The College Record 2022

1972
Richard Geldard
Appointed Master of the Guild of Scriveners of the City of York.
1974
Michael Barber
Appointed as the seventh Chancellor of the University of Exeter in January 2021.
Sir Michael has been at the forefront of education and public life for over twenty years
and is a leading authority on education systems and reform. In addition in April 2022
he was appointed Chair of Somerset County Cricket Club.
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1977
Giles Orton
Appointed Priest in Charge, at St Anne's Church, Derby.
1978
Chris Blackburn
Having in hindsight, somewhat presciently decided to retire as Pro Vice-Chancellor
and Dean of Oxford Brookes University Business School after 30 years' service, and
before the pandemic fully took hold in 2020, Chris is now filling at least some of his
retirement time as an international accreditation panel chair and Business School
mentor on behalf of the Brussels-based European Foundation for Management
Development (EFMD).
1979
Richard Neal
Appointed organist of the parish of Paphos, Cyprus.
1979
Cath Rees
Appointed Professor of Microbiology, at the School of Biosciences, University of
Nottingham, in January 2022. In June 2022 she was appointed to The Advisory
Committee on the Microbiological Safety of Food (ACMSF), an independent scientific
committee that provides expert advice to government. She is also CSO of PBD
Biotech Ltd, a University of Nottingham spin-out company, which won the British
Veterinary Association Innovation Award in 2021 for developing Actiphage, a rapid,
accurate test for tuberculosis that detects the presence of the live mycobacteria in
a sample of blood or milk.
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