Univ Record 2018

“We were then often in and out of each other’s colleges and rooms. In particular Chris
had a penchant for the Teddy Hall Buttery. This was presided over by the formidable Mrs
Bucket. Chris seemed fated, by some sort of Spoonerism, always to address her as Mrs
Buttock – which was not actually inappropriate!
“I remember also Market Day bus trips to Abingdon (pubs open all day, which was
rare at that time). However it was not all beer and skittles – lectures and tutorials were
attended; also, on Thursday evenings, the Union debates. Happy Days!”
1959
ARTHUR GREVILLE GOAD (Birkenhead School) died on 3 April 2018 aged 80. He
read Law at Univ. Stephen Cockburn (1959) has kindly written this tribute:
When we Freshmen arrived at Univ on the day of the General Election in October
1959 Arthur Goad was one of the few who could have voted that morning before
coming south since he was over 21. I was 19 and Stephen Hawking only 17! Although
from Birkenhead School in the Wirral, Arthur had done his National Service in the
Intelligence Corps for which he was trained in Uckfield, East Sussex, before being
posted to Germany. While Hawking coxed us to blades in the Second VIII, Goad played
rugby and a very substantial part in the pack, but unfortunately he failed to impress the
examiners and went down after one year.
17 years passed and with his wife Rita and by then four children he coincidentally
purchased a house in the same street I lived in in Cuckfield, West Sussex, and we became
reacquainted. He had developed the business acumen of an international entrepreneur
adventuring in the interest of trade widely across the world. His delightful sense
of humour made him many friends and although he endured financial downturns in
dealings with countries such as Nigeria that did not always go according to plan, he
never lost his joie de vivre and had an amazing memory for the works of Noel Coward,
musicals and light opera.
A friend of his daughter was convinced by his frequent travelling abroad that he must
have been some sort of spy without knowing the nature of his National Service. Perhaps
he was? We shall never know because he never would have admitted it even if asked. He
was much valued by his friends and loved by his family and grandchildren.
STEPHEN WILLIAM HAWKING (St Alban’s School): See under Honorary Fellows.
1961
DAVID SHENSTONE FILKIN (King Edward’s, Birmingham) died on 12 May 2018 aged
75. He had been suffering from dementia.
David Filkin read PPE at Univ, and on going down, he gained a place on the BBC
graduate trainee scheme. He first worked on general interest documentaries, including
the pioneering satellite broadcast Our World (seen by half a billion viewers around the
world in 1967), and produced The Mood of America, a series of reports from the USA.
In the late 1970s David was appointed editor of Tomorrow’s World, for all his
protestations that he knew nothing about science (although he had been a keen
butterfly and moth collector as a schoolboy). In fact, Tomorrow’s World thrived under his
editorship, winning viewing figures of nine million. By aiming to show nothing which
could not be understood by an intelligent layperson, David had judged his audiences
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