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Committee 2005-6Alan Carter [ email ] Current website guru!Tracey Gent [ email ] Vicky Harris [ email ] Andrew Hollingbury (resigned) Tony Itani [ email ] Sam Thomas [ email ] Committee 2004-2005: Alan Carter, Ivan Finch, Jane Goodenough, Andrew Hollingbury, Briony Lea Committee 2003-2004: Liz Aitkin, Ivan Finch, Jane Goodenough, Katy Greaves, Mark Holland, Andrew Hollingbury Committee 2002-2003: Natasha Condon, Ivan Finch, Jane Goodenough, Katy Greaves, Mark Holland President 2001-2002: Natasha Condon President 2001: Ian Roberts President 1999-2001: Tom Ford Society revived March 1999 by Christine Helmlinger and Tom Ford. HistoryDuring 1998, the original incarnation of OAV met in Trinity College. Having only a handful of University members in its ranks, it folded when their Trinity member graduated.On arriving at Oxford, Tom Ford was disappointed to discover that there was not, in fact, an anime society at the University. Fortunately he ran into Christine Helmlinger, who was involved with the original OAV, on uk.media.animation.anime and, after meeting in a few pubs, they decided to reincarnate the society, Tom finding a room and Christine providing the anime. Thanks to the generosity of the Trinity Computing Officer OAV found themselves back in Trinity, about 10 feet below the room where the original OAV had met. The first meeting was held around 5th week of Hilary 1999. Amongst the first series shown were Marmalade Boy, Detective Conan, Koko wa Greenwood and, of course, Child's Toy. Being before the days of anime on DVD all the series were dodgy fansubs not helped by the dubious virtues of Tom's el cheapo NTSC video player. Eventually Christine moved on to other things but the society continued to grow. During Trinity 2000, OAV moved to a new location in St. John's thanks to the then John's Film Rep, Ian Roberts. Due to Part A Finals looming on the horizon Tom passed over presidency to Ian starting Hilary 2001. After a successful couple of terms as OAV President, Ian moved away from Oxford at the end of Trinity 2001 and Tasha was pressganged into taking over the hotseat for the next academic year. Michaelmas 2001 saw a successful Freshers' Fair and a surge in OAV membership, particularly on the fangirl front, not that this isn't a good thing, of course. Freshers' Fair 2002 marked yet another increase in OAV membership, with even more fangirls; current membership is about 50:50 male to female. OAV completed a move to the Miles Room, St Peter's College, at the beginning of Michaelmas 2002, and purchased its own DVD player for multi-region convenience. The society also went over to a committee-based system: rather than a single president having to do all the work, a group of semi-lazy people decided to shoulder it between them. We rather hoped that the gender and interest balance within the committee would lead to a better mixture of programmes. The fact that the male members of the committee were generally more in favour of shoujo anime than the girls was balanced by the blood-and-mecha tastes of the females. Hey, whatever works. Yet another record turnout from the Freshers at the start of 2003-4 meant that Ivan's one-off 'borrowing' of a projector from work became something of a regular event, enabling our anime to be enjoyed on a screen a couple of metres wide. Makes reading the subtitles rather easier from the back. Building work at St Peters meant we were ousted in Hilary term, but we soon found a new home in Exeter College's rather well-appointed Saskatchewan room, where we remained throughout 2004 and into 2005 as the society swelled in numbers ever further. 2005 brought another room change to Oriel's Harris Lecture Theatre, then back to the Miles Room in St. Peter's, and even MORE people signed up for the society. Obviously something's going wrong somewhere along the line! |
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