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Master and Fellows 2007Byron W Byrne, MA, DPhil (BCom,BEng Western Australia)Tutor in Engineering

W (Bill) I F David, MA, DPhilFellow by Special Election in Physics

Helen J Scott, MA, BCL, MPhil, DPhil(BA, LLB Cape Town)Tutor in Law(Leave M07)

Andrew M Barry, (BA Camb, DPhilSus)Tutor in GeographyReader in Geography

Thomas W Pickles, BA, MSt, DPhilFellow by Special Election in ModernHistory

Philip M Ligrani, (BS Texas, MS,PhD Stanford)Donald Schultz Professor ofTurbomachinery

Thomas P Witelski (BS CooperUnion, PhD CalTech)Tutor in MathematicsProfessor of Applied Mathematics

Richard M Bailey, (BSc Leics, MSc,PhD Lond)Tutor in Geography

Gaia Scerif, (BSc St And, PhD Lond)Fellow by Special Election inPsychology

Karl Sternberg, MAFellow by Special Election

Christoph Reisinger, (PhDHeidelberg)Tutor in Mathematics

Giandomenico Iannetti, (MD, PhDLa Sapienza Rome)Fellow by Special Election inMedicine

M A S T E RProfessor Roger W Ainsworth, MA, DPhil, FRAeS

F E L L O W SJohn R Ockendon, MA, DPhil, FRSOfficial FellowUniversity Lecturer in Mathematics(Leave M07)

Ian W Craig, MA (PhD Liv)Fellow by Special Election in HumanSciencesProfessor of Genetics

Sudhir Anand, MA, DPhilTutor in EconomicsHarold Hindley FellowProfessor of Economics(Leave M07)

Richard J Parish, MA, DPhil (BA Newc)Tutor in FrenchPhilip Spencer FellowProfessor of French

Jose F Harris, MA (PhD Camb), FBAWolfson Fellow Professor of Modern History

Fram E Dinshaw, MA, DPhilOfficial FellowFinance Bursar

Peter D Battle, MA, DPhilTutor in Inorganic ChemistryUnilever FellowProfessor of Inorganic ChemistryVice-Master

Revd Colin P Thompson, MA, DPhilTutor in Spanish(Leave M07-H08)

A Gervase Rosser, MA (PhD Lond)Tutor in History of Art Librarian

John S Foord, MA (PhD Camb)Tutor in Physical ChemistryProfessor of Chemistry

Michael J Spence, MA, DPhil (LLBSyd) Tutor in Law Head of the Social Science Division(Leave M07-T08)

Robert A Leese, MA (PhD Durh)Fellow by Special Election inMathematicsDirector of the Smith Institute

Louise L Fawcett, MA, DPhilTutor in PoliticsWilfrid Knapp FellowSenior Tutor

Susan Cooper, MA (PhD Calif)Professor of Experimental Physics

Helen J Mardon, MA, DPhil (BSc Sus)Tutor in Medical StudiesProfessor of Reproductive ScienceKobe Officer

Peter R Franklin, MA (BA, PhD York) Tutor in MusicProfessor of Music (Leave T08)

John Charles Smith, MATutor in French LinguisticsTutor for Admissions

Penny A Handford, MA (BSc, PhDSoton)Tutor in BiochemistryProfessor of Biochemistry (Leave M07-T08)

Timothy Cook, MA, DPhilFellow by Special Election

Richard I Todd, MA, DPhilTutor in Material SciencesGoldsmiths Fellow

Marc Lackenby, MA (PhD Camb)Tutor in Pure MathematicsLeathersellers’ FellowProfessor of MathematicsEPSRC Advanced Research Fellow(Leave M07-T08)

Duncan C-M Wu, MA, DPhilTutor in EnglishProfessor of EnglishM07 only

Marc E Mulholland, MA (BA, MA,PhD Belf)Tutor in Modern HistoryDean

Gavin Lowe, MA, DPhilTutor in Computer Science

Richard M Berry, MA, DPhilTutor in Physics

Angela R McLean, MA (PhD Lond)Tutor in ZoologyProfessor of Mathematical Biology(Leave M07-T08)

Ashok I Handa, MA (MBBS Lond),FRCSFellow by Special Election in MedicineTutor for Graduates

James L Bennett, MA (BA Reading)Fellow by Special ElectionHome Bursar

David J Womersley, MA (PhD Camb)Warton Professor of English Literature

Richard J Carwardine, MA, DPhilRhodes Professor of American History

Cressida E Chappell, MA (BA, MAHull)Fellow by Special ElectionAcademic RegistrarSecretary to the Governing Body

David R H Gillespie, MA, DPhilTutor in EngineeringRolls-Royce Fellow

Tarun Ramadorai, MA (BA Williams,MPhil Camb, PhD Harv)Tutor in Management StudiesM07 only(Leave M07)

Peter P Edwards, MA (BSc, PhDSalf), FRSProfessor of Inorganic Chemistry

Alexis J D Tadié (Lic, Maîtrise Paris-IVSorbonne, Doctorate Paris-X Nanterre)Fellow by Special ElectionDirector of Maison Française d'Oxford

Marius S Kwint, DPhil (MA Aberd)Fellow by Special Election in Historyof Art

Patrick S Grant, MA, DPhil (BEngNott)Cookson Professor of Materials

Justine N Pila (BA, LLB, PhD Melb)Tutor in Law

Bart B van Es (BA, MPhil, PhD Camb)Tutor in English(Leave M07)

Michael Sheppard, MA, DPhilFellow by Special Election

Julia M Powles, BA, DPhilFellow by Special Election in HumanSciences

Eric Descheemaeker, (Lic,Maîtrise, DEA Paris-I Panthéon-Sorbonne, LLM Lond)Fellow by Special Election in Law

Patrick S Bullard, MA, MSt, DPhil(MPhil Dubl)Junior Research Fellow in EnglishRank Research Fellow

Jorge Quintanilla, (Lic Salamanca,PhD Brist)Atlas Research Fellow in CondensedMatter Theory

Tommaso Pizzari, (BSc Aberd, PhDShef)Tutor in Zoology

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ContentsMaster’s Report 2

College Life The work of the Admissions Office 6Benefactors’ Day 8OXIP one year on 9Postcards to the Master 10Patrick Stewart’s Inaugural Lecture 12Introducing the work of Black Oxford 15The Nick Young Award 17Finals Results 2007 19Graduate Degrees and Diplomas 21Sports Review 23

Student Perspectives Kate Stinson 25Justin Puleo 26Tomasz Mazur 27Anna Avramenko 28Wallace Watson Award 29Emilie’s Charities – update 31

Alumni News Colin Smith and Andy Hodge 32Bill Ritchie 34Sir John Elvidge 36Jane Platt 37Desmond Brown 38William Woodruff 40News in brief 42Boston reunion 45Development Office & the College time capsule clue 46College Events List 2008 46

Catz Fellows Peter Franklin 48Gaia Scerif 51Ceri Peach 53Alexis Tadié 56John Charles Smith 58

Gazette Donald Hill 59Peter Schlechtriem 59Jack Lankester 60Lord Garden 63Obituaries 66Admissions 2007 70

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M E S S A G E S

I WOULD LIKE TO BEGIN MY SIXTH REPORT as Master of

St Catherine’s by paying tribute to the work of all our

staff, Fellows and Officers. Those of you close to the

action know from personal experience how important

every cog in the machine is, especially in a relatively small

institution such as ours. As I write this, I am only too

conscious that lack of space prevents me from

mentioning by name all those whose efforts ensure that

every aspect of College life runs smoothly.

This year we allow two Fellows to retire gracefully from

holding major College offices. As Dean, Henry Bennet-

Clark has given service beyond the call of duty in coming

out of retirement to take on decanal and welfare roles –

we are very grateful for his service. Colin Thompson,

Senior Tutor, also retires from office. Colin could not have

carried out his complex duties with more diligence and

commitment. He has helped many students over his four

years of office, and made my life, and that of other

officers, much easier because we knew that he would

deal with every issue expertly.

Two Tutors of immense experience have also retired this

year: Ceri Peach (Geography) and Bruce Henning

(Psychology). Between them, they have clocked up

seventy-two years of service for College, have

contributed much to this community, and are

remembered with great affection by generations of Catz

students. Professor Chris Graham also retires after a

distinguished research career in Zoology. Other Fellows

on the move include Berta Joncus, Lance Miller, who will

concentrate his activities in his Department, and Nick

Roberts, who moves to a permanent post at Durham. We

wish them well for their future careers.

During the last academic year there have been a large

number of new additions to the Fellowship – possibly a

record-breaking number. New Tutorial Fellows include Tim

Bayne in Philosophy, Gaia Scerif in Psychology, Christoph

Reisinger in Mathematics, and Richard Bailey in

Geography. Phil Ligrani took up the Donald Schultz Chair

in Turbomachinery, becoming a Professorial Fellow, and

Andrew Wheeler became the Rolls-Royce Industrial

Fellow, further strengthening our interests in the field of

aero-engine research. Karl Sternberg, Giandomenico

Iannetti, and Robert Mabro were made Fellows by Special

Election and, in their different ways, give excellent service

to College.

I am pleased to report that it has been a good year for

external recognition of the work of students and Fellows

alike. I can not mention them all but, at the

undergraduate level, Materials Science has performed

particularly well, with University Prizes awarded to

Benjamin Britton (Ironmongers Company Award),

Matthew Brooke-Hitching (Green Prize for the Best

Master’s ReportA message from Professor Roger Ainsworth, Master of St Catherine’s

Those of you

close to the

action know

from personal

experience

how important

every cog in

the machine is,

especially in a

relatively small

institution

such as ours.



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National Graduate in Ceramics), Michael Rogers (QinetiQ

Prize) and Femi Fadugba (Armourers Rolls-Royce Prize).

Languages also feature, with the Dudbridge Prize for

outstanding performance in Classical Chinese going to

Dewi Goulden, and Tim Motz, whose father and great-

uncle were both College members, winning the Pusey and

Ellerton Prize in Biblical Hebrew. Aleks Reinhardt took the

Degussa Company prize in Chemistry, and Dora Steel the

Wronker prize in Medicine. At the graduate level, Lucy

Hannington took the Pickering Prize for the Best Overall

Performance in Medicine and Surgery.

Those afforded public recognition for their achievements

from amongst the Fellowship include Peter Battle, who

was awarded a medal by the Royal Society of Chemistry

for his work in Solid State Chemistry. In May, John Charles

(JC) Smith was made a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes

Adadémiques for his services to the French Language and

French culture. Helen Mardon was nominated for an

award which acknowledges the achievements of ‘an

exceptional woman who shows bravery, compassion and

strives to make the world a better place’ by the Women

of the Year Lunch and Assembly, and Ceri Peach was

honoured by the Association of American Geographers

for his outstanding contribution to the advancement of

the discipline. From the ranks of former Masters,

Raymond Plant was awarded an honorary doctorate from

York University for his work in Philosophy and Peter

Williams was made Chancellor of Leicester University.

One of the least enjoyable tasks of this report is to

speak of those who have died during the year. We were

deeply saddened to learn of the death of Air Marshal


The Lord Garden, in August. Tim Garden (1962, Physics),

who was elected to an Honorary Fellowship at St

Catherine’s in 1994, had retained close links with Catz

and was a member of the College’s Rowing Society. He

supported Catz in many, many ways, and will be much

missed. In November we mourned the death of Jack

Lankester, Emeritus Fellow and University Surveyor, who

was closely involved with the construction of our

magnificent buildings. It is also with sadness that I

report the death of Peter Schlechtriem from Albert

Ludwig University, Freiburg, who was a Visiting Fellow at

St Catherine’s College in Hilary Term 2001.

It is with no little pleasure, however, that I report that

Catz alumni continue to achieve great things. To

mention but a few noteworthy examples of success: Bill

Ritchie (1971, Law) received an MBE in the Queen’s

New Year’s Honours List for his Services to the

Environment and Sustainable Development of the

Highlands and Islands, and Shaun Johnson (1982,

Social Studies), the Chief Executive of the Mandela

Rhodes Foundation in Cape Town, received awards and

international critical acclaim for his debut novel, The

Native Commissioner. In America, David Nersessian

(1999, Law (DPhil)) has been appointed Executive

Director of the Program on the Legal Profession at

Harvard Law School – a programme whose mission is to

‘increase understanding of the structures and norms of

the legal profession in the United States and around

the world’. Out on the water, Colin Smith (2003,

Geography) and Andy Hodge (2004, Water Science

Policy) – who both rowed with winning Oxford crews

while at Catz – continue to achieve success at the same

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Over the past

twelve months

the College

has hosted a

range of highly

successful and

enjoyable

events,

including a

Benefactors’

Day, a

fundraising All

Sports Dinner

and what is

perhaps the

largest Gaudy

that we have

ever

organised.

time as they submit themselves to a gruelling training

regime in their quest for Olympic glory next year.

The Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professorship has

proved to be a most constructive strategic move for

College and we attract many envious glances from the

rest of the University in having it based here. This year’s

Professor, Patrick Stewart, further strengthened the

Professoriate. His inaugural lecture in April, ‘Are You

Anybody?’, attracted a large, diverse audience. Some

came to hear about his Hollywood years as Captain Jean

Luc Picard in Star Trek, whilst many others wanted to

hear about his current activities with the Royal

Shakespeare Company. Such was his skill that he left both

portions of this disparate audience deeply satisfied.

The Cameron Mackintosh Lecture is just one opportunity

that College has had to open its doors to alumni and

friends. Over the past twelve months the College has

hosted a range of highly successful and enjoyable events,

including a Benefactors’ Day, a fundraising All Sports

Dinner and what is perhaps the largest Gaudy that we

have ever organised. As part of the University’s first

Alumni Weekend programme, alumni from other Halls and

Colleges were offered guided tours of the College.

Working in conjunction with the Oxford Preservation

Trust, Catz also participated in an ‘open doors’ scheme

that encouraged local people to explore their city and

visit places not normally open to the public. Away from

Oxford, the London Party was a wonderful occasion – I

was particularly delighted to see so many younger alumni

present, and hope that next year’s party will be equally

well attended.


M E S S A G E S

I have recently returned from a rapid tour of Yale,

Princeton, Berkeley, Stanford and UCLA. I was there in

my role as Chair of this University’s Building and

Estates Subcommittee (BESC), looking with others at

the way these institutions plan strategically for the

future – how they manage all aspects of their building

programmes, and how they fund them. I learnt much of

use from the BESC standpoint, but it was also extremely

useful from a College point of view. Having observed at

close quarters what is going on across the Atlantic, my

view is that our facilities – library, Hall, lecture theatre,

seminar rooms, student accommodation – compare

extremely well. Nevertheless, we need to work to

incorporate together our academic and facility plans. To

give but one example, we need to think about future

student workspace in the library. We have a real gem in

our Wolfson Library, and, as technology continues to

develop, we need to consider the likely future

requirements of this workspace, and do everything we

can to ensure it remains a place where our students

find it stimulating, convenient and attractive to work.

In May 2008 the University will be launching a

Campaign of Campaigns to raise funds to help secure

our future. We will be part of this, launching our own

campaign in April 2008 to celebrate our fiftieth year in

2012. We have examined our needs – securing the

future of the tutorial system, foundation and graduate

scholarships, student support funds, continuing

refurbishment and upgrading of the fabric, building our

endowment – and these will be the targets for our

campaign. We have travelled a long way since our

founders contemplated the building of this College and

community more than fifty years ago. Their execution

of those plans has given us a marvellous legacy. We

have remained true to their founding ideals. Now it is

time to look forward – to plan for our next half century

and, with your help, realise our ambitions.


We have

travelled a long

way since our

founders

contemplated

the building of

this College

and community

more than fifty

years ago.


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The Office’s constant interaction with schools, colleges

and potential students also helps it – and those who

work in it – to question existing procedures and

assumptions and to explore new ways of adapting to the

needs of students, schools and families. Feedback from

visitors to Catz who have participated in events such as a

Study Day organised by the English Department in June

this year, suggests that time is well spent building

relationships between schools and their pupils. These

relationships help those concerned to make an informed

choice about higher education and, crucially, encourage

students to aim as high as possible when considering

their next step after school. Visitors to St Catherine’s are

often surprised by what they find at the end of Manor

Road – by the green and open spaces that greet them

and by the fact that, against stiff competition from other

Colleges, Catz succeeds in expressing its individuality. As

one potential undergraduate put it, ‘the design had

retained a traditional ‘Oxford’ style, without feeling

oppressive or restrictive.’

The work of the AdmissioLindsay Campbell, Deputy Academic Registrar 2006-07,

writes about the work of the College’s Admissions Office.

IT IS AMAZING HOW MANY MISCONCEPTIONS persist

about Oxford University. As an Admissions Officer at St

Catherine’s, it has been an important part of my job to

help dispel the myths that still surround the Oxford

application process. The Admissions Office’s work is at

the heart of the College’s original mission to attract

top-calibre students, regardless of background, to

study at Oxford. The hectic fortnight of interviews in

December draws an assortment of the brightest

student talent from across the country and beyond

and, despite the intensity of the administrative load at

this time (these are weeks that strike fear into the

heart of every Admissions Officer!) it is marvellous to

have the opportunity to catch a glimpse of the

individuals behind the application forms. Equally

rewarding is being on the other end of a telephone

when an individual learns that his or her perseverance

and determination has secured a place at College and

access to an Oxford education – a potentially life-

transforming moment.

J C Smith addressing

students at a College

Open Day and (below)

Catz students answering

questions from visitors.




This year, supported by the University’s Student Access

team, Catz launched a pilot e-mentoring project, which

involves undergraduate students chatting online with

sixth-formers who are about to make decisions about

which A-level subjects to take, what degrees to

consider and, of course, how best to complete tricky

application forms. Many sixth-formers do not have

experience within their family of studying at university

and we hope that, by providing such an introduction to

the College, we can foster interest in St Catherine’s and

provide an accessible, practical and up-to-the-minute

advice and support service.

Amar Radia (2005, PPE) – Last year I was one of a group

of students who acted as hosts during Admissions

fortnight. The JCR was transformed and a help-desk,

manned by students from 8.45am to 10.00pm, set up.

We kept all the information we might need at our

fingertips, and were there to help and assist applicants in

any way possible. Our priority was to make them feel at

ease – by providing tea and biscuits and playing DVDs –

and help solve any problems that might pop up.

Applicants often find it easy to talk informally to

undergraduate students who have recently been through

this testing process. They can ask us questions about the

admissions process without feeling like they are being

silly, and can also ask about student and College life.

Charlotte Nolan (2006, Modern History) – Over the past

year I’ve been involved in several of the admissions

activities, most notably assisting at Open Days and

participating in several school visits. From the outside,

Oxford University (even for those familiar with the

collegiate system) can be quite a complicated and

confusing system, so bringing people into the Catz

environment has proved to be a really beneficial process.

Open Days and school visits offer a varied programme of

events, with potential applicants sampling the best of

Catz cuisine by eating lunch in Hall, and mingling with

students (who are ready to answer an inexhaustible

stream of questions) in the JCR.

It has made it

seem much

more accessible

than I had

thought

previously.

Also, I now

understand

that the

admissions

process is

designed to let

candidates

show

themselves at

their best. Comment from one potential student afterattending an Open Day.

It is a sign of the affectionate regard in which current students hold St

Catherine’s that they are so willing to participate in our projects. They give

generously of their time, welcoming visitors to the College and supporting a

range of Catz initiatives, from interview fortnight to Open Days and school

visits.

ons Office


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ON SATURDAY 19 MAY over two hundred alumni and

their partners came back to College to celebrate the

success of the Catz Campaign and see for themselves

what had been achieved with their donations. After

drinks in the SCR and the opportunity to catch up with

old friends over lunch in Hall, guests moved to the

Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre for a series of lively

and stimulating talks. First to speak was Nick

Lykiardopulo (1977, PPE), who recounted the victory of

his boat, Aera, in the Sydney Hobart Yacht race in

January 2005. Accompanied by breathtaking photos,

Nick’s talk brought to life the

extreme challenges faced by

all who participate in one of

the world’s toughest and

most prestigious races. Nick’s

talk was followed by an

account by third-year medical

student Rachel Brettell of her

travels in Mongolia. Rachel

was one of the 2006 winners

of the Wallace Watson Travel

Award, and her account of

her travels through a still

remote part of the world

drew many questions from an

interested audience. The final

talk, delivered by Catz Fellow,

geographer Dr Richard Bailey, focused on his use of a

technique known as ‘luminescence dating’ to help date

an African skull that is providing important insights into

the ‘missing link’ of human evolution.

The afternoon ended with tea in Hall (which offered yet

another chance for friendships to be renewed), and an

opportunity to admire at close-hand the award-winning

buildings in the new quad.

Benefactors’ Day

I was very impressed withthe way in which themore recent buildingsnow contribute to agreater and organicwhole which still remainsconsistent with ArneJacobsen’s original ethos.John Clark (1965, Law)

After lunch in

Hall... guests

moved to the

Bernard Sunley

Lecture

Theatre for

a series of

lively and

stimulating

talks.


An update on Oxford Investment Partners (OXIP)



OXIPachieved at a volatility, or measure of absolute risk, half

that of the equity indices.

Diversification is a sine qua non for OXIP, but our biggest

challenge is finding diversification at the right price. We

have consistently thought most assets were overvalued

for this stage of the cycle, and we were concerned that

many investors’ past performance appeared heroic

because they had deployed a lot of debt in a bull

market. We survived the summer’s liquidity crisis

unscathed by exposure to structured products or sub-

prime debt. We also passed on the opportunity to

commit to large private equity firms, by investing in

managers who specialise in distressed assets and

emerging markets. We eschewed UK property yields at

5% and below, and invested in property firms focused on

Europe and opportunistic restructurings. This cautious

approach to valuations has characterised all our

investments. Looking ahead we feel confident that the

College’s portfolio is better placed than it has ever been

to capture stable risk-adjusted returns.

Fram Dinshaw (Finance Bursar and Non-Executive

Director), Karl Sternberg (Chief Investment Officer), Paul

Berriman (Modern History, 1985, Executive Director).

(If you would like to know more about any aspect of

OXIP please contact our Chief Operating Officer, Paul

Martin, on 01865 988155)

OXIP – THE INVESTMENT OFFICE created in May 2006 by

St Catherine’s, Christ Church and Balliol – is nearly

eighteen months old. The firm’s objective is to provide a

comprehensive one-stop solution to the challenges of

running an endowment portfolio in the twenty-first

century. Our intention has been to emulate the best US

endowments, such as Harvard and Yale, by creating a

powerful investment office, with substantial research and

monitoring capacity, embedded in a structure which

clearly aligns interests between OXIP and its clients. Since

inception, assets under management have doubled to

over £200 million. £150 million of this belongs to Oxford

colleges, but the firm also manages money for three

external charity clients as well as a number of ‘expert’

private individuals who invest via OXIP Diversified, a Jersey

unauthorised unit trust, which now stands at £30 million.

OXIP’s performance since inception shows that its

strategy of diversification by both asset type and

manager skill can preserve capital in falling markets

while still participating in gains when they rise. Since

investing in May 2006, Catz is on course to meeting its

investment objective of inflation +5% per year over five

year rolling periods. On an annualised basis the portfolio

is up 6.9% to 30 September compared with 7.1% for the

College’s benchmark, and 8.5% for World Equities (in £

terms). At this early stage these figures do not include

any gains from our unquoted investments which are still

valued at cost. More importantly this result has been

Diversification

is a sine qua

non for OXIP,

but our biggest

challenge is

finding

diversification

at the right

price.


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This year, over forty students who organised

expeditions to different parts of the world –

many undertaking charitable work once they had

reached their destination – were supported by a

range of College Travel Awards. Postcards arrived

on the Master’s desk from, amongst other

countries, Kenya, Japan, Guatemala, Thailand,

China, Bulgaria, Uganda, the Netherlands and the

Galapagos islands. Here is a small selection from

the many cards he received…

Postcards to the Master



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WHEN I WAS THIRTEEN I SAT IN THE ESSOLDO CINEMA,

Dewsbury watching an electrifying Gregory Peck in John

Huston’s film of Moby Dick. Peck’s towering performance

personified, for this impressionable teenager, all that

great acting, Hollywood glamour and movie stardom

seemed to be. Once Ahab had gone down the whale,

waving his arm for the world to follow him, and Ishmael

was safely floating on his coffin, I sat in the emptying

cinema, watching until the very last credit rolled. Then,

dazed with what I had seen, walked out into the West

Riding darkness, overwhelmed with emotions and with a

deep longing in my heart for which I had no name.

Waiting for my bus I was filled with confusion and awe.

What did it feel like, I agonised, to be an actor of such

distinction, gravity and gorgeousness. How cruelly aware

I was of the distance that separated this enthusiastic,

Yorkshire, working-class, amateur thespian from Oscar-

winner Gregory Peck.

Now let me invite you to leap forward with me. It is

1988. I am aboard a mock-up of the Pequod, in a huge

water-filled tank beside the ocean in Victoria, Australia.

Iron-grey locks frame my ravaged face and I am

Patrick Stewart's inaugural speechIn his inaugural lecture as Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre,which took place on 23 April 2007, the celebrated actor and director talked about his life andwork, giving a fascinating insight into his career.This is an edited version of that lecture. For the full text, please go to www.stcatz.ox.ac.uk

passionately haranguing a bunch of tough looking sailors

while skilfully manoeuvring on one good leg, and one

fake whale-bone leg. The scene ends and the director

calls cut. I lunge for the specially designed chair that

enables me to rest between takes. Then a hand

touches my arm.




A figure leans over me and murmurs, ‘You see, Patrick, you’ve got Ahab’s voice. I never

found the voice.’

Greg had been modest, charming, warm and encouraging from the day he had agreed

to meet with me to talk about the role. He had even asked if he could be in the

movie and play Father Maple. I went to watch him work the day that we were

shooting the sermon and, in take after take, he was awesome. But even so, he asked

me in a tea break if I had any thoughts about what he was doing. Did I have any

suggestions? And the wide gap of time, space and credibility that separated

Dewsbury from Hollywood simply disappeared.

When I was twelve my English teacher, Cecil Dormand, distributed to my class copies of

The Merchant of Venice. ‘Act I, scene iii’, he instructed. ‘Stewart, you’re Shylock. Read

it.’ And I did. And that morning in Room Eight at Mirfield Secondary Modern School, I

read Shakespeare aloud for the first time. In fact, Shakespeare came into my life at a

very early stage. My eldest brother, Geoffrey, sixteen years my senior, was in the RAF

during the later years of the war, and there made friends with another airman who

loved Shakespeare, and who introduced him to the plays. When he came home on

leave, he would read me bedtime stories – King Lear, Macbeth, Hamlet. I was three,

four years old and I hardly understood a word of it. But even though I did not

understand much, I know that I loved the sounds. Later, when I heard Shakespeare on

the Home Service, it was the sounds the language made that, more than anything,

drew me in. The sounds drew me in then and still draw me in today, along with an

intuitive sense of who Shakespeare’s people are, and how they feel. From the moment

I first read Othello, around the age of fourteen, I understood the Moor and longed to

act him. I felt this man inside me – I eventually played Othello eight years ago. Having

failed to find a producer here, I persuaded the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington DC

to mount what became known as the photo-negative Othello: Othello as a white

British mercenary in an African-American Venice and Cyprus.

In 1986 I visited the United States doing a series of Master-classes, lectures and

Shakespeare workshops. One evening, unknown to me, there was a very experienced

Hollywood producer in the audience. The next day I got a call from my agent saying


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that I had been invited to Paramount studios to meet

with Gene Roddenbury, the creator of the original Star

Trek series. Months later, I was called back to Los

Angeles for another meeting with Gene, his fellow

producers and the casting director. Finally, in March

1987, I was called back one more time, now for a full

audition. When it was done, I followed my practice with

all auditions, and just erased it, forgetting that it had

ever happened. I bought a pile of English newspapers

and went to a favourite coffee shop for a late

breakfast. I sat in there for over two hours, unaware

that my agent was trying to find me. The studio had

called him before I drove off the lot, saying I was cast,

and wanting to make the deal. In the end he found me

and insisted that we meet for lunch to talk it over. Of

course, I was excited, puzzled, flattered and, when he

began reciting dollars, my head began to spin. The

thrill subsided, however, when I learned that all this

was conditional on me signing a six-year contract with

no get-out on my side…

Eighteen years passed while I lived in California, and

every corner of my life was touched by it. Four years

ago I re-located and, after a somewhat discouraging

start, I feel myself once more to be an English

actor. The past year, in fact, has been the

culmination of a long-held LA fantasy. When

unable to sleep, I would

indulge in a secret

fantasy. I would be

driving from my

Cotswold cottage to the

theatre in Stratford. It would be raining gently, but

the landscape would be green and burgeoning. On the

passenger seat, a copy of the play I was going to

rehearse. Before long I would be crossing the Clopton

Bridge and, glancing to my left, I would see the edifice

of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre and a glow would

spread through my body. This was my building, my

home, the only site of my deepest, most longed-for

ambitions since I was a teenager.

Last year it all came true. Technically, the house I bought

is several miles to the east of what is thought of as the

Cotswolds. But it is beautiful and, unlike my early years at

the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, and thanks to the M40,

the Stratford Road is quiet and driveable once more.

There are scenes along that road far more enchanting

than anything Southern California can offer. Better than

Beverly Hills. Better than Sunset Boulevard. And, at the

theatre, performing Antony and Cleopatra and rehearsing

and performing The Tempest, with two fine directors and

a group of actors committed to the work and full of

talent, creativity, limitless energy, affection and good

humour. And all of them, like me, thrilled to be there,

thrilled every day to be hurling themselves against that

greatness that is William Shakespeare.

And here is the very heart of my fantasy. The

inspiration, the richness and beauty, the awesome

complexities, the humanity, the images, the

recognisable and utterly alluring evil, the romance

and courage, the human truth

and sheer gob-stopping

sexiness that is

Shakespeare.


And here is

the very heart

of my

fantasy...

the human

truth and

sheer gob-

stopping

sexiness

that is

Shakespeare.




LAUNCHED IN OCTOBER 2006 at Oxford University’s

Natural History Museum, Black Oxford is the first black

heritage project of its type in the United Kingdom. The

venture, which was originally funded by the Heritage

Lottery Fund, celebrates the lives and achievements of

black scholars at Oxford University from the nineteenth

century to the present day. The untold stories of men

and women such as Alain Locke, the first black Rhodes

Scholar (Hertford College, 1907), and Ania Moore, who

graduated from St Hugh’s College in 1935, are brought

to life during a two hour guided walking tour of the

City.

In addition to drawing attention to the considerable

contributions made, in so many fields, by black Scholars

(many of whom had overcome significant hardships in

order to be able to study at Oxford), the tour also

celebrates the role played by black men and women

during the First and Second World Wars, and considers

the experiences in Britain of the ‘Windrush generation’.

The tour includes specific mention of two alumni from

St Catherine’s, Sir Grantley Adams (1919, Law) and Dr

Eric Williams (1932, PPE), both of whom have left a

lasting political legacy in the West Indies.

In partnership with Ruskin College, Black Oxford has

launched an accredited tour-guiding course, which

hopes to train local members of the community to

Black Oxford: Untold Stories

become guides for this project. This unique

scheme will offer individuals the opportunity to

gain in-depth knowledge about black British,

African-American and Caribbean history, as well

as offering practical training for potential tour

guides.

Black Oxford: Untold Stories, which was short-

listed for a National Lottery Award in the Best

Heritage Project category, is the brainchild of

Pamela Roberts. Pamela is the founder and

Executive Director of Artistry Events, a social

enterprise that was

established to

develop and deliver

arts and media

projects that will both

educate and entertain

diverse audiences.

For more information

about Black Oxford and

its work, please visit

www.blackoxford.net,

email

[email protected],

or telephone 01494

538769.

Black Oxford is proud to have

as one of its patrons the

daughter of Eric Williams,

Erica Williams Connell.

Below: Pamela Roberts,

founder and Executive

Director of Artistry Events.


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Dr Eric Williams (1932, PPE)

Eric Williams was a renowned Caribbean historian and the

first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, who served

from 1956 until his death in 1981. Born in 1911, he

attended Queen’s Royal College, Port of Spain, before

winning a scholarship in 1932 that enabled him to come

and study at Oxford. In 1938 Eric Williams received his

doctorate for a thesis entitled The Economic Aspect of the

West Indian Slave Trade and Slavery. After working for

several years at Howard University, Washington, DC, Eric

Williams returned to Trinidad in 1948 as Deputy Chairman

of the Anglo-American Caribbean Commission’s Research

Council. In 1955 his political career began in earnest when

he founded the People’s National Movement Party. In

1998, the Eric Williams Memorial Collection at the

University of the West Indies in Trinidad and Tobago –

which contains over 7000 volumes, in addition to Williams’

correspondence and speeches and research notes – was

inaugurated by former US Secretary of State, Colin Powell.

A series of lectures, entitled the Eric Williams Memorial

Lecture Series, was held in London in April 2007 to

commemorate the 200th anniversary of the abolition of

the transatlantic slave trade. The inaugural lecture was

delivered by Jamaican-born scholar, Colin Palmer, the

Dodge Professor of History at Princeton University, who has

recently published a critically acclaimed account of the life

of Trinidad and Tobago’s first Prime Minister, Eric Williams

and the Making of the Modern Caribbean.

Sir Grantley Adams (1919, Law)

Born in 1898, Grantley Adams was educated at Harrison

Academy, Barbados, before he came to Oxford in 1919 to

read Law. While a student, he became Secretary of the

Justinian Law Society, JCR President and President of the St

Catherine’s Debating Society. Grantley Adams left Oxford in

1923 and was called to the Bar at Gray’s Inn, London. In

1925 he returned to Barbados, where he became the

island’s leading Labour politician. Adams served as Leader

of the Barbados Labour Party, was President of the

Barbados Workers’ Union, and became the first Premier of

Barbados and the first and only Prime Minister of the West

Indies Federation. In 1952 he was made a Companion in the

Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George and

in 1966 he led his country to independence. He is

honoured today as a National Hero of Barbados and

remembered as a man who worked tirelessly to establish

social justice across all ethnic and economic classes.

Dr Eric Williams & Sir Grantley Adams

Sir Grantley Adams(Picture courtesy of the Barbados Government Information Service)

Dr Eric Williams



‘I NEED YOU TO CALL JOHNNY DEPP’S AGENT and then see if

you can get hold of Britney or Madonna.’ I have done a few

work placements in my time, and first tasks usually involve

trying to work out how the photocopier works and what

exactly is meant by ‘a dash of milk’. Trying to get hold of

Britney Spears qualifies, in work-experience speak, as being

thrown in the deep end – on the Nick Young Award Scheme,

it barely constitutes dipping your toes in the water.

Every year a student from Catz is offered a three-month

internship with the Arts and Features department at ITV

as part of the Nick Young Award.

This programme was set up in

1982 by the family of Nick Young,

a former Catz student and ITV

employee who, tragically, died in a

road accident.

The scheme offers a unique

opportunity to gain experience in

an industry that is notorious for its

difficulty in gaining a point of

entrance – there are virtually no

graduate schemes and very few

openings available for those seeking their first job in this

sector. The industry operates largely on a policy of

offering employment only to those with experience in

this field, and it is not hard to see that this creates a

vicious circle in which it seems impossible to get the

experience necessary to be eligible for a much-coveted

job!

The Nick Young Award is different for so many reasons.

For a start, it runs for three months, time enough to get

settled, feel part of a team, learn new

skills and demonstrate both your

natural aptitude and what you have

learnt. Secondly, the grant that comes

with the award (when most

placements only offer expenses if you

are lucky) is a welcome help when

living and working in London. Thirdly,

and most importantly, you never feel

like you are the work-experience

person.

During my three months I was part

of a small team that put together a

Nick Young AwardSam Forsdike, 2006 winner of the Nick Young Award, shares hisexperiences working with the Arts and Features department at ITV

Comedian Russell Brand

at the South Bank Show

Awards.

The South Bank Show Awards, © ITV Productions Ltd, 2007


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live award show that was

broadcast on ITV1. Officially, and

rather loosely, my job title was

‘researcher’. More accurately it

would probably be a hybrid of

producer, events manager, script-

writer and agony aunt. My work

involved booking guests for the

award show, organising the venue,

entertainment, bands, goody-bags

and food for 400 guests,

researching biographies and notes

for all the nominees, writing the

script for the show and dealing with

outrageous demands from celebrity

divas.

Given that the ceremony is recorded

live, the day itself was a long adrenaline-pumping blur

of frantic nerves and excitement. Armed with my radio

ear-piece I rushed about sorting out the million and one

last minute problems for which no one had planned.

The event itself was a huge success. I had to overcome

any vestige of being star-struck as I helped to

chaperone, escort and massage the ego of a whole

array of personalities from the arts world including

Russell Brand, Victoria Wood, The Who, Ken Russell,

Michael Sheen, Paul Greengrass, Sir Andrew Lloyd

Webber and Claudia Schiffer. At the after-show party I

enjoyed an impromptu jamming session with Amy

Winehouse and Jamie Cullum and spent the night

drinking with the Royle Family.

Winning the Nick Young Award gave me the

opportunity to complete a work placement that offers

unrivalled experience: I gained invaluable technical

expertise and insight into the world of television as

well as learning to deal with high-pressured situations

and responsibilities. Crucially for this industry, I made

a number of important contacts.

I was fortunate enough to be offered a job after the

internship and I have now transferred to another

department in order to learn and develop new skills.

To pursue a career in television I would normally be

expected to be a ‘runner’ for at least a year, doing

menial tasks for little pay. The Nick Young Award

has allowed me to fast-track this route and I am

now one of the youngest researchers in the

industry.

I would not change places for a second with any of my

friends who have gone to work in highly profitable jobs

in banking and consultancy. I never wake up wishing I

did not have to go into work, and I do a job that has the

scope for unlimited creativity and individuality, in which I

get to write and make programmes that reach millions of

people. Working in the media also offers unrivalled

perks, with tickets to premieres and opening nights, the

chance to travel the world and discover new things, and

the opportunity to meet some of the most intelligent,

artistic and craziest people in their fields.

If I have not yet managed to persuade you of the worth

of the Nick Young Award, here’s the clincher: the only

person you have to make a cup of tea for is yourself.

Lord Bragg, Domus

Fellow of St Catherine's,

at the award ceremony.The South Bank Show Awards,

© ITV Productions Ltd, 2007




UNDERGRADUATES

Biological SciencesNancy Burns II (i)Joseph Fletcher IHiren Naik II (i)Sophie Owen II (i)Aristotelis Papoutes II (i)Penelope Sellers IJames Smith II (i)

Chemistry (MChem)James Backshall II (i)Patrick Durkin II (i)Lydia Hutchinson II (ii)Emily Muir II (ii)Tom Rees II (ii)David Royse II (i)Philip Scott IChase Winters II (i)

Economics &ManagementAdam Hyslop II (i)Vadim Varvarin II (i)

Engineering & ComputerScience (MEng)Witold Czartoryski II (ii)

Engineering Science(MEng)David Adams II (i)Paul Beynon IPeter Bracewell ITamer El Barbary II (ii)Roddy Prayag II (i)Owen Price II (i)Henry Townshend IAlasdair Walker II (i)

English Language &LiteratureFederico Fernandez-Armesto IEleanor Fretwell II (i)Peter Goult II (i)Laurence Harvey II (i)Kane Moore II (i)Jennifer Pick II (i)Paul Russell II (i)

Fine Art (BFA)Aglaé Bassens IChristian Braime II (i)

GeographyJonathan Blackledge II (i)Charles Bremner II (i)Nicholas Brodie II (i)Zara Chidoub ILucy Gough II (i)Oliver Phillips II (i)Melissa Rigby II (i)Fleur-Estelle Shaw II (ii)

History of ArtJack Farthing I

Human SciencesAmy Beaumont IClaire Palmer II (i)Louise Park II (i)Theodore Raymond II (i)Jessica Watson II (i)Ziqi Wu I

LawBasil Al-Jafari II (i)Maria Banks IMatthew Chinery II (i)David Craddock II (i)Rachel Harriott II (i)Richard Hill II (i)Alexandra Kendall II (i)

Liam Murphy II (i)Ying Yi Soh II (i)Kai Sun II (i)Sophie Townsend II (i)

Law with Law Studies inEuropeTheo Bruening II (i)Dominique Riley II (i)

Materials Science (MEng)Benjamin Britton II (i)Matthew Brooke-Hitching II (i)Alastair Ross IIISumer Singh II (i)

Mathematics (BA)Jack Adkins II (ii)Guy Bedford ISheng Pu Chen II (ii)Bu Ke Qian II (ii)Michael Tran II (i)

Mathematics (MMath)Joynay Bhurtah INathaniel Korda I

Mathematics &Philosophy (BA)Rosalie Hooke II (i)

Mathematics &Statistics (BA)Cheuk Yen Lam I

Mathematics &Statistics (MMath)Mo Qiao II (ii)

MedicineRachel Brettell IDaniel Hammersley II (i)Clare Shakespeare II (i)

Dora Steel IRowan Wathes II (i)

Modern HistoryDaniel Binnington II (i)Alex Dwiar II (i)Thomas Fenton II (i)Jack Gillions II (i)Edward Goodman II (i)Arthur Kadish II (i)Christopher McCloskey II (i)Connal Parr II (i)Elizabeth Pitcher II (i)Christopher Stanley II (i)

Modern History &PoliticsElizabeth MacDonald II (i)

Modern LanguagesPetra Kwan ISimon Maharaj II (i)Pablo de Orellana IBrais Outes Leon IVictoria Philpott II (i)Laura Pierce II (i)Luke Reeve-Tucker II (i)

Modern Languages &LinguisticsClaire Hackney II (i)John Ramsay II (i)James Sutherland II (i)

Molecular & CellularBiochemistry (MBioch)Steven Cuss IAlison Hole IWilliam Sankey II (i)Zico Yung II (i)

MusicCatherine Groom II (i)David Mathews II (i)Alice Newton II (i)Grace Shortland II (i)

Philosophy, Politics &EconomicsAnna Avramenko II (i)Michael Davidson IChristopher Hanges II (i)Kester Keating IFaizal Patel II (i)Isabel Summers II (i)Caroline Wilkey II (i)

Physics (BA)Catherine Brough II (i)Alexander Dutton II (ii)Daniel Massey II (i)Jean-Luc Stevens III

Physics (MPhys)Christopher Bull II (i)Wolf Goetze IKamalchetan Marwaha II (i)Matthew Powell II (ii)Francis Yeung II (ii)Kelvin Yuen II (ii)

Physiological SciencesFaye Cadman II (ii)Michelle Edye II (i)

Psychology, Philosophy& PhysiologyVishal Kapadia II (i)Kathryn Law I

SCHOLARSHIPS ANDEXHIBITIONS

ScholarsPeter Babkevich (Physics),College ScholarGuy Bedford (Mathematics),College ScholarPaul Beynon (EngineeringScience), College ScholarChristopher Boedihardjo(Mathematics), Kaye ScholarPeter Bracewell (EngineeringScience), College Scholar

Finals Results 2007


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Simon Shenton (Chemistry), ATV ScholarHenry Townshend(Engineering Science), College ScholarMichael Tran (Mathematics), College ScholarJo Tyabji (English Language & Literature), Goldsworthy ScholarRose Wilkinson (English Language & Literature), College ScholarHanna Winiarska (Chemistry), College ScholarCaroline Woffindale(Experimental Psychology), College ScholarMatthew Woolgar (Modern History), Garret Scholar Russell Woolley (Chemistry), College ScholarYun Zhe Zhang (Mathematics), College Scholar

ExhibitionersSanjoy Bhattacharyya, College Exhibitioner (Medicine) Sarah Bowe, College Exhibitioner (Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry) Darius Bradbury, College Exhibitioner (Computer Science)Thomas Gatten, College Exhibitioner (Human Sciences) Admas Haile, College Exhibitioner (Medicine) Lewys Jones, College Exhibitioner (Materials Science) Christopher Knowles, College Exhibitioner

(Law)Andrew Robertson, College Exhibitioner (Medicine)

PRIZES AND AWARDS

University PrizesUndergraduatesArmourers Rolls-RoycePrize for OutstandingMarks in PrelimsFemi Fadugba (MaterialsScience)

Degussa Company Prizefor Performance in Part IAAleks Reinhardt (Chemistry)

Dudbridge Prize forOutstanding Performancein Classical Chinese inPrelimsDewi Goulden (OrientalStudies)

IoM3 A T Green AnnualPrize for Best NationalGraduate in CeramicsNominationMatthew Brooke-Hitching(Materials Science)

Ironmongers' CompanyAward for the Best Part IITalkBenjamin Britton (MaterialsScience)

Practical Work in Part BCommendationCatherine Brough (Physics)

Pusey and Ellerton JuniorPrize for performance inBiblical Hebrew in PrelimsTim Motz (European & MiddleEastern Languages)

QinetiQ Prize for BestThird-Year Team DesignProjectMichael Rogers (MaterialsScience)

Wronker Grant forExcellent Performance inFinalsDora Steel (Medicine)

GraduatesPickering Prize for theBest Overall Performancein Medicine and SurgeryLucy Hanington (ClinicalMedicine)

Rupert Cross Prize inEvidenceMalcolm Birdling (Law)

Winter Williams EuropeanBusiness Regulation PrizePatricio Smart (Law)

College PrizesThe Bailey Prize fordebating is yet to be awarded.

The Burton Prize for thebest academic performanceduring the year in an areacovering Psychology,Sociology, Geography andHuman Sciences was awardedto Kathryn Law (Psychology,Philosophy & Physiology) andZara Chidoub (Geography).

The Cochrane Evidence-Based Medicine Prize forthe best essay on an aspectof evidence-based practice orthe critical appraisal of a topicby a graduate student inclinical medicine was awarded

to Werner Neuhausser(Clinical Medicine).

The Frank Allen BullockPrize for the best piece ofcreative or critical writing wasawarded to Joseph Crawford(English Language &Literature).

The Gardner Prize foroutstanding contribution tothe life of the College wasawarded to Benjamin Britton(Materials Science).

The Harold Bailey Prize forAsian Studies was awarded toTim Motz (European & MiddleEastern languages).

The Hart Prize for the bestessay on an historical subjectby a first or second yearundergraduate was awardedto Christopher Stanley(Modern History).

The Katritzky Prize for thebest performance in ChemistryPart I was awarded toBenjamin Ayers (Chemistry).

Leask Music Scholarshipswere awarded to ThomasFoster (Music), KatherineHiggon (Chemistry) andDuncan Strachan (Music).

The Michael Atiyah Prizein Mathematics for the bestmathematics essay or projectwritten by a St Catherine’sundergraduate in his or hersecond year reading for adegree in Mathematics or jointschool with Mathematics isyet to be awarded.

The Nick Young Award wasawarded to Alex Dwiar(Modern History).

The Rose Prize for the bestacademic performance duringthe year in Biological Scienceswas awarded to JosephFletcher (Biological Sciences)and Penelope Sellers(Biological Sciences).

The Rupert Katritzky Prizeis awarded for the bestperformance in the FinalHonour School in ModernHistory was awarded toEdward Goodman (ModernHistory).

The Smith Award forServices to Drama within theCollege was awarded toChanya Button (EnglishLanguage & Literature).

The Smith Award for Servicesto Music within the Collegewas awarded to Alice Newton(Music) and David Matthews(Music).

The Stuart Craig Awardgiven to an outstandingstudent who has gaineddistinction in a university ornational sport, or cultural ormusical activities was awardedto Jonathan Blackledge(Geography).

The Thomas JeffersonPrize given to the NorthAmerican student who hascontributed most to theCollege academically, sociallyor culturally ‘in the spirit of

Alexander Burtenshaw(Engineering Science), ATVScholarLuke Cartey (ComputerScience), College ScholarEdmund Chan (Medicine),College ScholarNicholas Cowle (Mathematics& Computer Science), BakerScholarSteven Cuss (Molecular &Cellular Biochemistry), RoseScholarFelix Flicker (Physics), CollegeScholarDewi Goulden (OrientalStudies), College ScholarWei Hao Gu (MaterialsScience), ATV ScholarAlison Hole (Molecular &Cellular Biochemistry),Sembal ScholarRebecca Lewin (History ofArt), Clothworkers ScholarLeo Masson (Engineering,Economics & Management),ATV ScholarMandish Muker (Engineering,Economics & Management),Geoffrey Griffith ScholarTheresa Page (ModernLanguages), Brook ScholarXiang Pan (Mathematics &Computer Science), CollegeScholarJohn Pearson (Mathematics),Clothworkers ScholarAmar Radia (Philosophy,Politics & Economics), PhilipFothergill ScholarAleks Reinhardt (Chemistry),F M Brewer ScholarPeter Roberts (Physics),College ScholarKatherine Rundell (EnglishLanguage & Literature),Goldsworthy Scholar




Nicholas Attfield (Music)*Appropriating Bruckner: Symphonic Reception, Hermeneutics,and Performance

David Bass (Zoology)*Biodiversity, Evolution, and Ecology of the Novel ProtozoanPhylum Cercozoa

Paul Bonnet (Engineering Science)The Development of Multi-Axis Real-Time Substructure Testing

Conor Carville (English Language & Literature)*The Ends of Ireland: Subjectivity, History and Nationalism inContemporary Irish Cultural Criticism

Meng Chen (Chemistry)Polyelectrolyte brushes grown from solid surfaces: Synthesis,Structure and lubrication properties

Frances Colles (Zoology)Population Structure and Dynamics of CampylobacterPopulations Carried by Wild Birds and Chickens Reared in aFree Range Woodland Environment

Thomas Gray (Chemistry)*Electrochemical and Optical Sensing of Anoins

Kin Leong Ho (Engineering Science)Loop Closing Detection in SLAM Using Scene Appearances

Sugata Kaviraj (Physics)On the Star Formation History of Early-Type Galaxies

Oliver King (Materials)Studies on the Electrodeposition of Calcium PhosphateCoating for Orthopaedic Applications and the PotentialIncorporation of Apatite Coated Liposomes

Chun-Te Lee (Mathematics)Multi-Soliton Solution of the Two-Mode KdV Equations

Rashid Mbaziira (Geography & the Environment)The Nile Basin Initiative: Towards a Regime of Cooperation

Alistair McEwan (Computing)Concurrent Program Development

James Morauta (Philosophy)*Evaluating Intentions

Yukiyo Nishida (Educational Studies)The Challenge of Multiage Primary Schooling in PublicEducation: Case Studies in Australia, Canada and the USA

Iris Oren (Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics)*Synaptic Mechanisms Underlying Cholinergically-Induced FastHippocampal Network Oscillations in Vitro

Jayne Smith-Palmer (Physics)Studies Onminus End Directed Myosin Motors

James Thomson (Chemistry)*B-Amino Acid Organcatalysis

Matthew Tredwell (Chemistry)*Electrophilic Fluorodesilylation of Chiral Allysilanes

Sander Van Kasteren (Chemistry)Novel Probes for the In Vivo Visualisation of CerebralInflammation

Check Chiu Wai (Engineering Science)On Curvilinear Structures in Mammography Image Analysisand Registration

Hao Wang (Chemistry)Surface and Electrochemical Studies of CVD Diamond Thin Films

Hongzhi Wang (Materials)Perovskite Based Ceramic Nanocomposites

Miles Waring (Materials)The Electrical and Structural Properties of Lanthanum-DopedLead Zirconate Titanate

Robert Whannel (Chemistry)*New Group 4 Complexes with Di-Amide Class Ligands

Stephen Winter (Politics & International Relations)A Justified Claim? Reparation, Historical Injustice and the Caseof American Slavery

* indicates previous graduate of the College

Graduate Degrees & DiplomasDuring 2006-2007 leave to supplicate for the DPhil was granted to the following:

Thomas Jefferson’ wasawarded to Kaitlin Walsh(Modern Languages).

College Travel AwardsWallace Watson AwardWitold Czartoryski(Engineering & ComputerScience)Tim Motz (European & MiddleEastern Languages)

Emilie Harris AwardThomas Foster (Music)Duncan Strachan (Music)

Philip Fothergill AwardThomas Gatten (HumanSciences)

Bullock Travel AwardAnthony Calland (ModernLanguages & Modern History)

Bullock Career AwardRebecca Lewin (History of Art)

Raymond Hodgkin AwardLucien Georgeson (ModernLanguages)

Pat Knapp Travel AwardMaria McPhee (Medicine)

Antony Edwards TravelAwardJennifer Mullin (ClinicalMedicine)James Fowler (European &Middle Eastern Languages)Nicola Atkins (ModernHistory)

College Travel AwardsTriska Abdul-Ahmid (OrientalStudies)Sofie Ahmad (Modern History)

Alexander Ball (EnglishLanguage & Literature)Christopher Bull (Physics)April Dunham (MaterialsScience)Michelle Edye (PhysiologicalSciences)Sophie Foxen (Medicine)Peter Goult (EnglishLanguage & Literature)Stephanie Hardwick (EnglishLanguage & Literature)Rosemary Hinton (Medicine)Lewys Jones (MaterialsScience)Elizabeth Kays (Chemistry)Craig Leaper (ClinicalMedicine)Carly Leighton (Geography)Tomasz Mazur (Computing)David Mitchell (Geography)Aiofe Nic Charthaigh (Area &Development Studies)Emily Nixon (Geography & theEnvironment)Eileen Nugent (Physics)Jane Rooney (Law with LawStudies in Europe)Tomo Sandeman (Geography)Sarbjit Sandhu (Economics &Management)Julie Scrase (Fine Art)Alistair Seddon (Geography &the Environment)Matthew Sims (ClinicalMedicine)Anisha Sodha (ClinicalMedicine)Jo Tyabji (English Language &Literature)Evan Wang (MaterialsScience)Jessica Watson (HumanSciences)Hanna Winiarska (Chemistry)David Workman (EnglishLanguage & Literature)


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The following were successful in otherexaminations:

Myanthi Amarasinghe, MSc (C) Research in PsychologyJohn Anderson, MPhil EconomicsFrancisco Balsemão, MJurisRoheet Bantval Rao, MSc (C) Integrated Immunology †Fabrizio Barzanti, MJuris †Malcolm Birdling, BCL †Gemma Bowes, MSc (C) Forced MigrationJaroslav Broz, MJurisKaran Chandhiok, BCLChristina Chen, MPhil Law †Cho-Chun Cheng, MSc (C) Financial Economics †Fungayi Chinaka, MSc (C) Diagnostic ImagingBen Coren, MSt English †Paul De Cates, 2nd BMJessica Feinstein, MSt History of Art & Visual CultureTommy Fennelly, MSc (C) Mathematical Modelling &Scientific Computing †Chrissie Fong, MPhil English StudiesChristina Fuhr, MSc (C) SociologyRobert Ghenchev, MSc (C) Financial EconomicsIliya Grozdanov, MJurisLucy Hanington, 2nd BM †Gwenyth Hardiman, MSc (C) Material Anthropology &Museum EthnographyIndrani Hazra, BCL †Knut-Fredrik Hustad, MJurisAnte Kusurin, MSc (C) Water Science, Policy & ManagementDantes Leung, BCLLasma Liede, MJuris †Chao Mbogo, MSc (C) Computer ScienceHye Young Min, MSc (C) Research in PsychologyAnthony Mullin, MSc (C) Research in PsychologyWerner Neuhausser, 2nd BMAoife Nic Charthaigh, MSc (C) Forced Migration*Emily Nixon, MSc (C) Environmental Change & ManagementCharalampos Psarras, MJurisUbaidullah Qazi, MPhil General Linguistics & ComparativePhilologyTeresa Queiros, BCL †Saif Rahman, MBAScott Ralston, BCL †

Gazal Rawal, BCLAdam Romero, MSc (C) Water Science, Policy & ManagementAlexander Russell, MPhil Modern European History *†Maria Sanchez-Marin Melero, MBAAbhishek Sharma, MBASudhanshu Shekhar, MSc (C) Integrated ImmunologyLaura Silva Castaneda, MSc (C) Latin American StudiesLieke Sjerps, MJurisPatricio Smart, MJurisKate Stinson, MPhil International RelationsShinjiro Takeda, MBAHeiko Thienenkamp, MBAThomas Vale, 2nd BM*Tom Ville, MJurisJeremy Vooght, MSt English †Amber Walker, MSc (R) Engineering ScienceDaniel Wamweru, MSc (C) Applied StatisticsJin Wang, MSc (C) Applied StatisticsMatthew Williams, MSt MusicologyTrevor Wood, MSc (C) Mathematical Modelling & ScientificComputing *†Minhong Yi, Certificate in Diplomatic StudiesAmer Zakaria, MSc (C) Water Science, Policy & Management

* indicates previous graduate of the College

† indicates candidates adjudged worthy of distinction by the Examiners

Graduate ScholarsRachel Brettell, Glaxo Scholarship (Clinical Medicine)Georgina Worthington, Glaxo Scholarship (ClinicalMedicine)Roham Alvandi, College Scholarship (Arts) (Politics &International Relations)Jessica Harm, College Scholarship (Sciences) (Zoology)Montree Sawangphruk, College Scholarship (Sciences)(Chemistry)David Szwer, Poole Scholarship (Physics)Elin Abraham, Light Senior Scholarship (Chemistry)Joseph Crawford, Light Senior Scholarship (EnglishLanguage & Literature)Richard Huzzey, Light Senior Scholarship (History)Rajeka Lazarus, Light Senior Scholarship (Clinical Medicine)Marwa Sharafeldin, Light Senior Scholarship (Socio-LegalStudies)Stephen Galsworthy, Leatherseller’s CompanyScholarship (Mathematics)Tomasz Mazur, Leatherseller’s Company Scholarship(Computer Science)John McTague, College Scholarship (Arts) (EnglishLanguage & Literature)Julie Collet, Light Senior Scholarship (Zoology)Kaitlin Walsh, Light Senior Scholarship (Modern Languages)

ErrataThe following are corrections to the list of those grantedleave to supplicate for the DPhil during 2005–2006:

Alasdair Leslie (Clinical Medicine)

The Mechanisms and Consequences of CTL Escape on HIVEvolution and Immune Control

Laura Zambreanu (Human Anatomy & Genetics)Central Sensitization and its Relevance to Chronic Pain: FMRIStudies in Humans

Rebecca Nicholls (Materials)Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy of Fullrene Materials

Benjamin Parsons (Music)Taking Stock of the Apprentice: Contextual Rereadings ofPierre Boulez's Early Career, 1945–1952




In athletics and cross country Jonathan Blackledge

has excelled once more. During his three years in Oxford,

Jonathan has been awarded a total of six Blues. He was

Blackwell’s Scholar for Sport, has led the Oxford team in

the Varsity Match and, this year, for the second year

running, was named University Sportsman of the Year.

In swimming, Harriet Pierce was captain of the

Women’s team, and Sean Renfer has gained a Blue as

well as earning a half-Blue in triathalon. Sean also

competed in cross country against Cambridge.

Despite protestations that she is ‘rubbish at pistol

shooting’, Penny Sellers has achieved yet another Blue

in modern pentathlon.

In hockey, Catz women’s team reached the semi-finals

of cuppers, and Frances Furnivall has represented

Oxford this season.

In tennis, Tim Weir has brought yet more successes

for Oxford, with the University’s Tennis Club gaining

promotion to the Premier Division in the British

Universities Sports Association (BUSA). Alex Iltchev was

awarded a half-Blue in tennis, and it was under his

captaincy that the St Catherine’s team – which

included Luke Reeve-Tucker, Vadim Vavarin, Lucas

Szlachcic, Matt Brooke Hitching and Tim Weir, won

Tennis Cuppers. The ladies’ badminton first team won

Sports Review

League 1 and the mixed badminton team also won its

league. Matt Charles and Matt Brooke Hitching also

played for the University, with the latter gaining a Blue.

Alex Iltchev was captain of Oxford’s second team in

squash, and was awarded a half Blue. Jess Watson,

who played on the successful Varsity winning side, was

awarded a full Blue.

Faye Cadman was awarded a Blue for gymnastics,

came eighth in the BUSA competition and won Varsity.

She has also been president of the Women’s Blues

Sports Committee – a distinguished and important role

in university sport.

In rowing Catz once more had two men in the Blue

Boat in this year’s Boat Race: the stroke, Ante Kusurin,

and the cox, Nick Brodie (who will also serve as Oxford

University Boat Club’s President in the coming year).

Anthony Mullin was in the Isis crew and Dane Van den

Akker was the reserve cox for the Boat Race.

In rugby, Jamie Menzies played for the University

Whippets, while Sean Mackenzie was a member of the

winning team in the under-21Varsity Match that took

place at Twickenham.

Jonathan Blackledge

receiving the University's

Sportsman of the Year

Award for the second

year.

Above right: The victorious

Catz tennis team.

Below: Tim Weir in

action.


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In football, Owen Price captained the Oxford University

association football team, who this year won the BUSA

league and secured promotion. Matt Robinson also played

in the Varsity Match, and was awarded a Blue. Catz

Second XI had a very successful season, winning both

Cuppers (beating Worcester in a final that saw captain,

Ryan Magee score a hat-trick) and the league. Special

mention must go to Finalists Luke Reeve-Tucker, Jimbo

Sutherland, John Ramsey, Rich Hill and Dave Craddock,

all of whom played in the final – they have contributed

greatly to sport at Catz during their time here.

Daniel Binnington was president of the University’s

pool and snooker club.

Other Catz students who have been awarded Blues and

half-Blues during the past academic year include Martin

Bishop (cross country), Noah Smith (basketball), Alice

Kelly (netball), David Royse (sailing), David Longworth

(archery and lacrosse) and Peter Goult (athletics).

Catz Second XI celebrate

their win over Worcester

College.


S T U D E N T P E R S P E C T I V E S


ST CATHERINE’S COLLEGE was my ‘home away from

home’ for two years. As a Canadian living and studying

abroad for the first time, I was excited by the

opportunity to join the Catz community, and delighted

at the way in which I was instantly welcomed and

embraced by the College. I was an active member of

the Middle Common Room during my time at Catz, and

was thrilled with the opportunity to engage with, and

learn from, fellow graduate students from around the

world – many of whom were at the cutting edge of

their fields – in both academic and social contexts.

My research interests lie in the general field of

international law and human rights, and my degree at

Catz allowed me to pursue this passion. At the end of

my first year, I was delighted to have my interest and

aptitude in this field recognised with a Light Senior

Scholarship. My research examined the design of

International Criminal Tribunals and their ability to bring

justice to the divided societies that they are meant to

assist. As part of this undertaking, I performed an in-

depth examination of the Special Court for Sierra

Leone, conducting fieldwork in Freetown during

summer 2006. The opportunity to apply my academic

abilities to concrete issues was one of the most

enriching experiences of my degree and, as a direct

result of my research, I was offered an internship

position with the Special Court during summer the next

year. The time I spent in Sierra Leone has reinforced my

deep interest in human rights law and my commitment

to fight and work for the causes in which I believe –

the legal protection and support of those in need.

In addition to my academic endeavours, Catz also

provided the opportunity for me to pursue athletic

challenges, and I was actively engaged in the relatively

new sport of women’s boxing throughout my time at

Oxford. Boxing has taught me courage and tenacity,

and has fostered dedication, determination, and the

ability to overcome obstacles. I competed as an

amateur boxer, representing Oxford on the Blues squad,

achieving British Universities Sports Association gold

and silver medals, and competing twice in the annual

Varsity Match (women competed for the first time in

Varsity boxing in 2005). In recognition of my

achievements in the Varsity Match and in national

competitions, I had the honour and privilege of being

awarded an Extraordinary Full Blue. I also had the

opportunity to serve as Co-Captain of the Oxford

Amateur Boxing Club during the 2006-07 season,

helping to secure an Oxford victory against Cambridge

in the historic hundredth Varsity Boxing Match, held at

York Hall in London.

Kate Stinson (2005, International Relations (MPhil))

Kate Stinson, who was

awarded an Extraordinary

Full Blue in recognition of

her achievements in the

Varsity Match and in

national competitions.


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WHILE A VISITING STUDENT at St Catherine’s College, I

conducted research into malaria at the Churchill Hospital,

and was introduced to the famous Oxford tutorial system

by debating medical ethics and philosophy with Brendan

McLaughlin. My experience was so fulfilling that, even

before I left, I had begun to make plans to come back to

Oxford.

Upon completing my Bachelor’s at Harvard in Health Policy

in 2005, I matriculated in Oxford for the MSc in Integrated

Immunology. The small, diverse, group of eleven students

on the course included representatives from four

continents and counted two Rhodes scholars (of which I

was privileged to be one) among its ranks. In addition to

succeeding in all my exams, I earned a Full Blue on the

Basketball team, beat Cambridge, won Blades in the Catz

Men’s First Boat at Summer Eights, and volunteered with

the Kids Enjoy Exercise Now charity for children and young

adults with special needs. Very few Universities provide

such a high level of all-around education as Oxford does,

and, while at Catz, I took full advantage of its many

opportunities.

I then learned that possibilities for students extend far

beyond Oxford, when my supervisor, Professor William

James, sponsored me to present my research at the Young

European Scientist Meeting in Porto, Portugal, where I

won second prize in the HIV/Immunology division. This

success was not only a fine way to finish off my time at

Oxford, but also motivated me to continue in the field of

HIV research. I took a job at Duke University Human

Vaccine Institute, but not before I convinced my parents

that I needed to see India, as I was already half way

there, being in London (I originally planned to attend a

WHO conference in Bangladesh but the rule that no

students were allowed to observe the proceedings

changed my plans somewhat).

I spent a few months working at Duke, in my home state

of North Carolina, before being sent to rural East Africa to

help set up vaccine trials in Moshi, Tanzania. Witnessing

the human cost of the HIV pandemic there, combined

with the poverty I saw on my trip to India, has fuelled my

desire to become a medical doctor who focuses on global

health. It is very likely that, had I not had the experiences

I did at Catz and in Oxford, my

career would be taking a

much more insular

direction. That, I believe

is the power of an Oxford

education, and I have St

Catherine’s College to

thank for allowing me to

see a bigger picture.

Justin Puleo(2004, Visiting Student, 2005, Integrated Immunology)

Justin Puleo (right) in

the lab at Moshi and

(below) at the summit

of Mt Kilimanjaro.




IT ALL STARTED ON CHRISTMAS EVE in December 2002.

As I decorated my Christmas tree, a postman brought me

a letter. Inside it I found an offer for a place at St

Catherine’s College to read Mathematics and Computer

Science. I have now completed my undergraduate course

(with a distinction) and am a graduate student at Catz.

Life at Catz is full of opportunities. Being part of a very

talented and creative community, each student can

pursue academic excellence while also aiming for

personal development. In my second year as an

undergraduate, thanks to a College recommendation, I

received a scholarship from the Misys Foundation. This

charitable organisation, which was founded in 1997 by

the global software company Misys plc, aims to help

academic establishments with IT-related education,

through the provision of funds for university

scholarships and the purchase of computer equipment.

St Catherine’s is privileged to be one of only four

Oxford colleges to be beneficiaries of the Foundation.

As a graduate student, I have received a scholarship

from the Leathersellers’ Company. The organisation,

founded in 1444, is one of the ancient Livery

Companies of the City of London. Once an authority

controlling the sale of leather within the City, today

the company promotes British leather trade and

supports charity and education. Every year St

Catherine’s College nominates two of its students –

who must be graduates of European universities

reading for a research degree in the sciences – to

receive the scholarship.

There are many opportunities to become involved in

College life, and no interest that could not be

developed at Catz. From sports to music and drama, the

possibilities are endless. In addition, for aspiring

managers and leaders, there is a wealth of committee

positions for which one can stand. In April 2006 I was

elected President of the Middle Common Room. While it

is an honour to represent such a large and diverse

graduate community, it also

puts one’s leadership skills

to a real test. I hope that I

will be able to share the

knowledge and experience I

have gained while in Office

with future MCR

committees.

Working with students as a College Lecturer and doing

scientific research at the same time has already proved

to be very rewarding for me, and I see a future career

for myself in academia – if Catz offers me another

opportunity to follow the life-path I have set for

myself, I shall not think twice!

Tomasz Mazur(2003, Mathematics and Computer Science, 2006, Computing)

If Catz offers me another

opportunity to follow the life-

path I have set for myself,

I shall not think twice!


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I VIVIDLY REMEMBER THE DAY I arrived at St Catz. I was

very excited about commencing my degree in PPE, and

also about all the extra-curricular activities I had read

about in the Freshers' guide. The teaching in all fields

fulfilled my expectations, with lectures and tutorials

equally excellent. I was, however, most inspired by

Philosophy, which led me to

choose it as the subject in

which I specialised chiefly

with, within the bipartite

course, Economics as my

second specialised subject.

The diversity of topics

studied and the difference in

skills needed to approach the two subjects was

something I found to be very stimulating: on a daily

basis, each course provided a refreshing change from

the other.

Away from my academic studies, I was able to

experience many different roles within the two spheres

of film and theatre while at Oxford. I had a wonderful

opportunity to act in a new play entitled The Virgin

Student, and also helped to produce a play by David

Hare at the Old Fire Station Theatre. My involvement

with this latter project introduced me to the practical

side of working in the realm of theatre and film. Within

the world of film-making itself, I worked as a

camerawoman for a short student feature, before

directing a few shorts that I had written myself. I was

able to create the first of my own films thanks to the

long three-month summer break the University offers.

The long vacations also afforded me a good

opportunity to gain valuable work experience and

contacts on a film set in London.

The structure of the

academic year at Oxford gave

me the time I needed to

delve further into my

interests in film. This meant

that within the

stimulating yet

extremely demanding three years of the

PPE degree I was able to think seriously

about my aspiration to become a

feature-film director. I decided to follow

this goal and now, after finishing my

studies at Oxford, am taking a gap year

in which I aim to gain the work-

experience and knowledge of films

necessary to succeed in securing a

place at a film school in the following

academic year. I have left St

Catherine’s with the strong belief that

the whole Oxford experience – and of

course the good friends I made during my time there –

will be invaluable to me in the future.

Anna Avramenko(2004, PPE)

I have left St Catherine’s with

the strong belief that the

whole Oxford experience will be

invaluable to me in the future.




Teddy Watsonwrites about the Wallace Watson Award Lectures 2006

WE SET OUT LOOKING LIKE LADYBIRDS from Mars, each

person carrying around fifty kilos. We made it down

the glacier and, as we walked alongside the rivers of

melting water, a lush valley formed in front of us. It

was wonderful and deeply strange to have a desert of

ice and rocks behind us and this green haven in front.

We were exhausted, but started to feel optimistic

again, until we realised that we had to traverse one of

the streams to make it to our destination. We took off

our boots and trousers and started to cross one by

one, on rocks, in an ice-cold torrent. We made it, and

felt good once again. Soon we were to realise that

the first crossing had only served as an appetiser.

In front of us we had a forty-five-metre wide river: it

was deeper and the current was much stronger. I

remember thinking, ‘you are going to do this, you are

going to this’ as I stood out there without feeling my

legs anymore, praying that I would not slip on the

slippery stones. There was no way we could have

struggled against the river if we had slipped with fifty

kilos of heavy equipment attached to our backs. We

finally made it over and joked that this would be great

stuff for the lecture. Our smiles disappeared soon

again though; we were now trapped on an island with

an even wider river to cross in front of us. Another

sixty metres of pure hell with water reaching up to

where a relatively tall guy like my brother would say,

‘Ooh, it is really cold!’

So Christian Toennesen, a graduate

student, described the end of his

expedition to Greenland at the Wallace

Watson Award lectures in February 2007. He had just

come off the ice cap having bagged five summits (two

of which were previously unclimbed) in the arctic

mountaineering expedition for which he had won the

Award. From the peaks, his team had ‘enjoyed

unspoiled views over the enormous ice cap, glaciers,

the ocean, icebergs and mountains’. It was, he said, ‘a

sight so unbelievable that it forces you to shut up and

let your ears be filled by the purest sound of silence

you could ever imagine.’ Christian said he had learned

‘that life is not a given, it is a privilege. Going to

remote regions, going mountaineering,

going beyond the normal, all serve the

same basic purpose: celebrating life.’

Soon we were

to realise that

the first

crossing had

only served as

an appetiser.


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This is clearly what Rachel Brettell,

an undergraduate medical

student, did on her journey

through Mongolia. She described

in her Wallace Watson Award

lecture how she had had ‘quite

literally, the adventure of a

lifetime’:

We often [pitched our

tents] in pitch black,

howling winds or torrential

rain, but to wake up to the

vast and stunning

Mongolian countryside,

with not another soul in

sight, every morning, really

was incredible. The scenery

is ever changing – from

desert, to alpine forest, to

snow-capped mountains. The

country is vast, and the

emptiness is awe-inspiring.

Whilst the Mongolian scenery is amazing, they say

that it is really the people that make a place.

Mongolians move from ger to ger where they are fed,

watered and given a bed for the night before moving

on. No host expects payment – we would invariably be

treated like honoured guests. We sampled goat’s face

– an unusual delicacy – washed down with airag

(week-old fermented mare’s milk, and the Mongolian

tipple of choice!).

It is a cliché that travel broadens the mind, but it is

probably true. I was never an unwilling adventurous

traveller, but I was probably an unlikely adventurous

traveller. I have always known there are incredible

places out there, but I now know that there are

incredible places that I want to see. I have always

known that there are extraordinary things to do out

there, but I now know that there are extraordinary

things I can do.

Sitting on a dirt track, on the border of Kazakhstan,

unable to get a border permit because it was Nadaam

and naturally the whole province had shut down for a

fortnight, nine days since I had had a shower, over a

week since I had seen fresh fruit, a good eight hours

since we had last seen our driver who had gone off to

fix the car, again, it started to rain. I wasn’t sure I

could do it. But this is the wonderful thing about this

incredible Award – you know you can because so

many people have done it before you. And you know

you can because there is a whole bunch of people you

do not want to let down, most notably yourself. And

you know you can because, earlier that year, when I

sat in [a] lecture theatre and they announced my

name, a panel of people believed I could. That is a

remarkable motivator, and countless times it reminded

me why I really did want to push myself that little bit

further. My experience was undoubtedly all the richer

for those little pushes.

There is little I can add!

It is a cliché

that travel

broadens the

mind, but it is

probably true.




THE MISSION OF EMILIE’S CHARITIES is to give children and young people in poorer

areas of the world a better start in life and hope for a better future. In 2006, the

charity continued its involvement with projects that were begun in 2005, as well as

extending its remit to help even more children. It now sponsors children in South

America, Africa, Nepal and Russia and, in the past year alone, has been able to offer

support to an additional four children in Bolivia and five in Ecuador. Catz alumnus

Darren Chadwick, who was in the same year as Emilie at College, has designed and

developed a website for Emilie’s Charities which gives details of specific projects

currently being supported by the charity. For more information, please go to

www.emiliescharities.org.uk.

Emilie’s Charities was founded by the family and friends of Catz student Emilie

Harris following her tragic death in 2004.

Emilie’s Charities

Right: Emilie Harris with

children at an orphanage

in South America.


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A L U M N I N E W S

Colin Smith (2003, Geography) writes about the challenges he and Andy Hodge (2004, Water Science Policy)

face as they prepare for the 2008 Olympics

ANDY AND I TRAIN THREE TIMES EVERY DAY, with one day

off every six to ten weeks. It is a punishing lifestyle and

one that demands – in addition to the physiological and

technical ability that rowing requires – immense mental

fortitude. It is always hard to get out of bed in the

morning, not because we do not want to, but because our

bodies are always sore and tired from training. Almost half

of our forty-nine week season is spent abroad on training

camps or at competitions. It would be impossible to

continue doing this if we were not motivated by big hopes

and dreams, and if we did not have a tremendous

community of friends and supporters behind us. Catz

provided both of these things for Andy and me.

When I first came to Catz, I did not understand why it had

such a good academic and sporting reputation. It does not

have the best library, computer facilities or gym, nor even

the biggest sports grounds. Yet you only have to walk

around the corridors of the College, look at the posters

that line the walls and listen to what the students have to

say in Hall to realise that this is a College that is striving

for success in every respect. It is the infectious enthusiasm

for people to do well and aim high, both during and after

their time at St Catherine’s, and the enormous pride the

whole College takes in the achievements of individuals,

that separates Catz from every other college.

Training for the Olympics requires us to push our minds

and bodies to do things that are far outside the ‘comfort

zone’. Every stroke we take (and there can be ten

thousand on a hard day) requires us to strive for

something better, to get more out of ourselves than we

have ever done before. It does not matter if we believe

that the Chinese have some revolutionary way of training;

it does not matter if we know that the American crews will

be physically much stronger than ours. They only give out

the medals to the fastest crews!

Catz is also rare in that it encourages a rounded education.

The College gave us an enormous amount of support –

albeit often through gritted teeth – when we rowed for

the University and for Great Britain, and we were often

surprised by the poor support given by other colleges to

some of our fellow-rowers. In a world where university

graduates are increasingly talented, and top positions are

filled by people with skills and experiences far beyond the

remits of their job, Oxford needs to be encouraging its

students to aim ever higher. Andy and I agree that Catz is

Colin Smith & Andy H

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A L U M N I N E W S


one of the colleges that is a real leader in this respect,

and it is an enormous credit to the College that it will

support people who – in academia and other areas – are at

the very top of their fields.

Andy and I dared to dream big dreams, and Catz was there to

back us. It was hard for us to contribute to College life, yet we

always received messages of support, good will and

congratulations from the College, and continue to do so.

Professors Ceri Peach and Roger Ainsworth were particularly

supportive, always willing to stick their necks on the line to

give us the chance to achieve big things. The enthusiasm,

pride, dedication and unconditional support shown by so many

people was an invaluable asset for us, and will remain a strong

source of motivation for us through the dark winter training

sessions and long into our next professional careers. We are

both so proud to have St Catherine’s College on our CVs.

Andy Hodge (right), who was a member of the winning

Boat Race crew in 2005, is a double World Champion in

rowing and eight-times World Cup winner as strokeman of

the GB men’s coxless four. Colin Smith (left), who rowed in

the winning Oxford Blue Boat in 2006, is a two-time World

Cup winner and bronze medallist in the GB men’s coxless

pair at this year’s World Championships in Munich. Both

gained Olympic qualification at the 2007 World

Championships in Munich.

Hodge Andy and I dared to dream big

dreams, and Catz was there to

back us.

© John Batty, johnbatty_66@

hotmail.com

© John Batty, johnbatty_66@

hotmail.com


OPPORTUNITIES ARE SCARCE in the Scottish highlands

where Bill Ritchie has lived since 1974, but he has

grabbed those that came along with characteristic zeal.

He is a passionate advocate for communities that wish

to control their own land resources and reverse the

Highland Clearances, which emptied glens of people

and created, in the words of the ecologist Frank Fraser

Darling, ‘a wet desert’. However, while many crofts,

including Bill’s, are squashed down on the rocky

coastline, they retain a diversity of habitats including

wetlands and woodland. Recognising the value of the

woodlands in particular, Bill campaigned for crofters to

have the legal right to manage woods on their land.

The Crofter Forestry Act was passed in 1991 and as a

Crofters Commissioner he worked to ensure real agency

support for crofter forestry, which led to a major

expansion of native woodland planting by crofters

across the Highlands and Islands.

In the early 1990s, Bill was the architect of a campaign

that changed Scottish history. Fifteen or so years after

he became a crofter, the owner of the croft land in

Assynt, beef tycoon Edmund Vestey, sold 21,000 acres

to a Swedish property speculator, who promptly went

into receivership. The crofters formed the Assynt

Crofters Trust, which set out to buy the land for

themselves. Bill ran the campaign and, with the help of

journalists, orchestrated a groundswell of popular

support for the crofters which not only helped them to

raise the money they needed to buy the land, but also

created a political imperative for land reform in

Scotland. In 1993, the Assynt Crofters became the first

Highland community to buy their land. By 1996 all

political parties in Scotland were laying out land reform

proposals. After devolution, and before the end of its

first term in 2003, the new Scottish Parliament passed

the Land Reform (Scotland) Act, which gave all crofting

communities an absolute right, and all other rural

communities conditional rights, to buy their land.

Bill Ritchie MBE (1971, Law)

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Bill has travelled

the globe,

campaigning

to defend

indigenous

peoples’ rights

and supporting

communities

whose forest

lands are under

threat.


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These provisions created a new opportunity for Bill

when the Vestey family put more land on the market in

2004. Bill went into overdrive and, by the first

anniversary of the enactment of the new law, it had

been tried and tested: a new community company,

Assynt Foundation, had been formed, with Bill as vice-

chair and treasurer, £3 million had been raised and

44,400 acres of land, including the iconic mountain of

Suilven, belonged to the people of Assynt.

Bill has travelled the globe, campaigning to defend

indigenous peoples’ rights and supporting communities

whose forest lands are under threat. He was awarded

an MBE in the New Year’s Honours List 2007 for

‘Services to the Environment and Sustainable

Development of the Highlands and Islands’.

Upper right:

Suilven in snow.

Right: Hunters in Assynt.


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requires my colleagues to evolve a very different model

of the way in which legislation is developed to maximise

support for it both within and beyond the Parliament.

The new minority government is committed to further

constitutional change, with the objective of restoring

independence to Scotland. Revising the working

relationships with the UK Government, which is opposed

to this objective, is another fresh dimension to my

working life, and is one which is both assisted, and made

more complex, by my role as part of the collective

leadership of the Civil Service of the United Kingdom.

While participation in the top leadership team for the

UK’s Civil Service and driving enhancements of the

capacity of the nation’s civil servants form a distinct

part of my responsibilities, these important aspects of

my job may be eclipsed by the new SNP Government’s

desire that I lead the creation of a separate Scottish

Civil Service. My role might appear characterised by

instability, but I believe that, if government is one’s

business, creating a new system of government is the

highest form of professional challenge.

AS PERMANENT SECRETARY to the Scottish Executive

since 2003, I have the opportunity to be at the heart

of one of the most fundamental changes currently

taking place in the constitutional and political

development of the United Kingdom. The role of the

Permanent Secretary is a richly complex one anywhere

in Britain’s central government structures – the factor

which distinguishes my experience from that of other

Permanent Secretaries is the constitutional and political

context in which I work. Devolution in Scotland is, in

these terms, still in its infancy. I think of my role as

helping shape a new system of government.

One feature of this new system of government is the

absence of single-party majorities. The past eight years

have enabled me to work within the UK’s only

sustained experience of central government by

coalition. My focus has been on ensuring that the

organisation delivers against the formal Partnership

Agreement which the coalition parties, Scottish Labour

and Scottish Liberal Democrats, entered into at the

beginning of each four year fixed-term Parliament, and

on providing an equal service to both parties.

Since May 2007 there has been a different model of

government, with the Scottish Nationalist Party

governing with less than 40% of the Parliamentary

seats. The Scottish Parliament has passed more than

twenty pieces of primary legislation each year since

Devolution, and the new make-up of the government

I believe that,

if government

is one’s

business,

creating a new

system of

government is

the highest

form of

professional

challenge.

Sir John Elvidge (1969, English)


A L U M N I N E W S


...even greater

assimilation

and accept -

ance will occur

as more

women realise

their potential

and show what

they can

achieve.

JANE PLATT, CHIEF EXECUTIVE of National Savings and

Investments (NS&I), has been fascinated by all aspects

of the world of finance and investments since the days

when, as a schoolgirl, she would spend evenings

discussing investing with her father. Today she is one

of the City’s most powerful women – the former Chief

Executive of Barclays Stockbrokers, and a former

Executive in Reuters, she now presides over an

organisation that looks after £81 billion worth of

savings and investments on behalf of over 27 million

customers. NS&I is one of the biggest financial service

providers in Britain and Jane, who has been in her

present post since September 2006, is keen to spread

the message that National Savings and Investments, an

Executive Agency of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, is

not just about Premium Bonds, it is also about –

amongst other things – inflation-beating savings and

tax-efficient ISAs!

When asked about the aims and challenges that face

her during the next years of her tenure, Jane talks with

animation of plans to consolidate and expand NS&I’s

brand image through simplification and diversification

of the products and services it offers its customers. In

addition to maintaining a professional and dedicated

level of customer care for existing investors, Jane hopes

that NS&I will be able to widen its customer base

through various sponsorship programmes. For example,

NS&I is a long standing supporter of classical music and

is the sole sponsor of the BBC Proms in the Park events

which take place in September every year. Proms in the

Park is widely regarded as a British institution and is a

sell-out event which reaches well beyond NS&I’s

traditional audience. Her current challenge is to put

NS&I’s new strategy (which, launched on 1 April 2007,

is all about improving customer experience, delivering a

consistent level of finance to the Government and

maximising sustainable profitability in the form of

improving value for the taxpayer) in place.

Jane, who read Modern Languages at Catz, describes

her role at NS&I as ‘huge and challenging’ and one

that gives her the opportunity to work with a talented

team of people in a unique environment. Having

worked in the world of finance and investments for

over twenty years, she has seen considerable changes

in a workplace that was once a traditionally male

preserve. While the number of women in control of

FTSE 100 companies is still very small, they now occupy

a higher percentage of non- executive positions in such

companies than ever before. The pace of change has

been very fast and Jane believes that even greater

assimilation and acceptance will occur as more women

realise their potential and show what they can achieve.

What others may chose to see as a ‘glass ceiling’, she

prefers to view as an ‘enormous challenge’ – one that

she herself is playing no small part in overcoming.

Jane Platt (1975, Modern Languages)


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A L U M N I N E W S

I CAME TO ST CATHERINE’S in 1978 as a visiting student

from Tulane University, and spent an enjoyable year

doing PPE with Wilfrid Knapp. On my return to the US I

decided to go to medical school. There I had two loves,

‘tropical medicine’ – a term used for diseases of the

developing world – and orthopaedics, the treatment of

bone and joint problems. In the end I trained as an

orthopaedic surgeon, specialising in paediatric

orthopaedics.

A few years ago I joined the medical faculty of Boston

University. Our hospital is the ‘safety net’ for Boston,

and many of our patients are recent immigrants

without insurance. Caring for these patients revived my

interest in tropical medicine and, through Health

Volunteers Overseas, I arranged to visit the Angkor

Hospital for Children in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

Two shadows fall over daily life in Cambodia: the

glorious, distant past, when Cambodian kings built the

fabulous temples of Angkor Wat, whose ruins lie a few

kilometres from the hospital; and the recent, tragic past

of the Khmer Rouge. Very few doctors survived the ‘Pol

Pot time’, and Cambodia remains an impoverished

country with few resources for health care.

Desmond Brown (1978, Visiting Student)

Above: Desmond Brown

(second from right) and

his surgical team.


A L U M N I N E W S


We worked in the single operating theatre, tried to

avoid the mosquitoes, and did our best with the

instruments that were available. The nurses and

anaesthetists were excellent, and we carried out a busy

schedule of procedures for three weeks. I learned, with

difficulty, how to say no to children with problems I

could not treat, with inadequate equipment, during a

short stay. I received the gratitude of many parents and

children, and I learned far more than I taught.

I have returned to Cambodia twice since then, and plan

to return annually as long as I am able. Our small

hospital is prospering, and is an important training

centre for nurses and paediatricians in Cambodia. There

is peace in Cambodia, and the hope of a better future.

Our small

hospital is

prospering,

and is an

important

training centre

for nurses and

paediatricians

in Cambodia.

There is peace

in Cambodia,

and the hope

of a better

future.

Right: A mother and her

child in a Cambodian

hospital.

Left: the realities of life

in Cambodia.

The problems I saw in Cambodian children would

challenge the best surgeons in Boston. There were

chronic bone infections, children walking on untreated

club feet, severe scoliosis from poliomyelitis, hips

destroyed by tuberculosis, blast injuries from land

mines and unexploded ordinance, and many broken

bones and dislocations treated unsuccessfully by the

kru khmer, the traditional healers of Cambodia. I also

found dedicated and energetic young Cambodian

doctors, grateful for the opportunity to learn.


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A L U M N I N E W S

I FIRST SAW OXFORD in September 1936, when Iwas on my way to take up a scholarship at theCatholic Workers’ College in Walton Well Road,North Oxford. I wore a brand-new suit andsqueaky shoes, which I had just obtained from a‘fence’ in Bow. The College, I discovered, was aworking men’s hostel with a chapel in thebasement and a pub next door. Father Leo O’Heawas the principal. Everybody in the Labourmovement knew O’Hea. I had met him a yearbefore at meetings in the East End. He was themost formidable person I had ever met. Hisauthority seemed to crackle on his clothes.

How a Lancashire boy came to be in London’s East End is

a tale in itself. Workless in the North, I had migrated to

London at the age of sixteen where I found work as a

labourer in an iron foundry in Bow. The job was ill-paid

and uncertain, but in the days of mass unemployment, it

was a job.

At the Catholic Workers’ College I joined a student body of

eight men and two women. Each of them had been

awarded a scholarship to come to Oxford. I shared a room

with Jimmy Foggerty, a miner from Durham. ‘The purpose

of your being here,’ O’Hea told us on our first day, ‘is

leadership. You are for me a spark in the clod. To help

those from whom you sprang is your first commitment.

You are being given a wonderful opportunity to improve

your education. Make the most of it.’ I needed to make

the most of it. My schooling – apart from some night

school – had ended when I was thirteen.

In Oxford, I began a new life. I was not only free to think, I

was expected to think. I had come a long way from the

steam and heat and crash of the foundry floor to listen to

the best brains Oxford had to offer. I thrived. I’d railed

against privilege from soap boxes in the East End, now I

was benefiting from it. Yet there was something very odd

about our relations with the University. While giving us

everything to help our education, the University disowned

us, denying us the wearing of cap and gown. We working-

class students often had our legitimacy challenged by

college servants. O’Hea’s advice was to forget the

legitimacy argument and take advantage of what the

University had to offer. ‘It’s a beginning,’ he said.

In 1938 I sat for the University’s Diploma in Economics

and Political Science. I emerged with distinction.

Encouraged by tutors, I petitioned the University to allow

The historian and writer

William Woodruff (1938, PPE)

recalls his experiences of University life in Oxford in the 1930s

In Oxford, I

began a new

life. I was not

only free to

think, I was

expected to

think...


A L U M N I N E W S


me to proceed to a degree in Modern Greats. The

Education Department of the LCC (London County Council)

had promised to create a senior adult scholarship,

provided the University would accept me. The University

did. It waived the entrance examination, Responsions,

however, it insisted that I should take Pass Moderations at

the end of my first year. But how could I possibly pass

examinations that (among other papers) included an

ancient and a modern language?

Having joined St Catherine’s in St Aldates, I turned to

Dean W G Kendrick for help. While he didn’t think much of

my chances, he advised me to take French and Political

Economy in Hilary Term, and

Latin, Constitutional Law and

History in Trinity. If he thought

that I was attempting the

impossible, he never said so. I

took pleasure in the fact that I

was now a legitimate

undergraduate and that the

LCC stood behind me.

Wilfred Kendrew was my Tutor in Latin. Help with French

came from a Miss Hugo, who was almost blind. Sixty-ish,

she lived with her brother in a rambling house beyond

Magdalen Bridge. As a teacher of French, she was

devastating. Daily, I felt the lashing of her Gallic tongue. If

I did well, she would clap. If I did very well, she would give

me a cup of tea. (I didn’t dare do badly.) She was thrilled

with the challenge the University had set me. She kept at

me so much that I wondered how I was going to pay her.

‘It has all been arranged,’ she assured me.

And so the months came and went while I struggled with

one subject after another. I happened to be with Dean

Kendrick when we learned that I had finally met the

University’s demands. ‘Well, done, Woodruff,’ he

congratulated me, ‘very well done. I was sure you’d come

a cropper. That’s what I told the Master. Now it’s on to

your degree. Nothing to stop you.’

Kendrick was far too wise not to realise that in 1938-

1939 we were all living through one political crisis

after another. Although I had spent my summers

studying in Belgium and Germany, I didn’t believe that

the world would be set on fire again. I had not allowed

for the fanaticism of Hitler.

In June 1940 I volunteered

for national service. I

fought in North Africa, Italy

and on the Anzio

beachhead. My ambition to

graduate from Oxford had to

be put aside. For me it was a

long war. I next saw Oxford

in 1946.

William Woodruff is an Emeritus Graduate Research

Fellow at the University of Florida in Gainseville. After the

end of the Second World War, his academic career took

him to Harvard, Princeton and the universities of Illinois,

Melbourne and Florida. In addition to his academic work,

he is the author of several novels and two

internationally-acclaimed autobiographical works The

Road to Nab End and Beyond Nab End.

...I had come a long way from

the steam and heat and

crash of the foundry floor

to listen to the best brains

Oxford had to offer.


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Simon Crisp (1972, Modern Languages)

Simon Crisp is co-editor of The Gospel of John in the

Byzantine Tradition (Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft: 2007)

the first edition of any part of the Greek New

Testament to be produced entirely by electronic means.

Helen Battersby (née White) (1980, Modern

Languages)

Helen Battersby is still living on the South Coast with

Mike and her two children. Having obtained distinctions

in coaching qualifications, she is now working as an

Executive Performance Coach with InsideOut®

(www.insideout.biz). She would love to hear from any

old friends, and can be contacted by emailing

[email protected].

Andrew McNeil (1961, Modern History)

Andrew McNeil retired as the Head of Parliamentary and

Media Affairs at the Chamber of Shipping, the trade

association for UK ship-owners, in 2002. Since then, he

has acted as a volunteer at the East Finchley Advice

Service and, since 2004, has been Chair of the Finchley &

Golders Green Constituency Labour Party. In 2006 he was

elected a Councillor for East Finchley in the London

Borough of Barnet, and he is also a Local Authority

Governor of Christ’s College Finchley (a boys’

comprehensive), and Trustee of Barnet Carers’ Centre. He

contributes a weekly ‘blog’ to the Hendon Times website

and remains very close to his son and daughter, Rupert

and Emma, both of whom are St Catherine’s alumni.

Shaun Johnson (1982, Social Studies)

Shaun Johnson, the founding Chief Executive of the

Mandela Rhodes Foundation in Cape Town, has won a

series of awards for his debut novel, The Native

Commissioner (Penguin: 2006). The novel, which tells

the story of Sam Jameson’s attempt to piece together

the life of the father he never really knew – the

Commissioner of the novel’s title and a kind and

sensitive man brought to despair by the reality of

apartheid in 1950s South Africa – has been awarded

the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize 2007: Best Book in

Africa. The book has also received the M-Net Literary

Award 2007 for English, and the Nielsen Booksellers’

Choice Award 2007.

Andrew Coats (1976, Physiological Sciences)

In 2006, Andrew Coats was appointed Deputy Vice-

Chancellor of the University of Sydney.

David Rudkin (1957, Literæ Humaniores)

David Rudkin has been appointed to an Honorary

Professorship at the University of Wales. The past

twelve months have also seen the publication of his

eleventh published title, a monograph for the British

Film Institute on the 1932 Carl Dreyer film Vampyr (Film

Classics Series: 2005).

News in brief


A L U M N I N E W S


Paul Brooks (1985, Physics)

Following fifteen years working at the UK’s Defence

Research Agency – now known as QinetiQ – Paul

Brooks has decided to try working for a smaller

company and is now director of business development

and sales for Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL), the

world’s leading provider of small satellite missions. This

follows leading two particular successes in QinetiQ –

the TopSat remote sensing spacecraft and the Zephyr

Solar Powered UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle). Paul and

Sue (University, 1985) now have two children, Abi, ten,

and James, six.

William Marshall (1963, Biochemistry)

Forty years after graduating in Biochemistry (under

Lloyd Stocken’s tutelage), William Marshall is still

working in the discipline, and has just signed off the

revisions for new editions of two books on clinical

biochemistry and metabolic medicine. He spent most of

his career at King’s College Hospital and King’s College,

London, retiring as Reader in Clinical Biochemistry. His

interest in medical education led to many appointments

as an external examiner, and he has worked with Catz

Fellow Ashok Handa on the Graduate Entry Medicine

course. Since leaving King’s, he has been working part-

time as a consultant and Clinical Director of Pathology

at the London Clinic, a leading London independent

hospital, and was recently elected Honorary Secretary

of the Institute of Biology.

Richard Cox (1951, English)

Richard Cox was re-elected as a member of the States

(Parliament) of Alderney in November 2006 and

continues as a member of the Guernsey Overseas Aid

Commission. In July 2007 his twelfth novel, Island of

Ghosts, was published.

David Roughley (1978, Engineering Science)

David Roughley is now CEO of the Forum of Private

Business (FPB) in Knutsford, Cheshire, an institution

which has just celebrated its thirtieth birthday.

Kate Hughes (née Noble) (1992, Geography) and

Bernard Hughes (1992, Music)

On 25 September 2007, Matilda Gertrude, a sister for

Pen, was born to Kate and Bernard Hughes.


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Dev Lahiri (1975, Modern History)

Dev Lahiri is the second person in the world – and the

first in India – on whom surgeons have performed a

pioneering operation in which an ICD (Implantable

Cardioverter Defibrillator) was implanted in an area below

the rib cage through an incision made in the abdomen.

Having survived several near-death experiences, he plans

to share his experience of battling with a life-threatening

heart condition with cardiac patients across the globe.

Speaking in The Times of India, Dev Lahiri – who is now

back at work as Principal of Welhams’ Boys School,

Dehradun, and has even resumed horse-riding – shared

his message that sufferers like him should never lose

hope, ‘I’d just like to say to all out there who might be

losing hope, it’s only just begun.”

Tom Leach (1997, Modern Languages)

Tom Leach’s company has now expanded throughout

Poland, beyond Kraków to Warsaw, Poznan, Gdansk,

Katowice, Lódz, Wroclaw and Torun, providing

consultancy and advisory services for foreign investors

in the Polish Real Estate Market. Any Catz alumni who

are planning to visit Poland are welcome to get in

touch with Tom via his company website,

www.leachandlang.com.

Charles Green (1998, Visiting Student)

Charles Green is now working as a freelance proof-

reader, writer and editor. His article on ‘The Science of

Ergonomics’ appeared in What’s Up? Annapolis and he

recently presented a paper on ‘Classical Greek and

Italian elements of Prometheus Unbound’ for the 2007

Hawaii International Conference on Arts and

Humanities.

David Mabberley (1967, Botany)

On 2 January 2007 the civil-partnership ceremony of

David Mabberley and Andrew Drummond took place at

the British Consulate General in Sydney. The witnesses

were David’s children, Laura and Marcus.


In early October, more than thirty Catz alumni –

representing cohorts from Society days to the

twenty-first century – gathered for cocktails and

dinner at Boston’s charming and idiosyncratic Club of

Odd Volumes. In addition to catching up with old

friends and making new ones, those present had the

opportunity to hear the latest news from St

Catherine’s from the Master, Roger Ainsworth, and

Emeritus Fellow Wilfrid Knapp.

The next opportunity for alumni living in America to

come together will be at a dinner and reception in

New York in April. This will coincide with the

University’s North American Reunion, which is taking

place on 4 and 5 April 2008. For more details, please

check the College’s website, or contact a member of

the Development Office.

Boston Reunion

A L U M N I N E W S


Catz alumni enjoying a

reception at the Club of

Odd Volumes in Boston.


A L U M N I N E W S

College events 2008Thursday 14 February Bullock event

Wednesday 20 February Wallace Watson Award lectures

Thursday 21 February Foundation Scholars Drinks

Wednesday 27 February to Saturday 1 March Torpids

Saturday 1 March Degree day

Saturday 8 March Lunch for first-year students and their parents

Saturday 15 March PPE dinner

Saturday 29 March Oxford v Cambridge boat race

Friday 4 April to Saturday 5 April New York reunion

Friday 11 April Inter-collegiate golf tournament

Thursday 24 April Foundation Scholars dinner

Monday 12 May London party at the RAF Club, Piccadilly

Saturday 17 May Degree day

Wednesday 21 May to Saturday 24 May Eights week

Saturday 7 June Degree day

Saturday 28 June Gaudy for matriculands 1996-2002

Saturday 14 June Garden party for second year students

and their parents

Saturday 12 July Degree day

Friday 19 September to Sunday 21 September Oxford alumni weekend

Contact details:

Guy Lawrenson

Development Officer

Telephone: 01865 281585

Fax: 01865 271705

Email: [email protected]

Franca Potts

Development Officer

Telephone: 01865 281596

Fax: 01865 271705


Bethan Williams

Publications Officer

Telephone: 01865 271760


Megan Parry

Master’s PA

Telephone: 01865 271762


The College time capsuleThe College Enigmatist offers the next clue (in a series of fifty) to the contents of the time capsule

buried under St Catherine’s College:

A good hiding…

Previous clues:

1. Two thirds of my number is one and a half times what I am.

2. Pooh in 1927, true of us today?

3. Do they belong to longevity?

4. The first 6000 flowers

DevelopmentOffice

Please visit www.stcatz.ox.ac.uk

to update your contact details.

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This year the London Party will take place at the RAF Club in Piccadilly. We will be

holding a smart, evening drinks reception for all our London alumni and any

other alumni who would like to attend. Invitations will only be sent out to

those who live in the London area. If you live outside this area, but would still

like to attend this event, please contact the Development Office directly.

If you have any enquiries regarding events or would like to attend any

of the events listed, please contact Franca Potts in the Development

Office. For a regularly updated list of forthcoming events, please

go to www.stcatz.ox.ac.uk.

London Party 2008 – RAF Club, Piccadilly



C A T Z F E L L O W S


Peter FranklinTutor in Music, Professor of Music,on Seeing Through Music

MUSICOLOGY IS AN ILL-FATED DISCIPLINE – perhaps an odd thing to say when it can inspire involuntary

rapture in strangers. ‘How lovely!’, some exclaim, as eyes close upon a vision of Mozart and angelic choirs.

One hates to tell them that its practice and practitioners can be as down-to-earth as those of supposedly

more worldly fields, or that one’s day is spent doing the thousand things that deprive academics of quality

time for communing with the celestial spheres. There is, however, rarely a chance to respond before the

question follows, ‘What do you play?’ Thinking of Elgar, who sold his violin in order to buy a billiard-table

(less effete and more gentlemanly, he thought), a silly answer comes to mind. But my purpose is to try to

explain what musicologists do do… a glimpse of my own recent preoccupations must suffice.

Musicians’ anxieties about appearing too ‘musical’ in

Britain in the early twentieth century, open up the

wider issue of music as a complex form of cultural

practice whose study will involve listening, but also as

much reading and historical research as other

Humanities subjects (that performance and

composition also occupy undergraduate Music students

is what can make them seem unduly sensitive while

actually multi-tasking in multi-locations). The Elgar

story is certainly relevant to my own work on late-

nineteenth-century symphonies and operas and their

eclipse by more abstruse forms of modernism – the

kind that involved maths and mysticism but also

billiard-room-hostile abstraction and concert-disrupting

dissonance. Elgar’s lush tonal language seemed

overtaken by such things at the end of his life in the

1930s – for good reasons as well as bad.

The modernist take-over spawned tendentious

evolutionary histories that replaced confusing

simultaneity with musical styles succeeding one

another in an inevitable march of historical ‘progress’.

Wagner’s Tristan becomes a ‘precursor’ of atonality

and Gustav Mahler a ‘forerunner’ of Schoenberg. The

fact that audiences have gone on listening to Wagner

and Mahler (and Elgar, come to that) raises the spectre

of irrelevant or even pernicious popularity, and the

slippery slope to mass culture in whose seductively

dangerous realm my more recent objects of study

reside: Hollywood movies and their music. Like much

The Elgar story

is certainly

relevant to my

own work on

late-

nineteenth-

century

symphonies

and operas...


5 0 / P E T E R F R A N K L I N


Deception (scored by Korngold in 1947); of Joan

Crawford in Humoresque (also 1947) walking into the

sea, to her death, as her ‘art’-devoted violinist lover

plays the Liebestod on the radio; or of innocent Joan

Fontaine walking into Rebecca’s bedroom in Hitchcock’s

version of the du Maurier novel. That was a bedroom

to die for (and perhaps in), and awash with the dead

Rebecca’s music of openly transgressive passion (eerily

lit by an electronic Novachord). But Hollywood did not

only do women. Rebecca is du Maurier’s femme fatale

as born of a certain kind of male fantasy, coloured by

late nineteenth-century obsessions and hang-ups.

These also gave birth to those operatic women typically

destined for horrible ends. Almost as horrible as that of

Marion Crane in Psycho, whose early demise (well, she

had stolen the money hadn’t she?) left the rest of

Hitchcock’s 1960 horror masterpiece to her crazy killer

Norman Bates, whose inner music was appropriately

dark, dissonant and modernist.

The book that has emerged from recent conference

papers, some read in Minneapolis and New York, will, I

hope, be called Seeing Through Music. To do that with

even-handed sympathy, both historical and cultural, is

the aim. So let me apologise to the Mozartians, the

angelic and the mathematical (mystical or otherwise)

and return to finalists’ essays and arrangements in the

Music House. The arrival of a second grand piano,

thanks to opera singer Heather Harper’s donation, has

certainly left no room for a billiard table. Just one or

two incongruous bits of ecclesiastical furniture to

relocate and Alan Bullock, whose bust still lurks behind

it all, might be able to see his Mozart in a new light…

popular culture, these have simply been air-brushed

out of standard histories of ‘twentieth-century music’.

Hollywood movies, we are told, are not serious, although

they may be seriously bad: manipulative, titillating,

mindless escapism, which is possibly not so far from

where my Mozart-and-angels types had music (swap

manipulation for elevation?). This revealing paradox makes

it worth probing into what it was that a post-romantic

version of ‘classical music’ was stooping to in 1930s films

like King Kong or Gone with the Wind (I own up to having

recently published on both). Perhaps it was something not

so many worlds away from what Mahler and Elgar, and

even Wagner, were up to (the way in which ‘pure’ or so-

called ‘absolute’ music was widely described in proto-

cinematically visual terms is a study in its own right). We

are not dealing simply with a neat continuation of tonal

symphonic music in Hollywood that might allow us to

airbrush out the angry attacks of musical modernism in

the 1930s and ’40s. But where film studies used to avoid

music, the narrative role of music in mass-entertainment

cinema is increasingly under interdisciplinary scrutiny. Of

interest to ‘New Musicology’ (American feminists, cultural

critics and post-structuralists coined that variously

mocking or celebratory term) is the way in which trashy

Hollywood movies can sometimes figure music rather as

they figure women: as Beauty, sometimes sentimentally

sweet, but more often in troublesome and transgressive

moods that inspire violence.

Soft-focus heroines’ association with ‘love themes’

provide too pat an image of Hollywood women’s music.

Think of Bette Davis shooting her composer-lover in

Hollywood

movies, we are

told, are not

serious,

although they

may be

seriously bad:

manipulative,

titillating,

mindless

escapism,

which is

possibly not so

far from where

my Mozart-

and-angels

types had

music.


in disorders associated with a single gene, mapping

between genes and cognition needs to consider

how these relationships unfold over time – weaker

cognitive functions in adults are not necessarily

problematic for younger individuals with the same

genetic disorder, and vice versa. It is, therefore,

crucial to chart increasing difficulties or

developmental improvements from very early in life.

This holds both from a scientific point of view, as a

way of unfolding the complexities of gene-cognition

relationships, and, in much more applied terms, as a

route to earlier and more effective intervention

programmes.

Following this broad framework, I investigate

cognitive development in young children with

fragile X syndrome, a monogenic disorder that is

the most common cause of inherited learning

difficulties. Adults and school children with fragile

X syndrome have striking difficulties with

inattention and hyperactivity. Increasing rates of

early diagnosis mean that it has become crucial to

understand the developmental trajectories of

attention early in life in order to identify when and

what interventions would be most beneficial, and

GAIA SCERIF BECAME increasingly interested inthe cognitive and neural processes underlying thedevelopment of attention – and those underlyingattentional difficulties – when she read for a PhDat the Institute of Child Health, University CollegeLondon. After a spell as a Visiting Fellow at theSackler Institute of DevelopmentalPsychobiology, Cornell University, and as aLecturer in the School of Psychology at theUniversity of Nottingham, she came to StCatherine’s in October 2006 as a Tutor inPsychology.

In the first decade of the new millennium, common

questions have brought together researchers from

such diverse fields as molecular genetics,

neuroscience and cognitive psychology. Can the

function of specific genes be linked to distinct

cognitive processes? What are the ethical and

practical implications of newly emerging

relationships between genes and cognition? Within

this context, disorders of known genetic origin have

provided a unique window into the role played by

the implicated genes in affected cognitive outcomes.

However, it is becoming increasingly clear that, even

Gaia Scerif, Tutor in PsychologyUnderstanding the development of attentional difficulties

across a variety of developmental disorders




5 2 / G A I A S C E R I F


Despite their relatively low prevalence, Down

syndrome, fragile X syndrome and Williams

syndrome have attracted much interest because of

their unusual profiles of strengths and weaknesses.

In contrast, sex chromosomal trisomies are

extremely frequent, affecting approximately 1 in

1000 female and 1 in 500 male births. However,

the cognitive strengths and weaknesses associated

with carrying an additional sex chromosome remain

elusive. An exciting new project funded by BDF

Newlife, the UK’s leading child health and research

charity, which supports children with chromosomal

abnormalities, brings together colleagues in

developmental psychology and clinical genetics

from across the country. By quantifying the

prevalence, nature and range of specific learning

and adaptive difficulties in children and adolescents

with an additional sex chromosome, we aim to

inform pre-natal counselling on outcomes, and

signpost the way to early and appropriately

targeted interventions for young children at risk of

developmental difficulties.

Developmental disorders of known genetic origin

continue to provide insights into relationships

between genes and cognition, but they have also

revealed their complexity. A key step in

understanding how these two levels of description

relate to each other involves exploring the

intermediate level of description, systems

neuroscience. Support from the John Fell OUP

Research Fund will help a postdoctoral researcher,

to understand the consequences of impairments in

auditory and visual attention for complex

multimodal environments like the classroom. A

four-year longitudinal project supported by the

Wellcome Trust funds a postdoctoral and a

graduate researcher (Justin Cowan and Victoria

Cole) and sees us working in collaboration with

researchers based in London and at McGill

University. We will be charting the developmental

trajectories of attention in children with fragile X

syndrome and in those who develop typically.

While difficulties with attention are striking in

individuals with fragile X syndrome, children and

adults with many other developmental disorders

also struggle due to hyperactivity and inattention.

The Economic and Social Research Council, the

Williams Syndrome Foundation, the Down

Syndrome Educational Trust and the Fragile X

Society, have awarded a DPhil studentship which

we aim to use to help assess the influence of

attentional difficulties or strengths on basic literacy

and numeracy skills, following toddlers and young

children over a three year period, as they move

through pre-school and primary school. Comparing

young children with superficially similar global

difficulties in attention will, hopefully, shed more

light on the unique needs of each group. This

project is lead by a new DPhil student, Ann Steele,

who is also based at St Catherine’s, and who will

be visiting families and children at home and

school to collect information on attention, basic

numeracy and literacy.

Comparing

young children

with super -

ficially similar

global

difficulties in

attention will,

hopefully, shed

more light on

the unique

needs of each

group.




Duncan Astle, study the neural correlates of

attention development. Duncan will combine two

child-friendly and non-invasive techniques that can

uncover the temporal dynamics of attentional

processes, electroencephalography (EEG) and

magnetoencephalography (MEG), at the new

Oxford Neurodevelopmental Magneto -

encephalography Unit based at the Warneford

Hospital. These techniques will allow us to gather

information about the processes underlying

cognitive control in typically and atypically

developing children, integrating cognitive, systems

neuroscience and genetics. This remains a daunting

enterprise, but one that is increasingly within

reach, as we uncover the molecular and cellular

processes involved in systems cognitive

neuroscience, and as cognitive processes can be

studied at earlier and earlier ages, and throughout

the course of development.

Ceri PeachTutor in Geography, Professor of Social Geography

I WAS ONLY TWENTY SIX WHEN, IN 1965, I was

appointed Lecturer in Geography at St Catherine’s – a

post that I held jointly with a lectureship at Keble and a

Faculty Lectureship in the University. Having previously

been an undergraduate and graduate student at

Merton, I found the move from the oldest to the

newest college to be liberating. When I arrived, Catz

was still being built, the yew hedges in the quad were

only knee-high, the Fellows were newly appointed and

the drive was underway to make the College great.

Catz took four Geographers a year in those days –

today we take between ten and twelve! In 1990 I was

given a personal Chair by the University and the

College appointed its second Fellow in Geography.

Teaching and research at St Catherine’s, and in the

University, has been a wonderfully fulfilling life’s work,

one where you never step in the same river twice –

students change and one’s subject undergoes a

paradigmatic shift.

My main field of research is migration and the

segregation of minority ethnic and religious groups in

Britain, America and Western Europe. A sabbatical leave

spent in the Demography Department at the Australian

National University transformed my understanding of

the relationship between the spatial patterns of

I disproved the

‘triple melting-

pot theory’ of

American

assimilation

which, based

on data

collected in

New Haven,

argued that

while national

ethnic identity

in America

would

dissolve...


a golden star – he never missed a tutorial, never failed

to produce an essay, took a good degree and

demonstrated that athletes at a high level are more

conscious of time planning, and more efficient in

meeting commitments, than many others with far less

pressure on them.

As the incumbent of several College Offices I have been

exposed to new and unexpected challenges. As

Domestic Bursar, I negotiated with Craig Klafter and the

then JCR President, Peter Mandelson, over charges. It

was during my tenure as Senior Tutor that women were

first admitted to the College. As Finance Bursar, I

wrestled with the bursars of other Colleges to justify

our fee level and later, when Acting Master, I fought for

the University’s support of the College’s Kobe Institute

in Japan.

My career has been an exciting and a full one. I am

grateful for the opportunities it has offered me to

teach – and be taught by – my students, and also for

the fellowship of my colleagues.

5 4 / C E R I P E A C H


residential segregation and led me to investigate ethnic

intermarriage as an index of social interaction. In my

next sabbatical, at Yale, I disproved the ‘triple melting-

pot theory’ of American assimilation which, based on

data collected in New Haven, argued that while national

ethnic identity in America would dissolve, it would do so

within maintained religious boundaries: Catholic,

Protestant and Jewish. My own research proved that,

while the so-called ‘Protestant pot’ seemed plausible, a

‘Catholic pot’ seemed rather unlikely. As the Irish were

residentially mixed with the British, Scandinavians and

Germans, and separated from the Poles and Italians,

this suggested an ‘old European’ rather than a

‘Protestant’ melting pot. There was, in fact, a white

melting pot which began with the ‘old’ Europeans and

into which Poles, Italians and, to an extent, Jewish

populations, were added as time went on.

Later research projects involved focusing on housing

tenure and segregation in Britain and the United

States. Most recently I have been working on

continuing issues of segregation in Britain, and have

also begun to examine the growth of the Muslim

population in Europe (and particularly in Britain). This

has developed into a large scale study of the impact of

Muslim mosques, Sikh temples and Hindu mandirs on

the cultural landscape of Britain, which I will continue

to work on in my retirement.

Away from my research, I have maintained a keen

interest in rowing. Catz has had a strong stream of

oarsmen – many of whom I have had the privilege to

teach. Sir Matthew Pinsent (Geography, 1989) remains

Away from my research, I have

maintained a keen interest in

rowing. Catz has had a strong

stream of oarsmen – many of

whom I have had the privilege to

teach...




IN HIS TEACHING CERI combined humanity and a keen

sense of humour with an absolute desire to push the

minds of those he taught. My abiding memory of Ceri's

teaching was his demonstration of the 'walk' of young

men in Harlem in front of a hundred captivated first-

year students as yet unfamiliar with both Oxford

professors and the American ghetto. I feel privileged to

have been taught by Ceri. He epitomises everything

that is right about the Oxford tutorial system in which

he believes so passionately.

Matthew D’Arcy (2000, Geography)

MY MEMORIES OF PROFESSOR CERI PEACH are fond,

numerous and rich. He was always keen to know each

one of his students as an individual, to emphasise the

fact that life continues beyond work, and was humble

in his desire to gain knowledge to satisfy his

extraordinary intelligence. I remember his love for

quantifiable figures and any essay that spoke of the

wonders of the index of dissimilarity, his obvious

tendency to recommend the reading of articles that

happened to be written by former students, and his

subtle way of fighting the corner for anything anti-

post-modern. Of course there were also those ‘Ceri-

antics’ which we all grew to love: as third-years we

ended a group meeting very promptly because Ceri

needed to save a dubiously parked car from certain

clamping! When I think of Ceri, I have only genuinely

happy memories of an outstanding tutor, a

distinguished yet highly approachable professor, and a

dear friend.

Hannah Lunn (2003, Geography)

I feel privileged

to have been

taught by Ceri.

He epitomises

everything that

is right about

the Oxford

tutorial system

in which he

believes so

passionately.

Awaiting new pic onmonday



5 6 / A L E X T A D I É


Tell me about the Maison Française

The Maison Française (MF), which came into

being shortly after the end of the Second World

War, is a French research centre funded by the

French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It is

recognised by Oxford University as an associated

institution, and is the only European institute of

its type in Britain. The MF seeks to contribute to

Franco-British research in the fields of literature,

the humanities and social sciences through the

work of its staff, students and visiting lecturers

and speakers. Working in tandem with the

French National Centre for Scientific Research

(CNRS), the Institute also provides a base in

Oxford – and access to University facilities and

resources – for academics who hold grants or

scholarships from the CNRS.

The fields of ‘literature, the humanities

and social sciences’ are, by definition,

broad. Does research undertaken at the

MF concentrate upon any particular

areas?

There are three main research programmes

currently running at the MF. The History of

Science programme is particularly well

established, and researchers have forged

successful links with faculties and

departments at Oxford University. The

programme entitled ‘Modernity and Nation’

seeks to bring together French and British

academics working in the fields of history,

literature and philosophy in the seventeenth

and eighteenth centuries. Finally, ‘Nation and

Globalisation’, brings together several

activities, including a European Research

Group on European democracy.

You mention that the research

undertaken at the MF involves

collaboration with faculties and

departments at the University. How else

does the MF seek to participate in and

contribute to the academic community

here in Oxford?

Many activities, including lectures and seminars,

are organised around the three research areas.

In addition, a series of lectures and conferences

that are not necessarily related to the main

research projects take place at the MF

throughout the year. Every term, the Maison

plays host to a French writer. Recent authors in

residence have included the Caribbean writers

Patrick Chamoiseau and Edouard Glissant. The

MF also helps to host and organise three of the

sub-faculty of French’s seminars in Mediaeval

French, Early Modern French and Modern

French.

Alexis TadiéAn interview with the Fellow by Special Election

and Director of the Maison Française

Once a term we organise a European lecture, where the

guest speaker is someone from the European political world...



things just happen! I love being in Oxford. It

is a very beautiful place and the combination

of intellectual stimulation and the general

friendliness of a collegiate university makes it

a very special one too. I am particularly proud

to have been elected to a Fellowship at St

Catherine’s.

As Director of the MF, you must only

have limited time for personal research.

What, when you have the opportunity,

are your particular research interests?

My own research focuses mainly on

eighteenth-century literature, and the history

of ideas. As part of my National Service I

lived in India and taught at the University in

New Delhi. I have a keen interest in post-

colonial studies, Kipling and contemporary

Indian writing. My current project, however,

is a book about the English philosopher and

essayist, Francis Bacon.

The MF is, naturally, well known here in

Oxford. How well known is it in France?

I’m pleased to say that the MF is becoming

increasingly well known across the Channel.

The Maison has made a concerted effort to

promote itself in France, with real success.

Once a term we organise a European lecture,

where the guest speaker is someone from

the European political world – past speakers

have included Pascal Lamy and Neil Kinnock.

We also try to make sure that we do not

invite the same people twice to the MF, so

that more and more academics and writers

have the opportunity to come and work at

here in Oxford.

Your career has taken some interesting

turns before your appointment as Director

of the MF – tell us how you ended up in

Syria.

In 1996 I was working in Paris, and felt that I

wanted to do something different, so applied

to the Diplomatic Service for a post as a

cultural attaché. I mentioned in my

application form that I could speak Arabic,

and one day I got a phone call asking me to

go to Damascus! Syria was a fabulous place

full of immense natural and archaeological

beauty. The people were wonderful and the

atmosphere then was not as strained as it is

now – at the time, Syria was seeking further

integration with Europe. I worked to set up

collaborations between France and Syria in

the fields of art, literature and media. On one

memorable occasion, I even organised a rock

concert in a Palestinian camp!

From Syria to Summertown! How did you

become Director of the MF?

I was a young French lecteur in Oxford in

1983-4 and I even did some teaching for St

Catherine’s that year; it was there that I met

and became friends with Richard Parish

(Professor of French and Philip Spencer

Fellow). I was honoured to be asked to come

back as a Visiting Fellow at St Catherine’s in

1996. Richard and I always kept in touch

after I left Oxford and it was Richard who

asked me if I was considering applying for

the directorship. I became Director of the MF

in 2003. I have never been the sort of person

who thinks, ‘in five years, I want to be here’,



5 8 / J O H N C H A R L E S S M I T H


ON TUESDAY 29 MAY 2007, in a ceremony

that took place in the gardens of the

Master’s Lodgings, John Charles (JC) Smith

was made a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des

Palmes Académiques by the attaché for the

French language at the Institut Français du

Royaume-Uni, Mr Nicolas Marques. Over fifty

colleagues and friends were present to watch

the presentation of the award, which was

created by Napoléon in 1808, and is the

second oldest French ‘order of chivalry’ after

the Légion d’Honneur. The Ordre des Palmes

Académiques honours those associated with

education and, especially, university life.

After expressing his pleasure at being in

Oxford to present this award for service to

the French language and French culture, Mr

Marques spoke at length about JC’s academic

achievements. In addition to being ‘un grand

spécialiste des langues romanes – français,

espagnol, italien, catalan’, JC is also, he said,

both, ‘un remarquable professeur’ and ‘un

homme remarquable’.

JC Smith has been a Fellow at St Catherine’s

since 1997. His main field of interest is

historical morphosyntax, and he has

published widely on agreement,

refunctionalisation, deixis and the evolution

of case and pronoun systems. He is Deputy

Director of the University’s new Research

Centre for Romance Linguistics, as well as

Secretary of the International Society for

Historical Linguistics, and is currently co-

editing the Cambridge History of the

Romance Languages.

John Charles SmithTutor in French Linguistics

Left: Nicholas Marques

(left) and JC Smith in the

garden of the Master’s

Lodgings.


G A Z E T T E


The College would

like to record its

gratitude to Mrs E

Lorraine Hill, the

widow of St

Catherine’s

alumnus Donald

Arthur Hill, who

has established a

charitable

remainder trust in memory of her husband.

This generous gift will provide substantial

support to the College in areas where such

help is most needed.

Donald Hill, who came to Oxford in 1954 to

read PPE, always retained fond memories of

his time in Oxford and enjoyed the

opportunity that it gave him to meet so many

fellow students from Commonwealth

countries. Pursuing a career in the field of

intellectual property law, Donald Hill was

both a lawyer and a trademark agent. He

was, for many years, a senior partner at

Smart and Biggar, Featherstonhaugh and Co

in Ottawa, Canada. He was an active member

– serving on several committees – of the

International Association for the Promotion of

Intellectual Property, and was among the first

group of members to receive an Award of

Merit. While his career took him to many

parts of the world, his favourite place was

the property at Otty Lake near Ottawa which

became the retirement home for him and his

wife of forty-seven years, Lorraine. Donald

Hill was a man of great intellect and kindness,

a fine pianist and a dedicated, life-long

member of the United Church of Canada.

Donald Hill (1954, PPE)

PROFESSOR PETER SCHLECHTRIEM, whose

death followed a battle with cancer, was born

in 1933 in Jena, Germany. He studied at the

University of Chicago and also at the

University of Freiburg, from where he

graduated with a doctorate in 1964. In 1970,

a year before he moved to work at the

University of Heidelberg, he obtained a

postdoctoral qualification from the University

of Freiburg.

In 1977 Professor Schlechtriem was offered,

and accepted, a Chair at the University of

Freiburg. He was also Co-director at the

Institute for Foreign and International Private

Law until his retirement in 2000. In Hilary

2001 he came to St Catherine’s as a

Christensen Fellow, and as the Heather

Grierson Professor of Law. An outstanding

scholar and a wonderful man, his death has

left an enormous hole in the study of private

law and comparative law in Europe.

Peter SchlechtriemVisiting Fellow (Christensen Fellow and Heather Grierson Professor of Law) 2001


6 0 / J A C K L A N K E S T E R

G A Z E T T E

Jack LankesterEmeritus Fellow Derek Davies and his wife Margaret, the College Archivist, remember Founding Fellow Jack Lankester

Jack’s family came from the Isle of Man, and thatwas where he went to school and embarked onan architectural training. From his earliest dayshe had been interested in designing things, butbeing eighteen when the Second World Warbroke out was not conducive to building a career.He was commissioned into the Royal Engineers,and saw active service with the Indian Army inBurma, where he was particularly concernedwith solving transport problems.

On his return to England he acquired a further

qualification in town planning, and worked in both Wales

and Lancashire. But he found this work insufficiently

creative, and in answer to an advertisement he applied

for the post of Surveyor to the University of Oxford. In

those days the main university offices, from Vice-

chancellor downwards, were perceived as less than full

time. But this was soon to change, and Jack quickly

detached himself and his office from the University Chest

and established what became a wholly separate and very

busy department at the Malthouse in Tidmarsh Lane, a

building which he had refashioned and where he had a

most elegant office. He enjoyed the challenge of making

older university buildings suit new purposes, and he was

also much involved in the choice of architects for new

university buildings. With this in mind he built up a

portfolio of architects whose work he admired, and he

formed the view that a nucleus of the best architects in

Europe at that time existed in Copenhagen. So when

Council’s Committee for the Choice of Architects took

the view that the new buildings for St Catherine’s

should make a significant contribution to the

architecture of the University, it was not surprising that

the only continental country which he visited was

Denmark.

The University asked Jack to adapt or design many of

its buildings himself. One of his favourites was the

Institute of Education in Norham Gardens. But the most

demanding challenge was the creation of the semi-

underground reading room in the Radcliffe Science

Library, rightly known as the Lankester Room. Other

major works include his contributions to the new

accommodation at Green College and Linacre College.

Back at St Catherine’s, while Holscher – Jacobsen’s

senior assistant – chose a layout for the Alan Bullock

and Mary Sunley buildings, Jack was their effective

designer both inside and out. It was fortunate that his

views were so respected both in Oxford and beyond; it

became crucial at the time when steps had to be taken

to secure the integrity of Jacobsen’s concept of the

College, which was achieved through the granting of

Grade I listed status.



G A Z E T T E

His talent for design extended to furniture, especially

chairs. The Mary Sunley building contains examples of

these, and with the permission of the University he

established a furniture design business, making the

prototypes himself. Visitors to his own home were

always impressed by the elegance and craftsmanship of

the furniture he both designed and made for it.

He was Surveyor to the University for thirty years. Nor

was his retirement idle, for he occupied his time in

mastering French to a level at which he published

translations.

When his first wife died at a comparatively young age

he mastered the art of cordon bleu cookery, and

entertained his many friends with its results. They were

delighted when he presently married Sue Buttar, who

had been Alan Bullock’s secretary in the crucial years

of the foundation of the College. She had taken a

break in Australia after the excitement of the College’s

foundation was over, but responded to a summons

back to Oxford to become Jack’s secretary at the

Malthouse.

Jack’s portrait hangs among those of the Founding

Fellows in the library, and the College has every reason

to remember him with gratitude and affection. St

Catherine’s owes so much to him, for without his

inspired suggestion that its founders should look at the

work of Arne Jacobsen, the College would look much

less notable and be a very different place.

Jack Lankester died in November 2007.

Jack quickly

detached

himself and his

office from the

University

Chest and

established

what became a

wholly

separate and

very busy

department at

the Malthouse

in Tidmarsh

Lane...


Architects are often prey to a professional

vice, wanting their constructions to be a sort

of self-advertisement. Not Jack. He remained

at the centre of humanity and humanity gets

old. Men and women grow out of youthful

exuberance, mature achievement, but they

still need places to live. So with his other

hand – his third hand it must have been – he

organised housing for them. The

establishment and the growth of the Anchor

Housing Association owed more to Jack than

to any other single person. By 1985 it was

providing housing for 17,000 tenants and he

was chairman of the complementary

Guardian Housing Association, responsible for

1400 flats on fifty estates.

He was a lovely man. He was gifted with that

great quality, a sense of humour, full of glee

and mirth. I never heard Jack guffaw –

perhaps he did, but not in my company. His

eyes twinkled, and his chuckle and his

laughter bubbled up and spread across his

face. It was like marmalade bubbling in the

preserving pan – warm, golden, full of

promise.

We shall miss him, though he will be always

with us. May God rest his soul.

Wilfrid Knapp, Emeritus Fellow,

delivered the following tribute at

Jack Lankester’s funeral...

design or workmanship while still meeting

the demands of economy. He spoke a clear

and lucid English when Jacobsen chose not

to, and he continued, lovingly, to describe

this great building (Grade I listed) to visitors

to the College after Jacobsen had gone.

Following the whimsy of Oxford, Alan Bullock

suggested that Jack should be elected a

Professorial Fellow of St Catherine’s. A professor

he could have been, though he was not.

Fellow he certainly was, one of a fellowship,

loyal and devoted to his College and his

colleagues. He was not without guile, but he

was open and honest, totally without malice.

He added to the College by designing the

Mary Sunley and the Alan Bullock buildings,

and we almost forgot that he was the

University Surveyor – a post that he held for

thirty years. We lost count of the fact that he

designed more buildings for the University

than any of his predecessors. His style

permeated them all – always a light,

inventive and graceful organisation of space,

designed for the practical needs of those

who would use them. Of course, Alan Bullock

knew what he was doing, designing furniture

as well as buildings – and Alan wrote of ‘the

unique contribution he has made to Oxford’s

success in coming to terms with modern

architecture, and equally to the renovation

and maintenance of older buildings.’

6 2 / J A C K L A N K E S T E R

G A Z E T T E

JACK WAS A FRIEND. We shared much, we

had respect and affection for each other and

I feel his loss deeply. I speak now for the

Master and Fellows of St Catherine’s College.

Jack was an architect of St Catherine’s. The

ground had been prepared for him by

Susannah [Lankester]. She was Sue Buttar

then and she raised the money to build St

Catherine’s. She had a lot of help from Alan

Bullock, but it was her unremitting effort that

left no possible source of funds unexplored.

We did not foresee what a great team she

and Jack would become. We love them both.

In the quaint way of Oxford, where we call

men and women who lecture ‘Readers’, Jack’s

position was that of Surveyor to the

University. I am sure that he did a lot of

surveying, though I never came across him

peering through a theodolite. Surveyor, yes,

but above all, architect. In that capacity he

worked with Arne Jacobsen to build the

College. It is not surprising that they worked

so well together. Jack could be a builder, but

he had an architect’s vision. He saw what

Jacobsen was about: they shared the

demanding task of sacrificing no standards of



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DEFENCE ANALYSTS ARE RARELY GIFTED with the ability to expound their views in terms accessible tothe general public, but Tim Garden, who has died from cancer at the age of 63, was a notable exception.Following the US-led invasion of Iraq, he became the pundit of preference for a number of TV and radiostations at home and abroad, as well as a regular commentator both in newspapers and online.

Charles Kennedy, then leading the Liberal Democrats

and coming under heavy fire from both Labour and

Conservative MPs for his opposition to the launching of

the Iraq war, shrewdly nominated Tim for the House of

Lords, where he took his seat as Baron Garden of

Hampstead in 2004. The party thus gained a significant

voice which was listened to with respect and attention.

Long before entering politics, Tim had in fact

established himself on both sides of the Atlantic as an

authority on security issues and international relations,

not least when he was director of the Royal Institute of

International Affairs (Chatham House) in London during

1997-98, and as a visiting professor at King’s College

London and Indiana University.

Tim was born in Worcester and attended King’s school

in that city. His father was an electrical engineer and

Tim was the first member of the family to go to

university. He read physics at St Catherine’s College,

Oxford (which later made him an honorary fellow),

demonstrating an early love of flying by being a

member of the Oxford University Air Squadron. In his

second year, he met a fellow undergraduate, Susan

Button, who became his wife after graduation, when

they were both aged 21. By then Tim had joined the

RAF, but he realised only a fortnight before the

wedding that he should have obtained his commanding

officer’s permission before making the arrangements.

The officer concerned was not amused.

Tim flew Canberra light bombers in Germany before

becoming a flying instructor on Jet Provosts. Later, he

commanded a jet flying training unit, a Vulcan bomber

squadron (responsible for delivering Britain’s nuclear

deterrent in those pre-Trident days) and a helicopter base.

In the early 1980s, he took time out from active service

to do a postgraduate degree in international relations

at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Some air force

colleagues viewed all this university education as

suspect, but it enabled him to go on to become director

of defence studies for the RAF, lecturing on strategic

studies in the UK and internationally, and writing his

Air Marshal Lord Garden Rigorous MoD planner, thinktank analyst and Liberal Democrat defence spokesman, by Jonathan Fryer


book Can Deterrence Last? (1984). From 1985 to 1987,

he was station commander at RAF Odiham in

Hampshire, where he flew Chinook helicopters and the

Aerospatiale Puma.

The next six years were spent working in the Ministry

of Defence in London, including a period as assistant

chief of the air staff. He published a second book at

this time – The Technology Trap: Science and the

Military (1989). His final appointment at the MoD was

as assistant chief of the defence staff (programmes), a

role that gave him responsibility for long-term planning

for all three armed services, about which he developed

forthright opinions.

After a period as commander of the Royal College of

Defence Studies, he retired from the air force in 1996,

with the rank of air marshal (and a knighthood,

awarded in 1994). As one of his colleagues later

commented, “Tim had to leave the air force early, as

the service wasn’t big enough for him.” Tim had other

interests to pursue. Having become fascinated by

computing, he set himself up as a website consultant,

before taking over at Chatham House. His own website

and weblog on foreign and security issues developed

into something he specially valued.

The worlds of thinktanks and academe offered a more

diverse and sometimes more stimulating arena for social

interaction and debate, though Tim always enjoyed

tackling some of his more reactionary fellow servicemen

head on. He caused a stir at one Fleet Air Arm annual

Taranto/Falklands dinner after his retirement, when he

expounded loudly on the benefits of immigration,

silencing one red-faced diner with the parry, “Besides,

who’s going to pay for your pension?”

He could be a stimulating companion at the big table at

the predominantly conservative Beefsteak Club, of which

he was a member, as well as the more predictable

National Liberal Club. He was truly a man of many parts.

When Tim first became involved with the Liberal

Democrats early in the new millennium, both locally in

Camden and nationally, many people wrongly assumed

that because of his military background, he would be on

the conservative wing of the party, whereas actually he

was an impassioned radical – a Guardian-reading member

of the Fabian Society, with a taste for bright red ties.

Though intellectually rigorous, he was immensely

gregarious. Even after his elevation to the peerage, he

would bounce up to strangers and say, “Hi! I’m Tim

Garden!” He found some of the formality of the upper

house disconcerting, declaring that people’s reluctance

to use first names there made him feel like he was back

at school.

His informality helped make him popular with

Americans, though he was sometimes highly critical of

what he openly called the “hyper-power”. For a while,

he also questioned whether Nato should continue to

exist. He was a firm advocate of European integration

and of a proper European security and armaments

policy, in recognition of which President Chirac

appointed him a Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur

in 2003.

Though

intellectually

rigorous, he

was immensely

gregarious.

Even after his

elevation to

the peerage,

he would

bounce up to

strangers and

say, “Hi! I’m

Tim Garden!”

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about a fortnight, before returning home to spend his

final weeks in the care of his family. He is survived by

Sue and his two daughters.

Richard Norton-Taylor writes: Tim Garden was the

epitome of the – not so new – generation of high-

ranking military figures who belied a commonly held

presumption that they had a one-dimensional, even

blinkered, approach to the world around them.

He would always ask the right questions, which the

government would invariably sidestep, about the

consequences of its defence and security policies, or its

reluctance to confront urgent problems. But he never

indulged in histrionics or partisan point-scoring for the

sake of it. Far from it. Indeed, he was, in many ways,

the ultimate, quietly spoken, rationalist. For a journalist

writing on military, security, and foreign policy issues,

and how they marry, or don’t marry up, he was a

trusted source and invaluable sounding board. You could

always rely on him to point you in the right direction.

When I met him for the first time after he was

appointed a Liberal Democrat spokesman on defence,

he remarked that one of the things he had been told

as a newcomer by elderly peers was that membership

of the House of Lords added 10 years to your life. It is

a tragedy that his membership there was cut so short.

He will be seriously missed, in that place and much

further afield.

Timothy Garden, defence expert and LiberalDemocrat peer, born April 23 1944; died August 9, 2007

Tim was not just a keen European, but a true

internationalist. For the final three years of his life, he was

president of the British group of Liberal International, in

which capacity he chaired a packed and emotional fringe

meeting on Israel/Palestine at last September’s Liberal

Democrat conference in Brighton, keeping a cool head

when some present were losing theirs.

He maintained a deep interest in the Middle East and

was a member of the Anglo-Jordanian Society. In 2000,

he advised the Palestinian Authority on negotiations

with Israel, under the auspices of the Adam Smith

Institute. But his fairness and integrity meant that he

was respected on all sides in that tortuous situation,

and he got a warm reception when he supported his

wife Sue when she stood as LibDem parliamentary

candidate in the 2005 general election in Finchley and

Golders Green, which has one of the largest Jewish

populations in Britain.

The party soon understood what an asset they had

acquired in Tim. He became a key figure in the

parliamentary foreign affairs team, and got elected to

several party committees and policy working groups. All

the while, he continued to write articles prolifically, to

travel giving lectures, and to be interviewed any time

there was a major development in Iraq or Afghanistan,

or when the issue of replacing Trident came to the fore.

Earlier this year, he started to feel tired, but a hospital

check-up revealed that the problem was not

exhaustion, but pancreatic cancer, which was rapidly

spreading to other organs. He remained in hospital for

He would

always ask the

right

questions,

which the

government

would

invariably

sidestep,

about the

consequences

of its defence

and security

policies...


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ALAN BARKER (1971, Physics)If, in 1971, Catz had instituted a pentathlonwith events in the loudness of quad-facingspeakers, the ferocity of drag-shots on the bar-footie table, length of service at the JCR bar,luxuriance of hair and infectiousness oflaughter, Alan Barker would have reignedsupreme. Underpinning these diverse attributeswere Alan’s academic excellence, his profoundhumanity and his granite integrity.

Alan decided late during the ‘milk-round’ toreject the blandishments of industry and topursue, instead, a career in medicine. This hadbeen a long-standing, but rarely-expressed,ambition. After gaining a good Second inPhysics, he moved to Guy’s Hospital in London.

Those familiar with Alan’s legerdemain withanything electronic forecast a glittering future insurgery but his priorities lay elsewhere, with himfavouring instead the broader community ofgeneral practice. After qualifying in 1979, Alanmoved to the South Coast. He married Wendy in1984 and subsequently became senior partnerof a large, highly-respected practice inNewhaven.

Not only was Alan a devoted family man, healso made an outstanding and selflesscontribution to his local community. He climbedKilimanjaro on behalf of SCOPE and regularlyvolunteered to accompany charitable cyclingexpeditions as a medical officer. On a recent trip

to Cambodia his presence was, literally, life-saving. His stamina on a bicycle and on a tenniscourt, like his appearance, defied the passageof time.

Alan Barker is survived by his wife, a son anddaughter, and many, many friends. He is sorelymissed.

PHILIP BOOTH (1955, English)Philip Booth read English at St Catherine’s,where he was an active member of the BoatClub and a founder member of the Beer & BladeDining Club. He then spent a year working inFreetown at the University of Sierra Leonebefore returning to Oxford to take a Diploma inEducation. Emigrating to Canada in the mid-1960s, he taught in the Montreal area (StBruno) for many years, where he was alsoextremely active in theatre and local radio.Sadly, he had to take early retirement in theearly 1990s as the early stages of Alzheimer’sdisease began to take their toll. During 2006,Philip took up residence in a home whichoffered specialist care as his conditionworsened. He died on Sunday 7 October 2007and is survived by his widow, Mary – whom hemet whilst working in Sierra Leone – and threechildren.

GEORGE EASTER (1958, Theology)George Easter was born in 1921 in Niagara Falls,New York. While in school he played the Frenchhorn, ran in cross country races and attained therank of Eagle Scout. He graduated from OberlinCollege, where he developed a strong interest insocial outreach programmes, particularly thoseserving minorities and disadvantaged people.Following theological study at Yale DivinitySchool and graduation from the EpiscopalDivinity School in Cambridge, MA, he wasordained in western New York State in 1944.

In an ordained ministry spanning sixty-threeyears, Fr Easter served as a cathedral canon inSt Louis, and later in Albany, New York, andpursued graduate studies in England, at StAugustine’s College in Canterbury, and at StCatherine’s College, where he obtained a Masterof Letters degree. In the United States hetaught Christian Ethics at Philadelphia DivinitySchool and Philosophy and Psychology at PaulSmith’s College. He also served in many parishesin Britain and America, working in Oxford, StLouis, Buffalo, New York, Massena, Albany, LakePlacid, Saranac Lake, Plattsburgh, Champlain,Bronxville, Potsdam and several other parishes inthe Diocese of Albany.

During his various parish postings, Fr Easter wasactive in community events, and helped toorganise and secure funding for the MassenaArts Council, the Chateaugay Arts Council andnumerous other community organisations. He

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enjoyed meeting people from all walks of life,and worked to include minority and immigrantfamilies in the various parishes where he served.An able public speaker, he loved to teachchildren parables from the Bible and SundaySchool songs. He also enjoyed explainingphilosophy and theology to parishioners andstudents, and took great pleasure in seeingthem come to understand new ideas. He lovedto travel, loved the outdoors and sailing, andwas an avid gardener.

George Easter died on 31 July 2007. His secondwife, Peggy, had predeceased him. He issurvived by three children from his firstmarriage, to Ruth Eaton, and three stepsonsfrom his marriage to Peggy.

STEVEN GATRELL(Visiting Student – 1986, Modern History)Albert Steven Gatrell was born on 20 April 1920in Eldorado, Kansas, and graduated from LostCreek High School, West Virginia, in 1938. In July1940 he joined the US Army Air Corps and servedas a weather forecaster in England, France andGermany during the Second World War. Duringhis enlistment he received a Bachelor of Artsdegree in History from the University of Illinois,and began his Master’s degree studies at FloridaState University in Tallahassee and at theTerritorial College of Guam.

Upon retirement from the United States AirForce in 1963 he settled in Morgantown andcompleted a Master’s degree and PhD (inHistory) at Western Virginia University. In 1986he came to St Catherine’s as a Visiting Studentand studied Modern History.

Steven Gatrell taught History at MorgantownHigh School from 1964 until 1970. During thistime he helped sponsor Key Club and JuniorAchievement initiatives. He then transferred toFairmont State College where he taught until hisretirement as Professor Emeritus in 1985. Healso helped found the Phi Alpha Theta AcademicHonorary.

A member of the Boy Scouts of America since1932, Steven Gatrell was awarded, amongstother honours, the Distinguished Eagle ScoutAward (conferred upon those who have gainedthe highest status of fame or eminence in theirlife’s work) and the Silver Beaver Award (thehighest honour awarded to a volunteer on thelocal level). In 2002 he received his seventy-year pin. In the previous year, Secretary of StateJoe Manchin had conferred upon him the honourof Distinguished and Dedicated Mountaineer.

Albert Steven Gatrell died on 2 April 2007. Hiswife, Winnifred, had predeceased him. He issurvived by four daughters, eight grandchildrenand two great-grandchildren.

ALEX GRAHAM (1996, Modern Languages)Alex Graham was born on 24 February 1977 inthe British Military Hospital in Berlin, where hisfather was serving with the Royal Air Force. Heattended local British Service schools beforegoing to board at Stamford School in 1987.While at Stamford, Alex joined the CombinedCadet Force (CCF), where he rose to the rank ofFlight-Sergeant. In his final year at school, hewas in charge of the RAF element of the CCF.Alex, who was captain of the school’s secondhockey team, gained the Gold Award in theDuke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme, and was

also involved in the Young Enterprise scheme.After a gap year, he came to St Catherine’s tostudy Russian and Linguistics in September1996. He had found school studies relativelyeasy (and had often been found reading a bookhidden inside a schoolbook by the end ofsupervised homework sessions), so having towork hard at university came as rather a shock.His year in Russia was spent at Yaroslavl, wherehe made many friends. He graduated in 2000.

In 2002, Alex joined Autobusiness in Stamfordwhere he quickly established a reputation as ahighly respected automotive journalist and tradeanalyst. While working at Autobusiness, Alexmet Sarah Mackenzie (their Marketing Manager)who would become his wife. In February 2005,Alex left Autobusiness in order to set up his ownbusiness, SupplyBase, in which, on a freelancebasis, he carried on doing the same type ofwork as he had at Autobusiness.

Early in 2006 Alex discovered three lumps in theleft side of his neck, which were eventuallydiscovered to be secondary tumours. He wasdiagnosed with lung cancer in July 2006. Alex,who fought against the cancer, and neveraccepted that he was terminally ill, died on 24September 2006. His knowledge of, and interestin, world affairs, his intellectual skills and hissense of humour meant that he was anintriguing person to have known. He is sorelymissed by his family and many friends.

GRANT HENRY LATHE (1947, Biochemistry)Grant Lathe MSc, PhD, MDCM, FRCPath was apioneer in Clinical Biochemistry and a man witha strong social conscience. A Canadian national,he was born in British Columbia in 1913. He


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studied Biochemistry and then Medicine atMcGill University and, while still a student,undertook the difficult journey to China duringthe Sino-Japanese war. In 1941 he joined theRoyal Canadian Army Medical Corps, was postedto England, and saw active service in Italy,where he accompanied the forward Casualty-Clearing Station on the advance from Naples,reaching Rome in June 1944.

After completing a DPhil at Oxford University(accredited by McGill) he became ConsultantChemical Pathologist at Queen Charlotte’sHospital in London. Here he studied conjugationof the blood pigment bilirubin and itsimportance in neonatal jaundice. This led to theinvention of the separation technique of gelfiltration (still widely used), for which he and CR J Ruthven later received the John Scott Award(one of the oldest science prizes in the USA). In1957 he was appointed Professor of ChemicalPathology at the University of Leeds. Hisinaugural lecture on ‘Defective Molecules as aCause of Disease’ foreshadowed the lateremergence of molecular medicine. Over the nexttwenty years he built up a large departmentwhich encompassed many novel ideas in ClinicalBiochemistry, research and teaching.

His singular gift to his students, colleagues andchildren was his ability to listen carefully beforeoffering insightful comments with a smile. Hewas also a man of contradictions: at first aChristian, he became a staunch atheist in laterlife; a vocal pacifist (who participated in the firstAldermaston march), he volunteered for militaryservice when he considered it necessary.

Strikingly energetic in his later years, he stillattended scientific meetings and flew to Canadaeach summer to visit his family. His ninetiethbirthday was celebrated with his children inReykjavík, Iceland. He died at home in Leeds on2 July 2007. He is survived by four children, tengrandchildren and one great-grandchild.

MARTIN MOLYNEUX (1947, Theology)Martin Molyneux was born on 30 April 1923 atWesthoughton, Bolton, and educated at WiganGrammar School. His tertiary education wascompleted at the Universities of Manchester,Oxford and Fribourg.

Prior to being received into the Catholic Churchin August 1954, he was an assistant toOrientalist Paul Kahle from the DeutscheForschungsgemeinschaft. Later, he was theLibrarian for Oxford University’s Department ofItalian Studies. He studied for the priesthood atthe Salesianum, Fribourg, Switzerland.

Following Ordination in July 1965, he returnedto the Diocese of Lancaster as Assistant Priestat the Cathedral. From there he moved to theBeda College in Rome, as Lecturer in DogmaticTheology, Dean of Studies and finally, in 1976,Vice-Rector. Fr Martin returned to Lancaster in1986 to be Parish Priest of St Joseph’s beforemoving to his final parish of St Thomas,Claughton (1987-1999). After a very happyministry there Mgr Molyneux retired to BoarbankHall in 1999 where he had the wonderful careof the Augustinian Sisters of Boarbank Hall.

Writing about Martin Molyneux, the Bishop ofShrewsbury, Martin Noble, said, ‘Martin was atrue gentleman, excellent priest and loyal

friend… though never less than the scholar, hewas – perhaps much to his surprise – equallyeffective in pastoral ministry and was deeplyadmired by his Claughton parishioners. Naturallyreserved, he nevertheless rejoiced in goodcompany and in sharing what he considered theworthwhile things of life – literature and music,wine and smoked salmon.’

Martin Molyneux died on 22 November 2006.

BRIAN OVERALL (PPE, 1953) Brian Overall was one of the many maturestudents who came up to St Catherine’s Societyin the 1950s. He was a gregarious member ofthe JCR and a leading light of the College’sdebating society.

Brian was born in Manchester. After leavingschool, he worked as a librarian at theManchester Evening News before studying for adiploma at Fircroft College of Adult Education inBirmingham, whose slogan was, ‘You canchange your life in a year’. It certainly changedBrian’s. He was one of thirty mature studentsacross the country awarded governmentscholarships to go to university. Before he couldqualify for Oxford, he had to take a crash coursein Latin.

After Oxford, he returned to Manchester andlectured for the Workers’ EducationalAssociation. He moved to London in 1966,taking a second degree at Birkbeck College. Hetaught economics at what is now the SouthBank University and lectured to British soldiersin Germany, Hong Kong and Singapore. Theleast military of men, he took a wry pride in hishonorary rank of lieutenant-colonel.


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After his first marriage (celebrated with beerand sausages in his Abingdon Road digs) endedin divorce, he remarried. He and his second wifeVivika lived together in a small mansion flat inKensington High Street for four decades. Briancultivated a taste for fine wines and a talent forcooking. He cherished his connection with StCatherine’s and seldom missed a reunion.Ironically for so articulate a man, he died ofAlzheimer’s disease in June 2007.

THOMAS ANTHONY SHAFTO (1947, English)Tony Shafto’s place in the annals of StCatherine’s is assured on the strength of hiscoxing the 1949 first Eight to six bumps – a featwatched by the second and third Eights thatyear. He was born in Penang, in the Straits ofMalacca, and came up to the Society to readEnglish straight from Alleyne’s Grammar Schoolin Stone, Staffordshire. After going down he wascalled up for National Service and as a second-lieutenant saw action with the NorthStaffordshire Regiment in the Korean War.

After returning to civilian life, Tony worked ininsurance for ten years before switching toteaching, first at the Staffordshire College ofCommerce, and then at Dudley Teacher TrainingCollege and Lanchester Polytechnic. Drawn todistance learning, Tom worked for the OpenUniversity and Worker’s Educational Associationand, over a period of thirty years, publishednumerous textbooks and correspondencecourses. During this time, he acquired a BSc inEconomics, which was followed by a doctorate.After ‘retirement’, Tony Shafto taught part-timeat Warwick and Coventry Universities and, untilhe moved to Devon, was involved in distancelearning with Durham University Business School.

There he continued to write until shortly beforehis death, from cancer, in November 2006.

Tony Shafto’s wife predeceased him. He issurvived by two daughters.

ROBERT ZELL (1948, Theology)Robert Loran Zell was born in Albany, New York,on June 9, 1922, the youngest of the fourchildren of Jon and Martha Zell. Robert was agraduate of Carroll and of Nashotah House,Wisconsin, and of Union Seminary, New York,and was also an ordained minister in theEpiscopal Church.

Robert spent several years in England. He was aFulbright Scholar and held Master’s degrees inTheology from the Universities of Oxford andCambridge. While in England, he also assisted atan Anglican Church in Northolt, London. On 17April 1968, in Oxford, he married Josephine MayHowe.

In the 1960s, as a Catholic layman, he wasAssistant Professor of Theology at MarquetteUniversity. He was later employed by theWisconsin Department of Health and SocialServices in Milwaukee and Madison. In hisspiritual journey, Robert joined the GreekOrthodox Church in 1988. He and Josey (div.2003) retired to San Diego in 1999.

Robert Zell died in San Diego, California, on 12June 2007. He is survived by a son anddaughter, and by six grandchildren.

St Catherine’s welcomes obituaries of alumniand friends of the College, reserving the rightto edit them where necessary.

NOTIFICATIONSPeter Akehurst (1947, Theology)George Balassa (1941, Chemistry)Henry Boodell (MCR Steward)Ian Bowles (1961, Physiological Sciences)Hugh Douglas (1953, Geography)Rob Flood (1993, Chemistry)Robin Grist (1961, Education)Harold Hall (1949, Geography)Margaret HessAnne JarvisRobert Jones (1948, Theology)Sydney Laycock (1948, EngineeringScience)John Lever (1962, Chemistry)Bertie Lewis (1954, Theology)Philip Long (1936, Bodleian Prog)Jack Lord (1941, Modern History)Duncan Macrae-Gibson (1951, English)Fuyuhiko Maki (Kobe Institue, Japan)Margaret McCloghryDonald Mofford (1953, Anthropology)Michael Noon (1967, Engineering Science)Christopher Phillips (1974, PPE)Edward Short (1936, Theology)William Skaife d’Ingerthorpe (1949,Theology)Simon Standley (1962, Geology)Leonard Taylor (1938, Modern History)Ullrich Trendelenburg (1954, Medicine)Colin Whitehead (1949, Physics andMathematics)Richard Witcomb (1965, EngineeringScience)Harry Wolbers (1970, Politics)


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UNDERGRADUATES

Biological SciencesFelicity Bedford – Hills Road Sixth Form College, CambridgeRoberta Fisher – John Kyrle High School, Ross on WyeSebastian Gnan – European School Munich, GermanyDorothea Hill – Wycombe Abbey School, High WycombeJames Iles – King’s School, WorcesterRagav Sawhney – Vyners School, MiddlesexZoe Stanyon – Broxbourne School, HertfordshirePaul Wilkinson – Hampton School, Middlesex

ChemistryEdward Beake – Hampton School, MiddlesexHannah Buckley – Stroud High School, GloucestershireClaire Carpenter – Leicester Grammar SchoolSimon Cassidy – Cowbridge School, South GlamorganFelix Chan – German Swiss International School, Hong KongAileen Frost – Stowmarket High School, SuffolkAlice Gatland – Worthing Sixth Form College, West SussexWojciech Kaluza – Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace nr 4, Sosnowiec, PolandJeremy – Brentwood School, EssexMichelle Savage – Pates Grammar School, Cheltenham

Computer SciencePeter McCurrach – Bishop Luffa School, ChichesterToby Smyth – Richard Huish College, TauntonMarcin Ulinski – Spo∏eczne Liceum Ogólnokszta∏càce im JamSaheba Digvijay Sinhji – Poland

Economics & ManagementMary Intsiful – Sacred Heart of Mary Girls’ School, UpminsterHenry Shek – Harrow School, Middlesex

Engineering ScienceLiam Dempsey – Guiseley School, LeedsAlexander Dibb – Westminster School, LondonMatthew Passman – Bancroft’s School, Woodford GreenEdward Porter – Radley College, AbingdonSamuel Rushworth – Bishop Wordsworth School, SalisburyGavin Sillitto – Stewarts Melville College, EdinburghJoshua Sutherland – Exeter School, DevonMark Weston – Perse School, Cambridge

English Language & LiteratureCaroline Bird – Mander Portman Woodward, LondonMaximilian Bryant – Westminster School, LondonAleksandra Chadzynski – St Paul’s Girls’ School, LondonLucy Hartley – Ripon Grammar School, North YorkshireBryony Hope – Camden School for Girls, LondonChristopher Pearson – King Edward VI Camp Hill School forBoys, BirminghamStephanie Pope – West Bridgford School, NottinghamSarah Readman – Bishop Luffa School, Chichester

Experimental PsychologyMeghan Hardman – Clitheroe Royal Grammar School, LancashireEmma Kilford – Friary County High School, Lichfield

Fine ArtStephen Bochonek – Prince Henry’s Grammar School, OtleyJoyce Kalema – William Morris Academy, LondonGeoffrey Tibbs – Winchester College, Hampshire

GeographyJenny Casswell – Tunbridge Wells Girls’ Grammar School, KentMax Grandison – St Paul’s School, LondonHannah Hammond – Bolton School Girls’ Division, LancashireRhodri James – Dyffryn Tas School, CarmarthenshireHolly Jones – Camden School for Girls, LondonKary Lau – Headington School, OxfordThomas Monteath – Hereford Sixth Form CollegeZoe Thomas – Wycombe High School, BuckinghamshireHitomi Yokoyama – Woldingham School, Surrey

HistorySebastian Bicen – Dame Alice Owen’s School, HertfordshireJoshua Brinkers – Peter Symonds College, WinchesterDavid Bull – Norwich SchoolLydia Forte – St Paul’s Girls’ School, LondonLaura Gray – Sydenham High School, LondonSophie Herlihy – Portsmouth Grammar School, HampshireRoss Hughes – Halesowen College, West MidlandsLindsay Weare – Honiton Community College, Devon

History & Modern LanguagesAudrey Ariss – Westminster School, London

History & PoliticsKirsten Elliott – James Allens Girls’ School, LondonThomas Haynes – Lincoln Minster SchoolVictoria O’Brien – Wycombe High School, Buckinghamshire

History of ArtEloise Maxwell – Henley College, OxfordshireEva Tausig – South Hampstead High School, LondonEmma Thorneycroft – Westminster School, London

Human SciencesKirsty Bell – Earlston High School, BerwickshireTanya Bird – Worcester Sixth Form CollegeAisha Mirza – Seven Kings High School, IlfordMelba Mwanje – St Francis Xavier VI Form College, LondonAnna Ockwell – Royal High School, BathClare Wilcockson – St Bernards Convent School, Slough

LawRuth Campbell – Madras College, St AndrewsAmy Carr – Hereford Sixth Form CollegePaul Fisher – Whitchurch High School, CardiffKathryn Hernandez – Bury Grammar School for Girls, LancashireRobert Moore – West Buckland School, DevonLucy Tester – Henley College, OxfordshireCharlie Thompson – Dauntsey’s School, DevizesAlexandria Winstanley – Lymm High School, Cheshire

Materials ScienceJoe Bennett – Reeds School, CobhamTimothy Butler – Bishop Wordsworth School, SalisburyTarik Saif – High Storrs School, SheffieldCheuk Tung Wong – Canford School, Wimborne

MathematicsAmanda Adjepong – St Peter’s School, YorkLuke Harris – Sir Thomas Rich’s School, GloucesterIvan Lam – Dulwich College, LondonZubin Siganporia – St Olave’s Grammar School, OrpingtonJohn Zhang – Sidcot School, North Somerset

Mathematics & PhilosophyAmy Bellamy – Gorseinon College, SwanseaSamuel Boaden – Bacup & Rawtenstall Grammar School, Lancashire

Mathematics & StatisticsTimothy Chu – Abingdon School, Oxfordshire

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MedicineJames Demery – Llanishen High School, CardiffNicholas Denny – Oundle School, NorthamptonshireJonathan Fee – Down High School, Northern IrelandKatrina Fordwor – Crompton House School, OldhamIsobel Neville – Prior Park College, BathKamal Patel – Gorseinon College, Swansea

Modern LanguagesCaroline Barker – King Edward VI College, TotnesTimothy Beyer – Harrow School, MiddlesexHarry Forman Hardy – Harrow School, MiddlesexLuiza Grizzelle – Latymer Upper School, LondonMary Heath – Grey Coat Hospital School, LondonHelena Moore – Lady Eleanor Holles School, MiddlesexEleanor Mortimer – Farlingaye High School, Woodbridge

Modern Languages & LinguisticsFelix Grovit – Westminster School, LondonNicholas Gurung – Charterhouse, GodalmingSophie Roberts – St Olave’s Grammar School, Orpington

Molecular & Cellular BiochemistryCharlotte Heads – St Peter’s School, YorkRachel Moore – King Edward VI College, StourbridgeChristopher Powell – Aquinas College, StockportKate Stuart – St Mary’s School, Cambridge

MusicNaomi Bath – Dr Challoner’s High School, AmershamHilary Cornwell – Leeds Girls’ High SchoolDavid Merriman – Gorseinon College, SwanseaAnna Wardell – Hills Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge

Oriental StudiesMarta Krzeminska – II Liceum Ogólnoksztalcace im StefanaBatorego, PolandNathan Letore – Lycee d’Etat International de Ferney Voltaire, FranceAbdullahi Mohammed – Isleworth and Syon School, Middlesex

Philosophy, Politics & EconomicsMark Blundell – Wycliffe College, GloucestershireStefana Bosse – American Community School, MiddlesexAnn Don Bosco – Wallington High School for Girls, SurreyPeter Kiln – Richard Hale School, HertfordAlan MacNaughton – Northgate High School, IpswichBenita Mahtani – Henrietta Barnett School, London

Nadeem Nanjuwany – Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School, ElstreeRossa O’Keeffe-O’Donovan – Dame Alice Owen’s School,HertfordshireKatarina Punovuori – American School of Warsaw, Poland

PhysicsChaos Chhapi – Leicester Grammar SchoolChristopher Cody – Plymouth College, DevonGeoffrey Evans – Bedford SchoolPascal Jerome – Sutton Grammar School for Boys, SurreyAlun Perkins – John of Gaunt School, TrowbridgeScott Riseborough – Olchfa School, SwanseaJade Ryan – John Henry Newman School, StevenageXiao Yi Tan – Kingswood School, Bath

Physiological SciencesWill Darwin – Hereford Sixth Form CollegeRupinder Ghatrora – Morley High School, LeedsCatherine Wherity – Bournemouth School for Girls, Dorset

Psychology, Philosophy & PhysiologyOlivia Mackintosh – Headington School, OxfordCeridwen Williams – Eirias High School, Colwyn Bay

GRADUATESRoham Alvandi, BA University of Sidney, Australia; MA TuftsUniversity, USA; MPhil St Antony’s College, Oxford, DPhil Politics &International RelationsSara Arezoo, BEng Sheffield Hallam University, DPhil EngineeringScienceStephen Attree, BA St Catherine’s, MSt Medieval & ModernLanguages *Mariam Azeez, BSc Lahore University of Management Sciences,Pakistan, MSc (C) Financial EconomicsKhalida Azhigulova, LLB Kazakh Humanitarian & Law University,Kazakhstan, MJuris LawTiffany Bayliss, BA Princeton University, USA, MSt Film AestheticsGuy Bedford, BA St Catherine’s, MSc (C) Mathematical Modelling& Scientific Computing *Malcolm Birdling, BA, LLB Victoria University of Wellington, NewZealand; BCL St Catherine’s, MPhil Law *Hannah Boyd, BA Royal Holloway, University of London, MSt HistoryNicola Brandt, BA John Cabot University, Rome, MSt History ofArt & Visual CultureRachel Brettell, BA St Catherine’s, 2nd BM Clinical Medicine *Benjamin Britton, MEng St Catherine’s, DPhil Materials *

Nicholas Brodie, BA St Catherine’s, MSc (C) Drylands Science &Management *Ruth Busby, BA University of Brighton, MSt History of Art &Visual CultureKai-Hsuan Chang, BSc Tunghai University, Taiwan; MSc NationalCentral University, Taiwan, DPhil ChemistryRazan Charara, BSc American University of Beirut, Lebanon, MSc(C) Mathematical & Computational FinanceEftihia Chatzistefanidi, BA University of Patras, Greece, MStFilm AestheticsTong Cheng, BA University of Sunderland, MSt Film AestheticsChung Hyun Cho, BA Chung-Ang University, South Korea, MSc(C) Evidence-Based Social WorkZoe Christodoulou, BSc University of East Anglia, DPhil ClinicalMedicineGertrude Cloyd, MA Smith College, USA, MSc (C) Science &Medicine Athletic PerformanceIon Codreanu, MD State University of Medicine & Pharmacy,Moldova; PhD University of Medicine & Pharmacy, Romania, MSc(C) Diagnostic Imaging (part-time)Serryth Colbert, MB BCh, BAO National University of Galway,Ireland; BDS University College Cork, Ireland, MSc (C) Evidence-Based Health Care (part-time)Danielle Connolly, BA School of Oriental & African Studies,London, MSc (C) African StudiesCristina Crichton, Lic, Mag University of Chile, MSt TheologyColin Cunnington, MBChB University of Manchester, DPhilClinical MedicineAqeela Datoo, BSc Mercer University, USA, MSc (C) EducationalStudiesMark Davies, BSc, MSc University of Manchester, MBAManagement StudiesRebeca de Buen Kalman, BSc National University of Mexico,MSc (C) Water Science, Policy & ManagementNicholas Douglas, BMedSc, MBChB Otago University, NewZealand, MSc (C) Global Health ScienceAlessandra Durand, BA Stanford University, USA, MPhil LatinAmerican StudiesNadiya Figueroa, BA Stanford University, USA; MA University ofthe West Indies, Jamaica, MPhil Development StudiesChristina Fuhr, BA Liverpool John Moores University; MA LeidenUniversity, Netherlands; MSc St Catherine’s, DPhil Sociology *Rachel Garrett, BSc University of Cardiff; MSc Green College,Oxford, 1st BM (Graduate Entry) Clinical Medicine *Keith Geary, BA College of St Mark & St John; BSc University ofLondon; MEd University of Keele; Dipl University of Oxford, MSc (C)English Local History (part-time)


Pippa Gilchrist, BA University of Warwick, MSc (C) LatinAmerican StudiesAdam Goodfellow, BA University of Durham, MSt EuropeanArchaeologyMatthew Goodro, BS, MS University of Utah, USA, DPhilEngineering ScienceWilliam Gregory, BA Gettysburg College, USA; VS St Catherine’s,MSc (C) Global Governance and DiplomacyColin Groshong, BA University of Pennsylvania, USA, MPhilPolitics (Comparative Government)Christoph Haase, Diplom Technical University Dresden, Germany,DPhil ComputingJessica Harm, BSc University of Washington, USA; LinacreCollege, Oxford, DPhil ZoologyJennifer Hayden, BA William Paterson University, USA, MSc (C)Nature, Society & Environmental PolicyMartin Herink, BA Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada, MSt FilmAestheticsJan Herzog, Diplom Humboldt University, Germany, MSc (C)Diagnostic ImagingSally Ho, BSS, LLB, PCLL University of Hong Kong, BCL LawDaniel Hudson, BSc University of York, DPhil MaterialsFrancesco Iodice, Laurea University of Siena, Italy; DLSWorcester College, Oxford, MJuris LawKarthik Kaushik, BCom University of Delhi, India, MBAManagement StudiesTahsina Khan, MEng Imperial College, London, DPhil MaterialsManeesh Khattri, BE Karnataka National Institute of Technology,India; MSc Twente University, Netherlands, DPhil ComputingAleks Kissinger, BSc University of Tulsa, USA; VS St Catherine’s,MSc (C) Mathematics & the Foundation of Computer ScienceCarlos Lam, BEng Hong Kong Polytechnic University; MSc ImperialCollege, London, DPhil Engineering ScienceKeith Lam, LLB, PCLL University of Hong Kong, BCL LawConnie Lee, BSS, LLB, PCLL University of Hong Kong, BCL LawStephen Lew, BS Carnegie Mellon University, USA; MSt HarrisManchester, Oxford, DPhil Geography & the EnvironmentErnest Lim, LLB National University of Singapore; LLM HarvardUniversity, USA, BCL LawLi Lin, BA Sun Yat-Sen University, China, MSc (C) FinancialEconomicsSensen Lin, BSc Tsinghua University, China, MSc (C)Mathematical & Computational FinanceMaureen Liu, LLB, PCLL University of Hong Kong, BCL LawYu Ping Luk, BA, BCom University of Melbourne, Australia; MPhilUniversity of Hong Kong, DPhil History

Nicole Malone, BEcon, LLB University of Adelaide, Australia, BCLLawMarius Mann, Diplom University of Konstanz, Germany; DrJurisUniversity of Heidelberg, Germany, MJuris LawChristopher McCloskey, BA St Catherine’s, MSt MedievalHistory *John McTague, BA, MSt Mansfield College, Oxford, DPhil EnglishLanguage & LiteratureChristopher Metcalf, MA University of Edinburgh, MPhil OrientalStudies (Cuneiform Studies)Anthony Mullin, BA Boston University, USA; MSc St Catherine’s,MSc (C) Criminology & Criminal Justice *Peter Myall, BA University of Nottingham, MSt MusicologyLaura Newton, LLB University of Durham, BCL LawDaniel Nicolae, Zwischenprüfung Humbolt University, Berlin; MScUniversity of Edinburgh, MSt Jewish StudiesAoife O’Driscoll, BA University College Cork, Ireland; MPhil TrinityCollege Dublin, Ireland, MSt EnglishMinori Ohyama, BA Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan, MBAManagement StudiesSimon Owens, LLB, LLM University of Bristol, BCL LawDanae Papaioannou, BSc, MSc University of Warwick, MSc (C)Biology (Integrated Bioscience)Rachel Rowe, BA Merton College, Oxford; Dipl Oxford BrookesUniversity, DPhil Clinical MedicineJan Ruger, Diplom Fachhochschule Wiesbaden, Germany, MBAManagement StudiesSuzanne Ryan, BSc, PhD University of Nottingham, 1st BM(Graduate Entry) Clinical MedicineClare Shakespeare, BA St Catherine’s, 2nd BM Clinical MedicineMarwa Sharafeldin, MSc London School of Economics, DPhil LawDong Myung Shin, BSc, MSc Yonsei University, South Korea,DPhil ChemistryTetsuya Shinohara, BA Kansai University, Japan, MBAManagement StudiesHenry Shum, MMathPhys University of Warwick, DPhilMathematicsHolly Sitsapesan, BA Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, 2ndBM Clinical MedicineAdrian Smith, MBBS King’s College London; MSc London Schoolof Tropical Medicine, DPhil Clinical MedicineKazumasa Soga, BA Nagoya University, Japan; LLM StockholmUniversity, Sweden; PhD University of London, MSt Legal ResearchRoberta Sottocornola, Laurea University of Milan, DPhil ClinicalMedicineAnn Steele, BSc University of Manchester; MSc Jesus College,Oxford, DPhil Experimental Psychology

Imran Sultan, LLB University of Coventry, BCL LawDavid Szwer, MNSci Robinson College, Cambridge; LinacreCollege, Oxford, DPhil PhysicsBassel Tarbush, BA University College London; VS St Catherine’s,MPhil EconomicsLaura Vittetoe, BA University of West Florida, USA, MSt EnglishAlasdair Walker, MEng St Catherine’s, DPhil EngineeringScienceMartin Walsh, BSc St Mary’s University College Twickenham, MSc(C) Science & Medicine Athletic PerformanceKeiko Watanabe, DDS Kyushu University, Japan, DPhilPharmacologyEmily Webster, BA University of British Columbia, Canada, MSc(C) Social AnthropologyJohanna Wiese, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, France; MAUniversity of St Andrews, MPhil Migration StudiesSebastian Wolf, LLM, DrJuris Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, MJuris LawGeorgina Worthington, BA Wadham College, Oxford, 2nd BMClinical MedicineHao Zhang, BSc Wuhan University, China, MSc (R) MaterialsYan Zhu, BA Fudan University, China, MSc (C) Sociology

VISITING GRADUATE STUDENTSNurzhan Dzhumabaev, BSc Bishkek Humanities University,Kyrgyzstan; MSc Central European University, Hungary

ADMITTED TO THE FELLOWSHIPDr Giandomenico Iannetti to a Fellowship by Special Election inMedicineDr Timothy J Bayne to a Tutorial Fellowship in PhilosophyMr Robert E Mabro to a Fellowship by Special ElectionDr Andrew P S Wheeler to a Fellowship by Special Election inEngineering and Rolls-Royce Industrial FellowshipDr Kirsten E Shepherd-Barr to a Tutorial Fellowship in EnglishDr Angela B Brueggemann to a Fellowship by Special Electionin Biological SciencesDr Robert J Whittaker to a Junior Research Fellowship inMathematicsDr James E Thomson to a Junior Research Fellowship inChemistryDr Maja H Spener to a Junior Research Fellowship in PhilosophyDr Nicholas W J Attfield to a Fellowship by Special Election inMusic and British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

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Timothy Bayne, (BA Otago, PhDArizona)Tutor in Philosophy

Robert E Mabro, CBE, MA (BEngAlexandria, MSc Lond)Fellow by Special Election

Andrew P S Wheeler, MEng (PhDCamb)Fellow by Special Election inEngineeringRolls-Royce Industrial Fellow

Kirsten E Shepherd-Barr, MA,DPhil (BA Yale)Tutor in English

Angela B Brueggemann, DPhil(BSc St Olaf, MSc Iowa)Fellow by Special Election inBiological Sciences

Robert J Whittaker (BA, PhD Camb)Junior Research Fellow in Mathematics

James E Thomson, MChem, DPhilJunior Research Fellow in Chemistry

Maja H Spener, BA (MPhil, PhD Lond)Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy

Nicholas W J Attfield, MSt, DPhil(BMus Lond)Fellow by Special Election in MusicNichols Research FellowBritish Academy PostdoctoralResearch Fellow

H O N O R A R Y F E L L O W SLeonard G Wolfson, The Rt HonLord WolfsonLaurie E Baragwanath, BPhil, MA(BA Melb)Professor Sir John W Cornforth,Kt, CBE, DPhil (MSc Sydney), FRSHilda Y Bullock, The Lady Bullock,MAProfessor Sir Brian E F Fender,Kt, CMG, MA (BSc, PhD Lond)

Ruth Wolfson, Lady WolfsonProfessor Sir James L Gowans,Kt, CBE, MA, DPhil, FRCP, FRSSir Austin E Bide, Kt, BSc, FRSCThe Rt Hon Sir Patrick Nairne,GCB, MC, MABenazir Bhutto, BASir Cameron A Mackintosh, KtSir Michael F Atiyah, OM, Kt, MA(PhD Camb), FRS, FRSEJohn Birt, Lord Birt of Liverpool, MATom Phillips, CBE, MA, RA, REProfessor Sir Geoffrey Allen, Kt,(BSc, PhD Leeds), FRS, FREng, FRSC,FInstP, FIMMMProfessor Sir (Eric) Brian Smith,Kt, MA, DSc (PhD Liv), FRSCTan Sri Dato’ Seri A PArumugam, AP, CEng, FIEE, FRAeS,FIMarEST, FinstD, PSM, SSAP, SIMP,DSAP, DIMPPeter Mandelson, MASir John E Walker, Kt, MA, DPhil,FRSProfessor Noam Chomsky (PhDPenn)Sir Nicholas H Stern, DPhil (BACamb), FBARaymond Plant, The Rt Hon LordPlant of Highfield, MA (BA Lond,PhD Hull)Professor David J Daniell, MA(BA, MA Tübingen, PhD Lond)Professor Nicanor Parra (Lic Chile)Masaki Orita (LLB Tokyo)Sir (Francis) Humphrey Potts,BCL, MAProfessor Joseph E Stiglitz (PhDMIT), FBASir Peter M Williams, CBE, MA(PhD Camb), FREng, FRSSir (Maurice) Victor Blank, MA(Anthony) David Yates, MAProfessor Ah med Zewail (BS, MSAlexandria, PhD Penn)Michael Billington, BAProfessor Alan Katritzky, DPhil, FRSProfessor C N Ramachandra Rao,MSc Banaras, PhD Purdue, DScMysore, FRS

E M E R I T U S F E L L O W SWilfrid F Knapp, MALloyd A Stocken, MA, DPhil, DScErnest L French, FHCIMAProfessor John B Goodenough,MA (PhD Chicago)John Ch Simopoulos, BPhil, MA,Dean of DegreesProfessor Jack R Pole, MA (MACamb, PhD Princeton), FBA, FRHistSProfessor D Michael Sullivan,MA, DLitt (BA Lond, MA, LittD Camb,PhD Harvard)Professor George A Holmes, MA(MA, PhD Camb), FBAProfessor John O Bayley, CBE, MA,FBAProfessor Donald H Perkins, CBE,MA (PhD Lond), FRSJohn W Martin, MA, DPhil (MA,PhD, ScD Camb)J Derek Davies, BCL, MA (LLBWales)Professor Peter G M Dickson,MA, DPhil, DLitt, FBABruce R Tolley, MA, DPhil (MAVictoria, Wellington)Barrie E Juniper, MA, DPhil,Secretary for AlumniHenry C Bennet-Clark, MA (PhDCamb)Professor Daniel W Howe, MA(PhD Berkeley)Stephen J Sondheim (BA Williams)Sir Ian McKellen (BA Camb)Sir Alan Ayckbourn, CBEMichael V Codron, MA, CBESir Peter L Shaffer, CBE (BACamb), FRSLLord Attenborough, CBESir Richard C H Eyre, CBE (BACamb)Thelma M B Holt, CBEDame Diana Rigg, DBENicholas R Hytner (MA Camb)Stephen D Daldry (BA Sheff)Professor Malcolm L H Green, MA(PhD Lond), FRS

Sir Timothy M B RiceProfessor Terence V Jones, MA,DPhilProfessor Gilliane C Sills, MA(PhD Lond)Patrick Marber, BAPhyllida Lloyd, BA BirmG Ceri K Peach, MA, DPhilG Bruce Henning, MA (BA Toronto,PhD Penn)

D O M U S F E L L O W SSir Patrick SergeantLord BraggVee Meng ShawBruce G SmithKeith ClarkAnthony W HenfreyMichael P UllmannRoushan ArumugamUsha Q ArumugamNadia Q ArumugamSimon F A Clark

V I S I T I N G F E L L O W S* Professor David Baum,Wisconsin, H08Professor Christian Belin,Montpellier-III Paul-Valéry, H08Professor David Carnegie,Victoria, Wellington, T07* Professor Patricia Thane,London, T08* Christensen Fellow

R E S E A R C H A S S O C I A T E SRoger Gundle, BM, BCh, DPhil (MACamb), FRCS (Eng), FRCS (Orth)Patrick E McSharry, DPhil (BA, MScDub)Walter Doralt, (Mgr, PhD Vienna)

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