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The <strong>Year</strong><br />
2007<br />
<strong>St</strong> Catherine’s <strong>College</strong> . Oxford
Master and Fellows 2007<br />
M A S T E R<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Roger W Ainsworth,<br />
MA, DPhil, FRAeS<br />
F E L L O W S<br />
John R Ockendon, MA, DPhil, FRS<br />
Official Fellow<br />
<strong>University</strong> Lecturer in Mathematics<br />
(Leave M07)<br />
Ian W Craig, MA (PhD Liv)<br />
Fellow by Special Election in Human<br />
Sciences<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> Genetics<br />
Sudhir Anand, MA, DPhil<br />
Tutor in Economics<br />
Harold Hindley Fellow<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> Economics<br />
(Leave M07)<br />
Richard J Parish, MA, DPhil (BA Newc)<br />
Tutor in French<br />
Philip Spencer Fellow<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> French<br />
Jose F Harris, MA (PhD Camb), FBA<br />
Wolfson Fellow<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> Modern History<br />
Fram E Dinshaw, MA, DPhil<br />
Official Fellow<br />
Finance Bursar<br />
Peter D Battle, MA, DPhil<br />
Tutor in Inorganic Chemistry<br />
Unilever Fellow<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> Inorganic Chemistry<br />
Vice-Master<br />
Revd Colin P Thompson, MA, DPhil<br />
Tutor in Spanish<br />
(Leave M07-H08)<br />
A Gervase Rosser, MA (PhD Lond)<br />
Tutor in History <strong>of</strong> Art<br />
Librarian<br />
John S Foord, MA (PhD Camb)<br />
Tutor in Physical Chemistry<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> Chemistry<br />
Michael J Spence, MA, DPhil (LLB<br />
Syd) Tutor in Law<br />
Head <strong>of</strong> the Social Science Division<br />
(Leave M07-T08)<br />
Robert A Leese, MA (PhD Durh)<br />
Fellow by Special Election in<br />
Mathematics<br />
Director <strong>of</strong> the Smith Institute<br />
Louise L Fawcett, MA, DPhil<br />
Tutor in Politics<br />
Wilfrid Knapp Fellow<br />
Senior Tutor<br />
Susan Cooper, MA (PhD Calif)<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> Experimental Physics<br />
Helen J Mardon, MA, DPhil<br />
(BSc Sus)<br />
Tutor in Medical <strong>St</strong>udies<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> Reproductive Science<br />
Kobe Officer<br />
Peter R Franklin, MA (BA, PhD York)<br />
Tutor in Music<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> Music (Leave T08)<br />
John Charles Smith, MA<br />
Tutor in French Linguistics<br />
Tutor for Admissions<br />
Penny A Handford, MA (BSc, PhD<br />
Soton)<br />
Tutor in Biochemistry<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> Biochemistry<br />
(Leave M07-T08)<br />
Timothy Cook, MA, DPhil<br />
Fellow by Special Election<br />
Richard I Todd, MA, DPhil<br />
Tutor in Material Sciences<br />
Goldsmiths Fellow<br />
Marc Lackenby, MA (PhD Camb)<br />
Tutor in Pure Mathematics<br />
Leathersellers’ Fellow<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> Mathematics<br />
EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow<br />
(Leave M07-T08)<br />
Duncan C-M Wu, MA, DPhil<br />
Tutor in English<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> English<br />
M07 only<br />
Marc E Mulholland, MA (BA, MA,<br />
PhD Belf)<br />
Tutor in Modern History<br />
Dean<br />
Gavin Lowe, MA, DPhil<br />
Tutor in Computer Science<br />
Richard M Berry, MA, DPhil<br />
Tutor in Physics<br />
Angela R McLean, MA (PhD Lond)<br />
Tutor in Zoology<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> Mathematical Biology<br />
(Leave M07-T08)<br />
Ashok I Handa, MA (MBBS Lond),<br />
FRCS<br />
Fellow by Special Election in Medicine<br />
Tutor for Graduates<br />
James L Bennett, MA (BA Reading)<br />
Fellow by Special Election<br />
Home Bursar<br />
David J Womersley, MA (PhD Camb)<br />
Warton Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> English Literature<br />
Richard J Carwardine, MA, DPhil<br />
Rhodes Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> American History<br />
Cressida E Chappell, MA (BA, MA<br />
Hull)<br />
Fellow by Special Election<br />
Academic Registrar<br />
Secretary to the Governing Body<br />
David R H Gillespie, MA, DPhil<br />
Tutor in Engineering<br />
Rolls-Royce Fellow<br />
Tarun Ramadorai, MA (BA Williams,<br />
MPhil Camb, PhD Harv)<br />
Tutor in Management <strong>St</strong>udies<br />
M07 only<br />
(Leave M07)<br />
Peter P Edwards, MA (BSc, PhD<br />
Salf), FRS<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> Inorganic Chemistry<br />
Alexis J D Tadié (Lic, Maîtrise Paris-IV<br />
Sorbonne, Doctorate Paris-X Nanterre)<br />
Fellow by Special Election<br />
Director <strong>of</strong> Maison Française d'Oxford<br />
Marius S Kwint, DPhil (MA Aberd)<br />
Fellow by Special Election in History<br />
<strong>of</strong> Art<br />
Patrick S Grant, MA, DPhil (BEng<br />
Nott)<br />
Cookson Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> Materials<br />
Justine N Pila (BA, LLB, PhD Melb)<br />
Tutor in Law<br />
Bart B van Es (BA, MPhil, PhD Camb)<br />
Tutor in English<br />
(Leave M07)<br />
Michael Sheppard, MA, DPhil<br />
Fellow by Special Election<br />
Julia M Powles, BA, DPhil<br />
Fellow by Special Election in Human<br />
Sciences<br />
Eric Descheemaeker, (Lic,<br />
Maîtrise, DEA Paris-I Panthéon-<br />
Sorbonne, LLM Lond)<br />
Fellow by Special Election in Law<br />
Patrick S Bullard, MA, M<strong>St</strong>, DPhil<br />
(MPhil Dubl)<br />
Junior Research Fellow in English<br />
Rank Research Fellow<br />
Jorge Quintanilla, (Lic Salamanca,<br />
PhD Brist)<br />
Atlas Research Fellow in Condensed<br />
Matter Theory<br />
Tommaso Pizzari, (BSc Aberd, PhD<br />
Shef)<br />
Tutor in Zoology<br />
Byron W Byrne, MA, DPhil (BCom,<br />
BEng Western Australia)<br />
Tutor in Engineering<br />
W (Bill) I F David, MA, DPhil<br />
Fellow by Special Election in Physics<br />
Helen J Scott, MA, BCL, MPhil, DPhil<br />
(BA, LLB Cape Town)<br />
Tutor in Law<br />
(Leave M07)<br />
Andrew M Barry, (BA Camb, DPhil<br />
Sus)<br />
Tutor in Geography<br />
Reader in Geography<br />
Thomas W Pickles, BA, M<strong>St</strong>, DPhil<br />
Fellow by Special Election in Modern<br />
History<br />
Philip M Ligrani, (BS Texas, MS,<br />
PhD <strong>St</strong>anford)<br />
Donald Schultz Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong><br />
Turbomachinery<br />
Thomas P Witelski (BS Cooper<br />
Union, PhD CalTech)<br />
Tutor in Mathematics<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> Applied Mathematics<br />
Richard M Bailey, (BSc Leics, MSc,<br />
PhD Lond)<br />
Tutor in Geography<br />
Gaia Scerif, (BSc <strong>St</strong> And, PhD Lond)<br />
Fellow by Special Election in<br />
Psychology<br />
Karl <strong>St</strong>ernberg, MA<br />
Fellow by Special Election<br />
Christoph Reisinger, (PhD<br />
Heidelberg)<br />
Tutor in Mathematics<br />
Giandomenico Iannetti, (MD, PhD<br />
La Sapienza Rome)<br />
Fellow by Special Election in<br />
Medicine
Contents<br />
CONTENTS<br />
Master’s Report 2<br />
<strong>College</strong> Life The work <strong>of</strong> the Admissions Office 6<br />
Benefactors’ Day 8<br />
OXIP one year on 9<br />
Postcards to the Master 10<br />
Patrick <strong>St</strong>ewart’s Inaugural Lecture 12<br />
Introducing the work <strong>of</strong> Black Oxford 15<br />
The Nick Young Award 17<br />
Finals Results 2007 19<br />
Graduate Degrees and Diplomas 21<br />
Sports Review 23<br />
<strong>St</strong>udent Perspectives Kate <strong>St</strong>inson 25<br />
Justin Puleo 26<br />
Tomasz Mazur 27<br />
Anna Avramenko 28<br />
Wallace Watson Award 29<br />
Emilie’s Charities – update 31<br />
Alumni News Colin Smith and Andy Hodge 32<br />
Bill Ritchie 34<br />
Sir John Elvidge 36<br />
Jane Platt 37<br />
Desmond Brown 38<br />
William Woodruff 40<br />
News in brief 42<br />
Boston reunion 45<br />
Development Office & the <strong>College</strong> time capsule clue 46<br />
<strong>College</strong> Events List 2008 46<br />
<strong>Catz</strong> Fellows Peter Franklin 48<br />
Gaia Scerif 51<br />
Ceri Peach 53<br />
Alexis Tadié 56<br />
John Charles Smith 58<br />
Gazette Donald Hill 59<br />
Peter Schlechtriem 59<br />
Jack Lankester 60<br />
Lord Garden 63<br />
Obituaries 66<br />
Admissions 2007 70<br />
ST CATHERINE’S COLLEGE 2007/1
MESSAGES<br />
Master’s Report<br />
A message from Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Roger Ainsworth, Master <strong>of</strong> <strong>St</strong> Catherine’s<br />
I WOULD LIKE TO BEGIN MY SIXTH REPORT as Master <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>St</strong> Catherine’s by paying tribute to the work <strong>of</strong> all our<br />
staff, Fellows and Officers. Those <strong>of</strong> you close to the<br />
action know from personal experience how important<br />
every cog in the machine is, especially in a relatively small<br />
institution such as ours. As I write this, I am only too<br />
conscious that lack <strong>of</strong> space prevents me from<br />
mentioning by name all those whose efforts ensure that<br />
every aspect <strong>of</strong> <strong>College</strong> life runs smoothly.<br />
This year we allow two Fellows to retire gracefully from<br />
holding major <strong>College</strong> <strong>of</strong>fices. As Dean, Henry Bennet-<br />
Clark has given service beyond the call <strong>of</strong> duty in coming<br />
out <strong>of</strong> retirement to take on decanal and welfare roles –<br />
we are very grateful for his service. Colin Thompson,<br />
Senior Tutor, also retires from <strong>of</strong>fice. Colin could not have<br />
carried out his complex duties with more diligence and<br />
commitment. He has helped many students over his four<br />
years <strong>of</strong> <strong>of</strong>fice, and made my life, and that <strong>of</strong> other<br />
<strong>of</strong>ficers, much easier because we knew that he would<br />
deal with every issue expertly.<br />
Two Tutors <strong>of</strong> immense experience have also retired this<br />
year: Ceri Peach (Geography) and Bruce Henning<br />
(Psychology). Between them, they have clocked up<br />
seventy-two years <strong>of</strong> service for <strong>College</strong>, have<br />
contributed much to this community, and are<br />
remembered with great affection by generations <strong>of</strong> <strong>Catz</strong><br />
students. Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Chris Graham also retires after a<br />
distinguished research career in Zoology. Other Fellows<br />
on the move include Berta Joncus, Lance Miller, who will<br />
concentrate his activities in his Department, and Nick<br />
Roberts, who moves to a permanent post at Durham. We<br />
wish them well for their future careers.<br />
During the last academic year there have been a large<br />
number <strong>of</strong> new additions to the Fellowship – possibly a<br />
record-breaking number. New Tutorial Fellows include Tim<br />
Bayne in Philosophy, Gaia Scerif in Psychology, Christoph<br />
Reisinger in Mathematics, and Richard Bailey in<br />
Geography. Phil Ligrani took up the Donald Schultz Chair<br />
in Turbomachinery, becoming a Pr<strong>of</strong>essorial Fellow, and<br />
Andrew Wheeler became the Rolls-Royce Industrial<br />
Fellow, further strengthening our interests in the field <strong>of</strong><br />
aero-engine research. Karl <strong>St</strong>ernberg, Giandomenico<br />
Iannetti, and Robert Mabro were made Fellows by Special<br />
Election and, in their different ways, give excellent service<br />
to <strong>College</strong>.<br />
I am pleased to report that it has been a good year for<br />
external recognition <strong>of</strong> the work <strong>of</strong> students and Fellows<br />
alike. I can not mention them all but, at the<br />
undergraduate level, Materials Science has performed<br />
particularly well, with <strong>University</strong> Prizes awarded to<br />
Benjamin Britton (Ironmongers Company Award),<br />
Matthew Brooke-Hitching (Green Prize for the Best<br />
Those <strong>of</strong> you<br />
close to the<br />
action know<br />
from personal<br />
experience<br />
how important<br />
every cog in<br />
the machine is,<br />
especially in a<br />
relatively small<br />
institution<br />
such as ours.<br />
2 /A MESSAGE FROM THE MASTER
MESSAGES<br />
National Graduate in Ceramics), Michael Rogers (QinetiQ<br />
Prize) and Femi Fadugba (Armourers Rolls-Royce Prize).<br />
Languages also feature, with the Dudbridge Prize for<br />
outstanding performance in Classical Chinese going to<br />
Dewi Goulden, and Tim Motz, whose father and greatuncle<br />
were both <strong>College</strong> members, winning the Pusey and<br />
Ellerton Prize in Biblical Hebrew. Aleks Reinhardt took the<br />
Degussa Company prize in Chemistry, and Dora <strong>St</strong>eel the<br />
Wronker prize in Medicine. At the graduate level, Lucy<br />
Hannington took the Pickering Prize for the Best Overall<br />
Performance in Medicine and Surgery.<br />
Those afforded public recognition for their achievements<br />
from amongst the Fellowship include Peter Battle, who<br />
was awarded a medal by the Royal Society <strong>of</strong> Chemistry<br />
for his work in Solid <strong>St</strong>ate Chemistry. In May, John Charles<br />
(JC) Smith was made a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes<br />
Adadémiques for his services to the French Language and<br />
French culture. Helen Mardon was nominated for an<br />
award which acknowledges the achievements <strong>of</strong> ‘an<br />
exceptional woman who shows bravery, compassion and<br />
strives to make the world a better place’ by the Women<br />
<strong>of</strong> the <strong>Year</strong> Lunch and Assembly, and Ceri Peach was<br />
honoured by the Association <strong>of</strong> American Geographers<br />
for his outstanding contribution to the advancement <strong>of</strong><br />
the discipline. From the ranks <strong>of</strong> former Masters,<br />
Raymond Plant was awarded an honorary doctorate from<br />
York <strong>University</strong> for his work in Philosophy and Peter<br />
Williams was made Chancellor <strong>of</strong> Leicester <strong>University</strong>.<br />
One <strong>of</strong> the least enjoyable tasks <strong>of</strong> this report is to<br />
speak <strong>of</strong> those who have died during the year. We were<br />
deeply saddened to learn <strong>of</strong> the death <strong>of</strong> Air Marshal<br />
ST CATHERINE’S COLLEGE 2007/3
MESSAGES<br />
Over the past<br />
twelve months<br />
the <strong>College</strong><br />
has hosted a<br />
range <strong>of</strong> highly<br />
successful and<br />
enjoyable<br />
events,<br />
including a<br />
Benefactors’<br />
Day, a<br />
fundraising All<br />
Sports Dinner<br />
and what is<br />
perhaps the<br />
largest Gaudy<br />
that we have<br />
ever<br />
organised.<br />
The Lord Garden, in August. Tim Garden (1962, Physics),<br />
who was elected to an Honorary Fellowship at <strong>St</strong><br />
Catherine’s in 1994, had retained close links with <strong>Catz</strong><br />
and was a member <strong>of</strong> the <strong>College</strong>’s Rowing Society. He<br />
supported <strong>Catz</strong> in many, many ways, and will be much<br />
missed. In November we mourned the death <strong>of</strong> Jack<br />
Lankester, Emeritus Fellow and <strong>University</strong> Surveyor, who<br />
was closely involved with the construction <strong>of</strong> our<br />
magnificent buildings. It is also with sadness that I<br />
report the death <strong>of</strong> Peter Schlechtriem from Albert<br />
Ludwig <strong>University</strong>, Freiburg, who was a Visiting Fellow at<br />
<strong>St</strong> Catherine’s <strong>College</strong> in Hilary Term 2001.<br />
It is with no little pleasure, however, that I report that<br />
<strong>Catz</strong> alumni continue to achieve great things. To<br />
mention but a few noteworthy examples <strong>of</strong> success: Bill<br />
Ritchie (1971, Law) received an MBE in the Queen’s<br />
New <strong>Year</strong>’s Honours List for his Services to the<br />
Environment and Sustainable Development <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Highlands and Islands, and Shaun Johnson (1982,<br />
Social <strong>St</strong>udies), the Chief Executive <strong>of</strong> the Mandela<br />
Rhodes Foundation in Cape Town, received awards and<br />
international critical acclaim for his debut novel, The<br />
Native Commissioner. In America, David Nersessian<br />
(1999, Law (DPhil)) has been appointed Executive<br />
Director <strong>of</strong> the Program on the Legal Pr<strong>of</strong>ession at<br />
Harvard Law School – a programme whose mission is to<br />
‘increase understanding <strong>of</strong> the structures and norms <strong>of</strong><br />
the legal pr<strong>of</strong>ession in the United <strong>St</strong>ates and around<br />
the world’. Out on the water, Colin Smith (2003,<br />
Geography) and Andy Hodge (2004, Water Science<br />
Policy) – who both rowed with winning Oxford crews<br />
while at <strong>Catz</strong> – continue to achieve success at the same<br />
time as they submit themselves to a gruelling training<br />
regime in their quest for Olympic glory next year.<br />
The Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Pr<strong>of</strong>essorship has<br />
proved to be a most constructive strategic move for<br />
<strong>College</strong> and we attract many envious glances from the<br />
rest <strong>of</strong> the <strong>University</strong> in having it based here. This year’s<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor, Patrick <strong>St</strong>ewart, further strengthened the<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essoriate. His inaugural lecture in April, ‘Are You<br />
Anybody?’, attracted a large, diverse audience. Some<br />
came to hear about his Hollywood years as Captain Jean<br />
Luc Picard in <strong>St</strong>ar Trek, whilst many others wanted to<br />
hear about his current activities with the Royal<br />
Shakespeare Company. Such was his skill that he left both<br />
portions <strong>of</strong> this disparate audience deeply satisfied.<br />
The Cameron Mackintosh Lecture is just one opportunity<br />
that <strong>College</strong> has had to open its doors to alumni and<br />
friends. Over the past twelve months the <strong>College</strong> has<br />
hosted a range <strong>of</strong> highly successful and enjoyable events,<br />
including a Benefactors’ Day, a fundraising All Sports<br />
Dinner and what is perhaps the largest Gaudy that we<br />
have ever organised. As part <strong>of</strong> the <strong>University</strong>’s first<br />
Alumni Weekend programme, alumni from other Halls and<br />
<strong>College</strong>s were <strong>of</strong>fered guided tours <strong>of</strong> the <strong>College</strong>.<br />
Working in conjunction with the Oxford Preservation<br />
Trust, <strong>Catz</strong> also participated in an ‘open doors’ scheme<br />
that encouraged local people to explore their city and<br />
visit places not normally open to the public. Away from<br />
Oxford, the London Party was a wonderful occasion – I<br />
was particularly delighted to see so many younger alumni<br />
present, and hope that next year’s party will be equally<br />
well attended.<br />
4 /A MESSAGE FROM THE MASTER
MESSAGES<br />
I have recently returned from a rapid tour <strong>of</strong> Yale,<br />
Princeton, Berkeley, <strong>St</strong>anford and UCLA. I was there in<br />
my role as Chair <strong>of</strong> this <strong>University</strong>’s Building and<br />
Estates Subcommittee (BESC), looking with others at<br />
the way these institutions plan strategically for the<br />
future – how they manage all aspects <strong>of</strong> their building<br />
programmes, and how they fund them. I learnt much <strong>of</strong><br />
use from the BESC standpoint, but it was also extremely<br />
useful from a <strong>College</strong> point <strong>of</strong> view. Having observed at<br />
close quarters what is going on across the Atlantic, my<br />
view is that our facilities – library, Hall, lecture theatre,<br />
seminar rooms, student accommodation – compare<br />
extremely well. Nevertheless, we need to work to<br />
incorporate together our academic and facility plans. To<br />
give but one example, we need to think about future<br />
student workspace in the library. We have a real gem in<br />
our Wolfson Library, and, as technology continues to<br />
develop, we need to consider the likely future<br />
requirements <strong>of</strong> this workspace, and do everything we<br />
can to ensure it remains a place where our students<br />
find it stimulating, convenient and attractive to work.<br />
In May 2008 the <strong>University</strong> will be launching a<br />
Campaign <strong>of</strong> Campaigns to raise funds to help secure<br />
our future. We will be part <strong>of</strong> this, launching our own<br />
campaign in April 2008 to celebrate our fiftieth year in<br />
2012. We have examined our needs – securing the<br />
future <strong>of</strong> the tutorial system, foundation and graduate<br />
scholarships, student support funds, continuing<br />
refurbishment and upgrading <strong>of</strong> the fabric, building our<br />
endowment – and these will be the targets for our<br />
campaign. We have travelled a long way since our<br />
founders contemplated the building <strong>of</strong> this <strong>College</strong> and<br />
community more than fifty years ago. Their execution<br />
<strong>of</strong> those plans has given us a marvellous legacy. We<br />
have remained true to their founding ideals. Now it is<br />
time to look forward – to plan for our next half century<br />
and, with your help, realise our ambitions.<br />
We have<br />
travelled a long<br />
way since our<br />
founders<br />
contemplated<br />
the building <strong>of</strong><br />
this <strong>College</strong><br />
and community<br />
more than fifty<br />
years ago.<br />
ST CATHERINE’S COLLEGE 2007/5
COLLEGE LIFE<br />
The work <strong>of</strong> the Admissio<br />
Lindsay Campbell, Deputy Academic Registrar 2006-07,<br />
writes about the work <strong>of</strong> the <strong>College</strong>’s Admissions Office.<br />
IT IS AMAZING HOW MANY MISCONCEPTIONS persist<br />
about Oxford <strong>University</strong>. As an Admissions Officer at <strong>St</strong><br />
Catherine’s, it has been an important part <strong>of</strong> my job to<br />
help dispel the myths that still surround the Oxford<br />
application process. The Admissions Office’s work is at<br />
the heart <strong>of</strong> the <strong>College</strong>’s original mission to attract<br />
top-calibre students, regardless <strong>of</strong> background, to<br />
study at Oxford. The hectic fortnight <strong>of</strong> interviews in<br />
December draws an assortment <strong>of</strong> the brightest<br />
student talent from across the country and beyond<br />
and, despite the intensity <strong>of</strong> the administrative load at<br />
this time (these are weeks that strike fear into the<br />
heart <strong>of</strong> every Admissions Officer!) it is marvellous to<br />
have the opportunity to catch a glimpse <strong>of</strong> the<br />
individuals behind the application forms. Equally<br />
rewarding is being on the other end <strong>of</strong> a telephone<br />
when an individual learns that his or her perseverance<br />
and determination has secured a place at <strong>College</strong> and<br />
access to an Oxford education – a potentially lifetransforming<br />
moment.<br />
The Office’s constant interaction with schools, colleges<br />
and potential students also helps it – and those who<br />
work in it – to question existing procedures and<br />
assumptions and to explore new ways <strong>of</strong> adapting to the<br />
needs <strong>of</strong> students, schools and families. Feedback from<br />
visitors to <strong>Catz</strong> who have participated in events such as a<br />
<strong>St</strong>udy Day organised by the English Department in June<br />
this year, suggests that time is well spent building<br />
relationships between schools and their pupils. These<br />
relationships help those concerned to make an informed<br />
choice about higher education and, crucially, encourage<br />
students to aim as high as possible when considering<br />
their next step after school. Visitors to <strong>St</strong> Catherine’s are<br />
<strong>of</strong>ten surprised by what they find at the end <strong>of</strong> Manor<br />
Road – by the green and open spaces that greet them<br />
and by the fact that, against stiff competition from other<br />
<strong>College</strong>s, <strong>Catz</strong> succeeds in expressing its individuality. As<br />
one potential undergraduate put it, ‘the design had<br />
retained a traditional ‘Oxford’ style, without feeling<br />
oppressive or restrictive.’<br />
J C Smith addressing<br />
students at a <strong>College</strong><br />
Open Day and (below)<br />
<strong>Catz</strong> students answering<br />
questions from visitors.<br />
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COLLEGE LIFE<br />
ns Office<br />
It is a sign <strong>of</strong> the affectionate regard in which current students hold <strong>St</strong><br />
Catherine’s that they are so willing to participate in our projects. They give<br />
generously <strong>of</strong> their time, welcoming visitors to the <strong>College</strong> and supporting a<br />
range <strong>of</strong> <strong>Catz</strong> initiatives, from interview fortnight to Open Days and school<br />
visits.<br />
This year, supported by the <strong>University</strong>’s <strong>St</strong>udent Access<br />
team, <strong>Catz</strong> launched a pilot e-mentoring project, which<br />
involves undergraduate students chatting online with<br />
sixth-formers who are about to make decisions about<br />
which A-level subjects to take, what degrees to<br />
consider and, <strong>of</strong> course, how best to complete tricky<br />
application forms. Many sixth-formers do not have<br />
experience within their family <strong>of</strong> studying at university<br />
and we hope that, by providing such an introduction to<br />
the <strong>College</strong>, we can foster interest in <strong>St</strong> Catherine’s and<br />
provide an accessible, practical and up-to-the-minute<br />
advice and support service.<br />
Amar Radia (2005, PPE) – Last year I was one <strong>of</strong> a group<br />
<strong>of</strong> students who acted as hosts during Admissions<br />
fortnight. The JCR was transformed and a help-desk,<br />
manned by students from 8.45am to 10.00pm, set up.<br />
We kept all the information we might need at our<br />
fingertips, and were there to help and assist applicants in<br />
any way possible. Our priority was to make them feel at<br />
ease – by providing tea and biscuits and playing DVDs –<br />
and help solve any problems that might pop up.<br />
Applicants <strong>of</strong>ten find it easy to talk informally to<br />
undergraduate students who have recently been through<br />
this testing process. They can ask us questions about the<br />
admissions process without feeling like they are being<br />
silly, and can also ask about student and <strong>College</strong> life.<br />
Charlotte Nolan (2006, Modern History) – Over the past<br />
year I’ve been involved in several <strong>of</strong> the admissions<br />
activities, most notably assisting at Open Days and<br />
participating in several school visits. From the outside,<br />
Oxford <strong>University</strong> (even for those familiar with the<br />
collegiate system) can be quite a complicated and<br />
confusing system, so bringing people into the <strong>Catz</strong><br />
environment has proved to be a really beneficial process.<br />
Open Days and school visits <strong>of</strong>fer a varied programme <strong>of</strong><br />
events, with potential applicants sampling the best <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Catz</strong> cuisine by eating lunch in Hall, and mingling with<br />
students (who are ready to answer an inexhaustible<br />
stream <strong>of</strong> questions) in the JCR.<br />
It has made it<br />
seem much<br />
more accessible<br />
than I had<br />
thought<br />
previously.<br />
Also, I now<br />
understand<br />
that the<br />
admissions<br />
process is<br />
designed to let<br />
candidates<br />
show<br />
themselves at<br />
their best.<br />
Comment from one<br />
potential student after<br />
attending an Open Day.<br />
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Benefactors’ Day<br />
ON SATURDAY 19 MAY over two hundred alumni and<br />
their partners came back to <strong>College</strong> to celebrate the<br />
success <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Catz</strong> Campaign and see for themselves<br />
what had been achieved with their donations. After<br />
drinks in the SCR and the opportunity to catch up with<br />
old friends over lunch in Hall, guests moved to the<br />
Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre for a series <strong>of</strong> lively<br />
and stimulating talks. First to speak was Nick<br />
Lykiardopulo (1977, PPE), who recounted the victory <strong>of</strong><br />
his boat, Aera, in the Sydney Hobart Yacht race in<br />
January 2005. Accompanied by breathtaking photos,<br />
After lunch in<br />
Hall... guests<br />
moved to the<br />
Bernard Sunley<br />
Lecture<br />
Theatre for<br />
a series <strong>of</strong><br />
lively and<br />
stimulating<br />
talks.<br />
Nick’s talk brought to life the<br />
extreme challenges faced by<br />
all who participate in one <strong>of</strong><br />
the world’s toughest and<br />
most prestigious races. Nick’s<br />
talk was followed by an<br />
account by third-year medical<br />
student Rachel Brettell <strong>of</strong> her<br />
travels in Mongolia. Rachel<br />
was one <strong>of</strong> the 2006 winners<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Wallace Watson Travel<br />
Award, and her account <strong>of</strong><br />
her travels through a still<br />
remote part <strong>of</strong> the world<br />
drew many questions from an<br />
interested audience. The final<br />
talk, delivered by <strong>Catz</strong> Fellow,<br />
geographer Dr Richard Bailey, focused on his use <strong>of</strong> a<br />
technique known as ‘luminescence dating’ to help date<br />
an African skull that is providing important insights into<br />
the ‘missing link’ <strong>of</strong> human evolution.<br />
The afternoon ended with tea in Hall (which <strong>of</strong>fered yet<br />
another chance for friendships to be renewed), and an<br />
opportunity to admire at close-hand the award-winning<br />
buildings in the new quad.<br />
I was very impressed with<br />
the way in which the<br />
more recent buildings<br />
now contribute to a<br />
greater and organic<br />
whole which still remains<br />
consistent with Arne<br />
Jacobsen’s original ethos.<br />
John Clark (1965, Law)<br />
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COLLEGE LIFE<br />
An update on Oxford Investment Partners (OXIP)<br />
OXIP – THE INVESTMENT OFFICE created in May 2006 by achieved at a volatility, or measure <strong>of</strong> absolute risk, half<br />
<strong>St</strong> Catherine’s, Christ Church and Balliol – is nearly that <strong>of</strong> the equity indices.<br />
eighteen months old. The firm’s objective is to provide a<br />
comprehensive one-stop solution to the challenges <strong>of</strong> Diversification is a sine qua non for OXIP, but our biggest<br />
running an endowment portfolio in the twenty-first challenge is finding diversification at the right price. We<br />
century. Our intention has been to emulate the best US have consistently thought most assets were overvalued<br />
endowments, such as Harvard and Yale, by creating a<br />
for this stage <strong>of</strong> the cycle, and we were concerned that<br />
OXIP<br />
powerful investment <strong>of</strong>fice, with substantial research and<br />
monitoring capacity, embedded in a structure which<br />
clearly aligns interests between OXIP and its clients. Since<br />
inception, assets under management have doubled to<br />
over £200 million. £150 million <strong>of</strong> this belongs to Oxford<br />
colleges, but the firm also manages money for three<br />
external charity clients as well as a number <strong>of</strong> ‘expert’<br />
private individuals who invest via OXIP Diversified, a Jersey<br />
unauthorised unit trust, which now stands at £30 million.<br />
OXIP’s performance since inception shows that its<br />
strategy <strong>of</strong> diversification by both asset type and<br />
manager skill can preserve capital in falling markets<br />
while still participating in gains when they rise. Since<br />
investing in May 2006, <strong>Catz</strong> is on course to meeting its<br />
investment objective <strong>of</strong> inflation +5% per year over five<br />
year rolling periods. On an annualised basis the portfolio<br />
is up 6.9% to 30 September compared with 7.1% for the<br />
<strong>College</strong>’s benchmark, and 8.5% for World Equities (in £<br />
terms). At this early stage these figures do not include<br />
any gains from our unquoted investments which are still<br />
valued at cost. More importantly this result has been<br />
many investors’ past performance appeared heroic<br />
because they had deployed a lot <strong>of</strong> debt in a bull<br />
market. We survived the summer’s liquidity crisis<br />
unscathed by exposure to structured products or subprime<br />
debt. We also passed on the opportunity to<br />
commit to large private equity firms, by investing in<br />
managers who specialise in distressed assets and<br />
emerging markets. We eschewed UK property yields at<br />
5% and below, and invested in property firms focused on<br />
Europe and opportunistic restructurings. This cautious<br />
approach to valuations has characterised all our<br />
investments. Looking ahead we feel confident that the<br />
<strong>College</strong>’s portfolio is better placed than it has ever been<br />
to capture stable risk-adjusted returns.<br />
Fram Dinshaw (Finance Bursar and Non-Executive<br />
Director), Karl <strong>St</strong>ernberg (Chief Investment Officer), Paul<br />
Berriman (Modern History, 1985, Executive Director).<br />
(If you would like to know more about any aspect <strong>of</strong><br />
OXIP please contact our Chief Operating Officer, Paul<br />
Martin, on 01865 988155)<br />
Diversification<br />
is a sine qua<br />
non for OXIP,<br />
but our biggest<br />
challenge is<br />
finding<br />
diversification<br />
at the right<br />
price.<br />
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Postcards to the Master<br />
This year, over forty students who organised<br />
expeditions to different parts <strong>of</strong> the world –<br />
many undertaking charitable work once they had<br />
reached their destination – were supported by a<br />
range <strong>of</strong> <strong>College</strong> Travel Awards. Postcards arrived<br />
on the Master’s desk from, amongst other<br />
countries, Kenya, Japan, Guatemala, Thailand,<br />
China, Bulgaria, Uganda, the Netherlands and the<br />
Galapagos islands. Here is a small selection from<br />
the many cards he received…<br />
10/POSTCARDS TO THE MASTER
COLLEGE LIFE<br />
ST CATHERINE’S COLLEGE 2007/11
COLLEGE LIFE<br />
Patrick <strong>St</strong>ewart's inaugural speech<br />
In his inaugural lecture as Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> Contemporary Theatre,<br />
which took place on 23 April 2007, the celebrated actor and director talked about his life and<br />
work, giving a fascinating insight into his career.<br />
This is an edited version <strong>of</strong> that lecture. For the full text, please go to www.stcatz.ox.ac.uk<br />
WHEN I WAS THIRTEEN I SAT IN THE ESSOLDO CINEMA,<br />
Dewsbury watching an electrifying Gregory Peck in John<br />
Huston’s film <strong>of</strong> Moby Dick. Peck’s towering performance<br />
personified, for this impressionable teenager, all that<br />
great acting, Hollywood glamour and movie stardom<br />
seemed to be. Once Ahab had gone down the whale,<br />
waving his arm for the world to follow him, and Ishmael<br />
was safely floating on his c<strong>of</strong>fin, I sat in the emptying<br />
cinema, watching until the very last credit rolled. Then,<br />
dazed with what I had seen, walked out into the West<br />
Riding darkness, overwhelmed with emotions and with a<br />
deep longing in my heart for which I had no name.<br />
Waiting for my bus I was filled with confusion and awe.<br />
What did it feel like, I agonised, to be an actor <strong>of</strong> such<br />
distinction, gravity and gorgeousness. How cruelly aware<br />
I was <strong>of</strong> the distance that separated this enthusiastic,<br />
Yorkshire, working-class, amateur thespian from Oscarwinner<br />
Gregory Peck.<br />
passionately haranguing a bunch <strong>of</strong> tough looking sailors<br />
while skilfully manoeuvring on one good leg, and one<br />
fake whale-bone leg. The scene ends and the director<br />
calls cut. I lunge for the specially designed chair that<br />
enables me to rest between takes. Then a hand<br />
touches my arm.<br />
Now let me invite you to leap forward with me. It is<br />
1988. I am aboard a mock-up <strong>of</strong> the Pequod, in a huge<br />
water-filled tank beside the ocean in Victoria, Australia.<br />
Iron-grey locks frame my ravaged face and I am<br />
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COLLEGE LIFE<br />
A figure leans over me and murmurs, ‘You see, Patrick, you’ve got Ahab’s voice. I never<br />
found the voice.’<br />
Greg had been modest, charming, warm and encouraging from the day he had agreed<br />
to meet with me to talk about the role. He had even asked if he could be in the<br />
movie and play Father Maple. I went to watch him work the day that we were<br />
shooting the sermon and, in take after take, he was awesome. But even so, he asked<br />
me in a tea break if I had any thoughts about what he was doing. Did I have any<br />
suggestions? And the wide gap <strong>of</strong> time, space and credibility that separated<br />
Dewsbury from Hollywood simply disappeared.<br />
When I was twelve my English teacher, Cecil Dormand, distributed to my class copies <strong>of</strong><br />
The Merchant <strong>of</strong> Venice. ‘Act I, scene iii’, he instructed. ‘<strong>St</strong>ewart, you’re Shylock. Read<br />
it.’ And I did. And that morning in Room Eight at Mirfield Secondary Modern School, I<br />
read Shakespeare aloud for the first time. In fact, Shakespeare came into my life at a<br />
very early stage. My eldest brother, Ge<strong>of</strong>frey, sixteen years my senior, was in the RAF<br />
during the later years <strong>of</strong> the war, and there made friends with another airman who<br />
loved Shakespeare, and who introduced him to the plays. When he came home on<br />
leave, he would read me bedtime stories – King Lear, Macbeth, Hamlet. I was three,<br />
four years old and I hardly understood a word <strong>of</strong> it. But even though I did not<br />
understand much, I know that I loved the sounds. Later, when I heard Shakespeare on<br />
the Home Service, it was the sounds the language made that, more than anything,<br />
drew me in. The sounds drew me in then and still draw me in today, along with an<br />
intuitive sense <strong>of</strong> who Shakespeare’s people are, and how they feel. From the moment<br />
I first read Othello, around the age <strong>of</strong> fourteen, I understood the Moor and longed to<br />
act him. I felt this man inside me – I eventually played Othello eight years ago. Having<br />
failed to find a producer here, I persuaded the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington DC<br />
to mount what became known as the photo-negative Othello: Othello as a white<br />
British mercenary in an African-American Venice and Cyprus.<br />
In 1986 I visited the United <strong>St</strong>ates doing a series <strong>of</strong> Master-classes, lectures and<br />
Shakespeare workshops. One evening, unknown to me, there was a very experienced<br />
Hollywood producer in the audience. The next day I got a call from my agent saying<br />
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COLLEGE LIFE<br />
that I had been invited to Paramount studios to meet<br />
with Gene Roddenbury, the creator <strong>of</strong> the original <strong>St</strong>ar<br />
Trek series. Months later, I was called back to Los<br />
Angeles for another meeting with Gene, his fellow<br />
producers and the casting director. Finally, in March<br />
1987, I was called back one more time, now for a full<br />
audition. When it was done, I followed my practice with<br />
all auditions, and just erased it, forgetting that it had<br />
ever happened. I bought a pile <strong>of</strong> English newspapers<br />
and went to a favourite c<strong>of</strong>fee shop for a late<br />
breakfast. I sat in there for over two hours, unaware<br />
that my agent was trying to find me. The studio had<br />
called him before I drove <strong>of</strong>f the lot, saying I was cast,<br />
and wanting to make the deal. In the end he found me<br />
and insisted that we meet for lunch to talk it over. Of<br />
course, I was excited, puzzled, flattered and, when he<br />
began reciting dollars, my head began to spin. The<br />
thrill subsided, however, when I learned that all this<br />
was conditional on me signing a six-year contract with<br />
no get-out on my side…<br />
Eighteen years passed while I lived in California, and<br />
every corner <strong>of</strong> my life was touched by it. Four years<br />
ago I re-located and, after a somewhat discouraging<br />
start, I feel myself once more to be an English<br />
actor. The past year, in fact, has been the<br />
culmination <strong>of</strong> a long-held LA fantasy. When<br />
unable to sleep, I would<br />
indulge in a secret<br />
fantasy. I would be<br />
driving from my<br />
Cotswold cottage to the<br />
theatre in <strong>St</strong>ratford. It would be raining gently, but<br />
And here is<br />
the very heart<br />
<strong>of</strong> my<br />
fantasy...<br />
the human<br />
truth and<br />
sheer gobstopping<br />
sexiness<br />
that is<br />
Shakespeare.<br />
the landscape would be green and burgeoning. On the<br />
passenger seat, a copy <strong>of</strong> the play I was going to<br />
rehearse. Before long I would be crossing the Clopton<br />
Bridge and, glancing to my left, I would see the edifice<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Royal Shakespeare Theatre and a glow would<br />
spread through my body. This was my building, my<br />
home, the only site <strong>of</strong> my deepest, most longed-for<br />
ambitions since I was a teenager.<br />
Last year it all came true. Technically, the house I bought<br />
is several miles to the east <strong>of</strong> what is thought <strong>of</strong> as the<br />
Cotswolds. But it is beautiful and, unlike my early years at<br />
the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, and thanks to the M40,<br />
the <strong>St</strong>ratford Road is quiet and driveable once more.<br />
There are scenes along that road far more enchanting<br />
than anything Southern California can <strong>of</strong>fer. Better than<br />
Beverly Hills. Better than Sunset Boulevard. And, at the<br />
theatre, performing Antony and Cleopatra and rehearsing<br />
and performing The Tempest, with two fine directors and<br />
a group <strong>of</strong> actors committed to the work and full <strong>of</strong><br />
talent, creativity, limitless energy, affection and good<br />
humour. And all <strong>of</strong> them, like me, thrilled to be there,<br />
thrilled every day to be hurling themselves against that<br />
greatness that is William Shakespeare.<br />
And here is the very heart <strong>of</strong> my fantasy. The<br />
inspiration, the richness and beauty, the awesome<br />
complexities, the humanity, the images, the<br />
recognisable and utterly alluring evil, the romance<br />
and courage, the human truth<br />
and sheer gob-stopping<br />
sexiness that is<br />
Shakespeare.<br />
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COLLEGE LIFE<br />
Black Oxford: Untold <strong>St</strong>ories<br />
LAUNCHED IN OCTOBER 2006 at Oxford <strong>University</strong>’s<br />
Natural History Museum, Black Oxford is the first black<br />
heritage project <strong>of</strong> its type in the United Kingdom. The<br />
venture, which was originally funded by the Heritage<br />
Lottery Fund, celebrates the lives and achievements <strong>of</strong><br />
black scholars at Oxford <strong>University</strong> from the nineteenth<br />
century to the present day. The untold stories <strong>of</strong> men<br />
and women such as Alain Locke, the first black Rhodes<br />
Scholar (Hertford <strong>College</strong>, 1907), and Ania Moore, who<br />
graduated from <strong>St</strong> Hugh’s <strong>College</strong> in 1935, are brought<br />
to life during a two hour guided walking tour <strong>of</strong> the<br />
City.<br />
In addition to drawing attention to the considerable<br />
contributions made, in so many fields, by black Scholars<br />
(many <strong>of</strong> whom had overcome significant hardships in<br />
order to be able to study at Oxford), the tour also<br />
celebrates the role played by black men and women<br />
during the First and Second World Wars, and considers<br />
the experiences in Britain <strong>of</strong> the ‘Windrush generation’.<br />
The tour includes specific mention <strong>of</strong> two alumni from<br />
<strong>St</strong> Catherine’s, Sir Grantley Adams (1919, Law) and Dr<br />
Eric Williams (1932, PPE), both <strong>of</strong> whom have left a<br />
lasting political legacy in the West Indies.<br />
In partnership with Ruskin <strong>College</strong>, Black Oxford has<br />
launched an accredited tour-guiding course, which<br />
hopes to train local members <strong>of</strong> the community to<br />
become guides for this project. This unique<br />
scheme will <strong>of</strong>fer individuals the opportunity to<br />
gain in-depth knowledge about black British,<br />
African-American and Caribbean history, as well<br />
as <strong>of</strong>fering practical training for potential tour<br />
guides.<br />
Black Oxford: Untold <strong>St</strong>ories, which was shortlisted<br />
for a National Lottery Award in the Best<br />
Heritage Project category, is the brainchild <strong>of</strong><br />
Pamela Roberts. Pamela is the founder and<br />
Executive Director <strong>of</strong> Artistry Events, a social<br />
enterprise that was<br />
established to<br />
develop and deliver<br />
arts and media<br />
projects that will both<br />
educate and entertain<br />
diverse audiences.<br />
For more information<br />
about Black Oxford and<br />
its work, please visit<br />
www.blackoxford.net,<br />
email<br />
info@blackoxford.net,<br />
or telephone 01494<br />
538769.<br />
Black Oxford is proud to have<br />
as one <strong>of</strong> its patrons the<br />
daughter <strong>of</strong> Eric Williams,<br />
Erica Williams Connell.<br />
Below: Pamela Roberts,<br />
founder and Executive<br />
Director <strong>of</strong> Artistry Events.<br />
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Dr Eric Williams & Sir Grantley Adams<br />
Dr Eric Williams<br />
Sir Grantley Adams<br />
(Picture courtesy <strong>of</strong> the Barbados<br />
Government Information Service)<br />
Dr Eric Williams (1932, PPE)<br />
Eric Williams was a renowned Caribbean historian and the<br />
first Prime Minister <strong>of</strong> Trinidad and Tobago, who served<br />
from 1956 until his death in 1981. Born in 1911, he<br />
attended Queen’s Royal <strong>College</strong>, Port <strong>of</strong> Spain, before<br />
winning a scholarship in 1932 that enabled him to come<br />
and study at Oxford. In 1938 Eric Williams received his<br />
doctorate for a thesis entitled The Economic Aspect <strong>of</strong> the<br />
West Indian Slave Trade and Slavery. After working for<br />
several years at Howard <strong>University</strong>, Washington, DC, Eric<br />
Williams returned to Trinidad in 1948 as Deputy Chairman<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Anglo-American Caribbean Commission’s Research<br />
Council. In 1955 his political career began in earnest when<br />
he founded the People’s National Movement Party. In<br />
1998, the Eric Williams Memorial Collection at the<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> the West Indies in Trinidad and Tobago –<br />
which contains over 7000 volumes, in addition to Williams’<br />
correspondence and speeches and research notes – was<br />
inaugurated by former US Secretary <strong>of</strong> <strong>St</strong>ate, Colin Powell.<br />
A series <strong>of</strong> lectures, entitled the Eric Williams Memorial<br />
Lecture Series, was held in London in April 2007 to<br />
commemorate the 200th anniversary <strong>of</strong> the abolition <strong>of</strong><br />
the transatlantic slave trade. The inaugural lecture was<br />
delivered by Jamaican-born scholar, Colin Palmer, the<br />
Dodge Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> History at Princeton <strong>University</strong>, who has<br />
recently published a critically acclaimed account <strong>of</strong> the life<br />
<strong>of</strong> Trinidad and Tobago’s first Prime Minister, Eric Williams<br />
and the Making <strong>of</strong> the Modern Caribbean.<br />
Sir Grantley Adams (1919, Law)<br />
Born in 1898, Grantley Adams was educated at Harrison<br />
Academy, Barbados, before he came to Oxford in 1919 to<br />
read Law. While a student, he became Secretary <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Justinian Law Society, JCR President and President <strong>of</strong> the <strong>St</strong><br />
Catherine’s Debating Society. Grantley Adams left Oxford in<br />
1923 and was called to the Bar at Gray’s Inn, London. In<br />
1925 he returned to Barbados, where he became the<br />
island’s leading Labour politician. Adams served as Leader<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Barbados Labour Party, was President <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Barbados Workers’ Union, and became the first Premier <strong>of</strong><br />
Barbados and the first and only Prime Minister <strong>of</strong> the West<br />
Indies Federation. In 1952 he was made a Companion in the<br />
Most Distinguished Order <strong>of</strong> <strong>St</strong> Michael and <strong>St</strong> George and<br />
in 1966 he led his country to independence. He is<br />
honoured today as a National Hero <strong>of</strong> Barbados and<br />
remembered as a man who worked tirelessly to establish<br />
social justice across all ethnic and economic classes.<br />
16/DR ERIC WILLIAMS & SIR GRANTLEY ADAMS
Nick Young Award<br />
Sam Forsdike, 2006 winner <strong>of</strong> the Nick Young Award, shares his<br />
experiences working with the Arts and Features department at ITV<br />
‘I NEED YOU TO CALL JOHNNY DEPP’S AGENT and then see if<br />
you can get hold <strong>of</strong> Britney or Madonna.’ I have done a few<br />
work placements in my time, and first tasks usually involve<br />
trying to work out how the photocopier works and what<br />
exactly is meant by ‘a dash <strong>of</strong> milk’. Trying to get hold <strong>of</strong><br />
Britney Spears qualifies, in work-experience speak, as being<br />
thrown in the deep end – on the Nick Young Award Scheme,<br />
it barely constitutes dipping your toes in the water.<br />
Every year a student from <strong>Catz</strong> is <strong>of</strong>fered a three-month<br />
internship with the Arts and Features department at ITV<br />
as part <strong>of</strong> the Nick Young Award.<br />
This programme was set up in<br />
1982 by the family <strong>of</strong> Nick Young,<br />
a former <strong>Catz</strong> student and ITV<br />
employee who, tragically, died in a<br />
road accident.<br />
The scheme <strong>of</strong>fers a unique<br />
opportunity to gain experience in<br />
an industry that is notorious for its<br />
difficulty in gaining a point <strong>of</strong><br />
entrance – there are virtually no<br />
graduate schemes and very few<br />
openings available for those seeking their first job in this<br />
sector. The industry operates largely on a policy <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>of</strong>fering employment only to those with experience in<br />
this field, and it is not hard to see that this creates a<br />
vicious circle in which it seems impossible to get the<br />
experience necessary to be eligible for a much-coveted<br />
job!<br />
Comedian Russell Brand<br />
The Nick Young Award is different for so many reasons.<br />
at the South Bank Show<br />
For a start, it runs for three months, time enough to get<br />
Awards.<br />
settled, feel part <strong>of</strong> a team, learn new<br />
skills and demonstrate both your<br />
natural aptitude and what you have<br />
learnt. Secondly, the grant that comes<br />
with the award (when most<br />
placements only <strong>of</strong>fer expenses if you<br />
are lucky) is a welcome help when<br />
living and working in London. Thirdly,<br />
and most importantly, you never feel<br />
like you are the work-experience<br />
person.<br />
During my three months I was part<br />
The South Bank Show Awards, © ITV Productions Ltd, 2007<br />
<strong>of</strong> a small team that put together a<br />
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COLLEGE LIFE<br />
live award show that was<br />
broadcast on ITV1. Officially, and<br />
rather loosely, my job title was<br />
‘researcher’. More accurately it<br />
would probably be a hybrid <strong>of</strong><br />
producer, events manager, scriptwriter<br />
and agony aunt. My work<br />
involved booking guests for the<br />
award show, organising the venue,<br />
entertainment, bands, goody-bags<br />
and food for 400 guests,<br />
researching biographies and notes<br />
for all the nominees, writing the<br />
script for the show and dealing with<br />
outrageous demands from celebrity<br />
divas.<br />
Given that the ceremony is recorded<br />
live, the day itself was a long adrenaline-pumping blur<br />
<strong>of</strong> frantic nerves and excitement. Armed with my radio<br />
ear-piece I rushed about sorting out the million and one<br />
last minute problems for which no one had planned.<br />
The event itself was a huge success. I had to overcome<br />
any vestige <strong>of</strong> being star-struck as I helped to<br />
chaperone, escort and massage the ego <strong>of</strong> a whole<br />
array <strong>of</strong> personalities from the arts world including<br />
Russell Brand, Victoria Wood, The Who, Ken Russell,<br />
Michael Sheen, Paul Greengrass, Sir Andrew Lloyd<br />
Webber and Claudia Schiffer. At the after-show party I<br />
enjoyed an impromptu jamming session with Amy<br />
Winehouse and Jamie Cullum and spent the night<br />
drinking with the Royle Family.<br />
Lord Bragg, Domus<br />
Fellow <strong>of</strong> <strong>St</strong> <strong>Catherine's</strong>,<br />
at the award ceremony.<br />
The South Bank Show Awards,<br />
© ITV Productions Ltd, 2007<br />
Winning the Nick Young Award gave me the<br />
opportunity to complete a work placement that <strong>of</strong>fers<br />
unrivalled experience: I gained invaluable technical<br />
expertise and insight into the world <strong>of</strong> television as<br />
well as learning to deal with high-pressured situations<br />
and responsibilities. Crucially for this industry, I made<br />
a number <strong>of</strong> important contacts.<br />
I was fortunate enough to be <strong>of</strong>fered a job after the<br />
internship and I have now transferred to another<br />
department in order to learn and develop new skills.<br />
To pursue a career in television I would normally be<br />
expected to be a ‘runner’ for at least a year, doing<br />
menial tasks for little pay. The Nick Young Award<br />
has allowed me to fast-track this route and I am<br />
now one <strong>of</strong> the youngest researchers in the<br />
industry.<br />
I would not change places for a second with any <strong>of</strong> my<br />
friends who have gone to work in highly pr<strong>of</strong>itable jobs<br />
in banking and consultancy. I never wake up wishing I<br />
did not have to go into work, and I do a job that has the<br />
scope for unlimited creativity and individuality, in which I<br />
get to write and make programmes that reach millions <strong>of</strong><br />
people. Working in the media also <strong>of</strong>fers unrivalled<br />
perks, with tickets to premieres and opening nights, the<br />
chance to travel the world and discover new things, and<br />
the opportunity to meet some <strong>of</strong> the most intelligent,<br />
artistic and craziest people in their fields.<br />
If I have not yet managed to persuade you <strong>of</strong> the worth<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Nick Young Award, here’s the clincher: the only<br />
person you have to make a cup <strong>of</strong> tea for is yourself.<br />
18/NICK YOUNG AWARD
COLLEGE LIFE<br />
Finals Results 2007<br />
UNDERGRADUATES<br />
Biological Sciences<br />
Nancy Burns<br />
Joseph Fletcher<br />
Hiren Naik<br />
Sophie Owen<br />
Aristotelis Papoutes<br />
Penelope Sellers<br />
James Smith<br />
II (i)<br />
I<br />
II (i)<br />
II (i)<br />
II (i)<br />
I<br />
II (i)<br />
Chemistry (MChem)<br />
James Backshall II (i)<br />
Patrick Durkin II (i)<br />
Lydia Hutchinson II (ii)<br />
Emily Muir<br />
II (ii)<br />
Tom Rees<br />
II (ii)<br />
David Royse<br />
II (i)<br />
Philip Scott<br />
I<br />
Chase Winters II (i)<br />
Economics &<br />
Management<br />
Adam Hyslop<br />
Vadim Varvarin<br />
II (i)<br />
II (i)<br />
Engineering & Computer<br />
Science (MEng)<br />
Witold Czartoryski II (ii)<br />
Engineering Science<br />
(MEng)<br />
David Adams<br />
Paul Beynon<br />
Peter Bracewell<br />
Tamer El Barbary<br />
Roddy Prayag<br />
Owen Price<br />
Henry Townshend<br />
Alasdair Walker<br />
II (i)<br />
I<br />
I<br />
II (ii)<br />
II (i)<br />
II (i)<br />
I<br />
II (i)<br />
English Language &<br />
Literature<br />
Federico Fernandez-Armesto I<br />
Eleanor Fretwell II (i)<br />
Peter Goult<br />
II (i)<br />
Laurence Harvey II (i)<br />
Kane Moore<br />
II (i)<br />
Jennifer Pick<br />
II (i)<br />
Paul Russell<br />
II (i)<br />
Fine Art (BFA)<br />
Aglaé Bassens<br />
Christian Braime<br />
Geography<br />
Jonathan Blackledge<br />
Charles Bremner<br />
Nicholas Brodie<br />
Zara Chidoub<br />
Lucy Gough<br />
Oliver Phillips<br />
Melissa Rigby<br />
Fleur-Estelle Shaw<br />
History <strong>of</strong> Art<br />
Jack Farthing<br />
Human Sciences<br />
Amy Beaumont<br />
Claire Palmer<br />
Louise Park<br />
Theodore Raymond<br />
Jessica Watson<br />
Ziqi Wu<br />
Law<br />
Basil Al-Jafari<br />
Maria Banks<br />
Matthew Chinery<br />
David Craddock<br />
Rachel Harriott<br />
Richard Hill<br />
Alexandra Kendall<br />
I<br />
II (i)<br />
II (i)<br />
II (i)<br />
II (i)<br />
I<br />
II (i)<br />
II (i)<br />
II (i)<br />
II (ii)<br />
I<br />
I<br />
II (i)<br />
II (i)<br />
II (i)<br />
II (i)<br />
I<br />
II (i)<br />
I<br />
II (i)<br />
II (i)<br />
II (i)<br />
II (i)<br />
II (i)<br />
Liam Murphy<br />
Ying Yi Soh<br />
Kai Sun<br />
Sophie Townsend<br />
II (i)<br />
II (i)<br />
II (i)<br />
II (i)<br />
Law with Law <strong>St</strong>udies in<br />
Europe<br />
Theo Bruening II (i)<br />
Dominique Riley II (i)<br />
Materials Science (MEng)<br />
Benjamin Britton II (i)<br />
Matthew Brooke-Hitching II (i)<br />
Alastair Ross<br />
III<br />
Sumer Singh<br />
II (i)<br />
Mathematics (BA)<br />
Jack Adkins<br />
Guy Bedford<br />
Sheng Pu Chen<br />
Bu Ke Qian<br />
Michael Tran<br />
Mathematics (MMath)<br />
Joynay Bhurtah<br />
Nathaniel Korda<br />
Mathematics &<br />
Philosophy (BA)<br />
Rosalie Hooke<br />
Mathematics &<br />
<strong>St</strong>atistics (BA)<br />
Cheuk Yen Lam<br />
Mathematics &<br />
<strong>St</strong>atistics (MMath)<br />
Mo Qiao<br />
Medicine<br />
Rachel Brettell<br />
Daniel Hammersley<br />
Clare Shakespeare<br />
II (ii)<br />
I<br />
II (ii)<br />
II (ii)<br />
II (i)<br />
I<br />
I<br />
II (i)<br />
I<br />
II (ii)<br />
I<br />
II (i)<br />
II (i)<br />
Dora <strong>St</strong>eel<br />
Rowan Wathes<br />
Modern History<br />
Daniel Binnington<br />
Alex Dwiar<br />
Thomas Fenton<br />
Jack Gillions<br />
Edward Goodman<br />
Arthur Kadish<br />
Christopher McCloskey<br />
Connal Parr<br />
Elizabeth Pitcher<br />
Christopher <strong>St</strong>anley<br />
Modern History &<br />
Politics<br />
Elizabeth MacDonald<br />
Modern Languages<br />
Petra Kwan<br />
Simon Maharaj<br />
Pablo de Orellana<br />
Brais Outes Leon<br />
Victoria Philpott<br />
Laura Pierce<br />
Luke Reeve-Tucker<br />
I<br />
II (i)<br />
II (i)<br />
II (i)<br />
II (i)<br />
II (i)<br />
II (i)<br />
II (i)<br />
II (i)<br />
II (i)<br />
II (i)<br />
II (i)<br />
II (i)<br />
I<br />
II (i)<br />
I<br />
I<br />
II (i)<br />
II (i)<br />
II (i)<br />
Modern Languages &<br />
Linguistics<br />
Claire Hackney II (i)<br />
John Ramsay<br />
II (i)<br />
James Sutherland II (i)<br />
Molecular & Cellular<br />
Biochemistry (MBioch)<br />
<strong>St</strong>even Cuss<br />
I<br />
Alison Hole<br />
I<br />
William Sankey II (i)<br />
Zico Yung<br />
II (i)<br />
Music<br />
Catherine Groom<br />
David Mathews<br />
Alice Newton<br />
Grace Shortland<br />
II (i)<br />
II (i)<br />
II (i)<br />
II (i)<br />
Philosophy, Politics &<br />
Economics<br />
Anna Avramenko II (i)<br />
Michael Davidson I<br />
Christopher Hanges II (i)<br />
Kester Keating<br />
I<br />
Faizal Patel<br />
II (i)<br />
Isabel Summers II (i)<br />
Caroline Wilkey II (i)<br />
Physics (BA)<br />
Catherine Brough<br />
Alexander Dutton<br />
Daniel Massey<br />
Jean-Luc <strong>St</strong>evens<br />
Physics (MPhys)<br />
Christopher Bull<br />
Wolf Goetze<br />
Kamalchetan Marwaha<br />
Matthew Powell<br />
Francis Yeung<br />
Kelvin Yuen<br />
II (i)<br />
II (ii)<br />
II (i)<br />
III<br />
II (i)<br />
I<br />
II (i)<br />
II (ii)<br />
II (ii)<br />
II (ii)<br />
Physiological Sciences<br />
Faye Cadman II (ii)<br />
Michelle Edye II (i)<br />
Psychology, Philosophy<br />
& Physiology<br />
Vishal Kapadia II (i)<br />
Kathryn Law<br />
I<br />
SCHOLARSHIPS AND<br />
EXHIBITIONS<br />
Scholars<br />
Peter Babkevich (Physics),<br />
<strong>College</strong> Scholar<br />
Guy Bedford (Mathematics),<br />
<strong>College</strong> Scholar<br />
Paul Beynon (Engineering<br />
Science), <strong>College</strong> Scholar<br />
Christopher Boedihardjo<br />
(Mathematics), Kaye Scholar<br />
Peter Bracewell (Engineering<br />
Science), <strong>College</strong> Scholar<br />
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Alexander Burtenshaw<br />
(Engineering Science), ATV<br />
Scholar<br />
Luke Cartey (Computer<br />
Science), <strong>College</strong> Scholar<br />
Edmund Chan (Medicine),<br />
<strong>College</strong> Scholar<br />
Nicholas Cowle (Mathematics<br />
& Computer Science), Baker<br />
Scholar<br />
<strong>St</strong>even Cuss (Molecular &<br />
Cellular Biochemistry), Rose<br />
Scholar<br />
Felix Flicker (Physics), <strong>College</strong><br />
Scholar<br />
Dewi Goulden (Oriental<br />
<strong>St</strong>udies), <strong>College</strong> Scholar<br />
Wei Hao Gu (Materials<br />
Science), ATV Scholar<br />
Alison Hole (Molecular &<br />
Cellular Biochemistry),<br />
Sembal Scholar<br />
Rebecca Lewin (History <strong>of</strong><br />
Art), Clothworkers Scholar<br />
Leo Masson (Engineering,<br />
Economics & Management),<br />
ATV Scholar<br />
Mandish Muker (Engineering,<br />
Economics & Management),<br />
Ge<strong>of</strong>frey Griffith Scholar<br />
Theresa Page (Modern<br />
Languages), Brook Scholar<br />
Xiang Pan (Mathematics &<br />
Computer Science), <strong>College</strong><br />
Scholar<br />
John Pearson (Mathematics),<br />
Clothworkers Scholar<br />
Amar Radia (Philosophy,<br />
Politics & Economics), Philip<br />
Fothergill Scholar<br />
Aleks Reinhardt (Chemistry),<br />
F M Brewer Scholar<br />
Peter Roberts (Physics),<br />
<strong>College</strong> Scholar<br />
Katherine Rundell (English<br />
Language & Literature),<br />
Goldsworthy Scholar<br />
Simon Shenton (Chemistry),<br />
ATV Scholar<br />
Henry Townshend<br />
(Engineering Science),<br />
<strong>College</strong> Scholar<br />
Michael Tran (Mathematics),<br />
<strong>College</strong> Scholar<br />
Jo Tyabji (English Language &<br />
Literature), Goldsworthy<br />
Scholar<br />
Rose Wilkinson (English<br />
Language & Literature),<br />
<strong>College</strong> Scholar<br />
Hanna Winiarska (Chemistry),<br />
<strong>College</strong> Scholar<br />
Caroline W<strong>of</strong>findale<br />
(Experimental Psychology),<br />
<strong>College</strong> Scholar<br />
Matthew Woolgar (Modern<br />
History), Garret Scholar<br />
Russell Woolley (Chemistry),<br />
<strong>College</strong> Scholar<br />
Yun Zhe Zhang (Mathematics),<br />
<strong>College</strong> Scholar<br />
Exhibitioners<br />
Nicholas Antoniou, <strong>College</strong><br />
Exhibitioner (Engineering<br />
Science)<br />
Sanjoy Bhattacharyya, <strong>College</strong><br />
Exhibitioner (Medicine)<br />
Sarah Bowe, <strong>College</strong><br />
Exhibitioner (Molecular &<br />
Cellular Biochemistry)<br />
Darius Bradbury, <strong>College</strong><br />
Exhibitioner (Computer<br />
Science)<br />
Thomas Gatten, <strong>College</strong><br />
Exhibitioner (Human Sciences)<br />
Admas Haile, <strong>College</strong><br />
Exhibitioner (Medicine)<br />
Lewys Jones, <strong>College</strong><br />
Exhibitioner (Materials Science)<br />
Christopher Knowles, <strong>College</strong><br />
Exhibitioner (Law)<br />
Andrew Robertson, <strong>College</strong><br />
Exhibitioner (Medicine)<br />
PRIZES AND AWARDS<br />
<strong>University</strong> Prizes<br />
Undergraduates<br />
Armourers Rolls-Royce<br />
Prize for Outstanding<br />
Marks in Prelims<br />
Femi Fadugba (Materials<br />
Science)<br />
Degussa Company Prize<br />
for Performance in Part IA<br />
Aleks Reinhardt (Chemistry)<br />
Dudbridge Prize for<br />
Outstanding Performance<br />
in Classical Chinese in<br />
Prelims<br />
Dewi Goulden (Oriental<br />
<strong>St</strong>udies)<br />
IoM3 A T Green Annual<br />
Prize for Best National<br />
Graduate in Ceramics<br />
Nomination<br />
Matthew Brooke-Hitching<br />
(Materials Science)<br />
Ironmongers' Company<br />
Award for the Best Part II<br />
Talk<br />
Benjamin Britton (Materials<br />
Science)<br />
Practical Work in Part B<br />
Commendation<br />
Catherine Brough (Physics)<br />
Pusey and Ellerton Junior<br />
Prize for performance in<br />
Biblical Hebrew in Prelims<br />
Tim Motz (European & Middle<br />
Eastern Languages)<br />
QinetiQ Prize for Best<br />
Third-<strong>Year</strong> Team Design<br />
Project<br />
Michael Rogers (Materials<br />
Science)<br />
Wronker Grant for<br />
Excellent Performance in<br />
Finals<br />
Dora <strong>St</strong>eel (Medicine)<br />
Graduates<br />
Pickering Prize for the<br />
Best Overall Performance<br />
in Medicine and Surgery<br />
Lucy Hanington (Clinical<br />
Medicine)<br />
Rupert Cross Prize in<br />
Evidence<br />
Malcolm Birdling (Law)<br />
Winter Williams European<br />
Business Regulation Prize<br />
Patricio Smart (Law)<br />
<strong>College</strong> Prizes<br />
The Bailey Prize for<br />
debating is yet to be awarded.<br />
The Burton Prize for the<br />
best academic performance<br />
during the year in an area<br />
covering Psychology,<br />
Sociology, Geography and<br />
Human Sciences was awarded<br />
to Kathryn Law (Psychology,<br />
Philosophy & Physiology) and<br />
Zara Chidoub (Geography).<br />
The Cochrane Evidence-<br />
Based Medicine Prize for<br />
the best essay on an aspect<br />
<strong>of</strong> evidence-based practice or<br />
the critical appraisal <strong>of</strong> a topic<br />
by a graduate student in<br />
clinical medicine was awarded<br />
to Werner Neuhausser<br />
(Clinical Medicine).<br />
The Frank Allen Bullock<br />
Prize for the best piece <strong>of</strong><br />
creative or critical writing was<br />
awarded to Joseph Crawford<br />
(English Language &<br />
Literature).<br />
The Gardner Prize for<br />
outstanding contribution to<br />
the life <strong>of</strong> the <strong>College</strong> was<br />
awarded to Benjamin Britton<br />
(Materials Science).<br />
The Harold Bailey Prize for<br />
Asian <strong>St</strong>udies was awarded to<br />
Tim Motz (European & Middle<br />
Eastern languages).<br />
The Hart Prize for the best<br />
essay on an historical subject<br />
by a first or second year<br />
undergraduate was awarded<br />
to Christopher <strong>St</strong>anley<br />
(Modern History).<br />
The Katritzky Prize for the<br />
best performance in Chemistry<br />
Part I was awarded to<br />
Benjamin Ayers (Chemistry).<br />
Leask Music Scholarships<br />
were awarded to Thomas<br />
Foster (Music), Katherine<br />
Higgon (Chemistry) and<br />
Duncan <strong>St</strong>rachan (Music).<br />
The Michael Atiyah Prize<br />
in Mathematics for the best<br />
mathematics essay or project<br />
written by a <strong>St</strong> Catherine’s<br />
undergraduate in his or her<br />
second year reading for a<br />
degree in Mathematics or joint<br />
school with Mathematics is<br />
yet to be awarded.<br />
The Nick Young Award was<br />
awarded to Alex Dwiar<br />
(Modern History).<br />
The Rose Prize for the best<br />
academic performance during<br />
the year in Biological Sciences<br />
was awarded to Joseph<br />
Fletcher (Biological Sciences)<br />
and Penelope Sellers<br />
(Biological Sciences).<br />
The Rupert Katritzky Prize<br />
is awarded for the best<br />
performance in the Final<br />
Honour School in Modern<br />
History was awarded to<br />
Edward Goodman (Modern<br />
History).<br />
The Smith Award for<br />
Services to Drama within the<br />
<strong>College</strong> was awarded to<br />
Chanya Button (English<br />
Language & Literature).<br />
The Smith Award for Services<br />
to Music within the <strong>College</strong><br />
was awarded to Alice Newton<br />
(Music) and David Matthews<br />
(Music).<br />
The <strong>St</strong>uart Craig Award<br />
given to an outstanding<br />
student who has gained<br />
distinction in a university or<br />
national sport, or cultural or<br />
musical activities was awarded<br />
to Jonathan Blackledge<br />
(Geography).<br />
The Thomas Jefferson<br />
Prize given to the North<br />
American student who has<br />
contributed most to the<br />
<strong>College</strong> academically, socially<br />
or culturally ‘in the spirit <strong>of</strong><br />
20/GRADUATE DEGREES & DIPLOMAS
COLLEGE LIFE<br />
Thomas Jefferson’ was<br />
awarded to Kaitlin Walsh<br />
(Modern Languages).<br />
<strong>College</strong> Travel Awards<br />
Wallace Watson Award<br />
Witold Czartoryski<br />
(Engineering & Computer<br />
Science)<br />
Tim Motz (European & Middle<br />
Eastern Languages)<br />
Emilie Harris Award<br />
Thomas Foster (Music)<br />
Duncan <strong>St</strong>rachan (Music)<br />
Philip Fothergill Award<br />
Thomas Gatten (Human<br />
Sciences)<br />
Bullock Travel Award<br />
Anthony Calland (Modern<br />
Languages & Modern History)<br />
Bullock Career Award<br />
Rebecca Lewin (History <strong>of</strong> Art)<br />
Raymond Hodgkin Award<br />
Lucien Georgeson (Modern<br />
Languages)<br />
Pat Knapp Travel Award<br />
Maria McPhee (Medicine)<br />
Antony Edwards Travel<br />
Award<br />
Jennifer Mullin (Clinical<br />
Medicine)<br />
James Fowler (European &<br />
Middle Eastern Languages)<br />
Nicola Atkins (Modern<br />
History)<br />
<strong>College</strong> Travel Awards<br />
Triska Abdul-Ahmid (Oriental<br />
<strong>St</strong>udies)<br />
S<strong>of</strong>ie Ahmad (Modern History)<br />
Alexander Ball (English<br />
Language & Literature)<br />
Christopher Bull (Physics)<br />
April Dunham (Materials<br />
Science)<br />
Michelle Edye (Physiological<br />
Sciences)<br />
Sophie Foxen (Medicine)<br />
Peter Goult (English<br />
Language & Literature)<br />
<strong>St</strong>ephanie Hardwick (English<br />
Language & Literature)<br />
Rosemary Hinton (Medicine)<br />
Lewys Jones (Materials<br />
Science)<br />
Elizabeth Kays (Chemistry)<br />
Craig Leaper (Clinical<br />
Medicine)<br />
Carly Leighton (Geography)<br />
Tomasz Mazur (Computing)<br />
David Mitchell (Geography)<br />
Ai<strong>of</strong>e Nic Charthaigh (Area &<br />
Development <strong>St</strong>udies)<br />
Emily Nixon (Geography & the<br />
Environment)<br />
Eileen Nugent (Physics)<br />
Jane Rooney (Law with Law<br />
<strong>St</strong>udies in Europe)<br />
Tomo Sandeman (Geography)<br />
Sarbjit Sandhu (Economics &<br />
Management)<br />
Julie Scrase (Fine Art)<br />
Alistair Seddon (Geography &<br />
the Environment)<br />
Matthew Sims (Clinical<br />
Medicine)<br />
Anisha Sodha (Clinical<br />
Medicine)<br />
Jo Tyabji (English Language &<br />
Literature)<br />
Evan Wang (Materials<br />
Science)<br />
Jessica Watson (Human<br />
Sciences)<br />
Hanna Winiarska (Chemistry)<br />
David Workman (English<br />
Language & Literature)<br />
Graduate Degrees & Diplomas<br />
During 2006-2007 leave to supplicate for the DPhil was granted to the following:<br />
Nicholas Attfield (Music)*<br />
Appropriating Bruckner: Symphonic Reception, Hermeneutics,<br />
and Performance<br />
David Bass (Zoology)*<br />
Biodiversity, Evolution, and Ecology <strong>of</strong> the Novel Protozoan<br />
Phylum Cercozoa<br />
Paul Bonnet (Engineering Science)<br />
The Development <strong>of</strong> Multi-Axis Real-Time Substructure Testing<br />
Conor Carville (English Language & Literature)*<br />
The Ends <strong>of</strong> Ireland: Subjectivity, History and Nationalism in<br />
Contemporary Irish Cultural Criticism<br />
Meng Chen (Chemistry)<br />
Polyelectrolyte brushes grown from solid surfaces: Synthesis,<br />
<strong>St</strong>ructure and lubrication properties<br />
Frances Colles (Zoology)<br />
Population <strong>St</strong>ructure and Dynamics <strong>of</strong> Campylobacter<br />
Populations Carried by Wild Birds and Chickens Reared in a<br />
Free Range Woodland Environment<br />
Thomas Gray (Chemistry)*<br />
Electrochemical and Optical Sensing <strong>of</strong> Anoins<br />
Kin Leong Ho (Engineering Science)<br />
Loop Closing Detection in SLAM Using Scene Appearances<br />
Sugata Kaviraj (Physics)<br />
On the <strong>St</strong>ar Formation History <strong>of</strong> Early-Type Galaxies<br />
Oliver King (Materials)<br />
<strong>St</strong>udies on the Electrodeposition <strong>of</strong> Calcium Phosphate<br />
Coating for Orthopaedic Applications and the Potential<br />
Incorporation <strong>of</strong> Apatite Coated Liposomes<br />
Chun-Te Lee (Mathematics)<br />
Multi-Soliton Solution <strong>of</strong> the Two-Mode KdV Equations<br />
Rashid Mbaziira (Geography & the Environment)<br />
The Nile Basin Initiative: Towards a Regime <strong>of</strong> Cooperation<br />
Alistair McEwan (Computing)<br />
Concurrent Program Development<br />
James Morauta (Philosophy)*<br />
Evaluating Intentions<br />
Yukiyo Nishida (Educational <strong>St</strong>udies)<br />
The Challenge <strong>of</strong> Multiage Primary Schooling in Public<br />
Education: Case <strong>St</strong>udies in Australia, Canada and the USA<br />
Iris Oren (Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics)*<br />
Synaptic Mechanisms Underlying Cholinergically-Induced Fast<br />
Hippocampal Network Oscillations in Vitro<br />
Jayne Smith-Palmer (Physics)<br />
<strong>St</strong>udies Onminus End Directed Myosin Motors<br />
James Thomson (Chemistry)*<br />
B-Amino Acid Organcatalysis<br />
Matthew Tredwell (Chemistry)*<br />
Electrophilic Fluorodesilylation <strong>of</strong> Chiral Allysilanes<br />
Sander Van Kasteren (Chemistry)<br />
Novel Probes for the In Vivo Visualisation <strong>of</strong> Cerebral<br />
Inflammation<br />
Check Chiu Wai (Engineering Science)<br />
On Curvilinear <strong>St</strong>ructures in Mammography Image Analysis<br />
and Registration<br />
Hao Wang (Chemistry)<br />
Surface and Electrochemical <strong>St</strong>udies <strong>of</strong> CVD Diamond Thin Films<br />
Hongzhi Wang (Materials)<br />
Perovskite Based Ceramic Nanocomposites<br />
Miles Waring (Materials)<br />
The Electrical and <strong>St</strong>ructural Properties <strong>of</strong> Lanthanum-Doped<br />
Lead Zirconate Titanate<br />
Robert Whannel (Chemistry)*<br />
New Group 4 Complexes with Di-Amide Class Ligands<br />
<strong>St</strong>ephen Winter (Politics & International Relations)<br />
A Justified Claim? Reparation, Historical Injustice and the Case<br />
<strong>of</strong> American Slavery<br />
* indicates previous graduate <strong>of</strong> the <strong>College</strong><br />
ST CATHERINE’S COLLEGE 2007/21
COLLEGE LIFE<br />
The following were successful in other<br />
examinations:<br />
Myanthi Amarasinghe, MSc (C) Research in Psychology<br />
John Anderson, MPhil Economics<br />
Francisco Balsemão, MJuris<br />
Roheet Bantval Rao, MSc (C) Integrated Immunology †<br />
Fabrizio Barzanti, MJuris †<br />
Malcolm Birdling, BCL †<br />
Gemma Bowes, MSc (C) Forced Migration<br />
Jaroslav Broz, MJuris<br />
Karan Chandhiok, BCL<br />
Christina Chen, MPhil Law †<br />
Cho-Chun Cheng, MSc (C) Financial Economics †<br />
Fungayi Chinaka, MSc (C) Diagnostic Imaging<br />
Ben Coren, M<strong>St</strong> English †<br />
Paul De Cates, 2nd BM<br />
Jessica Feinstein, M<strong>St</strong> History <strong>of</strong> Art & Visual Culture<br />
Tommy Fennelly, MSc (C) Mathematical Modelling &<br />
Scientific Computing †<br />
Chrissie Fong, MPhil English <strong>St</strong>udies<br />
Christina Fuhr, MSc (C) Sociology<br />
Robert Ghenchev, MSc (C) Financial Economics<br />
Iliya Grozdanov, MJuris<br />
Lucy Hanington, 2nd BM †<br />
Gwenyth Hardiman, MSc (C) Material Anthropology &<br />
Museum Ethnography<br />
Indrani Hazra, BCL †<br />
Knut-Fredrik Hustad, MJuris<br />
Ante Kusurin, MSc (C) Water Science, Policy & Management<br />
Dantes Leung, BCL<br />
Lasma Liede, MJuris †<br />
Chao Mbogo, MSc (C) Computer Science<br />
Hye Young Min, MSc (C) Research in Psychology<br />
Anthony Mullin, MSc (C) Research in Psychology<br />
Werner Neuhausser, 2nd BM<br />
Aoife Nic Charthaigh, MSc (C) Forced Migration*<br />
Emily Nixon, MSc (C) Environmental Change & Management<br />
Charalampos Psarras, MJuris<br />
Ubaidullah Qazi, MPhil General Linguistics & Comparative<br />
Philology<br />
Teresa Queiros, BCL †<br />
Saif Rahman, MBA<br />
Scott Ralston, BCL †<br />
Gazal Rawal, BCL<br />
Adam Romero, MSc (C) Water Science, Policy & Management<br />
Alexander Russell, MPhil Modern European History *†<br />
Maria Sanchez-Marin Melero, MBA<br />
Abhishek Sharma, MBA<br />
Sudhanshu Shekhar, MSc (C) Integrated Immunology<br />
Laura Silva Castaneda, MSc (C) Latin American <strong>St</strong>udies<br />
Lieke Sjerps, MJuris<br />
Patricio Smart, MJuris<br />
Kate <strong>St</strong>inson, MPhil International Relations<br />
Shinjiro Takeda, MBA<br />
Heiko Thienenkamp, MBA<br />
Thomas Vale, 2nd BM*<br />
Tom Ville, MJuris<br />
Jeremy Vooght, M<strong>St</strong> English †<br />
Amber Walker, MSc (R) Engineering Science<br />
Daniel Wamweru, MSc (C) Applied <strong>St</strong>atistics<br />
Jin Wang, MSc (C) Applied <strong>St</strong>atistics<br />
Matthew Williams, M<strong>St</strong> Musicology<br />
Trevor Wood, MSc (C) Mathematical Modelling & Scientific<br />
Computing *†<br />
Minhong Yi, Certificate in Diplomatic <strong>St</strong>udies<br />
Amer Zakaria, MSc (C) Water Science, Policy & Management<br />
* indicates previous graduate <strong>of</strong> the <strong>College</strong><br />
† indicates candidates adjudged worthy <strong>of</strong> distinction by the Examiners<br />
Graduate Scholars<br />
Rachel Brettell, Glaxo Scholarship (Clinical Medicine)<br />
Georgina Worthington, Glaxo Scholarship (Clinical<br />
Medicine)<br />
Roham Alvandi, <strong>College</strong> Scholarship (Arts) (Politics &<br />
International Relations)<br />
Jessica Harm, <strong>College</strong> Scholarship (Sciences) (Zoology)<br />
Montree Sawangphruk, <strong>College</strong> Scholarship (Sciences)<br />
(Chemistry)<br />
David Szwer, Poole Scholarship (Physics)<br />
Elin Abraham, Light Senior Scholarship (Chemistry)<br />
Joseph Crawford, Light Senior Scholarship (English<br />
Language & Literature)<br />
Richard Huzzey, Light Senior Scholarship (History)<br />
Rajeka Lazarus, Light Senior Scholarship (Clinical Medicine)<br />
Marwa Sharafeldin, Light Senior Scholarship (Socio-Legal<br />
<strong>St</strong>udies)<br />
<strong>St</strong>ephen Galsworthy, Leatherseller’s Company<br />
Scholarship (Mathematics)<br />
Tomasz Mazur, Leatherseller’s Company Scholarship<br />
(Computer Science)<br />
John McTague, <strong>College</strong> Scholarship (Arts) (English<br />
Language & Literature)<br />
Julie Collet, Light Senior Scholarship (Zoology)<br />
Kaitlin Walsh, Light Senior Scholarship (Modern Languages)<br />
Errata<br />
The following are corrections to the list <strong>of</strong> those granted<br />
leave to supplicate for the DPhil during 2005–2006:<br />
Alasdair Leslie (Clinical Medicine)<br />
The Mechanisms and Consequences <strong>of</strong> CTL Escape on HIV<br />
Evolution and Immune Control<br />
Laura Zambreanu (Human Anatomy & Genetics)<br />
Central Sensitization and its Relevance to Chronic Pain: FMRI<br />
<strong>St</strong>udies in Humans<br />
Rebecca Nicholls (Materials)<br />
Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy <strong>of</strong> Fullrene Materials<br />
Benjamin Parsons (Music)<br />
Taking <strong>St</strong>ock <strong>of</strong> the Apprentice: Contextual Rereadings <strong>of</strong><br />
Pierre Boulez's Early Career, 1945–1952<br />
22/GRADUATE DEGREES AND DIPLOMAS
COLLEGE LIFE<br />
Sports Review<br />
In athletics and cross country Jonathan Blackledge<br />
has excelled once more. During his three years in Oxford,<br />
Jonathan has been awarded a total <strong>of</strong> six Blues. He was<br />
Blackwell’s Scholar for Sport, has led the Oxford team in<br />
the Varsity Match and, this year, for the second year<br />
running, was named <strong>University</strong> Sportsman <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Year</strong>.<br />
League 1 and the mixed badminton team also won its<br />
league. Matt Charles and Matt Brooke Hitching also<br />
played for the <strong>University</strong>, with the latter gaining a Blue.<br />
Jonathan Blackledge<br />
receiving the <strong>University</strong>'s<br />
Sportsman <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Year</strong><br />
Award for the second<br />
year.<br />
Above right: The victorious<br />
<strong>Catz</strong> tennis team.<br />
Below: Tim Weir in<br />
action.<br />
In swimming, Harriet Pierce was captain <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Women’s team, and Sean Renfer has gained a Blue as<br />
well as earning a half-Blue in triathalon. Sean also<br />
competed in cross country against Cambridge.<br />
Despite protestations that she is ‘rubbish at pistol<br />
shooting’, Penny Sellers has achieved yet another Blue<br />
in modern pentathlon.<br />
In hockey, <strong>Catz</strong> women’s team reached the semi-finals<br />
<strong>of</strong> cuppers, and Frances Furnivall has represented<br />
Oxford this season.<br />
In tennis, Tim Weir has brought yet more successes<br />
for Oxford, with the <strong>University</strong>’s Tennis Club gaining<br />
promotion to the Premier Division in the British<br />
Universities Sports Association (BUSA). Alex Iltchev was<br />
awarded a half-Blue in tennis, and it was under his<br />
captaincy that the <strong>St</strong> Catherine’s team – which<br />
included Luke Reeve-Tucker, Vadim Vavarin, Lucas<br />
Szlachcic, Matt Brooke Hitching and Tim Weir, won<br />
Tennis Cuppers. The ladies’ badminton first team won<br />
Alex Iltchev was captain <strong>of</strong> Oxford’s second team in<br />
squash, and was awarded a half Blue. Jess Watson,<br />
who played on the successful Varsity winning side, was<br />
awarded a full Blue.<br />
Faye Cadman was awarded a Blue for gymnastics,<br />
came eighth in the BUSA competition and won Varsity.<br />
She has also been president <strong>of</strong> the Women’s Blues<br />
Sports Committee – a distinguished and important role<br />
in university sport.<br />
In rowing <strong>Catz</strong> once more had two men in the Blue<br />
Boat in this year’s Boat Race: the stroke, Ante Kusurin,<br />
and the cox, Nick Brodie (who will also serve as Oxford<br />
<strong>University</strong> Boat Club’s President in the coming year).<br />
Anthony Mullin was in the Isis crew and Dane Van den<br />
Akker was the reserve cox for the Boat Race.<br />
In rugby, Jamie Menzies played for the <strong>University</strong><br />
Whippets, while Sean Mackenzie was a member <strong>of</strong> the<br />
winning team in the under-21Varsity Match that took<br />
place at Twickenham.<br />
ST CATHERINE’S COLLEGE 2007/23
COLLEGE LIFE<br />
In football, Owen Price captained the Oxford <strong>University</strong><br />
association football team, who this year won the BUSA<br />
league and secured promotion. Matt Robinson also played<br />
in the Varsity Match, and was awarded a Blue. <strong>Catz</strong><br />
Second XI had a very successful season, winning both<br />
Cuppers (beating Worcester in a final that saw captain,<br />
Ryan Magee score a hat-trick) and the league. Special<br />
mention must go to Finalists Luke Reeve-Tucker, Jimbo<br />
Sutherland, John Ramsey, Rich Hill and Dave Craddock,<br />
all <strong>of</strong> whom played in the final – they have contributed<br />
greatly to sport at <strong>Catz</strong> during their time here.<br />
Daniel Binnington was president <strong>of</strong> the <strong>University</strong>’s<br />
pool and snooker club.<br />
Other <strong>Catz</strong> students who have been awarded Blues and<br />
half-Blues during the past academic year include Martin<br />
Bishop (cross country), Noah Smith (basketball), Alice<br />
Kelly (netball), David Royse (sailing), David Longworth<br />
(archery and lacrosse) and Peter Goult (athletics).<br />
<strong>Catz</strong> Second XI celebrate<br />
their win over Worcester<br />
<strong>College</strong>.<br />
24/ERIC WILLIAMS LECTURE SERIES
STUDENT PERSPECTIVES<br />
Kate <strong>St</strong>inson<br />
(2005, International Relations (MPhil))<br />
ST CATHERINE’S COLLEGE was my ‘home away from<br />
home’ for two years. As a Canadian living and studying<br />
abroad for the first time, I was excited by the<br />
opportunity to join the <strong>Catz</strong> community, and delighted<br />
at the way in which I was instantly welcomed and<br />
embraced by the <strong>College</strong>. I was an active member <strong>of</strong><br />
the Middle Common Room during my time at <strong>Catz</strong>, and<br />
was thrilled with the opportunity to engage with, and<br />
learn from, fellow graduate students from around the<br />
world – many <strong>of</strong> whom were at the cutting edge <strong>of</strong><br />
their fields – in both academic and social contexts.<br />
My research interests lie in the general field <strong>of</strong><br />
international law and human rights, and my degree at<br />
<strong>Catz</strong> allowed me to pursue this passion. At the end <strong>of</strong><br />
my first year, I was delighted to have my interest and<br />
aptitude in this field recognised with a Light Senior<br />
Scholarship. My research examined the design <strong>of</strong><br />
International Criminal Tribunals and their ability to bring<br />
justice to the divided societies that they are meant to<br />
assist. As part <strong>of</strong> this undertaking, I performed an indepth<br />
examination <strong>of</strong> the Special Court for Sierra<br />
Leone, conducting fieldwork in Freetown during<br />
summer 2006. The opportunity to apply my academic<br />
abilities to concrete issues was one <strong>of</strong> the most<br />
enriching experiences <strong>of</strong> my degree and, as a direct<br />
result <strong>of</strong> my research, I was <strong>of</strong>fered an internship<br />
position with the Special Court during summer the next<br />
year. The time I spent in Sierra Leone has reinforced my<br />
deep interest in human rights law and my commitment<br />
to fight and work for the causes in which I believe –<br />
the legal protection and support <strong>of</strong> those in need.<br />
In addition to my academic endeavours, <strong>Catz</strong> also<br />
provided the opportunity for me to pursue athletic<br />
challenges, and I was actively engaged in the relatively<br />
new sport <strong>of</strong> women’s boxing throughout my time at<br />
Oxford. Boxing has taught me courage and tenacity,<br />
and has fostered dedication, determination, and the<br />
ability to overcome obstacles. I competed as an<br />
amateur boxer, representing Oxford on the Blues squad,<br />
achieving British Universities Sports Association gold<br />
and silver medals, and competing twice in the annual<br />
Varsity Match (women competed for the first time in<br />
Varsity boxing in 2005). In recognition <strong>of</strong> my<br />
achievements in the Varsity Match and in national<br />
competitions, I had the honour and privilege <strong>of</strong> being<br />
awarded an Extraordinary Full Blue. I also had the<br />
opportunity to serve as Co-Captain <strong>of</strong> the Oxford<br />
Amateur Boxing Club during the 2006-07 season,<br />
helping to secure an Oxford victory against Cambridge<br />
in the historic hundredth Varsity Boxing Match, held at<br />
York Hall in London.<br />
Kate <strong>St</strong>inson, who was<br />
awarded an Extraordinary<br />
Full Blue in recognition <strong>of</strong><br />
her achievements in the<br />
Varsity Match and in<br />
national competitions.<br />
ST CATHERINE’S COLLEGE 2006/25
STUDENT PERSPECTIVES<br />
Justin Puleo<br />
(2004, Visiting <strong>St</strong>udent, 2005, Integrated Immunology)<br />
WHILE A VISITING STUDENT at <strong>St</strong> Catherine’s <strong>College</strong>, I<br />
conducted research into malaria at the Churchill Hospital,<br />
and was introduced to the famous Oxford tutorial system<br />
by debating medical ethics and philosophy with Brendan<br />
McLaughlin. My experience was so fulfilling that, even<br />
before I left, I had begun to make plans to come back to<br />
Oxford.<br />
Upon completing my Bachelor’s at Harvard in Health Policy<br />
in 2005, I matriculated in Oxford for the MSc in Integrated<br />
Immunology. The small, diverse, group <strong>of</strong> eleven students<br />
on the course included representatives from four<br />
continents and counted two Rhodes scholars (<strong>of</strong> which I<br />
was privileged to be one) among its ranks. In addition to<br />
succeeding in all my exams, I earned a Full Blue on the<br />
Basketball team, beat Cambridge, won Blades in the <strong>Catz</strong><br />
Men’s First Boat at Summer Eights, and volunteered with<br />
the Kids Enjoy Exercise Now charity for children and young<br />
adults with special needs. Very few Universities provide<br />
such a high level <strong>of</strong> all-around education as Oxford does,<br />
and, while at <strong>Catz</strong>, I took full advantage <strong>of</strong> its many<br />
opportunities.<br />
I then learned that possibilities for students extend far<br />
beyond Oxford, when my supervisor, Pr<strong>of</strong>essor William<br />
James, sponsored me to present my research at the Young<br />
European Scientist Meeting in Porto, Portugal, where I<br />
won second prize in the HIV/Immunology division. This<br />
success was not only a fine way to finish <strong>of</strong>f my time at<br />
Oxford, but also motivated me to continue in the field <strong>of</strong><br />
HIV research. I took a job at Duke <strong>University</strong> Human<br />
Vaccine Institute, but not before I convinced my parents<br />
that I needed to see India, as I was already half way<br />
there, being in London (I originally planned to attend a<br />
WHO conference in Bangladesh but the rule that no<br />
students were allowed to observe the proceedings<br />
changed my plans somewhat).<br />
I spent a few months working at Duke, in my home state<br />
<strong>of</strong> North Carolina, before being sent to rural East Africa to<br />
help set up vaccine trials in Moshi, Tanzania. Witnessing<br />
the human cost <strong>of</strong> the HIV pandemic there, combined<br />
with the poverty I saw on my trip to India, has fuelled my<br />
desire to become a medical doctor who focuses on global<br />
health. It is very likely that, had I not had the experiences<br />
I did at <strong>Catz</strong> and in Oxford, my<br />
career would be taking a<br />
much more insular<br />
direction. That, I believe<br />
is the power <strong>of</strong> an Oxford<br />
education, and I have <strong>St</strong><br />
Catherine’s <strong>College</strong> to<br />
thank for allowing me to<br />
see a bigger picture.<br />
Justin Puleo (right) in<br />
the lab at Moshi and<br />
(below) at the summit<br />
<strong>of</strong> Mt Kilimanjaro.<br />
26/JUSTIN PULEO
STUDENT PERSPECTIVES<br />
Tomasz Mazur<br />
(2003, Mathematics and Computer Science, 2006, Computing)<br />
IT ALL STARTED ON CHRISTMAS EVE in December 2002.<br />
As I decorated my Christmas tree, a postman brought me<br />
a letter. Inside it I found an <strong>of</strong>fer for a place at <strong>St</strong><br />
Catherine’s <strong>College</strong> to read Mathematics and Computer<br />
Science. I have now completed my undergraduate course<br />
(with a distinction) and am a graduate student at <strong>Catz</strong>.<br />
Life at <strong>Catz</strong> is full <strong>of</strong> opportunities. Being part <strong>of</strong> a very<br />
talented and creative community, each student can<br />
pursue academic excellence while also aiming for<br />
personal development. In my second year as an<br />
undergraduate, thanks to a <strong>College</strong> recommendation, I<br />
received a scholarship from the Misys Foundation. This<br />
charitable organisation, which was founded in 1997 by<br />
the global s<strong>of</strong>tware company Misys plc, aims to help<br />
academic establishments with IT-related education,<br />
through the provision <strong>of</strong> funds for university<br />
scholarships and the purchase <strong>of</strong> computer equipment.<br />
<strong>St</strong> Catherine’s is privileged to be one <strong>of</strong> only four<br />
Oxford colleges to be beneficiaries <strong>of</strong> the Foundation.<br />
As a graduate student, I have received a scholarship<br />
from the Leathersellers’ Company. The organisation,<br />
founded in 1444, is one <strong>of</strong> the ancient Livery<br />
Companies <strong>of</strong> the City <strong>of</strong> London. Once an authority<br />
controlling the sale <strong>of</strong> leather within the City, today<br />
the company promotes British leather trade and<br />
supports charity and education. Every year <strong>St</strong><br />
Catherine’s <strong>College</strong> nominates two <strong>of</strong> its students –<br />
who must be graduates <strong>of</strong> European universities<br />
reading for a research degree in the sciences – to<br />
receive the scholarship.<br />
There are many opportunities to become involved in<br />
<strong>College</strong> life, and no interest that could not be<br />
developed at <strong>Catz</strong>. From sports to music and drama, the<br />
possibilities are endless. In addition, for aspiring<br />
managers and leaders, there is a wealth <strong>of</strong> committee<br />
positions for which one can stand. In April 2006 I was<br />
elected President <strong>of</strong> the Middle Common Room. While it<br />
is an honour to represent such a large and diverse<br />
graduate community, it also<br />
puts one’s leadership skills<br />
to a real test. I hope that I<br />
will be able to share the<br />
knowledge and experience I<br />
have gained while in Office<br />
with future MCR<br />
committees.<br />
Working with students as a <strong>College</strong> Lecturer and doing<br />
scientific research at the same time has already proved<br />
to be very rewarding for me, and I see a future career<br />
for myself in academia – if <strong>Catz</strong> <strong>of</strong>fers me another<br />
opportunity to follow the life-path I have set for<br />
myself, I shall not think twice!<br />
If <strong>Catz</strong> <strong>of</strong>fers me another<br />
opportunity to follow the lifepath<br />
I have set for myself,<br />
I shall not think twice!<br />
ST CATHERINE’S COLLEGE 2007/27
STUDENT PERSPECTIVES<br />
Anna Avramenko<br />
(2004, PPE)<br />
I VIVIDLY REMEMBER THE DAY I arrived at <strong>St</strong> <strong>Catz</strong>. I was directing a few shorts that I had written myself. I was<br />
very excited about commencing my degree in PPE, and able to create the first <strong>of</strong> my own films thanks to the<br />
also about all the extra-curricular activities I had read long three-month summer break the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong>fers.<br />
about in the Freshers' guide. The teaching in all fields The long vacations also afforded me a good<br />
fulfilled my expectations, with lectures and tutorials opportunity to gain valuable work experience and<br />
equally excellent. I was, however, most inspired by contacts on a film set in London.<br />
Philosophy, which led me to<br />
choose it as the subject in<br />
which I specialised chiefly<br />
with, within the bipartite<br />
course, Economics as my<br />
second specialised subject.<br />
The diversity <strong>of</strong> topics<br />
studied and the difference in<br />
I have left <strong>St</strong> Catherine’s with<br />
the strong belief that the<br />
whole Oxford experience will be<br />
invaluable to me in the future.<br />
The structure <strong>of</strong> the<br />
academic year at Oxford gave<br />
me the time I needed to<br />
delve further into my<br />
interests in film. This meant<br />
that within the<br />
stimulating yet<br />
skills needed to approach the two subjects was<br />
extremely demanding three years <strong>of</strong> the<br />
something I found to be very stimulating: on a daily PPE degree I was able to think seriously<br />
basis, each course provided a refreshing change from about my aspiration to become a<br />
the other.<br />
feature-film director. I decided to follow<br />
this goal and now, after finishing my<br />
Away from my academic studies, I was able to<br />
studies at Oxford, am taking a gap year<br />
experience many different roles within the two spheres in which I aim to gain the workexperience<br />
and knowledge <strong>of</strong> films<br />
<strong>of</strong> film and theatre while at Oxford. I had a wonderful<br />
opportunity to act in a new play entitled The Virgin necessary to succeed in securing a<br />
<strong>St</strong>udent, and also helped to produce a play by David place at a film school in the following<br />
Hare at the Old Fire <strong>St</strong>ation Theatre. My involvement academic year. I have left <strong>St</strong><br />
with this latter project introduced me to the practical Catherine’s with the strong belief that<br />
side <strong>of</strong> working in the realm <strong>of</strong> theatre and film. Within the whole Oxford experience – and <strong>of</strong><br />
the world <strong>of</strong> film-making itself, I worked as a<br />
course the good friends I made during my time there –<br />
camerawoman for a short student feature, before will be invaluable to me in the future.<br />
28/ ANNA AVRAMENKO
STUDENT PERSPECTIVES<br />
Teddy Watson<br />
writes about the Wallace Watson Award Lectures 2006<br />
WE SET OUT LOOKING LIKE LADYBIRDS from Mars, each<br />
person carrying around fifty kilos. We made it down<br />
the glacier and, as we walked alongside the rivers <strong>of</strong><br />
melting water, a lush valley formed in front <strong>of</strong> us. It<br />
was wonderful and deeply strange to have a desert <strong>of</strong><br />
ice and rocks behind us and this green haven in front.<br />
We were exhausted, but started to feel optimistic<br />
again, until we realised that we had to traverse one <strong>of</strong><br />
the streams to make it to our destination. We took <strong>of</strong>f<br />
our boots and trousers and started to cross one by<br />
one, on rocks, in an ice-cold torrent. We made it, and<br />
felt good once again. Soon we were to realise that<br />
the first crossing had only served as an appetiser.<br />
In front <strong>of</strong> us we had a forty-five-metre wide river: it<br />
was deeper and the current was much stronger. I<br />
remember thinking, ‘you are going to do this, you are<br />
going to this’ as I stood out there without feeling my<br />
legs anymore, praying that I would not slip on the<br />
slippery stones. There was no way we could have<br />
struggled against the river if we had slipped with fifty<br />
kilos <strong>of</strong> heavy equipment attached to our backs. We<br />
finally made it over and joked that this would be great<br />
stuff for the lecture. Our smiles disappeared soon<br />
again though; we were now trapped on an island with<br />
an even wider river to cross in front <strong>of</strong> us. Another<br />
sixty metres <strong>of</strong> pure hell with water reaching up to<br />
where a relatively tall guy like my brother would say,<br />
‘Ooh, it is really cold!’<br />
So Christian Toennesen, a graduate<br />
student, described the end <strong>of</strong> his<br />
expedition to Greenland at the Wallace<br />
Watson Award lectures in February 2007. He had just<br />
come <strong>of</strong>f the ice cap having bagged five summits (two<br />
<strong>of</strong> which were previously unclimbed) in the arctic<br />
mountaineering expedition for which he had won the<br />
Award. From the peaks, his team had ‘enjoyed<br />
unspoiled views over the enormous ice cap, glaciers,<br />
the ocean, icebergs and mountains’. It was, he said, ‘a<br />
sight so unbelievable that it forces you to shut up and<br />
let your ears be filled by the purest sound <strong>of</strong> silence<br />
you could ever imagine.’ Christian said he had learned<br />
‘that life is not a given, it is a privilege. Going to<br />
remote regions, going mountaineering,<br />
going beyond the normal, all serve the<br />
same basic purpose: celebrating life.’<br />
Soon we were<br />
to realise that<br />
the first<br />
crossing had<br />
only served as<br />
an appetiser.<br />
ST CATHERINE’S COLLEGE 2007/29
STUDENT PERSPECTIVES<br />
It is a cliché<br />
that travel<br />
broadens the<br />
mind, but it is<br />
probably true.<br />
This is clearly what Rachel Brettell,<br />
an undergraduate medical<br />
student, did on her journey<br />
through Mongolia. She described<br />
in her Wallace Watson Award<br />
lecture how she had had ‘quite<br />
literally, the adventure <strong>of</strong> a<br />
lifetime’:<br />
We <strong>of</strong>ten [pitched our<br />
tents] in pitch black,<br />
howling winds or torrential<br />
rain, but to wake up to the<br />
vast and stunning<br />
Mongolian countryside,<br />
with not another soul in<br />
sight, every morning, really<br />
was incredible. The scenery<br />
is ever changing – from<br />
desert, to alpine forest, to<br />
snow-capped mountains. The<br />
country is vast, and the<br />
emptiness is awe-inspiring.<br />
Whilst the Mongolian scenery is amazing, they say<br />
that it is really the people that make a place.<br />
Mongolians move from ger to ger where they are fed,<br />
watered and given a bed for the night before moving<br />
on. No host expects payment – we would invariably be<br />
treated like honoured guests. We sampled goat’s face<br />
– an unusual delicacy – washed down with airag<br />
(week-old fermented mare’s milk, and the Mongolian<br />
tipple <strong>of</strong> choice!).<br />
It is a cliché that travel broadens the mind, but it is<br />
probably true. I was never an unwilling adventurous<br />
traveller, but I was probably an unlikely adventurous<br />
traveller. I have always known there are incredible<br />
places out there, but I now know that there are<br />
incredible places that I want to see. I have always<br />
known that there are extraordinary things to do out<br />
there, but I now know that there are extraordinary<br />
things I can do.<br />
Sitting on a dirt track, on the border <strong>of</strong> Kazakhstan,<br />
unable to get a border permit because it was Nadaam<br />
and naturally the whole province had shut down for a<br />
fortnight, nine days since I had had a shower, over a<br />
week since I had seen fresh fruit, a good eight hours<br />
since we had last seen our driver who had gone <strong>of</strong>f to<br />
fix the car, again, it started to rain. I wasn’t sure I<br />
could do it. But this is the wonderful thing about this<br />
incredible Award – you know you can because so<br />
many people have done it before you. And you know<br />
you can because there is a whole bunch <strong>of</strong> people you<br />
do not want to let down, most notably yourself. And<br />
you know you can because, earlier that year, when I<br />
sat in [a] lecture theatre and they announced my<br />
name, a panel <strong>of</strong> people believed I could. That is a<br />
remarkable motivator, and countless times it reminded<br />
me why I really did want to push myself that little bit<br />
further. My experience was undoubtedly all the richer<br />
for those little pushes.<br />
There is little I can add!<br />
30/WALLACE WATSON AWARD
STUDENT PERSPECTIVES<br />
Emilie’s Charities<br />
THE MISSION OF EMILIE’S CHARITIES is to give children and young people in poorer<br />
areas <strong>of</strong> the world a better start in life and hope for a better future. In 2006, the<br />
charity continued its involvement with projects that were begun in 2005, as well as<br />
extending its remit to help even more children. It now sponsors children in South<br />
America, Africa, Nepal and Russia and, in the past year alone, has been able to <strong>of</strong>fer<br />
support to an additional four children in Bolivia and five in Ecuador. <strong>Catz</strong> alumnus<br />
Darren Chadwick, who was in the same year as Emilie at <strong>College</strong>, has designed and<br />
developed a website for Emilie’s Charities which gives details <strong>of</strong> specific projects<br />
currently being supported by the charity. For more information, please go to<br />
www.emiliescharities.org.uk.<br />
Emilie’s Charities was founded by the family and friends <strong>of</strong> <strong>Catz</strong> student Emilie<br />
Harris following her tragic death in 2004.<br />
Right: Emilie Harris with<br />
children at an orphanage<br />
in South America.<br />
ST CATHERINE’S COLLEGE 2007/31
ALUMNI NEWS<br />
Colin Smith & Andy<br />
Colin Smith (2003, Geography) writes about the challenges he and Andy Hodge (2004, Water Science Policy)<br />
face as they prepare for the 2008 Olympics<br />
ANDY AND I TRAIN THREE TIMES EVERY DAY, with one day<br />
<strong>of</strong>f every six to ten weeks. It is a punishing lifestyle and<br />
one that demands – in addition to the physiological and<br />
technical ability that rowing requires – immense mental<br />
fortitude. It is always hard to get out <strong>of</strong> bed in the<br />
morning, not because we do not want to, but because our<br />
bodies are always sore and tired from training. Almost half<br />
<strong>of</strong> our forty-nine week season is spent abroad on training<br />
camps or at competitions. It would be impossible to<br />
continue doing this if we were not motivated by big hopes<br />
and dreams, and if we did not have a tremendous<br />
community <strong>of</strong> friends and supporters behind us. <strong>Catz</strong><br />
provided both <strong>of</strong> these things for Andy and me.<br />
whole <strong>College</strong> takes in the achievements <strong>of</strong> individuals,<br />
that separates <strong>Catz</strong> from every other college.<br />
Training for the Olympics requires us to push our minds<br />
and bodies to do things that are far outside the ‘comfort<br />
zone’. Every stroke we take (and there can be ten<br />
thousand on a hard day) requires us to strive for<br />
something better, to get more out <strong>of</strong> ourselves than we<br />
have ever done before. It does not matter if we believe<br />
that the Chinese have some revolutionary way <strong>of</strong> training;<br />
it does not matter if we know that the American crews will<br />
be physically much stronger than ours. They only give out<br />
the medals to the fastest crews!<br />
When I first came to <strong>Catz</strong>, I did not understand why it had<br />
such a good academic and sporting reputation. It does not<br />
have the best library, computer facilities or gym, nor even<br />
the biggest sports grounds. Yet you only have to walk<br />
around the corridors <strong>of</strong> the <strong>College</strong>, look at the posters<br />
that line the walls and listen to what the students have to<br />
say in Hall to realise that this is a <strong>College</strong> that is striving<br />
for success in every respect. It is the infectious enthusiasm<br />
for people to do well and aim high, both during and after<br />
their time at <strong>St</strong> Catherine’s, and the enormous pride the<br />
<strong>Catz</strong> is also rare in that it encourages a rounded education.<br />
The <strong>College</strong> gave us an enormous amount <strong>of</strong> support –<br />
albeit <strong>of</strong>ten through gritted teeth – when we rowed for<br />
the <strong>University</strong> and for Great Britain, and we were <strong>of</strong>ten<br />
surprised by the poor support given by other colleges to<br />
some <strong>of</strong> our fellow-rowers. In a world where university<br />
graduates are increasingly talented, and top positions are<br />
filled by people with skills and experiences far beyond the<br />
remits <strong>of</strong> their job, Oxford needs to be encouraging its<br />
students to aim ever higher. Andy and I agree that <strong>Catz</strong> is<br />
32/COLIN SMITH AND ANDY HODGE<br />
© John Batty, johnbatty_66@hotmail.com
ALUMNI NEWS<br />
Hodge<br />
© John Batty, johnbatty_66@hotmail.com<br />
one <strong>of</strong> the colleges that is a real leader in this respect,<br />
and it is an enormous credit to the <strong>College</strong> that it will<br />
support people who – in academia and other areas – are at<br />
the very top <strong>of</strong> their fields.<br />
Andy and I dared to dream big dreams, and <strong>Catz</strong> was there to<br />
back us. It was hard for us to contribute to <strong>College</strong> life, yet we<br />
always received messages <strong>of</strong> support, good will and<br />
congratulations from the <strong>College</strong>, and continue to do so.<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essors Ceri Peach and Roger Ainsworth were particularly<br />
supportive, always willing to stick their necks on the line to<br />
give us the chance to achieve big things. The enthusiasm,<br />
pride, dedication and unconditional support shown by so many<br />
people was an invaluable asset for us, and will remain a strong<br />
source <strong>of</strong> motivation for us through the dark winter training<br />
sessions and long into our next pr<strong>of</strong>essional careers. We are<br />
both so proud to have <strong>St</strong> Catherine’s <strong>College</strong> on our CVs.<br />
© John Batty, johnbatty_66@hotmail.com<br />
Andy and I dared to dream big<br />
dreams, and <strong>Catz</strong> was there to<br />
back us.<br />
Andy Hodge (right), who was a member <strong>of</strong> the winning<br />
Boat Race crew in 2005, is a double World Champion in<br />
rowing and eight-times World Cup winner as strokeman <strong>of</strong><br />
the GB men’s coxless four. Colin Smith (left), who rowed in<br />
the winning Oxford Blue Boat in 2006, is a two-time World<br />
Cup winner and bronze medallist in the GB men’s coxless<br />
pair at this year’s World Championships in Munich. Both<br />
gained Olympic qualification at the 2007 World<br />
Championships in Munich.<br />
ST CATHERINE’S COLLEGE 2007/33
ALUMNI NEWS<br />
Bill Ritchie MBE (1971, Law)<br />
OPPORTUNITIES ARE SCARCE in the Scottish highlands<br />
where Bill Ritchie has lived since 1974, but he has<br />
grabbed those that came along with characteristic zeal.<br />
He is a passionate advocate for communities that wish<br />
to control their own land resources and reverse the<br />
Highland Clearances, which emptied glens <strong>of</strong> people<br />
and created, in the words <strong>of</strong> the ecologist Frank Fraser<br />
Darling, ‘a wet desert’. However, while many cr<strong>of</strong>ts,<br />
including Bill’s, are squashed down on the rocky<br />
coastline, they retain a diversity <strong>of</strong> habitats including<br />
wetlands and woodland. Recognising the value <strong>of</strong> the<br />
woodlands in particular, Bill campaigned for cr<strong>of</strong>ters to<br />
have the legal right to manage woods on their land.<br />
The Cr<strong>of</strong>ter Forestry Act was passed in 1991 and as a<br />
Cr<strong>of</strong>ters Commissioner he worked to ensure real agency<br />
support for cr<strong>of</strong>ter forestry, which led to a major<br />
expansion <strong>of</strong> native woodland planting by cr<strong>of</strong>ters<br />
across the Highlands and Islands.<br />
In the early 1990s, Bill was the architect <strong>of</strong> a campaign<br />
that changed Scottish history. Fifteen or so years after<br />
he became a cr<strong>of</strong>ter, the owner <strong>of</strong> the cr<strong>of</strong>t land in<br />
Assynt, beef tycoon Edmund Vestey, sold 21,000 acres<br />
to a Swedish property speculator, who promptly went<br />
into receivership. The cr<strong>of</strong>ters formed the Assynt<br />
Cr<strong>of</strong>ters Trust, which set out to buy the land for<br />
themselves. Bill ran the campaign and, with the help <strong>of</strong><br />
journalists, orchestrated a groundswell <strong>of</strong> popular<br />
support for the cr<strong>of</strong>ters which not only helped them to<br />
raise the money they needed to buy the land, but also<br />
created a political imperative for land reform in<br />
Scotland. In 1993, the Assynt Cr<strong>of</strong>ters became the first<br />
Highland community to buy their land. By 1996 all<br />
political parties in Scotland were laying out land reform<br />
proposals. After devolution, and before the end <strong>of</strong> its<br />
first term in 2003, the new Scottish Parliament passed<br />
the Land Reform (Scotland) Act, which gave all cr<strong>of</strong>ting<br />
communities an absolute right, and all other rural<br />
communities conditional rights, to buy their land.<br />
Bill has travelled<br />
the globe,<br />
campaigning<br />
to defend<br />
indigenous<br />
peoples’ rights<br />
and supporting<br />
communities<br />
whose forest<br />
lands are under<br />
threat.<br />
34/BILL RITCHIE MBE
ALUMNI NEWS<br />
These provisions created a new opportunity for Bill<br />
when the Vestey family put more land on the market in<br />
2004. Bill went into overdrive and, by the first<br />
anniversary <strong>of</strong> the enactment <strong>of</strong> the new law, it had<br />
been tried and tested: a new community company,<br />
Assynt Foundation, had been formed, with Bill as vicechair<br />
and treasurer, £3 million had been raised and<br />
44,400 acres <strong>of</strong> land, including the iconic mountain <strong>of</strong><br />
Suilven, belonged to the people <strong>of</strong> Assynt.<br />
Bill has travelled the globe, campaigning to defend<br />
indigenous peoples’ rights and supporting communities<br />
whose forest lands are under threat. He was awarded<br />
an MBE in the New <strong>Year</strong>’s Honours List 2007 for<br />
‘Services to the Environment and Sustainable<br />
Development <strong>of</strong> the Highlands and Islands’.<br />
Upper right:<br />
Suilven in snow.<br />
Right: Hunters in Assynt.<br />
ST CATHERINE’S COLLEGE 2007/35
ALUMNI NEWS<br />
Sir John Elvidge (1969, English)<br />
AS PERMANENT SECRETARY to the Scottish Executive<br />
since 2003, I have the opportunity to be at the heart<br />
<strong>of</strong> one <strong>of</strong> the most fundamental changes currently<br />
taking place in the constitutional and political<br />
development <strong>of</strong> the United Kingdom. The role <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Permanent Secretary is a richly complex one anywhere<br />
in Britain’s central government structures – the factor<br />
which distinguishes my experience from that <strong>of</strong> other<br />
Permanent Secretaries is the constitutional and political<br />
context in which I work. Devolution in Scotland is, in<br />
these terms, still in its infancy. I think <strong>of</strong> my role as<br />
helping shape a new system <strong>of</strong> government.<br />
One feature <strong>of</strong> this new system <strong>of</strong> government is the<br />
absence <strong>of</strong> single-party majorities. The past eight years<br />
have enabled me to work within the UK’s only<br />
sustained experience <strong>of</strong> central government by<br />
coalition. My focus has been on ensuring that the<br />
organisation delivers against the formal Partnership<br />
Agreement which the coalition parties, Scottish Labour<br />
and Scottish Liberal Democrats, entered into at the<br />
beginning <strong>of</strong> each four year fixed-term Parliament, and<br />
on providing an equal service to both parties.<br />
requires my colleagues to evolve a very different model<br />
<strong>of</strong> the way in which legislation is developed to maximise<br />
support for it both within and beyond the Parliament.<br />
The new minority government is committed to further<br />
constitutional change, with the objective <strong>of</strong> restoring<br />
independence to Scotland. Revising the working<br />
relationships with the UK Government, which is opposed<br />
to this objective, is another fresh dimension to my<br />
working life, and is one which is both assisted, and made<br />
more complex, by my role as part <strong>of</strong> the collective<br />
leadership <strong>of</strong> the Civil Service <strong>of</strong> the United Kingdom.<br />
While participation in the top leadership team for the<br />
UK’s Civil Service and driving enhancements <strong>of</strong> the<br />
capacity <strong>of</strong> the nation’s civil servants form a distinct<br />
part <strong>of</strong> my responsibilities, these important aspects <strong>of</strong><br />
my job may be eclipsed by the new SNP Government’s<br />
desire that I lead the creation <strong>of</strong> a separate Scottish<br />
Civil Service. My role might appear characterised by<br />
instability, but I believe that, if government is one’s<br />
business, creating a new system <strong>of</strong> government is the<br />
highest form <strong>of</strong> pr<strong>of</strong>essional challenge.<br />
I believe that,<br />
if government<br />
is one’s<br />
business,<br />
creating a new<br />
system <strong>of</strong><br />
government is<br />
the highest<br />
form <strong>of</strong><br />
pr<strong>of</strong>essional<br />
challenge.<br />
Since May 2007 there has been a different model <strong>of</strong><br />
government, with the Scottish Nationalist Party<br />
governing with less than 40% <strong>of</strong> the Parliamentary<br />
seats. The Scottish Parliament has passed more than<br />
twenty pieces <strong>of</strong> primary legislation each year since<br />
Devolution, and the new make-up <strong>of</strong> the government<br />
36/SIR JOHN ELVIDGE
ALUMNI NEWS<br />
Jane Platt (1975, Modern Languages)<br />
JANE PLATT, CHIEF EXECUTIVE <strong>of</strong> National Savings and<br />
Investments (NS&I), has been fascinated by all aspects<br />
<strong>of</strong> the world <strong>of</strong> finance and investments since the days<br />
when, as a schoolgirl, she would spend evenings<br />
discussing investing with her father. Today she is one<br />
<strong>of</strong> the City’s most powerful women – the former Chief<br />
Executive <strong>of</strong> Barclays <strong>St</strong>ockbrokers, and a former<br />
Executive in Reuters, she now presides over an<br />
organisation that looks after £81 billion worth <strong>of</strong><br />
savings and investments on behalf <strong>of</strong> over 27 million<br />
customers. NS&I is one <strong>of</strong> the biggest financial service<br />
providers in Britain and Jane, who has been in her<br />
present post since September 2006, is keen to spread<br />
the message that National Savings and Investments, an<br />
Executive Agency <strong>of</strong> the Chancellor <strong>of</strong> the Exchequer, is<br />
not just about Premium Bonds, it is also about –<br />
amongst other things – inflation-beating savings and<br />
tax-efficient ISAs!<br />
When asked about the aims and challenges that face<br />
her during the next years <strong>of</strong> her tenure, Jane talks with<br />
animation <strong>of</strong> plans to consolidate and expand NS&I’s<br />
brand image through simplification and diversification<br />
<strong>of</strong> the products and services it <strong>of</strong>fers its customers. In<br />
addition to maintaining a pr<strong>of</strong>essional and dedicated<br />
level <strong>of</strong> customer care for existing investors, Jane hopes<br />
that NS&I will be able to widen its customer base<br />
through various sponsorship programmes. For example,<br />
NS&I is a long standing supporter <strong>of</strong> classical music and<br />
is the sole sponsor <strong>of</strong> the BBC Proms in the Park events<br />
which take place in September every year. Proms in the<br />
Park is widely regarded as a British institution and is a<br />
sell-out event which reaches well beyond NS&I’s<br />
traditional audience. Her current challenge is to put<br />
NS&I’s new strategy (which, launched on 1 April 2007,<br />
is all about improving customer experience, delivering a<br />
consistent level <strong>of</strong> finance to the Government and<br />
maximising sustainable pr<strong>of</strong>itability in the form <strong>of</strong><br />
improving value for the taxpayer) in place.<br />
Jane, who read Modern Languages at <strong>Catz</strong>, describes<br />
her role at NS&I as ‘huge and challenging’ and one<br />
that gives her the opportunity to work with a talented<br />
team <strong>of</strong> people in a unique environment. Having<br />
worked in the world <strong>of</strong> finance and investments for<br />
over twenty years, she has seen considerable changes<br />
in a workplace that was once a traditionally male<br />
preserve. While the number <strong>of</strong> women in control <strong>of</strong><br />
FTSE 100 companies is still very small, they now occupy<br />
a higher percentage <strong>of</strong> non- executive positions in such<br />
companies than ever before. The pace <strong>of</strong> change has<br />
been very fast and Jane believes that even greater<br />
assimilation and acceptance will occur as more women<br />
realise their potential and show what they can achieve.<br />
What others may chose to see as a ‘glass ceiling’, she<br />
prefers to view as an ‘enormous challenge’ – one that<br />
she herself is playing no small part in overcoming.<br />
...even greater<br />
assimilation<br />
and accept -<br />
ance will occur<br />
as more<br />
women realise<br />
their potential<br />
and show what<br />
they can<br />
achieve.<br />
ST CATHERINE’S COLLEGE 2006/37
ALUMNI NEWS<br />
Desmond Brown (1978, Visiting <strong>St</strong>udent)<br />
I CAME TO ST CATHERINE’S in 1978 as a visiting student<br />
from Tulane <strong>University</strong>, and spent an enjoyable year<br />
doing PPE with Wilfrid Knapp. On my return to the US I<br />
decided to go to medical school. There I had two loves,<br />
‘tropical medicine’ – a term used for diseases <strong>of</strong> the<br />
developing world – and orthopaedics, the treatment <strong>of</strong><br />
bone and joint problems. In the end I trained as an<br />
orthopaedic surgeon, specialising in paediatric<br />
orthopaedics.<br />
Two shadows fall over daily life in Cambodia: the<br />
glorious, distant past, when Cambodian kings built the<br />
fabulous temples <strong>of</strong> Angkor Wat, whose ruins lie a few<br />
kilometres from the hospital; and the recent, tragic past<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Khmer Rouge. Very few doctors survived the ‘Pol<br />
Pot time’, and Cambodia remains an impoverished<br />
country with few resources for health care.<br />
Above: Desmond Brown<br />
(second from right) and<br />
his surgical team.<br />
A few years ago I joined the medical faculty <strong>of</strong> Boston<br />
<strong>University</strong>. Our hospital is the ‘safety net’ for Boston,<br />
and many <strong>of</strong> our patients are recent immigrants<br />
without insurance. Caring for these patients revived my<br />
interest in tropical medicine and, through Health<br />
Volunteers Overseas, I arranged to visit the Angkor<br />
Hospital for Children in Siem Reap, Cambodia.<br />
38/DESMOND BROWN
ALUMNI NEWS<br />
Our small<br />
hospital is<br />
prospering,<br />
and is an<br />
important<br />
training centre<br />
for nurses and<br />
paediatricians<br />
in Cambodia.<br />
There is peace<br />
in Cambodia,<br />
and the hope<br />
<strong>of</strong> a better<br />
future.<br />
Right: A mother and her<br />
child in a Cambodian<br />
hospital.<br />
Left: the realities <strong>of</strong> life<br />
in Cambodia.<br />
The problems I saw in Cambodian children would<br />
challenge the best surgeons in Boston. There were<br />
chronic bone infections, children walking on untreated<br />
club feet, severe scoliosis from poliomyelitis, hips<br />
destroyed by tuberculosis, blast injuries from land<br />
mines and unexploded ordinance, and many broken<br />
bones and dislocations treated unsuccessfully by the<br />
kru khmer, the traditional healers <strong>of</strong> Cambodia. I also<br />
found dedicated and energetic young Cambodian<br />
doctors, grateful for the opportunity to learn.<br />
We worked in the single operating theatre, tried to<br />
avoid the mosquitoes, and did our best with the<br />
instruments that were available. The nurses and<br />
anaesthetists were excellent, and we carried out a busy<br />
schedule <strong>of</strong> procedures for three weeks. I learned, with<br />
difficulty, how to say no to children with problems I<br />
could not treat, with inadequate equipment, during a<br />
short stay. I received the gratitude <strong>of</strong> many parents and<br />
children, and I learned far more than I taught.<br />
I have returned to Cambodia twice since then, and plan<br />
to return annually as long as I am able. Our small<br />
hospital is prospering, and is an important training<br />
centre for nurses and paediatricians in Cambodia. There<br />
is peace in Cambodia, and the hope <strong>of</strong> a better future.<br />
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ALUMNI NEWS<br />
The historian and writer<br />
William Woodruff (1938, PPE)<br />
recalls his experiences <strong>of</strong> <strong>University</strong> life in Oxford in the 1930s<br />
In Oxford, I<br />
began a new<br />
life. I was not<br />
only free to<br />
think, I was<br />
expected to<br />
think...<br />
I FIRST SAW OXFORD in September 1936, when I<br />
was on my way to take up a scholarship at the<br />
Catholic Workers’ <strong>College</strong> in Walton Well Road,<br />
North Oxford. I wore a brand-new suit and<br />
squeaky shoes, which I had just obtained from a<br />
‘fence’ in Bow. The <strong>College</strong>, I discovered, was a<br />
working men’s hostel with a chapel in the<br />
basement and a pub next door. Father Leo O’Hea<br />
was the principal. Everybody in the Labour<br />
movement knew O’Hea. I had met him a year<br />
before at meetings in the East End. He was the<br />
most formidable person I had ever met. His<br />
authority seemed to crackle on his clothes.<br />
How a Lancashire boy came to be in London’s East End is<br />
a tale in itself. Workless in the North, I had migrated to<br />
London at the age <strong>of</strong> sixteen where I found work as a<br />
labourer in an iron foundry in Bow. The job was ill-paid<br />
and uncertain, but in the days <strong>of</strong> mass unemployment, it<br />
was a job.<br />
At the Catholic Workers’ <strong>College</strong> I joined a student body <strong>of</strong><br />
eight men and two women. Each <strong>of</strong> them had been<br />
awarded a scholarship to come to Oxford. I shared a room<br />
with Jimmy Foggerty, a miner from Durham. ‘The purpose<br />
<strong>of</strong> your being here,’ O’Hea told us on our first day, ‘is<br />
leadership. You are for me a spark in the clod. To help<br />
those from whom you sprang is your first commitment.<br />
You are being given a wonderful opportunity to improve<br />
your education. Make the most <strong>of</strong> it.’ I needed to make<br />
the most <strong>of</strong> it. My schooling – apart from some night<br />
school – had ended when I was thirteen.<br />
In Oxford, I began a new life. I was not only free to think, I<br />
was expected to think. I had come a long way from the<br />
steam and heat and crash <strong>of</strong> the foundry floor to listen to<br />
the best brains Oxford had to <strong>of</strong>fer. I thrived. I’d railed<br />
against privilege from soap boxes in the East End, now I<br />
was benefiting from it. Yet there was something very odd<br />
about our relations with the <strong>University</strong>. While giving us<br />
everything to help our education, the <strong>University</strong> disowned<br />
us, denying us the wearing <strong>of</strong> cap and gown. We workingclass<br />
students <strong>of</strong>ten had our legitimacy challenged by<br />
college servants. O’Hea’s advice was to forget the<br />
legitimacy argument and take advantage <strong>of</strong> what the<br />
<strong>University</strong> had to <strong>of</strong>fer. ‘It’s a beginning,’ he said.<br />
In 1938 I sat for the <strong>University</strong>’s Diploma in Economics<br />
and Political Science. I emerged with distinction.<br />
Encouraged by tutors, I petitioned the <strong>University</strong> to allow<br />
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ALUMNI NEWS<br />
me to proceed to a degree in Modern Greats. The<br />
And so the months came and went while I struggled with<br />
Education Department <strong>of</strong> the LCC (London County Council) one subject after another. I happened to be with Dean<br />
had promised to create a senior adult scholarship,<br />
Kendrick when we learned that I had finally met the<br />
provided the <strong>University</strong> would accept me. The <strong>University</strong> <strong>University</strong>’s demands. ‘Well, done, Woodruff,’ he<br />
did. It waived the entrance examination, Responsions, congratulated me, ‘very well done. I was sure you’d come<br />
however, it insisted that I should take Pass Moderations at a cropper. That’s what I told the Master. Now it’s on to<br />
the end <strong>of</strong> my first year. But how could I possibly pass your degree. Nothing to stop you.’<br />
examinations that (among other papers) included an<br />
ancient and a modern language?<br />
Kendrick was far too wise not to realise that in 1938-<br />
1939 we were all living through one political crisis<br />
Having joined <strong>St</strong> Catherine’s in <strong>St</strong> Aldates, I turned to after another. Although I had spent my summers<br />
Dean W G Kendrick for help. While he didn’t think much <strong>of</strong> studying in Belgium and Germany, I didn’t believe that<br />
my chances, he advised me to take French and Political the world would be set on fire again. I had not allowed<br />
Economy in Hilary Term, and<br />
Latin, Constitutional Law and<br />
History in Trinity. If he thought<br />
that I was attempting the<br />
impossible, he never said so. I<br />
took pleasure in the fact that I<br />
was now a legitimate<br />
undergraduate and that the<br />
LCC stood behind me.<br />
...I had come a long way from<br />
the steam and heat and<br />
crash <strong>of</strong> the foundry floor<br />
to listen to the best brains<br />
Oxford had to <strong>of</strong>fer.<br />
for the fanaticism <strong>of</strong> Hitler.<br />
In June 1940 I volunteered<br />
for national service. I<br />
fought in North Africa, Italy<br />
and on the Anzio<br />
beachhead. My ambition to<br />
graduate from Oxford had to<br />
be put aside. For me it was a<br />
long war. I next saw Oxford<br />
in 1946.<br />
Wilfred Kendrew was my Tutor in Latin. Help with French<br />
came from a Miss Hugo, who was almost blind. Sixty-ish, William Woodruff is an Emeritus Graduate Research<br />
she lived with her brother in a rambling house beyond Fellow at the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Florida in Gainseville. After the<br />
Magdalen Bridge. As a teacher <strong>of</strong> French, she was<br />
end <strong>of</strong> the Second World War, his academic career took<br />
devastating. Daily, I felt the lashing <strong>of</strong> her Gallic tongue. If him to Harvard, Princeton and the universities <strong>of</strong> Illinois,<br />
I did well, she would clap. If I did very well, she would give Melbourne and Florida. In addition to his academic work,<br />
me a cup <strong>of</strong> tea. (I didn’t dare do badly.) She was thrilled he is the author <strong>of</strong> several novels and two<br />
with the challenge the <strong>University</strong> had set me. She kept at internationally-acclaimed autobiographical works The<br />
me so much that I wondered how I was going to pay her. Road to Nab End and Beyond Nab End.<br />
‘It has all been arranged,’ she assured me.<br />
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ALUMNI NEWS<br />
News in brief<br />
Simon Crisp (1972, Modern Languages)<br />
Simon Crisp is co-editor <strong>of</strong> The Gospel <strong>of</strong> John in the<br />
Byzantine Tradition (Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft: 2007)<br />
the first edition <strong>of</strong> any part <strong>of</strong> the Greek New<br />
Testament to be produced entirely by electronic means.<br />
Helen Battersby (née White) (1980, Modern<br />
Languages)<br />
Helen Battersby is still living on the South Coast with<br />
Mike and her two children. Having obtained distinctions<br />
in coaching qualifications, she is now working as an<br />
Executive Performance Coach with InsideOut®<br />
(www.insideout.biz). She would love to hear from any<br />
old friends, and can be contacted by emailing<br />
helenbattersby@insideout.biz.<br />
Andrew McNeil (1961, Modern History)<br />
Andrew McNeil retired as the Head <strong>of</strong> Parliamentary and<br />
Media Affairs at the Chamber <strong>of</strong> Shipping, the trade<br />
association for UK ship-owners, in 2002. Since then, he<br />
has acted as a volunteer at the East Finchley Advice<br />
Service and, since 2004, has been Chair <strong>of</strong> the Finchley &<br />
Golders Green Constituency Labour Party. In 2006 he was<br />
elected a Councillor for East Finchley in the London<br />
Borough <strong>of</strong> Barnet, and he is also a Local Authority<br />
Governor <strong>of</strong> Christ’s <strong>College</strong> Finchley (a boys’<br />
comprehensive), and Trustee <strong>of</strong> Barnet Carers’ Centre. He<br />
contributes a weekly ‘blog’ to the Hendon Times website<br />
and remains very close to his son and daughter, Rupert<br />
and Emma, both <strong>of</strong> whom are <strong>St</strong> Catherine’s alumni.<br />
Shaun Johnson (1982, Social <strong>St</strong>udies)<br />
Shaun Johnson, the founding Chief Executive <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Mandela Rhodes Foundation in Cape Town, has won a<br />
series <strong>of</strong> awards for his debut novel, The Native<br />
Commissioner (Penguin: 2006). The novel, which tells<br />
the story <strong>of</strong> Sam Jameson’s attempt to piece together<br />
the life <strong>of</strong> the father he never really knew – the<br />
Commissioner <strong>of</strong> the novel’s title and a kind and<br />
sensitive man brought to despair by the reality <strong>of</strong><br />
apartheid in 1950s South Africa – has been awarded<br />
the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize 2007: Best Book in<br />
Africa. The book has also received the M-Net Literary<br />
Award 2007 for English, and the Nielsen Booksellers’<br />
Choice Award 2007.<br />
Andrew Coats (1976, Physiological Sciences)<br />
In 2006, Andrew Coats was appointed Deputy Vice-<br />
Chancellor <strong>of</strong> the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Sydney.<br />
David Rudkin (1957, Literæ Humaniores)<br />
David Rudkin has been appointed to an Honorary<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essorship at the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Wales. The past<br />
twelve months have also seen the publication <strong>of</strong> his<br />
eleventh published title, a monograph for the British<br />
Film Institute on the 1932 Carl Dreyer film Vampyr (Film<br />
Classics Series: 2005).<br />
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ALUMNI NEWS<br />
Paul Brooks (1985, Physics)<br />
Following fifteen years working at the UK’s Defence<br />
Research Agency – now known as QinetiQ – Paul<br />
Brooks has decided to try working for a smaller<br />
company and is now director <strong>of</strong> business development<br />
and sales for Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL), the<br />
world’s leading provider <strong>of</strong> small satellite missions. This<br />
follows leading two particular successes in QinetiQ –<br />
the TopSat remote sensing spacecraft and the Zephyr<br />
Solar Powered UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle). Paul and<br />
Sue (<strong>University</strong>, 1985) now have two children, Abi, ten,<br />
and James, six.<br />
William Marshall (1963, Biochemistry)<br />
Forty years after graduating in Biochemistry (under<br />
Lloyd <strong>St</strong>ocken’s tutelage), William Marshall is still<br />
working in the discipline, and has just signed <strong>of</strong>f the<br />
revisions for new editions <strong>of</strong> two books on clinical<br />
biochemistry and metabolic medicine. He spent most <strong>of</strong><br />
his career at King’s <strong>College</strong> Hospital and King’s <strong>College</strong>,<br />
London, retiring as Reader in Clinical Biochemistry. His<br />
interest in medical education led to many appointments<br />
as an external examiner, and he has worked with <strong>Catz</strong><br />
Fellow Ashok Handa on the Graduate Entry Medicine<br />
course. Since leaving King’s, he has been working parttime<br />
as a consultant and Clinical Director <strong>of</strong> Pathology<br />
at the London Clinic, a leading London independent<br />
hospital, and was recently elected Honorary Secretary<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Institute <strong>of</strong> Biology.<br />
Richard Cox (1951, English)<br />
Richard Cox was re-elected as a member <strong>of</strong> the <strong>St</strong>ates<br />
(Parliament) <strong>of</strong> Alderney in November 2006 and<br />
continues as a member <strong>of</strong> the Guernsey Overseas Aid<br />
Commission. In July 2007 his twelfth novel, Island <strong>of</strong><br />
Ghosts, was published.<br />
David Roughley (1978, Engineering Science)<br />
David Roughley is now CEO <strong>of</strong> the Forum <strong>of</strong> Private<br />
Business (FPB) in Knutsford, Cheshire, an institution<br />
which has just celebrated its thirtieth birthday.<br />
Kate Hughes (née Noble) (1992, Geography) and<br />
Bernard Hughes (1992, Music)<br />
On 25 September 2007, Matilda Gertrude, a sister for<br />
Pen, was born to Kate and Bernard Hughes.<br />
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ALUMNI NEWS<br />
Dev Lahiri (1975, Modern History)<br />
Dev Lahiri is the second person in the world – and the<br />
first in India – on whom surgeons have performed a<br />
pioneering operation in which an ICD (Implantable<br />
Cardioverter Defibrillator) was implanted in an area below<br />
the rib cage through an incision made in the abdomen.<br />
Having survived several near-death experiences, he plans<br />
to share his experience <strong>of</strong> battling with a life-threatening<br />
heart condition with cardiac patients across the globe.<br />
Speaking in The Times <strong>of</strong> India, Dev Lahiri – who is now<br />
back at work as Principal <strong>of</strong> Welhams’ Boys School,<br />
Dehradun, and has even resumed horse-riding – shared<br />
his message that sufferers like him should never lose<br />
hope, ‘I’d just like to say to all out there who might be<br />
losing hope, it’s only just begun.”<br />
Tom Leach (1997, Modern Languages)<br />
Tom Leach’s company has now expanded throughout<br />
Poland, beyond Kraków to Warsaw, Poznan, Gdansk,<br />
Katowice, Lódz, Wroclaw and Torun, providing<br />
consultancy and advisory services for foreign investors<br />
in the Polish Real Estate Market. Any <strong>Catz</strong> alumni who<br />
are planning to visit Poland are welcome to get in<br />
touch with Tom via his company website,<br />
www.leachandlang.com.<br />
Charles Green (1998, Visiting <strong>St</strong>udent)<br />
Charles Green is now working as a freelance pro<strong>of</strong>reader,<br />
writer and editor. His article on ‘The Science <strong>of</strong><br />
Ergonomics’ appeared in What’s Up? Annapolis and he<br />
recently presented a paper on ‘Classical Greek and<br />
Italian elements <strong>of</strong> Prometheus Unbound’ for the 2007<br />
Hawaii International Conference on Arts and<br />
Humanities.<br />
David Mabberley (1967, Botany)<br />
On 2 January 2007 the civil-partnership ceremony <strong>of</strong><br />
David Mabberley and Andrew Drummond took place at<br />
the British Consulate General in Sydney. The witnesses<br />
were David’s children, Laura and Marcus.<br />
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ALUMNI NEWS<br />
Boston Reunion<br />
In early October, more than thirty <strong>Catz</strong> alumni –<br />
representing cohorts from Society days to the<br />
twenty-first century – gathered for cocktails and<br />
dinner at Boston’s charming and idiosyncratic Club <strong>of</strong><br />
Odd Volumes. In addition to catching up with old<br />
friends and making new ones, those present had the<br />
opportunity to hear the latest news from <strong>St</strong><br />
Catherine’s from the Master, Roger Ainsworth, and<br />
Emeritus Fellow Wilfrid Knapp.<br />
The next opportunity for alumni living in America to<br />
come together will be at a dinner and reception in<br />
New York in April. This will coincide with the<br />
<strong>University</strong>’s North American Reunion, which is taking<br />
place on 4 and 5 April 2008. For more details, please<br />
check the <strong>College</strong>’s website, or contact a member <strong>of</strong><br />
the Development Office.<br />
<strong>Catz</strong> alumni enjoying a<br />
reception at the Club <strong>of</strong><br />
Odd Volumes in Boston.<br />
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Development<br />
Office<br />
Contact details:<br />
Guy Lawrenson<br />
Development Officer<br />
Telephone: 01865 281585<br />
Fax: 01865 271705<br />
Email: Guy.Lawrenson@stcatz.ox.ac.uk<br />
Franca Potts<br />
Development Officer<br />
Telephone: 01865 281596<br />
Fax: 01865 271705<br />
Email: Franca.Potts@stcatz.ox.ac.uk<br />
Bethan Williams<br />
Publications Officer<br />
Telephone: 01865 271760<br />
Email: Bethan.Williams@stcatz.ox.ac.uk<br />
Megan Parry<br />
Master’s PA<br />
Telephone: 01865 271762<br />
Email: Megan.Parry@stcatz.ox.ac.uk<br />
Please visit www.stcatz.ox.ac.uk<br />
to update your contact details.<br />
The <strong>College</strong> time capsule<br />
The <strong>College</strong> Enigmatist <strong>of</strong>fers the next clue (in a series <strong>of</strong> fifty) to the contents <strong>of</strong> the time capsule<br />
buried under <strong>St</strong> Catherine’s <strong>College</strong>:<br />
A good hiding…<br />
Previous clues:<br />
1. Two thirds <strong>of</strong> my number is one and a half times what I am.<br />
2. Pooh in 1927, true <strong>of</strong> us today?<br />
3. Do they belong to longevity?<br />
4. The first 6000 flowers<br />
<strong>College</strong> events 2008<br />
Thursday 14 February<br />
Bullock event<br />
Wednesday 20 February<br />
Wallace Watson Award lectures<br />
Thursday 21 February<br />
Foundation Scholars Drinks<br />
Wednesday 27 February to Saturday 1 March Torpids<br />
Saturday 1 March<br />
Degree day<br />
Saturday 8 March<br />
Lunch for first-year students and their parents<br />
Saturday 15 March<br />
PPE dinner<br />
Saturday 29 March<br />
Oxford v Cambridge boat race<br />
Friday 4 April to Saturday 5 April<br />
New York reunion<br />
Friday 11 April<br />
Inter-collegiate golf tournament<br />
Thursday 24 April<br />
Foundation Scholars dinner<br />
Monday 12 May<br />
London party at the RAF Club, Piccadilly<br />
Saturday 17 May<br />
Degree day<br />
Wednesday 21 May to Saturday 24 May Eights week<br />
Saturday 7 June<br />
Degree day<br />
Saturday 28 June Gaudy for matriculands 1996-2002<br />
Saturday 14 June<br />
Garden party for second year students<br />
and their parents<br />
Saturday 12 July<br />
Degree day<br />
Friday 19 September to Sunday 21 September Oxford alumni weekend<br />
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ALUMNI NEWS<br />
London Party 2008 – RAF Club,<br />
Piccadilly<br />
This year the London Party will take place at the RAF Club in Piccadilly. We will be<br />
holding a smart, evening drinks reception for all our London alumni and any<br />
other alumni who would like to attend. Invitations will only be sent out to<br />
those who live in the London area. If you live outside this area, but would still<br />
like to attend this event, please contact the Development Office directly.<br />
If you have any enquiries regarding events or would like to attend any<br />
<strong>of</strong> the events listed, please contact Franca Potts in the Development<br />
Office. For a regularly updated list <strong>of</strong> forthcoming events, please<br />
go to www.stcatz.ox.ac.uk.<br />
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CATZ FELLOWS<br />
Peter Franklin<br />
Tutor in Music, Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> Music,<br />
on Seeing Through Music<br />
The Elgar story<br />
is certainly<br />
relevant to my<br />
own work on<br />
latenineteenthcentury<br />
symphonies<br />
and operas...<br />
MUSICOLOGY IS AN ILL-FATED DISCIPLINE – perhaps an odd thing to say when it can inspire involuntary<br />
rapture in strangers. ‘How lovely!’, some exclaim, as eyes close upon a vision <strong>of</strong> Mozart and angelic choirs.<br />
One hates to tell them that its practice and practitioners can be as down-to-earth as those <strong>of</strong> supposedly<br />
more worldly fields, or that one’s day is spent doing the thousand things that deprive academics <strong>of</strong> quality<br />
time for communing with the celestial spheres. There is, however, rarely a chance to respond before the<br />
question follows, ‘What do you play?’ Thinking <strong>of</strong> Elgar, who sold his violin in order to buy a billiard-table<br />
(less effete and more gentlemanly, he thought), a silly answer comes to mind. But my purpose is to try to<br />
explain what musicologists do do… a glimpse <strong>of</strong> my own recent preoccupations must suffice.<br />
Musicians’ anxieties about appearing too ‘musical’ in overtaken by such things at the end <strong>of</strong> his life in the<br />
Britain in the early twentieth century, open up the 1930s – for good reasons as well as bad.<br />
wider issue <strong>of</strong> music as a complex form <strong>of</strong> cultural<br />
practice whose study will involve listening, but also as The modernist take-over spawned tendentious<br />
much reading and historical research as other<br />
evolutionary histories that replaced confusing<br />
Humanities subjects (that performance and<br />
simultaneity with musical styles succeeding one<br />
composition also occupy undergraduate Music students another in an inevitable march <strong>of</strong> historical ‘progress’.<br />
is what can make them seem unduly sensitive while Wagner’s Tristan becomes a ‘precursor’ <strong>of</strong> atonality<br />
actually multi-tasking in multi-locations). The Elgar and Gustav Mahler a ‘forerunner’ <strong>of</strong> Schoenberg. The<br />
story is certainly relevant to my own work on latenineteenth-century<br />
symphonies and operas and their and Mahler (and Elgar, come to that) raises the spectre<br />
fact that audiences have gone on listening to Wagner<br />
eclipse by more abstruse forms <strong>of</strong> modernism – the <strong>of</strong> irrelevant or even pernicious popularity, and the<br />
kind that involved maths and mysticism but also<br />
slippery slope to mass culture in whose seductively<br />
billiard-room-hostile abstraction and concert-disrupting dangerous realm my more recent objects <strong>of</strong> study<br />
dissonance. Elgar’s lush tonal language seemed<br />
reside: Hollywood movies and their music. Like much<br />
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popular culture, these have simply been air-brushed<br />
out <strong>of</strong> standard histories <strong>of</strong> ‘twentieth-century music’.<br />
Hollywood movies, we are told, are not serious, although<br />
they may be seriously bad: manipulative, titillating,<br />
mindless escapism, which is possibly not so far from<br />
where my Mozart-and-angels types had music (swap<br />
manipulation for elevation?). This revealing paradox makes<br />
it worth probing into what it was that a post-romantic<br />
version <strong>of</strong> ‘classical music’ was stooping to in 1930s films<br />
like King Kong or Gone with the Wind (I own up to having<br />
recently published on both). Perhaps it was something not<br />
so many worlds away from what Mahler and Elgar, and<br />
even Wagner, were up to (the way in which ‘pure’ or socalled<br />
‘absolute’ music was widely described in protocinematically<br />
visual terms is a study in its own right). We<br />
are not dealing simply with a neat continuation <strong>of</strong> tonal<br />
symphonic music in Hollywood that might allow us to<br />
airbrush out the angry attacks <strong>of</strong> musical modernism in<br />
the 1930s and ’40s. But where film studies used to avoid<br />
music, the narrative role <strong>of</strong> music in mass-entertainment<br />
cinema is increasingly under interdisciplinary scrutiny. Of<br />
interest to ‘New Musicology’ (American feminists, cultural<br />
critics and post-structuralists coined that variously<br />
mocking or celebratory term) is the way in which trashy<br />
Hollywood movies can sometimes figure music rather as<br />
they figure women: as Beauty, sometimes sentimentally<br />
sweet, but more <strong>of</strong>ten in troublesome and transgressive<br />
moods that inspire violence.<br />
S<strong>of</strong>t-focus heroines’ association with ‘love themes’<br />
provide too pat an image <strong>of</strong> Hollywood women’s music.<br />
Think <strong>of</strong> Bette Davis shooting her composer-lover in<br />
Hollywood<br />
movies, we are<br />
told, are not<br />
serious,<br />
although they<br />
may be<br />
seriously bad:<br />
manipulative,<br />
titillating,<br />
mindless<br />
escapism,<br />
which is<br />
possibly not so<br />
far from where<br />
my Mozartand-angels<br />
types had<br />
music.<br />
Deception (scored by Korngold in 1947); <strong>of</strong> Joan<br />
Crawford in Humoresque (also 1947) walking into the<br />
sea, to her death, as her ‘art’-devoted violinist lover<br />
plays the Liebestod on the radio; or <strong>of</strong> innocent Joan<br />
Fontaine walking into Rebecca’s bedroom in Hitchcock’s<br />
version <strong>of</strong> the du Maurier novel. That was a bedroom<br />
to die for (and perhaps in), and awash with the dead<br />
Rebecca’s music <strong>of</strong> openly transgressive passion (eerily<br />
lit by an electronic Novachord). But Hollywood did not<br />
only do women. Rebecca is du Maurier’s femme fatale<br />
as born <strong>of</strong> a certain kind <strong>of</strong> male fantasy, coloured by<br />
late nineteenth-century obsessions and hang-ups.<br />
These also gave birth to those operatic women typically<br />
destined for horrible ends. Almost as horrible as that <strong>of</strong><br />
Marion Crane in Psycho, whose early demise (well, she<br />
had stolen the money hadn’t she?) left the rest <strong>of</strong><br />
Hitchcock’s 1960 horror masterpiece to her crazy killer<br />
Norman Bates, whose inner music was appropriately<br />
dark, dissonant and modernist.<br />
The book that has emerged from recent conference<br />
papers, some read in Minneapolis and New York, will, I<br />
hope, be called Seeing Through Music. To do that with<br />
even-handed sympathy, both historical and cultural, is<br />
the aim. So let me apologise to the Mozartians, the<br />
angelic and the mathematical (mystical or otherwise)<br />
and return to finalists’ essays and arrangements in the<br />
Music House. The arrival <strong>of</strong> a second grand piano,<br />
thanks to opera singer Heather Harper’s donation, has<br />
certainly left no room for a billiard table. Just one or<br />
two incongruous bits <strong>of</strong> ecclesiastical furniture to<br />
relocate and Alan Bullock, whose bust still lurks behind<br />
it all, might be able to see his Mozart in a new light…<br />
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Gaia Scerif, Tutor in Psychology<br />
Understanding the development <strong>of</strong> attentional difficulties<br />
across a variety <strong>of</strong> developmental disorders<br />
GAIA SCERIF BECAME increasingly interested in<br />
the cognitive and neural processes underlying the<br />
development <strong>of</strong> attention – and those underlying<br />
attentional difficulties – when she read for a PhD<br />
at the Institute <strong>of</strong> Child Health, <strong>University</strong> <strong>College</strong><br />
London. After a spell as a Visiting Fellow at the<br />
Sackler Institute <strong>of</strong> Developmental<br />
Psychobiology, Cornell <strong>University</strong>, and as a<br />
Lecturer in the School <strong>of</strong> Psychology at the<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Nottingham, she came to <strong>St</strong><br />
Catherine’s in October 2006 as a Tutor in<br />
Psychology.<br />
In the first decade <strong>of</strong> the new millennium, common<br />
questions have brought together researchers from<br />
such diverse fields as molecular genetics,<br />
neuroscience and cognitive psychology. Can the<br />
function <strong>of</strong> specific genes be linked to distinct<br />
cognitive processes? What are the ethical and<br />
practical implications <strong>of</strong> newly emerging<br />
relationships between genes and cognition? Within<br />
this context, disorders <strong>of</strong> known genetic origin have<br />
provided a unique window into the role played by<br />
the implicated genes in affected cognitive outcomes.<br />
However, it is becoming increasingly clear that, even<br />
in disorders associated with a single gene, mapping<br />
between genes and cognition needs to consider<br />
how these relationships unfold over time – weaker<br />
cognitive functions in adults are not necessarily<br />
problematic for younger individuals with the same<br />
genetic disorder, and vice versa. It is, therefore,<br />
crucial to chart increasing difficulties or<br />
developmental improvements from very early in life.<br />
This holds both from a scientific point <strong>of</strong> view, as a<br />
way <strong>of</strong> unfolding the complexities <strong>of</strong> gene-cognition<br />
relationships, and, in much more applied terms, as a<br />
route to earlier and more effective intervention<br />
programmes.<br />
Following this broad framework, I investigate<br />
cognitive development in young children with<br />
fragile X syndrome, a monogenic disorder that is<br />
the most common cause <strong>of</strong> inherited learning<br />
difficulties. Adults and school children with fragile<br />
X syndrome have striking difficulties with<br />
inattention and hyperactivity. Increasing rates <strong>of</strong><br />
early diagnosis mean that it has become crucial to<br />
understand the developmental trajectories <strong>of</strong><br />
attention early in life in order to identify when and<br />
what interventions would be most beneficial, and<br />
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Comparing<br />
young children<br />
with super -<br />
ficially similar<br />
global<br />
difficulties in<br />
attention will,<br />
hopefully, shed<br />
more light on<br />
the unique<br />
needs <strong>of</strong> each<br />
group.<br />
to understand the consequences <strong>of</strong> impairments in<br />
auditory and visual attention for complex<br />
multimodal environments like the classroom. A<br />
four-year longitudinal project supported by the<br />
Wellcome Trust funds a postdoctoral and a<br />
graduate researcher (Justin Cowan and Victoria<br />
Cole) and sees us working in collaboration with<br />
researchers based in London and at McGill<br />
<strong>University</strong>. We will be charting the developmental<br />
trajectories <strong>of</strong> attention in children with fragile X<br />
syndrome and in those who develop typically.<br />
While difficulties with attention are striking in<br />
individuals with fragile X syndrome, children and<br />
adults with many other developmental disorders<br />
also struggle due to hyperactivity and inattention.<br />
The Economic and Social Research Council, the<br />
Williams Syndrome Foundation, the Down<br />
Syndrome Educational Trust and the Fragile X<br />
Society, have awarded a DPhil studentship which<br />
we aim to use to help assess the influence <strong>of</strong><br />
attentional difficulties or strengths on basic literacy<br />
and numeracy skills, following toddlers and young<br />
children over a three year period, as they move<br />
through pre-school and primary school. Comparing<br />
young children with superficially similar global<br />
difficulties in attention will, hopefully, shed more<br />
light on the unique needs <strong>of</strong> each group. This<br />
project is lead by a new DPhil student, Ann <strong>St</strong>eele,<br />
who is also based at <strong>St</strong> Catherine’s, and who will<br />
be visiting families and children at home and<br />
school to collect information on attention, basic<br />
numeracy and literacy.<br />
Despite their relatively low prevalence, Down<br />
syndrome, fragile X syndrome and Williams<br />
syndrome have attracted much interest because <strong>of</strong><br />
their unusual pr<strong>of</strong>iles <strong>of</strong> strengths and weaknesses.<br />
In contrast, sex chromosomal trisomies are<br />
extremely frequent, affecting approximately 1 in<br />
1000 female and 1 in 500 male births. However,<br />
the cognitive strengths and weaknesses associated<br />
with carrying an additional sex chromosome remain<br />
elusive. An exciting new project funded by BDF<br />
Newlife, the UK’s leading child health and research<br />
charity, which supports children with chromosomal<br />
abnormalities, brings together colleagues in<br />
developmental psychology and clinical genetics<br />
from across the country. By quantifying the<br />
prevalence, nature and range <strong>of</strong> specific learning<br />
and adaptive difficulties in children and adolescents<br />
with an additional sex chromosome, we aim to<br />
inform pre-natal counselling on outcomes, and<br />
signpost the way to early and appropriately<br />
targeted interventions for young children at risk <strong>of</strong><br />
developmental difficulties.<br />
Developmental disorders <strong>of</strong> known genetic origin<br />
continue to provide insights into relationships<br />
between genes and cognition, but they have also<br />
revealed their complexity. A key step in<br />
understanding how these two levels <strong>of</strong> description<br />
relate to each other involves exploring the<br />
intermediate level <strong>of</strong> description, systems<br />
neuroscience. Support from the John Fell OUP<br />
Research Fund will help a postdoctoral researcher,<br />
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Duncan Astle, study the neural correlates <strong>of</strong><br />
attention development. Duncan will combine two<br />
child-friendly and non-invasive techniques that can<br />
uncover the temporal dynamics <strong>of</strong> attentional<br />
processes, electroencephalography (EEG) and<br />
magnetoencephalography (MEG), at the new<br />
Oxford Neurodevelopmental Magneto -<br />
encephalography Unit based at the Warneford<br />
Hospital. These techniques will allow us to gather<br />
information about the processes underlying<br />
cognitive control in typically and atypically<br />
developing children, integrating cognitive, systems<br />
neuroscience and genetics. This remains a daunting<br />
enterprise, but one that is increasingly within<br />
reach, as we uncover the molecular and cellular<br />
processes involved in systems cognitive<br />
neuroscience, and as cognitive processes can be<br />
studied at earlier and earlier ages, and throughout<br />
the course <strong>of</strong> development.<br />
Ceri Peach<br />
Tutor in Geography, Pr<strong>of</strong>essor<br />
<strong>of</strong> Social Geography<br />
I WAS ONLY TWENTY SIX WHEN, IN 1965, I was<br />
appointed Lecturer in Geography at <strong>St</strong> Catherine’s – a<br />
post that I held jointly with a lectureship at Keble and a<br />
Faculty Lectureship in the <strong>University</strong>. Having previously<br />
been an undergraduate and graduate student at<br />
Merton, I found the move from the oldest to the<br />
newest college to be liberating. When I arrived, <strong>Catz</strong><br />
was still being built, the yew hedges in the quad were<br />
only knee-high, the Fellows were newly appointed and<br />
the drive was underway to make the <strong>College</strong> great.<br />
<strong>Catz</strong> took four Geographers a year in those days –<br />
today we take between ten and twelve! In 1990 I was<br />
given a personal Chair by the <strong>University</strong> and the<br />
<strong>College</strong> appointed its second Fellow in Geography.<br />
Teaching and research at <strong>St</strong> Catherine’s, and in the<br />
<strong>University</strong>, has been a wonderfully fulfilling life’s work,<br />
one where you never step in the same river twice –<br />
students change and one’s subject undergoes a<br />
paradigmatic shift.<br />
My main field <strong>of</strong> research is migration and the<br />
segregation <strong>of</strong> minority ethnic and religious groups in<br />
Britain, America and Western Europe. A sabbatical leave<br />
spent in the Demography Department at the Australian<br />
National <strong>University</strong> transformed my understanding <strong>of</strong><br />
the relationship between the spatial patterns <strong>of</strong><br />
I disproved the<br />
‘triple meltingpot<br />
theory’ <strong>of</strong><br />
American<br />
assimilation<br />
which, based<br />
on data<br />
collected in<br />
New Haven,<br />
argued that<br />
while national<br />
ethnic identity<br />
in America<br />
would<br />
dissolve...<br />
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residential segregation and led me to investigate ethnic<br />
intermarriage as an index <strong>of</strong> social interaction. In my<br />
next sabbatical, at Yale, I disproved the ‘triple meltingpot<br />
theory’ <strong>of</strong> American assimilation which, based on<br />
data collected in New Haven, argued that while national<br />
ethnic identity in America would dissolve, it would do so<br />
within maintained religious boundaries: Catholic,<br />
Protestant and Jewish. My own research proved that,<br />
while the so-called ‘Protestant pot’ seemed plausible, a<br />
‘Catholic pot’ seemed rather unlikely. As the Irish were<br />
residentially mixed with the British, Scandinavians and<br />
Germans, and separated from the Poles and Italians,<br />
this suggested an ‘old European’ rather than a<br />
‘Protestant’ melting pot. There was, in fact, a white<br />
melting pot which began with the ‘old’ Europeans and<br />
into which Poles, Italians and, to an extent, Jewish<br />
populations, were added as time went on.<br />
a golden star – he never missed a tutorial, never failed<br />
to produce an essay, took a good degree and<br />
demonstrated that athletes at a high level are more<br />
conscious <strong>of</strong> time planning, and more efficient in<br />
meeting commitments, than many others with far less<br />
pressure on them.<br />
As the incumbent <strong>of</strong> several <strong>College</strong> Offices I have been<br />
exposed to new and unexpected challenges. As<br />
Domestic Bursar, I negotiated with Craig Klafter and the<br />
then JCR President, Peter Mandelson, over charges. It<br />
was during my tenure as Senior Tutor that women were<br />
first admitted to the <strong>College</strong>. As Finance Bursar, I<br />
wrestled with the bursars <strong>of</strong> other <strong>College</strong>s to justify<br />
our fee level and later, when Acting Master, I fought for<br />
the <strong>University</strong>’s support <strong>of</strong> the <strong>College</strong>’s Kobe Institute<br />
in Japan.<br />
Later research projects involved focusing on housing<br />
tenure and segregation in Britain and the United<br />
<strong>St</strong>ates. Most recently I have been working on<br />
continuing issues <strong>of</strong> segregation in Britain, and have<br />
also begun to examine the growth <strong>of</strong> the Muslim<br />
population in Europe (and particularly in Britain). This<br />
has developed into a large scale study <strong>of</strong> the impact <strong>of</strong><br />
Muslim mosques, Sikh temples and Hindu mandirs on<br />
the cultural landscape <strong>of</strong> Britain, which I will continue<br />
to work on in my retirement.<br />
Away from my research, I have maintained a keen<br />
interest in rowing. <strong>Catz</strong> has had a strong stream <strong>of</strong><br />
oarsmen – many <strong>of</strong> whom I have had the privilege to<br />
teach. Sir Matthew Pinsent (Geography, 1989) remains<br />
My career has been an exciting and a full one. I am<br />
grateful for the opportunities it has <strong>of</strong>fered me to<br />
teach – and be taught by – my students, and also for<br />
the fellowship <strong>of</strong> my colleagues.<br />
Away from my research, I have<br />
maintained a keen interest in<br />
rowing. <strong>Catz</strong> has had a strong<br />
stream <strong>of</strong> oarsmen – many <strong>of</strong><br />
whom I have had the privilege to<br />
teach...<br />
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Awaiting new pic on<br />
monday<br />
IN HIS TEACHING CERI combined humanity and a keen<br />
sense <strong>of</strong> humour with an absolute desire to push the<br />
minds <strong>of</strong> those he taught. My abiding memory <strong>of</strong> Ceri's<br />
teaching was his demonstration <strong>of</strong> the 'walk' <strong>of</strong> young<br />
men in Harlem in front <strong>of</strong> a hundred captivated firstyear<br />
students as yet unfamiliar with both Oxford<br />
pr<strong>of</strong>essors and the American ghetto. I feel privileged to<br />
have been taught by Ceri. He epitomises everything<br />
that is right about the Oxford tutorial system in which<br />
he believes so passionately.<br />
Matthew D’Arcy (2000, Geography)<br />
MY MEMORIES OF PROFESSOR CERI PEACH are fond,<br />
numerous and rich. He was always keen to know each<br />
one <strong>of</strong> his students as an individual, to emphasise the<br />
fact that life continues beyond work, and was humble<br />
in his desire to gain knowledge to satisfy his<br />
extraordinary intelligence. I remember his love for<br />
quantifiable figures and any essay that spoke <strong>of</strong> the<br />
wonders <strong>of</strong> the index <strong>of</strong> dissimilarity, his obvious<br />
tendency to recommend the reading <strong>of</strong> articles that<br />
happened to be written by former students, and his<br />
subtle way <strong>of</strong> fighting the corner for anything antipost-modern.<br />
Of course there were also those ‘Ceriantics’<br />
which we all grew to love: as third-years we<br />
ended a group meeting very promptly because Ceri<br />
needed to save a dubiously parked car from certain<br />
clamping! When I think <strong>of</strong> Ceri, I have only genuinely<br />
happy memories <strong>of</strong> an outstanding tutor, a<br />
distinguished yet highly approachable pr<strong>of</strong>essor, and a<br />
dear friend.<br />
Hannah Lunn (2003, Geography)<br />
I feel privileged<br />
to have been<br />
taught by Ceri.<br />
He epitomises<br />
everything that<br />
is right about<br />
the Oxford<br />
tutorial system<br />
in which he<br />
believes so<br />
passionately.<br />
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Alexis Tadié<br />
An interview with the Fellow by Special Election<br />
and Director <strong>of</strong> the Maison Française<br />
Tell me about the Maison Française<br />
The Maison Française (MF), which came into<br />
being shortly after the end <strong>of</strong> the Second World<br />
War, is a French research centre funded by the<br />
French Ministry <strong>of</strong> Foreign Affairs. It is<br />
recognised by Oxford <strong>University</strong> as an associated<br />
institution, and is the only European institute <strong>of</strong><br />
its type in Britain. The MF seeks to contribute to<br />
Franco-British research in the fields <strong>of</strong> literature,<br />
the humanities and social sciences through the<br />
work <strong>of</strong> its staff, students and visiting lecturers<br />
and speakers. Working in tandem with the<br />
French National Centre for Scientific Research<br />
(CNRS), the Institute also provides a base in<br />
Oxford – and access to <strong>University</strong> facilities and<br />
resources – for academics who hold grants or<br />
scholarships from the CNRS.<br />
The fields <strong>of</strong> ‘literature, the humanities<br />
and social sciences’ are, by definition,<br />
broad. Does research undertaken at the<br />
MF concentrate upon any particular<br />
areas?<br />
There are three main research programmes<br />
currently running at the MF. The History <strong>of</strong><br />
Science programme is particularly well<br />
established, and researchers have forged<br />
successful links with faculties and<br />
departments at Oxford <strong>University</strong>. The<br />
programme entitled ‘Modernity and Nation’<br />
seeks to bring together French and British<br />
academics working in the fields <strong>of</strong> history,<br />
literature and philosophy in the seventeenth<br />
and eighteenth centuries. Finally, ‘Nation and<br />
Globalisation’, brings together several<br />
activities, including a European Research<br />
Group on European democracy.<br />
You mention that the research<br />
undertaken at the MF involves<br />
collaboration with faculties and<br />
departments at the <strong>University</strong>. How else<br />
does the MF seek to participate in and<br />
contribute to the academic community<br />
here in Oxford?<br />
Many activities, including lectures and seminars,<br />
are organised around the three research areas.<br />
In addition, a series <strong>of</strong> lectures and conferences<br />
that are not necessarily related to the main<br />
research projects take place at the MF<br />
throughout the year. Every term, the Maison<br />
plays host to a French writer. Recent authors in<br />
residence have included the Caribbean writers<br />
Patrick Chamoiseau and Edouard Glissant. The<br />
MF also helps to host and organise three <strong>of</strong> the<br />
sub-faculty <strong>of</strong> French’s seminars in Mediaeval<br />
French, Early Modern French and Modern<br />
French.<br />
Once a term we organise a European lecture, where the<br />
guest speaker is someone from the European political world...<br />
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The MF is, naturally, well known here in<br />
Oxford. How well known is it in France?<br />
I’m pleased to say that the MF is becoming<br />
increasingly well known across the Channel.<br />
The Maison has made a concerted effort to<br />
promote itself in France, with real success.<br />
Once a term we organise a European lecture,<br />
where the guest speaker is someone from<br />
the European political world – past speakers<br />
have included Pascal Lamy and Neil Kinnock.<br />
We also try to make sure that we do not<br />
invite the same people twice to the MF, so<br />
that more and more academics and writers<br />
have the opportunity to come and work at<br />
here in Oxford.<br />
Your career has taken some interesting<br />
turns before your appointment as Director<br />
<strong>of</strong> the MF – tell us how you ended up in<br />
Syria.<br />
In 1996 I was working in Paris, and felt that I<br />
wanted to do something different, so applied<br />
to the Diplomatic Service for a post as a<br />
cultural attaché. I mentioned in my<br />
application form that I could speak Arabic,<br />
and one day I got a phone call asking me to<br />
go to Damascus! Syria was a fabulous place<br />
full <strong>of</strong> immense natural and archaeological<br />
beauty. The people were wonderful and the<br />
atmosphere then was not as strained as it is<br />
now – at the time, Syria was seeking further<br />
integration with Europe. I worked to set up<br />
collaborations between France and Syria in<br />
the fields <strong>of</strong> art, literature and media. On one<br />
memorable occasion, I even organised a rock<br />
concert in a Palestinian camp!<br />
From Syria to Summertown! How did you<br />
become Director <strong>of</strong> the MF?<br />
I was a young French lecteur in Oxford in<br />
1983-4 and I even did some teaching for <strong>St</strong><br />
Catherine’s that year; it was there that I met<br />
and became friends with Richard Parish<br />
(Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> French and Philip Spencer<br />
Fellow). I was honoured to be asked to come<br />
back as a Visiting Fellow at <strong>St</strong> Catherine’s in<br />
1996. Richard and I always kept in touch<br />
after I left Oxford and it was Richard who<br />
asked me if I was considering applying for<br />
the directorship. I became Director <strong>of</strong> the MF<br />
in 2003. I have never been the sort <strong>of</strong> person<br />
who thinks, ‘in five years, I want to be here’,<br />
things just happen! I love being in Oxford. It<br />
is a very beautiful place and the combination<br />
<strong>of</strong> intellectual stimulation and the general<br />
friendliness <strong>of</strong> a collegiate university makes it<br />
a very special one too. I am particularly proud<br />
to have been elected to a Fellowship at <strong>St</strong><br />
Catherine’s.<br />
As Director <strong>of</strong> the MF, you must only<br />
have limited time for personal research.<br />
What, when you have the opportunity,<br />
are your particular research interests?<br />
My own research focuses mainly on<br />
eighteenth-century literature, and the history<br />
<strong>of</strong> ideas. As part <strong>of</strong> my National Service I<br />
lived in India and taught at the <strong>University</strong> in<br />
New Delhi. I have a keen interest in postcolonial<br />
studies, Kipling and contemporary<br />
Indian writing. My current project, however,<br />
is a book about the English philosopher and<br />
essayist, Francis Bacon.<br />
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John Charles Smith<br />
Tutor in French Linguistics<br />
ON TUESDAY 29 MAY 2007, in a ceremony<br />
that took place in the gardens <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Master’s Lodgings, John Charles (JC) Smith<br />
was made a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des<br />
Palmes Académiques by the attaché for the<br />
French language at the Institut Français du<br />
Royaume-Uni, Mr Nicolas Marques. Over fifty<br />
colleagues and friends were present to watch<br />
the presentation <strong>of</strong> the award, which was<br />
created by Napoléon in 1808, and is the<br />
second oldest French ‘order <strong>of</strong> chivalry’ after<br />
the Légion d’Honneur. The Ordre des Palmes<br />
Académiques honours those associated with<br />
education and, especially, university life.<br />
JC Smith has been a Fellow at <strong>St</strong> Catherine’s<br />
since 1997. His main field <strong>of</strong> interest is<br />
historical morphosyntax, and he has<br />
published widely on agreement,<br />
refunctionalisation, deixis and the evolution<br />
<strong>of</strong> case and pronoun systems. He is Deputy<br />
Director <strong>of</strong> the <strong>University</strong>’s new Research<br />
Centre for Romance Linguistics, as well as<br />
Secretary <strong>of</strong> the International Society for<br />
Historical Linguistics, and is currently coediting<br />
the Cambridge History <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Romance Languages.<br />
After expressing his pleasure at being in<br />
Oxford to present this award for service to<br />
the French language and French culture, Mr<br />
Marques spoke at length about JC’s academic<br />
achievements. In addition to being ‘un grand<br />
spécialiste des langues romanes – français,<br />
espagnol, italien, catalan’, JC is also, he said,<br />
both, ‘un remarquable pr<strong>of</strong>esseur’ and ‘un<br />
homme remarquable’.<br />
Left: Nicholas Marques<br />
(left) and JC Smith in the<br />
garden <strong>of</strong> the Master’s<br />
Lodgings.<br />
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GAZETTE<br />
Donald Hill (1954, PPE)<br />
The <strong>College</strong> would<br />
like to record its<br />
gratitude to Mrs E<br />
Lorraine Hill, the<br />
widow <strong>of</strong> <strong>St</strong><br />
Catherine’s<br />
alumnus Donald<br />
Arthur Hill, who<br />
has established a<br />
charitable<br />
remainder trust in memory <strong>of</strong> her husband.<br />
This generous gift will provide substantial<br />
support to the <strong>College</strong> in areas where such<br />
help is most needed.<br />
– serving on several committees – <strong>of</strong> the<br />
International Association for the Promotion <strong>of</strong><br />
Intellectual Property, and was among the first<br />
group <strong>of</strong> members to receive an Award <strong>of</strong><br />
Merit. While his career took him to many<br />
parts <strong>of</strong> the world, his favourite place was<br />
Peter Schlechtriem<br />
Visiting Fellow (Christensen Fellow and<br />
Heather Grierson Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> Law) 2001<br />
the property at Otty Lake near Ottawa which<br />
became the retirement home for him and his<br />
wife <strong>of</strong> forty-seven years, Lorraine. Donald<br />
Hill was a man <strong>of</strong> great intellect and kindness,<br />
a fine pianist and a dedicated, life-long<br />
member <strong>of</strong> the United Church <strong>of</strong> Canada.<br />
Donald Hill, who came to Oxford in 1954 to<br />
read PPE, always retained fond memories <strong>of</strong><br />
his time in Oxford and enjoyed the<br />
opportunity that it gave him to meet so many<br />
fellow students from Commonwealth<br />
countries. Pursuing a career in the field <strong>of</strong><br />
intellectual property law, Donald Hill was<br />
both a lawyer and a trademark agent. He<br />
was, for many years, a senior partner at<br />
Smart and Biggar, Featherstonhaugh and Co<br />
in Ottawa, Canada. He was an active member<br />
PROFESSOR PETER SCHLECHTRIEM, whose<br />
death followed a battle with cancer, was born<br />
in 1933 in Jena, Germany. He studied at the<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Chicago and also at the<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Freiburg, from where he<br />
graduated with a doctorate in 1964. In 1970,<br />
a year before he moved to work at the<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Heidelberg, he obtained a<br />
postdoctoral qualification from the <strong>University</strong><br />
<strong>of</strong> Freiburg.<br />
In 1977 Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Schlechtriem was <strong>of</strong>fered,<br />
and accepted, a Chair at the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
Freiburg. He was also Co-director at the<br />
Institute for Foreign and International Private<br />
Law until his retirement in 2000. In Hilary<br />
2001 he came to <strong>St</strong> Catherine’s as a<br />
Christensen Fellow, and as the Heather<br />
Grierson Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> Law. An outstanding<br />
scholar and a wonderful man, his death has<br />
left an enormous hole in the study <strong>of</strong> private<br />
law and comparative law in Europe.<br />
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Jack Lankester<br />
Emeritus Fellow Derek Davies and his wife Margaret, the <strong>College</strong><br />
Archivist, remember Founding Fellow Jack Lankester<br />
Jack’s family came from the Isle <strong>of</strong> Man, and that<br />
was where he went to school and embarked on<br />
an architectural training. From his earliest days<br />
he had been interested in designing things, but<br />
being eighteen when the Second World War<br />
broke out was not conducive to building a career.<br />
He was commissioned into the Royal Engineers,<br />
and saw active service with the Indian Army in<br />
Burma, where he was particularly concerned<br />
with solving transport problems.<br />
On his return to England he acquired a further<br />
qualification in town planning, and worked in both Wales<br />
and Lancashire. But he found this work insufficiently<br />
creative, and in answer to an advertisement he applied<br />
for the post <strong>of</strong> Surveyor to the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Oxford. In<br />
those days the main university <strong>of</strong>fices, from Vicechancellor<br />
downwards, were perceived as less than full<br />
time. But this was soon to change, and Jack quickly<br />
detached himself and his <strong>of</strong>fice from the <strong>University</strong> Chest<br />
and established what became a wholly separate and very<br />
busy department at the Malthouse in Tidmarsh Lane, a<br />
building which he had refashioned and where he had a<br />
most elegant <strong>of</strong>fice. He enjoyed the challenge <strong>of</strong> making<br />
older university buildings suit new purposes, and he was<br />
also much involved in the choice <strong>of</strong> architects for new<br />
university buildings. With this in mind he built up a<br />
portfolio <strong>of</strong> architects whose work he admired, and he<br />
formed the view that a nucleus <strong>of</strong> the best architects in<br />
Europe at that time existed in Copenhagen. So when<br />
Council’s Committee for the Choice <strong>of</strong> Architects took<br />
the view that the new buildings for <strong>St</strong> Catherine’s<br />
should make a significant contribution to the<br />
architecture <strong>of</strong> the <strong>University</strong>, it was not surprising that<br />
the only continental country which he visited was<br />
Denmark.<br />
The <strong>University</strong> asked Jack to adapt or design many <strong>of</strong><br />
its buildings himself. One <strong>of</strong> his favourites was the<br />
Institute <strong>of</strong> Education in Norham Gardens. But the most<br />
demanding challenge was the creation <strong>of</strong> the semiunderground<br />
reading room in the Radcliffe Science<br />
Library, rightly known as the Lankester Room. Other<br />
major works include his contributions to the new<br />
accommodation at Green <strong>College</strong> and Linacre <strong>College</strong>.<br />
Back at <strong>St</strong> Catherine’s, while Holscher – Jacobsen’s<br />
senior assistant – chose a layout for the Alan Bullock<br />
and Mary Sunley buildings, Jack was their effective<br />
designer both inside and out. It was fortunate that his<br />
views were so respected both in Oxford and beyond; it<br />
became crucial at the time when steps had to be taken<br />
to secure the integrity <strong>of</strong> Jacobsen’s concept <strong>of</strong> the<br />
<strong>College</strong>, which was achieved through the granting <strong>of</strong><br />
Grade I listed status.<br />
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Jack quickly<br />
detached<br />
himself and his<br />
<strong>of</strong>fice from the<br />
<strong>University</strong><br />
Chest and<br />
established<br />
what became a<br />
wholly<br />
separate and<br />
very busy<br />
department at<br />
the Malthouse<br />
in Tidmarsh<br />
Lane...<br />
His talent for design extended to furniture, especially<br />
chairs. The Mary Sunley building contains examples <strong>of</strong><br />
these, and with the permission <strong>of</strong> the <strong>University</strong> he<br />
established a furniture design business, making the<br />
prototypes himself. Visitors to his own home were<br />
always impressed by the elegance and craftsmanship <strong>of</strong><br />
the furniture he both designed and made for it.<br />
He was Surveyor to the <strong>University</strong> for thirty years. Nor<br />
was his retirement idle, for he occupied his time in<br />
mastering French to a level at which he published<br />
translations.<br />
When his first wife died at a comparatively young age<br />
he mastered the art <strong>of</strong> cordon bleu cookery, and<br />
entertained his many friends with its results. They were<br />
delighted when he presently married Sue Buttar, who<br />
had been Alan Bullock’s secretary in the crucial years<br />
<strong>of</strong> the foundation <strong>of</strong> the <strong>College</strong>. She had taken a<br />
break in Australia after the excitement <strong>of</strong> the <strong>College</strong>’s<br />
foundation was over, but responded to a summons<br />
back to Oxford to become Jack’s secretary at the<br />
Malthouse.<br />
Jack’s portrait hangs among those <strong>of</strong> the Founding<br />
Fellows in the library, and the <strong>College</strong> has every reason<br />
to remember him with gratitude and affection. <strong>St</strong><br />
Catherine’s owes so much to him, for without his<br />
inspired suggestion that its founders should look at the<br />
work <strong>of</strong> Arne Jacobsen, the <strong>College</strong> would look much<br />
less notable and be a very different place.<br />
Jack Lankester died in November 2007.<br />
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Wilfrid Knapp, Emeritus Fellow,<br />
delivered the following tribute at<br />
Jack Lankester’s funeral...<br />
JACK WAS A FRIEND. We shared much, we<br />
had respect and affection for each other and<br />
I feel his loss deeply. I speak now for the<br />
Master and Fellows <strong>of</strong> <strong>St</strong> Catherine’s <strong>College</strong>.<br />
Jack was an architect <strong>of</strong> <strong>St</strong> Catherine’s. The<br />
ground had been prepared for him by<br />
Susannah [Lankester]. She was Sue Buttar<br />
then and she raised the money to build <strong>St</strong><br />
Catherine’s. She had a lot <strong>of</strong> help from Alan<br />
Bullock, but it was her unremitting effort that<br />
left no possible source <strong>of</strong> funds unexplored.<br />
We did not foresee what a great team she<br />
and Jack would become. We love them both.<br />
In the quaint way <strong>of</strong> Oxford, where we call<br />
men and women who lecture ‘Readers’, Jack’s<br />
position was that <strong>of</strong> Surveyor to the<br />
<strong>University</strong>. I am sure that he did a lot <strong>of</strong><br />
surveying, though I never came across him<br />
peering through a theodolite. Surveyor, yes,<br />
but above all, architect. In that capacity he<br />
worked with Arne Jacobsen to build the<br />
<strong>College</strong>. It is not surprising that they worked<br />
so well together. Jack could be a builder, but<br />
he had an architect’s vision. He saw what<br />
Jacobsen was about: they shared the<br />
demanding task <strong>of</strong> sacrificing no standards <strong>of</strong><br />
design or workmanship while still meeting<br />
the demands <strong>of</strong> economy. He spoke a clear<br />
and lucid English when Jacobsen chose not<br />
to, and he continued, lovingly, to describe<br />
this great building (Grade I listed) to visitors<br />
to the <strong>College</strong> after Jacobsen had gone.<br />
Following the whimsy <strong>of</strong> Oxford, Alan Bullock<br />
suggested that Jack should be elected a<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essorial Fellow <strong>of</strong> <strong>St</strong> Catherine’s. A pr<strong>of</strong>essor<br />
he could have been, though he was not.<br />
Fellow he certainly was, one <strong>of</strong> a fellowship,<br />
loyal and devoted to his <strong>College</strong> and his<br />
colleagues. He was not without guile, but he<br />
was open and honest, totally without malice.<br />
He added to the <strong>College</strong> by designing the<br />
Mary Sunley and the Alan Bullock buildings,<br />
and we almost forgot that he was the<br />
<strong>University</strong> Surveyor – a post that he held for<br />
thirty years. We lost count <strong>of</strong> the fact that he<br />
designed more buildings for the <strong>University</strong><br />
than any <strong>of</strong> his predecessors. His style<br />
permeated them all – always a light,<br />
inventive and graceful organisation <strong>of</strong> space,<br />
designed for the practical needs <strong>of</strong> those<br />
who would use them. Of course, Alan Bullock<br />
knew what he was doing, designing furniture<br />
as well as buildings – and Alan wrote <strong>of</strong> ‘the<br />
unique contribution he has made to Oxford’s<br />
success in coming to terms with modern<br />
architecture, and equally to the renovation<br />
and maintenance <strong>of</strong> older buildings.’<br />
Architects are <strong>of</strong>ten prey to a pr<strong>of</strong>essional<br />
vice, wanting their constructions to be a sort<br />
<strong>of</strong> self-advertisement. Not Jack. He remained<br />
at the centre <strong>of</strong> humanity and humanity gets<br />
old. Men and women grow out <strong>of</strong> youthful<br />
exuberance, mature achievement, but they<br />
still need places to live. So with his other<br />
hand – his third hand it must have been – he<br />
organised housing for them. The<br />
establishment and the growth <strong>of</strong> the Anchor<br />
Housing Association owed more to Jack than<br />
to any other single person. By 1985 it was<br />
providing housing for 17,000 tenants and he<br />
was chairman <strong>of</strong> the complementary<br />
Guardian Housing Association, responsible for<br />
1400 flats on fifty estates.<br />
He was a lovely man. He was gifted with that<br />
great quality, a sense <strong>of</strong> humour, full <strong>of</strong> glee<br />
and mirth. I never heard Jack guffaw –<br />
perhaps he did, but not in my company. His<br />
eyes twinkled, and his chuckle and his<br />
laughter bubbled up and spread across his<br />
face. It was like marmalade bubbling in the<br />
preserving pan – warm, golden, full <strong>of</strong><br />
promise.<br />
We shall miss him, though he will be always<br />
with us. May God rest his soul.<br />
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Air Marshal Lord Garden<br />
Rigorous MoD planner, thinktank analyst and Liberal<br />
Democrat defence spokesman, by Jonathan Fryer<br />
DEFENCE ANALYSTS ARE RARELY GIFTED with the ability to expound their views in terms accessible to<br />
the general public, but Tim Garden, who has died from cancer at the age <strong>of</strong> 63, was a notable exception.<br />
Following the US-led invasion <strong>of</strong> Iraq, he became the pundit <strong>of</strong> preference for a number <strong>of</strong> TV and radio<br />
stations at home and abroad, as well as a regular commentator both in newspapers and online.<br />
Charles Kennedy, then leading the Liberal Democrats<br />
and coming under heavy fire from both Labour and<br />
Conservative MPs for his opposition to the launching <strong>of</strong><br />
the Iraq war, shrewdly nominated Tim for the House <strong>of</strong><br />
Lords, where he took his seat as Baron Garden <strong>of</strong><br />
Hampstead in 2004. The party thus gained a significant<br />
voice which was listened to with respect and attention.<br />
Long before entering politics, Tim had in fact<br />
established himself on both sides <strong>of</strong> the Atlantic as an<br />
authority on security issues and international relations,<br />
not least when he was director <strong>of</strong> the Royal Institute <strong>of</strong><br />
International Affairs (Chatham House) in London during<br />
1997-98, and as a visiting pr<strong>of</strong>essor at King’s <strong>College</strong><br />
London and Indiana <strong>University</strong>.<br />
Tim was born in Worcester and attended King’s school<br />
in that city. His father was an electrical engineer and<br />
Tim was the first member <strong>of</strong> the family to go to<br />
university. He read physics at <strong>St</strong> Catherine’s <strong>College</strong>,<br />
Oxford (which later made him an honorary fellow),<br />
demonstrating an early love <strong>of</strong> flying by being a<br />
member <strong>of</strong> the Oxford <strong>University</strong> Air Squadron. In his<br />
second year, he met a fellow undergraduate, Susan<br />
Button, who became his wife after graduation, when<br />
they were both aged 21. By then Tim had joined the<br />
RAF, but he realised only a fortnight before the<br />
wedding that he should have obtained his commanding<br />
<strong>of</strong>ficer’s permission before making the arrangements.<br />
The <strong>of</strong>ficer concerned was not amused.<br />
Tim flew Canberra light bombers in Germany before<br />
becoming a flying instructor on Jet Provosts. Later, he<br />
commanded a jet flying training unit, a Vulcan bomber<br />
squadron (responsible for delivering Britain’s nuclear<br />
deterrent in those pre-Trident days) and a helicopter base.<br />
In the early 1980s, he took time out from active service<br />
to do a postgraduate degree in international relations<br />
at Magdalene <strong>College</strong>, Cambridge. Some air force<br />
colleagues viewed all this university education as<br />
suspect, but it enabled him to go on to become director<br />
<strong>of</strong> defence studies for the RAF, lecturing on strategic<br />
studies in the UK and internationally, and writing his<br />
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Though<br />
intellectually<br />
rigorous, he<br />
was immensely<br />
gregarious.<br />
Even after his<br />
elevation to<br />
the peerage,<br />
he would<br />
bounce up to<br />
strangers and<br />
say, “Hi! I’m<br />
Tim Garden!”<br />
book Can Deterrence Last? (1984). From 1985 to 1987,<br />
he was station commander at RAF Odiham in<br />
Hampshire, where he flew Chinook helicopters and the<br />
Aerospatiale Puma.<br />
The next six years were spent working in the Ministry<br />
<strong>of</strong> Defence in London, including a period as assistant<br />
chief <strong>of</strong> the air staff. He published a second book at<br />
this time – The Technology Trap: Science and the<br />
Military (1989). His final appointment at the MoD was<br />
as assistant chief <strong>of</strong> the defence staff (programmes), a<br />
role that gave him responsibility for long-term planning<br />
for all three armed services, about which he developed<br />
forthright opinions.<br />
After a period as commander <strong>of</strong> the Royal <strong>College</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
Defence <strong>St</strong>udies, he retired from the air force in 1996,<br />
with the rank <strong>of</strong> air marshal (and a knighthood,<br />
awarded in 1994). As one <strong>of</strong> his colleagues later<br />
commented, “Tim had to leave the air force early, as<br />
the service wasn’t big enough for him.” Tim had other<br />
interests to pursue. Having become fascinated by<br />
computing, he set himself up as a website consultant,<br />
before taking over at Chatham House. His own website<br />
and weblog on foreign and security issues developed<br />
into something he specially valued.<br />
The worlds <strong>of</strong> thinktanks and academe <strong>of</strong>fered a more<br />
diverse and sometimes more stimulating arena for social<br />
interaction and debate, though Tim always enjoyed<br />
tackling some <strong>of</strong> his more reactionary fellow servicemen<br />
head on. He caused a stir at one Fleet Air Arm annual<br />
Taranto/Falklands dinner after his retirement, when he<br />
expounded loudly on the benefits <strong>of</strong> immigration,<br />
silencing one red-faced diner with the parry, “Besides,<br />
who’s going to pay for your pension?”<br />
He could be a stimulating companion at the big table at<br />
the predominantly conservative Beefsteak Club, <strong>of</strong> which<br />
he was a member, as well as the more predictable<br />
National Liberal Club. He was truly a man <strong>of</strong> many parts.<br />
When Tim first became involved with the Liberal<br />
Democrats early in the new millennium, both locally in<br />
Camden and nationally, many people wrongly assumed<br />
that because <strong>of</strong> his military background, he would be on<br />
the conservative wing <strong>of</strong> the party, whereas actually he<br />
was an impassioned radical – a Guardian-reading member<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Fabian Society, with a taste for bright red ties.<br />
Though intellectually rigorous, he was immensely<br />
gregarious. Even after his elevation to the peerage, he<br />
would bounce up to strangers and say, “Hi! I’m Tim<br />
Garden!” He found some <strong>of</strong> the formality <strong>of</strong> the upper<br />
house disconcerting, declaring that people’s reluctance<br />
to use first names there made him feel like he was back<br />
at school.<br />
His informality helped make him popular with<br />
Americans, though he was sometimes highly critical <strong>of</strong><br />
what he openly called the “hyper-power”. For a while,<br />
he also questioned whether Nato should continue to<br />
exist. He was a firm advocate <strong>of</strong> European integration<br />
and <strong>of</strong> a proper European security and armaments<br />
policy, in recognition <strong>of</strong> which President Chirac<br />
appointed him a Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur<br />
in 2003.<br />
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GAZETTE<br />
Tim was not just a keen European, but a true<br />
internationalist. For the final three years <strong>of</strong> his life, he was<br />
president <strong>of</strong> the British group <strong>of</strong> Liberal International, in<br />
which capacity he chaired a packed and emotional fringe<br />
meeting on Israel/Palestine at last September’s Liberal<br />
Democrat conference in Brighton, keeping a cool head<br />
when some present were losing theirs.<br />
He maintained a deep interest in the Middle East and<br />
was a member <strong>of</strong> the Anglo-Jordanian Society. In 2000,<br />
he advised the Palestinian Authority on negotiations<br />
with Israel, under the auspices <strong>of</strong> the Adam Smith<br />
Institute. But his fairness and integrity meant that he<br />
was respected on all sides in that tortuous situation,<br />
and he got a warm reception when he supported his<br />
wife Sue when she stood as LibDem parliamentary<br />
candidate in the 2005 general election in Finchley and<br />
Golders Green, which has one <strong>of</strong> the largest Jewish<br />
populations in Britain.<br />
The party soon understood what an asset they had<br />
acquired in Tim. He became a key figure in the<br />
parliamentary foreign affairs team, and got elected to<br />
several party committees and policy working groups. All<br />
the while, he continued to write articles prolifically, to<br />
travel giving lectures, and to be interviewed any time<br />
there was a major development in Iraq or Afghanistan,<br />
or when the issue <strong>of</strong> replacing Trident came to the fore.<br />
Earlier this year, he started to feel tired, but a hospital<br />
check-up revealed that the problem was not<br />
exhaustion, but pancreatic cancer, which was rapidly<br />
spreading to other organs. He remained in hospital for<br />
about a fortnight, before returning home to spend his<br />
final weeks in the care <strong>of</strong> his family. He is survived by<br />
Sue and his two daughters.<br />
Richard Norton-Taylor writes: Tim Garden was the<br />
epitome <strong>of</strong> the – not so new – generation <strong>of</strong> highranking<br />
military figures who belied a commonly held<br />
presumption that they had a one-dimensional, even<br />
blinkered, approach to the world around them.<br />
He would always ask the right questions, which the<br />
government would invariably sidestep, about the<br />
consequences <strong>of</strong> its defence and security policies, or its<br />
reluctance to confront urgent problems. But he never<br />
indulged in histrionics or partisan point-scoring for the<br />
sake <strong>of</strong> it. Far from it. Indeed, he was, in many ways,<br />
the ultimate, quietly spoken, rationalist. For a journalist<br />
writing on military, security, and foreign policy issues,<br />
and how they marry, or don’t marry up, he was a<br />
trusted source and invaluable sounding board. You could<br />
always rely on him to point you in the right direction.<br />
When I met him for the first time after he was<br />
appointed a Liberal Democrat spokesman on defence,<br />
he remarked that one <strong>of</strong> the things he had been told<br />
as a newcomer by elderly peers was that membership<br />
<strong>of</strong> the House <strong>of</strong> Lords added 10 years to your life. It is<br />
a tragedy that his membership there was cut so short.<br />
He will be seriously missed, in that place and much<br />
further afield.<br />
Timothy Garden, defence expert and Liberal<br />
Democrat peer, born April 23 1944;<br />
died August 9, 2007<br />
He would<br />
always ask the<br />
right<br />
questions,<br />
which the<br />
government<br />
would<br />
invariably<br />
sidestep,<br />
about the<br />
consequences<br />
<strong>of</strong> its defence<br />
and security<br />
policies...<br />
Reproduced by<br />
permission <strong>of</strong> The<br />
Guardian. Copyright<br />
Guardian News & Media<br />
Ltd 2007.<br />
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Obituaries 2007<br />
ALAN BARKER (1971, Physics)<br />
If, in 1971, <strong>Catz</strong> had instituted a pentathlon<br />
with events in the loudness <strong>of</strong> quad-facing<br />
speakers, the ferocity <strong>of</strong> drag-shots on the barfootie<br />
table, length <strong>of</strong> service at the JCR bar,<br />
luxuriance <strong>of</strong> hair and infectiousness <strong>of</strong><br />
laughter, Alan Barker would have reigned<br />
supreme. Underpinning these diverse attributes<br />
were Alan’s academic excellence, his pr<strong>of</strong>ound<br />
humanity and his granite integrity.<br />
Alan decided late during the ‘milk-round’ to<br />
reject the blandishments <strong>of</strong> industry and to<br />
pursue, instead, a career in medicine. This had<br />
been a long-standing, but rarely-expressed,<br />
ambition. After gaining a good Second in<br />
Physics, he moved to Guy’s Hospital in London.<br />
Those familiar with Alan’s legerdemain with<br />
anything electronic forecast a glittering future in<br />
surgery but his priorities lay elsewhere, with him<br />
favouring instead the broader community <strong>of</strong><br />
general practice. After qualifying in 1979, Alan<br />
moved to the South Coast. He married Wendy in<br />
1984 and subsequently became senior partner<br />
<strong>of</strong> a large, highly-respected practice in<br />
Newhaven.<br />
Not only was Alan a devoted family man, he<br />
also made an outstanding and selfless<br />
contribution to his local community. He climbed<br />
Kilimanjaro on behalf <strong>of</strong> SCOPE and regularly<br />
volunteered to accompany charitable cycling<br />
expeditions as a medical <strong>of</strong>ficer. On a recent trip<br />
to Cambodia his presence was, literally, lifesaving.<br />
His stamina on a bicycle and on a tennis<br />
court, like his appearance, defied the passage<br />
<strong>of</strong> time.<br />
Alan Barker is survived by his wife, a son and<br />
daughter, and many, many friends. He is sorely<br />
missed.<br />
PHILIP BOOTH (1955, English)<br />
Philip Booth read English at <strong>St</strong> Catherine’s,<br />
where he was an active member <strong>of</strong> the Boat<br />
Club and a founder member <strong>of</strong> the Beer & Blade<br />
Dining Club. He then spent a year working in<br />
Freetown at the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Sierra Leone<br />
before returning to Oxford to take a Diploma in<br />
Education. Emigrating to Canada in the mid-<br />
1960s, he taught in the Montreal area (<strong>St</strong><br />
Bruno) for many years, where he was also<br />
extremely active in theatre and local radio.<br />
Sadly, he had to take early retirement in the<br />
early 1990s as the early stages <strong>of</strong> Alzheimer’s<br />
disease began to take their toll. During 2006,<br />
Philip took up residence in a home which<br />
<strong>of</strong>fered specialist care as his condition<br />
worsened. He died on Sunday 7 October 2007<br />
and is survived by his widow, Mary – whom he<br />
met whilst working in Sierra Leone – and three<br />
children.<br />
GEORGE EASTER (1958, Theology)<br />
George Easter was born in 1921 in Niagara Falls,<br />
New York. While in school he played the French<br />
horn, ran in cross country races and attained the<br />
rank <strong>of</strong> Eagle Scout. He graduated from Oberlin<br />
<strong>College</strong>, where he developed a strong interest in<br />
social outreach programmes, particularly those<br />
serving minorities and disadvantaged people.<br />
Following theological study at Yale Divinity<br />
School and graduation from the Episcopal<br />
Divinity School in Cambridge, MA, he was<br />
ordained in western New York <strong>St</strong>ate in 1944.<br />
In an ordained ministry spanning sixty-three<br />
years, Fr Easter served as a cathedral canon in<br />
<strong>St</strong> Louis, and later in Albany, New York, and<br />
pursued graduate studies in England, at <strong>St</strong><br />
Augustine’s <strong>College</strong> in Canterbury, and at <strong>St</strong><br />
Catherine’s <strong>College</strong>, where he obtained a Master<br />
<strong>of</strong> Letters degree. In the United <strong>St</strong>ates he<br />
taught Christian Ethics at Philadelphia Divinity<br />
School and Philosophy and Psychology at Paul<br />
Smith’s <strong>College</strong>. He also served in many parishes<br />
in Britain and America, working in Oxford, <strong>St</strong><br />
Louis, Buffalo, New York, Massena, Albany, Lake<br />
Placid, Saranac Lake, Plattsburgh, Champlain,<br />
Bronxville, Potsdam and several other parishes in<br />
the Diocese <strong>of</strong> Albany.<br />
During his various parish postings, Fr Easter was<br />
active in community events, and helped to<br />
organise and secure funding for the Massena<br />
Arts Council, the Chateaugay Arts Council and<br />
numerous other community organisations. He<br />
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enjoyed meeting people from all walks <strong>of</strong> life,<br />
and worked to include minority and immigrant<br />
families in the various parishes where he served.<br />
An able public speaker, he loved to teach<br />
children parables from the Bible and Sunday<br />
School songs. He also enjoyed explaining<br />
philosophy and theology to parishioners and<br />
students, and took great pleasure in seeing<br />
them come to understand new ideas. He loved<br />
to travel, loved the outdoors and sailing, and<br />
was an avid gardener.<br />
George Easter died on 31 July 2007. His second<br />
wife, Peggy, had predeceased him. He is<br />
survived by three children from his first<br />
marriage, to Ruth Eaton, and three stepsons<br />
from his marriage to Peggy.<br />
STEVEN GATRELL<br />
(Visiting <strong>St</strong>udent – 1986, Modern History)<br />
Albert <strong>St</strong>even Gatrell was born on 20 April 1920<br />
in Eldorado, Kansas, and graduated from Lost<br />
Creek High School, West Virginia, in 1938. In July<br />
1940 he joined the US Army Air Corps and served<br />
as a weather forecaster in England, France and<br />
Germany during the Second World War. During<br />
his enlistment he received a Bachelor <strong>of</strong> Arts<br />
degree in History from the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Illinois,<br />
and began his Master’s degree studies at Florida<br />
<strong>St</strong>ate <strong>University</strong> in Tallahassee and at the<br />
Territorial <strong>College</strong> <strong>of</strong> Guam.<br />
Upon retirement from the United <strong>St</strong>ates Air<br />
Force in 1963 he settled in Morgantown and<br />
completed a Master’s degree and PhD (in<br />
History) at Western Virginia <strong>University</strong>. In 1986<br />
he came to <strong>St</strong> Catherine’s as a Visiting <strong>St</strong>udent<br />
and studied Modern History.<br />
<strong>St</strong>even Gatrell taught History at Morgantown<br />
High School from 1964 until 1970. During this<br />
time he helped sponsor Key Club and Junior<br />
Achievement initiatives. He then transferred to<br />
Fairmont <strong>St</strong>ate <strong>College</strong> where he taught until his<br />
retirement as Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Emeritus in 1985. He<br />
also helped found the Phi Alpha Theta Academic<br />
Honorary.<br />
A member <strong>of</strong> the Boy Scouts <strong>of</strong> America since<br />
1932, <strong>St</strong>even Gatrell was awarded, amongst<br />
other honours, the Distinguished Eagle Scout<br />
Award (conferred upon those who have gained<br />
the highest status <strong>of</strong> fame or eminence in their<br />
life’s work) and the Silver Beaver Award (the<br />
highest honour awarded to a volunteer on the<br />
local level). In 2002 he received his seventyyear<br />
pin. In the previous year, Secretary <strong>of</strong> <strong>St</strong>ate<br />
Joe Manchin had conferred upon him the honour<br />
<strong>of</strong> Distinguished and Dedicated Mountaineer.<br />
Albert <strong>St</strong>even Gatrell died on 2 April 2007. His<br />
wife, Winnifred, had predeceased him. He is<br />
survived by four daughters, eight grandchildren<br />
and two great-grandchildren.<br />
ALEX GRAHAM (1996, Modern Languages)<br />
Alex Graham was born on 24 February 1977 in<br />
the British Military Hospital in Berlin, where his<br />
father was serving with the Royal Air Force. He<br />
attended local British Service schools before<br />
going to board at <strong>St</strong>amford School in 1987.<br />
While at <strong>St</strong>amford, Alex joined the Combined<br />
Cadet Force (CCF), where he rose to the rank <strong>of</strong><br />
Flight-Sergeant. In his final year at school, he<br />
was in charge <strong>of</strong> the RAF element <strong>of</strong> the CCF.<br />
Alex, who was captain <strong>of</strong> the school’s second<br />
hockey team, gained the Gold Award in the<br />
Duke <strong>of</strong> Edinburgh’s Award Scheme, and was<br />
also involved in the Young Enterprise scheme.<br />
After a gap year, he came to <strong>St</strong> Catherine’s to<br />
study Russian and Linguistics in September<br />
1996. He had found school studies relatively<br />
easy (and had <strong>of</strong>ten been found reading a book<br />
hidden inside a schoolbook by the end <strong>of</strong><br />
supervised homework sessions), so having to<br />
work hard at university came as rather a shock.<br />
His year in Russia was spent at Yaroslavl, where<br />
he made many friends. He graduated in 2000.<br />
In 2002, Alex joined Autobusiness in <strong>St</strong>amford<br />
where he quickly established a reputation as a<br />
highly respected automotive journalist and trade<br />
analyst. While working at Autobusiness, Alex<br />
met Sarah Mackenzie (their Marketing Manager)<br />
who would become his wife. In February 2005,<br />
Alex left Autobusiness in order to set up his own<br />
business, SupplyBase, in which, on a freelance<br />
basis, he carried on doing the same type <strong>of</strong><br />
work as he had at Autobusiness.<br />
Early in 2006 Alex discovered three lumps in the<br />
left side <strong>of</strong> his neck, which were eventually<br />
discovered to be secondary tumours. He was<br />
diagnosed with lung cancer in July 2006. Alex,<br />
who fought against the cancer, and never<br />
accepted that he was terminally ill, died on 24<br />
September 2006. His knowledge <strong>of</strong>, and interest<br />
in, world affairs, his intellectual skills and his<br />
sense <strong>of</strong> humour meant that he was an<br />
intriguing person to have known. He is sorely<br />
missed by his family and many friends.<br />
GRANT HENRY LATHE (1947, Biochemistry)<br />
Grant Lathe MSc, PhD, MDCM, FRCPath was a<br />
pioneer in Clinical Biochemistry and a man with<br />
a strong social conscience. A Canadian national,<br />
he was born in British Columbia in 1913. He<br />
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studied Biochemistry and then Medicine at<br />
McGill <strong>University</strong> and, while still a student,<br />
undertook the difficult journey to China during<br />
the Sino-Japanese war. In 1941 he joined the<br />
Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps, was posted<br />
to England, and saw active service in Italy,<br />
where he accompanied the forward Casualty-<br />
Clearing <strong>St</strong>ation on the advance from Naples,<br />
reaching Rome in June 1944.<br />
After completing a DPhil at Oxford <strong>University</strong><br />
(accredited by McGill) he became Consultant<br />
Chemical Pathologist at Queen Charlotte’s<br />
Hospital in London. Here he studied conjugation<br />
<strong>of</strong> the blood pigment bilirubin and its<br />
importance in neonatal jaundice. This led to the<br />
invention <strong>of</strong> the separation technique <strong>of</strong> gel<br />
filtration (still widely used), for which he and C<br />
R J Ruthven later received the John Scott Award<br />
(one <strong>of</strong> the oldest science prizes in the USA). In<br />
1957 he was appointed Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> Chemical<br />
Pathology at the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Leeds. His<br />
inaugural lecture on ‘Defective Molecules as a<br />
Cause <strong>of</strong> Disease’ foreshadowed the later<br />
emergence <strong>of</strong> molecular medicine. Over the next<br />
twenty years he built up a large department<br />
which encompassed many novel ideas in Clinical<br />
Biochemistry, research and teaching.<br />
His singular gift to his students, colleagues and<br />
children was his ability to listen carefully before<br />
<strong>of</strong>fering insightful comments with a smile. He<br />
was also a man <strong>of</strong> contradictions: at first a<br />
Christian, he became a staunch atheist in later<br />
life; a vocal pacifist (who participated in the first<br />
Aldermaston march), he volunteered for military<br />
service when he considered it necessary.<br />
<strong>St</strong>rikingly energetic in his later years, he still<br />
attended scientific meetings and flew to Canada<br />
each summer to visit his family. His ninetieth<br />
birthday was celebrated with his children in<br />
Reykjavík, Iceland. He died at home in Leeds on<br />
2 July 2007. He is survived by four children, ten<br />
grandchildren and one great-grandchild.<br />
MARTIN MOLYNEUX (1947, Theology)<br />
Martin Molyneux was born on 30 April 1923 at<br />
Westhoughton, Bolton, and educated at Wigan<br />
Grammar School. His tertiary education was<br />
completed at the Universities <strong>of</strong> Manchester,<br />
Oxford and Fribourg.<br />
Prior to being received into the Catholic Church<br />
in August 1954, he was an assistant to<br />
Orientalist Paul Kahle from the Deutsche<br />
Forschungsgemeinschaft. Later, he was the<br />
Librarian for Oxford <strong>University</strong>’s Department <strong>of</strong><br />
Italian <strong>St</strong>udies. He studied for the priesthood at<br />
the Salesianum, Fribourg, Switzerland.<br />
Following Ordination in July 1965, he returned<br />
to the Diocese <strong>of</strong> Lancaster as Assistant Priest<br />
at the Cathedral. From there he moved to the<br />
Beda <strong>College</strong> in Rome, as Lecturer in Dogmatic<br />
Theology, Dean <strong>of</strong> <strong>St</strong>udies and finally, in 1976,<br />
Vice-Rector. Fr Martin returned to Lancaster in<br />
1986 to be Parish Priest <strong>of</strong> <strong>St</strong> Joseph’s before<br />
moving to his final parish <strong>of</strong> <strong>St</strong> Thomas,<br />
Claughton (1987-1999). After a very happy<br />
ministry there Mgr Molyneux retired to Boarbank<br />
Hall in 1999 where he had the wonderful care<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Augustinian Sisters <strong>of</strong> Boarbank Hall.<br />
Writing about Martin Molyneux, the Bishop <strong>of</strong><br />
Shrewsbury, Martin Noble, said, ‘Martin was a<br />
true gentleman, excellent priest and loyal<br />
friend… though never less than the scholar, he<br />
was – perhaps much to his surprise – equally<br />
effective in pastoral ministry and was deeply<br />
admired by his Claughton parishioners. Naturally<br />
reserved, he nevertheless rejoiced in good<br />
company and in sharing what he considered the<br />
worthwhile things <strong>of</strong> life – literature and music,<br />
wine and smoked salmon.’<br />
Martin Molyneux died on 22 November 2006.<br />
BRIAN OVERALL (PPE, 1953)<br />
Brian Overall was one <strong>of</strong> the many mature<br />
students who came up to <strong>St</strong> Catherine’s Society<br />
in the 1950s. He was a gregarious member <strong>of</strong><br />
the JCR and a leading light <strong>of</strong> the <strong>College</strong>’s<br />
debating society.<br />
Brian was born in Manchester. After leaving<br />
school, he worked as a librarian at the<br />
Manchester Evening News before studying for a<br />
diploma at Fircr<strong>of</strong>t <strong>College</strong> <strong>of</strong> Adult Education in<br />
Birmingham, whose slogan was, ‘You can<br />
change your life in a year’. It certainly changed<br />
Brian’s. He was one <strong>of</strong> thirty mature students<br />
across the country awarded government<br />
scholarships to go to university. Before he could<br />
qualify for Oxford, he had to take a crash course<br />
in Latin.<br />
After Oxford, he returned to Manchester and<br />
lectured for the Workers’ Educational<br />
Association. He moved to London in 1966,<br />
taking a second degree at Birkbeck <strong>College</strong>. He<br />
taught economics at what is now the South<br />
Bank <strong>University</strong> and lectured to British soldiers<br />
in Germany, Hong Kong and Singapore. The<br />
least military <strong>of</strong> men, he took a wry pride in his<br />
honorary rank <strong>of</strong> lieutenant-colonel.<br />
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After his first marriage (celebrated with beer<br />
and sausages in his Abingdon Road digs) ended<br />
in divorce, he remarried. He and his second wife<br />
Vivika lived together in a small mansion flat in<br />
Kensington High <strong>St</strong>reet for four decades. Brian<br />
cultivated a taste for fine wines and a talent for<br />
cooking. He cherished his connection with <strong>St</strong><br />
Catherine’s and seldom missed a reunion.<br />
Ironically for so articulate a man, he died <strong>of</strong><br />
Alzheimer’s disease in June 2007.<br />
THOMAS ANTHONY SHAFTO (1947, English)<br />
Tony Shafto’s place in the annals <strong>of</strong> <strong>St</strong><br />
Catherine’s is assured on the strength <strong>of</strong> his<br />
coxing the 1949 first Eight to six bumps – a feat<br />
watched by the second and third Eights that<br />
year. He was born in Penang, in the <strong>St</strong>raits <strong>of</strong><br />
Malacca, and came up to the Society to read<br />
English straight from Alleyne’s Grammar School<br />
in <strong>St</strong>one, <strong>St</strong>affordshire. After going down he was<br />
called up for National Service and as a secondlieutenant<br />
saw action with the North<br />
<strong>St</strong>affordshire Regiment in the Korean War.<br />
After returning to civilian life, Tony worked in<br />
insurance for ten years before switching to<br />
teaching, first at the <strong>St</strong>affordshire <strong>College</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
Commerce, and then at Dudley Teacher Training<br />
<strong>College</strong> and Lanchester Polytechnic. Drawn to<br />
distance learning, Tom worked for the Open<br />
<strong>University</strong> and Worker’s Educational Association<br />
and, over a period <strong>of</strong> thirty years, published<br />
numerous textbooks and correspondence<br />
courses. During this time, he acquired a BSc in<br />
Economics, which was followed by a doctorate.<br />
After ‘retirement’, Tony Shafto taught part-time<br />
at Warwick and Coventry Universities and, until<br />
he moved to Devon, was involved in distance<br />
learning with Durham <strong>University</strong> Business School.<br />
There he continued to write until shortly before<br />
his death, from cancer, in November 2006.<br />
Tony Shafto’s wife predeceased him. He is<br />
survived by two daughters.<br />
ROBERT ZELL (1948, Theology)<br />
Robert Loran Zell was born in Albany, New York,<br />
on June 9, 1922, the youngest <strong>of</strong> the four<br />
children <strong>of</strong> Jon and Martha Zell. Robert was a<br />
graduate <strong>of</strong> Carroll and <strong>of</strong> Nashotah House,<br />
Wisconsin, and <strong>of</strong> Union Seminary, New York,<br />
and was also an ordained minister in the<br />
Episcopal Church.<br />
Robert spent several years in England. He was a<br />
Fulbright Scholar and held Master’s degrees in<br />
Theology from the Universities <strong>of</strong> Oxford and<br />
Cambridge. While in England, he also assisted at<br />
an Anglican Church in Northolt, London. On 17<br />
April 1968, in Oxford, he married Josephine May<br />
Howe.<br />
In the 1960s, as a Catholic layman, he was<br />
Assistant Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> Theology at Marquette<br />
<strong>University</strong>. He was later employed by the<br />
Wisconsin Department <strong>of</strong> Health and Social<br />
Services in Milwaukee and Madison. In his<br />
spiritual journey, Robert joined the Greek<br />
Orthodox Church in 1988. He and Josey (div.<br />
2003) retired to San Diego in 1999.<br />
Robert Zell died in San Diego, California, on 12<br />
June 2007. He is survived by a son and<br />
daughter, and by six grandchildren.<br />
<strong>St</strong> Catherine’s welcomes obituaries <strong>of</strong> alumni<br />
and friends <strong>of</strong> the <strong>College</strong>, reserving the right<br />
to edit them where necessary.<br />
NOTIFICATIONS<br />
Peter Akehurst (1947, Theology)<br />
George Balassa (1941, Chemistry)<br />
Henry Boodell (MCR <strong>St</strong>eward)<br />
Ian Bowles (1961, Physiological Sciences)<br />
Hugh Douglas (1953, Geography)<br />
Rob Flood (1993, Chemistry)<br />
Robin Grist (1961, Education)<br />
Harold Hall (1949, Geography)<br />
Margaret Hess<br />
Anne Jarvis<br />
Robert Jones (1948, Theology)<br />
Sydney Laycock (1948, Engineering<br />
Science)<br />
John Lever (1962, Chemistry)<br />
Bertie Lewis (1954, Theology)<br />
Philip Long (1936, Bodleian Prog)<br />
Jack Lord (1941, Modern History)<br />
Duncan Macrae-Gibson (1951, English)<br />
Fuyuhiko Maki (Kobe Institue, Japan)<br />
Margaret McCloghry<br />
Donald M<strong>of</strong>ford (1953, Anthropology)<br />
Michael Noon (1967, Engineering Science)<br />
Christopher Phillips (1974, PPE)<br />
Edward Short (1936, Theology)<br />
William Skaife d’Ingerthorpe (1949,<br />
Theology)<br />
Simon <strong>St</strong>andley (1962, Geology)<br />
Leonard Taylor (1938, Modern History)<br />
Ullrich Trendelenburg (1954, Medicine)<br />
Colin Whitehead (1949, Physics and<br />
Mathematics)<br />
Richard Witcomb (1965, Engineering<br />
Science)<br />
Harry Wolbers (1970, Politics)<br />
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Admissions 2007<br />
UNDERGRADUATES<br />
Biological Sciences<br />
Felicity Bedford – Hills Road Sixth Form <strong>College</strong>, Cambridge<br />
Roberta Fisher – John Kyrle High School, Ross on Wye<br />
Sebastian Gnan – European School Munich, Germany<br />
Dorothea Hill – Wycombe Abbey School, High Wycombe<br />
James Iles – King’s School, Worcester<br />
Ragav Sawhney – Vyners School, Middlesex<br />
Zoe <strong>St</strong>anyon – Broxbourne School, Hertfordshire<br />
Paul Wilkinson – Hampton School, Middlesex<br />
Chemistry<br />
Edward Beake – Hampton School, Middlesex<br />
Hannah Buckley – <strong>St</strong>roud High School, Gloucestershire<br />
Claire Carpenter – Leicester Grammar School<br />
Simon Cassidy – Cowbridge School, South Glamorgan<br />
Felix Chan – German Swiss International School, Hong Kong<br />
Aileen Frost – <strong>St</strong>owmarket High School, Suffolk<br />
Alice Gatland – Worthing Sixth Form <strong>College</strong>, West Sussex<br />
Wojciech Kaluza – Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace nr 4, Sosnowiec, Poland<br />
Jeremy – Brentwood School, Essex<br />
Michelle Savage – Pates Grammar School, Cheltenham<br />
Computer Science<br />
Peter McCurrach – Bishop Luffa School, Chichester<br />
Toby Smyth – Richard Huish <strong>College</strong>, Taunton<br />
Marcin Ulinski – Spo∏eczne Liceum Ogólnokszta∏càce im Jam<br />
Saheba Digvijay Sinhji – Poland<br />
Economics & Management<br />
Mary Intsiful – Sacred Heart <strong>of</strong> Mary Girls’ School, Upminster<br />
Henry Shek – Harrow School, Middlesex<br />
Engineering Science<br />
Liam Dempsey – Guiseley School, Leeds<br />
Alexander Dibb – Westminster School, London<br />
Matthew Passman – Bancr<strong>of</strong>t’s School, Woodford Green<br />
Edward Porter – Radley <strong>College</strong>, Abingdon<br />
Samuel Rushworth – Bishop Wordsworth School, Salisbury<br />
Gavin Sillitto – <strong>St</strong>ewarts Melville <strong>College</strong>, Edinburgh<br />
Joshua Sutherland – Exeter School, Devon<br />
Mark Weston – Perse School, Cambridge<br />
English Language & Literature<br />
Caroline Bird – Mander Portman Woodward, London<br />
Maximilian Bryant – Westminster School, London<br />
Aleksandra Chadzynski – <strong>St</strong> Paul’s Girls’ School, London<br />
Lucy Hartley – Ripon Grammar School, North Yorkshire<br />
Bryony Hope – Camden School for Girls, London<br />
Christopher Pearson – King Edward VI Camp Hill School for<br />
Boys, Birmingham<br />
<strong>St</strong>ephanie Pope – West Bridgford School, Nottingham<br />
Sarah Readman – Bishop Luffa School, Chichester<br />
Experimental Psychology<br />
Meghan Hardman – Clitheroe Royal Grammar School, Lancashire<br />
Emma Kilford – Friary County High School, Lichfield<br />
Fine Art<br />
<strong>St</strong>ephen Bochonek – Prince Henry’s Grammar School, Otley<br />
Joyce Kalema – William Morris Academy, London<br />
Ge<strong>of</strong>frey Tibbs – Winchester <strong>College</strong>, Hampshire<br />
Geography<br />
Jenny Casswell – Tunbridge Wells Girls’ Grammar School, Kent<br />
Max Grandison – <strong>St</strong> Paul’s School, London<br />
Hannah Hammond – Bolton School Girls’ Division, Lancashire<br />
Rhodri James – Dyffryn Tas School, Carmarthenshire<br />
Holly Jones – Camden School for Girls, London<br />
Kary Lau – Headington School, Oxford<br />
Thomas Monteath – Hereford Sixth Form <strong>College</strong><br />
Zoe Thomas – Wycombe High School, Buckinghamshire<br />
Hitomi Yokoyama – Woldingham School, Surrey<br />
History<br />
Sebastian Bicen – Dame Alice Owen’s School, Hertfordshire<br />
Joshua Brinkers – Peter Symonds <strong>College</strong>, Winchester<br />
David Bull – Norwich School<br />
Lydia Forte – <strong>St</strong> Paul’s Girls’ School, London<br />
Laura Gray – Sydenham High School, London<br />
Sophie Herlihy – Portsmouth Grammar School, Hampshire<br />
Ross Hughes – Halesowen <strong>College</strong>, West Midlands<br />
Lindsay Weare – Honiton Community <strong>College</strong>, Devon<br />
History & Modern Languages<br />
Audrey Ariss – Westminster School, London<br />
History & Politics<br />
Kirsten Elliott – James Allens Girls’ School, London<br />
Thomas Haynes – Lincoln Minster School<br />
Victoria O’Brien – Wycombe High School, Buckinghamshire<br />
History <strong>of</strong> Art<br />
Eloise Maxwell – Henley <strong>College</strong>, Oxfordshire<br />
Eva Tausig – South Hampstead High School, London<br />
Emma Thorneycr<strong>of</strong>t – Westminster School, London<br />
Human Sciences<br />
Kirsty Bell – Earlston High School, Berwickshire<br />
Tanya Bird – Worcester Sixth Form <strong>College</strong><br />
Aisha Mirza – Seven Kings High School, Ilford<br />
Melba Mwanje – <strong>St</strong> Francis Xavier VI Form <strong>College</strong>, London<br />
Anna Ockwell – Royal High School, Bath<br />
Clare Wilcockson – <strong>St</strong> Bernards Convent School, Slough<br />
Law<br />
Ruth Campbell – Madras <strong>College</strong>, <strong>St</strong> Andrews<br />
Amy Carr – Hereford Sixth Form <strong>College</strong><br />
Paul Fisher – Whitchurch High School, Cardiff<br />
Kathryn Hernandez – Bury Grammar School for Girls, Lancashire<br />
Robert Moore – West Buckland School, Devon<br />
Lucy Tester – Henley <strong>College</strong>, Oxfordshire<br />
Charlie Thompson – Dauntsey’s School, Devizes<br />
Alexandria Winstanley – Lymm High School, Cheshire<br />
Materials Science<br />
Joe Bennett – Reeds School, Cobham<br />
Timothy Butler – Bishop Wordsworth School, Salisbury<br />
Tarik Saif – High <strong>St</strong>orrs School, Sheffield<br />
Cheuk Tung Wong – Canford School, Wimborne<br />
Mathematics<br />
Amanda Adjepong – <strong>St</strong> Peter’s School, York<br />
Luke Harris – Sir Thomas Rich’s School, Gloucester<br />
Ivan Lam – Dulwich <strong>College</strong>, London<br />
Zubin Siganporia – <strong>St</strong> Olave’s Grammar School, Orpington<br />
John Zhang – Sidcot School, North Somerset<br />
Mathematics & Philosophy<br />
Amy Bellamy – Gorseinon <strong>College</strong>, Swansea<br />
Samuel Boaden – Bacup & Rawtenstall Grammar School, Lancashire<br />
Mathematics & <strong>St</strong>atistics<br />
Timothy Chu – Abingdon School, Oxfordshire<br />
70/ADMISSIONS 2007
GAZETTE<br />
Medicine<br />
James Demery – Llanishen High School, Cardiff<br />
Nicholas Denny – Oundle School, Northamptonshire<br />
Jonathan Fee – Down High School, Northern Ireland<br />
Katrina Fordwor – Crompton House School, Oldham<br />
Isobel Neville – Prior Park <strong>College</strong>, Bath<br />
Kamal Patel – Gorseinon <strong>College</strong>, Swansea<br />
Modern Languages<br />
Caroline Barker – King Edward VI <strong>College</strong>, Totnes<br />
Timothy Beyer – Harrow School, Middlesex<br />
Harry Forman Hardy – Harrow School, Middlesex<br />
Luiza Grizzelle – Latymer Upper School, London<br />
Mary Heath – Grey Coat Hospital School, London<br />
Helena Moore – Lady Eleanor Holles School, Middlesex<br />
Eleanor Mortimer – Farlingaye High School, Woodbridge<br />
Modern Languages & Linguistics<br />
Felix Grovit – Westminster School, London<br />
Nicholas Gurung – Charterhouse, Godalming<br />
Sophie Roberts – <strong>St</strong> Olave’s Grammar School, Orpington<br />
Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry<br />
Charlotte Heads – <strong>St</strong> Peter’s School, York<br />
Rachel Moore – King Edward VI <strong>College</strong>, <strong>St</strong>ourbridge<br />
Christopher Powell – Aquinas <strong>College</strong>, <strong>St</strong>ockport<br />
Kate <strong>St</strong>uart – <strong>St</strong> Mary’s School, Cambridge<br />
Music<br />
Naomi Bath – Dr Challoner’s High School, Amersham<br />
Hilary Cornwell – Leeds Girls’ High School<br />
David Merriman – Gorseinon <strong>College</strong>, Swansea<br />
Anna Wardell – Hills Road Sixth Form <strong>College</strong>, Cambridge<br />
Oriental <strong>St</strong>udies<br />
Marta Krzeminska – II Liceum Ogólnoksztalcace im <strong>St</strong>efana<br />
Batorego, Poland<br />
Nathan Letore – Lycee d’Etat International de Ferney Voltaire, France<br />
Abdullahi Mohammed – Isleworth and Syon School, Middlesex<br />
Philosophy, Politics & Economics<br />
Mark Blundell – Wycliffe <strong>College</strong>, Gloucestershire<br />
<strong>St</strong>efana Bosse – American Community School, Middlesex<br />
Ann Don Bosco – Wallington High School for Girls, Surrey<br />
Peter Kiln – Richard Hale School, Hertford<br />
Alan MacNaughton – Northgate High School, Ipswich<br />
Benita Mahtani – Henrietta Barnett School, London<br />
Nadeem Nanjuwany – Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School, Elstree<br />
Rossa O’Keeffe-O’Donovan – Dame Alice Owen’s School,<br />
Hertfordshire<br />
Katarina Punovuori – American School <strong>of</strong> Warsaw, Poland<br />
Physics<br />
Chaos Chhapi – Leicester Grammar School<br />
Christopher Cody – Plymouth <strong>College</strong>, Devon<br />
Ge<strong>of</strong>frey Evans – Bedford School<br />
Pascal Jerome – Sutton Grammar School for Boys, Surrey<br />
Alun Perkins – John <strong>of</strong> Gaunt School, Trowbridge<br />
Scott Riseborough – Olchfa School, Swansea<br />
Jade Ryan – John Henry Newman School, <strong>St</strong>evenage<br />
Xiao Yi Tan – Kingswood School, Bath<br />
Physiological Sciences<br />
Will Darwin – Hereford Sixth Form <strong>College</strong><br />
Rupinder Ghatrora – Morley High School, Leeds<br />
Catherine Wherity – Bournemouth School for Girls, Dorset<br />
Psychology, Philosophy & Physiology<br />
Olivia Mackintosh – Headington School, Oxford<br />
Ceridwen Williams – Eirias High School, Colwyn Bay<br />
GRADUATES<br />
Roham Alvandi, BA <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Sidney, Australia; MA Tufts<br />
<strong>University</strong>, USA; MPhil <strong>St</strong> Antony’s <strong>College</strong>, Oxford, DPhil Politics &<br />
International Relations<br />
Sara Arezoo, BEng Sheffield Hallam <strong>University</strong>, DPhil Engineering<br />
Science<br />
<strong>St</strong>ephen Attree, BA <strong>St</strong> Catherine’s, M<strong>St</strong> Medieval & Modern<br />
Languages *<br />
Mariam Azeez, BSc Lahore <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Management Sciences,<br />
Pakistan, MSc (C) Financial Economics<br />
Khalida Azhigulova, LLB Kazakh Humanitarian & Law <strong>University</strong>,<br />
Kazakhstan, MJuris Law<br />
Tiffany Bayliss, BA Princeton <strong>University</strong>, USA, M<strong>St</strong> Film Aesthetics<br />
Guy Bedford, BA <strong>St</strong> Catherine’s, MSc (C) Mathematical Modelling<br />
& Scientific Computing *<br />
Malcolm Birdling, BA, LLB Victoria <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Wellington, New<br />
Zealand; BCL <strong>St</strong> Catherine’s, MPhil Law *<br />
Hannah Boyd, BA Royal Holloway, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> London, M<strong>St</strong> History<br />
Nicola Brandt, BA John Cabot <strong>University</strong>, Rome, M<strong>St</strong> History <strong>of</strong><br />
Art & Visual Culture<br />
Rachel Brettell, BA <strong>St</strong> Catherine’s, 2nd BM Clinical Medicine *<br />
Benjamin Britton, MEng <strong>St</strong> Catherine’s, DPhil Materials *<br />
Nicholas Brodie, BA <strong>St</strong> Catherine’s, MSc (C) Drylands Science &<br />
Management *<br />
Ruth Busby, BA <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Brighton, M<strong>St</strong> History <strong>of</strong> Art &<br />
Visual Culture<br />
Kai-Hsuan Chang, BSc Tunghai <strong>University</strong>, Taiwan; MSc National<br />
Central <strong>University</strong>, Taiwan, DPhil Chemistry<br />
Razan Charara, BSc American <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Beirut, Lebanon, MSc<br />
(C) Mathematical & Computational Finance<br />
Eftihia Chatzistefanidi, BA <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Patras, Greece, M<strong>St</strong><br />
Film Aesthetics<br />
Tong Cheng, BA <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Sunderland, M<strong>St</strong> Film Aesthetics<br />
Chung Hyun Cho, BA Chung-Ang <strong>University</strong>, South Korea, MSc<br />
(C) Evidence-Based Social Work<br />
Zoe Christodoulou, BSc <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> East Anglia, DPhil Clinical<br />
Medicine<br />
Gertrude Cloyd, MA Smith <strong>College</strong>, USA, MSc (C) Science &<br />
Medicine Athletic Performance<br />
Ion Codreanu, MD <strong>St</strong>ate <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Medicine & Pharmacy,<br />
Moldova; PhD <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Medicine & Pharmacy, Romania, MSc<br />
(C) Diagnostic Imaging (part-time)<br />
Serryth Colbert, MB BCh, BAO National <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Galway,<br />
Ireland; BDS <strong>University</strong> <strong>College</strong> Cork, Ireland, MSc (C) Evidence-<br />
Based Health Care (part-time)<br />
Danielle Connolly, BA School <strong>of</strong> Oriental & African <strong>St</strong>udies,<br />
London, MSc (C) African <strong>St</strong>udies<br />
Cristina Crichton, Lic, Mag <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Chile, M<strong>St</strong> Theology<br />
Colin Cunnington, MBChB <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Manchester, DPhil<br />
Clinical Medicine<br />
Aqeela Datoo, BSc Mercer <strong>University</strong>, USA, MSc (C) Educational<br />
<strong>St</strong>udies<br />
Mark Davies, BSc, MSc <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Manchester, MBA<br />
Management <strong>St</strong>udies<br />
Rebeca de Buen Kalman, BSc National <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Mexico,<br />
MSc (C) Water Science, Policy & Management<br />
Nicholas Douglas, BMedSc, MBChB Otago <strong>University</strong>, New<br />
Zealand, MSc (C) Global Health Science<br />
Alessandra Durand, BA <strong>St</strong>anford <strong>University</strong>, USA, MPhil Latin<br />
American <strong>St</strong>udies<br />
Nadiya Figueroa, BA <strong>St</strong>anford <strong>University</strong>, USA; MA <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
the West Indies, Jamaica, MPhil Development <strong>St</strong>udies<br />
Christina Fuhr, BA Liverpool John Moores <strong>University</strong>; MA Leiden<br />
<strong>University</strong>, Netherlands; MSc <strong>St</strong> Catherine’s, DPhil Sociology *<br />
Rachel Garrett, BSc <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Cardiff; MSc Green <strong>College</strong>,<br />
Oxford, 1st BM (Graduate Entry) Clinical Medicine *<br />
Keith Geary, BA <strong>College</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>St</strong> Mark & <strong>St</strong> John; BSc <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
London; MEd <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Keele; Dipl <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Oxford, MSc (C)<br />
English Local History (part-time)<br />
ST CATHERINE’S COLLEGE 2007/71
GAZETTE<br />
Pippa Gilchrist, BA <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Warwick, MSc (C) Latin<br />
American <strong>St</strong>udies<br />
Adam Goodfellow, BA <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Durham, M<strong>St</strong> European<br />
Archaeology<br />
Matthew Goodro, BS, MS <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Utah, USA, DPhil<br />
Engineering Science<br />
William Gregory, BA Gettysburg <strong>College</strong>, USA; VS <strong>St</strong> Catherine’s,<br />
MSc (C) Global Governance and Diplomacy<br />
Colin Groshong, BA <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Pennsylvania, USA, MPhil<br />
Politics (Comparative Government)<br />
Christoph Haase, Diplom Technical <strong>University</strong> Dresden, Germany,<br />
DPhil Computing<br />
Jessica Harm, BSc <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Washington, USA; Linacre<br />
<strong>College</strong>, Oxford, DPhil Zoology<br />
Jennifer Hayden, BA William Paterson <strong>University</strong>, USA, MSc (C)<br />
Nature, Society & Environmental Policy<br />
Martin Herink, BA Wilfrid Laurier <strong>University</strong>, Canada, M<strong>St</strong> Film<br />
Aesthetics<br />
Jan Herzog, Diplom Humboldt <strong>University</strong>, Germany, MSc (C)<br />
Diagnostic Imaging<br />
Sally Ho, BSS, LLB, PCLL <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Hong Kong, BCL Law<br />
Daniel Hudson, BSc <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> York, DPhil Materials<br />
Francesco Iodice, Laurea <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Siena, Italy; DLS<br />
Worcester <strong>College</strong>, Oxford, MJuris Law<br />
Karthik Kaushik, BCom <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Delhi, India, MBA<br />
Management <strong>St</strong>udies<br />
Tahsina Khan, MEng Imperial <strong>College</strong>, London, DPhil Materials<br />
Maneesh Khattri, BE Karnataka National Institute <strong>of</strong> Technology,<br />
India; MSc Twente <strong>University</strong>, Netherlands, DPhil Computing<br />
Aleks Kissinger, BSc <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Tulsa, USA; VS <strong>St</strong> Catherine’s,<br />
MSc (C) Mathematics & the Foundation <strong>of</strong> Computer Science<br />
Carlos Lam, BEng Hong Kong Polytechnic <strong>University</strong>; MSc Imperial<br />
<strong>College</strong>, London, DPhil Engineering Science<br />
Keith Lam, LLB, PCLL <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Hong Kong, BCL Law<br />
Connie Lee, BSS, LLB, PCLL <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Hong Kong, BCL Law<br />
<strong>St</strong>ephen Lew, BS Carnegie Mellon <strong>University</strong>, USA; M<strong>St</strong> Harris<br />
Manchester, Oxford, DPhil Geography & the Environment<br />
Ernest Lim, LLB National <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Singapore; LLM Harvard<br />
<strong>University</strong>, USA, BCL Law<br />
Li Lin, BA Sun Yat-Sen <strong>University</strong>, China, MSc (C) Financial<br />
Economics<br />
Sensen Lin, BSc Tsinghua <strong>University</strong>, China, MSc (C)<br />
Mathematical & Computational Finance<br />
Maureen Liu, LLB, PCLL <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Hong Kong, BCL Law<br />
Yu Ping Luk, BA, BCom <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Melbourne, Australia; MPhil<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Hong Kong, DPhil History<br />
Nicole Malone, BEcon, LLB <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Adelaide, Australia, BCL<br />
Law<br />
Marius Mann, Diplom <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Konstanz, Germany; DrJuris<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Heidelberg, Germany, MJuris Law<br />
Christopher McCloskey, BA <strong>St</strong> Catherine’s, M<strong>St</strong> Medieval<br />
History *<br />
John McTague, BA, M<strong>St</strong> Mansfield <strong>College</strong>, Oxford, DPhil English<br />
Language & Literature<br />
Christopher Metcalf, MA <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Edinburgh, MPhil Oriental<br />
<strong>St</strong>udies (Cuneiform <strong>St</strong>udies)<br />
Anthony Mullin, BA Boston <strong>University</strong>, USA; MSc <strong>St</strong> Catherine’s,<br />
MSc (C) Criminology & Criminal Justice *<br />
Peter Myall, BA <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Nottingham, M<strong>St</strong> Musicology<br />
Laura Newton, LLB <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Durham, BCL Law<br />
Daniel Nicolae, Zwischenprüfung Humbolt <strong>University</strong>, Berlin; MSc<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Edinburgh, M<strong>St</strong> Jewish <strong>St</strong>udies<br />
Aoife O’Driscoll, BA <strong>University</strong> <strong>College</strong> Cork, Ireland; MPhil Trinity<br />
<strong>College</strong> Dublin, Ireland, M<strong>St</strong> English<br />
Minori Ohyama, BA Aoyama Gakuin <strong>University</strong>, Japan, MBA<br />
Management <strong>St</strong>udies<br />
Simon Owens, LLB, LLM <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Bristol, BCL Law<br />
Danae Papaioannou, BSc, MSc <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Warwick, MSc (C)<br />
Biology (Integrated Bioscience)<br />
Rachel Rowe, BA Merton <strong>College</strong>, Oxford; Dipl Oxford Brookes<br />
<strong>University</strong>, DPhil Clinical Medicine<br />
Jan Ruger, Diplom Fachhochschule Wiesbaden, Germany, MBA<br />
Management <strong>St</strong>udies<br />
Suzanne Ryan, BSc, PhD <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Nottingham, 1st BM<br />
(Graduate Entry) Clinical Medicine<br />
Clare Shakespeare, BA <strong>St</strong> Catherine’s, 2nd BM Clinical Medicine<br />
Marwa Sharafeldin, MSc London School <strong>of</strong> Economics, DPhil Law<br />
Dong Myung Shin, BSc, MSc Yonsei <strong>University</strong>, South Korea,<br />
DPhil Chemistry<br />
Tetsuya Shinohara, BA Kansai <strong>University</strong>, Japan, MBA<br />
Management <strong>St</strong>udies<br />
Henry Shum, MMathPhys <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Warwick, DPhil<br />
Mathematics<br />
Holly Sitsapesan, BA Gonville & Caius <strong>College</strong>, Cambridge, 2nd<br />
BM Clinical Medicine<br />
Adrian Smith, MBBS King’s <strong>College</strong> London; MSc London School<br />
<strong>of</strong> Tropical Medicine, DPhil Clinical Medicine<br />
Kazumasa Soga, BA Nagoya <strong>University</strong>, Japan; LLM <strong>St</strong>ockholm<br />
<strong>University</strong>, Sweden; PhD <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> London, M<strong>St</strong> Legal Research<br />
Roberta Sottocornola, Laurea <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Milan, DPhil Clinical<br />
Medicine<br />
Ann <strong>St</strong>eele, BSc <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Manchester; MSc Jesus <strong>College</strong>,<br />
Oxford, DPhil Experimental Psychology<br />
Imran Sultan, LLB <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Coventry, BCL Law<br />
David Szwer, MNSci Robinson <strong>College</strong>, Cambridge; Linacre<br />
<strong>College</strong>, Oxford, DPhil Physics<br />
Bassel Tarbush, BA <strong>University</strong> <strong>College</strong> London; VS <strong>St</strong> Catherine’s,<br />
MPhil Economics<br />
Laura Vittetoe, BA <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> West Florida, USA, M<strong>St</strong> English<br />
Alasdair Walker, MEng <strong>St</strong> Catherine’s, DPhil Engineering<br />
Science<br />
Martin Walsh, BSc <strong>St</strong> Mary’s <strong>University</strong> <strong>College</strong> Twickenham, MSc<br />
(C) Science & Medicine Athletic Performance<br />
Keiko Watanabe, DDS Kyushu <strong>University</strong>, Japan, DPhil<br />
Pharmacology<br />
Emily Webster, BA <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> British Columbia, Canada, MSc<br />
(C) Social Anthropology<br />
Johanna Wiese, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, France; MA<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>St</strong> Andrews, MPhil Migration <strong>St</strong>udies<br />
Sebastian Wolf, LLM, DrJuris Martin Luther <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Halle-<br />
Wittenberg, Germany, MJuris Law<br />
Georgina Worthington, BA Wadham <strong>College</strong>, Oxford, 2nd BM<br />
Clinical Medicine<br />
Hao Zhang, BSc Wuhan <strong>University</strong>, China, MSc (R) Materials<br />
Yan Zhu, BA Fudan <strong>University</strong>, China, MSc (C) Sociology<br />
VISITING GRADUATE STUDENTS<br />
Nurzhan Dzhumabaev, BSc Bishkek Humanities <strong>University</strong>,<br />
Kyrgyzstan; MSc Central European <strong>University</strong>, Hungary<br />
ADMITTED TO THE FELLOWSHIP<br />
Dr Giandomenico Iannetti to a Fellowship by Special Election in<br />
Medicine<br />
Dr Timothy J Bayne to a Tutorial Fellowship in Philosophy<br />
Mr Robert E Mabro to a Fellowship by Special Election<br />
Dr Andrew P S Wheeler to a Fellowship by Special Election in<br />
Engineering and Rolls-Royce Industrial Fellowship<br />
Dr Kirsten E Shepherd-Barr to a Tutorial Fellowship in English<br />
Dr Angela B Brueggemann to a Fellowship by Special Election<br />
in Biological Sciences<br />
Dr Robert J Whittaker to a Junior Research Fellowship in<br />
Mathematics<br />
Dr James E Thomson to a Junior Research Fellowship in<br />
Chemistry<br />
Dr Maja H Spener to a Junior Research Fellowship in Philosophy<br />
Dr Nicholas W J Attfield to a Fellowship by Special Election in<br />
Music and British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellowship<br />
* indicates graduate <strong>of</strong> the <strong>College</strong><br />
72/ADMISSIONS 2007
Master and Fellows 2007<br />
Timothy Bayne, (BA Otago, PhD<br />
Arizona)<br />
Tutor in Philosophy<br />
Robert E Mabro, CBE, MA (BEng<br />
Alexandria, MSc Lond)<br />
Fellow by Special Election<br />
Andrew P S Wheeler, MEng (PhD<br />
Camb)<br />
Fellow by Special Election in<br />
Engineering<br />
Rolls-Royce Industrial Fellow<br />
Kirsten E Shepherd-Barr, MA,<br />
DPhil (BA Yale)<br />
Tutor in English<br />
Angela B Brueggemann, DPhil<br />
(BSc <strong>St</strong> Olaf, MSc Iowa)<br />
Fellow by Special Election in<br />
Biological Sciences<br />
Robert J Whittaker (BA, PhD Camb)<br />
Junior Research Fellow in Mathematics<br />
James E Thomson, MChem, DPhil<br />
Junior Research Fellow in Chemistry<br />
Maja H Spener, BA (MPhil, PhD Lond)<br />
Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy<br />
Nicholas W J Attfield, M<strong>St</strong>, DPhil<br />
(BMus Lond)<br />
Fellow by Special Election in Music<br />
Nichols Research Fellow<br />
British Academy Postdoctoral<br />
Research Fellow<br />
H O N O R A R Y F E L L O W S<br />
Leonard G Wolfson, The Rt Hon<br />
Lord Wolfson<br />
Laurie E Baragwanath, BPhil, MA<br />
(BA Melb)<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Sir John W Cornforth,<br />
Kt, CBE, DPhil (MSc Sydney), FRS<br />
Hilda Y Bullock, The Lady Bullock,<br />
MA<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Sir Brian E F Fender,<br />
Kt, CMG, MA (BSc, PhD Lond)<br />
Ruth Wolfson, Lady Wolfson<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Sir James L Gowans,<br />
Kt, CBE, MA, DPhil, FRCP, FRS<br />
Sir Austin E Bide, Kt, BSc, FRSC<br />
The Rt Hon Sir Patrick Nairne,<br />
GCB, MC, MA<br />
Benazir Bhutto, BA<br />
Sir Cameron A Mackintosh, Kt<br />
Sir Michael F Atiyah, OM, Kt, MA<br />
(PhD Camb), FRS, FRSE<br />
John Birt, Lord Birt <strong>of</strong> Liverpool, MA<br />
Tom Phillips, CBE, MA, RA, RE<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Sir Ge<strong>of</strong>frey Allen, Kt,<br />
(BSc, PhD Leeds), FRS, FREng, FRSC,<br />
FInstP, FIMMM<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Sir (Eric) Brian Smith,<br />
Kt, MA, DSc (PhD Liv), FRSC<br />
Tan Sri Dato’ Seri A P<br />
Arumugam, AP, CEng, FIEE, FRAeS,<br />
FIMarEST, FinstD, PSM, SSAP, SIMP,<br />
DSAP, DIMP<br />
Peter Mandelson, MA<br />
Sir John E Walker, Kt, MA, DPhil,<br />
FRS<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Noam Chomsky (PhD<br />
Penn)<br />
Sir Nicholas H <strong>St</strong>ern, DPhil (BA<br />
Camb), FBA<br />
Raymond Plant, The Rt Hon Lord<br />
Plant <strong>of</strong> Highfield, MA (BA Lond,<br />
PhD Hull)<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor David J Daniell, MA<br />
(BA, MA Tübingen, PhD Lond)<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Nicanor Parra (Lic Chile)<br />
Masaki Orita (LLB Tokyo)<br />
Sir (Francis) Humphrey Potts,<br />
BCL, MA<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Joseph E <strong>St</strong>iglitz (PhD<br />
MIT), FBA<br />
Sir Peter M Williams, CBE, MA<br />
(PhD Camb), FREng, FRS<br />
Sir (Maurice) Victor Blank, MA<br />
(Anthony) David Yates, MA<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Ah med Zewail (BS, MS<br />
Alexandria, PhD Penn)<br />
Michael Billington, BA<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Alan Katritzky, DPhil, FRS<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor C N Ramachandra Rao,<br />
MSc Banaras, PhD Purdue, DSc<br />
Mysore, FRS<br />
E M E R I T U S F E L L O W S<br />
Wilfrid F Knapp, MA<br />
Lloyd A <strong>St</strong>ocken, MA, DPhil, DSc<br />
Ernest L French, FHCIMA<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor John B Goodenough,<br />
MA (PhD Chicago)<br />
John Ch Simopoulos, BPhil, MA,<br />
Dean <strong>of</strong> Degrees<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Jack R Pole, MA (MA<br />
Camb, PhD Princeton), FBA, FRHistS<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor D Michael Sullivan,<br />
MA, DLitt (BA Lond, MA, LittD Camb,<br />
PhD Harvard)<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor George A Holmes, MA<br />
(MA, PhD Camb), FBA<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor John O Bayley, CBE, MA,<br />
FBA<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Donald H Perkins, CBE,<br />
MA (PhD Lond), FRS<br />
John W Martin, MA, DPhil (MA,<br />
PhD, ScD Camb)<br />
J Derek Davies, BCL, MA (LLB<br />
Wales)<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Peter G M Dickson,<br />
MA, DPhil, DLitt, FBA<br />
Bruce R Tolley, MA, DPhil (MA<br />
Victoria, Wellington)<br />
Barrie E Juniper, MA, DPhil,<br />
Secretary for Alumni<br />
Henry C Bennet-Clark, MA (PhD<br />
Camb)<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Daniel W Howe, MA<br />
(PhD Berkeley)<br />
<strong>St</strong>ephen J Sondheim (BA Williams)<br />
Sir Ian McKellen (BA Camb)<br />
Sir Alan Ayckbourn, CBE<br />
Michael V Codron, MA, CBE<br />
Sir Peter L Shaffer, CBE (BA<br />
Camb), FRSL<br />
Lord Attenborough, CBE<br />
Sir Richard C H Eyre, CBE (BA<br />
Camb)<br />
Thelma M B Holt, CBE<br />
Dame Diana Rigg, DBE<br />
Nicholas R Hytner (MA Camb)<br />
<strong>St</strong>ephen D Daldry (BA Sheff)<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Malcolm L H Green, MA<br />
(PhD Lond), FRS<br />
Sir Timothy M B Rice<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Terence V Jones, MA,<br />
DPhil<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Gilliane C Sills, MA<br />
(PhD Lond)<br />
Patrick Marber, BA<br />
Phyllida Lloyd, BA Birm<br />
G Ceri K Peach, MA, DPhil<br />
G Bruce Henning, MA (BA Toronto,<br />
PhD Penn)<br />
D O M U S F E L L O W S<br />
Sir Patrick Sergeant<br />
Lord Bragg<br />
Vee Meng Shaw<br />
Bruce G Smith<br />
Keith Clark<br />
Anthony W Henfrey<br />
Michael P Ullmann<br />
Roushan Arumugam<br />
Usha Q Arumugam<br />
Nadia Q Arumugam<br />
Simon F A Clark<br />
V I S I T I N G F E L L O W S<br />
* Pr<strong>of</strong>essor David Baum,<br />
Wisconsin, H08<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Christian Belin,<br />
Montpellier-III Paul-Valéry, H08<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor David Carnegie,<br />
Victoria, Wellington, T07<br />
* Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Patricia Thane,<br />
London, T08<br />
* Christensen Fellow<br />
R E S E A R C H A S S O C I A T E S<br />
Roger Gundle, BM, BCh, DPhil (MA<br />
Camb), FRCS (Eng), FRCS (Orth)<br />
Patrick E McSharry, DPhil (BA, MSc<br />
Dub)<br />
Walter Doralt, (Mgr, PhD Vienna)<br />
Photograph by Lucy Rowland
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