Social Secretaries
Hello, Everyone!
I’m Emily, one of your Social Secretaries, and it is a delight for me to take part in the effort to make the MCR a playful, welcoming, and colorful (literally-just come to the cocktail parties and look at the costumes!) atmosphere as well as diminish that antiquated little stereotype of Merton as “the place where fun goes to die.” What could be further from the truth?
I am a native Southern Californian, and thus decently educated in the areas of good wine and Mexican food (alas, at Oxford one comes in handy more than the other). When I am not immersing my Classicist self in Roman elegy, or spending ungodly early hours on the river (rowing!), I enjoy luxuriating in the bath (one of many that Merton accommodation offers), having a pleasant walk around the enchanted Fellows’ Gardens, or going for an after-lunch coffee for “15 minutes,” which inevitably becomes an hour, in my beloved MCR.
I genuinely appreciate interaction with MCR members, so please do come up and say hi to me and the other Social Secs at an event (you’ll usually find us behind the bar)! Also if you have questions about the MCR or suggestions for events you would like to see on the term card at some point, I am happy to hear your input!
Emily
e-mail: emily.lord-kambitsch (at) merton.ox.ac.uk
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Mary Boyle
Hello Mertonians!
I’m Mary, one of the three social secretaries, and along with Emily and Tristan, I’m here to make sure that when you’re not in the lab or the library, you’re enjoying yourself as much as possible.
Early in the morning you will find me in a boat with eight other sleep-deprived girls. I spend my daylight hours in Mob library thinking about manuscripts, and the rest of the time I can usually be found in the MCR – whether with a cup of tea in hand, or in a homemade costume at our regular cocktail parties.
As well as the cocktail parties, we arrange a host of different social events, from tastings (both alcoholic and non-alcoholic), to games nights and hikes. If you have any ideas for events you’d like to see, just let me know – everyone’s ideas are welcome.
Mary
e-mail: mary.boyle (at) merton.ox.ac.uk
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Tristan Franklinos
What ho, all!
I am one of your social secretaries –– here to organise an excess of events for your general enjoyment, and to ensure that the MCR is always an Absolutely Fabulous place to be.
When I am not socialising, the vast majority of my time is devoted to the study of Latin and Greek poetry, and frolicking around the Lower Reading Room of the Bod. or the MOB. If you are unable to find me in the MCR or one of these libraries, I will probably be discovered ambling around the countryside, gambolling about churches, or armed with a proper gin and tonic/glass of something substantial, poised before a BBC adaptation of a nineteenth-century novel…
Any problems, drop me a line.
Tristan
e-mail: tristan.franklinos (at) merton.ox.ac.uk
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They are also responsible for High Table and Exchange Dinner bookings.