The Record 2009 - Keble College - University of Oxford

Keble College: The Record 2008
Anthony Pick has published Discourse and Function: A Framework of Sentence Structure,
which aims to provide a new and improved method of grammatical analysis.
1965 Ray Bowden writes: ‘June 2009 marked 17 years as Chairman of the International
CO-operative Wine Society Ltd (The Wine Society). Keble not only provided me
with the opportunity to convert from a career in the nuclear industry to a financebased
City career, but also stimulated my interest in wine, helped by a memorable
dinner with Vere Davidge! Both factors played a part in my joining the Wine Society
Committee in 1973.’
John Bradbeer retired July 2007, formerly Principal Lecturer in Geography,
University of Portsmouth. In retirement, working on various projects at home in North
Devon (researching and hoping to write a book on the making of the North Devon
landscape) and doing voluntary warden work and practical conservation tasks for the
Devon Wildlife Trust.
1965 Robert Warren is retiring after 19 years as Rector of a Keble Living — St Laurence,
Northfield, Birmingham.
1966 Cyprian Blamires published World Fascism: A Historical Encyclopaedia in 2006. This
provides the first ever reference coverage for fascism as a global phenomenon from its
earliest prehistory until the present day. In 2008 he published The French Revolution and
the Creation of Benthamism.
Derek Chadwick was elected to an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of
Physicians at a Comitia held in London on 1 July 2009. It is the highest honour that
the College can bestow on a non-medically qualified person.
Bill East has published Good News! Preaching in the Year of Mark, Dominican
Publications, Dublin 2008. ISBN 978 1 905604 09 8.
Colin Juneman writes: ‘I retired from King’s School, Bruton in July 2008,
having taught there since 1979, initially as Head of Mathematics, becoming
both Examinations officer and President of Common Room. The latter I found
particularly rewarding, as it involved the representation of colleagues’ views to Senior
Management, as well as the induction and mentoring of new staff. In retirement, I have
taken on the role of Secretary of the Pedagogues Golf Society, and plan to investigate
becoming a qualified Bridge Director and maybe even a Crossword Compiler; my wife
Jan and I also hope to travel extensively.’
1967 Keith Best: 2009 is the sixteenth year that Keith has been Chief Executive of the
Immigration Advisory Service with more than 400 staff and 26 offices in the UK and
overseas, giving legal advice to immigrants and asylum seekers. He is the Chairman of
the Electoral Reform International Services and Chair of the Conservative Action for
Electoral Reform.
John Saul: his third collection of short stories, As Rivers Flow, is published by Salt
Publishing, Cambridge. The Times review of his previous collection, The Most
Serene Republic, wrote that he shows ‘that the short story is not only alive but being
reinvigorated in excitingly diverse ways.’
Michael Stark writes: ‘from 2004–6, I was a VSO volunteer working in the
Kalahari Desert in Namibia, developing education, training and income generating
opportunities for San (Bushmen) people living in remote villages. Since 2006 I have
been back at the Department for Children, Schools and Families in Whitehall,
responsible for raising school standards and narrowing achievement gaps for underperforming
groups, notably children eligible for free school meals.’
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