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. 36
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