UC Frappe Fort June2014

For alumni and community Issue 54 June 2014

FRAPPE FORT Sir Gus Nossal discusses the future of Australia

what you do, do with a will

Frappe Fort

in this issue

Issue 54 June 2014 The magazine of University College The University of Melbourne Read Frappe Fort online: www.unicol.unimelb.edu.au/ publicationsnews University College 40 College Crescent Parkville Victoria 3052 Australia ph +613 9347 3533 fax +613 9347 1549 www.unicol.unimelb.edu.au Formerly University Women’s College

Donations to UC can be made at: www.unicol. unimelb.edu.au/donate

Ellie Packham, Romy Livock, Gill Deed and Caitlin Surridge

Editing panel: Dr Jennifer McDonald, Gemma Egelton, Ian Forster and Natalie Sakarintr Feedback and Comments: Frappe Fort is published biannually for the University College community. We’d love to hear from you. If you have some news or you would like someone featured in the next issue of Frappe Fort, please contact the editor at: alumni@unicol.unimelb.edu.au.

Photographers: Cara Bowerman Photography, Drew Echberg Photography and Sinead Kennedy Student photographers: Georgia Lewis and Daena Teng www.facebook.com/ UniversityCollege Melbourne University College Alumni (The University of Melbourne) Cover image: Sir Gus Nossal talking with UC students

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Commencement Dinner We welcome all our new students in 2014

Regulars

Zalie Allen and Georgia Williams

features

02 From the Head 09 From the President 16 Sustainability Report 17 Student Club President’s Report 18 Community Service Report 19 Sports Report 20 Academic Report 22 Senior Common Room Report 23 Graduate Report 27 Development Corner 27 Alumni Reunion 30 Council member profile 33 Council, Student Executive,

Resident Tutors and Staff 34 Events

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Scholars Dinner Our generous donors are acknowledged and thanked

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UC Forum Students share their views

Natalie Sakarintr, Zach Harris, Eric Bolitho, Iain Simpson and Sean Hanrahan (standing)

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Transformative experience – Dr Margaret WilliamsWeir talks about her time at UC

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Restoration of the artwork by Erica McGilchrist in the UC Dining Hall

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Achievements and accolades of our alumni

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Generous gift of prints by William Hogarth

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head’s report

valuing our history As the rich tapestry of College life continues to unfold, it is important to remember those who gave so much to the College’s establishment and ongoing prosperity.

An unlikely reminder found its way back to the College recently when Mrs Jean Downing kindly donated a pottery teapot crafted by Mrs Eilean Giblin in 1944.

While many of the formidable women who worked tirelessly to establish the College are remembered in the names of the various wings, (Ellis, Sweet, Syme, Roper, Williams) a significant omission is the name of Eilean Giblin.

Yet she was a key figure in the College’s history, having led the Provisional Committee to secure the site, the funds, the building, the Principal, statutory incorporation and affiliation with the University of Melbourne.

To increase awareness amongst the UC community of Mrs Giblin’s important contribution, last year she was featured in the June edition of Frappe Fort. It was gratifying that this feature prompted Mrs Downing to donate this lovely teapot, together with a set of pottery cups, in memory of Mrs Giblin. They were

Jean Downing

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made by Mrs Giblin and given to Mrs Downing’s husband, Professor Richard Downing, who was a colleague of Mrs Giblin’s husband. Just one week after this donation, by sheer coincidence, Mrs Giblin’s great-niece Angela Giblin visited the College for the first time. It was such a pleasure to hear more of Mrs Giblin’s family, her life and connections.

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[Eilean Giblin] was a key figure in the College’s history, having led the Provisional Committee to secure the site, the funds, the building and the Principal.

The aims of the College founders were to provide a well-rounded education for women. Based on their ideals of a liberal philosophy, they hoped to encourage women to reach their full potential through education and the support provided by collegiate life. Someone else who believed passionately in these ideals was Helena Rubinstein, the daughter of Polish refugees who, as a young woman, founded her cosmetics business in Melbourne.

Helena Rubinstein was also an extremely knowledgeable art patron and collector.

So it was entirely in accord with her love of the arts and the promotion of women’s education that she donated the £250 prize awarded to a young 23-yearold Erica McGilchrist to paint the mural which decorates the College dining hall. This commission established Erica McGilchrist’s career and the mural, with its themes of belief, love and belonging, have been an enduring part of residents’ experience since its unveiling in 1959.

A recent exhibition of selected works from 1951-1995 by Erica McGilchrist was held at Heide Museum of Modern Art. In March, the College was fortunate to host a lecture by the curator, Ms Linda Short. Her insights into the life and works of Erica McGilchrist highlighted the importance of this artist whose paintings, drawings, design and embroidered works deserve much greater recognition within the Australian art scene. The College is grateful to Heide and all those who attended for their support of our current fundraising campaign to restore the mural.

Sadly Erica McGilchrist passed away on 9 May 2014 and the College extends its sympathy to family and friends.

The College strongly values its history and the many inspiring stories of those associated with its growth and development. To capture and celebrate that history the Council has recently approved funding for the University College history project. Dr Nikki Henningham, a Research Fellow from the eScholarship Research Centre at the University of Melbourne has been appointed to commence the project by conducting oral interviews with alumni.

The initial pilot program will involve interviewing women who attended College between the years 1937 and 1949. In addition to their historical significance, these stories will no doubt inspire and motivate our current residents as well as deepen their understanding of the rich College tradition of which they are an integral part.

Dr Jennifer McDonald Head of College

visiting fellow

St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York

Heavenly vaults and dreaming spires Something that has become a tradition for the College is to welcome back Visiting Fellow and alumna, Dr Lynne Broughton, from the UK for her biannual stay. We are also very fortunate that Lynne presents a seminar at the College during her visit. In February, she treated us to her insightful seminar, ‘Heavenly Vaults and Dreaming Spires’.

Lynne has a wealth of knowledge, particularly in Theology as she is a former Associate Lecturer of the Faculty of Divinity from the University of Cambridge, and Lincoln Theological College. Throughout her career she has lectured in Philosophy and Art History for the Cambridge University Board of Continuing Education.

During her seminar, she explored many fascinating aspects of European cathedral architecture and the meanings behind heavenly vaults and dreaming spires. The churches became a physical representation of the spiritual world in medieval times. In medieval cosmology, the universe was seen as a sphere; downwards – the direction in which earth and stones drop – was towards the centre of this sphere. When medieval people looked upwards and outwards from their insignificant place at the bottom of the universe, they saw the sun and stars much more glorious

and beautiful than anything earthly.

The further from the earth, the purer the light; so height and light were considered good analogies for the divine.

Lynne Broughton

The Church, in trying to express the nature of God and the spiritual world, used physical imagery and in particular the church vault to represent heaven. So vaults were built, lit by high windows and decorated with stars or biblical imagery.

These vaults often also had statues of the Apostles and other saints on the wall below; the statues support the vault as the teaching of the apostles supports the Church. Much of this imagery has been lost over the centuries, but where it survives, these vaulted churches can still thrill with a sense of the glory of heaven.

Those who attended will no doubt never look at a cathedral’s spire or a formidable vault in quite the same way again!

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commencement dinner

NEW BEGINNINGS Commencement Dinner is the beginning of a lifelong journey for our students. It is close to the end of Orientation Week, which is both exhilarating and exhausting. More importantly, it is an opportunity for new residents to form friendships with like-minded people from diverse places and backgrounds. Often, these bonds will strengthen over the years spent at UC. Returners’ Sunday is at the end of O Week and it is the first time the whole College community, including the graduates, come together at 40 College Crescent, Parkville.

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commencement dinner

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Tom Coburn, Jana Harvey, Thomas Gamblin, Angie Balaguera, Sid Hemachandra, Dana Berber and Oliver Eastwood

Commencement Dinner really is the start of many new beginnings

For new residents, Commencement Dinner coincides with the realisation of their decision to continue their education journey after the completion of secondary school. It is in the two days before Commencement Dinner that most new residents find their way to university for their first lectures and tutorials. Herein, the obvious difference in the approach to teaching and learning between secondary and tertiary schools becomes apparent.

Returning residents are usually much more confident of their path at this time, though they may still be unsure of their final destination. In twelve short months, they have become wise from their college and university experiences and have much to offer the new residents.

Gill Deed, Oliver Todd, Nikola Page and Pat Hennessy

The keynote address at this year’s Commencement Dinner was delivered

by Erin Wolff. As an alumna of the College, Erin was able to give the residents, particularly the new ones, an insight into the opportunities they could expect to be given in their new life at UC. Erin was an active contributor to the College in her time here (2011-2012).

She was involved in both ICAC and ICSC events and encouraged residents to get involved in all aspects of College life. Erin was also the International Representative on the Student Club Executive in 2012 and, consequently, was an O Week leader as well. Many new residents were not aware of the range of experiences they could be exposed to until Erin articulated her achievements.

Erin Wolff

International Rep is a position for which Erin was eminently qualified. She is what is termed a ‘third culture kid’; Erin is Australian but spent much of her

formative years overseas and completed her senior schooling at the international School in Jakarta before coming to UC. Therefore it is not surprising that Erin spent the first semester of her third year studying in Prague. This information certainly raised the interest of some of the new students, as studying abroad was not necessarily something they had considered. Erin’s willingness to share her experiences gave some insight into what is possible in this next phase of life’s journey.

Commencement Dinner really is the start of many new beginnings; a new address, new friendships are forged, and the leap to university and all that it offers has been made. The destination is still unclear but there is no reason for the journey to be predictable or dull, given all of the opportunities on the road ahead.

Peta Driscoll, Dean of Students

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scholars dinner

Steph McNabb, Margaret Williams-Weir, Misty Jenkins and Angus Clarke

Janet Aitken, Tilly Mahoney and Donald Aitken

Life Changing Opportunities In its 77 years of existence, University College has proven to be powerful and formative in the academic and social lives of our residents. Many have gone on to achieve remarkable careers in academic research, law, small business, politics, commerce and education with University College having played a crucial part in those journeys.

Along the way, some students and their families have had to make great sacrifices to come to College and indeed, to the University of Melbourne.

With the support of the College and its community, students have worked hard to overcome economic, social and cultural barriers. Success has never been preordained. Time and time again we hear how important scholarships have been in transforming lives; something that is never forgotten.

Scholars Dinner is an occasion where we acknowledge and thank donors for their generosity and award scholarships to the recipients.

Although born decades apart, keynote speakers Dr Margaret Williams-Weir (student 1958-59) and Dr Misty Jenkins (resident adviser 2006) share a common history. Both are indigenous women from rural Australia, neither knew anyone who had previously attended university,

but they share a passion for learning, have curious minds and a determination to succeed. They had no academic role models and many obstacles but in their own generations, they have been trailblazers.

Margaret was fortunate to have been the recipient of a full scholarship organised by a fellow student of the College, Mrs Janet Ristic, who persuaded the Head of College, Miss Myra Roper, to give her the opportunity to attend University College, a life changing event.

As Margaret explained, ‘I was always a person of great courage and University Women’s College helped me to refine that courage. I’m grateful for the opportunity that changed my life’.

Misty was fortunate to be accepted

by Nobel Laureate and Fellow of the College, Prof. Peter Doherty AC as a PhD student, an equally significant life changing event. As she noted,

‘I decided quite young that I wanted a rewarding, fulfilling, challenging, exciting life. Not because I deserved it, but because I will earn it, because I will work for it, because I will create it’.

Margaret forged a successful career in Education, trade unionism and the Royal Canadian Navy. She has three degrees and one diploma and now some 47 years later she has retired and become an active member of the South Grafton RSL and focuses on her spiritual learning. Misty is forging a name as a highly respected immunologist. After postdoctoral fellowships at Oxford and Cambridge she is back in Melbourne working as a NHMRC Research Fellow at the Peter McCallum Cancer Clinic.

In recent years she has been awarded a New Investigator project grant from NHMRC, the L’Oreal for Women in Science Fellowship and was appointed as the National Association of Research Fellows Investigator of the Year.

Jill Williams and Eric Bolitho

Ros Terry and Maeva Bennetto

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scholars dinner

Pat Hennessy and Ann Miller

Gill Deed, Wendy Lewis and Ellie Packham

Michael Banks, Max Carter and Penny Montgomery

The following scholarships were awarded: Greta Hort

Iain Simpson

Barbara and Max Murray

Chelsea Griffiths

Ann Miller

Pat Hennessy

Invergowrie Foundation

Ellie Packham, Gill Deed

Stewardson-Walpole

Zach Harris

Muriel Crabtree Memorial

Jess Gregory

Myra Roper

Amber Barton

Wheeler

Alina Rodriguez

Kathy Skelton

Sean Hanrahan

North East Region

Richard Crabtree

Gippsland Region

Jess Bailey

North West Region

Damien Challis

Goldfields Region

Stephanie Headon

Rotary club of Carlton

Sam Johnson

Meredith McComas

Will Kermode

Leadership

Angus Clarke, Stephanie McNabb

Soroptimist International

Jackie Maher

Deborah Seifert

James Hutcheon

Jill Eastwood

Aaron Saw

Third Year

Ben Whitechurch

Annual Giving

Oliver Eastwood, Kirsty Horne, Ben Sidhu, Natalie Sakarintr

Myra Roper

Georgia Williams

Ros Terry

Maeva Bennetto

David Syme Charitable Trust

Max Carter

DMW Industries Doyle Family

Josh Quigley

Jill Williams

Eric Bolitho

Myra Roper

Jinpeng Lv

Elizabeth Shaw

Rebecca Greenop

Tweddle Graduate

Max Gulhane, Connie Lee, Viviana Lee

Ursula Hoff

Bernadette Butterworth

Margaret Garson

Sunny Patil

YMF Nona Seward Youth Music Foundation

Lauren Jennings

Emeritus

Lauren Stammers

Uebergang Foundation

Tilly Mahoney

Will Kermode and Marli Wallace

Misty Jenkins

Margaret Williams-Weir

Sunny Patil and Margaret Garson AO

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alumni visit

A transformative experience A Conversation with Dr Margaret Williams-Weir On Tuesday 18 March 2014, over fifty years had passed since Dr Margaret Williams-Weir took her first tentative steps into University Women’s College which was to become her home for the next two years, from 1958 to 1959.

When she returned, she recalled that, as part of her Indigenous heritage, she had been taught that when you enter a new space you should be quiet to sense the surroundings. It is only when you have taken it in that you engage more actively.

She wondered if the other girls had thought that she was shy or withdrawn when in fact she was not.

Janet Ristic and Margaret Williams-Weir Tan Ai Fong, Margaret Williams-Weir, Dianna Beattie, Janet Clancy and Elizabeth Arnold

To a fascinated group of current students, Margaret described the importance of her time at College, ‘It was wonderful, we were all girls and we had our own rooms’. The Head of College, Miss Myra Roper, had a formidable presence, setting high standards. For six days a week, including lunch on Sunday, students were expected to wear gowns, dinner was formal and conversation was expected to flow. Margaret enjoyed the ritual and order of College life and laughed that ‘It helped her to mingle with people and learn how to make small talk’. She made life-long friends, she was accepted, she belonged and she was transformed by the experience. Most importantly, it was a home where she could follow her passion for learning.

This passion had brought Margaret from the small country town of Casino in NSW to Melbourne and motivated her to succeed. She was fortunate to have been the recipient of a scholarship organised by a fellow student of the College, Mrs. Janet Ristic, who persuaded Myra Roper to give her the opportunity to attend University Women’s College. Margaret had always Jane Gould and Georgie Towers

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known this was her destiny: “I was the youngest of nine living children and I was the one who had good opportunities. My father died when I was about four, leaving my mother with five children still at school in Casino. We were very poor. I used to sit out in the paddock and talk to God. When I was nine he told me I would go to university and be a teacher. I raced in and told my mother, who said black people weren’t allowed in universities so I went out and told God and then I instantly knew if God told me I was going to university, that’s where I was going, that was the end of that conversation.” (Article in The Australian on 27th June 2012, as told to Jill Rowbotham).

As one of the first Indigenous students to study at a university in Australia, she felt it was important not fail in her educational journey; there were a lot of people looking on and she knew her success could open doors for others.

She graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1959; the first Indigenous student to graduate from a university.

An eminent career in education and the Navy in Australia and Canada followed.

She reflected, “It is a great privilege to return to College because it had meant so much”. More than fifty years had passed in a flash, yet her time in College had left an indelible imprint on her life.

president’s report

enhancement & growth The start of the 2014 year has seen the University College Council adopt an ambitious new strategic plan for College enhancement and growth.

With its emphasis on the student experience and community, the 201418 strategic plan clearly aligns with the College’s purpose to educate, inspire and challenge its students within a vibrant academic community where the wellbeing of students is paramount. In keeping with the College motto: Frappe Fort, students are encouraged to ‘Hit Hard’ or ‘what you do, do with a will’ and provided with every encouragement and support to fulfil their potential.

From its foundation, the College has embodied values of equal opportunity, social justice, diversity and inclusiveness.

The 2014-18 strategic plan will build on these values and further articulate the College’s commitment to excellence, community, individual development and tradition with a view to the future.

While the strategies may flex and bend with the times, these are important values which we hold dear.

It is widely acknowledged that organisations which outperform their peers are those with an enduring mission. The Council has ensured, therefore, that the College’s purpose and values inform the cultural model which underpins our business model. They represent what we are trying to achieve, and the reason why the College exists.

Enhancing and expanding College facilities will better meet the needs of

students and help meet the challenges presented by a radically changing higher education landscape in an increasingly competitive global marketplace.

Physical infrastructure projects already underway include the completion of the security fence and gates project.

The next important priority is the redevelopment of the dining hall and kitchen. Both were built over sixty years ago in 1953 and, apart from minor maintenance works, have not been refurbished since that time. While the dining hall comfortably accommodated the College’s 126 students in 1953, it can no longer do so with 200 students in 2014. A new kitchen is also required to provide a more efficient service for students, and to support a significant growth in our conference business.

The Council delegated the responsibility for selecting and recommending an architect for the project to the master planning committee. Their unanimous recommendation to appoint Lovell Chen architects has been adopted by the Council. I thank the master planning committee for their work and am delighted that preliminary planning for this exciting project is now well underway.

It is with regret but heartfelt gratitude that we farewell Professor John Lovering AO who has retired from Council. John

first joined the Council in 1969 as a nominee of the Professorial Board of the University, and remained a member until the end of 1979. In 1980 he accepted, a Governorship of the College. He was appointed to the Council for the second time in February 2001, this time having been elected by the Governors.

John was also appointed a Fellow of the College in 2012. He continued as a member of Council until February 2014 providing much wisdom and distinguished service throughout his tenure. John and his wife, Kerry, are generous benefactors to the College having donated the beautiful armillary sphere sundial which graces the main entrance. I extend my sincere thanks to them both for their wonderful service to the College over so many years and look forward to their continuing friendship and support.

Finally, it is always a pleasure to acknowledge the achievements of the College’s distinguished alumni.

I congratulate Stephanie Alexander on being awarded the AO and Gwenda Spencer who was awarded the OAM in the 2014 Australia Day Honours.

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artistic merit

Legend of Be In March, the College held an event in association with Heide Museum of Modern Art to raise much needed funds for the restoration of Erica McGilchrist’s mural ‘Legend of Being’ in the College dining hall. Many students and members of the College community have enjoyed a meal in the College dining hall, and may have wondered about the work, the artist and how such a major work came to be.

Heide Museum recently held the exhibition, Erica McGilchrist: Selected Works 1951-1995, a retrospective of works by Melbourne artist Erica McGilchrist, curated by Linda Short.

McGilchrist’s career as an artist, art educator and women’s art activist spans almost fifty years and although she is celebrated both for her contribution to modernism and her co-founding of the Women’s Art Register, her art is not widely known. The exhibition, drawn primarily from the Heide Collection, included paintings, works on paper, and embroideries that illustrated the remarkable depth and diversity of McGilchrist’s practice and aimed to introduce the work of this intriguing artist to a new audience.

Born in 1926 in Mount Gambier, South Australia, McGilchrist was passionate about the arts from an early age. She

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studied art and dance for many years before making the decision to pursue a career as a visual artist in the early 1950s. She held her first solo exhibition in Melbourne in 1951 and soon began to exhibit regularly.

However, she never sought critical or commercial acclaim, and as curator Linda Short said, her art was instead ‘a direct response to her life’. Her varied practice was driven by a clear, singular vision; the reconciliation of her inner and outer worlds and the complex relationship between the self and society.

In 1953, psychiatrist Dr Cunningham Dax invited McGilchrist to run weekly art classes for patients at Melbourne’s Kew Mental Hospital. McGilchrist spent eighteen months running the classes and the experience had a profound effect on her. During this time, she

produced a group of six paintings which have become known as ‘the Kew Mental Hospital series’.

In 1958, when the mural, ‘Legend of Being’ was commissioned, there were few women working in the male dominated circle of artists in Melbourne.

It was a bold move by the donor, Helena Rubinstein to call for submissions from women artists only. Erica was one of the few women who had taken up art as a full-time profession and her talent and commitment to modern art was recognised by her peers. Winning the Helen Rubinstein Mural Prize allowed her to create a massively impressive work at a young age, spanning 36 ft and taking over six months to complete.

Erica McGilchrist’s impressive mural, ‘Legend of Being’, is the most ambitious in the artist’s oeuvre, revealing key

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Erica McGilchrist’s impressive mural, ‘Legend of Being’, is the most ambitious in the artist’s oeuvre, revealing key themes that underpin much of Erica’s art.

Linda Short

of cruelty and compassion in human nature; the plight of dispossessed peoples, such as the victims of war or those suffering psychological traumas and illnesses.

The highly decorative and semi-abstract style reveals the artist’s love of design and decoration, which would continue throughout her career and her ease at moving between abstract and figurative styles which characterise her oeuvre.

McGilchrist based the stylised figures and flattened pictorial space on the visual appearance of playing cards.

Although this was only a stylistic device for the artist, the card game may be seen as a metaphor for life: a game of chance that depends on how you play the cards that are dealt to you.

ing themes that underpin much of Erica’s art. Its overarching subjects are the complexities of ‘being human’ expressed through three fundamental aspects of human existence: belief, love and belonging, which is the subtitle of the three interconnected panels.

BELIEF, the top-left panel, is a meditation on the spiritual aspect of being. Erica was not a religious person, however her works often question human qualities that transcend the physical, for example, aspirations and ideals.

Her desire for understanding between all human beings saw her explore religion and spirituality in her work.

In 1960, McGilchrist travelled to Europe where she undertook a scholarship at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, Germany. She went on to exhibit at the Qantas Gallery in London in 1963, shortly before returning to Australia.

Her interest in politics, conservation and humanitarian issues continued to inform her work, yet it was a meeting with American critic, writer and feminist Lucy Lippard, that marked a turning point in her practice and that inspired McGilchrist to become a co-founder of the Women’s Art Register in Australia in the mid-1970s, an organisation that continues to promote the work of women artists today.

The College is grateful to Heide Museum of Modern Art, assistant curator, Linda Short, Rebecca Renshaw at Heide, and to all guests who attended the fundraiser. We have raised enough funds to obtain a quote for the restoration of the mural.

If you would like to know more about the mural, or how you may help with the restoration, please contact our Community Relations and Development Manager, Gemma Egelton, on (03) 9349 9296 or g.egelton@unicol.unimelb.edu.au.

McGilchrist went on to hold over forty solo exhibitions throughout her career and her contributions to the women’s art movement and contemporary art were recognised when she was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia in 1992.

We are grateful to Linda Short for kindly providing some of these details.

LOVE, the top-right panel, expresses a need for acceptance and compassion, not only between human beings but also towards all living things. This later became a major focus of her important environmental works.

BELONGING, the central panel, considers the role of the community in creating a sense of self. Many of Erica’s earliest works explore the dichotomy

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uc forum

The Future of Australia Sir Gus Nossal challenges participants at University College’s 2014 Forum

Excitement, enthusiasm, concern and a determination to make a difference were some of the typical reactions of those who attended the 2014 University College Forum on ‘The Future of Australia’.

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Do you think the current education system is successful in providing young people with the support and avenues to develop into adults who will be able to contribute to society in a useful/significant way? Does the division between public and private schools exacerbate youth unemployment?

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Sir Gus Nossal (former head of the Walter & Eliza Hall Institute and an Australian Living Treasure) gave the Keynote Address. It was a challenging call to arms to ensure our young people face a positive and caring future: one based not just on economic productivity, but on a sense of the common good, building on our strengths – multiculturalism, excellence in science and education, abundant natural resources and an inherent social vitality.

Sir Gus addressed three main issues: first, what he described as our multicultural advantage, the benefits of having Asia’s best students study in Australia, learning to understand our culture and then taking that respect back as future leaders in their own countries.

Sir Gus lamented the recent damage done to our tolerant and welcoming image through the treatment of legal refugees. Our Asian future is inevitable and Australia has the advantages of having English as the global language of business and science, a culture based on the Westminster system of governance, the rule of law, separation of powers and freedom of the press, sharing common time zones which makes for ease of commercial and cultural exchange, and a yearning in Asia for good governance and less corruption.

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Jess Bailey, Amber Barton, Emma Leith, Sean Hanrahan, Sir Gus Nossal, Max Gulhane and Zak Kapakoulakis

Second, Sir Gus suggested the risk of letting down our traditions is part of what he dubbed ‘democracy fatigue’, a decline in respect for politics which was always ‘the noblest of all the professions’, based on wanting to serve the wider community. The fact that some 400,000 young people did not register to vote and the major parties are losing support are danger signs because lack of stability means a lack of the ‘risk-taking’ necessary for a bountiful future. He called for a return to the civility of Bob Menzies’ day, urging the media and those in power to embrace a less toxic political culture.

Third, Sir Gus addressed the need to invest in the clever country, to put education, science, innovation and entrepreneurship at the heart of our future priorities. With the decline in reliance on mining and the car industry, we need new research and development to stimulate new ideas and new valueadded products. Yet, he said, we are seeing the current government reduce funding for science and technology – the CSIRO, ARC and even in the defence

It was a challenging call to arms to ensure our young people face a positive and caring future: one based not just on economic productivity, but on a sense of the common good, building on our strengths industry ANSTA – a total denial of the value of research as an investment in our future, our funding far behind the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) average of 2.2% GDP and far below that of Israel, Singapore or Sweden. He suggested the culprit here is not just government; Australian business fails to invest in research and development, future job creation or the venture capital necessary for new developments. Even the excellent Cooperative Research Centres, which have seen many new ideas flourish over the past decade through the partnership of business, government and independent research centres are now under threat. While we cannot expect to create a new Apple or Microsoft, we do have significant potential in our young scientists who badly need venture capital and mezzanine financing.

Sir Gus outlined some of the areas of future growth that should be supported better: value-adding in food and fibre, particularly in dairy, meat, grape and grains, all of them sub-optimally developed and all R&D dependent.

As well, medical technology is well advanced in Australia and should be built on: the bionic ear is leading to a bionic eye; stem cells and regenerative medicine (cancer and spinal cord injury); gene technology and the new era of personalized, targeted medicine. In his own field of immunology we have seen remarkable gains yet we still have no vaccines for HIV-AIDS or tuberculosis in adolescents and young adults.

College Governor Dr Don Edgar chaired the panel discussion which followed. He led a lively exchange of views among panel members and an

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Bob Birell, Don Edgar, Jan Owen and Patricia Edgar

engaged audience including several College students who posed many of the questions asked. Many audience members commented on the high quality of the debate Sir Gus had provoked.

Simon Holmes à Court described his community-based efforts to develop alternative energy sources (Hepburn) and more efficient computerized water irrigation methods in California. He saw current lobbying by coal companies as undermining community and environmental needs and deplored the de-funding of alternative energy projects and research. Despite being optimistic that things will change, Simon feared that, like the concept of ‘peak oil’ – we may have reached ‘peak enlightenment’ too – ‘we’re running out of rational thought, with science being treated as a religion, you either believe the science [on climate change] or you don’t.’ He called for an emphasis in schools on rational, in-depth thought based on demonstrable truths and for more lateral, creative thinking instead of the current focus on testing and credentials.

He also regretted the growing inequality both here and abroad and suggests a cultural shift to a future not based on exponential ‘growth’, but an awareness of our fragile environment.

This call was taken up by Jan Owen who also deplored the narrow, testing and credential-driven approach to education, referring to several truly innovative programs in our schools that are better at preparing young people for the future. She saw enormous potential in young people’s ‘strategic disruption’ through social media campaigns, their embrace of new forms of democratic

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engagement with Asia, and their innovative responses to global issues.

However, Dr Bob Birrell pointed out that today, no student can get a decent job without a credential of some sort. He also reminded the audience that although Hawke and Keating opened up the Australian economy to ‘the global blowtorch’ in the belief this would develop a more innovative mixed economy, the ‘knowledge industry’ did not happen and ‘we are still a quarry’ – we import $160 billion worth of elaborately transformed manufactures, yet we export only $28 billion worth of our own value-added products.

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We need world-class, outward-looking education for all young people so they can cope with future challenges.

Discussion revolved around whether the credentials of today are really what will be needed. Many employers report that students are not being prepared well for the future world of work, insisting that communication and lateral thinking skills are of more value than narrow, discipline-based specialization.

Dr Patricia Edgar referred to her own grandson, whose thinking was constrained by teacher demands to ‘give the examiners what they are looking for’ until being liberated by first year university science lecturers who are finally treating him as a thinking adult. Excitement and genuine interest have replaced conformity and rote learning. She insisted that the mass media had wasted its huge potential to educate as well as entertain and looked to Asia as a possible leader in this field, given that the developing world contains 94 per cent of the world’s population.

Dayanna Torres, Mitch Stent, Marie McKee and Iain Simpson

uc forum

Simon Holmes à Court, Bob Birell, Don Edgar, Jan Owen and Patricia Edgar and Sir Gus Nossal

The issue of Australia’s future population was raised, both in terms of optimal numbers and of the rising numbers of those over age 65. Patricia took an activist stance on this issue, insisting that current government scare tactics about our ageing population and a rising dependency ratio are distorting the fact that older people are already staying at work longer, remain productive in ways not measured by GDP and the claim that the aged will be a burden on the younger generation is based more on ideology than fact.

Dr Birrell took issue with the idea that Australia can continue to take in large numbers of migrants, let alone refugees.

It is the record high numbers (240,000) of temporary entry immigrants who are flooding our job market and putting pressure on urban infrastructure. He asserts that every nation must first ‘look after its own’; young people should be offered better training and education to ensure they are employed and productive future citizens. Simon Holmes à Court suggests we cannot ignore the hundreds of millions in Asia ‘knocking on our door’ and will not be able to ‘sit here without great future tensions’.

Jan Owen said we should drop ‘the limiting view of protecting our own patch’ and face the fact that Asia has 375 million people under the age of 25 whereas we have just 4.3 million.

We need world-class, outward-looking education for all young people so they can cope with future challenges.

She also described the ANDI project (Australian National Development Index), which attempts to better develop quality of life indicators and include them in a more realistic measure of GDP, which at present ignores the value of such things as voluntary unpaid work and the costs of environmental degradation.

Dr Edgar reminded the audience that not just the young need better opportunities in education and the job market. She called for an end to discrimination in the workplace against older people, more positive media and policy depictions of ageing, a more proactive, inclusive system of promoting healthy lifestyles and inter-generational programs which might engender mutual respect between different age groups.

The panel was asked whether progress depends more on leadership or on a pervasive culture of acting for the good of society as a whole. This gave rise to

several points: Australia lacks leadership focused on the wider public good and governments have been increasingly captured by vested interest groups (business and unions, party factions, welfare lobbies and commercial lobbyists); schools fail to develop a spirit of entrepreneurship and critical thinking, so it will be hard to energise forces for change; individualism has become the dominant ethic compared with a sense of community; there are too many ‘free riders’ in the system; global forces are at work which undermine the capacity of governments (however well-intentioned) to protect the national interest; the media are now so monopolistic and commerciallydriven that there are few clear ‘voices’ challenging the status quo; and independent think tanks (particularly statutory authorities funded to research and challenge political thinking) are few and far between. Nonetheless, the examples given of Australian young people, innovative schools, advanced scientific research and creative thinking ensured the Forum finished on a positive note.

Dr Don Edgar OAM

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sustainability

keeping uc green

Michael Warton and Ben Doolan

At the start of 2014, the Sustainability Committee received an enormous amount of enthusiasm which has continued throughout the semester. The first meeting, held to spark interest for all things sustainable, had an attendance of almost 20 students and subsequent meetings have had a solid turnout.

Early in the semester the internationally recognised event ‘Earth Hour’ was celebrated by the College. Earth Hour, which started in 2007 in Sydney, is a symbolic act in which participating people turn off lights for one hour to show understanding of the impact on climate change. During this hour, our very talented students put on a musical performance in minimal lighting in the JCR. There was an enormous turnout by students and it was great to see how involved everyone became at showing support for these global issues.

Not long after the Earth Hour event, it was time to harvest the fruit and vegetables from the Kitchen Garden.

With excellent weather conditions we were able to harvest chilli, capsicum, tomatoes and an enormous supply of basil. The turnout to the harvesting was excellent, doubling last semester’s. With the harvest complete, we made way for the winter planting two weeks later, again with an excellent turnout. We were able to plant some vegetables and herbs such as coriander, which will hopefully be able to be used in a vegetarian High Table next semester. Some of those who helped out were lucky enough

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to get one of a very limited supply of deliciously sweet strawberries.

Planning has begun for Sustainability Month in August with the Committee reviewing new and old ideas for the residents of College to create fun activities that have either a low environmental impact or promote more sustainable living. The Committee has also been working towards creating events with the wider community, beyond the Crescent.

The support from the College residents so far has been great and it has been wonderful to see such amazing

Ben Doolan, Angie Baleguera and Grace Su Lei Wang

involvement in the activities as well as an excellent supply of enthusiasm and dedication by the Committee. It will be exciting to see what we can accomplish next semester, stay tuned!

Ben Doolan Sustainability Committee Representative 2nd Year Science, the University of Melbourne Ian Robertson and Sam Cripps

student club

Oes week

Super Her Student Club President’s Report

2014 is rapidly reaching the half way mark and shows no sign of slowing down with the incredible amount of “Love, Passion and Die Hard Spirit” permeating UC this year. We’ve been off to a ripper start so far, and I would like to share with you just a few of the exciting events of the year to date.

Orientation Week, also known as Super HerO Week, is where it all began for the 122 new residents, hereby known as “freshers”, welcomed into the UC community at the beginning of the year, which comprised a diverse group including 16 graduates, 7 study abroads and 8 non-resident students. Two things every new resident had in common, however, were a friendly disposition and an unrelenting energy that were a welcome breath of fresh air for the College after a long summer with few students adorning the halls.

The week comprised of events including a superhero themed party, a scavenger hunt through the Melbourne CBD, a healthy helping of extreme lawn bowls and a mock wedding for a lucky fresher bride and groom. Of course, due credit must go to the 22 O-Week Leaders who toiled during the summer break to produce this amazing week of orientation to Melbourne, to university and to the new friends that they would be living with for this year and perhaps beyond. With the dedication of the leaders and the enthusiasm of the freshers, it was no surprise that the end result was a fantastic week that

provided an exciting view of the brilliant prospects for the year ahead.

as well as the athletics carnival and rowing regatta.

Soon after O-Week came the Commencement Dinner and Tern, which welcomed in the academic year and was the first formal opportunity for the freshers and returning students to get to know one another. True to UC form, new and old students alike gelled immediately, easing that transition into the College culture.

This year has also seen a huge influx of musical talent to the College, which has inspired performances to support the efforts of the Sustainability and Community Service Committees.

This semester, an acoustic performance night was held in the dark for Earth Hour to raise awareness of the environmental impact of our electricity use. Another performance evening was held along with a bake sale to raise money and awareness for the Oaktree Foundation’s ‘Live Below the Line’ campaign, which a large amount of UC students undertook this year to raise money for those living under the poverty line.

Every year around the middle of May, the UC Ball comes knocking and the 2014 “Crystal Ball” was no different, bringing all the glamour and excitement for which the event has come to be known. Each year, a fund raising effort is put into place in conjunction with the ball and this year UC has been proud to raise $2,000 for the Motor Neurone Disease Association of Victoria.

Throughout the semester, intercollegiate events such as the Fresher Dance Off and the sport programs bringing everybody together to display their talents and their spirit. UC has been competitive on the sporting front this year, with strong performances in boys’ cricket and soccer, girls’ hockey,

With so much going on all semester, time really does seem to fly. The resounding indications from the year so far are that 2014 is going to go down as an incredibly exciting year in the annals of University College.

Angus Clarke, Student Club President, 3rd Year Science, the University of Melbourne

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community service

Lizzie Boon, Pat Abraham and Tilly Mahoney

A Community of Altruistic individuals This year’s Community Service Committee has adopted a new approach. Rather than a few large fundraising projects, each committee member has strived to initiate and pursue their own smaller scale projects and bring them back to the group for wider help and assistance. This was done in order to achieve a larger breadth of involvement in the surrounding community and has given UCers a greater variety of opportunities.

Led by Tilly Mahoney, UC’s Live Below the Line initiative was met unprecedented enthusiasm. Our team of over 50 brave individuals raised money to alleviate poverty within East Timor.

From 28 April to 2 May, participants lived on less than two dollars a day, experiencing first hand the hunger that over 3 billion people face each day. In partnership with Diew House, our music representative, the committee hosted an evening of music in the JCR in order to raise awareness and money. Not only was there some brilliant musical talent, but also some freshly baked brownies and other delicious desserts for sale.

The committee is particularly grateful for the assistance and cooperation of UC’s kitchen staff, who incorporated the Live Below the Line participants into the weekly menu and routine.

Also of note has been Tate Soller’s effort to rally volunteers for St John’s. The program involves training to become educated, prepared and equipped to deliver First Aid at home, work or public events. Tate brought this opportunity to UC’s attention and received wide support for the cause.

Several other projects are in progress within the committee with the eventual aim of opening them up towards the wider UC community. Most exciting is a prospect with St Mary’s homeless shelter in Fitzroy. Sean Hanrahan has been working to organize regular weekly shifts of UC volunteers, giving us a long-term opportunity to help those less fortunate.

I feel extremely lucky to be part of a community of altruistic individuals.

As the committee settles into a regular

routine and becomes more comfortable working with each other I have no doubt that we will continue to reach our potential to help those in need.

Whether it is raising thousands of dollars for charity or helping an elderly person cross the road, every good deed serves to make our community a better place and I thank you for your continued caring.

“To say that on a daily basis you can make a difference, well, you can.

One act of kindness a day can do it.”

– Betty Williams Finbar Piper Community Service Representative 2nd Year Arts, the University of Melbourne

DID YOU KNOW? You could be a professional mentor for our students! We’re currently implementing a Pathways and Mentoring program at College to assist our students with their transition from College into the workforce. Work readiness, interview and CV skills, industry knowledge and employability skills are invaluable for our students in helping them gain employment once finishing their studies.

If you would like to share your industry knowledge and experience, whilst enabling our students to have a better chance at gaining employment once they leave College, please contact our Dean of Studies, Ms Marie McKee, m.mckee@unicol.unimelb.edu.au or (03) 9347 3533.

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sports report

teaming together

Lizzie Boon, Michaela Biggins, Alina Rodriguez and Annabelle Kerr

UC’s first semester of 2014 saw many valiant efforts on the sporting field.

The boys opened their 2014 journey with a strong showing on the cricket field, including a miraculous comeback against St. Mary’s in the Semi-Final starring Tom McGain, Stephan Burger and Andrew Bowman. Unfortunately, the boys succumbed to grand final pressure against International House in a fantastic battle, earning UC yet another second place trophy.

The girls made their 2014 debut led by Amy Stephens with a strong commitment in the softball. However, the girls were unable to maintain their premiership status despite geat performances on and off the field.

Squash was another brilliant performance, the combined girls’ and boys’ teams only had two people who had played squash before. We showed the Crescent that a champion team is far better than a team of champions.

Our UCers embraced the greatest UC mantra, ‘getting around it’ and giving their absolute best. The team made it all the way to the quarterfinals and gave it their all. Although we lost in the finals, Fred Harrison was tough to beat every game, and Georgia Aldous always looked dangerous.

The boys’ hockey was another hard fought battle for the UC lads. They gave it a gallant shot against Trinity before going down to a much more

equipped team. The boys narrowly missed out on advancing through to quarterfinals, unable to convert a goal against Kendall Hall even with numerous attempts. Narrowly missing out in the penalty shootout unfortunately saw us eliminated from the competition.

Athletics showed a courageous effort from our UC athletes, giving it their absolute all. Special mentions to Yuhuza for her determination all day long, even when the hurdles were higher than her.

Our boys and girls never stopped trying and their talents were rewarded. Pat Hennessey was a standout, making it to the 200m Men’s Final. The Boys 4x100m relay team was unstoppable, winning their first heat as if it were a warm-up, before placing third in the final.

We’d like to congratulate all students for their involvement this semester and we hope to carry it through for the remainder of the year.

Kirsty Horne and Pat McDonald Sport Representatives 2nd Year Science students

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academic report

Amy Campbell, Katina Angelofsky and Roberta Vassallo

TRANSITIONING TO THE WORKFORCE Employability Skills From multinational CEOs to small business entrepreneurs, engineers, artists and everything in between, the bright and highly diverse cohort of students at University College is soon destined to conquer the workforce. And suddenly, the future of Australia is looking even brighter, after a group of UCers were recently given the opportunity to further their employability skills and learn some insider tricks of the job-hunting trade.

Earlier in the semester, Ms Roberta Vassallo, Ms Katina Angelofsky and Ms Diana Chung from the City of Darebin spoke to a group of undergraduates about the process of gaining employment through the eyes of an employer. Their expertise as employers, seasoned resume readers, expert reference checkers and highly practised interviewers proved invaluable, as we discovered exactly what an employer looks for in a job applicant, and how to best reflect this when putting together an application.

One thing we found highly surprising was that sometimes, employers feel just as nervous as the job applicant when conducting interviews.

Accuracy, attention to detail, prior preparation and research on both the institute you are applying at and the position you are applying for, were paramount themes of discussion. Key selection criterias were decoded, the connection between workplace and personal values were discussed and by the end of the session we felt as if we had successfully tapped into the mysterious mind of the employer.

Amy Campbell, 2nd Year Arts, RMIT

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Andrea Clarke

Communicating with Authority We unintentionally diminish our authority by the way we speak, interact and present to our colleagues. With this in mind, Andrea Clarke, a former journalist and communications expert conducted a half-day workshop which had great appeal to students. The workshop provided strategies and skills to increase confidence across a range of situations, and more importantly, offered an opportunity to present to a supportive group and receive very constructive feedback from an expert.

It was a great success!

academic report

Graduate Lunch with Academic Visitors Graduate students are highly engaged in their studies, committed to their career paths and enjoy meeting academic visitors in various fields.

This year, informal lunches have been arranged for graduate students to chat with some of our visiting academics including: Professor Steven Segal, Professor and Director of the Mack Centre on Mental Health and Social Conflict and the Mental Health and Social Welfare Research Group, School of Social Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley; Dr Nina Hallowell, Senior Lecturer in Health Services Research, Newcastle University, UK; and Professor Deborah Blackman, Associate Dean of Research at the Faculty of Business and Government, the University of Canberra.

Fireside chat: Dr Mike McCluskey The media is changing, and it’s changing us with it. This was the central theme of the first fireside chat of the year, presented by Dr Michael McCluskey to a packed Senior Common Room on Tuesday 25 March. As the former CEO of Radio Australia and current SCR President Alex McCluskey’s father, Dr. McCluskey was eminently qualified to discuss such issues with the College community.

Dr. McCluskey began his talk with the provocative point that around 90% of communication is nonverbal, and that this is completely lost when we communicate by SMS or through social media.

Dr McCluskey then went on to discuss the risks of seeking balance in reporting as opposed to accuracy in reporting, and outlined a variety of other issues the media must navigate.

He concluded his talk by calling on all of us to “go behind the scenes for the reality” of the stories that are represented in the media. His passionate defence of the power of critical thinking was a very suitable way to kick off the Fireside Chat series for 2014.

Anders Furze, Master of Journalism, the University of Melbourne

the fellows medal The College welcomed fellows Dr Patricia Edgar and Dr Lynne Broughton to the College on Monday 24 March 2014 to present the Fellows Medals and Fellows Awards to this year’s high achieving students.

Dr Edgar awarded Fellows Medals to the top performing undergraduate student in 2013, Will Kermode, and the top graduate student, Sunni Vagnozzi.

Congratulations to both on their exceptional achievements.

The recipient of the Business and Economic award was Tim Hillman.

Dr Broughton presented Fellows Awards to students who gained an average of 80 per cent or higher in their studies in 2013. Congratulations to the 25 students who received these awards: Nicole Esh Ronzie Gong James Gunn Robert Hennessy Timothy Hillman James Hutcheon Tessa Johnson William Kermode Jordan Koder Kirill Kokorin Jinpeng Lv Jaclyn Maher Caitlin Mcclelland Robert Mckinstry

Alice Odam Declan O’Shea Rosie Palmer Dan Parker Ryan Phang Samuel Pritchard Zia Sass Aaron Saw Sunny Vagnozzi Benjamin Whitechurch Felicity Whitehead Thomas Wright Henry Young

Study, Chat and Chill Graduate and PhD study can be quite a lonely experience. Hours spent alone in your room and sitting at your desk can zap motivation and procrastination can seep in and fill that space. Studying together seems like too simple a solution, but the introduction of the Sunday Study Afternoons for graduates has been a wonderful success. Lots of words have been written, countless lectures have been revised and a sense of achievement has been gained.

Graduates set up in the Academic Centre from 1pm to 6pm, and study the afternoon away. A sense of camaraderie is a real motivational help for all concerned, particularly when working on a Sunday. Then after dinner they reconvene, but now to relax with conversation, movies and snacks in the Senior Common Room.

At the last session, on Sunday 27 April, the graduate audience chatted about the role visual media can play in representing, subverting and commenting upon culture, a conversation directed by graduate, Anders Furze, whose first degree was in Film Studies. A screening of David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive followed, capping off a very productive and enjoyable Sunday.

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SCR report

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years out Senior Common Room Report The Senior Common Room at University College has been a vibrant hive of activity during Semester One 2014. Strong cohesion between Graduate students, Resident Tutors and visiting academics has allowed the SCR to be a forum for enriching the college experience, through engagement with the broader academic community and a facilitating academic achievement in a communal learning environment. Additionally, through ongoing academic engagement with the undergraduate student body, the SCR is striving to enrich the overall collegiate experience.

Our Fireside Chat series had a great start in 2014. While we have traditionally invited academic visitors to speak at these events, this year we thought of asking members of the wider community with connections to UC to participate as well. We are also inviting past UC students and academic visitors to talk to undergraduate students about their experience since their time at College and university in our ‘Five Years Out’ Forum.

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The year began with a comprehensive orientation program during N-Week, where amidst bowling, eating, drinking and going to the beach; a highly cohesive group was formed. This has laid the foundations for a strong graduate body at UC, underpinning much of the collegiate academic and social activities. The SCR have supported graduates’ learning experience at UC by facilitating study afternoons, followed by ‘chat and chill’ evenings, where graduates learn from each other’s diverse academic backgrounds to broaden their general knowledge.

It is wonderful to be surrounded by such a wonderful group of talented people in the SCR. Thank you to all of you who have helped in uplifting the community around you. Thank you also, to the College community more generally for engaging with the SCR, supporting us and being enthusiastic UCers.

Alexander McCluskey President, Senior Common Room Doctoral Researcher, the University of Melbourne

graduate report

Graduate report The graduates this year are a diverse bunch with many having made the first big move of their lives to join UC. We have people from as far as Luxembourg and Germany, to some having moved interstate from all around Australia.

With the majority living in the Graduate Wing in the Recreation Centre, the graduate group has been able to bond over movie nights, expeditions around Melbourne and study sessions. Our first week here, labeled ‘N-week’ (N comes before O), was organised by the UC Resident Tutors and began our graduate introduction to College life. N-Week helped all the new graduates settle in as well as get to know each other and the College. From there we were able to join O-week with all the new undergraduates as well as the awesome events throughout the semester.

As graduates we attend High Table with the resident tutors, management staff and academic guests every Monday and Tuesday evening. This is an opportunity for the graduates to get to know the people who partake in running the College as well as meet some of the academic guests. The different masters, honors and PhDs that are being studied this year also add to the diversity of the graduate cohort. Some of the students’ faculties include medicine, dentistry, engineering, psychology, communications and media.

Georgie Towers

Vivana Lee and Karl Ehrenberg

Recently, our graduate mentor resident tutor, organised group study sessions where the graduates and the resident tutors are able to study together in a quiet space on a Sunday afternoon.

Timed study and break blocks are strictly in place and we have also had the bonus of enjoying the UC nespresso machine. The sessions have been a success and the motivation provided by studying together has produced a large amount of completed work over the previous three sessions.

It is safe to say that the graduate cohort is thoroughly enjoying the ways in which UC life enables us to meet new people while having a taste of Melbourne and College life.

Annabelle Kerr

Annabelle Kerr Graduate Representative Master of Genetic Counselling, the University of Melbourne

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success stories

Achievements and Stephanie Alexander AO Stephanie Alexander AO, alumna of the College (1958-1960) is a highly regarded Australian cook, restaurateur and food writer. As many readers may be aware, Stephanie is the founder of the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation, a not-forprofit organisation which takes a revolutionary approach to food education, focusing on pleasure, flavour and fun. Stephanie Alexander has a vision that every Australian child should have a pleasurable introduction to all aspects of food during their primary school years. The program she has developed integrates with the general curriculum.

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In 2012 I published my memoir A Cook’s Life.

Anyone who would like to know more about me will enjoy reading this book.

The foundation now works in over 570 schools Australia-wide with around 60,000 children enthusiastically getting their hands dirty and learning to grow, harvest, prepare and share fresh, seasonal food. The College proudly opened the University College Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden in 2010, which continues to be a lively and enjoyable aspect of University College.

We are thrilled to share Stephanie’s recent achievement, on 26 January 2014, wherein she was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia for distinguished service to education through the design and establishment of school based learning programs promoting improved food and eating choices for children, and as an author.

According to Stephanie Alexander’s website, ‘Food and wine and friendship matter more than almost anything I can think of. Together they involve skill and craft and patience, and understanding and appreciation of difference, and the desire to bring happiness to others. Brushing past scented leaves in a garden, looking over a vineyard with the vines glowing gold in autumn sunshine, picking parsley outside the back door, pulling a cork from a bottle of wine, cutting into a ripe cheese, appreciating a wonderful apple, setting out a picnic on a bush table, debating the questions of the universe over a fine wine… all these things seem to me to confirm our humanity and to make me want to live for another day, another meal.

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In the end, I still believe there is no greater joy than sharing food, conversation and laughter around a table.

In 2012 I published my memoir A Cook’s Life. Anyone who would like to know more about me will enjoy reading this book. There are many reminiscences and anecdotes in amongst the facts.

These days I spend most of my time supporting the team that makes the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation project function and grow.

I also visit as many of our participating schools as I can and am delighted every time to be greeted by smiling faces and platters of delicious food’.

On behalf of the entire College community, congratulations Stephanie, we are inspired by your remarkable work and achievements.

Stephanie Alexander and Lynn Barnett at University Women’s College in 1959

Accolades

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I was very excited and surprised to receive the scholarship. I’m very lucky and grateful to have received it.

anna pipkorn Alumna Anna Pipkorn is originally from Ballarat and attended University College in 2011 and 2012. Anna was a great contributor to the College during her time as resident, serving as the 1st Year Representative in 2011 and as an O-Week Leader and Merchandise Representative in her second year.

Anna won the Design Award during Art and Design week in 2012, and was involved in many Student Club activities such as the Production, rowing, netball, football, Open Day, and soirees.

We are proud to share the news of Anna’s more recent achievement, as the first ever recipient of the Forever New Scholarship at RMIT. Forever New is a fashion clothing and accessories brand, and have committed to contribute $20,000 towards Anna’s tuition fees and design collection expenses. The sum is in addition to an invitation for Anna to travel to Paris as part of a 12-month contract with the design team at Forever New. Anna will also be invited to design a capsule collection in collaboration with Forever New during 2014.

Forever New founder, Amanda Goenka, said she hopes to help nurture Australia’s fledgling fashion designers,“RMIT has one of the best fashion design faculties in the world and we are excited to support local talent coming through their innovative program. Anna, who grew up in Ballarat, is an outstanding student with a promising future and we are thrilled to offer her this scholarship.” Anna is very excited to join the Forever New brand team in January next year. Her fashion accolades to date include being nominated for the City of Ballarat Youth Design Award, winning the Regional Next Generation Exhibition and receiving the Best Upcoming Talent Award at the APEX Victorian Design Finals in 2010.

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achievements & accolades

Achievements and Accolades gwenda spencer oam Gwenda Spencer (nee Rodda) was a student at University Women’s College from 1947-1948 and studied for a Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Melbourne.

After her studies, Gwenda went on to be the first female to volunteer in Indonesia in 1952. She worked in a pathology laboratory at the Eijkman Institute in Jakarta for two years. After the Japanese occupation of Indonesia during World War II and at the end of their fight against the Dutch for independence, the Australian and Indonesian governments developed a graduate program for recently graduated Australian volunteers. The volunteers worked to fill the vacancies until Indonesians were suitably trained to take on the work, living on the same salary as their Indonesian co-workers.

Gwenda was working in the TB section, carrying out examinations and assisting with research.

When Gwenda returned to Australia in 1954, she worked in the pathology lab of the Bacteriology School of the University of Melbourne, but returned to Indonesia in 1956 to head a Pathology laboratory for the Indonesian Department of Health in Banjarmasin.

In 1957 she was the bacteriologist in an Australian team sent to Singapore under the Colombo Plan to carry out a TB survey there. On return, she joined the QIMR (Queensland Institute of Medical Research) and went on to obtain a Masters at the University of Melbourne, with research into atypical mycobacteria.

In Queensland, in 1964 Gwenda married Mervyn Spencer, a barrister from Sri Lanka with two children. She had to resign because of the policy of the Queensland public service of the time.

Whilst out of full-time employment, Gwenda did further study and obtained a BA in English and History as well as a Dip Ed at the University of Queensland.

She and her husband had two children (Diane and Thomas), and she taught as a high school teacher for ten years from 1974.

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Gwenda has helped newly arrived refugees by introducing them to Australian life. Her assistance ranges from meeting them at the airport, helping them to find housing, furniture and work and engaging them with their local communities.

She then resigned from teaching and went back to part-time employment in the Microbiology laboratory at the Royal Brisbane Hospital in 1984. In her spare time from 1992 onwards, she became involved with refugee resettlement.

She resigned in 1996 from the Hospital because of her husband’s failing health.

After her retirement she spent more time working with refugees from across the world through a local organisation in Brisbane. Gwenda has helped newly arrived refugees by introducing them to Australian life. Her assistance ranges from meeting them at the airport, helping them to find housing, furniture and work and engaging them with their local communities.

We are thrilled to announce and wish to congratulate Gwenda on receiving a Medal of the Order of Australia in 2013 for her services to the Queensland community.

As an alumna of the College, we are proud to share Gwenda’s remarkable achievements. Like so many women who attended the College in its early years, Gwenda went on to lead an impressive and formidable life, paving the way for empowered women to follow in her footsteps.

development & alumni

madame rubinstein: a generous benefactor ‘As she came in to High Table, we were struck by her unusual appearance. For a group of young women in the 50s, she was a most exotic looking woman with her unusual style. We were all impressed that Myra Roper had managed to persuade Helena Rubinstein to make a creative donation to a women’s college.’

Dr Patricia Edgar OAM, student 1955-1958 Helena Rubinstein was a pioneering woman who established one of the world’s first cosmetic companies and became one of the leading figures in the 20th Century world of women’s beauty and fashion. Unwilling to submit to an arranged marriage in her Polish homeland, at the age of twenty four she migrated to Australia in 1896, with little money and speaking barely any English. However, her distinguished appearance created by her stylish clothes and beautiful complexion soon attracted attention. She quickly realized there was a market for the jars of home-made skin cream her mother had placed in her luggage. Soon she began making her own cream using local ingredients and, with financial support from a willing admirer, launched her Crème Valaze. Costing just ten pence to make but selling for six shillings, her fledging business turned a handsome profit so she could afford to open her first beauty salon in fashionable Collins Street. An entrepreneur with a strong belief in herself and in the strength of women, Helena Rubinstein subsequently expanded her business to Sydney and within five years her Australian business was profitable enough to finance the

establishment of a salon in London, with further salons established later in Paris and New York.

Madame Rubinstein, as she liked to be known, used the enormous wealth from the success of her business to become a generous benefactor providing philanthropic support for institutions in the fields of education, art and health. She also maintained an active interest in women’s education and, on a return visit to Melbourne when she was in her 80s, accepted an invitation to University Women’s College. The Principal, Myra Roper, herself by then an established figure in the Melbourne scene of university life and the arts, invited Madame Rubinstein to attend High Table in the recently completed dining hall.

Madame Rubinstein was a lover of murals and commissioned many from leading artists for her residences and business offices around the world. No doubt Miss Roper inspired her to donate the money to fund the provision of a “decoration, probably a mural”, for the new dining hall, with which Madame Rubinstein was much impressed.

The College Council conducted

an Australia-wide competition for the design and execution of the mural.

The winner was Erica McGilchrist, who designed and produced The Legend of Being. A fundraising event was held in collaboration with Heide Museum of Modern Art in March this year to assist with its restoration.

We are constantly unraveling and retelling the stories of the College’s history, and, it is from these discoveries that we are inspired and impassioned to continue traditions that celebrate our unique and developing culture.

We have a tremendous network of alumni, friends and acquaintances who continue to enrich and enliven the College community, just as Madame Rubinstein did over 50 years ago. The College is grateful to all our donors, supporters and the people who connect with our students and the College, who, in the founding ideals of the College, and particularly through the scholarship program, help our students to reach their full potential.

Gemma Egelton Community Relations and Development Manager

Alumni Reunion 1970-1974 The College hosted an Alumni Reunion in March at the Lyceum Club in Melbourne’s CBD for all students who attended College between 1970 and 1974.

We had a great turn out at the reunion, and it was wonderful to see so many women reconnecting with old friends, as well as meeting new friends from different year groups. Quite a number of alumni who attended the reunion also studied science, which was an interesting discovery.

It was a fitting location, as one of the founders of the College, Dr Georgina Sweet, also founded the Lyceum Club.

Georgina Sweet was an Australian zoologist and women’s rights activist.

She was the first woman to graduate with a Doctor of Science from the University of Melbourne, and was the first female acting professor in an Australian university.

We are constantly reminded of the transformative College experience for our alumni, and hope to have more successful alumni reunions to reconnect old and current friendships, time and time again.

“What a delight it was to attend an alumni get-together recently. Although there were not many faces I recalled, it has spurred me on to make sure

old friends are on the mailing list for future events. It was wonderful to see how the place has progressed and the changes that make an even better living and studying experience for today’s students.”

Mrs Jane Peck, 1969-1970 “Great to catch up with some of my contemporaries from the Science/ Maths faculties and the years just rolled back! Also really enjoyed chatting with the women from different years and comparing our experiences. It was a lovely evening, thank you. University Women’s College was such an important 2 years of my life.”

Mrs Megan Rankin, 1972-1973

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development

The INDUSTRIOUS ‘PRENTICE Lord-Mayor of London.

“Length of days is in her right hand and in her left hand Riches and Honour.”

The IDLE ‘PRENTICE Executed at Tyburn.

“When fear cometh as desolation, and their destruction cometh as a Whirlwind; when distrefs cometh upon them, then they shall call upon God, but he will not answer.”

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development

a salutory tale of

INDUSTRY and IDLENESS The College recently received a tremendous gift from Mrs Dorothy Denyer, her son Dr Nicholas Denyer, Fellow and College Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Trinity College Cambridge, and his wife, Visiting Fellow and alumna Dr Lynne Broughton (1964-1967). They are the prints of the 1747 Industry and Idleness engravings by William Hogarth.

William Hogarth (1697-1764) was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist who has been credited with pioneering western sequential art. His work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called ‘modern moral subjects’. Knowledge of his work is so pervasive that satirical political illustrations in this style are often referred to as ‘Hogarthian’.

Industry and Idleness is the title of a series of 12 plot-linked engravings created by William Hogarth in 1747, intended to illustrate to working children the possible rewards of hard work and diligent application and the disasters attending a lack of both. Unlike his earlier works, such as A Harlot’s Progress (1731) and Marriage à-la-mode (1743), which were painted first and subsequently converted to engravings, Industry and Idleness was created solely as a set of engravings. The originals currently reside at the British Museum.

“Whoever makes a DESIGN without the Knowledge of PERSPECTIVE will be liable to such Absurdities as are shown in this Frontifpiece.”

Ian Forster and Lynne Broughton

Lynne shared the story of how the prints were purchased by Dorothy Denyer’s husband and displayed on the wall beside a staircase in their home to illustrate to their children the rewards of hard work and diligence in comparison to the perils of laziness.

We are thrilled to have this fascinating series of prints here at the College and trust that our students will heed the salutary tale they portray.

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council member profile

MARLI WALLACE

There is an energy about the College that is tangible from the moment the front door glides open.

COUNCIL MEMBER Why do you think you were chosen to join Council? What do you bring to the College Council?

I chose myself to join Council, there were two vacancies for the alumni category and, as it happens, there were only two nominees and hence, no election. So, Council is not to blame for having me.

I have wide career experience as well as the benefit of having experienced some College life. Of course I have to make adjustments for generational change but I have a son, daughter-in-law and three grandchildren whose frenetic lifestyles I share from time to time.

What were your reasons for joining Council?

I wanted to join Council to give some service in return for the immeasurable benefits accorded me from my College days. I also wanted to assist in the development of a College garden memorial to my dear College friend, Lorrie Lawrence who died a few years ago.

College also gives me the opportunity to be engaged with current students and staff in their activities and aspirations.

There is an energy about the College that is tangible from the moment the front door glides open. As part of my skills I have developed the capacity to “smell the atmosphere” whether it is a home or a workplace and it is a skill that cannot be taught.

What do you like most about University College and our community?

College helps me to appreciate the generational differences and the issues that confront current students. I like to talk to students and staff and that is how I really appreciate how College works. I am very interested in building design and heritage issues and I like to try to think of how buildings will look in the future; I dislike quick fixes.

I also feel that I have, to the best of my ability fulfilled the College motto “what you do, do with a will” although I am often described as “wilful”. That is not usually meant in a complimentary way and it is not what the motto envisaged!

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Los Glaciares National Park in Patagonia

If you could name them, what have been the most beneficial lessons you’ve learnt throughout your career?

• Avoid being type cast. Do not be afraid to take on new roles that expand your skills set. On the other hand, run a small business where you have to do almost everything yourself. You learn very fast.

• Work in other states or countries.

Starting afresh and proving oneself is demanding but rewarding in the longer term. It is important that you accustom yourself to being stared at – to have your appearance, your dress, and manners tested.

• Sound leadership in any situation relies upon your ability to look behind you to see who is following – do not assume.

• Take on broader community roles when you are sufficiently established and well-organised, such as Board and community roles, preferably in areas that have nothing to do with your workplace.

• Balancing a career and a personal/ family life requires your constant attention.

• Never retire unless you are going to bed.

As a past student of the College, what are your fondest memories of your time at College?

I remember the support of the friendships made and the security of having one’s own room and space yet having others nearby, the regularity of meals and the privilege of being critical of the food, the opportunity to look longingly at the men from Ormond on the Triggle without committing oneself, the requirement on occasions to wear a frock and Miss Roper’s eagle eye assessing your sartorial efforts, and the feeling of being a member of a special community within the huge expanse of the University of Melbourne – a daunting and lonely place in many

ways, especially for a relatively unsophisticated, young person.

Do you have any pearls of wisdom for our current students?

Once you have left College, life crowds in and families and mortgages and jobs collide. In a sense, being in College postpones some of this, so that time needs to be savoured. It then becomes more difficult to keep in touch with College friends and College events.

At a minimum, use every opportunity you have to acknowledge and broadcast your College time in your CV, your presentations at interview etc.

Try to maintain some continuous link with College, for example through the newsletter; do not wait until you are much older to link up again as there may be unpleasant surprises awaiting you and regrets that you did not keep in touch.

Tell us something that no one would know about you.

I was sixteen when I started at the University of Melbourne and sometimes people accorded me an intelligence which I did not deserve (but did not question). My sister is eighteen months older and when she commenced primary school I was bereft. I tolerated this situation for some time but eventually decided to take action. I was found at the local school, somewhat like the town dog, awaiting a response. My father being a local policeman was summoned each time and severely embarrassed.

The family retaliated by repairing the hole in the fence and locking the gate.

The hedge remained unnoticed however.

After several more attendances at school it was resolved, quite outside normal practice, for me to be able to attend school and sit at the back of the first class, subject to behavioural and hygiene rules being observed. I remained there and slipped into the promotion track without a hitch. Everyone was happy.

uc appeal

making tertiary education accessible

“The College has made it possible for me to pursue my dream of studying Medicine through its Scholarship Program. Receiving financial assistance has been a great help to my family to support my brother and I while we are at uni. Having grown up in regional Victoria, and now having access to education and accommodation, I feel so fortunate to be a student at University College.”

Angus Clarke, 2014 Student Club President

University College has a long history of supporting students from rural and regional areas in Australia to gain access to a world class tertiary education. In order to continue this tradition, we are asking for your help.

University College continually seeks to provide unique opportunities for disadvantaged young people from rural and regional communities to participate in a range of real life and meaningful learning experiences.

One of the ways in which we support our students is by financial assistance through the College Scholarship Program.

A significant proportion of students who attend University College come from disadvantaged rural and regional areas of Australia which are under-resourced.

These areas have also been impacted by on-going or situational financial hardship, due to the occurrence of natural disasters such as fires, floods and droughts. The prevalence of mental health difficulties, suicide, isolation, domestic violence and unemployment in these communities have acted as major barriers to the young people completing their education.

We are also working on a newly developed University College Pathways and Mentoring Program, a pilot initiative that aims to assist individual students by providing them with access to a mentor in an industry of personal interest; opportunities to participate in a number of pathways and job readiness initiatives and provide monetary assistance to

YES, I would like to make the following gift to the University College 2014 Annual Appeal: $50

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Other: I would like my donation to go towards: Rural Scholarships

students experiencing serious financial hardship, so that they may continue to be able to access their tertiary education.

Many of our students have demonstrated the resilience, perseverance and dedication required to relocate from their communities and excel in their studies. Support in the form of structured and targeted academic and mentoring programs can only help to give them a stronger focus for the future.

In order to continue making University College accessible to rural and regional students, we are asking you – alumni, families, friends and members of our College community – to please make a donation to our 2014 Annual Appeal.

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Head’s Discretionary Fund Pathways and Mentoring Program Other: All gifts are tax-deductible within Australia You can now donate online: www.unicol.unimelb.edu.au/donate

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facilities at uc

conferences at uc

Conferencing has become an important cog in the UC machine, providing an additional and valuable revenue stream to assist the College in providing its students and general community with new and improved facilities and additional expenditure for capital works.

The College facilities are available for hire for daytime conferencing, workshops, seminars and other events all year round, utilising the Academic Centre, Recreation Centre and Heritage Room, and, in the summer months, its pristine and tranquil outdoor areas.

Some highlights of large and high profile day-conferencing events in 2013 included the Chris WallaceCrabbe Birthday Symposium, the 44th Australian Linguistics Society Annual Conference, the 13th Asian Conference on Transcription, the U3A 2014 Seminar Series, as well as workshops and

events for valued clients such as NAB, International Women’s Development Agency, the University of Melbourne, the University of Milwaukee-Wisconsin, Australian Society of Microbiology, Melbourne Engagements and Partnerships Office and the Australian College of Nursing.

In addition to the many day conference activities occurring at College; when students move out at the end of November (and for three weeks during July), the College is transformed into an educational hotel of sorts, with a revolving doorway of varied residential

and educational conference groups coming and going right through until the return of our own residential students for the new academic year.

Some residential conferences hosted during 2013 included the Teach for Australia Intensive Program, Diabetes Australia, Australian and NZ Society for Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry, School of Social and Political Sciences, Tsinghau University (China), yLead (Youth Leadership Conference), The Bead Society, Aiki-Kai Australia Summer School and YSA Convention.

If you have any queries regarding UC conferencing or would like to host your next event at UC, please contact our House, Events and Conference Manager, Mr Tim McBain on t.mcbain@unicol.unimelb.edu.au or (03) 9349 9350.

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council & staff

Members of the College Council Office Bearers President: Mrs A Cronin, BSc BBus(Acc) MAICD FAIM FCPA Deputy President: Professor P Harris, BSc(Hons) PhD Southampton Treasurer: Mr John Mathieson, BCom Melb. MAICD Secretary to Council: Dr J McDonald, BA(Hons) MEd(Stud Well) PhD Melb.

DipEd FAIM MACE Appointed by the Academic Board Professor Margaret Sheil, BSc(Hons) PhD NSW FTSE FRACI Professor Rachel Webster, BSc(Hons) Monash MSc Sussex PhD Cambridge Appointed by Graduate Women Victoria Dr B Murray, MA Monash PhD Monash DipT(ATTI) Elected by the Governors Professor J Lovering, AO Chevalier des Palmes Academiques MSc Syd. MSc Melb. PhD Cal.Tech.

HonDSc Flind. HonDSc Melb.

FAA FTSE Mr Matthew O’Keefe, BCom Melb.

Elected by the Past Student Members of the College Mrs Marli Wallace, BCom Melb. DipEd Melb. MEd(Stud) Monash Ms Cheryl Power, BSc MSc DipEd GradDipWH MASM Mr John Mathieson, BCom Melb. MAICD Ms Claire Harman, BA Melb.

Appointed by the Council – from among the Principals of the Secondary Schools of Victoria Mr Matthew Maruff, BA Melb.

DipEd Monash Co-opted to the Council Mrs A Cronin, BSc BBus(Acc) MAICD FAIM FCPA Ms Kathryn Bellion, BA LLB MBus GradDip IR/HRM Professor P Harris, BSc(Hons) PhD Southampton Ms Monique MacRitchie, BA MA MIB Elected by the Students of the College Mr Angus Clarke Ms Emma Leith Ex officio member of the Council The Head of College Dr J McDonald, BA(Hons) MEd(Stud Well) PhD Melb.

DipEd FAIM MACE

Student Executive President Angus Clarke Vice-President Stephanie McNabb Secretary Emma Leith Treasurer Aaron Saw Social Secretary Georgie O’Connor-Stubbs ICAC Representative Dave Simpson International Representative Maeva Bennetto Peris Female Sports Representative Kirsty Horne

Male Sports Representative Patrick McDonald Female 1st Year Representative Jane Gould Male 1st Year Representative Iain Simpson

Resident Tutors Alexander McCluskey Alistair Watson Dhivia Bhaskaran Dashiel Lawrence Wilhelm Burger Stephan Burger Jean McBain Cindy Nah Juliana Logsdon

College Staff Head of College Dr Jennifer McDonald, BA(Hons) MEd(Stud Well) PhD Melb. DipEd FAIM MACE Dean of Students Mrs Peta Driscoll, BEd Victoria College Dean of Studies Ms Marie McKee, BA DipEd Monash

Administration Coordinator Ms Dayanna Torres House, Events and Conference Manager Mr Tim McBain Guest Services Officer Ms Gina Cahayagan Librarian Mrs Carolyn Brown Facilities Manager Mr Leo Raffaele, Assoc Dip Bus Mgt Holmes Assoc Dip Construction Mgt Canberra Maintenance Officer Mr Henri Seneque Information Technology Manager Mr Kevin Tran, BCS La Trobe MCP Archivist Mr Ian Forster, BHA NSW MA (Archives & Records) Monash Gardener Mr Ian Robertson, Assoc Dip Hort Melb. Burnley Food Services Manager Mr Gavin Duncan Catering and Functions Coordinator Mr Daniel Hart

Business Manager Mr Sean Portelli, BBus RMIT FIPA

Head Chef Mr Alfonso Buitrago

Finance Manager Ms Kelly Fung, BCom La Trobe CPA

Trade Cooks Mr Gagandeep Singh, Mr Andy Tran, Mr Adrian Gualano

Accounts Officer Ms Pui Shan Kwok, BCom La Trobe CPA Community Relations and Development Manager Ms Gemma Egelton

Kitchen Staff Ms Debra Azzopardi, Ms Lucy Saliba, Mr Kevin Williams, Mr Gavin Frendo

Trusts and Foundations Coordinator Ms Kylie Paine

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2014 uc eVENTS 30 June USA Alumni Reunion in Washington

Wednesday 6 August Student Club Production Gala Night

The College is continually exploring new ways to engage with our alumni and community.

We are always open to suggestions for alumni reunions, so please email admin@unicol.unimelb.edu.au with your ideas. Invitations with details will be distributed for the following events in due course. To send us your updated contact details please email admin@unicol.unimelb.edu.au or call Dayanna Torres on (03) 9347 3533.

Saturday 12 July Governors Afternoon Tea

Sunday 17 August Open Day

Friday 25 July 1975-1979 Reunion

Monday 25 August Art & Design Week

Tuesday 9 September Pathways Dinner

Wednesday 27 August 1937-1969 Alumni Fundraising Luncheon Friday 10 October 1980-1989 Alumni Reunion

Wednesday 10 December Christmas Cocktails

Friday 28 November 2000-2013 Alumni Reunion

Saturday 1 November Singapore Alumni Reunion