David Tall : Wadham Gaudy

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Every few years Oxford colleges invite their previous students back for a ‘Gaudy’ (pronounced gordy) to meet their old friends and to maintain contact between the college and its students.

Saturday March 27th 2004 was the occasion for a Gaudy for those who became students at Wadham in the years 1957-1960. As a 1960 student, I was with my own year, together with those in their second, third or fourth years when I arrived.

The dinner in hall was up to its sumptuous best!


Wadham College front quad with its statues of King James I and the founders, Nicholas and Dorothy Wadham. The clock is a design by Sir Christopher Wren, who was a student at the college in the 1650s.

Top table
The hall during dinner.

David Tall with Stuart England and Joe Riley.
Stuart and Joe with Geoff Fallows in the background.

Alan Bigg, captain of the 1960 college rugby team downs a draft.

... followed by another old rugby player...

Other rugger men present include Julian Baird over from the USA ...

... and Clive Hildebrand from Australia.

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