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REPORTS<br />
Board Games Society<br />
by Michael Slota<br />
Two years ago, Nicola Dotti<br />
and I founded the Wolfson<br />
Board Game Society. With<br />
the funds given by the <strong>College</strong> this year, we<br />
were able to extend our collection of board<br />
games which comprises simpler and more<br />
complex games, so that players without<br />
previous knowledge can have fun, but<br />
experts will still be challenged. The collection<br />
contains strategic and role-playing games,<br />
as well as social games for larger gatherings.<br />
Games are being played regularly, and<br />
we like to think they extend the range of<br />
entertainment possibilities in <strong>College</strong>. They<br />
are a great way to meet new people and<br />
have fun together.<br />
We hosted a big event at Fresher’s Week<br />
with more than twenty people attending.<br />
It was a lot of fun and a great success in<br />
recruiting new players.<br />
Boat Club<br />
by Sophie Schauman<br />
This year the Club celebrated<br />
fifty years since our first<br />
appearance in Summer Eights, and we did it<br />
with a BANG!<br />
2018/19 started like most years with a<br />
large intake of novices, many of whom soon<br />
found lots of fun, friends and fitness. The<br />
novice men finished the term with a win<br />
in Nephthys Regatta, and the women took<br />
second place in Christ Church Regatta.<br />
In Hilary the novice and senior squads<br />
merged to train together for Torpids.<br />
Wolfson entered more crews than any<br />
other college: five men’s crews and<br />
three women’s crews. Many members<br />
experienced bumping and getting bumped,<br />
but the bumps up outnumbered the bumps<br />
down. M4, consisting of recent alumni who<br />
wanted to row one last time, managed to<br />
bump every day and were awarded Blades.<br />
After Torpids, our sights were set on<br />
Summer Eights. Again, training meant<br />
early mornings on the river, blood, sweat<br />
and tears on the rowing machine. But<br />
training pays off, and at Summer Eights we<br />
again entered five men’s crews and three<br />
women’s. M4 (a beer boat out for fun and<br />
bumps) and M5 (a mixed crew that included<br />
three women) battled it out in the lower<br />
divisions. M4, which included many former<br />
first-crew rowers, had no problem catching<br />
the boats ahead and moved up six places.<br />
M5, on the other hand, got bumped every<br />
day and were awarded Spoons, but their<br />
spirits never faltered. Two of their members<br />
got their revenge when they joined M3, and<br />
bumped at every opportunity and were<br />
awarded Blades and the M3 Headship. W3<br />
also succeeded in maintaining their W3<br />
Headship, and bumped up 3 places. M2 and<br />
W2 both held their positions, both being<br />
bumped once and bumping once, with W2<br />
also holding the W2 Headship. M1 fought<br />
hard in the top end of men’s division 1, but<br />
unfortunately went down one place. But<br />
W1 succeeded, for the first time ever in the<br />
history of the Club (both men and women),<br />
in reaching the Headship, the highest<br />
position on the river of all colleges.<br />
The fiftieth anniversary and the new<br />
Headship were celebrated at an alumni<br />
dinner on the Saturday of Summer Eights,<br />
which hosted both recent alumni and alumni<br />
from earlier years, including members of the<br />
very first (1969) crew. Our achievements<br />
owe quite as much to the commitment of<br />
previous members as to that of current<br />
members.<br />
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COLLEGE RECORD <strong>2019</strong>
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