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Any Old Member interested in Reunion Old Members welcome playing or providing vociferous Dates support please contact THE NEWSLETTER FOR KEBLE ALUMNI • ISSUE 52 • TRINITY TERM 2011 • WWW.KEBLE.OX.AC.UK The Talbot Fund Calum Daniel at calum.daniel@ 1977 - 81 Friday 16 - Sunday 18 hermesgpe.com By giving to Keble, you can help us to maintain and increase our Friday 22 and September scholarship and bursary funding, support our student clubs and societies Saturday 23 June as well as enabling us to restore and maintain the Butterfield buildings. 1972-76 Reunion Weekend Sunday 9 October UK taxpayers can increase the value of their gift by 25p for every £1 by Invitations were posted in June Recital and Dedication A life in Engineering 1982 - 86 using Gift Aid - £100 can be turned into £125 at no extra cost to you. Enquiries to Ruth Cowen Service of the new Tickell Friday 14 and Pipe Organ Professor Richard Darton has been honoured by the Queen with the Please make a gift today! Saturday 15 September OU Alumni Weekend Meeting Friday 30 September Dedicated by The Rt Revd and award of an OBE in the Birthday Honours for services to engineering. Please complete and return this form to: Minds – 21st Century Inaugural Recital of the Rt Hon, The Lord Robin Eames The Alumni & Development Office, Keble College, Oxford OX1 3PG. Challenges new Tickell Pipe Organ Donors to the organ will be result I was asked to head up the Institution of strategy – a small contribution to stimulating the For booking and the programme By invitation only. All donors invited to this or the Inaugural Friday 12 November Chemical Engineers’ qualifications activities – a fundamental changes that we need. Surname Year Recital on 30 September see www.alumniweekend. to the organ will be invited Richardson Lecture volunteer role. This led to significant changes to Enquiries to Ruth Cowen Forenames ox.ac.uk. The Keble Alumni & to this or the Recital and 5.30pm Pusey Room the way courses are accredited, first by IChemE, In my career I have been privileged to work Development Office cannot take Dedication Service on 9 and later by other engineering institutions. with outstandingly talented people – at Shell, at Address Lecturer and title to be confirmed bookings for University events, October Thursday 13 October Following a stint as President of IChemE (2008- Oxford and in the professional and institutional but meals and accommodation Enquiries to Ruth Cowen Donors Drinks Party 9) I was elected President of the European world. All engineering is a team endeavour; you can be booked at Keble by Old The Strangers Dining Room, The Federation of Chemical Engineering (EFCE). need individual creativity and drive of course, Postcode Members attending (a booking House of Commons Richard Darton by the pipes of a Hydraulic but you depend on colleagues to a huge extent. Please treat all donations I’ve made for the four years prior to this year form is on the College website) Saturday 8 October By invitation only Simulator for distillation and absorption In my technical work I have mainly been a So I am greatly honoured by the award of an and all donations in the future as Gift Aid until I notify you otherwise. Ghosts Football Match Enquiries to Ruth Cowen ‘separations engineer’ researching, designing OBE – a pleasure for my family and friends – but Saturday 24 September Any Old Member wishing to play, I came to Oxford in 1991 after a career with and troubleshooting large scale equipment I am conscious that my contribution has relied To qualify for Gift Aid, the amount you pay in UK income tax or capital Harris Society Dinner please contact Andrew Tingle and schemes for oil distillation, purifying natural on the work of others. I regard it as an accolade gains tax must at least equal the amount we will claim in the tax year. Shell in the Netherlands. I had hesitated For Old Members who read Law at [email protected] or about the move, but Shell made a generous gas, taking carbon dioxide out of flue gas and for engineering. or who are now practising Law. Brian Johns at brian.johns2@ cleaning up waste water. In the 1990s I also Signature Date offer of secondment to the University, and I Invitations were posted in July ntlworld.com . Players and became interested in sustainable development, “I chose Keble for Engineering due to its Thursday 17 was encouraged by the charismatic head of Enquiries to Camilla supporters meet in The King’s which has broadened into a concern for the proud history of excelling at engineering November Engineering Science at that time, Professor Sir Matterson Arms at 11.30am on the day Mike Brady. The project was to set up a new way the developed world has come to rely too and due to the world class quality of its ✂ Keble London Lecture teaching and research programme in chemical heavily on fossil fuel. Some of the consequences tutors (not to mention its proximity to the Building a Brand engineering. I enjoyed teaching students but are the threats of climate change, and ocean Engineering Department!).” Friday 30 September Friday 14 October Andy Street (1982) we had difficulty gaining external recognition acidification. We need to move faster to a 1961 Year 50th 1951 60th Managing Director of John for the course, so I started to take an interest in low-carbon economy, and I hope that action Wahbi El-Bouri Anniversary Lunch. Anniversary Lunch. Lewis Plc Hogan Lovells, accreditation and professional standards. As a to promote this will become part of the EFCE’s (2008 Engineering Science) Invitations were posted in Invitations were posted in Holborn Viaduct, London. late July late July Invitations will be emailed in Enquires to Ruth Cowen Enquires to Ruth Cowen September Professor Darton is giving a lecture, Geoengineering – fantasy We are facing huge challenges in transitioning to a sustainable low- or feasible future? in the O’Reilly Theatre, at the College on carbon economy. This lecture will explore Geoengineering proposals, Saturday 17 September at 11.30am as part of the 1972-76 deliberately large-scale interventions in the Earth’s natural systems, to DOUGLAS PRICE SOCIETY Reunion Weekend and the Oxford University Alumni Weekend : address climate change and ask which are technically feasible, and Contacts: Jenny Tudge (Director of Development) [email protected] (01865 282308) Meeting Minds – 21st Century Challenges. what the consequences might be. The Douglas Price Society was set up in 2006 to honour Duncan Macintyre (Associate Director) [email protected] (01865 282506) and thank all Old Members who have chosen to remember Alumni & Development Office Ruth Cowen (Alumni Relations Officer)[email protected] (01865 282338) Keble in their wills. Membership of the Society is open to all, Keble College Camilla Matterson (Senior Development Officer)[email protected] (01865 272794) Old Members and Keble Friends alike, who have indicated Oxford OX1 3PG DB Lenck (Development Officer)[email protected] (01865 272799) Bennett Prize Winning Engineers their intention to make a bequest to the College. www.keble.ox.ac.uk/alumni Annéka Salvat (Development Assistant) [email protected] (01865 282303) [email protected] Trish Long (Warden’s PA) [email protected] (01865 272700) The winners of the new Bennett prize, “We wanted to acknowledge the offered by the College for the best 4th outstanding education provided by the Members of the Society are invited to an Year undergraduate Engineering project Engineering faculty at Keble and in a small presentations, are Andrew Mather and James way help future Engineering undergraduates event each year with the President Published by Keble College, Oxford. Printed and distributed in the UK by Hawkes. Andrew was awarded first prize for in the face of increasing financial pressures. Andrew Pengelly (1961), the Vice-President Hunts - people in print. his presentation on the engineering dynamics We hope that they and their families will in Jackie Newbury (1979) and the Warden. the brick is written, designed and produced by the Alumni & Development the brick is copyright © 2011 Keble College, Oxford, OX1 3PG. All rights of a ‘wobbly foot bridge’ and James the turn show their appreciation to the cause Office with the assistance of current Keble students. of the individual contributors are reserved. No part of this publication second prize for the description of his work on when they are able to do so.” may be reproduced or translated in any form, by any means mechanical, Producer/Designer: Hunts - people in print electronic or otherwise, without prior consent of the publisher. The views finding one’s location underwater and in the Andrew (right) and James on the To become a member of the Douglas Price Society please Alumni & Development Office: Jenny Tudge, Ruth Cowen, DB Lenck, expressed are those of the writers and do not necessarily reflect those of dark by using acoustics. John and Kate Bennett experimental ‘wobbly bridge’ rig complete the form overleaf, or if you are interested to find Duncan Macintyre and Camilla Matterson the Governing Body of the College. out more information about making a bequest to Keble please contact Duncan Macintyre in the Alumni & Development Office. Editors: Katy Fallon, Jenni Hunt, Jason Sengel and Laura Wilson Contributors and photographers: John