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Page 1: Pembroke College Annual Report 2008-09

PEMBROKE COLLEGEUNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

Annual Report 2008-2009

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Contents

The Master’s Introduction

The 2008/09 Academic Year

The academic year in perspective at Pembroke

Oxford University Institutional Audit

The King’s Academy, Jordan, Summer Programme at Pembroke

Acclaimed Pembroke Research

A year in the life of Pembroke students

Planning the new; Cherishing the old

Refurbishment of the Kitchen, Hall and progress on the New Building

Continuing to improve our appearence and business

The Financial Year

Financial Performance of the College; underpinning our New Building

Development – plenty of headroom, but getting there

Successful fund-raising in a cold climate

A full year of events and publications

UK Campaign Board

Annual Fund – unprecedented success

Our performance benchmarked

Donors to Pembroke 2008/09

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Introduction

There is no room for despondency at an academic

institution like Pembroke in an economic downturn.

It is our task to nurture, in an uninterrupted and undaunted way,

future leaders in many walks of life and to provide an environment

which stimulates great minds to break new ground with their

research. So Pembroke conducted its business as usual

throughout 2008/9, indeed with great aplomb in a number of

areas. Our staff and Fellows also worked hard to invest wisely,

keep costs low, raise more philanthropic funds and maintain

the quality and improve the experience of living and studying

in Oxford for our students.

Once again, our students won a decent number of First Class Honours degrees across many

subjects, while the number of 2.2s declined. Although that was not enough to affect our

position greatly in the league tables, our Fellows distinguished themselves as ever, while we

welcomed five new arrivals to the Fellowship.

On the financial front, our results were pleasing in spite of the hit taken by our endowment

in some of the worst stock market conditions since the war. Our conference business held up

well despite the downturn while fund-raising made solid advances, both in terms of smaller

regular gifts and in terms of a gratifying level of first-stage capital donations to our new building

project. It is with great pleasure that I note the growth in the number of Pembrokians making

gifts to the College in 2008/9, and to record that we are now above the average figure attained

by Oxford colleges for such participation and giving. And yet satisfaction cannot turn into

complacency since, as our Development Director notes, there is plenty of headroom for

further gains.

Having obtained all planning consents during the year, we are on course to construct our new

building, subject to obtaining the additional funding we need. We shall enter into agreements

with contractors during the course of 2010, the year when we are already committed to carry

out and complete our major Hall and kitchen refurbishment project. The signs that we shall

receive the support needed from our alumni and friends for this huge undertaking are

encouraging.

Pembroke is in good shape to undertake these forward-looking projects, in spite of a climate

which might have given others pause for thought, and to carry on its work of education and

research with increasing success. We need to retain and grow our ability to withstand external

shocks as we press on with our key investments in the face of new strictures on government

funding and threats to Oxford’s tutorial system. That the College has attained such a sound

position today is due in no small part to the continuing goodwill and increasing generosity of

our alumni and other benefactors to whom I extend my warmest gratitude.

Giles Henderson December 2009

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Science Subjects 1 2.1 Arts Subjects 1 2.1

Biochemistry - 3 Economics & Management 1 7

Biological Sciences 2 3 English Language & Literature 1 9

Chemistry 2 - Fine Art - 1

Engineering 1 3 Law (including LSE) 2 7

Experimental Psychology 2 3 History 4 3

Mathematics (including Maths 3 4 History & Economics - 2

and Philosophy) History & Politics 2 1

Medical Sciences 1 2 History & English - 1

Human Sciences - 1 History & Modern Languages - 2

PPP - 1 Modern Languages/Linguistics 1 7

Physiological Sciences - 1 Music 1 1

Total Sciences 11 21 Oriental Studies (Arabic, Chinese, Japanese) 1 7

PPE 1 6

Theology - 4

Total Arts 14 58

Total Arts & Science 2008/09 25 79

Total Arts & Science 2007/08 24 87

The 2008/09 Academic Year

scholarships or exhibitions on course at the moment; one

of our engineers won the Institute of Civil Engineers Prize

for the best performance in Oxford; one of our experimental

psychologists won two University prizes as a result of her

performance in Finals; another finalist earned an award for

outstanding performance in Islamic studies. A number of

our Oriental Language specialists who did not achieve firsts

won distinctions and prizes for both their command of

Middle Eastern languages or Arabic literature. Around 25%

of taught post-graduate students also achieved distinction

at the end of their courses, while the number, as well as

spread across subjects, of Firsts and Distinctions in First

Public Examinations this year was highly gratifying and a

promise of great things to come.

We provide a glimpse of Pembroke Fellows’ achievements

during the year in the pages which follow, while you can

also read about the student view of life at Pembroke.

The academic year in perspective at Pembroke

Undergraduate Finals Results 2008/09

2008/9 saw a continuation of last year’s highly

respectable academic performance.

There was no movement of note in the Norrington League

table that aggregates finals results across Colleges. Overall

our students gained one more First than last year, making

the total 25, and raising the percentage of Firsts for the

year compared with 2007/8. Meanwhile the number of

2.2s declined by almost half compared to half last year’s

total with relatively more students gaining 2.1s. This year,

Pembroke’s top scores were well distributed across

subjects with particularly distinguished performances in

History, History and Politics and Music in the arts and

Biology, Chemistry, Experimental Psychology and

Mathematics in the sciences. As the College Record will

show in detail when it is published, Pembroke students

also shone academically this year in ways that the league

tables do not capture: we have 69 students with

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John Eekelaar - Academic Director

Oxford University Institutional Audit

The auditors advise the University to

• ensure that it has effective means to ensure oversight

of equity of practice across colleges, especially where

this affects student progression

• ensure that it is able to know that both University

and colleges have suitable complaints and appeals

procedures for students

So it is expected that the University should “ensure” “equity

of practice” across colleges. That seems to suppose that

the University has to keep the colleges in line with one

another, and the only way to do that is for the University to

establish what that line should be. The same observation

applies with respect to the second advisory

recommendation.

At first sight, it seems that the auditors fundamentally

misunderstood the federal nature of the “collegiate”

University. This seems to be confirmed by one of the three

“desirable” recommendations, namely, that the University

should “find ways of ensuring that public information

regarding college provision is clear and accurate in order to

allow students to make an informed choice at admission.”

Does this mean that all college publicity is to be submitted

for prior scrutiny by a university official? And how would

that official know whether the information about the College

is accurate?

and yet ...and yet

Let us return to the “advisory” recommendations. Colleges

receive the same fees (whether from students or

government) for the students they teach. Applicants cannot

make detailed investigations of the way each college

teaches its courses, and many do not end up in the college

to which they applied anyway. Surely some should not get

a better (or worse) deal than others. Shouldn’t there be

“equity of practice” regarding “student progression” (jargon

for “seeing students through their course”), and indeed

complaints and disciplinary processes too?

In fact, colleges (as well as students) are well aware of this.

Part of the remit of the committee of Senior Tutors is to

“seek to ensure that academic and academic-related

provision and procedures concerning undergraduates are

broadly comparable across colleges.”

In the regulated world we live in, these five-yearly audits

assume almost frightening significance, and any

qualification in the verdict would be seen as significantly

damaging to the University. So the key University

administrators prepared for the visit with a thoroughness

that would have done them credit had they been

planning D-Day.

It all paid off. The auditors concluded that “confidence

can reasonably be placed in the soundness of the

institution’s present and likely future management of

the academic standards of the awards that it offers”

and that “confidence can reasonably be placed in the

soundness of the institution’s present and likely future

management of the quality of the learning opportunities

available to students”.

Phew! If that sounds less than dazzling, it is in fact

the highest endorsement achievable. The full report

can be read on the QAA website: www.qaa.ac.uk/

Yet the process did throw up an endemic issue, which

is partly a real problem within Oxford, but even more

of a problem in getting across to outsiders how Oxford

works.

The Advisory Recommendations

One feature of QAA reports is a listing of “advisory”

recommendations (which are to be taken particularly

seriously, and will be expected to be addressed by the

time of the next audit) and “desirable” recommendations

(slightly less weighty). Two of the three “advisory”

recommendations concerned the relationship between

the University and the colleges, and indeed, college

practice itself. Here they are:

One of the major events of

my final year at Pembroke

was engagement, as Chair

of the Senior Tutors’

Committee, with the 2009

audit of the University by

the Quality Assurance

Agency for Higher

Education (QAA).

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The 2008/09 Academic Year

Oxford University Institutional Audit

The King’s Academy, Jordan, Summer Programme Pembroke delivering Oxford quality for others.

by John Eekelaar, Director Summer Programmes 2009

Last July saw the beginning of an exciting new initiative

whereby, for the first time, Pembroke Fellows and Tutors

have been involved in running a four-week Summer School

for students who have completed their penultimate year at

the King’s Academy in Jordan. The King’s Academy was

set up by King Abdullah II, an alumnus of Pembroke, to

provide first class education to students in Jordan and

elsewhere in the region. It follows the US high school model

and its standards are equivalent to the best US schools.

Seventeen students, accompanied by two teachers,

arrived on July 6th and took up residence in the Geoffrey

Arthur Building. There were nine boys and eight girls.

Before they arrived they chose to follow one of three

courses in Applied Economics, History or Biological

Science. They were taught study skills, had lectures,

tutorials, research talks, mentoring sessions and time for

private study. The students were set essays to write

and projects to complete. One Pembroke student was

assigned to each course to act as a Teaching Assistant

and general mentor and friend. It was not all work and no

play. They went on tours to London (where they saw a

part of a debate in the House of Commons), Stonehenge,

Blenheim, the Cotswolds, Warwick Castle and Stratford.

The course ended with a Farewell Dinner in College.

The students and teachers made a very favourable

impression on all who met them, and it seems that the

students greatly enjoyed the experience.

My experience at Oxford has been enriching and

inspiring. I learned a lot about Oxford and the UK.

Ahmad Tarawneh

As teaching provision for graduates is the responsibility of

the University, not colleges, the remit of the committee of

Tutors for Graduates is slightly differently drawn, seeking

to encourage good practice, and disseminate information,

among colleges regarding graduate matters.

The wording of the Senior Tutors’ Committee remit

recognises that one of Oxford’s strengths lies in the

richness of diversity between colleges, but at the same

time that the academic experience should not differ

significantly between undergraduates. The Committee has

therefore got all colleges to sign up to an agreed

framework for academic “disciplinary” processes, though

of course it cannot guarantee they will be applied in exactly

the same way in all colleges; but then not every judge or

jury acts in exactly the same way.

Colleges also have to report their degree of compliance to

a whole range of guidelines on good practice regarding

monitoring of student progress and teaching quality to a

joint “Quality Assurance Group” of Senior Tutors and Tutors

for Graduates, which includes the senior “University” officer

in charge of academic policy and provision. The group

reports not only to the Senior Tutors’ and Graduates’

Committees, but also to the University’s Education

Committee.

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So, in this way, the University already does (at least try to)

“ensure that it has effective means to ensure oversight of

equity of practice across colleges”. But it does so in

collaboration with the colleges. The auditors knew this,

but still seemed to think it was not enough.

So should the University be even more involved in

what colleges do? Yes!

The Quality Assurance Group deals mostly with

procedures. It does not deal with the amount of teaching

students receive in different subjects. It is therefore

possible (though probably not frequent) that students in

some colleges receive significantly more or significantly

fewer tutorials than those in others who are doing the

same course. How can that be right?

University bodies (faculties or departments) set the content

of all courses. The only way to minimize this “inequity” is for

those bodies to specify the amount of college teaching that

should normally (special cases excepted) be provided for

their courses, and for colleges to certify that they are

following those specifications. These “norms” for college

teaching would be added to the teaching provided by the

faculty or department itself, establishing a clear teaching

programme for all students following the course. They

already exist in some subjects, but not in others. But there

is a crucial qualification. College teaching, remember, is

paid for by colleges. Colleges cannot simply cede to the

University the power to determine how much, or how little,

should be provided. So any such norms have to be agreed

between the university bodies and the colleges. This is

quite a complicated process, but it has been happening,

though could occur more often. Joint decision-making

again.

It seems that the auditors identified real issues which

demand attention, but may have failed to appreciate the

truly collaborative nature of a collegiate university.

John Eekelaar - Academic Director 2005-2009

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The 2008/09 Academic Year

Acclaimed Pembroke Research

At Pembroke College we are successful in attracting and retaining the highest quality

academic staff. Our Fellows are involved in an extremely diverse range of research

topics.

Christopher Melchert

For a conference in London, Dr Melchert recently prepared a study of hadith (essentially

reports of Muhammad’s word and deed) declaring that God created Adam in his image.

They fall into two groups, the first of which begins with ‘God created Adam in his image’,

then describes his giant stature (60 cubits) and how he learnt the characteristic Islamic

salutation, al-salamu ‘alaykum. This recalls Gen. 1:27a: ‘So God created man in his own

image.’ The other group forbids Muslims, when they fight, to strike the other’s face, ‘for

God created Adam in his image’. This recalls Gen. 9:6: ‘Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by

man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.’ To attack a person is

tantamount to attacking God. Both versions caused consternation among ninth-century

anti-anthropomorphists, who alternately proposed to interpret ‘in his image’ as ‘in Adam’s

image’ and transmitted versions of both hadith reports without the offending expression.

Traditionalists sometimes retaliated by transmitting a version saying ‘God created Adam in

the image of the Most Merciful’, using one of the names of God to avoid all ambiguity. The

anti-anthropomorphists generally carried the day, so that the qur’anic commentary tradition

omits to discuss the question, but a few hold-outs transmitted the older version into the

eleventh century.

Stephen Tuck

Stephen Tuck’s first major ‘popular’ history book has just been published by Belknap Press:

We Ain’t What We Ought To Be: the black freedom struggle from emancipation to Obama.

It is the product of half a dozen years’ research, from archives across the United States to

interviews with many former participants – including the former head of the Klan and the

late Coretta Scott King. Stephen challenges the well-known story of the 1960s civil rights

movement by showing the diversity of protest (from popular culture to high politics), the

length of protest (from the first years of freedom to President Obama’s inauguration), and

the breadth of protest (across the whole nation and beyond, with plenty of links to Britain).

Stephen grapples with some of the big questions in history and current affairs, such as

‘when do social movements prosper’, and just ‘what did Obama’s victory mean for American

race relations’? But because it is a popular history, Stephen has enjoyed answering such

questions by writing about graphic human dramas – from a slave girl stealing, and wearing,

her mistress’ lipstick during the civil war, to a Louisiana grandmother in the 1990s flying to

Tokyo to beg multinational executives to stop dumping toxic waste near her hometown

(they did). And he has greatly appreciated the hard work of internet-savvy Pembroke history

students who have put together a wonderful website full of audiovisual clips of characters

and events in the story (weaintwhatweoughttobe.com).

Christopher Melchert

Stephen Tuck

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Eammon Molloy

Eamonn Molloy is currently investigating why large-scale projects routinely cost more, take

longer to complete and deliver fewer benefits than expected. This situation leads to a

pareto-inefficient allocation of resources, generates a cycle of further delays, cost overruns

and benefit shortfalls and destabilizes the policy-making and economic environments in

which the projects occur. To date, explanations for this optimism bias have focussed on

technical and psychological issues but these fail to account for why we don’t learn from

previous mistakes. In an article in preparation for the International Handbook of Corruption,

Dr Molloy and his co-author Professor Flyvbjerg argue that political-economic explanations

such as strategic misrepresentation of ex-ante costs and benefits, deception and corruption

better explain our continued failure to deliver on major project investments. The article

argues that the application of reference class forecasting techniques and the design of

new governance structures are needed to ensure more effective public scrutiny of decision-

making on major projects, and that this will lead to improved outcomes.

Gabriel Uzquiano Cruz

Gabriel Uzquiano has been working on the interface between philosophical logic and

metaphysics. One of his articles he completed this year, ‘Mereological harmony’, explores

the interaction between parthood and location. Two more articles are specifically concerned

with the infinite. ‘How many angels can dance on the point of a needle?’ (with John

Hawthorne) highlights a tension between the orthodox approach to infinite size and certain

approaches to modality. ‘Before-Effect without Zeno Causation’ confronts a new variation

of one of Zeno’s paradoxes. Another paper, ‘How to solve the hardest puzzle ever in two

questions’, improves on the standard three-question solution to a problem originally

discussed by George Boolos. This year he was an invited speaker at the annual meeting

of the Pacific division of the American Philosophical Association in Vancouver and gave

research presentations at MIT, Paris, Manchester, Geneva, St Andrews and Bristol.

Andrew Teal

In 1983, when Andrew Teal, Chaplain was an undergraduate, he used to look after the

disabled son of his then tutor, Dr Frances Young. She produced what was to become the

major finalist undergraduate and taught Masters’ textbook From Nicaea to Chalcedon.

After becoming Edward Cadbury Professor of Theology at Birmingham, and later pro-Vice

Chancellor, she supervised his Doctoral work. That friendship and interest in Patristic

Research has not ceased, and after two years’ working together, the original book is now

published afresh in a new and completely revised edition, twenty seven years on for a new

generation, by SCM in the UK and Baker Academic in the US. Andrew is delighted to have

played a part in the revision and renewal of such a major work, not least because it is a tiny

token of thanks for the inspiring scholarship, teaching and support Frances Young has given

to students over many years. Perhaps, in another quarter century, a student from Pembroke

can take on the baton and renew it again.

Andrew Teal

Gabriel Uzquiano Cruz

Eammon Molloy

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I undertook tasks such as organising the JCR dinners and

this year witnessed the novelty addition of a traditional

Scottish Burn’s Supper. Being a part of the JCR Art Fund

Committee has been and continues to be a thoroughly

enjoyable experience. In addition to awarding travel and

hardship grants there have been increasing opportunities

to expand my knowledge of art through various events

such as a visit by Angela Palmer, who recently transformed

Trafalgar Square into a “Ghost Forest”.

As a part of Pembroke’s sporting scene I have seen various

ups and downs over the past year, but there have been

various constants – team enthusiasm, inclusivity of all

abilities, and great socials. Following a very successful

football season year as a fresher it was always going to be

hard to emulate the achievements of the past.

Nonetheless, the fact that Pembroke still manages to field

three teams shows the commitment to PCFC. Playing for

both of Pembroke’s cricket teams has allowed me to enjoy

the slightly serious demeanour of the 1sts and the “cider in

hand” attitude of the 2nds. In the summer I also picked up

a hockey stick for the first time in almost three years for

mixed cuppers. The year has also proven fruitful for

travelling with Pembrokians. The Pembroke Ski Trip saw

an Easter visit to Flaine, France, where I eagerly and

unsuccessfully attempted to conquer the slopes – the trip

has spurred me to try again during the Varsity ski trip in the

Christmas holidays. Upon my return from France I then left

for Morocco with two other Pembrokians. The mode of

transport: hitch-hiking. 26 vehicles and two ferry trips later

we arrived in Tangiers, thereby successfully completing our

sponsored trip for Link Community Development. My time

at Pembroke has provided many opportunities and much

fun. Ultimately, Pembroke is not just for 3 years, it is for life.

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The 2008/09 Academic Year

A Year In The Life Of Pembroke Students

Jennifer Crane

Pembroke and the Brooke House college in Hackney

collaborate in the wittily named Pem-brooke scheme. This

is an innovative experiment in letting younger students

experience a year in the life of an Oxford student. The main

task is debunking the Oxford stereotypes – obviously there

are no obnoxiously posh people in gold-plated ball gowns

mocking the rest of us atop horseback. Everyone is

actually delightful. And cycling seems the preferred method

of travel.

Unfortunately, perhaps, neither is PPE ‘actually PPEeeeasy,

all about schmoozing and networking’. It’s actually pretty

hard, as well as being the most interesting and exciting

thing I’ve ever studied. Despite this, I’ve learnt that life at

Pembroke can always still surprise you. Running with the

Pembroke mascot - the Pink Panther - alongside the

Pembroke boats at Summer Eights was a highlight.

Wandering around various colleges with one hundred other

Pembrokians singing carols at Christmas was also fun. I’ve

heard an eclectic mix of speakers at the Oxford Union –

from Charles Bean to the intellectual force that is Shakira.

Finally, from my wise and inspiring tutors, I’ve learnt never

to end a piece of writing with a predictable and obvious

conclusion. So I won’t close by claiming that I’ve learnt

more about myself. More importantly, I’ve learnt never to

serenade the porters with power ballads – they still hum

‘Total Eclipse of the Heart’ as I walk past. . .

Jigar Patel

I’ve learnt a lot of things over

my year at Pembroke. Taking

part in access and outreach

work has shown me the

difference one conversation

with a younger student can

have in changing their

perception of Oxford entirely,

and hopefully raising their

aspirations somewhat.

The concept of having a life

outside the McGowin library

for a Pembroke law student

may seem remote and

implausible. However, this is

not the case. In my second

year I was Vice-President of

the JCR.

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Ellie Decamp

Most of us live in private accommodation, we don’t attend

hall as regularly as the undergrads, and our involvement in

college societies and teams seems limited. Our reputation

is that we rarely stray from our Faculties or from the

Bodleian. For some, indeed, college life scarcely features.

However, at Pembroke we ensure that college remains a

focal point in post-grads’ university careers.

I joined the College last year and was immediately

welcomed into a friendly and lively Middle Common Room.

I was able to meet and engage with students from all

disciplines and nationalities, and to celebrate diversity in

the student body. The committee ensured that we had a

packed Freshers’ week and every opportunity throughout

term to enjoy each other’s company. Now, as Secretary, I

help organise events with the other members committed to

fostering the strong social and intellectual base that MCRs

can certainly provide. Moreover, I now have ample

opportunity to interact with Pembroke staff and fellows.

My particular interest is drama and I have made theatre

trips a termly event with MCR expeditions to London,

Stratford and the Oxford Playhouse over the last year. But

our activities are varied: we have exchange dinners, wine

and cheese evenings, soirees, bops, poker nights, recitals,

guest lectures, rambles with the Master and Mrs Henderson,

bar nights, and film nights. Of especial note are our

Banquets at which we gather with alumni and members of

staff from College to enjoy a feast in Hall, and our mini-

symposia when a number of post-grads present their

research.

I am delighted to be part of the Pembroke community. The

MCR continues to grow in numbers and we look forward to

planning for the years ahead.

William Cooke

I am a second year DPhil

Candidate in English

Literature, Secretary on the

Pembroke MCR Committee

and Senior Browning

Scholar. It’s not always

obvious what the post-grads

of a mixed Oxford College

are up to.

Generations of Pembroke

Medics forewarn that the

first two terms of second

year were some of the

most difficult sixteen weeks

of their training.

The intensive lecture timetables and lab classes leave

sparing windows to read for, write (and sometimes think

about!) tutorial work. For me this marked a challenging but

fascinating part of the course: whilst the factual load was

heavy, the great enthusiasm of tutors and lecturers for their

subjects was contagious. A series of clinical lectures also

helped remind us why we needed to learn it all! Needless

to say, this didn’t mean the Pembroke community watched

us cripple under the weight. Sympathetic housemates,

trips to Len’s, JCR events, welfare teas, and a weekly dose

of Chapel choir helped maintain sanity and make the

experience all the more enjoyable!

And the sweetener to the deal was a much lighter Trinity

term: a chance to fully embrace college life again. Besides

the punting, I enjoyed joining a hilarious production of Alice

in Wonderland in arts week, skilfully written and directed by

Martin Dowdall a second year Russian student. Choir

practices and services continued, culminating in a very

successful tour to Italy in ninth week.

I took part in the new ‘Take an undergraduate to lunch

scheme’, gaining a helpful insight into the career ahead of

me from a kind Pembroke alumnus. I was also lucky

enough to go on the annual Technos exchange to Japan,

experiencing an incredible fortnight of real Japanese life

with students from around the world. So from the regular

twists and turns of a year at Pembroke to the unusual

opportunities the college offers, I am hugely grateful for a

fantastic second year.

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Planning the new; Cherishing the old

We have now gone out to tender with four contractors, all

of whom have good experience of managing such projects

and the final choice will be made in February 2010. Work is

scheduled to start in early March and will complete in

December 2010.

As the existing Kitchen/Hall building will not be available,

a temporary facility will be installed in the College’s North

Quad for the whole of 2010.

New building

The plans which we outlined in last year’s Annual Report

have not changed much and we believe this is a reflection

on the detailed nature of our feasibility study and earlier

planning work. One change is that the number of new

en-suite bedrooms we can provide has now increased

from 90 to 99. The Scheme will now also provide for an

Art Gallery.

Our work over the last year has focussed on obtaining the

necessary planning consents and working up the plans to

the required level of detail before going out to tender.

After much consultation with English Heritage and the

Oxford City Council Planning Department, our planning

application was heard and approved by the relevant Oxford

City Council committees in May 2009, since when we have

been addressing a number of planning conditions and legal

Over the last year, we have made very good progress

with our plans both to refurbish the Kitchen/Hall

building and for the College’s expansion on to the

Brewer Street site.

Refurbishment of the Kitchen/Hall building

At the start of the year, the College’s Governing Body

decided that the refurbishment of the Kitchen/Hall building

should be undertaken before starting work on the main

Brewer Street Scheme. This is now going ahead.

The detailed planning was undertaken in full consultation

with students and college staff as well as our professional

advisers. As well as undertaking a complete refurbishment

we have also taken the opportunity to upgrade some of our

facilities to include a new kitchen, servery, bar, underfloor

heating in the hall, a lift, new toilets and an upgrade of the

Forte room.

As the Kitchen/Hall building is Grade 2 listed, we have

worked closely with the Oxford City Council Conservation

Officer and Planning Department in developing these plans

and we have received the necessary consents to proceed.

At the time of writing (December 2009), we are currently in

the process of constructing an electrical sub-station on the

triangle car park site outside the College walls and this will

provide the necessary power for both the extended

Kitchen/Hall facilities and, critically, for the new building.

Refurbishment of the Kitchen, Hall and progress on the new building

The new Café

John Church - Bursar

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formalities. It is pleasing to note that we have now received

the necessary agreement in principle from the Oxford

County Council Highways Department with regard to the

design of the footbridge which will link the Brewer Street

site to the main College site.

The detailed design work has involved a great many

workshops and full consultation with Fellows, staff and

students, working with our professional advisers. The next

step is to prepare the documentation necessary for the

tender process and, subject to the fundraising going well,

we currently plan to go out to tender in May 2010.

Construction work, preceded by demolition and an

archaeological study will then start in October 2010 and is

projected to complete in time for the facilities to be

available at the start of the 2012/13 academic year.

Costs and Funding

The overall cost of both projects has increased slightly from

the figure reported in last year’s Annual Report principally

due to better information resulting from the detailed design

work and the addition of a few more facilities. The total

cost is currently estimated to be £29.5 million.

The College has arranged a line of credit on very favourable

terms and this can be used both to fund the expenditure

during the construction phase and beyond over a thirty

year period, when it will be serviced by net income

generated from the new facilities. However, the College

needs to raise donated money to complete the funding

and Andrew Seton speaks about this in his article.

It has been a very successful year for us in progressing

these far reaching plans. We are delighted that work on the

Kitchen/Hall refurbishment is about to start and hope to be

in the same position for the main Brewer Street Scheme

when we report next year. The new Auditorium

The Bridge

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Planning the new; Cherishing the old

Continuing to improve our appearance and business

Samuel Johnson Building

Samuel Johnson Building Naming Ceremony

Whilst we plan for the future, the existing estate has

not been neglected. As well as routine maintenance

and a face-lift to the paintwork around and between

the quads there have been some noteworthy

improvements and enhancements on the main

College site.

Staircase 17 has had its portico restored; it is once again

supported on elegant pillars rather than functional, but

less-attractive, ‘acro props’!

As a way to mark a generous donation from Revan and

Elsa Tranter the walled garden outside Staircase 18 (the

former 13-14 Pembroke St) has been substantially

refurbished, with new borders created and planted,

existing shrubbery reduced in height to reveal new and

exciting vistas into and out of College, and the pergola

repaired and denuded of the tree that was strangling the

grape-vine. The result is a much more pleasant, open and

airy place to sit and enjoy both the garden itself and the

buildings around. New seating is planned, to complete

the transformation and the area will be known as the

‘Revan and Elsa Tranter Garden’.

Other areas newly named are the Samuel Johnson building

(formerly Staircase 8) and its principal public room, the

Mary Hyde Eccles Room (formerly Lecture Room 8). The

naming ceremony took place during a major academic

Conference held in College to celebrate the Tercentenary

of Johnson’s birth. In addition the building comprising the

Fellows’ Staircase, Staircases 9 and 10, which has been

renamed in honour of former Master, Robert Stevens –

marked with an attractive new stone plaque.

Daren Bowyer - Home Bursar

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Antonio Aguilar

Dennis Green (54 years working as part of the maintenance

team) and Antonio Aguilar (48 years as Fellows’ Butler)

have now been immortalised in stone and peer down

protectively on those crossing Library Quad.

Of course, we like to invest in our loyal and hardworking

staff in ways other than turning them to stone! Over the

course of the year no fewer than fifteen of our scouts

qualified at level 2 in National Vocational Qualifications

through the Government’s ‘Train to Gain’ scheme, while

Hall Supervisor, Chris Long, gained an Intermediate level

qualification in wine from the Wine and Spirits Education

Trust, and catering assistant Victor Martinez passed the

Foundation level.

Despite the challenges of economic downturn, the

conference business remained steady, and again

contributed over £800k of income. Next year, with the

Hall out of action and all catering in a temporary facility in

North Quad we have to assume something of a downturn

but we are working hard to find as much business as the

temporary facilities will allow, while seeking to nurture our

current client-base to ensure that as many of our regular

visitors as possible will return to us once the disruption

is over.

This summer marked the 25th year of our association with

our most important conference client, the Oxford Tradition

Summer School. The occasion was marked by a special

High Table dinner for the programme’s founder, Professor

Jim Basker, and senior faculty members; Jim was also

elected to membership of the SCR.

So, the domestic side of the College is in good heart,

relishes the steady improvement in the fabric and

continued investment in the people, and stands ready

for the challenges of the kitchen and hall refurbishment

project and the significant enhancements that will result.

Dennis Green

The rolling plan to repair and refurbish the stone work of

old quad continued this summer with essential work on the

library quad face of Staircase 3 and the chimneys above.

In the course of this work it became apparent that two

of the now indistinguishable gargoyles would need to be

replaced entirely. This provided an opportunity to mark the

quite exceptional service of two of the College’s longest

standing employees.

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The Financial Year

Financial Performance of the College; underpinning our new building

In 2008/2009 the College once again achieved a

surplus, continuing the positive trend seen in recent

years. Income increased by 8% with yet again a

noticeable increase of donations via the Annual

Fund. Expenditure grew by 9%, due to planned new

academic appointments and also the impact of the

national academic pay settlement. The overall surplus

was £255,000 down £37,000 from the previous year.

The College’s balance sheet at the year end remained

very strong, although total net assets declined by 4% to

£44.9m as the operating surplus and capital donations

compensated for a decrease in the value of investments

in the context of the recent market downturn.

Endowment investments declined by £3.5 million to

£32.5m resulting in a negative total return of (9)%.

(It should be noted that over the 7 year period to

31/7/09 the average total return was 5.6%.)

Overall, once again the College traded successfully

covering its current costs and generating funds whilst

continuing to achieve the objectives set out in the

strategic plan. The College has a strong balance sheet

but the impact of the stock market fall was significant and

put a brake on the steady growth of our Endowment seen

in recent years.

Going forward, due account will be taken of the current

economic uncertainties and fundraising remains a key

objective, particularly as we seek to fund the planned

major buildings expansion.

Finally it should be noted that in line with best practice the

College put out to tender its audit, following which

Horwarth Clark Whitehill (specialists in education and

charity) were appointed.

John Church - Bursar

2009 2008£000 % £000 %

INCOMETuition fees from UK and EU students 1,222 19 1,672 28Tuition fees from overseas students 307 5 276 4Fees from visiting students 407 6 374 6Other tuition income and HEFCE support 677 10 247 4

Academic fees, tuition income and HEFCE support 2,613 40 2,569 42Residential income from College members 1,329 20 1,320 22Conference and function income 866 13 813 13Donations 746 11 509 8Other income 171 3 94 2Release of deferred capital contributions 94 1 94 2Endowment income 702 11 606 10Other interest receivable 83 1 88 1

Total Income 6,604 100 6,093 100

EXPENDITURE

Academic costs 2,280 36 1,813 31Residences, catering and conferences 1,820 29 1,818 31Premises 672 11 830 14Depreciation 339 5 371 7College administration 736 12 534 9Fundraising 415 6 339 6Other 87 1 96 2

Total Expenditure 6,349 100 5,801 100

Surplus 255 292

Consolidated Income and Expenditure Account - Year Ended 31 July 2009

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Consolidated statement of total recognised gains and losses - Year ended 31 July 2009

2009 2008£000 £000

ReservesSurplus for year 255 292

EndowmentsIncome receivable from endowment asset investments 950 1,037Endowment return transferred to income and expenditure account (702) (606)Depreciation of endowment asset investments (4,240) (2,325)New endowments received 472 707

OtherNet additions to deferred capital 1,423 1,761

Total recognised gains relating to the year (1,842) 866Opening fund balances 46,698 45,832

Closing fund balances 44,856 46,698

2009 2008£000 £000

Fixed Assets 9,631 8,270

Endowment asset investmentsSecurities and cash deposits 29,514 33,034Land and property 2,954 2,954

32,468 35,988

Current assetsStocks 33 31Debtors 928 1,479Cash at bank and in hand 3,370 2,648

4,331 4,158

CreditorsAmounts falling due within one year (866) (890)

Net current assets 3,465 3,268

TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES 45,564 47,526

CreditorsAmounts falling due after more than one year (579) (690)Provision for liabilities and charges (129) (138)

TOTAL NET ASSETS 44,856 46,698

Deferred capital 5,392 3,969Endowments

Specific 19,437 20,666General 13,031 15,322

32,468 35,988

General Reserves 6,996 6,741

TOTAL FUNDS 44,856 46,698

Pembroke College Balance Sheet as at 31 July 2009

The figures shown above are extracted from the College’s statutory audited accounts for the year ended 31st July 2009.

The financial statements were approved by the Governing Body on Wednesday 2nd December 2008 and have been posted on the College’s website.

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Development – plenty of headroom, but getting there

(15) as in the previous 3 years in total. And for convincing

evidence that the ‘giving habit’ is really taking hold, take a

look at the encouraging statistics presented in Catherine

McMillan’s review of regular giving to the College which

spells out the usefulness of this reliable source for the daily

life of our community.

So what helped to drive up the numbers in 2008/9, despite

the recessionary climate?

Firstly, the Annual Fund was boosted by another successful

telethon in which students put over the College’s

consistently strong message about its improving

performance. This was followed by a remarkably effective

‘match-funding’ campaign in the last 3 months of the

financial year, thanks to an incredibly generous alumnus.

Bear in mind that participation in annual giving has a

proven impact on larger donors.

Secondly, as the new building Campaign’s ‘quiet phase’

truly got underway, the enormous significance of this

project for Pembroke, also a visible component of ‘Oxford

Thinking’, the Collegiate University’s Campaign, has clearly

been appreciated as has the professional way in which it

has been planned, designed and pursued through to

planning permission. We were greatly assisted in boosting

these perceptions by the formidably generous group of

alumni who help to make up our UK Campaign Board,

whose Chairman features on these pages and recounts the

first full year of the Board’s operation. The US Campaign

Board, which was set up a little later in the year, is also

making its presence felt.

In this ‘quiet’ Campaign phase, we are building a sense

of confidence ahead of building: we intend to launch the

‘public’ phase only after we have reached a significant

proportion of our total capital fund-raising goal of £17m

by the second quarter of 2010. If we meet or beat this

objective by that time, we should be able to adhere to the

schedule outlined in the Bursar’s report. Once the public

Campaign has been properly launched, all Pembrokians

will have the chance to participate in this landmark

undertaking by making a special gift to the project – to

suit their pockets, of course, but hopefully in many cases

to supplement regular donations to the Annual Fund.

Successful fund-raising in a cold climate

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Andrew Seton - Strategic Development Director

This might sound like a good title for a text-book but

actually there is no wish to imply that Pembroke

should be a model for anyone else. In fact, we may

perversely be benefiting from our relative immaturity

in fund-raising – if you consider the rather more

doom-laden atmosphere which prevails on the other

side of the Atlantic where our American cousins have

been at it far longer.

The tragic loss of billions from major endowment funds

experienced in some US institutions is enough to make

anyone batten down the hatches, re-trench, review

resources and so forth. Yet in spite of all that, those

institutions maintain an enviable degree of independence

from state funding – and have taught us so much of the

‘development technology’ that has helped us to get to

where we are today.

Some might query the idea that we may ‘benefit from our

immaturity’ in terms of fund-raising (and of course we

would be grateful to have a fraction of the endowment

of some of the smaller US institutions), but we need to

remember there is still so much ‘upside’ possible in

Pembroke’s development effort. You should not be

surprised if the Strategic Development Director sounds

upbeat when you would expect his natural fund-raiser’s

enthusiasm to be tempered by news of bank bail-outs,

negative equity and similar symptoms of the current

recession. You should not be dismayed if you observe that

the total figure for fund-raising has dropped in 2008/9: this

is only because we benefited from an exceptional lead-gift

to kick-start major gifts to our Campaign in the previous

year. In fact, we had as many 6-figure gifts this past year

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2009 2008£000 £000

Annual Fund 523 372

Other Revenue Scholarships 47 38Fellowships 34 33Other 88 66

169 137

Capital Gifts Legacies 0 41Bursaries 65 121Scholarships 12 150Fellowships 327 527Major buildings 1,517 1,855Other 76 183

1,997 2,877

TOTAL 2,689 3,386

Donations Summary 2008/09

At the time of writing, we are still gathering in major early

stage gifts, but we are well on our way with a chunky total

of £6 million in cash or committed.

We will be helped in this general bid to excite people into

making donations by our continuing efforts to stage

attractive events and reach our alumni through readable

publications and newsletters. You can read about Juanita

Hughes’ first year as our Alumni Relations Manager and

her success in boosting attendance at Pembroke

happenings: our messages are getting through to people –

and giving appears to be contagious!

With the Master actively engaged, the Development Office

have also been building up our contacts with alumni and

friends in the Middle East, where the College has significant

historic ties. A long-term partnership with Jordan, where

His Majesty King Adbullah II is an alumnus, is a case in

point as witness a first-ever Summer Tutorial Programme

for Jordanian students (see page 6). We have other irons in

the fire in the region, too.

If it is true that the best remedy for avoiding a cold in winter

is to keep warm, then the Development team is heeding

that advice by creating a vibrant relevance for Pembroke,

warming up the wider community of present-day students

and alumni and keeping them aware of the College’s needs

and aspirations. We have plenty of headroom for more

achievement in the coming years – within our own, wider

community. And if I owned up that it was ‘a bit chilly out

there’, even US fund-raising surveys are revealing that

reality is today a lot less depressing than the endowment

losses might suggest. One US fund-raising consultancy

analysed giving to 59 client institutions in early 2009 across

the spectrum of education, healthcare, cultural and social

services and found that while total fund-raising

commitments were down 28%, one in three institutions

secured higher gift commitments than in spring 2008. Cash

revenues fell by less, while again one in three institutions

received more gift revenue than in the equivalent period in

2008. Finally, while Annual Fund takings were down by 7%,

the number of donors increased.

A big ‘thank you’ from Pembroke to all our donors who

weathered the cold climate to keep giving, or even start

giving, to the College and for helping to create a warmer

micro-climate in which we are able to press on with our

ambitious plans.

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Development – plenty of headroom, but getting there

A full year of events and publications

Pembrokians North of the border to reconnect with

Pembroke without having to travel South.

It was a busy year internationally too with events in Tokyo, Hong Kong, New York, Boston, Washington DC andHouston. We build these tours into the calendar each

year and seek to take advantage of the Master and

Andrew Seton’s travel plans to enable alumni abroad to

get-together in their own country. We also often try to

link Pembroke events with University events abroad or,

if we cannot attend them ourselves, to help our local

Pembrokian organisers in those countries to invite

alumni from the College.

Mentoring also falls within my remit and we have had a

successful year with the ‘Take a Pembroke Student to

Lunch’ scheme. We managed to match up 12 students

with alumni working in a career field that the student was

interested in. Feedback has been good from both sides.

We have also been able to involve current students on

many occasions, for instance at the subject dinners and

the Blackstone Society dinner. These events provide

students with an opportunity to meet and network with

alumni who already have established careers. This

interaction helps foster the ‘cradle to grave’ relationship,

so important in alumni relations.

There has been an increase in alumni attending events with

nearly 700 of you making it to one of our events last year

with an amazing 210 attending the London Reception and

we hope that will continue as we try to diversify our range

and type of events. We always welcome feedback, good

and bad, as it helps us inform future strategy.

We continue to produce a monthly email newsletter

(please make sure you let us have your current email

address so that you don’t miss out), the College Record,

Pembrokian and Annual Report.

A highlight of the year for me is meeting so many of you

from such a wide range of matriculation years and hearing

tales of Pembroke past.

Juanita Hughes - Alumni Relations Manager

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As I review the past year, my first in the job, a host of

alumni events and publications make it clear why it

passed so quickly. When I came to Pembroke last

November it was my first challenge to see if I could

pull what was in existence in terms of alumni events

together and incorporate some new ideas into a more

formal strategy. In planning the year I aim continually to

tweak events to make them interesting and introduce

new locations.

From August 2008 – July 2009 we held a total of 20

events. In College we hosted four Gaudies, the Garden

Party, the Annual Meeting, a reunion dinner for 1959

alumni, Dan Prentice’s retirement dinner, the Oxford Alumni

Reunion weekend, the Blackstone Society Dinner and an

Ossulston Circle lunch for major donors. These events

allow alumni to reconnect with Pembroke and fellow

Pembrokians while the Garden Party and Reunions offer

an opportunity for alumni to bring their families and friends

into College. It is important to continue with these

traditional alumni events while holding regular events for

all age groups.

Taking Pembroke to London, we held the Annual Reception

at the Imperial War Museum, a Breakfast at the Walbrook

Club discussing the credit crunch and a Reception at

Trinity House plus an Economics and Management Dinner.

Holding events in London makes it easier for many alumni

to attend as well as offering interesting venues: many of

our events have thus become more than just a drinks

Reception. We will continue to seek out unique locations

and if any of you have access to suitable venues please let

us know. We also held a dinner in Edinburgh thus enabling

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UK Campaign Board

Julian Schild, Chairman

We now number nine members including myself, ranging in

vintage from the 1960s to the 1980s – the others are Ian

Cormack (1966), Stephen Gosztony (1981), Jeremy Hill

(1977), Beatrice Hollond (1979), Dolf Kohnhorst (1977),

Andrew Pitt (1984), Chris Rokos (1989) and Mike Wagstaff

(1980). All of us have made a financial contribution towards

the ‘quiet phase’ of the Campaign. This is important, of

course but our remit is broader. Our quarterly meetings

serve as a forum to give a ‘third-party’ view of the College’s

fund-raising activities and act as a sounding-board for the

Development Office and the project in general. Our

approach is friendly, yet independent: I hope our

involvement will give all alumni comfort that we are looking

at the project from their point of view.

The Board helps the College to re-establish contact with

Pembrokians and organises dinners and social events.

So don’t be surprised if you receive an invitation! If you are

interested in learning more about our activities, I would be

delighted to hear from you.

Email: [email protected]

Pembroke Garden Party

I am delighted to report on

the first full year of activity

for our Board in which we

held four meetings. At these

we discussed campaign

strategy, delivered our views

on rising to the challenges

of the economic climate,

produced ideas for events

and approaches to

prospective donors (several

of which we have

successfully implemented).

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Development – plenty of headroom, but getting there

Annual Fund – unprecedented success

Catherine McMillan - Deputy Development Director

academic resources

student accommodation & facilities student financial support

other projects

Annual Fund Gift Designation

Annual Fund Gift Destination

academic resources

student accommodation & facilities student financial support

unrestricted

0%

1.5%

1.5%

97%

33%

46%

13%

8%

The Annual Fund year finished on 31st July in a flurry of

last-minute giving, a fitting finale to a busy and encouraging

year; from the initial autumn mailing, through the March

student telethon to the matched giving challenge of the

last two months. More than 1,100 alumni made a gift to

Pembroke (representing 18% of those we are in touch

with), increased from 800 the previous year (which was

13%). As before we also had some contributions from

friends of the College, bringing the Annual Fund total for

the year to £523,000 (compared to £370,000 the previous

year). While overall College income rose in 2008-09, the

Annual Fund portion increased in significance from 6% to

8%. These leaps forward are not only materially useful, but

also incredibly promising as a base for the future, and an

encouragement to our major donors who are keen to see

widespread giving at all levels.

Annual Fund donations are revenue income, and as such

have been spent during 2008-09 on a range of College

activities. Thanks to 97% of donations being made on an

unrestricted basis we once again had great flexibility in

spreading them across our different needs, which this

year focused more on the academic side. (Of course

we continue to honour the wishes of those donors who

choose to allocate their gift specifically to Student Financial

Support, Academic Resources, or Student

Accommodation and Facilities.)

Academic Resources were a major focus of our spending

this year, as academic staff costs increased by £240,000

as our two new Fellows took up post and salaries and

pension contributions rose across the University. All this in

a year when student numbers and academic income did

not rise meant that Annual Fund income was vital in this

area. On Student Financial Support, the College spent

more than £70,000 last year distributing bursaries and

scholarships to undergraduate and postgraduate students

with the Annual Fund supporting this expenditure.

The Fund was also put to work on specific buildings

projects to improve further the fabric of the College, with

close to £170,000 of costs incurred in this area (see the

Home Bursar’s report for more details). Other areas where

Annual Fund monies were needed in 2008-09 featured IT,

with our resources strengthened by the addition of a new

More unprecedented success this year, thanks to an

increasing number of Pembrokians responding ever

more generously to our appeals – thank you all!

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The student grants scheme, and the Committee which

administers it (which also engages with the Development

team on a wider range of issues) have served to help raise

awareness of the importance of donations to student life.

In an era of fee-paying students presentations by the

Bursar to JCR meetings and telethon briefings all serve to

further educate on the continuing shortfall in academic

income over the costs of running a College in the way

Pembroke functions. There is no doubt that our intelligent

and enthusiastic student body are listening, and starting to

respond.

To all of our donors – first-time contributors, regular givers,

matched funders alike – very many thanks!

team member in the office, the upgrade of our link to the

University network, and the introduction of intranet facilities

for providing information to new students in advance of

their arrival. These and other projects, including the new

Annual Fund Student Grants scheme, account for the

remaining gifts.

The Annual Fund Student Grants scheme is intended

to ensure that the ‘added extras’ that make student

experiences all the more enriching can be supported by

alumni donations. Any student can put forward an

application, on the condition that the activity must involve

a group of Pembroke students (some also involve wider

University participation) who are representing the College.

Grants are decided by a joint student-Development Office

committee so that real evaluation of the success and

popularity of projects can take place. The inventiveness of

our students comes to the fore via this scheme, with new

activities coming to our attention all the time; in 2008-09:

Pembroke College Dance Club, Oxford Current Affairs

Society, Pembroke Foreign Language Society and

Agendered magazine. Existing societies have benefited

from support for special projects: the Choir CD Locus Iste,

Music Society production of Into the Woods, and Boat

Club members’ fundraising Row to London. Finally, a

grant was made to the JCR on a matched funding basis

for the purchase of new sofas, now being enjoyed by all

our undergraduates!

The student grants scheme, and the Committee which

administers it (which also engages with the Development

team on a wider range of issues) have served to help raise

awareness of the importance of donations to student life.

In an era of fee-paying students presentations by the

Bursar to JCR meetings and telethon briefings all serve to

further educate students about the continuing shortfall in

academic income over the costs of running a College in

the way Pembroke functions. There is no doubt that our

intelligent and enthusiastic student body are listening, and

starting to respond.

To all of our donors – first-time contributors, regular

givers, matched funders alike – very many thanks!

Our performance benchmarked

Pembroke is now one of 40 Colleges regularly contributing

to an Oxford-wide benchmarking study of fundraising data.

The results of the 2008-09 survey have recently been

released, and show a very encouraging picture for us.

On the ‘headline’ statistics we come out with a good

showing. Our cash income from donations, at £2,689,000,

was the 4th highest of any College. The study also

measures ‘gross new funds raised’ – this combines

pledges made with one-off cash gifts, and therefore helps

us measure our success in generating commitments to

give in subsequent years. On this measure Pembroke

raised £4,179,000 – the 3rd highest of any College.

On large gifts, we not only topped the table of number of

pledges for £250,000 or more with 5, but also placed joint

3rd on gifts and pledges of £25,000 or more with 18.

On smaller gifts, our Annual Fund income of £523,000

has placed us 5th, and our 186 online gifts far and away

surpassed any other performance (with one College on

136 and the rest all fewer than 100).

Alumni participation (the proportion making a gift to the

College) is now above average at Pembroke (18% against

a mean of 14%), but despite our recent increases on this

front our placing is 7th so we still have some work to do

chasing the College with 32% at the top of the table!

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Donors to Pembroke 2008/09

We offer our sincerest thanks to all alumni and friends who have made gifts to the College during the past financialyear. We are also pleased to list this year the members of our Ossulston Circle of major donors to the College (seebelow). In addition we continue to be grateful to those who have made a legacy commitment to Pembroke. The Tesdale Society membership list is on page 31.

Mr Jon Aisbitt (1975)H.E. Mohammad M Al TajirMr Gordon Aldrick (1956)Mr David R G Andrews (1953)Mr Neil D Arnold (1966)Lady Margaret ArthurSir Philip Bailhache (1964)Mr Michael E Beaumont (1953)Mr Phil K Bentley (1977)H.R.H. Prince Bandar bin SultanMr Michael Borkan (1980)Mr Wolter R J M Brenninkmeijer (1987)Mr Roderick A D Burgess (1973)Mr Andrew R F Buxton (1959)Mr Andrew J Carruthers (1969)Mr Ian Cormack (1966)Mr Michael CrystalMr James D Davidson (1976)Mr Roger A Davis (1974)Mr Richard J de Ste Croix (1966)Mr Peter J Farthing (1968)Mr David Fell (1972)Mr Humphrey C Gentilli (1948)Mr Tony D G George (1965)Mr Ronald GerardMr J B Gilchrist (1951)Mr Stephen Gosztony (1981)Mr John Govett (1962)Mr Andrew Graham (1969)Mr Michael J Hall (1971)The Rt Hon the Lord Heseltine (1951)Dr James M Hester (1947)

Mr Jeremy G Hill (1977)Dr Stanley HoMr Keith Howick (1972)The Hon Dr Jonathan P H Hunt (1965)Mr G S HuttonMr Hugh F Ibbotson (1958)Mr Mark R Joelson (1961)Dr Thomas S Kaplan (1982)Mr N A KirdarMr Dolf Kohnhorst (1977)Professor Graham Layer (1971)Mr Anthony LeeMr Michael K H LeungMr G Wade LewisSenator Richard G Lugar (1954)Mr and Mrs A C C MaMrs Carol MaloneMr A Graham McCallum (1944)Mr David S Mitchell (1958)Mr A P Mobbs (1959)Mr Paul N Monk (1968)The Rt Hon Lord Justice Mummery (1959)Ms Kirkland C Newman (1990)Mr Nigel NewtonMs Michelle Peluso (1993)Mr Patrick Pichette (1987)Mrs Tamar L Pichette (1986)Mr Andrew Pitt (1984)Mr and Mrs Bun PoonMr Kent D M Price (1967)Mr David C M Prichard (1952)Mr Robert E Rhodes (1963)Mr Nicholas J A Rigg (1977)

Mr Christopher C Rokos (1989)Mr David J RowlandHis Honour Judge Russell (1970)Mr Simon L Sackman (1969)Mr Abdullah SalehMr Hector and Mrs Caroline SantsMr William and Mrs Judith McCartin ScheideMr Julian D Schild (1977)Mr Conrad Seagroatt (1958)Mrs Helen SmithDr Tom Solis (1960)Mrs Paula Spanier-MichtomDr David Speller (1954)Mr A F Stirratt (1954)Mr David E Tagg (1959)Ms Makiko TanakaMr Martyn G Taylor (1956)Mr Brian TaylorMr Revan A F Tranter (1954)Mr Michael J Wagstaff (1980)Mrs Hilary M Wagstaff (1981)Mr K G Walker (1942)Mr John L Walker-Haworth (1963)Dr Damon Wells (1961)Mr Graham White, for Slaughter and MayMr Dick Williamson (1952)Mr Brian Wilson (1948)Mr Francis E B Witts (1960)Mr David H T YuMr Antony J Zacaroli (1982)Mr Saul ZaentzMr Zain Azahari bin Zainal Abidin

Members of the Ossulston Circle

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1935Mr H John S Beazley

1937The Revd. Boris Anderson

1938Mr John A KayThe Revd. Prebendary Leighton Thomson

1939Mr Basil Garland

1941Mr Derek CharmanCanon Victor J CollasDr Tony Leatherdale (Deceased)

1942Mr Ken G Walker

1943Mr Sandy J CameronMr F John Whitworth

1944Mr Maurice Nadin

1945Mr Tony PriceMr Peter W Thacker

1946Mr Desmond J Collins-TaylorMr Michael GodleyMr John E PeckhamDr Charles SwithinbankMr Howard WebberCanon Michael M Wolfe

1947Dr James M HesterMr Bob Tanner

1948Professor Geoffrey W S BarrowMr John G BowenMr Dick J DrysdaleMr Tom EverettMr Kenneth G GarrodMr Henry S HarrisMr Ken G PlantMr Peter Ungoed-ThomasDr Edmond L WrightAnonymous Donor

1949Mr Andre C BresleySir Robert C ClarkeMr Richard G DeebleMr J Alan GarnerMr Philip C U JaggerMr Colin R Smailes

1950Mr Dennis BuchananProfessor Alan Deyermond (Dec’d)His Honour Judge Michael GibbonMr Ian H HintonDr Donald H NiblettThe Reverend David A PerkinMr Preston C H M PrichardLord Richard of AmmanfordThe Reverend Patrick M Ryley

1951Mr Joe B GilchristMr Donald H GillisThe Rt Hon the Lord HeseltineMr George B InglisMr Ian R P JosephsMr Derek LathamDr N Hugh M McKinneyMr Bill G PotterDr Miles A RucklidgeMr Gerald F SmithMr Peter StokoeDr Ian M SunderlandProfessor Michael P TombsMr Harry S Wilson

1952Mr Colin G AdlamMr John E BarlowMr James H BrattonMr Micky Burton-BrownThe Rt Hon. the Lord CarswellThe Reverend Thomas J CurtisProfessor Derek R DiamondMr Laurence EdwardsMr Donald GordonMr Roger HowellsMr Kenneth A IvesMr David F JeayesMr Duncan A R KellyMr Paddy NolanMr T S R Ron ParkinDr John PetherMr David C M PrichardMr Brian Rees (Deceased)Mr Dudley ReevesMr Dick C StopfordMr Dick Williamson

1953Mr David R G AndrewsMr Michael E BeaumontMr Brian BevanReverend Monsignor Bryan ChestleMr Oliver G E DicksonMr Peter C HarbidgeMr Terence HughesMr Ronald G LimbrickMr Stanley G MetcalfeMr S Robin MillsMr Michael J ParkinsonSir Leonard & Lady Doreen PeachMr Graham RobertsonMr Robert SideMr Michael D StottMr John TaskesDr Colin S Wiggins

1954Mr David ArnoldDr Alan W BellringerMr Brian P BissellMr Richard V CovillMr Luis De AzcarateMr Alec GordonMr Nicholas J GranthamMr Martin HenryMr Peter LettsSenator Richard G LugarMr Trevor W MessengerMr John MetcalfMr Steve ShipleyMr Bryan SparrowDr David SpellerMr Tony F StirrattMr George SummerfieldMr Peter SummerfieldMr Revan A F Tranter

1955Professor Robert C BannisterMr Martin R C BatesMr Bob BlowDr Harry W BrammaMr A Knighton ButterworthMr William J CappsMr Peter H CollinMr M Julian CrispinMr Martin DiamondProfessor Peter R GlazebrookMr Alan C GrantMr Geoffrey M HarbridgeMr George HoskinMr David W LilleyMr Ronald J Lorimer

1955 continued

Mr John H LyonMr Norman J ShurrockMr John H SmithProfessor Richard R K SorabjiMr Rex P D van Rossum

1956Mr Gordon AldrickMr Chris R BeswickDr M R BowmanMr Geoffrey CrookesMr Gordon DickinsonMr Glyn B JarrettCanon Michael M H MooreMr Philip J RevillMr Arnold F TaylorMr Geoffrey TaylorMr Richard ThompsonMr Jeremy Wall

1957Mr Roger G AdamsThe Reverend David J BartlettMr Martyn BerryMr R J Terry BrownThe Reverend M T CooperMr Ian A C CuthillColonel David W EkingThe Reverend Martin R FrancisMr Peter B GroseMr David W HeathProfessor Paul KellyMr David LanchDr George P LilleyMr Roger W MoiseyProfessor Geoffrey RaismanMr Kenneth Wills

1958The Rt Hon Lord AbernethyMr G C BaughMr Patrick L CoulsonDr John M CruickshankMr Tony A DavisMr Tony J DenyerMr Miles DoddMr Gary D FlatherDr A E ForestSir Graham HartMr Hugh F IbbotsonMr Robert J IngMr David JagoThe Reverend Alistair G CMcGregorMr David S MitchellMr Mike Picardie

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1966 continued

Mr Ian D TinsleyDr John Withrington

1967Captain Michael K BarrittMr John E DixonMr David J DuffillMr Michael A FlanaganMr Daniel N FreudenbergerMr David C HasteMr Martin R HeddyMr William F M HorsleyAmbassador Philip LaderMr Edward Lee-SmithMr Robert S LuetchfordDr Ian D McGowanMr James McLavertyMr Peter NicollMr David RikertMr Ian D A RussellMr John R SkeelsMr Theo SteelDr Michael ThompsonMr Mike I WoodsAnonymous Donor

1968Mr Reg D BeaumontMr Douglas B DaleMr Charles P DodsonMr Dick FlemingMr David JeffcoatMr Michael LloydMr Vaughn MalcolmMr Adam W E PeatMr John E Pinsent

1969Mr Christopher BondMr Roger BoningDr Richard M CarrMr Andrew J CarruthersMr J Roger ChapmanDr Richard ClementsMr Trevor CookeMr Michael J DenhamDr John R A DuckworthMr Andrew GrahamDr Maurice P HeadonDr R Robin JacksonProfessor Adam T JonesMr Richard J M MellorProfessor Alan A PatersonThe Hon Michael A PonsorMr David StockdaleMr Laurent L StokvisMr Ian J WellsMr David J WilliamsMr Peter WilliamsonMr James R YoungAnonymous Donor

1958 continued

Mr Brian SaperiaMr Conrad SeagroattMr Michael C C SkinnerMr John R C WalkerMr Nigel WickensMr Bryan D Winkett

1959The Revd. Richard J BradnumDr Richard M BulkeleyMr Andrew R F BuxtonMr Michael CarltonMr David A CookMr Doug EdmondsMr John R EllisMr Gordon H HarringtonMr Patrick HarringtonThe Reverend David F HayProfessor Peter HerriotProfessor Derek P JewellMr D W JonesMr David McAvoyMr Edgar L McGinnisThe Rt Hon Lord Justice MummeryMr Derek V OakleyMr Lester O'SheaProfessor Lionel J PikeMr Jon PullingerDr G Malcolm SeddonMr David R G ShayerMr Bill J C WebsterMr Charles WoodMr G Tony Yablon

1960Mr Nigel BeevorDr Nigel C G CampbellMr Malcolm G ChaseMr Colin G E ClarkMr Neil CohenDr Oliver T P K DickinsonMr Anthony ElmanProfessor Bruce FetterMr Dirk O FitzHughMr W Erwin Fuller Jr.Mr Ken KermanLord John O KerrCanon David C KirkwoodMr R F LemanProfessor Chris LewisDr Christopher J ManningThe Revd. Canon John B NightingaleMr William D ShardlowMr Bill A VincentDr Bruce WakefieldMr Francis E B Witts

1961Dr Antony R AthertonMr Martin E BloggProfessor Graham Good

1964Mr Roy K AlderSir Philip BailhacheMr Gordon J BeeverMr Robin A R CarrMr Richard A CoxSir Robert W K CrawfordMr Richard A GrahamMr John A HamerMr Andrew G HutchisonMr Mark Kemp-GeeDr Adrian E LeekMr Simon K NewmanThe Reverend Alan PayneMr Alan O SmithMr Malcolm B Wright

1965Professor Philip S AlexanderMr Richard M AndrewsMr Stephen C BellMr Peter BurgeMr Paul E ChantryThe Reverend John P H ClarkeMr Andrew DickensDr Christopher C FordMr Michael GardnerMr John F HamiltonMr John E HavardThe Hon Dr Jonathan P H HuntThe Reverend Dr Paul KellyThe Reverend Stuart N LeamyColonel Alistair G G MillerMr Thomas J S PattersonMr T Howard RedfernDr Julian R SternbergProfessor James G TurnerDr Keith Vaughton

1966Mr Neil D ArnoldMr Michael Briggs [Deceased]Mr Desmond R BurtonDr Martin CaseyMr Ian CormackMr David E FarisMr Derek J FellMr Ian R FergusonMr Giles GostwickHis Honour Judge Andrew GoymerDr Jeffrey GrahamMr John M GrangerDr Christopher J HigleyProfessor John C HirshMr John D IrelandDr Peter D JohnstonMr John D KennardHis Honour Judge P Kim M LongleyMr Richard W MonkDr Michael SilverbergProfessor Geoff R SquireDr Mark R Stanley-Price

1961continued

Mr Mark R JoelsonMr Robert G M JohnstonMr Robert M LyonsMr Kenneth J MacKenzieThe Reverend David J NashMr Robert D A PickDr Michael Pinto-DuschinskyMr Norman D VaughtonDr Damon WellsAnonymous DonorAnonymous Donor

1962Dr Dugald R BairdMr Martyn M BakerMr Keith BamberMr John L BarlowMr Michael J BeckleyProfessor Bernard S CappColonel Michael DewarMr David F EvansProfessor Robert L FelixProfessor Norman M GerasMr John GovettProfessor Robert J JacksonMr Peter D LovejoyMr Martin MonkMr Marcus NelsonMr Barry D RomerilMr Geoffrey ShepherdMr David ShiptonFather Liam TallonMr Humphrey Walker

1963Professor Sir George BainProfessor Joshua BamfieldMr Stephen BattenMr Peter R BeardDr Jeff G BissendenProfessor S Dennis CashmanDr Peter ChamberlainMr Martin F V CorleyMr Roy G C DamaryMr Paul A DillinghamDr Angus C L FraserMr Roy D HogarthDr Nigel T JamesMr Christopher KerrLord John R KrebsMr John F LeggLieutenant Colonel Tym A MarshMr Paul W NorrisMr Adrian ReadMr Peter J StevensonDr Jim M ThomsonMr Tom TickellMr David J Twigge-MoleceyMr John Van den BoschMr A D WalkerDr Richard H Wilkinson

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1970Professor Joseph V BannisterMr Alan P BennellMr David CarneyMr Clive L A EdgintonMr Robert D FarquharsonMr Simon H FrostDr N A GreavesMr John HarrisonMr Tony HodgsonThe Revd. Timothy D JenkinsDr David MinterMr Rhodri Price LewisMr Michael J RappsMr Nicholas A Smith

1971Mr Martin CarrProfessor Hugh G CollinsMr Graham D C CoombsMr Jonathan D DaviesMr David J DunstanMr John EnnisMr Michael J HallMr Tom HermanMr Malcolm KitchenMr Neil J B LairdMr William MaddockMr David J OsborneMr John D PatmoreMr Kenneth I PaulMr Geoff PeattieMr Richard Rees-JonesProfessor Rob SmithHis Honour Judge

Christopher J VosperRevd. Professor Thomas WatkinProfessor Peter A Wright

1972Dr Michael BarlowProfessor Alan E BoyleMr Mark A T DeightonMr David and Mrs Priscilla FellMr Nicholas H GreenMr Mark Herbert-SmithMr Jeremy D HicksReverend Richard C B JonesDr John J Langham-BrownMr Steven LeighMr Charles J MooreMr Patrick J PalmerDr Peter R ScottDr Graham SimpsonMr Richard F SuggettMr Peter TuckerDr Mark A VincentHis Honour Judge

Bernard WallworkMr Neville J J WatkinsMr Neil Zoladkiewicz

1973Mr Fergus J AnstockMr Roderick A D BurgessDr Christopher M DennisDr Donald DugganMr Mark P FairweatherMr Randal ffrenchProfessor John B HattendorfMr Jonathan D HulmeMr Charles F MacKinnonDr P George PaigeMr Nicholas J R SayersMr Andrew M ToleyDr and Mrs Peter WestDr Michael P WilliamsMr David M WilliamsDr Ross C Worthington

1974Mr Stephen BamberMr Paul BunnageProfessor John D CharmleyMr Greg ChoyceMr Timothy EvansMr David M GordonMr Roger HampsonMr Michael G HockenMr Walter S IsaacsonMr Nigel G W RichardsMr Simon RichardsProfessor David S RosettensteinMr Kim TaylorMr Nicholas TungattMr Martin R WilliamsMr Max WilsonMr Jonathan B Youdan

1975Mr James D AgateMr Mark AnnesleyMr Keith BoothMr John M BrandowMr Mike A CollinsDr David FletcherMr Andrew M GallowayMr Hywel W GriffithsMr Robin M HobbsMr Steve K HouldingMr Ian IrvineMr Nigel JacksonMr Nicholas C KingslandMr Andrew S LewisMr Anthony A LipmannMr Richard J McCarthyMr Ioannis PetrakakisMr Timothy PooleThe Revd. Adam J A RomanisDr Stephen L RotheraMr Joseph M SchwartzMr Mark P YeadonAnonymous Donor

1976Mr Paul ArcherMr Jon R BatsonMr William BrundageSir Ian BurnettMr Paul GerrardMr Paul HasseMr John F T KingMr Mark E MagowanMr Guy MichelmoreMr David G ParryMr Charlie A ParsonsMr Michael PhoenixMr Graham PinkDr Ted L RoseMr Paul C F ShinnieMr Percival StanionMr Steve J WatsonMr Philip H WeaverMr Richard V L Wilkins

1977Mr Ian W BakewellMr John S BatesMr Phil K BentleyMr Andrew C DevenportMr Hugh DuncanThe Reverend Ross GarnerMr Edgar C GentleThe Reverend Mr Jerry D GilpinMr Keith GoldsmithMr Peter C HaywardMr Jeremy G HillMr Cormac LloydDr David LoveMr David P C McLaughlinMr Andrew MorrisMr Simon W QuinMr David R ReesMr David RobertsMr Andrew K RosenheimMr Julian D SchildMr John L SniderMr Phillip A SteeleMr David ThompsonMr Mark TomlinsonDr John WoodhouseAnonymous Donor

1978Dr Peter J AnsellMr William AveryMr Timothy A CockittMr Peter T FraserMr Julian F HandDr Alan HowlingMr Paul E LakeMr Philip D MoorDr Steven R MoxeyMr Simon F PerryMr Andrew TaborMr Chris Young

1978 continued

Anonymous DonorAnonymous DonorAnonymous Donor

1979Reverend Tony C BushellMs Jean CollierMr Geraint J DaviesMr Richard J EcclesMr Glenn A FineMr Tim GilchristMrs Beatrice HollondMrs Caroline HorobinMrs Susan HowesMr David S MayMrs Catherine L Owen EdmundsMrs Mo PercivalMiss Maxine PhillipsDr Susan Tonkin de VriesDr Peter WarnerMr Jon WatsonMrs Sue WebberMrs Jane L WillAnonymous Donor

1980Mr Tony AllenMr Cal BaileyMr Paul T BaxterMr Robin W CaleyMr Vernon ClarkeMr Douglas R CoxDr Paul GellertMs Deborah A HowardDr Melanie J IsherwoodMr Mike JervisProfessor Alan JonesMr Andrew A JowettMr Robert A LongMiss Ursula MacFarlaneMr Charles G McAndrewDr Andy MitchelsonMr Mark A PriestleyMr Michael WagstaffMrs Susan C Watson

1981Ms Caroline A BarkerMrs Gill A CoatesDr Mark FrickerMr Richard A FunnellMr Stephen GosztonyMr John M GurminMr Simon and Mrs Zillah HowardMr Paul D F JohnstonMs Lyndsey J MarriottDr Alastair W MassieMr Simon C MillsMr Julian OlszowkaMr Jonathan PoirretteMr Peter RapleyMr Peter Robson

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1990Ms Catherine E BhartMr Stephen R BoothMr Patrick W BoyleDr Peter BustonDr Peter BustonMr John CondliffeMr Brian D CorderyMrs Sarah D CrowdyMr Ronan J DalyMrs Clare M DonnisonMs Juliet DowsettMs Lucy C F FindlayMrs Claire L FodenMr James C F HanhamDr Sam J JonesMiss Sian C KeallMr Eric LonerganDr Benjamin MurphyMs Kirkland C NewmanMr William J PriceMr Matthew ShawMs Jennifer R SomervilleAnonymous DonorAnonymous Donor

1991Professor John H ArmourMs Catherine McKenna M BarrettMrs Sanya BohlesMr Malcolm J T CrabbeMr David ForestMr Stephen HeifetzMr Robert M JardineMiss Tina M KelleherDr Katie E LacyDr Andrea NemethDr Niall O'DonnellMr Martin S J PayneDr Wolter H RoseMiss Nicola ShawDr David C H Snowling

1992Mrs Samantha BamertMiss Corinne BergMr Hugh A CampbellMiss Alexandra CritchleyMr Mark DoughtyMr Paul M FernandezProfessor Nobutaka FukudaMr Peter and Mrs Clare HadenMrs Kelly Hagan JenningsMr Alistair S JacksonMiss Nicola A LumbMr Kieran McCaldinMr Andrew J MorrisMr Roland G MumfordMr Anthony T PatmanMr Bradley PeacockMr Guy SeegerMiss Hannah C WalkerMr Anthony R WilsonAnonymous Donor

1981 continued

Mrs Susan J RutherfordMrs Bryony SoperBrigadier A J Sandy StorrieMr Duncan R TincelloMrs Hilary WagstaffAnonymous Donor

1982Mr Robert CottinghamMr Shamik K DharMrs Sarah F DickinsonMs Helena DjurkovicMr Mark EnzerMr Edmund GlinieckiMrs Julia L HarringtonMr Paul HarveyDr Jason HeppleMrs Carol J HopperHis Majesty

King Abdullah II Ibn Al HusseinMs Nicola KirkupMrs Lyn E MorganDr Joanne PhilpotMr Nicholas J PinkertonMrs Kathrin L PoirretteMr Tony QuinnMr Robert ReesMrs Susan E RowettMr Fraser A SkirrowMrs Terry M Slesinski-WykowskiMr Christopher R SmithMr D Mark StobbsMiss Caroline D WagstaffMr Robin WebbMiss Alison WhitneyMr Antony J ZacaroliAnonymous Donor

1983Mr Jonathan AtackMrs Tiffany R R BrunskillDr Mary E FaldonMr M K GibbonsMs Tazeen Hasan-GranierMr Donald JacksonMr Chris and Mrs Jean MackMrs Rosalind E McKeeMr Neil M PrattMr Jonathan R E PrynnDr Robert A ScoffinMr Radek SikorskiDr Jennifer C SmithMrs Elizabeth WieserDr Andrew Winter

1984Mr Martin AdkinsThe Hon Charles Gibson and

Ms Tanya BeckettMrs Siobhan E CookeMs Rachel M ElliottMs Annabel J Eyres

1987Ms Vivienne E ArtzMrs Elisa BeynonMr Wolter R J M BrenninkmeijerMr Townley ChisholmMr Roger L EatwellMrs Caroline J FindlayMrs Jane Finlayson-BrownMiss Fiona HerronMr Richard J Hopkinson-WoolleyMr Gregory I M HumeMs Sarah L KaneMr Paul W LudwigProfessor M W MillerMr John MolloyMr Simon PalethorpeMr Patrick PichetteMrs Carol A ReesMr Elliott SchuchardtMr Derek G YoungMr Mohammed I Zakiuddin

1988Mr Peter M B CahusacMr Duncan CrowdyMr Edward G FrancisMr Ian J GreenDr Frederica C E Law-TurnerMrs Catherine M LayDr Donald D LeitchMiss Tamsin LewisMr Ian McAllister-NevinsProfessor Lee MillerMs Rachel J MorganMrs Jill MyrickMr Wei Ming ShaoMr Robert L SterlingAnonymous Donor

1989Mr Richard BatyMr Ross BerridgeDr David BiroMr David W BrownMr Kevin CovertMiss Jane DurneyMr Martin GeddesDr Elisabeth C KendallMiss Helen KingMr Daniel N KnowlesMs Lara LilleyMr Peter J L Lloyd JenkinsMr David B LunnMs Liz MottershawMiss Caroline T NorrisMr Daniel R NotherMr Richard H PayneMr David R ReganMr Christopher C RokosMr Mark J RussellMr Jonathan SummersMr Richard TeatherDr Theodore M Wong

1984 continued

Mr Stephen P HanksMr Robert and Mrs GailHaythorneMr Bernard M HowardMr David P LeeMiss Eleanor McCulloughMr Andrew PittDr Alison PorterMrs Libby T PrattMr Robert RydonMr Simon and Mrs Isobel SmalesMr Rod S SmithDr David A SperryMr Iain WestAnonymous Donor

1985Mr James AndersonMiss Marie C Bradley DelsoMiss Magdalen M C CaseDr James W DallingMr Mike DooleyMrs Ruth DooleyMr Pietrojan GilardiniDr David W GollinsMr Manuel GonzalezMr David L J McCaffertyDr Maurizio RagazziMr Paul RewMr Richard P SimpsonMr Mark P S StablesMiss Sarah M WilsonProfessor Akinori YoshimiAnonymous Donor

1986Mr Andrew AllenMrs Alisa L BurkeMr Gordon J BuxtonMs Emma E CaseleyMr Julian ChaseMr Michael P ColemanMs Mary CreaghMr Hugh and Mrs Claire DaviesDr Melanie Dymond HarperMr Richard K GilkesMiss Beatrice HealesMr Christopher HilditchMrs Angela E JohnsonDr Nicholas LakinMrs Emily K J MartinMrs Sue MortimerMr Chris O'GormanMrs Tamar L PichetteMr Roger G W PriceMr Ravi X SampantharMr James SouthgateMr Peter F ToucheMr Timothy L Waters

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1993Mr Karim AyoubiDr Edward BamptonMrs Georgina CurshamMrs Harriet ElliottMs Sarah-Jane GabayMr Vinay B GangaMrs Catherine HallMr Julian D HomerstoneMiss Tanya LayMiss Maia K LinaskMr Rajan MarwahaMs Michelle PelusoMr Ryan PorterMr James TarryMiss Catherine WanlessMr Nicholas WintherMr Stephen WottonAnonymous Donor

1994Dr Daniel C AnlezarkMr David AnthonyMr John BoumphreyMr Albert ChanMr Martin G CommonsDr Marianne C CunningtonMr James R DickinsonMr James EdmundsMr Sean FaheyDr Ian GaddDr Laurence F. F JindraMr Aruna and Mrs ClaireKarunathilakeMr Michael KvasnickaMr Chris LlewellynDr Barnaby MarshMiss Patricia McDonaldMr Sebastian P MonkMr Piers N OuvaroffMr Alistair J D PaskMr Mark PaskinsMrs Catherine PerryMs Christina SolisMrs Georgina TuttyMrs Katie WallaceMr James P W WalsheMr Richard M B Waterworth

1995Mr Tom and Mrs Carina BauerMr David G BrickellMs Angela ColthorpeMr Alexander T W CrasterMr Bader A M El-JeaanMr Jonathan H EmeryDr Ed HawkinsDr Eric Y HuangMs Liane KatzMiss Julia MakraMrs Jane PorterMr Peter Szczensny

1996Mr George Aitken-DaviesMs Laura J AlberyMs Rebecca S CollieMr Alex C DabbousMiss Claire Green-WilkinsonMrs Alexandra K KimMr Philippe LévêqueMs Leah M PartchMs Kirsty PenkmanMr Peter A SeymourMs Megan L ThompsonMr Chris S WinterMr James N Wiseman-Clarke

1997Miss Elizabeth BakerMr Guy V BlackburnMs Jaynanne C Calaway-HabeckMr Richard J CookeMr John HallMiss Clare H LlewellynMr Nick MasonMrs Lucy A MillerMr Edward P F Norris-CervettoMr Chris T R SalmonMs Andrea M SchoorMr Jonathan & Mrs Marie StevensMr Greg VartoukianDr Courtney VoelkerMr Jake W WetherallDr Richard M WhiteleyMs Jacqueline Yap

1998Miss Rebecca AdamsMr Tim AndrewsMr Joshua BraymanMr Andrew CornickMr Andrew R M CrankMr Ben J CrystalMr Samuel J N EnochMiss Natasha GrahamMr Ian GrahamMr David J GrittenDr Dani HallMiss Catherine L HeyesMr Aurelien JollyMr Phillip D JonesDr Charles E KiamieMiss Anna L KrzyzanowskaMiss Daire C MagillMr Sanjit S MakerMr Eric ReinholtMiss Emma N RosvallMiss H Honeysuckle S WeeksDr Jack J WuAnonymous Donor

1999Ms Georgina M BrewisMr Matthew J Clayton-SteadMr Edmund Conway

1999 continued

Mr Richard H DisleyMr Nicholas M EdelmanMr Huw EdwardsMiss Angelina M GrassMr William GriffithsMr Robin HoughMr Sameer JagetiaMiss Elise M KinnearMr Andrew W LeylandMr Neil MahapatraMiss Alexandra B M McRaeMr Gregory NealeMiss Sumathi PathmanabanMiss Natasha PilidesMr Richard J PinckneyMr Matthew W PowellMr Benjamin W RitchieMr Christopher D RossMr Mark SayerDr David J H ShipwayMr Iain SmithMiss Zoe Tite

2000Miss Olga C AroniadisMr Jeremy Bartosiak-JentysMr Jonathan ButcherDr Barbara M ChubakMr Tobias CoeMr Bicrom A DasLieutenant Bradley DavisMr Lewis EdwardsMs Elizabeth A FigueiraMr Ben GrahamMiss Sarah B HumphreyDr Susan F JamesMr David J JohnsMr Ben W LewisDr Elizabeth R Macaulay-LewisMr Karim MattarMr Marc MezvinskyMr Peter NortvedMr Gareth Parker-JonesMiss Bryony C PoynorMr Markus L RasswallnerMr Guy J RogersMr Kelhem and Mrs Laura SalterMiss Claire F SmithMr Daniel S P TanMr Manoj P TulsianiMr Robin C WoodsAnonymous Donor

2001Mr Chris BensonMr Benjamin J BuryMs Christina M CatalanoMiss Emma J GrahamMr Ciarán HayesMr Adam W HunterDr Sarah J Hyde

2001 continued

Mr Vincent IndelicatoMs Ingrid Y LiMs Zarina ParpiaMr Grzegorz PutkaMrs Lucy V RojanskyMr Jimmy D SamartzisMiss Priscilla W SiuMiss Elizabeth StarkDr Christopher G WatkinsMr Oliver WiseAnonymous Donor

2002Mrs Claire L Clayton-SteadDr Jonathan M FennellMr Dominic A R HammondMr Young KimMr Evan and Mrs Jamie LabuzettaMiss Caroline C Murray-LyonMr Paul S RamsayMr Farzad SaadatMiss Hannah V SleeMr Andrew M SmithMr Michael A Tonelli

2003Miss Kate AdlingtonMiss Katherine CaldwellMr Joshua A DilkMr James A GilliesMiss Laura GordonMr Philip L HowardMr Zachary A KolkinMr Ronan J O'KellyMiss Charlotte PattulloMr Rick SangheraMr Manish SharmaMr William H L StebbingMr Amit K SumanDr Gregory E TasianMs Rachel Trocchio

2004Mr Andrew S FreedmanMr Emmanuel B GrenaderMr Matthew I HaarMr Paul H HindsMiss Alexandra D JenkinsMr Neil J MarchandMr Stephen A MillsMr Edward MitchellMr Alex M SolomonMr Eric SumbergMr John Walmsley

2005Mr Alan M BensonMr Peter P M ButtigiegMiss Alice E W HillMr Stuart R F KingMr Jonathan LazarowMr Edward A A MorganMr John Trainor

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Mrs Margaret BanksMr and Mrs David J BarrattDr Steven J BellinMr Robin BraceyDr V S ButtMr John E ChurchMr Michael CrystalDr Ariel EzrachiMr Edward FormstoneMr D S and Mrs L H FranklinMs Sara FrightProfessor Douglas GrayMr M J HarrisProfessor Arthur D HazlewoodMr Giles & Mrs Lynne HendersonMr and Mrs Bruce HoltomMr Miles and Mrs E K HulmeDr Martha KleinDr Grant De J. LeeMiss Catherine McMillanMrs Kam MilesMr Philip A MillarMr Thomas MillestReverend Professor Colin MorrisProfessor Daisuke NagashimaDr R OliverMr Jeremy PrescottMrs S ReesMrs J RichmondMr Abdullah Saleh

Legacy GiftsMrs Anne Latham (Deceased)Mr John Stobbs (Deceased)Mr James Wright (Deceased)

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2006Mr Michael F BolosMr Marc A BouffardMiss Megan L ChangMr John P CoombeMr Ari FreisingerMiss Megan B KiernanMr Thomas L RickettsMr Dean J RodriguesMr Jonathan E RossMs Nadya V ThormanAnonymous Donor

2007Mr Nicholas J M LloydAnonymous Donor

OrganisationsBregal Investments LLPHelen Roll CharityHorizon FoundationSoros FoundationSlaughter and MayTanaka Memorial Foundation

Mr Hector & Mrs Caroline SantsMrs D SenMr Andrew SetonMr Phillip SorensenMrs Paula Spanier-MichtomThe Reverend Dr Andrew TealDr and Mrs D WalmsleyMrs Barbara White (Deceased)Dr Gordon H WhithamDr Rebecca A WilliamsMr Ivor WilliamsMr and Mrs Robert WoodsMr David H T YuAnonymous DonorAnonymous DonorAnonymous DonorAnonymous DonorSundry In memoriam gifts

Legacy Gifts and Organisations

Fellows, Parents and Friends of Pembroke

Alumni of Pembroke

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Members of the Tesdale Society

The Rt Hon Lord Abernethy (1958)Mr Gordon Aldrick (1956)The Reverend Boris Anderson (1937)Mr Michael Andrews (1948)Mr Jeremy Baker (1961)Mr Martyn M Baker (1962)Mr John E Barlow (1952)Mr J L Barlow (1962)Captain Michael K Barritt (1967)Professor Geoffrey W S Barrow (1948)Mr Peter R Batchelor (1949)Mr Michael E Beaumont (1953)Mr Nigel Beevor (1960)Mr Peter C D Bell (1950)Mr Lewis Bernstein (1947)Mr Brian Bevan (1953)Mr Brian P Bissell (1954)Dr H W Bramma (1955)Mr James H Bratton (1952)Mrs Emma Brining (1987)Mr Roderick A D Burgess (1973)Mr Brian F Burns (1960)Mr M J Burr (1971)Mr Desmond R Burton (1966)Mr Graham F Butler (1952)Mr Brian F Cairns (1949)Mr T Andrew CalvertMr Michael Carlton (1959)Mr Paul D Castle (1965)Mr J Roger Chapman (1969)Mr Derek Charman (1941)Sir Robert C Clarke (1949)The Reverend S L Clayton (1958)Mrs Gill A Coates (1981)Dr Arnold Cohen (1944)The Reverend M T Cooper (1957)Mr David Cope-Thompson (1958)Mr Ian Cormack (1966)Mr Christopher Craig (1959)Mr M J Crispin (1955)Mr Geoffrey Crookes (1956)Mr Jim Dalton (1963)Mr Richard G Deeble (1949)Professor Derek R Diamond (1952)Mr John E Dixon (1967)Mr Miles Dodd (1958)Dr R Paul Ellis (1952)Mr Peter J Farthing (1968)Mr John A Fell (1948)Mr David Fell (1972)Professor Bruce Fetter (1960)Mr Mark Fidler (1980)Mr Rodney FitzGerald (1942)Mr Gary D Flather (1958)Mr Jeremy J Forty (1951)The Reverend Martin R Francis (1957)Mr Simon H Frost (1970)Mr B Garland (1939)

Mr K G Garrod (1948)Mr Jeremy E G Gentilli (1945)Mr D J P Padraic Gilmore (1951)Mr Michael Godley (1946)Councillor Philip Goldenberg (1964)Mr Manuel Gonzalez (1985)Professor Graham Good (1961)Mr John Govett (1962)Professor I P GrantMr Nicholas J Grantham (1954)Dr Nicholas J Griffin (1992)Mr Michael J Hall (1971)Mr H S Harris (1948)Mrs Nicola P M Harrison (1981)Mr Peter G Harrison (1949)Mr David S Hawkins (1954)Dr Colin M HaydonMr Dick A Hayes (1957)Mr Peter C Hayward (1977)Professor Arthur D HazlewoodMr Martin Henry (1954)Mr Mark Herbert-Smith (1972)Mr C Nicholas Hill (1966)Mr Geoffrey Hoffman (1958)Mr J B Holland (1946)Mr Gos Home (1954)Professor A A Hughes (1959)Mrs Doris HyndsonMr Hugh F Ibbotson (1958)Mr Philip C U Jagger (1949)Dr N T James (1963)Mr Tony Jasper (1963)Mr David F Jeayes (1952)Mr A Peter Johnson (1965)The Revd. Richard C B Jones (1972)Mr D E P Jones (1944)Mr Duncan A R Kelly (1952)Dr John D C Kelly (1948)Mr Michael J Kill (1971)Ambassador Philip Lader (1967)Mr David Lanch (1957)Professor Graham Layer (1971)Dr Grant De J. LeeMr R F Leman (1960)Dr G M Gordon Lewis (1942)Mr D W Lilley (1955)Mr Ronald G Limbrick (1953)Mr R J Lorimer (1955)Mr Hugh Lunghi (1939)Mr Christopher J Lusby Taylor (1968)Mr Kenneth J MacKenzie (1961)Mr David P R MacKilligin (1958)Dr Howard Maskill (1961)Mr A Graham McCallum (1944)Mr Edgar L McGinnis (1959)Dr N H M McKinney (1951)Mr Stanley G Metcalfe (1953)Mr David S Mitchell (1958)Mr A P Mobbs (1959)Canon M M H Moore (1956)

Mr Michael Murphy (1956)Mr Maurice Nadin (1944)Mr Marcus Nelson (1962)Mr David Noble (1960)Mr Derek V Oakley (1959)Sir Leonard H Peach (1953)Mr J R Penny (1974)The Reverend David A Perkin (1950)Mr David C M Prichard (1952)The Revd. Christopher Pulford (1978)Professor Geoffrey Raisman (1957)Mr F Roff Rayner (1944)Mrs S ReesMr Philip Richardson (1958)Mr Marcus R Roberts (1988)Mr J Michael Roe (1952)Mr Hannan D R Rose (1962)Dr M A Rucklidge (1951)Mr Geoffrey Samuel (1949)Mr Julian D Schild (1977)Mr Conrad Seagroatt (1958)Dr G M Seddon (1959)Mrs Terry M Slesinski-Wykowski (1982)Mr Alan O Smith (1964)Dr David Speller (1954)Mr Christopher V Stafford (1959)Mr David C Stanley (1949)Professor Robert StevensMr Peter J Stevenson (1963)Mr John Stoker (1962)Mr R C Stopford (1952)Mr George Summerfield (1954)Mr Peter Summerfield (1954)Dr Ian M Sunderland (1951)Dr Charles Swithinbank (1946)Professor Sir Keith SykesDr Andrea I TannerMr G Thompson (1948)Dr Walter R Timperley (1955)Mr Nick Tomlinson (1981)Mr P D Toomey (1956)Mr R D Vernon (1955)Dr Bruce Wakefield (1960)Mr John R C Walker (1958)Mr Jeremy Wall (1956)Sir Peter Wallis (1955)Mr Howard Webber (1946)Dr Damon Wells (1961)Mrs Ella WhiteheadMr. F. J. Whitworth (1943)Mr David M Williams (1973)Mr Brian Wilson (1948)Mr Harry S Wilson (1951)Mr Walter S Wood (1944)Mr Charles Wood (1959)Mr Derek R W Wood (1952)Dr John WroughtonMr G A Yablon (1959)

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