Spectemur Term 3, 2018

Spectemur 2018 TERM 3

Contents From the Headmaster’s Desk.................................................................3 Features................................................................................................4 Parents’ Association Trivia Night........................................................4 Staff Profile: Ryan Whitehead............................................................5 Green Pages....................................................................................6 Father’s Day Breakfast......................................................................7 Biennial Concert...............................................................................8 60 Years of Teaching Chinese Language..........................................10 Oh What A Lovely War....................................................................11 Book Week.....................................................................................13 Life Governors’ Dinner....................................................................14 News Around the School.....................................................................15 From the Archives.............................................................................. 20 Congratulations...................................................................................21 From The Grammarian (and Spectemur): Our War Trophy ................... 25 Community Connections..................................................................... 27 Sport................................................................................................. 30 Gallery of Achievement Inductees 2018................................................31 News of Old Boys............................................................................... 33 Old Boy Profiles.................................................................................. 35 WA Network Function......................................................................... 37 SA Network Function.......................................................................... 37 25 Year Reunion................................................................................. 38 30 Year Reunion................................................................................ 39 OCGA Generations Photo.................................................................... 40 Vocational Dinner – STEM................................................................... 44

Camberwell Grammar School 55 Mont Albert Road, Canterbury Victoria Australia 3126 P.O.Box 151 Balwyn VIC 3103 T: +61 3 9835 1777 F: +61 3 9836 0752 www.cgs.vic.edu.au 2

Spectemur | Term 3 2018

From the Headmaster’s Desk “ Our School was founded in a liberal tradition of

education - a vision which

argued that education needed to develop all aspects of

each student’s personality.”

Somewhere along the way we seem to have come to see the purpose of education as being able to prepare students for the world of work. Even in the current public debates, in a context in which we simply don’t know what the world of work will look like for our students when they graduate, the argument is made that schools should equip their students with vague, ‘employable’ skills – creative thinking, problem solving, teamwork and entrepreneurship. I am sure that these are all worthy skills, and we do indeed develop such skills in our school – the current Year 8 Projec10 is a case in point – but it seems a rather narrow view of education that focuses only on the world of work.

Over a decade ago, the positive psychologist Martin Seligman published a book called Authentic Happiness, in which he suggested there

were three essential ingredients to being happy: positive emotions (pleasure, warmth, comfort), engagement (losing one’s self in a task, the loss of self-consciousness during an absorbing activity) and meaning (a sense that we belong to and serve something which is bigger than the self). In his most recent work, Flourish, he has added two further features: relationships (the way we interact with others in a positive way) and accomplishment (becoming good at something for its own sake). Seligman’s argument is persuasive and presents a richer goal for education than mere vocational training.

Seligman presents us with a better and more worthwhile goal for education in the modern world: to give our students the tools with which they can flourish in their lives. We want them to graduate into a life in which they are able to engage with others in meaningful and respectful ways; in which they have activities and passions they pursue with deep interest; in which they care deeply about the world and work towards making it a better place for their grandchildren; and in which they understand that it is necessary to work hard at acquiring skills but that perseverance will deliver great rewards.

Our School was founded in a liberal tradition of education – a vision which argued that

education needed to develop all aspects of each student’s personality – their mind, their spirit, their body. It is a tradition which resonates with Seligman’s, and we continue to develop and refine it. Our Biennial Concert this term serves as just one example.

Most concerts only involve those students who pursue instrumental lessons seriously.

This concert involved nearly every student in the school – they had been presented with a challenging program and sustained and focussed rehearsal was needed before a sense of mastery was achieved. Students and teachers had to work closely together if there was any hope of succeeding, and all students needed to be engaged fully in the process. On the night of the concert itself, the audience seemed to lose track of time, engrossed in the music and the community, and the enjoyment of the students was palpable as they rose to sing as one. We seemed to lose ourselves in the experience of being a community and performing together. The concert will not lead to a job (for many, if any) of our students, but it will help to shape whom they become, and I have no doubt that it will be a lasting memory for everyone who was lucky enough to be there that night. These are the enriching experiences of true education and they provide our students with skills which will enable them to flourish in their lives.

Dr Paul Hicks Headmaster

3

PARENTS’ Association Trivia Night On Saturday 23 June, the Parents’ Association held its annual social event. After many years of hosting a themed dinner and dancing event, the social sub-committee decided a change was in order and we would try a themed Trivia Night instead. Our initial concerns as to whether the new idea would be supported were rapidly dispelled when we found ourselves needing a waitlist after only two weeks! In the end, the evening was a sell-out, with 184 attendees across most year levels, with exceptional support from Years 7 and 12.

Prizes were awarded for the ‘Best Hatted Table’, which was won by one of the Friends of Norge tables with their creative lampshade headpieces. For the first time in many years we were able to report a profit ($2,306.45), but more importantly, we were able to achieve our main objective – a great ‘friend‑raising’ event.

4

My thanks go to the outstanding social sub‑committee of Tracey Guorgi, Ange Marino, Georgina Verrios, Amanda Harper, Fran Amling, Jenny Thurlby, John Campbell, Susie Karlson and Jessie Stasiak from the Development Office, for all their hard work and commitment. Plans are already underway for the 2019 gala event and information will be released in the not too distant future.

Mrs Cathy Garrard Parents’ Association President

Spectemur | Term 3 2018

Staff Profile Ryan Whitehead (1994) Director of Development Question 1: Welcome back to your old school!

How does it feel coming back as an employee?

Thank you, I have very fond memories of my time at Camberwell Grammar School from 1987 to 1994 and although the thought of returning was a little daunting at first, my nerves very quickly turned into wonderful memories. The buildings and facilities have changed immensely (for the better), but the history, familiar faces, humility and a sense of belonging still remain and that has made my transition back into the School environment such a warm and welcoming return.

Question 2: Can you tell us a little bit more about you and your background?

Since leaving school and studying a Bachelor of Human Movement at Victoria University of Technology and Masters of Sports Management at Deakin University, I have predominantly worked in the Sales and Marketing area of the sports and entertainment industry, including the Australian Grand Prix Corporation, Victoria Racing Club (VRC) and more recently the Collingwood Football Club.

I got my first job in 1998 at the Australian Grand Prix Corporation through a network of Old Boys that I met playing football at Old Camberwell. I played football for some 15 years and I am forever grateful for the friendships, opportunities and networks that the School and OCGA has provided me with.

I’m still very close to many Old Boys who I completed VCE with at Camberwell Grammar School in 1994, so I dare say our 25-year reunion next year may be a big one!

I currently live in Malvern East with my wife, Jacinta, our two children, Smith (10) and Winter (8), who attend Lloyd St Primary, and our three year old golden labrador, Zuma. As a family, we live a very active life in our local community and enjoy holidaying and keeping fit and healthy together.

Question 3: We won’t hold it against you that you worked at the Collingwood Football Club.

Is Collingwood your team now?

Yes (sorry), I did barrack for St Kilda for the first 30 years of my life and hated Collingwood, however, much to my father’s disgust… the kids and I are now Pies supporters.

Question 4: Do you have a particular hero, hardship and highlight that you would like to share?

My mum and dad are my heroes. From very humble beginnings, they provided my brother and I every opportunity to succeed in life and that started with a solid education at Camberwell Grammar School.

One hardship that has shaped me and the person I am today was the passing of my older brother, Blair (1991), four years ago.

One of my passions is family, but as a result of Blair’s death, I am also now passionate about men’s health and wellbeing, together with the personal development of people and culture within teams.

Apart from the obvious answers, such as marriage and the birth of my children, there are probably two main highlights that come to mind. Both highlights involve football premierships. The first was being part of the Old Camberwell Premiership in 2001 and the second was being a staff member involved with the 2010 Collingwood Premiership.

Question 5: What are you most looking forward to in your new role as the Director of Development?

I am very fortunate that the Development Office was already well-established, has some amazing staff and was running extremely efficiently and professionally prior to my arrival. That being said, I’m looking forward to working with the team to see how I can support them in their respective roles, meet all the key stakeholders and build relationships (internally and externally), reconnect with many Old Boys and explore new opportunities to further engage the Camberwell Grammar School community.

5

Green Pages

As always, Term 3 has been bristling with energy. Which – and I don’t want to shock you with bad puns here – has been zapped along by a deluge of raw data coming from the newly installed Solar System. Emile Akbarzadeh (Year 12) describes the journey from an idea to immense reality in his piece below.

Meanwhile, the School’s evolving approach to recycling has seen the introduction of a MobileMuster box in the Library – Evan Giasoumi (Year 9) describes why this is such a positive step in his piece. On that note, when you come to Open Day next term, be sure to drop by the Towards2050 display in the Wheelton Centre – there is a poster competition to judge, information on our Solar System and there will also be a MobileMuster box – bring along your old phones and know they are going to a good place.

Fun Facts: Floors are cool.

Especially in the Sports Centre. When you walk on the black and white speckled floors, you might be excused for seeing bullet proof (read: student proof) flooring that is designed to stand the test of time above anything else.

And you are right, it is bulletproof, and it is tougher than most nails – but it is also made from recycled tyres and other rubber waste.

The manufacturers (the catchily named BSW GmbH) are one of the world’s largest users of scrap tyre rubber and boast of it having zero ‘Ozone Depletion Potential’ (ODP) and zero ‘Global Warming Potential’ (GWP). Hearing this, you might feel like you are walking on sunshine, rather than student proof flooring when you next wander through to the gym.

Mr Will Hone Sustainability Coordinator

6

A Journey into The Camberwell Grammar Solar System Camberwell’s solar journey started back in 2016 with a student-led proposal that the School look at installing what we thought was a large scale array of solar panels. After all, it makes sense – there are 1,200 students on campus every day – plus another 200 staff – and the sun shines most of the time we are here. But more than money, this was about sending a message to the community: solar works.

We began by looking at how much space there was on the school roofs for solar panels and (perhaps unsurprisingly) found there was plenty of room to play with, which led us to start putting our proposal together. We analysed the School’s power usage to project the financial impact of a solar array, and our initial figures suggested that it would take around seven years for the panels to pay themselves off, after which they would be a source of revenue.

After several months of preparation, we presented our case for solar panels to a meeting of heavy hitters from the School’s leadership team. Their response was extremely positive and gave us a sense that this could actually happen. We were originally asking for a 50 kilowatt installation – about the same as ten average residential installations.

The Business Manager, Mr Lloyd, asked us what would happen to our projections if we increased our array to 500 kilowatts. It is an understatement to say we were surprised by such a jump, but with slightly shaky fingers we plugged the figures in and the numbers, as they say, did the talking.

There were complications – there are always complications. But the School was looking for solutions, and in this spirit overcame any difficulties that popped up along the way. After the giddy rush of presenting our ideas, the full School Executive had to discuss the plan, then the School Board – where the financial case was laid out and approved. Our solar installation was on the money, but it was significantly bigger than we first anticipated.

Just two years after our first presentation the School turned on an enormous 862 kilowatt system – which is currently the largest solar array on any school in Australia. It consists of 2650 solar panels and 36 inverters and provides a bit more than 40% of the School’s power demands.

Since switching on the solar system in May this year, we have started collecting statistics on its power generation and our power usage.

This data is starting to be used to enrich the curriculum of many subjects with practical case studies: Commerce students can look at the costs and benefits of solar panels; Science students at how the panels actually work. The installation also included two rooms which are off-grid, powered by Tesla batteries. Clearly, this data stream is still very young, but we look forward to seeing the many paths it can take into the classrooms of Camberwell Grammar.

It will be exciting to see where the School goes from here – there is a final stage planned, which like so many things is bristling with innovation, promise and excitement, but it will have to be the topic of a future story. Meanwhile, it is extremely exciting to look at the footage and photos of the School’s roofs – if you haven’t seen them already, come along to the Towards2050 display in the Wheelton Centre on Open Day – it will be great to see you there.

Emile Akbarzadeh Year 12

Spectemur | Term 3 2018

Calling Old Phones!

It is important to note that none of the items collected are re-sold for re-use.

In July this year Towards2050 introduced our first MobileMuster box into the L. W. Weickhardt Library. MobileMuster is the Australian mobile phone industry’s official product stewardship program funded voluntarily by most handset manufacturers and all network carriers and is accredited by the Australian Government.

MobileMuster accepts all brands of mobile phones and their batteries, chargers, accessories and mobile wireless broadband devices for recycling. To recycle your devices is easy. Simply backup your device, perform a factory reset and bring it into the library for recycling.

Since the telecommunications industry introduced its recycling service in 1998, MobileMuster has collected over 11 million mobile phones and batteries, keeping over 1323 tonnes of toxic materials from landfill (that’s well over a million kilograms!). This free recycling service enables everyone to play their part in keeping old mobiles out of landfill ensuring they are recycled in a safe, secure and ethical way.

By recycling your mobile, you’ll be repurposing valuable materials, such as (but certainly not limited to) gold, silver, copper, platinum, zinc and lithium. In fact, 1 tonne of mobile phone circuits can yield the same amount of precious metals as 110 tonnes of gold ore, 123 tonnes of silver bearing ore and 11 tonnes of copper sulphide ore. By using these recycled products, rather than the raw materials, greenhouse gas emissions are reduced. You’re also preventing

Father’s Day Breakfast

potentially hazardous materials from entering the environment, as frequently happens if your old device is sent to landfill, or even worse, to international recyclers who frequently burn their waste, pouring toxins into the atmosphere.

MobileMuster is an important plank in our growing E-waste program as we work to ensure that these deadly materials do not end up in our landfill, our water and the very air we breathe.

Don’t leave your phones in your draw! #RecycleTheRightWay And don’t forget, the Camberwell Grammar Open Day is on the way. Towards2050 are happy to announce that we will have a Mobile Muster box at our display in the Wheelton Centre. So bring along your old mobile phones, and help stream waste to the right place.

Evan Giasoumi Year 9

On Friday 31 August the Junior School Father’s Day Breakfast was held in the Camberwell Room. As always, the Friends of Norge and their many helpers ensured every aspect of the celebrations were executed to perfection. The Middle School Stage Band and the CGS Big Band played while the boys presented their special artwork to dad. Once again, Miss Ariela Nucci has helped the boys create something personal and special.

Mr Howard Kelly Head of Junior School

7

Biennial Concert This year’s Biennial Concert, held on Wednesday 5 September, was a special evening indeed. One aspect that makes our concert so great is the individual passion and dedication of many boys and teachers; the whole school put their efforts together with conviction and passion. To stand in the centre of it all is a huge joy and a great honour.

The boys always seem to rise to an occasion and to see the whole school embrace music as contrasting as Verdi’s ‘Anvil Chorus’ (in Italian) to jazz, and from composers Elgar to Tim Minchin and Toto was special indeed.

Even the audience rose to the occasion with the boys for a moving rendition of

8

‘Don’t Dream It’s Over’ by Crowded House, accompanied by the Senior Orchestra.

Our boys were magnificently led this year

by Captain of Music Emre Cakmakcioglu (Year 12), who not only displayed his sublime virtuosity on the viola with Weber’s ‘Andante e Rondo Ungarese’ but also masterfully conducted the school’s rendition of ‘The School Song’ and ‘The Sports Song’ with the orchestra alongside 1,000 voices at his fingertips.

Mr Ben Bishop Director of Music

Spectemur | Term 3 2018

9

60 Years of Teaching Chinese Language

Camberwell Grammar School began teaching the Chinese language in 1958, sixty years ago and was the first school in Australia to teach the Chinese language.

When Mr Glynn France recommended that our school introduce Mandarin Chinese as a subject in the late 1950s, he envisaged a future Australia with strong ties to Asia and argued persuasively that by learning Chinese, our students would be better placed to take part in that world. He also knew that by learning another language, we would be given a window into understanding and appreciating another culture.

10

Our School has honoured that vison for the past 60 years and we are proud of our record of teaching generations of students the Chinese language. The Chinese teachers who have worked here have left an extraordinary legacy and many of our graduates have gone on to live and work in China and the Asian region.

On Friday 7 September we were honoured to have The Hon Josh Frydenberg MP, Treasurer of Australia, Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party and Federal Member for Kooyong, officially Open the Conference and begin

the day’s celebrations of this 60th Anniversary at the 2018 Victorian Chinese Language Teachers’ Conference held in our Performing Arts Centre. We were also pleased to host Mr Zeng Jianhua, the Acting Consul General, General Consulate of People’s Republic of China in Melbourne. We also hosted representatives from our three sister schools in China, one in Nanjing, one in Xi’an, and one in Hangzhou.

Dr Paul Hicks Headmaster

CAMBERWELL GRAMMAR SCHOOL WITH CANTERBURY GIRLS’ SECONDARY COLLEGE

Oh What A Lovely War When the curtains opened revealing the stage I was intrigued by an opening scene with colour, action, Morris dancing, music and singing. I suspected however that this happy opening wasn’t going to last long. Since this was a play about the First World War, it would soon transition from the initial optimism and nationalistic enthusiasm that surrounded the outbreak of war to the unhappiness of the soldiers and the devastation of the trenches.

After the first scene was over however, the play quickly became complex as the perspective of the characters rapidly flipflopped and some actors played multiple characters. Overall, I felt perplexed but at the very least interested.

If a character was wearing a helmet or had a firearm in a darkly lit area they were most likely in the war. In contrast, if a character was

PRESENTS

JOAN LITTLEWOOD’S Musical Entertainment

wearing a bowtie and a top-hat in a brightly lit area they were probably in the city or a theatre.

By Theatre Workshop, Charles Chilton, Gerry Raffles and Members of the Original Cast

The play portrayed the tensions of war through the threat of death and defeat at every turn. A slideshow projected at the back of the stage showed actual facts and photographs from the war and the number of people who had lost their lives in various battles. Loud noises such as gunshots and explosions were played creating a suspenseful atmosphere to envelop the audience.

The cast presented a very complex show with talent, and the back-stage team provided costumes, sights and sounds that painted this part of history with strength and interest.

Title Suggested by Ted Allan

7:30PM MIDDLETON THEATRE THU 16 FRI 17 SAT 18 CAMBERWELL GRAMMAR SCHOOL AUGUST 2018 $15 & $10 trybooking.com/WQGG Directed by Andrew Stocker | Set and Props Design by Mark Wager | Costume Design by Jennifer Bennie

BY ARRANGEMENT WITH ORiGiN™ THEATRICAL ON BEHALF OF SAMUEL FRENCH LTD

Nicholas Barry Year 8

11

12

Spectemur | Term 3 2018

Book Week Find Your Treasure Perseverance, writing about what you know, sharing and being willing to learn were just some of the areas of advice that Will Kostakis gave to his audience at our Blokes’ Book Breakfast on Thursday 23 August.

In a highlyentertaining talk, Will described how at the ripe age of

ten he started his writing career, penning a story in class instead of reading his class text, and how his writer’s journey took off from there. A group of dads, one grandfather, boys and staff enjoyed his hilarious anecdotes, competed for a book prize and took away many gems of wisdom to reflect on. His engaging presentation will remain with us for a long time.

The Weickhardt Library also celebrated Book Week with a number of other activities.

Students were visited by authors Alan Brough, who has written Charlie and the War Against the Grannies and Charlie and the Karaoke

Cockroaches and Jane Godwin, whose many books include How Big is Too Small? and All Through the Year. Students also designed a graphic novel book cover or bookmark using old graphic novels. Kenny Chan and Henry from Drawing With Us ran a Manga drawing class workshop, providing boys with tips and tricks for perfecting their cartooning. Other lunchtime activities included solving a cryptic quiz related to book titles and a treasure hunt.

Mrs Catherine Casey Head of Library and Information Services

13

Life Governors’ Dinner

On Monday 13 August, the School hosted the Life Governors’ Dinner in the Camberwell Room. The School Council congratulated and thanked long serving staff members who have been at Camberwell Grammar School for 25 years: Mrs Penny Runge (Indonesian Teacher), Mr Stuart Feldt

14

(Audio Visual Manager) and Ms Rhonda Nicholson (Coordinator of School Health Services). The Headmaster also paid tribute to Mr John Allen, who has worked at Camberwell teaching English and Literature for the past 50 years.

News Around the School

Spectemur | Term 3 2018

National da Vinci Decathlon With 40 teams of eight competing across two days of rigorous competition, our Year 7 and Year 10 teams performed admirably.

When the results of the 10-subject discipline competition were tallied, our Year 10 team of Haotian Huang, Jamie Garnham, Daniel Duong, Kaelan Fraser, Tory Crosgrove, Matthew Chan, Ryan Tam and Rohan Hodges were awarded a Bronze Medal for their efforts.

The four day tour included trips to Sydney’s CBD, The Rocks and the Botanic Gardens, as well as competing in a ‘Race Around Sydney’, where checkpoints listed questions demanding close scrutiny of the immediate surrounds. Accompanying teacher, Mr Shaun Burke checked in with the teams as they sped from checkpoint to checkpoint.

Staying at the Abbotsleigh Girls’ School Boarding House gave the team a chance to bond and to sample the lifestyle associated with Boarding House Schooling.

The Year 7 team did well and tried their best, coming sixth out of 14 Year 7 teams. The team included Cooper Carbone, Alan Tian, Albert Guan, Shivansh Kakkar, Rick Kovos, Tom Nguyen, Hugo Pringle and Justin Zhu.

Go Global Program In late June, the Indonesian Department was fortunate to host two guest speakers as part of the Go Global program run by Asia Link.

Mr Kiah Mitchell, a science undergraduate at Melbourne University, and Dr Max Richter, a Lecturer at Monash University, spoke about the opportunities available to young Australians studying Indonesian. These included scholarships, youth organisations and government initiatives such as the New Colombo Plan. We heard about the ways that the Go Global Program engages students with Asia and the world, helping them develop the skills required to navigate and succeed in a globally connected and culturally diverse world. We also learnt about the ways they help students connect what they learn in class with future education and career pathways.

Mrs Janet Sharman Head of Indonesian 15

Brain Stem Project Swinburne University of Technology recently invited four of our Year 10 students to devise a piece of technology which would assist people in their daily lives. Mentored by Mr Peter O’Donoghue, the team collaborated to design a device for parents and their babies. This device fits snugly inside a nappy and plays a tune when water is detected. Lots of fun was involved in using dolls to configure the device and get it operating properly.

After perfecting the device, the students brought their piece of technology along for a demonstration at Swinburne University of Technology. The Brain Stem Project proved very valuable and everyone enjoyed the process of creating, making, developing, refining and presenting.

The team of students consisted of Haotian Huang, Joshua Soo, Kaelan Fraser and Sean Liu. Mr Paul Double and Ms Rachel Wu Teachers in Charge

“ After a series of individual and team responses,

Camberwell Grammar School was awarded first place.”

Chinese Principals’ Visit Brain Bee Competition After qualifying in the preliminary round of the University of Melbourne and Florey Institute Brain Bee Competition, Camberwell’s Year 10 team of Ryan Tam, Kaelan Fraser, Jamie Garnham, Haotian Huang, Kieran McAuley and Tory Crosgrove were invited to compete in the State Final held at the Melbourne Brain Centre at the Florey Institute.

After the answers were tallied from all 43 competing teams, we were successful in reaching the three team Grand Final against MacRobertson Girls’ High School and Ruyton Girls’ School for the title of Champion Brain Bee School 2018.

16

After a series of individual and team responses, Camberwell Grammar School was awarded first place.

Kaelan Fraser and Haotian Huang were invited to compete in the Individual State Title against students from the other schools. Kaelan was awarded first place and Haotian came third in this event. Kaelan will now represent Victoria in the National Final to be held in Brisbane in December. We wish him well.

Mr Paul Double Head of Enrichment

On Friday 27 July, the principal of Suzhou Foreign Language School, Mr Dong Bin, the principal of Taizhou No.1 Foreign Language School, Mr Wu Jiang, and the principal of the YK Pao School in Shanghai, Mr Wu Zijian, visited Camberwell Grammar School. They observed some classes in the morning and in the afternoon, Dr John Tuckfield held a meeting with them introducing the Australian education system and answered many questions. After the meeting, they had a tour around school. The three principals thoroughly enjoyed their visit to our school.

Mr Wei Ha Head of Chinese

Spectemur | Term 3 2018

Backstage with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra For this year’s Elva Allan Concert, Harrison McEwen (Year 12), Edward Wu (Year 11), Matthew Wu (Year 10), Sebastian Csutoros (Year 11), Andrew Zeng (Year 11) and Geoffrey Gong (Year 10) will be playing Prokofiev’s ‘Overture on Hebrew Themes’. Coincidentally, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra was also playing it, as part of their Chamber Concert Series, and we were lucky enough to be able to watch one of their rehearsals and see the concert at Iwaki Auditorium.

Personally, the most interesting part of the rehearsal was seeing how professional musicians worked together. While it was extremely lighthearted throughout the session, it was really insightful listening to the provoking discussions they had about the nuances in the music. One of the key insights came from a rehearsal quality that they displayed, which was to adopt the empathetic mindset of placing their ‘ears in the audience’. Upon hearing the final phases of the rehearsal, an overwhelming

sense of inspiration was felt by all the boys, as we were left to ponder about such a casual yet effective style of rehearsing.

They also gave us useful advice which will help in our interpretation of the music, such as understanding the historical context and character of the piece.

Overall, this was an invaluable opportunity for us to improve our musicianship and it will no doubt improve our playing. Thanks must go to Mr Bishop, Mrs Atkinson and Ms Robertson for making this experience possible.

Geoffrey Gong and Matthew Wu Year 10

“ It was really insightful listening to the provoking

discussions they had about the nuances in the music.”

Pre-Prep Focuses on STEM Education Exploring, observing, experimenting and discovering are all essential building blocks in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education. In Pre-Prep, our youngest students have been spontaneously engaging in experiences which foster STEM on a daily basis. Block building, sorting and classifying materials, experimenting with loose parts (crates, tyres and planks) and participating in naturebased activities including planting, watering, pruning, searching for mini-beasts, investigating our bug house, and exploring the creek, are all examples of how a playbased learning environment facilitates the key principles of STEM education at our school.

Ms Fiona Howie Pre-Preparatory Director

17

Lyceum Club Excursion On a cloudy Tuesday morning, six eager music students with two music staff travelled to the city by train to perform for the Lyceum Club, a Graduate Club for women who have distinguished themselves in the field of Arts. Understandably, we were all very nervous – these were some of the best musicians in the whole of Australia. Our group, the Prokofiev Sextet, had already had numerous coaching sessions with leading musicians such as Avan Yu, Plexus Ensemble and the Ensemble Liaison, so we were looking forward to incorporating their words of wisdom into an actual performance.

The moment we walked in, we were greeted by someone who looked very familiar. Our facts guru Geoff Gong (Year 10) was the first to realise that she was in fact the esteemed Susan Pierotti, who had taken a Masterclass for the Highton Strings Ensemble the previous day. We were indeed rubbing shoulders with legends.

We started off our performance with a throwback to one of the pieces the string players played last year for the Brisbane Festival (and of course, the mighty Derham House Music Instrumental) – the Shostakovich ‘String Quartet No. 8 Mvt.II: Allegro Molto’. We started off at a cracking pace and didn’t slow down, speeding through what was no doubt our fastest and wildest performance of the piece. Harrison McEwen (Year 12) followed

Gamelan Incursion All Year 8 Indonesian classes were involved in a visit from Pak Aaron, who gave a traditional Gamelan music demonstration.

18

with a more composed, but equally exciting performance of Mozart’s ‘4th Church Sonata’ on the clarinet, with the lively and dance-like tune setting a high standard for the rest of our performances. Seb Csutoros (Year 11) followed with some unaccompanied ‘Bach Gigue from Suite No. 4 in Eb Major’, with the clean string crossings a highlight of his virtuosic performance. Up next was Geoff Gong, who gave a serene and passionate rendition of ‘Meditation from Thaïs by Jules Massenet’, which stunned everyone into an amazed silence afterwards. Matthew Wu (Year 10) followed with a skilled performance of Chopin’s ‘Grand Valse Brillante in Eb Major’ on the piano. The waltz was incredibly energetic, showcasing Matthew’s skills on the piano.

Finally, it was time to play the piece that we had been painstakingly rehearsing – the ‘Overture on Hebrew Themes’ by Sergei Prokofiev.

Andrew Zeng’s (Year 11) beautiful, ringing chords on the piano were a highlight of the performance, as we locked in with each other and played together with passion. It was no doubt our best performance of the piece yet.

The excursion was amazing and one of the highlights of our musical careers at Camberwell Grammar School. However, it could not have been possible without the work done behind the scenes by Ms Fairs, who organised the outing, but was unfortunately sick on the day, Mr Roberts, who accompanied all of our performances on the piano and stepped up in the absence of Ms Fairs, Ms Atkinson, who coached and taught us how to play the ‘Prokofiev Sextet’ and Mr Bishop, who helped give us lifts to the train station.

Edward Wu Year 11

Spectemur | Term 3 2018

Visit from Avan Yu From the 24 to 26 July, the Music Department was pleased to welcome renowned Canadian pianist Avan Yu as Artist-in-residence. Avan achieved international recognition when he triumphed at the 2012 Sydney International Piano Competition, winning first prize along with nine special awards, and has since established a stunning international career, performing extensively throughout Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, including recitals at Camberwell Grammar in 2012 and 2014.

During his stay, Avan gave private lessons, coached two of our chamber music ensembles and ran a public masterclass, in which students from Methodist Ladies’

College, Presbyterian Ladies’ College and Melbourne High were also invited to participate. Matthew Wu (Year 10) was our representative on the day, giving a vibrant performance of a Chopin waltz. He also had a one-on-one lesson with Avan, as did Dean Roff (Year 11), Rhys Campbell (Year 10), Arman Cakmakcioglu (Year 10), Victor Zhou (Year 9) and Wilson Zhu (Year 9).

Avan’s visit culminated in a stunning recital in the Middleton Theatre on Thursday 26 July.

Playing to a packed house, Avan presented a programme of works taking us from the elegance of Mozart, through the lush colours of Ravel to the dazzling virtuosity of Liszt, ending with a performance of his famous Sonata in B minor which captured all the

drama and transcendence inherent in this great work. A pair of encores, also by Liszt, brought the evening to a close and had members of the audience queuing up for copies of Avan’s latest CD featuring works by this composer.

It was a wonderful experience for our students to experience a live performance by a musician of Avan’s calibre and to be able to work with him either individually or as a member of an ensemble. I hope he will be able to bring his artistry and musical insight to the School again in the not-too-distant future.

Mr Greg Roberts Head of Keyboard

19

From the Archives

Archival items earmarked for display in the Sports Centre.

Lieutenant Symonds, 1901.

The School Archives hold many trophies dating from 1886 until recent times, prizes that were awarded for outstanding achievement in many different aspects of school life. This collection was augmented significantly in June, when Mrs Vicki Fairfax of Warrandyte generously donated the 1893 trophy “Champion Cup” for “Athletic Sports” awarded to her grandfather, Stanley Le Pastrier Symonds (class of 1896).

The trophy was accompanied by a number of documents outlining the life and achievements of this outstanding Old Boy, helping to augment our records of a student who attended the Camberwell Grammar School at Fermanagh Road, Prospect Hill, from February 1891. This is a period in the history of our institution that is not particularly well documented and, for this reason alone, the generosity of Mrs Fairfax and her wider family are much appreciated.

Stanley Symonds was born in Hawthorn on 16 June 1878, first attending Hawthorn College before moving on to Fermanagh Road in the last year of the A.B. Taylor Headship, passing in July 1891 into the first year under the new ‘Principals’, Alfred Hall and Will Gosman. He remained for three years, from Grades 7 to 9, walking across empty fields from Hawthorn to Prospect Hill on every school day. Stanley later told his son that on that first day in February 1891, he had been forced to defend himself against bullies on four occasions. The School population in 1891 was only 112 and over the following years, it began to plummet owing to economic depression.

After this tough schooling in a tough period of Victoria’s history, Stanley attended the 20

Longeralong Agricultural College, Horsham, (est.1889), graduating in 1897 with a Diploma, probably in Animal Husbandry. He enlisted only two years later in 1899 in the colonial contingent heading for the war in South Africa, where he served in the 3rd NSW Mounted Rifles until 1902, when the ‘Boer War’ concluded with a victory for the Empire. Over 16,000 other Australians did likewise in this and other contingents, both local and imperial, including at least two other Grammarians, both at the School in years that overlapped with Symonds and both of whom were killed on campaign.

Lieutenant Symonds survived, having been a veterinary officer in charge of horses and as an ambitious young man, he then studied at the University of Melbourne, graduating as a veterinary physician in 1906. The following years were spent in the Straits Settlement (Malaya) supervising horse shipments from Australia to other parts of the Empire. By 1913, the ambitious Symonds was studying tropical medicine in London, studies interrupted by the outbreak of the Great War. The thirty-sevenyear old veteran (already described as having ‘grey hair’) now enlisted in the British Army in May 1915, transferring to the AIF in December 1918, returning home shortly thereafter.

The now Major Symonds had overseen hospitalised horses in France and the Balkans, superintending the destruction of the legion of ‘Walers’, not permitted to return to Australia owing to quarantine regulations. Australia alone shipped some 136,000 to the Middle East and Europe, 1914-18 – only one, ‘Sandy’, ever returned to the pastures of home.

Following this distinguished war service, Symonds returned to Kuala Lumpur where he

The Symonds trophy, 1893: “Champion Cup for Athletic Sports”. married a Tasmanian expatriate, Lillian, in 1920. By the time he retired on a Malay pension to Hawthorn in 1929, Stanley Symonds was the father of three sons and a daughter, but a man of his character was unlikely to remain otiose for long and he was soon appointed as a veterinary officer by the Launceston City Council.

Whilst here for over a decade, Mr Symonds was noted for assisting in the elimination of the bovine disease of brucellosis, which allowed for the supply of disease-free milk throughout Tasmania and later in parts of mainland Australia. This was a considerable, if not widely-appreciated, achievement. The Second World War saw him back in Melbourne working for the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories, before dairy farming at Tynong in Gippsland until 1954. Final retirement followed in the 1960s at Box Hill and then at Canterbury, only a few hundred metres from the Camberwell Grammar School site on Mont Albert Road; his flourishing old school was now unrecognisably changed from that diminutive institution of the 1890s.

The varied life of Stanley Le Pastrier Symonds – soldier, veterinary officer, husband, father and grandfather – came to an end in July 1968, at the age of 90. It was a life of considerable achievement in wartime and peace, one that honours his old school.

Thanks are due to Mrs Vicki Fairfax and Stephanie Symonds, who have taken the trouble to chronicle the life of their notable ancestor. The 1893 Symonds trophy will now take an honoured position in our Heritage Collection, thereby serving as a permanent reminder of this distinguished Grammarian.

The Camberwell Grammar Archives have selected a number of items to be displayed in the new Sports Centre.

These items from our collection include trophies, shields, blazer pockets, cricket balls, a basketball, some sporting apparel and a selection of photographs. They will offer visitors and members of the School community an insight into the rich sporting history of the School from 1886 onwards and offer some indication of the richness of our archival collection – visitors are welcome to visit the Archives on Open Day and thereby to share in this heritage.

Dr David Bird Archivist

Major Symonds in the Great War (2nd left, 2nd row down).

Spectemur | Term 3 2018

Congratulations Sport CAMBERWELL CUP The Camberwell Cup was held on the last weekend of the Term 2 school holidays.

Students enjoyed professional standard race coaching and then competed, along with parents and siblings, on a giant slalom race course for the Camberwell Cup, among other awards. The Raszewskis were awarded the Fastest Family and Declan Woolf (Year 11) was the Fastest Snowboarder. The Camberwell Cup winner for 2018 was won by Luc Raszewski (Year 12). Congratulations to our winners and all who took part in this event.

SENIOR SCHOOL HOUSE SWIMMINGÂ COMPETITION At the end of Term 2, our Senior School House Swimming Competition was held in the Sports Centre. Congratulations to the following students on their achievements: YEAR 9 Gold Silver Bronze

Alexander Hillman James Harker Rory Wheelhouse

YEAR 10 Gold Silver Bronze

Jasper Fodor Matthew Bryson Peter Zhao

YEAR 11 Gold Silver Bronze YEAR 12 Gold Equal Silver Bronze

Max Foulds Harry Swingler Corey McCabe

Connor Xu Joachim Zerelli, Alexander Kyriakos Michael Tan

CAPTAINS FOR SPRING SEASON SPORT AGSV SPORTS REPRESENTATIVES - WINTER 2018

FOOTBALL

Ryan Walsh (Year 11) Harry McLeod (Year 12) (emergency)

Congratulations to the following students for their selection into the AGSV Representative teams in their respective sports. For many, this is the culmination of years of dedication and commitment.

HOCKEY

Nick Gooden (Year 11) Charlie Harper (Year 11) James Sampson (Year 11)

SOCCER

Jack Fitzgerald (Year 12) (emergency) Jasper Guthrie (Year 11) (emergency)

Congratulations to the following students who were appointed Captains for the Spring Sport Season: ATHLETICS

Dilina DeSilva (Year 12) (Captain) Matthew Perri (Year 12) (Vice Captain)

WATER POLO Lachlan Thompson (Year 12) (Captain) 21

SPORT COLOURS – WINTER SEASON CROSS COUNTRY On Thursday 16 August all Middle School and Senior School boys took part in the annual Cross County Carnival at the scenic Westerfolds Park, Templestowe. It was a brilliant morning with some exceptional results. A couple of hills and varied terrain, amid a backdrop of gumtrees and kangaroos, made for an interesting and enjoyable course. All boys are to be commended for their participation.

Special congratulations to the following boys: YEAR 6 Zac Matters Callum Yates Ethan Ong

YEAR 7 Benjamin Gale Joshua Blew Lachlan O’Neill

YEAR 8 Charlie Chun Kai Sapolu Richard Luo

YEAR 9

YEAR 10

Jimmy Smith

Taran Laurence

Flynn Chable Zac Johnson

Tom Bowers Chris How

YEAR 11

YEAR 12

Henry Macdonald

Christian Chene

Tristan Patsiotis Charlie Harper

Noah Marshallsay Jack Fitzgerald

PLACE

HOUSE

Equal 1st

DERHAM / SCHOFIELD

3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th

MACNEIL STEVEN SUMMONS BRIDGLAND CLIFFORD ROBINSON

THE HOCKEY PLAYERS – PLAYER AWARD

AGSV CROSS COUNTRY COMPETITION

The Hockey Players – Player Award is awarded to the First XI player who is judged by his peers to have had a significant and positive impact on the team’s performance over the season. The selection criteria focus upon each player’s overall contribution and teamsmanship. Further, it is based upon each member of the First IX players group view, from their perspective on the ground.

Congratulations to this year’s recipient, Nicholas Gooden (Year 11).

AGSV Cross Country medals are awarded to the best performing athletes with points tallied from all seven AGSV races. Congratulations to Taran Laurence (Year 10), who received a Bronze Medal in AGSV Cross Country.

SNOWSPORTS Congratulations to all Snowsports participants who competed at Mount Buller this term.

We had 14 Middle School boys competing in the Victorian Inter-School Championships in idyllic snow conditions. Congratulations to the following students: YEAR 6 YEAR 7 Savith Jayasuriya Micheal Wang Sebastian Beck Henry Baker

22

YEAR 8 Arya Aminazad Aidan Chen James Backwell Harry Gittins Logan Taplin Campbell Rowland Alec McDougall Fletcher Von Arx Steven Lu Luke O’Brien

Congratulations to the following students on their achievements: CROSS COUNTRY HALF COLOURS Jacob Hunting (Year 12) Nicholas Lee (Year 12) Che McGuire (Year 12) Alister Wong (Year 12)

FULL COLOURS Christian Chene (Year 12) Taran Laurence (Year 10) Nicholas Liew (Year 12)

FENCING HALF COLOURS FULL COLOURS Matthew Kautsky (Year 12) Darcy MacCuspie (Year 12) FOOTBALL HALF COLOURS David Augustes (Year 12) Joel Kleiman (Year 12) Noah Marshallsay (Year 12) David McColl (Year 12) Fin Sampson (Year 12) Finnegan Weston (Year 10)

FULL COLOURS Harry McLeod (Year 12) Ayce Taylor (Year 12) Ryan Walsh (Year 11)

FUTSAL HALF COLOURS James Burrows (Year 11) Thomas Graves (Year 11) Fraser Hanley (Year 11) Shiv Malik (Year 11) Harry McDonald (Year 11) HOCKEY HALF COLOURS Will Bolton (Year 11) Brodie Carswell (Year 8) Michael Donaldson (Year 12)

FULL COLOURS Alexander Chauhan (Year 12) Patrick Emmett (Year 12) Nicholas Gooden (Year 11) Charlie Harper* (Year 11) James Sampson (Year 11)

SOCCER HALF COLOURS Dean Christo lopoulos (Year 10) Jasper Guthrie (Year 11) Tom Masanauskas (Year 12) Dimitri Topatsis (Year 10) Niko Verrios (Year 11)

FULL COLOURS Jack Fitzgerald (Year 12) Nathan Martin (Year 12) Xander Simpson (Year 12)

Spectemur | Term 3 2018

Academic CERTIFICATES OF ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE At the end of each Semester, Senior School students are awarded Certificates of Academic Excellence on the basis that their academic results place them in the top 10% of their year group. Congratulations to the following students: YEAR 9 Luke Doblin Aidan Harris Andrew Ho Jack Hu Alastair Joshi Alex Lew Zach Lewis Sam Parmenter Jaimen Quach YEAR 10 Tom Bowers Rhys Campbell Tory Crosgrove Kaelan Fraser Jamie Garnham Geoffrey Gong Rohan Hodges Haotian Huang Ming Jin Low YEAR 11 Jack Amling Ian Chen Joshua Dai William Dai Lachlan Doig James Gunasegaram Alan Jiang Ian Kaharudin

INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE COMPETITION

AUSTRALIAN GEOGRAPHY COMPETITION

In Term 2, Camberwell Grammar School students competed in the International Science Competition (ICAS). This event attracts over 1.5 million entries from across Australia and in 12 Asian-Pacific countries. Over 500 Camberwell Grammar students from Years 6 to 10 participated in this competition and the following results were achieved:

The Australian Geography Competition is a contest for Australian secondary school students, assessing their geographical knowledge and skills. The annual competition involves over 72,000 students from around Australia. All Year 9 and 10 Camberwell Grammar students took part in the competition and were awarded 36 Distinctions, 30 High Distinctions and 5 students achieved an outstanding result of being in the Top 1% in Australia in their year level. Congratulations to the following students who are Top 1% in Australia:

• 17 High Distinction Awards • 62 Distinction Certificates

Nicholas Robinson Sam Schwenk James Stambe Jayden Thai Sean Yang James Yao Alexander Zervas Wilson Zhu

• 152 Credit Certificates The following students were presented with their High Distinction awards at Assembly: YEAR 7 Timothy Bryson Yiyu Chen YEAR 8 Akalanka Gunawardana

Emmanuel Marcus Kieran McAuley Thomas Ng Jack Schwenk Ryan Tam Philip Wang Sonny Wang Matthew Wu

Kevin Li Lucas Liu Lachlan Melville Oliver Papillo Michael Pham Oscar Tong Andrew Zeng Tianyi Zhou

YEAR 9 Angus Aikman Luke Doblin Jack Hu YEAR 10 Angus Corr Tory Crosgrove Kaelan Fraser Jamie Garnham

Alexander Harris

Nicholas Huang

Nicholas Robinson James Stambe

YEAR 9 Luke Doblin Andrew Ho Jack Hu Alastair Joshi

YEAR 10 Sonny Wang

MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS OLYMPIAD COMPETITION Congratulations to our Year 12 team consisting of Charles Li, Sam Xiao, Ryan Campbell and Ming Kim Low who competed in the Mathematics Olympiad at the University of Melbourne and came a very creditable third place out of 23 teams.

INTERNATIONAL MATHEMATICS OLYMPIAD

Ming Jin Low Hamish Monckton Kevin Yang

Charles Li (Year 12) was one of six students who represented Australia at the International Mathematics Olympiad competition in Cluj‑Napoca, Romania over the Term 2 school holiday break. Early in the term, we welcomed Mr Philip Swedosh, Head of Mathematics at the King David School and the State Director of the Australian Mathematical Olympiad Committee to our school Assembly, where he presented Charles with a Silver Medal.

“ Charles Li was one of six students who

represented Australia at the International Mathematics

Olympiad competition ”

23

SCHOLARS OF THE SCHOOL At the start of each year, we recognise “Scholars of the School” – these are students who excelled in their Semester 2 subjects in the previous year. Each year, we also consider the Year 12 mid-year results to see if there are other students who have achieved equally well in the first semester of their final year, and who merit inclusion in this group. Congratulations to the following Scholars of the School: Emre Cakmakcioglu Ben Curnow

Michael Kwan David Roberts

AUSTRALIAN HISTORY COMPETITION Last term, 7,700 Year 10 students from across the country participated in the Australian History Competition. Of the 7,700 participants, only 86 (or 1.2%) were awarded High Distinctions, and of those 86 students, 20 were from our school. Congratulations to the following students who were awarded a High Distinction: Charlie Amling Nathan Le Angus Bosmans David Maes Michael Campbell Hugh McGlone Matthew Chan Oliver Powell Steven Chen Matthew Power

Jasper Fodor Jack Schwenk Jamie Garnham Ryan Tam Luke Hobson Phillip Wang Rohan Hodges Matthew Wu Kevin Yang

“ Triple Colour Pockets are

awarded to a student when they have won Full Colours in three separate cultural

TRIPLE COLOURS Triple Colour Pockets are awarded to a student when they have won Full Colours in three separate cultural or sporting areas.

Congratulations to Christian Chene and Michael Tan (Year 12), who each received Full Colours in Debating, Drama and Music.

or sporting area ”

Co-Curricular QUEEN’S SCOUT AWARD

MUSIC COLOURS

Congratulations to Benjamin Chesler (Year 12), who has been awarded the Queen’s Scout Award. The Award is the culmination of a number of years’ work and is given to only a very few Scouts – an impressive achievement.

Congratulations to Michael Donaldson (Year 12) for receiving his Full Colours for Music.

2018 JOHN BUTTON SCHOOL PRIZE The University of Melbourne’s John Button School Prize awards the best essay on a subject concerning Australia’s future by a Victorian student from Years 10 to 12.

Congratulations to Benjamin Chesler (Year 12), who was chosen as the winner of the John Button School Prize for his essay, ‘Crisis or Opportunity? Combatting Urban Sprawl and Rural Decline with Immigration’. Ben received a certificate and bursary at an Oration and Reception during the Melbourne Writers Festival in late August.

24

ELVA ALLEN STRINGS SCHOLARSHIP On Tuesday 11 September, we enjoyed a wonderful Elva Allan Memorial Concert in the Performance Arts Centre, where our music scholars demonstrated their virtuosity on a variety of instruments in a wonderful chamber music program. We congratulate Mathieu Ly (Year 8) – Violin, a very worthy winner of this year’s prestigious 2018 Elva Allan Strings Scholarship.

LONG TAN LEADERSHIP AND TEAMWORK AWARDS The Australian Defence Force seeks nominations each year for the Long Tan Leadership and Teamwork Awards. The Awards are offered to students currently in Years 10 and 12 who demonstrate leadership and teamwork within the school or the broader community whilst also displaying strong values such as respect for others, striving for their best and ‘mateship’. Congratulations to this year’s awardees, Hugh McGlone (Year 10) and Luke Sudholz (Year 12).

From The Grammarian (and Spectemur)

Spectemur | Term 3 2018

OUR WAR TROPHY – 1921 AND BEYOND We are approaching the observation of the centenary of the end of the Great War on 11 November 1918 and my history of the School’s participation in that conflict – Sustaining the Empire – will be published next year, mindful that technically the war continued until the signing of the peace treaties in mid-1919, the Armistice having been extended three times from November of the previous year. Winning a war, of course, is quite a different thing from securing an enduring post-war peace, but there was confidence enough well into the 1920s that the recent conflict could be entitled “the war to end all wars” and Camberwell Grammar was as keen as any other community group at this time to secure suitable monuments for the future commemoration of a war that had taken the lives of over forty Old Boys.

Accordingly, in November 1920 the former high-ranking military officer, Brigadier-General H.E. “Pompey” Elliott, visited the School to unveil the Honour Board that contained the 230 (or so) names of those who had served in the recent conflict, including the names of the forty (or so) fallen. The Board, and the dead, were commemorated in poetry by Prefect Victor Drinkwater (1921) “Lest We Forget”, which called for perpetual reverence for “The heroes bold/The glorious dead”. Elliott, a Boer War veteran, had been one of Australia’s leading military commanders in the Great War, having served in the field from Gallipoli to the Armistice. He was then elected to the Senate in 1919 as a Victorian representative of the Nationalist Party. He also remained a commander in the Militia. More importantly, Elliott was a Camberwell Grammar parent, his only son, Neil, enrolling at Burke Road in 1920, aged seven. The Elliott family lived in Moorhouse Street, East Camberwell and Neil had come from Canterbury State School. He would later go on to Scotch College, as many Grammarians did in those days – in his four years at Burke Road he was a Speech Night prize-winner for three of them.

The Brigadier-General returned to his son’s school in the following year on Wednesday, 10 August 1921, to present the School in general, and the cadet detachment in particular with its own ‘War Trophy’, a 77mm Krupp Field Gun captured by the Victorian 6th Battalion, AIF, from the retreating Germans in France in the last months of the war, at the iconic village of Villers-Bretonneux (or what was left of it) on 8 August 1918, that ‘black day of the German Army’ as General Ludendorff, the Teutonic warlord, called it.

The Australian War Museum (predecessor of the Australian War Memorial) based in Melbourne, the federal capital until 1927, had established a post-war committee to allocate such captured war materiel to worthy community organisations. Alfred Hall,

The Magazine, December 1921, notes the arrival of the War Trophy.

Headmaster of Camberwell Grammar and a Captain in the Militia, had applied successfully on behalf of ‘his’ school and accordingly formally received the war trophy on this August afternoon in 1921. Elliott described the capture of the gun as the Germans were being pushed back beyond the Somme in 1918 and hoped that it would now serve as ‘an object lesson to the boys upon whose shoulders would rest the future safety of the Empire, for which our soldiers had fought and died’.

Some nineteen Old Boys had died in that final year alone sustaining this Empire, as they had been called to do in 1914 by Headmaster Hall.

In accepting the trophy, Hall promised that it would be well looked after, several trustees being responsible for its care. The Grammarian of 1921 dutifully reported his reply: He asked all the boys to realise that the gun belonged to them and that they would see that it was well looked after. He felt that the gift of a trophy was partly a recognition of the fact that a great number of “Old Boys” had

served in the war, and that the School had raised large sums towards the various war funds. The gun would bear eloquent testimony to the courage, self-sacrifice and loyalty of our soldiers. Above all, he hoped it would always be regarded as a sacred thing, a kind of memorial for those forty “Old Boys” of the Camberwell Grammar School who never came back, and whose names are inscribed on the memorial slab of the School Honour Board.

The School community was particularly grateful to Senator Elliott, given that ‘the idea of presenting war trophies to the larger schools had been suggested by the General himself’. Elliott was apparently concerned that people were already beginning to forget the events of the war; accordingly, he now hoped that the trophy would conspicuously contain the legend “Lest We Forget”. Elliott could not himself forget the war, taking his own life in 1931 after episodes of what we today term post-traumatic stress.

The School of the 1920s was indeed determined not to forget those who ‘never 25

came back’, commemorating them in the same Grammarian issue through a piece of schoolboy poetry, “The Gun”, by John Hamilton, who had entered the School in Year 1 in 1914 and would leave in Year 11 in 1924 – a ‘lifer’. To him, it symbolised the humbling of the Prussian ethos and the deliverance of the Empire.

This gun, now ours, saw battle at its height, And from its mouth its deadly missiles aimed At our entrenched battle front, and maimed Or Killed our men; its task in that Great Fight.

‘Twas captured just when victory was in sight

This ‘war-worn gun’ was placed in the ‘playground’ besides Lister House at the Burke Road campus – one former student from the late-1920s recalled it as the only piece of equipment there – but it remained an untouchable shrine for another generation both here and at the new Mont Albert campus from 1935, where the “German gun” stood on a concrete plinth near the Roystead driveway.

By the mid-1950s, it was already showing signs of bad repair, especially its timber spokes, and was considered by some to be a safety hazard.

Memories of the Great War too had by then been considerably overshadowed by those of a more recent conflict, but a reliable source suggests that the trophy was still in place in the 1960s. After that time, its fate is uncertain.

As late as the 1980s, Stan Brown (a former cadet OC) and others were unable to trace the whereabouts of the trophy, but one clue is the possibility that the gun was donated back to the Army at some time in the previous decade, at a time when that service still maintained a base of kinds at Camberwell – a sad, but perhaps appropriate outcome.

A similar artillery piece captured during the same 1918 campaign survives outside Victoria Barracks, Melbourne, giving the observer some concept of what Camberwell Grammar’s war trophy would have looked like had it been properly preserved and had it survived until the centenary of its captivity and beyond.

The loss of this piece of memorabilia was a blow to the historical record of the School, diminishing the memory of those Old Boys who died in the Great War and in following conflicts. Its presence on the School grounds a century after its captivity would certainly have been a cause of commemorative focus as 11 November 2018 approaches.

DR BIRD WOULD BE PLEASED TO HEAR FROM ANY OLD BOY WHO MAY HAVE MEMORIES OF THE GUN AND/OR ANY INFORMATION ABOUT ITS EVENTUAL FATE. Dr David Bird School Historian. archive@cgs.vic.edu.au

Three years ago, when in that drive now famed Our troops pushed on despite all odds, and tamed For aye the Prussian army’s boasted might.

It stands within our grounds, a monument Of those who bravely fought, of those who fell,

Prefects and Probationers, 1921, pose before the newly acquired trophy.

In those far-famed historic fields of France.

Far from those gory scenes of wild torment The war-worn gun in peaceful nook doth dwell, In token of our great deliverance.

Form III and IV, 1926, pictured before the trophy, just visible behind the shoulder of the fourth boy standing (left to right) in the rear row.

26

Community Connections

Spectemur | Term 3 2018

Jump Rope for Heart This year our Jump Rope for Heart fundraising achieved a record amount, $6,530. Since first participating the Junior School has raised over $33,000 for heart research. I would like to thank the many boys who participated in finding sponsors and raising funds, and all boys, for their enthusiasm in our final event which was a ‘skip off’.

As a result of an exceptional fundraising effort by Rick Liu (Year 5), the Junior School hosted the Jump Rope for Heart 35-year birthday celebration. The Jump Rope for Heart Foundation provided healthy treats, an enormous birthday cake, a visit from ‘Healthy Heart’ who joined in the skipping and provided a skipping rope for each boy to keep.

We were very fortunate to have this event in our Junior School. The fundraising supports two groups that do important work; the Heart Foundation, which uses the funds for ongoing research and investigation into heart disease, and the Footscray Migrant Centre, where our shopping vouchers ensure that the children at the centre have new play equipment. Our top fundraisers forfeit their prizes, so that the equivalent amount is converted into a shopping voucher.

Congratulations to all boys who raised money, a special mention to Rick Liu and Lucas Morey (Year 2), who achieved exceptional amounts.

Mrs Diane Collins Deputy Head of Junior School – Admin

Biggest Morning Tea Fundraiser Our Year 12 Representatives hosted the Biggest Morning Tea fundraiser on Friday 8 June at the home of Andrea and Steve Watt. Over $1,200 was raised for the Cancer Council, which supports cancer research, prevention and support for families. They will be continuing this annual event in future years.

27

Rotary Interact Club News Old Boys Shankar Kasynathan (2002) and Farid Ahmad Asghari (2015), both having first hand personal experience of being misplaced persons and coming to Australia under the refugee program, were recent guest speakers at a Rotary Interact Club meeting.

Shankar is a Campaign Coordinator with Amnesty International and is currently organising the highly successful My New Neighbour campaign.

My New Neighbour seeks to get community groups together in the cause of successful resettlement and integration of refugees into Australian society. The School’s student run Rotary Interact Club has committed their support to the program and funds will be raised to assist the program in its resettlement endeavours.

The Rotary Interact Club joins the Western Bulldogs and North Melbourne AFL clubs, and the Brisbane Roar A League Soccer Club in supporting this worthwhile cause.

“ My New Neighbour seeks to get

community groups together in the cause of successful resettlement

and integration of refugees into Australian society ”

RSPCA Cupcake Day Thank you to those who baked and purchased cupcakes to support the Derham House RSPCA Cupcake Day. We raised a total of $1,000. It was my pleasure to present a cheque to Mrs Helen Canny from the RSPCA and her ambassador dogs and to hear from her about some of the ways in which these funds may be used by the RSPCA to continue their fight against animal cruelty.

Dr Paul Hicks Headmaster

28

The Interact Club also supports the We Can’t Wait organisation, providing facilities to Indian Schools, to allow girls to complete their secondary education, and the Thai Childrens’ Education Fund.

Mr Paul Double Head of Enrichment

Pudding Mixing Days The Camberwell Grammar Auxiliary is pleased to report we have had another successful year of pudding making. This long held tradition had a new home this year in the Camberwell Room and kitchen, which allowed plenty of room for our 80 volunteers and over 800 puddings.

Our delicious puddings come in four sizes: large, medium, small and extra small. They make great gifts and as always come in the beautiful handmade Bendigo Pottery Bowls with the CGS logo.

Projec10 Projec10 is a social enterprise initiative aimed at developing teamwork, collaboration and entrepreneurial skills whilst leveraging microfinancing principals to help remove millions of desperate Ghanaian families from poverty.

It starts with a team of 6-8 boys and girls from our school, Camberwell Girls and Fintona.

Each member contributes $10 seed money; hence the name Projec10. After brainstorming ideas, each group identified their skill-set, to essentially create a ‘business’. These ‘businesses’ came to life in the form of stalls on school grounds and the wider community over the last month.

We extend a very big thank you to all our hard-working volunteers. This massive task could not be undertaken without the help of many hands. From our preparation days to mixing and finally steaming the puddings on the weekends, we could not achieve this task so efficiently without you.

We would also like to acknowledge and especially thank, Nicole Loidl and Andrea Watt for heading the Auxiliary for the past six years.

New members are always welcome in the CGS Auxiliary. It is a wonderful opportunity to meet other parents and to be involved in the school in a fun, social way.

Camberwell Grammar School Auxiliary PUDDINGS ARE STILL AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT OFFICE.

Once again we are donating puddings to the Servants Community Housing and FareShare organisations for people in need, to enjoy with their Christmas lunch.

The stalls held at school included: guessing competitions, BBQs, ice cream stands, cake stands and of course the notorious ChocToss. Businesses were also established outside of school, including stalls at Boroondara Sports Complex, Bunnings, Woolworths and local sports clubs.

After each of the $10 loans were repaid, all profits were paid to Opportunity International, who commits all fundraising to a microfinancing strategy, to ensure a far-reaching and sustainable outcome. The finance they provide helps families (typically single mothers) establish their own businesses in Ghana. Opportunity International then work with the families to help them grow their businesses, enhancing their outreach to the wider community.

This year Projec10 was a tremendous success.

We managed to generate close to $10,000 of profits this year, which, if divided up into $200 microloans, could help up to 50 families.

29

SPORT It was a busy term for Sport, as the Winter Season came to a close and the Spring Season flew by. Firsts Hockey, led by Patrick Emmett (Year 12) and coached by Mr Jamie Watson, defeated PEGS to win the AGSV premiership. It is the School’s first Hockey premiership since 2014 and our 20th in total. A remarkable achievement.

Futsal was also able to claim the premiership, as Camberwell Gold defeated Camberwell Blue. That makes it four premierships in a row for the sport. The Under 13 Blue Baseball team fought hard in their grand final to finish runners up in their division, which was an incredible performance, especially considering many of the students were playing in their first season.

30

The Snowsports Squad enjoyed a solid week of competition, finishing 8th at the Victorian Interschools’ Competition at Falls Creek.

Arya Aminazad (Year 8) and Samuel Li (Year 4) achieved outstanding results and both won selection for the Nationals event that was held at Perisher in New South Wales.

Congratulations to Mr Ian March, Camberwell Staff, Friends of Snowsports, the entire squad and, particularly, to Arya and Samuel.

Approximately 80 students participated in this year’s Water Polo season and we came away with one premiership. Both Junior A teams battled it out in the final, demonstrating the strength of the sport at the School, with Camberwell Blue claiming the title. Although Water Polo is an optional sport during the Spring Season, it was fantastic to see so many students from the Middle and Senior Schools playing and embracing the challenge.

There were some outstanding results from the AGSV Athletics Finals. The team finished 5th overall, narrowly missing out on 4th by the narrowest of margins, and claimed 30 podium finishes out of 76 events. While many students performed exceptionally, middle and long distance star, Tom Bowers (Year 10), was the best performer of the day and, consequently, was awarded the R.H. Lohn Prize for the best athlete during the finals.

The future of Athletics at the School looks very bright, with great depth and strength among the younger age groups.

The Summer Season is nearly upon us, with training commencing on Tuesday 9 October and the first round of the AGSV season on Saturday 20 October.

Mr Lachlan Crawford Director of Sport

Gallery of Achievement Inductees 2018 Tony enjoyed a very successful career in sport at Camberwell Grammar School, being awarded a Triple Colour pocket for football, cricket and athletics.

MR TONY G CAMPBELL (1985)

He was recruited directly from the School to the Melbourne Football Club and played a total of 118 AFL games, 75 for Melbourne and 45 for Footscray, now the Western Bulldogs.

In 1985 as a recruit, Tony played in the Under 19s as a defender but by 1988 played as a forward. Over the next three seasons, Tony moved between attack and defence, kicking a career high of 22 goals in 1990. He played eight games exclusively as a defender

General Ellwood commanded an infantry company in East Timor and served as the Brigade Major of the 1st Brigade.

MAJOR GENERAL JUSTIN F B ELLWOOD DSC (1987) Major General Justin (Jake) Ellwood assumed the appointment of Deputy Chief of Army on 3rd May 2018. He graduated from the Royal Military College – Duntroon in 1990 into the Royal Australian Infantry Corps. His early career includes platoon command in the 2nd/4th Battalion and operational service with the Irish Guards in Kosovo as Second in Commander of a Warrior Company. Major

Major General Ellwood was appointed Commanding Officer of the 5th Battalion from 2007 to 2008. During his tenure, he commanded a light armoured battlegroup in Iraq and a light infantry battlegroup in East Timor. He has also served as Commander of the Combat Training Centre. Major General Ellwood was deployed to Afghanistan as the Chief of Operations within Headquarters Resolute Support from 2014 to 2015. His career also encompasses diverse staff roles as Director Reserves – Army, Liaison Officer of the United States Marine Corps, Chief of Staff Headquarters Forces Command and as Director General Career Management – Army.

Major General Ellwood’s personal awards include Commander British Forces Commendation and Divisional Commander’s

Casey completed his education at Camberwell Grammar School in 2012, went on to study building and construction and now works as a lead carpenter for Dreamline Homes, his family’s business.

MR CASEY DAWSON HAMMOND (2012)

Casey won a hockey scholarship to Camberwell Grammar School in 2009 and in his time at the School, represented Camberwell Grammar School, Victoria and Australia. In 2013, he received a full scholarship to the Victorian Institute of Sport Hockey Program and was named in the Australian Men’s Development Squad. Casey was selected for the Under 21 Australian team to compete in the Australian Youth Olympic Festival where the team won gold. Casey was then selected for Australia’s Under 21 State Team to compete in the Junior World Cup Tournament held in New Delhi.

Spectemur | Term 3 2018

in 1991 before his season ended with shin splints and he was traded to Footscray at the end of that year.

Tony went on to play two seasons for the Western Bulldogs before leaving for America to try his hand at punting. When Tony failed to land a NFL contract, he returned to Australia and played for the West Australian Football League in Perth in 1994, in an attempt to make the inaugural Fremantle squad.

Unfortunately, an achillies injury ended the season for him, though he returned to Victoria to play one last game for the Bulldogs.

Commendation. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his command and leadership in Iraq and a Commendation for Distinguished Service and the United States Legion of Merit (Degree of Officer) for his service in Afghanistan.

He holds a Bachelor and Masters of Arts from Deakin University, a Masters of Management (Defence Studies) from the University of Canberra and a Graduate Diploma in Education (secondary) from Monash University. Major General Ellwood is a graduate of the Australian Command and Staff College and Higher Defence College, as well as a graduate of the Oxford Advanced Management and Leadership Program.

Major General Ellwood is married to Nicole and they have two children. His hobbies include distance running, military history, fishing and scuba diving.

Casey captained the Victorian Under 21 team in 2015, winning gold. Between 2014 and 2017, Casey was selected into Victoria’s Open Age Hockey team, the Vikings, who were premiers in 2016 and 2017. Casey then joined the Australian Men’s Hockey Squad, the Kookaburras. Whilst in Perth with the Kookaburras, Casey played with Curtin University for a season and won the Club’s Most Valuable Player medal and Western Australia’s Olympian Medal for the Best and Fairest for the year in the Perth Premier League competition.

Casey is completing his building and construction course but is still a member of the Australian Development Squad, trains with the Victorian Institute of Sport and represents the Footscray Hockey Club.

31

soil erosion problems and then later, with broad scale water catchment and land management issues, including in Victoria’s Alpine region.

MR RAYMOND EDWARD KELLY (1946) Raymond (Ray) spent twenty years with the Soil Conservation Authority in Victoria, initially in the field, assisting landholders to overcome

In 1977, Ray moved to Queensland and assumed a role developing, implementing and overseeing environmental programs involving land revegetation, water management and air quality control over eight large coal mines in Central Queensland, which included environmental assessments of areas under exploration in Australia.

Ray is a founding member of the Cumberla‑Witton Catchment network, with a passion for recording and analysing rainfall, water quality and changes in the

IV tennis for three years and represented the School in Athletics throughout his senior years.

He received triple colours in his final year and was a School Prefect in his final two years.

MR BARRIE ALEXANDER PROVAN OAM (1953) Barrie began at Camberwell in 1939, completing his education in 1953. Barrie played 1st XI cricket for five years at the School, 1st XVIII football for four years, 1st

MR MATTHEW DAVID SMITH (1993)

DR GEORGE ZHOU (2007) 32

Barrie studied to become a chartered accountant and became a partner in a firm of chartered accountants going on to establish his own firm, Wilson, Provan and Co, which merged with another firm in 1975 to become Danby, Bland, Provan and Co. The firm is now known as Accru with six partners and sixty plus staff. During his accounting career, Barrie was Honorary Treasurer of the Mission for Seamen for more than thirty years, Treasurer and Council member at Lowther Hall Anglican Grammar School for a similar period and was auditor in his own name for the Melbourne Cricket Club for twenty-five years.

creeks of Brisbane’s inner west. For more than 25 years, Ray has maintained scientific records of the local waterways, as well as implementing training standards to establish best practice for a team of volunteers.

Ray has been instrumental in guiding and mentoring members of the catchment group to undertake water quality assessments.

As a result of Ray’s encouragement and coaching, several members of the group have undertaken training in water sampling and testing as a component of a Certificate III in Conservation and Land Management.

In 2017, Ray was presented with the Lord Mayor’s Australia Day Achievement Award by the Brisbane Lord Mayor.

Barrie along with three others, created and developed the Overnewton Anglican Grammar School which now has enrolments in excess of 2500 pupils. He also contributed to the establishment of the Geelong Christian College. On retiring from Accru, Barrie was appointed Chair of the Good Shepherd Nursing Home complex, a position he held for 21 years. In 1992, Barrie purchased Suma Park on the Bellarine Peninsula and developed it as a conference centre with accommodation, a vineyard, a working train station connected to the steam train in Queenscliff and a cricket ground.

Barrie was awarded the medal of the Order of Australia in 2018 for service to the community of Queenscliff.

Matthew left Camberwell Grammar School in 1993 and studied a Bachelor of Commerce at Monash University and a Bachelor of Business Administration and Management at the University of Alabama. He worked as a Project Manager at Reclink Australia, firstly as the Katherine Regional Manager and then the Indigenous Projects Manager at AFL Northern Territory, going on to be the National Project Co-ordinator, Australia Programs for World Vision. In 2013 he set up Yuendumu Sports Academy and then became CEO of Wanta AC in 2015.

Matthew represented Australia in swimming in the 1997 Pan Pacific Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, being placed first in the 800 metre freestyle and third in the 1500 freestyle.

In 1995, he was also a member of the 4 x 200 metre freestyle relay team for Melbourne Vicentre where the team broke the Commonwealth record.

Matthew was awarded a full scholarship to the University of Alabama for swimming in 1998. He was placed sixth in the 1650 yard freestyle at the South East Conference championships. Matthew was also Victorian State Champion for the 800 metre freestyle on six occasions and 1500 freestyle on seven occasions.

George Zhou is an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was a recipient of the NASA Hubble Fellowship, the CfA fellowship award and works as a member of the MIT-NASA led Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission science team.

and has contributed significantly to the discovery of dozens of exoplanets. Among his achievements, are the discovery of the hottest and most extreme planetary systems and the investigations into the formation and origins of the solar system.

George studied physics and astrophysics at the Australian National University and completed his Ph.D. on the discovery and characterisation of exoplanets, planets that orbit stars other than our sun in 2015. He is a member of numerous scientific collaborations

His interest in astronomy was sparked during his time at Camberwell Grammar School and he remains an avid stargazer in his spare time. George contributes to outreach efforts at Harvard to encourage STEM participation amongst high school students.

News of Old Boys James Gordon (2016) with Kim Gyngell (1970) pictured right. James is a member of Mudcrabs (Melbourne University Comedy Revue Board) and interviewed Kim about his work as a comedian for their weekly segment on Radio Fodder (University of Melbourne Radio Station). James and Kim both have lovely memories of their time at Camberwell Grammar School.

Announcements Tim Hare (2008) was engaged to Alex Ryan on the Charles Bridge, Prague.

Timothy Tin Yue Choi (2003) and Belinda Wong will be married on 24 November 2018 in Hong Kong. Timothy invites any of his old teachers that will be in Hong Kong at that time to attend. (image right) Paul Wheelton AM KSJ (1973) of Wheelton Philanthropy was recently awarded the Inaugural 2018 International Philanthropy Award at the Sydney Opera House at the Philanthropy Australia Awards. (image below) Peter Hare (2006) and wife Emily welcomed George William born 27 July 2018 in San Francisco. (image below right)

OUR CGS BABIES

33

39th Battalion Association – CGS Memorandum of Understanding The Term 3, 2017 issue of Spectemur mentioned the visit to the School of Alan Moore (1939), who attended the Burke Road campus from 1928-1930. He is one of our most senior Old Boys and the only surviving Burke Road student who did not then pass on to the present Mont Albert Road site.

Alan was present in June 2017 with representatives of the 39th Australian Infantry Battalion Association in order to consult with our Cadet Unit on the possibility of developing links between the two organisations. The same issue of the magazine outlined Alan’s distinguished military career in the New Guinea campaign, 1941-43 – he is also a former President of the Association.

Subsequent negotiations between the Association and the School have now culminated in an agreement whereby the Camberwell Grammar School Army Cadet Unit will be the custodian of the banner bearing the name of the battalion and its Battle Honours (‘Kokoda and Deniki’). The cadets will bear this banner with pride on future public occasions. In addition, the School Archives will hold and preserve memorabilia belonging to the Association.

34

Accordingly, representatives of the Association attended the School on 11 September to witness the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding. They included Ms Merren Stockdale (President), Captain (retd.) Alan Moore (Life Member), David Bellairs (Vice-President), David Howell (Secretary) and Norman Stockdale (Treasurer).

This group was received by those representing the School – Dr Paul Hicks (Headmaster), Chris Lloyd (Business Manager), Ryan Whitehead (Director of Development), Major Michael Neal (Commanding Officer, Camberwell Grammar School Army Cadet Unit) and Dr David Bird (School Historian and Archivist). An important part of the occasion was the official handing over of the Association’s banner to representatives of the Cadet Unit – CUO Darren Lu (Platoon Commander) and CDTWO1 Luke Sudholz (Regimental Sergeant Major).

This connection between the Association and the Camberwell Grammar School will allow the memory of those who served in this unit, 1941-43, in arguably the most important campaign in Australian military history, to be commemorated and honoured. Through Alan Moore

“ Through Alan Moore

himself and the vital role he played in the Army

during those years, it is an important chapter in the

history of the School which

will now be sustained by our 130-year old Cadet Unit.”

himself and the vital role he played in the Army during those years, it is an important chapter in the history of the School which will now be sustained by our 130-year old Cadet Unit. It was only appropriate that the ceremony closed with the presentation to Captain Moore by the Headmaster of an Old Grammarians Association badge, an honour to which he has been entitled for nearly eighty years.

Dr David Bird School Historian and Archivist

Spectemur | Term 3 2018

Old Boy Profiles degree and one of my lecturers told me that a polytechnic in Singapore was looking for overseas graduates and encouraged me to apply. I was successful, and a few weeks later I finished my undergraduate study and flew to Singapore to work as an International Fellow at Ngee Ann Polytechnic where I taught programming and database concepts.

Nat Bradshaw (1998) After finishing school in 1998 I studied Information Systems at the University of Melbourne. Whilst studying, I obtained work as a lab instructor and tutor at the University and it gave me experience working in education in the tertiary sector. Towards the end of 2003 I was approaching the end of my

After working at the Polytechnic for two years, I worked for one of Microsoft’s implementation partners in Singapore and although I gained technical experience, I missed teaching and the classroom. I enrolled in the Master of Teaching at the University of Melbourne in 2008 and in 2009 started as a graduate teacher at Caroline Chisholm Catholic College in Braybrook teaching VCE IT and IT elective subjects in Years 9 and 10. Whilst working at Caroline Chisholm, I worked with the Family

School Partnerships Convenor to implement workshops for families wanting to support their child’s learning, maths workshops for families and a family robotics team.

After five years at Caroline Chisholm I spent one year teaching in Alice Springs. I am now teaching at Lowther Hall Anglican Grammar School in Essendon where I have rolled out Coding subjects for all girls in Years 7 and 8 as part of the new Digital Technologies Curriculum. I also teach Digital Technologies in Years 9 and 10, and VCE Computing. The highlight of my job is working with students and watching as they develop an interest in coding and technology.

Since becoming a teacher, I have worked as an assessor for the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority, marking and writing VCE exams. Earlier this year I was invited to present at the Edutech Future Schools Conference and speak about teaching kids to code.

Craig Hassed (1977) There is an old saying, ‘be careful what you wish for’. Perhaps there should be another, ‘be careful what you wish to avoid’. Considering my aversion to all things involving blood and gore, when I was in Year 12, medicine was the last thing I wanted to study at university.

Nevertheless, I wound up studying medicine because I was interested in the mind, not the body. Given my fear of public speaking and less than inspiring experience studying medicine at Melbourne University, the last field of medicine I wanted to go into was as a lecturer at medical school. So, I navigated my way into general practice with a focus on counselling, but sitting in a consulting room one-on-one with patients for the rest of my life didn’t feel like my calling.

In a watershed moment in 1988, having just finished a rotation as a junior doctor, for the only time in my life I decided to open the jobs section of the newspaper. With an open mind, I interestedly looked at what was available.

I saw a job at Monash University as a junior lecturer in the medical faculty. I immediately thought of all the things I should have been taught in medical school like the importance of the mind-body relationship, the therapeutic uses of meditation, and how to prevent illness rather than merely treat it. I then thought to myself, ‘Someone should do something about it.’ The next thought came quickly and clearly to mind, ‘Well, do something about it.’

Then, hot on the heels in opposition, arose the thought, ‘But what about my fear of public

speaking and aversion to academia?’ But, it seemed unwise and not useful to dedicate my life to my fears rather than a calling to do something useful for the community. If I help one patient then that is useful, but if I help to train just one doctor in something useful then that will help 1,000 patients.

The rest, as they say, is history. I am in my 30 th year of teaching in the Monash Faculty of Medicine and it has been tremendously fertile soil to plant a few seeds. I have found that a career in medicine and tertiary education is incredibly flexible with an enormous amount of scope to innovate and develop interests.

For me, it has opened the opportunity to introduce mindfulness, mind-body medicine and lifestyle medicine as core elements of the medical curriculum. I have met fascinating and inspiring people along the way and had the great blessing to follow my passions

around Australia and overseas. As coordinator of mindfulness programs at Monash, I now lecture in 15 different degree courses, frequently speak in public, write books, work with the media, and support a number of community wellbeing initiatives.

Is there a moral to this story? Perhaps. Follow your true passion or calling in life, rather than dedicating your life to your fears or aversions – your capacities will grow and your fears will shrink if you do. Frame your career in such a way that you contribute to the wellbeing of others – you will be given the energy and enthusiasm to ride the ups and downs of life.

Hold fast to your vision for where you truly want to go in life, but hold your plans loosely – if we are awake, synchronicity and the unexpected opportunities the universe provides will navigate you where you need to be far better than you could have ever planned.

35

Seamus Curtain-Magee (1988) I am currently working in a special education school in Bendigo, Victoria, teaching Year 11 and 12 students with intellectual disabilities.

It is not where I thought I would be in the field when I started my journey into teaching in 2011. At the end of 2010, I became a qualified high school teacher, in the subjects English, Drama and History. I had done placements at University High School in Melbourne and at Alexandra Secondary College for the country school experience.

I vividly remember writing my final essay for University (about history teaching), while my wife Chris was in labour with our son Hector.

I have worked in regional Victoria ever since.

I spent my first year working at Maryborough Education Centre. It was a challenging environment, and I quickly discovered that teaching wasn’t as easy as my own teachers had made it seem when I was at school.

These early years of teaching were a struggle

Over the next two years, I would work casually and in a full-time capacity. It was during this time that I had my first experience working in a special education environment. It was in this field that I found my feet in education.

Working in special education requires a very unique approach. The students I work with have goal based individual learning plans which take into account their abilities, interests and the support they need. The students I work with have a diagnosed intellectual disability often overlaid with learning disabilities such as dyslexia, Autism Spectrum Disorder or ADHD. The ability to custom-build your curriculum to suit the students you work with is a liberating experience as a teacher. I also try to integrate my own interests into the programs I teach,

Associate Professor Andrew Godwin is Associate Dean (Engagement), Director of Transactional Law, Director of Studies for the Graduate Program in Banking and Finance Law and Associate Director of the Asian Law Centre at Melbourne Law School.

“hit the ground running” and make their way up the professional learning curve at a much faster pace than before. This has led to increased expectations on the part of legal educators to incorporate professional skills into the curriculum and to increase the realworld awareness of law students. One way in which legal educators have responded to these expectations is by broadening the context in which law is studied and strengthening the transactional and clinical experience of law students. At law schools around Australia, there is now a diverse array of subjects that students can take in order to develop their awareness of the real world and the myriad roles that law graduates can perform. These subjects include business clinics, public interest law clinics, legal internships and offshore elective subjects.

Significant challenges and opportunities confront law graduates when they enter the legal profession. In terms of challenges, competition in the market has increased the expectation that law graduates will be able to

One subject that I teach at Melbourne Law School – Economic and Business Law in Asia – takes students to Shanghai for five days and Hong Kong for three days. During their time in each of those cities, students study law as it

Andrew Godwin (1983)

36

as I worked to cope with the workload and the social issues that students were facing.

particularly for drama and STEM. Last year, I mentored a group of students to create a computer game, which won a national competition. The year before my class staged a play for the School about the history of the Olympic Games (which was our integrated topic that term).

I am currently working with Year 11 and 12 students at Kalianna School in Bendigo.

Our focus is on their post-school life, which is a particularly crucial transition for students living with a disability. Many of our students will transition to employment of some form, some will pursue further training and others will be placed in volunteer positions. Our aim as a school is to support students living with disabilities to reach their potential and be as independent as possible. It’s a very different educational field and one that is both challenging and immensely satisfying.

applies “on the ground” and visit institutions such as courts and law firms to obtain a first-hand experience of the relevance of law in regulating economic activity and business transactions.

Another challenge is the impact of technology on the way in which legal services are delivered. Although technology has always been a factor driving innovation in legal practice (as is the case in all other areas of professional services), it is the rate at which technology is driving innovation that is proving to be challenging and often disruptive in today’s environment. For example, artificial intelligence as reflected in natural work processing enables documents to be reviewed at a fraction of the time that was previously spent by lawyers and often at a level of accuracy that equals or surpasses that of humans. Lawyers therefore need to be able to work with technology and focus their efforts on those areas and skills in which they can add value.

There are, however, significant opportunities that exist in the age of digital disruption. Legal practice has never been more exciting. The digital age has opened up possibilities that were previously unimaginable and broadened the role of lawyers in a way that strengthens their continuing significance and relevance.

WA Network Function

Spectemur | Term 3 2018

The Western Australian Network Function was held in Perth on Thursday 2 August.

Attendees Doug Fraser (1965) with Jill Fraser Peter Hancock (1969) with Cheryl Hancock Richard Mehan (1970) Ian Trahar (1973) John Goodlad (1974) Ken Rogers (1974) Stuart Chapman (1979) Richard Harding (1980) Alex Marsden (1991) Blair Hardman (1992) David Hawkes (2001) James Thom (2001) William Robinson (2003) Christopher Draber (Past Staff) with Ryan McBride Paul Hicks (Headmaster) with Susan Hicks Ryan Whitehead (Director of Development)

SA Network Function The South Australian Network Function was held at the Gilbert Street Hotel in Adelaide on Friday 3 August.

Attendees Ian Chesterman (1953) with Meredith Chesterman Ian Dick (1964) Peter Ballard (1965) Anthony Stimson (1966) Richard Larritt (1973) Derek Gibbs (1989) Erik Urdevics (2005) Paul Hicks (Headmaster) with Susan Hicks Ryan Whitehead (Director of Development)

37

25 Year Reunion CLASS OF 1993 The 25 Year Reunion (Class of 1993) was held on Friday 27 July in the foyer of the Camberwell Room.

Attendees Daniel Baird Charlie Carty Rob Findlay Sam Gavin Alex Hall Simon Kennedy Gavan Newnham Justin Phillips Nicholas Roberts Michael Seeley Marc Sollberger Callum Tod Luke Warwick David Weickhardt Chris Bence (Past Staff) Trevor Henley (Past Staff) Paul Hicks (Headmaster) Susan Hicks Cindy Parker (Development Office) Peter Robinson (Current Staff) Ken Schwab (Current Staff)

38

Spectemur | Term 3 2018

30 Year Reunion CLASS OF 1988

The 30 Year Reunion (Class of 1988) was held on Friday 24 August in the foyer of the Camberwell Room.

Attendees Seong-Yong Ang Wesley Black James Burnet Robert Chu Jason Dixon Simon Edwards Ross Egerton Nicholas Foley Tom Hindhaugh Tim Hwang Ben Johnstone Scott King William Mallinson Mobin Master Ewan McArthur Michael O’Keefe Stephen Parmenter David Provan Matthew Richardson Gregor Sandie Nicholas Scanlon Chris Topham Sunil Vohra Gary Wong Paul Hicks (Headmaster) with Susan Hicks Chris Bence (Past Staff) Denise Brown (Past Staff) Trevor Henley (Past Staff) John Mallinson (Past Staff) Colin McMillan (Past Staff) Greg Taplin (Past Staff) Ryan Whitehead (Director of Development) Cindy Parker (Development Office)

39

OCGA Generations Photo On Friday 31 August we took our annual OCGA Generations photo which includes current students with their Old Boy relatives.

40

Attendees Student Name James Alateras (Year 6) Anthony Alateras (Year 12) Luke Alateras (Year 7) Max Alexander (Year 6) Michael Alexander (Year 8) James Allsop (Year 8) William Allsop (Year 7) Oliver Anderson (Year 11) Ned Anderson (Year 9) Angus Bellchambers (Year 8) Andy Bishop (Year 8) Mark Bishop (Year 5) Patrick Canny (Year 10) Hamish Canny (Year 9)

Father/Relative Name Angelo Alateras (1988) Dimitri Alateras (2016) Ross Alexander (1988) Richard Allsop (1980) Hamish Anderson (1985) Peter Anderson (1950) Benjamin Bishop (1996) Joseph Canny (1974)

Student Name Conrad Chau (Year 3) Maxwell James (Year 8) Ethan Chong (Year K) Aidan Chu (Year 11) Liam Clarke (Year 4) Ryan de Kretser (Year 11) James Dixon (Year 7) Nicholas Feldt (Year 10) Josh Gale (Year 9) Ben Gale (Year 7) Matthew Haig (Year 7) Lucas Karlson (Year 12) Sean Kennedy (Year 12) Joshua Kohlman (Year 8) Alexander Lau (Year 7) Ethan Lau (Year 5)

Father/Relative Name Steven Chau (1980) James Cheshire (1989) Michael Cheshire (1963) Terence Chong (1994) Robert Chu (1988) Tom Clarke (1991) Dale de Kretser (1980) Des de Kretser (1952) Stephen Dixon (1985) Stuart Feldt (1992) Anthony Gale (1990) Lachlan Haig (1991) Peter Karlson (1984) Aidan Kennedy (2015) Geoff Kohlman (1965) Nelson Lau (1991)

Spectemur | Term 3 2018

Student Name Brandon Lee (Year 10) Justin Lee (Year 12) Ming Kim Low (Year 12) Ming Jin Low (Year 10) Ming Han Low (Year 8) Jack Maitland (Year 7) David McColl (Year 12) Jack McColl (Year 11) Harry McColl (Year 9) Jordan McCleery (Year 9) Lachlan McFarland (Year 7) Alexander Murray (Year 12) Ben Nash (Year 5) William Nethercote (Year 4) Lochlan Paterson-Crisp (Year 12) Kiran Rajakulendran (Year 5) AJ Ananthapavan (Year 7)

Father/Relative Name Paul Lee (1983) Anthony Lee (1984) Chi Keen Low (1987)

Christopher Maitland (1993) Gavan McColl (1984)

Ken Smith (1963) Ian McFarland (1980/81) Nicholas Murray (1985) Richard Nash (1989) David Richmond (1965) Andrew Crisp (1982) Brian Crisp (1979) Janahan Rajakulendran (1991) Soruban Rajakulendran (1996)

Student Name Michael Tan (Year 12) Logan Taplin (Year 8) Lachlan Thompson (Year 12) Kamran Vohra (Year 3) Max Whittle (Year 10) Thomas Wong (Year 7)

Father/Relative Name Gim Tan (1985) Chris Taplin (1991) Greg Taplin (1961) Stephen Thompson (1987) Sunil Vohra (1988) David Whittle (1971) Liam Whittle (2015) Gary Wong (1988)

41

Old Boy Staff Photo

(L to R back row): Tim Wells (1985) – Art Technician, Andrew Worsnop (2005) – Mathematics Teacher, Stuart Feldt (1992) – Audio Visual Manager, John Weymouth (1996) – ICT Operations and Support Manager, Sam Gough (1995) – Latin Teacher, Graham Ruffles (1998) – Head of Clifford and VCE Chemistry Teacher, Teri Miriklis (2007) – Physical Education Teacher, Tom Owen (2013) – AFL Trainee, Laurie Foster (2008) – Grounds and Maintenance Officer.

(L to R front row): Hamish Green (1979) – Head of Macneil House and Commerce, Indonesian & HHR Teacher, David Rayner (1994) – Deputy Head of Senior School and Physics/Science Teacher, Ryan Thomson (2002) – Commerce Teacher, Ben Bishop (1996) – Director of Music, Ryan Whitehead (1994) – Director of Development, Glen Foster (1969) – Science Teacher.

42

Spectemur | Term 3 2018

43

Vocational Dinner - STEM The Vocational Dinner 2018 – STEM was held on Thursday 13 September in the Camberwell Room. The OCGA Vocational Dinner provides a great opportunity for current students, recent leavers, Old Boys and parents to network with and benefit from the experiences of Old Boys

who have established careers in a diverse range of professions. Many of the speakers on the night spoke of the value of tapping into the Old Camberwell Grammarians’ Association network for young Old Boys wanting to get experience in the workplace.

Attendees

44

Angus Aikman (Year 9)

Moses Khor (Staff)

Hamish Aikman (Parent)

David Maes (Year 10)

Emile Akbarzadeh (Year 12)

Nicolas Maes (Parent)

Shahram Akbarzadeh (Parent)

Noah Marshallsay (Year 12)

Duncan Banks (1997)

Katrina Massey (Staff)

Thomas Camfield (2014)

Cindy Parker (Development Office)

Lachlan Clarke (2017)

Simon Phillips (1990)

Angus Corr (Year 10)

Glenn Pountney (Staff)

Nicholas Corr (Parent)

Lynette Reiger (Staff)

Darcy de Rauch (Year 10)

Ed Smith (1987)

Dom de Rauch (Parent)

Amy Song (Parent)

Harry Dempsey (2016)

Ben Svikis (Year 10)

Michael Dimatos (Year 10)

Martin Svikis (Parent)

Erric Dimatos (Parent)

Harry Swingler (Year 11)

Marina Dimatos (Parent)

Sally Swingler (Parent)

Matthew Forwood (1984)

Cameron Tribe (1991)

Robert Goode (1997)

Niko Verrios (Year 11)

Alexandra Haendel (Parent)

Dennis Verrios (Parent)

Michael Hanrahan (2002)

Pradeep Vivekanantham (Parent)

James Hardingham (2017)

Shalini Vivekanantham (Parent)

Carson Howard (Year 10)

John Weymouth (1996)

James Howard (1987)

Ryan Whitehead (Director of Development)

Daqiang Jia (Parent)

Scott Wyatt (Staff)

DUNCAN BANKS (1997) Bachelor of Commerce – University of Melbourne Masters of Business Administration - Melbourne Business School Duncan is the Managing Director for Ippon Australia, a privately held, French technology company that focuses on creating digital experiences for their clients that drive improved engagement with their customers.

Duncan is responsible for the Australian Business and leads a growing team of professionals across multiple disciplines.

Ippon Australia started in Australia in July 2016 and has been involved in many interesting initiatives since inception.

Prior to joining Ippon, Duncan’s previous roles provided an amazing understanding of the capability of technology to not only transform existing businesses but fundamentally create new ones. During this time he has been fortunate to serve Sun Microsystems, IBM and ThoughtWorks as well as being involved in a number of startups.

Spectemur | Term 3 2018

THOMAS CAMFIELD (2014)

ROBERT GOODE (1997)

MICHAEL HANRAHAN (2002)

Bachelor of Environmental Science (Environmental Management and Sustainability) – Deakin University

Proteomics Research Officer and Bioinformatician, Monash University

Asia New Product & Solution Program Manager, Ericcson

Bachelor of Commerce/Bachelor of Science (Honours) – University of Melbourne

Bachelor of Engineering (Telecommunications & Internet Technologies) – Swinburne University of Technology

During university Thomas completed work experience with Melbourne Water in their EstuaryWatch and WaterWatch teams, going out with them to conduct monitoring and talk with locals.

In late 2017 Thomas started work with CPB Contractors as an Environmental Undergraduate where he was working across several projects for Melbourne Water. Within 2 months of being there he was the sole environmental representative across 3 projects with a combined total value of $80 million.

In February Thomas commenced their graduate program where he transferred over to the West Gate Tunnel Project, which is being constructed as a joint venture with John Holland. Here he started working as a project wide role, helping out the 3 separate environmental zone teams with mundane to complex issues.

During Robert’s undergraduate studies he worked part time in the Joint Proteomics Laboratory, performing mass spectrometry before continuing there for his honours year.

Robert continued working as a research assistant in the same laboratory for several years focussing on studying cell surface proteins of cancer and developing new data analysis pipelines and visualisations. He moved to Monash University in 2010 to join the Clinical Biomarker Discovery and Validation laboratory, developing assays for colorectal cancer biomarkers, and joined the Monash Biomedical Proteomics Facility in 2014.

Michael is a Program Manager overseeing the introduction of new telecommunications products and solutions in the Asia region.

He is focused on ensuring the latest technologies, including 5G, IoT, WiFi and Software Features achieve Ericsson’s strategic ambitions in more than ten countries, including Thailand, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia and Australia.

Passionate about using technology for good, Michael is also a member of Ericsson Response – a team of volunteers dedicated to supporting the United Nations in responding to natural disasters and emergency situations.

With mission experience in Haiti, South Sudan and the Philippines, he has seen firsthand the incredibly positive impact of technology on society.

In June Thomas moved to the West Zone environmental team, which is constructing the section on the West Gate Freeway. He is currently working in a team of three to provide environmental advice and expertise to the engineers as well as conducting a range of inspections and monitoring, from surface water, noise, vibration and lighting.

45

SIMON PHILLIPS (1990)

ED SMITH (1987)

CAMERON TRIBE (1991)

Senior ITS Engineer, Transurban

Director of Development (Business, Engineering, Science & IT), Office of the President & Vice-Chancellor, Monash University

Training & Check Captain A330 Fleet, Virgin Australia Airlines

Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (Honours) – The University of Melbourne Bachelor of Science (Physics) – The University of Melbourne Master of Engineering (Systems Engineering) – RMIT Simons’ career is built around successfully delivering projects, programs and portfolios in a diverse range of industries and environments. Simon started in the defence industry and over a 10 year period worked as an electronics engineer in the US, Europe and Australia.

In 2005 Simon returned to his home town of Melbourne having completed a Masters in Engineering. He extended his engineering experience into management consulting. This period included working in a diverse range of industries from utilities to mining and on an equally range of projects from IT platform replacements to executive dashboards and corporate reporting.

46

Bachelor of Information Systems – Monash University Ed’s career has spanned the private sector, government and most recently academia with a focus on Asia and international trade and investment, then education.

Ed spent 20+ years living and working in China – with Austrade, and then in business consulting, including establishing his own company as a Co-Founder of the Beijing Consulting Group. He has also worked for National Australia Bank (in the IT Division) and Japanese Trading House, Kanematsu, where he traded Electronics and Machinery.

Ed currently works as Director of Development at Monash University, since 2014. He also established the not-for-profit Australia China Alumni Association and served for a decade on the Board of Directors of the Australian Chamber of Commerce in Beijing. Ed is a fluent Mandarin speaker and has a strong interest in the application of new technologies.

Bachelor of Technology (Aviation) – Swinburne University of Technology Master of Technology Management (Air Transportation), FRAeS, MAICD Cameron’s job allows him to fly state of the art aeroplanes worldwide, in addition to developing pilots to become the best they can be through Virgin Airline’s advanced pilot simulator training program.

Spectemur | Term 3 2018

JOHN WEYMOUTH (1996) ICT Operations & Support Manager, Camberwell Grammar School Bachelor of Applied Science (Computer Science (Distinction)) – RMIT Bachelor of Music (Honours) – The University of Melbourne, LMusA ITIL Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management At the end of 2006, John commenced employment at Camberwell Grammar in a casual capacity whilst studying. Work during this time involved developing the Intranet in conjunction with Glenn Pountney and helpdesk duties.

After completing his studies, John became a full time employee: helpdesk duties continued, as did programming the Parent Portal, and additions to the Intranet. In 2009 John took on his current role, which involves overseeing ICT infrastructure and processes as well as daily “hands-on” work involving programming and ICT assistance.

47

Calendar 2018 OCTOBER Tuesday 9

OCGA Committee Meeting *

Saturday 13

Open Day

Tuesday 16

OCGA CBD Networking Breakfast

Sunday 21

Lawn Bowls Day, MCC Bowling Club, Hawthorn

Wednesday 24 Cufflink Presentation

NOVEMBER Thursday 15

5 Year Reunion (2013)

Wednesday 21 60+ Years Reunion (pre 1958)

DECEMBER Tuesday 4

OCGA Committee Meeting and Sponsor Thank You *

* All OCGA Committee Meeting are at 7.00pm in the Development Office, Camberwell Grammar School

2018 INFORMATION MORNINGS, SCHOOL TOURS AND OPEN DAY Venue is the Performing Arts Centre Parking is available through Gate 3 and 5

INFORMATION MORNING (Includes a Tour of the School) Date

Time

Tour Areas

Saturday 10 November

10.00am

All Levels

10.00am to 2.00pm

All Levels

OPEN DAY Saturday 13 October