Gazette2020 WADHAM COLLEGE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD Gazette 2020 3 Contents Fellows' List 4 J. A. E. Curtis – an appreciation 76 The Editor 8 Unusual Wadhamites 78 The Warden 10 Book reviews 84 The Domestic Bursar 12 Writing in the time of Covid Staff List 14 The Finance Bursar 18 Covid and post-Covid 90 The Development Director 21 Lyrical ballasts 91 The Senior Tutor 24 Consider the squirrel 92 The Tutor for Access 26 Quiet summers like these 93 The Chapel and Choir 28 Editing in a pandemic 94 The Sarah Lawrence Programme 30 Sports during the lockdown 95 The Library 32 Lifeline Service 96 The actress in lockdown 97 Clubs, Societies, Activities and Sports College Record 1610 Society 36 In Memoriam 102 Wadham Alumni Society 38 Obituaries 104 Medical Society 40 Fellows' news 130 Wadham Alumni Golf Society 41 Emeritus Fellows' news 136 Student Union 42 New Fellows 138 Law Society 43 Alumni news 142 Lennard Bequest Reading Party 44 Degrees 145 Rowing 46 Donations 146 Rugby 48 Cricket 49 The Academic Record Features Graduate completions 166 Final Honour School results 169 VE Day commemorations 52 First Public From war to post war 58 Examination results 171 OxVent: a Wadham Prizes 171 response to the pandemic 62 Scholarships and Exhibitions 173 Based on a true story 66 New Undergraduates 176 Reminiscences of T. C. Keeley 68 New Graduates 180 Some Wadhamiana in NSW? 71 Those were the days (3) 72 2021 Events 184 Modernist Song 75 Cover photo by John Cairns www.wadham.ox.ac.uk Fellows’ list 5 Frances J. Lloyd Alexander Steel Fabrizio A. Caola Domestic Bursar and Senior Lee Shau Kee’s Sir Man Kam Fellow and Tutor in Physics Fellows’ list Treasurer of Amalgamated Lo Fellow and Tutor in Law Clubs J. C. Séamus Davis Lydia C. Gilday Senior Research Fellow in WARDEN Paul J. Martin Mark S. Thompson Tarunabh Khaitan JRF in Chemistry Physics Tutor in Politics Tutor in Engineering Lord Macdonald of River Hackney Fellow and Tutor in Law Fiona M. Powrie, FRS Rebecca R. Simson Glaven Kt QC Matthew S. Kempshall Edmund M. Herzig Professor of David Richards JRF in Cliff Davies Fellow and Masoumeh and Fereydoon Emma E. A. Cohen Musculo-Skeletal Sciences Economic History Tutor in Modern History and Soudavar Professor of Tutor in Human Sciences FELLOWS Keeper of the Gardens Persian Studies Olivia Vázquez-Medina Juliane Zachhuber Jane Griffiths Tutor in Spanish Fellow by Special Election in E. Jane Garnett Benjamin C. Berks Philip R. Bullock Tutor in History Placito Fellow and Tutor Ancient History Professor of Biochemistry Professor of Russian, Yeltsin in English and Tutor for Ursula H. M. Martin, FREng Stephen J. Heyworth and Tutor in Biochemistry Fellow and Tutor in Russian, Undergraduates EPSRC Research Professor Evan E. Easton-Calabria and Tutor for Equality and in Computer Science and JRF in Social Sciences Maurice Bowra Fellow and Caroline S. Mawson Tutor in Classics, Secretary Diversity Francesco Zanetti Senior Research Fellow Senior Tutor and Tutor for Tutor in Economics Alice Roullière for the Wine Committee, and Admissions (on secondment) Peter J. Thonemann Karl B. J. Kgle Fellow by Special Election Steward of Common Room Forrest–Derow Fellow and Alexander F. Ritter ERC Research Professor in Early Modern French Carolin Duttlinger in Music, Senior Research Alan W. Beggs Tutor in Ancient History Roger Penrose Fellow and Literature Ockenden Fellow and Tutor in Fellow, and Keeper of the John Flemming Fellow and Tutor in Mathematics German Eric F. Clarke, FBA Silver Natalia Doan Tutor in Economics, and Heather Professor of Music, Julie C. Hage Okinaga JRF in Japanese Secretary of Governing Body Ankhi Mukherjee Director of Music, and Development Director Sakura Schafer-Nameki Studies Professor of English and Fellow and Tutor in Paul D. Beer Welfare Dean World Literatures, Tutor in Dominic P. Brookshaw Mathematics Francesco Licausi Professor of Inorganic English, and Tutor for Women Paolo G. Radaelli Senior Research Fellow in Associate Professor and Chemistry, Braithwaite Fellow Dr Lee’s Professor of Persian and Fellow Librarian Peter J. Alsop Tutor in Plant Sciences and Tutor in Chemistry, and Michael J. Bannon Experimental Philosophy Finance Bursar Sub-Warden Director of Postgraduate W. Thomas M. Sinclair George Southcombe Medical Education and Christopher Summerfield Tutor in Philosophy Emily M. L. McLaughlin Fellow by Special Election in Colin P. Mayer, FBA Professorial Fellow Professor of Cognitive Fellow and Tutor in French History Peter Moores Professor of Neuroscience and Tutor in Thomas W. Simpson Stephan Rauschenbach Management Studies Andrew D. Farmery Experimental Psychology Senior Research Fellow in Paul Balister Sir Samuel Scott of Yews Philosophy and Public Policy Fellow and Tutor in Roger Penrose Tutor in Cláudia M. Pazos Alonso Fellow and Tutor in Medicine Darren J. Dixon Physical Chemistry Mathematics Senior Research Fellow in and Dean Professor of Organic Susan M. Lea Christina S. M. Benninghaus Portuguese and Brazilian Chemistry, Knowles-Williams Professor of Microbiology Hannah Christensen Studies Martin G. Bureau A. F. Thompson DAAD Fellow Tutor in Physics Fellow and Tutor in Organic Ekaterina A. Shamonina Professor of Astrophysics, Chemistry in Modern History Laura C. H. Hoyano Lindemann Fellow and Tutor Tutor in Engineering Science Jennifer Boddy Senior Research Fellow in Oliver M. Butler Fellow by Special Election in Physics, and Tutor for Nathalie Seddon Alfonso A. Castrejn-Pita Law Graduates Tutor in Biological Sciences Fellow by Special Election in Law Colin Wood Fellow and Tutor in Law Oren Sussman Alexander C. Paseau Margaret Hillenbrand in Engineering Science and Molly Grace Reader in Finance and Tutor Stuart Hampshire Fellow and Tutor in Chinese Tutor for Race Monika Gullerova Fellow by Special Election in in Management Studies Tutor in Philosophy Associate Professor in Biology Experimental Pathology and Tutor of Medicine WADHAM COLLEGE GAZETTE 2020 www.wadham.ox.ac.uk Fellows’ list 7 Sarah Cullinan Herring Rt Hon Sir James Munby EMERITUS FELLOWS Philip Candelas, FRS Paul Bevan Cathy Mason Hody Fellow by Special Chinese Philosophy Professor Andrew Nicholas A. Athanasou Election in Classics Michael R. Ayers, FBA Thomson, OBE, FRS Guido Bonsaver Ian McNab Colin J. Wood Ian N. Thompson Michael Froggatt Italian Clinical Medicine Sir Neil Chalmers Fellow by Special Election Raymond C. Ockenden, Andrew P. Hodges Madeleine Chalmers MaryAnn Noonan as Senior Tutor and Tutor for Kathleen M. Sullivan Dean Of Degrees C. V. Sukumar French Psychology Admissions Professor Sandra D. Geoffrey A. Brooker Rajendra Chitnis Dimitris Papanikolaou Attila Szab Fredman, FBA, QC C. J. Stephen M. Simpson KEELEY VISITING Czech Modern Greek Keeley–Rutherford JRF in Robert Hannigan, CMG FELLOWS 2020–21 Physics Terence F. Eagleton, FBA John Dawes Rob Penfold Professor Sally L. Mapstone Paul Acker Neurophysiology Chemistry Lucy McDermott Keith G. H. Dyke JRF in Medical Sciences Professor Robert J. C. Young Federico Formenti Louise Delumeau Joe Pitt-Francis Sir Roger Penrose, OM, FRS French Computer Science Laura Moody Amelia S. Gentleman John M. Brown, FRS VISITING FELLOWS JRF in Plant Sciences Emma Flint Heloise Robinson Professor Stuart J. Russell John D. Gurney Sorin Bangu TT21 Clinical Medicine Law The Hon Sir Timothy V. Ido Israelowich MT20 HONORARY FELLOWS Richard E. Passingham, FRS Giulio Gambuti Autumn Rowan-Hull Holroyde Andrea Mulligan HT-TT21 Physics Anatomy Lee Shau Kee Hari Kunzru Jeffrey Hackney, Keeper of the Archives Guadalupe Gerardi Sahba Shayani Sir Michael Checkland Professor Jrn Leonhard CHAPLAIN Spanish Persian (HT21) David J. Mabberley, AM Wasim Sajjad Professor Paul A. Goodwin Revd Dr Jane Baun Otared Haidar Richard Stacey Nicholas M. J. Woodhouse, Arabic Clinical Medicine Rt Hon Sir Christopher Verena Knaus CBE Rose, PC SUB-DEANS Adam Handel David Staunton Stephen J. Goss, Keeper of Neurophysiology Biochemistry Toluwalase (Tolu) Awoyemi Sir Franklin D. Berman, FOUNDATION FELLOWS Pictures KCMG, QC Gabrielle Beaudry Max Hodgson Rachel Tanner Alan Green Christina M. Howells Julien Du Vergier History Human Sciences Rt Hon The Lord Bragg, CH, Michael J. Peagram Olivia Glaze FRS, FBA Graham G. Ross, FRS Simone Irmscher Reinier van Straten Stephen W. C. Stow German German Peter J. Marshall, CBE, FBA William F. McColl J. Kenneth Woods COLLEGE LECTURERS Sarah Jenkinson Ben Walker Sir Roderick C. Floud, FBA Tao Tao Liu 2020–21 Nicholas C. F. Barber, CBE Chemistry Mathematics Rt Hon The Lord Dyson, PC Anthony C. Preston, CBE David J. Edwards Michael Abecassis Hiroe Kaji Wesley Wrigley French The Rt Revd and the Rt Matthew Benham Robin W. Fiddian Japanese Philosophy Hon The Lord Williams of Alasdair J. D. Locke Samuel Altmann Capt Michel P. Sauvage, RN Shio-Yun Kan Simon Yarrow Oystermouth, PC, FBA Economics John H. McCall MacBain, OC Chinese Clinical Medicine W. Michael G. Tunbridge H. Allen O. Hill, FRS William W. H. Doo Richard Ashdowne Jenny Lemke J. Bernard O’Donoghue, Linguistics The Hon Peter A. S. Milliken, Edwin W. S. Mok German Editor of the Wadham PC, FRSC Carol A. Richards Hannah Bailey Gazette Yiliang Li English Sir David R. Winkley The Hon N. P. V. Rothschild Economics Reinhard Strohm, FBA WADHAM COLLEGE GAZETTE 2020 www.wadham.ox.ac.uk ❙ Reports The Editor 9 Our distinguished sports journalist, as described here by the Warden, they have to live with unprecedented Andy Bull, has written here about the the Finance Bursar and the Domestic privations and challenges. There has A new chapter privations of various sports lockdowns Bursar. And, just as we are about to go Troubled been much discussion of whether and the measures taken to overcome to press, there is possibly the most as'' these this year’s students are having the them. Rowing training involved travel exciting piece of good news: the award ‘normal Oxford experience’. Wadham is The Editor Bernard O’Donoghue times are, to Swindon. of the Nobel Prize for Physics to Roger maybe determined to reduce these limitations Given the unavailability of material Penrose.