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TRINITY COLLEGE NEWSLETTER
A PUBLICATION OF TRINITY COLLEGE WITHIN THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE Registered by Australia Post — Publication No. VBG 4336
No. 17
JULY 1982
A GRUELLING BUT PRODUCTIVE TERM From the Warden, Dr Evan Burge I don't remember any time in my life quite so busy as the present: every aspect of College life seems on the move. At the student level — which is what counts above all — there has been some exciting blossoming of artistic talents. It was a great day when several students came to request the provision of an art room in the College. Others came soon after with news of a series of lunch hour concerts they were arranging in the Chapel. Best of all, these skills are being put at the service of the whole College community and are universally appreciated. Notices of coming events around the College are often artistic, lively, and witty. This year's College play, Our Town, by Thornton Wilder, was a fine theatrical event with some exceptionally good acting, and a deeply moving last scene. In sport, we are now neck and neck with Ormond in points for the Cowan Cup while the women are again leading in the Holmes Cup competition. There is plenty of participation and training — which explains our decisive victories in rowing, athletics and soccer. In cricket, we narrowly lost the final to Ormond (our best result for some years). Our football results were again disappointing, in spite of our having the best and most determined team for years. Next year, perhaps? It is not these things, however, which have been occupying most of my time. Behind the scenes, there has been a great deal of preparation going on for the future launching of the Trinity Foundation. As with the foundation of a building, there is much to be done before anything spectacular appears above the surface. Among other things, Mr John Hopkins, the Director of the Foundation, has organised a series of dinners and discussions attended by former members of the T.C.A.C. Committees over the years. These have been invaluable both for giving us good advice and for building up enthusiasm. Part of my work has been to write a detailed document stating the case for supporting the Foundation. Another current enterprise has been a thorough review of College staffing and management conducted on an honorary basis by McKinsey and Co. Inc. The report (which will be confidential), is yet to be presented, but already it is clear that the College stands to benefit greatly from the work. It is no accident that the person heading up McKinsey's in Australia is Bill Cowan, former Senior Student and son of the third Warden. Yet another investigation is in process to discover whether or
not there would be substantial advantages if Trinity and Ormond shared their catering arrangements. No decision has yet been made, but the investigation so far has included such matters as forming a company to run the joint venture, recompense for the use of shared facilities and equipment, and the "cook/chill" system of producing meals for a whole week in a 40-hour, five-day week, using a common kitchen. A fourth, and very exciting project is the restoration of the Chapel fabric. The College is indebted almost beyond words to the generosity of Mr Robert Cripps and the companies with which he is associated. Over the years, the Chapel has been admired more and more as an architectural masterpiece and as a superb auditorium for music. It is in almost continuous use for worship, prayer, and meditation. At the same time, its physical condition has become more and more worrying as the large west window has become increasingly dangerous, and the sandstone pinnacles and plinth facings have broken and crumbled. Thanks to Mr Cripps'. generosity, the work of restoring all this will soon begin. With all this and more on the Warden's plate you will understand my pleasure at having Dr Peter Wellock, Trinity's new Chaplain, fully immersed in the job, not only ensuring the pastoral care of the College students and staff but shouldering some of the administrative burden as well. Equally, it is good to welcome back Dr John Gaden, Director of the Theological School, after seven months' study leave (details of which are printed elsewhere in this Newsletter). Bishop John McKie, to whom we owe so much for looking after things during Dr Gaden's absence, will be keeping in touch. Like so many of our graduates, he now has a daughter in College. Elsewhere in this Newsletter is an article on the nature of a College, written by a Trinity man, Dr John Morgan (1961), who is now Warden of St John's College, Brisbane. It sets out some of the goals which must always be held before the eyes of those who are responsible for the welfare of our Colleges. To fulfill our obligations in Trinity, we need the continuing and generous support and interest of all our College members. The programme of the Trinity Foundation, shortly to begin, will give us all the opportunity to acknowledge enthusiastically the debt we owe to "The Dear Old Coll.", and to those whose faith and idealism have left us such a magnificent heritage.
THE SCHOLARS' DINNER AND WELCOME TO THE NEW CHAPLAIN Wednesday, 2nd June 1982 saw the inauguration of what will become a College tradition, the Scholars' Dinner, at which the achievements of the scholars in the Trinity College community are recognised, just as the achievements of sporting teams are. As the Warden pointed out in this toast to the scholars, the pursuit of academic excellence constitutes one of the prime reasons for the existence of a College such as Trinity, and so it was fitting that the scholars be recognised. The Dean then read the list of scholars for 1982: ENTRANCE SCHOLARS Major Samantha KIRWAN-HAMILTON Russell KNEEBONE Poh Sun GOH Philip LARWILL Stephen HOWES Minor Samantha BURCHELL Peter ANDERSON Kelly WHITE Stephen GRANT Guy BOAG Yuhan LIM Sarah MALLARD
The Revd. Dr. Peter Wellock, after his installation as Chaplain on Sunday, 6th June 1982, with the Archbishop of Melbourne, The Most Revd. Robert Dann.
SENIOR SCHOLARS Major Bruce DAVIE ane O'SULLIVAN Peter HEBBARD Peter SUMMERS Glen RIDDLE Duncan McFARLANE eremy BRASINGTON Alan HAJEK
recall that a friend of mine at Magdalen, Oxford, told me that on one occasion when a Don had died, the Senior Common Room sent a wreath as a mark of respect. One of the Dons called at the College Office and asked that the account be sent to him to settle: but the Secretary said: 'There is no need for that, Sir, all wreaths in this College are paid for from the Entertainment Fund!' There are unusual aspects of Trinity life: for example we have a Dean who does not have a Cathedral; we have a Bulpadock without a bull; we have an Arthur without a Round Table!
Minor Georgina BINNS ohn WEBB-WARE Bae BASTIAN
Words play an important part in University life. I like the story of the Tutor and the student who did not get on. The student did little work and for one essay the Don gave him nought. The student paraded himself in high dudgeon and said: 'I don't think it is right for you to give me nought for my essay.' 'Neither do I,' said the Tutor, 'but I cannot give you any less.'
POST-GRADUATE SCHOLARS Falkiner Fellowships Jeff TRAHAIR Peter McKAY Howard Fulford Medical Research Fellowship Karen FORSYTH
May I conclude by saying two things. First, may I ask you to help the Chaplain feel at home. It is a big College now and it is difficult to meet with a crowd of people that one does not know. Do please regard it as a duty to be hospitable and welcoming to him: you will find it not only a duty but a pleasure as well.
The enthusiasm with which the College supported the new "tradition" has ensured its longevity. The Dinner was combined with the welcome to the new Chaplain, Dr Peter Wellock. The Right Reverend John D. McKie proposed the toast to Dr Wellock, the major part of which is reproduced here:
Secondly, the Chaplain of this College is in the line of a great tradition. If you look at photographs of Dons of the Ancient Universities in the latter part of the last century, you will notice how many of them are clergymen. They are clergymen, they look like clergymen, and they don't mind looking like clergymen. They can be proud of the fact that the Christian Faith has been an essential part of these great seats of learning for centuries.
"It is a privilege to be entrusted with this toast tonight. We are fortunate that Peter Wellock has come to us; he does so with a very distinguished record. He holds two degrees from this University, and a Doctorate from the Murdoch University. He has had wide pastoral experience in parishes in Victoria, then in Suva, and latterly he has served in the West, where he was Director of the Churches Education Commission. In all this he has gained the trust and confidence of those with whom he has worked. He and his wife will provide here a household of friendship and of concern.
There is a splendid sentence of Canning referring to America. He spoke of 'A New World being called into existence to redeem the balance of the old.' This University was founded as a secular institution, but Christian men like William Parkinson Wilson and Charles Perry, late of Trinity College, Dublin and Trinity College, Cambridge, could not think of a New World
He is very much at home in University life and appreciates its peculiarities. What I mean is that in an academic setting unexpected things often happen. I 2
here without the Christian Faith, so this place was founded. Founded so that each of its members should be called, challenged, to a discipline of thinking and a discipline of life involved in the Christian Faith. I give you the toast to the man whose special care will guide those so called — The Chaplain, Dr Peter Wellock."
FRIENDS OF TRINITY PICNIC AND ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
The Chaplain, in his reply and toast to the College, made the point that although now, attendance at Chapel was not compulsory, the opposite was not true; students did not have to stay away from Chapel!
Sunday, 28th March 1982. The Friends of Trinity Annual Picnic must rank as one of those "never-to-be-forgotten" occasions. The food was excellent, the wine flowed freely, and so did the rain!
To the question: "What do you expect of a Chaplain?" most students had replied: "To be a friend."
Over 300 people crammed into the Dining Hall (built to accommodate 250 at most), preferring the intimacy of Collegiate style dining to the wet and slushy Bulpadock (with or without cows!).
"That is my desire. I trust titles and stereotypes won't get in the way. Once, when visiting a school, the teacher pointed out to the children that I was not a doctor like the one who had recently given them injections. Rather, I was like the doctor seen on television — Dr Who! Well, should you see me late at night peering into telephone boxes, don't be worried. It will just be the Chaplain looking for a new confessional!
No small effort was required on the part of the Committee, who had earlier converted the Hall into a temporary kitchen, to transform it, this time, into an impromptu picnic ground, complete with red napkins and plastic glasses. The Arcadian scene was completed with wandering minstrels who could not wander, but whose dulcet tones issuing forth from the vicinity of the High Table, rendered mellifluous the constant babble of voices.
When I was a student at Melbourne University I did not have any real interest in Colleges, they were a mystery to me. Now I realise what I missed. On the material side there is the campus, the library, the closeness of the University. On the other side, we have a caring community, a diversity of tribal activities (sport, dinners, the Ball, Juttoddie, the Tutorial programme, the Chapel).
In the early afternoon the skies cleared enough for the Annual General Meeting to be held outside. The President, Mr Barrie Purvis, welcomed the families and friends and presented the Executive Committee's report: "We were privileged to have the Right Reverend John McKie to preach at Mattins this morning. It was quite nostalgic for those of us who remember with affection Bishop McKie's period as Chaplain of the College during which time he endeared himself to the theologs and others, by, amongst other things, beating Father Bird at noughts and crosses on the fogged windows of the Leeper Building as they descended in the chill of a winter's day after one of Elly's famous morning teas.
Let us remember the words which will be put to the three new Fellows on Sunday night (6th June 1982): "Do you accept and support the objects of the College ... including the provision of an academic community in which the Christian Faith, sound learning, critical discussion, social responsibility and ideals of community service are encouraged; and where students from a wide range of disciplines are able to share in the academic, social and recreational opportunities of Collegiate life?"
The Executive Committee is pleased to report that after consultation with the Senior Student on behalf of the T.C.A.C. it was able to meet the cost of a new sound system which students will have available for social occasions instead of having to hire the equipment at considerable expense and I have much pleasure in asking the Senior Student, Michael Traill, to accept this cheque with our best wishes in the hope that we are not, in so doing, contributing too greatly to the work of the Deafness Foundation.
The Fellows answer: "We do." I trust we do too. Let us stand and drink to these objectives and to making them a reality. The College."
The service for the installation of the Chaplain was combined with the recognition of three new Fellows of the College. Professor Manning Clark, Sir Lance Townsend (in the above photograph with the Warden of the College, Dr Evan Burge). Insert: Sir John Bunting.
The President of the Friends of Trinity, Mr Barrie Purvis, presents the Senior Student, Michael Traill, with the cheque to pay for a new sound system.
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A special word of appreciation to the Warden for his continuing encouragement and guidance of our endeavours. With all he has to do and put up with, I often wonder whether he doesn't think we aren't more trouble that we are worth. Finally, our thanks to all of you, students and friends, for participating in and making this occasion so successful and enjoyable."
smaller society within the University. Here, in Australia, membership of a College is an optional extra. Yet some of the original essential features of the original Colleges flourish as strongly as they do, or ever did, at Oxford or Cambridge. I have found it interesting to compare Residential College life as it is found in various Universities across the world. Last year at Harvard I was able to enjoy some association with one of the Houses in which second and later year students live after their fresher year in Harvard Yard. I found this a contrast to both my Oxford and Melbourne experiences of Collegiate living. Yet at the same time there were strong similarities. The principal feature of all successful Collegiate living is where it is seen as more than the provision of living space, and where there is a combination of social, academic, cultural and sporting activities. In most of the Australian and Oxbridge Colleges there is also a religious element. In the form in which Collegiate living has developed in Australia there is a real possibility of students being colleagues of each other, of meeting across disciplines and of coming together for the total life of the community. Most of the Australian Colleges have retained a small enough scale for this to be a real possibility. Certainly this has been lost sight of in the Universities as a whole where in many of them total enrolments exceeds 15,000 full-time students. The unique contribution which the Colleges can make to Australian University life has been recognised for a long time by the Commonwealth Government which gave large capital grants during the sixties for buildings at the Colleges, although these are now rarely given. However, the annual grants for support of administration and teaching in the Colleges still continue, though there is a constant questioning of these. Last year the Tertiary Education Commission agreed to accept as the basis of continuing funding for the Colleges a set of criteria developed a couple of years ago by the Association of Heads of Residential Colleges and Halls of Universities of Australia. It is a useful exercise to consider these criteria in relation to the life of a particular College, and indeed the T.E.C. has required that this year each College should submit a full report of its activities under headings derived from the original Heads of Colleges statement.
Two typical poses — Bishop John McKie and Sir Joseph Burke, at the Friends of Trinity Picnic.
THE COLLEGIATE EXPERIENCE (from an article by The Revd. Dr John Morgan, Warden of St John's College, University of Queensland. Dr Morgan is a former resident and Tutor of Trinity College).
The statement reads: DEFINITION OF COLLEGIATE RESIDENCE Because Colleges and Halls of Residence are integral parts of Universities, we believe that the distinction between Collegiate and non-Collegiate residences must be defined in "academic" rather than "accommodation" terms. To be Collegiate a residence must include substantial provision for: Dr John Morgan
After a half decade during which it seemed as if their future existence was in doubt, the Residential University Colleges of Australia have entered upon a period of renewed popularity. Most of them have waiting lists and most receive in applications many times the number of available places in any year.
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the academic development of residents, and
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the social and cultural development of residents.
ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENT How this development takes place will vary from place to place but should include:
The reasons for this changed situation are varied. On the one hand, there is a general shortage of rental accommodation in metropolitan areas, and, on the other, there has been a return to the ideals of Collegiate life after a period when this seemed to have been rejected. It is this ideal which underlies the foundation by the Churches of Residential Colleges in the original Australian Universities — and in some of the new Universities too. The ideal of Collegiate life as it has developed in Australia differs from that of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge which are, of course, completely Collegiate in nature, and where entry to the University means first membership of a 4
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Formal or informal tutorials.
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Debate or discussion on matters of current concern.
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Visiting speakers from the University or the community.
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Association with the residence of University staff members and others of scholarly or professional distinction.
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The provision of good study facilities including, where possible and desirable, a library.
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Oversight of the academic progress of residents.
SOCIAL AND CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
An eight-day Retreat with a young Filipino Jesuit as Director showed me that given the right conditions (no family distractions, meals and mass-priests laid on, a quiet location), I could spend months this way and really feel I was praying, but reality and hence the kind of spirituality needed for ordinary people is not like this. Not that Fr Benny thought it was, for he took me with him on the Sunday morning to share in his weekly visitation of a squatter re-settlement area in the hills outside Manila to remind me that this is where I should find Christ, and so I did in the faces of the little children and at the bedside of a dying man.
This implies a community which: (1)
Provides pastoral care for all its members and especially for first year students.
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Encourages its members to take responsibility for the various aspects of its life.
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Creates opportunities for members to meet across faculty, national and socio-economic boundaries.
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Fosters social, cultural and sporting activities.
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Accepts responsibility for the adequate nutrition of its residents, and provides formal and communal dining within the residence with due regularity.
To sum up the Philippines for me — a contrast of graft and casual incompetence with vital, welcoming people whose resilient faith is stopped by nothing. To be snowbound in the South of England for a week in early January by the fiercest storm for years was quite a change from Manila, but the arrival of the family saw us heading North for Durham.
We therefore affirm that a Collegiate style residence is one which deliberately creates opportunities for the academic, social and cutural development of its members. We further affirm that the operation of Collegiate style residence requires a significant administrative structure, headed by a Principal, Warden or Master.
Five months later we had only begun to come to terms with life in a small town consisting of three fairly distinct communities — Church (Cathedral and six parish churches, so crawling with clergy), University (5000 students and staff), and Locals (shopkeepers, miners and unemployed). In addition, by March, there was the daily influx of tourists and school parties, those modern pilgrims, many from the Continent, who flock to historic sities and for whom Church and State provide in a most resourceful way. They are after all a major source of revenue, but in return there are rich opportunities for learning, time to stand in awe at the faith and work of former generations, and a sense of belonging to a long tradition of life, belief and culture.
All of this means that we cannot allow ourselves to sit back on our laurels, as it were. We must be looking constantly at ways in which the activities of the College will enhance the life of all who are members of it.
FACES AROUND THE COLLEGE Dr John Gaden The Revd. John Gaden, Stewart Lecturer in Divinity and Director of the Trinity Theological School, has recently returned after seven months overseas. The first two months were spent in the Philippines and the remaining five months mostly in England where his family joined him.
Using Durham as a base, we explored some of this heritage. For myself, besides reading and book buying, the production of which as Bede knew well there is no end (cf. Eccles. 12:12), there was an exhilarating fortnight over Holy Week at the General Theological Seminary, New York.
My time in the Philippines was full of amazing experiences — masses of joyful and hospitable people, where even the poorest squatters were glad to share with me what little boiled rice and thin soup they had: a naturally religious folk, where "religion" covered everything from the seeming superstition of pagan animism in the villages of the Northern Mountain Province and the hope of miraculous cures or blessings at sacred shrines, such as that of the Black Nazarene in Quiapo (Manila), to the wedding fiesta with its solemn nuptial mass, ritual dancing and all night feasting to an antiadministration political meeting in the South that began with hymns, closed with prayers and interspersed hard-nosed planning with Biblical exposition.
The Episcopal Church seemed so much more lively and creative in its response to the present than the Church of England, where theology is generally divorced from the life of the Church and from the world around, and the Church itself is often out of touch. And where does it all leave us? We are refreshed, not necessarily bursting with new ideas, but re-invigorated by a new focus on essentials.
TWO RECENT VISITORS PROFESSOR GEOFF WATSON A visitor to the College in June was Professor Geoff Watson from the Statistics Department of Princeton University, United States of America. Professor Watson is no stranger to Trinity, being a resident student here during the forties, and later Tutor in Mathematics. His interest in this field took him not to England, where most of his academic peers gravitated, but to the University of North Carolina, where he carried out research. However, the "yen for Cambridge" together with his desire to try out the ski fields of Europe, overtook him, and he accepted a research post at Cambridge, and at the same time completed his thesis for his Ph.D. which he submitted to the University of North Carolina. Professor Watson has come to Trinity from South Africa where he gave a number of lectures, and returns to America via Japan where he will meet his eldest son Michael, who works for the language firm, Simul, teaching Japanese to business people and industrialists.
Dr John Gaden, back in the Summer-house!
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This proposal generated spirited discussion, particularly from a group who loudly extolled the obvious advantages that a death mask presented when compared to a portrait painted by an artist. The motion was carried narrowly and it was agreed that a small sub-committee be formed to find a possible artist, to determine his likely fee and then to seek financial support from the College Council and the Union of the Fleur-de-Lys.
Dr HAL ODDIE Dr Thomas Harold (Hal) Oddie (1929), the co-founder with Dr Colin Juttner of the renowned Trinity annual steeplechase known as the Juttoddie, came to lunch with the Warden on 25th June. For many years he has lived in California, at Palos Verdes Estates, which is 20 miles or so from Los Angeles. He is a Research Scientist working in a medical field. We gained the impression that the Juttoddie originated through an interest in horse racing, and with the sensible idea of creating the situation where the founders could enjoy the profits of the bookmaker rather than the losses of the punter. We were able to assure Dr Oddie that through all the changes and chances of the 50 years of the running of the race, the bookmakers were still striving, by any foul means, to achieve his objective — and generally with his lack of success.
None of the members of this sub-committee had any great knowledge of art in general, nor portraiture in particular. As such, advice was sought from one "known to be knowledgeable about art", the Vice-Chancellor, Mr J. D. C. Medley. Medley recommended James Quinn for the job and cited several of his works, including a recently completed portrait of Archbishop Booth. Most of these works were viewed, including the Booth portrait, which had returned to the artist's studio for minor alterations, where the sub-committee viewed it and met Quinn. Our problem was put to Quinn and an indicative price was requested. He responded on the spot with a firm quote of ÂŁ300. He must have slipped here, as, in those days, quotes from artists, yearling salesmen and College principals were generally in guineas.
It was a great pleasure to meet Dr Oddie and welcome him to the College. Incidentially, he had just returned from a visit to Dr Juttner, who lives in the environs of Adelaide.
THE SECOND WARDEN'S PORTRAIT
With 20/20 hindsight, it could be said that, had the subcommittee been more sensitive and less enthusiastic, it would have been apparent to them that the development of a satisfactory relationship between Jock, the subject, and Quinn, the artist, would be highly improbable. Quinn's appearance and manner then were somewhat less than personable and his studio in more chaos than one could reasonably expect, even from an artist. A firm price having been obtained, agreement was reached on the question of funding, with the cost to be split evenly between the three interested parties. The Warden was then approached and asked whether he would consent to have his portrait painted, and, if so, would he sit fig. Quinn. Unlike the sub-committee he already knew of Quinn. After some days, during which, presumably, he viewed some of Quinn's works, he happily consented to sit for Quinn. At this point in time, Jock had not met Quinn! The great day for the introduction of Jock to Quinn arrived, an event which Moreton met with some trepidation, as he had been conned into performing this function. It was a very hot day and when an expected taxi failed to appear, Moreton rang the Warden and apologised for the delay. After a second similar apology, Jock suggested a tram instead. When the door opened and the Warden descended into the light of day, the effect was startling. Despite the heat, he was clad in a heavy old brown tweed overcoat from which protruded at the bottom, striped pants and spats, and, at the top, a cravat. This ensemble was crowned by an obviously well loved trilby hat worn at a surprisingly rakish angle. He was lugging a very large suitcase which Moreton grabbed. The tram trip seemed interminable and was uneasy and silent, small talk being the long suit of neither Jack nor Moreton. The tram was very crowded and a large number of women, either approaching the Victoria Market or leaving it towards the City, were obviously fascinated by the spectacle.
Following the publication in the last Newsletter of a photograph of the portrait of Sir John Behan, much interest has been aroused in its origin. Mr F. J. H. Moreton happened to be on the scene at the appropriate time, and gives us the following record of events resulting in the aforementioned work.
Quinn's studio in Collins Street, close to Spencer Street, was eventually reached and the introduction made. Moreton then sought to leave immediately, a suggestion heartily endorsed by the Warden and equally deplored by Quinn. As a compromise, Moreton lingered for a few minutes and became increasingly aware that the two men, in a very short time, had developed either a fear, or a dislike for each other. On reflection, it was probably both.
It would be difficult to class James Quinn's portrait of Dr J. C. V. Behan either as a pleasing work of art or as a fair likeness of Jock and the following notes record the events leading up to this painting.
As Moreton was walking alone to the door, he heard Quinn say: "Jesus! You have a pale face and with all that bloody red on the gown!"
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Moreton was able to contain himself until after he had passed through the door! F. J. Moreton, 7th June 1982
and I well remember seeing him on one occasion, bespectacled as usual, setting off to see the Premier of Victoria about some Legislation he was pressing for the College, attired in morning dress, white spats, black top hat, cravat with pearl pin, and a buttonhole. He was conscious of nothing unusual in his appearance, but, reinforced by his arguments, it evidently so impressed the Premier, who was doubtless accustomed to a more political and democratically attired type of caller, that Behan was very soon back at the College Council meeting to report success. He never admitted defeat, and in spite of his shyness, spoke at many meetings and in many pulpits, in raising funds for the College over the years. He was the "father" of the Australian Rhodes community to whom all his life he was affectionately known as "Jock". It was he, I think, more than any other single individual who succeeded in preserving for the Residential Colleges of the Oxford and Cambridge type a really important place in university development in Australia, at a time when universities, subsidised by large Government grants, were disposed to be somewhat impatient of the system. He set a tremendously high standard as first Victorian Rhodes Scholar, and it is in large part due to his influence that Victoria has had — at any rate until very recently — more firsts at Oxford to its credit than any other Rhodes constituency except, I believe, New Zealand.
Sir Reginald Sholl
We have also received the following letter in response to Sir Clive Fitts' tribute to Sir John Behan: "I have just been reading the admirable April issue of the Trinity College Newsletter, and found it full of interest. Those who produced it are to be congratulated. I was especially interested in the reprint of Sir Clive Fitts' tribute to Sir John Behan ... When Sir John Behan died, I was in England, on leave from the Bench, and first read of his death in The Times Obituary column on 1st October 1957. Thinking the article in The Times barely adequate, I wrote a further appreciation of his personality and achievements which The Times published on 8th October 1957 ..."
When he died he was writing a history of Trinity College — unfortunately, I believe, unfinished. It was characteristic of him, that, although his hand shook so much that he could write only in pencil and with difficulty, he had written some hundreds of papers, many of them re-written several times, when I last saw the unfinished work in draft.
With the permission of Sir Reginald Sholl, we publish the text of his article which gives us yet another insight into the character of the second Warden of Trinity.
He was a very great representative in Australia of the English tradition of careful and detailed scholarship and self-reliance in University and College administration."
"I knew Sir John Behan first when I went up to Trinity College in Melbourne in 1920, soon after he became Warden and had begun the long task of placing that College on a sound financial footing.
UNION OF THE FLEUR-DE-LYS FRIENDS OF TRINITY TRINITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
Tall, precise, and intensely shy, but with a kindly heart, a penetrating mind, and an intellect that delighted in analysis and sub-analysis, he had been a brilliant but rather detached student in the Australian scholastic world as it was at the turn of the century. In the climate of Oxford, to which he came in 1905, he flourished. One story which was told in Melbourne of his achievements, and which I heard afterwards in Oxford when I went up as a student in 1924, was that, desiring to shorten the time spent in taking an Honours B.A. in Jurisprudence, and the B.C.L., he obtained leave to take both examinations at the one time, but found that the last paper of the one clashed with the first paper of the other. Thereupon he obtained leave to spend half the time on each paper, transferring under supervision from one to the other, and in the result obtained, as your Obituary notice mentioned, a first class in each examination. In later years, I asked him about that, and he confirmed the story, saying that he believed it had never been done before or since, so far as he knew.
Some confusion has arisen over the above-named entities. The Union of the Fleur-de-Lys is the organisation to which all former students and tutors of the College belong. It is largely an informal body, with an elected committee. It holds an Annual Dinner in the College and helps to maintain the interest and support of previous students of the College. From time to time, dinners are also held in Sydney, Canberra, Brisbane, Ballarat and other cities. For the past seven years, the Secretary of the Union of the Fleur-de-Lys has been the indefatigable Tony Buzzard. The current President of the Union is the Most Reverend Robert Dann, Archbishop of Melbourne. The Union is a social and not a fund raising body. The Friends of Trinity is made up largely of parents of current students and anyone who indicates a desire to belong, including members of the Fleur-de-Lys. It aims to bring together at social functions (such as picnics and dinners), people with an interest in the welfare of the College, and to raise fairly modest sums for the provision or enhancement of facilities for current students. The President of the Friends of Trinity is Barrie Purvis.
Trinity's gain in Melbourne was Oxford's loss when Behan transferred to Victoria in 1918, for he was a born administrator, though it was many years before he became flexible enough to be as good a disciplinarian. In his 28 years at Trinity he raised nearly £250,000 in benefactions, revised its statutes, put its numerous trusts and trust deeds in "apple-pie" order, and procured the first enactment in the State allowing the pooling of trust funds for investment purposes — a measure which has now been copied for other institutions.
The Trinity College Foundation has been set up by the College Council to raise the very considerable sum required for the long-term security and development of Trinity College. The Foundation will be the guiding force in encouraging financial support for developments which cannot reasonably be paid by student fees. The Foundation is still in its embryonic stage, but it is hoped by August there will be a Board of Governors with a Chairman and an executive committee. The Director of the Foundation is Mr John Hopkins, a former Warden of International House.
All his life he adopted a formality of dress which made him an impressive, and, in Australian society, even a startling figure. He frequently wore spats and a cravat, 7
Appeal to Law Graduates from the Leeper Librarian We are justifiably proud of our Law collection — text books, periodicals, reports and statutes. It has been built up steadily by gift and by using a considerable portion of our annual library budget to continue a tradition which has served our College Law students well over many years.
1982 MARSHALL LECTURE
There are, however, some gaps in our holdings, and we are anxious to fill these if it is at all possible. Would any of our Law graduates be willing to give any of the following as a memorial to their own time in Trinity?
Sunday, 8th August, 1982: 8.15 p.m.
English Reports — Chancery 1970 Australian Digest — 2nd Edition, Vol 1
Trinity College Chapel
Melbourne University Law Review — Vols 2, 3 and 7 Law Institute Journal — 1957 (xxxi) 1958 (xxxii) 1964 (xxxviii) 1958 Victorian Statutes — Vols 1 and IV
"Barry Marshall and the Armour of Light: A Memoir"
Victorian Law Reports — 1934 1961 Commonwealth Law Reports — Vol 72 (1946) Vol 83 (1950-51) Federal Law Reports — No 19 (1972-73)
— Dr Robin L. Sharwood
(L.L.M., S.J.D., B.A., L.L.B.)
(Warden 1965-73)
Preceded by Choral Eucharist at 7.30 p.m. Sung by the Choir of the Canterbury Fellowship
Or would you prefer to fund one of our Legal Journals for a year? say: The Australian Law Journal, The Law Institute Journal, Melbourne Univeristy Law Review.
All Welcome
Your help would be greatly appreciated.
Margaret Brown, Leeper Librarian
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DEATHS We regret the deaths of the following College members: Robert Robertson Cecil Wyndham MARSH (1926). Died early in 1982. Francis George Austin HEALY (1929). Died 8th April 1982. Kenneth Hilton DANKS (1936). Record of Members returned May 1982. Lawrence Edward ODLUM (1922). Died 17th March 1982. Bruce Frederick CAMPBELL (1947). Died 12th May 1982. Simon Stanley BUCKMASTER (1979). Died 17th May 1982.
Lawrence Edward ODLUM (1922). Died 17th March 1982.
Trinity Ball 1982 * Melbourne Town Hall * 8pm. 30 June Black Tie Tuxedo Junction big band • Sunny Boys
Arthur Tom PIDD (1921). Died in June 1982. Tim Lindesay
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CONGRATULATIONS TO: Milton JOHNSON (1942) — on his election as President of the Graduates of the University of Melbourne. Mr Johnson was elected following the resignation of Dr Robin Sharwood, who has accepted a senior lecturing appointment in the Law School, making him ineligible to hold the office of President.
RECORD OF MEMBERS OF TRINITY COLLEGE
Sir Wilfred BROOKES — on whom was conferred an Honorary L.L.D. at Deakin University on 25th May 1982. Alan K. CORNELL (1956) — President of the Law Institute of Victoria, 1982.
If you have not already completed the yellow Record Form enclosed with the Newsletter, or if you need to up-date a form recently filled in, please return the form as soon as possible.
THE QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY HONOURS LIST 1982 Knight Bachelor The Hon. Mr Justice Edward WOODWARD (1946), O.B.E.
This is important, for we are preparing an Address
Officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia Professor Alan George Lewers SHAW (1935), A.O.
Book, for which we need not only a current
Member of the General Division of the Order of Australia Bert Frederick George APPS (1931). Commander James Stewart GUEST (1935), O.B.E.
distinctions. The Address Book will be published
address but degrees and any titles and
for the use of members of the College.
Order of the British Empire The Revd. Canon Stanley Wynton KURRLE (1945).
FRIENDS OF TRINITY - SECOND ANNUAL DINNER, JULY 16, 1982 A Memorable Talk by Professor Blainey How long does it take to establish a tradition?
Europe — a sign both of newness and continuity. It is doubtful if we can ever capture the sense of brightness caught by Henry Lawson in 'The Lights of Cobb and Co' — kerosene lights which contrasted brilliantly with the dark bush road, or with the glow of candle and firelight in the hotel along the way.
The Friends of Trinity Annual Dinner has been held for only two years and already it is known as an event not to be missed. Although anyone interested is welcome to be a Friend of Trinity, the Friends consist mainly of parents of recent and present students. Every effort is made by an enthusiastic and hard-working committee to ensure that the Dinner is of high quality — and that the speaker will be worthy of the occasion. This year, about two hundred people enjoyed smoked salmon, chicken Wellington, and poached pears before listening to the President, Barrie Purvis, introduce the guest of honour, Professor Geoffrey Blainey.
In those days, most Australian towns had their own local time, so that Sydney time was ahead of Melbourne and Melbourne ahead of Ballarat. It was the coming of the telegraph that led to the necessity for an eastern standard time, which was considerably in the future when Trinity was founded. Most of us are aware from time to time of a full bright moon, especially as it rises seemingly larger than ever in the eastern sky. But in our days of electric light, adequate street lighting and piercing car lights, we do not realize that a century ago life was controlled far more than now by the phases of the moon. There were strongly held beliefs about the right times for sowing and harvesting according to whether the moon was waxing or waning. Balls and great social occasions were held on dates, carefully picked from the Almanac, when there would be a bright moon to light the party-goers home. Bushrangers, such as the Kelly gang, could not have found their way in dense scrub if they had not planned their exploits with due regard for the times of the moon's rising and setting.
Barrie Purvis has a rare gift of combining factual material with wit. His introduction to the main talk was a polished masterpiece — a frame for an outstanding and memorable talk. No doubt Professor Blainey will be publishing his talk in one of his next books, or in one of the high-class literary journals. In the meantime, a summary must suffice. In keeping with the rising tide of interest in things Australian, he spoke of the changing perception over one hundred years of the stars, the time, and the moon. When Trinity College took in its first students in 1872, the 'glory of the everlasting stars' was a much brighter and more familiar sight than it is in our day of bright electric lights and indoor lavatories. The Southern Cross was the natural symbol to be placed in the Australian flag, as it combined a Christian sign with an awareness of the southern heavens which were continuous with the once familiar skies of England and
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NEWS OF TRINITY MEMBERS From April 1982 It was good to receive "Record of Students" Form duly filled in from:
John D. LESLIE (1967) — has spent the past two years as Surgical Registrar in England and currently is at Chase Farm Hospital, Enfield, Middlesex. In July 1982 he starts as Fellow in the Department of Surgery at Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, U.S.A. for one year.
Dr Cyril TONKIN (1913), O.B.E., E.D., M.M.B.S. Fellow of the Pharmaceutical Society, retired from medical practice at 89 years of age in 1977. Recently he came to lunch in College, the first time he had been back in 69 years.
Roger SHARR (1967) — who was Chaplain of Trinity (1975-76), is once again a familiar figure in the Chapel now that he has been appointed Ecumenical Chaplain to the University of Melbourne.
Peter KARMEL (1940), Professor Ermeritus — has been appointed Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University. He began his new duties in June 1982. John A. MILES (1942) — after spending six years (197177) in Cyprus and the Middle East as Senior Political Adviser to the United Nations Peace Keeping Missions (U.N.F.I.C.Y.P., U.N.E.F., U.N.D.O.F. and U.N.T.S.O.), is now back in New York representing U.N.R.W.A. and the United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees.
Ian MacLEOD (1967) — is now Assistant Curator, Maritime Museum, Fremantle, Western Australia.
Suzanne Maria GEYLE and Richard David JOHNSON (1968) — who were married on 8th March 1982 are in London where Richard is undertaking further studies. They plan to be in London for one or two years.
David F. FISHER (1950) — is now living in Merstham, Surrey, England, where he is on secondment from the Public Service. He is Manager of the Stock Financing Fund, International Sugar Organisation, London.
Lauchlan CHIPMAN (1969 Tutor) — Professor of Philosophy (Foundation Chair), University of Wollongong and Visiting Professor, Department of Jurisprudence, University of Sydney, has recently been elected Fellow of St Andrew's College within the University of Sydney. He is, probably, the first person to hold a a joint professorial appointment between two Australian Universities (Wollongong and Sydney).
David S. BEAVIS (1955) — has been with the Health Department of Papua-New Guinea since 1968 and has been Superintendant of the Base Hospital (200 beds) at Mt. Hagen in the Western Highlands since 1974. He writes: "One of the features of medical practice up here which sounds frightening to foreigners, but is really much less damaging than guns and bombs, is the frequent arrow wounds which we deal with."
Michael R. COOPER (1973) — is an architect with Cooper Newton & Associates and married Elizabeth Gall on 28th May 1982. They intend to set up home in Hobart and would like to meet Old Trinitarians as soon as they are settled in.
Alastaire CARNEGIE (1957) — after 14 years as Senior Lecturer on Animal Production at Marcus Oldham College, is now working with A.C.I.L. International on a Philippine-Australian Development Project in Zamborga del Sur as part of an Australian team consisting of 10 agriculturists and 20 engineers and construction workers.
Timothy Peter ROSS-EDWARDS (1975) — is now Field Officer with the Rural Finance Commission.
Richard G. H. COTTON (1959) — has been appointed Deputy Director of the newly founded Birth Defects Research Institute. He has now added a D.Sc. University of Melbourne to his Ph.D.
Leigh and Terri THOMAS (Leigh 1976 and Terri also 1976) — have moved to Sydney where Leigh is Senior Biomedical Engineer (Research and Development) at the Royal North Shore Hospital. They are living in Lane Cove.
Gradon R. JOHNSTONE (1959) — who is now living in Berriedale, Tasmania, has been awarded a Churchill Fellowship in 1983 to work in Canada and U.S.A. for four months on controlling plant virus diseases transmitted by aphids.
John ADAMSON (1977) — has now moved on from the Department of History, King's College, University of London, to become Research Scholar at Christ's College, Cambridge.
Jonathan DAWSON (1960) — Senior Lecturer, Griffith University, has, as a freelance film writer and producer, several publications to his name, including Media Production, Thomas Nelson, 1974 and After Grierson, Methuen. His feature films are Final Cut and Ginger Meggs.
Sharon ORRMAN (1977) — is now Assistant Product Manager with I.C.I. Alkali Chemical Group, with special involvement in the marketing of chlorine and caustic soda.
Andrew W. HOOPER (1960) — and his wife, Patricia, are living with their eight-year-old twin sons in Bedford, United Kingdon. Andrew works for the National Institute of Agricultural Engineering and has published seven research papers in specialised journals.
Penelope PENGILLEY (1977) — has been awarded a Rotary Post-Graduate Scholarship for higher study in law in Britain. 10
WHEN COLLEGE DINNERS WERE REAL DINNERS We have found the following menu for a Dinner given in Trinity College on 21st July 1905 in honour of Dr Harvey Sutton, second Victorian Rhodes Scholar.
TOAST LIST
MENU
"The chopping French we do not understand."
The King
"Words are weak." Shelley Adonais
Richard II
Turtle Soup "I an old turtle." Winter's Tale
The University
To be proposed by The Bishop of Melbourne. "Behold your bishop! Well he plays his part." Cowper
Boiled Schnapper, Sauce Matelotte "Sharply, lest it snap." Tennyson Aylmer 's Field Fillet of Whiting Supréme "Half French, half English." Henry V
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And responded to by Professor Spencer. "Talk not to me of savages." Burns Miss J. Lewars The College
To be proposed by Rev E. S. Hughes. "We are strong in earnest." Pericles And responded to by The Warden. "God bless you, gentlemen, learn to give Money to Colleges while you live." O. W. Holmes
Roast Turkey Perigord "The Partition of Turkey." by A. Carver Roast Duckling "O dainty duck! O dear!" Midsummer Night's Dream Fillet of Beef â la Duchesse "What think you of a duchess?" Henry VIII
Parson Turrell's Legacy Dr Harvey Sutton
To be proposed by Dr R. R. Stawell. "Throw physic to the dogs." Macbeth "For tonight we'll merry be." Old Song And responded to by The Second Rhodes Scholar for Victoria. "Ye Publick find it difficulte to determine which of our two Roades is ye rather to be chosen, and has ye fayrer Prospecte." Old Oxford Itinerary
Windsor Souffle "Mock him home to Windsor." Merry Wives Almond Savoy "Down the Savoy." 2 Henry VI Charlotte Russe "Though of semi-barbarous origin, her taste was excellent, and she moved in the very best society." O. Pahmetoff A Russian Beauty
College Sports
To be proposed by Mr W. Lewers. "A well-graced actor." Richard II And responded to by Mr Hurry. "But who comes in such haste?" King John
Champagne Jelly "A trembling contribution." Henry VIII Trifles â la Parisienne "Hang the trifle." Merry Wives
The Old Students
Maccaroni au gratin "To make the matter savoury." Hamlet
To be proposed by Mr C. Shields. "Hold up your shields before your hearts. Coriolanus And responded by Rev T. J. Smith and Mr J. T. Collins. "To these two great principles we have owed much in the past, and we must always uphold them in the future." Goodenough Moral Principles
Vanilla Ice (Loquitur) "Art cold? I am cold myself." Lear Dessert "To failings mild but zealous for desert." Pope Essay on Criticism
God Save The King
"Good Knight." Henry V "Good Night." Bacon Sayings "Hence to your homes." Coriolanus
Coffee "Will awake him." Julius Caesar Cigars "Then we bring forth weeds." Antony and Cleopatra Cigarettes "You meaner beauties of the night That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light." Wotton
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