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The President’s Letter<br />
SIR TIM HITCHENS<br />
May I begin this annual letter to Wolfsonians<br />
around the world with thanks to you all,<br />
who make up the global Wolfson community.<br />
interviewed for the position by Isaiah Berlin<br />
himself. It brought the past very firmly to the<br />
present.<br />
‘The joke runs that you can<br />
tell the retired Ambassador<br />
because he or she gets into<br />
the back of the car and it<br />
doesn’t drive off.’<br />
When I last wrote I was a recently retired<br />
ambassador. The joke runs that you can tell<br />
the retired ambassador because he or she<br />
gets into the back of the car and it doesn’t<br />
drive off. I’m pleased to say that I now feel<br />
very much a part of the Wolfson furniture<br />
after over a year in place, and it is my trusty<br />
bike which serves me well to get to Broad<br />
Street for Conference of <strong>College</strong>s Meetings,<br />
to the Thames for the racing, or to the<br />
Warneford Site or the Old Road Campus if I<br />
need the exercise.<br />
This academic year was the fiftieth<br />
anniversary of our first Graduate Students<br />
arriving at Wolfson <strong>College</strong>, in October<br />
1968. I had the pleasure of joining George<br />
Smith, one of those pioneers, in visiting<br />
our original premises at 60 Banbury Road,<br />
now part of Kellogg <strong>College</strong> – where he<br />
showed me the room in which he had been<br />
Departures and arrivals<br />
Let me start with the sad business of<br />
recalling friends lost this year. I should pay<br />
tribute to Jyoti Raghu, studying for her DPhil<br />
in Theology, and one of the college’s Welfare<br />
Officers, who died tragically last summer.<br />
Other deaths include Professor Michael<br />
Metcalf, Professorial Governing Body Fellow<br />
from 1982–98; Dr John Mulvey, Governing<br />
Body Fellow from 1965 to 1984, and<br />
Maureen Marchant, <strong>College</strong> Staff from 1977<br />
to 2002, who some of you will remember<br />
became the House Manager.<br />
We have said thank you and farewell to Bill<br />
Conner as our long-serving Development<br />
Director, ably replaced by Huw David.<br />
A number of Governing Body Fellows<br />
are leaving us: we say farewell to Gillies<br />
McKenna, Jim Benson, Lucy Cluver, Ros<br />
Rickaby and Feliciano Giustino; the first<br />
two retiring from their departments after<br />
decades of service, the other three moving<br />
on to exciting new academic projects either<br />
here in Oxford or overseas. We welcomed<br />
Matthew Rushworth and Linda Mulcahy. And<br />
we will be welcoming two new Governing<br />
Body Fellows in Michaelmas Term: Loren<br />
Landau joins us from South Africa as a<br />
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