Author: spcbc1929
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Summer Eights Alumni Invitation
Whether your Boat Club Experience is best celebrated by sharing favorite places and memories with family, with a lively gathering of crew mates and friends, or with a walk on the river bank; Alumni Weekend’s laid-back atmosphere and array of events and entertainment options offer the freedom to enjoy your own brand of fun. So…
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Torpids 2012 – What Happened?
The vast majority of both Men’s novice VIII’s were keen to continue rowing in Hilary term. Four members of the Christ Church Regatta “A” boat were co-opted into the 1st Torpid to bolster the four senior crew members remaining, with the novice “B”’s forming a solid and talented 2ndTorpid and even – for the first time…
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Boat Naming Ceremony
On Sunday, we dedicated the new Four for the Boat Club, which Robert Calderisi (1968) has donated to the College in honour of his partner of 30 years (Jean Daniel Rossi) who died of ALS or Motor Neuron Disease in December 2008. They were the first same-sex couple posted overseas by a UN agency in…
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Oxford Today Covers the Boat Race
The first of six videos by ‘Oxford Today’ following OUBC this year involving St Peter’s student and President of OUBC Karl Hudspith is now online, and can be viewed here.
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Recollection of 1966-70
As novices we were allowed out only in the clinker VIIIs which were easy to balance but fiendishly heavy, there was never any question of throwing the boat to “Heads”, we held it at waists and scrambled under. The second clinker was so old and twisted that stroke could have his blade flat on the water…
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On the Way to the Boat House
Carfax is the centre of town, the ground slopes down from all points, an important thing for mediaeval towns that depended on gravity and the rain to wash all their detritus to where the river would swill it all away. In the north it got washed into the moat, fish ponds or town ditch of…
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To All Freshers…
For those of you who are coming up for the first time this is a message from someone who did exactly the same more than 40 years ago. Like most Freshers I was considerably in awe of Oxford, I had been educated overseas and at a Midlands grammar school, my accent was definitely not…
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The Towpath
I was privileged two years ago to be invited to lunch at the Hall of one of the Ancient Guilds in the City of London. In the magnificent loo in the basement there was a fine collection of former liverymen in sporting gear by Spy as well as an original Bateman strip cartoon, the punchline being “The…
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