Sustaining Excellence brochure

Theodor Adorno John Bainbridge Sir Roger Bannister Sir Max Beerbohm Sir Lennox Berkeley Sir Basil Blackwell
Sir Thomas Bodley John Carey Leonard Cheshire Lord Randolph Churchill Edmund Clerihew Bentley Walter de
Merton T. S. Eliot Oliver Ford Davies Sir Hugh Greene Mark Haddon Stuart Hall Lord Halsbury Adam Hart-Davis
David Hartley William Harvey Sandy Irvine Sir Jeremy Isaacs Sir Alec Jeffreys Kris Kristofferson Professor Anthony
Leggett Louis MacNeice CBE Reginald Maudling Sheridan Morley Crown Prince Naruhito Airey Neave Sir George
Radda Professor Dame Jessica Rawson Michael Ridpath Conrad Russell 5th earl russell Sir Henry Savile Frederick
Soddy Sir Richard Steele Sir Howard Stringer Sir Peter Tapsell THE OXFORD CALCULATORS Mark Thompson Professor
Niko Tinbergen J.R.R. Tolkein Professor Sir Andrew Wiles Sir Angus Wilson John Wyclife Yang Xianyi Theodor
Adorno John Bainbridge Sir Roger Bannister Sir Max Beerbohm Sir Lennox Berkeley Sir Basil Blackwell Sir Thomas
Bodley John Carey Leonard Cheshire Lord Randolph Churchill Edmund Clerihew Bentley Walter de Merton T. S.
Eliot Oliver Ford Davies Sir Hugh Greene Mark Haddon Stuart Hall Lord Halsbury Adam Hart-Davis David Hartley
William Harvey Sandy Irvine Sir Jeremy Isaacs Sir Alec Jeffreys Kris Kristofferson Professor Anthony Leggett Louis
MacNeice CBE Reginald Maudling Sheridan Morley Crown Prince Naruhito Airey Neave Sir George Radda Professor
Dame Jessica Rawson Michael Ridpath Conrad Russell 5th earl russell Sir Henry Savile Frederick Soddy Sir Richard
Steele Sir Howard Stringer Sir Peter Tapsell THE OXFORD CALCULATORS Mark Thompson Professor Niko Tinbergen
J.R.R. Tolkein Professor Sir Andrew Wiles Sir Angus Wilson John Wyclife Yang Xianyi Theodor Adorno John
Bainbridge Sir Roger Bannister Sir Max Beerbohm Sir Lennox Berkeley Sir Basil Blackwell Sir Thomas Bodley John
Carey Leonard Cheshire Lord Randolph Churchill Edmund Clerihew Bentley Walter de Merton T. S. Eliot Oliver Ford
Davies Sir Hugh Greene Mark Haddon Stuart Hall Lord Halsbury Adam Hart-Davis David Hartley William Harvey
Sandy Irvine Sir Jeremy Isaacs Sir Alec Jeffreys Kris Kristofferson Professor Anthony Leggett Louis MacNeice CBE
Reginald Maudling Sheridan Morley Crown Prince Naruhito Airey Neave Sir George Radda Professor Dame Jessica
Rawson Michael Ridpath Conrad Russell 5th earl russell Sir Henry Savile Frederick Soddy Sir Richard Steele Sir
Howard Stringer Sir Peter Tapsell THE OXFORD CALCULATORS Mark Thompson Professor Niko Tinbergen J.R.R. Tolkein
Professor Sir Andrew Wiles Sir Angus Wilson John Wyclife Yang Xianyi Theodor Adorno John Bainbridge Sir Roger
Bannister Sir Max Beerbohm Sir Lennox Berkeley Sir Basil Blackwell Sir Thomas Bodley John Carey Leonard Cheshire
Lord Randolph Churchill Edmund Clerihew Bentley Walter de Merton T. S. Eliot Oliver Ford Davies Sir Hugh
Greene Mark Haddon Stuart Hall Lord Halsbury Adam Hart-Davis David Hartley William Harvey Sandy Irvine Sir
Jeremy Isaacs Sir Alec Jeffreys Kris Kristofferson Professor Anthony Leggett Louis MacNeice CBE Reginald Maudling
Sheridan Morley Crown Prince Naruhito Airey Neave Sir George Radda Professor Dame Jessica Rawson Michael
Ridpath Conrad Russell 5th earl russell Sir Henry Savile Frederick Soddy Sir Richard Steele Sir Howard Stringer Sir
Peter Tapsell THE OXFORD CALCULATORS Mark Thompson Professor Niko Tinbergen J.R.R. Tolkein Professor Sir Andrew
Wiles Sir Angus Wilson John Wyclife Yang Xianyi Theodor Adorno John Bainbridge Sir Roger Bannister Sir Max
Beerbohm Sir Lennox Berkeley Sir Basil Blackwell Sir Thomas Bodley John Carey Leonard Cheshire Lord Randolph
Churchill Edmund Clerihew Bentley Walter de Merton T. S. Eliot Oliver Ford Davies Sir Hugh Greene Mark Haddon
Stuart Hall Lord Halsbury Adam Hart-Davis David Hartley William Harvey Sandy Irvine Sir Jeremy Isaacs Sir Alec
Jeffreys Kris Kristofferson Professor Anthony Leggett Louis MacNeice CBE Reginald Maudling Sheridan Morley
Crown Prince Naruhito Airey Neave Sir George Radda Professor Dame Jessica Rawson Michael Ridpath Conrad
Russell 5th earl russell Sir Henry Savile Frederick Soddy Sir Richard Steele Sir Howard Stringer Sir Peter Tapsell
THE OXFORD CALCULATORS Mark Thompson Professor Niko Tinbergen J.R.R. Tolkein Professor Sir Andrew Wiles Sir
Angus Wilson John Wyclife Yang Xianyi Theodor Adorno John Bainbridge Sir Roger Bannister Sir Max Beerbohm
Sir Lennox Berkeley Sir Basil Blackwell Sir Thomas Bodley John Carey Leonard Cheshire Lord Randolph Churchill
Edmund Clerihew Bentley Walter de Merton T. S. Eliot Oliver Ford Davies Sir Hugh Greene Mark Haddon Stuart
Hall Lord Halsbury Adam Hart-Davis David Hartley William Harvey Sandy Irvine Sir Jeremy Isaacs Sir Alec Jeffreys
Kris Kristofferson Professor Anthony Leggett Louis MacNeice CBE Reginald Maudling Sheridan Morley Crown
Prince Naruhito Airey Neave Sir George Radda Professor Dame Jessica Rawson Michael Ridpath Conrad Russell 5th
earl russell Sir Henry Savile Frederick Soddy Sir Richard Steele Sir Howard Stringer Sir Peter Tapsell THE OXFORD
CALCULATORS Mark Thompson Professor Niko Tinbergen J.R.R. Tolkein Professor Sir Andrew Wiles Sir Angus Wilson
John Wyclife Yang Xianyi Theodor Adorno John Bainbridge Sir Roger Bannister Sir Max Beerbohm Sir Lennox Berkeley
Sir Basil Blackwell Sir Thomas Bodley John Carey Leonard Cheshire Lord Randolph Churchill Edmund Clerihew
Bentley Walter de Merton T. S. Eliot Oliver Ford Davies Sir Hugh Greene Mark Haddon Stuart Hall Lord Halsbury
Adam Hart-Davis David Hartley William Harvey Sandy Irvine Sir Jeremy Isaacs Sir Alec Jeffreys Kris Kristofferson
Professor Anthony Leggett Louis MacNeice CBE Reginald Maudling Sheridan Morley Crown Prince Naruhito Airey
Neave Sir George Radda Professor Dame Jessica Rawson Michael Ridpath Conrad Russell 5th earl russell Sir Henry
Savile Frederick Soddy Sir Richard Steele Sir Howard Stringer Sir Peter Tapsell THE OXFORD CALCULATORS Mark
Thompson Professor Niko Tinbergen J.R.R. Tolkein Professor Sir Andrew Wiles Sir Angus Wilson John Wyclife
Yang Xianyi Theodor Adorno John Bainbridge Sir Roger Bannister Sir Max Beerbohm Sir Lennox Berkeley Sir Basil
Blackwell Sir Thomas Bodley John Carey Leonard Cheshire Lord Randolph Churchill Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Walter de Merton T. S. Eliot Oliver Ford Davies Sir Hugh Greene Mark Haddon Stuart Hall Lord Halsbury Adam
Hart-Davis David Hartley William Harvey Sandy Irvine Sir Jeremy Isaacs Sir Alec Jeffreys Kris Kristofferson Professor
Our Priority for the
750th Anniversary:
By 2014 to have more than 30% of Mertonians
giving on an annual basis to the College.
We welcome participation at any level, whether a one-off
or regular gift, big or small – every gift is significant.
Mertonians throughout the centuries
FROM THE WARDEN
Merton celebrates its 750th Anniversary in 2014. This is
a key moment in the College’s history and preparations
are already underway to mark this important milestone.
friends and in the four years, before
outstanding College. Home to
the public launch in May 2011, we
academic innovation and research,
have reached just over 50% of our
Merton’s role in pushing back the
total. We cannot thank you enough.
frontiers of knowledge has ranged
We are clear about the direction the
from describing the mechanics of
College must take to navigate the
motion (Thomas Braithwaite and
challenging financial currents of the
his Merton associates in the 14
coming years. The success of our
century) to solving Fermat’s last
750th Anniversary Campaign will
theorem (Sir Andrew Wiles, 1971)
keep us firmly on course.
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and the development of DNA finger
printing (Sir Alec Jeffreys, 1968).
Our alumni include leading authors,
mathematicians, scientists and
Your support for the Campaign
will bring us closely together.
We will be thanking our supporters
and recognising their gifts in the
public figures of their day.
most personal way. The 750th
It is with great excitement, therefore,
Anniversary is a chance for us
that we embark on Merton’s 750
to bring our alumni, fellows,
Anniversary Campaign, Sustaining
friends and students together to
Excellence, to raise £30 million
celebrate Merton’s achievements,
and benefit generations to come.
to continue to be a force for good
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The launch of Sustaining Excellence
follows a period of extensive
Professor Sir Martin Taylor
in the world, and to prepare for
the next 750 years.
Walter de Merton – Lord Chancellor, Bishop of Rochester and founder of Merton College (1264)
By any account Merton is an
consultation with Mertonians
around the globe. We have had
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great support from alumni and
M E RTON IA N S E XC E L L IN G
The Campaign at a Glance
The Campaign goal is...
A Letter from the Co-Chairs of the Campaign Board
As Merton looks to the future we are able to reflect upon our time at the College;
as the years go by, our appreciation of the College and of how it has shaped
our lives and our careers has grown, and our affection for Merton deepens.
Merton is an outstanding College in one of the world’s best universities. However,
the mounting costs associated with attracting and retaining the best academics
to the maintenance of Merton’s excellence.
The leadership provided by our very committed past Wardens, and now by
Professor Sir Martin Taylor, has placed the College in the strongest position
academically. It manages its finances responsibly and effectively.
By 2014 we plan to raise
Guaranteeing the Tutorial System
position as one of the world’s
£30 million to sustain Merton’s
best teaching and research
establishments at the
It is a great honour for us to give back to the College, as indeed so many of you
already do (one Mertonian in five now gives to the College) and so ensure that
young men and women are given the opportunity to enjoy and benefit from
life at Merton as much as we did.
If, like us, you value your College and believe that it has played an important role
in your life, then we know that you will respond positively, and join us in moving
cutting edge of educational
from Beneficiary to Benefactor.
£8 million
and scientific achievements.
Thank you for your generosity to our College.
£7 million
Charles Manby (1976)
We have no hesitation, therefore, in asking you to support this crucial campaign.
Supporting Students
Protecting and Resourcing
our Historic Buildings
John Booth (1976)
J.R.R. Tolkien – author, Merton Professor of English (1945)
and providing financial assistance for students present a significant challenge
million POUNDS
£15 million
Mertonians throughout the centuries
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From Beneficiary
to Benefactor
It is a great honour
The three principal objectives of
for us to give back
Sustaining Excellence epitomise
to the College.
Merton’s mission to sustain its
excellence in every area and
continue to add value to the
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wider world.
M ERTONI ANS EXC ELLI NG
The Campaign goal
The Tutorial System has always
generation of senior academics.
Merton has a long tradition
By June 2011 £2 million had been
been central to Merton and the
These are the very people who
of teaching some of the most
raised towards the £8 million target.
University’s excellence. In order
keep Merton close to the cutting
talented students from the
to sustain its extraordinary
edge of scientific and technological
United Kingdom and from
record of excellence, the College
research and development.
around the world.
Sustaining Excellence will
£8 million is now needed for a
on students. To meet this challenge
ensure that Merton continues
student support fund to help with
and to ensure that admissions are
to be a centre of academic
the College’s goal of continuing to
based solely on academic merit,
excellence.
attract the world’s best students
Merton must stand ready to offer
at undergraduate and graduate
bursaries and grant support on a
level, regardless of their ability to
far more extensive scale than is the
£15 million is needed to endow, at
pay. Furthermore, the College is
case at present.
must continue to maintain and
refresh a full complement of
senior academics across all
major subjects to provide tuition
and academic supervision to
undergraduates.
the very least, the College side of
committed to making sure that
academic posts in key subjects in
students do not fail to complete
very fine minds two
perpetuity. This will help to secure
their degree because they, or their
posts that might otherwise be cut
parents, have fallen on hard times.
or three times a week,
each time a Fellow leaves or retires.
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We had access to some
one-on-one – people
themselves in a
the 21st century. We seek to endow
areas that will shape the world of
particular subject for
a total of 14 Fellowships at an
the entirety of their
each. Almost £9 million has already
Stephen Garrett (1975, Jurisprudence)
Executive Chairman of Kudos Film
and Television.
place additional financial burdens
The College subsidises each
UK undergraduate by more
than £7,000 every year.
research and teaching in traditional
subjects, and to develop the new
amount from them.
coupled with increases in fees will
Our aim is to preserve and enhance
who had immersed
lives. I learnt a huge
Cuts in funding to higher education
estimated cost of up to £1.5 million
been raised.
Merton has an outstanding record in
funding both graduate scholars and
Junior Research Fellows (currently
£600,000 per year), thereby
I am very grateful to
the Palmer Institute
which has enabled
me to read for a DPhil
Sir Alec Jeffreys – British geneticist, inventor of genetic fingerprinting (1968)
Supporting Students
Mertonians throughout the centuries
Sir Henry Savile – English scholar, Warden Merton College (1585-1621), bible translator
Guaranteeing the
Tutorial System
8
million POUNDS
million POUNDS
Mertonians throughout the centuries
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The Campaign goal
in Mathematics.
Melissa Duncan (2007),
Graduate Scholar.
fostering the careers of the next
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Each Tutor is funded partly by the College and partly by the University.
The Campaign goal
million POUNDS
Protecting and Resourcing
our Historic Buildings
The earliest surviving quadrangle
has been spent in the last
of any university, the most ancient
20 years on building projects
library and a major 13 century
and improvements.
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chapel are still in use today –
testimony indeed that Merton
is a worthy custodian of Britain’s
architectural heritage.
cultivate new sources of income.
It has invested £5 million in a new
lecture theatre, largely funded by
only to improving its academic
place where students and scholars
capabilities but also to doubling,
live and work. As such, it requires
within five years, its third-party
constant upkeep, renovation and
conference and function income.
to provide new facilities in keeping
with the changing demands of
its community.
In the immediate future continued
investment is required in new IT
services and infrastructure, energy
conservation and physical access
for those with special needs. It is
The construction of the large
estimated that £3 million will be
graduate complex in Jowett
needed in the next five years
Walk, the conversion of houses in
to preserve and update the
Holywell Street and the construction
Merton environment.
of the Finlay Building, all made
possible by generous donations
from Mertonians, have enabled the
College to provide an additional
120 student rooms in the past
15 years. Some £20 million
Supporting Merton enables
current and future academics
and scholars to undertake
their research and produce
results of international
significance.
The T.S. Eliot Theatre has provided Merton with
multiple state-of-the-art teaching rooms and facilities.
It is ideal for the talks and presentations convened by
the College’s research groups, which bring the SCR
and MCR together on a termly basis.
Dr Simon Draper, Supernumerary Fellow in Vaccine Immunology at the Jenner Institute.
Sir William Har vey – first to describe accurately the circulation of blood (Warden 1645)
T.S. Eliot – Poet and Nobel Laureate for Literature (1914)
this Campaign, with a view not
beautiful place, but it is also a
maintain its ancient buildings and
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Furthermore, the College needs to
Merton is an exceptionally
improvement, both to protect and
Mertonians throughout the centuries
Mertonians throughout the centuries
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MERTONIANS EXCE L L I N G
–The Peter Moores Junior
Support Fund which
Research Fellowship in
reached a total of £2 million
Classical Archaeology
by June 2011 (since the start
(thus furthering our aim
of the Campaign in 2007/08).
to preserve and enhance
Already this is helping to fund
research and teaching in
hardship, book, travel and
traditional subjects, and to
vacation grants, as well as
develop the new areas that
the all-important Access work
will shape the world of the
and Graduate Scholarships.
21st century).
endowed the following
established a Choral
existing Fellowships
Foundation with 18 Choral
to ensure continuity and
Scholars, giving outstanding
avoid any threat of positions
singers the opportunity to
being cut due to the shortage
develop under the Reed Rubin
of University funding for
Directors of Music, Peter Phillips
Humanities Posts:
and Benjamin Nicholas, and
–The Mark Reynolds
raising the standard of music
Fellowship in History
–The Jessica Rawson
Fellowship in Modern Asian
History (3/4 financed)
– One Classics Fellowship.
events and concerts.
completed the following
very necessary
Capital Projects
and the following
–refurbished the College Lodge
new Fellowships
–renewed the lighting in the
–The Fitzjames Fellowship in
Economics (more than half
financed – to replace
part-time lectureships)
–The Dr Peter J. Braam Junior
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in the Chapel and at external
Upper Library
You can support Merton
in a number of ways.
Gifts of any amount
can be added to
the following:
Here are some examples of how your gift can make a difference:
£100
Helps a student buy essential course books or other study materials
£200
Provides a much-needed hardship grant to a student
the Tutorial System
£500
Supporting Students
£1,000
our Historic Buildings
£5,000
Purchases a high-quality computer for use in the IT rooms
Funds an access bursary for a student in particular financial need
Provides five supplementary undergraduate bursaries of £1,000 each
£25,000
Funds the College share of a University lecturer for one year
£50,000
Funds permanent endowment for a student’s room or set in College
£100,000
Supports recurrent annual grants from the Student Support fund for hardship,
welfare and cultural purposes for up to six students
£500,000
Funds permanently a full Graduate Scholarship of £15,000 per annum
–installed new lighting and
sound system in the Chapel
–completed the College’s
A gift of £1 million or over
Will enable you to name a Fellowship at Merton.
first major building project
Research Fellowship in
for the Campaign –
Humanitarian Issues
the T.S. Eliot Theatre.
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Every gift made to the College in the period leading up to 2014 counts towards
MERTONIANS EXCE L L I N G
Lord Halsbury – Lord Chancellor and compiler of the Laws of England (1842)
Sir Roger Bannister, CBE – middle-distance runner and neurologist (1950)
instigated a Student
What support is needed
Mertonians throughout the centuries
Mertonians throughout the centuries
With your help and since
AUGUST 2007 we have...
Merton’s 750th Anniversary Campaign – Sustaining Excellence.
Every gift made to the College
Annual Fund
The College is grateful for all
Merton was established by
In addition, the College is
in the period leading up to
Our priority for the 750th
the gifts it receives – large
philanthropy and would not survive
establishing a number of different
2014 counts towards Merton’s
Anniversary is to have more
and small – which contribute
without the visionary support of its
recognition levels to show its
750 Anniversary Campaign,
than 30% of Mertonians
to its academic excellence, its
many benefactors. All contributors
appreciation for major gifts.
Sustaining Excellence. Whatever
supporting the College on an
vitality and the beauty of its
to the 750th Anniversary Campaign
These include a range of naming
contribution you decide to make
annual basis. Even the most
architectural heritage.
– Sustaining Excellence will be
opportunities and membership
will be valued long after the
modest annual contribution
publicly acknowledged in the annual
of Merton’s Circles of Benefaction.
750 Anniversary.
makes a difference, and it is
Donor Report (unless anonymity
Furthermore, significant gifts to
is requested) and those who make
the College are recognised at
a gift of more than £1,264 a year to
the University level in the Vice
the Annual Fund are invited to join
Chancellor’s Circle and the
Merton’s 1264 Society.
Chancellor’s Court of Benefactors.
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Sir Basil Blackwell – bookseller and publisher (1907)
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By making a gift, a regular donation
or a legacy you will help to
safeguard excellence at Merton.
Major Gifts
There may be an area of
Every gift to the College in the
something everyone can do.
Support the Annual Fund each
year in the run-up to our 750
th
Anniversary and make a real
difference to the lives of
our students.
the Campaign and College
Legacies
life about which you care
We warmly encourage each
passionately and you may be
Mertonian, whether young
considering making a major
or old, to include a gift to
gift – perhaps over a few years
Merton in his/her Will. This is
– directly for that project. A
something everyone can do
major gift will have a significant
to secure the College’s future.
impact on the lives of future
Moreover, it will enable some
Merton students. These can
to make a major gift which
provide specific endowment
they could not afford in
counts towards the
for Tutorial posts and Graduate
their lifetime.
University of Oxford’s
to finance individual projects,
Our aim is to have more than
Capital Campaign
for example, the funding of a
30% of Mertonians supporting
the College on an annual
‘Oxford Thinking’.
Fellowship or Scholarship for
a number of years.
basis by 2014.
Your gift to Merton
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period leading up to 2014 will count
towards Merton’s 750th Anniversary
Campaign, Sustaining Excellence
and also towards the University
of Oxford’s ‘Oxford Thinking’
Capital Campaign.
Sir Thomas Bodley – diplomat, scholar and librarian (1563)
Recognising Your Gift
Mertonians throughout the centuries
Mertonians throughout the centuries
How you can help Sustain
Excellence at Merton
Scholarships or targeted gifts
Your gift, whether large
or small, can and will
make a difference.
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MERTONIANS EXCE L L I N G
Mertonians throughout the centuries
Adam Hart-Davis – English scientist, author, historian and broadcaster (1962)
Co-Chair John Booth
1976
j@johnbooth.com
Co-Chair Charles Manby
CHAIRMEN’S ADVISORY COUNCIL
AMERICAS COMMITTEE
CAMPAIGN BOARD
1976
cgrmanby@me.com
Mustafa Abbas
1990
Hilary Evenett
1982
Ed Field
1986
David Harvey
1957
John Mills
1958
Laurie Rabinowitz
1983
Hugh Scott-Barrett
1977
David Ure
1965
Tom Willett
1986
Chair David Harvey
1957
Peter Braam
1987
Nick Allard
1974
Francis Finlay
1962
Marla Allard
Friend
Prosser Gifford
1951
Susan Cullman
Friend
John Kirby
1962
1959
Reg Hall
1954
Bob McKelvey
David Hamer
1974
Professor Dame Warden
Frank Keefe
1969
Jessica Rawson
1994-2011
John Kirby
1962
Judith Roberts
Bob McKelvey
1959
Sir Howard Stringer
1961
Peter Palmer
1968
Ian Taylor
1975
Dan Seymour
1983
Adrian Vickers
1958
Katie Sheehan
2002
Guy Weston
1978
Ariel Zylberman
2003
Friend
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Correct at time of going to print.
COLLEGE CONTACTS
Warden
Professor Sir Martin Taylor
Director of Development
Christine Taylor
Fundraising Officer (Annual Fund)
Daphne O’Connell
Merton College • Oxford • OX1 4JD
T: +44 (0)1865 276316
E:development@merton.ox.ac.uk
www.merton.ox.ac.uk
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