Trinity College Newsletter, vol 1 no 23, December 1983

Fleur-de-Lys Dinner 1982

CENTENARY FLEUR-DE-LYS DINNER NEXT FEBRUARY by the Warden, Dr. Evan L. Burge On the evening of 10 February next year, nearly six hundred members of Trinity and their companions, are expected to throng the Bulpadock for a Gala Dinner to celebrate the centenary of the Union of the Fleur-de-Lys. Invitations are included with this Newsletter. Already plans are being made by several Trinity members in Sydney to come back to the Dear 01' Coll. in February; the menu is being decided; and a huge marquee has been ordered. The evening should be a wonderful symbol of Trinity's unity and diversity, and an occasion long to remember.

We have learned much from a less ambitious Gala Dinner two years ago. The external caterers employed on that occasion had their problems and so did one table which missed out on most of the food. Fortunately, those sitting there were all loyal stalwarts — they included Peter and Rosemary Balmford, Bishop James Grant and his future wife Rowena, and Peter and Ann Hollingworth. This time the College will handle the catering itself — which means that no one, however eminent, will be in danger of going hungry.

There has been some doubt about the date for a Centenary Dinner. It is certain that the first Fleur-de-Lys Dinner was held on Trinity Monday 1885 in the Union Club Hotel and was attended by a dozen former students, the Warden, and the current Senior Student. The Trinity College Calender, published in 1897 to mark the first quarter-century of the College, records a meeting in 1884 which led to the holding of the first dinner the following year. We shall therefore be celebrating the conception rather than the birth.

The Union of the Fleur-de-Lys, once conceived and born, has had a varied history. As early as 1887 it was decided that no one should be President for more than two successive years: a rule that has been faithfully followed.

Originally the subscription for annual membership was ten shillings — what would that be worth today? The cost of the dinner, including wine, remained at 10/6 until the First World War. To service flagging interest the membership fee was lowered to five shillings in 1909.

A life membership for five guineas was introduced in 1924 and

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for a time enabled the Union to contribute to College activities by purchasing trophies for sport, oars and practice eights. The Committee steadfastly resisted, however, any attempt to turn the Union into a fund-raising body. This viewpoint has been steadily maintained, and will no doubt continue to be so now that the Foundation has financial support of the College as its special goal.

By tradition, the Annual Meetings of the Union of the Fleur-de-Lys are of extraordinary brevity and are held before Dinner. Like Chopin's Minute Waltz they can be handled with grace and panache. It is also possible for them to begin, occur, and finish so rapidly that the incoming President does not know he has been elected. In February 1984, Sir Brian Inglis is willing to stand for his second and final term as President. Tony Buzzard is also prepared to continue as tireless Secretary.

In 1958 the Life Membership fee was raised to eight guineas while the annual membership was ten shillings. These charges remained until 1971 when all membership fees were abolished.

Since then all former students and tutors of the College have been eligible to attend the annual Dinner.

The accumulated funds of the Union were then entrusted, as an interest-free loan, to the College where they have greatly assisted us by reducing interest payments we should otherwise have paid to the bank. The College greatly appreciates this generous gesture.

I well remember the first Fleur-de-Lys Dinner I attended. It was in June 1974, and for the first time wives were invited to come as the guests of their husbands. It was the first function I attended in Trinity, and by far the most difficult I have ever tried to address.

New Wardens in Trinity get their baptism by fire — whether women are present or not.

Ten years later I am looking forward to the greatest Fleur-de-Lys Dinner in history. One of the greatest pleasures of being Warden is meeting so many delightful students and former students of the College. The efforts of Nick Turnbull to organise small lunches in College, which have now been attended by about one-and-a-half thousand former students, have been particularly rewarding. So have the Fleur-de-Lys dinners held in Canberra, Perth, Brisbane, Sydney and London during the past six years.

I look forward to seeing many of you once more next February.

THIRD ANNUAL FLEUR-DE-LYS DINNER HELD IN SYDNEY For the third successive year over 40 people stood to drink the toast of the College at a Sydney dinner held last September.

David Harris ('57) proposed the toast in an elegant speech in which he explained how College had given him the opportunity fora far broader education than would have been possible in the University alone.

The Warden had just written his front page article for the previous Newsletter, and used much of it in his reply. He was

concerned that the 25% cuts in Government funding for Colleges were part of an attack on the values of the more traditional Colleges, made by people who understood little of their role in the modern world. It was fortunate that the Foundation had been established so that Trinity could look forward with confidence to a second century of encouraging able, young people to develop ideals of service pro ecclesia et pro patria.

Trinity is indeed fortunate to have a lively committee in Sydney — Brigadier John McDonagh ('49), Peter Pockley ('54), and David Harris ('57). John McDonagh and Peter Pockley work in the University of New South Wales, so it was convenient once more to have the gathering in the pleasant private dining room of the Square House at Kensington. No detail was left to chance.

Every opportunity was given for the group to mix and mingle both before and after Dinner — an arrangement which worked particularly well by using one half of the long room for coffee and mingling and the other for formal dining.

A particularly welcome guest at the Dinner was former Dean, Bishop Ken Mason, ('65) who is now stationed in Sydney as Chairman of the Australian Board of Missions.

It has been suggested by some that a more central location be used next year. A date has already been fixed — Friday, September 28, 1984 — and the Committee is working on the venue.

Some of the guests at the Sydney Trinity Dinner: from left to right — Mr. Ian Raymond, Mrs Sally Raymond, Mrs Helen McDonagh, The Warden, Dr Evan Burge, BrigadierJohn McDonagh.

Other Fleur-de-Lys Dinners are being planned for the coming year. As well as the Gala Centenary Dinner in Melbourne, it is proposed to hold dinners in Adelaide and Canberra. The dates for these will be announced shortly.

RAILWAY PILGRIMS RAISE $2000 FOR THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL

by Pamela Oddy — reprinted from "See" by permission Five hundred bleary-eyed pilgrims clutch thermoses to chests and tickets in hands early on an October Saturday morning.

Which platform? Six. Any seats left? No problems. Safely aboard they sink into the red rattler comfort of the Trinity Special.

Newspaper open, coffee is furtively sipped ("Morning tea is after Seymour" intone the theological student hosts.) The train pulls out for its long journey through the green Victorian countryside.

No such relaxing destination as Wangaratta. The redoubtable Holy Trinity Cathedral Ladies Guild is making final touches to the luncheon — rich home-made soup, seasoned meats and salads — and chairs appear like daisies on the Cathedral lawns.

The Cathedral is spit and polished, the Bishop's sermon set. The Wangaratta City Band shines its tubas and warms up for the pilgrimage procession it will lead from station to church.

The Trinity pilgrims (now enjoying home-made biscuits for morning tea) come from all over the Melbourne diocese and beyond to join the pilgrimage train in a fund-raising effort for the Trinity Theological School.

The Eucharist was celebrated by the Very Reverend David Thawley, Dean of Wangaratta. The former Archbishop of Melbourne, Sir Frank Woods gave the pilgrimage blessing and invoked God's forgiveness on the Warden 'for his coat of many colours'.

For Trinity College the day raised some $2000 and helped to foster a real sense of relationship between the College and the parishes its students will eventually serve.

The Students, the College and the Train Committee thank the 1983 pilgrims and hope to welcome even more aboard for Bendigo — by steam — on October 13 1984.

Pamela Oddy is married to the Reverend Andrew Oddy ('74).

Among the chief organizers was the Reverend John Davis ('76) who has greatly assisted the College by running several book fairs, and playing a leading part in two train pilgrimages. Many other people, including our own students, contributed significantly. We are grateful.

The journey, the feasting and the friendship are all vital to the day's success. But the high-point is undoubtedly the Eucharist in thanksgiving for the work of the Trinity Theological School.

In a packed Cathedral the voices of the organ, the trumpet, the choir and the people ring out splendidly. Bishop Max Thomas' sermon recalls the need for such festal comings together in a troubled world.

Such a day happens only with the help and generosity of many.

Fifteen hundred biscuits and a thousand scones for morning and afternoon tea were made and donated by about a dozen parishes. The Cathedral Ladies Guild served and prepared the splendid luncheon. Supper was prepared by the people of Christ Church, Seymour.

Graeme Skinner of Wangaratta and Fitzroy was chief organizer of the music, assisted by a combined choir from St Peter's Eastern Hill, the Canterbury Fellowship, Wangaratta Cathedral and Christ Church Brunswick.

Lunch at Wangaratta — from left: Peter Wellock, Trinity College Chaplain, Warden of Trinity Dr. Evan Burge, Bishop Max Thomas of Wangaratta, Archbishop Sir Frank Woods and Dr. John Gaden, Director of Theological School, Trinity College.

TRINITY DINNER IN PERTH, AUGUST 1983 After a lapse of nearly forty years, the second Trinity Dinner was held in Perth in August 1983, attended by the Warden and his wife, Dr. Barbara Burge.

By a happy coincidence, both the Anglican Archbishop of Perth, (Dr. Peter Carnley '62) and his Chaplain (Dennis Reynolds '75), are Trinity men. This offered a perfect combination to arrange the dinner: a distinguished patron who has been a Warden of an Anglican College (St. John's College, Brisbane) and who has kept in touch with Trinity, and a first rate organiser who left Trinity only a few years ago.

The only Trinity Dinner held in Perth, so far as anyone can remember, was in about 1949 when Sir John Behan, a few years after his retirement, attended an enjoyable gathering in a city hotel. Several of the guests at this year's Dinner remembered that occasion well.

At the dinner table itself, Archbishop Peter Carnley introduced the Warden with an admirable telling of the story of the Christian in the Coliseum who put lions to flight by simply whispering a few words in their ear. When the Emperor enquired what it was that the intended visitor was whispering it turned out to be, "You'll have to make a speech after dinner".

The Warden enjoyed his dinner in spite of having to speak for it, and took his listeners on a tour of the changes in the College that have occurred in the past five years. Perhaps the highlight of his talk, however, was a message of greeting from the five Western Australian students currently in Trinity to their predecessors now gathered to show a common loyalty and to sing 'a song of the Fleur-de-Lys and Trinity'.

This time the Dinner was in the collegiate ambience of the splendid Hall of St. George's College, where the Master (Dr. Ben Derbyshire) took special pains to make the Trinity family welcome.

Trinity has had long links with the West. Sir John Winthrop Hackett, the founder of our Dialectic Society, became the owner the editor of The West Australian and the first Chancellor of the University of Western Australia. Many West Australians came to Trinity earlier this century to study in Faculties such as Medicine before such courses were available in Perth. More recently there has been a steady stream of theological students who have made a valuable contribution to the life of the Trinity Theological School.

The Dinner itself was attended by almost seventy people covering a wide range of College generations. Although there had been no Trinity gatherings for years, an unmistakable Trinity atmosphere soon became evident. Dennis Reynolds added a number of distinctive touches of his own. All the women guests were presented with a corsage he had made, on arrival; the menus were embellished with a hand-coloured fleur-de-lys; and after the Dinner an iced fruit cake bearing a large fleur-de-lys emblem was waiting in the Common Room to be cut and shared over coffee.

YET ANOTHER TRINITY DIOCESAN BISHOP

Bishop Owen Dowling

Dr. Barbara Burge cuts the Fleur-de-Lys cake at the Perth Dinner.

Bishop Owen Dowling (1959) was elected by Synod in October to be the Bishop of Canberra-Goulburn. He has served in that diocese as parish priest (including a period as Precentor and Organist at St Saviour's Cathedral), Archdeacon, and Assistant Bishop.

Earlier this year he spent a week back in his old College conducting a School of Prayer and the first-term retreat, and being available for private consultation by students. His recommendations and suggestions to the staff of the Theological School, based on what he experienced here and what he was told in confidence, have been of great help in planning for the future. He clearly enjoyed being back.

Bishop Dowling sees himself as more a "pastoral" than an "office" bishop — though he realizes that he will incur weighty administrative responsibilities. Before ordination he was a teacher in technical high schools and he remains deeply interested in schools — both church and state. His other interests include music and the ministery of healing.

Trinity congratulates Owen on his election, and sends warmest good wishes and blessings to him and his wife, Beverly, as he undertakes new responsibilities in the national capital pro ecclesia et pro patria.

FRIENDS OF TRINITY DINNER 1983

MYRA ROPER DEFENDS PLAIN ENGLISH

"Miss Roper is a compulsive and enthusiastic communicator ... one of her special areas of interest and expertise is in promoting improvement in communication between people and fostering a love of the English language and its correct usage ... not even the substantial entry in 'Who's Who of Australian Women' gives more than superficial testimony to the qualities of one of the most stimulating and vital personalities in our community. There is little in this entry which reveals the style and charm, the wit and the freshness of the publications with which she is credited" — Mr Barrie Purvis introducing the Guest Speaker, Miss Myra Roper, at the Annual Friends of Trinity Dinner. We publish here an edited version of Miss Roper's address.

"Let me say at the outset that I desire to communicate to those of you who have come here tonight that I am cognisant of the honour conferred on me by the invitation to address you — an invitation such as is appreciated by all we women. I can only anticipate that my input will, hopefully, be well received. But, of course, I can only adumbrate — due to the exigencies of the time-frame — the multiplicity of problems raised by technological changes."

How severely I suffered writing and reading such a travesty of our language — the tongue that Shakespeare spoke. It was pompous, pretentious, polysyllabic, cliché-ridden, flabby, futilely time-consuming gobbledegook! Yet it was only fractionally worse than the so-called English in the billions of documents churned out by government departments, education institutions, business houses, writers of committee minutes and some of the media. Here is our monstrous Language Industry at work.

Did anyone want to hiss or walk out? I hope so. What I was saying, simply, was: 'I am honoured to be your speaker tonight. I hope you will find what I have to say interesting and realize I can only outline briefly the many changes in our language by the tremendous development of new media technologies.'

Language is life, the main instrument of communication creating our society, determining the kind of social and political animals we become in our global village. Yet widespread concern about its honesty, let alone its eloquence and beauty, is today conspicuous by its absence and that sorry cliché leads me

to harrow you with others — and there are far worse things than clichés to come.

Here are some melancholy examples of the official language, the industry's persistent misuse of the tools: Shall I say I 'start' or 'begin' when I sound more impressive with 'I commence'; 'purchasing' indicates more cash available than 'buying'; 'I give 50 cents', but 'I donate $50'; and the wonderful emphasis we all gave to 'the end of the war' was lost as the media hissed out the hideous sibilants 'the cessation of hostilities'.

The new beautifully onomatopoeic word 'gobbledegook' identifies the main energy — the main devourer of time and materials, style and beauty — the waste monster!

Some examples from the world of politics and the public service: 'Mr Street maintained a frequent and useful ongoing dialogue'.

'The inputs from the private sector are an available paradigm for the public sector in establishing parameters and providing an ongoing overview'.

'John Howard is available for a picture facility.'

Is this kind of writing the result of laziness, avoiding the stern discipline of brevity — short is beautiful but difficult(!) or is it the wish to sound impressive, superior to the hoipolloi?

An extract from a university Fine Arts syllabus: 'The emphasis in this course is on planometric diagrams and the language of non-verbal structures. Students explore the phenomenological world-depiction as non-verbal language.' — Yes, that's true!

I note that the Lord's Prayer has 56 words, the Ten Commandments 297, the American Declaration of Independence 300, and the E.E.C. communique on the sale of duck eggs 26,911!

In the use of euphemisms we see the mounting cost of the more unscrupulous language industrialists — the flight from plain speaking in a futile effort to move the nasty nearer the nice, for example: 'Finances have been adjusted downwards' i.e. income has dropped 'Shall need more revenue enhancement' i.e. taxes must go up Watergate and Vietnam reports reached the apotheosis of euphemistic nastiness: — a 'lie' was an 'inoperative statement' — a 'burglary' was a 'surreptitious entry' — an 'execution' was a 'termination with extreme prejudice'

Death of Dr. Harold F. Craig For twenty-one years until 1975 an annual six-weeks Summer School of Business Administration was held in Trinity every January and February. The income from this was an important part of the College's operating budget, and fora long period kept the fees rather lower than they might otherwise have been. The Business School also brought a large cross-section of executives and managers to the College, where they tolerated the plumbing, enjoyed the food, and greatly appreciated the atmosphere.

The Director of these Summer Schools was Dr. Harold Craig, Senior Lecturer in Business Administration from 1958 and Reader from 1973 at the University of Melbourne. Dr. Craig died after a short illness on 25 October 1983, at the age of sixty-two.

He was about to retire from the University and a farewell gathering had already been arranged.

The funeral service, as was appropriate, was held in the Trinity College Chapel on 29 October, where the Warden delivered the panegyric. His wife, Mrs. Norma Craig, died of cancer a few years ago. She and her family received great help in facing this

And what about clichés and 'in words'; oh dear, here we go again!

— give the green light; touch the hip-pocket nerve; give him an up-market image; the P.M.'s scenario; the Australian public at large (once only used for lunatics and criminals!)

One wonders: Is there an American take-over and an accepted bid? Very nearly, and it's a mixed blessing. We have acquired a variety of words — elevator, cookies, drapes. Many are vivid: uptight, hassle, rip-off and the superbly deflationary 'so what!'

There are changes in meaning and emphasis: — 'aggressive' in English is derogatory, in the United States it is complimentary e.g. a good salesman — 'sincere' in English is laudatory; in the U.S.A. it can mean phoney!

But we must be ready to accept any new word if it serves a good purpose: — 'get your act together' — 'hang-over' — 'walk-over' You can have fun with words — one can take 'concrete steps'; one can 'cement relations' and of course Marx's grave in Highgate is 'just another communist plot!'

In the London Times appeared a gobbledegook translation of 'The Lord is my Shepherd': 'The Lord and I are in a shepherd sheep situation and I am in a position of negative need. He prostrates me in a green-belt grazing area ... Surely I will possess tenant-rights in the housing unit of the Lord on a permanently open-ended time basis.'

'The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures ... Surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.'

There indeed is the tongue that Shakespeare spake! And this is precisely the tongue that the Language Industry is killing — with help, alas, of academe and the schools.

If the medium is the message surely words are still the most crucial medium, however delivered. We should be concerned that they are clearly, honestly, sometimes beautifully, always economically used for direct and caring communication. We should maintain our rage when they are fractured, mishandled, prostituted, and lift up our hearts when they illuminate and explore. Surely still the Language Industry can sometimes come to us like Elizabethan Sir Philip Sydney's poet — 'He cometh to you with words set with the well-enchanting skill of music, with a talk that holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney corner'. SANCTA SIMPLICITAS.

affliction positively from a Trinity man, Dr. Ainslie Meares ('30).

The College extends its sympathy in their bereavement to the Craig's sons, David and Robert, and to Dr. Craig's sister, Miss Joan Craig, who still lives in Ararat where Dr. Craig was born.

Forthcoming Marriages William HAMILTON (1975) and Anne PORTER (1976) are engaged. Billis working on a reactor in the USA for six months.

Garry THOMSON (1978) and Joanna LAWRENCE (1975) plan to marry in Sale next April. Joanne is working in the Microbiology Department at the Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne. Garry is completing his studies at the University.

1960 Tutors' Reunion At a lunch-time reunion in the Dining Hall in Trinity in September, Dr. Tom Thach, Fullbright Scholar and Tutor 1960, was welcomed by fellow tutors of that year, John Martyn, Alfred Bird, Jim Merralls, John Emmerson and Barry Connell.

A view from high up on the Chapel showing some of the extensive work being carried out.

RESTORATION OF THE CHAPEL CONTINUES The chapel at Trinity College, the gift of Mr J.S. Horsfall in memory of his daughter, Edith, has stood since 1915.

in 1938. From that day on, successive college councils and wardens struggled to find the finance necessary to repair it.

Legend tells that Mr Horsfall was inveigled into promising it at a particularly good dinner with the Warden, Dr Alexander Leeper, and was dismayed to read, in a more sober frame of mind, in the Argus the following day that the gift had been offered and accepted.

Meanwhile the sandstone facings and pinnacles began to deteriorate seriously, and the roof leaked in heavy rain. None of this interfered with the constant use and inspiration of the building, but it did cause grave concern to the college authories.

In fact, Mr Horsfall himself made the first move, and did so with due care and deliberation.

Some years earlier, the college council had announced a competition for the design of a new chapel — a competition won by Alexander North and his junior partner Lois Williams. Mr Horsfall's generosity made the building possible, bit it also led to a substantial reduction in the size and scope of the original plans.

"I do not see", he wrote to Dr Leeper, "the necessity of providing 500 seats for a college that has only, as I understand, some 60 pupils".

It is a pity. The main part of the chapel holds fewer than 100 despite its imposing proportions. The college now has 250 undergraduates and 21 resident tutors, and is likely to be very crowded on large ceremonial occasions.

Because of its wonderful musical acoustics, the chapel is well known throughout Australia, mainly through the ABC broadcasts by the choir of the Canterbury Fellowship and more recently a more specialised group called Cantus Choro.

The Chapel is in constant use for prayer, worship, and organ practice, as well as for occasional weddings and funerals.

To those who use it regularly it is peopled with memories of great and joyous occasions — such as the visit of Bishop Michael Ramsey for the centenary of the Trinity Theological School on the Feast of the Transfiguration in 1978, and the annual Festival of Lessons and Carols — and of sadder ones such as the memorial services for Dr Barry Marshall and for students who have died on our roads.

As early as the late thirties, the chapel showed signs of ageing.

Because of a shift in structure, the great west window showed signs of falling in until it was secured by four massive oak beams

Fortunately miracles still happen. Mr Robert Cripps, whose family have been generous benefactors to St John's College, Selwyn College and Queen's College in Cambridge, and to the University of Nottingham, came to a wedding in the Chapel. He was alarmed to see such a beautiful building deteriorating rapidly.

Before long, he became a second John Horsfall by offering to provide funds for the total restoration of the chapel fabric.

Work on the increasingly dangerous west window was the first priority. For a year the west face of the chapel was covered with scaffolding while all the glass was removed and the stonework replaced or restored.

It was all ready just in time for the 1982 Festival of Lessons and Carols, attended by Their Excellencies, Sir Ninian and Lady Stephen. For the first time in almost a half century, the full beauty of the window could be seen.

Since then, thanks to Mr Cripps' generosity, the scaffolding has progressed to the central tower. Once the stonemasons reached it, they found that its condition was, if anything, even more dangerous than that of the west window. From the college grounds, the scaffolding high above the roof makes an impressive sight silhouetted against the western sky.

On present estimates it is likely to stay in place at least until next Easter, so extensive and painstaking is the work to be done.

Once the main fabric has been restored, the next task will be to attend to the chapel organ. It still sounds splendid when skilfully played, but years of being used day in and day out for practice, rehearsals, recitals, and services have meant that it is well nigh worn out. It is an exciting prospect that one day the Trinity Chapel, restored to its original beauty, will house a fine organ worthy of its importance to the musical traditions of the college, the university and the city. (continued on page 8)

NEWS OF TRINITY MEMBERS Nina CARR (1926) has recently been elected President of the Graduate Committee, University of Melbourne.

John CATOMORE (1929) is retiring after fifty years' se rvice with Paveys, now Pavey Whiting and Byrne. At the Australian Legal Convention in Brisbane last July he was delighted to catch up with Francis Cumbrae-Stewart (1926) who was up from Hobart.

Peter R. LECKIE (1936) recently retired from practice in Radiation Oncology, has been appointed Emeritus Consultant to the Royal Perth Hospital, and Life Consultant to the Princess Margaret Hospital for Children.

John W.D. MIDDLETON (1946) retired from general practice in Lilydale last year, and is now fully occupied as a vigneron producing red and white table wines from his own grapes. He also runs a small Angus Cattle Stud.

developing countries, where they are often inappropriate as well as unduly costly.

Thomas Wayne GRIFFITHS (1965) has recently returned to Melbourne after three years in Curacao (a small island in the Carribean) and is now Trading Manager of the Shell Company of Australia in Victoria.

Christopher ABELL (1969) formerly Senior Research Fellow, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Adelaide, is now principle of his own consulting company, C.J. Abell & Co. Pty. Ltd. Andrew P.S. KEMP (1969) writes from Queensland with news of his family and friends. He has been in Merchant Banking for the past five years with A.I.F.C. and for the last four years he has been the Queensland Manager. He spent some time previously working on a cattle station in Queensland. In 1977 he married Ann Macdonald, and they have two children, Alison and Simon.

Of Trinity people they see Jenny Armstrong (nee Goy — JCH 1972). Her husband moved to Queensland to open the Brisbane office of Blake & Riggall.

Robert (Bob) Henry ROBERTSON (1947) has been Deputy High Commissioner in London since April 1981 and expects to be re-posted in the near future. Prior to this he was the Ambassador to Italy from 1978 to 1981. His elder son Alexander plans to study Arts/Law and hopes to enter Trinity in 1985 or 1986.

Andrew stayed with Alistair Armstrong (1969) in Hong Kong in July this year. Alistair married in December, 1982.

Geoffrey ODDIE (1952) has been at the University of Sydney since 1964. He is Senior Lecturer in History and his special interest is India and Hindu-Christian encounters especially in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Ian MacDONALD (1972), who has recently been working as an engineer on the Portland power line, is now in New Guinea for a year. He is with ASCOM working on a power line for the Oktedi Mining Project.

Vernon D. PLUECKHAHN (1952) has published a book with the Melbourne University Press Ethics, Legal Medicine and Forensic Pathology.

Sarah DEASEY (1974) has been a primary teacher in Airport West for the past three years, after an earlier period in Morwell.

Christopher GAME (1961) is now the Elizabeth Scott Fellow in Hearing Research at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, University of Sydney.

Alison INGLIS (1977) left in November for a year's research in Fine Arts at the Courtauld Institute, London. She will be continuing her research for her doctoral thesis on nineteenth century painting. Alison is living at William Goodenough House.

Richard LARKINS (1961) was recently appointed to the Chair of Medicine at the University of Melbourne (Royal Melbourne Hospital).

Sandra McCOLL (1977) commenced studies at Oxford this year for her D. Phil. in music. She is the Welsford-Smithers Scholar from the University of Melbourne.

David ROBBIE (1961), once KKK and now a practising solicitor with an interest in what he calls 'trivia' appeared recently on Sale of the Century and won the first night's round.

Helen MOSS (1977) after extensive travelling over the past two years, including Africa, Europe, America and Canada, has now taken up a position with the city Chartered Accounting firm of Fordham, Williams, Horwath and Company.

Geoffrey SHELLAM (1962) is Principal Research Fellow of the National Health and Medical Research Council in Perth.

Megan PRAIN (1977) is working at Jetset Tours and studying for an M.B.A. at the University of Melbourne. She is to marry Hugh Gleeson in November after the exams.

Richard HARRISON (1964) has been working with Shell in London, and expects to be there for about another year. Before going to England, he and his wife Anna lived in Perth, where they were closely associated with Kingswood College, University of Western Australia.

Graham BROWN (1965) is back in Melbourne working on a malaria vaccine at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute. From April to July this year he was Visiting Professor of Medicine in Port Moresby. Recently he spoke in Trinity about the dangers of exporting traditional western medical methods to the

TRAIN PILGRIMS

Rosemary GRABAU (Tutor 1979-1982) is leaving the Department of Housing and Construction in Canberra to join Aspect Computing Pty. Ltd., the fourth largest Australian soft-ware House.

Cathy JOB (1980) is now in Sydney as a reporter for ABC Public Affairs Radio. Her voice has been heard recently on AM, PM and Money Talk.

James MORRISON (1981) has been a merchant banker with Rothschilds for almost two years and is thoroughly enjoying it.

(see article on page 2)

The pilgrims make their way from the Wangaratta Railway Station to the Holy Trinity Cathedral led by the Wangaratta City Band.

RESTORATION OF THE CHAPEL CONTINUES (from page 6)

Appreciation of the architectural qualities of the chapel has not been lacking in recent years. When it was first built, the Trinity students did not care for its appearance. One man wrote in the college magazine.

"No! In spite of the Warden's statement, we do not think it is beautiful ... We think the colour of the windows garish, almost loud. There is something distinctly unpleasing in the "undone button" effect of those tin knobs on the principal spire ..."

More recently, the chapel has been classified by the National Trust. The citation speaks of it as "an early and outstanding example of the work of architects North and Williams" and as "a successful simplification of the decorated Gothic style".

One final word about the "undone button effect of those tin knobs" on the spire. They are actually on the central tower which supports the fleche and are metal covers for ventilators. They have long been covered with unsightly rust.

At Mr Cripps' suggestion, they are to be replaced with curved aluminium discs bearing handsome heraldic designs — the coats-of-arms of Trinity College itself, and of the colleges of its principal founders: Trinity College, Cambridge, St John's College, Cambridge, and Trinity College, Dublin.

The completed work will be a joy to see — just as it is an inspiration to worship in.

EVAN BURGE

Mr Robert Cripps inspects the restoration work.

DID YOU ROW FOR TRINITY? About five years ago Bill Gillies as Senior Student, assisted by older College oarsmen such as W. Balcombe Griffiths and M. ('Taffy') Jones, was instrumental in founding the E.S. Hughes Club. This Club is named after a noted Trinity oarsman, cricketer and churchman, who stroked the first Trinity eight to victory in 1886 and who in 1923 presented a new eight, to be called the Fleur-de-Lys, to the College.

The purpose to the Club is to bring together Trinity oarsmen and oarswomen of the past and present, and also to give financial support to College rowing. Each year an E.S. Hughes Club Dinner is held in Trinity — an occasion much enjoyed by the many generations who attend.

Life membership of the Club is available to everyone who has rowed for the College and costs $25.

If you are eligible, and have not already joined, please complete the form below and return it with $25 to the College.

THE 1984 E.S. HUGHES CLUB DINNER WILL BE HELD ON FRIDAY 13th APRIL NEXT YEAR At this dinner we will be specially honouring the winning Trinity crews of 1952, 1953 and 1954.

In addition medallions will be presented to the members of the winning Trinity crew of 1983.

Mr. Martin R. Scott, Captain of Boats, Trinity College, Parkville, Vic. 3052 Please enrol me as a life-member of the E.S. Hughes Club.

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