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The Ship 2014/2015 A more unusual focus in your magazine this College St Anne’s year: architecture and the engineering skills that make our modern buildings possible. The start of our new building made this an obvious choice, but from there we go on to look at engineering as a career and at the failures and University of Oxford follies of megaprojects around the world. Not that we are without the usual literary content, this year even wider in range and more honoured by awards than ever. And, as always, thanks to the generosity and skills of our contributors, St Anne’s College Record a variety of content and experience that we hope will entertain, inspire – and at times maybe shock you. My thanks to the many people who made this issue possible, in particular Kate Davy, without whose support it could not happen. Hope you enjoy it – and keep the ideas coming; we need 2014 – 2015 them! - Number 104 - The Ship Annual Publication of the St Anne’s Society 2014 – 2015 The Ship St Anne’s College 2014 – 2015 Woodstock Road Oxford OX2 6HS UK The Ship +44 (0) 1865 274800 [email protected] 2014 – 2015 www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk St Anne’s College St Anne’s College Alumnae log-in area Development Office Contacts: Lost alumnae Register for the log-in area of our website Over the years the College has lost touch (available at https://www.alumniweb.ox.ac. Jules Foster with some of our alumnae. We would very uk/st-annes) to connect with other alumnae, Director of Development much like to re-establish contact, and receive our latest news and updates, and +44 (0)1865 284536 invite them back to our events and send send in your latest news and updates. In the [email protected] them our publications such as The Ship coming months, we will be developing this and Annual Review. A missing alumnae area of our website. 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To Kate Davy subscribe please send an email, including Alumnae Relations Officer Careers Networking at Careers Day 2015 your name and matriculation year to Kate +44 (0)1865 284672 Davy in the Development Office at [email protected] [email protected] St Anne’s College Record 2014 – 2015 Bristol & West Branch: Liz Alexander Photographs Rebecca Munro Stearn Number 104 Cambridge Branch: Sue Collins Personal News Database and Research Officer Annual Publication of the SAS London Branch: Clare Dryhurst All photographs unless otherwise credited Please send personal news for +44 (0)1865 284536 Midlands Branch: Jane Darnton are the property of St Anne’s College, The Ship 2015 – 2016 by email to [email protected] Committee 2014 – 2015 North East Branch: Gillian Pickford Oxford. [email protected] Presidents: Clare Dryhurst North West Branch: Maureen Hazell or by post to: Correction and Jackie Ingram Oxford Branch: Stephanie North Front cover photo - the site of the new On page 64 of The Ship 2013 – 2014 the Honorary Secretary: Maureen Hazell Library and Academic Centre July 2015: the South of England Branch: Maureen The Ship (Editor) girl in the photo was identified as Jenny Honorary Editor: Judith Vidal-Hall cranes are rising/Helen Carey Gruffydd Jones Development Office Strage when she is in fact Jennifer Strang Ex Officio: Tim Gardam, Kate Davy St Anne’s College (Nash) Designed and printed by Windrush Group Inside front cover, p3, p19, p52 and Oxford Until 2015: Hugh Sutherland Windrush House, Avenue Two. back cover (top) - Keith Barnes; p11 and OX2 6HS Until 2016: David Royal Station Lane, Witney, Oxfordshire OX28 4XW p12 - Digital images of new Library and Tel: 01993 772197 Academic Centre supplied by Fletcher Priest Architects Contents Contents From the Editor 2 Gaudy seminar 2014 – Kathryn Sutherland 48 SAS Presidents’ report 3 Gaudy seminar 2014 – Sara Lloyd 50 From the Principal 4 Gaudy seminar 2014 – Drummond Moir 53 From the Librarian 6 Gaudy and Alumni Weekend 2015 55 From the JCR 8 Anniversaries: World War I – Mark Bostridge 57 From the MCR 9 Anniversaries: The women of World War I – Clare Currey 62 Building for the future – Graham Aldwinckle Other People’s Countries – Patrick McGuinness and and Matias Musacchio 10 Maureen Hazell 66 Oxford letter – Jackie Ingram 13 Max Weber – Peter Ghosh 69 Careers: engineering – Roma Agrawal 16 SAS regional branch reports 72 Careers Network 19 Retirement – Gilia Slocock 78 Megaprojects – Bent Flyvbjerg 20 Retirement – Helen Haile 80 Men, molecules and monkey nuts – Kersten Hall 22 St Anne’s: shelter and empowerment – Devaki Jain 82 Also-rans – Ann Spokes Symonds 25 Self-publishing – Penelope Farmer 84 Living with reality – Edwina Currie 28 The Well – Catherine Chanter 86 Donor column – Helen King 31 Finals results 2014 89 From the Development Office 33 Graduate degrees 2014 90 Sponsored row 2015 34 Governing Body 91 That’s the way to do it! – Sunnil Panjabi 35 Fellows’ news, honours and appointments 92 1980s Punk and New Wave – Peter Lloyd 37 Alumnae news 93 Alex in Wonderland – Russell Taylor 40 Obituaries 98 Anniversaries: Agincourt – Juliet Barker 43 Thank you to donors 109 Founding Fellows’ Lecture – Sally Shuttleworth 45 www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk 1 From the Editor From the Editor JUDITH VIDAL-HALL Building has begun and it’s all go on pivotal one for the college, one that sees some of anniversaries; not here say I when the Library front – but there’s a lot more the College and its buildings open up to we have such distinguished writers and happening around the place the passing world and present a more historians to mark these occasions. coherent and attractive front, is not entirely The content of this year’s Ship is more And for something a little different: an misplaced. The new building establishes St wide-ranging and eclectic than usual, a explosive account of the outbreak of punk Anne’s place at the heart of the new centre welcome change, no doubt, to those of you in 1980s Liverpool, matched only by the of the University as it reaches out yet further who find its focus too arts-dominated. equally engaging account of achieving from the old town. And with buildings that celebrity status by another, very well-known From fairly early on, it became evident that compare favourably with those already Liverpudlian. this issue was taking shape around the so- completed on the Radcliffe Observatory called STEM subjects: Science, Technology, site. It is invidious to pick out any single thing Engineering and Maths. Starting with when we have such a rich content, but It’s been a star year on the literary front interviews with the architect and structural forgive me if I continue just a little longer. for Sassies – yes: read all about our name engineer responsible for delivering the new We have articles on the joys of retirement, change in your Presidents’ Letter – and for Library, the choice of engineering as our the pains of self publishing and, in the College staff. The Lucy Cavendish Prize for careers focus seemed a natural follow up, light of the recent revelations by female a novel before publication, now published which was, in turn further developed by the undergraduates of sexual assault in the to wide acclaim; the Gordon Burn Prize arrival of two unusual books focussing on University today, a moving and unexpected 2014 and The Bookseller Industry Book of the forgotten heroes of iconic discoveries in account of unpunished sexual assault within the Year Award 2015 for a first novel; the science, technology and medicine. A look the University many decades ago. 2014 Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize for a at the eye-watering costs and spectacular memoir in the style of Proust or Bonnefoy; I thank all our contributors who have given failures of some of the world’s mega-follies the two books mentioned above on the their valuable time and energy to making in the building and engineering sectors less explored pioneers of science; a ‘stylish this year’s magazine such a good read. makes a fitting conclusion to this section. and extraordinarily detailed new intellectual Thanks, too, to Kate Davy who, as I have But not quite the end of the buildings focus: history’ of Max Weber; a myth-exploding said several times before on this page, puts this year’s Oxford letter discusses the account of Britain on the outbreak of up with my foibles and does all the really heated debate between town and gown World War I and a vivid excursion onto the hard work that makes The Ship possibly the that has accompanied building projects battlefield at Agincourt in 1215, the last best college magazine in the University.
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