College Record 2014

at the Ashmolean, and the comparative philologist Dr Peter Barber, whose wife
Kathleen brought us yet another new arrival, a baby boy born on 30 June 2014. Our
new Honorary Fellows are the Right Honorable Lord Jonathan Mance, Justice of
the Supreme Court and our College Visitor, and Christian Levett, the collector and
businessman, owner and founder of the Mougins Museum, and generous patron of
the College’s Ancient World activities.
But our distinguished connections are not the only people we celebrate. The
College is fuelled, day in day out, by the people who work with dedication and
professionalism in all the offices, from nursery and housekeeping and the kitchen
to accounts, from accommodation and the lodge to PA’s and secretaries. In that
context we have welcomed Shaun Darby to the Administrative Office, Victor
Martinez as our new Assistant Steward, and Karen McNally in Accounts. We note
with gratitude and awe that Mike Pearson has worked here as college gardener, this
year, for twenty-five years. Thanks to him and his team, the gardens are looking as
good as I’ve ever seen them.
Various Wolfsonians have been showered with honours this year, none more
deserved than for our admired colleague Richard Sorabji, newly knighted for
services to philosophical scholarship. Notable honours have also gone to Emeritus
Fellow Tony Watts, made a Fellow of the Royal Society; to Samson Abramsky,
awarded the BCS Lovelace Medal for 2013; to Gillies McKenna, awarded the
2014 Gold Medal of the Royal College of Radiologists; to Glyn Humphreys, given
the Donald Broadbent Prize for Research by the European Society for Cognitive
Psychology; to Jonathan Pila, awarded the 2013 Karp Prize of the Association for
Symbolic Logic; to Elleke Boehmer, appointed one of the judges of the International
ManBooker Prize; to Supernumary Fellow James Crabbe, elected as a National
Leader of Governance for the Association of Colleges; and to Susan Walker, who
won a Getty Museum Scholar Award for 2015.
Our colleagues Ulrike Roesler, Nikita Sud and Mark Ventresca have been acclaimed
with Teaching Excellence awards and an award for Innovation in Teaching. And
let us not neglect our Research Fellows, who are so important to us and who do
so much to make the College the distinctive and rich environment that it is. They
will forgive me if I pick out just one of their many achievements, that of Dr Elise
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