Obituaries

Michael Diserens (d. 1998)

Michael Diserens died on August 31st at the age of 39 after falling ill on a family holiday. He read physics at Keble, but devoted his leisure mostly to rowing. At the age of 16 he represented Great Britain at the World Junior Rowing Championships in Montreal, and stroked the Blue boat in 1979 and 1980 as an undergraduate. Never the less, he did enough ringing to become  tower captain at Brightwell in 1983, and after another break he took up ringing seriously again two years ago, becoming a life member of the OUS just this summer. (For more details, see the RW of Nov 27th.)