S t J o h n ’ s C o l l e g e , O x f o r d

BENEFACTORS’

REPORTSources and Uses of Funds

Issue 6 Michaelmas 2013 ENT- D LE U D T S

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P N E O C I I T A L E D I Contents

From the President / 2 Sailing into the Wind / 4 Summary Financial Report / 8 Covering the Full Spectrum / 10 Scholarships & Grants / 12 This special edition of Benefactors’ Report has been Lester B. Pearson and Lamb & Flag Scholars / 13 created with the help of undergraduates Elizabeth Fallaize Scholarship / 14 and graduates at St John’s. Special Grants / 16 Current students wanted to be involved with the Duveen Travel Scholarship / 18 design, as well as tell their own stories about the Roll of Benefactors / Middle Insert impact of your philanthropy. Alumni Masterclasses / 22 My Tutor / 23 We hope you enjoy it. Development Internship / 24 The Development Office Team ‘Kindly-meant Gifts’ / 27 ‘A flood of colour to the world’ / 30

editor Dr Jonathan G.C. Snicker

assistant editors Kiri-Ann Olney & Caitlin Tebbit

design Caitlin Tebbit & St John’s Students

Thank you to Angelika Benz (2011, Experimental Psychology) for providing the majority of the photographs for this publication With heartfelt thanks to our contributors and advisors. The views or opinions expressed herein are the contributors’ own and may not reflect the views or opinions of St John’s College, Oxford.

2 – benefactors’ report issue 6 | michaelmas 2013 – 1 cent alumni participation was an important milestone and we are now working hard to hone plans for our next campaign. Alongside these future plans, we celebrate the matriculation of 2000 women since they were first admitted to St John’s with the aim of not only celebrating but sustaining their achievements. From the President Professor Maggie Snowling Last year, as in previous years, we committed a significant amount of funding to student support, almost £1 million. This included 83 Oxford Opportunity Bursaries, Oxford Bursaries and Moritz-Heyman Bursaries At the start of my second year as President of St John’s, I write once in addition to a newly instituted scheme to ensure support for all of our again to thank you for your continuing support. I can now say with even students with a family income below £16,000 per annum. In October greater conviction that I feel extremely privileged to have been given this year, we admitted 113 new undergraduates to whom we plan to the opportunity to lead the College in such exciting times. The times, extend at least the same level of financial support, as well as continuing of course, are challenging and, in our shared endeavour to ensure that to provide a range of hardship and academic grants. We are proud to St John’s continues to stand for excellence in all it does, the College provide more fully-funded Graduate Scholarships than any other college is fortunate to be supported by so many loyal alumni and committed and the number is increasing through the University’s matched funding benefactors. I believe that together we can ensure St John’s goes forward scheme. In addition, this year we admitted exactly 100 graduate students from strength to strength, despite the continuing pressures on Higher and no doubt there will be amongst them future leaders in their fields. Education in the UK, where we face not only economic stringency, but also the ever increasing demands created by the Government’s Research Of course success depends critically upon our ability to admit students Excellence Framework. Despite such pressures, I continue to marvel at who have excellent academic potential. We are extremely lucky that so the commitment of our Fellows to their teaching and to all aspects of many individual gifts to the Alumni Fund help to provide resources to College life alongside their research and scholarship, only rivalled by our support students and key initiatives like the Schools Liaison Programme students’ commitment to learning. and the Student Ambassador Scheme. Such initiatives will enable us to continue to admit candidates of the highest calibre to St John’s, During my first year I have felt proud to witness so many successes. regardless of means, and to provide them with resources to enable their Notable amongst these were rising to third place in the Norrington Table continuing success. In this regard, I hope that students who benefit with equal numbers of Firsts for women as men; Professor Donald today will themselves support us into the future. Russell celebrating 65 years as a Fellow of St John’s; a CBE for Professor Terence Cave, knighthoods for Professor Keith Burnett (former Fellow in I hope you enjoy this edition of the Benefactors’ Report. My thanks go to Physics) and alumnus ; and the historic ‘Head of the River’ the team of students who have helped put this report together; they have title for the St John’s Women’s boat in Summer Eights. demonstrated the fantastic work your support has enabled. Finally, thank you too for your generosity; it is very much appreciated. Thanks to the generosity of our alumni, we also enjoyed the huge success of the 1555 Challenge this summer: exceeding the target of 15.55 per

2 – benefactors’ report issue 6 | michaelmas 2013 – 3 our income by some margin. Despite this financial storm, the College wishes to continue to offer the best undergraduate teaching and graduate supervision across the most diverse range of subjects in Oxford. If we are to maintain and develop our excellence along with the pastoral support for which St John’s has a strong reputation, we must work with benefactors to ensure that the tutorial system is nurtured and treasured.

As the proportion of undergraduates in need of at least some financial support approaches 70% of our intake, more resources and effort will be needed. Admission on merit alone regardless of means, needs, gender and ethnicity can only be preserved through encouraging access and investing in outreach to encourage the most able to apply, whatever their situation or background. As depth, diversity and multidisciplinarity are Sailing into the wind Fellow for Development, Dr Jonathan Snicker (1986, PPE) at the core of what St John’s does, arguably to a greater extent than any other college, we must attract and retain the best tutors in a wide range of subjects. Despite the current fashion for privileging some subjects Oxford is not known as a sailing city. Enthusiasts, within the ring road at over others, we should support all Fellows in the pursuit of excellence in least, have to content themselves with a rather unprepossessing stretch of research and scholarship to the benefit of their teaching and discipline. the Thames at Port Meadow. Struggling to lift one’s head, before having St John’s College also strives to encourage interdisciplinarity and to turn at either bank, it used to be worth it for the fine, unadulterated international exchange at all levels. To this end, more provision for fully- views... but that is another story. Sailing in such a small stretch of water funded graduate scholarships is being put in place. takes skill, decent equipment and knowledge. It also requires the ability to sail into the wind which is, as one encyclopedia puts it, ‘a feature St John’s provides a wonderful environment in which to live, study so contrary to intuition that it is not surprising that the associated and learn. The Library, historic buildings and gardens are very special technology seems to have been learned, lost and rediscovered many times elements of the College’s identity; it is incumbent upon us and and by many apparently well-separated societies.’ succeeding generations to maintain and upgrade them for current and future use. The freedom for students, Fellows and staff to pursue chosen Ancient centres of learning, like Oxford, have, from time-to-time and activities, or develop new skills, deepens the loyalty to the College; over the centuries, had to sail into the wind. It would appear that we cultural, musical, social and sporting opportunities should be sustained are living in such a period. For most academics, who require peace and to the benefit of collegiate life. tranquility in which to think, study, research and teach, a tempestuous environment is not ideal, but they have to equip themselves if they are to Within Oxford and in the wider world, coordinated and consensual reach the desired shore. For St John’s in particular, what is causing the policy-making is essential to effective governance; yet St John’s must windy conditions, what is on the other shore and is it worth the trouble be able to determine its own strategies for academic and financial to get there? The majority of our current alumni in the UK benefited development. Alumni, as life-long members of the community, are aware from the 1944 Butler Education Act which provided for County Awards of the storms ahead; we deeply appreciate the commitment, continuing and, subsequently, LEA grants. Universities were in receipt of Teaching interest and involvement of our benefactors, as well as the financial Grants; Oxford and Cambridge Colleges also received a grant to support support and counsel that so many give. We have to look to our own tutorial teaching. All this has gone. These losses have, theoretically, resources and, yes, the resources of the wider community of alumni and been offset by tuition fee rises. However, alumni reviewing the teaching friends in order to achieve these aims, to reach that shore. and research budget on page 8 will note that our expenditure exceeds

4 – benefactors’ report issue 6 | michaelmas 2013 – 5 The 2012-13 financial year saw Your benefactions have directly reportingmore benefactors donate to St impacted the lives of students at St John’s than ever before. Your John’s today, and in myriad ways. generosity has enabled the College to offer one of the best student support packages in Oxford, helping to ensure that the recent increase in tuition fees is not a barrier to entry, nor to academic success. Summary Financial Report Legacy and donation income enables the College to maintain its excellence whilst reducing the strain Income 2012-13 upon the endowment

Income and Expenditure Account Teaching and 2012-2013 2011–2012 2010–2011 Research Income £000 £000 £000 (28%) INCOME Resources from charitable activities1 Teaching and research 5,270 5,382 5,007 Investment Resources from generated funds Income (65%) Legacies and donations 761 1,927 1,542 Legacies and Donation Trading income 657 671 759 Income (4%) Investment income 12,209 11,905 10,907 Bank and other interest 17 26 10 Trading Income Other incoming resources (3%) Profits on sale of charitable fixed assets 0 2 27 Total Incoming Resources 18,914 19,913 18,252

EXPENDITURE Cost of generating funds Fundraising 334 292 301 Charitable Income & Legacies and Donation Trading expenditure 569 557 545 Expenditure Income Investment Management costs2 3,714 3,398 3,121 Charitable activities Financial Financial Teaching and research 20,473 19,057 18,826 Year Year Public worship 147 140 201 Governance costs 128 108 128 £5,007,000 Total Resources Expended 25,365 23,552 23,122 2010/11 £1,542,000 2010/11 Surplus/deficit for the year before transfer from (6,451) (3,639) (4,870) £19,027,000 investment gains 2011/12 £1,927,000

£5,382,000 2011/12 £19,197,000 2012/13 £761,000

The full Annual Report and Financial Statements will be available in January 2014 at: £5,270,000 www.ox.ac.uk/about_the_university/facts_and_figures/ 2012/13 2013/14 so approx. £1,300,000 far... 1Charitable income includes research income and income from educational conferences, as well as student £20,620,000 related income.

2Investment management figure includes building repairs and maintenance, Bagley Wood costs and rent, rates Income and insurances.

Expenditure

8 - benefactors’ report issue 6 | michaelmas 2013 – 9 Alumni Fund: Covering the full spectrum Kiri-Ann Olney, Senior Development Officer Caitlin Tebbit, Development Officer

We are delighted to report that the Alumni Fund has had its most successful year yet, raising £565,567. Of that, a staggering 70% was raised through the efforts of our Student Callers during this year’s telephone campaigns. Funds will address immediate needs within College – principally alleviating hardship and enhancing the number of opportunities available to current students, as well as preserving the tutorial system, funding Fellowships and ground-breaking research, and improving buildings and facilities, such as our magnificent library.

After the recent three-fold increase in undergraduate fees, gifts are making a significant difference to the assistance the College can provide. St John’s currently spends around £1 million a year on bursaries, scholarships and other forms of support for its undergraduates and graduates.* Our reputation for offering advice and financial aid also encourages prospective students to apply to St John’s, whatever their circumstances, thus enabling tutors to select the best students whatever their needs and regardless of their means.

Of course, this year’s success wouldn’t have been possible without the 1555 Challenge. Four of our alumni generously pledged to give an additional £50,000 to student support at St John’s if we raised the percentage of alumni giving back to St John’s to 15.55% by 31st July (last year we were at 10% participation). The response to the campaign was absolutely fantastic and we are thrilled to announce that our final participation rate was 19%.

Thank you so much for your contribution this year – it is valued greatly by your College. If you would like to join the fantastic community of benefactors to St John’s, please visit the secure online website: www.giving.ox.ac.uk/stjohns

Clockwise from top: June 2013 Student Caller Team, the June 2013 Student Caller Team celebrate with the President as we reach 15.55%, March 2013 Student Caller Team

*For a selection of scholarship and grant reports see pages 12-19

10 - benefactors’ report issue 6 | michaelmas 2013 – 11 Lester B. Pearson Scholarship Lisa Choi (2013, DPhil Geography)

Roger Short (1958, Chemistry) & Susan Short, and 43 other benefactors

The Lester B. Pearson Scholarship has allowed me to participate in the vibrant research here at Oxford as well as the wonderful community at St John’s College. Without the generous support of the benefactors in Canada, this amazing experience would not exist. The LBP Scholarship is currently supporting my doctoral research on airport-based urbanisation. In a comparative study between a North American and Asian ‘aerotropolis’, I focus on the socio-spatial relations and inequalities that result from this new era of city building. In addition to these academic pursuits, the scholarship has also enabled me to pursue my life-long love of ice hockey as a member of Oxford’s women’s Blues team.

Lamb & Flag Scholarship Paolo Ronchi (2011, DPhil Law)

SCHOLARSHIPS Professor Dorothy (Fellow), profits from the Lamb & Flag, College Resources and &In the 2012-13GRANTS academic year, Benefactors have also provided Oxford Clarendon Fund St John’s allocated £953,000 scholarships, grants and made to student support, including key contributions towards the The first time I heard about the Lamb and £197,520 for 83 undergraduates cost of financing several hundred Flag was when a friend took me there for on the Oxford Opportunity Academic Grants, 138 Special a pint. I couldn’t imagine those two pints, Bursary, Oxford Bursary and Grants, a number of Hardship along with many others, would contribute Moritz-Heyman Bursary schemes. Bursaries, and 414 Vacation towards the scholarship which allowed me The College also provided 32 Residence Grants. to remain in Oxford after my Master’s to full graduate scholarships at read for a DPhil in Law at St John’s. My the cost of £517,588. This was thesis analyses various aspects of the right financed through a combination to privacy in the context of the European of donations, fees and College Convention of Human Rights. The College resources. and its open community have given me a once in a lifetime experience. I am very lucky to be here.

12 - benefactors’ report issue 6 | michaelmas 2013 – 13 Elizabeth Fallaize Scholarship Jennifer Oliver (2005, French)

Anonymous (1994), the late Professor Elizabeth Fallaize & Professor Alan Grafen and 39 other benefactors

I have spent three rewarding years as the Elizabeth Fallaize Scholar at St John’s, during which time I have presented my research at a number of seminars and conferences, and benefited from the support and suggestions of members of the French sub-faculty at Oxford (and at St John’s in particular). I have also had a fantastic experience teaching within a College setting, which has provided funding for the final months of my D.Phil; I submitted the thesis in January 2014. I am currently busy applying for a range of post-doctoral jobs, both research- and teaching- focused.

The experience of researching and writing a thesis is daunting at times; in the first year, the main question is where to begin! With the help of my supervisor, I began to explore the primary and secondary material out there, and to construct a case-study that would allow me to test out my ideas and writing on a smaller scale. What is extraordinary is that some of this tentative, preliminary work proved immensely useful as I entered the final stages of writing. Pieces that I didn’t quite understand, or couldn’t see the relevance of, slotted into place in unexpected ways. This was one of the most satisfying aspects of writing up.

From the outset, the Elizabeth Fallaize Scholarship allowed me to focus fully on my research. I have a good friend who started her thesis at the same time as me, without full funding, and she has relied on a good deal of support from her family as well as a hectic teaching schedule in order to pay her way. My financial security has meant that, while I was keen to get some experience of teaching work in my first and second years, in my third year I was able to cut back on that, in order to concentrate on the writing-up stage of the thesis.

These three years have been very challenging, but also immensely enjoyable, and I will always be grateful for the opportunity I had to study at St John’s as the Elizabeth Fallaize Scholar.

14 - benefactors’ report issue 6 | michaelmas 2013 – 15 West Bank language studies Will Todman (2010, Arabic & Islamic studies)

This summer, I used grants I met the Mayor of Nablus and the received from St John’s and the Head of the Arts Faculty at al- Hebrew and Jewish Studies Unit to Najah University, who gave their travel to Israel and the West Bank opinions on the matter. I was also to conduct research for my thesis able to greatly improve my spoken which is on Palestinians’ attitudes Arabic as all the interviews were to the Hebrew language. I spent six conducted in Palestinian Arabic. weeks living in the Balata refugee I attended a number of cultural camp near Nablus and in Nazareth. events, and I experienced Ramadan, I conducted over 100 interviews fasting with the family I lived with in by standing on the street and the refugee camp. stopping passers-by. Whilst some people were slightly confused as I am truly grateful for St John’s to my interest in such a niche topic, support as there is no way I the vast majority were incredibly could have done this on my own. helpful and talked very openly As an undergraduate, it is very about their desire to learn Hebrew. uncommon to have the chance to I contacted the Palestinian carry out original fieldwork, and so Ministry of Education and had a this was an incredible opportunity. meeting with the Deputy Minister My supervisor also thinks it has for Education who defended his the potential to form the basis of a reasons for not including Hebrew doctoral thesis, so who knows what in the national curriculum. I then it will lead to! Supporting DPhil Students Leigh Paton (2011, DPhil Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics) Molecular Biology Research Jeeun Song (2011, Biomedical Sciences) I received a Special Grant from St Parkinson’s Disease and Alzheimer’s John’s to support the cost of my Disease, which is the focus of my attendance at the Gordon Research research. Attending this conference Thanks to the support of St John’s are also due to be included in a Seminar and Conference in Italy offered me a unique opportunity to College, I was able to undertake publication by my laboratory and in April of this year. I gave a talk meet all the leaders in the field and independent research over the will be submitted and hopefully at the pre-seminar (run by junior gave me insights that I could not have summer vacation with Dr Clive published in a scientific journal. researchers for junior researchers) gained otherwise. The experience Wilson at the Department of All in all, the months I spent doing and presented a poster for the really accelerated my research Physiology, Anatomy, and Genetics. summer research allowed me to main conference. The conference and I will be publishing work in On the basis of my summer work, produce a piece of original and focused on the very rare and collaboration with a group from the I am currently putting together highly interesting work and has severe Lysosomal Diseases, but the conference by the end of this year. a theoretical model that could given me very valuable insight into molecular mechanism also applies possibly explain my interesting and experience of a career as a to more common diseases such as results. Some of my most researcher in molecular biology. significant and novel findings

16 - benefactors’ report issue 6 | michaelmas 2013 – 17 Duveen Travel Scholarship Mimi Zou (2011, DPhil Law)

Peter Loose (1953, Law) and the Mildred Duveen Charitable Trust

When I first stumbled upon the call for applications for the Duveen Travel Kaufman for sharing with me his special scrapbook and leather briefcase Scholarship earlier this year, it was truly serendipitous. On the same day, (which he still uses) from his St John’s days; Professor John McErlean I received an email notifying me that my paper was accepted for a major of York University for his wonderful company at the Toronto gathering; conference at UCLA but my funding application to attend the conference Professor Mark Laird for a sunny afternoon of great coffee and stunning had been rejected. I was very disappointed, knowing that my modest views of the Toronto skyline; Mr Thomas Brown for a good chat, over graduate scholarship stipend would not stretch far enough to cover the (a lobster bisque) lunch, on law firm life in Boston; Dr Olav Haazen for costs of such a trip. Fortunately, the Duveen Scholarship turned my initial sharing his insights into a career straddling legal academia and practice in disappointment into sheer excitement. New York City. I would like also to extend my gratitude to the many more alumni and benefactors, like Dr Yungtai Hsu, who so kindly reached out The Scholarship was set up by Mr Peter Loose (1953, Law), former Partner but, regrettably, we were unable to meet me on this whirlwind trip. at Edwin Coe LLP, as part of a trust for charitable causes left by his clients Ormonde and Mildred Duveen. The Duveen Scholarship enables a I had the privilege of meeting in person Mr Peter Loose and Mrs Judith student at St John’s to travel to Canada and the US to meet and connect Loose shortly before embarking upon my travels. I am so grateful to with College alumni, as well as to explore future opportunities in the them and the Duveen Trust for making this journey possible. It has been region. Over a period of three weeks in May-June, my travels took me to transformative in my personal and professional development, as I plan nine cities where I met twenty alumni and their families and friends. I to return to North America after my DPhil to explore prospects for an was deeply touched by their immense generosity and support. I would like academic and legal career there. I very much look forward to meeting to take this opportunity to offer my warmest thanks to everyone I had the and supporting future Travel Scholars when I, in turn, join the St John’s pleasure of meeting and the following alumni in particular: alumni community.

Dr Betsy Cooper for lunch with Judge William Fletcher and her fellow clerks at the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco; Mr Ed Simnett for sharing his knowledge of favourite local restaurants over a drink at SoMa; Dr Eliana Hechter for a delectable dinner and a tour of the Mission (on a vespa!); Professor Peter Young for showing me the Banana Slug of UC Santa Cruz; Mr Tyler Baker and Mrs Margot Baker for hosting me in the breath-taking Carmel Valley; Dr Tricia Markusen and Mr Denver Dale for their delightful dinner company in Carmel Valley; Dr Scott Frazier and Dr Alice Frazier for hosting me in sunny Malibu and teaching me how to surf properly; Ms Denise O’Kelly for a picnic lunch overlooking sandy beaches, rolling waves, and the beautiful people of Santa Monica; Mr Varun Sivaram for taking me up to the dizzying heights of the LA Mayor’s Office; Mrs Anna Kogan for sharing all the glamorous and not- so-glamorous aspects of life as an appellate lawyer in LA; Mr Frank and Deborah Mott-Trille for being wonderful hosts in Toronto and for showing me Frank’s legal practice which is now run by their daughter Sarah; Mr Bill Scott and his family for a very memorable dinner at the golf club and for helping to organise an informal alumni gathering in Toronto; Mr Alan

18 - benefactors’ report issue 6 | michaelmas 2013 – 19 Roll of Benefactors 2012 - 2013

issue 6 | autumn 2013 – 32 S t J o h n ’ s C o l l e g e , O x f o r d Major Benefactors Mr Michael Collett 1989 Core & 450 Benefactors Mr Philip Collins 1973 £5,000 + Sir Thomas and Lady White Professor Dorothy Bishop Fellow Mr David Cullingham * 1954 ( ) Anon. 1946 ‘49 ‘54 ‘57 ‘58 ‘64 ‘76 ‘79 ‘84 ‘85 ‘89 ‘94 Benefactors Mr Roy Copus 1977 Mr Rupert Cox 1983 ◊ £1,000,000 + & Thompson Family Charitable Trust * Mr Michael Day * 1955 Dr John Anderson * 1950 ( ) ◊ The Hon Mr Andrew Fraser * ◊ ∞ 1965 Mr Geoffrey de Jager * ○ Friend Mr Michael Deeming * ◊ 1963 Mr John Archard 1969 ◊ Mr Graham Sharp ∞ 1979 Dr Eugene Lambert * 1984 Mr Robert Garvin * ◊ 1972 Dr Pauline Bashforth * 1988 ◊ Mr Bernard Taylor ◊ ∞ 1975 & Hon Fellow Mr Peter Thompson ◊ 1976 Mr John Graham * ◊ 1970 Mr Alexander Bashforth * 1988 ◊ The Wolfson Foundation Foundation Mr Joe Hassett Friend Dr Michael Baxendine * 1955 ◊ Laud Benefactor Mr John Heath Friend His Honour Richard Behar * 1960 ◊ Mr Roger Bexon * 1943 (£750,000 +) North Benefactors Mr Brian Hill * 1950 ◊ ◊ The late Professor Frank Bisby ◊ 1964 Anonymous 1994 (£25,000 +) Mr Robert Kipling * 1974 Dr Ian Bostridge * ◊ 1983 Anonymous 1956* Mrs Cressida Legge 1987 ◊ Mr Yohan Bräunling ◊ 1991 Rawlinson Benefactors Mr John Appleby * ◊ 1962 The Honorable Keith Long * 1976 Dr Jason Breed * ◊ 1989 (£500,000 +) Mr Mark Bedingham * 1974 Mr Peter Loose * 1953 Revd Verena Breed * ◊ 1993 The late John Callomon 1946 & The Mildred Duveen Charitable Tust The late Miss Patricia Adams * Friend ◊ Mr Derek Benham Friend ○ Mr Ronald Duff 1951 Mr Denis Moriarty 1956 Mr Angus McLeod * 1982 ◊ & Benmet NY* ○ Professor Kevin Gatter Fellow Mr Sandy Muirhead 1972 Mr Daniel Slifkin 1984 ◊ Mr Tim Bridges * 1978 Mr Simon Jay * 1978 Mr David O’Connell * 1982 ◊ Mr Nathan-Madonna Byers * ◊ 1989 Mr Peter Jarvis 1990 & Mrs Janet O’Connell * 1982 Holmes Benefactors ◊ Mr Nigel Carrington ◊ 1975 Mr Martin Jones 1987 Mr Toby Owens * 1989 (£250,000 +) ◊ Professor Seh Lim Ceng 1974 ○ The late Mr Burke Knapp 1933 & Hon Fellow Mr Will Pack 1990 Mr Edward Hocknell 1980 Mr Ernest Chapman * ◊ 1954 ◊ ○ Mr Michael McDonough 1994 Mr Bleddyn Phillips * 1975 Mr Matthew Lindsey-Clark * 1981 Mr Mitchell Cohen ◊ 1975 ◊ ○ Mr Geoffrey Penzer * in the name of 1962 Mr Graham Robinson * 1992 & Mrs Frances Lindsey-Clark * 1981 Professor Timothy Congden * 1969 J Ronald Penzer 1928 Mr Paddy Ryan * 1978 The late Mr Alan Root 1942 Mr Graeme Cooper * 1980 ○ Mr Timothy Polglase * 1980 Mr Gavin Sanderson * 1976 Mr Roger Short * 1958 ◊ The late Mr John Crocker ◊ 1936 Mr Michael Pragnell * 1965 Sir Michael Scholar * Hon Fellow & Mrs Susan Short * ○ ◊ Mr Geoffrey Davies * 1973 Mr Bill Scott * 1975 Mr Pratik Shah * 1992 Mr Jonathan Davies * 1965 Mr Robert Tann ◊ 1976 Mr Robert Shaw * 1974 ◊ Mr Peter Davies * 1967 Fereday Benefactors Dr David Thomas ◊ 1970 Mr Richard Simon * 1951 Mr Timothy Day * ◊ 1970 (£100,000 +) Mr Howard Smith * 1986 Mr Michael Diamond * 1984 Anonymous Fellow Juxon Benefactors Dr Gillian Sutherland Friend Mr Doran Doeh ◊ 1968 The late Dr Gordon Baker Fellow (£10,000 +) Mr Ben Travers 1953 ◊ Dr Jonathan Duke-Evans * ◊ 1974 Mr Nicholas Bratt * 1967 Anonymous 1949, 1951, 1957 *, 1958, 1984 * Mr Roger Thomas * 1974 Dr Ralph Ecclestone * ◊ 1974 The late Professor Elizabeth Fallaize Fellows Anonymous in memory of 1930 Mr Richard Wake * 1966 Mr John Eckersley 1949 & Professor Alan Grafen Dr DL Davies Dr Jay Watson 1984 ◊ ◊ ○ Mr Simon Ellis ◊ 1974 Dr Peter Fan * 1954 Mr Melville Adams ◊ 1936 Dr Trudy Watt * 1971 Professor Wendy Erber & Dr Gary Hoffman* 1982 Dr Yungtai Hsu * 1971 Mr Rupert Atkin * 1977 Professor Martin West 1955 Mr Geoffrey Eve * ◊ 1943 Mr Stephen Barber * 1974 Mr Mark White * 1973 Mr Thomas Ewing * ◊ 1995 Casberd Benefactors Dr Tony Boyce * ◊ 1957 & Hon Fellow Mr Matthew Whittell * 1983 Mrs Claire Ewing * ◊ 1995 (£50,000 +) Mr Bill Carson * 1952 Dr Jon Wittmann * 1970 Mr Jonathan Exten-Wright * ◊ 1984 Anonymous Hon Fellow The late Prof. Fritz Caspari 1933 & Hon The Tisbury Telegraph Trust * Trust Anonymous * 1976 Fellow Pictet Asset Management * Corporation

* Gift or additional gift made in the past year (gifts are cumulative) | ◊ Member of the 450 Generation ∞ Member of the Chancellor’s Court of Benefactors | ○ Member of the Vice-Chancellor’s Circle Professor Stephen Ferruolo * 1971 The Rt Hon Sir Stephen Richards * ◊ 1968 ◊ Donations 2012–2013 Mr Arthur Flux * 1955 Mr Martyn Robinson 1964 Many, many thanks for your support this year Mr Patrick Fox 1977 Mr Richard Rook ◊ 1984 Professor Bernard Gee ◊ 1945 Mr David Scorey * ◊ 1992 Mr Keith Gerrish * ◊ 1957 Mrs Katie Scorey * ◊ 1994 Pre-1941 (21%) 1947 (28%) Mr Oliver Mills Mr Martyn Glastonbury ◊ 1970 The late Mrs Valentine Sillery ◊ Friend Revd James Quin Professor Anthony Guest * ◊ 1950 Mr Rupert Swyer ◊ * 1965 Mr Alan Wood Mr Richard Allen Dr Marie Surridge Sir Nicholas Hamblen ◊ 1976 Dr Rashmi Tank * ◊ 1988 The late Revd Canon Robert Catling Revd Dr Alan Golton Mr Kenneth Walker Sir Stuart Hampson * ◊ 1966 Mr Geoffrey Tantum ◊ 1966 Mr Gerald Seiflow Mr Thomas Nurser His Honour Tom Heald ◊ 1942 His Honour Judge Robert Taylor * ◊ 1957 Mr Michael Ensor Professor Robert Spencer 1951 (43%) Mr William Henderson ◊ 1969 Miss Corrine Teo * 1994 Mr Peter Harvey Mr Robert Walton Mr Grahame Henry 1955 Professor Gwynne Thomas * 1973 Lord Colin Strang Anonymous (2) Mr Brian Hill ◊ 1950 Mr Ian Topping ◊ 1978 1948 (30%) The late Mr Albert Adams Mr Michael Hodgson * 1986 Mr Dennis Usher * 1951 1942 (67%) Sir Alan Bailey Dr Peter Howard * 1953 Mr Peter Warner * 1983 Anonymous Mr Michael Barclay Ms Sara Hudston * ◊ 1986 Mr Peter Watson ◊ 1947 Anonymous Professor John Baker Mr David Cotton The late Mr Noel Hughes ◊ 1940 The late Mr Melvin Watterson ◊ 1940 Mr John Butler Mr Alan Crawford Revd Peter Davies Mr Alastair Hunter * ◊ 1975 Professor Carl Wellman Mr Lancelot Grimke-Drayton Dr Hugh Dingle Mr Basil Green Mrs Julie Joe 1980 & Ms Farnell Parsons Friends The late Dr Derek Kelsey Revd George Knowles Revd Canon Brian Hardy Mr Peter Jones * 1963 The late Dr Raymond Williams * 1945 Mr John Ling Mr Brian Hussey Mr Allan Kaufman 1983 Mr Ric Williams * ◊ 1985 1943 (42%) Dr Alan Turberfield Dr Bob Kamper Mr Harry Kidd ◊ 1936 Mr John Wilshaw * 1956 Revd Mr Frank Wells Mr Colin Mays Dr Peter Kirby * 1971 Mr Nicholas Wilson * ◊ 1962 Anonymous Mr Michael O'Hanlon Mr David Latimer * 1957 The Late Dr Steven Wiltshire 1984 Mr Roger Bexon 1949 (24%) Mr Michael Partridge Dr Alastair Lawson * Friend Mr Graham Wood * ◊ 1966 Mr Geoffrey Eve Mr Richard Simon Mr Simon Lebus ◊ 1976 Mr Gilbert McMillan Rt Revd Michael Adie Mr Ian Stevens The late Mr David Lindsay ◊ 1941 Mr Douglas Nicholson Mr Gordon Bloomer Mr Dennis Usher Mr John Lloyd * ◊ 1961 Professor Edmund Bosworth The late Mr Mervyn Loft-Simson ◊ 1945 1944 (23%) Dr Robyn Cain 1952 (41%) Mr William Mackesy * ◊ 1978 The late Mr Noel Couldrey Professor Richard Mayou * 1958 Anonymous Mr Frank Hopkins Anonymous (3) Mr Nicol McGregor * ◊ 1963 Revd Arthur Brown Mr Norman Lake Mr Bill Carson Mr Peter McManus * ◊ 1959 Mr Gordon Parke Revd Ernest Marvin Dr Alastair Fuge Dr Nigel Meir * ◊ 1975 Dr Roy Russell Mr Norman Hale Mr Carl Michel * 1981 1945 (30%) Revd Canon David Wheaton Mr Peter Johnson Mr Jonathan Nash ◊ 1981 Mr Henry Kapps Mr Ernest Newhouse ◊ 1957 Professor Gerald Fridman 1950 (42%) Sir John Marsh Dr Desmond Orr ◊ 1944 Mr Graham Hill Mr Peter Mather Mr Peter Owen ◊ 1964 The late Dr Raymond Williams Anonymous Mr Ron Middleton Dr Robert Oxlade ◊ 1959 Dr John Anderson Mr Robert Needham Mr Stephen Oxlade ◊ 1967 1946 (31%) Professor Peter Checkland Mr John Owens Dr Robert Page 1964 Professor Anthony Guest Revd Richard Sluman Dr Anthony Pawley * 1962 Anonymous Professor Paul Harvey Dr Andy Welsh Professor John Ratcliffe * ◊ 1957 Professor Donald McKean Mr Brian Hill Mr Geoffrey Ziman Mr John Rednall 1942 Mr James Minnis Mr Peter Hughes The late Mr James Reed ◊ 1943 Mr Gerald Moriarty Mr Alan Jacobs The late Mr Alan Reid ◊ 1963 Major Richard Lee Mr Malcolm Reid ◊ 1948 Professor George Mackie ◊ Mr Andrew Reynolds * 1993 () The percentage figure indicates the proportion of alumni with whom we are in contact with who have made a donation to the College in any given year Dr John Richards 1975 of matriculation. 1953 (32%) Professor Jack Matthews 1958 (43%) 1960 (17%) Mr Stephen Heeney Mr Stephen Lloyd Professor Christopher Norton-Welsh Mr John Higginson Mr Robert Minors Anonymous Professor Christopher Powell Anonymous (2) Professor Ervand Abrahamian Mr Ian Ingram Mr Derek Morgan Mr David Faulkner Mr Charles Salisbury Mr John Bastow His Honour Richard Behar Mr Ian Lloyd Mr Michael Pye Mr Peter Freeman Mr Roderick Tinkler Mr Martin Beresford Mr Roy Collins Mr Michael Lowe Mr Martyn Robinson Dr Hugh Hall Mr Richard Trist Dr Rodney Bessent Mr Roger Filer Dr Morton Miller Dr John Schofield Mr Michael Harris Dr Hugh Williams Dr Clifton Cleaveland Mr Peter Groves Mr David Morgan Mr Norman Smith Mr Peter Holland Mr Martin Zissell Mr Bob Crawley Mr Stephen Higginson Mr Richard Moyse Mr Tony Smith Dr Peter Howard Mr Denis Finning Mr Michael Huebner Mr Julian Nott The late Dr Christopher Turner Mr Bruce Hyatt 1956 (35%) Mr Anthony French His Honour Judge Andrew Patience Dr Anthony Pawley Mr Nick White Dr Kenneth Lea Mr Charles Fryer Mr Robert Thirlby Dr Geoffrey Penzer Mr Peter Loose Anonymous Mr David Harper Mr Robert Tomkinson Mr Michael Ross 1965 (33%) & Mrs Judith Loose Dr Rodney Ashman Mr David Harwood Mr Andrew Scarfe Mr Julian Phillips Mr Christopher Barclay Mr Clive Horsford 1961 (27%) Mr Peter Skelton Anonymous Mr Geoffrey Saperia Mr Graham Barton Mr Jon Jeffery Dr Peter Smail Mr Ian Alexander-Sinclair His Honour Peter Slot Mr Richard Bland Mr Graham Laurie Anonymous Mr Nicholas Wilson Mr William Bailey Mr Ivor Smith Mr Peter Combey Mr Nicholas Leonard Mr Anthony Addis Mr Robert Wilson Mr Jeremy Baster Dr Keith Corless Mr John Malcolm Mr Derek Bellew Mr Kenneth Worthington Mr Dan Bernard 1954 (28%) Mr Peter Hayes-Davies Mr Alan Matthews Dr Clive Bransom Mr Michael Bousfield Mr Martin Donald Mr Fawzan Mudarres Professor Robert Cameron 1963 (33%) Mr Lawrence Churchill Anonymous Professor John McErlean Sir Nigel Nicholls Mr Gyles Cooper Mr Andrew Clarke Mr Jake Allsop Mr John Middleton Mr Stephen Orr Mr Tobias Eckersley Mr Ian Armitage Dr Gregory Stevens Cox Mr Colin Baker Dr Paul Monks Mr Julian Otto Dr Dick Hill Professor Derek Atkins Mr Jonathan Davies Mr Ernest Chapman Mr Denis Moriarty Mr Colin Paskins Mr Ian House Mr Michael Deeming Dr David Fisher Revd Alan Cliff Mr Neil Pearson Mr Walter Robson Dr John Lingard Revd Barry Entwistle The Hon Mr Andrew Fraser Mr Richard Collingwood-Selby Professor Bob Picken Dr David Sharpe Mr John Lloyd Dr Ron Ghosh Professor Michael Grace Mr David Cullingham Mr Richard Timms Mr Roger Short Mr Richard Pettit Mr Bill Hadman Mr Robert Hadman Dr Peter Fan Mr John Wilshaw & Mrs Susan Short Mr Tim Price Mr Robin Harcourt-Williams Dr Peter Humphrey Mr Ian Farquharson Dr Roger Pritchett Mr George Hodgkinson Dr David Hunt Mr John Pollard 1957 (35%) 1959 (33%) Dr Richard Sawyer Mr Peter Jones Dr John Iles Mr David Sims Mr Brian Swale Mr Jonathan Longhurst Mr Mark Johnson Professor Richard Swinburne Anonymous (5) Anonymous (5) Dr Brian Tulloch Mr Robert Mackenzie Mr Marek Kwiatkowski Revd James Whysall Mr Colin Bagnall Mr Douglas Allan Mr Nigel Underwood Professor William Marslen-Wilson Mr Michael Pragnell Dr Tony Boyce Mr Michael Canning Mr Peter Walter Mr John McCulloch Mr Rupert Swyer 1955 (53%) Mr William Boyce Dr Peter Collier Dr Roderick Woods Mr Nicol McGregor Dr John Valentine Mr Keith Gerrish Mr Charles Dixon Mr John Raynor Mr Anthony Whitestone Anonymous (3) Mr Robin Guenier Mr Peter Fidler 1962 (46%) Mr Peter Robinson Dr Christopher Wright Mr John Atkinson The Venerable Brian Halfpenny Dr William Gladstone Professor Brian Scarfe Mr Michael Cross Mr Brian Harden Mr Christopher Kearton Anonymous (3) Mr Tony Sloggett 1966 (31%) Mr David Cunliffe-Jones Dr Raymond Harley Mr Bob Lavers Dr Michael Anson Mr Damien Tunnacliffe Mr Michael Day Mr David Latimer Hon Marc Leland Mr John Appleby Brigadier Christopher Winfield Anonymous (2) Mr Robert Elrick His Honour Judge Crawford Lindsay Mr Christopher Parker Mr Christopher Bennett Sir Michael Aaronson Dr Robin Fabel Dr Malcolm Merrick Mr Nicolas Phillips Mr James Berry 1964 (23%) Mr John Best Mr Arthur Flux Revd Peter Moth Dr Richard Robinson Professor Glyn Burgess Mr Peter Brown Mr Michael Godfrey Professor Michael Pratt Professor David Rowe Mr Robert Chase Anonymous Sir William Callaghan Mr Michael Goldsmid Professor John Ratcliffe Dr Lewis Ryder Professor Dr John Cottingham Dr John Brocklehurst Mr Mark Cardale Mr Richard Gowing Mr Martin Shelton Mr Peter Sadler Dr Gwyn Davies Dr Alan Butt Philip Mr Richard Cohen Mr Julian Harvey Mr Alan Spooner Mr Peter Whittaker Professor Paul Fletcher Mr Courtenay Ellis Professor Andrew Hamnett Mr Chris Jukes His Honour Judge Robert Taylor Professor Keith Wigmore Mr John Greenwood Mr Tony Foster Sir Stuart Hampson Mr Nicholas Lynam Professor George Thomas Mr Louis Wiltshire Mr Richard Harper Mr William Graves Revd Iain Macdonald Mr Michael Walker Professor William Woodward Mr Keith Mallinson Mr Crispian Villeneuve Dr Mike Bissett Mr Graham Downing Mr William Hanlon Mr Brent L Isaacs Mr David McDowall Mr Andrew Watson Dr Pat Call Mr Nigel Fisher Mr Martin Homewood Mr Larry Lowenstein Mr Andrew McNab Mr Arthur Wilson Professor David Clarke Mr John Hauge Mr Alastair Hunter Mr Paul Palley Mr Neil Munro Dr George Dempsey Mr Nigel Hunt Sir Keith Lindblom Mr James Parsons Sir David Pepper 1969 (28%) Mr Simon Egan Professor Allan Hunter Dr Nigel Meir Dr Christopher Roberts Mr James Shaw Professor Stephen Ferruolo Commissioner Paul Khoo Mr Bleddyn Phillips Mr Barry Sankey Mr Richard Wake Anonymous Dr Robert Galeta Mr Andrew Lane Mr Alan Phipps Mr Fred Squire Dr David Webster Mr David Antcliffe Mr Jonathan Hancock Revd Alastair Macnaughton Dr John Richards Mr Mark Warby Mr Graham Wood Mr Geoffrey Bourne Mr Graham Heald Dr Eric Marshall Mr William Scott Mr Matthew Wilson Dr Michael Wykes Mr Jeremy Butterfield Mr Ian Hodgson Dr Peter Moore Dr Martyn Sené Mr Roger Zair Mr Andrew Campbell Mr Richard Horrocks Mr John Newlands Dr Kevin Singleton 1978 (32%) Professor Timothy Congdon Dr Jonathan Howell Mr Simon Redman Mr Julian Spilsbury 1967 (17%) Canon Jeremy Cresswell Dr Yungtai Hsu Professor Barnaby Reeves Mr David Turnbull Anonymous (4) Mr Richard Darbourne Mr Nigel Inkster Mr William Ruff Mr Michael Waldman Mr Jonathan Alexander Anonymous Mr David Dodwell Dr John Jolleys Mr Axel Salander Mr Simon Waldman Dr Stuart Bloom Dr Michael Atkinson Mr Peter Evans Dr Peter Kirby Professor Gwynne Thomas Mr Steven Woolley Mr Martin Bluemel Mr Nicholas Bratt Mr Geoffrey Forrest Dr Maurice Leslie Mr Mark White Mr Tim Bridges Dr Nigel Buttery Mr Derek Hart Mr Peter Martin Professor Roger Woods 1976 (18%) The Hon William J. Burns Mr Ted Button Mr Martin Haworth Dr Giles Mercer Mr Tim Connolly Dr Terry Collins Dr Michael Hayes Mr Ed Rispin 1974 (29%) Anonymous Mr John Dagnall Mr Peter Davies Mr Charles Mitchell Mr Alan Sandall Mr Peter Brodie Mr John Davidson Mr Patrick Doorly Mr Anthony Orr Mr David Scivier Anonymous (3) Mr Peter Brown Mr Mark Everett Dr David Giachardi Mr Hugh Roberts Mr Hector Smith Mr John Atkins Mr Colin Clarkson Mr Guy Grundy Mr Richard Hoare Mr John Walters Mr Jeremy White Mr Stephen Barber Dr Paul Fage Mr Ian Jameson Mr Adrian Lloyd Mr Barry Wild Mr Mark Bedingham Mr Clive Gerrard Mr Keith Jewitt Mr Andrew Lynn 1972 (15%) Mr Revd Dr Frederick Grandey Mr David Leonard Dr Hugo Madden 1970 (19%) Mr Andrew Bown Mr Richard Groves Mr William Mackesy Mr Peter McDonagh Dr Andrew Foss Dr Nick Bruce Mr Jeremy Harvey Mr Paul Maddox Mr John Sherrington Anonymous Mr Robert Garvin Mr Jim Dempsey Mr Derek Healy Dr Peter McDonald Lieutenant Andrew Boyd Dr Daryl Goodwin Dr Jonathan Duke-Evans Mr James S Herndon Mr Dick Perkins 1968 (25%) Professor John Cunningham & Mrs Prye Goodwin Revd Jonathan Edwards Dr Andrew Hodgson Mr Anthony Pralle Mr Timothy Day Mr Peter Hawksworth Mr Stephen Flatt Mr Keith Long Professor Dr James Retallack Mr Kevin Alton Honeywell Dr Robert Dingley Mr Nigel Hughes Dr David Hope Mr Neil Matheson Dr Anthony Ringrose-Voase Mr Graham Ashurst Mr Michael Dyer Revd Nicholas Lowton Mr Robert Kipling Mr Eamonn Matthews Mr Paddy Ryan Professor Keith Bradley Mr John Graham Dr John Mathias Professor Lawrence Oppenheimer Mr Mark H Robson Mr Iain Sach Mr Barry Brice Mr Robert Lewis Dr James Robertson Mr Robin Seavill Mr Gavin Sanderson Mr Robin Schneider Dr Alexander Bridges The Right Revd Jonathan Meyrick Dr Nicholas Robinson Mr Robert Shaw Mr Michael Shallcross Mr Philip Sewards Mr David Elmer Dr Robert Pleming Mr Michael Russell Mr Duncan Straughen Mr Martin Spooner Mr Martin Spoor Mr David Howard Mr David Proctor Dr William Wagner Mr Roger Thomas Dr Nick Starling Mr Adrian Mitchell Dr Peter Purton Mr Peter Walls Mr Roger Titford 1977 (18%) Mr Rupert Steele Dr Richard Morton Mr Mel Schlachter Mr Nicholas Walden Mr Richard Sutton-Mattocks Mr Edward Peacock Mr John Schultz 1973 (26%) Mr Nicholas Walsh Anonymous (4) Mr Roderick Thomas Mr Charles Price Dr David Standring Mr David Adkins Dr David Ward The Rt Hon Sir Stephen Richards Dr Jon Wittmann Mr Richard Axford 1975 (19%) Mr Rupert Atkin Mr Ian Watson Mr Timothy Roberts Mr Graham Belcher Mr Roy Copus Dr Adrian Williams Mr Anthony Robin 1971 (28%) Mr Alastair Blair Anonymous Professor Ian Day Mr Chris Wilson Professor Andrew Russakoff Revd Canon Adrian Botwright Mr Andrew Armitage Mr Andrew Dell Mr Christopher Sawyers Anonymous (2) Mr John Coull Dr Christopher Burton Mr Steven Fox Dr Peter Scott Mr Gareth Allinson Mr Geoffrey Davies Mr Chris Chambers Mr Simon Gallimore Mr Michael Thomas The Very Revd Peter Atkinson Mr Richard Dell Dr Humphrey Crick Mr Geoffrey Hine 1979 (16%) Dr Piers Clifford 1983 (19%) 1985 (14%) Mr Eric Spaeth Dr Rashmi Tank Ms Danielle Fontaine Dr Edmund Stephens Ms Lauren Taylor Anonymous (3) Mr Martin Gillespie Anonymous (2) Professor Elleke Boehmer Mrs Catherine Teare Matthews Mr Alan Albert Dr Kate Ince Mr Timothy Bennett Mr Hugh Boileau Ms Sarah Thomas 1989 (19%) Mr Simon Barratt Mr Nicholas Jones Professor Alexander Bird Dr Louise Burgess Ms Lucy Vaughan Mrs Sarah Beazley Mr Matthew Lindsey-Clark Dr Ian Bostridge Mrs Anne-Therese Carpenter Mr Simon Wharton Miss Sarah Box Mr Philip Best Mrs Frances Lindsey-Clark Mrs Christine Briscoe Mr Douglas Carpenter Dr Jason Breed Revd Nigel Bourne Mr Carl Michel Mr Christopher Brunker Mrs Eileen Caster 1987 (9%) Miss Joanna Broadbent Miss Joy Bowes Mrs Sheila Sawyer Mr Andrew Buckingham Mr Bradford Cohen Dr Ed Butchart Mr Michael Coffey Mrs Dianah Shaw Mr Andrew Byng-Hall Mrs Helen Corfield Mr Martyn Atkins Mr Nathan-Madonna Byers Mr John Creyke Ms Catherine Stead Mr Christopher Clinton Mrs Susan Field Dr Sandeep Bhargava Dr James Calvert Mrs Juliet Elliston Mr Robert Sulley Mr Ian Corfield Revd Dr Andrew Goddard Mrs Jacqueline Bulman Miss Isabelle Clarke Ms Helen Graham Mr John Trimbos Mrs Sheila Craske Mr Peter Goldson Mr Robert Farrer-Brown Mr Alan Davies Mr David Graves Mr Pete Wienand Dr Jonathan Gibson Mr Jonathan Hudston Professor Hans-Johann Glock Mr John Denis-Smith Mr Anthony Kendall Revd Dr Cally Hammond Ms Jane Keightley Dr Mike Hicks Mr Desmond Duffy Dr Helen Lambert 1982 (26%) Mrs Alison Harrison Dr Margaret Meyer Dr Katie Jeffery Mr Toby Hughes Mr Howard Perkins Dr Thomas Jenkin Dr Anne- Morand Dr James Lide Mrs Melina Hughes Mr Ian Ritchie Anonymous (2) Mr Richard Klingler Mr Mark Roper Mrs Petra Lucien Mr Simon Jack Mr Michael Ryley Mrs Fiona Archer-Lock Dr Sarah Lewis Mr Edward Simnett Mrs Ginny McCloy Professor Jonathan Jones Mrs Deborah Ryley Revd Canon Nikki Arthy Mr Gerald Muscat Mr Nigel Slater Ms Rosemary Parkinson Dr Judith Landsberg Mr Richard Barrand Dr Richard Tribley Dr Lydia Syson Mrs Alice Pedder Mr Andrew Lilico 1980 (18%) Mr David Batchelor Mr Peter Warner Miss Henrietta Wallace Mr Andrew Twigger Ms Lizzie Lockett Ms Lucy Baxandall Mr Matthew Whittell Mr James Westhead Mrs Louisa Mander Anonymous Mr Robert Bright Dr Kam Wong Mr Ric Williams 1988 (19%) Mr Timothy Martin Mr Johnny Aisher Ms Frances Bryden Mrs Sara Norton Mr Peter Allwright Mrs Alison Chadwick 1984 (18%) 1986 (23%) Anonymous Mr Toby Owens Mrs Polly Caffrey Councillor Mary Clarkson Dr Paul Agnew Mrs Annabelle Pasco Mr Graeme Cooper Professor Wendy Erber Anonymous (2) Anonymous (3) Ms Sophia Anema Miss Kirsty Payne The Hon Pierre Dalphond Mr Richard Fedrick Mr Jonathan Berman Dr Lisa Backus Dr Pauline Bashforth Mrs Sarah Seleznyov Ms Sarah Deaves Mr Anthony Forshaw Professor Keith Brown Mr Jeremy Burke Mr Alexander Bashforth Mr Michael Servent Mr Frederick Dove Mr Craig Fulton Professor Richard Burgess Mr John Coupe Miss Kimberley Bazar Dr Donna Shalev Dr Val Hennelly Mr Rupert Glasgow Ms Ruth Butler Mr James Eadie Mr Jason Davis Mr Surinder Toor Mr Thomas Hill Mrs Rachel Graves Mr Alex Connock Mr James Fraser Mrs Victoria Goldin Ms Frances Richards Mr Edward Hocknell Ms Rowan Howard Mr Michael Diamond Dr Rosalind Glasspool Mr Dominic Green Mrs Stephanie Woodhouse Ms Ruth Huddleston Mr Vincent Katz Dr Wolfram Diederichs Dr James Gruver Dr Neil Hindle Dr Andrew Husselbee Ms Frances Kellner Mr Jonathan Exten-Wright Mr Ganesh Gudka Mr Desmond Hobson 1990 (21%) Mrs Carolyn Kendall Mr Angus McLeod Mrs Sacha Farley Dr Susan Harden Mr Ryan Jarvis Dr Emyr Macdonald Dr Douglas Mintz Mr Ira Feinberg Mr Michael Hodgson Dr Thomas Kite Anonymous (3) Mr Timothy Polglase Mr Timothy Mould Miss Elizabeth Gardiner Ms Sara Hudston Dr Kathryn Laing Mrs Sarah Angling Mr Alan Pollock Mr David O'Connell Ms Robin Gorna Mr Akira Kawamoto Mr Ed Loach Dr Jane Blake Dr Hugo Slim Mrs Janet O'Connell Mr David James Mr Piers Kenyon Mr Merryck Lowe Dr Juliet Brock Mr Matthew Spencer Mr Clive Parry Professor Lucy Johnston Mr Alastair Levy Mrs Natasha McMichael Dr Liam Brunt Mr William Wingate Ms Sophie Petersen Dr Eugene Lambert Ms Nicola Lomax Mr Stuart Mercer Mr David Campbell Mr Hugh Woolhouse Miss Rachel Sever Mr John Lee Ms Remmy Mahdi Mr Julian Milford Mrs Victoria Clark Dr Gary Watson Dr Rod Morrison Mr John Mayhew Mr Christopher Norris Dr Gordon Davis 1981 (13%) Mr David Wilson Ms Angie Moxham Mr Richard Parkin Dr Tamsin O'Connell Mrs Melanie Denyer Mr Stephen Wyer Mr Jurgen Rupp Mrs Meriel Pymont Mr Dave Raval Dr Katherine Doornik Mr Christopher Adams Mr Jim Ryan Mr Jeffrey Rackow Mr Edward Sharp Mr Carl Dunton Mrs Jill Aisher Mr John Waters Mr Howard Smith Dr Tish Sheridan Mr Bruce Gardiner Mr Kenneth Bailey Dr Jonathan Snicker Mr Tom Slocock Mr Simon Hubbard Mr Jonathan Inkson 1993 (14%) Mr David McKnight Mr Tim Bridle Dr Camille Koppen Mr Robert Cook Mr Peter Jarvis Dr Eoin O'Sullivan Ms Tamsin Cox Dr Shane Monks Miss Maria Courtenay Dr Charles Morgan Mr Jonathon Allison Dr Sven Peyer Mrs Olivia Hagger Ms Aisha Phoenix Miss Eleanor d'Arcy Professor Marcus Munafo Revd Verena Breed Ms Antonia Prescott Dr Oliver Holt Mr Marcus Pollard Ms Abigail Davis Mr Will Pack Mr Gary Brown Professor Cristina Rodriguez Ms Rachel Davies Miss Katherine Richardson Miss Natalie Dyce Mr Stephen Page Professor Ai-Lin Chua Mr Edward Smith Ms Justine Isemonger Mr Alastair Robinson Miss Nansi Evans Mr Christopher Riches Mr Julian Clarke Mr Rammy Winograd Mr Andre Koch Miss Alison Squires Mr Alexander Goodwin Miss Victoria Robertson Ms Alison Collins Mr Thomas Lockhart Dr Katie Taylor Ms Sarah Hameed Mr Andrew Sillitoe Mrs Alexandra Davies 1996 (9%) Miss Ann Morley Mrs Grace Harrison Revd James Stewart Mrs Hannah Gilbert Mr Eng-Lye Ong 2001 (20%) Mr Stephen Hartley Mr Daniel Talmage Mr Olav Haazen Anonymous (3) Dr Alexander Rau Mr Andrew Henderson Capt Greg Toyn Mr Peter Houlihan Dr Timothy Chan Mr Nicholas Roberts Anonymous Miss Katherine Hyde Dr Lucy White Dr Glenn Leighton Mr Neil Enright Miss Zoe Rooke Mr Edward Brims Mr Samuel Joyce Miss Helen Williamson Dr Rachel Patel Miss Eleanor Joslin Miss Katie Thomas Dr Alessandra Bucossi Dr Lea-Rebecca Lahnstein Mrs Katherine Price Dr Jiejin Li Mrs Rachel Tsang Mr Michael Burtscher Miss Mary Linden 1991 (12%) Mr Andrew Reynolds Mr Andrew Miller Mr Jack Waley-Cohen Miss Linsey Cole Miss Zoe Lundy Mr Adam Sandman Mr Peter Richinson Miss Emily Dixon Mr Stephen Martin Anonymous (3) Dr Emma Slaymaker Dr David Scott 1999 (13%) Mr Jean-Louis Duprey Miss Catriona McAllister Mr James Challinor Mr Craig Turk Mr Adrien Trarieux Mr Stuart Glass Mr Michael Osbourn Dr Nikolaos Gonis Dr Ingrid Wassenaar Mr Peter Ward Miss Antonia Anderson Miss Anda Goddard Miss Laura Poots Ms Rachel Grocke Mr Paul Winchester Dr Lucy Harding Miss Lipika Goyal Mrs Rachel Robinson Miss Marianne Lees 1997 (13%) Miss Sarah Barham Mr Simon Gregory Dr Louise Sherlock Miss Kilmeny Macbride 1994 (12%) Mrs Emily Bell Miss Lucy Gwynn Dr Christopher Turnbull Dr James Murray Anonymous Mr Richard Diffenthal Mr Jonathan Hammond Dr John Weir Dr Jude Oben Anonymous (2) Mr Andrew Allen Mrs Jo Fry Mr Alex Hohl Mr Jonathan Wiseman Mr Robert Petry Mrs Margaret Allen Dr Robert Andrews Mrs Louise King Dr Henry Leventis Mr Simon Worthington Mr Geraint Price Mr Daniel Annetts Mrs Jennifer Back Mr Andrew Kirton-Vaughan Mr Feng-Yuan Liu Mr Charles Richardson Dr Signe Balch Dr Steffan Davies Dr Gemma Lewis-Williams Mr Christopher Longden 2003 (10%) Ms Juliana Snelling Dr Daniel Claassen Dr Linda Doerrer Mrs Rachel Malpass-Brown Dr Junaid Mansuri Dr Kirsten Travers-Uyham Dr David Crosby Dr Jacob Dunningham Mr Thomas Mason Miss Sarah Myers Anonymous (2) Dr Jack Tsao Dr Guenter-Albin Grimm Mr Mark Dyson Mr Thomas Morfett Mr William Naylor Mr Peter Banks Mr Edward Haines Mr Nicholas Farhi Mr Matthias Osthoff Mr Dwight Newman Mr Peter Clayburn 1992 (12%) Dr Daniel Konn Ms Emma Gervasio Ms Helen Sanders Mr Thomas Parsons Mr Neil Davies Professor Stuart MacDonald Ms Marie Huber Mr William Trugeon-Smith Miss Alexandra Prior Mr Andrew Freer Anonymous Mr Richard Mead Miss Nadia Motraghi Mr Tristan Walker-Buckton Mr Sanjaya Ranasinghe Miss Fran Hamilton Mrs Paula Aamli Ms Jenny Rimbault Miss Alison Nicholls Dr Martin Ward Mr Stephen Robin Mr Leon Harrington Dr Richard Akkermans Dr Tom Rutter Mrs Zoe Porter Mrs Sarah Robin Mrs Sharon Hartnell Dr Victor Cole Mr Phillip Scarr Mrs Yee-Lin Richardson 2000 (13%) Dr Sarah Singleton Mr Nathaniel Kent Dr James Cooper Miss Corrinne Teo Mr Tim Rowbottom Dr Heath Tarbert Dr Katherine LaFrance Dr Jonathan Cooper Dr Matthew Wright Mr David Sheldon Anonymous Dr Joanne Taylor Mr Fergus Reoch Miss Rosie Hemmings Revd Sven Waske Mr Sebastian Baer Mr Jonathan Wallace Mr Patrick Van Reijendam Mr Alastair Holland 1995 (9%) Miss Gillian Weale Dr Susan Bibby Miss Shanshan Zhang Miss Elizabeth Warren Dr Catherine Kellett Mrs Lesley-Anne Brewis Miss Natasha Wood Mr Neil Margossian Anonymous 1998 (13%) Mrs Kit Byford 2002 (19%) 2004 (11%) Miss Wendy Mericle Mr Christopher Bowles Mr Antony Clegg Mrs Ruth Mills Mr Guy Bradbury Mr Matthew Armstrong Mr James Folan Anonymous (2) Anonymous Dr Peter Ruprecht Mr Thomas Ewing Mrs Karen Ashtiani Mr Simon Glassock Dr Alistair Bird Mr Christopher Bailey Mr David Scorey Mrs Claire Ewing Mr James Ballance Mr Ryan Hayward Mr Richard Bore Mr Ivo Bargallo Carne Mr Pratik Shah Dr Patrick Hayes Dr Ryan Baron Dr Rachel Heath Dr Marisa Buzzeo Miss Martha Burgess Mr Jeremy Smith Mr Marcus Lee Mr Aaron Bell Miss Sarah Innes Miss Stacy Clark Dr Karsten Dahmen Dr Katherine Thrower Mr David Ellis Mr Alex Chadwick Mr Hasan Yusuf Current Students Mr Kevin Ward Travel Scholarships Mr Andrew Holloway Mr Tom Cullis Mr Dmitri Zaporozhets Dr Trudy Watt Mr Omar Kanafani Miss Rebecca Findlay Anonymous Professor Graeme Wynn We would like to extend a special Dr Gueorgui Kantor Dr Marcus Gildemeister 2009 (17%) Miss Jennifer Appleton thank you to all our alumni Mr Michael Kay Mr Matthew Green Miss Lauren Au Gifts in Kind around the world who have Mr Harry Kretchmer Mr Jason Keen Anonymous Miss Doran Boyle helped our Travel Scholars this Ms Kelly McAree Miss Imogen Lewis Holland Miss Helen Austin Miss Shuxin Cai Mr Mark Bedingham 1974 year by hosting them, providing Dr Hannah Pimperton Miss Rachel Loomes Miss Annabel Barratt Mr Marco Cappelletti Miss Anna Dearden 2006 advice, organising workplace Ms Robyn Rowe Miss Jasmine Low Mr Jack Bradley-Seddon Miss Holly Ellis Dr Alan Halliday 1975 visits and offering hospitality. Miss Kate Spooner Mr Nicholas Marshall Miss Katie Chung Mr Ross Haines Mr Owen Highley 1961 Miss Ioanna Thoma Mr David Matthews Mr Jack Clift Mr Adam Kashani Mr Thomas Hill 1980 Boat Club Donors Miss Fiona McKane Miss Jessica Cummings Mr Hamaad Mustafa Mr Philip Hodson 1973 2005 (7%) Mr Henry Naish Miss Rishika Dubla Mr Thomas Ough Dr Jay Jakub 1994 This year we celebrated the 110th Dr Hector Perez-Urbina Mr Tarun Gupta Mr Paolo Ronchi Professor John Kay Fellow Anniversary of the St John’s Mr Alexandre Christie Dr Luke Pike Mr Alex Harvey Ms Shaili Sarin Dr Malcolm Merrick 1957 Boat Club. The names of donors Miss Stacey Davies Mr Nabeel Qureshi Mr Fakhri Karimli Mr Will Todman Mr John Owens 1952 who have given to the Boat Club Mr Rhys Jones Mr Jack Randall Mr Tim Kiely Ms Mimi Zou Mr Bleddyn Phillips 1975 Society are incorporated in the Mr Edward Lent Mr Aled Richards-Jones Mr Amaad Mahmood Mr Nicolas Phillips 1959 main donor list. Dr Julia Markovich Miss Kate Rockliffe Dr Nick Meadows Fellows & Staff & Mrs Katherine Phillips Miss Natalia Yryevma Merkulova Mr Ravin Thambapillai Mr Samuel Quicke Mr Hugh Roberts 1969 Dr Goranij Nonejuie Dr Kathryn Toghill Mr David Rainsley Anonymous (3) Miss Emily Rookwood 2005 Mr M D Palmer Mr David Townsend Mr Sean Ruscitto Ms Sophie Carp Mr Martin Slocock 1956 Mr Adrian Tehrani Dr Thomas Tracey Miss Katie Slee Dr Katharine Earnshaw Mr Howard Smith 1986 Miss Lindsey Wright Mr Judah Weathers Mr Victor Vu Mrs Rachel Graves Mr Carlton Stoiber 1964 Mr Benjamin Waterhouse Dr Nikolaj Lubecker Mr Robert Tann 1976 2006 (12%) 2008 (18%) Mr Alex Winchester Dr Barry Murnane Mr Richard Wake 1966 Professor Kate Nation Anonymous Anonymous 2010 (11%) Mrs Kiri-Ann Olney Corporations Mr Oliver Adams Mr Phil Bartlett Ms Sophie Petersen Mr Warren Balakrishnan Miss Julia Eales Anonymous Sir Michael Scholar 3 Monkeys Communications Ltd Mr Andrew Campbell Mr Paul Forbes Miss Alexis Gorby Dr Jonathan Snicker Benmet NY Miss Anna Dearden Mr Niklas Gaupp Miss Pooja Menon Professor Maggie Snowling Brooks MacDonald Asset Mr Robert Drabble Mr Geoffrey Hall Miss Elizabeth Ryznar Dr Ian Sobey Management Ms Almut Eisentraeger Mr Joseph Harrington Mr Uche Ukachi Ms Caitlin Tebbit Deutsche Bank Miss Helen Fisher Mr Stewart Jennings Miss Madeleine Ward Goldman Sachs & Co Ms Laura Gillespie Mr Simon Kay Mr Samuel Ward Friends Lamb and Flag Mr Adam Graham Ms Marina Lambrakis RBS Mr Pete Griffiths Mr Leslie Lim 2011 Ms Maggie Alcock UBS Mr Christopher Lawton Miss Martha Mackenzie The late Mrs Estella Bradley Mr Kieran Mahanty Miss Claire MacNeill Ms Deborah Cox Miss Emma Cannell Mr Scott Newberry Mr Thomas Mayne Ms Tod Davies Mr Timothy Newton Mr Anthony Nutt & Mr Alexander Cox Miss Nennia Orji Ms Hira Omar Mr Geoffrey de Jager Mr James Osun-Sanmi Mr Jon Phillips Mrs Alison Dearden Miss Kathryn Rowan Miss Tabs Rasheed Ms Susana Epstein Miss Grace Wong Dr Sam Stranks Mr Philip Fowler Dr Aaron Trachtenberg Mr Dan Keyworth 2007 (18%) Miss Sarah Turner Dr Alastair Lawson Mr Simon Wardle Miss Becki Mckinlay Miss Jill Brumier Mr Edward Weng Mr Rory Murphy Thank you to all our benefactors. This Roll of Benefactors lists all donors who have made gifts to the College between 1st August 2012 and 31st July 2013. Donors who have made gifts after 1st August 2013 will be listed in next year’s Benefactors’ Report.

47 – benefactors’ report collegeSt John’s will celebrate its 500th The St John’s life College community anniversary in 2055. Alumni continues to be a diverse and involvement over the centuries inclusive environment. We asked has enriched and strengthened the students to describe an aspect College. As we look forward to the of life at St John’s that has had a next 30 years we hope and trust profound effect upon them. that our alumni will continue to provide transformational support and advice. Alumni Masterclasses Julian Mackenzie-Smith (2011, PPE)

In late May, Philip Hodson (1973, target groups, after which one can Geography) held a masterclass on tailor both the message and the marketing and communications. means by which it is conveyed to the Some of us were there out of relevant group (for example, don’t curiosity, others already with use a Facebook group to promote careers in mind, but frankly, many pension schemes…). Having defined of us simply hoped to find out the project, one can then establish what exactly marketing was – a clear timelines and distribute broad label that is in reality quite responsibilities to achieve it, at all hard to pin down. Philip was a times bearing in mind the cost great help in this: now a marketing of the endeavour. However, more consultant, his career has led him intriguing and less obvious was through a variety of jobs in the the importance of sheer common marketing and advertising industry sense and a human touch: just – the advisory nature of the work as those simple questions upon means that he has worked with which businesses are built can be My Tutor Lauren Au (2011, Lit Hum) dozens of firms in the past, so he asked in human terms, so can they brought a wealth of experience to be answered in them. Together the masterclass. we worked on the skill of turning It’s very difficult to imagine Oxford in question. By the time we emerge a project into a story, creating a life functioning without the tutorial back into the world, we are armed Business, setting aside for a narrative about an event, a firm, system. To get through such a hefty with next week’s essay and reading moment all the sector-specific an idea, in order to persuade, and topic as the paper I am taking, a list, and a whole bunch of ideas jargon and general confusion perhaps even inspire, rather than lecture course is just not enough: which we couldn’t have understood it can evoke, is above all about merely convince. it’s so important to discuss key half as well from just reading them people talking to other people points in detail with someone who in a book, and just hearing about about what they can offer them. Focusing on the publications of the really knows what they are talking them from a lecturer. Katharine has A few rather simple questions Development Office – including about, and that’s exactly what the been a great tutor for every topic sum up a host of very complex the one you are reading – we were tutorial system provides. A typical I’ve taken with her so far, and not phenomena and relationships: asked to suggest improvements as tutorial with Dr Katharine Earnshaw only because she can, and is willing “What can I do for you? How can we saw fit, and then pitch our ideas always starts with putting the kettle to, answer any obscure question we best work together? Why work to the team. Though surprisingly on - an extremely welcome thing for we might throw at her during a for us and not our competitor?” challenging, it was an interesting two students early on a Wednesday tutorial. We all feel very lucky to In a sense, marketing is the art exercise and rewarding: our warm morning! - and then a summary have a tutor who not only provides of answering these questions in thanks go out to Philip for his time of our essays. We launch into a us with great academic support the most effective way possible. and help. We are very grateful as discussion of key points from there. and ideas, but also genuinely cares As we might have guessed, the students when our alumni give up One and a half hours of intellectual about how we are enjoying our discipline relies heavily on rigorous some of their time to give us a little sparring can be difficult, especially time here, and is happy to come market analysis: one might start advice – it’s also very nice just to when grappling with a tricky topic, with us to the Lamb and Flag after off by categorising people into meet them! but Katharine always does her best a subject dinner for a few drinks! to make us understand each point

22 – benefactors’ report issue 6 | michaelmas 2013 – 23 office; Adam and I would often funding what I think is the best be dragged away from favourite thing about St John’s: the student tasks like data entry and filing to support system that aims to meetings with alumni. We spent ensure that at least within its walls, entire afternoons speaking to wealth and wealth inequality are incredibly interesting people, who unimportant: the goal is to provide have had fantastic careers and who enough that a St John’s student’s gave us great advice: it almost seems background absolutely should not dishonest to call it work. And still affect their success. The things we less like work was the time I was were planning and raising money lucky enough to spend with the for were hardship grants, academic Development Office in America, grants, travel grants, Schools where I had gone at the beginning Liaison and access programs, Development Internship of October to visit universities to internship networks, graduate Hannah Scott-Deuchar (2009, French & Arabic) which I was thinking of applying. scholarships, and Springboard for Serendipitously, my trip coincided College women. They were things with various alumni events and I had benefited from during my I was slightly surprised to find be debilitating. The serious social meetings in Washington and New time in College without realising, myself spending the three months implications of this phenomenon York, so I was able to convince my but without which my academic after I graduated from St John’s – which serves to undo all the colleagues that I ought to attend as performance would certainly have back in Oxford, working for College. benefits of an equalising university many of them as possible. Meeting suffered; for instance, without The position as intern in the education, so that a graduate’s SJC alumni in the US was a fantastic numerous travel grants I could Development Office was something employment prospects once more experience, especially since it was never have afforded to spend time I applied for with only a slight, depend on their background more my first time in the States and I had abroad improving my languages. second-hand knowledge of what than their talent – are something masses of questions: I saw first-hand Development actually meant: the about which I feel passionate. As how valued and valuable the global I began to realise that fundraising greatest attraction of the internship a result, I was left feeling slightly College community can be, and how in education and more broadly to me, as a recent graduate with guilty about having fallen on my important it is to maintain alumni in the arts, something I’d little on the immediate horizon feet with a job at St John’s! I worked networks and links abroad. I would previously hardly been aware but post-graduate applications and in a lovely office on St Giles’, with like to take this opportunity to thank of, is increasingly important as a looming overdraft, was simply friendly colleagues who valued the all the alumni I met, in the UK and government money is withdrawn the fact that it was in Oxford, and input of the interns, Adam Kashani the US: the help and advice offered from these areas; and that the only paid. One of the great issues faced (2012, Pyschology) and I, but did to me has been and will continue to way we have of ensuring that access by graduates, particularly in the not exploit us; I finally learned all be invaluable. to culture and education remains humanities, is the expectation that the skills I should have had already, within everyone’s grasp seems to be we will spend months, even more such as database handling, the Most importantly, however, I found to fund it ourselves. In my opinion, than a year, working for nothing. It mysteries of Excel, how not to break that I increasingly believed in the it is essential work, to which I may be a nuisance for the children the scanner and so on; and I found work we were doing. As a student hope eventually to return; this of middle-class Londoners, but development and fundraising as I had thought of the Development realisation, more than anything, is for those who do not live in cities a job increasingly, unexpectedly Office as there to grub up gold to what I’ll take away from my time as where internships are easily found, interesting. put into St Johns’ coffers. I rapidly an intern at St John’s. or whose parents cannot afford to realised that its work and alumni continue supporting them, it can For a start, I was not always in the donations were in fact directly

24 – benefactors’ report issue 6 | michaelmas 2013 – 25 what

‘Kindly-meant Gifts’ should Dr William Whyte, Fellow and Tutor in History

Universities and colleges have always relied on benefactors. Indeed, many would not exist without them. St John’s, of course, has Thomas White; but next door at Trinity st john’s – and in the same year, 1555 – his equivalent was Thomas Pope. Balliol, currently celebrating its 750th anniversary, of course owes its name as well as its existence to a benefactor. Harris Manchester, which became a college fewer than 20 years ago, likewise marks an important benefaction in its title. look like Benefactors can be tricky: not always giving what is wanted or having ideas of their own. In researching the history of Britain’s civic universities over the last 200 years, I have come across innumerable examples of academics and administrators who have found it in 30 years hard to square the generosity of benefactors with the actual needs of their institution. At Manchester in the 1880s, for example, the university struggled to know what to do with such kindly-meant gifts as a stuffed two-headed lamb or ‘the mummy of Miss Beswick’.

Still, these individual benefactions were easier to manage than more general appeals – of time? which there have been many. For although we tend to think of university fundraising as a modern phenomenon, it is in fact as old as the universities themselves: consider the ceiling of the 15th century Divinity School under Duke Humfrey’s Library where As the College prepares to meet the needs of future generations the arms of donors are memorialised in stone. Even apparently modern campaigns, of St John’s students, Fellows, staff and alumni, we are looking complete with media strategy, motto, and branded notepaper, are not new. UCL – to our alumni and benefactors to share their ideas to help us established in the 1820s as a radical challenge to Oxbridge conservatism – found itself create a mutually compelling vision for the future. saddled with a home it could not afford to complete for 150 years because it mistakenly used an image of that neo-classical white elephant on Gower Street in its literature. It As William Whyte and Elizabeth Macfarlane reveal on the could scarcely erect something else once the building had become part of its brand. following pages, we will be building on a strong tradition of philanthropy and creative thinking. It is, though, the years between the two world wars that resemble our contemporary experience of university funding most closely. The 1920s and 1930s may have been an We would be delighted to know your thoughts. Please get in era of economic uncertainty or worse – but they were boom times for some of touch at [email protected] the institutions I study. Between 1929 and 1935 Leeds alone was given over £400,000, using the money to build the most wonderful example of interwar baroque

26 – benefactors’ report issue 6 | michaelmas 2013 – 27 architecture, complete with domed library and an ‘electronic dome-heating chandelier’. are at grips with the Pursuit of Truth for the Advance of Knowledge’. Nor was it just Visiting in 1926, an Indian academic, H. J. Bhaba, was amazed by the his clients who made such claims. At Manchester, a still more demanding goal was achievements of the universities. ‘When I think of the princely gifts given by the industrial set out, sustained by the ambition, ‘To supplant Bonn or Jena as one of the recognised magnates of Bristol to their rising University’, he declared, ‘I feel the sort of admiration centres of the most complete intellectual training obtainable in the world’. Smaller which puts me, as a Bombay man, to great shame’. colleges could not claim this, but it was practically the only argument that they didn’t try. At Southampton, a variety of tacks were taken. ‘Alfred the Great, king of Wessex, In this period, benefaction was encouraged in a variety of ways. But as the need grew encouraged education. Follow his lead and help found a University of Wessex’, cried greater and the institutions became more ambitious, universities were increasingly willing an advertisement in the Hampshire Advertiser in late 1928. ‘Commerce and Industry to employ professional fundraisers. Almost wholly ignored by previous historians, and are moving south. They will move to those places which provide a welcome’, explained completely disregarded by those who argue that 20th century universities too quickly another; ‘A University is not merely a welcome, it is a beacon guiding them from far off. abandoned their own fundraising and became dependent on the state, the decision by Help to light the beacon which shall guide them to the Great Port of Southampton’. Bristol, Liverpool, and Southampton to hire a professional in 1920 reflects the seriousness with which these institutions approached the issue. The man in question was A. F. If potential benefactors were not inspired by history and geography, it was reasoned, Shepherd, founder of ‘Business-Builders’, a self-proclaimed specialist in ‘Publicity Science- perhaps another angle would work. ‘Why should Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds Craft’, and author of Business First Principles: an exposition, in simple terms, of the force which have a university, and not Southampton?’ asked an advertisement in the Southern Daily germinates all knowledge, all activity, all progress and all achievement (1923). Echo. Surely, suggested another, employers needed the ‘Expert Knowledge – Initiative – Salesmanship’ that university graduates could uniquely offer? Should even this Shepherd, fresh from his success promoting Eagle Star and British Dominions not persuade, then a still more basic bottom line was brought up. Students, claimed Insurance, was brash, slick, and self-confident. He was also quick to condemn the slow Southampton’s principal, brought between £40,000 and £50,000 into the local pace of university decision-making and contemptuous about the lack of imagination he economy a year. A larger university would perhaps bring even more. encountered amongst academics. ‘Really, one expects from those associated with the University (please do not take this as personal) that breadth of view and that insight into The Southampton campaign was not a great success. It turned out that too few people human nature which their better education is supposed to give them’, he complained to wanted to emulate Alfred the Great, and only £20,000 was raised. Bristol similarly the V-C of Liverpool. Determined to prove his point, and earn a commission, Shepherd failed to raise its target amount, and Shepherd’s relationship with the authorities at proposed what even the Advertiser’s Weekly described as ‘a Death-blow to tradition’, Liverpool descended into mutual antipathy, with the disgruntled public relations expert using what he termed ‘moderately aggressive methods’. Letters, pamphlets, articles in left infuriated that academics simply did not understand his job – or, he felt, really newspapers, and canvassers ‘of a superior class’ were all deployed. Public meetings were understand their own. Above all, Shepherd encountered the age-old problem of handling held, but Shepherd counselled that in order to achieve the desired effect, the universities potential benefactors. Some didn’t want to give money at all. Some wanted to give money should seek to turn hundreds away by inviting two or three times the hall’s capacity. for things the universities didn’t want. Some proved hard to contact – and others proved hard to find. At Exeter, at the same time, the list of ‘Bad or Doubtful Promises’ drawn up His message was intended to reach as wide a constituency as possible. Civic pride by a fundraiser included such disconcerting figures as W. H. H. Lane, who had promised remained an important draw for these civic universities. Comparing itself to Liverpool £2 but was listed simply as ‘Disappeared. Wanted by police’. in 1922, for example, Bristol challenged local patrons to keep pace with their northern rival. ‘Already’, it declared, Liverpool ‘is to-day making a supreme effort for leadership Spare a thought, then, for our university and college fundraisers and be grateful they are among the modern Universities of the world. Will the West again be content to remain not putting A. F. Shepherd’s Business First Principles into practice. Above all, it’s worth inert?’ Liverpool compared itself with Canadian cities, where more than £1 million had remembering that however much the telephone campaigns, Facebook pages, and tweets recently been raised. ‘The Dignity, Prestige and Well-being of Liverpool at stake’ claimed a may make it seem as though we are now in a brave new world, we have been here before. leaflet. ‘Shall it be said that the Citizens of Liverpool are possessed of less patriotism, less Oh – and although St John’s is terribly grateful for any support of whatever sort, do think acumen, less generosity, or less unselfishness than those of Montreal?’ hard before presenting us with stuffed animals, however curious, or the mummified remains of a relative. We’re not big like Manchester. We’ve really nowhere to put them. At the same time, the universities made an appeal to a wider, national audience, claiming, as Bristol did, that ‘BRAINS ARE OUR FIRST LINE OF NATIONAL DEFENCE’. In the Redbrick: a social and architectural history of Britain’s civic universities will be published by OUP in 2014. great struggle for international survival, Shepherd exclaimed, ‘our Professor-Generals

28 – benefactors’ report issue 6 | michaelmas 2013 – 29 ‘A flood of colour to the world’ Tate Gallery in , , the National Cathedral in Rev Dr Elizabeth Macfarlane (the Chaplain) Washington DC, and the Senate House of the . In 1944, the year that Bossanyi began work on the windows in St John’s, his St John’s Chapel houses two works in by the acclaimed 91 year old mother was deported from her home in Baja, dying en route artist Ervin Bossanyi, which were donated to the college by his son Jo to or at Auschwitz. A ‘truly European artist’, Bossanyi was immersed in (1943, Zoology) after his father’s death in 1975. The St John’s windows the art movements of his times, and looked beyond Europe to India and are replicas of a pair made by Bossanyi for a 1944 commission, which are the east for inspiration: he was influenced by the Sufi poet Hazrat Inayat now in the Zouche Chapel of . Bossanyi retained the copies Khan, and the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi. Since his death in July 1975, for permanent display in his studio to show prospective clients. As the exhibitions of his work have taken place in the Ashmolean Museum, glass painter Paul San Casciani has written ‘Both the vision and the style Oxford, in , Lübeck, and in his childhood home town of Baja. are highly individual: the panels are painted, like all his works, not with a view to creating three-dimensional form, but to expressing rhythmic quality of line. The intense colour is controlled by a combination of bold Further reading: Ervin Bossanyi: vision, art and exile, ed. Jo Bossanyi and Sarah Brown. matting on the front and patina on the back that holds back the light, Reading: 2008; Ervin Bossanyi: Paintings and works in stained glass. Exhibition catalogue. making the tones rich, not fierce.’ (Bossanyi and Brown. Ervin Bossanyi, Oxford: 1979 2008: 205)

The works depict two incidents from the anecdotal collection, the Little Flowers of St Francis. The left hand window shows Francis requesting the release of the doves from the boy who has captured them in a cage (chapter 22). The words CHE TU ME LE DIA are inscribed, ‘[I beg you, young man] that you should give them to me’. The right hand window shows Francis with the leper, who, according to the story, was restored to health and reconciled to faith by the saint’s ministrations, and who appeared to Francis in a vision as his soul ascended to the heavens (chapter 25). The glass depicts Francis’ complete engagement with the man’s sufferings, above which the Holy Spirit hovers in the form of a dove.

Ervin Bossanyi was born in 1891 in southern Hungary, and studied at the National Hungarian Royal School of Applied Arts in Budapest. During a period in Paris in 1910, he was introduced to Fauve and Cubist painters and sculptors. In 1915 he was interned in Brittany as an enemy alien: on returning to Hungary on his release, he found the political situation was deteriorating, and his parents urged him to leave. Bossanyi re-located to Lübeck, where he married, and made his first experiments in stained glass, before moving eventually to . Throughout the 1920s Bossanyi exhibited work and developed his ceramic mural technique, receiving many important public and private commissions, but after the introduction of Nazi laws excluding Jews from working for the state, the artist and his family left for England in 1934, eventually settling on the outskirts of London. From his Eastcote studio, his stained glass work flourished, and he produced major works which can be seen in the

30 – benefactors’ report issue 6 | michaelmas 2013 – 31 Thank you to all our donors who We would also like to thank all thankmade the stories in this edition those alumni you who have donated of Benefactors’ Report possible. their time, expertise or otherwise The central section of this report given gifts in kind. If there are contains the names of major and any mistakes of commission core benefactors, and all donors or omission, please accept our who have given between 1st apologies. August 2012 and 31st July 2013. Thank you for your support. the development team

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