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Wolfson is a creative place, and our musicians and artists, our philosophers, singers<br />
and dancers, have had a lively year. Our Creative Arts Fellow, the composer, singer<br />
and conductor John Duggan, set up the Isaiah Choir, created a Wolfson soundscape,<br />
and brought his Sospiri Choir to the new Auditorium. It has been an energetic<br />
year for activities as various as the Alternative Choir, the History of Ideas reading<br />
group, the art shows, the Middle Eastern Dancers, the Fournier Trio and other<br />
visiting musicians, the Communist Bop, karaoke and whisky-tasting. The Venetian<br />
masked Winter Ball was an elegant, colourful, and well-run event. Oxjam raised<br />
money for Oxfam, and AMREF raised substantial sums at the fabulous Fireworks<br />
display last November and at our joyous family-friendly Summer Event. AMREF<br />
sent £3,200 this year to fund two midwives, to care for 1,000 mothers in a trans-<br />
African scheme, and hopes to fund fifty bicycles for them to travel between patients.<br />
The <strong>College</strong>’s sporting prowess has been much in evidence this year. The football<br />
club won the MCR League and were runners up in the MCR cuppers competition.<br />
After a difficult start to the training season, with the river flooded and the weather<br />
horrible, the Boat Club did brilliantly, with fine successes in Torpids and in Eights<br />
Week. The men’s first boat, containing three novices, ended Eights week fifth on<br />
the river, and the women’s first boat bumped up into the first Division on the last<br />
day. Wolfsonians gained High Profile awards in rowing and Ice Hockey, and there<br />
were Blues Awards to Michael Cameron for Lacrosse and to Chris Trisos for Water<br />
Polo. We won most of our sports events on Darwin Day in March, in what was<br />
described as ‘a pulsating contest’.<br />
Our more formal <strong>College</strong> events attracted good audiences and much interest. There<br />
was an elegant Syme Lecture by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill on the connections<br />
between the Sun King at Versailles and Roman history. The inspiringly pragmatic<br />
and public-spirited Paul Nurse talked on ‘Making Science Work’ for the Haldane<br />
Lecture. Vlatko Vedral gave a dazzling Royal Society lecture for our alumni, which<br />
made even me feel, for the duration of his talk, that I entirely grasped Quantum<br />
Physics. Glyn Humphries organized an excellent series of Wolfson Lectures on<br />
Neuroscience and Education this term, to inaugurate the Mind, Brain and Behaviour<br />
academic cluster.<br />
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