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The blade colours of Jesus College Boat Club

Jesus College Boat Club, the rowing club for members of Jesus College, was formed in 1835. Rowing at the college predates the club's foundation, as a boat from Jesus was involved in the earliest recorded races between college crews at Oxford in 1815, when it competed against a crew from Brasenose College. In the early years of rowing at Oxford, Jesus was one of the few colleges that participated in races. A number of college members have rowed for Oxford against Cambridge in the Boat Race and the Women's Boat Race. Barney Williams, a Canadian rower who studied at the college, won a silver medal in rowing at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and participated in the Boat Race in 2005 and 2006. Other students who rowed while at the college have achieved success in other fields, including John Sankey, who became Lord Chancellor, and Alwyn Williams, who became Bishop of Durham. The college boathouse, which is shared with Keble College's boat club, dates from 1964 and replaced a moored barge used by spectators and crew-members. (Full article...)

Tom Hooper (born 1972) is a British film and television director. He began making short films at the age of 13, and had his first professional short, Painted Faces, broadcast on Channel 4 in 1992. He then read English at University College, Oxford, and joined the Oxford University Dramatic Society, where he directed Kate Beckinsale and Emily Mortimer. After graduating, he directed episodes of programmes including EastEnders and Cold Feet. Hooper directed the costume dramas Love in a Cold Climate (2001) and Daniel Deronda (2002), and the 2003 revival of the Prime Suspect series. Hooper made his feature film debut with Red Dust (2004) before directing the historical drama Elizabeth I (2005). He also worked on Longford (2006) and John Adams (2008). His subsequent features include The Damned United (2009), The King's Speech (2010), and Les Misérables (2012). Hooper won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for Elizabeth I. The King's Speech won multiple awards, including Best Director wins for Hooper from the Directors Guild of America and the Academy Awards. (Full article...)

Kellogg College is one of the newest colleges at Oxford. It was established on 1 March 1990 as Rewley House, and changed its name on 1 October 1994 to reflect donations made by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation (set up by the American food industrialist Will Keith Kellogg). It accepts only graduate students, mainly on a part-time basis (there are about 150 full-time students compared to 400 part-time students), and operates to support Oxford's lifelong learning provision, as well as continuing education and professional development. It traces its heritage back to efforts made by the university to provide education to those outside the university from the 1870s onwards. The college acquired a site for a new home, in the Norham Manor of north Oxford, in 2004. The President of the college is the economist Jonathan Michie, who is also Director of the university's Department for Continuing Education. (Full article...)