Light Blue - September 2018

ISSUE 103 SEPT 2018

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CHAIRMAN OF COUNCIL

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GLEN’S SERVICE TO SOCIETY

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OUR WONDERLAND

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TIMBERTOP SEARCH & RESCUE

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VALE MICHAEL COLLINS PERSSE

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POSITIVE EDUCATION

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IN THE LIGHT OF ETERNITY

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CORIOBALD

Editor Brendan McAloon Design Chloe Flemming Photography

Tod Fierner Nick Fletcher Margie Gillett (Cordner, Clyde ’71) Peter Lemon (FB’64) Brendan McAloon Katie Rafferty (Spry, Ga’84) Drew Ryan Steve Solomonson Jason South/The Age Harry Swinnerton Anna Tucker (Kimpton, Cl’71) Ann Tyers (Fairley, He’68) Nicolas Walker (FB’95) Website www.ggs.vic.edu.au Email lightblue@ggs.vic.edu.au CRICOS 00143G

Brendan McAloon Editor

We are acutely aware of an enormous, Michael Collins Persse-sized void as we compile this edition of Light Blue without our great oracle and friend to guide us. Whilst Michael made a remarkable contribution to the Geelong Grammar School community during his 63 years of service, he made a particularly important contribution as the curator of the School’s stories (he chose the title Curator when he retired from teaching in 1993 as it comes from the Latin for ‘care’). It began almost immediately, with his poignant and poetic reflection, ‘Thoughts at sunset upon the last day of term at Corio’, written in December 1955 after just his first seven weeks on staff.

There steals on me a sense of perfect joy In contemplation of these red-girt walls, Recalling to the man mature the boy That once he was. These now deserted halls…

Michael followed up with his hugely ambitious pageant play, Their Succeeding Race, to celebrate the School’s centenary in 1957, which united the history of the School with that of the nation. He became editor of The Corian in 1966, infusing it with art, poetry (16 pages in 1968) and a greater appreciation of “the Geelong Grammar family”, with obituaries and historical articles.

“The teacher of History was giving his version of the School’s story,” Weston Bate explained in Light Blue Down Under: The History of Geelong Grammar School (Oxford University Press, 1990). “It was good.”

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BRINGING AUSTRALIA TOGETHER

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BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

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THINK TANK

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GRANDPARENTS’ DAY

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MAPPING DIGITAL CONFIDENCE

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FOUNDATION

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CAREERS DAY

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MAIL ROOM

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SPORTING SUCCESS

Michael edited The Corian for 26 years. It was described by the Royal Historical Society of Victoria as “surely the most idiosyncratic and eccentric school publication in the land”.

Michael’s grand, scholarly ambitions collided with financial difficulties (a $1 subscription was introduced in 1973) and persistent deadlines. Then a quarterly journal, the last two quarters were bound together in 1977, and it began appearing “indiscriminately” thereafter, sometimes published as long as 18 months after the cover date.

From my experience as editor of Light Blue, Michael was always more concerned with accuracy and thoroughness than deadlines. He took a historian’s long view – after all, his collection of selected writings was entitled In the Light of Eternity (Oryx, 2011). In his beautiful eulogy for Michael, Tim Young (FB’73) could have been talking about a corrected Light Blue proof when he described Michael’s “familiar hand in black ink” appearing “in both margins, across the header and at the foot of almost all his correspondence”.

“There was never a single piece of paper, card, notepaper nor even his Christmas encyclical quite large enough for all he wanted to say,” Tim said. “In both written and spoken word, Michael’s distinctive style reflected his thoroughness. Long parenthetical phrases occurred in his sentences, not to introduce complexity but to ensure that the reader or listener was quite clear about everything relevant to the sentence.”

When I began editing Light Blue, I soon experienced the folly of attempting to untangle Michael’s parentheses into shorter, more compact sentences. As Charles Bright (P’62) explained, Michael had mastered the art “where one sentence, perfectly punctuated, could fill half a page – and sometimes more – and still make sense”. A few years ago, I asked Michael what he loved most about contributing to Light Blue. He said that he had always loved writing, estimating that he wrote more than 3,500 letters each year (as well as birthday cards and other correspondence), but above all else he felt a responsibility to share “some of the treasures of the School community”.

Michael was one of our treasures. We miss him.

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CHAIRMAN OF COUNCIL Ms Rebecca Cody commenced as our 12th Principal at the start of Term 2, and we celebrated her official Commissioning on April 29 (pictured). At the time of writing she has been at GGS for five months. It seems to me, however, that she has been with us for much, much longer given the way she has both endeared herself to and become involved in our community. Together with her husband Simon, son Jack and daughter Eve, she has become, very quickly, a familiar face in the life of the School.

This has predominantly been due to her authentic, friendly and engaging nature that has enabled her to form strong connections with students, staff, parents and alumni as she has gone between campuses, dinners, sporting occasions, events and OGG functions. Rebecca has been keen to point out that she is on a ‘listening tour’ and is absorbing much to do with the School’s history and ethos as well as the current issues faced by students, staff and parents. But even as she has been listening, she has imbued her own values and approach into key decisions and initiatives.

Without wanting to overstate the obvious, a change in Principal at the School is a momentous time and demands patience and flexibility as we all get used to the change. It is also a great opportunity to examine the things we do and way that we do them with the benefit of a ‘fresh’ set of eyes. This is extremely healthy for us for, although the School is operating very well, there are always things we can do better or should do differently. As a School that prides itself on its innovative nature, this is essential.

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Although one should always expect to be challenged in an unexpected way when one starts as Principal, I don’t think any incoming Principal could be more impacted than from the death of Michael Collins Persse. A towering character in the life and history of the School, Michael died at the end of Rebecca’s first term. I am grateful that Rebecca and Michael had met each other several times and had formed a strong bond; a completely expected result of two such warm personalities meeting. This was highlighted by Michael requesting that Rebecca be one of his eulogists at his Memorial Service held at the Chapel of all Saints, Corio, on Monday 27 August.

Michael’s surgeon was finding it difficult to schedule important surgery for him, not because of his full operating list, but because Michael insisted on being able to attend not only a reception for HRH Prince Charles in Brisbane in early April but also Rebecca’s commissioning later that month. He reportedly said: “if we can get you to a Prince, we can get you to a Principal”. Michael duly attended his seventh commissioning of a GGS Principal. This must be a record in itself.

The legacy of Michael is enormous and the School is enormously grateful for his contribution. For me, the most important way we can honour his life is to ensure that, at a time when people are more connected than ever in a digital way, we promote and enable our community remaining connected in a personal and social way. Michael ‘connected’ with students from all backgrounds: from seventh generation OGGs to cousins that are several times removed and those with absolutely no connection except they are a student of our School. He maintained friendships by personal contact, setting an example of the importance of such in this increasingly digitally connected but socially disengaged world. His Memorial Service was attended by over a thousand people and has been watched online by several thousand more.

Included in this edition of Light Blue is a summary of the 2017 Annual Report, setting out the financial affairs of the School. I commend it to you. I would like to take this opportunity to thank our long-serving, loyal and excellent Commercial Director, Andrew Moore, who has decided to leave us after almost 19 years. Council has restructured the position to create two roles: Director of Corporate Services and Director of Finance and Operations. The Director of Corporate Services will have responsibility for all legal, regulatory, compliance and risk areas and the Director of Finance and Operations retaining all other functions.

During his time as Commercial Director, Andrew and his team have achieved outstanding annual financial and audit results and excellent results in the areas of risk management, retail and operations in the Handbury Centre.

Andrew’s expertise in capital projects has seen numerous projects completed on all campuses with significant investment to support our facilities so as to be compatible with our educational aspirations. This has been achieved overall on budget and delivered on time.

On behalf of the School, I thank Andrew for his service and wish him success with his ongoing career.

As we approach the ‘business’ end of the school year I wish all those Year 12 and Year 11 students preparing for their exams a calm and healthy time – and the best of luck.

Jeremy Kirkwood (FB’79) Chairman of Council

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OUR In 1865, ten years following the founding of Geelong Grammar School, it is said that Queen Victoria and a young Oscar Wilde were amongst the first to read Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. In 2018, over 150 years hence, a scholarly and charming Michael Collins Persse shared with me his most recent acquisition: a limited-edition copy of Lewis Carroll’s masterpiece. Together, with tea and Tim Tams nearby, we marvelled at the exquisite illustrations, delicious language and overall magnificence of this indelible tale. Seven months on from that exchange, I am, with the beauty of hindsight, struck by the relevance of this adventure story to Michael and our School.

Perhaps all of us who discover Geelong Grammar journey down a rabbit hole of sorts, to be lured by unfolding possibilities and encounters that can feel both real and dreamlike. We unearth a wide-ranging land across four terrains, where

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unique characters are unified by challenge and choice, in the hope of inspiring an inner strength. Committed to upending expectations by pioneering new thinking and ways of being, all the while respecting the blessings of our heritage, we shape an iconic wonderland of our own.

Across the past five months, I have relished the opportunities to explore the wonderland of Geelong Grammar School and experience treasured moments with students and staff. There was the miracle of Narelle Davies, our Timbertop nurse lost in a remote and mountainous area of the Alpine National Park for four freezing nights, before being found by a volunteer Timbertop search team. There was the outstanding evaluation report for the implementation of the International Baccalaureate’s (IB) Primary Years’ Programme (PYP) at our Toorak Campus. There was the effervescent community leadership of Bostock House Year 4s’ MAD (Making A Difference) Market. There was the uplifting culture of our 1st XV Rugby team, personified through their embrace of their singing and dancing team mate, Lachlan Campbell (Yr12 Cu), who shone in the dazzling Senior School musical, Beauty and the Beast. There was the unfiltered love and affection of our Middle School students who farewelled long-serving Barrabool House cleaner, Joan ‘Joanie’ Menzies.

These are a mere handful of the blessings I have savoured since joining our community in April.

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When I think of all our blessings at GGS, I count Michael Collins Persse twice. Michael’s influence on shaping this wonderland is why thousands gathered for his Memorial Service at Corio: we cherish the young, resourceful Michael who taught himself to read with Carroll’s books, as well as the noble and learned man he became. A true girl-hero, curious and courageous, Alice was gifted to readers of the world. An incomparable protagonist, she amplifies a trailblazing vigour that inspires children. A true gentleman-hero, curious and kind, Michael was gifted to generations of Geelong Grammar learners. An incomparable educator, he amplifies rare insights that honour the responsibility and exceptional benefaction of learning.

With his impressive intellect and magnanimous spirit, Michael’s service to Geelong Grammar School was unequalled. I suspect that those stewarding our School in a hundred years from now, will read, somewhat incredulously, the legend of Michael Collins Persse; how is it possible that one person could have such a defining and everlasting effect on a community?

The longer Alice was in Wonderland, the longer she came to believe in impossible things. The longer Michael was at Geelong Grammar, the longer our community came to admire his remarkable capacities. We stand in awe of his altruism, wit and erudition: with a genius memory that wove the characters, families and sub-plots of our community together, Michael

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lovingly and generously curated our School’s history with distinction. Partly an academic pursuit, yet mostly a benevolent nurturing of individual relationships, his prodigious multigenerational impact brings a divine energy to our sense of identity. Much of who we are and what we represent resonates from a unique convergence of diverse characters, co-creating chapters of a much larger story. Such co-creation is primarily about ownership and a sense of belonging.

Through making people visible, Michael knew and honoured the value of this for us all: he saw us; remembered our birthdays (an act he explained as an expression of joyous celebration that this person exists); he wrote to us; and mostly, he shone a light on the possibilities within by connecting and reconnecting people to the wonderland where they belong.

As her adventure continued, Alice believed she might stay in Wonderland forever. Through the enduring brilliance of Carroll’s magical story, she has achieved that; for me, without question, it will be the enduring brilliance of Michael’s example that will see him live on and through us at Geelong Grammar School.

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Michael remained at the School for the remainder of his life, becoming a central figure in our community. His contribution to the School was enormous, influencing the lives of an estimated 12,000 students. He was Head of History for 40 years, edited The Corian from 1966-1992, developed the School’s Archives and was appointed Curator of the School in 1994.

Michael Dudley de Burgh Persse was born in Toowoomba on 10 November 1931. His parents, Janette (née Collins) and Dudley Persse were both from pioneering Queensland pastoral families. Michael grew up on a large cattle property at Eskdale West, between Toowoomba and Brisbane, with his younger siblings, brother Jonathan and sister Jane.

“Mr Collins Persse personified all that is good about Geelong Grammar.

He embodied the spirit of the School; its tolerance, its kindness and its love of learning.” – Felicity Hocking (Waterman, He’67)

“I remember Michael's first day at GGS when he arrived at lunch at Barrabool in 1955. Coming from Queensland, we all expected an Australian accent and a wide brimmed hat – instead this softly spoken Englishman.” – Ian Hingeley (P’60)

Michael joined the staff of Geelong Grammar School in November 1955, appointed on a two-year trial by legendary Headmaster, Sir James Darling.

However, Michael felt destined for priesthood and took leave from GGS in 1958 to complete his training at Westcott House, an Anglican theological college in Cambridge. After two terms, he was convinced that teaching was his true calling and that he should return to Corio.

Michael became a boarder at Toowoomba Preparatory School at age nine, then followed his father to The King’s School, Parramatta, where he was Dux of the School in 1948 and 1949, and School Captain in 1949.

He spent five formative years at Balliol College, Oxford University, graduating with a Master of Arts (Honours in History and Theology).

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“I was among Michael’s earliest pupils in 1955. He was an inspirational teacher who introduced me to Italian history and art and who encouraged me to read History at university.”

– Jeremy Dummett (FB’57)

“First memory of Michael, from 1959: a tall young fellow with an Oxford accent, in long white shorts, trying to teach us Australian Rules football on a wet and very muddy Cuthy Oval. Later, more in his element, teaching History.”

– Peter Chomley (Ge’63)

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“Michael believed that love is the true meaning of life and he took the view that by loving people with sensitivity for their thoughts and feelings, you are yourself, enlarged. This is how he lived.” – Tim Young (FB’74)

“His immense contribution throughout his lifetime to scholarship and humanity will long be remembered and will no doubt act as an inspiration and a beacon to those who follow in his footsteps.”

– HRH The Prince of Wales

“The time you took to know everyone and writing all the birthday letters in such detail is amazing. You were always so welcoming in inviting us all for tea and a chat and you always had lots of wonderful stories to tell.” – Rosie Barber (Yr8 Cn)

To celebrate the School’s centenary in 1957, Michael wrote the pageant play, Their Succeeding Race. It was later published as a book; the first of many that Michael authored, co-authored or edited, including Well-Ordered Liberty: A Portrait of Geelong Grammar School, 1855-1995, the first volume of the School’s biographical register Geelong Grammarians, 1855-1913 and In the Light of Eternity: Selected Writings.

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Michael had an extraordinary ability to relate to individuals, across generations, weaving a golden thread of friendship through our community. He possessed a phenomenal memory and was a generous host, guiding lively conversation while serving the obligatory tea with Tim Tams and Tic Tocs. He was a prodigious correspondent, writing birthday cards to every student at the School and beyond, as well as copious letters with margins filled with his familiar handwriting, and his annual Christmas “encyclical”.

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His most famous pupil was HRH The Prince of Wales, who Michael tutored for A-Level History in 1966 (on his return to Britain, Charles was awarded a distinction for his paper on ‘The Age of Cromwell’ and was admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge). It was the beginning of a close friendship, which was recognised in 2015 when the Queen made Michael a Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO) “for services to The Prince of Wales”. He was honoured again in 2017 with an Order of Australia Medal (OAM) “for service to secondary education, and to history”.

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By Tony Walker (FB’64)

Dredging back in one’s memory to the first time Michael Persse made an impression on a small boy at the very bottom of the food chain on the Corio campus, the year 1958 comes to mind.

In that year I was in Junior School, separated from the Senior School by the Main Oval. This served as a sort of Maginot Line between us urchins on the periphery and a world that awaited us. Then in his fourth year at Geelong Grammar School and Head of History at the age of 26, “Sir’’, as we called him, would distinguish himself on sports days by judging athletics events, and by his presence in the choir. Remote though he may have seemed to us then, he made an impression. “Sir” would dress more elegantly than his teaching peers, many of whom wore standard Fletcher Jones rig; grey slacks and plaid jackets of a certain drabness. His passage among us would be accompanied by a whiff of cologne. Michael Persse was, well, different.

All these years later, it’s hard to believe “Sir” was then in his mid-twenties, having only recently graduated from Oxford, nor that he would exercise such an influence on our lives, as we drifted into and out of the School’s orbit. Some of us drifted quite far away, notwithstanding we might have had our children educated at the School in the hope that “survival skills” and a certain individualism, rather than scholarship necessarily, would rub off on them. I have not been disappointed in the case of the unusually talented Nicolas Walker (FB’95), whose portrait of “Sir” captures Michael Persse as we all came to know him. In the photograph he is engaged and engaging with a characteristic quizzical half smile. He certainly looks distinguished, and, as always, well-dressed. His health had begun to deteriorate but you wouldn’t know it from the photograph.

I never asked Michael where he bought his clothes, but I wish I had. If I were to guess I would say more Turnbull & Asser in London, than Henry Bucks in Melbourne – and certainly not Fletcher Jones. Michael’s passing prompts a lot of thoughts about one’s schooldays, including recollections of those teachers who left an impression, and, more than that, contributed to your own happiness and whatever trajectory you might have pursued. In my case I would mention H.R. McWilliam, my disciplinarian Headmaster at Glamorgan, who would coach us in cricket by the numbers and drum into us this simple rule in cricket and in life: he who hesitates is lost. I would include the late Ed Butler, who took me under his wing as Housemaster at Glamorgan when my family was far away, and Ivan Sutherland, my first Form Master, one of the School’s nicest people. Ed’s great contribution in my case was to indoctrinate me in the religion of the Geelong Football Club.

Then there was Michael, whose influence over generations of students cannot be measured, and whose contributions to what the School represents will be enduring if proper care is taken of his legacy. I’m not sure whether it would be accurate to describe him as a great teacher in a formal sense, but he was an inspirer in words, language, example and ideas. He would impart knowledge via a gossamer thread. Take his teaching of Chaucer’s Prologue in our matriculation English Literature class. I don’t recall the formalities, but I do remember him bringing The Canterbury Tales alive to the point where one might have imagined Michael himself as one of the pilgrims, perhaps in the role of a “schoolteacher”, along with the Wife of Bath and other eccentrics.

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In his obituaries in The Times and The Telegraph in London (reproduced in The Age) much was made of Michael’s attachment to the monarchy, and Prince Charles, heir to the throne, in particular. Republicans among us found this devotion to an absent head of state, well, quaint, just as we might have believed Michael’s frequent references to blood ties with an Australian Who’s Who a bit, well, indulgent. I concluded a long time ago the Persse’s and Collins’s (Michael’s maternal family) and their forebears must have been very busy between the sheets. What always struck me in those discussions was his memory. He was one of those rare individuals with a prodigious photographic memory.

In 2015, when Michael clocked up 60 years at Corio, I interviewed him in the Dovecote, relocated to Biddlecombe Avenue from its perch above the Quadrangle. What lingers from a discussion that ranged over the six decades of his time at Corio from 1955 onwards is the constancy of his attachment to an institution quite far removed from his native Queensland, and his schooldays, first in Toowoomba and later at The King’s School, Parramatta. In that time at Corio he outlasted seven headmasters, and thousands upon thousands of students.

Among his more remarkable contributions was his correspondence with those who passed through his care. He told me he wrote something like 3,000 letters a year, or about 10 a day, and 25-30 on a busy day. I, for one, will miss his annual “encyclicals”, as my generation called them. In our conversation I asked him the obvious question: what motivated him to become such an assiduous chronicler in books and as editor of The Corian for several decades of the comings and goings at an institution he served for a lifetime?

“I’ve been doing this kind of thing always,’’ he told me. “When I was quite a small boy I was chronicling things at my station home in Queensland. I liked to make a family tree of the bantams that we had; I liked to record how many eggs we got each day; I liked to record rainfall; and I liked to draw maps of the property.”

This habit continued until the end. Michael was a great hoarder and collector of minutiae. He made ample use of this trove in his books, articles and personal correspondence.

On a personal note, several weeks ago on my way to Far North Queensland I passed through Michael’s home district of Esk, west of Brisbane. This is where he spent his early years before being sent away to boarding school. In the Esk Bakery I ate a meat pie and sauce for breakfast. I’m not sure Michael would’ve approved, but I’m certain he would’ve understood.

Tony Walker (FB’64) attended Geelong Grammar School from 1954-64. He is a Walkley Award-winning journalist and Vice Chancellor’s Fellow at La Trobe University.

In the Light of Eternity (Oryx, 2011) is a selection of Michael’s writings, including poems, essays, articles, profiles of Old Geelong Grammarians and obituaries.

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Glen has dedicated more than 50 years of his life to improving women’s reproductive health and reducing the maternal death toll in Papua New Guinea, which has one of the highest rates of maternal mortality in the world. Glen provides medical care, training, outreach and health clinics across PNG as well as helping to run the busy maternity service at the Port Moresby General Hospital. He is also the Professor of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Reproductive Health at the University of Papua New Guinea, where he has trained generations of local doctors, obstetricians, midwives and birth attendants. “Professor Mola is an untiring advocate for women’s and newborn health at a global level and an inspiring example of how a clinical leader can effect change and improve outcomes for some of the most disadvantaged women in the Pacific region,” Melbourne University’s Head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Professor Susan Walker, said.

Glen said that he was “astounded” to be the recipient of the Geelong Grammar School Medal for Service to Society, which was established to recognise people who, by way of the excellence of their achievements, have made sustained contributions to the betterment of society. It is the highest honour the School can bestow on a member of our community.

Thai health and education activist, Mechai Viravaidya (P’59), was awarded the inaugural Medal for Service to Society in 2014, followed by human rights lawyer and refugee advocate, Dr Eve Lester (Fr’81), in 2016. “I’ve done my bit, I suppose,” Glen said humbly. “How much control do you have over your life really? I think about that a lot. In many ways my life has been determined

by Papua New Guinea.”

Glen first visited Papua New Guinea on a school excursion led by Michael Collins Persse in 1963, sparking a lifelong love affair with Australia’s wild and rugged neighbour. “The trip obviously made a big impression on me because it determined what happened with the rest of my life. I was a 15-year-old from Wangaratta and it seemed to me that being an adolescent in PNG was an easier thing to be. I found out at Timbertop that I could actually look after myself, which was a transformational experience for me, and then I went to PNG and found out that not only could I look after myself, but I could be a functional adolescent as well.”

Glen returned the following year to trek around the highlands with Roger Pescott (FB’64) and Dick Elder (P’64), and visited regularly while completing his medical degree at Melbourne University. He helped establish the university’s PNG Society and was befriended

by Donatus Mola, who represented Bougainville in the PNG Parliament. “By this stage I considered myself a proto-Papua New Guinean. Every year I would go with (Melbourne Gallery owner) Ruth McNicoll up the Sepik (River) buying art, then I would go to Bougainville and stay with Donatus and his family. Over the years, I was adopted (by Donatus). I graduated with a MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery) in 1970. After graduation in November, I left for PNG. I did all my intern training in PNG. I started off in public health and rural medical practice, and then spent 4 years training paramedical workers. Afterwards I went

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to the UK and Sweden for post-graduate training in obstetrics and maternal health. I started off looking after the obstetrics and gynaecology (O&G) wards at Madang Hospital in 1975 because there was no one else to do it at the time. But it was only when I came back from the UK with my specialist degree and went into full-time public practice that everything fell into place.”

For mothers in PNG, where most women give birth in their village, the chance of dying in childbirth can be as high as one in 30 (in Australia it is one in 10,000). Many women have their babies alone, with no trained help. Glen works as part of a team of six local and expatriate specialists at the Port Moresby General Hospital, which cares for more than 15,000 women each year (similar numbers of women in Australia would typically require the services of between 50 and 60 obstetricians). With just 26 beds in the labor ward, the maternity ward is understaffed and under-resourced and every day struggles to accommodate an average of 45 births. “We’ve had a big impact on those who can come for a supervised birth and for those that can access care,” Glen explained. “The Port Moresby General Hospital maternity unit has the lowest rates of babies and mums dying of any major public maternity hospital in any developing country in the world.

For women who can get to our service, we can produce quality outcomes. It’s the poor women who can’t access a supervised birth at a health facility who still die at very high rates.”

“Professor Mola is an untiring advocate for women’s and newborn health at a global level and an inspiring example of how a clinical leader can effect change and improve outcomes for some of the most disadvantaged women in the Pacific region.”

Glen has been an inspirational and influential contributor to obstetrics and gynaecology in the developing world. He has consulted for the World Health Organization (WHO), various United Nations agencies (UNFPA, UNHCR, UNICEF) and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency. He has co-authored more than 120 academic papers on a wide range of maternal and child health issues, including fistula prevention, maternal mortality trends, contraception, HIV and sexually transmitted disease. He was the leading reproductive health expert for the Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research (PNGIMR) study of maternal and newborn health in PNG, which was supported by a major research award established by the UK Department for International Development, the Medical Research Council UK and the Wellcome Trust. He was President of the Pacific Society of Reproductive Health (2001-05) and was awarded the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RANZCOG) Distinguished Service Medal in 2012. At 71 years of age, Glen continues to build on his legacy of improving outcomes for women in babies in PNG, driving outreach programmes and training local doctors, obstetricians and midwives. “I won’t be able to do this forever, but I’ll keep on for as long as I can do it usefully, with an emphasis on succession planning.”

Glen’s work in PNG is supported by Australian charity Send Hope Not Flowers: www.sendhope.org

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Legendary Papua New Guinea Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Glen Liddell-Mola (P’64), will be awarded the third Geelong Grammar School Medal for Service to Society on Thursday 20 September. Glen will receive his award at the Geelong Grammar School & Geelong Grammar Foundation Black Tie Dinner, incorporating the 9th James R. Darling Oration, which will be presented by the School’s 12th Principal, Ms Rebecca Cody.

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TIMBERTOP SEARCH & RESCUE Tuesday 8 May 2018 began like no other at Timbertop and will forever be remembered by those on campus and in the broader Timbertop community. In the early hours of that morning, I was alerted to the distressing news that one of Timbertop’s own, nurse Narelle Davies, was missing in remote and rugged terrain after failing to return from an endurance training ride on her horse, Depict. The regular Timbertop programme was suspended and 18 members of staff were immediately deployed into the field to work with Victoria Police and State Emergency Service (SES) volunteers. Staff back on campus coordinated the search and worked to re-organise the student programme, including postponing Unit Hikes and Community Service, and implementing an alternate academic programme. From my perspective, there was never any doubt that Timbertop staff would be desperate to join the search. Not only was Narelle one of our own, but she was lost in an area that the staff knew well as steep, inaccessible and very difficult to search thoroughly in any other way than on foot. I knew that with their training, their knowledge of the area and resources, such as satellite trackers and a newly minted radio system, our incredibly fit and capable staff could contribute enormously to search efforts.

Many past students will vividly remember the terrain surrounding Eagle Peaks as enormously challenging. It was into this area that we focused the search as the last known contact from Narelle was at 5:11pm Saturday when she texted fellow Timbertop nurse, Cait Codyre, to say she was on Eagle Peaks. Shortly after sending this text, Narelle was on foot, leading her horse down the steep track toward her vehicle and camp when she tripped and fell, hitting her head. As she was leading the horse at the time, she wasn’t wearing her helmet. Narelle lay unconscious for an unknown period of time. When she came to it was dark and she was concussed, dazed and confused.

She had dropped too low in the valley for mobile reception. In this state, she inadvertently led the horse off the faint track and dropped off the spur to the south, into the headwaters of Malcolm’s Creek. After a long night the sun rose and she realised she was completely disoriented. For the next three nights she survived without food, by finding water in a small creek and building shelters from vegetation to sleep in. Depict stayed with Narelle throughout.

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This term’s focus is both Community and Service in all their forms; I can’t think of a better example to set to our students than to do exactly what staff here have done. Thank you to all those who sent messages of support and congratulations. It has been a reminder that the Timbertop Spirit is not an abstract concept, but rather a very tangible combination of belief and action.

Tom Hall Head of Timbertop

I am bursting with pride at the combined efforts of the Timbertop staff and students. We asked for student cooperation and they were outstanding! To repay them and to refocus our attention on them and celebrate, the next day we had a day of ‘Narellebration’. We all went to Shepparton on buses and enjoyed a relaxing day, watching a movie and going ten

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On the Wednesday afternoon, searchers from Timbertop located hoof prints and a stirrup from a saddle. After confirming it as the same as the one from Narelle’s saddle this gave us both hope and focused our search. It was, however, bittersweet as it meant that we could confirm she had been in the area, but we had no idea if she was with her horse or not when the stirrup was lost. As darkness fell and staff wearily made their way back to base that night, no-one slept easily, wracked with fear and guilt that Narelle was still out there as we lay in our warm beds.

Our Principal, Rebecca Cody, having cancelled all other plans, arrived that night to bring support and best wishes from other campuses and help us prepare for the worst but plan for the best. The search continued at first light the next morning. As Rebecca and I sat in a search briefing at the Mansfield Police Station that morning I took a call from Dennis Bainger, Head of Outdoors, who said one of our staff teams had located Narelle.

(I’ll admit, I swore in disbelief in front of our new Principal!)

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WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF POSITIVE EDUCATION? “A person without purpose is like a ship without a rudder.”

– Thomas Carlyle What is the purpose of Positive Education? Many of us would likely respond that by adopting Positive Education, we seek to equip our students with the knowledge, skills and practices that enable them to live a full, flourishing life. In fact, many would also consider the tenets of Positive Education as the pillars of a holistic education which enables young people to feel good, function well and make a meaningful contribution to their world. I would argue that, if we really are to be successful in achieving these outcomes for our students, we should place a strong emphasis on helping them find a sense of purpose, the why that drives them whilst they are at school and beyond the school gates.

PESA CONFERENCE Geelong Grammar School hosted more than 830 Australian and international delegates at the fourth annual Positive Education Schools’ Association (PESA) Conference from April 11-14. What a thrill it was to bring such a dizzying array of moving parts together – 18 keynotes, 17 masterclasses, 62 workshops, 100+ presenters, 370 schools and organisations (including 70 from overseas), a gala dinner for 550 people and a wellbeing adventure race. The conference commenced

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So what, really, is ‘purpose’? According to Kendall Cotton Bronk, Associate Professor of Psychology at Claremont Graduate University, most definitions of purpose feature three elements: commitment, goal directedness and personal meaningfulness.

In addition to this, she posits that there is a fourth component, a focus on impacting the world ‘beyond-the-self’. Whilst children may have experiences that sow the seed for purpose later in life, it is usually not until adolescence and emerging adulthood that an internalised sense of purpose becomes a possibility. This emerges when an individual discovers and commits to pursuing a personally meaningful aim, whether it be altruistic, family-focused, creative, sporting, spiritual, civic, or via another pathway. Hence, the development of purpose is closely identified with the development of identity.

In adolescents, purpose can be viewed as a defining feature of wellbeing. Having, or even searching, for a sense of purpose is correlated with life satisfaction, hope, hardiness, resilience and physical health. Purpose also acts as a protective factor against negative environmental influences and has been correlated with a greater sense of altruism. It is not surprising that there is research highlighting the relationship between purpose and academic achievement; purpose likely inspires greater grit and self-efficacy in young people. And whilst pursuing goals related to our purpose in life may cause stress at times, it is likely that purposeful individuals are better equipped to weather those storms and understand the longer-term rewards associated with them. William Damon, Director of Stanford University’s Centre on Adolescence, asserts that “the biggest problem growing up today is not actually stress, it is meaninglessness”.

with a keynote from Dr Martin Seligman, the founding father of the Positive Psychology movement who collaborated with GGS on the development of Positive Education a decade ago.

Seligman’s hopeful message, that we are not defined by the past and have multiple possible futures, was reinforced by many of the speakers who followed him, including Dr Lucy Hone’s challenging story of resilient grieving and Anh Do’s inspiring journey of arriving in Australia as a refugee to finding success as an author, artist and comedian.

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Such educational opportunities also assist students with the development of the strengths and dispositions which may help them pursue their purpose. William Damon has found through his research that the defining characteristic of purposeful youth is an entrepreneurial spirit, which involves: the ability to set clear goals and make realistic plans to accomplish them; an optimistic attitude; persistence in the face of obstacles; a tolerance, or appetite for risk; determination to achieve measurable results and resourcefulness and inventiveness in devising the means to achieve these results. Educational initiatives such as Entrepreneurship Education, Project Based Learning and Genius Hour not only allow students the agency to explore that which they find absorbing, challenging and compelling, but may help develop the competencies required to pursue this.

heart of education. Delegates laughed together, cried together, and could not help but be inspired by the tremendous work being done by governments, universities, researchers, parents, health professionals, school leaders and educators who each share a common goal – to improve the wellbeing of our young people and the wider community, to build character, and to teach optimism, compassion, gratitude and resilience. GGS was hailed as “a shining light in the world of Positive Education” and our Institute of Positive Education recognised “for their dedication and generosity of spirit”.

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Finally, engaging young people in focused discussion about what matters to them, their personal values and aspirations, can assist them in the development of longer term, authentic goals. Coaching conversations are perhaps the most effective context for this kind of goal-setting. This can take place within a pastoral setting, as part of a careers programme or, of course, a Positive Education programme. Damon also challenges teachers to consider how often we share our own vocational paths with our students. Why did we enter teaching? Why do we love literature, mathematics, or coaching soccer? These stories can have a powerful impact on our students as they explore their own core values.

The correlation between purpose and optimal wellbeing provides a convincing case for an emphasis on purpose in schools. Further to this, fostering a sense of purpose in our students should be the central concern of a holistic education.

After all, what more can we hope our young people aspire to than a life which has direction, which is meaningful to them and in which they leverage their strengths to make a positive contribution to the world?

Rhiannon McGee Head of Positive Education

noteworthy progress of Dubai’s Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA), Anna Han discussed the Positive Education Chinese Academy (PECA) plan to introduce Positive Education to 367 million children across China, while the University of Pennsylvania’s Dr Alejandro Adler shared his extensive work implementing Positive Education in Bhutan, Mexico and Peru, with research data indicating the success of these programmes in improving wellbeing and academic outcomes. We can be proud of all that has been achieved, but our challenge is to continue to contribute what we have learned to help shift the educational paradigm on a global scale, enabling all to flourish.

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If this is the case, how can we help foster a sense of purpose in our students? Encouraging young people to participate in activities such as helping at home, volunteering in the community, faith-related activities, or engaging in the arts can precipitate the development of purpose. However, these activities should not be ad-hoc and there should also be the opportunity to reflect on the meaning derived from them.

One such activity at Geelong Grammar School is our Giving for A Better World project, part of a collaborative study with Deakin University. In this study, our Year 10 students mentor our Year 8s as they seek to make a positive contribution to their community through projects, such as planting trees to raise awareness about deforestation and collecting used books for the Brotherhood of St Laurence. Through this process, our students ‘learn by doing’ and come to understand the value of pro-social action.

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BREATHE OUT Kitty Connell’s (Yr12 A) underwater self-portrait ‘Breathe Out’ received an Honourable Mention in the Senior School Photography category of the 12th Annual Coriobald Portrait Prize Exhibition, which was opened by Term 2 Artist-inResidence Matthew Quick on Friday 3 August.

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BRINGING AUSTRALIA TOGETHER Each year in Term 2, Year 4 students at Bostock House work in small groups to raise funds for various charities through the Making a Difference (MAD) Market. Students often select local charities – ANGAIR, Barwon Health Foundation and the Mt Rothwell Conservation Sactuary were all supported by Bostock House students this year – but the Marngrook Matters team selected a national charity with a local flavour. Marngrook Matters raised over $2,500 for the Indigenous Literary Foundation (ILF) with the help of local Indigenous artist and current parent Raymond Walters. “We were so excited that our small team made a big difference,” Aryan Saraswat said.

their interactions with Raymond. “He taught us about Indigenous culture, art and story-telling,” Charlie said. “We loved the time that we spent with Raymond. We also learnt that the funds we raised would go to help teach Indigenous children how to read and write. We love that our team helped to share books with Indigenous children in remote regions of Australia.”

Bostock House is a hive of activity on MAD Market day, with parents, staff, community members and representatives from the various charities invited to support our students. “It was the best day ever,” Annie Taylor said. “It went so fast though. We could not believe how it went so well.”

Raymond prepared an artwork for auction, to complement their MAD Market fundraising efforts. “He was so kind and generous with his time and abilities,” Charlie Haigh said. “He shared our interest in helping improve Indigenous literacy and kindly offered to complete an artwork to help us raise extra funds.” When the team presented the cheque to Raymond, who accepted on behalf of the ILF, he gave each student a unique painting from his emu feathers series.

Teamwork – from the beginning of the project through to MAD Market day on Tuesday 19 June – was at the core of everything the Marngrook Matters team did. “We loved working with so many different people from the community. Mrs Couch, Raymond and Naomi Walters, our Mums and Dads; we were one big team… TEAMWORK MARNGROOK MATTERS,” Lachlan Lancaster said.

The team threw themselves into the project. They designed their own logo, incorporating the football (linking to Marngrook), the Aboriginal flag, their team name and catchphrase. They immersed themselves in Indigenous culture while cherishing

While MAD Market is over for another year, the stewardship involved with the project has only just begun. Teams will attempt to ‘follow the money’, tracking what is achieved from the funds raised by our students.

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TOORAK CAMPUS THINK TANK If we could reimagine primary education, what might it look like?

At the start of Term 3, a group of motivated staff came together to form a ‘Think Tank’ at our Toorak Campus.

Using a design thinking methodology, we embarked on an exploratory journey to uncover and test more creative and innovative approaches to schooling, teaching, and learning.

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“this whole process is based on collaboration, and it’s when people get together and dream, that we create magic, and that’s ultimately what we’re trying to do through this think tank process.’’

- Rachel George, Head of Toorak Campus

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MAPPING DIGITAL COMPETENCE In 2017, Geelong Grammar School and Deloitte Centre for the Edge ran a series of workshops around Australia asking an important question – should everyone learn how to code? There was a variety of stakeholders in attendance, from primary and secondary schools, to universities, education authorities, state and local government, and employers large and small.

Despite the diversity of the cohort, there was broad, and somewhat unexpected, consensus. There was agreement that everyone’s lives are now impacted by digital technologies. There was agreement that the transformation to digital dependency had been surprisingly rapid. There was also agreement that we overestimate the digital competency not only of adults, but also of children. Participants from each stage of life’s journey, from education to work, believed that the problem had been taught in the previous stage, and were frustrated by the lack of knowledge of both the function and purpose of digital technologies.

The consensus from these round tables was that, while it is not necessary for everyone to learn how to code, it is essential that everyone be digitally competent, that is, have the digital capabilities (the knowledge and skills) required to use digital technology, but to also have suitable digital predilections, that is, know the purpose of, value in, and appropriate contexts for utilising digital technologies. Digital technologies are tools, not magic.

We need to understand how a computer works, not because we need to build them, but because we need to understand how to best use it as a tool. What are the implications, for example, both positive and negative, of big data?

In order to ascertain what capabilities and predilections are needed throughout life’s journey we have agreed to another round of workshops that extend our question – how might teaching digital competence manifest across education? And, what are the attributes of a graduate (from each of the educational levels) that represent their digital competence? Geelong Grammar School has continued its journey toward digital competencies with the introduction of digital passports in Years 5 and 6 at Corio. We look forward to seeing where this journey of discussion and discovery might lead us.

Tim Patston Coordinator of Creativity and Innovation

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CAREERS DISCOVERY DAY More than 40 recent leavers returned to the School to mentor Year 10 students at Careers Discovery Day on Sunday 17 June. A diverse group of Old Geelong Grammarians talked to students and parents about their careers since leaving school, providing invaluable ‘real life’ information about deciding subjects, university courses and career paths. Each provided a unique insider’s perspective of their chosen career, exposing students to an incredibly broad cross-section of career paths, from paramedic Jake Donovan (Cu’07) to lawyer Claire Francis (He’08), business systems analyst Alistair Grevis-James (Cu’06), innovation manager Tish Tambakau (He’07), entrepreneur Geoff Adams (M’05), architect Rich Austin (M’02) and embryologist Celia Harbridge (A’08).

“The number one influence on career choice is parents and family, both positively and negatively,” Head of Careers, Peter Craig, explained. “The OGGs are like an extended family, so we can widen that sphere of influence, and students have the opportunity to meet and discuss career paths with an investment banker or a research scientist or a physiotherapist. They are exposed to all of these different careers, in small groups, and they are encouraged to ask the hard questions – so they hear the good, the bad and the ugly; because it is just as valuable to walk out of a session and say ‘well, I really don’t think that is for me’. It is a really valuable experience and it is not just valuable for our Year 10 students – some of the Year 11 student facilitators get a lot out of it as well.”

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MIA GROSS Mia Gross (Yr11 Fr) performed very well at the World Junior Athletics Championships in Tampere, Finland in July. She missed the 100m semis by 0.03 seconds, progressed to the semis in the 200m and ran the anchor leg for the Australian Under 20 record-breaking 4x100m relay team that placed seventh in the final. For a 17-year-old competing against older athletes, Mia had an incredible week and she loved every minute of it.

If you were to close your eyes while listening to one of Mia’s post-race interviews, you could be forgiven for thinking you were listening to Sally Pearson after winning silver in Beijing. Excited, breathless, forever smiling and laughing, Mia is as engaging as she is fast. From a disqualification scare in the 100m heat – “I was trying not to cry when the double-gun went” – to the euphoria of running down the straight in the relay in front of a packed crowd – “everyone was screaming and I was like ‘quick, Mia, run!’”, Mia gave an honest, unfiltered appraisal of her experience. Even when it comes to addressing areas of improvement – “I think a turtle could beat me out of those blocks” – it is refreshing to hear an athlete, fledgling or otherwise, speak so openly.

It’s been a long season for Mia; between APS Athletics in 2017, to the National sprint circuit over summer, Australian Championships in March and World Juniors in June/ July, only a niggling injury towards the end of 2017 has stopped what would have been a near-12 month cycle of Athletics.

2019 looks set to be a year sans international competition for Mia which, given it coincides with Year 12, could be a blessing in disguise.

“I want 2019 to be a year of study and training,” Mia said, citing the eye-opening experience of training and competing in Tampere alongside athletes who have spent an extra year or two working on their strength and power.

“I’ve never had a winter season (of athletics) before and I was competing against girls who had three or four previously; I want to have that approaching 2020.”

In 2020, the targets for Mia are two-fold. She will be eligible to compete once again at the Under 20 World Championships, to be held in Nairobi, Kenya, however the ultimate goal remains the Tokyo Olympics.

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Hamish Wynn-Pope (Yr12 Cu) joined forces with The Geelong College’s Jack Thornton at the World Junior Rowing Championships in Racice, Czech Republic. The pair placed third in the C Final, after finishing third in their initial heat before progressing through the repechage. It has been an incredible rise for Hamish, having only started Rowing in 2017 with the 2nd VIII before progressing to the Boys’ 1st VIII this year.

Our Boys’ Under 16 team had a season to remember, winning every game throughout the year to claim the VSRU Under 16 premiership. The School’s Rugby Programme has gone from strength to strength in recent seasons, with the 1st XV making the semi-finals in 2015-2016 and the 2nd XV made consecutive grand finals in 2015 and 2016, winning in 2015. While it was a bit of a down year for the senior teams, the success of the Under 16 side is encouraging looking ahead to 2019.

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Nina Morrison (Yr12 A) capped a sensational winter season, in which she scored 11 goals for our Girls’ 1st Soccer whilst juggling an aspiring footy career, by being named Vic Country MVP and co-MVP of the competition at the Under 18 AFLW National Championships in July. Nina was named in the All-Australian team following the championships to round-off a year of individual accolades and team success, which included the TAC Cup premiership win with the Geelong Falcons. Nina looks set to become the first Geelong Grammar School student to play AFLW when the 2018 draft rolls around in October.

The School’s 1st Netball team claimed the AGSV/APS premiership for the first time since 2014. Led by Victorian representatives Elli Leydin (Yr12 A) and Ruby Barkmeyer (Yr12 Ga), the team accounted for Caulfield Grammar School by 31 goals in the final round to secure the premiership in front of a vocal home crowd. The team recovered from an opening round loss to reel off 10 straight wins, finishing equal with Wesley College on wins but lifting the cup after winning the top-of-the-table clash at Wesley earlier in the season.

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BEAUTY AND THE BEAST This year’s Senior School production told a tale as old as time… sang songs as old as rhyme… Beauty and the Beast. Across three nights in August, the GGS community was invited by a cast of over 30 students to be their guests as they performed the Disney classic in The David Darling Play House. The cast was complemented by an orchestra, consisting of staff and students, and dozens of staff behind the scenes – across all walks of GGS life – coming together to make an incredible production that left no-one asking ‘how long must this go on?’

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GRANDPARENTS’ DAY

Grandparents’ Day is one of great days to be a fly on the wall at Corio Campus. Students flying down Biddlecombe Avenue to give their grandparents a hug, excitedly pulling them around campus eager to show them the classroom in which they learn maths or the oval where they kicked the winning goal; occasionally with the roles reversed!

Over 350 grandmothers and grandfathers, as well as some mums and dads, attended the day which featured an introductory Pos Ed session for those interested, as well as a Chapel Service and afternoon tea.

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FOUNDATION CHAIR

I have been delighted with the response to the Foundation’s inaugural ‘Impact of Giving’ report. The purpose of the report is to say “thank you” for the extraordinary generosity of our donors, to celebrate our stories of success and to acknowledge all that we achieved together in 2017.

The Foundation plays a vital role in supporting the School, including the provision of scholarships enabling students to access the life-changing opportunity of a Geelong Grammar education. Our donors have told us that they want to see the impact of their gifts, to read about the opportunities offered by scholarships, and to hear in the students’ own words what it means to them. This report is one way of ensuring that our donors have a real sense of the impact of their generosity on the School and upon the lives of individual students.

The inaugural ‘Impact of Giving’ report is also an opportunity to hear what motivates our generous benefactors, why they support the Foundation, and how they feel about their gift. John Sevior (P’79), who established the Sevior Family Scholarship with his family, explained: “There are lots of things you can do with your money, but this is a great thing”. Past parent Ern Pope, who established the Pope Family Indigenous Scholarship with his family, told us: “I do get the sense that it is making a difference”. I am constantly overwhelmed by the kindness and generosity of people who love the School and want to do something for it, and I find their commitment to our community and their willingness to ‘put something back in’ truly inspirational.

I believe that there are few more worthy causes than providing a diverse range of students with the life-changing opportunity of a Geelong Grammar education. Diversity is the life-blood of our School, and scholarships are a main priority for our fundraising activities.

Other priorities include Bequests and Annual Giving.

The Foundation’s bequest society, the Biddlecombe Society, had 44 members when Neil Robertson (FB’73) was appointed Chairman in 2010. It now numbers nearly 200 members. Over $2 million was received in bequests in 2017, and I believe bequests will play an increasingly important role in funding the School’s activities into the future. More and more people are realising that to leave a bequest to the Foundation in their will is a valuable and worthwhile way of supporting the School, and that great good will come from their gift. The Biddlecombe Society events, held several times a year in different geographic locations, are themselves very enjoyable, with a large number of bequestors and their friends enjoying time together.

In the last 10 years, since 2009, Annual Giving has raised $2.3 million. This year, Annual Giving is aspiring to raise $250,000 in 250 days, encouraging our community to: “Help us, to help others”. Annual Giving is a wonderful way for our community to support scholarships – it has contributed to 10 separate scholarship funds, as well as the Library Fund and Timbertop Unit Refurbishment. One of the biggest areas of growth in Annual Giving has been through donations to Indigenous scholarships. From just one student in 2006, there are 30 Indigenous students at the School in 2018. Annual Giving has played a significant role in that growth. Our community is recognising the life-changing nature of Indigenous scholarships and are generously contributing to them through Annual Giving.

Penny McBain Chair, Geelong Grammar Foundation

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IMPACT OF GIVING Donors to the Geelong Grammar Foundation received a copy of the inaugural Impact of Giving report, which celebrated the wonderful generosity of our donors throughout 2017. The report highlights how our students are benefiting from the support of our community, through life-changing scholarships and exceptional facilities, such as the Toorak Wellbeing Centre. The report provides the Foundation with an opportunity to clearly demonstrate how gifts support our School and provide our students with the opportunity to find the best within themselves.

2017 IN NUMBERS

942 Foundation Members

$197,880 Annual Giving 2017

Toorak Wellbeing Centre officially opened in November 2017

Total Fundraising Income in 2017

$6.3M

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CELEBRATING OUR SPACE Principal, Rebecca Cody, hosted Geelong Grammar Foundation members at the opening night of the Senior School musical, Beauty and the Beast, on Thursday 9 August. The pre-show function was to show appreciation for the generous donations that helped bring the School for Performing Arts and Creative Education (the SPACE) to life. Guest speaker, Michael Harrop, Head of Drama, explained how this inspiring facility was empowering our students to reach their creative potential. Chair of the Fundraising Committee, Ian Darling AO (P’79), and his wife Min had another special reason to attend – their daughter Sophie (Yr12 Cl) played the role of Babette in the production.

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BIDDLECOMBE SOCIETY The Biddlecombe Society held its inaugural Mornington Peninsula luncheon at the Sorrento Sailing Couta Boat Club on Thursday 2 August. Acting Chairman, David Henry (FB’69), hosted the event and was pleased to introduce the School’s 12th Principal, Rebecca Cody, as the guest speaker. Guests included Old Geelong Grammarians, Clyde Old Girls, Hermitage Old Girls, past and current parents and staff. Among a number of things that were learned from a most enjoyable day was that James Bracebridge Wilson (Headmaster 1863-95), donated the land upon which St John’s Church in Sorrento was built in 1874.

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The Geelong Grammar Foundation is aspiring to raise $250,000 in 250 days to benefit future students and we need your help to achieve this ambitious goal.

As at the 31 August 2018, we are delighted to advise that with the assistance from our generous and thoughtful community we have raised $211,890 in 127 days. We need $38,110 in 123 days to achieve our ambitious goal.

Thank you deeply to all of our donors who have contributed to the success thus far.

Visit www.ggs.vic.edu.au/Foundation/AG to read what we can achieve with $250,000 and how you can support Annual Giving in 2018.

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“I was incredibly fortunate to receive a scholarship to attend Geelong Grammar School. I only hope that other students can benefit from what was such a life-changing experience for me.”

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The Mail Room is a place for our wider school community to share news, notes and pictures of life beyond school. The Mail Room builds on the strong sense of community that we share and the foundation work of Michael Collins Persse, who was such an invaluable oracle of information and a vital touchpoint for so many students, staff and parents, both past and present. The Mail Room is a celebration of Michael’s legacy.

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Thomas Wright (c.1827-1912) may not be a well-known name today, but in early Geelong his Malop Street shop was a mainstay.

Like many other colonial silversmiths and jewellers, little of his work survives. A silver foundation stone trowel in the Geelong Grammar School Archives is the only one in existence known to be signed by Thomas Wright and, since it dates from the 1850s, is a significant piece of Victorian colonial era silver. Research into the life of Thomas Wright reveals a man who, like many others that arrived in the colony, adapted to new conditions and customer demands. Wright began as a watchmaker, but the discovery of gemstones in Victoria and the increasing demand for colonial jewellery gave him the opportunity to work as a manufacturing jeweller.

The Wright family had been London clockmakers, goldsmiths, glasscutters and engravers since the 18th century. The Victorian gold rush brought many young men out to the fledgling colony, including brothers Alfred and Charles Wright. In 1852, William Paterson, a gold broker and clockmaker in Geelong, placed an advertisement in the newspaper for “two competent workmen”.

One of these positions was filled by Alfred Wright who became “shopman” to Paterson.

Tragically, Alfred drowned in the Barwon River in December 1852. Thomas Wright joined his surviving brother Charles in the colony in August 1853, arriving aboard the Gibson Craig and disembarking at Hobson’s Bay. Thomas was about 25 years old at the time and his profession was listed as “watchmaker”. Upon arriving in Geelong, it appears that he immediately started work with Paterson.

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and purchasing of gold, as well as engraving and repairing watches and clocks. By 1857, he was no longer working with Paterson and had set up his own business on the north side of Malop Street, between Moorabool and Bellerine streets. Thomas’s first year of business happened to coincide with Geelong Grammar School’s plans for a new building to be constructed on two hectares of land on the southern slope of Moorabool Street (it had moved into Knowle House, a former hotel on Skene Street, but was “bursting with over a hundred pupils”).

The foundation stone of the School’s new building was laid by Sir Henry Barkly, Governor of Victoria, on 24 June 1857.

Constructed between June 1857 and April 1858, the building featured an imposing bluestone façade. The trowel matched the grandeur of the building, both in its size and weight. The engraving is of high quality, featuring foliate and scrollwork decorative elements. It lacks pseudo-hallmarks and no attempt was made to disguise it as British. This was probably due the fact that Thomas did not have a mark registered with Goldsmiths’ Hall in London. It is acknowledged that many presentation pieces from the 1850s onwards were imported.

However, the presence of the engraved signature ‘T. Wright, Geelong’ indicates that it is not an imported piece, but the work of a craftsman of growing confidence and technical ability.

The trowel was presented back to the School in 1911 by Lady Barkly and was used to lay the foundation stone at Corio on 3 April 1913. Meanwhile, Thomas Wright produced several important presentation pieces. He exhibited a silver claret jug at the Geelong Mechanics’ Institute Exhibition in 1862, produced a silver tea service given to the outgoing Geelong postmaster, William Thacker, in 1869, and made a “neat little silver cup” for the Geelong and Western District Agricultural and Horticultural Society Spring Show in 1878. He was also quick to capitalise on the discovery of gemstones in Victoria, honing his skills as a jeweller to produce topaz, and possibly diamond, jewellery. Wright’s son Walter became a partner in the business in around 1910. Wright and Son installed the King Edward Memorial Clock at the Geelong Post Office in 1911. Thomas Wright died in 1912, leaving the business to Walter in his will.

Geoff Laurenson Archivist Note: this is an edited extract of an article to be published in the November edition of Australiana magazine.

Above left: Laying the foundation stone at Corio in 1913 Above: The “old” school on the southern slope of Moorabool Street, Geelong

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Barrie Graham Dexter

CBE (Ge’39), who was born on 15 July 1921 and died on 13 April 2018, was a distinguished diplomat and public servant who played an important role in helping Indigenous Australians through his work with the Council for Aboriginal Affairs. Barrie was the son of Walter Dexter, a decorated chaplain at Gallipoli and on the Western Front in World War 1, and Dora (nee Roadknight). He was one of seven children and was named after his mother’s favourite author, J. M. Barrie, but known affectionately as Bunt. His father was an Anglican minister at Lara from 1927 to 1940, so Bill (M’31), David (Ge’35), Stephen (Ge’35), Barrie and Mick (M’42) attended GGS, while Lady Geraldine Currie (Dexter, He’40) attended The Hermitage. Barrie would milk the cows at the family farm at Lara (then a rural village) before catching the train to Corio, where he became House Prefect in Geelong House, drum major in the School Band, lieutenant in the Cadet Corps and No. 2 seat in the 1st VIII crew.

Barrie gained an MA (Hons) and Diploma of Education from Melbourne University and taught briefly at Wesley College before enlisting in the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) in 1941. Determined to follow in the footsteps of older brother David (Dade), he undertook commando training at Wilson’s Promontory and saw active service in New Guinea with the 2/6th Commando Squadron, known as the “Purple Devils”. He was hospitalised with a concoction of tropical diseases but the hospital was bombed by the Japanese, so he was evacuated to Australia with shell shock and fever. He spent a period in the Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital and recovered sufficiently to join the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), rising to the rank of lieutenant and serving as part of the occupying force in Nagasaki after it was bombed in 1945.

In 1947, Barrie was selected to become a Diplomatic Cadet with the Department of External Affairs. He had a gift with languages, particularly French, German and Latin, and was posted to Lebanon in 1951 to learn Arabic. He became a respected and senior diplomat, serving in Cairo, Karachi, Washington, Accra (as High Commissioner to Ghana), Vientiane (as Australian Ambassador to Laos), Belgrade (as Australian Ambassador to Yugoslavia) and Ottawa (as High Commissioner to Canada). In 1967, his diplomatic life was put on hold when Australia’s Prime Minister Harold Holt visited him in Laos. Following the successful 1967 referendum that gave the Commonwealth Government the power to legislate specifically for Indigenous Australians, Holt asked Barrie to help establish the Council for Aboriginal Affairs with economist H. C. ‘Nugget’ Coombs and anthropologist William Stanner. Barrie replied: “But I don’t know anything about Aboriginals.” Holt said: “That’s why I asked you to take on the job. I’m frightened by the people who think they do know something.” Barrie then said: “Mr Prime Minister, you are asking me to open Pandora’s box.” Holt replied: “That is precisely what I am asking you to do, Barrie.”

In his retirement, as a visiting fellow at the Australian National University (ANU) from 1984 to 1987, Barrie wrote an exhaustive 527-page account of his efforts to improve the standard of living, healthcare and cultural recognition of Indigenous Australians under six Prime Ministers, Pandora’s Box: The Council for Aboriginal Affairs, 1967-1976 (Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2013). The manuscript lay unpublished for many years until Indigenous activist and academic Gary Foley – once a determined critic, but a warm friend in later years – helped edit the book with Edwina Howell. Veteran journalist, Michelle Grattan AO, recalled “a public servant who fought passionately for the cause of Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples”, from mentoring Aboriginal activist Charles Perkins (who he appointed as a Senior Research Officer) to implementing community-based economies, increased social welfare, education grants and land rights, leading to the Northern Territory Land Rights

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Barrie met his future wife, Judith Craig, a librarian at Parliament House, in 1948. They married in 1950 and had three children: Bridget, Jocelyn and Tim. Jocelyn suggested her father had inherited “many great qualities” from his own father, the decorated World War 1 chaplain, including “a calling to a life of community service, an innate sense of fairness and honesty, a wicked sense of humor, and a passion for family, travel and learning.” In his retirement years, Barrie worked closely with Malcolm Fraser (Gl’37) at CARE Australia as its Vice-Chairman from 1987. He only gave up this role when Judith became ill in 2001 and he needed to care for her. “The dedication and determination he had once devoted to his career and social justice issues now turned towards becoming the devoted carer of his beloved wife,” Jocelyn explained. Barrie was remembered at a Service at the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture in Canberra, beside a mural of the Holy Spirit in Our Land by Gija elder, Hector Jandany.

The mural bridges Indigenous and Christian spirituality through an interpretation of the life of the Spirit in the land and the lives of its people. When Barrie left Aboriginal Affairs in 1977, returning to diplomatic service as Australian Ambassador to Yugoslavia, Romania and Bulgaria, a Pitjantjatjara elder declared that Barrie was “tjilpi ninti mulapa tjukaruru”. The translation given was: “old man, wise, full of knowledge, truly, straight, true, honest.”

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AO QC (Cu’49), who was born on 23 July 1931 and died on 8 August 2018, enjoyed an eminent career as a jurist, academic and company director. Richard was the son of Dr Henry Searby, a founding member of the Royal Melbourne Hospital, and Mary, a philanthropist involved in community programmes for the underprivileged.

Richard and his brother Michael (Cu’48) were home-tutored by their grandfather, Claude Searby, a former Headmaster of Melbourne High School, before both joined Geelong Grammar School in 1942. Richard flourished at Corio, winning the B. M. Osborne Scholarship and the Beveridge Prize for Head Form Boy in Junior School before becoming a House and School Prefect in Senior School, where his Cuthbertson House Master, Ted Pinner, wrote: “It has never been my privilege to work with a finer boy”.

Richard was Secretary of the Aeropagus and The Servers’ Guild, sergeant in the Cadet Corps, student editor of The Corian and a member of the Library Committee. He won the Hasker Prize for Modern Languages, the John Walker Prize for General Knowledge and the Sherlock Military History Prize for an “outstanding” essay on General John Churchill, the 1st Duke of Marlborough.

The School’s legendary Headmaster, Sir James Darling, described Richard as “very intellectually able” and recommended him to Oxford University Vice-Chancellor, Sir Richard Livingstone.

Richard read Classics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, having taught himself ancient Greek to complement his First Class Honours in Latin from GGS. He was reunited with school friends Rupert Murdoch (Cu’49) and Rod Carnegie (Cu’50) at Oxford, and developed a close friendship with Malcolm Fraser (Gl’37), who was studying at Magdalen College.

Richard was awarded a Full Blue in Royal Tennis and captained the Oxford team.

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His elder brother Michael was captain of the corresponding Cambridge team at the same time, with Oxford winning subsequent matches between the two great rival universities. After graduating with Honours and an MA, Richard was admitted to the English Bar as a member of the Inner Temple in 1956. He returned to Australia and was called to the Bar in Victoria in 1957, but delayed commencing active practice; spending three years as an associate to Sir Owen Dixon, Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia. He read with Sir John Young (FB’37), who would become Chief Justice of Victoria, and lectured in Law at The University of Melbourne. He appeared as Counsel Assisting the Royal Commission into price-fixing cartels at the Queen Victoria Market, was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1971 and played a key role in drafting important legislation, including the Trade Practices Act 1974.

Richard’s deep understanding of the law, particularly equity, commercial and company law, was highly sought by governments and major corporate clients. He acted for Shell Australia in the Royal Commission on Petroleum from 1973 to 1976 and joined its Board in 1977, beginning his transition from an outstanding legal career to becoming one of Australia’s leading corporate directors.

“His detailed preparation of cases and his softly spoken presentation to the Courts, with his economic use of language, led to many successful results for his clients,” Alex Chernov AO, QC explained. “He applied similar skills in boardrooms”. Richard joined the Board of both Rod Carnegie’s CRA (later Rio Tinto) and Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation in 1977, serving as Chairman of the Murdoch empire of media companies from 1981 to 1992. “Richard was my boyhood and college friend who answered the call of that friendship,” Rupert said. “He enabled us to launch out globally, including helping us buy The Times. Indeed, he was crucial in that difficult negotiation.

Perhaps the establishment thought I couldn’t be all that bad if I had Richard as friend and confidant.”

Richard was Chair of the Geelong Grammar School Council (1983-1989) and was a generous member of the Geelong Grammar Foundation. He was a Member of the Council of the Museum of Victoria (19901998) and a Member of the Council of the National Library of Australia (1992-1995).

He was Chancellor of Deakin University (1997-2005) and was made a member of the Order of Australia in 2006 for his services to education, as a contributor to the programs of major cultural institutions, business and the law. More recently, he served as Chair of the Hearing Co-operative Research Centre (2007-2016).

Richard married Caroline McAdam in 1962.

They had complementary personalities and overlapping interests, including a shared a love of Jane Austen, whose novels they would read out loud to one another. Deakin University’s chancellery driver, Dale Warren, once said: “It seems like the chancellor and Mrs Searby are on a permanent first date.”

They had three sons, Charles (FB’81), Patrick (FB’83) and James (P’84). Caroline died of cancer in 2014, after which Richard (who had survived several heart attacks) lost much of his verve. He was remembered by Charles Goode AC as “a hard-working, quiet, reserved man, perhaps a little shy”. “He had a dry sense of humour and a gentle sense of irony,” Charles said. Richard was passionate about art, classical music and architecture, especially Vermeer, Mozart, Haydn and Schubert, and Cistercian monasteries. He always wrote with a fountain pen and was a Francophile, with a retreat in Sos in southwest France. “He was a gentle man and a gentleman.”

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Richard was known as Rupert’s “problemsolver”. He was present at talks about competition concerns with the UK Department of Trade and Industry, which enabled the acquisition of The Times (News Corp already owned The Sun and News of the World). He was involved in the relocation of the London based newspaper’s infrastructure from Fleet Street to Wapping, which resulted in a year-long union protest that became one of the political flashpoints of the mid-1980s (along with the miners’ strike of 1984-85). He oversaw News Corp’s purchase of Hollywood film studio 20th Century Fox, the creation of Harper Collins and the launch of UK satellite broadcaster Sky Television. “He was always the voice of calm reason,” Murdoch said.

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More than 120 past parents enjoyed a perfect Autumn evening at the seventh annual Past Parents’ Network (PPN) Autumn Cocktail Party, held at the historic Marymeade mansion in Hawthorn on Friday 20 April. Guest speaker, former Victorian Premier Ted Baillieu (Gl’64), spoke about the architectural significance of the house and the social history of Mary Street during World War 1, while Vice Principal Charlie Scudamore spoke about Positive Education, emphasizing the connections, support and engagement nurtured by the PPN. Catering was courtesy of Sean Donovan of the Mount Erica Hotel, Prahran, with wines from Yalumba.

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1968 TIMBERTOP REUNION The 1968 Timbertop group held a 50th reunion at Timbertop on Saturday 14 April. People travelled from the United Kingdom, New Zealand and from all over Australia to be there, even the rain didn’t dampen the enthusiasm of reuniting after so many years! Thanks go to the organisers of the event: John Corrie (FB’70), Mark Darling (FB’71), Ross Thomson (P’70) and Pat Wilson (Cu’70).

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COMMUNITY NEWS

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Sandra (Sandy) Fairthorne (Cl’76) worked with experienced director Judy Ellis to stage her second fulllength play, The Confessions of Jeremy Perfect, at La Mama Courthouse Theatre in Carlton from February 28-March 11. An accomplished playwright, screen writer and director, The Confessions of Jeremy Perfect is Sandra’s second full-length play, following on from the success of The Savages of Wirramai, which performed to sold-out shows at La Mama in 2015. Sandra has also written and directed short films. Her work has screened at the St Kilda Film Festival and the Screen-Me Blue Mountains Film Festival, where her 2001 short film Immaculate won the IF People’s Choice Award. More recently, Sandra has been running playwriting courses and workshops.

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Eve Lester (Fr'82) has published her first book, Making Migration Law: the Foreigner, Sovereignty and the Case of Australia (Cambridge University Press, 2018). An experienced human rights lawyer and refugee advocate, Eve's book explores how Australia’s migration law, from the White Australia policy to the ongoing treatment of asylum seekers, has been driven by political-economic desires to regulate race and labour, with a particular focus on the claim that there exists an absolute sovereign right to exclude or condition the entry and stay of foreigners.

“This book exposes the moral and political bankruptcy that comes with ‘absolute sovereignty’ – a domestic law doctrine with its origins and currency in the politics of xenophobia and racial discrimination – particularly when courts fail to assert control and apply the principles of legality integral to their duty to do justice,” according to Oxford University international law professor, Guy Goodwin-Gill.

Eve has served as the head of Amnesty International’s refugee and migration programme based in London. She has also worked as a consultant for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Geneva, the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (now Human Rights First) in New York, and the Jesuit Refugee Service in Australia and Cambodia. She is a life member of Refugee Legal, Victoria’s only specialist community refugee legal centre. She has delivered courses and been a guest lecturer at the Australian National University, Australian Catholic University, New York University and the International Institute of Humanitarian Law in Sanremo, Italy.

Eve was awarded the Geelong Grammar School Medal for Service to Society in 2016 Nick Waite (P’82) is riding 6,500 kilometres across Europe to raise money for the Nepal Youth Foundation. After 30 years in the financial markets, specialising in foreign exchange trading with Citigroup, Westpac and CIBC Europe, Nick has embarked upon an epic solo ride from the southernmost point of continental Europe, Tarifa in Spain, to it northernmost point, Nordkapp in Norway, passing through France, Germany, Denmark and Sweden along the way.

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Marta Dusseldorp (Cl’90) has returned to the stage for the Melbourne Theatre Company’s production of American playwright Lucas Hnath’s Broadway hit, A Doll’s House, Part 2, (August 11-September 15). Marta, who won a Helpmann Award for her performance in the Sydney Theatre Company’s production of

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The War of the Roses, plays Nora Helmer in the sequel-of-sorts to Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House. Marta is best known for her starring roles in the ABC TV legal drama Janet King and Channel Seven/Foxtel period drama A Place to Call Home. She also recently appeared in the ABC’s Jack Irish series and was Chair of the 2018 Lexus Australia Short Film Fellowship Jury.

1996

Andrew Latreille (Cu'96) is exhibiting a collection of photographs entitled ‘Then and Now’ as part of the ‘Time – Space – Existence’ display at the 2018 Venice Biennale at the European Cultural Centre in Venice (May-November).

Working between Canada and Australia, Andrew’s photography documents the work of leading international architectural firms. The photographs on display in Venice are part of an exhibition organised by the GAA Foundation, a Dutch non-profit that aims to heighten the awareness about the more philosophical themes in contemporary art, architecture and in culture in general. A trained architect intrigued by the “process of making architecture”, Andrew wanted to explore the people, procedures and materials that aren’t shown in the final images of buildings. Andrew is exhibiting 11 pairs of images taken in Vancouver and Canada’s sparsely populated Yukon territory that detail phases of process and completion.

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Campbell (Tom) Macknight (Cu’98) is working as a Protection Officer for the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, in Afghanistan. Campbell is based in Kabul, where he is mostly confined to a well-defended UN compound, using armoured vehicles to attend meetings around town with government officials and NGO partners. There are occasional opportunities to visit field offices, usually by helicopter or light plane, and Campbell has visited Herat, Bamiyan, Panjshir, Khost and Paktika provinces. The conflict in Afghanistan has significantly escalated in 2016 and 2017, displacing more than one million people from their homes and causing countless civilian casualties. Despite the deteriorating security situation and widespread poverty, Afghanistan is also hosting more than 100,000 Pakistani refugees, as well as asylum seekers from Iran and other countries. Campbell has worked for the UNHCR for the past six years in the Middle East and North Africa. He believes it is a privilege to be involved in the international community’s response to forced displacement.

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Loren O'Keeffe (Fr'02) was featured on the ABC Women’s Work series in July ahead of Missing Persons Week (August 5-11). Loren established the Missing Persons Advocacy Network (MPAN) in 2013 after coordinating a large-scale campaign to find her brother Dan, who went missing in July 2011. In April, MPAN launched its ‘Invisible Friends’ campaign, which harnessed Facebook’s facial-recognition and auto-tagging technology to search for missing Australians.

The public was asked to befriend selected Facebook profiles of missing persons, using Facebook algorithms and auto-tag function to search for matches. “This is the hi-tech, 2018 version of the traditional missing persons poster,” Loren said. In August, MPAN modernised the missing persons milk carton campaign by launching biodegradable ‘Unmissable’ coffee cups in 20 of Melbourne’s most popular cafés. Each cup featured portraits and stories about missing persons to help raise awareness, empower families and engage with the public.

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She works alongside communities and NGOs to help regenerate natural environments and facilitate the sale of organic produce, such as organic coconut oil. Since it was formed less than two years ago, Loving Islands has registered more than 5,000 acres under organic land management. Litia is currently working with the United Nations Development Programme and the United States Embassy’s Regional Environment Office.

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Sunday Emerson Gullifer (He’07) was awarded the Lexus Australia Short Film Fellowship at the Sydney Film Festival in June. The Fellowship is the largest cash fellowship for short film in Australia, with four Fellowship winners receiving $50,000 each to produce their next short film, to premiere at the 66th Sydney Film Festival in 2019. Marta Dusseldorp (Cl’90) presided as Chair of the Fellowship Jury, praising the winning filmmakers for their “holistic understanding of their craft and vision”. Sunday’s short film, Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, had its premiere at the 2017 Sydney Film Festival, where it was Highly Commended in the Dendy Awards, and went on to premiere internationally at the Telluride Film Festival in Colorado, USA. It premiered online as a highly coveted Vimeo Staff Pick in July and has also been selected for Short of the Week.

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Edwina Kolomanski (Ga’09) hosted her second girledworld World of Work (WOW) Summit at RMIT University on June 16-17. Edwina co-founded girledworld a year-anda-half ago to empower, equip and educate the next generation of girls with global role models, 21st century skills and real-world career pathways in startup and STEM. Girledworld has attracted support from Federal and State governments, as well as leading companies like Airbnb, Twitter, Atlassian, MYOB and UniSuper. It delivers entrepreneurship, STEM and leadership events and workshops for girls in Years 7-12.

The second WOW Summit featured an impressive line-up of female speakers from Microsoft, Airbnb, Twitter, the ABC and Melbourne University, with the next WOW Summit scheduled for Sydney University in February 2019.

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Maddison Brown (EM’15) represented Australia at the World Rowing Under 23 Championships in Poznan, Poland between July 25-29. Maddison and the Australian Women’s Eight qualified for the A final at the Championships, finishing sixth overall. Maddison is entering her Junior year at the University of California (Berkeley), having won a gold medal and a national championship at the NCAA Rowing Championships earlier this year as part of Cal’s Varsity Eight. Kirstie Green (A’15) represented the victorious Australian Under 21 Rowing team in a TransTasman series against New Zealand across two legs this year.

Kirstie competed in the Women’s Coxless Pairs, Coxless Four and Coxed Eight in both the first leg, held in Sydney in June, and the second leg, held on Lake Karapiro in August.

Kirstie and Maddison were members of the all-conquering GGS Girls’ 1st VIII in 2015 and represented Australia at the Junior Rowing World Championships in Brazil in 2015 alongside fellow OGGs Sasha Culley (Cl’16), Bridgette Hardy (Cl’15) and Sarah Harte (A’16).

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OGG PRESIDENT The Old Geelong Grammarians’ Association AGM was held on Tuesday 22 May in the Gladys Bell Room at Corio. It was a pleasure to present Honorary OGG awards to long-serving GGS staff members, who have been outstanding contributors to the School, some for nearly 25 years. We congratulated and welcomed as new honorary life members of the OGG Association: Science teacher and Teacher-in-Charge of Snowsports, Andy Beauchamp, who was previously Head of Middle School and Alumni/Bequests Manager; Art, Media Studies and Visual Communication Design (VCD) teacher, Martin Beaver, who was previously Head of Francis Brown (2009-16); cleaners Menka Kirkovska and Janette Sadler; and security guard Glen Roubicek, who was married in the Chapel of All Saints and whose children were christened there. With decades of service, such dedicated staff members become part of the School’s history and DNA – and in a symbiotic relationship, GGS becomes part of theirs.

OGG membership ensures that connection lasts a lifetime.

Among changes to the OGG Committee for 2018, Co-Vice President David Henry (FB’70) stood down from executive office but will continue to serve as a committee member. A sterling contributor, David also serves as President of the School’s Athletics support group, the John Landy Club, Acting Chair of the Biddlecombe Society, and as coordinator of the annual OGG Motoring Event (Saturday 10 November). David’s son Will Henry (FB’17) was the youngest OGG attending the AGM and younger brother, Nick Henry (Yr12 FB), also dropped in for a spare sandwich. We also welcomed our newest OGG committee members, Lucinda Bordignon (Cl’03) and Andrew Burgess (FB’81), and congratulated Ian Coltman (FB’77) who was elected Co-Vice President alongside Nina Anderson (Thomas, Cl’93). Will Richardson (M’02) continues as Treasurer of the OGG Committee and Chair of the OGG Finance Committee. Other committee members are Pin Affleck (Cl’97), Bill Ferguson (P’72), HOGA President Deidre Griffiths (He’68), Simon Kemp (Cu’70), Sandy Mackenzie (FB’59), Rob Perry (A’83), and Annabel Southey (Cl’02). We are grateful that Alumni Manager, Katie Rafferty (Spry, Ga’84), is our Honorary Secretary. The committee is a hard-working, thoughtful and collaborative group with a range of skills, alert to new ideas and initiatives to enhance the unity and welfare of the diverse OGG community.

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by Victoria Cavanagh (Cl’05) and Christian Habla (P’08), and the annual London Dinner on Wednesday 27 June, hosted be OGG UK representatives, James Earl (M’96) and Ed Smith (Cu'86), in

the Downer Room at Australia House. The School’s 12th Principal, Rebecca Cody, was welcomed as guest speaker. Rebecca has had a whirlwind introduction to the GGS community, attending OGG events in Australia, Asia and Europe. Everywhere she went she won hearts and minds with her warmth and joie de vivre, while her insight, initiatives and philosophical approach to education will help GGS be the best school possible.

Reconnecting with the rural and agricultural sector has been a priority for the OGG Committee. More than 100 OGGs, past and current parents gathered for an OGG Western District Drinks at the Hamilton Club on Monday 6 August. Coinciding with annual Sheepvention agricultural event, the informal drinks were held alongside similar functions hosted by Marcus Oldham College and The Geelong College, with Marcus Oldham Foundation Chair, Antony Baillieu (M’67), and his wife Sybil Baillieu (Barr Smith, Cl’68), OGG NSW Branch president, Will Wilson (P’79), and Pincott Club president, Clive Jamieson (M’85), joining Chair of Council, Jeremy Kirkwood (FB’79), at the event, which was initiated by OGG Committee member, Sandy Mackenzie (FB’59).

Since the death of OGG Fellow, Michael Collins Persse MVO OAM, on Monday 25 June, the OGG community has experienced a collective sense of loss. OGGs have exchanged moving tributes online, by letter and in conversation, recollecting their school experiences with Michael as an educator and mentor, and marvelling at his ability to tame, train and test even the most unruly students; helping everyone to discover their innate capacity for self-improvement. The Memorial Service on Monday 27 August was beautifully coordinated, with eulogies by Michael’s executors Kate Baillieu, Charles Bright (P’62), and Peter Gray (P’85), as well as Rebecca Cody and Tim Young (FB’74), who Michael had chosen to tell his life story. Tim had spent many afternoons and countless cups of tea with Michael over the years, and was able to share some of Michael’s wisdom, compassion, gentlemanly values, decency, respect and affection for generations of Old Geelong Grammarians with the congregation. The Order of Service booklet featured a beautiful obituary written by Michael’s dear friend, Mark McGinness (which will appear in the September edition of Quadrant magazine). It was remarkable to sense the fullness of Michael’s achievements and unique qualities unfolding as the Chapel resonated with his favourite hymns, readings and the hauntingly beautiful sound of Archie Bate’s cello playing ‘Dust Country’ – a reflection of Michael's own ‘dreaming place’ in Queensland, where his heart belonged as much as with his generations of friends at Geelong Grammar School. Universally loved, eternally remembered, he will be profoundly missed. May God bless Michael Colly P. Margie Gillett (Cordner, Cl’71) OGG President

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A Cocktail Party jointly hosted by the Old Geelong Grammarians and the Geelong Grammar Foundation was held in Sydney on Wednesday 9 May, welcoming Rebecca Cody to the GGS Sydney community. Thanks go to organisers OGG NSW President, Will Wilson (P’78) and Fiona Newman (MacGillivray, The Hermitage ‘65): 1.

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Harry Mann (P’08), Myles Gillespie (M’08) and Frances Purcell 3.

Marshall Baillieu (P’83), Jennifer and James Abbott (M’95) 4.

Steph Fett (Ga’07) and Danai Fadgyas (A’07) 5.

Graeme Wood (Ge’68), Sally Wishart (The Hermitage ‘68), Annie Baring (MacGillivray, The Hermitage ‘68), Judy Laidlaw (The Hermitage ‘68) and Richard Woolcott (Cu’45) 6.

John Paul (Cu’54), Bill Hayward, Chair of the Foundation Board, Penny McBain and her daughter Ane McBain (Ga’13) 7.

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HOGA AUTUMN LUNCH The Hermitage old girls were delighted to catch up with past students from many different year groups for the inaugural Melbourne Autumn Luncheon at Royal South Yarra Lawn Tennis Club on Friday 27 April. Welcome drinks were served in the Norman Brookes Room before guests were seated at a long, festive table to enjoy a delicious lunch and much warmth, laughter and sharing of stories. Overwhelmed by the positive response to the inaugural event, HOGA are already looking forward to next year’s Autumn Luncheon, which has been scheduled for Friday 29 March 2019.

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Helen Garner (Ford, He’60) featured on the cover of the June edition of The Monthly magazine, which included an intimate profile of the acclaimed writer by Walkley Award-winning journalist Erik Jensen. Entitled ‘Hotel Golf: Helen Garner on life, anger and judgement’, the profile referenced several of Helen’s best-known books, including Monkey Grip (McPhee Gribble, 1977), Cosmo Cosmolino (McPheen Gribble, 1992), The First Stone (Picador, 1995), Joe Cinque’s Consolation (Picador, 2004) and This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial (Text, 2014). The profile also explored Helen’s personal life, including her thoughts on anger, jealousy, therapy, religion, marriage, the justice system and shoes – she admits to judging people based upon the shoes they wear. After 40 years of writing books and answering questions about herself, Helen is a reluctant subject: “Seriously. Isn’t everyone fed up with hearing me or about me?”

Helen attended The Hermitage from 1952 to 1960. She was Head Prefect and House Captain of Austin House, before receiving a Commonwealth Scholarship to attend Melbourne University, living on residence at Janet Clarke Hall. In a letter to ‘the woman who changed my life’ for the Women of Letters literary event, Helen reflected on the impact of one of her teachers at The Hermitage, Mrs Grace Dunkley: “Dear Mrs Dunkley… You showed me the glory and the power of an English sentence, and the skills I would need to build one. You put into my hands the tools for the job”. The letter was included in Sincerely: Women of Letters (Viking, 2012) and included what various critics have described as Garner’s trademark “fearless honesty”: “…I saw you at last, my teacher: an intense, damaged, dreadfully unhappy woman, only just holding on, fronting up to the school each morning, buttoned into your black clothes, savagely impatient, craving, suffering: a lost soul… Dear Mrs Dunkley. I know that your first name was Grace; I hope you found some, in the end.”

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COGA AGM 2018 The COGA AGM & Old Girls’ Day Lunch will be held on Sunday 14 October at Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club, 489 Glenferrie Road, Kooyong (please note the change of venue – it was previously advertised as Royal South Yarra). The guest speaker will be former COGA president Sue Schudmak (Sproat, Cl’64), who will share “tall tales and true” of her fabulous worldwide travels in vintage cars with her husband, motoring enthusiast Philip Schudmak, the proud owner of a 1924 Bentley and a 1931 Delage D8S de Villars Roadster.

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JUMBLE SALE The 67th annual COGA Jumble Sale was held at Toorak Uniting Church Hall on Thursday 28 June. Coordinator Jane Loughnan (Weatherly, Cl’70) organised a band of helpers. Special thanks to Jane and her husband Dr Michael Loughnan, as well as Deb (Blakiston, Cl’70) and Haydn West (M’69), who provided van transport, and Anna Affleck (Durham, Cl’71), who donated vintage and classic books from her family’s library collection. COGA Treasurer Peta Gillespie (Cl’69) forwarded a cheque for $2,600 to the Isabel Henderson Kindergarten in Fitzroy North, which is named after the founder of Clyde School. COGA’s annual donation assists two children each year to attend the kindergarten.

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Clyde School was runner-up at the 89th Women’s Inter-School Golf Challenge Cup at Kew Golf Club on Monday 16 April. All players enjoyed the newly renovated course at Kew, although the greens were slick, making scoring challenging. Clyde was well represented by Janet Coombes (Dalrymple, Cl’67), Prue Plowman (Manifold, Cl’63), Eda Ritchie (Beggs, Cl’59) and Susie Sutherland (Finlay, Cl’59), who finished on 118 points – four points behind Genazzano and four points ahead of St Leonards/Toorak College. Prue recorded a wonderful score of 37 points and won the Kitty McEwan Trophy for the best score for handicaps between 0-18. Many thanks to COGA for kindly funding the golf team’s entry fees. The event raised $4,500 for Cottage by the Sea at Queenscliff. We invite all Clyde golfers to join us on Friday 5 October for the Fun Cup at Sorrento Golf Club. For further information please contact Anna Tucker (Kimpton, Cl’71) on 0408 540 252 or email annatucker8@outlook.com

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OGG SPORT FOOTBALL Finals fever gripped the Old Geelong Football Club, with the Men’s Senior and Reserve teams progressing to grand finals in the Premier C Division, earning the club promotion to the Premier B Division of the VAFA in the process (the last time Old Geelong won promotion to B Division was when they won the C Division premiership in 1957). The Senior team finished the season in third place with 12 wins. The OGs won their last three games of the home-and-away season, including a 47-point win against top-of-the-ladder Williamstown CYMS in round 18. They then beat Old Camberwell by seven points in the 1st Semi Final and Williamstown by one point in a thrilling Preliminary Final, to set up a grand final clash with Fitzroy. Scott Dixon (A’13), Josh Hutley (Fr’13), Ed Keach (M’14) and Will Sloss (M’12) continued their good form into the finals. Meanwhile, the Reserves finished the season in second place with 15 wins, losing the 2nd Semi Final to Fitzroy before defeating Marcellin by five points in the Preliminary Final. Tim Breadmore (FB’15), Rupert de Crespigny (Cu’10) and Joe Kemp (M’13) were among the better players. The Women’s teams enjoyed strong seasons in Premier B Blue division. The Senior team finished the season in fourth place with nine wins before losing the 1st Semi Final to Monash Blues, with Lucy Gubbins (Cl’11) and Ally Kirkwood (Cl’14) among the better players throughout the season.

The Women’s Reserves team finished the season in second place with 12 wins, losing the grand final to West Brunswick by two points.

GOLF Geelong Grammar School, Clyde and The Hermitage had teams competing in the 89th Women’s Inter-School Golf Challenge Cup at Kew Golf Club on Monday 16 April. Clyde finished the day as runner-up to Genazzano on 118 points, with The Hermitage on 103 and GGS on 88.

Clyde was well represented by Janet Coombes (Dalrymple, Cl’67), Prue Plowman (Manifold, Cl’63), Eda Ritchie (Beggs, Cl’59) and Susie Sutherland (Finlay, Cl’59), with Prue winning the Kitty McEwan Trophy for the best score for handicaps between 0-18. Next year’s Women’s Inter-School Golf Challenge Cup will be held at Sorrento Golf Club on Monday 1 April. OGG women golfers are encouraged to contact Katie Rafferty (katier@ggs.vic.edu.au) to join the OGG Golf List.

A field of 125 golfers enjoyed perfect conditions for the 33rd annual Geelong Grammar School v The Geelong College Golf Match at Barwon Heads Golf Club on Friday 9 March. GGS (average par score of -2.42) defeated College (average par score -3) to register a record sixth consecutive victory, eclipsing College’s five straight wins from 2000-2004. Overall, College still leads GGS 19-14 across the 33 years of competition. Congratulations to GGS individual winner Simon Reed (P’76) (+5), runner-up Ian Stewart (M’61) +4 and Interschools Pairs winners, Steve Gubbins (M’64) and Rick Fleetwood (P’71). Many thanks go to Sam Bingley (M’94) and Sam Cole (OGC) for organising another spectacular event.

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Gillian Storey (Kimpton, Cl’59) was made a member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the general division for significant service to women in regional and remote areas, to politics and public policy, and to the community of Yass. Gillian was a long-serving board member of Yass Valley Aged Care (2007-2012) and vice president of the Yass Aged Care Foundation (2015-2016). She was a member of the Rural Women’s Network Committee of NSW and has been an active member of the Liberal Party since the 1970s, serving as president of the Yass branch, country female vice-president of the NSW division and national vice-president of the Liberal Party of Australia.

David Hohnen (Bw’62) was made a member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the general division for significant service to the Australian wine industry and as a promoter of the Margaret River region. Born in New Guinea when his mining engineer father worked there, David and his three brothers, Giles (Timbertop’62), Mark (Bw’62) and John (M’70), attended GGS in the 1960s between overseas and interstate adventures. Introduced to wine and French culture in New Caledonia, the Hohnens planted vines on their Margaret River property in 1970 and started Cape Mentelle Vineyards.

David studied viticulture and oenology at Fresno State University in California and won Australia’s famous Jimmy Watson Trophy for best young red two years in a row for his 1982 and 1983 Cabernets, putting Margaret River on the winemaking map. He became interested in Sauvignons from the Marlborough region of New Zealand and established the iconic Cloudy Bay winery in 1985, which transformed the region from sheep to wine country. He sold both to French champagne house Veuve Clicquot in 2003 and now spends his time farming and helping his daughter Freya with their new family winery, McHenry Hohnen.

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Simon Murray (M’70) received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for service to secondary education and to professional associations. Simon stepped down after seven years as Headmaster of St Peter’s College in Adelaide in June 2017. He was previously Headmaster of Canberra Grammar School (1998-2010) and Bunbury Cathedral Grammar School in Western Australia (1991-1998). He served as a board member of St Mark’s College at Adelaide University (2011-2017), Chair of the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia (AHISA) from 20092011, and board member of the Independent Schools Council of Australia (1999-2004). Simon was the founding Chair of the Positive Education Schools Association (PESA), which held its fourth annual conference at GGS in 2018, and an advisory committee member of the International Positive Education Network (IPEN). He received the 2017 South Australian Fellowship Award from the Australian Council for Educational Leaders.

Sir Brian Ivory CBE (Timbertop Staff 1967-68) was made Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) for his services as Chairman of Dumfries House Trust in Ayrshire, Scotland. A former managing director and group CEO of Highland Distillers, Sir Brian was also Chairman of the Trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Lyall McCarthy (Staff 1993-96) received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for services to rowing, having coached Australian crews to gold medals at the World Rowing Championships and the Olympic Games. Lyall was appointed coach of our Girls’ 1st IV in 1993 and won four consecutive Head of the River titles, as well as the Head of the Schoolgirls’ IV in 1996, and the Australian Schoolgirls’ IV Championships in 1994 and 1996, before being appointed coach of the Men’s Lightweight Coxless Four for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.

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Pre-AFL Grand Final Drinks, Sydney Thursday 27 September 2018 HOGA Golf Day, Barwon Heads Golf Club Monday 1 October 2018 COGA Fun Cup Golf, Sorrento Golf Club Friday 5 October 2018 2008 10 Year Reunion Saturday 6 October 2018 1978 40 Year Reunion Saturday 13 October 2018 1968 Clyde School leavers Reunion, Barwon Heads Saturday 13 October 2018 COGA AGM & Old Girls' Day Lunch Sunday 14 October 2018 1988 30 Year Reunion Saturday 20 October 2018 The Hermitage 1968 50 Year Reunion Saturday 20 October 2018 APS Past Students' Golf Day, Commonwealth Golf Club, Oakleigh South Friday 26 October 2018 Clyde House Reopening & Reunion Dinner Saturday 27 October 2018 OGG Golf Day, Barwon Heads Golf Club Friday 9 November 2018 Tower Lunch Saturday 10 November 2018

OGG MENTORING 175 Old Geelong Grammarians are participating in the online OGG Mentoring programme, hosted on the Mentorloop software platform. OGGs are encouraged to register their interest to join the programme by visiting the Alumni section of the School website and filling in a few short details about themselves, their career, aspirations and interests. Mentors from a broad cross-section of jobs and careers are encouraged to register, along with OGGs interested in finding a career mentor.

The Old Geelong Grammarians recognise the need and benefits of OGG to OGG mentoring and, after experiencing some initial technical problems, the online OGG Mentoring programme is connecting OGGs across a wide range of industries. The programme enables mentors to share knowledge, expertise and experience, while providing mentees with advice and guidance on professional development and advancement. The mentoring programme strengthens existing OGG networks and delivers tangible benefits for both mentors and mentees.

The Old Geelong Grammarians are committed to growing and developing the online OGG Mentoring programme, with a focus on helping drive matching engagement within the Mentorloop platform. There will be resources for mentors and mentees as well as tips on setting goals for mentoring relationships so that users get the most from the mentoring programme. New registrations will continue to be encouraged.

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110 members of the 2013 year group attended their five year reunion in Melbourne on Saturday 11 August, which was brilliantly organised by Kate McGeoch (Ga’13) and Kate Scott (Cl’13).

1. Kate Scott (Cl’13) and Kate McGeoch (Ga’13) 2. Daniel Howes (P’13), Annabel Robinson (Cl’13), Fraser Cameron (P’12) and Putu Wiranatha (P’13) 3. Brianna McCaffrey (He’13) and Olivia Wetherall (EM’13) 4. Kaitlin Walsh (EM’13), Holly Cusworth (A’13) and Matilda Hall (A’13) 5. Josh Hutley (Fr’13), Zane Mahood (A’13) and Charlie Youngman (Cu’13) 6. Charles Burbury (FB’13) and Jock Grimshaw (FB’13) 7. Polly Ritchie (Cl’13) and Cec Cameron (Cl’13) 8. Liv Stone (A’13), Paddy Miles (A’13), Alex Plumptre (Ga’13) and Tom Jamieson (FB’13) 9. Pip Rofe (Cl’13), Sophie Kebbell (Cl’13), Annabel Head (Cl’13) and Camilla a’Beckett (Cl’14) 10. Raphael Bardi (FB’13), Stan Chuan (FB’13) and Henry Pyne (M’13) 11. Anthony Stirk (FB’13) and George Reed (Fr’13) 12. Phillipa Beauchamp (A’13) and Clare Weatherby (Ga’13) 13. Caleb Lun (A’13), Jack England (M’13) and Chris Gist (M’13) 14. Judy McKay (He’13) and Georgie Rule (EM’13)

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100th Birthday Boz Happy

Cecil ‘Boz’ Parsons (M’36) returned to Corio to celebrate his 100th birthday with morning tea in Manifold House on Wednesday 12 September.

Remarkably, Boz was a student at Bostock House in 1927, when he attended the unveiling of the War Memorial sculpture by George Lambert erected alongside the Cloisters. He was a student at Corio when the Dining Hall was extended in 1933 and he was a School Prefect under legendary Headmaster, James R. Darling, in 1936 (note the size of the palm tree on the right of the photo). Boz served in the RAAF in World War 2 as a bomber pilot and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. He returned to GGS as a staff member from 1962 to 1980, serving as Housemaster of Manifold House from 1965-1978, Acting Master of Corio in 1978 and Master of Corio from late 1978-1979. Boz was the Secretary of the Old Geelong Grammarians’ Association from 19801988 and was awarded an OGG Fellowship in 2005.

“I was a scholarship boy and I felt very indebted to the School and I felt that it was incumbent upon me to do the very best that I could. I had this very good scholarship, the Bertie Manifold Scholarship, and interestingly enough I went through Manifold House as a boy and subsequently became Housemaster of Manifold House, so the Manifold tradition was very strong with me.”

Boz is pictured on his birthday with his wife of 71 years, Barbara, standing in front of that same palm tree from his 1936 School Prefect photo above.

Happy 100th Birthday Boz!

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Sarah and Ryan Andrews (M’02), a son, Edward James Asle, on 30 April 2014 and a daughter, Alice Margaret Helena, on 19 May 2017

Savile Fairbairn Harold Armytage (1941-47) on 9 June 2018

Geoffrey Alan Kemp (1957-61) on 9 March 2018

Shirley Lois Austin née Hyett (Hermitage 1934-43) on 16 August 2018 (1941-47) on 9 June 2018

Jeffrey William (Jeff) Lang (1970-73) on 25 February 2015

Annabel Southey (Cl’02, Staff 2010-12, 2017-current) and Dennis Bainger (Staff 2010-current), a daughter, Lily Jane, on 31 August 2018 Claire Robson (Staff 2010- ) and Nick Bryant, a daughter, Isla Louise, on 2 May 2018 Georgia and Hugh Cameron (Cu’98), a son, Louis Ian, on 25 October 2016 Ella née Cooper (Cl’05) and Julien Denizot, a daughter, Eloïse Juliette Clémentine, on 4 April 2018 Nicola née Dunn (He’99) and Phil Dyer, a son, Luke Peter, on 27 February 2018 Jane Darling (A’95) and Michiel Kalkman (Highton ‘85), a daughter, Abigail, on 9 November 2017 Joanna née Manifold (He’01) and Jonathan Morris, a son, Jock Henry Manifold, on 14 June 2018 Kiran née Jagpal (Staff 2016- ) and Ben Poole, a son, Zack Jagpal on 16 August 2018 Georgie née Wilson (He’02) and Richard Selman, a daughter, Primrose Matilda, and a son, Angus Morgan, on 7 September 2016

MARRIAGES Chloe Flemming (Staff 2015- ) married Jarred Steenvoorden on 10 August 2018 Tim Owen (M’01) married Alexandra Hopkins on 28 April 2018

John Russell Fordon Bellgrove (1959-65) on 12 April 2018 Hilary Mary Blakiston née Heath (Clyde 1942-44) on 10 August 2018 Faith Holmes Brown née Watson (Clyde 1944-49) on 12 October 2017 Russell Kenneth Neville Chirnside (1937-44) on 28 April 2018 Lois Ogilvy Clark née Ludbrook (Hermitage 1943-45) on 6 June 2018 Michael Dudley de Burgh Collins Persse MVO OAM (Staff 1955-2018) on 25 June 2018 Charles James Robertson Colville (1948-52) on 18 February 2018 William Digby (Will) Crozier (1975-78) on 30 August 2018 Robin Fehon Cuming (1947-52) on 19 April 2018 Ronald Christopher (Chris) Davidson OAM (Staff 1967-94) on 28 March 2018 Barrie Graham Dexter CBE (1935-39) on 13 April 2018 Robert John Richard (Rob) Ditterich (Staff 1983-97) on 18 August 2018 Samuel Jack (Sam) Foster (1992-93) in July 2018 James Templeton (Tim) Gething (1959-64) on 1 May 2018 Richard Gauntlet Hall JP (1935-42) on 6 April 2018 James Arnold Hancock OBE (1930-41) on 16 May 2018 Olwen Annarella (Nin) Hardiman née Smyth (Clyde 1934-38) on 14 August 2018 Alan David Hobbs (Glamorgan 1937-38) on 8 May 2018 Rosemary Diana Holmes (Hermitage 1949-55) on 24 August 2018 Thomas Edward White Howes DFC (1934-40) on 13 March 2018 David Leigh Jeffery (Staff 1976-2010) on 30 May 2016

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Verdon William (Bill) Letheren (1946-52) on 8 June 2017 Ronald John (Ron) McCann (1951-56) on 4 May 2018 Zelda Anne Stewart Mills née Gatenby (Hermitage 1931-36) on 14 August 2015 Lynton Eric Hamp Morgan (1939-46) on 13 April 2018 Eve Jane Muir née Wordsworth (1978-79) on 9 March 2018 Phillipa Jill Edith Murphy (1981-86) on 28 April 2018 Frances Winifred Nall (Hermitage 1931-42) on 10 July 2018 Dr Edward Donough Adair O’Brien (1948-59) on 24 April 2018 Naomi O’Shea née Ruth (Hermitage 1953-56) on 23 May 2016 Rosemary MacPherson Paton née Watson (Clyde 1944-47) on 5 December 2017 Peter Wybert Pugh (1947-49) on 11 March 2018 John Henry Quayle (1938-48) on 19 May 2015 Dorothy Read née Temperley (Clyde 1929-33) on 31 January 2018 Neil Roderick Goldsbrough Robertson (1967-73) on 5 September 2018 Margaret Gowan (Margie) Robinson née Begg (Clyde 1947-52) on 5 March 2018 Eric James Scott (1956-59) on 2 August 2018 Dr Richard Henry Searby AO QC (1942-49) on 8 August 2018 Pamela Sinclair née Clyne (Clyde 1953-56) on 24 July 2018 Dr Albert Hamish Turnbull (1951-58) on 15 July 2018 Elisabeth Helen Walker (Hermitage 1943-56) on 20 April 2018 Hector Home Walker (1946-50) on 25 April 2018 John Herbert Wall (Glamorgan 1938-43) on 27 October 2017

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May flights of angels sing thee to thy rest

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