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Welcome to the Queen's College Old Members list

Ohl, Cliff. 1996-1999

'Read' coastal and offshore engineering for a DPhil; but, due to a fall in the barrel price and a reluctance to return to the states, had to take a job as a civil engineer in Glasgow on slave wages. After a year, went to work on a road bypass around the famous Silverstone racetrack for a further year. Then, deciding to grow up and do what he was trained for, took a job in Wallingford as a coastal engineer. Unfortunately realising, after three years, that he was working in an ivory tower (if not living in one - just off Iffley Road), managed somehow to get chartered and become a MICE. On the back of this he found a job in the real world for Royal Haskoning and moved to Peterborough (truly the land of milk and honey), where he reinvented himself, yet again, as a "Maritime Civil Engineer".

Ortega, Thomas. 1995-1995

Needing to go back to his country, Thmas Ortega went back to Brazil. Now he's a fitness instructor.

Osborne, Iain. 1988-1992

After Oxford, and then an MA in economics and politics at Manchester, spent nearly four years in the civil service. Curiosity killed the cat... and leads civil servants into the private sector... but after two years as a management consultant, and another three running telecommunications companies across the newly-liberalising European markets, reentered the civil service. Hasn't yet found a practical use for a degree in French literature, but has accumulated some expertise in the regulation of liberalising industry sectors (telecoms and most recently energy). Now seconded to the European Commission, working on competition policy in the gas industry.

Osborne, Martin. 1976-1979

Martin is now a Colo-rectal Surgeon at Warwick Hospital

Oshinowo, Babatunde "O'Sheg". 1978-1979

Babatunde (a.k.a. O'Sheg) was at Queen's studying for a M.Sc. in Geodesy. He received a M.S. in Geodetic Science from The Ohio State University, and a Ph.D in Surveying Engineering from the University of Washington. He is currently an Engineer Physicist/Geodesist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois, USA. He spent several years as a Design Engineer/Geodesist at Del Norte Technology, Inc., Euless, Texas developing GPS software. He was an Adjunct Faculty at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois teaching Geodetic Science. He is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. He is married to Lola, a Director of IT Applications Development. He has three children, Adeoti at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign reading Honors Biology and Biochemistry, Babatunde Jr. "O.J." at Stanford University reading Computer Systems Engineering and Timi in high school. He would be happy to hear from any of his old college mates, especially those that resided in the Florey Building!

Osmond, Jonathan. 1971-1975

Jonathan read Modern History and Modern Languages with tuition from R.A.C. Parker, W.M. Calder, S.S. Prawer and (then at St John's) T.J. Reed. He appeared in several OUDS productions in Oxford, Southampton and Edinburgh. After postgraduate study at the University of Munich and at St Antony's College he lectured in the Department of History at Leicester University. He is now Professor of Modern European History and Head of the School of History and Archaeology at Cardiff University. He lives in Penarth with his wife Magda and their three sons.

Oxendale, Stephanie. 1987-1990

Stephanie read Modern History at Queen's. She followed this with an M.A in Women's Studies from the University of York and a Ph.D in European History (specialising in the British Empire and its gender history)from the State University of New York at Binghamton. She was an assistant professor at Indiana State University and then Antioch College,Ohio until 2001. She then entered the UK civil service as a policy adviser. She has since specialised in programme and project management within the Department for Constitutional Affairs/Ministry of Justice. She formed a civil partnership with her long-term partner Shaan in 2006 and lives in North London.