MagazineST EDMUND HALL 2016–2017 i ST EDMUND HALL EDITOR: Dr Brian Gasser (1975) With thanks to the contributors; especially to Claire Hooper, Communications Officer, and Freddie Batho, for all their help with the production [email protected] St Edmund Hall Oxford OX1 4AR 01865 279000 www.seh.ox.ac.uk [email protected] @StEdmundHall St Edmund Hall @StEdmundHall The digital archive of all past editions of the Magazine is currently available at: www.ebooks-online.co.uk/St_Edmund_Hall MAGAZINE FRONT COVER: Student volunteers limbering up to welcome Open Day visitors, June 2017 MATRICULATION PICTURE: Photograph by Gillman & Soame All photos in this Magazine are from Hall records unless otherwise stated. VOL. XVIII No. 8 ST EDMUND HALL MAGAZINE Anniversary Reunions .............................................................................................. 103 OCTOBER 2017 Regional Lunches ......................................................................................................104 International Events .................................................................................................104 Bridging to Business ................................................................................................. 105 SECTION 1: THE COLLEGE LIST: 2016–17 ...........................................................1 Degree Days ...............................................................................................................106 SECTION 2: REPORTS ON THE YEAR .................................................................11 SECTION 4: FROM THE COLLEGE OFFICE RECORDS .............................108 From the Principal ...................................................................................................... 12 Student Numbers ......................................................................................................109 News from the Senior Common Room .................................................................. 18 New Students 2016-2017 ..........................................................................................109 New Fellowship Arrivals .......................................................................................... 32 Visiting Students 2016-2017 ..................................................................................... 111 SCR Obituaries ......................................................................................................... 40 Student Admissions Exercises.................................................................................. 113 From the Senior Bursar (Estates & Finance) ...........................................................42 College Awards, Prizes and Grants.......................................................................... 113 From the Domestic Bursar ........................................................................................44 College and University Bursaries ............................................................................117 From the Library Fellow ............................................................................................46 University Awards and Prizes ...................................................................................117 Donations 2016-2017 ................................................................................................48 College Graduate Awards and Prizes ......................................................................117 From the Archive Fellow & the Archivist .................................................................55 Partnership Graduate Awards and Prizes ..............................................................118 From the Pictures & Chattels Fellow ....................................................................... 57 University Graduate Awards and Prizes .................................................................118 From the Chaplain ...................................................................................................... 58 Degree Results ............................................................................................................119 From the Schools Liaison Officer .............................................................................59 Degree Day Dates 2017-2018 ................................................................................... 124 From the Tutor for Visiting Students ..................................................................... 60 SECTION 5: DEVELOPMENT & ALUMNI RELATIONS OFFICE ...............125 From the President of the Middle Common Room ..............................................62 From the Director of Development ....................................................................... 126 From the President of the Junior Common Room ............................................... 63 Donors to the Hall .................................................................................................... 129 From Student Clubs & Societies ...............................................................................64 The Floreat Aula Legacy Society ..............................................................................137 SECTION 3:: THE YEAR GONE BY .......................................................................78 SECTION 6: ARTICLES, POEMS AND REVIEWS ...........................................140 Celebrating the Life of Matt Greenwood ................................................................79 Some Significant Hall Anniversaries in 2017 .............................................................141 Awards and Prizes ....................................................................................................... 83 The Gardens of St Edmund Hall, by Dr Hugh C Jenkyns ......................................143 Masterclass Fund Awards ..........................................................................................86 Bill Whitchelo, Lodge Porter & Head Porter ............................................................. 148 Reaching Out ...............................................................................................................87 Winning Football Cuppers, by Professor Stuart Ferguson ...................................149 Research Expo 2017 .....................................................................................................89 Choughs: Shakespearean & Verses in the manner of Romantic poets, Artweeks Exhibition 2017 ..........................................................................................92 by Christopher Armitage ....................................................................................... 150 Hall Photography 2017 ...............................................................................................93 The Tutorial, poem by Professor Lucy Newlyn......................................................152 Music at the Hall .........................................................................................................93 About a girl called Kelly, poem by Noah Vickers.....................................................153 Writing at the Hall, by Professor Erica McAlpine .................................................94 International Citizen Service in Tanzania, by John Logan .....................................153 The Graham Midgley Memorial Prize Poem 2017: Teaching Rugby Skills and Values in Brazil: Joe Todd Award Report, I hear you, dark by Tabitha Hayward .....................................................................95 by Sophie Behan .......................................................................................................155 Reformation Myth-Buster: The Emden Lecture 2016, Aularian Publications ..................................................................................................156 by Professor Henrike Lähnemann .........................................................................96 Student Journalism Prizes and the Geddes Memorial Lecture 2017 ..................97 SECTION 7: FROM THE ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION ...................160 Geddes Masterclass 2017 ..........................................................................................100 From the President ....................................................................................................161 Centre for the Creative Brain ..................................................................................100 Executive Committee 2017 .......................................................................................163 Links with China ....................................................................................................... 101 Minutes of the 86th Annual General Meeting ......................................................164 iv v Financial Accounts for the year ended 31 May 2017 .............................................165 The 76th London Dinner .......................................................................................... 167 SECTION 8: AULARIAN NEWS ............................................................................169 32nd Annual New York Dinner .................................................................................170 Aularians Governing Green Templeton College, by Dr Chris Sauer ................171 The Aularian Golfing Society .................................................................................. 172 De Fortunis Aularium ................................................................................................