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A PUBLICATION OF TRINITY COLLEGE WITHIN THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE Registered by Australia Post — Publication No. VBG 4336
NOVEMBER 1982
THE COLLEGE EXPERIENCE Address by Dr. Owen Parnaby, Master of Queen's College at Trinity College Valedictory Service 10th October, 1982 Warden, members of Trinity College and friends: thank you for inviting me to take part in this service for valedictees and to commemorate Founders and Benefactors. It seems to me most appropriate to commemorate Founders and Benefactors at a Valedictory Service. After all were it not for them, those of you who are going down would not be here this afternoon, reflecting on what the last few years in Trinity have meant to you. And if this experience has meant much to you then it would bea natural human response to want future generations of students to have the same opportunities that you have had. That I think was the motivation of the Founders of Trinity, so my theme this afternoon is to trace the threads that bind Founders, Benefactors, and Valedictees.
THE FOUNDERS OF TRINITY The Warden and I belong to a particular Oxford college founded by a Scotsman who was commanded by the church to endow the college as a penance for his sins. Perhaps the Warden thinks it a pity that the church has lost that authority. However the Founders of Trinity were under compulsion, but the inner compulsion of people who had had the college experience: Bishop Perry at Trinity College, Cambridge; Dean Macartney and Sir William Stawell at Trinity College, Dublin; Professor Wilson and Mr. Justice Stephen at St. John's College, Cambridge. I often think how fortunate Victoria and Melbourne were in the timing of their development. First settled when English liberalism was in full bloom, made wealthy by gold discoveries, they had both the vision and the capacity to establish a university and a State library on the model of the best then known to Englishmen — for universities — the college system of Oxford and Cambridge; and for libraries — the British Museum. Just think, forty acres of a one hundred acre university site assigned to colleges. What faith the Founding Fathers had in the collegiate system! What then has the collegiate system to offer? Well, you are the people who have had the experience, and perhaps we should be listening to you instead of me.
FRIENDSHIPS AND MATURITY I am going to suggest three things which I hope your experience has confirmed as making college worthwhile. The
The Ven. Hussy Burgh Macartney, Dean of Melbourne, and one of the Founders of the College.
first Master of Queen's, Dr. Sugden, speaking at the time of his appointment, said of the college man, "If three years of daily association with the flower of his contemporaries cannot make him a gentleman then his case is hopeless". So I think the first thing that will be uppermost in your mind when you think of your years in college will be the friendships you have made and what you owe to your peers and contemporaries with whom you have lived in college. The years that you spent in college were the most formative of your life — years of self-discovery and growing self-awareness, of expanding horizons in intellectual interests
and in personal relations and friendships, all of which took place in an accepting and tolerant community. You came into college at that confusing age between adolescence and adulthood. You were tentative, unsure of yourself, and not at ease with senior people. Now you are poised, assured and on the threshhold of professional careers. Whence came this maturity? Never let it be said that a university college is an ivory tower, a haven from the dangers of life, as some parents hope it is. You have seen life in the raw in all senses of that word. You are aware of the thin veil that divides the beautiful, the creative and the civilised from the crude, the destructive and the barbaric. That is our lot as humans. It is the predicament of our civilisation. We live constantly under the sword of Damocles. The college is a microcosm of the world at large and an excellent preparation for living. You learn from the people you live with how to cope, and it is not by holding back from experiences but by becoming involved. As John Milton wrote in that marvellous pamphlet "Areopagitica" which no one should grow up without reading: "I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue ... that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to run for, not without dust and heat". This is the path of growth towards maturity and understanding, and Milton goes on to say: "He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her ... seeming pleasures, ... and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian". Dr. Owen Parnaby It is out of this involvement with your fellow students over the years you have been in college that the ugly duckling fresher has been transformed into the mature, confident, young person, aware of your capacity to live a rich and fulfilling life.
instruction and example, but they also became aware, imperceptibly, of the elusive and intangible qualities and values of the teacher, through the personal relationship which developed between them.
A STRUCTURED COMMUNITY A second experience which makes college life worthwhile is to be part of a structured community in which the student body has a responsible part. Through your participation in this you have come to understand that the richness of college life depends on the contribution in time and talent that members are prepared to make. You have inevitably learnt something of the dynamics of community, and what it is that gives people a feeling of responsibility to each other and to themselves, and what it is about a community that evokes cohesion and loyalty from its members. College people come to appreciate the thin line that divides a free, creative community from a coercive one, or simply a collection of individuals who each go their own way and who contribute little or nothing to the common fund. Most important of all you have learnt about leadership, and the necessity for good leadership. Without it there will be a vacuum, and that will be filled with influences that are not in the interests of the whole, but serve the ends of certain individuals. By taking responsibility for your own affairs, you have learnt how to work together with people, how to diagnose problems, and how to address solutions, how to arrive at a consensus, the give and take of cooperation, how to encourage and motivate each other, all skills you will need to draw on and to develop further when you move out into the community. The professional skills and talents of many persons are limited or frustrated by their inability to get on with people. Your experience has given you a head start on those who have not had these opportunities.
Something of this relationship continues to exist within the colleges in the interest that past members of the college continue to take in the welfare of students. Distinguished physicians and surgeons, barristers, and engineers, come into college to give tutorials, meet students at faculty dinners, or attend informal gatherings and talks. This kind of relationship becomes even more important in an increasingly impersonal age when technology threatens to take over education. Programmed learning cannot give the human touch, it cannot evoke in the young that desire to emulate a combination of values and skills seen in a person they admire. We are in danger of forgetting the troubles that come upon us when we overlook the connection between values and skills: skills without values are dangerous and a threat to the community; values without skills are hollow and empty. It is only in the personal relationship that values are understood and appreciated, and that is why no education and training is any better than the quality of the people engaged in it. Another way of stating the importance of this historic relation between the younger and the older person is to say that young people need role models. This is particularly true for women, because the accelerated social changes of the last two decades have affected women and the family perhaps more than anyone else. Women, particularly those entering the professions, are understandably confused about their identity and role. They especially need the help of older women who are coping successfully with these changed expectations.
MASTERS AND APPRENTICES I come now to the third and final thing that makes the college experience worthwhile, and this takes us to the very essence and nature of a college. Colleges and universities as we know them were medieval foundations. They were for students and teachers what the craft and trade guilds were for apprentices and master craftsmen. A young person who wanted to study went to live with a scholar in that field, as the young Thomas More went to live in the house of Archbishop Morton, in the same way as a young apprentice went to live in the house of a master craftsman. There they learnt their craft by both
ESCHEW COMPLACENCY You will, I hope, have seen the relevance of your college experience to your future life in the community, and this relationship between the generations of which we have just been speaking as a most significant part of it. We are only too aware that in the last twenty years we have lived through a period when the younger generation has rejected the values of their fathers. They have lost confidence in the way of life of their fathers, and the reasons for this may be, in part, that the fathers have had nothing worthwhile to pass on. When this 2
Trinity can survive, and continue to offer succeeding generations what it has given you, if it receives support in time, talent, and money, from ten per cent of its past members. You will remember in the seventeenth chapter of the gospel according to St. Luke, that Jesus was returning to Jerusalem and he passed through a village where ten men whose lives were blighted by a disease asked him to restore them to health that they might enjoy life again. Jesus did so, and one came back to express gratitude. Jesus asked what had happened to the other ninety per cent. They were no doubt thankful but they had done nothing about it. Trinity has given to its members the potential for a full, rich and satisfying life, and if what I have said about the value of the college experience has rung any bells with you, then I am sure you will want others to enjoy what you have enjoyed, and that Trinity will not only have ten per cent support and survive, but will have wholehearted support and flourish. God bless you all.
happens, society begins to turn sour, it begins to fall apart and to lose its sense of purpose, and the popular figure is the sceptic and debunker and the one who tells the clever mocking jokes against anyone who stands for anything. You must not let this happen. You are now on your way to being leaders in the community, and in time you will be the older generation. You must stay in touch with Trinity and see that you have something to pass on to the younger generation that they will think is worthwhile and that they can believe in, and you will need them, too, to keep you up to date and save you from getting complacent and set in your ways. TRINITY NEEDS SUPPORT As a lay preacher of 40 years' standing in the Methodist Church, I could not speak in a chapel without a text. As I did not begin with one I shall conclude with one. A college like
HORSFALL MEMORIAL CHAPEL, TRINITY COLLEGE The College has recently been advised that the Chapel has been Classified by the National Trust. This means that in the Trust's opinion it is essential to Australia's heritage and must be preserved. The citation supporting the Classification describes it as follows: An early and outstanding example of the work of architects North and Williams, this church, built in 1915, is a successful simplification of the Decorated Gothic style. The contrast of plain surfaces and massive forms of red face-brickwork, against sparingly applied stone and stucco decoration is typical of subsequent churches designed by the architects during the period 1920-30. Two octagonal brick towers, with buttresses and stone spires, flank a tall Gothic-arched window, divided by stone tracery which graduates by the use of arcading at the base, to a low freestone entrance porch. Octagonal towers on the east duplicate those at the west end, whilst a central octagonal copper spire, which rises from a tapered square stone tower, is set at their focus. Internally, a magnificent brick-clad concrete arch with stone arcaded balustrading supports the organ loft at the west end, significantly lowering the scale of the nave at this point, whilst another much taller arch separates the sacrarium from the nave. The general effect is of overt brick structure in strong expression of the brick walls and their openings, sparingly decorated with stone. Of further interest are the choir stalls with their carved ends depicting waratahs in stylised crocket form and native marsupials as arm rests.
Trinity College Chapel, University of Melbourne. West front; note brick archway, flanking turrets and fleche. North moved to Melbourne with Williams in 1913 and quickly established himself as a notable architect specializing in church work. In 1914 construction of the Trinity Chapel was begun, being financed from a gift of ÂŁ10,000 by John Sutcliffe Horsfall. As John Maidment points out in his article "Gothic Visionary" (Trust News, September 1981):
This Church is of great architectural importance for the powerful use of eclectic forms in a free manner, particularly internally. As reported in the last Newsletter, the restoration of the Chapel fabric will begin in mid-October and has been made possible through the generosity of Mr. Robert Cripps and the companies with which he is associated.
"the building exhibits an extraordinary control of space — the impression given by the interior is of a seemingly boundless area. This effect is emphasised by the adoption of a masonry bridge spanning the chapel which supports the organ and delineates the chapel proper and antechapel. In passing under this comparatively low space one is suddenly confronted with the full height of the building and a massive arch leading to the sanctuary ... (Trinity College Chapel) is altogether a masterpiece of original gothic work."
Trinity College Chapel was the "magnum opus" of Alexander North (1858-1945) and his junior partner Louis Williams. North arrived in Melbourne in 1883 and shortly after moved to Tasmania where he took up his career in architecture. North was intrigued with the native flora and fauna of his new country and evidence of this was soon reflected in his work. 3
A TRINITY OF TRINITY DINNERS
TRISTAN NOEL MARCHAND BUESST (1894-1982)
Among the pleasures of 1982 have been three interstate Fleur-de-Lys Dinners all attended by almost fifty people: the third Canberra dinner, the second Sydney dinner, and the first Brisbane dinner. In all three cities, the College is fortunate to have enthusiastic and capable people to make all the arrangements necessary to ensure the success of the evening. Like the previous two Canberra dinners, this year's was held in superb autumn weather when the city's colourful trees are in their most gorgeous array. Sir John Bunting (1937) presided over a fine meal in Bruce Hall at the Australian National University, and made a characteristically gracious and short speech. Sir John lost much of his voice as an unintended side-effect of an operation some years ago. This does not prevent him from speaking effectively, and with infectious good humour. The Warden, temporarily afflicted with pharyngitis, was in no better voice, but spoke rather longer about the variety of College life. All the arrangements were in the hands of Robert Todd (1951), now of the Appeals Review Tribunal, whose quiet efficiency contributed greatly to the smooth-running and happiness of the evening. The Brisbane dinner, held in July, at St. John's College, St. Lucia, likewise owed much of its success to two people: Sir Reginald Sholl (1920), who combined the roles of gracious president and hard-working secretary, and Dr. John Morgan (1961), now Warden of St. John's College, whose personal care ensured that the catering was of excellent standard. Sir Reginald invited the senior Trinity man. present, Mr. W.B. Fleming (1919) to propose the toast to the College. He did so in a charming and moving speech which paid tribute to the College oak as a symbol of College life. The Warden's reply was based on the events of the previous week in College, a week which had culminated in the election of Lisa Stewart as Trinity's first woman Senior Student.
Tristan Buesst in New York, 1953. "To all of us the future is veiled with a cloud of black, ugly smoke, the dreams and hopes of what may come overshadowed by the grim reality of what is, the war. It rises up before us like some huge wall, and till we have climbed over this wall, that glorious stretch of land which we call the future is unattainable." Tristan Buesst, resident in Trinity 1914-1915, wrote the above words as co-editor of the Fleur-de-Lys shortly after the outbreak of World War I. One year later he himself attacked the wall of which he spoke, enlisting in the 18th Middlesex Regiment in England as 2nd Lieutenant instead of continuing his formal education as had been planned. He served in Flanders from 1916 to 1918 as an officer in the Pioneer Battalion, digging trenches, laying duckboards, and burying the dead. After the War he took up again his formal education studying Jurisprudence at New College, Oxford. Before returning to Melbourne in 1923 to complete his LLB he was with the British Civil Service in Berlin working on reparations.
The Sydney dinner followed in September. The Square House in the University Union, University of N.S.W., made a pleasant venue. A lively committee of three made the arrangements: Brigadier John McDonagh (1949), Dr. Peter Pockley (1954), and Mr. David Harris (1957). Peter Pockley's speech as he proposed the toast to the College recalled some notable events for the past such as the shower of green dye he once endured on his birthday in the Wooden Wing, the fire he and his 'wife' kept burning for over 100 days in Upper Clarke. Next year, he may be persuaded to bring out some of his old College movie films.
With the death of his father in 1931 he became Managing Director of Buesst and Bills Brothers where he remained until his retirement in 1956. Many Trinity members will remember with amusement his embarrassment over an ambiguous advertisement for Buesst's Better Beds. It showed a woman reclining on a mattress with the caption saying 'The rest is easy'.
One of the happiest features of all three dinners was the wide range of College generations represented at them. The friendly atmosphere of a Trinity gathering is unmistakable. Next year — Perth, perhaps?
At all times, Tristan Buesst was a true gentleman, a civilized and cultured man who enjoyed the company of his friends with good food and wine. He possessed a considerable collection of Australian art, especially the works of Arthur Boyd and Rupert Bunny, several of which have been presented to public institutions.
CONSECRATION OF ANOTHER TRINITY BISHOP
At various times he was President of the National Gallery Society of Victoria; Vice-President of the National Trust of Australia; a member of the Committee of Inquiry into the Australian National Gallery; and Federal President of the Australian Institute of International Affairs.
Philip Newell ('58) was consecrated and enthroned as Bishop of Tasmania in a magnificent and memorable service on 24 August 1982. Among the other Trinity clergy present were one Archbishop, Robert Dann ('43), two Bishops, James Grant ('50) and Owen Dowling ('59), and one Archdeacon, Arthur Grimshaw ('51). The Warden and the Director of the Trinity Theological School (Dr. John Gaden) both sent telegrams expressing the warm good wishes of the College. It was heart-warming to receive a letter from the new Bishop describing the great day. He concludes:
He was a leading supporter of the La Trobe Library and has left a generous endowment for books. He amassed a considerable collection himself, particularly first editions of books about Australia published overseas.
"So our new life and ministry have begun amidst the love and prayers of many people. Our sincere thanks for your telegram. You were close in spirit to us on the day and we are grateful.
Tristan Buesst was a great supporter of Trinity College. As his son Nigel has stated, "He delighted in its unique blend of formal ceremony and raffish self-indulgence!" Over the years he gave the College many generous gifts, including a fine silver fruit bowl and the magnificent Steinway grand piano now in the Senior Common Room.
Merle, Christopher, Michael and John join me in this message of appreciation and affection."
Tristan Buesst's quiet enthusiasm for life will be greatly missed in the College which meant so much to him. 4
TRINITY SPORT 1982
THE HOLMES SHIELD It was heartening to see so many women willing to try out for all sports this year. The fresher involvement and interest was terrific. Trinity kept up a tradition of dominating first term sports.
THE COWAN CUP The inter-collegiate sporting year opened brightly for Trinity, with the Cricket team, the best for several years, coming a close second to Ormond in the final. The previous day the men rowers eclipsed the other competing colleges with fine wins in both the First and Seconds. Unfortunately the tennis team didn't perform as well as it might have, but the volleyball team, although lacking last year's winning experience, put in a creditable effort against the eventual winners in the semi-final.
It began with a convincing win in the baseball which again proved to be one of those most enjoyed by players and spectators. This was followed not long after by the women picking up the swimming trophy, which had escaped our grasp for several years. Chilly early mornings for some were not in vain! Wins in the rowing and aths showed that good organisation by captains ensures both success and enjoyment. Valuable points were also picked up in volleyball, table-tennis and badminton, depite the smaller colleges dominating in these sports again.
Towards the end of first term, Trinity experienced a resurgence of success both in soccer and in athletics, the men winning the latter by a mere handful of points. As a result of these victories the men trailed in the Cowan Cup competition, with 38 points to Ormond's 39.
The standard of tennis on the Crescent this year was extremely high. This was shown by our narrow win over Queens in the semi-final and then a narrow loss to Ormond in the final. Thus the end of first term saw Trinity well placed in overall points.
Second term produced a winning team early. The squash players, all new this year, turned out to be surprisingly good, and defeated Ormond easily in the final. Once again the football team, though probably the best for some years, failed to hit its straps. Despite coming very close to all the other teams in the competition, we finished a disappointing fourth. The badminton team, however, lived up to its reputation of recent years and defeated International House in a thrilling final. This result left us 11/2 points in front of Ormond, which meant that the fate of the Cowan Cup competition rested on the result of the rugby final. In a hard fought match, which saw the Ormond team come to within one point of Trinity, we ran out winners by five points. The Cowan Cup was ours!!
Second term began not quite so strongly but good placings showed the strength and enthusiasm of all teams. Through Trinity's initiative the netball competition was changed from knockout to round robin, and while we were beaten in the semi-final, girls had the chance of playing many matches in this popular sport. Then on a frosty morning at Kingston Heath Golf Club Trinity was placed second in the Women's golf.
It was gratifying this year to see the large number of people participating in sporting teams, and it could by no means be said that a few "sporting stars" carried the rest of the college to victory. Every member of a college team should feel that his endeavours materially contributed to the college's success. However the team captains deserve special commendation both for their efforts on the field and for all the organisation which they so cheerfully shouldered. It is my hope that next year Trinity can make it three in a row and entrench our sporting superiority over the Crescent still further.
T.C.A.C. Women's Sports Rep.
Those four points and a semi-final place in the hockey ensured a win in the Holmes Shield by a clear margin from Ormond 54 points to 321/2. Many thanks to captains for their time and effort and to all the participants who were so keen throughout the year. It was good to see so many people making the most of the fun and enjoyment of Intercollegiate Sport. Kate Hayward,
Michael Keeley,
T.C.A.C. Men's Sports Rep.
FOR YOUR DIARY Fleur-de-Lys Annual Dinner Friday 11th February 1983 at Trinity College Andrew Maughan, Captain of the Men's Athletics team, winning the 200 metres at the Intercollegiate Sports. 5
Thoughts from a recent College visitor
Gifts to the College The College acknowledges with gratitude the following handsome gifts: From Miss Myra Roper and the Committee organizing the Australian visit of Mr. and Mrs. Liu Nianzhi of the People's Republic of China, two books: Encyclopedia of China Today by Kaplan, Sobin and Ados Emperor's China, People's China by Myra Roper
The Very Rev. David Robarts, Dean of Perth Last week I spent two days in Melbourne living in at my old University College. Here I was in precincts known and loved from early boyhood to mature manhood: so much of me, I discovered, was still present yet had lain untouched for many a year; so many things seemed just the same and yet felt strangely different, unfamiliar to my familiar touch. Trees under which I sat and played more than forty years ago still cast their welcome shade upon me; the liquid melody of blackbirds and the chirping of sparrows -for long years unheard and dormant within me — now leapt back into consciousness with instant delight. Here, too, I was able to wander down silent corridors thronged with the presence of former companions, hearing again the chiming of clock tower and summoning of College bell as they rang out the past that echoed within me.
From Dr. George Garrett: eight linocuts of Australian birds and flora in a limited edition by Van de Sluys (1980). From Dr. Robin Sharwood, a book: Leonardo da Vinci — Anatomical Drawings from The Royal Library, Windsor Castle. From Ms. Pat Grimshawe, a book: Islands and Beaches by Greg Dening.
Most powerful — indeed overwhelming — was the experience of returning to Chapel. Here were the most hallowed of memories: the formative patterns of daily prayer and Eucharist, the out-pouring of my weekly confessions — all that sustaining inner movement of life through which God had slowly shaped me into a priest. Physically alone, I was welcomed into the company of those who once knelt there but now communed with me from places unknown — many from beyond the grave — sweetening and hallowing my own prayers with the fragrance of Christ Himself.
Congratulations to: Sir Rupert Hamer (1935) former Premier of Victoria, and Sir Lance Townsend (1930) former Dean of Medicine at Melbourne University on being nominated for Honorary Degrees of Doctor of Laws by the University of Mebourne.
ARE YOU ON THE UNIVERSITY'S POSTAL ROLL?
Appeal to Law Graduates from the Leeper Librarian
In June the University sent out a mailing, consisting of a special issue of the GAZETTE and a questionnaire for updating its records of some 30,000 who are on the Postal Roll.
The appeal in the last Newsletter produced a prompt and gratifying response, and we are most grateful to those who sent us copies of the Law Institute Journal, Melbourne University Law Review and Victorian Statutes.
The University has recently created a new Graduate Secretariat to improve communication between the various Faculties and Departments and graduates, and vice versa.
At the risk of sounding importunate could we appeal for the following
If you are not on the University Postal Roll may we suggest that you return the form enclosed with this Newsletter to the Registrar's Office, so that the University will include you in future mailings?
English Reports — Chaucery 1970 Australian Digest — 2nd edition, Vol. 1 Victorian Law Reports — 1934 1961 Commonwealth Law Reports — Vol. 72 (1946) Vol. 83 (1950-51) Federal Law Reports — No. 19 (1972-73)
(Please note that although the University and the College co-operate closely, our records are kept quite separately. The enclosed form is for the University: we hope you will send it back as directed, but also ensure that the College's records are kept up-to-date).
Dr. Robin Sharwood has also offered us 9 volumes of "Argus Law Reports" 1953-1962 for our use or to use as an exchange, and has given us excellent advice about further avenues to explore. Margaret Brown, Leeper Librarian
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NEWS OF TRINITY MEMBERS W.F. Lane SEAR (1937) filled in his Record form and added a very interesting note clarifying his two addresses — one being Metung in Gippsland and the other being Rowella at the mouth of the Tamar, Tasmania. There he has a house on the water's edge and the fishing is excellent. At Metung his main interest is in his boats which live in a nearby marina. Lane is a retired scientist who prior to 1976 was with Aeronautical Research Labs.
Nevinson Willoughby FAULKNER (1913) sent us an interesting note. He entered Trinity in 1913 and enlisted in August, 1914. He was at the landing at Gallipoli, and was awarded the MM, and the MC in France. When he returned at the end of the war he bought a property in the country. He writes: "I played football and tennis for Trinity and was a member of the M.U.R. I still treasure the flask we were given before we left for overseas. I cannot really claim to be an old Trinity Collegian as I spent such a short time in the College."
Peter KARMEL (1940), formerly Chairman of the Commonwealth Tertiary Education Committee, is now Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University. Milton JOHNSON (1942) a representative of the graduates in Engineering at Melbourne University has been elected President of the Graduates of the University. George Bromley LUCAS (1948) has been appointed Archdeacon of Brighton, and he was collated to that office on October 5th. He is the incumbent of St. George's, Malvern. Philip WILSON (1950) has sent in his Record of Members form and a letter of greeting. He is President of Arbor Capital Resources Inc. which is Canada's largest cemetery company. He remarks that it may sound odd, but the work is fascinating. Frank W.S. MILNE (1953), who during his sojourn in the Department of Foreign Affairs in Melbourne was actively involved with the Friends of Trinity, has now left to be Australian Ambassador in Burma. He and his wife Pat are looking forward to renewing old friendships in Rangoon, but they will miss their two Trinity daughters, Sarah and Catherine, who are completing studies at the University of Melbourne. John Peterson ROYLE (1954) who is the Director of Vascular Surgery at the Austin Hospital was elected in July the Chairman of the Victoria State Committee, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. Gordon Gibson BROWN (1955) is Metallurgy Research Manager, B.H.P. Melbourne Research Laboratories, and Secretary of the Australian Institute of Metals. He is also Honorary Research Associate of the Department of Materials Engineering, Monash University.
Sir Neville Henderson receives his recent decoration.
Sir Neville HENDERSON,C.B.E. (Trinity 1919) very kindly filled in and returned the Record of Members of Trinity College enclosed in a previous Newsletter. He took the Supreme Court Prize in the Melbourne University law course finals in 1922, and founded in 1924, with the late George Lahey (Trinity 1920) the firm of Henderson and Lahey, Solicitors, from which he retired in 1970 to become Consultant to the firm. He lists his occupations Solicitor, Notary Public, Grazier, Consul for Austria since 1957, Editor, Secretary, Company Director. The latest news is that the Austrian Government has conferred on him a higher decoration than the one conferred in 1964, and this new decoration now awaits the approval of the Queen. We offer him our congratulations.
David FAWELL (1955) Barrister and Solicitor with Messrs. Cuthberts in Ballarat, has recently joined the Committee of Management of the Ballarat Base Hospital. Jeremy HEARDER (1957) has been Australian High Commissioner to Zimbabwe for the past two years, and in addition to that he is Non-Resident High Commissioner to Botswana, and Ambassador to Mozambique. Leo HARKINS (1958) has been appointed Director of the Institute of Urban Studies. The Institute is in Canberra and Leo expects to travel quite extensively — mainly Hong Kong and London, Amsterdam and Hamburg over the next few months — but nevertheless keeping his base in Melbourne.
Paul HAEGE (1925) Economist and Consultant, Darling Point, Sydney, sent in his Record of Members form with the following note: "Delighted to receive Trinity College Newsletter No. 17 with photograph of the portrait of Sir John Behan and Moreton's article. Quinn should also have painted the delightful Annabelle, the Warden's secretary in my Trinity years. May I congratulate those responsible for the excellent publication July issue."
Peter John BRADFIELD (1960) has moved to Sydney, and he is now General Manager, Marketing, with Energy Resources of Australia Pty Ltd.
Lorimer William NOTI (1930). We were glad to be informed by his daughter, Patricia Nott, that the new wing of the Rochester Hospital is to be named The Dr. Lorimer Nott Wing after her father who died a few years ago. He served the community of Rochester over a period of 34 years.
Andrew SWANSON (1960), who after leaving Trinity gained a D.Phil. in Oxford, is now working with I.C.I. in Sydney. Geoffrey Ronald Hill McNICOLL (1961) is living in Darien, Connecticut, U.S.A. and is the Deputy Director, Center for Policy Studies. He is a demographer, working with the Population Council, with publications on the Indonesian economy and trade and growth in the Philippines, He is married, with three young sons.
Noel CARROLL (1934) retired Senior Trade Commissioner is now Area Manager, R.G. Riddell Pty Ltd, publishers, of Sydney. He is also Secretary of the A.C.T. Chapter of the Company of Directors Association. 7
Stephen MATHESON (1961) is living in Stony Stratford, Milton Keynes, U.K. and is Senior Lecturer in Microelectronics at the Open University.
Mark SUMNER (1975) is still in England, at present serving as assistant curate at St. Mary's, Portsea (Portsmouth) but moving in September to a permanent position at St. John the Baptist's, Sevenoaks, Kent, where he intends to stay for a few years.
James Richard HARRISON (1964) We have just heard from a correspondent that James and his wife Anna and their very young son moved to London from Perth almost two years ago, in his role as a senior officer with the Shell Company in the exploration side of the Company's business. Incidentally, we are very grateful for such information. J.R. Harrison was lost as far as our records were concerned and now he is found.
Peter R. TREMBATH (1975) is a Government Veterinary Officer in Chiredzi, Zimbabwe, Africa — as yet we have received no account of his life there. Dennis REYNOLDS (1975), who is currently Rector of Southern Cross W.A., has been appointed Chaplain to the Archbishop of Perth and Warden to Woolaston College with effect from February 1983.
Richard A. GUY (1964) is in Bendigo, Engineer/Manager of Crystal Industries. In January this year he was elected to the Board of the Bendigo Building Society.
Marion VICKERY (tutor 1975) has had her own commercial gallery "Drummond St. Gallery" for three years. Situated in Carlton, it promotes the work of less established artists. It has successfully sold works by the artists it represents to the National Gallery of Victoria, Australian National Gallery, Artbank and Heide Park and Art Gallery. Marion is also Publications Officer for the Victorian Arts Centre, producing, editing and writing all publications for the V.A.C. and in charge of graphics and advertising.
Philip OSMOND (1965) has been overseas for two years, having accepted an appointment to Tawam Hospital, C/Whitaker Corporation, Al-Ain, Abu Dhabi, U.A.E. He is under contract for another term. Previously, he had worked in Rabaul, New Guinea, as well as in Shepparton and Mooroopna. John TIBBALLS (1966) has sent in his Record form from Oslo, Norway, where he is working as a scientist at the Central Institute for Industrial Research (S.I.).
YANG Kin Seng (1976) married Carrie Wee Chui Luan on October 1, 1980. We send our congratulations on the birth of a daughter, Huina on the 4th November 1981. Seng is an engineer with the Public Works Department, Singapore, and he writes "I am presently doing a part-time course in Master of Science (Construction Engineering) with the National University of Singapore. I hope to finish it by March, 1983."
David Brian FORSTER (1966) lives in North Carlton and is Assistant Superintendent of St. Kilda's Parks and Gardens, Part-time Solicitor. Peter VICKERY (1968), married to Michelle Riseley, is now the father of a nine months old daughter — Ingrid. Peter is practising as a barrister, and is also a farmer at Apollo Bay.
Graham COX (1976) is currently employed as Assistant to Music Director, Victoria State Opera, Principal Organist and Assistant Music Director, St. Francis' Church, Melbourne, Organist at St. Mary's Church, West Melbourne, Organist and Harpsicordist, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. He is giving a series of organ recitals in East and West Germany during September and competing for the Grand Prix de Chartres.
Ray GREGORY (Dean of Trinity 1969-71) is now the Vicar of St. James the Less, Mount Eliza. Graham WILLIAMSON (1973) returned from Glasgow, where for 18 months he was working as Virology Registrar at Huchill Hospital, to sit the final examination for the Fellowship of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australia, which he passed. He is now about to go to Yale University to undertake postgraduate studies in the epidemiology of infectious diseases.
Karen VICKERY (1976) is now at N.I.D.A. (National Institute of Dramatic Art) in her second year of the acting course.
Michael DAWKINS (1973) and his wife are in Canterbury, England, where they are doing some training as GPs.
Harry ASCHE (1976) is in Sydney, Design Engineer with John Connell, Mott, Hay and Anderson.
Andrew KNOWLES (1973) after two years of full-time study at the University of Western Australia has completed his M.B.A. and is now back in Melbourne as Plant Manager of Pioneer Concrete Services Pty Ltd.
Stan KISLER (1976), now CDTAC S.R. Kisler, A323936 120 Pilots' Course 2FTS, in August moved from Point Cook to the RAAF Base at Pearce, W.A. Rupert MYER (1976) after completing a degree in Social and Political Sciences at Pembroke College Cambridge, is now working with Citibank, London, in their oil and mining division.
Justin COOK (1973) who is export manager (South East Asia) for the Australian Wheat Board, presented a paper on the Australian grain industry to the seventeenth international grain industry course in Winnipeg this September. Justin, who has also represented Australian grain interests in China, Argentine, France and Indonesia, planned to be away in Canada for five weeks.
Sue BARRETT (1977) is teaching Maths and Science at the Seymour High School and enjoying country life. Amanda DAVEY (1977) is Education Officer, Queensland Art Gallery.
Roderick FAWNS (Dean 1973-75) has been promoted to Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne.
Penelope PENGILLEY (1977) has been awarded a Rotary Post-Graduate Scholarship. She is applying for admission to an English University to read for a degree or diploma after completing her Articles here.
Graham PILKINGTON (1974) is in London working for a firm of solicitors which specialises in maritime law, and is also working towards an M.A. in business law. His future, he thinks, will be back in Australia and he looks forward to a reunion "with a few of the boys in Naughton's" assuming it has not become a national monument yet!
Mark ELLINGHAM (1977) left in September for the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, to study for a Ph.D.
Peter Louis BELL (1974) lives on the Gold Coast, and is Area Manager for Pioneer Concrete Service Pty Ltd. He married Dianne Lynette Weire and they have a daughter, Jade.
Angela MAY (1978) has moved to Chevron Island, Gold Coast, and is teaching in Beenleigh.
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