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The President’s Letter 2013 marks my fifth year as President of Wolfson College, and I am happy to report that, on the whole, it has been an exciting and rewarding year for the College. We have had some sad and momentous losses. We are very sorry to have said goodbye to that great and distinguished scholar of Jewish studies, world-famous historian of Jesus and of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Geza Vermes. We are profoundly sad to have lost from our company Jon Stallworthy’s wife Jill, for very many years a friend to the College and much loved and admired by many of us. Jon’s active and dedicated presence in the College is something we all benefit from; long may it continue. We salute the passing of our oldest graduate, the venerable student of archaeology Gertrud Seidmann, at the age of 93. We said goodbye this year to a number of members of staff and colleagues. Dr John Penney, now Emeritus, is, happily, still very much in our midst, and was the first person to hold a seminar in our new auditorium, on Neo-Punic inscriptions. Dr Devi Sridhar, who moved away to Edinburgh, is flourishing there. On the staff side, we were sorry to lose Anna Chancellor and Katy Watson in the development office, though we welcome Kathie Mackay in their place; and we were sorry to say goodbye to Chris Kitchen from the bus and Sandra Keogh from the gardens. The College has been extremely fortunate to appoint Juliet Montgomery as the new College Secretary, and she has fitted in so well and so quickly that she is already an indispensable and much-admired Wolfsonian. The loss of one senior Wolfsonian, our Emeritus Fellow Dr Francis Marriott, led to a wonderful stroke of good fortune for the College. Having been the anonymous donor of Q Block, which I renamed the Catherine Marriott building last November, Francis left us a legacy amounting to about 5 million, a substantial proportion of which the College has decided to spend on graduate scholarships, fortunately coinciding with the University’s matched funded graduate scholarships scheme. This was a transformative gift for the College and made an exciting start to the academic year. Among our Governing Body fellows we have welcomed some stellar new arrivals: Dr Andrew Wells, UL in Physical Climate Science; Dr Wolfgang de Melo, UL in Classical Philology; Dr Michael Chappell, UL in Biomedical Engineering; Dr Hein De Haas, UL in Migration Studies; Dr Jonathan Barrett, UL in Computer Science; 19
Professor Paul Aveyard, Reader in Primary Care Health Sciences; and Dr Moritz Riede, UL in Soft Functional Nanomaterials. We are saying goodbye to Professor Andrew Neil as the most impeccable, dedicated, professional Senior Tutor a college could have – though not, luckily, saying goodbye to him as Wine Steward. He will be a very hard act to follow, but I am confident that our new Senior Tutor, Gillian Hargreaves, will take on the challenge with spirit. We pay tribute on his retirement to our Senior Fellow, Professor Dan Isaacson, whose fine and gentle spirit will be much missed from our Governing Body, though I am sure we will not be losing sight of him. We have acquired a new College Visitor, the Rt. Hon. the Lord Mance, Justice of the Supreme Court, who has already paid us a very affable visit, but who I don’t think has any very onerous duties here unless the College decides to depose me. In December 2012 we said farewell to Jan Scriven, who had worked for the College for twenty years as College Secretary, and has now, luckily for us, become the College’s Arts Administrator. She gave the College twenty years of utterly professional, impeccable, unstinting work. But more than that, beyond her accurate and dedicated work for our College committees and administration, she brought to the College’s life her wonderfully rich and various and deep mixture of interests, her passionate commitment to the arts, her generous dedication to our charity AMREF, and her boundless enthusiasm for the College’s activities. At all hours of the day, on weekends and evenings, Jan could be found setting up or hosting an art exhibition or a concert, running her reading group, or organising and attending lectures and seminars. Beyond all that unceasing energy and activity, we thank her and celebrate her for her generosity, her interest in others, her thoughtfulness, tact, wisdom, and good humour. Many of our colleagues have had notable successes this year. It’s hard to persuade some of them to blow their own trumpet, so let me do it on their behalf. Samson Abramsky is the 2013 winner of the Lovelace Medal of the British Computer Society. Elleke Boehmer has been awarded a Leverhulme International Network Grant for 2014–16. Barbara Casadei was awarded a British Heart Foundation Professorship. Lucie Cluver masterminded a project, which included a film by five AIDS orphans from Cape Town, at the 29th International Conference on AIDS. Jacob Dahl created 20
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Page 9 and 10: Rice, Ellen Elizabeth, MA, DPhil (B
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Page 43 and 44: Dr Edward Thorogood Dr Peter Turner
Page 45 and 46: Mr Samuel Thomas Dr Mark Tito Profe
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Page 49 and 50: Sketching Wolfson’s new building
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Roussos, Evangelos (GS 2000-12) DPh
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Tuladhar, Kapil (GS 2008-12) DPhil
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Elections and Admissions 2012-13 Em
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Barth, Jasper (MPhil Development St
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Kumpik, Daniel (DPhil Physiology, A
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Tai, Li Yian (MSc Financial Economi
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Clubs and Societies AMREF Group The
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Quite coincidentally, Jon Rowland a
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time, we have welcomed Catriona Can
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in prosecco kindly provided by the
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continued throughout the year with
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comets and asteroids, have been con
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St Antony’s 3-1, a hard-earned vi
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Karate For many years Wolfsonians h
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included the annual performance at
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your era, but without the dressing-
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translated A Countess in limbo: Dia
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a warm day, and the top seeds looke
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Wolfson/Darwin Day 2013 This year
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students and Fellows - vital for in
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Life-Stories Event The fourth annua
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thank her for her hard work, impert
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Wolfson’s Early Printed Books by
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firm in 1516. It includes a variety
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few lines of text are surrounded by
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Music is Everywhere by John Duggan,
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for the final part, and the Wolfsca
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so, with a little gentle prodding,
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The Death of a King by Martin Henig
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I suppose we were a generation lost
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In trying to develop creativity in
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Pawdle across the chumba John Penne
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Common Room, as a space where every
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The Record Adam Reilly proposes to
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Deaths Baldick Robert Julian (GS 19
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