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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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Punting
“Ah the summer is here and out come the punts, so beloved of limerick writers and Spoonerists”. anon.
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St Peter's College Boat Club 