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PEMBROKIAN T H E

March 2013Issue 37

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Kenneth MacKenzie

An Amazing Life

V V

Broadening Horizons

in Tehran

Charting a Course for

AccessCareers Fest

Life After Pembroke



F UT UR E E V E N

T S

P A S T E V E NT S

C ONT E NT S

L E T T E R F R OM

A N DR E W

4Careers Fest

7ldquoAn Amazing Liferdquo

Kenneth MacKenzie

8Broadening Horizons

Sara Mohammadi

10Flights of Fantasy

12Charting a Course for

Access

14News Views Schmooze

(plus 60 Seconds with

anya Beckett)

15Highly Recommended

Stefan Gates

Itrsquos time we opened up a bit more For as long asI have known Pembroke even a little its entrancehas been closed behind St Aldatersquos church itselfldquoa hole in the wall back thererdquo as one disdainfulChrist Church porter is said to have indicated toa tourist looking for Samuel Johnsonrsquos alma mater Te Lo dge gates have always been closed to al l

those who do not know of the secret little dooron the right And yet now our presence is beingfelt who walking down St Ebbersquos has not becomeaware of our new bridge or the warm and colourfulnew buildings in Littlegate Street and Rose P lace

Wersquod been waiting f or it fo r two years Te noiseand sight of the cranes reminded us what was goingon over the road but we were otherwise mercifullyshielded from our buildersrsquo exertions content withlooking at plans and digital images of our future And now since the autumn thanks to a gap whichhas appeared in the south wall of Chapel QuadPembroke henceforth opens - onto Pembroke Tebest place to experience the novelty is actually inthe new Harold Lee Room which almost directlyoverlooks the Chapel Quad with the old FellowsrsquoGarden forming a kind of ha-ha that conceals thepresence of Brewer Street far below Tis view istruly grand ndash what a change for a College thatalways boasted intimate perspectives as a virtue somuch so that it hardly had room to turn round andlook at itself

It feels good to be noticed Watch this space fornews of upcoming work on our ldquoclosed entrancerdquoas we are determined soon to let passers-by and visitors to Oxford see into Old Quad through theLodge

You will not be surprised to see in this edition of thePembrokian more ldquoopening uprdquo as we reveal moreabout some of our fascinating alumni KennethMacKenzie (1927) shares his memories on p 7and our more recent alumna Sara Mohammadi(2001) discusses her trailblazing work in ehranDavid yler (1935) and his family Foundation which today helps to fund our access programmeare profiled on pprsquos 11-14 David was a pioneer inhis day who believed that academic learning in aninstitution should be open to knowledge of a moregeneral context Finally we hope you enjoy ourregular features ndash and do let us know if any of youare open-minded enough to try Stefanrsquos recipe (seep 15 but only if yoursquove a strong stomach)

Andrew SetonStrategic Development Director

V

Magazine edited and written bySophie Elkan

Magazine designed by Tom Moyser

Front cover image designed by Tom Moyser Using Matriculation photographs from 1927 1948 1977

1988 and 2012 With thanks to Gilman amp Soame and

Lafayette Photography

THE PEMBROKIAN 3

V

VV

VV

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Emeritus Fellow Professor Dan Prentice atthe London Law Dinner 10 th July 2012

Drinks in BroadgatesGaudy 1971-1973 31st August 2012

Pembroke Alumni Dinner Oxford Alumni Weekend 15 th September 2012

Phil Bentley (1977) discusses shale gasCity Breakfast 8 th November 2012

Te lsquoSofarsquopanel Pembroke on the Sofa 28 th November 2012

Pembrokians all the Niblett family at theOpen Day 26th Janaury 2013

Alumni and students at a busy Careers Fest11th February 2013

Gaudy (2007-2008)5 th April

Hong Kong Reception9th April

Bridging CenturiesDonor Celebrations

27 th April

Pembroke MusicalGuys amp Dolls

6th - 9th May

Modern LanguagesDinner 8 th May

Te Pembroke Ball10 th May

Farewell to Master Washington DC

10 th

May

Garden Party 25 th May

Farewell to MasterLondon

BC June

Gaudy (1962-1964)- Golden Jubilee

2nd August

Gaudy (1992-1994)6th September

Pembroke AlumniDinner

21st September

Annual Meeting in the Pichette Auditorium 26th January 2013



Pembroke has had a long andillustrious history with the legalprofession so it is only right that we had

at least one Law undergraduate who hadgone on to make her career at the BarRosalind Phelps (1992) a Barrister atthe Fountain Court Chambers was onhand to advise on the less circuitous pathRecommended by each of Te Legal500 and the Chambers and PartnersDirectories Rosalind was enthusiastic inrecommending Law as a viable professionfor female undergraduates explaining thatas a self-employed Barrister she is able tocontrol her workload to accommodate forfamily life

Family business has defined CarinaBauerrsquos (1995) career to date She andher family set up and ran the familychain of coffee shops lsquoGoodBean Coffeersquoacross the South East ndash which some morelsquobookishrsquo alumni may remember as theincumbent caffeine provider at Blackwellsfor a number of years and was sold toCoffee Republic in 2001 Carina is nowthe CEO with the (also family-run)Imex Group an international exhibitionscompany Reading PPE at Pembroke wasfor her the obvious choice She knew she

didnrsquot want spend three years on onesubject - a multi-focused approach whichhas obviously served her well in a career which concurrently juggles OperatingControls Strategic Partnerships and PRCarina empathised with the studentspresent on the evening and remembersherself ldquotrying to decide what to do likeeveryone hererdquo

Following the seemingly morestraightforward career trajectories were Joe Berry and Andrew Jowett Joe (1990)received his MEng in 1994 and ndash afteran enjoyable interlude as a professionaldouble bassist - joined Ernst amp Youngin the late 1990s and is no w with IMPAXgroup as Investment Director

A few days before Cupid was due toshoot his arrows on St ValentinersquosDay Pembrokersquos dazzling new

Pichette Auditorium was the venue wherematches were made of a different typethe now-annual Careers Fest took placebringing together current undergraduates with successful alumni wh o have gone onto forge a diverse and fascinating rangeof careers

Likened to a speed-dating eventchairs and tables fill the room with analumni representative on each and ourundergraduates are encouraged to gofrom station to station and discover forthemselves where a Pembroke degreecan lead Te overarching lsquothemersquo ofthe night seemed to be that for mostof our participants their degree wassimply a starting point and not an endin itself two of our Law graduates (JaneRice-Bowen 1992 and Clive Edwards1972) have gone on to equally note- worthy but not directly Law-relatedprofessions - although both were quickto point out what a valuable foundationtheir undergraduate degrees gave themClive now Commissioning Editor inCurrent Affairs at the BBC mentioned

how useful he found it when grappling with lawyers over Panoramarsquos ground-breaking exposeacutes and Jane who knewshe ultimately wanted to work withinthe Arts uses her legal training whennegotiating contracts in her position as Joint Chief Executive of Circus Spacethe UKrsquos National Centre for Circus Arts

Conversely Barrister DuncanHenderson (1998) currently at Addleshaw Goddard LLP read Englishduring his time at Pembroke ldquoDo thething you think yoursquore going to be bestat I liked reading books and I enjoy theefficient and effective use of language - Ican be a pedant whilst writing so Law isa good choicerdquo

CAREERS FEST Alumni return to College to advise and inspire our current students

ldquoFor most of our part icipants

their degreeand not an end

THE PEMBROKIAN 4 THE PEMBROKIAN 5Careers Fest Photographs Sam Fabian (2012)

V

was simply a starting point i n i t

s e l f rdquo

JUANITA HUGHES Alumni Relations Manager

Is it really all about getting a good degree and who you know When I came to work in Pembroke I started to realise that even with an Oxford degree it is still hardto know where to begin in terms of what options are out there It struck me thatalthough I was happy to try to match up students with alumni volunteers for thefledging lsquoake an Undergraduate to Lunchrsquo scheme which Irsquod inherited the studentsthemselves did not always know what they wanted to do next I had the idea oforganising a Careers Fest ndash rather bringing the mountain to Mohammed - and weheld our first event in February 2011 With the help of the JCR and MCR Presidentsand Committees and the Oxford University Careers Service we have been able tocreate an opportunity for our students to test the waters for life after Pembroke

Jane Rice-Bowen (1992)

Ateh Jewel

Andrew Jowett (1980)

Rosalind Phelps (1992)



A Law degree at Pembroke certainlyseems to provide the foundationfor a multiplicity of extraordinary

careers ldquoIrsquove had the most amazing liferdquostates Kenneth MacKenzie CBE With wife D iane perched on the arm of hischair Kenneth certainly looks everybit the man in his prime surroundedby cups won for sporting triumphstributes and awards for a multi-decade-spanning career in business and a hostof family photos crossing the centuriesIt is incidental that Kenneth will becelebrating his 104th birthday in June

Kenneth came up to Pembrokein 1927 a King Charles Scholarborn in Jersey and educated atMarlborough Initially planning toread for a Mathematics degree he soondecided to change to Law Howeverhis mathematical knowledge provedinvaluable ldquoA lot of military collegehopefuls had missed the foundations ofmathematics and the mathematical exams[for military college] were more stiff thenI was well paid by their well-off fathers(with a home in the West End and onein the Country) to teach them the basics

Teir houses were very comfo rtable and Ieven got a bit of fishingrdquo

Tis wasnrsquot the only opportunityKenneth took to exploit his talents inmathematics from an early age he wasfascinated by horses and would persuadethe postman at Marlborough to placehis bets His love of horses deepened atPembroke when he became friendly withthe son of a famous ownerbreeder with whom he would travel to Cheltenhamto watch the races ldquoI attended more racemeetings than classesrdquo Perhaps time notentirely wasted as the Royal Hunt Cuphas pride of place in Kennethrsquos home won in 1971 by Kennethrsquos horse P ictureBoy (pictured right)

Although the horses took precedenceduring Kennethrsquos years here ldquo[atPembroke] I would have been better off with stricter control M y existence thendepended upon people and friendshipsrdquohe has fond memories of his room in OldQuad ldquorather lovelyrdquo and recalls localbusinessman William Morris who wouldoften cycle into College to dine in HallldquoSuch a generous man he used to tell ustales about the factoryrdquo

After Pembroke Kenneth ndash

determined to lsquoget another languageunder his beltrsquo ndash went to work in Mexicoas a hide buyer and came back a year laterfluent in Spanish Although he neverused it he strongly espouses the merits oflearning ldquoEverything you can do in termsof education strengthens your position inbeing able to wonder at the world andtake up the things that interest yourdquo

Following his return from MexicoKenneth embarked upon a career at B HS where he rose to hold the concurrentpositions of Buyer MD and Vice-Chairndash concurrent because he refused to giveup his love of travel and bringing newideas into the UK from abroad ndash mainlythe Far East Australia and New Zealand

ldquoA MOST AMAZING LIFErdquoKenneth MacKenzie (1927) centenarian alumnus

family at Pembroke and was keen toimpress upon students the importance ofpersistence when trying to get experiencein their dream careers She described howlsquostalkingrsquo the editorial team of the newly-launched In Style magazine in 2007paid off when it led to her first editorialposition

A great evening with - perhaps unlikea speed-dating event ndash a remarkablelsquosuccess ratersquo of cards and contact detailsbeing exchanged and promises made tokeep in touch

Other alumni attending includedSamantha Bamert (Mathematics 1992Director Leveraged Fund SolutionsBarclays Plc) Jack Gunning (Chemistry2001 Patent Attorney Avidity IP)Fiona Herron (1987 Mod Langs ranslator-Founder Abacus ranslation)Clare Runacres (1992 Teology RadioBroadcaster BBC) Sean Ryan (1978Mod Langs Foreign Editor Sunday imes) Our warmest thanks to everyone who was involved including SamFabian (2012) who took these splendidphotographs

and Head of Asset Management Hereadily admits that his degree gave him anlsquoinrsquo after he decided to switch careers Ashe stated ldquoAs a professional musician if yoursquore playing for money yoursquore not alwaysplaying music you like so I thought I mayas well do something else to make moneyand play music for pleasurerdquo Andrew Jowett (1980) followed his degree inGeography with graduate research inMexico which as he says lsquoexposedrsquo him toMexico and Latin America After a briefcareer in the City he entered the NGOsector and is now a Director with BuildI International a charity launched by Andrew which raises money in the UKto develop community infrastructureprojects in Zambia Andrew hoped thatby attending the event he was able topresent something of an alternative to themore traditional career paths

Our youngest alumnus present was Chris Bennetts (2006) who in astraightforward realisation of his ambitionas an undergraduate has gone on to acareer in teaching After specialising inthe teaching of PSHE (Personal Social

Health Education) at secondary schoolsChris now finds his undergraduate degreein History and Politics useful in his newposition as Head of Politics at the JewishFree School in North London

Another young alumnus who hasclimbed the career ladder quickly isDaniel Jewel (2000) After completingan undergraduate degree at BristolDaniel came to Pembroke to study for aMasters in History He is now a Directorand Producer with two productioncompanies under his belt Tird ManFilms ndash shortlisted for an Oscar last yearand nominated for a BIFA Award ndash andCouture Communications run with wife Ateh a beauty journalist and blogger ogether Ateh and Daniel combine theirexpertise to produce commercial filmsspecifically for use online particularly within social media sites for clientsincluding LrsquoOreal Paris Matthew Williamson and Revlon Ateh Jewelalthough not an alumna also attendedto talk to about her award-winningcareer Ateh charmingly commentedthat she feels very much one of the

THE PEMBROKIAN 6 THE PEMBROKIAN 7

Kenneth MacKenzie at home in 2013

Is there life after Pembroke As a finalistthis is a question I find myself thinkingabout on a regular basis Should I be doinginternships Where will I live Will I beable to get a job Does it matter that Ihave only the vaguest ideas about whatI want to do after graduation Luckilythe same question was being asked and

answered at the Pembroke Careers Festin February Every year the Collegeoffers its current students the chance tomeet and talk to a variety of Pembrokealumni about their careers paths andchoices In the beautiful new Pichette Auditorium current Pembrokians wereable to pick the alumnirsquos brains and talkto a representative of the Oxford CareersService about their options Te Careers Fest is a really valuableopportunity I was comforted by thenumber of successful alumni I spoketo who didnrsquot know what career they wanted to pursue after graduation andthose who had started on a career pathonly to later make a successful switch to

another area Te alumni with whom Ispoke made me realise how important itis to do your research about your chosencareer to be persistent and prepared to work hard from the bottom to get where you want to be Getting experience of anykind is useful even if all it shows you is what you donrsquot want to do All the alumni were friendly informativeand helpful and were genuinely interestedin hearing about our plans and giving usadvice I and the other Pembroke students who attended are very grateful to themfor giving up their time to talk to us andto the College for organising the event Tere certainly is life after Pembroke andit looks fantastic

MADELEINE

STOTTOR

2010 HISTORY

amp ENGLISH

Kennethrsquos business acumen earnedhim a CBE in 1969 when he formed part

of a team advising the Government ontrade policy ensuring fair profits for allldquoI never bothered much with telling thefamilyrdquo he says ndash always more interestedin horses and fishing A life-size replicaof a salmon he caught off the coast ofNorway in 1961 pays tribute to this claim

1969 also marked his 60th yearand official retirement although he haskept up many different interests in theintervenening 40 odd years All in alla very varied life ldquoIn an indirect wayPembroke has been very helpful to me Ten there was no pressure at all I thinkthere is a lot of pressure now I donrsquotthink anything is more important thaneducationrdquo

Kenneth MacKenzie from

the 1927 matriculation

photograph



THE PEMBROKIAN 9THE PEMBROKIAN 8 All photographs from EDxehranrsquos Facebook page where more information can be found

community Te theme for the event waslsquoehran En Routersquo with speakers from a variety of backgrounds and specialismsand talks were on a diverse range ofsubjects For instance Rouzbeh PirouzChairman of the Iranian Business School

discussed how to lsquoshift Iranrsquos economyfrom petrol to peoplersquo in his talk lsquoFromOil to oilrsquo Professor Nasrin Moazamirecipient of the lsquoChevalier de lrsquoOrdre desPalmes Acadeacutemiquesrsquo for her research in thefield of biotechnology asked lsquoWhat Can WeDo With 10 Hectares of Microalgaersquo Prize- winning cartoonist Bahram Azimi drewattention to Iranrsquos thriving animationindustry in his talk lsquoFrom 1 Frame to129600 Framesrsquo Te quest for sustainableenergy was the subject of entrepreneurand public policy adviser Amir HosseinZahedirsquos talk lsquoFrom Natural Gas to Solid Methanersquo

An event of this nature takingplace in a country as insulated as Iran

T ED (which stands for echnologyEntertainment Design) is a non-profit organisation founded in

1984 with its roots in Silicon ValleyOver the past quarter-century it hasbecome a global conference business

with past speakers including Bill ClintonPhilippe Starck Ngozi Okonjo-Iwealaand Gordon Brown All speakers areinvited to give the lsquo18 minute speech oftheir livesrsquo and talks are made availableonline through EDcom Te offshoot EDx has been helping groups to hostlocally organized events in-keeping withthe ED philosophy of lsquoIdeas WorthSpreadingrsquo

EDxehran was held this Februaryat AmirKabir University of echnology Te aim was to showcase Iranrsquos innovatorsand thinkers and give them a platformfor speech Evident throughout was theenthusiasm to demonstrate how muchIran has to contribute to the global

SARA MOHAMMADIBroadening horizons with TEDxTehran

C r ow d s r e gi s t e r i n gf or T E D x T e h r an

Entry by Sajjad Abdolahi in the lsquo I Am Tehranrsquo Photo Competition which ran prior to the event

taking place

confounds expectations and presumptionscommonly held in the West Helping tomake it happen was Pembroke alumna

Sara Mohammadi (2001) In a recentinterview with the Washington Post Saracommented ldquoIt was important to createthis platform for both discovered andundiscovered ideas brewing in Iran to beheard debated and acted on Tere aresome exciting things happening in Iranhellip we wanted to share that with Iranians andthe rest of the worldrdquo

Sara came to Pembroke in 2001 as a visiting student from ufts where she wasstudying for her undergraduate degree inPPE Now based in Dubai she is currently working with the Family Business Networkndash Gulf Cooperation Council a non-profitorganisation which helps family businessesform local knowledge-bases and offerssupport and networking opportunities within their membership We caught up with Sara after the EDx event

WERE THERE MANY OBSTACLES TO

OVERCOME

Te main issue was that so muchhinged on the permits for the event Without the permit we couldnrsquot advertise we couldnrsquot secure speakers we couldnrsquotreach out to sponsors because the firstthing everyone would ask was lsquodo youhave the permission to host such aneventrsquo Figuring out the right process toobtain permits was not straight forward Working with AmirKabir Universitysimplified the process tremendously Tere were also many surprises When youare organizing any event that is a givenbut the likelihood of surprises increases when you are doing it for the first time without any experience in major events

and in a place where itrsquos never been donebefore Te most endearing was when myco-organizer who had the operational

experience in organizing major EDxevents had to drop out of the scene forprofessional and personal reasons Teupside was I brought together fifteen volunteers who put their heart and sweatinto making the event work with all thelimited resources and constraints we faced

HOW DID YOU GET INVOLVED IN

BRINGING TED TO IRAN

ED was introduced to me bya friend in 2008 I got hooked andended up attending the first and second EDxDubai events I wanted to be a partof EDxehran for almost two yearsever since I noticed that there are Farsisubtitles for ED alks and over 30 Farsitranslators on the ED Open ranslation

Project I envisioned more of a volunteerrole at the time which somehowsnowballed into an organizer role with far

more responsibilities

WHAT WAS YOUR EXPERIENCE AS A

WOMAN WORKING IN IRAN

I was born in Iran I hold an Iranianpassport and the majority of my extendedfamily lives in Iran so there are emotionalfamilial and practical ties to Iran Contraryto perception working in Iran as a womanis not that difficult beyond the occasionalsituations which I have also experiencedin other countries including the West When working in Iran I realized that inmost instances any lsquogender biasrsquo can bequickly eliminated and people will take you seriously on your merit and on thebasis of your expertise and capabilities

HOW HAS YOUR TIME AT PEMBROKE

IMPACTED ON YOUR CAREER AND

CHOICES YOU HAVE MADE

From the minute I got on the busfrom Heathrow to Oxford trying tofind Pembrokersquos gate entrance nestled inthe corner of a street to rowing readingdusty books at the Bodleian enjoyingthe sarnies from the pantry punting inthe summer dressing for those fabulousdinners at Pembrokersquos Hall cycling to theboat house it was all memorable Oxfordand Pembroke was an inspirationalexperience for me I loved the tutorialsystemhellipreading on the history ofeconomic thought Smith Marx Humeand other contemporary thinkers andthen having in-depth discussions aroundit with professors Te experience trainedme to be more analytical articulate andconfident

WHAT NEXT FOR TEDxTEHRAN AND

FOR YOU

Irsquod really like to see others get involvedand take the lead on EDxehran Ithink events like EDxehran shouldbe driven shaped and owned by acommunity and not one single person When you have new people you havefresh ideas and approaches Irsquod love tomentor one of our volunteers to take thelead on EDxehran 2014

Irsquom going to focus on building andexpanding the Family Business Network- GCC so it can realize its full potentialand create value for the family businessesin the GCC And who knows maybe wecan expand it to the full Middle East andNorth Africa region in a few years

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Sara Mohammadi onstage





THE PEMBROKIAN 12 THE PEMBROKIAN 13 Images from Te Pictoral Charts Educational rust

V E X T R E ME WE A T HE R

1953 Te rust had taken over as the

primary provider to the subscription list of

schools formerly supplied by the Bureau

of Current Affairs (an organisation set

up to educate and raise morale amongst

British servicemen in World War II) It

produced as many as eighteen different

charts a year (six per term) covering a

diversity of topics to reflect Davidrsquos vision

as set out in the rustrsquos guidelines (see

box right)

Although David suffered a fatal heart

attack in 1969 the rustrsquos work carried

on with co-Director wife Dorothy taking

over his professional mission developing

its output over the full school curriculum

Collaboration with the BBC and IV

after their own publishing budgets were

cut in the lsquo70s greatly enhanced the

research side of the collaboration and

other working contacts were formed

with the International Consultancy in

Religion Education and Culture Te

World Council of Churches and the

World Wildlife Fund o quote again

from the leaflet on the rust ldquoA great deal

of thought and discussion goes into the

choice of subject of a chart and every part

of its content but underlying all hellip are

the basic principles laid down by David hellip

[whose] thinking was in many ways ahead

of his timerdquo

Flashing forward to 2010 by which

time the rust had become a charity and

Dorothy yler approached Pembroke

to discuss whether the Collegersquos aims

were compatible with the Charityrsquos

objectives to promote experimentation

and training in educational principles

and methods Agreement was reached

that Pembrokersquos access initiatives

through their use of student road-trips

to schools in less advantaged areas of the

UK summer learning skills programmes

and e-mentoring made the College anappropriate beneficiary Te resulting

decision to launch a David yler Essay

Prize specifically working with schools

in our target areas and designed to

encourage teenagers to use their critical

thinking faculties was met with all-round

approval Te committee was delighted

to award Chris Filsell from Loreto Sixth

Form College in Manchester with the

first prize of pound100 in 2012 Monies from

the donation fund the Prize and also the

extensive campaign to ensure that the

Prize actively increases sixth-formerrsquos

awareness of the academic expectations

of upper-tier universities and the fact

that studying at such universities can be

a realistic expectation for many more

students that might have otherwise

considered it achievable or appropriate

Further it gives these sixth-formers a

chance to meet up with current Pembroke

undergraduates who last year undertook

an lsquoAccess Roadshowrsquo travelling up tothe North West target region to meet

with pupils and give peer-to-peer insight

into life as an undergraduate at an

Oxford College Te rust also funds the

extraneous costs of the Pembroke North

element of the Easter Skills School held

at BSix Hackney (the Collegersquos Pem-

Brooke partner) Te Roadshow and

Prize combined contributed to Pembroke

receiving 33 applications this year from

the North West regions of which eight

received offers

Following the announcement of

Chris Filsellrsquos achievement Loreto

V T HE T U D OR S

V

- Progress in scientific thinkingmust be made available to

all students so that the rising

generation will be familiar with the

results of research and the new ways

of life made possible to them

- Co-operation between

nations and the need for

a lsquoone-worldrsquo approach to social

problems should be presented as a

vital issue to students everywhere

From the Pictorial Charts Education Trust leaflet prepared and written by Dorothy Tyler

(available in the Pembroke Library)

- Evolution biological and social which have brought mankind to

its present level are beginning to come

under conscious control Men must

learn to use this power wisely

- otality of approach to all

subjects rather than concentration

on one aspect By appreciating all the

factors which have created a given

situation students will learn to judge

other issues in perspective

THE GUIDELINES OF THE DAVID TYLER TRUST

ldquoMy father David was deeply

impressed by the dire inequities

of society both from growing up

as a teenager during the Great

Depression and from his trip from

New York through the Deep South of

Alabama in the lsquo30s

His ideals encompassed not just

how a knowledge of history could help

to forge strategies to overcome such

inequities but how an appreciation

of science could lead to large scale

advances in societal benefits for all

He was an avid reader of the New

Scientist and a great believer in thepower of communication in all forms

to lsquolevel the playing fieldrsquo My mother

Dorothy worked closely with him

to foster these ideals and we were

working to convert the Pictorial

Charts company to electronic format

in the years before it finally ran out

of steam She wanted the yler Prize

to not only enable attendance at

Pembroke but to encourage the next

generation to pursue the same sorts

of goals of enhanced education for

all that had motivated the original

foundation of the companyrdquo

CHRISTOPHER TYLER

hosted a prize-giving ceremony with a

seminar given by Access Fellow Dr Claus

After the ceremony Chrisrsquos teacher Dr

ony Lyons commented ldquoTe Prize has

really boosted the History Departmentand the Principal of the College is now

very positive about encouraging students

to engage in similar competitions in the

futurerdquo

David ylerrsquos work gave rise to some

of the most visionary and for their day

revolutionary approaches to teaching

and broadening the minds of British

youth Pembrokersquos Access programme

has been immeasurably enhanced by their

involvement Sadly Dorothy died in early

2011 in her 100th year and Davidrsquos son

Christopher has taken over her work on

behalf of the rust

V T HE OZ ONE L A Y E R

V J A NE A U S T E N

V V OL C A N OE S

Dorothy Tyler

V R OME O amp J UL I E T

P

C

E



Steve has recently published an article derived from his doctoral thesisundertaken at Pembroke ldquoPermission to Stay in Enemy erritoryHanbali juristic thinking on whether Muslims must emigrate from non- Muslim landsrdquo in Te Muslim World 1031 (January 2013) He iscurrently working as Multimedia and Publications Editor at the Centerfor Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University in Washington DC

Nick Gulliver and Ollie Ford who were responsible for the editing andcinematography present alternative viewsof Oxford in a new production of As You Like It Filmed on location and brought banginto the 21st century the film had a well-attended screening at Brasenose Collegein January and they hope to develop theproject further in the coming months

Will Price and Nicky Lumb are enjoying life in Washington DC where Will works for the World Bank and Nicky manages her British clothingcompany Michiko and Me Teir second daughter Alexa Sophia Grace

was born in October 2012 following Anya Isabella Beatrix born in June2010

ldquoKelhem and I welcomed the nextgeneration of Pembroke scholar MayaMarie Salter on the 11th of July 2012rdquo

ldquoI read Physics at Pembroke and have had a career as a Physics teacherI have just retired have time on my hands and am considering what todo with the rest of my life I would very much like to hear from some ofthe many great friends I made whil st at Pembrokerdquo

David has been elected to the Adrian Research Fellowship in InternationalPolitics at Darwin College Cambridge where he will be affiliated to theCentre for Rising Powers in the Department of Politics and InternationalStudies a recently-founded research unit set up to investigate the causesand potential consequences - political economic and military - of therise of new major powers (wwwpoliscamacukcrp)

Simon and Elizabeth are delighted toannounce the birth of Leo David WenlockRothenberg on 16 November 2012 Teyare looking forward to bringing Leo to

Pembroke very soon

NE W S V I E W S

S C HM O OZ E

If you lived on staircase 12 in 1986 Irsquod just like to take this opportunity to offera heartfelt apology for the smell You see

I had a sandwich toaster and no moneyso Irsquod often buy the cheapest protein onearth (iffy herrings and bacon offcuts)and lacking any real cookery or washing-up skills cremate them to a stinky cinderI found the whole thing fascinating but itcanrsquot have been pleasant for everyone elseIrsquom just really really sorry

Yoursquoll be overjoyed however to learn that your discomfort wasnrsquot all in vain thoseearly experiments led me to make a careerout of it and I now write and present Vprogrammes about extraordinary foodIrsquove eaten rotten walrus in the Arcticradioactive soup in Chernobyl cane ratin Cameroon And if yoursquove got CBBC-age kids theyrsquove probably watched mefeeding their peers sheeprsquos testicles brainsand dung beetles But Irsquove just made a newdocumentary for BBC4 and Irsquom glad to say

Irsquove peaked Frankly Irsquod hang up my tastebuds if I didnrsquot need the cash because Irsquove just discovered the best food on the pl anetraw weaver ant egg salad

You collect these little critters in Tailandby poking a bloody great pole into theirnests and shaking it until they all fall out Trow them into a bucket of water as you and your cameraman hop around inagony from their vicious biting (and your Tai friends look o n chuckling) Ten stirthe whole ants and their eggs together with soy sauce spring onions and a littleoil Tatrsquos it really Tey taste zestily sourand therersquos a crunch from the whole ants

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

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This month Stefan Gates (1986)shares his top choice for extraordinary

foods Raw Weaver-ant Egg Salad

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and a creaminess from the eggs whichtogether with the schadenfreude ofthe whole affair combine to make alegendarily glorious mouthful If youever get the c hance give lsquoem a go

Can Eating Insects Save the World was on BBC FOUR earlier this monthIncredible Edibles is on CBBC around Easter 2013 and Te ExtraordinaryCookbook (Kyle Books) is out now

Photographs Nik PorterPlum Pictures

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F UT UR E E V E N

T S

P A S T E V E NT S

C ONT E NT S

L E T T E R F R OM

A N DR E W

4Careers Fest

7ldquoAn Amazing Liferdquo

Kenneth MacKenzie

8Broadening Horizons

Sara Mohammadi

10Flights of Fantasy

12Charting a Course for

Access

14News Views Schmooze

(plus 60 Seconds with

anya Beckett)

15Highly Recommended

Stefan Gates

Itrsquos time we opened up a bit more For as long asI have known Pembroke even a little its entrancehas been closed behind St Aldatersquos church itselfldquoa hole in the wall back thererdquo as one disdainfulChrist Church porter is said to have indicated toa tourist looking for Samuel Johnsonrsquos alma mater Te Lo dge gates have always been closed to al l

those who do not know of the secret little dooron the right And yet now our presence is beingfelt who walking down St Ebbersquos has not becomeaware of our new bridge or the warm and colourfulnew buildings in Littlegate Street and Rose P lace

Wersquod been waiting f or it fo r two years Te noiseand sight of the cranes reminded us what was goingon over the road but we were otherwise mercifullyshielded from our buildersrsquo exertions content withlooking at plans and digital images of our future And now since the autumn thanks to a gap whichhas appeared in the south wall of Chapel QuadPembroke henceforth opens - onto Pembroke Tebest place to experience the novelty is actually inthe new Harold Lee Room which almost directlyoverlooks the Chapel Quad with the old FellowsrsquoGarden forming a kind of ha-ha that conceals thepresence of Brewer Street far below Tis view istruly grand ndash what a change for a College thatalways boasted intimate perspectives as a virtue somuch so that it hardly had room to turn round andlook at itself

It feels good to be noticed Watch this space fornews of upcoming work on our ldquoclosed entrancerdquoas we are determined soon to let passers-by and visitors to Oxford see into Old Quad through theLodge

You will not be surprised to see in this edition of thePembrokian more ldquoopening uprdquo as we reveal moreabout some of our fascinating alumni KennethMacKenzie (1927) shares his memories on p 7and our more recent alumna Sara Mohammadi(2001) discusses her trailblazing work in ehranDavid yler (1935) and his family Foundation which today helps to fund our access programmeare profiled on pprsquos 11-14 David was a pioneer inhis day who believed that academic learning in aninstitution should be open to knowledge of a moregeneral context Finally we hope you enjoy ourregular features ndash and do let us know if any of youare open-minded enough to try Stefanrsquos recipe (seep 15 but only if yoursquove a strong stomach)

Andrew SetonStrategic Development Director

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Magazine edited and written bySophie Elkan

Magazine designed by Tom Moyser

Front cover image designed by Tom Moyser Using Matriculation photographs from 1927 1948 1977

1988 and 2012 With thanks to Gilman amp Soame and

Lafayette Photography

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Emeritus Fellow Professor Dan Prentice atthe London Law Dinner 10 th July 2012

Drinks in BroadgatesGaudy 1971-1973 31st August 2012

Pembroke Alumni Dinner Oxford Alumni Weekend 15 th September 2012

Phil Bentley (1977) discusses shale gasCity Breakfast 8 th November 2012

Te lsquoSofarsquopanel Pembroke on the Sofa 28 th November 2012

Pembrokians all the Niblett family at theOpen Day 26th Janaury 2013

Alumni and students at a busy Careers Fest11th February 2013

Gaudy (2007-2008)5 th April

Hong Kong Reception9th April

Bridging CenturiesDonor Celebrations

27 th April

Pembroke MusicalGuys amp Dolls

6th - 9th May

Modern LanguagesDinner 8 th May

Te Pembroke Ball10 th May

Farewell to Master Washington DC

10 th

May

Garden Party 25 th May

Farewell to MasterLondon

BC June

Gaudy (1962-1964)- Golden Jubilee

2nd August

Gaudy (1992-1994)6th September

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21st September

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