Gallery of Achievement Inductees 2017
Mr Logan J DUTTON (2013)
Mr Sam R GIBSON (2004)
Mr Paul G LANG (1972)
Logan started paddling in Year 7, 2008. At school he competed in 6 Murray Marathons, captaining 3 teams.
Sam is a professional Australian Rules footballer who has played over 100 games for North Melbourne in the AFL.
He has competed in 8 National Marathon Canoe Championships, and represented Australia as a junior in 2013 in Denmark.
Sam studied Civil Engineering and Commerce at the University of Melbourne, going on to work as a civil engineer at McConnell Dowell Construction Company.
Paul was awarded the Public Service Medal in 2017 for outstanding public service through the provision of legal advice to the Commonwealth.
As a senior paddler, Logan has represented Australia in the USA in 2014, in Germany in 2016, and South Africa in 2017.
During his studies and work Sam played for Box Hill in the VFL, until he was drafted by North Melbourne in 2012. During his 100 senior games with Box Hill he was Captain and Best and Fairest in 2011. Sam retained a part-time role with the construction company during his first year at North Melbourne, only leaving in his second season. He was a member of the North Melbourne Leadership Group in 2014 – 2015. Sam notes that his trajectory to the AFL was not a common one but his persistence paid off and he hasn’t missed a game since being selected at the age of 26.
After graduating from law at the University of Melbourne, Paul worked as a solicitor in private practice prior to commencing with the Commonwealth Attorney General’s legal practice in 1987. During the 1990s, when the Australian Government was engaged in a large scale privatisation program, he was one the Commonwealth’s foremost legal experts on asset sales and privatisations, working as a key member of the legal teams for transactions including Qantas Airways Limited, Australian Airlines and the long term leasing of federally owned airports. In the early 2000s he provided advice on a series of significant Commonwealth industry funding projects, including automotive industry programs and low emissions technology. His contributions over the past 15 years on major Defence projects has covered a wide range of areas including housing and accommodation, logistics, major capital acquisitions and through life support. Most recently, he has contributed to the success of the Future Submarine Program Competitive Evaluation Process, the largest defence acquisition undertaken by Australia. Paul was commissioned as an infantry officer in Melbourne University Regiment in 1974. He received the Reserve Force Decoration (RFD) for completing 15 years commissioned service in the Army Reserve.
Mr Andy T LEE (1999)
Andy Lee and his close friend and collaborator Hamish Blake, have been among Australia’s most popular entertainers for well over a decade. After graduating from Camberwell Grammar School, Andy went on to study Commerce at Melbourne University, which is where he met Hamish Blake and their exceptional partnership was born. Andy commenced his career on radio with Hamish in the early 2000s, rising to unparalleled success with listeners and becoming the highest rating radio program in Australian history. Their national drive show reached around 2.5million listeners each week and held that audience for an extraordinary 4 years, before they retired from the drive slot in 2011 to pursue other media ambitions. With a desire to establish their careers on TV, they continued to captivate audiences, this time with a stream of successful seasons of their global “Gap Year” expeditions, airing on the Nine Network. The show featured their escapades in New York, the UK, Asia, South America, India, New Zealand and Europe, earning 3 Silver Logies for the show. Together with mainstream radio and TV, they’ve also held comedic reign with their podcasts, having topped the iTunes charts as the #1 Australian radio podcast. In 2008 Hamish and Andy released their “Unessential Listening” CD that went platinum, selling well over 100,000 copies. In 2010 they released a second CD to great acclaim, “Celebrating Over 50 Glorious Years”. In June 2015, Hamish and Andy made their highly anticipated return to the HIT Radio network, once again hosting the top rating week day national Drive show they are known and loved for. 2017 sees another exciting development, as they will perform the final year of their radio show to make way for their return to the Nine Network with the debut of their exciting TV series, ‘True Story with Hamish and Andy’. Throughout his career, Andy has made guest appearances on many TV shows including The Project, Molly, Spicks and Specks, Have You Been Paying Attention, Rove, Thank God You’re Here, Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation and Kinne.
Mr Thomas A
STEPHENSON
(1967)
Tom completed a Bachelor of Building (Q. S.) at the University of Melbourne in 1974. During this time he built a Half-Ton Class Ocean Racing Yacht Providence, in which he won the Australian Half-Ton Championship in Sydney, February 1975. He represented Australia at the World Half Ton Cup in Chicago USA in September 1975, convincingly winning the event in Foxylady, against many of the world’s best sailors at the time. In 1976 he was named Australian Yachtsman of the Year and many International Sailing Event invitations and successes followed. He was construction manager and sailing master for Victoria’s first successful contender, Superstar, for a place in the three boat Australian team for the 1977 Admiral’s Cup, UK. In 1978 he skippered the radical 36’ OneTon Class racer B195/Magic Pudding, in the three boat Australian team for the inaugural Pam Am Clipper Cup in Hawaii, USA, with the team winning this event, and Magic Pudding winning the final long distance (775 nautical mile) Around the State Race. From 1977 to 1985 Tom turned his time and attention to boatbuilding where he developed and produced a range of performance sailing boats, and from 1986 to 1997 he consulted internationally in marina construction. In 1997, 1998 and 1999 he was Event/Race Director for the World Sailing Championships, a highly successful Melbourne Major Event. In recent years he has established a reputation as a marine model maker; his best known work is perhaps, the Sydney Hobart Race winners display at the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia in Sydney, where he has made every winner of the race and continues to do so.
Dr Bruce E TAYLOR (1967)
Bruce graduated from the University of Melbourne in Dental Science and completed a post graduate degree in Orthodontics in 1981. He recently retired from clinical practice having been involved in many facets of the profession for over forty years and being awarded Honorary Life Membership of the Australian Dental Association. Throughout his life he has been a keen sailor representing Victoria and Australia on numerous occasions both locally and internationally. He has completed in 36 Sydney to Hobart races in a series of yachts named Chutzpah. Whilst an overall win has eluded him he has achieved two seconds, a third, and a fourth coupled with a record breaking eleven divisional wins. In 2016 Bruce and his son Andrew (1988) became the first father/son combination to team up for 25 Sydney Hobarts. Andrew, based in Hong Kong, campaigns his yacht Ambush on the Asian circuit where Bruce often joins him. Bruce is a past Commodore and Life Member of the Royal Yacht Club of Victoria and plans a few more years of ocean racing.
Mr Richard B Taylor (1991)
Mr Christopher I THORN AM (1981)
Recruited by Hawthorn from Camberwell Grammar at pick 39 in the 1991 national draft, Richard made his debut in 1992 against Essendon contributing 3 goals in a 160 point win.
Christopher is a partner in EY’s Climate Change & Sustainability practice. He has a particular focus on building the Impact Investment and Social Finance market in Australia.
After suffering a second ACL knee injury requiring reconstructive surgery in 1994 he was delisted, but was picked up again by Hawthorn in the pre-season draft for 1995. In 1999, Richard was a member of the Hawthorn Night Premiership side and in the same year ran second in the club’s Best and Fairest award. His other awards with Hawthorn include Most Courageous Player in 1998, Most Improved Player in 1996 and winner of the Beau Wallace Award in 1992.
His studies include a Bachelor of Commerce from Melbourne University; a Graduate Diploma of Applied Finance from The Securities Institute of Australia; a Sales Management Program at Columbia Business School and the Nonprofit Leadership Program at Harvard Business School.
Richard went on to finish with 112 games for Hawthorn and 28 games for the West Coast Eagles. Hawthorn from 1992-2000 and West Coast Eagles from 2001-2002. After retiring from AFL football, Richard studied Physiotherapy at the University of Melbourne and Sports Science at Edith Cowan University. He is currently completing a Masters in Physiotherapy and is part of a research team investigating the risk factors associated with acute and recurrent hamstring muscle strain injuries in the AFL. Richard has also continued to work closely with the AFL in the National Under 18 program as a senior physiotherapist for the Victorian State Football Academy.
Christopher is an accomplished financial services executive who has 30 years’ experience working across private wealth management, institutional equities, philanthropy and social investment in Melbourne, New York and Brisbane. Having developed an extensive network particularly at the intersection of government, community and business sectors, Christopher has established a reputation as a thought leader in the development of social capital markets, his deep industry knowledge has been sought by a diverse and extensive Australia wide client group. His voluntary positions have included Membership of the Australian Advisory Board to the G8 Impact Investment Taskforce; Director of Impact Investing Australia; Council Member of Philanthropy Australia 2005 – 2013; Chairman and Founder of ShareGift Australia, 2006 – 2016 and he is the Founding Chairman of StreetSmart Australia. Christopher has a long term interest in social finance and increasing awareness of philanthropic issues and fostering relationships between interested parties in order to facilitate the giving process. On Australia Day 2017 Christopher was honoured with an appointment as a Member in the General Division of the Order of Australia for service to the Not for Profit sector and for advisory roles on philanthropic strategic planning and to the community.