The Brazen Nose Volume 45 2010-2011 BRA-13981 Final Cover.indd 1 12/01/2012 08:52 The Brazen Nose 2010-2011 BRA-13981 The Brazen Nose 2011.indd 1 11/01/2012 16:20 BRA-13981 The Brazen Nose 2011.indd 2 11/01/2012 16:20 CONTENTS Records Clubs College Notes ................................ 5 Rowing ....................................... 83 Senior Members .......................... 11 Womens Rowing ......................... 84 Class Lists .................................... 19 Mens Rowing.............................. 85 Graduate Degrees ........................ 23 Association Football ..................... 86 Matriculations 2010 ..................... 27 Rugby Football ............................ 88 College Prizes .............................. 30 Knitsoc(k) .................................... 88 Scholarships and Exhibitions ........ 32 Cricket ........................................ 88 Netball ........................................ 90 Reports Hockey ........................................ 92 JCR ............................................ 35 Basketball..................................... 92 HCR ........................................... 37 Staff ............................................ 42 Articles Library ....................................... 45 Elizabeth Boardman - Presentations to the Library ......... 50 Student Crime & Punishment ...... 95 Chapel ......................................... 56 JG Farrell ................................... 108 Tanner Lectures 2011 ................... 58 Professor Russell Foster Lessons in Government ................ 60 - Sleep, Creativity & Health ....... 119 BNC Arts Festival ........................ 61 Bernard Richards - A Poem The Medical Society .................... 64 in Celebration of The Addington Society ................ 66 William Hernandez ................... 126 The Ashmole Society ................... 67 Joe Mordaunt Crook - A Tribute to Lord Windlesham .................. 129 Music .......................................... 68 Octagon Society .......................... 70 Retirement of Tony Courakis ... 132 Phoenix Common Room ............ 73 Retirement of Martin Ingram .... 133 English Day ................................. 75 BNCS Hornet’s & Vampires M N Karmel ............................ 135 Ale Verses ..................................... 76 Runcie Sermon ........................... 78 Travel August in Berlin - Daniel Udy ... 141 Summer Adventures - Roberta Iley ...............................142 BRA-13981 The Brazen Nose 2011.indd 3 11/01/2012 16:20 4 THE BRAZEN NOSE Medieval churches of Norfolk & News and Notes ................. 158 Suffolk - Robert Cashmore ....... 145 Brasenose Society ............... 168 Antarctica – A Story of Magic - Christina Ender ....................... 146 Obituaries .......................... 182 L’arricriàrisi or Travelling to Donors to Brasenose 2010-11 .. 220 Greek moment of Sicily The Alexander Nowell Circle .. 228 - Lidia Ozarowska ...................... 150 Learning Arabic - Tim Ramsay .. 152 Beyond Fieldwork - R. Fleming Puckett ....................154 BRA-13981 The Brazen Nose 2011.indd 4 11/01/2012 16:20 COLLEGE NOTES 5 COLLEGE NOTES 2010-11 Graeme Richardson, Chaplain & Editor From 1909 until 2003, the Brazen Nose began with an item entitled “College Notes”. This was an overview of Brasenose news in the time-period covered by the magazine, compiled mostly by the editor. In 2003, these “College Notes” became formally “Editors’ Notes”, under the editorial guidance of Dr Eltis and Dr McKenna. Perhaps this was simply to take responsibility for the change of remit, as the magazine’s purview changed from calendar year to academic year. One issue later, these had become “Principal’s Notes”, written with a “from the lodgings” point of view. This year, we have returned to the custom of nearly 100 years, and called the opening miscellany “College Notes”. The advantages of this are manifold. For a start, anyone can write them – no-one needs to ventriloquize a Principal overloaded with other responsibilities, or a Fellow-Editor incapacitated by drink. Moreover, the corporate nature of the “Brazen Nose” enterprise is acknowledged – no one narrative is to the fore. This is a College Record, but more patchwork quilt than Bayeux Tapestry, a jigsaw (as last year’s cover suggested) of lots of different pieces. Hopefully, the pieces fi t together. This year’s cover doesn’t provide us with quite so neat a parable; but it, too, has its message. Since the college adopted images for the cover of its record, they have, I think without exception, been images of buildings. Last year, following the deaths in post of three college (servants) (Mike Taylor, Doreen Wright and Carmen Perez) it was said that Brasenose was much more a community of people than a collection of buildings. So this year – here are some people, some dramatis personae to catch the eye. Suggestions for future covers (if polite) are very welcome. Indeed, polite correspondence on the subject of the Brazen Nose is always welcome. We are always, in particular, keen to correct mistakes and omissions. Unfortunately, the Brazen Nose contains both in large measure: rather like the Bible, it has passed through many hands on its way to the printers, and the text, often inaccurate in the fi rst place, is thoroughly corrupt by the time it arrives in your hands. Volume 44 did not quite contain the unbelievable howlers of volume 43, the choicest of which saw Professor J. Mordaunt Crook described somewhat harshly as “not perfect” at school. In fact, he had reminisced that he was “not a prefect”. But this sort of inaccuracy was only to be expected in an BRA-13981 The Brazen Nose 2011.indd 5 11/01/2012 16:20 6 THE BRAZEN NOSE edition where the editor’s own article on Paul Dehn was misattributed to Bernard Richards. I wrote to Bernard to apologize, and received the comforting reply: “When I edited the Brazen Nose, I managed ‘Brahm’s’ - to the glee and disgust of Leslie Styler. And then I referred to him (by an oversight) as ‘the Reverend Styler’ which caused him to physically attack me with a rolled-up newspaper in the SCR.” One recurring set of errors has been pointed out to me by Roger Billis (1968). Occasionally, in both Notes and Brazen Nose, we seem to get things wrong about Henry Addington, our fi rst BNC Prime Minister. Roger reminds me that Addington was never “Sir Henry”; he was a “Rt Hon”, joining the Privy Council in 1789, and becoming Viscount Sidmouth in 1805. We also seem occasionally to shorten his tenure as PM: the exact dates are 17th March 1801 to 10th May 1804. Hopefully, we’ll get this right in future. A particularly grievous error in volume 44 was the notifi cation of the death of Roy James Birch (1957). Michael Harnett, also of that year, wrote to tell me that Roy, who read Law under Barry Nicholas’ tutelage, died at a tragically early age in the 1970s. God only knows how the name entered the computer system as having died last year; and our sincerest apologies to Michael and any other contemporaries bemused by this notice. Incidentally, does anyone have any information about Roy’s family? Michael would love to re-establish contact, if at all possible: write to the Alumni & Development Offi ce if you have anything to share. Another BNC man ill-served by last year’s volume was Jack Carlson (2009), an Albritton Scholar and currently Clarendon Scholar. Jack noted that we didn’t have a list of blues for the last two years – thus leaving out his two well-earned half-blues coxing University boats. But here is the list of rowers for posterity: Michal Plotkowiak - full blue, blue boat, 2009 Jack Carlson - half blue, Isis boat, 2010 Ed Newman - half blue, Isis boat, 2010 Matt Neve - half blue, lightweight blue boat, 2010 Jack Carlson - half blue - lightweight blue boat, 2010 Finally, I should mention Terence Chorba (1973) who received his Doctor of Science in June 2010. Congratulations to him – and apologies for listing that a year late! BRA-13981 The Brazen Nose 2011.indd 6 11/01/2012 16:20 COLLEGE NOTES 7 No doubt there will be further errors and mistakes in this year’s volume. But at least this “College Notes” format gives us a forum in which they can be corrected – another advantage, I think. Again, do write to the Alumni & Development Offi ce, if you can. On then, to the events and happenings of the year… The most momentous of them was the retirement of Principal Cashmore, announced in December 2010. Tribute has already been paid in the Brazen Notes and elsewhere. In this publication, we would like simply to note Roger’s success as a modernizing Principal in three areas: graduates, buildings and development. Roger oversaw a massive increase in numbers of graduate students and made sure that graduate students felt like an important part of Brasenose, an importance signifi ed by the plush new HCR in Old Quad. He was also ever-present at “Blurbs” an event with a characteristically “Cashmore” combination of academic interest and social conviviality. Just as graduate study in BNC was enhanced in Principal Cashmore’s time, so it must be also acknowledged that, in Project Q, the College buildings have been greatly improved. Any building project takes a long time and a great deal of hard work: with the restoration of so many functional areas of the college in Project Q, Principal Cashmore leaves a real legacy. Finally, in the business of “development” itself BNC took great strides under Roger’s leadership. Many old members will have fond memories of attending events at BNC and encountering