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development news Ghosts, gorillas and Gaudies, as the Development Office takes to Twitter What do Barack Obama, Lady Gaga and Balliol’s Development Office have in common Easy. We’re all on Twitter, the microblogging website that allows users to contact anyone who wants to hear from them – 140 characters at a time. Balliol’s alumni relations office entered this brave new world in october, joining presidents and pop singers alike as we launched the first of two new twitter feeds, @BalliolAlumni, as a way of keeping in touch with many of our more digitally inclined old Members, and of sharing news of what they’re up to – wherever they are in the world. By Christmas, the account had att racted more than 100 followers – most of them Balliol alumni – drawn inexorably in by updates about their contemporaries, a fuzzy feeling of nostalgia and a steady stream of College-based titbits. We talked about this year’s Gaudies, András schiff and overhead kicks, while retweeting old Members’ thoughts on the weather, unconscious decisions and the perfect cup of tea. there was occasional contact from outside our alumni network too. one non-member who got in touch was a Japanese collector of rocks, who confessed that he had ‘borrowed’ a particularly attractive stone from the Fellows’ Garden a couple of years ago and once showed it to Christopher Hitchens. the popularity of this dedicated alumni account persuaded us of the need for a central College feed, which followed hot on its heels in november. the purpose of @Ballioloxford is to interact with current students, publicise events and ensure that news about the College’s work reaches the widest possible audience. that audience might only be 290 strong at the moment, but it’s growing all the time. it’s also important to note that while twitter is an indispensable tool in the context of modern communication, it also has a distinctly lighter side, so we’re not averse to sharing pictures of the College ‘ghost’, offering news of a student whistling Darth Vader’s theme tune, or reporting on the inexplicable arrival of a man in a gorilla suit, spotted in the Garden Quad one lunchtime. If you would like to get in touch with the Development Office on Twitter, you can follow us @BalliolAlumni and @BalliolOxford. It would be lovely to hear from you. Calendar of events up to April 2014 Friday 21 June 2013 Commemoration Ball Saturday 22 June 2013 Summer Gaudy for the matriculation years 1971–1974 Wednesday 26 June 2013 Master’s Seminar in Toronto ‘New Directions in Medicine and Agriculture’ University Club of Toronto Friday 28 June 2013 Master’s Seminar in San Francisco ‘The Internet: Reshaping Society, Business and the Economy’ To be held at the offices of Bingham McCutchen LLP Monday 1 July 2013 Master’s Seminar in New York ‘Einstein’s Universe: Do Parallel Universes Exist’ To be held at the residence of the British Consul-General Friday 5 July 2013 Evening reception at the Royal Society of Edinburgh Wednesday 18 September 2013 Rhodes Scholars of Balliol – dinner in College Friday 27 September and Saturday 28 September 2013 Anniversary celebration weekend at Balliol and in the Sheldonian Theatre The AGM of the Balliol Society will take place in the JCR at 9.30am on Sunday 29 September 2013 Thursday 24 October 2013 Balliol in the City reception at Barclays, 43 Brook Street, London W1 Saturday 2 November 2013 Service of Thanksgiving (Choral Matins), University Church, Oxford Thursday 14 November 2013 Sung Evensong at St Lawrence, Jewry, London EC2 Thursday 21 November 2013 Usborne Dinner, Reform Club, London Thursday 28 November 2013 Drinks reception for under- 35s at the Barbican, London EC2 Sunday 1 December 2013 Recital by András Schiff in Balliol Hall Monday 16 December 2013 Choral Evensong at Durham Cathedral (College Choir) Saturday 22 March 2014 Greville Smith Society Lunch Saturday 29 March 2014 Spring Gaudy for the matriculation years 1959–1963 Friday 11 April and Saturday 12 April 2014 The University of Oxford’s Biennial North American Reunion, New York Saturday 12 April 2014 Balliol North American Reunion Dinner, New York 44 FLoReAt DoMus BALLioL CoLLeGe neWs
NEEDS 35 per cent of univ alumni give to their college each year. exeter College currently holds the uK record with 36 per cent. We cannot continue to let Balliol languish on 22 per cent, although we are, of course, hugely grateful to that 22 per cent! Please make this special 750th anniversary year the one when Balliol shows a clean pair of heels to Exeter and Univ. Every gift counts – if 30 per cent of you donate before July a challenge gift of £75,000 will be released. Make your gift, of whatever size, to the Annual Fund today at www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/giving issue no.19 MAY 2013 45
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