of “Project Q”. This building project did much to prepare the college for the challenges of the future; but it required considerable sacrifi ce in the present. All the college staff should be congratulated for their hard work adapting to various temporary conditions, but especially those who worked in the kitchens and the hall. The reward, of course, was more hard work: with the new facilities we welcomed conference-guests and took on more wedding-receptions than ever before. One conference from San Francisco alternates each year between Oxford (in BNC) and Florence, but now tell us they’re dropping the Florentines in favour of our better service and food. Behind much of this is our new Conference and Events manager, Caroline Trevers, charged with bringing new business into Brasenose out of term- time. One wonders what “Sonners” would have thought (nevermind Frodsham Hodson) but if the ultimate benefi ciaries are future students, the work will be worthwhile. As it is, the students of today have already BRA-15210 The Brazen Nose 2012.indd 5 28/01/2013 08:00 6 THE BRAZEN NOSE benefi ted greatly from the fruits of Project Q: the college once again looks delightful on the surface, and has much better facilities behind the scenes. As the Blessed John Henry Newman once wrote “to live is to change”; and BNC, the liveliest of colleges, has seen many changes this year. Two retirements have been especially noteworthy. Wendy Williams retired from the College Offi ce after 28 years of service, fi rst as the Fellows’ Secretary, then as Senior Tutor’s Secretary, and fi nally College Secretary. Tributes appeared in the Brazen Notes: I will only add to them here by saying that her calm effi ciency did more for Brasenose than any of the achievements celebrated by the outside world. Wendy was also always immensely kind. She will be missed. This year also saw the retirement of Richard Boyd, again after long service to the college – a full tribute from his colleagues appears later in this volume. As with Wendy, Richard will be much missed; but we wish him all the very best in his retirement. But we welcomed a new Fellow to the College: Ferdinand Rauch is the new Tutorial Fellow in Economics. Previously of the University of Vienna and the London School of Economics, he works (appropriately enough in these times) on international aspects of economics. By joining us, Ferdinand has taken the number of German-speaking members of Governing Body to fi ve and the number of youthful-looking Fellows to one. We hope he enjoys a long and profi table relationship with Brasenose. An equally happy event in the Fellowship took place in June, when Richard Cooper married Emanuela Tandelo, the University Lecturer in Italian and a Student of Christ Church. No liturgical stone was left unturned in a spectacular nuptial mass in the Cathedral; no culinary stone was left unturned back at BNC in a wonderful wedding-breakfast. We wish Ela and Richard the many happy years together they deserve. Sadly, this year also saw the deaths of two of our Emeritus Fellows: David Stockton and John Barltrop. Their obituaries are included below. Both are listed, for the last time, in the Fellowship list at the beginning of this volume, as the Brazen Nose always lists Fellows from the beginning of the period it covers – in this case, from Michaelmas 2011. At this point, perhaps I should say a word about these Fellowship lists. Fellows of BNC are listed in two volumes of record: one is the University Calendar; and one is the Brazen Nose. The University Calendar lists us in alphabetical order, giving our category of Fellowship: Offi cial Fellows are listed alongside Supernumerary Fellows, and mixed in our are research BRA-15210 The Brazen Nose 2012.indd 6 28/01/2013 08:00 EDITOR’S NOTES 7 Fellows – Kurti Fellows (in the Sciences) and Golding Fellows (in the Humanities). The Brazen Nose has tended to do things differently in the past. Fellows have been listed in their separate categories, and by seniority according to date of election. Now, it seems quite possible that in an ideal world both methods for listing would be welcome. One could turn to the Calendar if one knew the name of our Brasenose Fellow, and wanted to look them up alphabetically. Or one could turn to the Brazen Nose if one wished to see at a glance who was most senior at dinner and who therefore should preside. In practice, however, the difference in listing led to many mistakes and misunderstandings, most of them the fault of the Fellow Editor. I must apologize profusely to Carole Bourne-Taylor and abjectly to the Bursar, who both suffered in last year’s errors. This year, as an experiment, I have decided to jettison custom and list the Fellows as they appear in the University Calendar. Some will be horrifi ed by this. But I have opted for the growls of thwarted tradition as opposed to the howlers of active inaccuracy. Of course, there may be inaccuracies in the University Calendar: in which case, the Fellow Editor will next year have even more apologizing to do. Apologies may also have to be offered for the size and scope of this year’s Brazen Nose: in both, it is smaller than its predecessor. I have