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The three new Fellows of the College (L. to R.) Mr. James Guest, Mr. Robert Cripps and Mr. Peter Jones with the Warden, Dr. Evan L. Burge, and Professor Manning Clark at the recent service for the Recognition of Fellows and Commemoration of the Founders and Benefactors.
STIRRING ADDRESS GIVEN BY MANNING CLARK At the recent Service commemorating Founders and Benefactors, Professor Manning Clark presented a stirring and thought-provoking address. He has kindly allowed us to reproduce here the notes which served as the framework for his address. I would like to thank the chapel choir and organist for today's music. As Tolstoy said, great music makes the hearer feel capable of doing what he is not really capable of. I am an historian, so I will begin with a remark by another historian: T. B. Macaulay, in his essay on von Ranke, wrote: "When some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St Paul's ... " So my image is of a traveller from the Old World contemplating from Naughton's Hotel the ruins of Trinity College—the cloisters of Clarke's, the ivied walls, the mullioned windows. He would have no doubt these were the ruins left by people who had believed in transplanting British civilisation to the New World. The founders were men of faith. In 1872 they established Trinity College as a "glorious boarding-house where the residents learned to play billiards". One observer did not know what it rightly was. A retreat? A college? A theological seminary? A home for distressed parsons? Or a home for a caretaker? All that changed when Alexander Leeper was appointed Warden in 1876. Leeper was a graduate of both Trinity College Dublin, and St John's College Oxford. He was the son of a Dublin clergyman and had been second master at Melbourne Grammar School. He and Bishop Moorhouse were men of vision, men who held a faith: the faith to withstand the challenges pf rationalism and unbelief, and of the Kingdom of Nothingness. What they believed in, with Macaulay, was the Protestant religion and British institutions: liberty and the rule of law; tolerance and a higher level of material well-being than in other societies. So they transplanted British religious life and ecclesiastical architecture, British schools and colleges. They were Calvinist in their theology. They believed in the omnipotence of God and the impotence of Man; in the total depravity of Man; that God alone could work great marvels. Yet, paradoxically, they believed in education. They believed that knowledge is virtue, that knowledge is power. They were men of faith and of vision. But, as you will remember from Hymns Ancient and Modern, "Time like an ever-rolling stream Bears all its sons away ... " History has turned the faith of the founders of Trinity into an anachronism. The sinking of the Prince of Wales and the Repulse and the fall of Singapore in 1942 were milestones in the decline and fall of the British. A PUBLICATION OF TRINITYCOLLEGE WITHINTHE UNIVERSITYOFMELBOURNE Registered by Australia Post — Publication No.VBG 4336
The horrors of the First World War—the carnage and the slaughter, the Great Depression, the holocaust of the Jewish people during the Second World War, the massacre at Katyn, the bombing of Dresden, the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the purges in the Soviet Union—these have made our situation quite different. It is now difficult to believe either in God's world or in the capacity of human beings for better things, in their desire or their ability to steal fire from Heaven. All those who dreamed great dreams or saw visions now live in Heartbreak House on the Boulevard of Broken Dreams. Those who once experienced a wild ecstasy listening to the Eroica Symphony or to the trumpets in the last passage of Bach's Gloria now find comfort in the (cont. p.2) melancholy of Satie ...
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Dr Leeper and Dr Moorhouse were confident they knew the answers. We find ourselves asking the T. S. Eliot question: "Where are the roots that clutch? What branches grow out of this stony rubbish?" Dr Leeper and Dr Moorhouse knew the sources of wisdom and understanding. We go back to Job's question: "Tell me", we ask, "where is wisdom to be found?" ... We understand what St John of the Cross meant when he wrote of the dark night of the soul. The wisdom of our founders is not ourwisdom. We look back to them with reverence and gratitude, because they were believers, witnesses to the faith of their generation, men who handed on the torch. But we have to witness to the faith and wisdom of our generation. That is not easy. Our painters in the 1890's made us aware of "the land we live in", of "the wide brown land for me." Our writers nibbled at telling us who we were at the end of the nineteenth century. The painters and writers of today, the playwrights and film writers, are creating a mythology for the suburbs. They have put Australians on the stage and the screen. But so far, with few exceptions, our musicians have not caught the spirit of the place. We will know we are getting somewhere when we have the courage to create God in our own image. The changes the traveller sees in the face of the Buddha as he moves from the Laughing Buddha or the Merciful Buddha of Hangzhou in China to the recumbent Buddha of Pegu in Burma or the Hellenistic Buddha in the National Museum in Delhi are significant. Will we create a God, a Christ and a Holy Mother of God in our image? It is difficult to advance in the wisdom of the heart in the age of the supermarket, the skyscraper, the computer programme, the wars and the hectic Dionysian frenzy of the stockbrokers of Melbourne and Sydney. Every generation must answer two simple questions: What can a human being believe? What can a human being love? The founders of Trinity gave their answer ... My fear at the moment is that no-one has anything more to say. I would like to think that someone in this generation will go into the desert, and suffer, and tell us what he has seen. Manning Clark
THE FIFTIES REVISITED AGAIN IN MOTION AND COLOUR After the success of 'An Evening of Nostalgia' earlier this year, Peter Pockley, the College's indefatigable film-maker and photographer from the fifties, returned to Trinity in September and found a large and receptive audience already in the Hall. And so, four years of Juttoddie were run and cheered once more; the JCH ladies played hockey against the men armed with a curious assortment of brooms and mops; 'the Bird' was uncharacteristically dressed as a devil, and 'the Bull' and Syd put in an all-too-brief appearance as the film ran out. Peter Brown from Canberra sent a reel which neatly complemented the Pockley productions. The viewers who were not around when the films were shot were more than interested to see Peter Hollingworth, John Gaden, Tim Thorn, and John Batt as they once were. 'Never despair of any generation of students,' said the Warden!
A group of 1950's members of Trinity photographed with the organiser of the film evening, Peter Pockley. From L. to R.: Peter Mitchell ('56), John Clark ('52), Geoff Brown ('55), Peter Pockley ('54), Tim Thorn ('54)
JUTTODDIE CO-FOUNDER TAKES TO THE AIR! Dr. Colin P. Juttner, now partly retired from his medical practice, and having been advised to give up his water-skiing and wind-surfing, has taken to the air. After trying out his wings he graduated into full flight, and earlier this year gained his Pilot's Licence. We congratulate him on his achievement and rejoice with him in the fulfilment of his ambition. The name Juttner will recall to many readers the annual steeplechase (as it was originally devised) founded by Colin Juttner and Hal Oddie in 1931 and continuing to this day with only one year's break (in 1973) maintaining the old tradition but with inventive adaptations to suit present conditions. Mrs. Juttner marked the 50th Anniversary of Juttoddie and the introduction of fillies into the race by presenting a handsome silver rosebowl as the trophy for the women runners. It is good to know that Dr. Oddie is now back in Australia after spending many years in California and has built his retirement house on the north coast of New South Wales. The partnership of Juttner and Oddie has continued over the years, not only in the College institution but as a personal friendship.
Tony Buzzard ('60) and Bill Wilson ('61)—two of Trinity's medical graduates who continue to give outstanding support to the College, at the recent Service for Founders and Benefactors.
Dr. Colin Juttner photographed beside the 'Tobago" aeroplane which he flies.
NOTABLE TRINITY FAMILIES TWO FAMILIES WITH FIVE GENERATIONS OF TRINITY MEMBERS Three members of the Graham family, which has seen five generations through Trinity, visited the College recently. Mr. Tom Graham, the eldest living member, entered Trinity in 1927. His father, Herbert levers, enrolled in 1898, and his great uncle, Roland, in 1890. Mr. Graham's two sons Hugh and Douglas, came to Trinity in 1954 and 1958 respectively, and his grandson Andrew in 1978. Mr. Tom Graham is an accomplished golfer and in 1927 was a prime mover in establishing inter-varsity golf competitions. In 1928 he himself represented Melbourne University in the competiton and in 1929 he was the Varsity Champion. His golfing prowess is aptly recorded in the 1928 issue of the Fleur-de-Lys magazine: "Many competitors played clock golf on the lawns, and a strong detachment of police, assisted by the under-porter were necessary to keep the gallery in check when Mr. Tom Graham drove off from the last tee. Mr. Graham is well known as one of our most enthusiastic tee fighters, but on this occasion he excelled himself!" Mr. Tom Graham presented the College with the Graham trophy to be the prize for the Annual Inter-Collegiate Golf Tournament. Trinity won the competition in 1985 and the Trophy has now returned to the College. The Graham family is well-known in legal circles, Mr. Hugh Graham being a partner with Madden, Butler, Elder and Graham, and his brother Mr. Douglas Graham Q.C., a notable Trinity barrister. Andrew, the youngest member of the family, is Hugh's son and a Senior Accountant with Arthur Anderson & Co. Another Trinity family distinguished, amongst other things, for having five generations of Trinity members, is the Potter family. Bill Potter entered Trinity in 1939 and his brother Dick in 1947. Bill studied Theology and won the Bromby Greek prize while his brother Dick was an outstanding sportsman—an Australian Blue at Tennis and full Melbourne University Blue in Tennis and Football. He was Senior Student in 1949.
L. to R. The Warden, Dr. Evan L. Burge, talks with three members of the Graham family: Mr. Tom Graham, his son, Hugh, and grandson Andrew. Their father, the Reverend Canon Harry Potter entered Trinity in 1912, and their grandfather the Reverend Richard Potter first came to Trinity in 1880. Their great-grandfather, the Reverend Canon Robert Potter was the Chaplain of the College in 1884, and also Lecturer in Christian Apologetics. Bill Potter's children, Michael and Richard followed the pattern that had been set and entered Trinity in 1974 and 1975 respectively. Michael studied Theology and is now the Vicar of Wantirna South. His brother Richard completed a brilliant science course with first-class honours in Physics and then went to Colorado State University to study for his Ph. D. in solar energy. He is now a senior Research Scientist with Arcosolar in Los Angeles.
HAL TAYLOR-A TRINITY MAN OF CONCRETE ACHIEVEMENT One of our graduates, of whom Trinity has special cause to be proud, is Walter Harold Taylor. Hal entered the College in 1928 and is still almost as vigorous in body as he was then. He is certainly equally active in mind. In Melbourne there are two recent monuments to his knowledge and skill: the underground rail loop and the new Arts Centre complex. Both demanded the most up-to-date application of concrete technology and science, and could hardly have been built without his advice. The new Theatres Building, in particular, posed special problems, being built in low marshy ground where centuries of earlier vegetation had created an acid chemical mixture which would have corroded away thick concrete walls within a few decades. On Hal's advice, the problem was solved with a special grade of concrete and a small but constant electric current passing cathodically through steel work in the foundations of the building. His influence has spread around the globe through his major text book Concrete Technology and Practice, originally published in 1965, and now in its updated fourth (metric) edition. The fifth edition is almost complete and should be published in 1986. Shortly after the first edition was published, it won the first Building Science Forum of Australia book award, and as Sir John Holland, Ian Langlands and John Connell have testified, it has gone on to be 'of outstanding value internationally to designers, constructors, manufacturers, researchers, educators, and students'. After graduating with first-class honours (as a Simon Fraser Scholar of the College), Hal had extensive engineering experience in Government and semi-Government services and in private industry. For twenty-five years from 1945 he worked in the Division of Building (cont. p. 4)
Walter Harold Taylor
Research of CSIRO, specializing in all aspects of the composition, properties and uses of both normal and special concretes. Since retiring from CSIRO in 1970, he has been an engineering consultant, and has seen the direct application of his research in many major projects. Prophets tend to be honoured more elsewhere than in their own country. Hal has been recognized with personal profile entries in such works as The Dictionary of International Biography, Who's Who in Community Service, Men of Achievement, Men and Women of Distinction, The International Who's Who of Intellectuals, The International Book of Honour, The World Literary Academy, and several other international biographies. In 1976 the International Biographical Centre in Cambridge, England, bestowed on him a bronze award for distinguished achievement in creative service. In 1983 a citation and plaque were similarly awarded by the American Biographical Institute.
There is much more that could be said about his active membership of learned and community societies. As well as enjoying bowls, gymnastics and music he is very active in charity work. He has been a singularly generous donor to various Foundations, including the Faculty of Engineering, Wesley, and Trinity College. He is also a devoted husband. The keynote of his life's work has been to make a worthwhile and enduring contribution; to inspire the young with words and example; and to put the fruits of technological progress at the service of humane and lasting values. He shows strong conviction that we are here, not by chance, but with a mission to fulfil. Trinity is proud of him.
ANNUM FRIENDS OF TRINITY DINNER 1985 Peter Scott, the Editor of The Times Higher Education Supplement (which is required reading for Vice-Chancellors and for unemployed academics, if for few others), recently published a small book called The Crisis of the Universi ty. In it he sought to discern, beneath such obvious convulsions as drastic cuts in funding and selective closing of departments, long-term changes in the nature and role of British universities. What is left, after the two decades of expansion inspired by the famous report of Lord Robbins, and some years of retreat from its high liberal ideals? (I might add that Lord Robbins interrupted the writing of his report to examine my PhD thesis. I have long tried to discern the effects of this intrusion on the development of British universities.) Scott argues that even without the crisis in funding the old liberal ideal of the University—which emphasised education for life, with a more or less harmonious relationship between the University and existing society—had already given ground to that of the specialised professional research institution, increasingly ideological in posture, seen by some academics and many politicians as an instrument for the implementation of national policies. Such a concept is a far cry indeed from the ideal of classically enlightened education which Alexander Leeper sought to embody in this College. Is there a parallel here in Australia? Are universities seen less and less as autonomous educational institutions, with their own particular expertise in their craft? And increasingly as national resources to be directed, manipulated, and re-formed in accordance with national policies, politically formulated? Are these concepts of a university in fact contradictory? Or must we seek a balance between them?
Professor John Poynter The former Dean and joint Acting-Warden of the College, Professor John Poynter, who is the present Deputy Vice-Chancellor of The University of Melbourne, delivered the following address at the Annual Friends of Trinity Dinner held recently in the College Dining Hall. It is indeed an honour to be asked to propose this toast, in succession to some very distinguished former speakers. One could scarcely hope to emulate, for example, the recent inspiring oratory of Sir Gustav Nossal, and it is tempting to evade the issue by slipping into that 'Trinity style' which I learned and practised in this Hall many years ago, offering some facetious confection of the sort which so offended those sterner non-conformist neighbours who took public speaking and debating much more seriously. If these roof beams groan occasionally, it is less from the weight of the slates than from the memory of so many bad jokes perpetrated at so many dinners here below. So I shall be serious, though not perhaps uninterruptedly. After association with this College, and employment in this University, for longer than I care to calculate, I shall, in proposing this toast, comment—very dogmatically—on the state and prospects of universities and colleges, as seen from an office a quarter-mile to the south-east and nine storeys up. It goes without saying that you cannot see the grass roots from the ninth floor, but there is some breadth in the perspective.
Australian universities have always differed from their British models. The establishment of this University, so soon after white settlement, was an act of effrontery, though confidently and competently done. If its core was a liberal university in the British mould, it soon gave an unusual emphasis to professional training—in law, medicine, engineering and agriculture for example—and it was always more closely involved in the application of its knowledge to local problems than say Oxford, Cambridge, or Trinity College, Dublin. It had a unique position in the local community: to this day this University's legislation (unlike that of Monash or La Trobe) is approved by the Governor, not the Governor-in-Council; and it is only recently that University affairs have come within the responsibility of the Minister of Education and his statutory advisory bodies. The University was not however always at ease with the local political and social elites, though it educated most of their sons and some of their daughters. When Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson arrived in Melbourne as Governor-General in 1914 he reported: 'We have been to the Races, which in this country is tantamount to saying we have entered Society ... The crowd is very sporting and the arrangements perfect ... These Meetings give one an opportunity of seeing the nonpolitical world, which over here keeps itself quite aloof from the politicians and takes no interest whatever in Federal or State affairs. Sir John Forrest declares that the Melbourne Club "never votes", and that their ladies (also electors) "do not know the difference between State and Federal Government or the names of the Prime Ministers".
• The quantity and quality of our research output, which has expanded steadily in the last decade, despite financial restrictions. • The fact that our teaching and research is much more effectively responsive to the needs of our society than is often asserted. Perhaps we fail to inform the public of the range and complexity of our involvement in the economy and society; but neither the universities, nor CSIRO for that matte-, should be made the scapegoats for the breakdown of Australian manufacturing industry. Alas, we cannot be made its saviours either. And what, from the same Ninth Floor, most depresses and annoys? • the inadequate financial resources of many of our students.
Dr. John MacDonald, President of the Friends of Trinity. These Society people are very British ... They have excellent manners and are very generous with their money. It is posssible to mix Society and University people at Government House entertainments, and some of the latter are able and agreeable men, but I think that in their own homes Society's exclusiveness is unmitigated.' This and other Australian universities remained relatively simple institutions, primarily educational in their function, with limited, though sometimes notable, achievements in research. They were also permitted to pursue their role with a high degree of independence from Government, a freedom sometimes indistinguishable, indeed, from simple governmental neglect. Here, as in Britain, all that changed in the middle of the 20th Century. After the Murray report of 1957, the number of universities grew from 9 to 19, and there was a major expansion in research activities. The parallel and slightly later expansion of the Colleges of Advanced Education, and still later of TAFE, brought into being a system of postsecondary institutions (though admittedly one very unsystematically arranged). The Whitlam Government abolished fees and undertook full financial responsibility for tertiary institutions, going much further than any British government in making the whole system the direct responsibility of one governmental authority, concealed though this has been by the usual misty confusions of Australian Federalism. We still live in the shadow of those developments, of the expansion of a handful of individual universities into a system; and of the assumption of primary responsibility for its development by the Federal Government.
• our lack of capacity to employ, even briefly, some of our brightest young research graduates. • the development, little publicised, of academic trade unionism, which will soon impose all sorts of rigidities on the operation of universities, under national awards. • the difficulties of persuading those responsible for secondary education that universities and colleges have legitimate claims on the school system. (I know the University of Melbourne has a reputation for being stuffÿ on this matter, but we are forced to be selective, and determined to be equitably selective. We fear the re-emergence of patronage, in new forms. It might even be necessary to re-invent some of the great 19th Century weapons against patronage, such as open competitive examination.) • the chaos in State and Federal planning for post-secondary education, with overlapping responsibilities, and with too many, and too ineffective, planning bodies. Such chaos invites ad hoc and strictly irresponsible political intervention for particular purposes, which is unfortunately beginning to appear. • the discomforts and penalties of being regarded as departments of both Federal and State Governments. Canberra funds us, and increasingly treats universities as just another arm of Federal government. The State, attempting to bring all its statutory authorities under some sort of control, ropes us in too. The result is sometimes a farce, when one government forbids what another requires, but a dangerous farce. You can run universities like government departments—the French do, for example—but you cannot run them as departments of two governments at once. And it is much better not to run them that way at all. (For one thing—as I was told recently in Paris—you cannot organise a group of Friends of a government department, which by definition does not have any.)
The consequences are much more far-reaching and important than our recent alarms and excursions over marginal adjustments to funding and to the number of places available. There are, indeed, a multitude of pressing current issues—concerning social participation, policies towards overseas students, the direction and funding of research, and academic employment policies, for example—but the underlying issues are larger still. What in particular is there, in the present scene, to gratify or disturb the watcher on the Ninth Floor balcony? There is certainly much to gratify: • In this University, in particular, the quality of the student population (and, despite our reputation for exclusiveness, the variety of its origins and characteristics). There are problems in being sought after by so many of the brightest of each generation—it is difficult not to disappoint them, for one thing—but in any pecking order it is better to be at the top than the bottom. • The fact that so many of our courses are better, in content and delivery, than ever before, despite limited resources. The staff is, quite simply, better qualified and trained than was possible in any Australian university thirty years ago, though there have been great teachers in every age, and never enough of them.
The Dean and Chaplain, Dr. Peter Wellock, shares a joke with Mr. Barrie Purvis, the immediate past President of the Friends of Trinity. Under these circumstances it is tempting to seek an escape by regaining some financial independence. That is why the reintroduction of fees is attractive to many, at least to those who would not have to pay them. State and Federal Governments have created, between them, a system of free post-secondary education which no-one is willing to fund adequately. That is why the question of fees will not go away.
One trouble with becoming a system is that it depresses diversity, and brings the danger that all universities and colleges will, like pigeons, breed back to a uniform grey. I once heard the argument that there are no longer any eccentrics in universities, expounded by Professor Joseph Burke and Professor Wright in a manner which manifestly disproved their proposition; but as universities get bigger, individuals inevitably grow smaller as elements in the scene. Our professoriate is still diverse and occasionally eccentric, but single personalities cannot dominate as they did. Neither, I suppose, can single colleges, or small groups such as that led in the heyday of the Melbourne collegiate system by Leeper, MacFarland, Picken, and (later) Murphy. The colleges gave Australian universities a unique character, and helped foster innovation. Leeper's admission of women—despite the Bishop's prediction that the squatters would withdraw their sons from Trinity lest they fall prey to the clever but penniless girls they would meet there—is a noble example. I don't want these observations to appear too gloomy. Scott notes the paradox of British academics cheerfully getting on with their work while simultaneously complaining of catastrophe. My concern is that big changes to the status and role of universities are happening inadvertently, and we sometimes feel friendless and misunderstood as we contemplate them. There is a story told
AUSTRALIAN COLLEGE FOR SENIORS, IN TRINITY COLLEGE JANUARY-FEBRUARY 1986 In late January and early February next year, four groups of about forty persons in each, aged 55 and upwards and still youthful in mind and spirit, will each spend a week in residence at Trinity College. Those groups will include a few Australians but the majority will be from America. Trinity College will be one place the Americans will visit out of a total of three in various parts of Australia.
of our Chancellor, when Professor of Physiology, calling the roll at a compulsory lecture—a compulsion of which he disapproved—'Simpson' he called with his head down. Silence. 'Simpson' he called again; and then, without raising his head, asked the question 'Hasn't the poor bastard got any friends?' Friendship has to be cultivated, and fed with knowledge and understanding. This College began its efforts to so inform its friends some time ago, and the University is now making a major effort to do the same for the whole institution through the new Alumni Association. I hope that many of you will be able to find an interest in both organisations. Having said that, as I must, I concede that it is always easier to feel affection for the particular than for the mass, and am happy to confirm the special place which Trinity has in my own regard, as it has indeed a special place in this University, as the first of its colleges. It is just twenty years since Barry Marshall and I had our brief period of glory as Joint Acting Warden of Trinity. Our only tangible memorial (since they pulled down the Joint Acting Laundry) is the Joint Acting Path, which appropriately bifurcates, one branch leading to this Hall, and the other towards the University. Happily neither is one-way, and I joyfully retrace my steps to the place where I, like so many others, learnt so much about friendship; and ask the friends of Trinity to rise, and drink to the health of Trinity College.
HAVE YOU SOME TRADITIONAL COLLEGE FURNITURE? Over the years, a large proportion of old Trinity furniture, especially the better chairs designed for Behan, has disappeared into various houses and flats. The College is embarking on a programme of progressively restoring
The course offered in Trinity will include both lectures and field trips. Three things will be touched on in the courses: the history and development of Melbourne and Victoria, including its art and culture; Australian flora and fauna; and three lectures at a popular level on the ancient Greek philosophers Socrates, Plato and Aristotle whose influence is still highly relevant today. The field trips will include visits to the gold-mining city of Ballarat with its beautiful gardens and prize begonias and the reconstructed mining village of Sovereign Hill. An excursion will also be made to see the famous dusk parade of the fairy penguins on Phillip Island.
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Australians of the requisite age and vigour may join the courses on either a live-in ($330) or live-out ($120) basis. Some Trinity members might also care to have a group of interesting international visitors to their home one evening.
only gratitude. Please let him or his secretary know
For further information, contact Mrs. Susan Moro or Mrs. Verlie Banova at Trinity College (347-1044).
DEATHS OF COLLEGE MEMBERS The College records with regret the deaths of the following members reported since the last edition of the Newsletter: Percy Byron Houghton (1923) James Graham (1944) Geoffrey Harold Stott (1940) Alan Ross Wakefield (1936)
money of departing students specifically for this purpose. HAVE YOU SOME TRINITY FURNITURE YOU ARE NOW READY TO GIVE BACK? The Warden will be so overjoyed to have it back for its original purpose that there will be no question of blame or recrimination—
(347-1044) if you can help.
OFFICIAL RETIREMENT OF THE REVEREND ALFRED BIRD Trinity without Alfred Bird would be almost unthinkable, at least to those were here in the fifties (when he was Chaplain) and the late seventies and early eighties (when he was Records Officer). In between, he was well known to the theologs as Registrar of the Melbourne College of Divinity. Now, he has retired—at least, officially. Fortunately he will continue as Honorary Archivist, and Trinity will continue to enjoy his influence. On 22 September last, he celebrated his Golden Jubilee as an Anglican priest. The following Thursday a large representative congregation from Trinity and Christ Church Brunswick assembled in the Chapel for a joyous Eucharist of Thanksgiving, with music provided by the fine choir of men and boys from Christ Church. Afterwards at supper in the College Hall, Bishop James Grant paid tribute on behalf of the Diocese, remarking among other things that 'Alfred has never had any doubt about who and what he is.' The Revd David Farrer spoke on behalf of the parish of Christ Church and produced a charming cartoon of Alfred ascending the pulpit with a dozen major tomes symbolizing his great scholarship—which he wears more lightly than the drawing might suggest. The Warden spoke of the outstanding work that Alfred Bird has done in recent years on the College Records, and especially the production of an almost complete list of Trinity names and addresses. 'We could not have done better than to find a first-class historian, with a passion for accuracy, who actually knows personally a large proportion of the people he has been trying to trace." In reply, Alfred spoke with characteristic simplicity and grace about his sense of divine providence, which had brought him through his years of service in the Royal Navy to Sydney where he met Ellie. We were all celebrating his fifty years in the priesthood, but he was also celebrating a truly happy half century of married life. Trinity has been truly blessed through the ministry, friendship, hospitality and industry of Alfred and Ellie Bird.
Alfred Bird ascending the pulpit
CHANGES IN THE THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL After nine years as Stewart Lecturer in Divinity (and Director of the Theological School since late in 1979), Dr John Gaden is resigning in order to take up an appointment as Warden of St. Barnabas' Theological College in Belair, Adelaide. During this time the number of theological students has doubled and the level of staffing has also begun to grow. The Gadens will leave Trinity early in February, 1986. Their farewell will be at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, 4 February 1986 and will consist of a Choral Eucharist and supper. Those wishing to receive an invitation for this are asked to notify the Warden's Secretary (3471044). The Theological School through its Centenary Appeal now owns the Stewart House and the Moorhouse Flats within the College and is clearly seen to be self-supporting financially. However, in order to develop a stronger Anglican teaching presence in the United Faculty of Theology, an appeal has been launched this year throughout the Anglican Church in Victorian to raise the level of annual giving from $15,000 to $40,000. The particular focus of the appeal is to establish the Frank Woods Lectureship to mark the Eightieth Birthday of the former Archbishop in April 1987. As part of the plan for further staff expansion, the Reverend John Davis of the Church of the Ascension, Springvale, and a graduate of the Theological School, has accepted a three-way appointment as a Lecturer in the Theological School, Assistant Chaplain in the College and Chaplain to the Canterbury Fellowship. He will take up the appointment from February 1st,1986. At the same time, the Maynard Lecturer, Dr. Richard McKinney, will become the new Director of the Theological School and consultant Theologian to the Archbishop of Melbourne. Dr. John Gaden
Dr. John Gaden
THE WARDEN REFLECTS ... Several years ago, when College life seemed to have reached its highest possible point, I wrote an article for the Fleur de Lys entitled "Annus Mirabilis—The Wonderful Year". And it was a great year, not least because Trinity won both the Cowan Cup and the Holmes Shield. We were not so fortunate this year, though our women came very close to winning. The final hockey match when Trinity tied one-all with Ormond, and then played on for a further exhausting twenty minutes, and finally faltered in a series of flicks at the goal was one of the most heart-stopping events in College sport for some time. The almost miraculous achievement of the play was matched by the 1985 Ball. The organisational task of arranging a vast marquee, decorations, lighting effects, music, security, catering—all on the Bulpadock—had seemed to previous Committees too daunting to contemplate. And yet this year it was done. One of the best features was that over fifty students became deeply involved in helping it all to happen. The night itself had an almost magical quality. How honoured I felt to be Warden of a College that has such people in it! And how envious some of my predecessors would be to see the high standard of elegance and decorum observed at the inaugural T.C.A.C. Dinner! This has also been the year for the revival of a first-class choir singing Evensong-regularly each week in Chapel—an authentic and ancient college tradition.
If we could not fully succeed in sport, we had other successes which eclipsed anything I had dreamed possible. The Orientation Week program has been growing steadily more and more imaginative and interesting for a number of years, and that trend continued. It was, however, the College play which showed what near-miracles can be produced with skilled direction and an enthusiastic cast. Fine acting and good stagecraft have not been lacking before, but I had no idea that hitherto untrained students could achieve such brilliantly executed and controlled choreographic effects. Or that a College orchestra could play with such skill brilliant arrangements made by one of our own students. Have we no further to go? We must build up our sport while maintaining the new excellence in other areas. Some scholarships in music and art would be a blessing. And we can greatly improve Juttoddie by removing most of the nobbling (not all!) so that interest can revive in its original conception as a race and not an initiation. Another area to re-examine is the nature and role of the tutors and the tutorial program. To do this successfully we will need to involve the tutors and the students, and the Dean and I look forward to this. We have so much to look back on with gratitude—and even more to look forward to. What is the superlative of 'mirabilis'? Evan L. Burge, September, 1985.
NEWS OF TRINITY MEMBERS Richard Langdon FRANKLIN (1943) Professor of Philosophy, New England University, is retiring in February, 1986, in order to have more time for writing. Peter HOLLINGWORTH (1955) on 12 November 1985 received Rostrum Victoria's Award of Merit for the year, having fulfilled the criteria for nomination: prominence in Victorian public life, a reputation for excellence in the spoken word, and demonstrating an effective contribution to society. As Regional Bishop for the Inner-City, he includes Trinity in his special area of responsibility. Andrew FARRAN (1957) after many years at Monash University is now Chairman of a publishing company, Centre for Professional Development, which is responsible for an increasing number of publications in professional fields. He is also Managing Director of Australia Pacific Consultants. Alan McKENZIE (1961) Master of Austin College, University of New England, and his wife Denny, visited the Trinity Chapel on a wet and windy day in August for the baptism of their daughter Skye. Rodney OLIVER ('50) officiated. Neville John COWNS (1969) is now a Fellow of the Australasian College of Dermatologists.
Phillip MAXWELL (1974) and Deborah (née ELLIOTT '75) brought their second son Alexander to the Chapel in November for baptism by the Warden. The godparents were Elaine CONNOR ('75) and Paul MEADOWS ('77). Andrew CANNON (1979) has spent the last three years travelling overseas representing Australia in sailing and the Mercantile Rowing Club in sculling. He was coached by Jack Kelly, Olympic champion and brother of the late Princess Grace of Monaco. He won the North American Elite Single Scull and competed in England at the Royal Henley Regatta where he met Marcus WINTER-COOKE (1979) and Elizabeth SNELL (1979). Andrew has had various other successes including a Third for Australia in the Mini America's Cup. He is now in Perth with the America's Cup Defence Syndicate preparing for the World 12 metre Championships with Australia II and III. Russell Gordon SMITH (Tutor 1980-82) is a PhD student at King's College, London, and is also working as a solicitor.
Jason ROMNEY (1981) after beginning a career as a drama critic with Farrago and The Melbourne Times is now writing perceptive and stimulating reviews for The Age.