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MagazineST EDMUND HALL 2018–2019 100 YEARS ST EDMUND HALL MAGAZINE • 2018 MAGAZINE HALL EDMUND ST Development & Alumni Relations Office –19 St Edmund Hall, Queen’s Lane, Oxford OX1 4AR +44 (0)1865 279055 [email protected] @StEdmundHall St Edmund Hall @StEdmundHall www.seh.ox.ac.uk ST EDMUND HALL MAGAZINE VOL. XIX NO. 1 ST EDMUND HALL MAGAZINE OCTOBER 2019 SECTION 1: THE COLLEGE LIST 2018-2019 ......................................................vi SECTION 2: REPORTS ON THE YEAR ................................................................ 12 From the Principal .......................................................................................................13 News from the Senior Common Room ...................................................................15 Arrivals in the Senior Common Room ................................................................30 SCR Obituaries ..........................................................................................................35 From the Interim Finance Bursar ............................................................................ 38 From the Domestic Bursar ........................................................................................39 EDITOR: Dr Brian Gasser (1975, DPhil in English) From the Library Fellow & the Librarian ............................................................... 41 With many thanks to all the contributors to this year’s edition: especially to Donations 2018–2019 ...............................................................................................44 the Hall’s successive Communications Managers, Claire Hooper and Claire From the Archive Fellow & the Archivist ................................................................51 Parfitt, for their invaluable help with the production. From the Chaplain ..................................................................................................... 52 [email protected] From the Student Recruitment Manager ..............................................................54 From the Tutor for Visiting Students ...................................................................... 56 From the President of the Middle Common Room ............................................. 57 St Edmund Hall From the President of the Junior Common Room .............................................. 60 Oxford OX1 4AR From Student Clubs and Societies ...........................................................................62 01865 279000 SECTION 3: THE YEAR GONE BY .........................................................................72 www.seh.ox.ac.uk Remembrance Sunday 2018 ...................................................................................... 73 [email protected] Accessing Hall Areas ..................................................................................................74 @StEdmundHall Medieval Mystery Cycle ............................................................................................. 75 StEdmundHall Awards and Prizes.......................................................................................................76 @StEdmundHall Masterclass Fund Awards.......................................................................................... 81 Hall Art ......................................................................................................................... 81 FRONT COVER: Hall Photography ........................................................................................................82 based on the cover of Vol. I, No. 1 Writers and Writing at the Hall ...............................................................................82 The Graham Midgley Memorial Prize Poem 2019 ............................................... 83 Filming at the Hall .....................................................................................................84 FRESHERS’ PHOTOGRAPHS: The Emden Lecture 2018 ..........................................................................................84 by Gillman & Soame Student Journalism Prizes and the Geddes Memorial Lecture 2019 ................ 85 Geddes Trust Masterclass 2019 ................................................................................87 All the photographs in this Magazine are from Hall records unless otherwise stated. University Challenge ..................................................................................................88 Centre for the Creative Brain ...................................................................................88 Links with China ....................................................................................................... 90 Aula Narrat ................................................................................................................... 91 The St Peter-in-the-East Sundial ............................................................................ 91 iii Reunions and Receptions at the Hall .....................................................................92 Statement of Financial Activities ...........................................................................153 Degree Day Celebrations ...........................................................................................93 The 78th Annual London Dinner ..........................................................................155 SECTION 4: FROM THE COLLEGE OFFICE .....................................................94 SECTION 8: AULARIAN NEWS .............................................................................158 The Senior Tutor’s Year .............................................................................................95 Diamond Bump Supper ............................................................................................159 Student Numbers ........................................................................................................97 The Aularian Golfing Society .................................................................................161 New Students 2018-2019 ............................................................................................97 Regional Lunches ......................................................................................................161 Visiting Students 2018–2019 ................................................................................... 102 The 34th Annual New York Dinner ...................................................................... 162 Student Admissions Exercises ................................................................................ 103 Infernally Good Reunion in Switzerland ............................................................. 162 College Awards, Prizes and Grants ....................................................................... 103 International Events .................................................................................................163 College and University Bursaries...........................................................................106 De Fortunis Aularium .................................................................................................163 University Awards and Prizes .................................................................................107 Ave Atque Vale ............................................................................................................. 184 College Graduate Awards and Prizes ....................................................................107 Obituaries .................................................................................................................. 186 Partnership Graduate Awards and Prizes ............................................................108 University Graduate Awards and Prizes ...............................................................108 PHOTOGRAPH: ‘The Hall’s Living Wall’ .......................................................... 206 Degree Results ...........................................................................................................109 Diploma in Strategy & Innovation ......................................................................... 113 MCR & JCR FRESHERS’ PHOTOGRAPHS: Degree Day Dates 2019-2020 ................................................................................... 113 Michaelmas Term 2018 ............................................................................. endpieces SECTION 5: FROM THE DEVELOPMENT & ALUMNI RELATIONS OFFICE ..........................................................................................................................114 From the Director of Development ........................................................................ 115 Donors to the Hall .....................................................................................................117 The Floreat Aula Legacy Society ........................................................................... 126 SECTION 6: ARTICLES ........................................................................................... 128 ‘Writer in Residence at Teddy Hall’, by Linda Davies ........................................ 129 ‘Remembering George’, by Dave Postles ................................................................132 ‘St Edmund’s Other Hall’, by Tony Laughton ......................................................133 ‘St Edmund Hostel, Cambridge and St Edmund Hall, Oxford’, by Anthony McCarthy ..................................................................................................................134