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Rebecca Hossack (L’73) in 2013 celebrated 25 years of the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery in London which has done so much to make Australian, particularly Aboriginal, and Papuan New Guinea art known abroad. She was Australia’s Cultural Attaché in the United Kingdom from 1994 until the post was abolished in 1998 (Germaine Greer has recently called for its – and Rebecca’s – reinstatement). Her husband, Matthew Sturgis, is a distinguished biographer. Peter Hall (Cu/L’74) is the author of “Tumbledown Turnaround”, the musical play performed with great energy and success by a huge cast from our Middle School under the direction of Annabel Meek (Staff 1989-) in November. With his wife, Margaret, he has three sons, James (born in 1990), Jonathan (born in 1992), and Timothy (born in 1997), all of whom have gone to school at Shore in Sydney. The Honourable Georgie Crozier MLC (Je’81) chaired the Victorian Parliamentary committee investigating clerical abuse of minors, of which the Honourable Andrea Coote MLC (GGFoundation Director 199698) was a member. Georgie Somerset née Robinson (Cl’82) is President of the Queensland Rural, Regional, and Remote Women’s Network Inc. whose first 20 years are recorded in Celebration of a Network: The QRWN Story (2013), edited by Judith Bandidt. Prominent in rural affairs nationally, Georgie and her husband, Rob, run cattle in the Burnett district of Queensland and have three children, Ben, Macartney (both of whom have graduated from Churchie), and Gemma, now at Fairholme in Toowoomba where Georgie herself was for two years after GGS. LIGHT BLUE - GEELONG GRAMMAR SCHOOL
Matthew Joyce (P’83), to the immense relief of virtually the whole GGS community and very many others, and after appealing against a heavy sentence, has been completely exonerated in Dubai – as well as, considerably earlier, in Australia – of the alleged bribery for which he had been held in Dubai for some five years, though for much of that time without charge. He arrived home in Victoria before Christmas with his wife, Angela, who is a grandchild of the late Graeme Bostock Austin (Cu’26), and with whom he has three children, Jack, Clancy, and William.
neurological clients in a physiotherapy clinic, and with children including Hien Nguyen (TYr9), who entered GGS at Corio in 2012. Living now near Geelong, she combines work as a physiotherapist at Waterfront Health Studio with casual teaching.
Angus Carnegie (Cu’84), living in Sydney, is a Senior Research Scientist with the Department of Forestry.
Sophia McQuillan (A’09) in December 2013 received the Gold Duke of Edinburgh Award at Government House in Melbourne and, six days later, graduated Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) from the University of Melbourne.
Mezwyn D’Junus (Ga’86) launched her first book, Even the Most Positive Person in the World Gets Cancer (H&H Publishing, 2013), at the Melbourne Writers’ Festival in August. Mark Abraham (Fr’95) moved from Canberra to Sweden late in 2012 and is working at the Life Sciences Park attached to the Karolinska Institute. He was awarded a Doctorate of Philosophy by the Australian National University in 2013. Sam Strong (P’96) is directing Noël Coward’s Private Lives for the Melboune Theatre Company early in 2014. Rory Hyde (P’99) in November, with his partner, Amy Silver, moved to London to be the first Curator of Contemporary Architecture and Urbanism at the Victoria and Albert Museum. He did so the day after the opening at the National Gallery of Victoria of the Melbourne Now exhibition and last-minute work, adding greenery to the huge installation, a geodesic “Big Dome” set in the NGV’s St Kilda Road foyer, which he had conceived and with a team of family and other friends had built – a hand-built structure made of 945 Ikea bins and curved timber beams. He studied Architecture at the RMIT, did doctoral research, and worked in the Netherlands for five years during which his book, Future Practice: Conversations from the Edge of Architecture, was published, featuring interviews with leading designers, planners, architects, and historians. Fleur Kilpatrick (He’01), with degrees in Physiotherapy and Teaching, taught in a voluntary role in Kenya at The Walk Centre in Nakuru. She then worked in an international school in Hanoi, with
Ruth Patterson (He’01), having studied Science and Engineering and become fascinated by hydrography while a Research Assistant and then a Fellow at Charles Darwin University, is now an Oceanographer, based in Darwin, with the Australian Institute of Marine Science.
Jessica Grills (AYr12) also received the Gold Duke of Edinburgh Award at Government House in December for her work as a volunteer, both on the spot and documenting it, at an orphanage in the small community of Kikwajuni in Tanzania. She spent the 2012-13 summer holidays there while her parents, Dr Richard Grills (A’84), and his wife, Leanne, volunteered at the local hospital. Jess taught and played games with the children, became very close to them, and was very sad to leave. Mariah Kennedy (AYr12) has been awarded the Young People’s Human Rights Medal for her book, Reaching Out: Messages of Hope, which was reported in our last issue. Max Guzelian (Staff 1970-88), who died in September 2013, taught and inspired many in Brass and Woodwind as well as conducting bands. He and Elizabeth – married for 51 years – had three children, Agon (Co’76), a talented musician who died in 2011, Mary, and Kevin. He studied Music at Melbourne University, served in the RAAF, and became a chicken farmer at Lovely Banks – and a keen gardener. In 1992 Max was elected an Honorary Life Member of the OGGs. His funeral was held in the Armenian Apostolic Church of St Mary in Surrey Hills. Justin Rushbrooke QC (Assistant, Corio, 1981-82) is a barrister of Gray’s Inn, London, working mainly on libel cases, and recently took silk. His father, the late Dr John Rushbrooke (FB’53), was a Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge, and a distinguished high-energy physicist.
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Michael Thawley AO (FB’67) advises the Capital Group based in Los Angeles, though he spends much of his time travelling abroad. He is senior vice-president of Capital Research and Management Company and senior vice-president and international adviser at Capital Strategy Research. Formerly international adviser to the Prime Minister of Australia, he went on to be Australian Ambassador to the United States of America from 2000 to 2005.