06
Wednesday
SEPTEMBER DINNER
6:00pm for 6.3pm
With guest speaker, Cheryl Lacey DJC. Her topic is based on her latest book, “ Your Children: Take the lead on their education”.
DineIn: Members $39, non-Members: $44.
06, 13, 20, 27
BRIDGE NIGHT
7:15pm – 9:30pm
Wednesday
Join us for Bridge Nights every Wednesday evening. All levels of bridge players welcome. Player fees: Members $2, non-members $5. Food and beverages at bar prices.
08
Friday
SPECIAL BARISTA BEVERAGE
7:30am – 8:30am
Special breakfast beverage for residents at Graduate House. Free for Resident Members.
FOR BOOKINGS:
phone: (03) 9347 3428
email: membership@graduatehouse.com.au
website: www.graduatehouse.com.au
20 Wednesday
WOMEN’S FORUM
10:00am for 10:30am start
The topic of this forum is ‘Do attitudes and behaviour change with the generations?’ New members are welcome. The Forum is FREE.
22 Friday
MEMBERS DRINKS NIGHT
5:30pm onwards
Come along in your own groups or come meet new friends and enjoy a relaxing, convivial, no fuss wind-down to your working week. Members and Non-members prices apply.
Wednesday,
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Cheryl is a mother of two and an educationist. Since beginning teaching in 1989, she has moved around and beyond classrooms in Australia and overseas, working to understand school education systems and the relationship between families and schools.
Your Children: Take the Lead on Their Education is Cheryl’s latest publication. In it, she places parents where she believes they should be: firmly at the centre of all decision making.
Cheryl has a record of active involvement in community service, most notably her longstanding membership of the Rotary Club of Melbourne and her recognition as a Dame of the Order of St. John ofJerusalem, Knights Hospitaller.
She has recently completed postgraduate studies in Parental Alienation, as part of the first group of professionals world-wide to complete such a course. Cheryl continues to write, speak and advise on the relationship between families and schools and how fundamental change begins locally.
DineIn Time: 6:00pm for 6:30pm start
Online login: 7:10pm for 7:15pm start
To book:
Phone: 03 9347 3428
Email: membership@graduatehouse.com.au
Online booking: bit.ly/3XMz4GD
RSVP by: Wednesday, 30th August 2023
Pricing:
Dine in: Members $39, non-members $44
Virtual Attendance: Members $10, non-members $15
4th October
“Advances in stroke rehabilitation and the continuum of care”.
Professor Mary Galea, AM FAHMS, is a physiotherapist and neuroscientist whose research program includes both laboratory-based and clinical projects with the overall theme of control of voluntary movement by the brain, and factors that promote recovery following nervous system damage.
Professor Galea is Professorial Fellow in the Department of Medicine (Royal Melbourne Hospital) at The University of Melbourne, and Honorary Professorial Fellow in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and the Victorian Spinal Cord Service. She leads the Program in Restorative Neuroscience in the Graeme Clark Institute for Biomedical Engineering at the University of Melbourne. She has a strong record of intellectual leadership in physiotherapy in Australia, building research capacity and an evidence base when research in the discipline was sparse.
Over the past 30 years her primary research program in basic and clinical neuroscience has contributed to understanding the organisation and development of the motor system and its recovery from injury following nervous system disorders such as spinal cord injury, stroke, and multiple sclerosis. The application of technology, including neuromodulation, to aid rehabilitation has been a strong focus of her research in recent years. This includes the establishment of a technology-driven program to improve upper limb function, and the use of wearable sensors for remote assessment of changes in walking, as well as for assessment of rehabilitation outcomes in general.
Her current major project is an early phase adaptive trial of transcutaneous electrical spinal cord neuromodulation to improve hand function in people with tetraplegia following spinal cord injury. Prof Galea is Chair of the Board of the Stroke Association of Victoria, and a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of SpinalCure Australia, and the Clinical Governance and Research Committee of Spinal Cord Injuries Australia.
Its never too early to start planning your party! Our menus are available on pages 7-8.
Available from 6th November - 18th December 2023, there are two options to choose from:
Traditional Christmas or Christmas BBQ Menu in the courtyard
We provide a season festive ambience, complete with Christmas table setting and trimmings for your event.
Available 6th November to 18th December 2023
Set menu for lunch or dinner / Table service is 50/50
Entrée
Prawn, mango and avocado salad with lime (gf) (df)
Asian squash salad with crispy duck (gf) (df)
Goat cheese, grilled eggplant, capsicum and sundried tomato salad (v) (gf) (vegetarian option)
Seasoned turkey breast with apricot and roasted macadamia nuts stuffing served with roasted vegetables and gravy (gf) (df)
Grilled salmon with fennel, red pepper, green olives and saffron orange vinaigrette (gf) (df)
Vegetarian filo curry with mushroom sauce (v+) (vegetarian option)
Plum pudding with custard brandy sauce (v)
Mixed berry pavlova (gf) (v)
Summer fruit salad (v+) (gf)
Two courses $64.50 per person
Three courses $75.50 per person
Minimum 15 Guests
(df) dairy free (gf) gluten free
(v) vegetarian (v+) vegan
Available 6th November to 18th December 2023
Set menu for lunch or dinner
In the Graduate House Courtyard
Main Course
Porterhouse steak (gf) (df)
Marinated lamb skewers (gf) (df)
Gourmet sausages
Lemon garlic chicken (gf)
Vegetarian burgers (v)
Grilled haloumi cheese and summer vegetable platter (gf) (v)
Onions (v+) (gf)
Baked potatoes with herb sour cream (gf) (v)
Spicy grilled tofu (v+) (gf)
Selection of summer salads (v) (gf)
Dessert
Blueberry pavlova (v) (gf), Fruit salad and cream (v) (gf)
$67.50 per person
Minimum 25 Guests
(df) dairy free (gf) gluten free
(v) vegetarian (v+) vegan
Wednesday 20th September
10:00am for 10:30am start
The topic of this forum is ‘ Do attitudes and behaviour change with the generations?’
The Forum is FREE and is open to all women - any age, any discipline. Discussions are in an informal, warm and friendly atmosphere. The topics are varied at every forum and we welcome new ideas.
Friday 22nd September
5:30pm onwards
Come along in your own groups or come meet new friends and enjoy a relaxing, convivial, no fuss wind-down to your working week. Members and Non-members prices apply.
Wednesday 6th, 13th, 20th, 27th September 7:15pm – 9:30pm
Join us for Bridge Nights every Wednesday evening. All levels of bridge players welcome. Player fees: Members $2, non-members $5. Food and beverages at bar prices.
This year’s mid-year appeal will focus on increasing our membership, especially recent and early career graduates. This is a joint appeal by the Fundraising & Benefactions and Membership & Marketing subcommittees of The Graduate Union Council.
We plan to make Graduate Union Membership more attractive and appealing to young members – indeed all members. And we are exploring ways to involve all age-groups and make better use of our excellent facilities.
Approximately half of our members are over the age of 60. For The Graduate Union to be viable into the future we need to attract young and mid-career graduates to enjoy the benefits of membership that we all appreciate.
We are inviting you to nominate a new member, and for the 1st year this will be at a greatly reduced price. Alternatively, we will use your donation to help recruit new members, especially young graduates. Hopefully, new members will be selfsupporting in future years.
We are also investigating additional ways of involving and supporting young members, e.g., through networking, mentoring, and social events.
This one-off Membership Offer will be $100.(and not the normal fee of $150). (Additionally, we no longer charge a joining fee.)
Please note: As this is a fundraising membership drive, these donations will not be tax deductible. We will have a ‘welcome to new members’ and a ‘thank-you to donors’ event later in the year.
To donate, go to: bit.ly/3Oz6C6X
To nominate a new member, go to: bit.ly/3KG341A
The Graduate Union and The Graduate House are unique.
We are an association of graduates, a residential college for postgraduates and a graduate meeting place.
It was established in 1911 as a graduate membership association with The University of Melbourne.
In 1962, we became a residential college specifically for university graduates.
Telephone: +61 (0)3 9347 3428 ww.graduatehouse.com.au
Australian Business Number: 55 610 664 963 Incorporated Association Registration Number: A0023234B