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FLOREAT MAGDALENA • ThE MagaziNE FOR Magdalen MEMbERs • ISSUE 11/ 2012 FMAGDALENA LOR EAT The Magazine for Magdalen Members Matthew D’ancona Julian Barnes, Man Booker Prize Winner JereMy hunt Delivering the Olympics nIKKI eMerSon Paralympic Hopeful nIcholaS KrIStof Arab Spring issUE 11 | 2012 1 Floreatv5.indd 1 27/06/2012 10:02 reflecting success A joint venture between Magdalen College and The Park is now home to over 60 organisations, Prudential, The Oxford Science Park has blended a from start-up businesses to perfect mix of location, community spirit, excellent major multinationals. amenities and flexible opportunities for business. www.oxfordsp.com For further details of how we could help your business, please contact: [email protected] where the business of science comes to life Design: www.harveygraphic.co.uk Floreatv5.indd 2 27/06/2012 10:03 FLOREAT MAGDALENA • ThE MagaziNE FOR Magdalen MEMbERs • ISSUE 11/ 2012 WELcome From the President COntentS i should like to welcome you to the latest edition FeAtUReS of the Floreat Magdalena magazine with news from the college and the wider alumni Paralympic hopeful 4 community. Delivering the Olympics 5 To mark the approaching London 2012 Magdalen Olympians 6–7 Olympics, we are proud to feature some of Magdalen’s connections to the Games. When London previously neWS hosted the Olympics in 1908 and 1948 Magdalen members took gold on the Matthew D’Ancona on Man booker 8–9 river (see Mark blandford-baker’s article Prize Winner, Julian barnes on pages six and seven), while this year Magdalen society committee Elections 13 Magdalen member Jeremy hunt (1985) is charged with delivering the Games in his role Photograph competition 13 as secretary of state for culture, Media and sport. hitting the high Notes – The chapel choir 15 We wish him well for what is shaping up to be an inspirational and memorable Games. A Year at Magdalen in Photos 18–19 Away from the sports field and river, this edition of Floreat provides us with an opportunity to celebrate the success of Julian barnes ReFLeCtIOnS (1964) in winning the 2011 Man booker Prize, the third Magdalen Arab spring 10 winner in the past eight years. We also hear from double Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Nicholas Kristof (1981) on his reflections Japanese Tsunami 12 and experience of the recent Arab spring. Magdalen is in the final tagess of planning a major redevelopment SPORt and extension to the New Library on Longwall Quad and you will hear more of this in the coming months as we seek the support of Alumni sports 14 our members in helping to make these plans a reality. As you will read in the archivist Robin Darwall-smith’s article, the New Library, HIStORy and the site it sits upon, has a rich and varied history, to which our plans will add a new and exciting chapter. The history of the New Library 16 in addition to sharing Magdalen’s past, i very much hope that the The Magdalen Deer herd 17 articles in this magazine give you a flavour of Magdalen today and Addison’s Walk Etching 17 a sense of the community that exists here. We welcome you, our members, to share in this by joining us at alumni events in college or in London, or further afield, and by letting us know your news eventS for this magazine or the college Record. You may wish to get more Events for Members 2012/13 20 actively involved, and one way of doing this is by standing for election to the Magdalen society (see page 13), which continues to do a wonderful job in supporting the college’s alumni activities and networks. i would like to acknowledge, in particular, the vision and dedication of Judith hibbert (1980), who is standing down as chairman of the Magdalen society after six years in the role. i hope you enjoy reading this magazine and i look forward to seeing many of you at our forthcoming college events. Floreat Magdalena! Professor David clary Design: www.harveygraphic.co.uk 3 Floreatv5.indd 3 27/06/2012 10:03 FLOREAT MAGDALENA • ThE MagaziNE FOR Magdalen MEMbERs • ISSUE 11/ 2012 Magdalen’s Paralympic hOPEFUL ikki emerson (2006) broke her this spring due to illness so now back in a car accident in 2008 I’m training harder than ever to s nwhile a student at Magdalen. get back up to fitness before the She writes of her wheelchair racing qualifying period for the Games NEW trials for the GB team in the london closes on 8th July. I train twelve Paralympic Games this summer. times a week in my racing chair and in the gym, with a few pool I watched the 2008 Beijing sessions for recovery. The track Paralympic Games from my season started in April so it’s hospital bed at the National Spinal been a busy few months with Injuries Centre, never dreaming the London 2012 test event in the that just over three years later Olympic stadium, the National I’d be awaiting selection for the Championships and the Paralympic Great Britain Paralympic team for qualifiers in Switzerland. The London 2012. Paralympic team will be selected Realistically, I should be aiming on 9th July so I’ll race a few more to race at the 2016 Paralympics in times in the UK and the USA this Rio de Janeiro rather than London month and then it’s really just a 2012, as I’ve been wheelchair racing case of nervously awaiting the for only three years. However, announcement. thanks to my coach’s intense If I don’t make the Great training regime and the fitness I Britain team for London I’ll be retained from my time playing very disappointed after all the lacrosse for the Blues, I was hard work I’ve put in, but I hope selected for the under-23 World to have a long career ahead of me. Championships in my first full I’m aiming to make the finals at season of racing in 2010 and won the World Track Championships in four medals. France next year and to be fighting After another successful season for a medal in the Rio Paralympics last year I achieved the required in 2016. So whilst racing in London times to be short-listed to race this year would be an absolute the 100m, 200m, 400m and 800m dream come true, I have a lot more at the London 2012 Paralympic to look forward to in the coming www.nikkiemerson.co.uk Games. I had to take some time off years both on and off the track. www.twitter.com/nikki_emerson 4 Floreatv5.indd 4 27/06/2012 10:03 FLOREAT MAGDALENA • ThE MagaziNE FOR Magdalen MEMbERs • ISSUE 11/ 2012 Magdalen’s Paralympic hOPEFUL DELivERiNG ThE Olympics he rt hon Jeremy hunt MP (1985), Secretary And here it’s worth remembering the sheer of State for culture, Media and Sport and scale of the operation. The Olympic construction tthe minister responsible for overseeing this project to create the Olympic Park has involved summer’s olympic Games, describes the challenges the biggest demolition programme in Europe; and excitement of hosting a home olympiad. the most ambitious soil clean-up operation ever seen in the UK; and the most extensive tunnelling “The Olympics is the greatest show on earth – and operation since the Channel Tunnel to improve working to deliver it on behalf of the Government power infrastructure. is the greatest job on earth. The fact that we now have a glittering new Olympic Park in place of what used to be a dismal and neglected brownfield site is a fantastic We’ve never seen anything of achievement – that all of this was delivered on time and on budget is even better. the scale we’re about to witness. But the thing that excites me most of all are It’s the first time we’ve hosted a the possibilities for the future – a wholesale sporting event watched live by regeneration of East London of a speed and scale not seen since the Docklands redevelopment of half the world’s population; where the eighties, and exemplified by the sparkling £1.4 the numbers visiting the UK will billion Westfield shopping village. equate to two small European And this is before we get to the other logistical challenges, such as how to manage 800,000 more countries; and where everything people travelling on London’s public transport we do will be scrutinized by 40,000 system. Or how we deliver a policing and security operation equivalent to hosting a Wimbledon journalists from around the world. championship, two FA Cup Finals and a G20 summit on the same day every day. Or making If that level of profile sounds intimidating, sure our airports are ready to deal with more it’s also an incredible platform to showcase than 600,000 international visitors to the Games, everything that’s great about the UK today. That’s including at least 120 heads of state. why it’s important we make sure the magic of the It’s a big challenge, but I’m tremendously Games doesn’t just stay in London but spreads excited by what this year will bring – and I know throughout the country. that whatever the coming months throw at me, So we will have the Torch Relay travelling for the time I spent at Magdalen will stand me in 70 days around the country, as well as a Cultural extremely good stead.” Festival promising 1,000 events and 10 million opportunities for people to see something free of charge and a brilliant programme of 2,000 community projects inspired by the Games.
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