Light Blue - August 2009

Issue number 78 August 2009

the recent visit to Timbertop by East Timor President, Dr Jose Ramos-Horta. You will read of our 13 gallant and adventurous students who have decided that 24 days discovering Antarctica will broaden their horizons.

Elizabeth Pont Director of Community Relations

In this edition of Light Blue you will discover the depth and breadth of an Exceptional Education – a Geelong Grammar School education. You will read of academic achievement and cultural exchange from our youngest boys and girls through to our Old Geelong Grammarians. These experiences take place daily on each of our campuses, and far beyond our learning environs.

Our winter edition is a kaleidoscope of colour and discovery; a celebration of achievement; spirit of adventure; generosity of philanthropy and altruism and the willingness of sharing.

What I like so much about Light Blue is that we have so many people eager to contribute stories from within and outside our community. The richness of this edition is testimony to the connectedness our community has to its School. Our regular columns from the Principal and Chairman of Council are complemented by Michael Collins Persse’s eloquent dialogue relating to Old Geelong Grammarians. Sam McCardel (M’81) recalls his inspiring trip to Borneo reliving the Australian POW soldiers in 1942.

Roger Herbert, Head of Timbertop, recounts

Geelong Grammar School is indeed an Australian School – an Australian School which has the richness and respect of our international connections. We are a community of widespread cultures – our international students and their families bring a diversity, which not only enhances our understanding of people from different countries, their beliefs and their lifestyles, but it also brings balance. The buzz word today is about workplace/lifestyle balance – schools are no different. It is central to an exceptional education that students understand and value the diversity of life, that they experience a myriad of life adventures and experiences. Antarctica to France to Russia to England, exploring unfamiliar territory, expanding language skills, learning the skill of checkmating an opponent’s king or playing a Twenty20 match are all adventures and experiences made possible for Geelong Grammar students.

The opportunities which are afforded to our students through the expansion of their knowledge of the world while enriching their understanding of the curriculum, whether it be through language, geographic, demographic, spiritual, artistic or altruism are unlimited. These opportunities are made available through the enthusiasm of teachers, the support of parents and the School’s far reaching vision to broaden the horizon for all our boys and girls. s’il vous plaît profiter de cette édition du Blue Light.

Elizabeth Pont Director of Community Relations Front Cover: Claire Hamilton, (Yr12 Cl) GGS School Captain, ‘The Wall Comes to Life’.

New GGS Website

New GGS Community Portal

Geelong Grammar School is proud to announce it has a new and improved website.

This is a tremendous step forward for GGS and this re-design and re-structure provides you with a simpler, more effective way to access our School information and services.

This valuable resource provides specific information relating to our School and is available ONLY to the GGS Community, not to the public. The following members are given a password and username to access the portal: current parents, staff, students, OGG/COGA/ HOGA and Support Groups.

The aim of our new website is to provide a more efficient system with a fresh, contemporary design which complements our new Prospectus and continues to promote GGS as Australia’s finest co-educational Day and Boarding School. The introduction of this new website has assisted us in providing all prospective parents and public visitors with an interactive service, containing information relating to scholarships, enrolment procedures, Positive Education programmes, philanthropy, news/events, archives, public policies and more.

Thank you to Darren Apps, GGS Website Coordinator for his outstanding commitment in bringing the new website to life.

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Please note – the GGS Community Portal has been structured so that each member of our community has varying access rights and will not have access to all content. For example, only parents and students can view online reports and only OGG can view upcoming reunion information, whereas students can access class timetable and student welfare information.

If you are having trouble accessing the new Community Portal or if you are unsure where to find specific information please contact esupport@ggs.vic.edu.au We believe the new website and the new GGS Community Portal will bring enormous

Contents From the Editor

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From the Chairman

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From the Principal

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South-East Asia Trip

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Bostock House

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Toorak Campus

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Middle School

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Timbertop

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Antarctica Expedition/Helping Kobe

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Senior Chaplain

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Newman and Tunbridge Dinners

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Fundraising

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Timbertop D Unit Campaign

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CUSP Exhibition

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Around the World in 90 Days

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Careers Day

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Golf Day/Football and Netball News

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From the Foundation Chairman

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From the New OGG President

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OGG Reunions/OGG Dates

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OGGLink OGG Branch News

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CAS and Internationalism

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Anzac Day/Light of Day Exhibition

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HOGA/COGA

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School Functions

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Honouring Our Heroes

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From the Curator

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Internationalism

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Timbertop Wine Order Form

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UK Cricket Tour/Equestrian Team

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benefit to our School community and assist us in promoting GGS as exceptional leaders in education. We encourage you to familiarise yourselves with our new website and new GGS Community Portal. We look forward to hearing your feedback and sharing updates along the way.

Visit www.ggs.vic.edu.au

Jeremy Kirkwood Chairman of Council

1 I expect that you are all aware of the announcement of Stephen Meek’s reappointment as Principal until the end of 2014. The Council were eager for Stephen to continue his excellent leadership of the School and we were delighted that he was also eager to stay with us. There can be no doubt that the School has prospered over the last five years and, although some of the seeds for this were laid down before Stephen’s arrival, Stephen’s incisive leadership has strengthened and emboldened the School. I am also extremely grateful for the contribution made by Christine Meek to the life of the School both through her support for Stephen and through her own efforts. We are very fortunate to have such a hard-working couple leading the School with passion and integrity.

Stephen and Christine are enjoying a Term’s sabbatical mostly at their house in France and, after a particularly busy Term 2 during which Stephen was filling in for Charlie Scudamore during his long service leave, are having some well deserved R and R. Charlie Scudamore is Acting Principal for Term 3 and I know that he will lead the School well with his own style of passion and drive.

When I spoke with Charlie upon his return from long-service leave I was reminded of the incredible reach Geelong Grammar has into the international community. Whether it is the extensive spread of our alumni dotted around the world (for work or other pursuits), or the large number of countries from where our students come, the interest in our educational offering from international schools, academics and others. Geelong Grammar is an Australian School with a true international flavour. I believe this has a significant effect on our students as they leave us realising the world is an interesting and complex place which offers challenges far beyond what they can experience within their own communities. Thereafter, curiosity, opportunity and initiative will take our students to all corners of the World and a high likelihood of meeting another OGG wherever they go. ‘Outward’- looking students are one of the defining characteristics of a Geelong Grammar education.

The School has received funding from the Federal Government under its Building the

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3 Education Revolution Fund to undertake building works to upgrade and refurbish the Panckridge Library in Middle School and also to build several new classrooms at our Toorak Campus which will be located above the administration area. Together with some other minor improvement works at both Corio and Toorak the total funding received from the Federal Government under this initiative will be $3.175M. On behalf of the School community I would like to express our gratitude to the Federal Government.

I think it is also important to acknowledge the considerable investment being made across the whole education sector by the Government as it is a critical initiative for the country’s future.

As we approach Spring and the prospect of warmer days accompanied by the smell of cut grass, I look forward to seeing many of you at events at the School such as the Sports Day on Sunday 13 September. I must say that

this is one of my favourite days of the year as it brings all areas of the School together at Corio for a festive day of athletics, picnics and interaction. Many other events are hinged off this day over the weekend and these also provide an excellent opportunity to mix and meet other parents, teachers and students from all our four campuses.

Jeremy Kirkwood (FB’79) Chairman of Council 1. A magnificent venue, superb views, delicious food and wonderful company was enjoyed in Hong Kong.

The evening was hosted by current parents Bob and Maria Mar. L to R: Kathy Koh (future parent), Elizabeth Pont, Bob Mar, Maria Ma, Christine and Stephen Meek, Leslie Koh (future parent) and Angela Mellier.

2. L to R: Current and future parents Ken Khoo, Simone Khoo discussing with future parents Angus Miller and Fiona Argyle-Miller the great educational opportunities available to boys and girls at GGS. 3. Prospective student Joe Ng Widjaja and his family pictured at the Principal’s Reception in Jakarta. L to R: Joe Ng Widjaja, Billy Ng Widjaja, Farlati Tjandra and Fenell Ng.

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Stephen Meek Principal

1 One of the real strengths of Geelong Grammar School is that it is an Australian School with an international dimension. It is not an International School – characteristics of which can include an international curriculum, a largely international staff, language of instruction different from the native tongue of the host country, no dominant culture from the host country – but an Australian School, with a predominant Australian culture, staff, curriculum and an international outlook.

The fact that about 9% of the students come from just under 20 overseas countries adds a very strong additional dimension to the School and encourages it to be outwardlooking. These students, in turn, develop a deep understanding of Australia and its people, which can only be beneficial.

The wonderful friendships which so many of our Australian and overseas students make, enable our students to have a much deeper understanding of other countries and other cultures, which is so important in the modern age. Australia’s future is firmly embedded in its international connections and our students grow up expecting to be part of that international world.

This is nothing new. The first students from overseas came to the School in the late 1940s and there are now second, and possibly already third, generation families attending the School from overseas.

Our guest speaker at this year’s OGGAsia Dinner in Bangkok, Mechai Viravaidya (P’59), was one of the early students from overseas to attend the School in the 1950s and he reminded us of just how many days, and modes of transport it took him then to reach the School from Thailand. Fortunately it is all much easier now! This was our second biennial OGGAsia dinner and provided a valuable opportunity for OGGs in the region to come together to renew friendships and make new connections.

This is an important development and I hope that OGGAsia will grow even stronger in the years to come. Certainly I find my annual visit to meet families and OGGs in South-East Asia an invaluable opportunity to deepen the School’s connection with the region.

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2 International links have also been developed this year by a number of trips overseas by our students and staff. The trip to France in the Easter holidays by some of the students studying French is part of the broader opportunities which students have to go overseas to practise their language skills.

There is nothing better than visiting the country and practising the language with native speakers in a practical situation, to improve the linguistic skills and to heighten the motivation to improve. Languages are a great part of the curriculum and I am pleased that all of our students in Year 7 learn two languages from a choice of French, Chinese and Japanese, with additional choices of German and Spanish in later years.

The School Cricket Tour to England during the three-week holiday enabled our students to combine travel with the opportunity to play Cricket against some different schools. I had the pleasure of watching our team beat the 1st XI of the School of which I used to be Headmaster in England. This was despite the fact that our team had only arrived that morning and were feeling very jet-lagged.

They had a very successful tour and will have learnt a lot from the experience. (Refer to page 40 for more).

The most intriguing tour this year was the Chess trip to The Republic of Kalmykia. As

Justin Corfield’s article on page 38 makes clear, the students had the most amazing experiences in a country where Chess is the national pastime. I am sure that our students will never forget their trip.

Finally, Dr Corfield also took a group of students to Cambodia to help build houses for the homeless. The students undertook a number of fundraising projects in 2008 and then went to Cambodia at the start of 2009. This was an inspiring project and I was proud of what they achieved. It was the most practical reminder that we are an integral part of an international world.

Stephen Meek Principal

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8 1. After more than a year of preparation, the GGS Chess Team competed in the first western school trip to the Republic of Kalmykia in southern Russia.

2. Stephen Meek, Principal, pictured dining with Middle School students at the Founders Day Lunch.

3. Habitat for Humanity. L to R: Lauren Simpson, Dr Corfield, Jian Wen Jen, Sam Aull, Andy Hsiao, Mrs Sun and Sabrina Tee with some of the new house owners.

4. A combined team photo at Hurstpierpoint College pavilion in West Sussex during the 2009 UK Cricket trip.

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6. Junior students support their teammates during the School sports athletics.

7. Junior students gather on the Oval to listen attentively during School Assembly.

8. L to R: Aura-Orn Akrasanee (Ga’95), Sujima Viravaidya (He’95) and Rebecca Ryan (Ga’95) at the OGGAsia Gathering in Bangkok.

9. Madeleine Chong pictured with her son Aston Tan (Yr7 Bw) at the Corio Overseas Students’ Orientation Day in January.

5. Back: Stephen Meek, Principal, Mechai Viravaidya (P’59) Front: Christine Meek and Fiona Ratcliffe (Archer, Je’77), outgoing President of the Old Geelong Grammarians pictured at the 2nd OGGAsia Gathering in Bangkok.

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South-East Asia Trip Crossing boundaries – building relationships, connecting our community Bangkok, Thailand was our first stop on the Principal’s annual South-East Asia tour at the end of May. Although not originally planned to combine the 2009 Biennial OGGAsia gathering and the Principal’s South-East Asia tour, our decision to combine both events proved valuable. The Dusit Thani Hotel, our venue for OGGAsia and the Principal’s Reception was an excellent choice; its central location and ease of public transport combined with its splendid ambience.

Our sincere thanks are extended to Steve Santikarn (Cu’75) for introducing us to the Dusit Thani and making the arrangements.

Our OGGAsia gathering attracted 58 Old Geelong Grammarians. We were delighted to also welcome several past parents who were either travelling through or holidaying in Thailand. Rob de Fégely, the newly elected OGG President, was unable to make the trip due to a previous commitment; however, we were delighted that the former OGG President (only by a few days) Fiona Ratcliffe (Je’77), honoured us with her company. Fiona spoke passionately about her two years as OGG President, the achievements of her Committee through the introduction of the new OGG Portal, new initiatives including OGG Travel and future mentoring programmes for students and recent graduating students.

Our guest speaker for the evening Mechai Viravaidya (P’59) inspired all present with his incredible overview of how he has assisted in transforming the lives of people in small Thai villages through his strong belief in philanthropy, his support for the rights of women and their roles in society, and his passion for the environment. Mechai’s tireless contribution to the prevention of HIV, through his work in family planning, his unstinting interest in education and his genuine interest in assisting the underprivileged inspired all present.

As a young man his mother instilled in him the need to help those less fortunate. He initiated a training programme for women living in small villages – by giving them a small sum of money to start up a small business to assist them in becoming self-sufficient. His message, “young men and women, go out and change the world – change the world through philanthropy”. Mechai’s humour and delivery of his address at our OGGAsia gathering was infectious and we are most grateful to him for joining us on the evening.

We look forward to welcoming Mechai back to Geelong Grammar School in November when he returns for his 50 Year Reunion and again will be our Guest Speaker at the Tower Lunch on Saturday 14 November. Thank you, Mechai, for being our guest for the evening. It was a wonderful evening of friendship and a time to reminisce about old School days.

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Fiona Ratcliffe (Archer, Je’77), Steve Santikarn (Cu’75), Roland Wu (P’93) and I met the following morning to discuss potential cities for the 2011 OGGAsia Reunion. Following a quick hello from Tim Breadmore (P’83), who had attended the Reunion the night before with his wife Louise, it was suggested (but not yet decided) that Hong Kong, Singapore or Shanghai could be possible host cities. It is our hope that a decision will be made early in 2010. This will give OGGs worldwide an opportunity to plan either a holiday or arrange a business trip.

The Principal’s Cocktail Reception was held on Sunday 31 May with over 50 current, past and future families present together with several OGGs who were unable to attend the function the previous evening. The Principal’s South-East Asian Receptions gave current families the opportunity to speak personally to Stephen and Christine Meek, not just as leaders of the School but also as parents.

The Receptions provide an opportunity for our current parents living overseas to get to know each other while connecting with past and future families. Relationships are formed and a feeling of belonging and connectedness to the School cemented.

With a late afternoon arrival into Hong Kong and an invitation to join Bob and Maria Ma (current GGS parents) and other guests for dinner that evening, little time could be wasted in arranging the following day’s Information Afternoon followed by the Principal’s Cocktail Reception. Those present at the Information Afternoon were eager to learn more of Geelong Grammar and in particular the School’s approach to Positive Education. Both expatriates and local families not only in Hong Kong, but throughout our tour of five countries, had implicit thoughts on the education they desired for their children – they were looking beyond an exclusive academic outcome, they wanted their children to explore areas which they hadn’t had the opportunity of discovering; they wanted big open spaces; they wanted their children to understand life beyond the comforts of home.

Parents were excited to learn of our unique environment at Geelong Grammar School and what it had to offer their children. Several of those families present at the Information Session returned that evening to learn more of the School, from present and past families, together with a gathering of OGGs, some of whom we had met only two days before at the OGGAsia gathering in Bangkok.

Happy to relax for a few hours, we were again swept away with hospitality when Christine Olesnicky (current parent) took us on a tour of the Stanley Markets before Stephen, Christine, Angela and I, enjoyed an evening meal and great conversation with Beau Kuok (P’71). Beau’s hospitality and generosity of time has been enjoyed and very much appreciated for many years by the Geelong Grammar School South-East Asia entourage.

With much travel still to be done, Kuala Lumpur was our next stopover where our guest numbers had swelled to over 60 (we had only catered for 40). Another successful Cocktail Reception was held and we were delighted to see so many past parents and OGGs. A mid-morning meeting was planned with Tawfik Ismail (FB’71 and current parent), U-En Ng (Cu’91) and Fong Thong (Ga’85).

These three extraordinary people have been the foundation of what has now become a regular OGG Wednesday lunch. Every Wednesday a group of OGGs gather for lunch at a pre determined venue – it is astonishing, sometimes there may be four or five people, on other occasions there may be fourteen.

Tawfik, the mastermind behind these lunches, would like to increase the success of these occassions. We discussed the possibility of a weekend retreat which could be held outside the city where children could also attend. All OGGs and families throughout South-East Asia would be invited. An ideal time for the retreat would be when all GGS students had finished at the end of the year and were returning home.

The amount of goodwill that exists within our community in South-East Asia is exceptional – one which must be harnessed, one which must, and will continue while we have such wonderful OGG as Tawfik, U-En and Fong – thank you to the three of you for sharing with me such wonderful stories and possibilities.

Off to Singapore, where we were greeted with the same hospitality and warmth to which we were becoming accustomed. The Information Afternoon attracted a greater number of interested families than expected.

With so many prospective families present, our two-hour session went well beyond time.

Again, some families were eager to attend the Cocktail Reception to learn more of the School and meet with current and past families. Throughout our travels we met so many wonderful and eager families who wanted only the best for their children – on the occasions when I sat in on interviews with our Registrar, Angela Mellier, and she was in a position to offer a student a position, immediately the sheer excitement the student and family felt being offered a position at Geelong Grammar School was overwhelming.

Our too short a stay in Singapore was coming to an end. On our last evening we were invited to dine with Shek Voon Jen and his delightful wife Swee Choo Yeoh (current parents). It was also attended by Adrian Tan and his wife Shook-Wah Kan, (past parents). We were also joined by other friends of both families. The food was superb, the company exhilarating and the laughter and frivolity infectious – thank you Shek Voon and Swee Choo, it was a delightful finale to our Singapore visit.

Venturing on to the last leg of our trip we landed in Jakarta for a quick day and a half stop to host a Principal’s Reception for OGGs

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5 and current, past and future families. We were joined on the evening by the Australian Ambassador to Jakarta Mr Bill Farmer and his wife, Elaine. Mr Farmer was invited to the function by Mr Nick Wagg - our OGG representative in Indonesia. The evening commenced somewhat slowly but I was reassured that it was only the congestion of traffic which delayed people. We were pleased to have received about six RSVPs from young OGGs living in Indonesia; however, by the end of the evening we had 15 – it was fantastic to see such a richness of friendship.

A wonderful evening of camaraderie, laughter and reminiscence all enjoyed in the delightful garden setting of the Ceria Room at the Shangri-La Hotel.

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Alas, our South-East Asia visit was over bar the journey back to Melbourne – many, many friendships had been renewed while many more had been made. Geelong Grammar is an Australian School but the influence and partnership which our South-East Asian families and students bring to us, is a richness which we appreciate and value.

Elizabeth Pont Director of Community Relations

6 1. Our high-spirited OGG pictured at the Principal’s Reception in Jakarta.

2. L to R: Geraldine Cheng & Swee Choo Yeoh at the Principal’s Singapore Reception.

3. Elaine and Bill Farmer (Australian Ambassador to Indonesia) were guests at the Principal’s Reception in Jakarta.

4. Chiou-Fong Thong (Ga’85), Tawfik Ismail (FB’71), U-En Ng (Cu’92) are the organisers of the weekly Bangkok lunches.

5. Pictured in the foyer of the magnificent Shangri- La Hotel Hong Kong. L to R: Elizabeth Pont, Beau Kwok (P’71), Stephen Meek, Dodo Hau, Christine Meek and Angelia Mellier.

6. At the OGGAsia Dinner in Bangkok were from L to R: (back) Kevin Kang (M’90), Paul Ng (FB’88) and Siew Kee Lee (M’88) and front: Roland Wu (P’93), Ella Wong and Paul Tan (Cu’88).

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3 “If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.” S I Hayakwa At Bostock House we believe that every member of our community is unique.

Each individual brings their own outlook, experiences and perceptions to our School life. It is the very fact that these differences exist that helps make Bostock House an interesting and rich learning environment.

a good deal of research tells us that children learn through observing the differences and similarities among people and by taking on board verbal and inferred messages about those differences.

At Bostock House we encourage our children to understand and accept differences between themselves and other children and their families, and there is a climate of openness that helps children feel valued and confident to be themselves.

Our children understand that happy people accept the uniqueness of those around them.

They accept others for who they are and do not try to change them or nullify them.

They also know that happy people accept themselves for who they are. They know that it is a natural thing for people to be different in some ways. They also know that for the most part people are the same.

Positive Education has taught us that happy people have better relationships and that we all need to feel that we belong. Inclusion and being exposed to other cultures in a supportive and accepting environment celebrates the diversity of all, and acknowledges that great need to belong to something larger than one’s self, from the campus community through to global community.

Our children come from a variety of cultural and life experience backgrounds and today, more than ever before, we live in a global community.

We recently celebrated Reconciliation Week and our activities included a visit from Western Creation, an Aboriginal group from the Noongar Tribe and the Bibbulman Clan. The children learned a great deal about Aboriginal culture through activities that included dance, storytelling, art and didgeridoo-playing.

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It is those children who come from different cultural backgrounds and nationalities who provide a real window to the wider world for our students.

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4 Our campus acknowledges and celebrates diversity in many ways: • Through the study of various religions • Through multi-cultural week activities and performances • Acknowledging celebration days from various cultures in classrooms • Encouraging parents of other nationalities to speak with classes and to bring food, clothing and artefacts to share with the children • Associations of other cultures in Japanese lessons • Highlighting particular languages, flags and the culture of children in class As our children continue their journey through Geelong Grammar School they will be fortunate to have the opportunity to develop relationships and understandings with peers from all over the world. Geelong Grammar School truly has a fascinating and diverse learning community.

Daryl Moorfoot Head of Bostock House 1-4. Pictured above are snapshots taken during

Reconciliation Week events at Bostock House.

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Building Internationalism through the Curriculum When asked to consider what makes a school international, we question...

‘Is it an international body of students? The teaching of one or more foreign languages? A foreign exchange programme? A curriculum that includes the study of different cultures?

The display of flags of different countries?

The exploration of foods from different cultures? In fact these are not the factors that define an international school.’ Niki Singh 2002, Educational Leadership, Vol 60 No 2.

To teach with an international mindset is something which warrants deeper investigation and more intrinsic exploration within and beyond the curriculum.

Internationally-minded education transcends the exploration of the 6 F’s: food, festivals, folklore, fashion, famous people and flags.

Instead, it is a combination of many initiatives and educational opportunities bound together with a common thread of humanity and understanding for perspectives wider than one’s own culture and community. It is the very essence of teaching through the Primary Years Programme and provides the backbone of the rigorous and globally pertinent curriculum delivered at Toorak Campus.

Opportunities to explore global issues are presented within Units of Inquiry at all ages and are supported by the development of the IB Learner Profile where students are encouraged to be Inquirers, Communicators, Thinkers, Risk-takers, Knowledgeable, Principled, Caring, Open-minded, Balanced and Reflective. The Campus community supports and encourages all aspects of internationalism as we provide many opportunities for our cultural understandings, subjectivity and individuality to be enriched and developed.

Fiona Zinn PYP Coordinator

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International Families As a parent from America, I found immersion in Australian culture much more involved than I previously imagined; meeting new people and establishing relationships was more challenging. In the role of International Families Representative I hope to ease that transition for new parents by creating an environment to socialise and share their stories as well as provide a point of contact for queries regarding the Geelong Grammar community. Many of the GGS families are first and second generation Australians and they, too, have a story to share. The International Families Group supports and includes everyone within the GGS community as we all share a multicultural background. Honouring our culture by expressing uniqueness and sharing knowledge with our children will not only enhance our experience but also raise the awareness of our broader community, keeping ignorance at bay and nurturing tolerance and respect for ourselves and others.

Dr Simone Aybar Toorak Campus IF representative

Students of the World As a campus that offers the Primary Years Programme of the International Baccalaureate, we are blessed with our community and the wide range of international backgrounds and experiences we share on a day-to-day basis with our children, parents and staff. In a recent publication of the IBO Magazine from The Primary Years Programme entitled, The Curriculum Corner, there was an article celebrating some of the many cultures that exist within schools across the globe, how they are recognised and respected.

‘International mindedness is about having empathy and not just knowledge it is not something just taught in the classroom but something embedded in the way an IB student learns, it becomes part of their consciousness.’

3 From the IB Learner Profile and Attitudes we strive to establish that very ‘consciousness’ in our children; in their thinking and in their awareness of others – through the understanding, respect and education of what makes each person in our community the very special person they are – and therefore what bonds us so strongly together as the Toorak Campus of Geelong Grammar School.

Garry Pierson Head of Toorak Campus 1. Internationalism - much more than the sum of nationalities. Pictured L to R: Lucinda Phillipson, Lien Zheng, Kristy Chan and Victoria Arter.

2. Investigating our place in the world. Pictured: Brodie Quinn and Megan Chang.

3. Celebrating different cultures through the arts.

Pictured: students in Year 3 and 4 at a visiting cultural incursion.

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Middle School “The world is a surprisingly diverse place, even in this age of great and speedy connections, and difference remains the best global educator”. Malcolm McKenzie, Prep for the Planet 2004.

An understanding of Internationalism, incorporating ‘International-Mindedness’, is important to what we do in Middle School. As an Anglican School, this is the central tenet of caring for others: ‘love thy neighbour as thyself’. Given the changing face of international relations, cross-cultural understanding is seen as an essential component of a balanced education.

We, as a School, establish relationships among students, staff and families from diverse cultural and international backgrounds on a daily basis. Our student population comprises many international students giving us all a better understanding of our ‘global village’. This adds, substantially, to the educational opportunities and experiences for our students.

As McKenzie also noted: ‘…to educate students and produce adults who will become not only citizens of the world but also participants in trying to produce a future world fit for all its citizens… we have to prepare our students for the whole planet, not merely for a part of it.’

We asked some of our International Middle School students to reflect on what it has been like to make the move to a new School, in a new country and to come to Geelong Grammar School. Below are some of their answers: I live in Malaysia because my parents and our family links are there. Whilst I would never want to change where I live, I do enjoy coming to school at Geelong Grammar because I am able to be more independent and not rely on my parents all the time. Things I find different about going to school in Australia include: I am able to broaden my mind in terms of other peoples’ culture - we have so many students from so many different parts of the world at GGS; I am able to enhance my tolerance since I am living in a boarding community; 10

and I am able to widen my knowledge and push my sports’ ability to the limit. One of the differences that I notice between Australia and my home town is the way the students think about their subjects. However, I do like the food back home.

Ezzat Amran Bin Mohamed Khir (Year 8) I used to live in Iran (also known as Persia), my home country. We moved to Australia because my Dad was interested in studying about infections and immunity (my Dad is a doctor). Then we realised what a great place Australia was and we decided to live here. I still miss my family and friends back in Iran, but I know I’ll see them again.

I personally think that Geelong Grammar School is the best school out of the five I’ve been to. For one thing, the facilities at Geelong Grammar School are incredible; you get to be involved in so many different things.

The teachers here are very kind and very, very patient. Geelong Grammar School also organises lots of great things, such as casual clothes last Friday and the excursion to Melbourne Water. It’s also great that Geelong Grammar School is a multicultural School because I can learn from other cultures and they can learn from my culture. The students at Geelong Grammar School are very helpful and kind, explaining what I need to do and lots more. I have made lots of friends already.

Parsa Rahimi (Year 6) I live in Melbourne and I live there because I came to Australia with my family. We originally come from Mauritius and I like going to the beach there because it is really warm, and also I like going to my friend’s place. We play games and watch movies. In Australia the best things are Technology (the subject) and the many good friendships I have made you get to know your friends more by living with them in a Boarding House and doing all the activities and sports together. Australia is really freezing at the moment, but it’s nice and warm in the Boarding House. School in Mauritius is different because we only have day students and no boarders. In Mauritius we would start school at 7.00am – at GGS I am preparing to eat breakfast at that time.

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This is good. I also benefit from the sports’ programme here.

Dylan Sanasy (Year 6) My name is Tan and I’m from Bangkok, Thailand. I like living in Bangkok; my old school was quite enjoyable. There were many different aspects between my old school and Geelong Grammar: especially food, sport and routines. After I moved to Geelong Grammar, I felt quite nervous, but also special since I came from overseas. People here like to know about our culture, our language since it is quite different. As time goes on, I have begun to get used to the food and I have made many friends. This has made life even more enjoyable, but there are still a lot of challenges waiting for me.

Tan Nuntileepon (Year 8) After studying in Thailand my mother told me that I would be moving to Geelong Grammar School in Australia. Whilst I was pretty sad to leave all my good friends in Thailand, my mother told me that I needed to move on with my life, establish new relationships and also improve my English in Australia. So, I arrived at Barwon House where, thankfully, my brother was already in Year 8. The first day of School at GGS was great; there were so many friends that I was confused by all the names.

The School was so big that I nearly got lost!

All my friends were very kind and they invited me to play with them. I really enjoy the activities here because it is fun and we have sport matches every weekend. I like the Tuck room because we have milk and snacks every morning.

There are differences between here and my old school: I have to do my prep myself instead of letting my mother help at home, I have to speak English all the time, I felt strange when I went into the Chapel because the culture was different from what I understood. What was unlucky for me was by the time I arrived here, there was Swine Flu. My life in Term 2 at GGS was a terrific experience and when I get home I’ll tell my Mum all about it: the school work, what I did for sports and activities.

Biggy Nandabhiwat (Year 6)

Living overseas, I think, is the best part of living. It means that I get to see lots of different people, lots of different cultures, and lots of different lifestyles. It means that I can live differently, start again, every time I move. I currently live in Jakarta, Indonesia.

I live there because my Dad was transferred from China five years ago; our family moves around quite a lot. A couple of things I love about living overseas, is I get to see the world, I can travel to countries that not many people have even heard about. I also enjoy learning different languages. Since I’ve been in Indonesia for five years now, I know a bit of Bahasa Indonesia; let’s just say I know not much, but enough to get around. A couple of things I find different about living in Australia and going to school at Geelong Grammar is the way people here will just say hello to whoever passes by; in Jakarta no one says hello unless they are trying to sell you something or you know them. There are some cultural differences between here and Indonesia, one of them is the way people are in general, that is probably the biggest difference. When I go back to Jakarta, I’m going to go out to my old school for a day; I’m also going to Bali for the last week of the holidays. I can’t wait to see all of my friends, but I’ll be back at Geelong Grammar School next term.

Stephanie Dodds (Year 8) I live in the capital city of Thailand, called Bangkok with all my family. Coming to school at Geelong Grammar School is very different to my old school; the Australian country is

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really different from home. There are two things that I find very different: firstly, there are lots of rules at the School and secondly, all of the students, from all of the different countries, speak very good English – this is a good thing for me to have to learn. However, an unusual thing I find in Australia is that many people also speak different languages.

The culture is not too different, and lots of the activities we do here are really good, like Clean up Australia Day which was great fun.

When I go back to Thailand I will meet up with my old friends and tell them all about the School, and its different people.

Jin Chairatana (Year 6) I live in Singapore. I enjoy many things about Australia and going to school in an overseas country. I love it here because it is so warm and I feel secure being in this country. The two things I find different about living here are the sports we play and the food we eat. In Australia, people don’t like to be told what to do. In Singapore, we always follow the rules as best we can. When I go home I am going to spend time enjoying some rest and relaxation in Singapore.

Truth Sim (Year 8) I live in the Philippines. I live there because my Dad’s job is in the Philippines. All my friends are there and I like the beaches too.

I am boarding at Geelong Grammar School; in the Philippines there are no boarding schools. I am the youngest boarder in Middle School. The advantages of coming to GGS are that I am more independent because I am

a boarder. I have made a lot of really good friends. I find it unusual that Australia has been in a drought for such a long time. I hope it will rain soon.

Ikumi Ojiro (Year 5) My name is Bernard, and I’m from Hong Kong. I am in Barwon House, it’s good, and without question, it’s the best House in Middle School. Barwon House is a very good place to live, because of all my friends, and the great tutors and teachers. The good thing about living in a Boarding House is that you live with your friends, and don’t have to go through the boring process of going to school by bus every day. All the students help each other and you get good support.

Bernard Chu (Year 8) Tony Inkster Head of Middle School 1. Sam Sharp (Yr5 Hi) enjoys the Probability Activity during the Year 5 Discovery Day. 2. And the band played on...

L to R: Peter Bunyaratavej (Yr8 Bb), Jack Edgar (Yr6 Bw), Stephanie Dodds (Yr8 Cn), Andy Zhang (Yr6 Bw), Gavin Bunyaratavej (Yr8 Bb) and Carter Harris- Smith (Yr8 Hi) take a break from rehearsal.

3. L to R: Oscar Salt, Eggat Amran Bin Mohamed Khir, Maxim Whittasalea and Sam Weston (Yr8 Bb) get ready to hit the sporting field for a training session.

4. Middle School students taking part in physical activity.

5. L to R: Ellen Beaumont, Brianna McCaffrey and Sophie Batten from Connewarre House enjoy the celebration at Founders Day. 6. Smile everyone! Our Year 5/6 girls Netball Team enjoy time together at the end of the season.

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Timbertop

A diverse ethnic mix at Timbertop provides an incredible richness to our community. At Timbertop approximately fifty percent of our students come from States other than Victoria or from overseas. Six of the twelve assistants come from the Northern Hemisphere and a number of our teachers come from overseas or have taught overseas. Timbertop truly has an international flavour.

As part of the School’s international outreach, which is very closely linked to our Positive Education programme, the President of Timor-L’Este, His Excellency Dr Jose RamosHorta, visited Timbertop on 22 and 23 July.

President Horta is one of the great leaders of the world. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1996 and helped guide his country through the murky waters to independence several years ago. He has served his country with distinction having held the position of Prime Minister before becoming President.

President Ramos-Horta visited Timbertop in order to launch the Timbertop Timorese Assistant Teacher Programme and to satisfy his curiosity about our world-renowned programme. The Timor programme was the initiative of Mike Gregory (Timbertop Campus Director of Learning) who is a recipient of a VFF (Vincent Fairfax Fellowship) run by the St James Ethics Centre. On one of Mike’s visits to Timor he was granted an interview with President Horta during which he offered the President an invitation to visit Timbertop. Subsequently he accepted, hence his current visit. In addition to the President visiting Timbertop, also in attendance were His Excellency Mr Hernani da Silva Coelho, the Timor-L’Este Ambassador to Australia; Mr Abel Guterres, the Timor-L’Este Consul General to Australia; Major Mike Stone; the Hon Janelle Safin the Federal Member of Parliament for Page and a past adviser to President Horta and Kevin Bailey who is the Timor L’Este Honorary Consul in Melbourne, Colonel Americo Ximenes, Timor L’Este Defence Force, Mr Joel Perreira, Media Officer to the President, Inspector Ismail Babo, PNTL Aide to the President and Ms Megan Lavell, along with GGS Acting Principal Mr Charles Scudamore. The President’s primary aim 12

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The Timbertop Timorese Assistant Programme aims at broadening the exposure of the successful Timorese applicant so that they can take back to their country a wide range of skills, abilities and knowledge not normally available to a Timorese teacher.

The successful Timorese assistant will be very much a part of our community and will participate in the usual jobs that an assistant undertakes. We also plan to develop a template so that other schools can duplicate and provide additional places to Timorese assistants at their own schools. We, Geelong Grammar School, very much look

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Roger Herbert Head of Timbertop 1. A happy and honoured Head of Timbertop, Roger Herbert, farewells the visitors.

2. The Acting Principal, Charles Scudamore and Roger Herbert present to President Ramos-Horta a magnificent Australian redgum bench, made by Timbertop staff member David Dunlop, .

3. President Ramos-Horta presents a traditional Timorese tais to the campus, watched by Charles Scudamore.

4. President Ramos-Horta chatting to students.

5. Mr Abel Guterres, recently appointed Ambassador to the European Commission.

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Helping ‘Kobe’ Geelong Grammar’s Expedition to Antarctica in Kokoda

Following our Kokoda trek last year, I am pleased to report on Kobe, a young boy from Menari whom we met on our travels who suffered a condition called Talipes. Talipes is a congenital deformity that develops during pregnancy and causes abnormal twisting of the ankles, heels, toes and feet causing the foot to be curled inwards with toes pointing downward.

Over the past year, Senator Guy Barnett (M’79) and I, vigorously pursued a solution for young Kobe. Given that western medicine can solve such birth defects, we attempted to fund a simple operation. I am pleased to say that our sustained efforts, a sort of “Save Kobe” Campaign and never give up attitude, with the assistance of John Miles from Executive Excellence (EE’s) and the Kids of Kokoda charity, proved fruitful.

Kobe was successfully operated on in June 2009 and is now recovering. He will soon be walking around on his own two feet. He now has a chance of leading a normal and independent life.

The above photo was taken just a few weeks after the operation showing him back home in Menari with both legs in plaster and a confused look on his face. I am happy that we were able to make a difference.

Sam McCardel (M’81) 1. Kobe following his operation.

2. 2009 GGS Antarctica Squad with Guide, Eric Philips. L to R: Nina Hanni (He), Angie Halas (Ga), Ben Johnston (FB), Camilla Mor (Cl), Namo Visudhipol (P), Nina Frielink (Ga), Jackson Macaulay (A), Eric Philips (Guide), Nathan Dabkowski (Fr), Harry Baylis (M), Eilish Costelloe (A), Tanya Cheng (Cl), Justin Robinson (Staff), Lachy Robertson (P), James Calvert-Jones (FB), Max Cameron (M), Annabelle Macgugan (Cl), Nick Fletcher (M).

Broadening Our Horizons

At the end of Term 1 this year, Stephen Pearce and Justin Robinson addressed our Senior School Assembly to tell us all about the possibility of a trip to Antarctica. I was excited about the prospect of this expedition.

Mr Pearce, Mr Robinson, Mrs ClingelefferWoodford, Mr Apted, Eric Phillips and our team completed application surveys and attended selection interviews. Why do we want to go to Antarctica? Of course some wanted to go for the adventure. Some wanted to go for the experience. But everyone wanted to broaden their horizons. To see places that may never be the same again. To study the past, the present and the future of such a place and try to understand past human endeavour in exploring these southern lands and the role we now need to play to protect this polar environment.

Through this expedition we will be broadening our horizons in multiple aspects. We will be broadening our knowledge of cultures as we venture through South America from Buenos Aires to Ushuaia and through to Cape Horn, the most southern point of South America. We are all partaking in tasks such as newsletter editorials, journal writing, sponsorship requests and public speaking. We will be studying historical figures and shelters throughout Antarctica through the Internet, Archives and non-fiction articles. Also we will be taking part in scientific experiments when in Antarctica. Many of us will not have sailed, skied, kayaked or lived in such close proximities to other students and staff in such situations. This will be a team building journey like no other.

The dates have been confirmed and air tickets booked. The group will depart Melbourne on Saturday December 5 to Buenos Aires then Ushuaia and return alighting in Melbourne on Tuesday December 29. This is a oncein-a-lifetime opportunity not to be missed.

We will gain teamwork skills, sporting skills (and fitness), scientific knowledge, historical knowledge, researching skills, public speaking, negotiation skills, record

keeping, journalism and much more. It is an experience of a lifetime.

Max Cameron (Yr10 M)

Leading Teams The squad is a diverse group. Students, both male and female, from Years 10 to 12, boarding and day students, different cultures and together with teachers will make the journey to Antarctica. The group will need to rely on each other’s support and understanding for the expedition to be successful. They will be required to live together in close quarters for three weeks.

It is recognised that a key to successful group dynamics is a shared understanding of the challenges and goals of the trip and strong relationships. Underpinning all this is the need for honest and open communication. To help facilitate this, the group has begun working with the Leading Teams organisation. Their work focuses on aligning teams and developing leaders. John Fitzgerald is our facilitator - John is also currently working with the Geelong Football Club. His sessions with us will be invaluable.

We are now developing our ‘trademark’, which defines our group expectations and behaviours.

Your Support The Antarctica Expedition group has been overwhelmed by the support received from those within the GGS community. The amount of encouragement and offers to share past polar experiences have galvanised the group and already enriched the experience. One process in the preparation phase is for the group to communicate with all those who have made contact with us. We would welcome the contact of anyone who can provide assistance through advice or sponsorship. Please contact Justin Robinson (justinr@ggs.vic.edu.au) and/or Stephen Pearce (stephenp@ggs.vic.edu.au).

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Rev’d Dr Hugh Kempster Senior Chaplain

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Justice and Peace Embrace One Another One of the consequences of internationalism, the world-wide-web, and the global economy is that our world now seems a much smaller place. And not only smaller, but fragile. Since the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, humankind has been given the keys to life and death on a global scale. Never before have our theologies, our philosophies, our politics been of such significance.

I was in the car with my family during the July holidays, enjoying the Great Ocean Road, and listening to a Christian radio station. A preacher was talking about the Roman Spectacles – the first-century gladiatorial games – where Christians were made spectacles of and fed to the lions for entertainment in front of vast audiences.

‘If you want to make a spectacle of yourself,’ the preacher exhorted ‘just go around saying that Jesus is Lord; Jesus is the only way to the Father; there is only one path to salvation.

Pretty soon you’ll be fed to the lions too.’

I’m very familiar with this adversarial form of Christianity; starting a fight for Jesus. It is certainly Biblical. Take Matthew 10:34, for example, when Jesus declares ‘I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.’ Is this a helpful message, for today’s fragile global village? Is it something that we should embrace at Geelong Grammar School, in all our diversity, as we explore what it means to be an Anglican institution in the twenty-first century? Richard Dawkins describes such fundamentalist religious attitudes as ‘poison’, and in a sense he’s right. There are many who view faith in this way, but I’m not convinced that it is a theology that works any more.

In Jonathan Sacks’ wonderful book, The Dignity of Difference (2003) he cites a fifteenhundred-year-old Rabbinic text that suggests God was in two minds when he created humankind (p. 63): Rabbi Shimon said: When God was about to create Adam, the ministering angels split into contending groups. Some said, ‘Let him be created.’ Others said, ‘Let him not be created.’ That is why it is written: ‘Mercy 14

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Truth said, ‘Let him not be created, for he will be full of falsehood.’ Righteousness said, ‘Let him be created, for he will do righteous deeds.’ Peace said, ‘Let him not be created, for he will never cease quarrelling.’ What did the Holy One, blessed be He, do? He took truth and threw it to the ground. The angels said, ‘Sovereign of the universe, why do You do thus to your own seal, truth? Let truth arise from the ground.’ Thus it is written, ‘Let truth spring up from the earth’ (Psalm 85:12).

This is such an insightful summation of the human condition. We are capable of great acts of altruism, but we are also constantly at war. It is the theme of the Keanu Reeves blockbuster ‘The Day the Earth Stood Still’ (2008). Alien spaceships land on earth and it turns out that they are here to save the planet. The problem is that to do so they need to wipe out humankind. We can no longer be trusted with the stewardship of this precious planet. Keanu is the head-honcho alien who embraces the truth of hard logic and coldly initiates the process of salvation, but along the way he encounters human love, forgiveness and courage, and this changes

his mind. He decides at the last minute to save humankind and give us a second chance.

As human beings we are a mixed bag. This is as true personally as it is globally. We often clash swords with one another, at home, at School, in the workplace, even with our friends. Our relationships continually require from us mercy and truth, righteousness and peace. We need to make hard decisions in life; that is unavoidable. It will feel at times as if we are taking up a sword and going into battle. At those times it is crucial to recall the other side of the equation: God’s indecision; the need for balance.

There is a song, based on Psalm 85:10, that sums up this paradox beautifully: ‘Let us hear! Let us hear what God the Lord has said: Justice and peace embrace one another. Justice and peace embrace one another.’

Rev’d Dr Hugh Kempster Senior Chaplain 1. Rev’d Hugh pictured at a recent Year 11 sermon in the Chapel, with Saren Dobkins’ painting ‘You Are Here’ as centrepiece of the Service.

2. Rev’d Hugh Baptising Max and Archer, grandchildren of Heather Morgan, Head of Clyde House.

The Newman Carji

Greaves Dinner A rush of young enthusiastic late comers helped fill the Fred Flanagan Room for the 8th year and the usual amount of hard work guaranteed a very successful night.

Ian Cover was his usual brilliant self as MC, he almost looks as if he enjoys the night despite being in such demand for many functions. He cleverly involved Billy and Sam as well as the famous Bobby Davis recently recovering from a hip replacement.

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Tom Hawkins, one of Geelong’s favourite sons was interviewed by Ian and Billy with an insight into a young player revealing many interesting facets.

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Both Support Club Presidents Richard de Crespigny and Richard Coumans spoke at the beginning of the evening, and although a break from tradition proved to be extremely successful.

Our heartfelt thanks to all people who donated items to be auctioned - it ensured a very successful fundraising result - thank you.

The night appears to be gaining momentum and the idea of a rivalry round where schools can choose to play each other promises to be a good outcome for the joint fundraiser!

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The Tunbridge Dinner The Tunbridge Dinner was held in May with over 90 people attending the event at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) – the evening was a great success in all that it set out to achieve. Guests enjoyed a night of cricket conversation reminiscing past cricket days while also contributing to the fundraising efforts to support the Marysville Cricket Club and the June GGS School Cricket Tour to the UK. John Tunbridge (M’56) was recognised as the Patron of the Club and was presented with a watercolour depicting a cricket scene on the Main Oval. James Sutherland (P’82) addressed guests and gave unique insights into the cricket scene both locally and internationally. Information on the upcoming GGS UK trip together with information on the Marysville Cricket Club plus this season’s Tunbridge Club matches and activities were displayed and keenly viewed by guests.

Paul Seller (Cricket Team Manager), has undertaken considerable research in relation to historical cricket statistics at GGS including cap numbers for all members of the 1st XI since the formation of the APS. Guests

keenly viewed Paul’s research which was also displayed on the evening.

The success of the evening was very clearly a result of the time and energy of Tim Graham.

Tim sourced all the magnificent wine that was auctioned very successfully by Stuart Langton, whose expertise was obvious to all.

Andrew Macmillan from Bennison Mackinnon auctioned the other items in great style and entertainment. The generosity of all those who donated auction items was very much appreciated. Don and Janet Holt were again extremely generous with their donation of Aboriginal art.

Stevo is keen on organising a Geelong Dinner around the time we play Geelong College in the APS and the Old Boys match which started as a regular event this year due to Scotch forfeiting. All this is food for thought – more updates coming soon.

4 1. L to R: Glenda Howarth, Michelle Walter and Steven Howarth pictured at the Newman Carji Greaves Dinner.

2. L to R: Ben Couch (P’97), Nick Ashton (P’99) and Mark Avery (FB’97) pictured at the Tunbridge Dinner.

3. John Tunbridge (M’56) addressing attendees of the Dinner.

4. James Sutherland (P’82) during his speech on the night.

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WILLS & BEQUESTS

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Annual Giving New Look Campaign

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Bequest Brochure Jumping High

An Amazing response: Positive Giving leads to Positive Opportunities.

By remembering Geelong Grammar School in your Will you will be providing resources that create extraordinary opportunities for present and future students while preserving the School’s long term future.

While our Equestrian students have been extremely busy last Term competing in State Pony Club Eventing Championships, Interschool Competitions and a Young Riders’ Festival, the Equestrian Centre Appeal Committee has been moving forward with their research and planning for the School’s newly proposed Indoor Equestrian Centre and the expansion of the present facilities.

Building on the success of previous Annual Giving Programmes - we are pleased to report that we have received gifts for the 2009 Annual Giving Programme exceeding $161,000. This is an exceptional result and with a further 10 months remaining until the end of the 2009 financial year, we are hopeful our goal of $260,000 will be reached. Annual Giving Programmes have an immediate and powerful impact, and this year our fundraising efforts will be supporting three diverse projects; the Scholarship Fund, the Timbertop Library Fund and the Building Fund. This year’s Annual Giving Building Fund donations will assist with the refurbishment of the Main Quadrangle Fountain, generously donated by the mother of Samuel McCaughey (OS‘12) in 1914.

We have had overwhelming support from our community for the Timbertop Library Fund.

Our aim was to raise $30,000 to enhance the educational and recreational resources at Timbertop and we are delighted that not only has our goal been reached, it has been exceeded by $20,000!

We have also received a number of new donors to this year’s Annual Giving. It is wonderful to see a greater number of current parents contributing. This indicates the strong sense of purpose our community both present and past has for the School.

It is through the enduring philanthropy and support of our community that the School’s financial independence and excellence in education are sustained.

Every gift to the School’s Annual Fund will make a difference and assist in reaching our goals. Annual Giving extends from May to May each year so please consider a tax-deductible gift to our Building, Library or Scholarship Fund: every gift regardless of size will assist us in reaching our goals. Please visit our web site www.ggs.vic.edu.au to make an online donation. Thank you to all our great supporters who have generously contributed to date.

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Gifts given through a Bequest are given as a pledge of commitment in maintaining Geelong Grammar School’s pursuit of Exceptional Education – the School’s pursuit of academic excellence, social values and spiritual awareness.

The Handbury Centre for Wellbeing is a living testament of how a Bequest can realise a vision – a vision which became a reality before it was thought possible. The Handbury Centre for Wellbeing today stands proudly through the generosity and consideration of Richard Hinds’ Bequest together with the many other donors who contributed to the building of the Centre through their philanthropic support. The Hinds Bequest propelled the Centre’s building programme.

Our new Bequest booklet provides guidelines as to how members of our community can consider creative giving strategies that will ensure that Geelong Grammar School is still providing Exceptional Education for boys and girls for the next 150 years and beyond.

By indicating to the School that you have remembered Geelong Grammar in your Will you will automatically become a member of the Biddlecombe Society – a group of likeminded people who value what Geelong Grammar stands for and are eager to preserve its future.

The Executive Director of the Geelong Grammar School Foundation, Elizabeth Pont, would be delighted to discuss with you ways in which you can ensure the long term future of Geelong Grammar School. In the words of one of our Biddlecombe Society Members, ‘My gift to Geelong Grammar School is a thanks offering for blessings bestowed, and these I measure not in honours received, academic and in sport, but rather the contribution made in developing me and ultimately my life’.

In May, the Appeal Committee visited Boneo Park and Treehaven Equestrian Centres on the Mornington Peninsula – two very different facilities. Boneo was designed by architect Luke Jones who has also designed the proposed new GGS Indoor Arena. Treehaven, is a more established Centre, renowned for conducting Equestrian Events of high calibre.

The visit to Boneo was invaluable as the Committee could see firsthand the layout and materials that could be used in the proposed GGS facility. Discussions with Managers at both Centres provided invaluable insights into what may work best for us here at Geelong Grammar School.

If you have an interest in Equestrianism and would like to see Geelong Grammar School be at the forefront of School Equestrian activities and believe you can assist us in bringing our vision to reality, we would be delighted to hear from you. For information on joining our Fundraising Appeal Committee or donating to the Appeal please contact Jennifer Wraight, Fundraising Manager, on telephone: + 61 3 5227 6297 or on email: jwraight@ggs.vic.edu.au Jennifer Wraight Fundraising Manager 1. Timbertop students researching a Geography assignment. L to R: Tiffany Gray (P Unit), Annie Colquhoun (O Unit), Meggy Wu (P Unit), Sophie Parsons (O Unit) and Georgina Dixson (O Unit).

2. New GGS Bequest Brochure.

3. Boneo Park Equestrian Centre designed by Architect Luke Jones who has also designed the proposed GGS Indoor Arena.

The GGS Foundation

Staff Study Awards 2009 Recipients for 2009

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Each year the Foundation provides funds to the value of $20,000 for Staff Study Awards to encourage professional development. The following staff were the worthy recipients of this Award:

Amy Walker

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Toorak Campus (To complete the Masters of Applied Positive Psychology Programme at the University of Pennsylvania during September 2009 – August 2010)

Rising to the Challenge All our D Unit Timbertop men from the early 1950s through to 2008 will have now received our Case for Support document for the replacement of D Unit. D Unit is the first Unit to be rebuilt under the School Council’s 10-year plan to replace the older Units. Our heartfelt thanks are extended to our volunteer D Unit Leaders who have assisted us in contacting their contemporaries seeking support to the D Unit Replacement Appeal. We are pleased to report that so far we have raised $200,000 towards the $550,000 building cost.

It is through the efforts of our volunteer D Unit Year Leaders that we are reconnecting with our D Unit men and engaging people who may have lost contact with the School over the years. The memories that are resurfacing and the tales of escapades at Timbertop are very enlightening. The Timbertop experience has influenced and remained with all our past students far beyond their time at School. It is now more important than ever that we raise the funds for D Unit so that building can begin once the new Single Masters’ Quarters (SMQ) has been built. We urge you to support the D Unit Campaign as it is through collective support that we can ensure that future students will have the opportunity to have this memorable living and learning experience at Timbertop.

We encourage all our D Unit men to support the Campaign by either contacting one of the following Year Leaders or Jennifer Wraight, Fundraising Manager, on: +61 3 5227 6297, jwraight@ggs.vic.edu.au or 0409 333 127.

1955: Peter Lancaster pgandmj@bigpond.net.au 1958: Balcolme Griffiths bgriffiths@netspace.net.au 1959: Andrew Hay aohay@bigpond.net.au 1960: Jeremy Hutton hut_fam@tpg.com.au 1961: Robin Hunt rvmh@bigpond.net.au 1962: Stuart McGregor stuart.mcgregor@austxport.com.au 1963: Michael Forwood michaelforwood@bigpond.com

1965: Tony Reilly tonyreilly@hotkey.net.au 1968: Mark Darling mark@sipwater.com

Rev David Jones

1969: Lew Officer officer@dodo.com.au 1972: Donald Cameron fordon@bigpond.com 1973: Peter Hinchliffe phinch@bigpond.net.au

Timbertop Campus (To complete a Graduate Diploma in Education through the Wesley Institute in Sydney – in Religious Studies and Business Studies being the areas of study at degree level)

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1975: Colin Simpson colin@kakadufarm.com 1979: Richard Nevile richard@snowgo.com.au

Lyndon Oataway

1981: Richard Grills richardgrills@internode.on.net

Timbertop Campus (To complete a Graduate Diploma in Aboriginal Studies at the University of South Australia)

1983: Bill Butcher bill@elitesurtech.com.au 1991: Mark Vickers-Willis mvickerswilis@gmail.com 1996: Nick Ashton nick.ashton@charterkc.com.au

Testimonials from D Unit I have always believed education is much more than academic results. From my point of view, I learned a lot about tolerance and tenacity while I was at Timbertop in 1969, and during that year formed lifelong friendships.

Over more recent years our children gained enormously by attending Timbertop, and we believe that in today’s world the philosophy of Timbertop is as relevant as ever. We have therefore supported the D Unit Campaign.

Lew Officer (TT 1969) Being from the country (North Western NSW, and South Western QLD) I loved the bush, I had a sense of direction and reading a map was never a problem, so I felt at home at Timbertop. One of my first memories is ‘putting the wind up’ other D Unit students the first week with stories of the Min Min lights.

The staff in 1989 was amazing we learnt so much from them, their leadership and their friendship was so important.

Thank you for the memories...

How can one forget the magic of a year in D Unit?

The roar of fires during winter prep, we could really stack that big fireplace with good dry wood; then crowd around the red glow at prep break, with our “cappuccinos” made from powdered milk.

The unexpected cessation of drumming on the roof when rain turned to snow in the middle of the night…a Mallee boy’s first snowfall, a blanketing silence that woke him with a start.

And our bush “collections”, like one friend’s carpet snake and lizards, kept in the big drawer under his bed. A bit smelly, but we were in the bush, after all, and we were fourteen.

Thank you, D Unit, for the ship-lapped shelter and the camaraderie.

Jeremy Madin (TT 1961) 1. The new D Unit will reflect the same design as the recently built P Unit.

2. Study room in P Unit at Timbertop.

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CUSP

Exhibition

CUSP... a cross-campus art exhibition with international links at Geelong Grammar School.

Building on and responding to the pioneering work in Positive Psychology by Professor Martin Seligman, CUSP was a cross-campus Visual Arts and Positive Education initiative at Geelong Grammar School during Terms 1 and 2 this year.

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The exhibition showcased Geelong Grammar School student art work from ELC to Year 12 and the imagery created for the exhibition was based on a whole-school visual arts curriculum focus for Term 1, 2009. Focused on notions of optimism, students responded to a range of stimuli in the creation of a visual narrative with emphasis on concepts such as faith, trust, hope, and joy as well as character strengths, which have been studied as an integral aspect of Positive Education, with a view to presenting an optimistic view of the world resonating with aspects of growth, change and transition.

To be on the cusp in the context of this curriculum focus was interpreted as the beginning, something new, moving forward, building on a future embracing confidence and resilience. Emphasis was on new ways of seeing and understanding the world through the creative process linked to Positive Education. The exhibition was cross-media and students explored 2D and 3D forms and moving image, presenting a collective vision and interpretation of the practices and principles of Positive Psychology through the concepts presented to them by their teachers, encouraging expressive devices to generate a sense of style and personal identity.

Pivotal to this thinking is the power of art to elevate and transform the human spirit, engaging students with unique ways to convey the context of their creative process through the designing, creating and making of imagery which captures a mood of optimism, enhancing notions of positivity through subject matter, concepts and techniques.

The joy and playfulness evident in much of the imagery and the creative ambience of the exhibition conveyed clearly the pleasure gained from engaging with all aspects of the CUSP project.

To add to this curriculum focus, Saren Dobkins, a contemporary Australian artist was invited to reside at Geelong Grammar School, Corio Campus, as Artist In Residence for nine days leading up to the opening of CUSP. In that time, Saren created a portrait, “You Are Here” which conveys a narrative with a conscious approach to living our lives more optimistically. In this work, commissioned by Geelong Grammar School, Saren responded to the same curriculum concepts students had engaged with during Term 1. Her finished 18

2 work was central to the exhibition CUSP and provided a natural progression of the creative vision and conceptual interpretation evident in the exhibition: from the early and middle years of learning through to senior, and on to that of a practising artist.

CUSP opened on April 30 at The Sinclaire Centre by Julie Ewington, Head of Australian Art, Queensland Art Gallery, and Curator of Optimism, Contemporary Australia.

CUSP was also a collaborative project with international links. Wellington College in the United Kingdom, The Kipp Academies and Riverdale Country School in New York and The University of Canterbury, New Zealand were invited to participate and show student work linked to the theme of optimism and based on the integration of Positive Psychology into their curricula.

CUSP is an in-house project at Geelong Grammar School which shows the Visual Arts as central to the articulation of ideas embedded in the practices and principles of Positive Psychology. The First World Congress is an unparalleled international event which recently gathered renowned experts in Positive Psychology to present their latest findings and best practices. Selected imagery from participating schools was presented in digital form at The First World Congress on Positive Psychology in Philadelphia, USA, in June on large-screen format.

CUSP is a Geelong Grammar School project linking the visual arts into domains embracing wellbeing.

Margot Anwar Head of Art/Head of the Arts

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Saren Dobkins, Artist in Residence Attention shapes the self, and knowing where you are keeps you on track and grounded.

Life throws us challenges and, in surmounting them we grow from within. This work explores the idea behind facing a challenge and not being overwhelmed by it, rather seeing it as a positive experience. There are a number of aspects of the characteristics of being optimistic that I have integrated into this work.

The person looks upwards towards a bright, cloudless sky. A mountain is before him. It is rounded as well as bright to suggest that the challenge is accessible. This is reinforced by the presence of a ladder that shows that when we approach situations step by step, knowing that by steady effort, we reach our goals. The safety net at the base of the ladder is to reassure any adventurer that we will not fail when we try and that when adversity is evident we need to get back up and try again.

A person who is well grounded and has a sense of place is better equipped to deal with what life presents, hence the person is connected to the base of the canvas, grounded and solid. The owl on the shoulder is there to support the person through its wisdom and childlike curiosity. The placing of the arrow and the text “You Are Here” above the person’s heart is the essence of optimism and resilience, resulting in a positive outlook.

When we know our heart and trust ourselves, then we are most happy.

1. ‘Self Portraits’ - ELC Toorak Campus.

2. ‘Happy Hats’ - Year 8Q. 3. ‘You Are Here’ - Saren Dobkins, Artist in Residence.

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Around the World in 90 Days!

The opportunity to take long-service leave should never be taken for granted. This year I was fortunate to be granted the whole of Term 2 off and took full advantage of this opportunity to travel extensively with my wife, Ann, to Philadelphia, New York, many parts of the United Kingdom, as well as making a wonderfully adventurous journey through Spain, France, Italy and Croatia.

It was uplifting to visit family members and friends; touch base with my elder son who is undertaking a ‘gap’ year at Wycliffe College: and be joined by our younger son once Term 2 ended for him. Although much of our time was spent with family and journeying to places of great beauty and interest, I was able to include visits to a number of schools in New York and England. At some, I was invited to speak about the exciting initiatives being undertaken at Geelong Grammar School. It was also an opportunity for me to find out more about how other schools were approaching adolescent wellbeing.

I met with Professor Martin Seligman and Dr Karen Reivich in Philadelphia. Although these were mainly social visits, much conversation centred on Positive Education and it was an opportunity to reflect on our progress and to consider future developments. In New York, I visited two schools in the Bronx that could not have had more extreme locations, yet both were working closely together using the tenets of Positive Psychology in the classroom. The first of these schools was a KIPP (Knowledge is Power Programme) School. It consisted of eight classrooms on the 4th floor of a high rise building. Students came from low socio-economic inner-city environments. The programme was rigid. Discipline was firm.

Relationships between staff and students were strong. Academic results at this school were very good, despite limited resources.

Teachers and students made a commitment to a ‘contract’ requiring attendance at school from 7.30am to 5.00pm Monday to Friday, on Saturday morning, and during holiday

programmes. The relationships between staff and students were quite inspiring. The walls of this School were covered in inspiring quotes, pennants from Colleges to which previous students had graduated and had a focus on Character Strengths.

On the other side of the Bronx was the Riverdale Country School. What a contrast!

Beautiful grounds and tremendous cocurricular facilities. Staff-student relationships were also very strong. Classroom interaction was engaging. The School had a dynamic feel. Of great interest to me was the way in which the Principals of these two very different Schools were sharing ideas about developing curriculum that focussed on adolescent wellbeing. Both of them had attended conferences on Positive Psychology, both had worked closely with Seligman and Reivich; both were concerned about the emotional strength of the young people placed in their care. Although my time with them was brief, I learned much and was able to share information with them about Geelong Grammar School’s Positive Education Programme.

In the UK, I had been invited by Professor Felicia Huppert of Cambridge University to present at a seminar held at the University’s Department of Education. It was an open invitation to educators, parents, academics and students. I outlined Geelong Grammar School’s Positive Education journey, philosophy and implicit/explicit application at the four campuses. Much debate followed, which was a most challenging experience.

From Cambridge I ventured to Wellington College in Surrey. Wellington’s Master, Dr Anthony Seldon, had invited me to talk to his entire teaching staff about Positive Education and I was fortunate to spend two days at Wellington College during which I learned much about their wellbeing initiatives.

Millfield School in Somerset also invited me to talk to their staff about Timbertop and Positive Education. Their new Headmaster,

Craig Considine, is a former teacher at Geelong Grammar School and he was very interested in all that we have been doing in relation to Positive Education. He was also keen for his staff to learn about Timbertop (he was looking at some new Year 9 initiatives) and the reasons for Geelong Grammar School’s interest in Positive Psychology. I was well received by the Wellington College and Millfield staff. There is great interest in what we are doing and many staff believe that Geelong Grammar School’s focus on adolescent wellbeing is a most important development in education.

My time away from Corio allowed me time to recharge the soul and reflect on my life.

It also enabled me to share with others the exciting initiatives that we have undertaken at Geelong Grammar School in the last five years. My visits to the various Schools validated my firm belief that teaching is an honourable profession. Good teachers do influence young people in such positive ways. No matter the resources or location, inspiring teachers motivate, excite and engage students. I also believe that schools can be an agent for social change. Inspiring educational leadership focuses on the future with the aim to encourage and develop in the children and young adults in our care the skills and understanding to live positive, engaged and meaningful lives.

Geelong Grammar School is certainly stimulating much discussion at home and overseas on this issue and it is good to return home to continue this exciting journey with you all.

Charlie Scudamore Acting Principal/Head of Senior School 1. The grounds of Riverdale Country School.

2. Charlie Scudamore pictured with Ian Morris, teacher in charge of Wellbeing outside Wellington College.

3. Charlie Scudamore pictured at KIPP (Knowledge is Power Programme) School.

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Careers Day Term 3 has always been a time for important decisions to be made by senior students: what subjects will I choose next year, what career would appeal to me after Year 12, will I do VCE or the IB, should I do a GAP year, what courses will I apply for? The range of options available to students is huge and many find the decision-making a little overwhelming.

An initiative of the Old Geelong Grammarians, the OGG Career Discovery Day is one of the key events on the School calendar and for the last eight years we have been blessed to have young OGGs return to familiar surroundings and talk to young people about their career paths since leaving GGS. In July, we had 50 OGGs, and a few ‘Friends of GGS’ make themselves available to talk to students and parents.

The keynote address was delivered by Charles Tetaz (A’87), whose interest in music and technology was the springboard to a fascinating career in creative media technology. Charles now manages the Australian and New Zealand arm of a large international organisation, Avid, whose customers include Pink, Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings), Sir Paul McCartney and Warner Brothers among many others. His advice to the students and parents involved several key points: follow your passion, find a mentor to discuss ideas and plans, and work hard at whatever you are doing.

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career journey of several different OGG Mentors. From Hospitality to Stockbroking, Managing an Orchestra to Public Relations, Engineering to Marine Archaeology, and Pilot to Professional Athlete, there was a huge range of possible career paths that the students could be exposed. A slight change to the format this year saw students attend three different workshops and up to nine OGG mentors while parents had the opportunity to learn more about VCE/IB options and the transition from GGS to university.

This year for something different, we had Year 11 and 12 students acting as facilitators in each of the workshops. The facilitators did an excellent job given that this was the first time that most of them had been in such a role.

Their job was to introduce all mentors to the group of students at the start of each session and to act as a ‘time keeper’ to ensure each mentor had adequate time to speak. Students often find it confronting to ask questions, so, facilitating discussion and prompting questions was another role of the facilitator.

It was a challenging task but all students involved did a magnificent job and should be very proud of their efforts.

The aim of the day is not to identify a specific career that a student will plan their final years of education around - such linear paths are very rare nowadays and generally unrealistic.

The Careers Discovery Day continues to provide a message that it is important to follow your interests and passions and be prepared for a more meandering career path.

It is okay not to have a specific job in mind when you are at school. Most importantly, it is about seizing the opportunities that become available and enjoying the journey.

Often, after Careers Day (as well as during the year), many students value the opportunity to be in touch with an OGG mentor simply to ask questions; to explore career options and find out information that will help them decide subjects, university courses and career options. We encourage all OGG, who are interested in acting as a mentor to students, to register themselves on the OGG website as a mentor. OGGs of any age are also able to access these volunteer mentors via email should they have the need.

Peter Craig Head of Careers 1. Nina Anderson (Thomas, Cl’93), Careers Day Committee Member with Peter Craig, Head of Careers.

2. Students and parents with OGGs Jeremy Thompson (Fr’99), Vanessa Plain (He’96) and Craig Mottram (A’98) at the ‘Something Sporty’ session.

3. The session ‘Big Gigs’ was led by Alex Hocking (He’99), Edwina Drummond Moray (Cl’97) and Jo Ashton (Cl’97) pictured here with some of those who attended.

4. Hannah Hookey (He’99), Manager of the Melbourne Youth Orchestra, and Carmen Fraser (Cl’03), singer and songwriter spoke at the Musical Notes session.

Old Geelong

Football & Netball

Club News

Season 2009 has produced a mixed bag of results for the Old Geelong Football Club.

The Seniors endured a very challenging start to their C Section campaign, and with only one win on the board after eight rounds, were looking like heading straight back to D Section. However, we knew a new senior coach (ex-Fitzroy player Nick Mitchell) and new playing list were always going to take a little time to gel, and after continuing to work hard and stick together, the side has been able to turn things around and record some great victories.

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The success story of the year has undoubtedly been the Under 19 side, who at present are on top of the ladder, with just the one loss to their name. Recent leavers including Dave Andrew (Fr’07), Rob Officer (M’08), Jack Hughes (Cu’07) and Ben Skelton (M’08) have provided great support to Captain Jack Merrin (Fr’07). Some of the side have graduated to the seniors during the year, including Stacey Kent (Fr’07), John Forster (P’07), Angus Macdonald (FB’07) and Nick O’Hare (Fr’07).

Special mention also to current Year 12 Henry Mackinnon (M) who played with distinction during three games in the school holidays, especially with his bag of six goals in his first game.

Another highlight of the year has been the sports day held at Geelong Grammar in the pre-season. Old Geelong Grammarians took on current students in games of cricket on the Chapel Oval and netball in the Handbury Centre, while the football side (including a handful of Year 12s) took on Whitefriars Old Collegians in a practice match. The day was a great opportunity for the OGG community to catch up with each other and mix with current students, and also to get back to the School.

As always, please check out: www.oldgeelong.com.au for more information.

Alex Southey (M’01) On Sunday 29 March, one of the OGS Netball teams came down to Grammar to play a Geelong Grammar side. We ventured to the impressive Handbury Centre for the game against eight Year 10s. The first quarter was fairly biased so we decided to mix up the teams with half OGS and half Grammar players in each – this was much more fun for everyone, and the game became more relaxed. The Year 10s gave us a run for our money, proving that their year at Timbertop last year provides much more fitness than the University lifestyle. It was such a great day and fantastic to get back to Grammar; it had been far too long. We look forward to doing it all again next year.

Annie Legoe (Cl’03)

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The 2009 Old Geelong Grammarians versus the Old Geelong Collegians Golf Day was held on Friday the 20 March, at The Barwon Heads Golf Club. It was very pleasing to see a full field of competitors including a strong contingent of new young players, something which the organisers’ are keen to encourage.

The course was in great order and the matches were all played in the usual friendly rivalry which is typical of this day. The Old Geelong Collegians won the day with an average score of 2.0 to GGS 2.2.

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The overall winners of the Pairs competition with an outstanding score were Sandy and Rob Hunter +13. The Individual winner was Tony Reilly +5 and the runner up was Rob Geddes +4.

1. Members of the Old Geelong Netball Team and current GGS netballers who played each other when the OGS teams visited Corio in March.

Next year’s event is booked for Friday 19 March at The Barwon Heads Golf Club.

Should you have interest in participating or would like to update your details, please contact your OGG representative Simon Reed sreed@luxmoore.com.au

3. The OGG vs OGC Golf Day was a day of friendly rivalry. Pictured are (back) David Sears and Terry Salter (both OGC) and (front) Dick Roberts (Cu’57) and Peter Fisher (Ge’58).

2. Members of the Old Geelong Football Club: Chris Mollard (Bw’97), Matthew Goldsworthy (GC), Tom Bett (GC), Charlie Fairbairn (GC) and Jimmy Legoe (M’97).

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Bill Ranken Chairman, Geelong Grammar Foundation

1 Indigenous Scholarships I write to you with an inspiring story of generosity, and a call to action for your consideration.

Our GGS staff just pledged $60,000 of their own money so that indigenous children may attend Geelong Grammar School!

This is a wonderful example of philanthropy, leadership and care.

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I thought you would like to know about this, and I thought it only appropriate to provide you with an opportunity to join with the staff and make a donation.

It would be wonderful if you could help us build a larger Indigenous Scholarship Fund.

You may choose one of two indigenous scholarship funds by ticking the appropriate box on the School website: www.ggs.vic.edu.au 1. The GGS Staff Indigenous Scholarship Fund. If you choose this Staff Fund then your gift will be applied to cover the fees of a 2010 student commencing in Year 9 through to Year 12. It will have a larger short-term impact. Donations, capital and interest income earned on funds will be used over the next four years to help pay the GGS education expenses of Indigenous students.

2. The GGS Indigenous Scholarship Fund.

If you choose this Fund then your gift will have a longer-term and more enduring benefit. Your donation will be invested for the longer term. Interest and dividends earned on the Fund will be used over time to help pay the GGS education expenses of indigenous children.

We encourage you to make a contribution to one of the Indigenous Funds to assist Geelong Grammar School grow its Indigenous Programme. Make a one-off donation or pledge a gift over a period of up to four years.

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3 tax-payers. Named scholarships are available for larger donations, and enquiries should be made to Elizabeth Pont, Executive Director, Geelong Grammar Foundation on + 61 3 5273 9254 or via email: epont@ggs.vic. edu.au or Jennifer Wraight, our Fundraising Manager on + 61 3 5273 9297 or via email: jwraight@ggs.vic.edu.au Bill Ranken Chairman, Geelong Grammar Foundation The above provides a general description of the way in which your donations will be applied. The allocation of scholarships is decided by the Principal, according to policy approved by the School Council. The donated funds are administered by the School under the Geelong Grammar Foundation as trustee

for the GGS Scholarship Fund. To support our Indigenous community, visit our website and donate online.

1. Some of the Yalari Rosemary Bishop Scholars; Jedd Vocale (Yr7 Bw), Tiah Vocale (Yr7 Cn) and Rory Vocale (Yr10 M).

2. Edward Gubbins (Yr7 Bb), Olivia Paterson (Yr10 M), Peter Bunyaratavej (Yr 8 Bb), Eilish Costelloe (Yr11 A), George Macdonald (Yr11 FB), Rebecca Dennis (Yr7 Cn), George Morrison (Yr11 P) and Gavin Bunyaratavej (Yr 8 Bb) pictured here with Michael Collins Persse.

3. Some of the IYLP Scholars at GGS are L to R: Salasei McCarthy (Yr8 Cn), Sam Weston (Yr8 Bb), Phillecia Daylight (Yr8 Cn), Samuel Swanson (Yr8 Bb), Douglas Wunta (Yr7 Bb), Roddy-Anne Joshua (He’09) and Renee Blunden (Yr8 Cn).

Rob de Fégely (FB’74) President, Old Geelong Grammarians

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As the newly elected President of the Old Geelong Grammarians, I would like to thank Fiona Ratcliffe (Archer, Je’77) for her last two years as President. Fiona joined the OGG Committee in 2002 and over her seven years of service she has been a very determined catalyst for change. When she took over the role of Treasurer in 2005 she was instrumental in the engagement of Macquarie Bank as our independent Manager of the corpus, and then in 2007 she was elected as the first interstate President, living in Sydney. Fiona was a keen communicator and has left a great legacy of a well-connected OGG network and, on behalf of the 2009 Committee, I would like to wish her well in new endeavours and thank her for all her efforts.

The May AGM also saw the retirement from the Committee of Bill Ranken (M’72) due to his other commitments as Chairman of the Foundation and Member of Council.

Bill has played a fabulous role of improving communication between the Foundation and the OGG Committee and also contributed wise counsel on the OGG Finance Committee.

Fortunately, the losses provide for new additions and we welcomed two new members to the Committee, Nina Anderson (Cl’93) and David Henry (FB’69), and thank them for offering their time and expertise. I look forward to working with them both.

The Annual Report was presented at the AGM and keen observers of the OGG financial affairs will notice that we did not escape the ravages of the global financial crisis. The corpus took a beating from its high point in mid-2007 until March of this year losing almost a million dollars in value; but it has thankfully rebounded, as all good portfolios should, and is now back close to the $2M in value.

The OGG Finance Committee has taken a view (along with our advisers Macquarie) that the corpus is a perpetual fund and as it has no pay-out date (such as a superannuation fund on its owners retirement) it can afford to take some higher risk in its investment strategy to gain a commensurate higher return. This philosophy was tested over the last 18 months, but the corpus is now showing steady growth again.

2 As the Chairman of the Finance Committee for the last two years, I would like to thank the Members for their sage advice in these troubling financial times. The members are Sarah Robinson (Je’77), James Hocking (FB’96), Andrew de Lautour (M’97), Fi Ratcliffe (Je’77), Bill Ranken (M’72) and Peter Chomley (Ge’63). It is comforting to have such a deep level of experience advising us on our investment strategy.

Following the AGM, the other new Executives of the Committee are Peter Chomley (Ge’63) Vice-President, Katie Rafferty (Ga’84) Secretary and Lachie Stevens (M’96) Treasurer.

Following the successful Planning Day held at Corio in March, the Committee has set an extensive Agenda for the coming year and to assist this process a number of informal subcommittees have been established. The Chairs and roles are as follows: Sports and Social - Andrew Ramsay (Cu’69), Archives Peter Chomley (Ge’63), Careers Day - Lachie Stevens (M’96), Communications - David Henry (FB’69), Wellbeing - Peter McIntosh (M’69), OGG Travel - Penny Dawson (A’83), and Finance - Lachie Stevens (M’96).

The OGG Committee is looking forward to an exciting year ahead and hope we will see many of you at the numerous functions that will be held during the course of it.

3 1. Rob de Fégely (FB’74), incoming President of the Old Geelong Grammarians, pictured with his parents Ruth (Beggs, He’48) and Dick de Fégely (FB’46).

2. Pictured left to right following the OGG AGM were newly elected Committee member Nina Anderson (Thomas, Cl’93), former staff member and Honorary OGG Bill Clydesdale, current OGG Committee member Penny Dawson (A’83), Alison John and her husband, former staff member and Honorary OGG, Malcolm John.

3. John Wood (Ge’40) laid the wreath at the Geelong Grammar School Anzac Day ceremony in April this year. He is pictured here with his wife Patricia after the service.

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2009 Reunions and OGG Events Washington DC, USA Gathering Tuesday 8 September 2009, Washington DC 1969 Timbertop Reunion Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 September 2009, Merrijig/Timbertop OGG Golf Day Friday 25 September 2009, Barwon Heads 1989 20-Year Reunion Saturday 17 October 2009, Melbourne WA Branch OGG Function Friday 30 October 2009, Perth

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1979 30-Year Reunion Friday 6 November 2009, Melbourne 1959 50-Year Reunion (1956 Timbertop Year) Friday 13 November 2009, Melbourne OGG Tower Luncheon Saturday 14 November 2009 APS Golf Day Monday 16 November 2009

2010 Reunions and OGG Events Melbourne OGG Cocktail Party Friday 26 February 2010, Toorak Campus (all Victorian OGG and past parents welcome)

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2000 10-Year Reunion Saturday 13 March 2010, Melbourne OGG V OGC Golf Day Friday 19 March, 2010. Barwon Heads Golf Club 1955 Timbertop Reunion Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 March 2010, Merrijig/Timbertop ANZAC Day Service Monday 26 April, 2010, Corio NSW OGG Branch Gathering Wednesday 5 May 2010, Sydney

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1980 30-Year Reunion Saturday 7 August 2010, Melbourne 1990 20-Year Reunion Date to be confirmed UK Branch Dinner Thursday 24 June 2010 Queensland OGG Branch Gathering Date to be confirmed.

ACT OGG Branch Gathering Saturday 21 August 2010 1970 Timbertop Reunion Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 September 2010, Merrijig/Timbertop.

South Australian OGG Branch Gathering Saturday 16 October, 2010 1960 50-Year Reunion (1957 Timbertop Group) Friday 12 November 2010, Melbourne OGG Tower Luncheon for 1960 and earlier leavers Saturday 13 November 2010, Corio Tasmanian OGG Branch Gathering Saturday 20 November, 2010 For more information about OGG events please contact Katie Rafferty, Alumni Manager, tel: +61 3 5273 9338 or email: 4 katier@ggs.vic.edu.au 18 24

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10-Year Reunion The Class of 1999 is a great year-group and this was reaffirmed at our 10-Year Reunion recently. It was evident at the start of the evening that everyone was really excited to be meeting up and celebrating the milestone. As Mark Leslie said, ’It was like we all slipped back in time and it reminded me of returning to School after the summer holidays, full of stories, and excitement.’

The event was held at the Argo in South Yarra, Melbourne. Over 100 OGGs attended the reunion, with many travelling a great distance to be there. It was wonderful to see so many familiar faces. The noise-level in the room was buzzing, which indicated everyone was enjoying chatting, reminiscing and catching up on the last decade. A lot of people said it was as if they had seen one another only yesterday. Some of us didn’t finish the night until the wee hours of the morning - a sure sign that the reunion was

a success! There are mentions of a 15-Year Reunion already. Thanks to Katie Rafferty and the Committee for organising the night, many thanks to Charlie Egan for hosting the unofficial after party, and a big thank you to everyone that attended for making it a fun and memorable night.

Fiona Mackintosh (Cl’99) 1. The 1999 10 Year Reunion was organised by Mark Leslie (M’99), Fiona Mackintosh (Cl’99), Nick Ashton (P’99) and Fi Thomson (Cl’99).

2. Former Hermitage House girls Hannah Hookey, Lucy Fraser, Nicola Dunn and Phoebe Gleeson pictured at the Reunion.

3. Will Ainsworth (Fr’99), Jeremy Thompson (Fr’99), Fi Thomson (Cl’99), Nick Smithwick (P’99), Tim Hall (Cu’99) and Jeff Noble (Cu’99).

Bill Middleton OAM (Cu’44) Gaining a Diploma of Forestry after leaving School, I went on to work as a Forester with the Forests Commission of Victoria and amassed 50 years’ experience in the management of forests, nurseries and vegetation habitat in rural areas. I am an Honorary Life Member of Birds Australia and was Supervisor of the innovative Potter Farmland Plan for ecologically-sustainable agriculture, and a Board Associate for the Trust for Nature. Awarded an OAM in 1999 for service to conservation and the environment and to land management, I spend my time now working as part of the Stretton Group, an apolitical, not-for-profit group established in December 2003 following the disastrous South-East Australian bushfire crisis in 2002/3. The Stretton Group was formed by six retirees who were appalled at the poor management of public land, to try to force governments to better manage all aspects of public land including water, wildlife, the protection of forests and fire management.

The Stretton Group is committed to ensuring that the public debate about conservation is conducted on a balanced and informed basis − which may often disturb political myths or common preconceptions about the present quality of environmental preservation. The Group has made a submission to the 2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission.

I am married to Joan and have two children and four grandchildren.

Richard Andrews (P’81) Current OGG Contact in Japan.

I have been working in the Australian Embassy in Tokyo - my second diplomatic posting there since December 2008.

The posting builds on a long experience of dealings with Japan that started when I began studying Japanese at GGS in 1976, and continued through a year as an exchange student in Kobe after leaving School, and a BA (Hons) degree majoring in Japanese from the University of Sydney. As Minister-Counsellor (Political) at the Embassy, my brief includes issues relating to the development of political and security links between Australia and Japan, as well as the intriguing job of monitoring and reporting on Japanese domestic politics at a time of great uncertainty; and promoting cultural linkages between Australia and Japan. I have also had diplomatic postings in Kuala Lumpur (1990-1993) and London (2002-2005). My interests include golf, cricket, languages, Japanese food, and classical music and I have never been able to shake myself of the habit of supporting the Richmond Football Club despite years of disappointment. I am

accompanied in Japan by my wife Saovanee, and son Ben (15). I would be happy to hear from any members of the Geelong Grammar community who might be living in, or visiting Japan.

Nina Anderson (Thomas, Cl’93) Recently elected on to the OGG Committee.

After completing a Bachelor of Arts, Communications Management at Deakin University in 1996, I moved to Sydney where I worked in advertising and radio before settling into corporate affairs, a field in which I continue to specialise.

I lived in Sydney for nearly five years before moving to London. Whilst living in London, I met my husband Jonno. We moved back to Melbourne in 2004.

Since I have been back in Melbourne, I have worked for GE Money, AWB and now PricewaterhouseCoopers.

My role at PwC mainly entails managing media relations for the firm, but I am involved in some strategic stakeholder and internal communications. This is a particularly interesting year in the communications field as the pace of change is quite remarkable, not to mention challenging.

Jonno and I have a little boy called Tom who is now 18 months old. I still keep a horse at my parents’ farm and currently in the process of ensuring that Tom enjoys riding horses more than motorbikes. I am pleased to report that I am succeeding, at least for the moment anyway.

Dr Ross Abraham (Fr’97) I graduated as a Dentist from Melbourne University in 2002. After a few years gaining experience in Seymour, I married Meredith and we returned to live in Geelong in late 2005.

Carmen Fraser (Cl’03) After leaving School, I worked as an assistant at Timbertop for a year. Following this I had three seasons of residencies at the Mt Buller Chalet, singing and playing both original and cover songs three to four nights a week, as well as summer residencies at The Grand in Spencer Street and the Sofitel in Collins Street, Melbourne. In 2006, I received press in major newspapers and magazines, as well as TV appearances on the Today Show and the 7.30 Report. In 2008 I attended the CMAA College of Country Music and recorded my debut album with ARIA award-winning Paul Wiltshire. Two singles off the album Silhouette, to be released October 10, have been well received on country radio and my debut clip, 32 Days, is climbing up the Country Music Channel Charts, currently sitting at Number 26. On October 2 and 3, I’m playing at the Deni Ute Muster for the first time alongside Powderfinger, Adam Harvey, Beccy Cole and others.

Are you an OGG? Have you visited the new GGS Website yet?

If you are an OGG, be sure to visit the new GGS Community Portal to update your details, search for classmates, view reunion and event information, book online, join the Mentor Programme and view photos of reunions and Branch functions.

Please note, the new GGS Community Portal has replaced the old OGG Directory. To gain access, visit our new GGS website at www.ggs.vic.edu.au, click on the button to the GGS Community Portal (pictured below), enter your username and password then click on the Community Connections tab.

After a few more years indulging my passions for playing local cricket and soccer and gathering experience while Meredith trained as a Dental Hygienist and Therapist, we recently took ownership of a dental practice, Kardinia Dental in Geelong. (www.kardiniadental.com.au) Meredith and I are now enjoying building a clientèle and aiming to provide genuine care and practical dentistry. I have enjoyed participating in Careers Day at GGS and look forward to doing so again in the hope that others may become similarly interested in a career in Dentistry.

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OGG Branch News OGG Japan Branch News

Further to the efforts to establish OGG contacts in many of the major cities across Australia and around the world, the Old Geelong Grammarians are happy to introduce the newest contact, Richard Andrews (P’81). Based in Tokyo, Richard has recently volunteered to be the OGG contact in Japan.

Richard features in the OGGLink section on page 25. Members of the Old Geelong Grammarians’ Association are grateful to Richard for being a contact point for OGGs in Japan.

OGG Malaysia and Singapore Branches The Malaysian OGG Branch have set up a group on Facebook called Old Geelong Grammarians Malaysia and advertise upcoming events including a Family Day later in the year.

Randall Lee of the Singapore OGG Branch has also set up a Facebook group called Old Geelong Grammarians Asia.

OGG UK Branch News With eight decades of Old Geelong Grammarians represented, Stephen and Christine Meek and Charlie and Ann Scudamore in attendance, and 41 guests in total, the OGG United Kingdom Branch Dinner held in London was a luminous event with much mirth and sharing of memories.

We gathered at our regular venue, the antiquarian library of the Travellers’ Club at Pall Mall, described as ‘one of London’s most beautiful rooms’.

The Principal gave an energetic speech during the pre-dinner gathering, reporting on various developments at the School. Other items of topical interest were the School’s cricket tour to England (then in progress) and the exemplary life of Sir David Hay (Cu’35) with obituaries on display recounting fascinating details of his life. Dinner was served in the library and was, for many, a welcome change from the dining experiences of old School days! Our guest speaker, Richard Morgan AM 26 18

(P’53), gave a highly absorbing talk on the 18th-Century Scottish ‘father of economics’, Adam Smith, and his continuing relevance to modern economics and society.

The evening was a great success, enjoyed by all. Mark your diaries for 24 June 2010, the next London dinner.

David Hudson (Ge’68) Secretary, OGG United Kingdom Branch

OGG NSW Branch For the second time, the GGS Community in New South Wales climbed aboard ship for our annual cocktail function. Thanks to the ongoing support and generosity of Commander Justin Jones (M’87), 120 guests enjoyed an unseasonably warm May evening on board HMAS Newcastle, stationed at Fleet Base East, in Woolloomooloo.

The NSW Branch of the OGG’s usually hosts some 100 guests for our annual function.

This year we received over 180 responses to our invitation, many of whom were unable to attend the evening owing to number restrictions placed on us by RAN safety requirements. In 2004 as Commander of HMAS Parramatta, Commander Jones hosted the NSW Branch function and likewise it was a sell-out. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Commander Jones for his ongoing support of GGS, and the NSW Branch of the Old Geelong Grammarians. I would also like to thank Terrie Jones for her support as well as to the crew of HMAS Newcastle, who worked tirelessly to make the event special for all those who attended.

Will Wilson (P’78) President, OGG NSW Branch

OGG Riverina and North-East Branch The North-East/Riverina branch of the OGGs had a most enjoyable lunch at Steve (P’62) and Susie Finlay’s home, Teripta, near Holbrook, on Saturday 13 June. Their house was filled to capacity, with about sixty people attending, to hear news of the School from Stephen Meek, and to enjoy good company.

Stephen was accompanied by his wife, Christine, and Elizabeth Pont, Director of Community Relations. This is the second time that the Finlay home has been the venue for this regional OGGs lunch, and it lived up to the standard set by the first occasion, making a warm and friendly setting for the day. Fiona Landy provided the catering for a superb meal, as she always does. Thanks again to Steve and Susie Finlay, for their generosity, and hospitality.

Bill Dobson (P’61) President, OGG Riverina and North-East Branch

OGG Deniliquin Branch On Sunday 14 June 2009, the Deniliquin Branch of the OGGs, HOGA and COGA held a delightful luncheon at Chippenham Park, the home of Robbie and Keith Landale (P’69).

Three generations from some families attended a wonderful family day for catching up with OGGs from the surrounding district.

As the day was beautiful, we enjoyed prelunch drinks in the courtyard before the Reverend Tassie Pappas (Tocumwal) said Grace and the 49 guests sat down to a delightful lunch in the dining room, catered for by Robbie Landale.

Hunter Landale (M’42) gave a small but amusing talk on his school-days, after which we raised our glasses to the School.

The Principal, Mr Stephen Meek, outlined his goals for the School, and the successes from the past and present that the School is enjoying. Many thanks go to Robbie and Keith Landale for their kind hospitality.

Diana Whittakers (Cl’63) Secretary, OGG Deniliquin Branch Details of all Branch, City and Country contacts can be found in the OGG Contacts section of the OGG webpage www.ggs.vic.edu.au/oggs If you are interested in becoming an ‘OGG Contact’, please email Katie Rafferty at katier@ggs.vic.edu.au

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2. Recent leavers L to R: Eleanor Turnbull (Cl’08), Stuart Scudamore (A’08) and Nicholas Dillon (Fr’08) at the OGG UK Branch function in London.

3. The OGG Deniliquin Branch luncheon was held at the home of past parents of the School Robbie and Keith Landale (P’69). They are pictured here with organisers L to R: Barbara Scott (Thomas, He’51), Diana Whittakers (Moore, Cl’63), Muffi Gove in pink and David Gove (M’53) (far right).

4. L to R: Edwina Knox (Calder, Cl’96), Ellie Danckert, Claire Bull (McCulloch, Cl’94) at the Deniliquin Branch luncheon.

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7. The OGG Riverina Branch luncheon was held near Holbrook at the home of past parents of the School Susie and Steve Finlay (P’62). They are pictured here at right with other past parents of the School, Annie Laycock and Peter Tallis (Cu’50).

8. Nick Allen (Cu’59) and Anne Baring (He’68) on board the HMAS Newcastle for the OGG NSW Branch cocktail party.

9. Nicola Chamberlain (left) and Cate Woodhouse (Ronald, Cl’86) attended the OGG Riverina Branch luncheon near Holbrook.

5. L to R: Richard Knox, Fionn Lindsay-Field (Fr’78), Jon Gatacre, Richard Metcalf and Andy Malin.

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Internationalism As a compulsory component of their Diploma Programme, IB students must complete a minimum of 150 hours of CAS activities. CAS, an acronym for Creativity, Action, Service, summarises the range of extra-curricular activities IB students are expected to participate in during their candidacy.

The CAS programme provides an opportunity for students to plan, organise, complete and then reflect upon a wide range of activities.

In particular, the planning and reflection aspects of the CAS programme aim to provide meaningful learning experiences for IB students that extend beyond their studies in the classroom.

Over the past 12 months there has been a number of school-organised trips that have left Geelong Grammar for destinations overseas. Some of the students on these trips chose to use these trips to help them meet the requirements of their CAS programme.

In September last year, ten IB students travelled to Spain for a Cultural Tour along with staff members Karina Silva and Paul Rettke. During their time in Spain the group visited well-known Spanish landmarks while experiencing some colourful aspects of Spanish culture. Madrid and its world class museums, the magic views of Toledo, the famous Alhambra in Granada and the exhilaration of Flamenco were all examples of the Creative experiences that Year 12 student Toby Fowler (Cu) reflected upon in his CAS Journal.

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During the last summer-holiday period, a group of students travelled with Justin Corfield to Cambodia as a culmination of their fundraising efforts over the previous year.

The funds they raised were used to purchase building materials for homes for two local families. However, this was not the end of their commitment. For five days the group worked to help the families build their homes.

Jian Wen Jen (Yr12 M), who participated in this powerful Service experience, reflected upon the pride he felt after completing such a meaningful activity and also in the joy of seeing the pride that the local Cambodian families had for their new homes.

Students can continually look towards trips organised by various GGS staff members for opportunities to complete aspects of their CAS programmes. However, the international connections that many GGS students enjoy mean that they have the opportunity to organise their own CAS activities overseas.

Will Balmford (Yr 12 M), one of the current School Captains, travelled to Peru for a month to undertake work on a volunteer conservation project in the Amazon. The aim of his trip was to aid the organisation “Project Abroad” in their efforts to provide sustainable farming methods for local farmers, help out at an animal rescue centre, and also help re-plant logged areas recently set aside as a nature reserve.

Mary McQuillan (Yr 12 Fr) travelled back to her native Zimbabwe and, while there,

volunteered her time at an orphanage in Harare. Mary’s journal reflections prove how powerful an experience this was for her, emphasising the sad situation for Zimbabwean children whose parents have become victims of the HIV/AIDS virus.

Namo Visudhipol (Yr 12, P) and Bom Chinburi (Yr 12 FB) together organised a week’s volunteer work in a school in their native Thailand. One of the justifications they gave for pursuing such an experience was a concern that throughout their education they have felt more privileged than other children in their country. Therefore they chose to spend a week in rural Thailand helping teach students English and organise their cocurricular activities.

The descriptions above are not an exhaustive list, but rather a snapshot of the range of international experiences IB students, through their CAS programmes, can embark upon.

Their reflections upon these experiences provide an insight into just how meaningful such opportunities can be for GGS students.

Simon Haigh CAS Coordinator 1. Mary McQuillan working with Zimbabwean orphans.

2. The Spanish Cultural Trip.

3. Namo Visudhipol and Bom Chinburi with the children of a rural school in Thailand.

4. Bom Chinburi, entertaining Thai school children.

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Visiting Fellow Tuesday 1 September 2009 7.15pm in Cook Theatre, Geelong Grammar School, Corio Campus Dr Sue Jackson graduated as a Doctor of Philosophy in sport and exercise psychology at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, under the direction of Professor Daniel Gould, in the early 1990s. Dr Jackson holds an adjunct position in the School, having previously worked in academic appointments in sport and exercise psychology at the University of Queensland, QUT, CSU, and VUT. She has particular interest in the area of flow, or optimal experience, in physical activity. In conjunction with the foremost authority on flow, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Dr Jackson coauthored Flow in Sports: The Keys to Optimal Experiences and Performances. Dr Jackson holds a diploma in yoga teaching with the International Yoga Teachers’ Association (IYTA), and is a full member of IYTA and the Yoga Teachers’ Association of Australia (YTAA).

1 ANZAC Day Service When we think of ANZAC Day, we tend to think foremost of the Gallipoli landing, possibly even the achievements of HMA Submarine AE2, and the contributions our Diggers made to the many battles for the Western Front.

Many other feats of daring and sacrifice in the years that followed have certainly added to and strengthened the ANZAC legend that we remember today and that we dare not forget.

As members of the School community past and present, we may even reflect on those from the School community who made the supreme sacrifice.

Coincidentally, on the 25 April 1918, Australian and New Zealand soldiers recaptured the town of Villers Bretonneux. It is considered that this victory assisted greatly in turning the tide of the war and that it led to the German surrender a few months later.

On Anzac Day this year, at the Service held at Corio, current students placed a cross for each of those Diggers remembered for their

1 ‘The Light of Day’ Exhibition After more than 90 undiscovered years the paintings and drawings of First World War Artist Pip finally see ‘The Light of Day’ - an exhibition shared with Dick Johnson (Staff 1966–1999) and Tim Murray (P’53).

We warmly invite you to attend the Opening on Tuesday 10 November 2009 from 6.30–8.30pm and then daily between 10am and 4pm from 11 (Remembrance Day) to 19 November at Kinross House 603, Toorak Road, Toorak tel: + 61 3 9829 0340

sacrifice, some of whom were killed in battles in France. At almost the same time, Bill Clydesdale (Staff 1959-1979), my sister Jodie and I attended the Dawn Service at Villers Bretonneux. We had come to pay our respects to three relatives who didn’t make it home.

Bill’s paternal grandfather William Clement Clydesdale (3rd Bn AIF) and two maternal great-uncles Thomas Charles Adams and Francis Brown Adams (Canterbury Regt NZEF).

Though not buried here, they did fight nearby.

William Clydesdale at Hermies; Thomas and Francis Adams near Longueval. Francis is buried at the nearby Caterpillar Valley Memorial. Thomas was repatriated to England and died of wounds.

Martin Clydesdale (Fr’81) 1. Martin Clydesdale (Fr’81), his sister Jodie and his father Bill (former Staff member 1959- 79 and Honorary OGG) at the Dawn Service at Villers Bretonneux.

2. Anzac Day Service at GGS.

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Pip’s paintings and drawings were originally collected by Colonel Walter Howard Tunbridge, father of V.J.H. (Vic) Tunbridge (M’24 and former Head of Perry House), with whom Corporal ‘James Somerset Butler’ (ie Pip) served on the Western Front. The pictures reemerged when Colonel Tunbridge’s grandson, John Tunbridge (M’56), was preparing the Hawthorn family home for sale in 2007.

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Katie Rafferty (Ga’84) Alumni Manager 1. Painted in the Field circa 1917, a watercolour by Pip. 2. ‘Awaiting the Tide’, a watercolour by Dick Johnson (GGS Staff 1966-1999).

3. ‘Melbourne Icons’, a drawing by Tim Murray AM (P’53).

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1 Picnic at Balyang Sanctuary A smaller than usual number of Old Girls braved the unseasonably hot, autumn day this year, while we enjoyed our gourmet rolls. The wine, orange juice and soft drinks provided were greatly appreciated on this hot day.

Pam Whitten (Hope, He’59) had made an assortment of delicious dips for us to enjoy with pre-lunch drinks. She has been doing this for some years, but has now regrettably resigned from the Committee owing to ill-health. Pam has served as a Committee Member for over 30 years, during which time she has been an active member of the Archives Committee, filling the role of VicePresident, including conducting the AGM on Old Girls’ Day. We can only hope that her health allows her to continue to attend our functions.

Reminder Don’t forget to reply to your invitation to the Centenary Old Girls’ Day as bookings are heavy. Please see details in the Diary Dates.

Archives Work continues on re-housing our memorabilia more securely.

We were delighted recently to receive a childhood photograph of Miss Krome with her four sisters. This came from Mrs Jill McDonald, not an Old Girl, but a family connection of Lynette James (McDonald, He’53).

Miss E. Victoria Krome, B.A., Dip. Ed. (Melb.)

Eleanor Victoria Krome was born in 1899, the third of five daughters of Otto Krome (born in Germany) and Eleanor Vahland (born in Australia).

Otto went to School in South Africa and took a degree at the Cape of Good Hope University.

Victoria was educated at MLC in Melbourne, and took her degree at Melbourne University where she won her blue for tennis.

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They were difficult times. During the Depression enrolments had fallen, and recovery was only beginning. From December 1941 when Japan entered the war, Australia was faced with the prospect of enemy armies on her doorstep, and it was feared invasion was imminent.

Wartime conditions prevailed, with window black-outs, air-raid shelters and evacuation preparations with fewer staff whilst enrolments rose dramatically.

Physical facilities grew with building and refurbishment to meet the new demands.

Although Miss Krome was a traditionalist she drew on the best of modern ideas, such as the increased importance of the sciences and the broadening of the girls’ knowledge.

Miss Krome retired in 1962.

1. Miss Krome as she is remembered.

2. The Krome girls c.1910. Standing: Gretchen. Seated: Victoria, Helene, Ottilie and Lawrence.

Diary Dates 2009 Saturday 5 September Old Girls’ Day at Darling Hall, GGS Bookings Jenny Jordan (Gray, He’52) tel: + 61 3 5244 0145 Sunday 18 October 40 Year Reunion The Wool Exchange, 44 Corio Street, Geelong, 12.30–4.30pm. Enquiries: Judy Wilson (Morgan, He’69) tel: + 61 3 5267 2381 email: murdeduke@bigpond.com or Sue Baulch (Bade, He’69) tel: + 61 3 5578 6346 email: pasabaulch@bigpond.com Monday 26 October Golf Day at Barwon Heads 8.00am for 8.30am shotgun start. Lunch only $20, Lunch and golf $55, Golf and lunch Barwon Heads members $20. Bookings essential, with cheque payable to Lib Nicholson, P.O. Box 105, Point Lonsdale, 3225. Enquiries Lib Nicholson (Calvert, He’68) Tel: + 61 3 5258 1297 or 0419 398 067 email: libnicholson@bigpond.com or Kaye Smith (Harrison, He’62) tel: + 61 3 5229 3396 or 0438 293 399 Monday 7 December Christmas Morning Coffee At All Saints’ Hall, Noble Street, Newtown.

Enquiries Jenny Jordan (Gray, He’52) tel: + 61 3 5244 0145

1 COGA Old Girls Day & AGM 2009 Please put Sunday 18 October in your diary for the Annual Old Girls’ Day, AGM and luncheon which will be held at GGS Toorak Campus. This year our guest speaker is the fabulous Debo McNab (Grimwade, Cl’54), a veritable ‘Queen of Woollen Threads’. Be prepared for some colourful and vivid yarns as Debo spins a tale and weaves a spell, untangling the woolly mysteries of life’s rich tapestry. Debo’s experience and knowledge of different types of wool is unrivalled, and her specialized knitting classes at the famous Victorian Tapestry Workshop are hugely popular. Watch the postbox for your copy of The Cluthan 2009 which will include details and an invitation for this event.

Clyde Jumble Sale The annual Jumble Sale held on Thursday 25 June was a great success. Yet again a mountain of paraphernalia changed hands and over $3000 was raised for the Isabel Henderson Kindergarten in North Fitzroy. A lively team of 30 helpers ensured that the morning ran smoothly. These included a core group of noble ‘jumble stalwarts’ who deserve special thanks for their decades of generous and reliable help. All the unsold goods were collected by an appreciative representative of the Prahran City Mission, for resale in their opportunity shops. After clearing up the hall, 25 helpers attended a casual lunch hosted

by Anne Stoney (Peardon, Cl’62) at the Royal South Yarra Tennis Club. It was brilliant, and everyone loved the chance to gather en masse.

Thank you to organiser Sally Hudson (Mercer, Cl’71), cashier Annabelle Pobjoy (D’Antoine, Cl’65), storage organiser Lou Robinson (McMillan, Cl’58), produce stall organisers Joan Mackenzie (Bloomfield, Cl’52) and Jane Nevile (Lewis, Cl’45), Jackie Mackinnon (Kelly, Cl’69) for publicity and Debo McNab (Grimwade, Cl’54) for rallying the troops on jumble day.

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to commemorate the Centenary of the opening of Clyde Girls Grammar School in St Kilda. Plans are under way to make this a celebration of the achievements and interests of former Clyde students, with a couple of speakers, and possibly an art, literary or business exhibition. For further information contact Annette Webb-Neckers on 03 9827 3174.

COGA Garden Tour 2010 A garden tour in the Mornington Peninsula region is being planned for October or November 2010. The tour will be open to the COGA/GGS community, and proceeds will be donated to the GGS Scholarship Fund.

Details, dates and itinerary to be confirmed.

For further information contact Fern Henderson (Welsh) on 03 5989 2664.

Vale our oldest Old Girl With great sadness we record the passing of 102 year old Margaret Lewis (Mackay) who attended Clyde at Faireleight in St Kilda from 1916-18. Margaret died in February 2009, after spending her final years at Hawthorn Terrace Retirement Village. A summary of Margaret’s adventurous life will be in The Cluthan 2009.

Archives The Clyde School archives are an ongoing endeavour. We wish to ensure the preservation of vital historical material by recording, cataloguing and storing valuable and unique memorabilia and documents now, while memories are intact! Any publications

by Clyde Girls are of particular interest. For further information, contact Jackie Mackinnon (Kelly, Cl’69) on email: jackmack@bigpond. net.au 1. On the 2 May, twenty one Clyde Old Girls from the Class of ‘69 had a wonderful 40 Year Reunion at “The Point” overlooking Albert Park Lake.

2. At the Head of the Schoolgirls Rowing Regatta on the Barwon River, the GGS supporters included Kate Sleigh (Bryant, Cl’75), and Brigid Robertson (Gordon, Cl’75)

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Diary Dates 2009 Sunday 18 October Old Girls’ Day, AGM & Luncheon Guest Speaker: Debo McNab (Grimwade, Cl’54), ‘A World of Woollen Threads’. Venue: GGS Toorak Campus (Glamorgan), 14 Douglas Street, Toorak. 10.30am morning tea for 11am meeting in the main School Hall.

Enquiries to COGA President, Margie Gillett (Cordner, Cl’71) on + 61 3 9525 3698 or email: gillett22@aol.com Monday 19 October Fun Cup Golf Day, Barwon Heads Golf Club Enquiries to Anna Tucker (Kimpton, Cl’71), + 61 3 9509 0952, or 0408 540 252, email: annatucker@odcg.com.au Sunday 9 October Clyde School Centenary Luncheon Nine Darling Street, South Yarra. Enquiries to Annette Webb-Neckers (Cl’62) on 03 9827 3174 October/November 2010 COGA Mornington Peninsula Garden Tour (Date to be confirmed) Enquiries to Fern Henderson (Welsh, Cl’59), tel: + 61 3 5989 2664

3. Pictured at the Jumble Sale were Elizabeth Landy (Manifold, Cl’59) and COGA Committee member Caroline Walford (Cl’71)

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Parents’ Dinner We enjoyed a fabulous evening in May as many parents, staff and friends gathered to celebrate the 2009 Middle School Parents’ Dinner.

The tone for the night was set early with toetapping jazz from our Senior School students as we entered and ‘mingled’. We enjoyed a wonderful buffet dinner and more beautiful music as we were entertained by Catherine Qian, Eloise Burns and Zoe Yang (all Middle School Music Scholars) who each performed.

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Our guest speaker, Dr John McBain, thoroughly enlightened us into the world of IVF, Mzuri the gorilla and ‘How to build a blueprint for your own grandchild’. His humorous and highly informative presentation was enjoyed by all.

You know it is a good evening when you actually have to usher people out the door at the end of the night and tell them to go home!

Thank you to Helen Baillie (President) and the Friends of Middle School for hosting the evening and to Ms Catriona Ainsworth for her organisation.

Tony Inkster Head of Middle School 1. L to R: Carrie Felton, Suellen Landale, Caroline Faulkner and Jon Felton.

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Years 11 & 12 Cocktail Party Over 190 parents of our Year 11 and 12 students gathered at our Toorak Campus for a wonderful evening of connection, friendship and conversation. It was a relaxed and convivial evening which provided parents with the opportunity to catch up with each other, sharing stories of their teenage children. It can often be refreshing to learn from other parents with children the same age that they are experiencing similiar issues!

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We look forward to hosting at least one occasion annually for our Senior School parents to relax and enjoy each other’s company and catch up with teenage antics.

Elizabeth Pont Director of Community Relations 1. L to R: Sallyann and Peter Pollard, son Allec Pollard (Yr11 FB) and Alice (Ga’05).

2. L to R: Simon and Markela Peck (Anthony Bellofiore Yr11 FB) and Michael Bellofiore.

Sadly, we farewell Catriona Ainsworth, GGS Events Coordinator, who leaves the School to take up a new role.

Catriona has had a long association with Geelong Grammar School, as her brothers Hamish (M’70), Jock (M’67) and Fergus MacAdie (M’83) attended the School, as did her four children, Jackie (Fr’92), Pip (Fr’94), Tom (Fr’96) and Will (Fr’99).

Catriona has coordinated many of Geelong Grammar School’s major events including the Timbertop 50th Jubilee Celebration in 2003, the Dinner for HRH the Prince of Wales and the School’s 150th Celebrations in 2005, Reunite and Celebrate in 2006, as well as the official openings of the Glamorgan Centre at the Toorak Campus and The Handbury Centre at Corio in 2008. If you have attended any of these celebrations or some of the smaller functions organised by Catriona, you will have experienced her meticulous attention to detail, elegant but practical style and her calm, graceful and kind approach before, during and after events. After seven years in this role, Catriona will be sadly missed but long and fondly remembered.

We wish her every success and happiness in her new role.

Honouring our Heroes

After the fall of Singapore to the Japanese in 1942, almost 2,000 Australian soldiers were taken as POWs to Sandakan, Borneo, and held there for three years. At the end of this period, just as the defeat of the Japanese was imminent, they were taken on a forced 270km ‘death march’ to Ranau. Only six prisoners survived the ordeal. Three Geelong Grammarians were among the group.

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The names and photographs of each POW forced to march are recorded in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra including the three OGGs who were among the soldiers: • Fraser Gareth Davidson, Age 24 – Senior Prefect and Captain of Cuthbertson House – survived the death march, but died later in Ranau in a POW Camp.

• Donald James Graham Macmeikan, Age 30 – Chemical Engineer, Member of the RAF and “B” force POW – He died as a POW in Sandakan.

• John William Martin, Age 27 – died on the ‘death march’.

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In April this year, over the ANZAC Day weekend, two OGGs from Manifold House Sam McCardel (M’81), Dominic Romeo (M’77) and his son and current student Joel Romeo (Yr 10, FB), undertook a testing journey of discovery by tracing the steps of the original Sandakan ‘death march’ across Borneo, in memory of those who fought bravely in the Singapore campaign. After completing the trek, they conducted an ANZAC Day Service in Ranau, in recognition of the Australian POWs soldiers who died in Borneo. The ceremony took place at the memorial site of Digger Albert Cleary who died at the hands of his captors - he was 25 years old.

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On the 80km six-day trek, the nine-member team made up of other Australians and led

by John Miles of the expedition company, Executive Excellence, negotiated steep terrain (similar to Kokoda but without a tropical canopy), rough ground through palm-oil plantations, up rivers, the odd leech and dense jungle in high humidity. Still, while their walk was achieved in a comparably modern way, it aimed to understand how the bravest POWs got to Ranau having succeeded in walking the 270km, mostly barefoot.

As a final mark of respect to the diggers, the trek team climbed Mount Kinabalu (4,100m) in under 36 hours (the highest mountain in South-East Asia), which when compared to Mt Kilimanjaro (5,895m), which required 8 days, was no small feat.

The trek group returned via Singapore, visiting the National War Memorial and a mandatory visit to Raffles Hotel. Joel Romeo, the youngest member of the team, who had just completed Timbertop, enjoyed the experience of reliving the march with his father, learning about his grandfather’s generation and the significance of being an Australian during the only time the country was under attack.

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2. Dawn Summit on Mount Kinabalu, Borneo (4,100m) from L to R: Al Dewar, Dominic Romeo, Joel Romeo, Sam McCardel, John Miles, Peter Clark Ryan & Peter Williams.

Sam McCardel (M’81)

3. Anzac Day, 2009 at the Memorial of Albert ‘Neil’ Cleary (a Geelong boy), at the Ranau POW Camp, Borneo.

1. On the Sandakan Death March Trail with Taviu River in the back ground as we make our way to Kampong (Village) Telupid from Bauto Hill.

4. The expedition group at the Sandakan Memorial.

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Michael Collins Persse Sir David Hay (Cu’35)

Bertram Armytage (Old School 1885) is the subject of David Burke’s book Body at the Melbourne Club: Bertram Armytage, Antarctica’s Forgotten Man (Wakefield Press, Adelaide, 2009). The youngest son of Frederick William Armytage (OS 1856), who was one of the 14 boys present at the School on its opening day in 1855, he was a grandson of George and Elizabeth Armytage, of The Hermitage, more than 150 of whose descendants have attended GGS. Bertram, after a year at Jesus College, Cambridge, followed pastoral, social, sporting, and military pursuits and served (1900-02) in the South African War as an officer in the leading cavalry regiment, the 6th Dragoon Guards (or Carabiniers). From 1907-09 he was a member of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s second British Antarctic Expedition, becoming thereby the first Australian-born explorer in Antarctica (where Mount Armytage commemorates him) and narrowly escaping the jaws of killer whales. Having left his wife and baby daughter in London, he returned to Melbourne and on 12 March 1910, dressed in his dinner-suit and polar medals, shot himself in his club bedroom. This biography covers his life and background, and goes perhaps as near as possible to explaining the tragedy of his death, aged 40.

Dr Gordon Keys Smith OBE (P’33), who died in April, came to the School on a Sons of Clergy scholarship and graduated in Medicine from the University of Melbourne.

After some years of general practice and lecturing at the University, he and his wife, Catherine, a daughter of Bishop Donald Baker (GGS Council 1938-59), went in 1948 as missionaries to Singapore where for the next eleven years Gordon ran a children’s hospital in what was then a slum district and Catherine was a social worker and then a teacher. Returning to Melbourne, he joined the staff of the Royal Children’s Hospital in 1960 and for 30 years specialised in the treatment and care of handicapped children – in the 1980s part-time, particularly in the field of epilepsy. Also in the 1980s, he returned to the University for an Arts course in classical studies and ancient history, going on to further graduation as a Bachelor of Divinity from the Melbourne College of Divinity – greatly enjoying his contact with young students and new thought. He was 34

Robert (Bob) Lewis (M’36)

President of the Yooralla Society of Victoria from 1980-83, became a voluntary assistant librarian in the Classics Library and later in the library of the United Faculty of Theology at Ormond College, and after finally relinquishing medical practice in 1990 concentrated on writing papers in medical history (especially in relation to the RCH and disabled children) and on family history and a memoir. His and Catherine’s children are Beverley Womersley (He’60) and Andrew (P’61).

Sir David Hay CBE, DSO (Cu’35), who died in May, was a legendary cricketer at GGS, having played for six seasons in the School team from the age of just 13, when he was captain of Junior House. His 284 runs against Xavier in 1933 (his first year as captain of cricket) stood as a GGS record for 60 years until Justin Dery (P’93), also captain, made 289 - whereupon David presented him with a new bat. In 1934 he was joint Dux with the future Premier of Victoria Dick (later Sir Rupert) Hamer (M’34), and in First Term 1935 Senior Prefect, leaving school with first-class matriculation honours in Greek, Latin, and French and honours in three other humanities subjects, to go on that year to Brasenose College, Oxford, where he read the Honour School of Literae Humaniores (or Greats), obtaining a good second in 1938. Thirty years in the Public Service of Australia, mostly in the Department of Foreign (formerly External) Affairs, followed, though punctuated from 1940-46 by war service in the 2/6 Australian infantry battalion, his history of which in Libya, Greece, and New Guinea, Nothing Over Us, was published by the Australian War Memorial in 1984. David was severely wounded in New Guinea, where an airstrip commemorates his wartime gallantry. His principal subsequent posts were: Official Secretary in Ottawa 1950-52; Ambassador to Thailand 1955-57 (as SEATO was being formed); Assistant Secretary, External Affairs, 1957-61; High Commissioner to Canada 1961-63; Ambassador to the United Nations in New York 1963-65; First Assistant Secretary, External Affairs, 196566; Administraor of Papua New Guinea 196770; Secretary, External Territories, 1970-73 (in both those posts guiding PNG towards independence); Defence Force Ombudsman 1973-76; and Secretary, Aboriginal Affairs, 1976-79. An abiding interest in education found scope as Chairman of the Council of Canberra Grammar School. His biography of a Riverina pioneer great-grandfather, The Life and Times of William Hay of Boomanoomana,

Philip Russell (M’38)

1816-1908, was published by Hyland House in 1990, and it was a particular pleasure to him that he succeeded in bringing the Boomanoomana homestead and surrounding land back into the possession of his family.

He and his wife, Alison née Adams, who died in 2002, were the parents of Andrew (Cu’62) – himself the father of three OGG daughters – and David (Cu’67).

Bob Lewis AM (M’36), who died in May, was the younger son of Essington Lewis CH (of BHP) and brother of Jim Lewis (M’30), Helen Clarke (Cl’40), Mary Munckton (Cl’41), and Jane Nevile (Cl’45). Senior Prefect in 1936, he graduated in Metallurgy from the University of Melbourne (where he won Blues for rowing and boxing) and (with first-class honours) in Economics from the University of Adelaide, where from 1946-57 he was Vice-Master and from 1957-68 Master of St Mark’s College. The Mastership of Menzies College at La Trobe University followed from 1968-70. His widespread involvement in the community included war service as a bombardier and then with the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation, lecturing in social economics, farming with a particular interest in conservation, eleven years with the Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research in Melbourne (working on the role of local councils in community welfare and, as deputy director, assisting members with proposals for projects), and from 1985-88 the presidency of South Australia’s National Trust. He and his wife, Betty, daughter of Sir Archibald Grenfell Price, had three daughters and a son, David (P’64), whose eulogy at a memorial service was warm and eloquent about Bob’s ideal of service, his importance to his family, and his character as one who was “unpretentious, convivial, generous, enthusiastic, open, strong, practical, and wise”.

FAO (Tony) Gaze OAM, DFC & 2 Bars (M’38), whose exploits in World War Two were recorded in Six Aces: Australian Fighter Pilots, 1939-45 by Lex McAulay (Banner Books, Melbourne, 1991), is now the subject of Almost Unknown: The story of Squadron Leader Tony Gaze, O.A.M., D.F.C.**, Fighter Pilot and Racing Driver by Stewart Wilson (Chevron Publishing Group, Sydney, 2009), chronicling the exploits of this legendary airman who flew Spitfires during World War Two and was the first Australian to fly jet aircraft operationally. He escaped from German-occupied France with the help of the French Resistance, and was the first Allied

pilot to land in France after D-Day, the first Australian to compete in world-championship Grand Prix motor-racing, and the driving force behind the establishment of the Goodwood motor-racing circuit in England. As if this were not adventure enough, in 1960 he represented Australia in the World Gliding Championships in Germany. In 1977 Tony married Diana, widow of Lex Davison whose legendary career as a motor-racing driver is the subject of Lex Davison: Larger than Life

by Graham Howard (Turton and Armstrong, Sydney, 2004), and grandmother of Claire Greig née Davison (Cl’92), Nicholas Davison (M’95), and Alberta Coad (Year 9).

Philip Russell (M’38), who died in April, won a prize for art in each of his nine years at GGS, and his love of sketching and painting issued in six books, an impressive personal collection, and generous support of art, particularly as president of the Geelong Art Gallery, founder of the Geelong and District branch of ADFAS, and annual donor of Philip Russell Prizes for Art at the School. The only son of Alex Russell (OS’11) and brother of Virginia (Cl’37) and Robina, he was the heir to an important property, Mawallok, near Beaufort, where – after war service for six years in 13 countries including Egypt, Libya (where he was captured by Italians but almost immediately rescued by Australians who had taken Bardia), Greece, and New Guinea (as a lieutenant and forward observation officer, often behind the Japanese lines) – he more than trebled the yield during the 34 years during which he ran the property.

Up to 23 rabbiters at a time rid it of two million rabbits, its famous Merino stud rose in esteem, the annual output of wool-bales was more than doubled to 1000, nearly 10,000 fat lambs were sold each year, cattle numbers increased greatly, a modern piggery produced 2000 porkers or baconers annually, and a useful sideline was Christmas trees.

Politics was another passion, and he was a member of the Victorian division of the Liberal Party of Australia for more than 60 years and president from 1970-73. He was OGG president from 1970-72 and compiled a volume of 359 memoirs, Old Geelong Grammarians at War, published in 1996. He and his wife (and second-cousin), Alethea (née Fairbairn), were generous hosts to many visitors from across Australia and overseas.

Their children are Sandy (M’65), Ian (M’68), Susie Perchey (Cl’69), and Caroline Trumble (Cl’73), and four of their eight grandchildren have so far attended GGS. The Honourable Richard Strachan de Fégely (FB’47) is the author of Fegeli, de Fégely, 1341-2008: Fribourg to Ararat (2009), with editing, design, typesetting, and formatting

by Robjon Partners of Point Lonsdale – the partners being John Bedggood (Cu’52; Staff 1955-56 and 1960-95) and Robby Bedggood (Matron 1966-67; OGGs’ Assistant 198896). Four brothers in this Swiss family were ennobled in 1692 by the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I, and Dick’s grandfather and father were each known as Baron de Fégely whereas he himself uses simply the title “Honourable”, a result of his service as Member for Ballarat

Province in the Legislative Council of Victoria from 1985-99. In their foreword to this family history, the sons of Dick and Ruth née Beggs OAM (He’48) – Charles (FB’72), Rob (FB’74; now President of the OGGs), and Philip (FB’78) – give generous help to those who have difficulty with either the spelling or the pronunciation of their surname: “Dad quite cleverly overcame this pronunciation problem when he stood for the Victorian Parliament by adopting the slogan, ‘Don’t vote vaguely – vote de Fégely’. For those of you whose acquaintance with French was a long time ago the ‘é’ gives the ‘ay’ sound.” Dick’s book is fascinating not least for unfolding ancestral ramifications with many aspects of European history including mercenaries, the Swiss (or Papal) Guards (over 700 of whom, including several de Fégelys, were killed or captured by a Paris mob searching for Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette during the siege of the Tuileries on 10 August 1792), and the assassination at Sarajevo on 28 June 1914 of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his morganatic wife, the Countess Sophie Chotek (Dick’s grandfather Baron Charles’s second-cousin) – the spark that lit the fuse leading to World War One. It is also a fine contribution to the history of Australia, to which Baron Charles came in 1879.

John Landy AC, MBE (M’48; Staff 1954-57), former Governor of Victoria, is the eponym of The Landy Era (Melbourne Books, 2009) in which Len Johnson explores the work of the coaches and the achievements of the athletes who in the 1950s took Australia to a world summit in athletics.

Peter Watkin (M’48), who died in March, was an auto-industry executive for over 30 years and then held senior management positions with Amcal Chemists and Australian United Foods. A good swimmer and a champion junior tennis player, he became an accomplished golfer who played off a handicap of 1 or 2 at the Victoria Golf Club. A keen Melbourne supporter and a member of the MCC for 50 years, he was the much-loved husband of Ruth and father of Simon, Zita, Tim, and Amanda.

Dr William (Bill) McKellar (FB’56) was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the 2009 Queen’s Birthday Honours “for service to medicine as a paediatrician, and to the community of Barwon”.

Sue Mackinnon (He’58), christened Mary Margaret, who died in April, was a journalist, writer, editor, and – in the words of Virginia Trioli in an obituary in The Age – “one of the great personalities of her generation, as well as an admired and loved figure in the Victorian wine industry”. The granddaughter, daughter, sister, and aunt of Geelong Grammarians, she was one of the Mackinnons of Kaladbro, near Casterton. Educated at Alexandra College, The Hermitage, Ruyton, the Sorbonne, and Melbourne University (where she studied English literature), she was one of a group who transformed the Carlton News into the Melbourne Times; worked at the Bendigo Advertiser; and in 1975 joined Greenhouse Publications, for whom she edited This

Australia and became managing editor, with a special interest in presenting Aboriginal art to a wider public. In 1974 she and Graeme Leith established the Passing Clouds winery at Kingower, near Bendigo, where their dry-growth vines produced “award-winning wines that are some of the most original and respected in the country”. Her country home there “became a salon for conversation and wine appreciation, not only for the diverse local community, but for the cross-section of artists, writers, architects, publishers, cooks, and current and former politicians whom she counted among her friends”. Her sister, Jill McFarlane (He’56), joined her there in 1994.

Sue’s courage and grace in dealing with muscular dystrophy were among the many qualities for which she was admired as well as loved.

Associate Professor John Agar (P’64) was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the 2009 Queen’s Birthday Honours “for service to renal medicine, and to the community of Geelong”.

Chris Baxter OAM (FB’64) has written A Child at Heart: The Story of a Foster-Child (Broad Content, Melbourne, 2009), a wonderful book based on his and his wife, Sue’s, foster-parenting of a child (now an adult) called Marie. The former Premier of Victoria Joan Kirner AM wrote that it “paints a sharp, sometimes breathtaking picture of the challenges and joys of foster-parents and foster-child. It’s both a moving story and one that quietly demonstrates why greater support for foster-families is urgently needed.” Marie herself wrote: “If this book results in even just one child getting what I got from foster care it will be worthwhile.”

Richard Moore (Ot’71), whose performance in the lead role of Oliver at Corio in 1971 is well remembered, is Director of the 2009 Melbourne International Film Festival.

John Officer (P’74) has edited the frank and engrossing account - lovingly preserved by him and David (P’72) - of their father’s war service as a fighter pilot in 450 Squadron, RAAF, in the Middle East, and as a prisoner-ofwar: George John “Gus” Officer’s Six O’Clock Diamond: The Story of a Desert Harasser (Woolhouse Press, 31 Woolhouse Street, Northcote 3070).

Jonathan Cook (A/Fr/L’77) is chairman of the Hornibrook Group of Transport Companies, based in Brisbane, and managing director of Australian Transit Enterprises, operating in South Australia and Western Australia; both groups are involved in passenger transport, running buses. His many adventures include walking the Kokoda Track, climbing Mount Kinadobu, doing the Sandakan Death March walk, and in February 2009, with five others, paddling across Bass Strait in two-man kayaks (staying overnight on a succession of islands during the eight-day, 300-kilometre crossing, which raised $40,000 to assist research into the Rett H syndrome in children). He and his wife, Christina, have three sons – Oliver, Hugo, and Ned – all at Churchie in Brisbane, where Oliver is school captain.

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Julian Twigg (FB/L’82), who graduated Bachelor of Economics from the ANU in 1987, worked for some years in finance in England and Australia. It was during a year overseas, mostly in France, after his marriage to Catherine Manning in 1994 (they have two sons, Hugo born in 2000 and Paddy in 2003), that he decided to study and practise art. Since then, as well as graduating from RMIT in 2000, he has had ten solo exhibitions, won the ANL Maritime Art Prize in 2007, and is represented in public art collections including that of the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra. His motif is the maritime environment, particularly shipping (often solitary container ships), seen from several vantage points around Port Phillip Bay including St Kilda, Arthur’s Seat, Sorrento, Queenscliff, and Corio Bay. David Thomas wrote last year: “With broad brushes and painting wet on wet, Twigg works quickly to capture the transient moment – a passing squall, the stormy turbulence of waters, setting sun, clouds, smoke, and ephemeral mists. Curiously, his paintings possess the calm and intensity of a still-life painting.”

Ben Baring (Co’83) won the Edna Walling Prize for Landscape Gardening in 2008.

Jonathan Twigg (FB’86) is deputy headmaster of the Primary section of the Istanbul International Community School in Turkey where his wife, Vani, also teaches and their children, Jake (who is 14) and Chloe (9), go to the main campus at Marmara.

Ralph Ashton (FB’89), as a climate-change lobbyist, was among the ten “emerging leaders” featured in the “Earth” section of a series run in The Weekend Australian Magazine between April and June, and one of the final ten chosen from 100 in ten categories. A former mergers-and-acquisitions lawyer and investment banker, he then became the global head of the World Wildlife Fund’s response to the Boxing Day tsunami.

He now runs the Terrestrial Carbon Group in New York, described as bringing together “the finest minds in science, economics, policy, and markets, with the goal of getting terrestrial carbon (such as the carbon in trees and soil) in developing countries included in the global response to climate change”.

Ben Rimmer (P’89) was another of the 100 “emerging leaders” chosen by The Weekend Australian Magazine, among the ten “Thinkers”. A former violinist with the Australian Youth Orchestra, he is an Arts and Law graduate of Melbourne University and – having gone on in 1997 to Balliol College, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar – a graduate also of the Said Business School.

Now he is deputy secretary, Strategic Policy and Implementation, in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet in Canberra.

He and his wife, Bronwen, are the parents of three.

Dr Roland Crocker (Fr’91) has been awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship from the European Union, and with his wife, Dr Marnie Shaw, and their two children has gone to Heidelberg, Germany, for two years beginning in June 2009.

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Christopher Joye (FB’94), in the “Wealth” category, was also among the 100 “emerging leaders” in The Weekend Australian Magazine. After the University of Sydney, where he won the University Medal in economics, he read for a PhD degree at Cambridge and produced a report on affordable housing for the Howard Government’s home-ownership task-force.

He founded the investment group Rismark International in 2003, is its CEO, and in February was invited to participate in the Transforming America’s Housing Policy summit for Obama Administration officials.

Angus Baulch (FB’96), whose marriage is recorded below, is an agronomist with Landmark in Warrnambool, where his wife is second-in-charge of the historic village, Flagstaff Hill.

Will Cumming (Fr’96) and his brother, Hugh (Fr’02), cabinet-makers, are partners in CBS (Cumming Brothers Solutions) in Armadale.

Sally Langford (Ga’00), as part of her PhD studies in the astrophysics group at the school of physics at the University of Melbourne, has been measuring changes in the moon’s earthshine, and her work was recently published in the international journal Astrobiology. In a report by Jill Rowbotham in The Australian, Sally explains that “no one has ever studied earthshine to see if we can see continents and oceans from afar. That this ‘photometric variability’ can be measured means it is possible the same principle will apply with Earth-like planets and that telescopes will be able to pick up evidence of oceans and large land masses.” Measuring Earth from Earth by the sunlight bounced from the Earth to the moon and back again – which saves the bother of sending a telescope into space – is nevertheless harder than looking directly at light reflected by Earth-like planets from their suns’ light.

Nell Pascall (He’03) has followed her sister, Joanne (He’93), as a distinguished oarswoman. After two years at the University of Western Australia, she went on to Dartmouth College in New Hampshire and this year has been one of two from there in the Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association all-region team. In the 5 seat she helped Dartmouth finish fifth at the Eastern Sprints Grand Final, thus earning a bid for the United States national championships.

Joanne, who in 2000-01 was president of the Cambridge University Women’s Boat Club, is now – in their mother’s words – “a very happy geologist in Zambia, working for First Quantum Minerals Ltd”. Their brother, John (P’98), is studying veterinary science at the University of Sydney.

Sasha Laws-King (Cl’05), who is in her second year of veterinary science studies at the University of Queensland, is the only Australian to have competed thrice in the Young Riders’ World Endurance Championships. In Rome in 2003 the Australian team completed the course: in Bahrain in 2005 they won a Gold Medal and were ninth over-all: in Argentina in 2007 they again achieved completion. She has now

been selected for the 2009 Championships as well, to be held in Hungary in August.

Births Marissa and Tom Ainsworth (Fr’96), a son, Miller William Rhodes, on 8 June 2009 Alexandra née Mitchell (Je’86) and Ryan Bartholomew, a son, William Edward Charles, on 29 December 2005 and a daughter, Honey, on 31 March 2007 Priscilla née Eggers (Ga’94) and Damian Bell, a son, Patrick Charles David, on 6 July 2009 Rachael Morgan and Lucas Bertrand (P’90), a daughter, Nina Joan, on 27 April 2009 Jo and André Bertrand (P’95), a son, Leo James, on 8 July 2009 Sarah and James Boothby (M’93), a son, William Brooke, on 24 April 2009 Janie and Fred Champion de Crespigny (Cu’95), a son, Charlie Francis, on 23 July 2009 Penelope née McGregor (Cl’93) and Rodney D’Alton, a daughter, Sophia Joy, on 17 April 2009 Joanna née Hawker (Cl’92) and Richard Dowling, a son, Nicholas Samuel Hawker, on 22 April 2009 Elisabeth née Murdoch (Bl’81) and Matthew Freud, a daughter, Charlotte, on 17 November 2000 and a son, Jonah, on 1 April 2007 Rhian née Davies (He’94) and Ben Hall, twin daughters, Madison and Chloe, on 22 October 2008 Melissa née Gilvarry (Je’89) and Jeremy Hamilton, a daughter, Skye Elizabeth Jade, on 1 September 2005 and a son, Sebastian Robert William, on 30 December 2007 Annabel née Wyburn (Ga’89) and Peter Haydon, two sons, Lachlan on 11 June 2006 and Nicholas on 23 February 2009 Patricia and Andrew Heldon (P’84), a son, Nathan Thomas, on 4 June 2001 and a daughter, Emma Lily, on 13 March 2004 Meagan and Angus Heritage (Fr’88), a daughter, Louisa Cordelia, on 10 January 2009 Pip née White (He’93) and Ben Hodson, a daughter, Pearl Bridget, on 6 April 2009 Gina and James Hornabrook (M’88), a daughter, Molly Louise, on 8 May 2009 Kim and Michael Ingpen (M’85), two sons, Joshua Lane on 18 December 1996 and Nicholas Lane on 5 July 2000 Amy and Tom Kimpton (Cu’95), a son, Charles Hedley Spencer, on 1 April 2009 Edwina née Calder (Cl’96) and Richard Knox, a son, Henry William, on 30 July 2008 Eden Wu (Je’89) and Edward Lam, a son, Timothy, on 27 April 2009 Anne and George Legoe (M’78), two sons, Louis Thomas on 5 July 2000 and Benjamin

George on 6 June 2002 Sonia and Will Legoe (M’88), two sons, Vijay William on 26 July 2002 and Raj Gupta on 27 September 2004, and a daughter, Rani Shakti Marianne, on 31 March 2006 Christine and William Lempriere (P’85), a daughter, Adelaide Elizabeth, on 14 May 2009 Kara and David Lowe (M’80), a son, Oscar Millar, on 15 January 2009 Nicole Roberts and Mark Muller (FB’88), a daughter, Olivia Margaret Rose, on 11 May 2009 Simone and Richard Murphy (A’82), a son, Lachlan Hamish, on 24 November 2008 Lizzie née Corke (T’94) and Shayne Neal, a daughter, Thérèse Emma Margery (Tess) on 31 October 2008 Kylie and Matthew Oliver (A/L’89), a son, Charlie Matthew, on 13 April 2007 Sarah Underwood (Staff 2002-05) and Dean Paulin, a daughter, Stephanie, on 23 July 2009 Eve Lester (Fr/L’82) and Malcolm Ramsay, a son, Timothy Halford Lester (Hal), on 12 June 2009 Sally and Campbell Roydhouse (Fr’95), a son, Rupert James, on 16 June 2009 Christina and Trent Roydhouse (Fr’95), a daughter, Maggie Rose, on 29 January 2009 Sara née John (A’92) and Richard Senftleben, a daughter, Amelia Celeste, on 8 April 2009 Jacque Baensch and Jack Stoney (FB/L’82), a daughter, Jessica Pearl, on 28 March 2009 Bonnie Scurry (Ga’93) and Roger Stuckey, a son, Arlo William, on 27 March 2007 Tina and Robert Thompson (P’89), a son, Banjo Joseph Yealfe, on 14 January 2009 Emily and Rayner (Tolly) Thwaites (Cu’91), a daughter, April Hammond Ursula, on 6 April 2009

Nicholas Carter (M’84) married Francesca Hargrave on 18 April 2009 Rhian Davies (He’94) married Ben Hall on 28 October 2006 Portia de Rossi (Hn’87 as Amanda Rogers) married Ellen De Generes in April 2008 Andrew Heldon (P’84) married Patricia DiCesare on 1 July 2000 Alison Hemingway (Fr’80) married Mark Thomas on 4 April 2009 Adam Hesketh (A’96) married Juliana Leslie on 25 October 2008 Michelle John (A’89) married Mario Ermacora on 25 January 2009 Alexandra Knell (Fr’99) married Ross Taylor on 18 April 2009 George Legoe (M’78) married Anne Bishop on 13 February 1999 Sophia Legoe (Cl’91) married Matthew Walsh on 10 April 2004 William Legoe (M’88) married Sonia Gupta on 28 April 2001 Cass Madin (Cl’95) married Jared Andison on 4 October 2008 Hugh Marman (P’98) married Noha Khalaf on 20 March 2009 Rodney Morgan (M’98) married Helena Pires on 20 March 2009 Joanna Ranken (Cl’98; Staff 2007-) married James Bell (Staff 2007-) on 11 April 2009 Trent Roydhouse (Fr’95) married Christina Pesti on 8 June 2008 Kate Turner (A’01) married Albert AchanfuoYeboah on 29 March 2008 Honor Woodhouse (Cl’95) married Hugh Rahles-Rahbula (Cu’99) on 11 April 2009

Deaths Gerald William Overend Atkins (1943-46) on 1 June 2009

Belinda and Alexander Turnbull (P’89), a son, Bill Alexander, in July 2009

James Ronaldson (Jim) Bell (1935-42) on 15 April 2009

Sarah née McAllister (A’92) and Jonathan van Rooyen, two daughters, Emelia Rose on 1 May 2006 and Katie Louise on 26 January 2008

Dr Stuart Wade Boschma (1980-85) on 14 March 2009 Clare Ann Briggs née Corrie-Smith (The Hermitage to 1949)

1934) on 24 June 2009.

Sylvia Elizabeth (Betty) Ewan née Giles (The Hermitage to 1944) on 6 April 2009 Robin Leslie Hardiman (1951-57) on 9 April 2009 Allen Gordon Harten (Maintenance Staff 1959-86; Maintenance Manager 1980-86; husband of Dorothy [Dot; Office Staff 196272]) on 2 March 2009 Annetta Page Hay née Miller (Junior School Domestic Manageress 1950s-61; widow of Einar Hay [Staff 1960-61 and 1965-78]) on 2 May 2009 Sir David Osborne Hay CBE, DSO (1925-35) on 18 May 2009 George Anthony Michael (Tony) Henderson (1955-58) on 27 March 2009 Sheila Forbes Kimpton née Creswick (Clyde 1930-33) on 31 July 2009 David Bruce Lefroy (1932-38) on 20 June 2009 Holford Wettenhall Lempriere (1921-26) on 26 March 1996 Margaret Lewis née Mackay (Clyde 1916-18) in February 2009, aged 102 Robert Brook Lewis AM (1930-36) on 26 May 2009 James William Lidgett (1958-60) on 24 December 2008 Mary Margaret (Sue) Mackinnon (The Hermitage to 1958) on 29 April 2009 Richard Oswald Masters (1942-52) on 1 May 2009 Shirley McDonald (The Hermitage to 1943) on 7 December 2008 Lionel Anthony (Tony) Robinson (1936-42) on 18 April 2009 Philip Russell (1930-38; OGGs President 1970-72) on 1 April 2009 Michael James (Mike) Scott (1949-57) on 16 April 2009 Audrey Selway née Sisson (The Hermitage to 1933) on 19 March 2009 Dr Gordon Keys Smith OBE (1930-33) on 24 April 2009

André René Joseph Chaleyer (1938-40)

William Allan Spowers (1938-42) on 12 June 2009

Verity Underwood Chalmer née Alley (Clyde 1939-43) on 24 July 2009

Samuel John Staughton (1954-64) on 5 July 2009

Kate née Bugg (Ga’96) and Bruce Webber, a son, Leon Theodore Lewis, on 17 June 2009

Blacke Ting Wong Cheung (FB’68) on 19 January 2008

Affendi (Richard) Stephens (1974-77) on 16 April 2009

Marriages

William James Timsbury (Jim) Clarke (195058) on 18 July 2009

Hugh Weymouth Taylor (1948-49) on 23 February 2009

Warren Frederick Martin Clemens CBE, AM, MC (Benefactor; Chairman of 1969 GGS Building Appeal) on 31 May 2009

Kenneth Hunter (Peter) Watkin (1944-48) on 7 March 2009

Sophia née Legoe (Cl’91) and Matthew Walsh, two sons, Francis Hurtle on 16 October 2005 and Edmund George on 10 August 2007

Angus Baulch (FB’96) married Merran Fyfe on 3 December 2005 Annemarie Black (Ga’91) married Bryce Prosser on 13 January 2008 Fiona Calder (Cl’94) married Jamie McConachy on 11 April 2009

William Christopher Coltman (2004-07) on 21 July 2009 Joan Craig née Ogilvie (The Hermitage to

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aspects of the science in policy, practice and classroom teaching.

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Positive Education: First World Congress I was fortunate to be able to attend the largest international forum for Positive Psychology that took place in the United States of America this year. From 18-21 June, over 1,700 delegates attended the first World Congress on Positive Psychology in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Congress brought together the world’s leading researchers and teachers in Positive Psychology including Dr Martin Seligman, the founder of Positive Psychology, Dr Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, author of the Concept of Flow and the book of the same name, Dr Philip Zimbardo, famous for The Stanford University Prison Experiment, and other key researchers, including Professor Sonja Lyubomirsky from the University of California Los Angeles Riverside, Professor Barbara Fredrickson from the University of North Carolina and Dr James Pawelski, Senior Scholar at the Positive Psychology Centre at the University of Pennsylvania.

Geelong Grammar School played a pivotal role in three parts of the Congress, with over 1,500

delegates attending presentations involving the School. The first was a Symposium panel organised by the School on Teaching Positive Education in Schools. The Symposium panel was chaired by eminent economist Lord (Richard) Layard from the London School of Economics and included Dr Karen Reivich, co-author of the Penn Resiliency Programme from the University of Pennsylvania, Ian Morris, Head of Religious Education and Wellbeing from Wellington College, UK, Dominic Randolph, Head of School, Riverdale Country School, New York, David Levin, Superintendent, KIPP Academies, New York and myself. The Symposium highlighted the ways that Positive Psychology principles and practices were being implemented in such diverse school settings with significant interest in the structure and method of delivery at GGS. It was very well received. More than 500 people joined me for my dynamic and interactive workshop outlining a framework for Schools to move from the theory of Positive Psychology to implementing

The First World Congress on Positive Psychology was an historical event. It brought together the world’s leading research psychologists associated with the movement of Positive Psychology and I was honoured to have the opportunity to represent and discuss the visionary leadership and hard work that staff at Geelong Grammar School have successfully undertaken. From the discussions and comments that I heard at the Congress, there is no doubt that Geelong Grammar is seen by many as a lighthouse School that is leading the way in a whole school approach to the application of Positive Psychology to education and is making a significant contribution to intellectual debate in this area.

In concluding his opening remarks to the Congress, Dr Martin Seligman responded to James Pawelski’s challenge to imagine what Positive Psychology could look like in the future. Seligman asserted that by the year 2051 he imagined that 51% of the population will feel engaged at work, be in meaningful relationships, are healthier, more grateful and calm. Geelong Grammar is making a pivotal contribution to this growing area of psychology enquiry as it seeks to create greater opportunities for its students to explore the possibilities of more meaningful, engaged and fulfilled lives.

Dr Mathew White Head of Positive Education 1. L to R: Dr Jane Gillham of Swathmore College, Ian Morris Head of Religious Education and Wellbeing at the Wellington College, Dr Karen Reivich from the University of Pennsylvania, Mr Dominic Randolph (Head of School) Riverdale Country School and Dr Mathew White (Head of Positive Education, Geelong Grammar School)

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GGS Chess Team: Trip to Russia After more than a year of preparation, in April 2009, the School Chess Team participated in the first Western School trip to the Republic of Kalmykia, in southern Russia. There, the State’s President, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, who is also President of the International Chess Federation (FIDE), has introduced compulsory Chess in all schools.

Apart from the Australian National Chess Team in 1996, we were the first Australian group to visit the region, and within 30 minutes of our arrival, we were greeted by President Ilyumzhinov. Staying at Chess City, a new suburb on the outskirts of Elista, we took part in two tournaments, one against local school children – three of whom are in the 38

Russian National Youth Team. We fared better in the President of Kalmykia Cup against local competitors of all ages. Our every move, both on chessboards and around Elista was followed by local media and we featured regularly in the local newspapers and on television.

Apart from playing Chess, we visited schools, a school disco, several theatres, the largest Buddhist Temple in Europe, and even the remote township of Turgan Aman on the Volga River, close to the border with Kazakhstan.

The Kalmyks are Buddhists, and descendants of the Mongols who remained in Europe at the end of the Mongol Empire. As a result, Kalmykia is the only Buddhist part of Europe,

as well as being the centre of world Chess.

After eight days in Elista, we went to Volgograd where we saw sites connected with the battle of Stalingrad, and then to Moscow for some sightseeing and shopping, as well as visiting the cosmonaut training site at Space City.

Dr Justin Corfield Teacher of Humanities 2. L to R: Mem Arif (Yr10 P), Mrs Heather Morgan, Alexander Bryant-Clark (Yr11 P), Greg Toth (Yr9 G Unit), Tim Auret (Yr11 A), Dr Justin Corfield, President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, Jack Walker (Yr11 Cu), captain of Chess, Mr Gary Watson, Thomas Claeys (Yr12 Cu) and Will Lilkendey (Yr11 A) at the Parliament of Kalmykia 3. President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov starting the Chess Tournament against local school children.

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The UK trip started as we all knew it would with a group photo before we had even left School. After 23 hours watching movies, playing computer chess and even some sleep on the flight we dragged ourselves up for the first game; a Twenty20 against a strong opponent in Hurstpierpoint College. To make matters worse not only was it the our Principal’s old School, but he and Mr Scudamore were there supporting GGS. With no sleep in the last 24 hours we somehow came out on top on the back of a silky 45 from Meyrick Buchanan (Yr10 FB) and powerful 31 from Brandon Howarth (Yr12 A). Sleep finally came when we were billeted out with the Hurstpierpoint families.

The next morning we got back on the bus and headed down to Brighton, the Sydney of England, for a few days’ recovery. We were impressed with the great pebble ‘beach’ and the first session of a warm-up match between Sussex and Australia. A night in historic Bath followed before we made our way to Cheltenham College. We played a cracking game of cricket where Corey Walter (Yr12 Fr) with runs and wickets nearly won us the game and we had our first taste of English boarding.

Next game was at former Principal of GGS Nick Sampson’s present school, Marlborough College. We piled on 284 from our 50 overs with Meyrick Buchanan (Yr10 FB) with 97 and Sam Herbison (Yr11 Cu) with 79 doing the bulk of the scoring to win comprehensively. That night we were hosted by Mr Sampson at his residence for dinner. After a well-deserved day off we then played six games of cricket in seven days in the north of England against Bromsgrove School, Rydal Penrhos, Silcoates School, Woodhouse Grove, Rugby School and Oundle School. While the energy of many waned through an intense period, Rupert Champion de Crespigny (Yr11 Cu) with 130 runs and George Morrison (Yr 11 P) with 11 wickets from three of those games were the dominant players. During this period we won two games, lost three and one was washed out. Before we knew it our cricket experience in England was over.

Three days in London sparked the tired tourists back to life with lunch at an English Manor hosted by friends of the School; a special afternoon tea at Lords hosted by a relative of a GGS staff member; an open-top double-decker bus night tour; a Jack the Ripper walking tour and a bit of torture in the London Dungeon were all great experiences but it was the challenges of trying to work out the Tube that proved the undoing of a few. All in all, it was a successful and most enjoyable tour in which a great life experience was gained. Thank you to all those that made the tour possible.

More information and photos can be found until the end of September on the GGS Community Portal Home Page in Cricket UK Tour 09 Blog.

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Equestrian

Team Success Earlier this year, the GGS Equestrian Team successfully competed in the recent Interschool Eventing held at the Ballarat Pony Club at Werribee Park.

Every class had maximum entries, from preparatory tests that asked students only to walk and trot, to the big open competition with medium and advanced riders.

Jane Salter (Yr12 Cl) came 1st in the Introduction Level with Cec Cameron (Yr8 Cu) 2nd in Pre Novice. Both girls will now represent GGS in the Victorian Interschool Team at the 2009 Australian Interschool Championships at Werribee from 29 September until 1 October.

There will be one more qualifier held on 5 and 6 of September at the Friends of Werribee Horse Trials.

Marina Oman Equestrian Coordinator 1. GGS UK Cricket Tour Team.

2. L to R: Jane Salter (Yr12 Cl), Licia Yeo (Yr7 Cn) and Annabelle Macgugan (Yr10 Cl).