Have you heard? Rebecca Styring nee Morton (’00) The OIGA was thrilled to enlist Up the Garden Path to hand-make this year’s OIGA Transition gifts which were given to the Year 12s at the Valedictory Dinner.
Richard Merjan (’06) Congratulations to canoeist Richard who competed in Rio with the Lebanese Olympic team. With remarkable focus and holding dual citizenship via his father he has travelled to the world’s slalom venues for the last decade competing for Lebanon. Interestingly, this is the first time Lebanon has ever made the Olympics in this category!
OIGs connecting via ICT The School’s engagement with alumni via Coderspace (Heath Gilham ‘13), Loop EDU (Ben Barnett ‘99) and Cashtivity (Mathew Farmakis ‘04) has undoubtedly enriched the ICT program for both staff and students.
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Beyond the School term, we applaud Heath for running a School holiday program on-campus to teach coding to our wider School community.
Joey Katebian (’13) You might recognize this name as a Melbourne Victory forward and captain of the Club’s Youth Squad, but Joey’s commitment and passion for soccer has taken him to the sunny state of Queensland where he now plays with Brisbane Roar in the A-League. Whilst excited to see where his professional football career takes him, Joey also dreams of one day opening up a Harry Potter themed café in Melbourne.
Matt Zull (’03) Emergent Melburnian hip hop duo Otis High wear their love of their home town proudly in their debut single Welcome Home, a stylish, scratchdappled love letter to the (03) area code simply overflowing with infectious energy.
Jack Reid (’13) Based in Sapporo, Japan, Jack is playing rugby professionally for a team called the AKK Barbarian Bullets as part of the Top East Competition. Whilst relishing all the playing and travel this adventure affords him, Jack will spend the Christmas period doing volunteer service work with an affiliated charity to IGS.
OIGs at Macpherson Kelley George Haros (’91) and William Sheehan (’06) first met playing Old Ivanhoe Soccer on the North Ground in 2012. George, the partner of a law firm, offered Will, a law student at the time, a work experience position and the two have been scoring goals at Macpherson Kelley ever since! Now there are four alumni working for this firm!
Michael Saunders (’03) 150 games and counting… Michael came onto the AFL list from obscurity in 2009 with a strong running background but without that core of experience around him it took a few years for him to work out how to get the best out of himself from an umpiring sense. ‘It took me until 2011/12 to figure out a routine that suited me. I had to run all year and do a lot of things right before that consistency of performance came. All of those pieces had to fit together balancing work and life was critical to my success.’
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Phillis Heslin and Colin Rowse (’46) Geoff Brown (’62) and Astrida Cooper recently joined Colin Rowse and Phillis Heslin to celebrate Colin’s 88th birthday in Moe. Colin is keeping well, devoting a great deal of his time to local community groups such as Rotary and the Rosedale Cemetary Trust.