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MASTER Susan C Cooper, MA (BA Richard M Berry, MA, DPhil Bart B van Es (BA, MPhil, Angela B Brueggemann, Gordon Gancz, BM BCh, MA Collby Maine, PhD California) Tutor in Physics PhD Camb) DPhil (BSc St Olaf, MSc Fellow by Special Election Professor Roger W Professor of Experimental Reader in Condensed Tutor in English Iowa) College Doctor Ainsworth, MA, DPhil, Physics Matter Physics Senior Tutor Fellow by Special Election in FRAeS Biological Sciences Geneviève A D M Peter R Franklin, MA (BA, Ashok I Handa, MA (MB BS Tommaso Pizzari, MA (BSc Wellcome Trust Career Helleringer (Maîtrise FELLOWS DPhil York) Lond), FRCS Aberd, PhD Shef) Development Fellow ESSEC, JD Columbia, Maîtrise Tutor in Music Fellow by Special Election in Tutor in Zoology Sciences Po, Maîtrise, Richard J Parish, MA, DPhil Professor of Music Medicine James E Thomson, MChem, Doctorat Paris-I Panthéon- (BA Newc) Reader in Surgery Byron W Byrne, MA, DPhil DPhil Sorbonne, Maîtrise Paris-II Tutor in French John Charles Smith, MA Tutor for Graduates (BCom, BEng Western Fellow by Special Election in Panthéon-Assas) Philip Spencer Fellow Tutor in French Linguistics Australia) Chemistry Fellow by Special Election Professor of French President of the Senior James L Bennett, MA (BA Tutor in Engineering Science in Law (Leave H14) Common Room Reading) Tutor for Admissions Andrew J Bunker, MA, DPhil Leverhulme Trust Early Fellow by Special Election Tutor in Physics Career Fellow Fram E Dinshaw, MA, DPhil Penny A Handford, MA Home Bursar W I F (Bill) David, MA, DPhil Reader in Astrophysics Official Fellow (BSc, PhD S’ton) Fellow by Special Election in Duncan A Robertson, MA, Finance Bursar Tutor in Biochemistry David J Womersley, MA Chemistry Adrian L Smith, MA (BSc DPhil (BSc Lond) Wolfson Fellow (PhD Camb), FBA Keele, MSc Wales, PhD Nott) Fellow by Special Election in Peter D Battle, MA, DPhil Professor of Biochemistry Warton Professor of English Richard M Bailey, MA (BSc Tutor in Zoology Management Tutor in Inorganic Chemistry (Leave M13-H14) Literature Leics, MSc, PhD Lond) Professor of Chemistry Tutor in Geography Andreas Muench, MA (Dr Peter T Ireland, MA, DPhil (Leave H14-T14) Timothy Cook, MA, DPhil Cressida E Chappell, MA Dean phil, Dipl TU Munich) Donald Schultz Professor of Fellow by Special Election (BA, MA Hull) Tutor in Mathematics Turbomachinery A Gervase Rosser, MA Fellow by Special Election Gaia Scerif (BSc St And, Reader in Applied (MA, PhD Lond) Richard I Todd, MA, DPhil Academic Registrar PhD Lond) Mathematics Pekka Hämäläinen, MA Tutor in History of Art (MA Camb) Secretary to the Governing Tutor in Psychology (Leave M13-H14) (MA, PhD Helsinki) Librarian Tutor in Material Sciences Body Rhodes Professor of Goldsmiths’ Fellow Karl Sternberg, MA Kerry M M Walker,DPhil American History John S Foord, MA (MA, PhD Professor of Materials David R H Gillespie, MA, Fellow by Special Election (BSc Memorial, MSc Camb) DPhil Dalhousie) C Jessica E Metcalf, BA Tutor in Physical Chemistry Marc Lackenby, MA (PhD Tutor in Engineering Science Christoph Reisinger, Fellow by Special Election in (PhD Lond) Professor of Chemistry Camb) Rolls-Royce Fellow MA (Dipl Linz, Dr phil Biomedical & Physiological Junior Research Fellow in (Leave M13) Tutor in Pure Mathematics Heidelberg) Sciences Zoology Leathersellers’ Fellow Peter P Edwards, MA (BSc, Tutor in Mathematics Robert A Leese, MA (PhD Professor of Mathematics PhD Salf), FRS Udo C T Oppermann, (BSc, Benjamin A F Bollig (BA Durh) Professor of Inorganic Robert E Mabro, CBE, MA MSc, PhD Philipps Marburg) Nott, MA, PhD Lond) Fellow by Special Election Marc E Mulholland, MA Chemistry (BEng Alexandria, MSc Lond) Professor of Tutor in Spanish in Mathematics (BA, MA, PhD Belf) Fellow by Special Election Musculoskeletal Sciences (Leave M13) Director of the Smith Tutor in History Patrick S Grant, MA, DPhil Institute Wolfson Fellow (BEng Nott) FREng Kirsten E Shepherd-Barr, Alain Goriely, MA (Lic en Eleanor P J Stride, MA (Leave M13) Cookson Professor of MA, DPhil (Grunnfag Oslo, Sci Phys, PhD Brussels) (BEng, PhD Lond) Louise L Fawcett, MA, Materials BA Yale) Professor of Mathematical Fellow by Special Election in MPhil, DPhil (BA Lond) Gavin Lowe, MA, MSc, DPhil Tutor in English Modelling Engineering Science Tutor in Politics Tutor in Computer Science Justine N Pila, MA (BA, LLB, (Leave M13) Reader in Biomedical Wilfrid Knapp Fellow Professor of Computer PhD Melb) Naomi Freud, MA, MSc Engineering Vice-Master Science Tutor in Law Fellow by Special Election College Counsel Director of Studies for Visiting Students

76/ST CATHERINE’S COLLEGE 2012 CONTENTS Contents

Master’s Report 2 College Life The Cameron Mackintosh Lecture 6 The Catz|fivezero Report 8 Sudhir Anand 10 Postcards to the Master 12 The Worshipful Company of Leathersellers 14 Lord Plant 16 Lord Newby 17 The Nick Young Award 18 Sports & Societies Review 2013 20 Finals Results & Prizes 2013 22 Student Perspectives James Black (2011, Medical Sciences) 28 Amaryllis Barton (2011, English & Modern Languages) 30 Kirstie Smith (2010, History) 32 Peter McKenna (2011, History) 34 Alumni News Shaun Johnson (1982, Social Studies) 36 Simon Winchester (1963, Geology) 38 Jeff Hewitt (1965, Chemistry) 40 Mark Simpson (2008, Music) 40 Tom Phillips (1957, English) 41 Karin Sinniger (1983, Jurisprudence) 42 Alumni News in Brief 44 College Events 2014 46 Gaudy Schedule 47 Catz Research Philipp Koralus 48 Andy Bunker 50 Ben Bollig 52 Peter Ireland 54 David Gillespie 54 JC Smith 56 Gazette Obituaries 2013 58 Admissions 2013 69

Left: St Catherine’s College Bell Tower

Front Cover Image: Michael Hirst (2011, Chemistry) and Sophia Saller (2011, Mathematics) collecting the 2012–13 Cuppers Trophy on behalf of Catz © Matt Henderson

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We were Master’s honoured when Sir Michael Report Boyd took

A year ago we were at the apogee of our golden jubilee up the role celebrations, having been in direct touch with the of Cameron Catz community around the globe through reunions, through the publication of our anniversary book, and Mackintosh culminating with a celebratory anniversary weekend in College. We hoped for, and expected, a quieter Professor in year in 2013, but that has not been the case, for the January 2013, Fellowship, alumni, and students alike. following his Indeed it brought great joy to see Professor John spell as Artistic Goodenough, Honorary Fellow, awarded the United States National Medal of Sciences, America’s highest

© Guy Bell (www.gbphotos.com) © Guy Director of honour for invention and discovery, by President Obama The Master, Professor Roger Ainsworth in person in February 2013. John’s ground-breaking the Royal research at the boundary between Materials Sciences, achievements in measuring microstresses in ceramics Shakespeare Chemistry, and Physics led to the first commercially and nanocomposites. available lithium ion batteries, now at the heart of so Company much of our day-to-day life. Michael Frayn, Emeritus Fellow and former Cameron where he Mackintosh Professor, received an Olivier Special Award, Closer to home, but continuing with the theme of which recognised ‘the astonishing variety and wealth of transformed its Materials Sciences, we were pleased that the work Michael’s creative output over a career spanning some of Professor Richard Todd, Tutorial Fellow in Materials forty years’. We were honoured when Sir Michael Boyd fortunes Sciences, was acknowledged by the Institute of took up the role of Cameron Mackintosh Professor in Materials. He was awarded the 2012 Veralum Medal January 2013, following his spell as Artistic Director of and Prize, in recognition of his significant research the Royal Shakespeare Company where he transformed

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its fortunes. His Inaugural Lecture focussed on what As far as I can determine, 2013 will go down as a record As far as I can the future might hold for the theatre, and how it might year for the number of new arrivals to the Fellowship march in step with advancing technology particularly in – a total of ten. The Medical team is strengthened determine, the direction of social media. with the arrival of Dr Heidi de Wet as the new Tutorial 2013 will go Fellow in Medicine. She comes to us from the Henry St Catherine’s link with the British Academy has been Wellcome Centre for Gene Function and is joined by Dr down as a reinforced in two respects this year. Professor Richard Sumi Biswas, Junior Research Fellow in Medical Sciences Parish was invited to contribute to the British Academy and leader of the transmission-blocking malaria vaccine record year for Literature Week in May 2013, when he addressed four group. We are very grateful to Professor Kate Carr, who the number of interpretations of the imitation of Christ in French has held the considerable tutorial team in Medicine 17th-century literature, and the challenges those together during the interregnum. new arrivals to interpretations pose to both writers and readers. Secondly, Lord Stern of Brentford, Honorary Fellow, We are delighted to welcome Mr Paul Davies and the Fellowship became the 29th President of the British Academy. His Professor Andrew Dickinson to our team of lawyers. – a total of ten four-year term started in July 2013. His appointment Paul was Fellow and Lecturer in Law at Gonville and was in recognition of his distinguished contribution in Caius College, Cambridge, and Andrew comes to us from the fields of the economics of public policy (notably the private legal practice which he combined with a part- Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change) and time Professorship in Private International Law at the to development economics. University of Sydney.

Dr Eleanor Stride, Fellow in Engineering Science, has We have also been fortunate to recruit Dr David featured prominently on the BBC this year with her Huffman as Tutorial Fellow in Economics. Previously fascinating research on nanobubbles. Her aim, by Assistant Professor at Swarthmore College Pennsylvania, manufacturing precisely-sized nanobubbles filled with he has a particular interest in behavioural economics. pharmaceutical material and coated with a magnetic He takes over from Sudhir Anand, who moves to an film, is to introduce these into the body and visualise Emeritus Fellowship within the College. their subsequent progress using ultrasonic imaging. Using a magnetic field to steer the bubbles through the The school of PPE welcomes the arrival of Dr Philipp body, and to break them, the encapsulated drug may Koralus from Washington University in St Louis, who be released at the appropriate location. It is no surprise becomes the Fulford Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy of that this technology has caught the imagination, and Mind and Cognitive Science. Philipp’s area of research interest, of such a wide audience. is in ‘the erotetic principle’, the relationship between

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...our current questions and cognition. We have begun building in Denmark, helping us interact with many Danish an area of expertise in the College, encompassing organisations, and it gives me great pleasure that we students the interacting fields of Philosophy, Neuroscience, have made him a Domus Fellow in recognition of his continue to Linguistics, Experimental Psychology and Psychiatry. We work for St Catherine’s. are delighted to have secured a permanent endowment make us proud of £2 million to assure the future of Philosophy at St We are equally delighted that Peter Galbraith (1973, Catherine’s. We are deeply grateful to the Laces Trust, PPE) has accepted an Honorary Fellowship. Peter, with their wide in particular to Peter Beesley of Lee Bolton Monier- currently the Democratic Senator in the Vermont State spectrum of Williams, to Bill Fulford, and to Oxford University Press Senate, served as the first US Ambassador to Croatia, for matching this gift. Bill Fulford became a Fellow by and was actively involved in the 1995 Erdut Agreement busy activities. Special Election last year, and he is already playing a which ended the war in Croatia. He is a powerful major part in the development of this research node. international figure, advising on a wide variety of issues Alex Rawlings including political and constitutional developments in (2010, Modern Professor Philip Torr joins us from Oxford Brookes Iraq, Afghanistan and East Timor, and has published as Professor of Engineering Science working in the much work in relation to these. I can think of few Languages) fields of Mobile Robotics, Computer Vision and Natural better examples of the characteristics which we see as has been Language. He brings our head count of Engineering important in the students that leave here: intellectual Fellows to the highest across the collegiate University. rigour, energetic, far-sighted, passionate, and reflecting named as the Professor Ian Shipsey, a distinguished particle physicist huge kudos on the College in all that he has achieved. from Purdue University, much involved with heavy ‘UK’s most quark physics, will continue the important tradition of It will please you to know that our current students multilingual Experimental Physics in College. continue to make us proud with their wide spectrum of busy activities. Alex Rawlings (2010, Modern Languages) student’, It also gives great pleasure to welcome two people who has been named as the ‘UK’s most multilingual speaking are not required to teach here: Mr Søren Dyssegaard student’, speaking eleven languages, including Hebrew, and Ambassador Peter Galbraith, both of whom have Catalan, and Afrikaans. In terms of academic prowess eleven moved in diplomatic circles. Søren served as Minister determined by the dispassionate indicator of position Counsellor in the Danish Embassy in London from 2000, in the University’s public examinations, I record with languages... before retiring in 2005. We are immensely grateful for real pleasure Ludvig Sinander (2010, PPE), ranked his help in securing two major gifts from the Jacobsen number one in PPE Finals, Samuel Tham (2009, Materials Foundation, in 2005 and 2013, totalling in excess of Science), top in Materials Science Finals, and Jonathan £2 million. I regard Søren as St Catherine’s Ambassador Mannouch (2010, Chemistry) top in Chemistry Part I

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Finals. Dimitrios-Vasileios Kyriazis (2012, Law) came There is no doubt that the pace of life at St Catherine’s, Our staff and top in the Magister Juris. Taken altogether, this is an both within and outside the Jacobsen curtilage, excellent record for the College. continues to accelerate. Our staff and Fellows carry Fellows carry considerable burdens and I am grateful to all of them considerable Musically we have an astonishingly accomplished for ensuring the place runs as smoothly as possible. violinist, Makoto Nakata (2012, Music). In April she In particular we are all grateful to Marc Mulholland burdens and I performed in the Sheldonian Theatre, filled to capacity, who retired after six years of service as Dean. Within and won the Oxford Philomusica’s Youth Concerto these four walls, the vigour that our new Fellows am grateful to competition, playing pieces by Liebermann, Strauss, and have brought will act as a catalyst for new ideas, all of them for Korngold. We have a strong undergraduate presence and we look with excitement at what will result from too, in the areas of History of Art and Fine Art, and Tara the convergence of a number of seemingly different ensuring the Benjamin-Morgan (2010, Fine Art) brought prestige to academic disciplines. the College by winning the Ashmolean’s Vivien Leigh place runs as Prize for a two-dimensional work of art on paper. The With the passage of time, it is inevitable that we smoothly as judge, the Keeper of Western Art, Timothy Wilson, told will lose some of our most ardent supporters. 2013 me that ‘she draws like an angel’! was no exception, and we mourned the passing of possible Sir Humphrey Potts (1950, Law and Honorary Fellow) Our alumni continue to distinguish themselves, as in February, of Sir Patrick Nairne, former Master and we have come to expect. Jane Platt (1975, Modern Honorary Fellow, in June, Professor Michael Sullivan, Languages) was awarded the CBE in the 2013 Queen’s Emeritus Fellow and distinguished scholar of Chinese Birthday Honours List for Financial Service to the UK. Art, in September, and most recently Nobel Prize-winner Jane is currently Chief Executive of National Savings Sir John Cornforth (1939, Chemistry and Honorary and Investments. Tom Phillips (1957, English) Honorary Fellow). Their substantial and lasting contributions to Fellow has continued his work with the Royal Mint and our society, and to the larger community, will long be was commissioned to design a 50p coin to mark the remembered. centenary of the birth of Benjamin Britten. We celebrated with Andy Triggs Hodge MBE (2004 Geography and the We must look to our future – the new alongside the old. Environment) when he returned to College to show off Our institution is brimming with vitality and achievements, his Olympic Gold Medal, and he also won an historic as we actively seek to fulfil the goals our founders laid gold medal at the World Rowing Championships in South down. Certainly we are aware of our past, but we are Korea, in the British men’s eight – the first time in the always seeking the ideas and truths of the future, we history of the event that Britain has won. hope, living up to our motto Nova et Vetera. n

ST CATHERINE’S COLLEGE 2012/2013/5 COLLEGE LIFE The Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professorship

In December 2013, distinguished director, horrified Agydas and Zenocrate. The acoustics designed to amplify voices became something Sir Michael Boyd, delivered his final workshop oddly different when the action was set on the as Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor of steps in front of the stage, and in the seats of the audience. Contemporary Theatre. Mary Flanigan (right), the University Drama Officer, attended the Another side of Tamburlaine was seen in Mary Flanigan, the current Room B, most commonly used for tutorials workshop and shares her experience with us. University Drama Officer and small group classes. Zenocrate was now slumped on top of a table, dying as On 2 December 2013, Sir Michael Boyd led the most difficult pieces of Elizabethan theatre Tamburlaine declared war on heaven in order his final workshop as Cameron Mackintosh to stage. The entire Bernard Sunley Building to bring her back to life. The small audience Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre. was used for the workshop, and as various huddled at the opposite end of the room, as A small group of students took part in an versions of Tamburlaine stalked through the Freddie Bowerman’s (St Hugh’s) impressive intense workshop on Christopher Marlowe’s auditorium and declaimed in Rooms A, B, and Tamburlaine roared and ranted. In Room C, the Tamburlaine the Great. Sir Michael is currently C, each performance was made site-specific. space was used for drama on a larger scale. developing Tamburlaine for a professional Olympia found her sailor husband dying of a company, and his final workshop had the The large auditorium became the setting for bullet wound, and her son asked to be killed exciting dynamic of the students exploring the the famous ‘overhearing’ scene in Act III of so that he might die with his father. As she lit text with him. Tamburlaine Part I. Zenocrate, Tamburlaine’s their funeral pyre, preparing to cast herself up captured wife, has begun to fall in love with on it, she was discovered by Theridamas and Marlowe’s Tamburlaine the Great is the story her husband. Her servant, Agydas, tries to Techelles. They praised her fortitude – ‘Twas of a Scythian shepherd boy who becomes a remind her of the terrible crimes committed bravely done and like a soldier’s wife’ – and conqueror of nations through a combination of by Tamburlaine against her and to hope carried her off to Tamburlaine, ignoring her glowing rhetoric and unmitigated violence. It for escape. The discussion is overheard by pleas to be left with the burning bodies. The is told over two plays and is considered one of Tamburlaine, who reveals himself to the multi-role-playing required by the small group

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The honesty and root of Zenocrate’s session, observing and offering advice. The attraction to Tamburlaine was discussed, with language he used reflected his intuitive and references made to everyone from Ariel Castro practical approach; he spoke to the directors to Mary Queen of Scots. Sir Michael reaches and actors about what was leading them to for an interpretation of texts that is informed make a particular ‘choice’ about the text, how by the academic study surrounding them, ‘invested’ they were in the consequences of but not limited to it. He draws from a wide that choice, and whether or not the audience cultural landscape to develop the direction he would ‘buy’ that choice. In the final hour, wants a character to go in, and explores that the new interpretations were performed and direction in tandem with his actors. the difference between the start and end of the workshop was staggering. The groups After a break for lunch, the students were had become more confident in manipulating given a session with Liz Rankin. Liz is a their spaces, with the group in Room B well-known movement director and has upturning all the tables to create a war-time

© Guy Bell (www.gbphotos.com) © Guy worked with Sir Michael on several of his past bunker, and the auditorium group placing the Sir Michael Boyd, 2013 Cameron Mackintosh Visiting productions. The students explored a variety audience on the stage to watch the action Professor of Contemporary Theatre of techniques from vocal resonance through that took place entirely within the seats. to trying to express a specific colour through meant that the bodies mourned by Hannah gesture and sound. They were then asked to Sir Michael remarked that ‘the director and Gliksten’s (Balliol) Olympia later became her explore the ‘colours’ of the characters they the actor have to talk to each other, to tormentors. had played earlier in the day, seeing how that work together to achieve something’. The affected their vocal and physical performance. workshop demonstrated this attitude, with Once each group had demonstrated their Sir Michael once again talked through the the basis of the day being discussion and interpretation of their chosen scene, everyone scenes, this time using ‘colours’ to further communication between actors and directors, regrouped in the auditorium. Sir Michael discuss the characters. In a subtle way, Sir participants and leaders, as well as practical stepped carefully through each scene, Michael encouraged participants to use demonstration. Sir Michael titled his Inaugural commenting both in general terms on the unfamiliar theatrical vocabulary to develop Lecture ‘The Future of Theatre’, exploring relationships and emotional space of the their own vision throughout the workshop. what fast-developing technology had to offer characters and specifically on vocal energy modern theatre and vice versa. In this final and blocking. The groups explained their The group split, reenergised, and practised engagement, he went back to basics, closing interpretations, as well as their reactions to new versions of their scenes. Sir Michael off an exciting and engaging year with a truly those scenes that they observed. dipped in and out of each group’s individual educational workshop for students. n

ST CATHERINE’S COLLEGE 2013/7 COLLEGE LIFE The Catz fivezero Campaign

Celebrating our Success! Catz We are delighted to announce that the Catz|fivezero in government funding for universities, the higher cost fivezero Campaign, which ended in October 2013, has raised of education for students, and the need to upgrade over £14.5 million, surpassing its target of £10 million our buildings according to the latest environmental and securing the future by more than 40%. The support we have received access standards. Thanks to the enduring support of will help our young College to continue thriving, and our Donors, we can be more confident of our ability to we would like to take this opportunity to extend our meet these challenges and continue providing a very deepest thanks to everyone who made a gift. A full high quality of education. list of all Donors to the Campaign is enclosed with this ...we would edition of The Year. The Impact of Your Support like to take this Over 2,000 alumni, parents, and friends made donations The generosity of our alumni, parents, and friends opportunity during the Campaign, and more than 1 in 3 of them during the Catz|fivezero Campaign has had a significant gave to St Catherine’s for the very first time. What’s impact at St Catherine’s. From helping us to provide to extend our more, nearly a quarter of our alumni supported the financial support to students in need to preserving deepest thanks Campaign – a testament to the strong connection the quality of our tutorial system and upgrading our our Old Members forge with the College and their buildings, your support is felt strongly in all areas of our to everyone commitment to preserving the St Catherine’s experience College. for future generations of students. who made a St Catherine’s began life in 1868 as a Delegacy, which gift Launched in 2008, the Catz|fivezero Campaign was provided access to an Oxford education for those who our first step towards preparing the College for the could not afford the high costs of College membership. challenges of the next fifty years – the sharp decline This spirit lives on with us today, as we seek to ensure

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that no talented individual is discouraged from coming undertake significant projects to enhance their quality. You have The Catz fivezero Campaign to our College by economic reasons. Thanks to your We have reduced our carbon footprint by installing chosen to generosity, we currently provide financial support double glazing, setting up environmentally-friendly to 1 in 5 of our undergraduates and 1 in 10 of our heating controls, and re-roofing our gym with a support... postgraduates, helping nearly 150 students – an ‘green’ surface that significantly reduces energy Teaching & increase of almost 50% since 2008. Looking to the consumption. We have also purchased new Buildings & Research Facilities future, we aim to be prepared to support a larger computers for the library and instituted a rolling 5% proportion of our students, protecting them from the programme of room refurbishments. What’s more, 16% recent rise in tuition fees and the continued growth your support has helped us to improve access to of living costs. Your support will be vital in helping us the College for our disabled students, including 46% reach this goal. expanding our braille signage and installing automatic door access to our JCR. Looking to the 33% The tutorial system is at the heart of the Oxford future, your support will be essential in helping us experience, providing students with levels of personal improve the quality of our buildings and ensure Our greatest attention and academic rigour that are seldom found that they are technologically up-to-date, energy need Student at other institutions. Since 2008, your generosity has efficient, and accessible – whilst remaining true to support helped us to maintain our team of over 100 Tutors Arne Jacobsen’s vision. and Lecturers, which is essential for preserving the low student-to-tutor ratio on which the quality of our Through our Catz|fivezero Campaign, Alumni, We provide tutorial system depends. Our ability to create new Parents, and Friends such as you have made a significant teaching posts and fill vacated ones is vital, and over contribution to the life of our College. As you will have financial the past five years, we have acquired new Teaching read above, the impact of your generosity is being felt support to Fellows in subjects as diverse as Physics, Zoology, strongly, proving the vital importance of donations for all Mathematics, Spanish, Law, Philosophy, Economics, and areas of St Catherine’s. We aim to continue thriving as a nearly 150 Medicine. With the continued decline in government world-class academic institution for the next fifty years students – an funding for universities, your support will play a and beyond, and with your enduring support, we can be vital role in ensuring that future generations of St confident of our ability to reach our goals. Thank you! increase of Catherine’s students continue to benefit from our world-class tutorial system. To help secure the future of St Catherine’s by making a 50% since donation, please contact the Development Office on the Campaign Our buildings provide an excellent living and working +44 (0)1865 271 705 or by e-mail at environment, and your generosity has helped us to [email protected]. n started

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Sudhir Anand Emeritus Fellow

Professor Sudhir Anand joined St at both the Harvard Medical School and the Catherine’s College as Tutorial Fellow in Harvard Kennedy School of Government, as Economics in January 1974. His career at well as Acting Director of the Harvard Center Catz has spanned almost forty years and for Population and Development Studies. over 400 students, and October 2013 saw him take up an Emeritus Fellowship at the His most recent research includes a major College. Despite this transition away from project on the Cost of Inaction at the FXB teaching, the Master, Professor Roger Center for Health and Human Rights at Ainsworth, is quite sure that Sudhir’s Harvard University. Speaking about the important research will continue for many project, Sudhir explained, ‘The cost of not a decade yet. undertaking an action can be much greater than the cost of undertaking it. Inaction Sudhir is a world-recognised development can lead to serious negative consequences microeconomist, and is considered a leading – for individuals, for society, and for the expert in his field. He researches, and has economy. The consequences of a failure to published widely, on Development Economics, address extreme poverty, for example, include Health Economics, and Microeconomics. child malnutrition, lack of basic education, Much of his work has been carried out at preventable morbidity, premature mortality, an international level, and he has chaired, and other costs borne by the poor. Failure for instance, the World Health Organisation to provide primary schooling to children can Scientific Peer Review Group on health lead to lower future incomes, higher HIV/ systems performance assessment. He AIDS risk behaviors, increased fertility, and has worked as a development economist numerous other costs.’ Sudhir’s latest book Professor Sudhir Anand on economic inequality and poverty, is entitled The Cost of Inaction: Case Studies undernutrition, human development, from Rwanda and Angola, Harvard University Ainsworth said, ‘I deliberately do not use population ethics, health economics, human Press, 2012. the word retire, as I am quite sure Sudhir’s resources for health, inequalities in health, important research will continue for and other subjects in economics and in public Remarking on Sudhir’s move to an Emeritus many a decade yet. Many of his students health. Sudhir has been Visiting Professor Fellowship, the Master, Professor Roger remember his tutorial methods and the

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knowledge and wisdom he imparted with the Honorary Fellow Ambassador Peter Galbraith and I remained friends. At Catz we also greatest affection. It is astonishing to note (1973, PPE), currently the Democratic Senator shared an interest in Politics (watching the that three of our Honorary Fellows have been in the Vermont State Senate, recalls his two 1974 British elections together in the taught by him.’ time as a student of Sudhir’s when he was MCR) and an understanding that Economics is studying at St Catherine’s: linked to a larger world.’

‘I spent my first year at Catz reading Sudhir plans to continue working on various for a B.Phil in History before changing funded-research projects, including research in October to Politics and Economics, with the China Medical Board and The with a plan to sit for schools in June. Rockefeller Foundation. n Politics came naturally to me and, with my undergraduate degree in History, I ...I deliberately do not use was confident I could master the Politics part. What I needed was a crash course the word retire, as I am quite in Economics. sure Sudhir’s important Fortunately, Catz had two brilliant young research will continue for tutors: Sudhir Anand and Nick Stern. And, no one was, I think, more surprised many a decade yet. Many than Sudhir when I got my first job a few months later as an instructor in of his students remember Economics at a small college in Vermont. his tutorial methods and the Professor Sudhir Anand I can truthfully say that what I knew about Economics I learned from Sudhir knowledge and wisdom he and Nick. imparted with the greatest

I moved on to diplomacy a few years later affection... but it has been incredibly useful to be The Master conversant in matters Economic. Sudhir Professor Roger Ainsworth

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Postcards to the Master

This year College Travel Awards were awarded to more than thirty students who planned, organised, and undertook expeditions to different parts of the world. Many students undertook charitable work once they reached their destination, and all found their experiences culturally and educationally enriching. Postcards arrived on the Master’s desk from, amongst other countries, the Seychelles, Mongolia, China, Bulgaria, Jordan and Spain.

Here are four of the many cards he received....

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ST CATHERINE’S COLLEGE 2012/13 COLLEGEMESSAGES LIFE The Worshipful Company of Leathersellers

The College holds in highest esteem its Delegacy banded together in quasi-collegiate scholarships and exhibitions from London long-established relationship with the fashion. In 1884 the Delegacy for Unattached livery companies, one of which was the Worshipful Company of Leathersellers, Students was renamed as the Delegacy for Worshipful Company of Leathersellers. a Livery Company that was founded in Non-Collegiate Students, and later became St 1444 to control the sale of leather within Catherine’s Society. The Leathersellers’ Company has been the City of London. As we approach 120 supporting ‘poor scholars’ at Oxford and years of the Leathersellers’ continued Because of these roots, our mission has Cambridge continuously since 1603. The and generous support of St Catherine’s, always been to give the most talented Company has a long-established connection we reflect on this strong link, and look students access to the very best education, with St Catherine’s, and first began forward to continuing to share the mission regardless of social background or financial supporting the College well over a century of supporting education at all levels. need. Indeed, from the beginning the ago. In 1894, the Company established Delegacy began seeking endowments for four exhibitions of £25 per annum for Though only founded as a college in 1962, non-Collegiate students. The first two of Eric Williams, 1936 Leathersellers’ Scholar St Catherine’s roots actually date back to these were awarded to Henry Lyle Salkeld the nineteenth century, stemming from a (who went on to have a successful career Parliamentary Royal Commission designed in the Indian Civil Service) and William to open up Oxford and Cambridge to all. Charles Barton (who became a prominent Following the 1852 Royal Commission, botanist). Today, the Leathersellers’ Company which recommended that access to Oxford still retains its support of St Catherine’s, and Cambridge Universities needed to be generously funding a Tutorial Fellowship in widened, a Delegacy for Unattached Students Mathematics, currently held by Professor Marc was formed in Oxford in 1868. This allowed Lackenby, as well as graduate scholarships. students to be members of the University without being a member of a college, thus Though access to the University has widened avoiding (what were considered for many) the over the past years, the continued support of prohibitive costs of an Oxford college. the Leathersellers’ has proved instrumental in ensuring that talented students are able Initially occupying just one room, with students to reach their potential at St Catherine’s,

living in affordable lodgings around Oxford, the Indies the West of University Society, Research Collection Williams Memorial Eric © The and that no financial, social, or geographic

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barriers obstruct them. Each academic ...the continued support part of this Angela provides a broad overview year, the College awards two Leathersellers’ of the UCAS application process and attempts Company graduate scholarships of £3,000 of the Leathersellers’ has to respond to any specific queries about the per annum, tenable for up to three years. proved instrumental in Oxbridge admissions process. They are for graduates of European (including UK) universities who will be reading for a ensuring that talented Another new project that Angela is currently research degree in Biochemistry, Chemistry, organising with Colfe’s teachers and Dr Computer Science, Earth Sciences, Engineering students are able to reach Vanessa Cheel (Outreach and Access Officer at Science, Materials, Mathematics, Physics, Plant their potential... Oxford University) is a Science Careers Day to Sciences, Statistics or Zoology. be held at Colfe’s in July 2014. 200 students from Colfe’s and other local state and Perhaps the most famous beneficiary of a strong ties. Originally established in 1574 by independent schools will be invited and the Leathersellers’ award was Eric Williams, first John Glyn, it was re-founded in 1652 by the talks and activities will be aimed at students Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago and Reverend Abraham Colfe, Vicar of Lewisham. in years 9-12. The goal is to encourage them renowned historian of the Caribbean. In 1936 Reverend Colfe was a friend of the then Clerk to consider continuing their education in the a Leathersellers’ grant of £50 enabled him to the Leathersellers’ Company, William Manby, Sciences and highlight a range of exciting to stay on at Oxford as a graduate member and on his death in 1657 Colfe entrusted his science-based careers, some of which students of St Catherine’s Society, which allowed him Will to the Leathersellers’, which included his may not yet have had much exposure to (e.g. to complete the research which led to his substantial charitable foundation and Colfe’s. nanotechnology). Speakers with experience doctorate in 1938. The grant was proposed in public engagement have been invited from by Sir Claud Hollis, Governor of Trinidad and As a result, the Leathersellers’ Company has various departments in Oxford. Tobago 1930-36, an active member of the been closely connected with the running of Leathersellers’ Company who went on to Colfe’s School for over 350 years. The majority The Leathersellers’ Company has a long and become its Master in 1945. of the Colfe’s Governors are Members or generous history of supporting education at appointees of the Leathersellers’. There is one all levels. St Catherine’s is extremely proud The College’s connection with the Governor appointed by the University of Oxford to have retained its connections with the Leathersellers’ is further strengthened by the (Dr Brueggemann) and one from the University Company for the past 120 years, and we outreach work that Dr Angela Brueggemann, of Cambridge. As well as sitting on the Board of are enormously grateful for their continued Fellow by Special Election in Biological Sciences, Governors, Angela is involved in other outreach support. n is undertaking at Colfe’s School in London. projects at the school. For example, each year,

Colfe’s is one of the oldest schools in London, Sixth-Form students and their parents are Background image: The Leathersellers’ Hall (left), and one to which the Leathersellers’ has offered advice on applying to university, and as St Helen’s Place

ST CATHERINE’S COLLEGE 2013/15 MESSAGESCOLLEGE LIFE Lord Plant Master of St Catherine’s College 1994-2000

Plant of Highfield. Since 2002, he has been Mark has successfully completed over 100 Professor of Jurisprudence and Political commissions, and has an international Philosophy at King’s College London. He client base. is an Honorary Fellow of St Catherine’s College. The portrait of Lord Plant now hangs in the SCR long dining room. n The portrait was painted by Mark Roscoe, and was kindly given to the College by alumnus and Domus Fellow Dr Tony ‘I have had the privilege Henfrey (1963, Chemistry). It was of knowing every Master Portrait of Lord Raymond Plant by Mark Roscoe unveiled at a ceremony held in the Master’s Lodgings on Friday 25 October 2013, at of St Catherine’s. Their which Lord Plant was present. portraits bring back fond A new portrait of Lord Plant, Mark Roscoe is an established artist and memories of them all and former Master of St Catherine’s portrait painter who was recently awarded of their contributions to College, has kindly been given the 2013 Royal Society of Portrait painters Ondaatje Award for the most distinguished the life of the College. to the College. portrait of the year. He graduated with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Duncan of Raymond’s excellent new Lord Plant was Master of St Catherine’s from Jordanstone College of Art in 1998, and has portrait is no exception’ 1994–2000. He is a Labour Peer and sits since established a career painting portraits in the House of Lords with the title of Lord for both public and private collections. Dr Tony Henfrey

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Lord Newby need. He argued that it is imperative that those who take up a career in politics are Fame is the spur: why concerned about the welfare of those they represent, as the effect of self-interested does anybody want politicians can be devastating. to go into politics? Lord Newby made it clear that if helping people and making a difference is your motivation, you will find a political career Alumnus Lord Newby (1971, PPE), returned why does anybody want to go into politics?’ both stimulating and very much worth the to St Catherine’s in November 2013, to give and the resulting delivery was both practical cost. He also emphasised that even if you current Catz students an insight into his and inspirational. were not enthused by the idea of being a fascinating political career. Amy Symons politician you should still endeavour to be (2013, PPE) attended the talk, and shares He reminded us that the life of a politician active in politics in any area that you are with us her experience. can be very hard work for very little passionate because that is what politics reward, as so much of a politician’s really needs; passion! Lord Newby was a member of the Labour career is dictated by luck, or changed by party during his time at St Catherine’s College. circumstances that are beyond their control. The power of this call to get involved in the Since then he has been part of some of the He highlighted that being a politician also ‘noble act of politics’ was strengthened in largest changes in UK politics in recent years has practical downsides, such as the lack of effect by the fact that Lord Newby studied including the creation of the Social Democratic job security, low wage, and heavy workload. at St Catherine’s. He has been in the Party (SDP), and their merging with the shoes of all of the students at College, and Liberal Party to form the Liberal Democrats. However, the overall message of Lord consequently can inspire us all to reach our As a member of the Liberal Democrats he has Newby’s talk was one of encouragement potential. served in many prestigious positions including – that politics is worthy of our time. He press officer, Deputy Campaign Chairman, urged us not to become disillusioned with Lord Newby said that when he left University he and Chief of Staff for Charles Kennedy. He politicians, thinking that they are only in wanted to be Prime Minister, but would have is currently the Chief Whip for the Liberal politics for the fame, assuring us that many ‘settled for being a Member of Parliament’, Democrats in the House of Lords. of his colleagues not only went into politics truly summing up the motivational tone of his because they desired to change the world, visit and showing that ‘thinking big’ can lead Lord Newby came to St Catherine’s College to but are still pushing towards that goal. to success. n speak to the lecture title ‘Fame is the spur: These are the kinds of politicians that we

ST CATHERINE’S COLLEGE 2013/17 COLLEGE LIFE The Nick Young Award

The Nick Young Award was established starting work at GCHQ. The show, hosted by in memory of Nick Young (1968, Melvyn Bragg and celebrating the best of UK English), whose interest in drama culture in 2013, airs at the end of January; and films began at an early age with I hope that some of you watched it, or will participation in school plays. Later, while have your interests piqued to catch it on Sky an undergraduate at Catz, he directed Player! Without giving away too many secrets several College productions. His short in advance of the event itself, I can say that film, He Always…, won a medal at the the award has been a fantastic opportunity Cannes Film Festival. At the time of his that’s provided me with a thoroughly death, in 1981, he was planning a film enjoyable variety of experiences. about the second Afghan war. Tom Larkin (2009, Modern Languages), winner of the I started the placement at the beginning of 2013 Nick Young Award The Award enables a Catz alumnus to spend November, feeling a mixture of excitement three months working with Domus Fellow and fear that my lack of awareness about Lord Bragg at Director’s Cut Productions. the latest trends in opera and contemporary Everyone in the office at Recent award winner, Tom Larkin (2009, dance would leave me looking foolish. I even Modern Languages) is currently on this spent the first train journey into London Director’s Cut Productions placement, and here shares with us his frantically listening to old episodes of In Our has been incredibly experiences so far. Time, just in case Melvyn Bragg decided to challenge me on my knowledge of ancient friendly and helpful, I am writing this piece a week away from Chinese literature. the end of my Nick Young Award placement ensuring that I can be fully working on the South Bank Sky Arts Awards There was no need to have worried. Everyone involved as an important (SBSAA), still constrained by a confidentiality in the office at Director’s Cut Productions has agreement that made me feel like I was been incredibly friendly and helpful, ensuring part of the team

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that I can be fully involved as an important Excitement, and nerves, are building for the The highlight of the part of the team. My tasks range from writing ceremony on 27th January. We’ve had the the profiles on the SBSAA winners and writing walkthrough at the Dorchester hotel, the placement so far has outlines of scripts, which are eventually very glamorous location for the event, so undoubtedly been getting used by our guest presenters, to liaising it’s now possible to imagine the day coming with our nominees and helping with filming. together and picture the scene as all the hard involved with the filming Surprisingly, Melvyn hasn’t yet broached any of work comes to fruition. The nominees list is his In Our Time topics with me, and judging by hugely eclectic, as is always the case for the process, accompanying the the memorabilia in his office I would have been only awards show that celebrates the entire producers on shoots to better off brushing up on his beloved Arsenal. spectrum of the arts in Britain, while the (top secret) performers and guest presenters are record the videos that will The highlight of the placement so far has a brilliant collection of some of the biggest undoubtedly been getting involved with the cultural figures in the UK. be used at the event filming process, accompanying the producers on shoots to record the videos that will be I would like to take this chance to thank the The chance to get an used at the event. The chance to get an college and Director’s Cut Productions for the insight into the process of setting up shots, great opportunity. It’s far from the classic tea insight into the process of preparing questions for interviewees and fetching placements that are so frustrating for setting up shots, preparing editing the whole package together was really anyone hoping to start a career in the media; interesting, and provided me with lessons that it’s an experience that most people can only questions for interviewees will serve me very well in years to come. But, hope for after several years in the industry in all honesty, the most exciting upshot was and one for which I am hugely grateful. I and editing the whole that I got to meet Ronnie Wood; there aren’t cannot recommend the Nick Young Award package was really many work experience placements where you highly enough for any Catz student with an get to spend time with a Rolling Stone. interest in the arts and broadcasting. n interesting

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Sports and Societies Review

Our students continue to throw themselves into an were defeated by Keble. This year, the team has eclectic array of sporting and cultural activities, and been promoted to Division 1. Gus Jones (2012, Catz has been a hotbed of achievement in 2013. Biological Sciences) plays on the Blues rugby Students represented both the College and the team and represented Oxford in a victorious Varsity University, and Catz was awarded the overall Cuppers match against Cambridge, and Dean Irvine (2011, Trophy for 2012–2013 in honour of its sporting Engineering Science) scored a fantastic try at success. Current Clubs and Societies Rep, Stephanie Twickenham for the Under 21s. Austera (2012, Law), shares some highlights of the year with us. The Catz Women’s Football team won Cuppers, with goals scored by Stephanie Wesson (2012, Visiting Over the last half a century, Catz has nurtured Student), Amaryliss Barton (2011, English & Catz was and developed a thriving and lively extra-curricular Modern Languages), and Becky Wyatt (2010, programme, and the results are certainly evident this Geography). They have been promoted to Division awarded the year. It was recently announced that Catz has won the 1 and remain there comfortably. The Men’s 1st XI overall Cuppers University Cuppers Tournament, meaning that across the finished 3rd in the JCR Premier League with the top board, Catz was the best college in sport for 2012-13. scorer Chris Lambert (2010, English Language & Trophy for Catz teams have consistently performed highly in all Literature). sports, with several teams winning Cuppers outright and 2012–2013 many others coming second or third. This is an incredible In Rowing, the Men’s 1st VIII won both the Isis Winter in honour of achievement and is testament to the talent within Leagues, and bumped St John’s and Wolfson during the College and the dedication of all participants. The Torpids. They continued this good form in Summer its sporting Cuppers Trophy will be housed at the Oxford University VIIIs, where they bumped Hertford and Balliol, moving Sport complex on Iffley Road, and will no doubt be a up to seventh on the river. success great source of pride for the College. In Women’s rowing, both the Women’s 1st VIII and The Men’s Rugby team reached the semi-finals of 2nd VIII were awarded Blades in Torpids, meaning they Cuppers for the second year running, where they bumped every day.

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strictly fancy-dress dress code, beat Cambridge in the Varsity Dodgeball match, pushing it to new heights of popularity within College.

But Catz is not just about sport! Catz members have been involved in a diverse range of other societies bringing entertainment and enrichment to College. Here are a few highlights from the year.

Catz choir continues to be popular and the Catz Music Society has organised many fantastic Open Mic Nights, encouraging all sorts of performances ranging from a timpani drums recital by Alice Angliss (2011, Music) to Jazz singing from Niamh Furey (2012, Modern © Matt Henderson © Matt Languages). The Men’s Hockey team won the league in Michaelmas Michael Hirst (2011, Chemistry) and Sophia Saller term, giving them the opportunity to face the winners In addition to these long-established societies, Catz (2011, Mathematics) collecting of the Cambridge league, which coincidentally turned the 2012-13 Cuppers Trophy has welcomed a new Futsal society, similar to football out to be our counterpart Catz Cambridge. Catz Oxford on behalf of Catz but played five-a-side on an indoor court. Also, Catz triumphed in a hard-fought victory to make it the best students can now participate in Yoga and fitness college for hockey in Oxbridge. classes within College.

Netball celebrated many a win in the League over Finally, the JCR poll crowned footballers Hannah Michaelmas and Hilary, and reached the final rounds of Griffiths (2012, Chemistry) and James Gibson (2009, Cuppers. The traditionally female sport even occasionally Engineering) as ‘Sports Personalities of the Year’. welcomed some male members into the team. Hannah represented Oxford in the Varsity match and James holds the all-time Catz football appearances The Men’s Tennis team came second in Cuppers, and record. Makoto Nakata (2012, Music) received the Catz won Horse Riding Cuppers in spectacular style. Arts Personality award. She is leader of the Oxford University Orchestra, and was awarded first prize in The Catz Dodgeball team, practices for which form the Oxford Philomusica Concerto Competition for her a staple part of Monday night entertainment with a performance of the Korngold Violin concerto. n

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Antoine Robin - II (i) Molecular & Cellular Amaryllis Barton (English Kathleen Shields - II (i) Biochemistry & Modern Languages) Finals Results 2013 (MBiochem) College Scholar Materials Science Gareth Morgan - II (i) Clementine Brown (Oriental (MEng) Andrew Pountain - I Studies) College Scholar Biological Sciences Engineering, Economics History Christian Bridge - II (i) Chun-Mann Chin Stephanie Burrell - I & Management (MEng) Daisy Barbour - II (i) Camden Ford - II (i) Music (Chemistry) F M Brewer Stephen Drury - II (i) Alexander Sanders - I Atalanta Fitzgerald - II (i) Michelle Lim - II (i) Nick Barstow - I Scholar David Fisher - I Mariam Iqbal - II (i) Christopher Newell - II (ii) Cameron Millar - II (i) Jungyun Choi (Philosophy, Susan Hawkins - I English Language & George Lowe - I Samuel Tham - I Maria Perevedentseva Politics & Economics) Owen Leyshon - II (i) Literature Daniel Mulligan - II (i) - II (i) College Scholar Robert Lucas - II (i) Mayo Anderson-Audaine - I Alistair Pepper - I Mathematics (BA) Andrew Tyler - II (i) Joon Son Chung Benjamin Trigg - I William Burgess - I Shona Pratt - II (i) Kirstie Mok - II (i) Natalya Zeman - I (Engineering, Economics Charlotte Clark - I Daniel Smith - II (i) Emily Risness - II (i) & Management) College Chemistry (MChem) Shabnom Khanom - II (i) Kirstie Smith - II (i) Philosophy, Politics & Scholar David Ashmore - I Sorcha Kurien-Walsh - II (i) Benjamin Stokes - II (i) Mathematics & Statistics Economics Benedict Cohen James Boxall - II (i) Christopher Lambert - II (i) (BA) Aron Cheung - I (Geography) ATV Scholar Gregory Craven - I Thomas Poole - II (i) History & Politics Zihan Jin - II (i) Jungyun Choi - II (i) Martin Dickson (Law) David Adam Creamer - II (i) Nathaniel Samson - I Esther Barlow - II (i) Xiaodong Zhou - III Germaine Chua - I Blank Scholar Adam Kendrick - II (ii) James Shirley - II (i) Jack McKenna - II (i) Yang Zhou - II (ii) Isabel Ernst - II (i) Paul Dobson (Mathematics) Rosemary Lang - I Courtney Yusuf - II (i) Matthew Purtill - II (i) Goldsworthy Scholar Jordan Millar - II (ii) European & Middle Mathematics & Statistics Orowa Sikder - I Marielena Doeding Jack Wardle - I Eastern Languages History of Art (MMath) Ludvig Sinander - I (Law with Law Studies Isobel Platts-Dunn - II (i) Georgina Johnson - I Rui Han - II (i) Martina Song - II (i) in Europe) David Blank Computer Science (BA) Arthur Laidlaw - II (i) Yu Huan Lin - II (i) Stephen Wan - II (i) Scholar Edward Brough - II (i) Experimental Psychology Alexander Eyers-Taylor Joshua Cowan - II (ii) Human Sciences Medical Sciences Physics (BA) (Mathematics & Computer Computer Science Emma James - II (i) Alice Bennett - I Selali Fiamanya - II (ii) Sara Lukic - II (ii) Science) ATV Scholar (MCompSci) Alec Stanworth - II (i) Edmond Seabright - I Alexander Hinkson - II (ii) Jamie Shadbolt - II (ii) Jeremy Ferec-Dayson Jonathan Hoyland - II (i) Caroline Siebald - II (i) Dilraj Kalsi - II (i) (Modern Languages) Leask Laurens Lemaire - II (i) Fine Art (BFA) Mantas Malys - II (ii) Physics (MPhys) Music Scholar Tara Benjamin-Morgan - I Law Henry Whittle - I Sownak Bose - II (i) Matthew Fisher (Chemistry) Economics & Thomas Treherne - II (i) Frances Boon - II (i) Natalie Haley - II (i) College Scholar Management Thomas Donnelly - II (i) Modern Languages Benjamin Hodgson - II (i) Niamh Furey (Modern Joel Edmondson - I Geography Benson Egwuonwu - II (i) Rachel Atkins - II (i) Languages) Leask Music Zachary Tate - I Richard Brown - I Natalie Fernandes - II (i) Marc Boardman - II (i) Psychology, Philosophy Scholar Ashley Cooper - I Juliane Guderian - II (i) Emma Ferguson - II (i) & Physiology William Goddard (Modern Engineering Science Eleanor Greenslade - II (i) Olivia Higgs - II (i) Jake Grandison - II (i) Lorna French - II (i) Languages) Clothworkers’ (MEng) Joanna Harrall - I Timothy Lam - II (i) Thomas Larkin - II (i) Scholar David Alliu - II (i) Inge Hertzog - II (i) Julia Ogievetsky - II (i) Edward Richardson - II (i) SCHOLARSHIPS AND Corrina Horan (Medical Mohsan Alvi - II (i) Friederike Murach-Ward Grace Smith - II (i) EXHIBITIONS Sciences) Sembal Scholar James Gibson - II (i) - II (i) Ayelen Tunon - II (i) Modern Languages & Sarah Illingworth (English David Griffin - II (i) Andrew Pickett - II (i) Linguistics Scholars Language & Literature) Pamela Mezue - II (i) Naomi Scott-Mearns - II (i) Law with Law Studies in Lydia Hunter - II (i) Stephanie Austera (Law) College Scholar Christopher Rees - I Katherine Steele - I Europe David Blank Scholar Nathan Klein (Music) Jennifer Wood - II (i) Rebecca Wyatt - II (i) Lavinia Randall - I College Scholar

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Sebastian Koa (Geography) Alicia Smith (English Katherine Ember Commended for John Hicks Foundation Hobson Mann Lovell Brook Scholar Language & Literature) (Molecular & Cellular Performance in Prize for Best Scholarship 2013 Samuel Lanning (Computer Baker Scholar Biochemistry) College Neurophysiology 2013 Performance in Emily Brown (Medical Science) College Scholar Haewon Song (Chemistry) Exhibitioner Courtney Spoerer Quantitative Economics Sciences) John Lavery (Engineering Leask Music Scholar David Fisher (Biological (Experimental Psychology) 2013 Science) College Scholar Courtney Spoerer Sciences) College Ludvig Sinander Monckton Chambers Michael Livesey (History) (Experimental Psychology) Exhibitioner Commended for (Philosophy, Politics & Prize in Competition Law Philip Fothergill Scholar College Scholar James Gibson (Engineering Performance in Economics) 2013 Thomas Miller (Physics) Edward Steele Science) College Psychology for Medicine Jacopo Crivellaro (Law) Geoffrey Griffith Scholar (Mathematics) College Exhibitioner 2013 Junior Mathematical Prize Mandeep Mohan Scholar Kimberley Grave Morwenna Senior (Medical for Part B 2013 College Prizes (Engineering Science) Samuel Taylor (Law) David (Geography) College Sciences) Bodan Arsovski College Scholar Blank Scholar Exhibitioner (Mathematics) The Bailey Prize for Makoto Nakata (Music) Benjamin Thomas Miles Huseyin (Molecular Gibbs Prize for Best Team debating was awarded to Leask Music Scholar (Engineering Science) & Cellular Biochemistry) Design Project 2013 Susan Mary Rouse Catherine Hunt (Law). Joseph Newall (History) College Scholar College Exhibitioner John Lavery (Engineering Memorial Prize 2013 College Scholar Scott Tully (Economics & Mark Johnson (Physics) Science) Courtney Spoerer The Burton Prize for the Frederica Onslow (Materials Management) College College Exhibitioner (Experimental Psychology) best academic performance Science) ATV Scholar Scholar Edmond Seabright Gibbs Prize for during the year in an Jacob Page (Chemistry) Elizabeth Wilkins (Human (Human Sciences) College Performance in Prelims TATA Steel Prize for best area covering Psychology, College Scholar Sciences) Rose Scholar Exhibitioner 2013 overall performance in Sociology, Geography, Maria Perevedentseva Hannah Wills (History of Stephen Wan (Philosophy, Harriet Smith Hughes Part I Practicals 2013 and Human Sciences was (Music) Leask Music Art) Clothworkers’ Scholar Politics & Economics) (English Language & Duncan Johnstone awarded to Katherine Scholar College Exhibitioner Literature) (Materials Science) Steele (Geography) Kee Jia Phang (Human Exhibitioners Jack Wardle (Chemistry) and Richard Brown Sciences) Goldsworthy Rachel Anderson College Exhibitioner Gibbs Prize for the Best Vivien Leigh Prize 2013 (Geography). Scholar (Molecular & Cellular Peter York (Computer Performance in Part I Tara Benjamin-Morgan Jacob Pratt (Chemistry) Biochemistry) College Science) College 2013 (Fine Art) The Cochrane Evidence- College Scholar Exhibitioner Exhibitioner Jonathan Mannouch Based Medicine Prize for Iona Richards (Engineering James Arch (Physics) (Chemistry) Wiley Practical Prize in the best critical appraisal Science) College Scholar College Exhibitioner PRIZES AND AWARDS Physical Chemistry 2013 of evidence answering a Sophia Saller Ulrich Bauer (Molecular Gibbs Prize for the Jonathan Mannouch practical clinical question (Mathematics) Kaye & Cellular Biochemistry) University Prizes Best Performance in (Chemistry) was awarded to Jian Ping Scholar College Exhibitioner Undergraduates Philosophy in the Final Jen (Medical Sciences). Chloe Scott (Music) Leask Laura Bengescu (Computer Armourers and Brasiers’ Honour School of Winton Capital Prize for Proxime accessit Alexandra Music Scholar Science) College Company / TATA Steel Philosophy, Politics & the Best MPhys Research Fottinger (Medical Owen Sellers (History) Exhibitioner Prize for Best Team Economics 2013 Project 2013 Sciences). Garret Scholar William Burgess (English Design Project 2013 Ludvig Sinander Natalie Haley (Physics) Morwenna Senior (Medical Language & Literature) Duncan Johnstone (Philosophy, Politics & The Francis and Caron Sciences) Sembal Scholar College Exhibitioner (Materials Science) Economics) Graduates Fernandes Music Prize for Sagar Shah (Engineering, Joseph Cock (Modern Thomas Scott (Materials Clifford Chance Prize for contributing towards the Economics & Management) Languages & Linguistics) Science) IoM3 Prize for Best the Best Performance in musical life of the College ATV Scholar College Exhibitioner Overall Performance in the Magister Juris 2013 was awarded to Maria Imogen Sharkey Ochoa Lucy Eldridge (Human Part I and Part II 2013 Dimitrios-Vasileios Kyriazis Perevedentseva (Music). (Human Sciences) Rose Sciences) College Samuel Tham (Materials (Law) Scholar Exhibitioner Science)

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The Frank Allen Bullock The Michael and Lily The Rupert Katritzky College Travel Awards College Travel Awards Prize for the best piece of Atiyah Prize for the Prize is awarded for the Wallace Watson Award Charlotte Badenoch creative or critical writing best performance in best performance in the Miles Karp (Social & (Modern Languages) was awarded to Laura Mathematics by a second- Final Honour School in Cultural Anthropology) Charlotte Baker (Modern O’Connor (Continuing year was awarded to History was awarded to Robin Lucas (Biological Languages) Education). Alexander Eyers-Taylor George Lowe (History). Sciences) Radhika Chadha (Medical (Mathematics & Computer Sara Lukic (Physics) Sciences) The Gardner Prize for Science). The Smith Award for Charlotte Chapman outstanding contribution to services to Drama within Emilie Harris Award (Biological Sciences) the life of the College was The Michael Atiyah Prize the College was awarded Peter McKenna (History) Michael Collins (Continuing not awarded. in Mathematics for the to Sarah Illingworth Education) best mathematics essay (English Language & Patricia Knapp Award Robert Dorfman (Visiting The Harold Bailey Prize or project written by a St Literature). David Rowland (Medical Student) for Asian Studies was not Catherine’s undergraduate Sciences) Rebecca Elliott (Biological awarded. in his or her second year The Smith Award for Sciences) reading for a degree in services to Music within Philip Fothergill Award Rosemary Lang (Chemistry) The Hart Prize for the Mathematics or joint the College was awarded John Gracey (Education) Michael Livesey (History) best essay on an historical school with Mathematics to Nick Barstow (Music). Francis MacPherson subject by a first- or was not awarded. Barrie Juniper Award (English Language & second-year undergraduate The Stuart Craig Award Laura McLaren (Medical Literature) was awarded to Joseph The Neville Robinson given to an outstanding Sciences) Aiko Morii (Politics & Newall (History). Proxime Prize for the best student who has gained International Relations) accessit Jake Whittaker performance in Physics Part distinction in a university or Raymond Hodgkin Award Max Mutter (Geography & (History). B was awarded to Henry national sport, or cultural Molly Brown (English the Environment) Banks (Physics). or musical activities was Language & Literature) Agata Nasilowska (Medical The Katritzky Prize for not awarded. Sciences) the best performance The Neville Robinson Bullock Travel Award Jacob Page (Chemistry) in Chemistry Part I was Prize for the best The Thomas Jefferson Morwenna Senior (Medical Carla Peters (Biological awarded to Jonathan performance in Physics Part Prize for the North Sciences) Sciences) Mannouch (Chemistry). C was awarded to Benjamin American student who Neil Riley (Medical Hodgson (Physics). has contributed most to Bullock Career Award Sciences) The Katritzky Prize for the the College academically, Robert Blakey Emily Scorer (Modern best performance during The Nick Young socially or culturally ‘in (Experimental Psychology) Languages) the year in History of Art Award was awarded to the spirit of Thomas Hope Simpson (Biological by a second-year was Thomas Larkin (Modern Jefferson’ was awarded to Antony Edwards Bursary Sciences) awarded to Hannah Wills Languages). James Maiarana (Visiting Charlotte Badenoch Edward Steele (History of Art). Student). (Modern Languages) (Mathematics) The Rose Prize for the Ross Williamson (Human Leask Music Scholarships best academic performance The Wilfrid Knapp Prize Mark Davys Bursary Sciences) were awarded to during the year in for the best essay by a Roxanne Reiser (Law with Heather Young (Music) Niamh Furey (Modern Biological Sciences was second-year reading PPE Law Studies in Europe) Languages), Makoto awarded to Benjamin Trigg was awarded to Fergal The Charles Wenden Fund Nakata (Music) Leask (Biological Sciences). Stamp (Philosophy, Politics Teach First Bursary has continued to support Music Scholar and Chloe & Economics). Nathan Jones (History & the sporting life of the Scott (Music). Politics) College. David Ashmore (Chemistry)

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Graduate Degrees & Diplomas

During the academic year 2012-2013 leave to supplicate for the DPhil was granted to the following:

Mohammed Aboulsamh (Computer Science) The Asymmetric Synthesis of Amino Polyols Model-Driven Data Migration Christina Fuhr (Sociology)* David Allen (Medical Sciences) Jewish Identity Construction and Perpetuation in A Study of the Human Platelet Antigen 1a (HPA- Contemporary Britain 1a) Antibody Response in Neonatal Alloimmune Thrombocytopenia (NAIT) Merzaka Lazdam (Medical Sciences) Cardiovascular Impact of Pre-eclampsia on Mother and Ricardo Alves (Zoology) Offspring Avian Malaria Associations with British Mosquitoes Li Lin (Management Studies)* James Anderson (Statistics) Essays on Money, Default and Financial Regulation Probabilistic Models of RNA Secondary Structure Serena Lunardi (Medical Sciences) Thomas Ant (Zoology) Tumour-Stroma Interaction in Pancreatic Cancer Genetic Control of the Olive Fruit Fly, Bactrocera Oleae Tara Mills (Medical Sciences) Sacha Bull (Medical Sciences) Human Genetic Susceptibility to Common Infectious Aortic Stenosis: Pathophysiological Effects on the Diseases in Europe Myocardium and Predictors of Clinical Events Rohan Paul (Engineering Science) Zoe Christodoulou (Medical Sciences) Long Term Appearance-based Mapping with Vision and An Analysis of Non-Coding RNAs in Plasmodium Falciparum Laser and their Potential Role in Antigenic Variation Thorn Pitidol (Social Policy & Social Intervention)* Hussain Contractor (Medical Sciences) The Limits of Community Participation: Examining the Roles The Role of Adenosine in Remote Ischemic Conditioning of Discourse, Institutions and Agency in the Promotion of Community Participation in Thailand Jorge Dagnino (History)* The Federazione Universitaria Cattolica Italiana, 1925-1943 Sara Poxon (Engineering Science) The Mechanical Response of Low to High Density Rohacell Erica Dall’Armellina (Medical Sciences) Foams Applications of 3 Tesla CMR in Acute Coronary Syndromes Bahbibi Rahmatullah (Engineering Science) Aqeela Datoo (Education)* Assessment of Obstetric Ultrasound Images Using Machine Coping with ‘Ethnic’ Conflict: An Analysis of Teacher Learning Responses in Kenya Cesar Ramirez Montes (Law)* Emma Foster (Chemistry) Trade Mark Dilution in Mexico

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Aleks Reinhardt (Chemistry)* Kaushik Bettagere, MSc (C) Software Engineering (part- Ernest Kusi, BCL Computer Simulation of the Homogeneous Nucleation of time) Dimitrios-Vasileios Kyriazis, MJuris † Ice Joanne Bishop, PGCE Larisa Lara Guerrero, MSc (C) Migration Studies Julia Blanco Carol, Diploma in Legal Studies Camilla Leikvoll, MBA † Ruth Schuldiner (English Language & Literature) Isaac Bleaman, MSt Yiddish Studies † Xia Li, PGDipl Diplomatic Studies Conspicuous Silences: Implicature and Fictionality in the Eline Botger, MSc (C) Water Science, Policy & Management Sashenka Lleshaj, MSc (C) Russian & East European Victorian Novel Guillaume Bourda, MBA Studies Hendrik Brackmann, MSc (C) Mathematical & Danyang Lu, MSc (C) Financial Economics Konstantina Skourti-Stathaki (Medical Sciences) Computational Finance † Grant Lubowski, MBA Role of R-loops in Pause-dependent Transcriptional Neil Broadbent, MSc (C) Modern Chinese Studies Áine Mannion, MSt Global & Imperial History Termination of RNA Polymerase II Raquel Catalao, 2nd BM (Graduate Entry) † Marisol Martinez Alanis, MSc (C) Biomedical Engineering Peir Wei Chia, Master of Public Policy Marta Matusiak, MSc (C) Sociology Adrian Smith (Medical Sciences) Melina Christou, MSc (C) Clinical Embryology Michael McLeod, MSc (C) Computer Science † Men who have Sex with Men and HIV Transmission Risks in Massimiliano Colonna, MPhil Modern Japanese Studies Maria McPhee, 2nd BM *† Sub-Saharan Africa: A Kenyan Case Study Renzo Corrias, MPhil Economics Farah Mendjour-Ounissi, MSc (C) Contemporary India Jessica Craske, MSt Women’s Studies Upa Mesbahian, MSt Musicology David Soud (English Language & Literature) Jacopo Crivellaro, BCL † Rebecca Miller, MSc (C) Evidence-Based Health Care Toward a Divinised Poetics: God, Self, and ‘Poiesis’ in W. B. Anne de Geus, Diploma in Legal Studies (part-time) Yeats, David Jones, and T. S. Eliot Edward de Quay, MSc (C) Biodiversity, Conservation & Sumit Mittal, MBA Management * Kashif Mumtaz, MPhil Development Studies Abigail Waldron (Physics) Nicholas Denny, 2nd BM *† Max Mutter, MSc (C) Biodiversity, Conservation & Neutrino Oscillation Parameters from Ve Appearance in the Michel Djandji, MSc (C) Global Governance & Diplomacy Management T2K Experiment Gemina Doolub, MSc (C) Experimental Therapeutics (part- Isobel Neville, 2nd BM * time) Tat Luat Nguyen, MBA † Astrid Woollard (Plant Sciences) Jonathan Fee, 2nd BM * Elizabeth Nye, MSc (C) Evidence-Based Social Intervention † RAB-A2a Dependent Membrane Traffic in Arabidopsis Katrina Fordwor, 2nd BM * Emmi Okada, MPhil Development Studies Thaliana Erik Fraser, MSc (C) Education (Higher Education) Samantha Osborne, MSc (C) Criminology & Criminal Justice Karl Gemayel, MSc (C) Computer Science Kamal Patel, 2nd BM * Huayong Zhao (Engineering Science) Charlotte Goff, MSt Medieval Studies * Samuel Perrin, MBA Combustion and Emissions in GDI Engines Sebastian Gollins, MSc (C) Criminology & Criminal Justice Stephen Pink, PGDipl Theology John Gracey, PGCE James Poxon, MSc (C) Major Programme Management * indicates previous graduate of the College Christa Hansen, MPhil Economics (part-time) William He, MSc (C) Financial Economics David Railton, MSc (C) Comparative Social Policy The following were successful in other examinations: Alexander Herriott, PGCE Tyson Reid, MSc (C) Law & Finance † Richard Higgins, MPhil Development Studies Sophie Richter, 2nd BM Selee Ahn, MSt History of Art & Visual Culture Chun Ngai Ho, BCL Neil Riley, 2nd BM (Graduate Entry) Frederic Akiki, MSc (C) Modern Chinese Studies Emily Hoyal, PGCE Michael Rosenbloom, MSc (C) Social Science of the Rafat Al-Akhali, Master of Public Policy Dmitrij Iakovlev, MSc (C) Financial Economics Internet Abdullahi Ali, Certificate in Diplomatic Studies Alun John, MSc (C) Modern Chinese Studies Daniel Rowe, MSt US History Aman Aman, BCL Myles Karp, MSc (C) Cognitive & Evolutionary Naomi Ryan, BCL Ifeyinwa Aniebo, MSc (C) Global Health Science Anthropology † Melissa Samarin, MSc (C) Russian & East European Studies Winifred Arumemi-Ikhide, 2nd BM * Anna-Kristin Kaufmann, MSc (C) Neuroscience Mariah Samost, MSc (C) Law & Finance Festus Asaaga, MSc (C) Environmental Change & Hanna Kroukamp, MSc (C) Software Engineering (part- Anna Sanktjohanser, MPhil Economics Management time) † Metin Senova, MSc (C) Major Programme Management Jennifer Barrett, MSc (C) Refugee & Forced Migration Xutao Kuang, MSc (C) Mathematical & Computational (part-time) Studies † Finance Athina Siafarika, MJuris

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Keira Skolimowska, 2nd BM (Graduate Entry) † Yui Takishima, MSc (C) Biodiversity, Conservation & Graduate Scholars Management Avi Tandon, BCL Cecilia Biaggi (History) Light Senior Scholar Chad Thatcher, MSc (C) Software Engineering (part-time) † Leah Broad (Music) Allen Senior Music Scholar Jens Tholstrup, MSc (C) Economic & Social History Elena Cagnoli Fiecconi (Philosophy) College Scholar (Arts) Lena Tietze, MSc (C) Modern Chinese Studies Simon Cassidy (Chemistry) Light Senior Scholar Brandon Turner, MSc (C) Radiation Biology Myeonggeun Choi (Engineering Science) Overseas Scholar Yang Wang, MSc (C) Financial Economics Carlos Dastis (Visiting Graduate Student) Max Planck Nina Weaver, MSc (C) Refugee & Forced Migration Studies Fellow Timothy Whitehead, MSc (C) Financial Economics Sarah Finnegan (Medical Sciences) College Scholar Liza Wijker, MSt English (Sciences) David Wilson, MSc (C) Major Programme Management Ryan Foley (Social & Cultural Anthropology) Light Senior (part-time) Scholar Chenwei Zhang, MSc (C) Financial Economics Alexandra Fottinger (Medical Sciences) Light Senior Scholar * indicates previous graduate of the College Judyta Frodyma (English Language & Literature) Overseas † indicates candidates adjudged worthy of distinction by the Scholar Examiners David Hall (Physics) Light Senior Scholar Joshua Hill (Chemistry) Light Senior Scholar Claire Johnstone (English Language & Literature) Wilfrid Knapp Scholar (Arts) Shoshannah Jones Square (English Language & Literature) Overseas Scholar Dilraj Kalsi (Medical Sciences) Glaxo Scholar Wojciech Kozlowski (Physics) Light Senior Scholar Dimitrios-Vasileios Kyriazis (Law) Light Senior Scholar Alpha Lee (Mathematics) Leathersellers’ Company Scholar Jerome Mayaud (Geography & the Environment) College Scholar (Arts) Ikuno Naka (International Development) Kobe Scholar Caterina Paoli (Modern Languages) Random House Scholar Max Pitz (Mathematics) Alan Tayler Scholar Daniel Puleston (Medical Sciences) College Scholar (Sciences) Simao Valente Baptista (Modern Languages) Magellen Scholar Jan Vonk (Mathematics) Leathersellers’ Company Scholar

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across almost entirely pathless terrain up and down James Black fifty of the most remote highland Munros. Due to slightly shambolic preparation, inappropriate kit (2011, Medical Sciences), winner of and savagely awful weather, this became quite the 2012 Wallace Watson Award, writes a tough task. Despite organising food dumps in three villages along the way, my pack about his trip to the northern highlands weighed 25 kgs at the start, mostly consisting of Scotland to summit fifty Munros (the of dry sausage, dry pasta, pistachio nuts and porridge. Cooking in the evenings was made highest of Scotland’s mountains). no easier by me forgetting to bring the burner for the methylated spirits I was using, or by the In the summer of 2012, with the help of the fact that my food was all soaked in bogwater Wallace Watson Award, I embarked on a month-long after I fell into a marsh on the first day. Finding unassisted solo trek in the northern highlands of appropriate spots to camp was also a challenge. Scotland. Too exposed and the poles in my mountain tent would shatter due to the wind, too sheltered and I aimed to summit fifty Munros during the course of the my tent would be covered in deer keds and midges month. A Munro is a Scottish mountain whose summit (two types of evil insect) so that no light could get into is over 3000 ft above sea level and there are 282 in it in the morning. Another problem centred around not total. Since they were classified by Sir Hugh Munro in being able to charge the various electrical items I relied the 1890s, hundreds of people have attempted to climb upon; in retrospect, taking a solar charger to one of the them all, many taking a whole lifetime to achieve this. wettest parts of Europe was, perhaps, a mistake.

The highlands and islands of Scotland contain some Any doubt I had about the remoteness of the areas I of the most remote mountain wilderness regions in was travelling in was put to rest in the first week as Europe; there are areas as big as Greater Manchester I went five days through Knoydart and around Loch with no roads or permanent inhabitants. They can be Quoich without seeing another soul. I must have dangerous places to travel, and each year many people looked a particularly sorry sight as in Kinlochourn and lose their lives in mountain accidents in these areas. Arnisdale, two tiny coastal hamlets, I was offered charity in the form of food, dry clothes and shelter firstly by a James Black (2011, Medical Sciences), completing his Over the course of the month, I walked nearly 400 Bed & Breakfast owner and then by a Dutch family who journey at the summit of Beinn miles, wending my way northwards from Fort William were holidaying in the area for the week! Tarsuinn

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...being picked Just as I was starting to find a rhythm, the weather with me. Unwilling to get my paper map out of my bag took a turn for the worse as Scotland experienced for fear it would disintegrate, I guessed a route off one up of my feet some terrible summer storms. Unfortunately, my tight Munro, A’Mhaighdean, in thick cloud, and accidentally on a ridge in schedule meant I was somewhat obliged to keep headed the wrong way towards the northern cliffs of climbing whatever the conditions; being picked up of the mountain. After much berating of myself for the Glen Affric by my feet on a ridge in Glen Affric by 100 mph winds predicament I was in, I attempted to descend the cliffs is something I will not forget for a very long time. in foul weather. This resulted in me falling 30 ft from 100 mph winds Similarly, trying to negotiate the rocky pinnacles of the the top of a sandstone cliff. Fortunately for me I landed is something I Liathach ridge in gale-force winds was quite terrifying. on my rucksack, and so although almost everything in my possesion was broken, my neck, back, legs and arms will not forget Having summited forty-four munros, at the end of were thankfully spared! my trip I entered Fisherfield, the so-called ‘Great for a very long Wilderness’ of the British Isles, to collect the ‘Big Six’ After some sketchy self-first aid I managed to limp on, time Munros over four days in this enormous region. The and finished my fifty-Munro objective on Beinn Tarsuinn conditions there were brutal and unrelenting; it did not on the last day of my month. My return to civilisation stop raining for the duration of my visit, wind speeds was made doubly memorable by an American tourist were often in excess of 80 mph, and visibility was not offering to pay for ‘all I could drink’ that evening, a too much better than the nose in front of your face. It decision I am certain he later regretted. was here that my lack of preparation at last caught up Though the trip was tough, it was extremely rewarding overall. These days, many travel far afield to find isolation or wilderness. Often, all that is found when trekking up Mount Kilimanjaro or at Everest Base Camp are more people and an altered form of civilisation. During my time in the highlands, I learned that we have our own, often-overlooked, rugged and unspoiled landscape on our doorstep. Despite my numerous mishaps, I am very grateful to the Wallace Watson Award for funding me, motivating me and keeping me going – I would undoubtedly have otherwise given up.

The northern highlands on a The lessons the trip taught me will stay with me for a dry day very long time. n n

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come: from a bird’s eye view, Montaigne’s château, its Amaryllis Barton extensive grounds, and rolling hills of vines resembled something from a fairytale. Nevertheless, I could never (2011, English & Modern Languages) have predicted what I would find when I arrived, huge red writes about her summer living in rucksack in tow, at the château entrance.

Michel de Montaigne’s 16th-century Living and working in the château incorporated several château. aspects of a 1980s horror film crossed with a Famous Five novel: rabid bats inhabited the corridors, a sinister cat aptly named Balzac skulked in the courtyard, and I even After two years of studying French at Oxford, my discovered a boarded up trapdoor underneath the iron French vocabulary includes the words for hawthorn bedstead in my château bedroom. Most of my working (courtesy of Proust), bowler hat, and opera glasses. day was spent in the 16th-century tower, often swerving While these words are exceedingly useful when past bats with a penchant for scaring the visitors, whilst translating pernickety passages of literary French, piecing together Montaigne’s life from the few artefacts they are, sadly, less helpful when negotiating which remained: a huge wooden chest, his journal, some elbow-room-only markets, hordes of sullen French paintings and various murals daubed on the walls. In teenagers, or indeed notorious French bureaucracy. effect, the tower, chapel, library, and grounds were mine to explain and mine to weave into a story. With this in mind, I decided to find a position where I could improve my everyday spoken French. I managed This job literally allowed me to hold the key to to find a job where knowledge of quaint, or downright Montaigne’s legacy – and a very large, heavy, gold key antiquated, French might come in useful: being a tour it was too. But it was also something of a responsibility: guide at 16th-century writer Montaigne’s château in teenagers tentatively beginning their studies looked to the Dordogne. me to summarise Montaigne’s entire collected works in seconds; casual readers clung to the anecdotes I After learning the tour guide’s script, packing the recounted; and visiting Montaigne experts wasted no entire collected Essais of Montaigne and committing time telling me their opinion. The château has had its fair to memory several sheets of facts about the château’s share of famous visitors too: several years ago the Prince vineyard and wines, I set off for this medieval haven in of Monaco made a trip, and during my stay Tilda Swinton, south-west France. Prior to leaving the UK, a Google Michael de Montaigne’s a little-known fan of Montaigne’s dry wit and wisdom, search had whetted my appetite for the adventure to château and Alain Legros, a prominent Montaigne critic, visited us.

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Pilgrims of Montaigne and Renaissance literature come farfetched experiences. I certainly never realised a ...casual from far and wide to visit the château which, despite ninety-minute flight could plunge me several hundred being a jewel in France’s literary heritage, is essentially years back in time. My initial aim to speak better readers left at the disposal of a few young workers. ‘everyday’ French was thus not entirely realised, but clung to the then again, where else would I learn about the way Indeed, with the tourists gone in the early evening, of life, traditions, and slang of fourth-generation anecdotes I we were left to roam the vineyards and surrounding Dordogne vintners? countryside, appreciating the château and its grounds recounted; just as Montaigne would have done. However, being My year abroad continues and I now find myself in and visiting left alone in violent storms which struck down trees, another little-known corner of France, teaching English shattered windows and brought widespread power at two boarding schools in the Creuse. The region is Montaigne cuts was less than ideal. But with the opportunity to the epitome of la France profonde; it’s the sort of discover (by midnight of course) the château’s decrepit place where most of the children have a pet duck experts wasted towers and secret wine cellar, these inconveniences rather than a pet hamster. It is also the least populated no time telling were soon forgotten. département in France; its population has not recovered since the First World War. Once again, I feel as though me their A year abroad needn’t be exotic to be exciting, and I’m living in a time warp – but I wouldn’t have it any opinion you don’t need to go to a far-flung place to have some other way. n

Amaryllis Barton (2011, English & Modern Languages), who spent her summer at Michael de Montaigne’s château and vineyard Michael de Montaigne’s château and vineyard

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Kirstie Smith (2010, History) writes about her journey – and success – with Oxford University Company of Archers.

‘Hey, do you want to try archery?’ ‘Who, me?’ ‘Yes, you. Have you done it before?’ ‘Um, I think once or twice, but I don’t . . .’ ‘Great! Just leave your e-mail address here, and turn up to one of our have-a-goes in a week’s time.’

My journey with Oxford University Company of Archers (OUCofA) therefore began because I was too scared to say ‘no’ to a very persistent person on the stall at Fresher’s Fair. The ‘once or twice’ I mentioned were a few arrows shot at village fairs and the like – nothing more. I had no experience whatsoever of the sport, but I decided to turn up to a few sessions anyway, just to see what they were like.

In my first try, I managed to hit almost everything but the target and I broke the bow I was given. It was fun though, and the people coaching me were very patient with my clumsiness, so I was encouraged to keep coming back. Over time I got better, but slowly – I wasn’t picked to go to competitions for a very long time, and there were many other beginners that outstripped me quickly. I didn’t mind, however, because I had discovered that archery

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was the perfect activity for relaxing in between essays, requiring you to clear your mind and focus in order to have a hope of hitting the gold. Plus, you didn’t need to run around, which was perfect for someone unfit like me! The people were friendly, socials were fantastic, and it was a welcome weekly distraction. What wasn’t to like?

In fact, I was having so much fun that I didn’t really notice the gradual effect my practice was having. I bought my own bow, started entering competitions, shot reasonably at Varsity, and moved out of the novice category after my first year. I was good enough to start coaching the next generation of novices, but I wasn’t really good in thrashing Cambridge at Varsity, becoming only the second Kirstie Smith (2010, History) my own mind, because so many other people were so ever archery full Blue in the process; and most incredible celebrating becoming British Universities & Colleges Sport much better! I was happy just to act as backup to the real of all, became BUCS (British Universities & Colleges national archery champion archers. Sport) national champion not once but twice, something no other OUCofA archer has done. This last victory was I had discovered But shooting two or three times a week for three years definitely one of the best moments of my life, because it will have an effect on anyone, and my scores began to was so unexpected and yet everyone was pleased that I that archery rise accordingly. I wasn’t really aware of this until one day had managed it. The OUCofA team came second overall I got it into my head to look up the club records – and in both BUCS competitions, also winning the British was the found that the leader for my category was only a point University Team Championships outright, meaning that my perfect activity above my current personal best! Somehow I managed contributions were just some of a string of triumphs for to keep my head together, and the next session I broke the club as a whole. for relaxing the record (which had stood since 1987) by some way. in between Suddenly I realised that, yes, I was good too. Regardless of my success, however, I’m still indebted to many people – to my coaches, for being patient with me; essays, In the weeks and months that followed, this new to Catz, for helping me buy the equipment I needed; and confidence took me to greater and greater heights. I to the friends I’ve made, for supporting me and making requiring you to started beating people I never imagined I could beat, the whole experience so much fun. This year has been clear your mind including some of the people who had coached me! I OUCofA’s best ever, and I’m proud to have been even a won the Southern Counties Championship; participated in small part of that. n and focus...

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Peter McKenna (2011, History), winner of the 2012 Emilie Harris Award, writes of his summer volunteering with TravelAid in Sichuan province, China.

Last summer I went to Sichuan province, China, as part of a group of five Oxford students through a project organised by the international development charity TravelAid, which oversees educational projects around the world. Having worked hard fundraising in Trinity term, we exceeded our target of £2000 – thanks to all within the Catz community who so generously helped us achieve this goal.

The project involved teaching in two schools, one in Chengdu and another in Nanchong. Originally we had Peter McKenna (2011, History) volunteering in Sichuan province, planned to teach and stay in boarding schools, but two China days before leaving we were informed by our Chinese coordinator that flooding and mud slides made the understood what I meant when trying to explain my nut area in which these schools were located impossible to allergy), and suddenly it all seemed rather daunting. reach. Thankfully, our contact was able to rearrange the Much was dependent on the coordinator who worked trip, with one fairly significant alteration – we would be with TravelAid, with whom we had corresponded only by staying with Chinese host families. email before leaving.

We arrived in Chengdu airport with virtually no clue Thankfully, our coordinator, Chen, met us at the where we would be living or how we would be getting airport and safely delivered each of us to a different there; we had begun to realise how problematic the host family. The families turned out to be incredibly language barrier would be (safe to say nobody really friendly and welcoming, although it must be said we

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weren’t quite ready for some of the food they insisted After a month of teaching, three of the group left Although we eat! We soon became very much engrossed in Sichuan behind together for ten days of travelling, our Sichuan culture in a way that probably wouldn’t have final destination being a flight home from Hong Kong. the speed happened if we had all stayed together – staying Although the speed at which we traversed this huge at which we with host families, first in Chengdu and then in distance proved taxing, we shared some incredible Nanchong, although challenging (no one but a experiences and saw some unmissable views. The traversed this rather uncommunicative fourteen-year-old in my highlight was probably two days spent in Dehang, a second family spoke any English) proved to be very rural village surrounded by luscious scenery, although huge distance worthwhile. unbearable heat, rats, snakes, spiders, and mosquitoes proved taxing, at times tested the group’s resolve. Before we reached Teaching in Chengdu took place in a newly developed Hong Kong, a storm collapsed the tunnel our train should we shared government community centre. Children of various have gone through (the weather very much seemed ages from the suburbs of the city and the nearby to be against us throughout the trip), which ultimately some incredible agricultural areas came for English language teaching. meant we only spent one (highly enjoyable) evening in experiences... Many of these proved to be much younger than we Hong Kong, a city which surely warrants a return trip. were expecting – as young as six – and so often we We safely made it back to the UK, struggling slightly to were faced with added difficulties of keeping our return to normality but full of fond memories of the trip. students’ attention as much as trying to improve their I’d like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank the Peter McKenna (2011, History) English! It was, however, incredibly rewarding and we College and Emilie’s Charities for their generous support volunteering in Nanchong left Chengdu with fond memories of the (often cheeky which helped make the trip possible. n School but always good hearted) kids we taught.

Nanchong proved to be a different experience, the students being much older – anywhere between twelve and eighteen. Lessons were more advanced, with subjects ranging from History and Politics (thankfully not a sensitive issue in our schools) to popular culture and London sightseeing being used to open up class discussion. The students took an awful lot on board in our time there, and the experience certainly forced me to reflect on my own assumptions regarding pertinent issues in both China and the West.

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Shaun Johnson (1982, Social Studies) on being Chief Executive of The Mandela Rhodes Foundation, which celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2013

Established as a partnership between the College. He told me that Oxford would be a would never take now! I became very involved in Rhodes Trust and Nelson Mandela, the real jolt for me but that, at St Catherine’s, I the media, and magnificently my political hopes central purpose of The Mandela Rhodes would fit in. began to come to fruition as the apartheid Foundation is to build exceptional leadership government began to weaken. Mandela was capacity in Africa through the provision I remain emotionally loyal to St Catherine’s, freed and democracy eventually installed. of excellent educational opportunities to because what I found when I arrived here was That, for me, was absolutely miraculous.’ individual Africans with leadership potential. that it really did embrace bright young people from troubled places, and South Africa in the On the beginnings of The Mandela Rhodes The Foundation’s Chief Executive Shaun early 1980s was a deeply troubled place. I had Foundation … Johnson (1982, Social Studies) returned to never been out of South Africa before, and I St Catherine’s in September 2013 to celebrate was genuinely looked after by Lord Bullock, ‘In a normalised country I was running a large the Foundation’s first ten years. Here he who happen to be at the bottom of my media company, and my life was going in a shares with us his experiences so far, and, staircase – staircase 8, and Sir Patrick Nairne. certain direction. Suddenly, unbeknownst to with the passing of its iconic patron Nelson St Catherine’s was absolutely extraordinary for me, a conversation took place between Rolhilahla Mandela in December 2013, his me, and I feel a huge debt of gratitude to this Rhodes House and Mr Mandela’s circle. It was hopes for the Foundation’s future. College for that time.’ the centenary of the Rhodes Trust, and the Trustees wanted to mark the occasion, to On his time at St Catherine’s College … On his media career in South Africa … recognise where the money came from that gave such opportunities to Rhodes Scholars ‘A very big thing happened in my coming to ‘I had been very politically involved from a young ranging from myself to Bill Clinton. Mr Mandela Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and St Catherine’s age in the anti-apartheid movement in South agreed to the establishment of The Mandela in particular. I went to my favourite professor, Africa. When I finished at St Catherine’s, South Rhodes Foundation. Terence Beard, and asked which College I Africa was entering an absolutely critical period. should choose. He, having been a member of I went back and joined a newspaper called The Extraordinarily, I was approached to set up and St Catherine’s Society, advised St Catherine’s Weekly Mail, and took risks that rationally I lead the Foundation. It was such an honour,

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Now we have been set the challenge of doubling the Scholarship Programme, and of extending are at an further into the rest of Africa.’ intercession, On what makes an exceptional leader … and ‘The Foundation’s four basic principles, everything which are based on the best achievements we promised of Mandela and Rhodes, are reconciliation, education, entrepreneurship, and leadership, ten years captured in the acronym REEL. Our definition of leadership is very broad, as there is no one ago we have way to be leader. All of our Mandela Rhodes delivered Scholars are so diverse, but if I had to use only one word to define exceptional leadership then it would be integrity.’ Shaun Johnson, Chief Executive of the Mandela Rhodes Foundation, and the Master, Professor Roger Ainsworth On Nelson Mandela’s legacy … and an unbelievably unexpected change, but legacies of reconciliation and leadership and I have loved it. I have had a very interesting those of entrepreneurship and education.’ ‘As Mandela himself said, “Already the Mandela career, none of it planned, but things happened Rhodes Scholarships are changing the lives of and when given an opportunity I grabbed it. On the future of The Mandela Rhodes young Africans, who will play vital roles in the Foundation … future of the continent. The achievements of Incidentally, only Mandela would have agreed The Mandela Rhodes Foundation so far have that the Foundation could carry the names of ‘So far, The Mandela Rhodes Foundation been remarkable, but it is its future potential two such contrasting figures of South African has supported more than 200 scholars from that is most exciting.” history – himself, the great liberator of the eighteen different African countries. It has twentieth century, and Rhodes, the imperialist secured an endowment large enough to sustain Africa is teeming with high-minded leadership ‘colossus’ of the nineteenth century. The up to fifty scholars in residence every year. potential that simply has to be recognised, bringing together of these two names explicitly Now we are at an intercession, and everything mentored, and nurtured in emulation of the represented a symbolic moment in the closing we promised ten years ago we have delivered. greatest statesman of the twentieth century, of the historic circle; drawing together the It’s quite exciting to now look forward, and I Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela.’ n

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Simon Winchester (1963, Geology), on his latest book The Men Who United the States

In 1963 it was still a building site, more became an American citizen. Following the concrete hell than cloistered hall, but now ceremony, held aboard the USS Constitution the College has had time to grow into in Boston harbour, I reflected on America itself. It’s brilliantly modern, and all the which, at the time, could be said to be feeling better for it.’ disillusioned with itself. I wanted to write a book that reminded everybody what a great Simon Winchester (1963, Geology) signing a copy of On his varied career … experiment the United States is, and so began his latest book The Men Who United the States the idea for The Men Who United the States ‘When I left St Catherine’s in 1966, I could – a celebration of America’s most essential Celebrated journalist and author, Simon not imagine the path my career would take. explorers, thinkers, and innovators, and how Winchester (1963, Geology) was welcomed From geologist, to globe-trotting journalist, they played a pivotal role in creating today’s back to St Catherine’s on Tuesday 26 to bestselling author, it has all been so United States.’ November 2013 to present his latest book unexpected yet so wonderful. Becoming an The Men Who United the States. Honorary Fellow of the College in 2009, and On the book’s structure … receiving my OBE for services to journalism Simon, who had recently completed a and literature in 2006, were particular ‘Faced with the task of structuring the book nationwide promotional book tour of the USA, honours. I couldn’t be happier.’ I decided that, rather than a straightforward gave an enthralling introduction to his book, chronology, instead I would borrow the five which explores the extraordinary story of how On the origins of his latest book … so-called classical elements of “eastern America was united into a single nation. thought”; Wood, Earth, Water, Fire, and ‘I have been fascinated by the United States Metal. Each element represents what can be On how St Catherine’s has changed … ever since I first hitchhiked across it in 1963, considered a “unifying force”, and so seemed and I have lived in America (on and off) to me like a logical way of placing into ‘The College has changed a great deal – for since the 1960s, but it was only on 4 July context the basic themes behind the making the better – since I was a student here. 2011 that I took the oath of citizenship and and joining of the United States.

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For example, the ancient forests that early figure. He was a member of the uber-elite, a explorers confronted (Wood); the rivers and graduate of Harvard and Yale, who chose to canals used to facilitate trade (Water); the live a double life. He created an alter ego and iron mast of radio (Metal), and so on. secretly married a black woman and former slave, Ada Copeland. He lived with her in New When researching the book, I came across so York for twenty years, and never told her his many fascinating facts. It’s impossible to talk real identity as a renowned geologist. On about them all here, so I shall choose just his death certificate, the doctor scored out three of the things that struck me the most:’ the options of “black” and “white”, instead simply writing “American” as the race of the On the place that united the States … deceased.’

‘East Liverpool is a small town in Ohio that On the invention that united the States … holds an immensely important place in the history of the United States, yet few people ‘Reginald Fessenden was the man who first know why. In fact an obelisk at the edge transmitted human voice over radio waves of the town, (once known as the Crockery in 1906. He built a huge radio transmitter Capital of the USA), serves as the starting in a place called Brant Rock, Massachusetts, point for the north-south, east-west grid lines and adapted the technology to carry human national conversation to begin; America organising America. The point was set by speech for the first time. Fessenden first began talking to herself by radio, and it Thomas Hutchins, the first Geographer of the sent a message using Morse Code to ships changed everything.’ United States, following the passing of the out in the Atlantic. He told them to tune Land Ordinance of 1785 which gave Americans in just before midnight on Christmas Eve. It Final thoughts … the right to own land; the obelisk to the west happened to be a dark and stormy night; of the Ohio River is the “Point of Beginning”.’ there was a blizzard in the northwest Atlantic ‘I think our experience in Europe shows how just off Cape Cod, Long Island Sound. The very difficult it is for a polyglot peoples to be On the person who helped unite the ships get the message and turn on their welded into one. It is, to me, quite remarkable States … radios at midnight, and they heard Emmi that a nation full of as many peoples and Leisner singing from Handel’s Xerxes. This ethnic varieties and languages and religious ‘Clarence King, a brilliant geologist, was was the first music ever transmitted in the affiliations can nonetheless call itself united. appointed head of the US Geological Survey world. Radio listeners had never heard Unity is something that extraordinary men in the late 19th century. He’s a fascinating anything like this before. This enabled the brought to the USA.’ n

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Celebrating 100 Years of Benjamin Britten with Jeff Hewitt (1965, Chemistry), Mark Simpson (2008, Music), and Tom Phillips CBE (1957, English)

METAMORPHOSIS: A COMPOSITION in length, using the idea of metamorphosis. judges Martyn Harry and Robert Saxton. All COMPETITION FOR YOUNG COMPOSERS The inspiration for this theme was Benjamin the entries were of a very high standard, and Britten’s ‘Six Metamorphoses after Ovid’ for we were happily able to award a first, second, The College was delighted to host a solo oboe. and joint-third prize, with commendations and composition competition for young composers book tokens for the school-aged entrants, of in autumn 2013. Professor Peter Franklin, The judging panel comprised Robert Saxton, which there was a promisingly large number as Fellow in Music, was the force behind the Professor of Composition at the University, well as University-based entrants!’ initiative, which was generously funded by Dr Martyn Harry, and St Catherine’s alumnus St Catherine’s alumnus Jeff Hewitt (1965, composer and clarinettist Mark Simpson The overall winner of the competition was Chemistry). (2008, Music). Mark performed four of the Thomas Shelley, who took away the first prize shortlisted entries to an audience in the Mary of £500. Lewis Coenen-Rowe of University The competition was for Oxfordshire-based Sunley Building at St Catherine’s, before the College, Oxford, took second place and a composers aged between 15 and 25 years, and judges retired to make their verdict. prize of £200. Third place was jointly awarded was designed to tie in with the culmination to Eugene Birman of Christ Church, Oxford, of the Britten in Oxford festival, a year-long Commenting on the competition, Mark said, ‘It and John Wadsworth of St John’s College, celebration of the composer Benjamin Britten. was such a pleasure to be asked by Professor Oxford, who each took away £100. Special Britten was one of the greatest musicians of Peter Franklin to be involved in the creation commendation was given to two school-aged the twentieth century, and he remains the of a composition competition for Oxfordshire entrants, Jan Elsner and Anthony Bracey, who most performed British composer to this day. based composers, designed to coincide with each received a special prize of £50. The Benjamin Britten’s centenary celebrations. After shortlisted composers were also invited to that The final of the competition was held on the entries were submitted we chose four to Friday evening’s Centenary Birthday Concert Friday 22 November 2013, which was also perform live, and invited all the composers held at the Sheldonian Theatre. the 100th anniversary of Britten’s birth. The along to discuss writing for the clarinet, task for the competitors was to compose a composition teaching at the University, and The competition was a wonderful opportunity work for solo clarinet, of three to five minutes Benjamin Britten with myself and fellow to engage local musicians with St Catherine’s

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and with the University’s Music Faculty, and it is hugely encouraging that such a high standard of entries were received from both L-R: Jeff Hewitt, Robert Saxton, Thomas Shelley, Mark Simpson, Martyn Harry, Peter Franklin at the Metamorphosis school-aged entrants as well as university Composition Competition Final held at St Catherine’s College students; a fitting tribute to the composer, performer, and educator Benjamin Britten. The coin, which was issued on Monday 2 could there be than “Blow, bugle, blow: set September 2013, is the first decimalised the wild echoes flying”?’ BRITTEN’S CENTENARY MARKED WITH NEW British currency to feature poetry. The new 50P COIN 50p is inlaid with the line ‘Blow Bugle Blow, Tom joked that he wanted to avoid the loss set the wild echoes flying’, taken from of Britain’s ‘heads or tails’ custom, and so St Catherine’s alumnus and Honorary Fellow, Tennyson’s poem The Splendour Falls on chose to feature the line of poetry instead of artist Tom Phillips (1957, English) has Castle Walls, which Britten set to music in his Britten’s head. designed a new 50p coin. The Royal Mint Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings. commissioned it to mark the centenary of the Kevin Clancy, Director Royal Mint Museum, birth of Benjamin Britten. Commenting on his choice of design, Tom said ‘Britten is one of the great British said, ‘What I wanted the coin to speak of cultural figures of the 20th century so it is was music. Thus the stave soon entered wholly appropriate that Tom Phillips, himself a the design and his name married well with composer, should have designed the coin to the stave. The natural accompaniment with commemorate Britten’s birth.’ Britten’s passion for poetry as our preeminent composer of opera and song, was some kind Though primarily known as an artist, Tom of key quotation. The words which eventually Phillips is also celebrated in musical circles, suggested themselves, come from the and he once sang Britten’s Spring Symphony Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings. What as part of the Philharmonia Chorus, with 2013 Benjamin Britten 50p coin, designed by Tom Phillips better clarion call for a musical anniversary Britten himself conducting. n

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Karin Sinniger (1983, Jurisprudence) on diving for a World Record

As a child, I wanted to be a fish. My After six years in New York, I joined the parents had to tear me off the coral reefs oil industry and moved from the USA to I was lucky to explore while growing up Switzerland, Azerbaijan, and Africa. Every time in the Philippines. In time, I became a I went on a business trip to a new country, corporate lawyer, but I never forgot my I would try and sneak in a dive. I have been love for the sea. living in Angola for nearly seven years working as BP Angola’s Vice-President for Legal I left Catz in 1987 to get an LLM in the USA Services. Earlier this year, I was promoted and and then a job at a prestigious law firm made responsible for all of BP’s ‘upstream’ servicing Wall Street clients. I now had the legal work on the African continent, which gives Karin Sinniger (1983, Jurisprudence), World Record money to learn to dive but no time. However, me even more opportunities to travel and dive. holder for having scuba dived in the most countries New York being the city that never sleeps, there was a dive shop offering classes starting In 2005, I joined an expedition to the Chagos In February this year I at 11.00 pm, and because the pool rental Islands in the British Indian Ocean Territory. fees during those hours were so low, they There I met an Irishman who was a member of literally dived into the only charged $99 for a diving certification. I the Travelers’ Century Club, an extreme travel recall hair in the drains and band-aids floating club that divides the world into 321 countries record books by scuba in the water because they only cleaned the and territories that its members strive to get to. diving with an elephant pool in the mornings, but it set me up well I already had far more than the 100 countries for my later diving adventures. required to join the club and decided that I in the Andaman Islands, would try and visit and dive in as many of these I was hooked and spent time learning to cave countries as I could. I have now been to 224 India. It was the 115th and ice dive and do complex wreck penetrations countries and logged over 1,000 dives in 130 country I had dived in on mixed gas back when the recreational dive countries. community considered us cowboys on ‘voodoo hippos (lake Chad), sea lions (Peru) and great gas’. Diving was also a good way to pursue I’ve been shot at by African border guards white sharks (South Africa); dived under the another passion of mine, travelling. (Cameroon); dodged crocodiles (Botswana), ice with Santa Claus (Iceland), in volcano

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craters (El Salvador), in caves (Bahamas and minutes. It was wonderful being able to dive Mexico), trains (US) and submarines (Marshall under him and sing to him – elephants are very Islands). I even sneaked into the Democratic curious and he kept turning round to see the Republic of Congo underwater from Zambia source of the noise. He swims really fast so it under the noses of RPG (rocket-propelled was tough keeping up with him! grenade) wielding soldiers! The adage ‘You Only Have One Life – Dive Karin diving off the SS Coolidge, Santo, Vanuatu

In February this year I dived into the record It Well’ rings true to me. There are so many Karin diving Silfra, Iceland books by scuba diving with an elephant in neat places to explore and dive in. Most the Andaman Islands, India. It was the 115th dive magazines feature the established dive country I had dived in. I’d had diving with Rajan destinations that pay advertising dollars, but on my list for a long time and by now he was there is so much more to explore. I really like 63, so I decided I had better not waste any time the hard to get to places where it is logistically doing that dive! challenging to arrange dives. You have to be very good at planning and persuasive. I don’t Rajan is the last of the ocean-swimming take no for an answer easily! You never know elephants. The elephants don’t like losing their when you might find that awesome dive that depth, so they have to be taught to swim. will live in your memory forever. Thus, when the timber trade was outlawed in the Andamans, they also outlawed teaching I’m thrilled that I’m being recognised for elephants to swim. You can only dive with Rajan something other than my day job. I work very twelve times a year because they don’t want hard but also know how to make the time to to turn him into a circus act. They take this explore the world and experience some of its very seriously. The first time I tried to dive with wonders. I’m also happy that I’ve been able to him, he was only in the water for two minutes achieve this despite not working in the diving before running out. They didn’t force him back industry. It just shows how much you can in. The second time he swam for twenty three achieve if you have a goal and stick to it. n

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James Phillips (1996, English) has written and directed a new play, Hidden In The Sand, News in Brief which opened in London in October 2013. Based on the aftermath of the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus, Hidden In The Sand is Susie Boyt (1988, inspiring women to be more confident, a love story interwoven with politics. Set English) has had creative, and make the most of their between London and Cyprus, the play follows her acclaimed talents. Ladies Who Impress host live the fortunes of a displaced Greek Cypriot tied autobiographical celebrations where Jana has interviewed to the past. Amy Kirle of Fourthwall Magazine memoir, My Judy personalities including theatre director described the play as ‘. . . a beautiful master Garland Life, Marianne Elliott, founder of Rubies in the class, brilliantly directed and written by James adapted for the Rubble Jenny Dawson, chef Anna Hansen, Phillips displaying the realistic difficulties that stage. The play, Olympic rower Katherine Grainger, writer come with life and love . . .’ which tells the story Xiaolu Guo, Telegraph columnist Alice Arnold, of growing up under the spell of and businesswoman Helena Morrissey CBE of Andrew Triggs Hodge (2004, Geography Judy Garland, will star musical theatre actress the Woman’s Hour Power List. and the Environment) has been named Sally Ann Triplett, who has been cast in the as rowing’s Olympic Athlete of the Year for role of Judy Garland. The play is due to open To find out more about Ladies Who Impress 2013. Twice Olympic champion (2008 Beijing at Nottingham Playhouse in February 2014. and get involved, please go to www. Olympic Games), and current men’s eight ladieswhoimpress.com world champion, he was presented with Jane Platt (1975, Modern Languages), the British Olympic Association trophy in current Chief Executive of National Savings Piers Torday (1993, English) November 2013 by the British Olympic and Investments, was appointed Master of has been nominated for Association’s Life Vice-President Dame the Worshipful Company of International the prestigious 2014 Di Ellis. Bankers in September 2013. She is the first CILIP Carnegie Book female Master to be elected to the role. Award for his children’s Andy has also been involved in some Earlier in the year Jane was awarded a CBE novel The Last Wild. The schools outreach work. Commenting on for Financial Service to the UK. Times has said The Last the experience he said: Wild is ‘... as critical to Jana Bakunina (1999, Economics & the new generation as ‘Going back home to my school (Upper Management) founded Ladies Who Impress, Tarka The Otter. Highly Wharfedale School, North Yorkshire) was a forum celebrating female role models and recommended.’ a wonderful moment to think back to who

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I was when I was 14. Quite a different person, but very recognisable in some of the new kids A Pen Portrait at the school. In the same room I had assembly, lunch and our indoor sports activities, myself, As we celebrate at the 2014 Catz Ball, we Helena Horsburgh (2010, Modern Languages print a contribution from our commemorative & Linguistics), and a representative from book, St Catherine’s, Oxford: A Pen Portrait, Skipton Building Society who sponsored the remembering the first College ball of 1964. workshop, held the audience for 2 hours. Our mission was to try to prise their minds open to Peter Thompson (1962, Law) the idea that there is more in the world that they can possibly imagine, and that the only ‘1964. The College buildings were nearly complete. The JCR voted for an inaugural way to find out what they’re best at, is to go Summer Ball and I was elected Chairman of the Ball Committee. It was a daunting and find out about as much of it as possible. task: no experience, no idea how many tickets we might sell, budget off the tops of our heads, and not certain where the building project would have got to by June. We They’ve already had one door closed by failing booked Monty Sunshine’s Paramount Jazz Band, The Falling Leaves (Oxford rock band their 11+, but that doesn’t stop them achieving who soon disappeared from view), Cy Grant as cabaret, and loads of food and drink. great things, like attending Oxford or becoming Preparations seemed to take months. On the night before, our chief lighting man, an Olympian. The only thing that will is if they Andrew Todd-Pocropek was fixing cables on the JCR roof and just walked off into the believe all doors are closed. I hope we managed darkness! Miraculously he landed in a soft part of the garden and reappeared in one to change some of their perspectives!’ n piece. When the Visitor, HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, came three weeks before the Ball, I presented him with a complimentary ticket, pointing out “it’s a double ticket, Andy Triggs Hodge (2004, Geography and the so if you’d like to bring a partner ...” The press picked it up, as intended, but sadly it Environment) inspiring pupils at his old school Upper didn’t provoke a rush for tickets. We lost money. The Chairman had to stand up and be Wharfedale School in North Yorkshire counted before the JCR, which was uncomfortable, but can’t have been too bad because they elected him President for the following term. Subsequent Balls have been more sumptuous, more profitable and more spectacular, but I’ll never forget The First!’

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College Events 2014 London Party 2014 Monday 9 June 2014, 6.30 – 8.30pm Saturday 15 February St Catz Ball Thursday 20 February Stephen Fry’s Inaugural Cameron Mackintosh Lecture The Stationers’ Company Saturday 8 March Rowing Society AGM & Dinner Stationers’ Hall, Ave Maria Lane, EC4M 7DD Saturday 8 March Degree Day The venue for this year’s London party will be Saturday 15 March Parents’ and Freshers’ Lunch the Stationers’ Hall. Invitations will be sent Friday 21 March Oxford Intercollegiate Golf Tournament, Frilford Heath Golf Club out to those living in London and the Home Friday 21 March Hong Kong Reunion Dinner Counties. If you live outside this area, but Saturday 12 April New York Drinks Reception would still like to attend, please contact the Development Office directly. Saturday 10 May Degree Day Monday 12 May Women in Politics Lecture E: [email protected] Monday 9 June The London Party T: +44 1865 281 596 Sunday 21 June Parents’ and Second Years’ Garden Party* Saturday 28 June Gaudy for 1962-1972 Matriculands* Saturday 5 July Family Day* Saturday 12 July Degree Day Friday 25 July Degree Day Saturday 26 July Degree Day Friday 1 August Degree Day Saturday 2 August Degree Day Friday 19 September Degree Day Saturday 20 September Degree Day Thursday 25 September Enterprising Women Lecture Saturday 8 November Degree Day

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Announcing our new The College Time Capsule The College Enigmatist, Chris Maslanka (1973, Physics) offers the next clue, in a series of 50, Gaudy Schedule to the contents of the time capsule buried underneath St Catherine’s College. As Oxford traditions go, your Gaudy is one of the most distinguished; merging the MATRICULATION YEAR GAUDY List: Order half a dozen pears. Ordered. opportunity to reminisce with old faces and 1962 – 1972 2014 The clues so far: to reflect on the times that have passed since 1. Two thirds of my number is one and a half your College days. We hope that the wide 1973 – 1982 2015 times what I am spread of year-groups invited means that 2. Pooh in 1927, true of us today? 1983 – 1992 2016 there will be many of your contemporaries 3. Do they belong to longevity? there to reconnect and recollect with. 1993 – 2002 2017 4. The first 6 000 flowers. 5. A good hiding… Formal invitations are sent via post two Pre-1962 2017 6. Six of one and half a dozen of the other. months beforehand, so please ensure that we 7. Initially he found like an insect… 2003 – 2008 2018 have your up to date contact details. Gaudies 8. Bovine comes to his river. usually take place on the Saturday of 9th 2009 – 2015 2019 9. To each his own. week, Trinity Term (end of June). 10. Do men gather grapes of thorns.... 11. List: Order half a dozen pears. Ordered. Many alumni travel far and wide to attend their Gaudy, and as such, we have created the schedule given here to allow people to Update Your Email Address plan accordingly. n We are increasingly sending event invitations via email. It would therefore be much appreciated if you could ensure that we have an up-to-date email address on file for you. You can update your details using the enclosed update form, or by visiting the Alumni & Helena Horsburgh (2010, Development section of our website Modern Languages & www.stcatz.ox.ac.uk/update-your-contact-details Linguistics) and Milos Martinov, Development If you do not have an email address, please Officer (Annual Fund), at ensure that we have your up-to-date postal the 2000-08 Gaudy in address and we will ensure that you receive

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Philipp Koralus Fulford Fellow in Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science & Fulford Clarendon Associate Professor on the foundation of the Laboratory for the Philosophy and Psychology of Rationality and Decision

The capacity to reason and make decisions is in the Laboratory for the Philosophy and consider them under close supervision when central to all advanced human endeavours. Psychology of Rationality and Decision (LPPRD the sun is shining outside). A crucial innovation Pushed to its limits, this capacity can yield – ‘Leopard’) at St Catherine’s. Mellon Post- is that we have put this idea in the form of a achievements like Quantum Physics, rational Doctoral Fellow in Philosophy of Psychiatry mathematically precise theory. policy-making, or a Catz education. Equally Matthew Parrott is doing work on the nature remarkably, we are subject to systematic of reasoning in mental illness and we will soon The erotetic theory explains why certain failures of reasoning and decision-making, be joined by Junior Research Fellow Salvador fallacies of reasoning are surprisingly as described in Nobel Prize-winner Daniel Mascarenhas, who is currently finishing his compelling. For example, given the premises Kahneman’s recent book Thinking Fast and doctoral dissertation at New York University. ‘John and Bill are in the garden, or else Mary Slow. What can explain these facts? It is One of the approaches we will be investigating is’ and ‘John is in the garden’, most people difficult to make sense of our successes and in ‘Leopard’ is the erotetic (or ‘question- conclude ‘Bill is in the garden’. The erotetic our failures in a way that gives due weight based’) theory of reasoning. We have proposed theory holds that naïve reasoners take the to both. If we begin with the idea that our that intuitive reasoning proceeds by raising first premise roughly to pose the question, thinking is based on heuristics, or ‘rules of questions and answering them as directly as ‘am I in a John-and-Bill situation or in a thumb’, it is hard to see how the remarkable possible. We commit fallacies of reasoning if Mary situation?’ The second premise is then achievements of the human intellect could be we jump to conclusions too quickly in treating treated as a maximally strong answer, leading within the grasp of our capacities. Likewise, if bits of information we reason from as answers. to the conclusion ‘Ah, so I’m in a John and we begin with the assumption that we are fully However, if we raise enough questions as we Bill situation!’ Unfortunately, this inference rational, it is hard to see how to make sense of reason, these fallacies disappear. In a certain is fallacious. We could have a situation in our persistent failures. light, the theory is formalising what every which Mary is in the garden and John is in the philosophy tutor at Oxford knows intuitively. garden, but Bill is not in the garden. This would With a generous grant from the Laces Trust, Questions make us rational (even if it can make the premises true while the conclusion we have begun investigating these issues sometimes be frustrating to be forced to is false. In treating ‘Bill is in the garden’ as a

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we do is continuous with Psychology. Potential applications we are considering intersect with Psychiatry, Economics, and Politics. ‘Leopard’ illustrates how the various Joint Honours Schools involving Philosophy offered at Catz can be intellectually integrated. Within ‘Leopard’ we will also create new undergraduate research opportunities. maximally strong answer to our question, we less tempted to make a decision for this kind A key area of application for ‘Leopard’ will be ignore a relevant logical possibility. If we raised of reason. As it turns out, some studies have mental disorders. Our capacity for reasoning questions about the ignored possibilities, the found that decisions resulting from yes/no is crucial to our ability to function in society. fallacy would be blocked. questions in corporate settings have yielded Naturally then, the way this capacity is what the decision-makers themselves consider transformed in mental disorder is of particularly These fallacies of reasoning may seem like to be failures in the long run in over 50% of pressing concern. Some disorders may be best mere curiosities. However, similar patterns may cases. In other words, narrow questions in understood as leading to a shift in patterns underlie mistakes in decision-making with real decision-making produce real damage. of success and failure in reasoning. Not all consequences. Studies have suggested that effects of mental disorders are impairments. many important decisions taken in corporate With ‘Leopard’, we have a new lab investigating For example, for certain reasoning problems, boardrooms are effectively chosen as answers these issues, unusual in being hosted in enhanced performance in schizophrenia has to simple yes/no questions, for example College. This reflects the innovative spirit of been suggested. Similarly, patients suffering ‘should we acquire this company for a billion Catz and the cross-divisional nature of the from depression may show increased resistance pounds or not?’ However, if we ask narrow enterprise. The mathematical tools we use to certain reasoning biases. To improve our yes/no questions, we again leave ourselves derive from Computer Science and Linguistics. understanding of human reasoning in general, open to treating certain considerations Key theoretical ideas derive from the Philosophy and especially in the context of mental ‘illusorily’ as answers because we ignore of mind and language. The experimental work disorder, we need to understand both the relevant possibilities. For example, if we ask, successes and the failures of reasoning. The ‘should we acquire this company?’ then ‘let’s erotetic theory models ways in which successes do something!’ could subjectively count as a ...narrow questions in as well as failures come about. It may thus reason for making the acquisition. However, decision-making produce provide a promising foundation for a nuanced, if we consider that, say, hiring a new intern quantitative account of reasoning in mental also counts as doing something, we may be real damage disorder. n

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Andy Bunker Fellow & Tutor in Physics on the formation and evolution of galaxies

Andy Bunker has been a Fellow in Physics at St Catherine’s since 2008, and is a Reader in Astrophysics in the Department of Physics. His research involves using observations of the most distant objects to learn about the formation and evolution of galaxies, and he is on the European instrument science team for the James Webb Space Telescope, the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope.

I have been fascinated by astronomy since I was a child, and I am now in the very fortunate position to be researching the formation of Left: Andy Bunker at the telescope site in Cerro galaxies as a member of the Physics Faculty Pachon, Chile here at Oxford. My work relies a lot on Above:The Hubble Space Telescope © NASA observations made with the latest telescopes Right: Artist’s Impression of the James Webb Space ten thousand objects in our images will be the Telescope, to be launchedin 2018 © NASA and instruments, which enable us to see faint distant galaxies we seek, so this is like finding a galaxies at incredible distances. The motivation most distant objects yet: these are about 12 needle in a haystack. for searching for these distant objects is to look thousand million years away – so light has back through time – light left these galaxies been travelling more than twice the Earth’s The multi-waveband imaging approach we many thousands of millions of years ago. age to reach us. We use images taken through have developed is key to identifying the most several different filters at visible and near- likely candidate distant galaxies, and we were We can trace the evolution of our Universe infrared wavelengths to isolate candidates to the first to successfully apply this technique from the earliest structures to galaxies today. be objects at the highest redshifts (that is to in 2004 to the most sensitive picture of the My team has developed techniques using say, those galaxies which are furthest away and Universe ever taken - the ‘Hubble Deep Field’, the Hubble Space Telescope and the largest hence receding from us most rapidly due to the a 400-orbit exposure of a small patch of sky telescopes on the ground to discover the expansion of the Universe). Only about one in taken over the course of a month by the

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Hubble Space Telescope. We confirmed our We can go beyond selecting candidate high- of a galaxy comprises both the stars and gas, earlier results in 2009, when a new camera redshift galaxies from sensitive images and and the mysterious ‘dark matter’. How the on Hubble which works at longer infra-red confirming their distance with spectroscopy; stellar mass of a galaxy is related to the total wavelengths enabled us to push further back in we can determine the rate at which stars are mass, and how this evolves over the history time to find some of the first galaxies to form. being born by measuring the amount of light of the Universe, are important unanswered emitted in the ultra violet by young, massive, questions in galaxy formation. We can confirm the distance to these objects short-lived stars. My work has measured the by analysing the spectrum of their light rate at which stars were forming when the The next big step may come with the James (spreading out with wavelength), and looking Universe was less than 10% its current age, and Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the successor for the characteristic emission line fingerprints established that this rate was lower than many to Hubble due for launch in 2018. This eight- of atoms such as hydrogen. At great distances, had predicted – which creates a challenge to billion-dollar telescope is bigger and better, the wavelengths will be stretched to longer explain if there was enough ultra-violet light with the ability to see objects as faint as a (redder) wavelengths through the expansion from these first stars to photoionize (or ‘fry’) candle at the distance of the moon. I am on of the Universe - we are interested in redshifts the gas between the galaxies to create the the science team for NIRSpec, a near-infrared greater than one, where the Universe has more plasma we see today. spectrograph for JWST contributed by the than doubled in size since the photons left our European Space Agency to this joint mission target galaxies. We can also study the brightness of a galaxy with NASA. With this, we should be able to over a range of wavelengths to estimate the measure the distances (redshifts), masses I have led a number of successful programmes total number of stars and their average age – and chemical compositions of the to measure the redshifts of galaxies we have work I have done in recent years using another most distant galaxies yet. The identified out to redshift seven, involving many NASA observatory, the Spitzer Space Telescope. next few years will be exciting trips to observatories on Mauna Kea (an extinct Finally, we can ‘weigh’ these distant galaxies times in Astrophysics, volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii) and in the by studying the speed at which the stars and and I look forward to mountains of Chile and on top of the caldera gas within these galaxies orbit the centre - the continuing my research of La Palma in the Canary Islands. Getting to greater the mass of a galaxy, the higher the at Oxford on when observe with these world-class telescopes in spread in speeds (measured by the spread in and how the earliest such exotic locations is certainly a great perk wavelength of the emission and absorption galaxies in the of the job! I have also been involved in running lines in the spectrum). I am currently working Universe formed. n astronomical facilities - before taking up my on these observations using new spectrographs Tutorial Fellowship at St Catherine’s, I was built by the University of Oxford for telescopes Andy Bunker at the Hawaii observatory Head of Astronomy at the Anglo-Australian at Mt. Palomar, California, and at the European on the 14,000foot Observatory in New South Wales. Southern Observatory in Chile. The total mass summit of Mauna Kea

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Ben Bollig Fellow & Tutor in Spanish on an innovative Argentine publishing project

Eloísa Cartonera is a cultural project in the persona of Cucurto, a Dominican exile, for some Boca district of Buenos Aires that creates of his wildly creative and often deliberately handmade books from recycled cardboard offensive poems. I was struck by the idea of a bought from local collectors. The initiative young writer from a working class town, coming started over ten years ago in the wake to Buenos Aires to become a poet, and then of Argentina’s economic crisis. The local pretending to be a Caribbean exile, immersed independent publishing industry was severely in a fictionalised world of migration, semi-legal damaged and many of the city’s unemployed work, and scandalous parties. Vega/Cucurto has turned to unofficial garbage collection as been one of the central figures in the growth a means of earning a living. Books can be and success of Eloísa Cartonera. expensive in Argentina, and even typical Hand-made books produced by Argentine publishing house Eloísa Cartonera trade paperbacks may be unaffordable for On my visit, what struck me about the students and average readers. Eloísa brought Eloísa project was how welcoming everyone instead of a photocopier; and further ahead, together writers, artists, and activists, working there was. I’d imagined they’d be sick of an eco-farm away from the city. While at the alongside young people from the local ethnographers and literature scholars wanted workshop I found myself interpreting between area, to produce books that are physically to interview them about their work. But they some of the members of the collective and the distinctive but, perhaps more importantly, were more than happy to discuss their project various groups of US and European tourists represent some of the most exciting new and their goals for the future: a printing press who visited there. They were fascinated by literature today in Argentina and beyond, in the books on offer, but as these were all in an affordable package. Eloísa brought together Spanish, I thought I could offer my services as a translator to help improve sales. I first visited their workshop in 2009 as part of writers, artists, and my research for a book on Argentine poetry. I The result of this collaboration was was writing a chapter on the poet Washington activists, working alongside Contemporary Argentine Poetry: A Bilingual Cucurto. Cucurto is the pseudonym, and also young people from the Selection. I translated the works of ten recent alter ego, of Santiago Vega, a writer from the and contemporary Argentine poets into English, town of Quilmes who adopted the fictional local area... with a short introduction, presented on ‘facing-

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Falklands/Malvinas war, The Islands. Early this year, I hosted a conversation at the Taylor Institute with Andrés Neuman, author of the prize-winning Traveler of the Century. I have written before in The Year about my work with the Patagonian poet Cristian Aliaga. This year I had the honour of writing the prologue to a special edition of his collected works, published by none other than Eloísa Cartonera. pages’. The team at Eloísa came up with a and economic welfare. As such they present A further highlight came in June 2013 when, novel format: two hand-stencilled volumes, a positive example for us all’. Across Latin in collaboration with Jordana Blejmar of the held together by a matching cardboard belt. It America and beyond there are now dozens Institute of Modern Languages Research was published in 2010, and I was pleased to of cartonera publishers in the Eloísa model. in London and with the support of Catz, hear that it became one of their best-sellers, As part of the events to celebrate the award, the Spanish Sub-Faculty at Oxford and the as well as turning up on online auction sites copies of a second edition, single volume Argentine Embassy in London, I hosted a and even street markets in London. version of Contemporary Argentine Poetry symposium on contemporary Argentine were given away to guests. This is the first poetry. Two of Argentina’s foremost poets, Eloísa Cartonera were recognised for their work time my work has been a prize. Tamara Kamenszain and Edgardo Dobry, gave a Prince Claus Fund of the Netherlands for papers and readings. Writing in the Buenos Culture and Development award in 2012. The My collaboration with Eloísa is part of a Aires Herald (Argentina’s principal English- citation reads, ‘Eloísa Cartonera came up with longstanding working relationship with language newspaper), Andrew Graham-Yooll a collective response to a context of crisis by Argentine writers. In April 2012 we welcomed described it as ‘a day for connoisseurs but combining art, circular thinking and creativity to Catz the Argentine novelist Carlos Gamerro, also one for quiet celebration of Argentine to promote expression and generate social author of the acclaimed novel about the contemporary literature’. n

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Peter Ireland and David Gillespie on Engineering Science, Rolls-Royce, and Jet Engines

Catz Fellows, Professor Peter Ireland and Dr David Gillespie, are both based at the University’s Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre (UTC), where more environmentally friendly jet engines are being developed, including the Trent XWB engine which powers the Airbus A350.

The University of Oxford’s Department of £16 million) from a variety of companies, St Catherine’s itself has close links with Engineering Science is committed to playing including Rolls-Royce, and its research output Rolls-Royce, which date back to the work a significant role in the world of technology, forms a key part of Rolls-Royce’s research of Founding Fellow in Engineering Science tackling problems of major importance strategy. An article in The Sunday Times Don Schultz. Don was an expert in shock both to the UK and global community. in June 2013 stated, ‘ministers have long tubes, used to research space flight, but The Department’s Osney Thermo-Fluids seen the Rolls-Royce model as a template significantly was a pioneer in encouraging Laboratory is home to the Rolls-Royce for harnessing world-class talent in British students to apply their studies to ‘real life’ University Technology Centre (UTC) in Heat universities to boost growth.’ problems, recognising the importance of close Transfer and Aerodynamics and to the collaboration between universities, industry Turbomachinery Research Group. It also Indeed Emeritus Fellow Professor Terry Jones, and governmental organisations, particularly houses some of the most sophisticated who led the Department of Engineering research establishments. turbine and high-speed flow facilities in Science Turbomachinery Research Group the UK. from 1988 to 2005 and who was awarded St Catherine’s is proud to have one of the the prestigious Silver Medal by the Royal largest Engineering Science Departments at The Turbomachinery Research Group Aeronautical Society in 2011 for his lifetime the University, and the College’s link with comprises internationally recognised contribution to Aerospace, commented Rolls-Royce remains in place today. Following experts, and two current Catz Fellows are that, ‘The multidisciplinary nature of the the death of Don Schultz in 1987, Rolls-Royce members; Professor Peter Ireland and Dr Department of Engineering Science plus the endowed the Donald Schultz Professorship David Gillespie. The Group receives significant collaboration with Rolls-Royce gave an ideal of Turbomachinery along with an additional industrial sponsorship (current grants exceed environment for the research to flourish.’ Rolls-Royce Fellowship at St Catherine’s.

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seals for jet engines and industrial gas a hundred or so more flights were made before turbines; heat exchangers for intercoolers and that aircraft was certified as fit for airline use. recuperators; engine-realistic cooling systems; We are now in the middle of the A350XWB and sand and ash deposition. flight test programme with the latest RR Trent XWB engine. During these development The Osney Thermo-Fluids Laboratory recently and certification programs many tests have collaborated with Rolls-Royce to develop to be done in relatively exotic locations technology used in jet engines on the Airbus in order to get the specific environmental A350, which had its first flight in June 2013. conditions required, for example Iceland for The improvement in the performance of high cross-winds, the Canadian Arctic for very Airbus A350 maiden flight in June 2013©Airbus jet engines since the late 1960s has been low temperatures and Abu Dhabi for high considerable, and the Trent XWB engine is the temperatures.’ Indeed the College’s current Master, Professor world’s most efficient civil turbofan. Roger Ainsworth, held the position of Rolls- In other Engineering news, the College was Royce Fellow between 1985 and 2002. Another Catz Engineer, alumnus Frank delighted to host Dr Colin Smith, Director Chapman (1977, Engineering), has also been of Engineering and Technology at Rolls- Professor Peter Ireland currently holds involved in recent Airbus developments. Frank Royce plc, earlier in 2013. He received an the Donald Schultz Professorship of is an Experimental Test Pilot of Airbus. He honorary degree in June 2013 at Encaenia, the Turbomachinery, and is the Director of delivered the Society of Oxford Engineers 25th University’s annual honorary degree ceremony, the Rolls-Royce UTC in Heat Transfer and Jenkin Lecture in September 2012, which was where he was made a Doctor of Science. Aerodynamics. He was previously the UK entitled ‘Flight-testing the A380 – from first Dr Colin Smith oversees all of Rolls-Royce’s Corporate Specialist in Heat Transfer at flight to certification’. Speaking on his work as engineering activities, and was awarded the Rolls-Royce Aerospace in Derby. His research a test pilot, he commented, ‘To date the A380 prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering interests include turbine cooling and heat is the largest Airbus aircraft built, with the Silver Medal in 2002 for his outstanding transfer, heat exchangers, fire precautions potential to carry up to 850 passengers with contribution to British Engineering. The College technology, and high-speed flights. a maximum Take-Off weight of 565 Tonnes. has also taken pleasure in hosting Senior For the first flight, in 2005, we had planned Engineers from Rolls-Royce at the annual Feast The current Rolls-Royce Fellow at St Catherine’s a modest “heart of the envelope” flight test (held at the start of each Michaelmas Term) is Dr David Gillespie, Tutor in Engineering programme. However, on the day a minor including Professor Ric Parker, Director of Science. David is also based at the Rolls-Royce gear uplock failure indication meant that the Research and Technology, in 2012, and in 2013 UTC in Heat Transfer and Aerodynamics, and programme had to be even adapted somewhat. alumnus Dr Simon Weeks (1980, Chemistry), his research interests include developing This fault was easily corrected post-flight and Head of Aerospace Research & Technology. n

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JC Smith Fellow & Tutor in French Linguistics on the history of the Romance Languages

Earlier this year, JC Smith, Tutor in French speakers and territory, and come into contact done at the expense of empirical and analytic Linguistics, co-edited , with colleagues with other languages (the main focus of this detail. Martin Maiden and Adam Ledgeway, the volume). This profusion of scholarship has second volume of The Cambridge History more than once provided material for major, The richly documented variation exhibited by of the Romance Languages, the most indeed monumental, works. Much of it has, the Romance family offers an unparalleled comprehensive survey of the history of the naturally enough, been conducted in Romance wealth of linguistic data of interest not just Romance languages ever published in English. languages, or in German (the native language to Romanists, but also to non-Romance The perfect complement to the first volume, of some of the major founding figures of specialists. This perennially fertile and still it offers an external history of the Romance the discipline). One of our intentions is to under-utilised testing ground has, we believe, languages combining data and theory to reach out to linguists who are not Romance a central role to play in challenging linguistic produce new and revealing perspectives on specialists, and who may not know these orthodoxies and shaping and informing new the shaping of the Romance languages. To languages. While the histories of some of ideas and perspectives about language change, celebrate its release, we print an extract from the better-known major Romance languages structure and variation, and should therefore the Introduction. (Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese) have be at the forefront of linguistic research and been treated in English, this work is certainly accessible to the wider linguistic community. This Cambridge History of the Romance the first detailed comparative history of the Languages stands on the shoulders of Romance languages to appear in English. It The present work is not a ‘history’ of giants. A glance at the list of bibliographical aims to present both to Romanists and to Romance languages in the traditional sense references in these volumes should suffice historical linguists at large the major and of a ‘standard’ reference manual providing to give some idea of the enormous body of most exciting insights to emerge from the a comprehensive structural overview of descriptive and interpretative literature on comparative-historical study of Romance. With individual languages and/or traditional themes, the history of the Romance languages, both this in mind, we have deliberately attempted but rather a collection of fresh and original from the point of view of their structural to adopt a more inclusive approach which, reflections on the principal questions and evolution (the focus of the first volume, while not alienating the traditional Romanist, issues in the comparative internal (Volume 1: published in 2011) and with regard to the bears in mind the practical limitations Structures) and external (Volume 2: Contexts) contexts in which they have emerged as and needs of an interested non-specialist histories of the Romance languages, informed distinct ‘languages’, and gained or lost Romance readership, though in no case is this by contemporary thinking in both Romance

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from that language into Romance. It is not which the Romance languages have evolved usual however for works on the Romance that the central role assumed by influences languages to concentrate on these factors and institutions is investigated, as well as of inheritance and continuity, since they – their bearing on questions of persistence and understandably – prefer to comment on what innovation. It is well known that the Romance is new and different in Romance by comparison languages have been subject in varying degrees with Latin. By contrast, we believe that it is an to the effects of outside influences. In addition important and original aspect of the present to contact and borrowing (e.g., from Germanic, work that it accords persistence in Romance Arabic, Slavic) and substrate effects (e.g., from (and hence inheritance from Latin) a focus in Celtic), there is also the all-important role of its own right rather than treating it simply as Latin as a learnèd language of culture and the background to the study of the changes. education existing side by side and interacting At the same time, we devote considerable with the evolving languages, as well as the role linguistics and general linguistic theory and space to the patterns of innovation (including of contact and borrowing between Romance organised according to novel chapter divisions loss) that have taken place in the evolution of languages. When speaking of institutions, we which reflect broader, overriding comparative Romance. have in mind both the role of institutions in the concerns and themes (generally neglected or sense of specific organisations (the Church, left untackled in standard works), rather than Structural persistence and innovation within academies, governments, etc.) in the creation those which are narrowly focused on individual Romance cannot of course be studied in of ‘standard’ languages and the prescription of languages or developments. It is organised isolation from the influences and institutions norms of correctness, and also the language as around four key recurrent themes: persistence, with which the Romance languages and their an institution in society involved, among other innovation, influencesand institutions. Thus, speakers have variously come into contact things, in education, government policy, and much of the of the first volume, dedicated at different periods in their history. For this cultural and literary movements. Consequently, to the linguistic ‘Structures’ of Romance, reason, the authors of individual chapters the focus throughout both volumes is on juxtaposes chapters or chapter sections dealing in Volume 1 were encouraged to consider, an integration of the internal and external with issues of persistence on the one hand as far as possible, structural persistence and perspectives on the history of the Romance and innovation on the other in relation to innovation in relation to these influences and languages. n the macroareas of phonology, morphology, institutions and the extent to which they may morphosyntax, lexis, semantics and discourse- have helped in arresting or delaying them on The Cambridge History of the Romance pragmatics. The Romance languages are, of the one hand and shaping or accelerating Languages: Volume II course, the modern continuers of Latin and them on the other. It is, however, in this Cambridge University Press therefore many aspects of structure persist second volume dedicated to the ‘Contexts’ in ISBN-13: 978-0521800730 (24 Oct 2013)

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he had helped work up to public notice in 1958 as private Obituaries 2013 ‘Operation Zebra’ to put secretary to the First Sea Lord, Lord sailors into the London Carrington. Arriving at Portsmouth docks during an unofficial dockyard, Nairne, dressed in yachting- Former Master of St Catherine’s College, strike. And as head of style Admiralty ‘uniform’, went up the SIR PATRICK NAIRNE (1921-2013) has died the Cabinet Office’s Civil gangway of the minesweeper Sheraton aged 91. Contingencies Unit in – ahead of Carrington – and was 1973–4, he had kept mistakenly piped aboard. Sir Patrick Nairne won an MC with the essential services going Seaforth Highlanders; was an effective during the fuel crisis and In 1965 he became private secretary permanent secretary at the DHSS; served on the three-day week. to the Defence Secretary, Denis Healey. the Franks Committee probing responsibility Two years later he was appointed assistant for Argentina’s invasion of the Falklands; and Patrick Dalmahoy Nairne was born on August secretary for logistics, and in 1970 deputy was for seven years Master of St Catherine’s 15 1921, the son of Lt-Col CS Nairne. From under-secretary. He moved to the Cabinet College, Oxford. Radley he won an exhibition to University Office in 1973 as second permanent College, Oxford, but interrupted his studies in secretary, taking charge of the Civil The appointment of Nairne to run the DHSS 1941 to join the Seaforths, attaining the rank Contingencies Unit. But instead of returning in 1975, after he had served twenty five of captain. to the MoD after two years, he went to years in the Admiralty and the MoD, surprised the DHSS, where he robustly defended its many. But Harold Wilson chose him because The Seaforths fought their way across North continuance as a single department rather of his experience of working in an unwieldy Africa, and in 1943 took part in the invasion than two. organisation bristling with special interest of Sicily. Nairne served as intelligence groups which needed careful handling. Nairne officer with the 5th Battalion, and had the In the fervid atmosphere of the times, Nairne was the ideal counterweight to the Social dangerous habit of climbing trees to get a became concerned at the impact on civil Services Secretary, Barbara Castle, who had better view of the battle. In August he was servants’ morale of attacks by the media. In contrived to upset much of the medical awarded an MC after he had reconnoitred 1977 he wrote to Douglas Allen, head of the profession in record time. forward under heavy enemy fire to produce Home Civil Service, suggesting steps to secure swift and reliable reports. A few months later ‘true understanding’ of their work. By the time he retired, in 1981, Nairne was the regiment landed at Anzio. facing a wave of unrest in the NHS over the Nairne’s fellow mandarins liked the idea, policies of Margaret Thatcher’s government Returning to Oxford on demobilisation, feeling that civil servants were being blamed and their consequences for public sector jobs. Nairne took a First in Modern History, and for decisions taken by ministers. Allen set up But he was equipped for this, too: in 1948 in 1947 joined the Admiralty. He first came a ‘working group on publicity’ to ease the

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criticism – especially of the Inland Revenue, honorary degree on Carrington, who had to 1992 he chaired the west regional board of Customs & Excise and the Driver and Vehicle recently resigned over the Falklands. Central Television. Licensing Centre at Swansea – but the initiative ran into the ground. Barely were those hostilities over than Nairne With his wife, he was active in Church politics, was appointed to Lord Franks’s committee, and from 1993 to 1998 served as a Church The Thatcher government set Nairne new charged with ascertaining whether the invasion Commissioner. Nairne was also, at various challenges. His secretary of state, Patrick should have been anticipated. Many expected times, president of the Association of Civil Jenkin, instructed him to cut social security the government to be blamed, but the Service Art Clubs, the Oxfordshire Craft Guild, jobs and health quangos, but as the economy committee exonerated ministers and the Foreign Modern Art Oxford, the Radleian Society and stalled they strove to limit the impact of Office of having failed to heed warning signals. the Seamen’s Hospital Society; vice-president recession on the welfare state. of the Oxford Art Society; and chairman of In 1984 Nairne called for a five-year bar on the Irene Wellington Educational Trust and the Nairne appointed Mary Warnock to chair the civil servants taking jobs with companies with Society For Italic Handwriting. ground-breaking committee of inquiry into which they had dealt during their careers. He human fertilisation and embryology. This led told the Civil Service Select Committee: ‘I did He was a trustee of the National Maritime in 1991 to his chairing the Nuffield Council on not think it would be right for me to take a job Museum, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Bioethics, considering questions raised by the in the pharmaceutical industry or the medical the National Aids Trust and Oxford School of genome programme. equipment industry, and certainly not in the Drama. tobacco industries, simply because I had had a In 1981 Nairne left Whitehall to become good deal to do with that part of the private He was appointed CB in 1971, KCB in 1975, and Master of St Catherine’s; he also became an sector.’ GCB in 1981. He was sworn of the Privy Council Honorary Fellow of University College, Oxford. in 1982. He launched the 25th anniversary appeal at In the same year he was appointed, with a local St Catherine’s, and supported Edward Heath’s judge, to monitor reaction in Hong Kong to Sir In 1948 Patrick Nairne married Penelope unsuccessful campaign to be Chancellor of Geoffrey Howe’s agreement to hand the colony Chauncy Bridges, who survives him with their the university. He stood down in 1988 as over to China in 1997. They found overall three sons and three daughters. One of their some dons at St Catherine’s were mobilising acceptance, qualified by ‘concern and anxiety’ sons, Sandy Nairne, is Director of the National to offer Mrs Thatcher a fellowship – a move about what the communists would do. Portrait Gallery. from which he distanced the college. Nairne chaired the Institute of Medical Ethics’ Sir Patrick Nairne, born August 15 1921, died His success at Oxford led Essex University working party on the implications of Aids for June 4 2013 to appoint Nairne its Chancellor, from 1983 the NHS in 1987, and in 1996 a Commission Reproduced by kind permission of to 1997. His first action was to bestow an on the Conduct of Referendums. From 1990 The Telegraph.

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Emeritus Fellow Professor married Khoan, who remained until often strenuous discussions of her civilisation MICHAEL SULLIVAN her death in 2003, and beyond, his and mine, her own experience, understanding (History of Art), who died major inspiration. and depth of feeling have helped me to on 28 September 2013, see the meeting of East and West not as was one of the world’s It was through Khoan, who was part a conflict, or even as a reconciliation, of very few great scholars of a liberal and intellectual community opposites, but as a dynamic and truly life- of Chinese art. Shortly in the south of China, that Michael enhancing dialectic. Seldom can an author before his death he had was introduced to a generation of have been so blessed.’ returned from the last of artists who had been engaging with ©Asmolean Museum, University of Oxford many lecture tours in China, where he the question of how older Chinese Khoan devoted her life to Michael’s work. He is now honoured as a national hero. At this artistic traditions could be reinterpreted in a returned her love, not least by the utterly time he was working on the sixth edition context of modernity and wider international dedicated way in which he cared for her in of his celebrated Arts of China (which first contacts. This was the origin of what became her last years. appeared as A Short History of Chinese Art Michael’s dual project both to explain Chinese in 1967). Despite his distinction, he was a art to western viewers, and to explore the His Chinese Art in the 20th Century (1959) modest, generous, and charismatic person, long history of interaction between East and was the first work in English on its subject. for whom art history and friendship were West. The binary form in which he presented It opens with a characteristic, personally the same thing. By the time he joined St this theme was very much of the period, and observed vignette, which epitomises Catherine’s as a Fellow by Special Election younger scholars today tend to eschew that the larger issue which the book would in 1979 (from 1990 he was a Fellow polarity; but in fact Michael was ahead of address. The writing style is like Michael’s Emeritus), he already enjoyed an international his time in his perception that the supposed conversation: engagingly anecdotal, lightly reputation for his publications, which had contrariety between European and Chinese bearing a weighty point: begun in 1946 and which had earned his artistic traditions was a myth. The Meeting successive appointment in 1954 as a lecturer of Eastern and Western Art, first published in ‘In the summer of 1944 the All-China Art at the University of Singapore and in 1966 1972, included a heartfelt acknowledgement Association organised its second national as a Professor of Oriental Art at Stanford to Khoan: exhibition in Chungking. Pictures chosen University. Born in Toronto in 1916, schooled for the exhibition were to be hung in two (with modest academic success) in England, ‘Of the part played in this book by my wife halls, ‘Chinese Painting’ (kuo-hua) in one and an unconvinced student of architecture in I can give only a hint. Quite apart from the hall, ‘Western Painting’ (his-yang hua) in Cambridge in the 1930s, Michael discovered work she has put into every stage of its the other. Pang Xunqin submitted three or direction in his life with the advent of the making, this is, in a very special sense, her four pictures to the kuo-hua section. The War, which found him working for the Red book. Not only has she opened doors and panel of judges took one look at them and Cross in China. Here he met and in 1943 built bridges for me everywhere, but in our suggested that he take them across to the

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Western department. He did so, only to be Museum. Selections are already on regular the last weeks of his life. He was profoundly told that they belonged with the traditional display in the Khoan and Michael Sullivan loyal to the College which provided him, after paintings in the other hall. The organisers Gallery. all his travels, with a home. The sculpture by then started an argument among themselves the leading Taiwanese sculptor Ju Ming, which as to where Pang Xunqin’s pictures should be It was the fate of this brilliant observer of Michael gave to the College in 2005, remains put. While the artist stood patiently waiting cross-cultural meeting and exchange to as a tangible trace of his gentle presence. for them to decide, he too began to wonder be always, in some degree, an outsider. Gervase Rosser, where, precisely, he belonged. Was he really a A Canadian at public school in England; a Fellow & Tutor in History of Art Chinese painter at all?’ European by adoption in China; with his elegant Chinese wife in the late 1940s a Pang Xunqin, who first introduced Michael startling figure to his own family in their KENNETH MICHAEL to a series of artists in Sichuan, had trained suburban Surrey home – Michael was always HACK (1946, in Paris. As in so many such cases, lines fascinated by other cultures, yet did not Chemistry) was born of artistic influence were multiple and compromise with social norms. In part, at on 27th April 1928 in interwoven. least, this was a consequence of strongly Coventry to George held political principles: people were to be and Honora Hack, the The many friendships which, with Khoan, taken as they were. He could sometimes eldest of three children. Michael made with Chinese artists were the have made life easier for himself, but he was Kenneth, who died on source of numerous gifts of paintings: a a person of utter integrity. His distaste for 2nd November 2013 serendipitous succession of tributes which hierarchy was evident in all his relationships, aged 85, was schooled at Denstone College became, in the course of time, the most including the many friendships he developed (Woodard, 1942-46) where he showed significant collection of twentieth-century over the years with younger scholars. He promise of a gifted academic. Kenneth Chinese art outside China. Michael did loved their company, and visibly drew life attained a County Major scholarship to St not think of himself as a collector, but as from their enthusiasm. Catherine’s College, Oxford, in 1946, where someone whose good fortune had put him he won Bachelor’s and Master’s honours in touch with creators of beautiful things. As a Fellow of St Catherine’s, Michael degrees in Chemistry. Kenneth was eternally For many, especially during the Cultural relished conversation with all members of grateful and proud for what Denstone and St Revolution in the 1970s, Michael’s loyalty the College community, including staff and Catherine’s became for him. In particular, this was a lifeline. Their desire to acknowledge undergraduates. Always delighted to make extended to him being a staunch supporter of innumerable kindnesses made Michael ‘a new acquaintances, especially amongst the his College and he generously contributed to collector by accident’. That accident has young, he would invite groups of these enable others to benefit in the way that he become Oxford’s gain, as this extraordinary to Sunday lunch at his preferred Chinese had so many years ago. He played a full part collection has been gifted to the Ashmolean restaurant, creating new friendships up to while at Oxford, and was President of the JCR

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in 1949. Being light in weight, Kenneth was a daughters Nicola and Philippa and his younger family, with bell-ringing as a sideline. He died cox for St Catherine’s, and was the 1950 1st siblings Brian (Woodard, 1944-48) and Sally. in August 2012 after a bout of pneumonia, VIII coxswain. Pippa Hack and is survived by Anne and their son and daughter. On leaving Oxford he gained a Fulbright Don Barton (1948, Geography) Scholarship to undertake research in the THOMAS TREVOR COULSON (1948, United States. On his return to England Chemistry), a Yorkshireman to his fingertips, he joined Laporte Chemicals as a research came up to St Catherine’s Society to read The Rev JOHN NICHOLAS CHUBB MA (1951, chemist, followed by a career as Technical Chemistry following two years’ service in English). After his graduation Nicholas Director for Coates Brothers & Co. the Royal Navy as a radar operator. He was trained for the priesthood at Queen’s College, a popular member of the very active Boat Birmingham, was ordained deacon in 1959 Kenneth’s intellect extended far and wide Club, rowing in the 1949 2nd Torpid and the and priest in 1960 by Archbishop Michael with a variety of interests. He was a lifelong 2nd Eights which – along with the 1st and Ramsey in York Minster and began 29 years collector of Australian stamps following 3rd – made six bumps; in the 1950 1st Torpid of parish ministry with two curacies, the his marriage to his wife Lee, of Australian and 1st Eights; and in the 1951 and 1952 first in Kirbymoorside and the second in heritage. He also sat for many years as a 1st Eights. He was also in the crew which Scarborough, in the Diocese of York. These Justice of the Peace in South Wales and in won the Junior Eights Cup at Marlow Regatta were followed by his first two livings as Kent, as Chairman of Bromley magistrates, in 1949. A further distinction was a stint as Vicar, in Potterspury with Furtho and Yardley also serving on many Employment Appeal President of the JCR. Gobion; and in Brixworth, to see through the Tribunals. After leaving Coates Brothers, he expansion of the village, both of these in joined the Chemical Industries Association as After graduating, Trevor joined Imperial Northamptonshire within the Peterborough an industrial relations expert. Chemical Industries (ICI) at their Grangemouth Diocese. plant, during which time he met and married Though not always an active games player Anne. A further period at Sale was followed All Saints Church, Brixworth, built in 680 himself, he followed sports keenly and greatly by a move to DuPont, with a posting to AD, is described in Pevsner’s book on enjoyed visiting Lord’s for Test Matches. An Wilmington in the USA to be prepared for Northamptonshire as ‘Perhaps the most active member of the London Old Denstonian senior management at their plant near important architectural memorial of the Club for many years, he rarely missed a Londonderry. His final billet was in human seventh century surviving north of the dinner or social evening and was President resources at Stevenage, home then being a Alps’, and the visitors’ book, with numerous in 1985. His dry wit and twinkling eyes will former coaching inn at Puckeridge. entries left by people from many parts of the be missed, but fondly remembered. His wife, world throughout each year, bore eloquent Lee, predeceased him; he is survived by his In retirement he devoted much time to making witness to wide interest in Saxon architecture. beloved four grandchildren, his son Roger, an restoring furniture, wood-turning, and his Early in his twelve years as Vicar, Nicholas

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was instrumental in the setting-up of the He is survived and lovingly remembered by his C.P. Alexander Award as the greatest living Brixworth Archaeological Research Committee widow, their son and two daughters, and six North American dipterist. His kindness and of eminent experts in this field and the results grandchildren. generosity are exemplified by the time that of their many years’ work and findings are S. M. Chubb he devoted to many charities. The Vockeroth due for publication in 2013. To celebrate the family would like to thank the many caregivers church’s 1300th birthday he also organised and medical staff who attended to Richard’s a six-month festival of music, drama and art JOHN RICHARD needs these past few years. culminating in a service of thanksgiving on (‘Dick’) VOCKEROTH Adrian Vockeroth St Boniface Day in early June, conducted by (1952, Biology) left us the retired Archbishop of Canterbury, Donald peacefully in his sleep Coggan, and in the presence of HRH the Duke on Friday, 16 November JAMES DICKENS (1953, Modern History) of Gloucester. 2012 at the age of 84. He was a Labour MP and retained an interest in was born in 1928 to John politics throughout his life. His last parish living was as a Vicar of All Saints Henry and Adelheid (née Hampton Hill, Middlesex, and after this he was Müller) Vockeroth. Predeceased by his wife ‘My colleague appointed the first full-time Hospital Chaplain Ann (née Glew), he is survived by his devoted and friend James to the Peterborough Hospital in order to build sons Adrian (Nicole Johnson) of Gatineau Dickens, who has up a chaplaincy there. This was work that he and David (Miyuki Kamitsuma) of Maple died aged 82, particularly loved and which used his pastoral Ridge, B.C., by his dear brother Robert (Erie, served as the skills to the full as he cared for patients, their née Holmes) of Burnaby, B.C. by his loving Labour MP for relatives, and all the hospital staff. grandchildren Matthew, Emilie, Sean, Sarah, Lewisham West and Kai and by many nieces and nephews. from 1966 until January 1997 brought early retirement on 1970 and played a prominent part in the health grounds, following a quintuple heart Having earned the Governor General’s award leftwing Tribune Group. by-pass operation the previous November, and for the highest grade point average of any in 2003 he and his wife achieved a long-held high school student in Saskatchewan, he Born in a Glasgow tenement to working-class ambition of retiring finally to York. The last five studied at the University of Saskatchewan parents, he left school at 14 and took a job as years of his life were a triumph of NHS care before receiving his doctorate from a telegraph boy and then as a railway clerk. for increasing heart failure and, a few months Oxford University in 1954. Richard gained However, he worked for the Glasgow Forward after he and his wife celebrated their Golden international recognition during his lengthy newspaper and won his way through Newbattle Wedding Anniversary quietly with their beloved career as an entomologist with Agriculture Abbey and Ruskin College, Oxford, to St families, he died peacefully at the end of Canada and was appreciated by the worldwide Catherine’s College, Oxford, where he obtained January 2012 aged almost 79. scientific community. In 1997 he received the a BA (Hons) degree in politics and history.

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He then worked for the National Coal Board, Labour parliamentary candidate for Newham Day was awarded the degree of Doctor of becoming an industrial relations officer until North East, which would have been a safe Science by Melbourne University in 1978. his election to parliament in 1966. From seat. However, he resigned the candidature 1962 to 1965 he was a Labour councillor in before the election of 1979. He remained His early research in the late 1940s, with Westminster. In the House of Commons he active on the left to the end, nonetheless, Everton Trethewie at the University of joined the Tribune Group of MPs and helped and served on the executive committee of Adelaide, investigated tissue injury and to formulate its policy for economic growth, Labour Action for Peace. He was also a school the toxicity of Australian snake venoms. which was summarised in the pamphlet governor. However, he left the Labour party These studies, supported by grants from Beyond the Freeze. He took a keen interest after the outbreak of war with Iraq. the National Health and Medical Research in foreign affairs and was a very active Council, identified the cardiovascular effects constituency MP. He is survived by his second wife, Carolyn, of different combinations of antihistamines and four stepsons.’ and anticoagulants used to mitigate the toxic He contributed to policy documents on British Reproduced by kind permission of Stan effects of these venoms. They also studied entry into Europe and put forward a left-wing Newens & The Guardian. the extraction of anticoagulants from liver and economic and financial policy that was an clotting times in surgical patients. alternative to the one pursued by Roy Jenkins, Chancellor of the Exchequer at the time. He Professor ALLAN J DAY (1958, From the 1950s, Allan Day’s research focused was opposed to so-called stop-go policies. Medicine) was a research pioneer in the on the study of atherosclerosis (or the As a fellow member of the Tribune Group, I pathophysiology of atherosclerosis and hardening and thickening of the arteries), agreed with him on most of these issues and cholesterol metabolism. particularly in relation to serum lipids and put forward similar ideas. cholesterol metabolism more generally. These Allan Day began a long association with studies also included NHMRC-supported After losing his seat, he became assistant Adelaide University at the age of 15 when research of serum cholesterol and phospholipid director of manpower for the National Freight he began studies in science leading to BSc levels of Aborigines living nomadically in the Corporation and thereafter assistant director, and MSc degrees. Switching to medicine, Day Haast’s Bluff region of central Australia. then director of manpower at the National qualified as a doctor (MBBS) and embarked Water Council. From 1983 to 1991, he worked on a career in medical research, ultimately After being promoted to reader at the as chief personnel officer to the Agricultural achieving an MD degree. He then spent three University of Adelaide, Allan Day was in 1967 and Food Research Council and, in 1991, was years at Oxford University (St Catherine’s) recruited to the chair of physiology at the appointed OBE. working at the Sir William Dunn School of University of Melbourne, bringing with him Pathology under fellow South Australian, and significant grant funding that enabled him to James retained his interest in politics throughout Nobel laureate, Howard Florey, gaining the quickly establish a thriving research laboratory. his life and was selected, in 1978, as the degree of doctor of philosophy in 1957. Allan His studies over more than 30 years through

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to the 1980s advanced our understanding of knowledge and Christian faith was fostered Dr GEOFFREY ARNOLD (1960, Zoology), the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis and led initially through the Research Scientists’ has died peacefully aged 71. After a 40-year to many high-quality original contributions Christian Fellowship in collaboration with career in fisheries research at Lowestoft, he that documented the role of macrophages, long-time friend and Adelaide colleague, achieved his lifelong ambition to become a cholesterol and lipid metabolism within the psychologist Professor Malcolm Jeeves (since qualified driver of a steam locomotive. He also arterial wall. 1969 at St Andrew’s University in Scotland). led a major project to restore the St John’s Ambulance’s Blyburgate Hall, Beccles, which Allan Day was for ten years Director of In his most important article, Adam, was officially re-opened by the Princess Royal Physiology and Examiner to the Royal Anthropology and the Genesis Record in 2008. Australasian College of Surgeons, during (2000) in UK journal Science & Christian which time his teaching methods were also Belief, Day explained how ancient biblical Dr Arnold, who was head of fish stocks incorporated into the undergraduate courses in texts can be understood in a way consistent management at the Centre for Environment, physiology at the university. with modern biology and anthropology. His Fisheries & Aquaculture Science (CEFAS), lecture course on science and Christian belief, went to Epsom College and St Catherine’s His career at the University of Melbourne jointly sponsored by ISCAST (Institute for the College, Oxford. also included study leave abroad, where Study of Christianity in an Age of Science and he promoted his research and established Technology) and Ridley College embodied a He joined the Ministry of Agriculture’s long-term successful collaborations with lifetime of thought. fisheries laboratory at Lowestoft in 1963 and researchers in Canada and Germany. was awarded a PhD in marine biology from Professor Day retired from the Department These various activities were only curtailed the University of East Anglia. of Physiology in 1988 after a distinguished by worsening macular degeneration and career as an internationally renowned musculoskeletal problems, although he He was awarded a Churchill Fellowship in researcher and teacher. remained a mentor to many in the science- 1976 to study fish laboratories in the United faith arena. He is survived by his wife of 59 States. His research covered fish behaviour Allan Day’s multifaceted interests included years, Joan, their four children, and eight and tidal movements, fish distribution, and a his research, teaching, family, and Christian grandchildren. pioneering project to tag blue fin tuna, which commitment, as well as sailing, photography This obituary was compiled by professors provided valuable input to and from research and travel. From his teenage years he Gordon Lynch and Stephen Harrap from the laboratories in the USA, Europe and Japan. expressed and nurtured a strong Christian Department of Physiology at the University After retiring in 2002, he remained an active faith. After retirement, Day gained a Bachelor of Melbourne, Allan Day’s eldest son, Dr researcher. of Theology degree and was appointed an Timothy Day, and Emeritus Professor John academic fellow at Ridley College. Day’s Pilbrow, a friend for more than 45 years. In 1997, he became chairman of the town’s interest in the interface between scientific St John Ambulance’s property committee. An

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outstanding chairman, he led the team that Dr MICHAEL F WHELAN (1961, Education) Michael Whelan was born in Birmingham 8 modernised the St John’s main hall and raised died peacefully, at home in Kenilworth, 31 July 1939 to Phyliss Margaret and the late £71,000 to complete the work. Without his July 2013, after his battle with throat cancer. Edward Whelan, a family of seven. Educated leadership and perseverance, it would not He was a devoted husband to his wife, Norah, at St Philip’s Grammar School Birmingham, he have been achieved and the splendid hall is with whom he would have shortly celebrated was Deputy Head Boy, gained School colours a fine memorial to his work for St John. He their golden wedding and was awarded the WH Rhodes Scholarship. was made a serving brother of the Order of anniversary, and He attended Leeds University and graduated St John in 2008 and was awarded the Beccles a loving father to in 1961 with a BSc (Hons) and then went Rotary Presidential Cup in 2013 for services to his three children, to obtain a postgraduate diploma at St St John Ambulance. Patricia, Michael and Catherine’s College, Oxford, before joining the Rachel, and seven staff at Ratcliffe College, teaching Physics. From his youth, he was keen on bird-watching grandchildren. and steam railways. In his early teenage On 5 August 1963, he married Norah Keniry years, he often cycled with friends round the Michael’s of Birmingham, having known her since bird reserves of East Anglia from his home determination and primary school. In 1965 he returned to the in Surrey. Family holidays always seemed to gentle, yet firm, driving force University of East Anglia and completed a be near a steam railway. In retirement he was a constant inspiration to all he met. His Doctorate (PhD) in Low Temperature Physics. spent many happy hours helping at the Bure dedication could be seen especially in his The family then moved from Peterborough to Valley Railway, where he achieved his lifelong latest role as one of the founding Trustees Kenilworth, where Michael went on to have a ambition to become a steam engine driver. for the Friends of the Holy Land, a national successful career as a business consultant in charity developed over the last four years, the field of information technology. He is survived by his wife, Marion, whom supporting the Christian community in the he married in 1967, having first introduced Holy Land through projects and regular Throughout his life he was constantly himself on a badminton court by whacking pilgrimages. involved in supporting educational projects, her with a racquet. Admired and respected, including chairing the Compact Steering he was the most modest of men and had He initiated the Birmingham Diocesan Committee, Careers and Education Business a dry sense of humour. He is survived by Pilgrimage to the Holy land in 2007, the Partnership, Birmingham and the Governors Marion, daughters Sarah and Helen, and Catenian Pilgrimage in 2010 and Westminster of St Augustine’s School, Kenilworth. In grandchildren, Bronwen, Ioan and Aneirin. Diocesan Pilgrimage in 2011. He was a Knight parallel, he dedicated time and effort to the Reproduced by kind permission of the Grand Cross of the Equestrian Order of the Newman Association and set up the Friends Eastern Daily Press. Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, Lieutenant of of Warwick University Chaplaincy, acting Honour, Member of The Grand Magisterium as Chairman for ten years. He was greatly (Rome) 2012 and a Knight of St Gregory. involved in the Catenian Association, including

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a term as Provincial President. Such where Dames of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre 1st, he went on to do a DPhil in theoretical his capabilities, in 1980 he became involved and Order of Saint Gregory, the Catenians chemistry, partly supported by a Junior in the Organising Committee for the visit of throughout the country and by everyone Fellowship at Hertford College. Pope John Paul II to Coventry. involved in the Friends of the Holy Land, the organisation that is his great legacy. After leaving Oxford John continued to apply In 1985 Michael was invited to become Mike Whelan the mathematical modelling skills acquired a Knight of the Equestrian Order of the in his DPhil, first at the Met Office, and Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, and was later then in the Department of the Environment, appointed Lieutenant of the Order in England Dr JOHN RAFTERY (1967, Chemistry) was working on transport modelling. From there and Wales, which he served for eight years. born in Rainham, Essex in 1949 and was he moved to the accountancy firm Coopers In this role he continued to demonstrate brought up by his mother and grandparents. & Lybrand where the direction of his future support to the Holy Land through organising As a child he had no career, on analysis and economic consultancy regular pilgrim group visits. He also acted siblings, but spent in the field of transport systems, began to as an observer to the Episcopal Conference much of his time with take shape with a reanalysis of the (then Working Group held in Jerusalem. Establishing his many cousins. suspended) Channel Tunnel project. He was the Friends of the Holy Land in 2009 instrumental in the introduction of innovative allowed Michael to continue his noble cause After attending what modelling tools and became an internationally in supporting Christians in the Holy Land. he described as his acknowledged expert in the field of air In 2011, due to his devotion to the Holy ‘minor public school’, transport management systems, taking up Land, he was honoured with the Freedom of which he hated a directorship at the consulting firm Helios Bethlehem. and from which he and advising Eurocontrol and other agencies succeeded in getting expelled a few months around the world. Michael’s personality, kindness and spirit of before his Oxford entrance exam, he came up dedication encouraged others to join him in to Catz with a scholarship to read Chemistry. Throughout his life, John had an insatiable his mission. His gentleness and care for the and wide-ranging intellectual curiosity. poor and needy was an inspiration reflected John was remarkable for his knowledge of He delighted in combative argument and in his maxim ‘Doing nothing good is not an modern history and current affairs and, was remorseless in dismantling the woolly option!’ lectures permitting, would scurry off to the arguments of others, but honest in admitting JCR after breakfast to scan the newspapers it if he was wrong himself. He took great Michael Whelan will be greatly missed in and catch up on world events. With his pleasure in travel, good food, choral singing, many circles, above all by his family, fellow extensive general knowledge, he was puzzles, and games of all kinds and new parishioners in Kenilworth, his many friends a natural choice for the Catz University experiences in general. in the Holy Land, his fellow Knights and Challenge team. Having gained an expected

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Within days of arriving at Catz John had met After Catz, Don trained as a computer NOTIFICATIONS Sue, a chemist at LMH. They married in 1971 programmer and went to work for HMRC Anthony John Reynolds (1942, Law) and had three children, Ben, Joe, and Hannah. in Southend, where he lived for the rest of Geoffrey Buswell (1947, Modern Languages) Though their marriage ended in 1991, he his life. He was a founder member of the remained in close touch with the family. He Southend Ornithological Group (SOG), and Norman Gerard McCrum (1948, Physics) subsequently met Sheila, with whom he spent created and curated their website which George Raymond Satchler (1948, Physics) the last twenty years, marrying in 2008, and was used as a model by several other Daniel Lawrence O’Keefe (1950, Social who, with his stepdaughter Kate, survives birding groups. Don travelled extensively Studies) him. His untimely death on 28 February 2013 on bird-watching expeditions in the UK and after a short illness meant that he missed abroad, and made many friends. Charles Ronald Worthing (1950, Chemistry) by one day the arrival of his first grandchild, Barun De (1954, Modern History) Leah. He took early retirement from HMRC to Bryan Conway (1967, Physics) concentrate on bird watching, and amassed Jeremy D Milton (1957, Biochemistry) the first ‘year list’ for Southend to exceed Nigel Ward Hayman (1958, Chemistry) 200 birds – an achievement of which he James H Holbrook (1960, Chemistry) DONALD PETRIE (1977, Zoology) was a was quietly proud. prodigy, but not in the conventional sense. At Geoffrey H Backhouse (1965, Physics) school he quickly understood that being able Don was diagnosed with brain cancer in Andrew Walter Batey (1966, History of Art) to read allowed the teacher to give him work May 2013. It is a testament to the man to do. It was not until the age of 9, when his who transformed the SOG from a group of Graham N Foster (1967, Geography) lifelong passion for ornithology took hold, birders into a community of friends that Samuel Martin (1995, Economics & that he finally learnt to read (to find out more so many people rallied round him in his Management) about birds) and write (to keep records of the illness. birds he had seen). Everyone I spoke to after his death had the Don’s brilliance was such that his late same story to tell: Don was ‘such a lovely, An administrative error led to the incorrect start did not prevent him from winning a gentle man’. He was always willing to help inclusion of Iain Sproat (2002, Engineering), scholarship to St Catz, and being offered those in need, an unsung hero, and a in the notifications list of the 2012 edition of places to study Physics and Zoology. He chose wonderful friend. He is deeply missed. The Year. We are deeply sorry to Mr Sproat Zoology, and combined 9.00 am lectures with Ian Dudley (1977, Zoology) for any distress this caused, and extend an getting up at the crack of dawn to ring birds apology to friends and contemporaries of on Port Meadow. Mr Sproat for the incorrect notification.

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Kingswood School, Bath Oliver Glanville - Tonbridge School, Kent Christopher Horner - Greenhead College, Huddersfield Alexandra Grime - Central Newcastle High School Patrick Shammas - St Albans School, Hertfordshire Computer Science Grace Kneafsey - King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls, Matthew Gripton - Eltham College, London Birmingham Mathematics & Computer Science Paul-Stefan Herman - Colegiul National Vasile Lucaciu, Romania Hibba Mazhary - Holland Park School, London Cameron Alsop - Redland Green School, Bristol Chloe Rutland - Colchester Sixth Form College, Essex Vincent Wang - Li Po Chun United World College, Hong Kong Computer Science & Philosophy Liam Saddington - Hills Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge Christy Blance - Strode College, Somerset Joanna Thompson - Chenderit School, Banbury Medical Sciences Shu Jian Chang - Raffles Institute, Singapore Rosemary Barker - Walthamstow Hall, Kent History Rebecca Lenihan - Colchester Royal Grammar School, Essex Economics & Management Alexandra Hampton - Haberdashers’ Aske’s Girls’ School, Miranda Stoddart - Sutton Coldfield Grammar School, North Ananyashree Birla - Aditya Birla World Academy, India Elstree Yorkshire Nguyet Nguyen - Saint Andrews Junior College, Singapore Aoife Hyde - St Mary’s College, County Kildare Sophie Taylor - Canford School, Wimborne Alice Pickthall - Lancaster Girls’ Grammar School Emma Vidler - Framlingham College, Suffolk Engineering Science Matthew Rose - JFS School, London Katy-Louise Whelan - Latymer School, London Ting Yu Au - Rugby School, Warwickshire Rebekka Smiddy - Bullers Wood School, Chislehurst John Byers - Loreto College, Manchester Adam Weston - Perse School, Cambridge Modern Languages Muthassir Hussain - Thomas Whitham Sixth Form, Burnley Edward Gould - Eton College, Windsor Thomas Joy - Sandown Bay Academy, Isle of Wight History & Politics Alexander Grigg - Highgate School, London Chuan Qin - Shanghai Experimental School, China Thomas Holker - Lawrence Sheriff School, Warwickshire Matthew Harrison - St Albans School, Hertfordshire Bharadwaj Ramanathan - Sir John Lawes School, Hertfordshire Daniel Minister - Bishop Vaughan Catholic School, Swansea Aude Hillion - Tanglin Trust School, Singapore

ST CATHERINE’S COLLEGE 2013/69 GAZETTE

Sydony Johnson - Farnborough Hill School, Hampshire GRADUATES Charlotte Clark (BA St Catherine’s), Master of Studies in English Hugo Leatt - Westminster School, London James Aglio (BA University of Vermont, USA), Master of Studies (1900-present day) * Eleanor McIntyre - Dunottar School, Surrey in Greek &/or Latin Languages & Literature Mark Condon (BSc Newcastle University), Master of Science in Thomas Pease - Eton College, Windsor Matthias Aicher (Diplom, PhD University of Regensburg, Neuroscience Julia Tansley - Collyer’s Sixth Form College, West Sussex Germany), Master of Science in Mathematical Finance (part-time) Martin Cusack (MSci University of Nottingham), Doctor of Lindsey Akerman (BA Queen’s University, Canada), Master of Philosophy in Clinical Medicine Modern Languages & Linguistics Studies in Classical Archaeology Guy Danon (BSc Imperial College London), Master of Science in Huw Oliver - Hills Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge Rafid Al-Mahfoud (MBChB Basra Medical School, Iraq), Master of Financial Economics Abigail White - Hills Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge Science in Surgical Science and Practice (part-time) Carlos Dastis (Staatsexamen Bucerius Law School, Germany; LLM Mark Andrijanic (LLB University Ljubljana, Slovenia), Master of St John’s College, Cambridge), Visiting Graduate Student in Law Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry Public Policy (Matriculated) Helen Bartlett - Stokesley School, Middlesbrough Matteo Angelini (BA St Catherine’s; GDL City University), Master Julie Dayot (Lic Université Paris I (Pantheon-Sorbonne), France; Anna Haire - Graveney School, London of Science in Law and Finance * Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, France), Master of Mark Hamblin - Derby College Emily Antoniades (BMus Royal Holloway, University of London), Philosophy in Development Studies Henry Lee - Oundle School, Northamptonshire Master of Studies in Music (Musicology) Dolf Diemont (BSc, LLB, LLM, MSc Erasmus University Rotterdam, Pantelis Antonoudiou (BSc University College London), Master of Netherlands), Master of Science in Law and Finance Music Science in Neuroscience Katherine Donaldson (BA University of Durham), Postgraduate Joshua Hagley - Purcell School, Hertfordshire Alexander Ashby (BSc University of Bristol), Master of Science in Certificate in Education - Religious Education Hannah Scott - Ranelagh School, Berkshire Software & Systems Security (part-time) Nathan Donaldson (MEng University of Strathclyde), Doctor of Daniel Shao - Purcell School, Hertfordshire Melanie Ball (BA University of Hull), Master of Studies in Creative Philosophy in Engineering Science Writing (part-time) Robert Dorfman (BSc Northwestern University, USA; VS St Oriental Studies Alex Barbaro (BEng University of New South Wales, Australia), Catherine’s), Master of Science in History of Science, Medicine Lilla Homlok - Kazinczy Ferenc Gimnazium, Hungary Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering Science & Technology Jennifer Barrett (MA University of St Andrews; MSc St Shuang Dou (BA University of Iowa, USA), Certificate in Philosophy, Politics & Economics Catherine’s), Doctor of Philosophy in International Development * Diplomatic Studies Jinu Choi - Eton College, Windsor Mohammad Bazazi (BA St Catherine’s; MA National Film and Madhupreetha Elango (LLB University of Pune, India), Bachelor Ayako Fujihara - British School of Brussels, Belgium Television School, London), Master of Business Administration * of Civil Law Jack Hampton - Petroc College, Devon Ahmed Bin Shabib (BA American Intercontinental University Christopher Elsby (BA Trinity College, Cambridge), Master of Dylan Lynch - Fordham Preparatory School, USA London), Master of Science in Sustainable Urban Development Science in Computer Science Sarah Lyons - Becket School, Nottingham (part-time) George Entwistle (BA University of Durham), Master of Studies Siew Ng - Penang International School, Malaysia Hendrik Brackmann (BSc Ludwig Maximilians University in the History of Design (part-time) Amy Symons - Epsom College, Surrey Munich, Germany; MSc St Catherine’s), Doctor of Philosophy in Pamela Faber (BA Columbia University, USA; BA Jewish Daniel Walker - Hampton School, Middlesex Mathematics * Theological Seminary, USA; MSc London School of Economics), Leah Broad (BA Christ Church, Oxford), Master of Studies in Master of Philosophy in Development Studies Physics Music (Musicology) Sania Faizi (BSc University of Warwick), Master of Science in Taliesin Henke - Rochester Independent College, Kent Sung Sik Byun (BSc Korea University, South Korea), Master of Economics for Development Samuel Khodursky - Saint Paul Central High School, USA Business Administration John Fielden (BSc Imperial College London), Master of Science in Mantas Krisciunas - Vilnius Lyceum, Lithuania Elena Cagnoli Fiecconi (BA Universita degli Studi di Pavia, Italy; Integrated Immunology Tabitha Lord - Bishop Heber High School, Cheshire MPhil University College London; St Edmund Hall, Oxford), Doctor Kira Fischer (BSc University of Maastricht, Netherlands), Doctor Kirill Mikhaylov - Dr Challoner’s Grammar School, Amersham of Philosophy in Philosophy of Philosophy in Clinical Medicine Alexander Newton - Perse School, Cambridge Lianne Castle (MB BS Imperial College, London), Doctor of Ethan Fogarty (BA University of Southampton), Master of Alexander Ruszkowski - Charters School, Berkshire Philosophy in Oncology Science in Comparative Social Policy Henry Woods - Eton College, Windsor Thomas Chapman (BSc, MB BS King’s College, London), Doctor Camden Ford (MEng St Catherine’s), Doctor of Philosophy in of Philosophy in Biomedical & Clinical Sciences Materials * Psychology & Linguistics Jiaxi Chen (Diploma Temasek Polytechnic, Singapore; BA National Peter Forsyth (MEng Trinity College, Oxford), Doctor of Timothy Cruise - Swindon College, Wiltshire University of Singapore, Singapore), Master of Studies in Global Philosophy in Engineering Science & Imperial History Judyta Frodyma (BA University of Toronto, Canada; MSt Psychology & Philosophy Jianpeng Cheng (BEng National University of Singapore), Master Worcester College, Oxford; St Edmund Hall, Oxford), Doctor of Jake Berger - Manchester Grammar School of Science in Computer Science Philosophy in English Noelle Rohde - Pelizaeus Gymnasium Paderborn, Germany Jason Cheverton (BBA Bishop’s University, Canada), Master of Jessica Fure (BA, MA University of Baltimore, USA; MA George Business Administration Mason University, USA), Master of Studies in Literature and Arts Myeonggeun Choi (BSc Pusan National University, South Korea; (part-time) St Edmund Hall, Oxford), Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering Florian Gaisendrees (Vordiplom University of Magdeburg, Science Germany; MASt Girton College, Cambridge; PhD Heidelberg

70/ADMISSIONS 2013 GAZETTE

University, Germany), Master of Science in Mathematical Finance City University London), Master of Business Administration Emily Manolopoulos (Msci Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge), (part-time) Jure Jeric (BA University of Warwick), Master of Science in Global Postgraduate Certificate in Education - Physics Yuan Gao (BEng University of Liverpool), Master of Science in Governance & Diplomacy Duncan Marks (BA University of Sheffield), Postgraduate Biomedical Engineering Amelie Joffrin (MChem University of Durham), Doctor of Certificate in Education - History Alison Garcia (BA University of Waterloo, Canada; BEd University Philosophy in Organic Chemistry Rebecca Martin (BA University of Kent), Master of Science in of Toronto, Canada), Master of Studies in Modern Languages Claire Johnstone (BA, MSt Somerville College, Oxford; Mansfield History of Science, Medicine & Technology Martin Garthwaite (BSc Open University; MSc London School of College, Oxford), Doctor of Philosophy in English Alejandro Martinez Ulloa (BSc, MSc Universidad de Chile, Chile), Economics; MSc Imperial College London), Master of Studies in Rebecca Johnstone (BA Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematics the History of Design (part-time) Australia), Master of Studies in the History of Design (part-time) Julian Marwitz (Certificat de Droit University of Geneva, Anirban Ghosh (BBA, LLB Symbiosis Law School Pune, India), Shoshannah Jones Square (BA, MA University of Manitoba, Switzerland; Staatsexamen Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Master of Business Administration Canada; St Edmund Hall, Oxford), Doctor of Philosophy in English Germany), Master of Science in Sustainable Urban Development Richard Glancy (BA Oxford Brookes University), Postgraduate Ignacio Juarez Martinez (Lic Universidad Complutense de (part-time) Certificate in Education - History Madrid, Spain), Master of Science (by Research) in Zoology Jerome Mayaud (BA Worcester College, Oxford, MPhil Emmanuel Maria Godoy (BA University of Manitoba, Canada), Master of Ryan Kahn (BComm University of New South Wales, Australia; College, Cambridge), Doctor of Philosophy in Geography & the Science in Evidence-Based Social Intervention GradDipCA, Institute of Chartered Accountants, Australia), Master Environment Yusuf Gungor (BSc Istanbul Teknik Universitesi, Turkey), Master of Business Administration Laura McDonald (PGDip University of Oxford), Master of Studies of Business Administration Souhad Kaleef (BSc, MSc Baghdad University, Iraq; University of in Psychodynamic Practice (part-time) Yicong Guo (LLB, JM Peking University, China), Magister Juris Westminster), Master of Science in Experimental Therapeutics Samuel McKavanagh (BA University of Reading), Postgraduate Niharika Gurram (BTech Indian Institute of Technology, India), (part-time) Certificate in Education - Religious Education Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering Science Dilraj Kalsi (BA St Catherine’s), Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor Philip McKeown (BSc University of Durham), Master of Science Jan Hagedorn (MA University of St Andrews), Master of of Surgery * in Experimental Therapeutics (part-time) Philosophy in Islamic Studies & History Vanshica Kant (BA University of Delhi, India), Master of Studies Chand Mehta (BA St Peter’s College, Oxford), Master of Science Christian Hagen (Diplom, PhD University of Regensburg, in Global & Imperial History in Contemporary India Germany), Master of Science in Mathematical Finance (part- Graeme Keith (BSc University of Glasgow; MSc University of Rory Mellows (BEng University of Nottingham), Postgraduate time) Aberdeen), Doctor of Philosophy in Cardiovascular Medicine Certificate in Education - Physics Natalie Haley (MPhys St Catherine’s), Doctor of Philosophy in John Kenny (BSc University College Cork, Ireland), Master of Ondra Miksik (BSc, MSc, Brno University of Technology, Czech Life Sciences Interface Doctoral Training Centre * Philosophy in Politics: Comparative Government Republic), Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering Science Adrian Syah Halifi (BSc, MSc Technological University of Ruby Klett (University of Maastricht, Netherlands), Diploma in Ioan Milosevic (BA, MSci King’s College, Cambridge; PGCE Lady Malaysia (UTM), Malaysia), Master of Science in Mathematical Legal Studies Margaret Hall, Oxford), Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Modelling & Scientific Computing Eleonora Kreacic (BSc, MSc University of Belgrade, Serbia), Surgery (Graduate Entry) Sarah Hanks (BA, MSt Hertford College, Oxford), Doctor of Doctor of Philosophy in Statistics Marcin Moczulski (BSc Warsaw University of Technology, Philosophy in English Mengwei Kuang (BBA Beijing International Studies University, Poland), Master of Science in Computer Science Rachael Hardstaff (BA Keele University), Master of Studies in China), Master of Philosophy in Comparative Social Policy Marcel Monkenbusch (BSc, MSc University of Maastricht, Medieval History Grace Kwong (BA Girton College, Cambridge; MPhil Green Netherlands), Master of Philosophy in Economics Mark Harrison (BSc, PGCE University of York), Master of Science Templeton College, Oxford), Postgraduate Certificate in Education Aiko Morii (BA Waseda University, Japan; St Catherine’s), Master in Learning & Teaching (part-time) (2 years) - Geography of Science in Global Governance & Diplomacy Ullash Hazarika (BTech National Institute of Technology Calicut, Dimitrios-Vasileios Kyriazis (LLB National and Kapodistrian Athanasios Mourikis (BSc National and Kapodistrian University India; MIMS Professional Monash University, Australia), Master of University of Athens, Greece; MJur St Catherine’s), Master of of Athens, Greece; MSc University of East Anglia), Doctor of Business Administration Philosophy in Law * Philosophy in Zoology Genevieve Helleringer (Maîtrise École Supérieure des Sciences Jonathan Lachance (BAdmin Concordia University, Canada), Surekha Nagabhushan (BA Christ College, India; MA University Économiques et Commerciales, France; JD Columbia University, Master of Science in Sustainable Urban Development (part-time) of Madras, India), Master of Philosophy in Economics USA; Maîtrise Sciences Po, France; Maîtrise, Doctorat Paris-I Alpha Lee (BSc Imperial College London; MSc Mansfield College, Ikuno Naka (BA Wellesley College, USA), Master of Philosophy Panthéon-Sorbonnes, France; Maîtrise Paris-II Panthéon-Assas, Oxford), Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematics in Development Studies France), Master of Science in Psychological Research Nicholas Lehn (BA Kenyon College, USA; VS St Catherine’s), Omar Nasher (MD St Matthew’s University, Cayman Islands), Evangelene Hibbs (BA University of Birmingham), Master of Master of Science in Cognitive & Evolutionary Anthropology Master of Science in Surgical Science and Practice (part-time) Studies in Creative Writing (part-time) Morten Lidegaard (BEng Engineering College of Aarhus; MSc Pearl Ngugi (BPharm, MPharm Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Alexander Hinkson (BA St Catherine’s), Bachelor of Medicine & University of Southern Denmark), Doctor of Philosophy in University, South Africa), Master of Science in Global Health Bachelor of Surgery * Engineering Science Science Carinna Hockham (BA Wadham College, Oxford; MSc London Roderick MacKenzie (BSc McGill University, Canada), Master of Marten Norlin (MSc University of Gothenburg, Sweden), Master School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine), Doctor of Philosophy Philosophy in Economics of Science in Sustainable Urban Development (part-time) in Zoology Robert Main (BA, MA University of Ottawa, Canada), Doctor of Elizabeth Nye (BA University of Notre Dame, USA; MA Cardinal Luke Holland (LLB University of Sheffield), Master of Business Philosophy in Ancient History Stritch University, USA; MSc St Catherine’s), Doctor of Philosophy Administration Mantas Malys (BA St Catherine’s), Bachelor of Medicine & in Social Intervention * Layal Jammal (BSc American University of Beirut, Lebanon; MSc Bachelor of Surgery * Elizabeth O’Connor (BA London College of Printing; HDipA

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University College Cork, Ireland; MLitt University of Glasgow), Senthur Sahathevan (MBBS Queen Mary and Westfield College), Andries van Tonder (BSc, MRes University of York), Doctor of Master of Studies in the History of Design (part-time) Master of Science in Surgical Science and Practice (part-time) Philosophy in Zoology Megan O’Donnell (BA University of Virginia, USA), Master of Hanako Shimamura (BA Sophia University, Japan), Master of Rama Varma (BTech University of Calicut, India), Master of Philosophy in Modern Middle Eastern Studies Science in Education (Child Development & Education) Studies in Creative Writing (part-time) Foteini-Eleni Oikonomopoulou (LLB National and Kapodistrian Eirion Slade (MPhys Keble College, Oxford), Bachelor of Medicine Carla Verdi (Laurea, Laurea Magistrale University of Padua, University of Athens, Greece), Magister Juris & Bachelor of Surgery (Graduate Entry) Italy), Doctor of Philosophy in Materials Hasmila Omar (BEng, MSc Vanderbilt University, USA), Doctor of Elizabeth Smethurst (BSc University of Leeds), Doctor of Anna Vogel (MSc, PhD University of Kaiserslautern), Master of Philosophy in Healthcare Innovation for Doctoral Training Philosophy in Oncology Science in Mathematical Finance (part-time) Emma Osborn (Lic Université de Savoie, France), Doctor of Kirstie Smith (BA St Catherine’s), Master of Studies in Modern Gregory Walton (BA University of Bradford; PGDip University of Philosophy in Cyber Security (CDT) British & European History * Sunderland), Doctor of Philosophy in Cyber Security (CDT) Michael Osorio (BSc Duke University, USA), Master of Science in Pernille Sogaard (BSc, MSc University of Copenhagen, Denmark), Jiazhe Wang (BSc Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University), Master of Mathematical Modelling & Scientific Computing Doctor of Philosophy in Musculoskeletal Sciences Science in Computer Science Parita Panchamiya (BSc University of Mumbai, India), Master of Citlali Solis Salas (BSc Universidad Nacional Autónoma, Mexico), Wenqi Wang (BEng Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China), Science in Clinical Embryology Doctor of Philosophy in Systems Biology Doctoral Training Centre Master of Science in Computer Science Caterina Paoli (Laurea University of Urbino, Italy; MPhil Worcester Min Kyoung Song (BA St Hugh’s College, Oxford), Master of Joel Ward (BA St Catherine’s), Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor College, Oxford; Jesus College, Oxford), Doctor of Philosophy in Studies in the History of Design (part-time) of Surgery * Medieval & Modern Languages Tess Stanly (BSc, MSc St Joseph’s College Bangalore, India; MRes Urzala Weiss (BA McGill University, Canada; SPEOS Photographic Junghoon Park (BA University of Warwick), Master of Science in Newcastle University), Doctor of Philosophy in Medical Sciences Institute, France), Master of Business Administration Sociology Edward Still (BA University College London; MSt St Catherine’s), Jonathan Wells (BMedSci, MB ChB University of Edinburgh), Steven Patch (BSc Syracuse University, USA), Master of Business Doctor of Philosophy in Medieval & Modern Languages * Master of Science in Surgical Science and Practice (part-time) Administration Henry Stone (BA University of Birmingham), Postgraduate Xian Xu (BA Eastern Michigan University, USA), Master of Chetan Patel (BSc, MB BS University of London), Master of Certificate in Education - Religious Education Business Administration Science (by Research) in Clinical Neurosciences Simon Stubbings (BA Trinity College Dublin, Ireland; MA Open Pui Pui Yau (BA University of Hong Kong), Master of Science in Katie Paul (BA Somerville College, Oxford), Bachelor of Medicine University), Doctor of Philosophy in History (part-time) Comparative Social Policy & Bachelor of Surgery Shamsuddin Syed (BBA University of Michigan, USA), Master of Annmarie Yesufu (BSc University of Westminster), Master of Juan Diego Pelegrin Garcia (Ingeniero Industrial Universitat Business Administration Science in Clinical Embryology Politécnica de Valencia, Spain; MSc Cranfield University), Doctor of Mariama Sylla (Lic, Maîtrise Université Paris I (Pantheon- Musab Younis (BA University of Nottingham; MPhil Wadham Philosophy in Engineering Science Sorbonne), France; MA Williams College, USA), Master of Public College, Oxford), Doctor of Philosophy in International Shannon Philip (BA University of East Anglia), Master of Science Policy Relations in Contemporary India Konstantinos Syrrakos (LLB, LLM National and Kapodistrian Ruotao Zhang (BSc Imperial College London), Master of Nadia Pitt (BSc Loughborough University), Postgraduate University of Athens, Greece), Magister Juris Science in Applied Statistics Certificate in Education - Modern Languages Nadya Temper (BM BS Amur State Medical Academy; BSc University Xin Zhang (BA Yangzhou University, China; MA Beijing Foreign Saffron Powell (BSc University of Bradford), Postgraduate of Westminster), Master of Science in Radiation Biology Studies University, China), Master of Business Administration Certificate in Education - Biology Martin Tengler (BA Colby College, USA), Master of Science in Shuai Zheng (BEng Beijing Institute of Technology, China; Lilli Probst (BSc Julius-Maximilians University of Würzburg, Global Governance & Diplomacy MEng Graduate University of Chinese), Doctor of Philosophy in Germany), Master of Science in Economics for Development Jakub Tomek (BCompSci , Mgr Charles University in Prague, Czech Engineering Science Reinier Prosée (BSc Amsterdam University College, Netherlands), Republic), Doctor of Philosophy in Life Sciences Interface Doctoral Master of Science in Neuroscience Training Centre * indicates graduate of the College Daniel Puleston (BSc University of Plymouth; MSc Mansfield Marketa Tomkova (BCompSci , Mgr Charles University in Prague, College, Oxford; Brasenose College, Oxford), Doctor of Philosophy Czech Republic), Doctor of Philosophy in Life Sciences Interface Admitted to the Fellowship in Clinical Medicine Doctoral Training Centre Ms Saira Uppal to a Fellowship by Special Election Ali Rafiee (BMus, MMus Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Caitriona Topping (BSc, MSc University of Kent), Master of Science Professor Bill Fulford to a Fellowship by Special Election London), Master of Studies in Music (Performance) in Radiation Biology Dr David Huffman to a Tutorial Fellowship in Economics Kalyani Ramachandran (BA University of Delhi, India), Master of Shruti Tulpule (LLB University of Pune, India), Bachelor of Civil Law Dr Heidi de Wet to a Tutorial Fellowship in Pre-clinical Medicine Philosophy in Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology Brandon Turner (BSc Wake Forest University, USA; MSc St Dr Philipp Koralus to a Fulford Tutorial Fellowship in Philosophy Thomas Riffelmacher (BSc, MSc Ludwig Maximilians University Catherine’s), Master of Science (by Research) in Physiology, of Mind and Cognitive Science Munich, Germany), Doctor of Philosophy in Medical Sciences Anatomy & Genetics * Professor Andrew Dickinson to a Tutorial Fellowship in Law Cole Robertson (BA Concordia University, Canada), Master of Simao Valente Baptista (Lic University of Lisbon, Portugal; Professor Ian Shipsey to a Fellowship by Special Election in Science in Cognitive & Evolutionary Anthropology Laurea Magistrale University of Bologna, Italy; Magistère University Physics Delphine Robineau (Maîtrise École Nationale de la Statistique of Strasbourg, France; St Peter’s College, Oxford), Doctor of Professor Philip Torr to a Fellowship by Special Election in et de l’Administration Économique, France), Master of Science in Philosophy in Medieval & Modern Languages Engineering Science Sociology Julien Valentin (BCompSci EPITECH Paris, France; Maîtrise, Dr Sumi Biswas to a Junior Research Fellowship in Medical Argula Rublack (BA King’s College, London), Master of Studies in Universite de Paris XIII (Nord), France), Doctor of Philosophy in Sciences Medieval Studies Engineering Science Dr Fiona McConnell to a Tutorial Fellowship in Geography

72/ADMISSIONS 2013 MESSAGES Master and Fellows 2013

Paul S Davies (MA Camb) Ian P J Shipsey, (BSc Lond, Tan Sri Dato’ Seri A P Professor Christopher P H Nicholas R Hytner (MA Marshall P Cloyd, BSc Tutor in Law PhD Edin) Arumugam, AP, CEng, FIEE, Brown, MA, Dipl (PhD Lond) Camb) Southern Methodist Fellow by Special Election FRAeS, FIMarEST, FinstD, Professor John B Stephen D Daldry (BA University, MSc Stanford, Matthew T Parrott (BA in Physics PSM, SSAP, SIMP, DSAP, Goodenough, MA (PhD Sheff) MBA Harvard Michigan, PhD California) Professor of Experimental DIMP Chicago) Professor Malcolm L H Søren H S Dyssegaard, Fellow by Special Election Physics Peter Mandelson, The Rt Giles B Keating, MA Green, MA (PhD Lond), FRS (MSc Columbia) in Philosophy Hon Lord Mandelson of Foy Peter W Galbraith, MA (AB Sir Timothy M B Rice, Kt Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow Philip H S Torr, DPhil (BSc and Hartlepool, MA Harvard, JD Georgetown) Professor Terence V Jones, VISITING FELLOWS in Philosophy of Psychiatry S’ton) Sir John E Walker, Kt, MA, MA, DPhil Professor Denis Baranger, Fellow by Special Election in DPhil, FRS EMERITUS FELLOWS Professor Gilliane C Sills, Panthéon-Assas University, George Southcombe, BA, Engineering Science Professor Noam Chomsky Ernest L French, FHCIMA MA (PhD Lond) T14 MSt, DPhil University Research (PhD Penn) John Ch Simopoulos, BPhil, Patrick Marber, BA Professor George E Fellow by Special Election Professor of Engineering Nicholas H Stern, The Rt MA, Dean of Degrees Phyllida Lloyd, BA Birm Crowder, Flinders University, in History Hon Lord Stern of Brentford, Professor John O Bayley, Professor G Ceri K Peach, T14 Sumi Biswas, DPhil (BSc, DPhil (BA Camb), FBA CBE, MA, FBA MA, DPhil * Professor Karl Kügle, Saira Uppal (BA Durh) MSc Bangalore, MSc Lond) Raymond Plant, The Rt Hon Professor Donald H G Bruce Henning, MA (BA University of Utrecht, T14 Fellow by Special Election Junior Research Fellow in Lord Plant of Highfield, MA Perkins, CBE, MA (PhD Toronto, PhD Penn) * Professor David R Director of Development Medical Sciences (BA Lond, PhD Hull) Lond), FRS Professor Jose F Harris, MA Nelson, (Hinshelwood Professor David J Daniell, John W Martin, MA, DPhil (PhD Camb), FBA Lecturer), Harvard University, K W M (Bill) Fulford, MA, Fiona R McConnell, (BA MA (BA, MA Tübingen, PhD (MA, PhD, ScD Camb) Sir Patrick H Stewart, T14 DPhil. (MB BChir Camb, PhD Camb, MA, PhD Lond) Lond) J Derek Davies, BCL, MA Kt, OBE Professor Kathryn S Lond), FRCPsych, FRCP Tutor in Geography Professor Nicanor Parra (LLB Wales) Michael Frayn, CLit, BA Olmsted, University of Fellow by Special Election (Lic Chile) Professor Peter G M Camb California at Davis, T14 HONARARY FELLOWS Masaki Orita (LLB Tokyo) Dickson, MA, DPhil, DLitt, Professor John R * Professor Marwen David B Huffman (BA Professor Sir Brian E F Professor Joseph E Stiglitz FBA Ockendon, MA, DPhil, FRS Rashed, (Nellie Wallace Oberlin, PhD California) Fender, Kt, CMG, MA (BSc, (PhD MIT), FBA Bruce R Tolley, MA, DPhil Revd Colin P Thompson, Lecturer), École Normale Tutor in Economics PhD Lond) Sir Peter M Williams, (MA Victoria, Wellington) MA, DPhil Supérieure, M13 Ruth Wolfson, Lady Kt, CBE, MA (PhD Camb), Barrie E Juniper, MA, DPhil, Sir Trevor R Nunn, Kt, CBE Professor Denis Renevey, Heidi de Wet, (BSc North- Wolfson FREng, FRS Secretary for Alumni (BA Camb) University of Lausanne, H14 West, PhD Cape Town) Professor Sir James L Sir (Maurice) Victor Blank, Henry C Bennet-Clark, MA Meera Syal, MBE (BA Manc) Professor Noel W Tutor in Pre-clinical Gowans, Kt, CBE, MA, DPhil, Kt, MA (BA Lond, PhD Camb) Professor Sudhir Anand, Thompson, Swansea Medicine FRCP, FRS Professor (Anthony) David Professor Daniel W Howe, BPhil, MA, DPhil University, H14 Sir Cameron A Mackintosh, Yates, MA MA (PhD California) Professor Jonathan P Philipp E Koralus, MA (BA Kt Professor Ahmed Zewail Stephen J Sondheim (BA DOMUS FELLOWS Wainwright, University of Pomona, PhD Princeton) Sir Michael F Atiyah, OM, (BS, MS Alexandria, PhD Williams) Sir Patrick J S Sergeant York, T14 Tutor in Philosophy Kt, MA (PhD Camb), FRS, Penn) Sir Ian McKellen, Kt (BA Melvyn Bragg, The Rt Hon Fulford Fellow in Philosophy FRSE Michael Billington, OBE, BA Camb) Bragg of Wigton, MA * Christensen Fellow of Mind and Cognitive John Birt, The Rt Hon Lord Professor Alan Katritzky, Sir Alan Ayckbourn, Kt, CBE Vee Meng Shaw, BA Science Birt of Liverpool, MA DPhil, FRS Michael V Codron, CBE, MA Bruce G Smith, CBE, MA, RESEARCH ASSOCIATES Tom Phillips, CBE, MA, Professor C N Sir Peter L Shaffer, Kt, CBE DPhil, FREng, FIET Roger Gundle, BM BCh, Andrew J Dickinson, RA, RE Ramachandra Rao, MSc (BA Camb), FRSL Keith Clark, BCL, MA DPhil (MA Camb), FRCS MA, BCL Professor Sir Geoffrey Banaras, PhD Purdue, DSc Richard S Attenborough, Anthony W Henfrey, MA (Eng), FRCS (Orth) Tutor in Law Allen, Kt (BSc, PhD Leeds), Mysore, FRS The Rt Hon Lord DPhil Patrick E McSharry, DPhil Professor of Law FRS, FREng, FRSC, FInstP, Professor Richard J Attenborough of Richmond Roushan Arumugam, MA (BA, MSc Dub) FIMMM Carwardine, MA, DPhil, FBA upon Thames, CBE Usha Q Arumugam, MA Professor Ansgar Ohly Professor Sir (Eric) Brian Mark H Getty, BA Sir Richard C H Eyre, Kt, Nadia Q Arumugam, MA (Staatsexamen Bonn, LLM Smith, Kt, MA, DSc (BSc, Simon B A Winchester, CBE (BA Camb) Simon F A Clark, MA Camb), M14 PhD Liv), FRSC, CChem OBE, MA, FRGS, FGS Thelma M B Holt, CBE Guy Beiner (BA Tel Aviv, Dame Diana Rigg, DBE PhD NUI)

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