John Drennan’s 88th birthday celebration

Life member John Francis Drennan (fourth from right) celebrating his 88th birthday (9th October) and 70 years’ association with The University of Melbourne (from 1952), with 12 guests, mostly cousins and their spouses.

A Life member of The Graduate Union, John Drennan began at The University of Melbourne as a young student in 1952, and his association in several capacities with the university has extended over the following 70 years, thus being coterminous with the reign of the late Queen Elizabeth II. After completing an honours degree in Philosophy and History, he acquired 16 more degrees and diplomas at The University of Melbourne, studying in all of its ten faculties, and 6 other degrees elsewhere, including Monash and London. He worked as a teacher at most levels, and in other education-related capacities, in several countries, including briefly at The U140niversity of Melbourne. Stemming from his special field of Applied Philosophy, he is concerned about the understanding of and the cooperation between the various disciplinary fields of learning and research. He is also much involved with animal rights and welfare, having chaired Catholic Concern for Animals continuously since its inception in 1971. In the Melbourne Graduate December 2019 issue, we featured a story on John Francis Drennan - A Life of Teaching and Learning. The story is available here, on page 38-39: https://issuu.com/graduatehouse/docs/melbourne_ graduate_december_2019_online_version