TRINITY COLLEGE NEWSLETTER A PUBLICATION OF TRINITY COLLEGE WITHIN THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE No. 16 Registered for posting as a publication — Category B
APRIL, 1982
GALA FLEUR-DE-LYS DINNER 1982 To the on-looker it could have been a scene from the "Great Gatsby" as three hundred and fifty Trinity members and their friends, sipping sherry, floated from one side of the lawn to the other, the ladies' silks and chiffons complementing the more restrained sartorial elegance of the gentlemen. To the sound of a somewhat impatient bell, all slowly moved into the gaily decorated marquee which proved to be the main attraction of the evening. "Was it", Archbishop Dann asked "a dream of the Warden to have this great canopy here on the Bulpadock?" "Were his problems so great, fitting more and more of the long line of applicants into the College, that in desperation he dreamed up this marquee to be a co-ed dormitory? Or perhaps the tent was a portent. In a mood of great optimism Isaiah said to his nation `lengthen your ropes and strengthen your stakes'. In other words, enlarge your vision of what this community can be. That is a good motto for Trinity when there is so much demand for places in College, so many opportunities, and so many facilities needed". In reply the Warden elaborated on this very subject, and after enlightening the assembled guests with metaphorical interpretations on the erection of the tent, expressed his delight at seeing "so many Trinity members of so many college generations back here in the Dear Old Coll. For many it is their first time back in many years. It is good that
The happy scene on the Bulpadock.
we are out on the Bulpadock. The cows have long since gone, and so have the fences. The T.C.A.C. Committee now abounds in ingenuity in devising new, and more diabolical, obstacles at Juttoddie, but it is the Bulpadock, with its time-honoured name, which remains an important centre of College life. No other Melbourne college has the equal of this square of grass, on to which every building of the College looks. We can still enjoy kicking the football after lectures from one end to the other; and cricket practice can still occur — with some risk to the nearby windows. In third term the bowls still come
out as a solace to shattered nerves. At one end stands the Chapel. I am thrilled to be able to tell you that $150,000 has been promised by a single donor to restore this fine building, which bears witness to our Christian heritage and our nobler aspirations. At the other end stands the College oak, growing together with the history of the College in the buildings that surround us. Wardens come and regrettably go and students come and go — to become judges, surgeons physicians, leaders in commerce and industry, the professions, the Church and academic life, and the College oak bears silent witness to it all. (Continued page 2)
Pre-dinner drinks and talk before the Fleur-de-Lys From Left to Right: Mrs Joan Grimwade, Mrs M. Moore, Mr Michael Moore, the Hon. Mr Fred Grim wade.
Once there were plans to divide the College into smaller quadrangles as in Oxford and Cambridge. It is true that we have great plans for the development of this College, the provision of new buildings and the renovation of old ones (especially the kitchens and the tennis courts). But we will preserve the Bulpa-
dock and not divide it. In a strange sense it has become for us holy ground a sign of the enduring fun, sporting spirit and friendship which has brought so many Trinity people here tonight — to celebrate the 110th year of the College which means so much to us all".
Make a note now...
FLEUR-DE-LYS DINNER 1983
will be held in the College on
FRIDAY 11th FEBRUARY, 1983
Mr John Batt Q.C. (1954) and his wife Margaret, talking with Mr Peter Balmford (1946). 2
The Warden shares a joke with Mr and Mrs M. Whitney King while Mr Mel MacPherson Smith and Lady Daphne Hacking look on.
Back to Trinity after many years (from L. to R.) Mr Guy Gresford (1939), Mr Barrie McMillan (1935), Mr John McMillan (1932).
From Left to Right:— Dr. Robin L. Sharwood (fourth Warden), Mrs J. O. Cowan (wife of the late R. W. T. Cowan, third Warden of Trinity), Miss Jean Waller (former Leeper Librarian), the Revd. Alfred Bird (former Chaplain and now Records Officer) and his wife Mrs Ellie Bird, and the present Warden of Trinity, Dr. Evan Burge. 3
TRINITY THEN . .
"Wardens come and regrettably go" (Dr Evan Burge in his address at the 1982 Fleur de Lys dinner). Whilst the memory of the dinner is still very much in our minds, it would seem appropriate for us to remember the people who have helped make Trinity what it is today. Here we reprint the text of an article written by Sir Cli ve Fitts shortly after the death of Sir John Behan in 1957: It was my good fortune to live in College for ten years during the Wardenship of Sir John Behan; for five years as a student and then after a gap of twelve years for five years as a tutor. I had been a day-boy at school, and by a happy chance my parents went to England the year that I was to go up to the University. It was my first break from home and my mother interviewed the Warden and entrusted me to his care. He even advised about my allowance, and thus early I became aware of the Warden's genius for finance. That year, 1919, was an exceedingly happy one for me but I doubt if it was for him. The College seemed full of returned soldiers bent on running the place and brooking no interference. Who could blame me for being more impressed by the stalwart who had known College life before the war and was now engaged in doing third year medicine for the second time, than by the lean and wintry figure of the Warden bent on curtailing liberties I had never known and which if they had been cut by half would have left my fond parents in doubt as to whether I was ready for them. Could he have loved Trinity then? I doubt it. I think it must have grown upon him and he changed with it as he changed both the physical appearance and the spirit of the place and saw the growth in mind and stature of those who passed through the College. I do not think he made great changes during those first five years. It was enough to stem the tide and plan for the future for time was on his side. My regard for him 4
grew as the foster-child of silence and slow time, for in those early years he spoke a language I did not understand. Even his methods of conveying his pleasure or meting out punishment seemed remote from reality. He was, for example, fond of sending messages to my "wife" that he would be fined a substantial number of guineas if he did not desist from his bizarre method of taking echoes from the Chapel wall at midnight; he sometimes led parents to believe that their sons were heading for perdition when a more worldly person would justifiably have taken a less pessimistic view; and then he had occasionally such dramatic events as rustication. How he must have suffered as he heard each year the noise of the Valedictory dinner of those days so different from the decorous events of later years.
perhaps I was the last to leave. I went into my bedroom and began to pack and while I did so the Warden appeared, already on his tour of inspection for the maintenance jobs for Wynne to do in the summer vacation. He came in and talked to me with a warmth and understanding which I have never forgotten, and I am glad to say that I reminded him of this with gratitude this year. I wonder if others took five years to find him out? Perhaps many never did. Twelve years later I came back to Australia from a long stay abroad and found the usual difficulty in settling down. I went to call on the Warden and was shown into his study. While I waited I looked out the window on to the garden and on that afternoon of late summer it was a place of tranquillity. The Warden came in and on the spur of the moment I said that the College should have a resident doctor and so I came to live in the Vatican rooms in the Warden's garden, to dine with him in Hall and to see him in varying circumstances at many different times of the day and night. How were the elements mixed in him? It was said by Voltaire that we owe to the living respect but to the dead only the truth. With Sir John Behan it is possible to aim at the latter without sacrificing the former. He was a lawyer and full of that guile which is respected by the legal profession if not so highly appreciated in other circles. When I came in from work in the afternoon the Warden was frequenty playing tennis on his court. As a sportsman he was before his time. Though he always played the same opponent, despite her sex he had what is known as the killer instinct.
Sir Clive Fitts So I went on my undistinguished and indeed unsuccessful way until the last day of my last year. Can there be anything more melancholy? Upper Bishops' where I had lived for five years was deserted except for the ghosts with which I had peopled the silent studies. It was well on in December and
Others will know of his eminence as an academic lawyer but there is no doubt in my mind that he had qualities both as an advocate and a judge. How often have I heard him reverse a decision given by his opponent from the far end of the court and refuse her the right of appeal. It might be said that the Warden could be equally uncompromising with the opposite sex whenever his judgment ran counter to theirs in College affairs. He had a human touch of malice and I cherish the memory of dinners at high table with the
Rector of Newman playing the Master of Ormond against the Warden of Trinity. How the Warden enjoyed the spectacle of the Master defending himself against the rapier thrusts of the Rector, and how piqued he was to find the Master displaying a sense of humour to which he had long decided there was no claim. He might have been at home in the country but he was more of a husbandman than a farmer. His affection for the cows in the Bulpadock was alloyed with the satisfaction that the Friesian herd produced a larger quantity of milk than others. How forlorn he could look when the cows were unmilked because the cowman preferred the steady flow into the foaming glass at Johnny Naughton's to the intermittent flow into the milkpail. I have said that he had a lawyer's guile but in some ways he was gullible as I recall from the subsequent careers of some whom he brought as guests to the Common Room. He liked the unorthodox in medical practice and I remember his request that I should invite an eminent consultant to examine an impecunious student without fee and in the next breath telling me that he was paying the student's fees for treatment by an osteopath. Perhaps I can say without professional jealousy that his sentiment was sometimes false, but despite the twilight gloom in which he liked to listen to music, he was a genuine lover of beauty as those who have known the College during his tenure of office will appreciate. Portrait of Sir John Behan by James Quinn (1946).
He was a maintenance man and I shall dignify that term by applying it to him. He let nothing deteriorate and I would hazard a guess that whatever qualities his familiar spirit the elder Wynne may have had were enhanced many times by the example of' the Warden. He maintained many things in the College life that had not to do with bricks and mortar and plumbing. He maintained the ancient and worthy traditions of an Anglican College and though I thought he sometimes attended morning services for the purposes of making a statistical survey of attendances yet there are memorable services in the Chapel with which I associate him above all others. When I returned as a tutor I found that he had grafted on to College life
a dignity and a ceremonial which in my student days I had found only in the formal dinner parties in the Lodge which were my introduction to his civilizing influence. When I reflect on my judgment in 1919 which led me to choose the meretricious stalwart rather than the frail figure of the Warden I bow before the prescience of those who chose the first Victorian Rhodes Scholar in 1904. Perhaps in 1918 there were many who regarded a Rhodes Scholar who could find no better scope for his talents than the Wardenship of a college of sixty students, as having failed to fulfil Rhodes' ideal. Yet in that small world what perilous material has pas-
sed through his hands, influenced and moulded by what he and his predecessor Dr. Leeper had made of the College. The influence of these men and their colleges in the other Colleges, and their standing in the community have assured these places a perpetual and expanding importance in the University, and the memory of these men and the pattern of their lives are part of what they have built. I have not mentioned Lady Behan who did so much to aid the Warden in his tasks and who lent her own grace to the Lodge and its garden. I write these lines in gratitude and admiration for one I knew as a student, a tutor and finally as a friend. Cont'd p. 16 5
. . TRINITY NOW BISHOP JOHN McKIE RETURNS Bishop McKie has recently returned from England where he has been, since 1960, the Assistant Bishop of Coventry. To those who knew him before he left for England he has not changed at all— 'his mannerisms are the same, as is his very good sense of humour which is readily shown' Born in Heidelberg, Victoria, in 1909 he attended Melbourne Grammar School, and then Trinity College while studying at the University of Melbourne. He was very active in Collegiate life at Trinity as he was during his time at New College, Oxford, where he played in the cricket team. He graduated B.A. in Theology from Oxford in 1935 and returned to Australia where he renewed his ties with Trinity, being Chaplain from 1936 until the Second World War. During the War he was on active service with the A.I.F. and was appointed Assistant Chaplain General in New Guinea. In 1946 he became Assistant Bishop of the Diocese of Melbourne and lectured at Trinity College in Theology until 1959. In 1960 he left for England to take up the position of Assistant Bishop of Coventry. He has returned to Trinity as Acting Head of the Theological School until Dr John Gaden's return in June 1982. Bishop McKie was interviewed recently at Trinity College. Printing the text of an interview gives the reader only half the picture, that is, only the spoken word. Lacking are the gestures, facial expressions, intonations of voice, the twinkle of an eye. However, the careful reader is able to gain a more direct insight into the character of a person by reading his spontaneous answers. Interviewer:
I have spoken to various people who knew you before you left for England 20 years ago and most of them think that you haven't changed much from that time. Would you agree with that? 6
A photograph of Bishop McKie taken at Westminster Abbey twenty years ago. It is the only photograph the Bishop could find! To quote the Warden: He looks much the same today, except that the regalia is rather less formal!"
Bishop J. D. McKie: Yes, I don't really think I've changed. My health is very good...
I: What about attitudes? The people I spoke to were talking about more superficial things such as mannerisms, and your keen sense of humour, but what about deeper things? J. D. McKie: Oh, I don't think I have changed at all. Of course one gets more conservative...
I: You think you're more conservative now than you were?
J. D. McKie: Well, I think there are all sorts of things... You get tired of people talking... That's the trouble with the Church, they have all these committees, they are all young chaps and they think nobody has ever thought of these things before. But it's all in reports 50 years old. There's not much new in the Church life you know, so I'm very glad I'm on no committee now... I let the young fellows talk...
I: Talk and get nowhere? Bishop McKie: No, well no, it's their job, they've got to do it, they have to
relate things to the present day... they've got to see things for themselves. But I mean the older ones are always more sure of fundamentals and less sure, in a way, of how they are applied.
Was it like that when you were a young Chaplain? Bishop McKie: Well it probably was, it was more fixed. The Church consisted really just of parishes, of the diocesan organization. In this College for example there was just a Warden and a Chaplain and I ran all the theologs, students and everything. They now have a chaplain to the students, John Gaden for the theologs, and the Warden, you see, and about three or four other people who come in to help with the training. In the older days it was done more simply... it was a smaller group then of course.
Do you think that that change is regrettable? Bishop McKie: No, I don't, no, no, it must be done, must be done.
Because of our changing society or because...? J. D. McKie: I think yes, I think people expect to be more trained for their jobs. In the old days it was just a matter of... of the academic side and just trying to teach them to say their prayers. Nowadays they go more for training for parish life while at College and for other things like preaching and so on. That's why all these other chaps are around. I: When you came back in 1972, for the Centenary celebration of the College you preached in St.Paul's Cathedral and you mentioned some of the special qualities of a College. Would you like to elaborate on those? J. D. McKie: What did I say? I: You talked about the academic gown as a symbol; and you talked about the hospitality; and lastly, most importantly, you talked about the Chapel.
J. D. McKie: Yes, the two things that matter about a university college, this is what I would say now and I probably said then, are firstly the academic tradition. That is the thing that matters initially, and...
Yes, that's where you brought in the gown. J. D. McKie: Yes, that's right, and secondly the fact that we're friends in College, you see. A few years ago there was a revolt in some enormous American University which had almost 20,000 students, and they sent a reporter up to see what was wrong and the reporter said to a student "What's wrong with this place?" and the student said, "No-one knows my name". You see, that's where religion comes in. Well, there are these two things; the academic seeking of truth, and the fact that people matter. The essence of religion is that thinking gets us somewhere, there is an ultimate purpose for life, and secondly that people matter. That's why the Christian tradition of this place is so important.
I: Along those lines, what do you think about the decision in 1962 to make attendance at Chapel optional? Do you think that that decision was regrettable? J. D. McKie: Oh, no, it had to be done — It is regrettable in a way. It worked very well in the old days. When I was Chaplain here, it meant that the College did meet every Sunday morning, for the most part. Some didn't attend, but you know... It was done actually after Tom Bows came out from Magdalene, he was President of Magdalene and went to Chapel every day of his life. He was a very keen Churchman but he said that there was no rule of compulsion at Oxford. That was the immediate cause of it, and you can't re-introduce it. I: No, I realise you couldn't reintroduce it... J. D. McKie: No, no, it would be impossible. But I think it's a pity. There is a Christian tradition in this College and it did mean that the
people met as a community, you know. I: It means also that a lot of people who perhaps would not step inside the Chapel, if they were at least pushed inside once, might get something from it. J. D. McKie: Yes, yes, quite so. Yes, it would be an act done together, that's quite right, but you can't go back to it, it was the right decision then... well, it's a very secular society after all. I: Well, on that point, this secular society, how do you respond to the statement that we seem to live in a God-less society, almost as if we are going through another Renaissance with Man at the centre rather than God? J. D. McKie: Yes, that's pretty right I think. On the other hand, the Church is more active and more sincere now than ever before or for a thousand years or so. There is no question about that, and so the people who are... And yet it doesn't seem to be reaching the people as it used to. J. D. McKie: I think the Church people are more concerned with trying to apply their faith to what goes on around them. In the old days you know, it was just a matter of going to a service... I: It's more humanitarian?.. J. D. McKie: That's right, yes. But I think the Church is more sincere than it has ever been before, but perhaps with smaller numbers. It is a secular society we are facing but the values still come from Christianity, I mean, the rule of law, for example, was given to us by Church ruling, with Christian judges interpreting it for Christian religious leaders in parliament. I: What about the swing of some people towards Eastern religions where there's more meditation and, I suppose, soulsearching? J. D. McKie: Well, I couldn't comment. That all should be in Christianity, it should be. 7
Yes, but they obviously aren't finding the answer within... J. D. McKie: No, but you see, I imagine in Italy, and in Roman Catholic countries I should think, that meditation would appeal very strongly. In British countries we have a more practical view; it should be part of our lives... but of course people are in touch with Eastern religions now and they must learn about them.
I: Most people would be very interested in your time in Coventry, twenty years is quite a long time. What stands out in your mind that you think would interest people in Australia? J. D. McKie: Well, the opening of the cathedral was a great occasion. It was marvellous; the whole thing was superbly done, not a single thing went wrong. The cathedral there was very much alive. What struck me was that they had two education officers and in one year I noted that they had visits from six hundred different schools, six hundred different schools in one year, and they send to all these schools material for the children. They're very efficient. In the first year there was always an enormous queue to get in. The Provost is a very alive man, not an easy man, but the thing ran really well. They were never tied down by tradition in the wrong way. They were one of the first to allow clapping in the Cathedral for concerts in the early 1960's. I remember we had a discussion with the Chapter about this. Sir Adrian Boult was against it, I think, or so it was reported to us. Anyway the Provost pleaded that if the people were given the right to express an opinion that would help the instrumentalists you see. But one old canon said "What if they boo?" But you see, these are things which are commonplace now but someone had to begin.
I But of course Anglo-saxons tend to be very inhibited. If you just compare a church in England, New Zealand, or Australia with the Italians going to church it is so totally different, I mean they do talk and they express their feelings whereas we are so terribly serious. It's almost as though it's a crime to laugh in a church. 8
J. D. McKie: Quite so, yes... but the difference is that in the Catholic tradition they're celebrating the mass and the action matters. You see ours is word preaching based on the bible, and you've got to listen and be quiet. That's the reason really. They are so much at home and they know what's going on, and they're very much happier with children. I: Do you think we would do well to take a lesson from them? J. D. McKie: We're doing better now actually. At the Ordination Service last Sunday they clapped. It was very good. The Archbishop presents the ordinands, they turn round, and the people all clap. It was awfully good. It breaks the stiffess. It's a splendid innovation, I think. I. On coming to the Australian scene have you noticed any changes since you've been back? J. D. McKie: Oh yes, the multi-racial thing is splendid. I remember preaching on immigration in the early 1940's after the war. There was bitter opposition to any immigration at all by the working people in general because they said any immigrant in Australia meant one job less for an Australian. But I think it's marvellous. We went shopping in Coles before Christmas and the place was full of Greeks; it was wonderful, they are so happy. It seems to be accepted very well. That's the main thing I've noticed.
J. D. McKie: Oh, let them keep them, After all.. .
I Well we all do, we all go back...
J. D. McKie: It enriches our civilization, I'm sure of that. They're splendid people, the Greeks and these other people from the Mediterranean. They're good family people.
I: I think we could do with some Latin blood in Australia.
J. D. McKie: Yes, yes, I couldn't agree more. Most of them come from the Christian tradition, a great tradition. They've made a great contribution... we were very supercilious before. When I was a boy the only foreigners were Chinamen who came and had market-gardens and laundries and they all went back to China. They came here to save money. So there were no foreigners at all really.
I Lastly, have you any thoughts you would like to leave to the students here, that you would like to convey to them, particularly the theological students with whom you are more directly linked?
I Yes, it is accepted, especially when we think of England and their racial problems at the moment, but I suppose it's a different situation. J. D. McKie: Well it's a problem of very bad conditions of living of course, and now there's unemployment. It's very depressing. I think they're attacking it very realistically. I know the clergy are doing a very good job in Brixton and places like that. I: Getting back to the Australian scene, what are your opinions about the assimilation of migrants? How closely should they keep their ties with their homeland?
J. D. McKie: Well, it's a question of being competent. Theological students have a position of leadership and they must be competent. They must know their theology, they must know their stuff and there's an enormous amount to learn, and they've got to work hard, that's all. The other way to learn is by seeing people who know their job. They must have humility to set themselves high standards. After all the ordained ministry is a profession, and it makes great demands on people. A man who can run a parish can run anything really. 4th March 1982
FACES AROUND THE COLLEGE Miss Angela Mackie has been appointed by the College Council as Executive Assistant to the Warden, and Executive Secretary to the Trinity College Foundation. Miss Mackie was born in New Zealand, and was educated at the Church of England Diocesan School for Girls, and then at Auckland University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (Italian) in 1973, and Master of Arts (Hons.) in 1978. During 1975 she studied at Perugia University in Italy, where she gained a Diploma qualifying her to teach Italian language and literature. She came to Australia in 1978 taking up an appointment as Lecturer in Italian at Wollongong University, N.S.W., where one of the courses she presented was a History of Italian Opera. This was a "first" in Australia in so far as it was the first time a specialist course in that subject was offered in a Department of Italian. The programme was inaugurated by Dame Joan Sutherland. Miss Mackie has spent the last two years in the Italian Department of the Adelaide College of the Arts and Education, and has been involved in dramatic productions aimed at encouraging cultural interaction in Adelaide's ethnically diverse society. In 1972 Miss Mackie was a member of the Auckland University Festival Choir which represented New Zealand at the Triennial University Choirs' Festival held in New York, where recitals were given at the Lincoln Centre, the John F. Kennedy Centre in Washington, the White House and various university campuses. The Choir continued on a world tour singing in Westminster Abbey and King's College Cambridge, (where the Director of the Choir, Professor Peter Godfrey, had been an Organ Scholar). The Choir also sang in Holland, Germany and Singapore. In addition, Miss Mackie was a member of the Auckland Cathedral Choir for approximately seven years and sang in London in the Bach Choir under the direction of Sir David Willcocks in 1974.
Miss Angela Mackie
She is anxious to see the tradition of choral singing at Trinity continued and perhaps even expanded: "I feel that through music, whether it be by public performance or by recording one can reach "Town" and make its members more aware of the aims of a university and of a college such as Trinity within the University." She is a keen horsewoman, and represented Auckland at the New Zealand Pony Club Championships at the age of thirteen. She has ridden to hounds in
New Zealand, Ireland, and more recently with the Silpark Hunt in Adelaide. She would like to continue her interest in riding. Maybe we will find the Bulpadock inhabited in the future by beasts of the equine variety! Although from "across the Tasman", she does have family ties in Adelaide, and one never-tobe forgotten link with Australia is that of Adam Lindsey Gordon, who is her maternal greatgrandmother's cousin! She is looking forward to working in the academically and spiritually vital environment of Trinity College. 9
A TRADITION CONTINUED Do you remember the carved wood-work in the Chapel? Probably at some time you have sat there and run your hands over those exquisitely carved native animals on the pew-ends. They have that lovely dull shine which comes from many generations of handling.
But have you noticed the frieze of native flora at the back of the seats against the wall? One can identify quite a number of different flowers. And at the ends of the stalls in front of the seats there are fleurs-de-lys. It is not always realised that these too are carvings of native flowers and they are all different.
The ring-tailed possum, behind which is the Kangaroo rat with a joey in its pouch.
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All this work, which helps to give the Chapel that unique flavour which is apparent to all who come into it, was done by Otto Prenzel in 1919. At the time it was considered by many to be lacking in taste. European motifs would have been acceptable, but Australian animals and flowers were not really respectable enough for a chapel! It was, however, in keeping with the daring Art Nouveau decoration of the Chapel, and with the passing of time Prenzel's artistry has become one of the treasures of the College.
It was easy to imagine then the shock one morning some time ago when three of the animals from the pew-ends were missing. Souveniring of one sort or another, often by outsiders, there probably has always been in a College like Trinity, but this was something of a different order: the entire effect of the interior had suffered through this vandalism.
The Bandicoot.
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We were eventually able to gain the help of Mrs Schubert, a skilled wood-carver from Nunawading, who came in one day to see the damage and to take measurements. We asked if she would like to take some of the animals with her to copy, but
she replied that she would much prefer to continue Prenzel's tradition by making her own contribution. Two months later three superb replacements arrived. They were a bandicoot, a ring-tailed possum, and a kangaroo rat. This last was particularly attractive, having a joey in its pouch. The only way they can be distinguished from the others is that they have not yet acquired that shine that comes from age. In time of course this will come. Incidentally, ALL the animals are now secured on their pews with both dowels and Araldite! When you next come to College, why not take a little time out to spend in the Chapel to see the new animals and the other carvings. They are well worth it. We are grateful to the Reverend Rodney Oliver for the above article. Rodney has now become Vicar of Dandenong after five years as Chaplain of Trinity. Our warmest good wishes to him and Lesley for the challenging task ahead. The new chaplain will be the Reverend Dr. Peter Wellock who arrives shortly after Easter. The Revd. Rodney Oliver.
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TRINITY ROWING PREMIERS 1982 After losing last year to Ormond, the Trinity Firsts in the Arthur Godfrey recovered the premiership we last held in 1980, with a decisive win over Ormond by six lengths. The coaching was shared by John Harry and Will Ballieu. The Seconds, coached by Harry Asche, in the W. Balcombe Griffiths were equally impressive, again defeating Ormond by three lengths. Dinner in Hall was a little noisy on 17th March, especially when the cox was carried triumphantly in upon the Mervyn-Bourne Higgins Shield. The sense of a victory celebration was maintained the following evening at the E. S. Hughes Club Dinner for present and former Trinity oarsmen and oarswomen. Trinity First VIII First drink immediately after winning the final From L. to R. Richard Hall, Jim Zwar, Hamish Murphy, Jeremy Jowett, Geoff Hamilton, John Negri, Michael Keeley (Captain of Boats), Martin Scott, Mark Carnegie.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR "A College provides . . . . a stimulating community to which to belong" (Sir James Darling, June 19th, 1981). This community does not cease to be when one leaves the College; members form the links of an on-going chain. Nor does the link itself disintegrate when the College students become members of the wider community. On the contrary, their involvement in this wider community prevents the chain from turning in on itself.
terest) for publication in the Newsletter. Please include name and address, although a nom-de-plume would be used on request. Deadline for next issue: 12th June 1982
Although we report on the activities of those associated directly and indirectly with Trinity a more tangible connection would be established if we were to publish people's immediate feelings on various issues, their thoughts on past events and plans for the future.
We have received the following letter in response to comments made in the last Newsletter regarding student laundry problems.
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Address: The Editor, Trinity College Newsletter, Trinity College, PARKVILLE, Victoria 3052.
"In the `Old Days' I would say that all `Gentlemen of Trinity' sent their washing out to a laundry and that this was a convenience arranged for the gentle-
men by Mrs Rya11. I would think (as I remember it) that no gentlemen invited their `mothers' to deal with this demanding procedure and quite a number of them were not really `in situ" as it were, e.g. Hedstrom - Suva Juttner - Adelaide de Crespigny - Adelaide Piercey - Tasmania Wood - Tasmania just to mention a few. I must confess that I (in common with the present generation of students) now do my own laundry which I consider to be just retribution for the years I spent in Trinity being thoroughly spoiled." J. Malcolm Piercey (1930)
EDMUND FRANCIS HERRING. G.C.M.G., K.B.E., C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C., E.D., K.S. & J., M.A., D.C.L., Q.C. Trinity College's earliest record of Edmund Francis Herring is the Application for Admission Form dated 21st February, 1909. He entered Trinity in 1911, having decided to return to Melbourne Grammar School for another year. He had won a Perry Scholarship. His one year in College could be taken as a paradigm of the life and career which was to follow. He finished the year gaining first class honours in Greek and Latin and winning the Exhibition in each. At the very beginning of the year he had been invited to play in the University First XI, and later he played in the University Tennis IV. Just before sitting for his University examinations in 1911 he was elected a Rhodes Scholar, the first Victorian undergraduate to win a Rhodes Scholarship. The following is taken from the Fleur-de-Lys, 1912: "E. F. Herring entered College in 1911. After one year's residence he left respected by all with whom he came in contact. His life in College was marked by clear common sense, and a fine spirit of modesty, while his unfailing good temper made him popular with seniors and freshmen alike. His sports and his work need no mention, but those who were with him can testify to a character straightforward and purposeful, which must approach closely that of an ideal Rhodes Scholar." It is remarkable how precisely his life was to fulfil that assessment, for it was a splendid fulfilment of that early promise. His success came to him as the acceptence of vocation, and there is ample evidence that those qualities of modesty, unfailing good temper, straightforwardness and clear purpose never forsook him. He left Trinity for New College, Oxford, and a full life in those spacious pre-war days, but from the very outbreak of war in 1914 he was on active service, first as a trooper, and finally as a major, and decorated with the M.C. and D.S.O. He returned to Oxford to complete his studies gaining his M.A. and B.C.L., and then in Melbourne began his career in law. The newlyappointed Warden, J.C.V. Be-
Sir Edmund Herring han, lost no time in inviting him to become a member of the College Council, and from 1919 to 1979 he served the College faithfully in that capacity, with interruptions due only to war service and when acting as Governor of Victoria. As the College files attest, he worked with four successive Wardens on terms of close co-operation and friendship. When the second World War broke out he left his legal work to resume his military profession, for his interest in the army had never flagged and between the wars he had worked assiduously in the citizen army, and he was a Brigadier when he joined the A.I.F. He served in the campaigns in Palestine and Egypt, at Tobruk and Benghazi, in Greece and Syria. He returned to Australia at the crisis of the Japanese threat of invasion to take up commands in the Northern Territory and Papua New Guinea. In 1943 he received the high distinction of being knighted while a serving officer
and then in 1949 was elevated to Knight Commander of St. Michael and St. George. Then, in 1944 Lt. General Sir Edmund Herring was recalled to Victoria to become Chief Justice. In that office he is remembered for his contribution to the development of the law in Victoria and to the standing of the court. He was Chief Justice for 20 years. He was LieutenantGovernor for 27 years, and Chancellor of the Diocese of Melbourne for 40 years. As well as this he took a keen and active interest in many youth and welfare organisations. Quite literally he served both Church and State, living up to the Trinity College motto: Pro patria, pro ecclesia. After his membership of the Council ceased through the passing of the Trinity College bill incorporating the College, he was made a Fellow under the new Constitution. He died on 5th January, 1982. It is with pride and thanksgiving that we look back upon his life, and his devotion to this College from youth to old age. 13
THE REVD. DR PETER WELLOCK, TRINITY'S NEW CHAPLAIN Shortly after Easter, Dr Peter Wellock and his wife Barbara will arrive to take up residence in Stewart House, next to the College tennis courts at the far end of Jeopardy. Bearded and forty-eight years of age, Peter Wellock succeeds a long line of Trinity chaplains, which include such names as Esmond Sutton, T. M. Robinson, John Falkingham, Alfred Bird, Barry Marshall, James Grant, Jim Minchin, Roger Sharr and Rodney Oliver. He is by training a religious educator, and comes to Melbourne after four years as Curriculum Officer in Religious Studies for the Education Department of Western Australia. He has attended two international conferences on the theme of Christian education, one in Peru in 1971 and one in Switzerland three years ago. He has also published numerous articles in this area in such journals as Christian Education and Education. Education and priesthood have been intertwined for many years in Peter Wellock's life, and complement each other — as they must do in a College like Trinity. After graduating from Melbourne with a B.A. in 1956, and a Dip.Ed. in 1957 (followed by a Bachelor of Education in 1960), he taught as a secondary teacher for four years for the Victorian Education Department. He was ordained deacon during this period, and after being priested by Bishop Winter went as curate to Mildura at the end of 1959. From there he returned to St. Oswald's Glen Iris before going on missionary service to Fiji in 1964. During his eight years based in Suva, Peter Wellock combined parish experience with theological college tutoring and lecturing. He became Diocesan Education Officer in 1971, with oversight of two secondary and six primary schools, parish education programmes, and parish in-service training. Doctoral studies followed his return to Australia in 1973, where he was five years Executive Director of the Churches' Commission on Education in Western Australia (1973-1978). This period gave him not only the opportunity to develop his 14
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gifts of administrative leadership and academic excellence, but also to increase his ecumenical sympathies and contacts. He completed his Doctorate of Philosophy in the History of Education at Murdoch University, W.A., in 1977, and for four years was a visiting lecturer at Murdoch University and Claremont Teachers' College. Trinity very much looks forward to having a chaplain with such a wide range of pastoral, educational and academic experience. He flew over from Perth for an interview with the Warden early in the morning of Christmas Day, shortly before leaving for a period of longservice leave in Britain. Dr. Burge sums up his impressions as follows:
"By background and temperament Peter Wellock seems an ideal chaplain to relate well to all the students in Trinity. He is warm, well balanced, and very approachable. He is also a good listener. His informality should appeal to many students who find the Anglican style of a mixed liturgy rather daunting, and even cold, at first sight. I hope he will encourage discussion in the College on serious matters of human values as well as on more specifically religious questions. We are fortunate to have a magnificent chapel and a fine musical and liturgical tradition. Our task now is to speak a relevant word to all our students and not only the religious ones — for they are among those who will determine what kind of country Australia will be in the next generation."
SOME COLLEGE STATISTICS 1982 Basic Residential Fee $3,069 (for 31 weeks) (= $99 per week) Total Number of Resident Students: 250 (96 women, 154 men) Number of New Residents admitted in 1982: 87 (61 first-years, 26 later years) Total Number of Applicants: 256 Number of Different Schools in the Intake: 32 Number of Freshers from Melbourne Grammar: 19 Number of Freshers from Geelong Grammar: 15 Number of Freshers from State High Schools: 8
NEWS OF TRINITY MEMBERS — In response to our request for information from Trinity members, we received the following which does indicate that academic achievement is not the only kind of record we should be keeping of members. It has now been duly recorded. William Henry BAILEY (1921) — Returned from active service May 1919, released from A.I.F. to do a medical course; did three years — changed to Arts/Law; sent down for objecting to compulsory Chapel — went into lodgings in Parkville. Did not complete a degree. Captain of the University Cricket Team for six years — including the only pennant premiership the M.U.C.C. had had. Alan G. L. SHAW (1935) — Professor of History at Monash University (Emeritus in 1982) has recently published: Sir George Arthur, 1784-1854, a biography (1980). Robert Henry ROBERTSON (1947) — took up duty as Deputy High Commissioner in London in April 1981. Prior to that he was Ambassador to Yugoslavia, Rumania and Bulgaria and then Ambassador to Italy (19791981). John Janis SKUJA (1955) — has now moved from Tasmania to Camden, N.S.W. where he is Chief Projects Engineer, Clutha Development Pty. Ltd. Daryl John DALEY (1957) — has been made Senior Fellow of the Statistics Department, A.N.U. David TOWNSEND (1957) — Vicar of St. Luke's, Frankston. We send our congratulations to him on being the joint-winner of the "Age" `Tabloid Story' competition. The co-winner was James McQueen, a journalist and writer. David's story was entitled "Over the Edge". Richard G. H. COTTON (1959) — a Research Scientist in the field of Biochemical Genetics has been appointed Deputy Director of the Birth Defects Research Institute (University of Melbourne). John MORGAN (1961) — has been appointed Warden of St. John's College, University of Queensland, and began his duties in January. John has been closely associated with Trinity College particularly over the past three years during his term of office as Chaplain to
the University of Melbourne. St. John's is looking forward to a good year. It could hardly be anything else with Trinity men filling the positions of Warden, Vice-Warden (Ron Marks) and Chaplain (Ronald Henderson). We send John our congratulations and good wishes. He succeeds another Trinity man, Peter Carnley, who is now Archbishop of Perth. John Elston GARDENER (1962) — has for the past five years been doing research work in ultra-sound at the Medical Physics Department of the University College Hospital at London University. Robert Cort HADDON (1962) is working as a scientist at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey, U.S.A. Peter LOWENSTERN (1964) — has retired from the Hamilton firm of Cameron and Lowenstein to join Myer Shopping Centres Pty. Ltd. as its legal officer. Barry David APSEY (1966) — has been appointed Deputy Director of Correctional Services in Victoria. John Talbot PATTEN (1966) — writes from New York, where he is practising as Child Psychiatrist and Family Therapist. Ia.n GOWRIE-SMITH (1967) — married Jan-Maree Lussick 24th January, 1982. He is the Company Director of I.G.S. Enterprises Pty. Ltd., and lives in Sydney. David TUCKER (1968) — returned to Sydney last December after spending two years in Vancouver, B.C., Canada, on transfer from Esso Australia Ltd. He is with Esso Australia Minerals Dept. in Sydney. Alastair ARMSTRONG (1969) — who has been working with B.A. Australia Limited as a Merchant Banker for the past five years is about to be posted to Hong Kong for a two year transfer to the parent company, the Bank of America. This will involve extensive travel within the Asian region. Stephen CORDNER (1971) — has been appointed Lecturer in Forensic Medicine at Guy's Hospital in London, and is also pursuing a Law Degree. Russell JOYCE (1972) — has returned from three and a half years in New Zealand, having
worked in the Diocese of Dunedin and Bishopric of Aotearoa. His new appointment is to the Cathedral Parish, Wangaratta. Rodney PHILLIPS (1972) — who left Trinity in July 1980 spent six months in Rabaul, Papua New Guinea, and then in February of this year took up an appointment at Guy's Hospital in London for six months. He has just commenced a two year appointment in Oxford as Medical Registrar at the Radcliffe Infirmary. He and Kristen Headlam (1975) are planning to marry early next year. He has met several other Trinity members including John Glover (1973) who has recovered from a serious car accident, and is now married to Mandy Milne (1974), Charles J. M. Sampford (1971), Peter Robinson (1975) all at Magdalen College, and Elsdon Storey (1973) at the Radcliffe Infirmary. James David GRIFFITHS (1973) — and his wife Barbara A. Szwede, MBBS, have a baby daughter Anna Nicole. James is Registrar in Haematology at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. Rory SHERIDAN (1974) — is now a solicitor in the City with the Ministry of Transport. Peter CHAMPNESS (1975) — is starting in February a Radiology Registrar at PANCH. He has just completed a two year engagement with the RAN during which time he served in HMAS Cerberus, Westernport Bay. Mark Gregory ELLIOTT (1975) — married Karen Rands on 9th May 1981. After serving as a Graduate Officer at the Cadet School, Portsea, with his first posting with the 11th Field Ambulance in Brisbane, and a second at the Army Apprentices School, he resigned and is now Trainee Manager, World Vision of Australia, and living at Mount Martha. Rowan STORY (1976) — is at the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh as an Oral Surgeon. He is married, has gained his Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons, and will probably be returning to Australia later this year. Kathryn Elizabeth THACKER (1976) — now Mrs Jeffrey Graeme Long, resident at McCaughey Court, Ormond College, graduated MBBS and is working at St. Vincent's Hospital. 15
Brett SULLIVAN (1977) — is
now Technical Officer at Bruck Mill in Wangaratta, working on the chemical finishing (dyeing and fixing) of textiles. Helen SYMON (1977) — is at present working for Phillips, Fox and Mazel as a back up to the firm's litigation lawyers. Ian McDONALD (1978) — a member of the Trinity Chapel Choir for four years, has been admitted to the choir of King's College Cambridge. He recently sang the alto solo part in Handel's Messiah in the Brunswick Town Hall. Tony ROUSE (tutor 1978) — is now working as an Industrial Chemist at I.C.I. Explosives Factory at Deer Park. He is particularly concerned with research into, and the development of, explosives for use in mining. He continues his interest in playing the piano. Malcolm McCONVILLE (1979) — has recently returned from four months in the Antarctic. His special interest is research in marine botany.
ENGAGEMENTS Jenny HALLOWES (1977) engaged to David Perkins on 20th February 1982.
We regret the deaths of the following College members: Geoffrey Newman-Morris (1927) John Alan Bult (1930) Gavan Andrew Gibson (1939) Raymond Frank StuartBurnett (1935)
Kirsty Alexandra Nairn (1981) Edmund Francis Herring (1911) Raymond Alan Stuart (1927) Colin Henry Keon-Cohen (1926) Frank George Jones (1926) Robert Robertson Cecil Wyndham Marsh (1926) Miss Mary Fuge Bagnall, Principal of Janet Clarke Hall 19521958. 16
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CONGRATULATIONS At the Memorial Service for Sir John Behan in St. Paul's Cathedral on 4th October 1957, the address was given by the then Bishop of Geelong, the Right Reverend John McKie. The following is an extract from that address: What of the man himself? One sign of growing old, most of us find, is that we better remember people we met when we were young than those we met last year. At all events we recall those who made an impression on us, and each of us here will have our special memories of this friend of ours. When I think of him, my mind turns back to his public speaking — those balanced periods, and convoluted sentences arriving inevitably at last to their full stop — to his dignified exit from Chapel and the click of the latch as he opened the door — to being present as an under-graduate at dinner parties in the Lodge in those spacious days when Heads of Houses could entertain in the traditional manner to the Lodge drawingroom in darkness except for the light over the gramophone, playing, of course, the music of the master — to his mordant humour breaking out often when you least expected it. Michael Thwaites recalls an instance of "those balanced periods, and convoluted sentences arriving inevitably at last to their full stop":Gentlemen of the College are warned against entering the Bull Pen in pursuit of tennis balls. The animal there installed is of uncertain temper, and, as the walls are not easy to climb, anyone entering the pen would be likely to sustain serious injury before he could be rescued. Application for the recovery of tennis balls should be made to the cowman, who, by manipulation of the gates, can secure himself against the risk of attack. Notice posted on Trinity College noticeboard by the Warden, Dr. J. C. V. Behan, (c. 1934).
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Brian Loton (1950), appointed Managing Director of B.H.P.
Phillip Newell (1958), elected Bishop of' Tasmania
Sir Lanee Townsend (1930) ad Professor
Manning Clark (1934), elected
Fellows of the College FOR YOUR DIARY
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