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Dates for Your Diary Dates for your Diary Friday 24 - Sunday 26 September 2010 Wednesday 8 December 2010 University of Oxford Alumni Winter Drinks Reception, London Weekend The Winter Drinks Reception will again be held This year’s theme is ‘Shared Treasures’; a full at the Oxford and Cambridge Club in Pall Mall, programme of events planned for the weekend London. Speaking this year will be Fellow of can be found at www.alumniweekend.ox.ac.uk. St Cross Professor Rana Mitter. More details will Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch of St Cross will follow in due course, but to reserve your place be presenting a lecture entitled ‘Early Tudor early please contact the Alumni Office. England: A People’s Reformation?’ on Saturday 25 September at 4pm. He will also be available Thursday 9 December 2010 for a book signing after the lecture. Varsity Match This year’s Varsity rugby match will be played Saturday 25 September 2010 at Twickenham as usual and kick-off is at 2pm. St Cross College Reunion Drinks We shall be taking a coach down from Oxford Join us for our annual drinks reception, from so if you’d like to join the trip please contact 5.30pm. Places can be booked via the Alumni the Alumni Office. Office. Tuesday 18 January 2011 Contact details for booking events and any Monday 6 December 2010 Talk on St Cross Ceramics further information: Christmas Market Trip to Collection Cirencester As reported on page 3, Jennifer Opie, former Alumni, Events and Communications Office Join us as we head to Cirencester for Christmas senior curator of the Victoria and Albert Julia Wigg and Emma Farrant shopping at the traditional German-style Museum, will be joining us in College at the St Cross College Christmas Market. Those whose shopping start of Hilary Term to present a talk on the Oxford threshold is low will also have time to visit the ceramics collection of St Cross. Due to limited OX1 3LZ Corinium Museum, which houses an extensive space, places must be booked through the collection of wonderful Roman mosaics, Events Office. Email [email protected] tombstones and sculpture, reflecting the town [email protected] of Corinium’s importance in Roman times as Friday 25 March 2011 Tel +44 (0) 1865 278480 the second largest in the country outside Fred’s Lunch Fax +44 (0) 1865 278484 London. Please contact the Events Office to Fred’s Lunch, the ever-popular traditional Web www.stx.ox.ac.uk reserve a place. annual lunch in College for alumni, will be held during week 10 of Hilary Term. This event is Crossword 2010 Tuesday 7 December 2010 always very well attended so please do get in Published by St Cross College, Oxford Carol Service touch with the Alumni Office to book your place Designed by Jamjar Creative Enjoy the musical talents of the St Cross in advance. Printed by Digipress College Choir during the traditional Carol Service in Pusey Chapel at 6pm. Mulled wine and mince pies will be served after the service. Booking is not necessary for this event, but places are limited. The St Cross College Magazine 2010 2 College News College News 3 A message from the Master College News Changes at St Cross: people, accommodation, art, fund-raising, food Spreading the net wider Art in the College St Cross continues to grow in different ways, not Audrey Blackman ceramic figurines least in terms of our student body. The academic year 2009-10 set a new record for us in terms of The College has for The figurines were created from rolled and the number of freshers we welcomed in some time owned six slabbed clay, and the techniques used by September - over 250 - and Michaelmas Term ceramic figurines made Audrey to shape and successfully fire them 2010 looks set to continue the trend. by the potter Audrey required special skill and knowledge. She wrote Blackman, five of articles for the specialist journal, Ceramic Issue 18 We are very proud to be such an international which were presented Review, as well as publishing a handbook College, and certainly live up to our motto: Ad in 2009 by her Rolled Pottery Figures on the subject, a copy of quattuor cardines mundi, meaning ‘To the four great-nephew. This which is in the College library. corners of the Earth’. Amongst our international year we received over Editor community, we have students of nearly 70 40 more to add to the Julia Wigg different nationalities from Austrians to collection, plus their Zambians, as demonstrated in the map below. original display Contributor How long, I wonder, before we can colour in the cabinet, which Audrey Emma Farrant map entirely? herself designed. They were given by her to the University in 1990 in memory of her late When I was elected as Master some seven we have increased attendance at halls and the husband, Professor Geoffrey Blackman, and College Officers 2009-10 years ago, the College showed the greatest frequency of special dinners, and we have were previously housed in the Department of degree of faith displayed since Noah allowed developed a college strategy based on global Plant Sciences. Master two woodworm onto the Ark. engagement. Prof A Goudie Audrey Blackman, a The job is undoubtedly a very challenging one. St Cross is undoubtedly a very special place. It former Member of Vice Master You have to be a bon viveur who is prepared to has one of the largest and most diverse Common Room of St Dr F Pieke eat and drink gargantuan quantities, a lawyer to fellowships in the University and it has a truly Cross, died in 1990 deal with one’s clerical neighbours, a taxonomist international and talented student body. It is not after generously Bursar to remember everyone’s names, a polymath to sit in the least bureaucratic (with reputedly the bequeathing her Ms M Doherty on selection boards for weird subjects, a beggar shortest committee meetings in the University), it property in Boars Hill to raise money, a committee hack to keep things is egalitarian (with high chairs rather than a high to the College, along Senior Tutor running, a scholar to provide academic table), it is the most cost-effective college in the with an outstanding Dr K Scott leadership, an impresario and speech writer to University, it is multidisciplinary rather than a collection of English preside at the many social functions that the one-trick pony, it has a beautiful site in the heart watercolours and a Tutor for Admissions college holds, and somebody with the patience of Oxford and it is above all, friendly, tolerant and sum of money for Dr J Ashbourn of Job in order to herd academic cats. extraordinarily well fed. their care. She was not just a potter, but an St Cross remembers Audrey Blackman every artist who worked in many media: her output as year, with a celebratory lunch of the Audrey Director of Equality & Welfare That said, the job has been a very good one and We are nevertheless still a department of the a potter spanned over 40 years, during which Blackman Society, founded to express our Prof A Goudie I have enjoyed it greatly, not least because of the University. We are also one of the three poorest time she produced hundreds of small figures. gratitude to those who have chosen to leave the good humour and tolerance of Governing Body, colleges of the University, with an endowment of The examples here are mainly displayed in the College a legacy. We are also pleased to Dean the solid support that I have received from the less than £6 million. We house far fewer of our St Cross Room with one in a showcase in the maintain the connection by welcoming regularly Prof M Robinson college officers and from the college staff, students than is desirable – only around a Audrey Blackman Gallery, amongst her back to College her niece and great-nephew – including, of course, our Bursar and the excellent quarter – though we will have an extra 40 or so watercolours: some are pictured here in Jessica and Alasdair Crawford. A framed Deans of Degrees legacy bequeathed to me by my three additional bedrooms at our disposal in 2010/11. photographs taken by Professor Derek Roe, photograph of Audrey Blackman has recently Dr J Williamson predecessors. To address these problems we have been Emeritus Fellow and member of the Arts been hung in the Gallery, next to the plaque. Mr D Richards working hard on fund-raising, through our Committee. Prof P Mackridge Since 2003 we have seen the college change. annual fund, our telethon campaign, and our We have come to a most amicable settlement legacy programme. Ceramics catalogue Director of Computing with Pusey House about the sharing of the main Dr D Olteanu site, we have seen the number of new students Overall, however, when the College celebrates its New accommodation An interesting new addition this year to admitted each year double, we have seen the 50th anniversary in 2015, it will be justifiably information on the St Cross art collection is a Librarian development of a very full alumni programme proud about how far it has come since it was To meet the needs of our ever-expanding student together these houses enable us to accommodate study of the ceramic items, including a Ms S Allcock served by an excellent alumni office, and we established by the University with a pitiful body, the College has been continuing to raise 18 more students. comprehensive illustrated catalogue, produced have seen an increase in the intellectual life of endowment in that little wooden hut by St Cross the quantity and quality of accommodation that by Jennifer Opie, formerly Senior Curator and Archivist the college as evidenced by our weekly colloquia, Church in 1965.
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