MagazineST EDMUND HALL 2017–2018 ST EDMUND HALL EDITOR: Dr Brian Gasser (1975) With many thanks to all the contributors to this year’s edition: especially to Claire Hooper, Communications Manager, and Sarah Wright for their great help with the production. [email protected] St Edmund Hall Oxford OX1 4AR 01865 279000 www.seh.ox.ac.uk [email protected] @StEdmundHall StEdmundHall @StEdmundHall FRONT COVER: MAGAZINE Graduation Day 21 July 2018 (photo by Stuart Bebb) FRESHERS’ PICTURES: Photographs by Gillman & Soame All the photographs in this Magazine are from Hall records unless otherwise stated. VOL. XVIII NO. 9 ST EDMUND HALL MAGAZINE Centre for the Creative Brain ....................................................................................97 OCTOBER 2018 Links with China .........................................................................................................98 Aula Narrat ...................................................................................................................99 Benefactors’ Square ..................................................................................................100 SECTION 1: THE COLLEGE LIST: 2017–2018 ......................................................1 Well Done: New Gilding for the Hall’s Historic Well ......................................... 101 Receptions & Reunions at the Hall ........................................................................ 101 SECTION 2: REPORTS ON THE YEAR ................................................................ 12 Degree Day Celebrations ......................................................................................... 103 From the Principal .......................................................................................................13 Thank You, Keith, by Professor Stuart Ferguson ................................................... 19 SECTION 4: FROM THE COLLEGE OFFICE ................................................... 105 Introducing the New Principal ................................................................................. 21 The Senior Tutor’s Year, by Professor Robert Wilkins .......................................106 News from the Senior Common Room ..................................................................22 Student Numbers ......................................................................................................108 Arrivals in the SCR ................................................................................................... 38 New Students 2017–2018 .........................................................................................108 Obituaries ..................................................................................................................46 Visiting Students 2017–2018.....................................................................................112 The George Ramsay Prize ..........................................................................................47 Student Admissions Exercises.................................................................................. 113 From the Senior Bursar (Estates & Finance) ...........................................................48 College Awards, Prizes and Grants..........................................................................114 From the Bursary.........................................................................................................49 College and University Bursaries ............................................................................117 From the Library Fellow .............................................................................................51 University Awards and Prizes ...................................................................................117 Donations 2017–2018 ................................................................................................53 College Graduate Awards and Prizes ......................................................................118 From the Archive Fellow & the Archivist ................................................................ 57 Partnership Graduate Awards and Prizes ..............................................................119 From the Pictures & Chattels Fellow ....................................................................... 58 University Graduate Awards and Prizes .................................................................119 From the Chaplain ......................................................................................................59 Degree Results ...........................................................................................................120 From the Schools Liaison Officer ............................................................................. 61 Degree Day Dates 2018–2019 .................................................................................. 124 From the Tutor for Visiting Students ......................................................................62 SECTION 5: FROM THE DEVELOPMENT From the Director of Music....................................................................................... 63 & ALUMNI RELATIONS OFFICE ..........................................................................125 From the President of the Middle Common Room ..............................................64 From the Director of Development ....................................................................... 126 From the President of the Junior Common Room ...............................................68 Donors to the Hall .................................................................................................... 128 From Student Clubs and Societies ...........................................................................69 The Floreat Aula Legacy Society ..............................................................................137 SECTION 3: THE YEAR GONE BY ......................................................................... 81 SECTION 6: ARTICLES, POETRY & BOOK REVIEW .....................................138 Memorial Service for Dr Ann Taylor, Emeritus Fellow ........................................82 ‘What Kind of Agent Was David Floyd?’ by Tony Cash .......................................139 Awards and Prizes ....................................................................................................... 83 Poem The Principal’s Portrait, by Darrell Barnes ...................................................143 Masterclass Fund Awards ..........................................................................................87 ‘Reconciling Discordant Elements: Professor Lucy Newlyn’s work’ ................144 Artweeks Exhibition 2018 ..........................................................................................87 Review of The Servant Heart: The Life and Legacy of St Edmund ........................145 Hall Photography 2018 ...............................................................................................88 ‘Hearing Loss in Low and Middle-Income Countries: The Invisible and Writers and Writing at the Hall, by Professor Erica McAlpine ...........................89 Forgotten Disease’, by Dr James O’Donovan ..................................................... 147 The Graham Midgley Memorial Prize Poem 2018: Pond, 6pm by Katharina ‘Travels in Romania’, by Irina-Mihaela Birt ..........................................................149 Dixon-Ward ...............................................................................................................89 ‘Hall Website Relaunch’, by Claire Hooper ........................................................... 151 The Emden Lecture 2017 .......................................................................................... 90 Correction .....................................................................................................................152 Student Journalism Prizes and the Geddes Memorial Lecture 2018 ..................92 Geddes Trust Masterclass 2018 .................................................................................94 SECTION 7: THE ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION ..................................153 The Hall Ball 2018, by Ella Penny .............................................................................95 The Association’s Year ...............................................................................................154 News from Engineering, by Professor Amy Zavatsky ...........................................95 Executive Committee 2018 .......................................................................................155 iv v Minutes of the 87th Annual General Meeting .......................................................156 Financial Accounts for the year ended 31 May 2018 .............................................157 The 77th London Dinner .......................................................................................... 159 SECTION 8: AULARIAN NEWS .............................................................................163 Regional Lunches ......................................................................................................164 33rd Annual New York Dinner ..................................................................................164 International Events ..................................................................................................165 Chasing Their Starters for Ten ................................................................................165