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Memories train-set with tunnels that went through the skirting boards of every room in the house. When I went there it was a work in progress, but sufficiently advanced for him and his children to be developing timetables for main-line expresses and side lines to way-by stations. Peter’s and his family’s enthusiasm for trains also took them on rail excursions to Europe and the Middle East armed with printed timetables (no internet in those days) for hundreds of connections. Meeting Peter Hulin and his sharing with me some personal insights into his interests and obsessions is one unforgettable memory of my Wolfson sojourn. Another delight was the informal seminars initiated by Sir Isaiah where staff and students were asked to talk about their research and to make a presentation that could be understood and appreciated by College members from all disciplines. I recall trying to explain my work on the rates of chemical reactions. To illustrate that increased temperature speeds up reaction rates, I dug up an ants’ nest in the garden and spread the ants over the glass sheet of the overhead projector. When I switched the projector on, the ants moved rather slowly, but then as the glass heated up they went faster and faster. The audience was suitably impressed. (Fortunately, no one asked if it might not have been a photochemical effect with the light that was causing the increased activity.) I see from recent copies of the College Record that the President’s Seminars are still a feature of the academic calendar, and that interdisciplinary themes bridging the sciences and the humanities maintain Sir Isaiah’s vision for an intermingling of intellectual pursuits. A further highlight, albeit a small one, was the opportunity of heading towards No. 60 after a day’s toil in the lab, for general winding down and social intercourse. More specifically, though, it was to play croquet. I don’t know if that still features as a Wolfson activity, but then it was a major pastime and sessions had to be booked well in advance. And in spite of the popular myth of it being viciously competitive, the games were tremendous fun and invigorating. The more important sporting activity that I participated in, however, was much more demanding. Shortly after arriving at Wolfson a graduate student, Mark Bisby, started going around at lunch times asking if any of the younger diners had experience of rowing. There were only a few positive replies, so the question changed to who would be interested to learn. And I thought, ‘Why not?’ Thus was formed the first Wolfson College boat. I don’t recall exactly how many of the eight had previously rowed. Mark had rowed for his undergraduate college, but at least half of us had limited or no experience. In spite of the unpromising start and Mark’s frustrations in having to deal with the ineptitude of some crew members, particularly one M L H, he was able to teach us to row with reasonable efficiency and in something resembling synchronisation, and thus to put the first Wolfson boat (borrowed from his undergraduate college, I think) onto the river. The momentous date was Wednesday 29 May, 1969. 98 college record 2021
It was our first competitive outing and we were, not unexpectedly, rather unprepared for the pressures of a pursuing boat. The medics of Osler II caught us. However, with a day’s experience, on Thursday we covered ourselves in glory by achieving the first Wolfson bump. Shout it from the house tops, break open the bubbly, Wolfson had arrived on the rowing scene. Whisper it though that we had not bumped one of the big boys, but a women’s boat from St Hilda’s. Still, we had started a tradition that has led to great successes over the years, not least in 2021 with Wolfson W1 holding both Torpids and Eights Headships. And we even initiated the participation of women in the Boat Club with Maureen Parker in our 1970 eight – the first-ever mixed crew on the Isis. As a reminder of the great event in 1969, I attach a photo of that pioneering first eight. Memories Photo: Gillman and Soame wolfson.ox.ac.uk 99
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