Carl H. Sandberg (1969) is currently a private investor in Silicon Valley and lives in Palo Alto, California. After Oxford, Carl served as an officer in the US Army in Paratrooper and Special Forces units (equivalent to the British SAS); he then received an MBA degree from the Harvard Business School and studied at the Harvard Law School, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, The University of Michigan, The University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University. Carl also played tight prop and hooker at Harvard in intercollegiate and league rugby competition. He has worked as an executive in industry and traveled extensively in Europe and Asia, completing travel to more than 235 cities in 35 countries and logging more than two million miles of air travel. Carl’s wife, Charito, works as a manager in the biotechnology industry in Silicon Valley and together they have just celebrated their 12th wedding anniversary.
John Twinomusinguzi (1969) and his friend of Oxford days, Carl Sandberg (above), have been reunited through the St. Peter’s Old Members’ News. Carl reports that John has had a varied and successful career. He was Director of Research in the East African Development Bank (1971 – 1981), Assistant Director of Economic Affairs, Commonwealth Secretariat, London (1981 – 1990), and Managing Director, Uganda Development Bank (1990 – 1997). He then worked as a Management Consultant (1998 – 2004). Since 2004, he has been Secretary General of the Uganda Chamber of Commerce in Kampala. John has been married to Enid, a zoologist, for 32 years and has four sons, a daughter, and four grandchildren. Three sons are business executives in international companies and the fourth is completing a law degree at Sheffield University. John’s daughter recently graduated from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering specializing in Operations Research and Financial Engineering. She will be living in London and working in investment banking for Goldman Sachs.
Peter Shea (1969) went through the traumatic experience of starting one course (Physics –Dr GK Woodgate) and then tried to change to another (English then Engineering!). By his own admission he is clearly a mixed-up person. In 1972 he started work as an engineer in High Wycombe, and then moved unto construction sites firstly in Hailsham, then to Newcastle. It was during this wandering period that he married Lyn – an Australian – with the ceremony consecrated in St Peters College Chapel on 7th June 1976.
Peter and Lyn moved to Australia in 1977 with the intention of trying the place out for a couple of years, but the beauty of Sydney was just too much. Amateur theatrics took centre stage for a couple of years. By chance Peter and Lyn did an equally short term transfer to Kuala Lumpur in 1982, where daughters Elissa and Anneke were born in 1984 and 1986 respectively. Amateur theatrics again rose to the fore, with one production in KL old Town Hall followed by another in the new Town Hall, before they settled back into Sydney in 1987. By now, the adventure of international projects was in their blood. A move to Adelaide in 1989 has been the spring-board for projects in Vietnam, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Cambodia and India. And engineering has taken a back-seat to the broader interests of law, organisational development, disaster mitigation, criminal justice and public health.
Patrick Callaghan (1969) took early retirement in June 2004 after a career in Human Resources with ICI, Zeneca and Avecia, primarily on major manufacturing sites in the UK.In Autumn 2004 he became Project Manager for the merger of Falkirk and Clackmannan Colleges into Forth Valley College of Further and Higher Education, the 5th biggest College in Scotland. Having completed the project in July 2006, he took to the golf course for a couple of months to enjoy not working! Patrick became a student again in September 2006 when he started an M. Litt in War Studies at Glasgow University, building on a long-standing interest in military history. Patrick is married to Elspeth, who is an artist and therapist from Glasgow. He has two sons and a step-daughter from a previous marriage, and Elspeth has one of each. It’s now just the two of them and the dog left at home, which is outside Dunblane, near Stirling.
Peter Teddy (1967) moved from the Head of Neurosurgical Dept, Radcliffe Infirmary to become a neurosurgeonin Dept Neurosurgery, Royal Melbourne Hospital and Professorial Fellow in Neurosurgery at University of Melbourne in 2004. He was awarded a Fellowship of Royal Australasian College of Surgeonsand Fellowship (Faculty of Pain Medicine) Australia and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists in 2005. Peter has been made Oceanic representative to World Federation of Neurosurgeons Committee on Neuromodulation, Victorian Neurosurgical representative to AO Spinal Academic Forum, and a member of the Education Committee for the Faculty of Pain Medicine.His research interests are mainly in the field of neuromodulation for the treatment of various forms of intractable pain. He recently gave presentations as keynote visiting lecturer to an Academic meeting of College of Surgeons in Sydney. Peter is heavily involved in undergraduate and junior staff training programmes and has had opportunities for travel, presenting at meetings interstate as well as in New Zealand, UK and in Morocco. He lives with his wifejust three minutes walk from the sea and the coastal cycle path and within easy reach of Melbourne Cricket Ground and are finding all aspects ofAustralian life extremely enjoyable.
Richard Israel (1967) was elected an Alderman of Annapolis City, Maryland in November 2005. The city, which was named for Queen Anne, is the capital city of the State and the seat of the United States Naval Academy. Richard, a former assistant attorney general and head of the city's election board, will lead the committee that helps craft changes to the City Charter and government procedure.
Roger Gill (1964) recently published a book, Theory and Practice of Leadership (Sage Publications, London), in which hedescribes a new model of leadership. Roger is Visiting Professor of Leadership Studies at the University of Strathclyde Business School, where he established and directs the MBA programme with a specialism in Leadership Studies. He also founded the Research Centre for Leadership Studies at The Leadership Trust, the first of its kind in the UK,and served as its Director from 1997 to 2005. Roger may be better known to his contemporaries at St Peter's as founder and leader of The Meisterswingers, Oxford's vintage jazz band in the 1960s.
Richard (then dubbed "Jerry Johnson") Edgecliffe-Johnson (1963) joined the First National City Bank with the aspiration of getting a proper job soon afterwards. 34 years later he retired from the same organization, by then called Citigroup, as head of their UK wealth management business. Proving a hopeless retiree, he got involved in corporate finance deals and local affairs, served as a director of RCV Engines Ltd, and took over last year as co-proprietor Chairman of Foster & Son (www.wsfoster.com) opposite Fortnum's in Jermyn Street. Fosters are the oldest traditional bespoke shoemakers in London and also sell ready-made shoes, cases, luggage etc. Richard married Gillian in his second year at St. Peter's and they have two children and four granddaughters. He finds some time for competitive backgammon and country sports; indulges his nostalgia for the Boat Club in the Stewards at Henley and enjoys taking his 1967 DB6 on rallies. He is a Member of the Royal Automobile Club, and the Bankers' young livery company, the WCIB.
Robin Leake (1962) is involved in preparations for the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise and in advising on the shape of the RAE post-2008. Robin is involved with building new research labs and encouraging more of the best schoolchildren that science & engineering is the career for them, especially for women. Next year represents 100 years since the death of Kelvin and Glasgow University will be having a good series of events which he will be organising by me with lots of input from others with expertise on various aspects of Kelvin’s multi-faceted career.
Peter Dale(1960) edits the poetry page for Oxford Today. He delivered his verse translation, Charms and Other Writings of Paul Valéry, to his publisher, Anvil Press Poetry Ltd, in 2006 for publication in due course. This year he also completed his next volume of original poems and Quattrocento magazine published his verse translation of Gérard de Nerval’s Chimeras, also producing a small limited edition of it for promotional purposes. In the same issue was also published his version of Valéry’s Pythoness. A limited edition of a selection of his epigrams, Eight by Five, will be published by Rack Press in January 2007. Three new poems will also appear in an anthology of new poems due to be published in 2007 by Enitharmon Press, celebrating the life and work of Edward Thomas.