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Some members of the official party celebrating the centenary of Janet Clarke Hall. From L to R. the Vice-Chancellor, Professor David Caro; His Excellency the Governor, Dr. I. Davis McCaughey Mrs. McCaughey; Professor Adrienne Clark the Principal of I.CH., Mrs. Phyllis Fry and Mrs. Fiona Caro, Chairman of the I.C.H. Council.
JANET CLARKE HALL CELEBRATES ITS CENTENARY The Trinity Chapel was crowded on Sunday 16 March at 5.30 p.m. for a Thanksgiving Service to commemorate the centenary of the founding of Janet Clarke Hall within the University of Melbourne. An academic procession in variegated colours made its way to the Chapel from J.C.H. and entered through the west door. In welcoming the congregation, the Warden of Trinity spoke of Dr. Alexander Leeper's foresight in providing for the higher education of women and of the days, not long past, when the men of Trinity and the women of J.C.H. sat on opposite sides of the Chapel facing each other. He then alluded to the coat-ofarms of J.C.H. newly installed about the Principal's stall, a gift from Dame Margaret Blackwood. 'Although illness prevents her from being here today', he said, 'Dame Margaret is very much with us in spirit'. During the service, the Bidding Prayer was read by the Principal, Mrs. Phyllis Fry. It included a reference to the motto on the J.C.H. coat-of-arms Deo duce, Verbo luce: "We remember with joy all who have gone from this College with God as their guide and the Word as their light, to serve the common life of our nation." The lessons were read by Dr. Valerie Asche, the President of the Janet Clarke Hall Society, and by Mr. Michael Bardsley, the Senior Student of J.C.H. Special prayers were offered by Bishop James Grant. Music was provided by the Trinity College Choir, including an exciting modern Magnificat by Bryan Kelly. The Archbishop of Melbourne, the Most Reverend David Penman, preached on the subject of Freedom, and its indissoluble relationship to the Truth: 'The Truth will make you free'. Before the service, a lively history, Janet Clarke Hall 1886-1986 by Lyndsay Gardiner, was launched at a well attended gathering in the Common Room and garden of J.C.H. Dame Leonie Kramer who undertook the 'launching' spoke of her own days in the College and how much they had meant to her own growth as a scholar and as a person. She congratulated the author and offered a small correction: there had been at least one J.C.H. Engineering graduate before men came into residence there in 1973. (Copies of Lyndsay Gardiner's entertaining, informative and down-to-earth book may be had from the Principal, Janet Clarke Hall, Parkville, 3052, for $25.) A PUBLICATION OFTRINITYCOLLEGE WITHIN THE UNIVERSITYOFMELBOURNE Registered by Australia Post — Publication No.VBG 4336
The following Tuesday there was a magnificent Centenary Dinner for almost 300 people, at which Professor Adrienne Clark spoke about her work as a scientist She conveyed a sense of the excitement of scientific discovery, when all the disparate pieces of data suddenly fit together. She too was convinced that collegiate life was a wonderful preparation for higher intellectual achievements, especially as most major discoveries are the result of working together as a team. Since 1961 Trinity and Janet Clarke Hall have been separate Colleges. Independence, as Lyndsay Gardiner shows, was hard won for J.C.H. and resulted in many benefits. Dr. Eva Eden's term as Principal saw extensive renovations, a magnificent new Common Room, improvements to the Dining Hall, and exemplary management. The University of Melbourne recently honoured Dr. Eden with the award of an honorary Doctor of Laws — thus recognizing her work for the College, for the University, and for women. Trinity congratulates J.C.H. and Dr. Eden, and also rejoices in the appointment of Mrs. Phyllis Fry as Dr. Eden's successor. J.C.H. is in excellent hands for the beginning of its second century.
FLEUR-DE-LYS DINNERS In Trinity College: 1. Friday 13 June 1986 in the College Hall. An invitation slip is included in this Newsletter. 2. Friday 20 March 1987. Gala Dinner in a marquee on the Bulpadock. Please reserve this date now! In Sydney: Friday 19 September 1986. — Contact Brigadier John McDonagh, 193 Edgecliff Road, Woollahra, N.S.W., 2025. 'phone (02) 387 5389 (H) (02) 697 3400 (B)
HEADS FROM THE RIVER. . . (Reprinted with kind permission from an art icle by Peter Game in 'The Herald,' 14 April 1986). Melbourne University's winning Trinity College First VIII in the 1952 inter-collegiate rowing had more than brawn. Stroke was Brian Loton who went on to become Managing Director of BHP and who is now involved in the three-way takeover drama with Bell Group's Robert Holmes a Court and Elder IXL's John Elliott. Number seven was Tim Hewison, now Deputy Chairman and Managing Director of Jack Chia (Australia) Ltd. Number four was Rod Carnegie, now Sir Roderick and Chairman and Chief Executive of the mining giant CRA. Each was resident at Trinity College: Brian Loton was studying metallurgical engineering, Tim Hewison law, and Rod Carnegie science. This revelation of how much talent can be packed into one cockleshell emerged during a recent interview with Brian Loton: what he told me led me to Trinity College where they found the group photograph of the 1952 crew in the College magazine. Brian Loton came to Melbourne University from Hale private school in Perth. Melbourne University was the only university in this city in those days, and he remembers it was difficult to get into because of the number of ex-servicemen who had taken on tertiary education on return from World War 2.
"But I had more to do with Rod Carnegie because in 1952 and 1953 the two of us rowed in Melbourne University's first eight. Both races were held interstate. "The university crews didn't just race against other universities, they competed against all other senior eights around Australia. "So Rod and I were forever travelling together. In one year he was number three in the university first eight and I was number two. Once again we were very close together." Mr Hewison was captain of boats at Melbourne University in 1953. "I remember that cox with me in the 1952 and 1953 Melbourne University first eight crew was a young law student we used to call 'Billy Button'. His real name was John." Today John Button is the Minister for Industry and Commerce — in which job he is still helping Australia's captains of industry head in the right direction. Mr Hewison produced a creased, 34-year-old photograph of the 1952 university first eight on the water: as well as Button, Carnegie and himself, at bow was Jim Gobbo, now the Hon. Mr Justice Sir James Gobbo.
Brian Loton rowed for Trinity for four years. Tim Hewison and Rod Carnegie also rowed with him in the College's 1953 winning crew. Sir Roderick was educated at Geelong Grammar. After graduating from Melbourne University with a Bachelor of Science, physics, he went to Oxford where he obtained a MA in politics, economics and philosophy. At Harvard he qualified for the degree, Master of Business Administration. Tim Hewison went to Melbourne Grammar where in his last year, 1948, he rowed in the Head of the River crew. Mr Hewison remembers their salad days at Trinity very clearly: "The people who control a crew are the cox, the stroke, and to some extent number seven. "In that 1952 crew Brian Loton was stroke and I was number seven. Stroke and number seven are always talking to each other so I got to know Brian very well.
OBITUARY Sir (Gordon Colvin) Lindesay Clark, AC KBE CMG MC BSc MME D Eng(Hon) LLD (Hon)
Sir Lindesay Clark, who entered Trinity in 1919, died in Melbourne early this year at the age of 89. He is noted as a founder of the Western Mining Corporation in 1933 and its chairman from 1952 to 1974. In 1961 he was instrumental in creating Alcoa of Australia — a company formed from WMC, North Broken Hill Ltd., and Broken Hill South Ltd., three companies of which he was a Director.
After schooling in Launceston, Tasmania, Sir Lindesay graduated in Science from the University of Tasmania in 1915.
The 1952 Trinity college inter-collegiate First VIII. Back row, left, Rod Carnegie. Front row, second from left Brian Loton, and front row, second from right, Tim Hewison.
He then enlisted in the AIF, achieved commissioned rank and was awarded the Military Cross. After the War, he resumed his studies as one of the many returned men who came into Trinity and took out a Bachelor's, and later a Master's, degree in Mining Engineering. In a long and distinguished career in industry, he was actively associated both with gold mining and with Broken Hill. A member of The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy from 1923, he became its President in 1959. In 1962 he was awarded the Institute's Medal for his leadership in exploration and development of Australia's mineral resources. Other honours followed, including a Knighthood and Companionship of the Order of Australia. To the end Sir Lindesay retained a close interest in Trinity College. He contributed generously to the restoration of the Clarke Building. His son, Professor Arthur Clark, maintained a family tradition by entering Trinity in 1954. Arthur's daughter and Sir Lindesay's grand-daughter, Jane (now an Art historian and Curator at the National Gallery of Victoria) came into residence in 1977. Trinity recalls with pride the achievements for his country of one of the College's most distinguished sons. As a person, he was universally held in the highest regard.
THE BEQUEST PROGRAMME Last year, one of Trinity's eldest and most distinguished members, Mr. Fred Knight, helped the Trinity College Foundation in the establishment of the Bequest Programme which will be officially launched this year. Mr. Knight spent the afternoon with the Warden, Dr. Evan Burge, and one of the youngest members of the College, Poul Grage. In the photograph on the cover of the Bequest Brochure, Mr. Knight explains to the Warden and to Poul his vision of Trinity.
The long-term future of Trinity depends on the generosity and careful planning of people such as Fred Knight ('14), John Lobb ('27), Balcombe Griffiths ('28) and others unknown to the College who have included the College or the Foundation as a beneficiary of their estate. You are invited to perpetuate your present interest in the College by becoming a member of the Bequest Programme by including the Trinity College Foundation in your will.
Mr. Fred Knight ('14) explains to the Warden, Dr. Evan Burge, and to Poul Grage his vision of Trinity.
Frederick Falkiner Knight — Our Legal Eagle Born at St. Kilda, Victoria in 1895, Fred Knight was educated at Melbourne Grammar and entered Trinity in 1914 to study law. His studies were interrupted in 1915 when he enlisted. He served his country for over four years and returned to Australia to continue his studies. He was admitted to the Bar in 1922 and shortly afterwards entered the chambers of Gerald Pigott, to read with him as his pupil. In 1926 he joined the RAAF as a parttime legal officer and in 1934 was promoted to Wing Commander. He was the first legal officer in the RAAF, and was known as the Legal Eagle, after one of the characters in a musical comedy who announced at each of his entrances: "I am the Legal Eagle". Mr. Knight practised as a barrister between the wars, and during World War II worked full-time in the RAAF. He was president of the Taxpayers Association of Victoria for over twenty years, and also Secretary and historian of the Union of the Fleur-de-Lys. Mr. Knight has recorded much of his life from before the turn of the century to the end of World War II in a lively account, These Things Happened, The Hawthorn Press, 1975. The author himself calls the book "a chronical of times which the old are forgetting and the young have never known". A chapter of this revealing book is devoted to his year spent at Trinity College in 1914.
Trinity College has never had the financial resources of other colleges close by, yet despite this lack, perhaps because of it, the inhabitants of the College were not short of ingenious methods to supplement their own meagre incomes. This ability extended to the College Porter as Knights vividly recalls: "The only outside door which could be entered after 10.30 at night was the porch door of Bishops' Inside this door was the office of Spiller, the porter and from it he reported all comings and goings during what might be called prohibited hours." "The spirit of the students' undertaking was observed strictly, but the letter was not No student would dream of getting out of a window, or entering through one, during prohibited hours. They came in through the door which Spiller guarded, even though it meant serious trouble for those who came in after midnight without passes." "Spiller boasted that he had run through two fortunes, and he was making a third one. It was rumoured that he would listen to reason in the shape of two ounces of tobacco from each of those who entered illegally after midnight That he did so cannot be averred with certainty, but even those who had passes were expected to tip him because he had been aroused from his sleep. Those who had passes had
been usually to a dance or some other entertainment, and came home by taxi, and each taxi was loaded to capacity. The levy on each load was two ounces of tobacco or the equivalent in cash. All things considered, this was not unreasonable." (p.78) Knight himself had various ways of overcoming any shortfall in the amount considered necessary for civilized living: "One piece of furniture which I acquired from home was
an early nineteenth-century chair. It is still in my possession, and has been re-covered several times: but then it was somewhat shabby. We called it the Dr. Syntax chair, because its prototypes can be seen in many of Rowlandson's prints. It was reputed to be the most comfortable chair in college, so I made use of it to supplement my income. Those who wished to sleep or daydream in it could do so at a fee of two pence for each twenty minutes; tutors paid double." "One of these tutors, Dr. Charles Kellaway, used it a great deal. What is more, he was a good payer, but the same could not be said of some of my other customers." (p.79)
NEW LEEPER LIBRARIAN APPOINTED With the retirement last year of Mrs. Margaret Brown, the Leeper Librarian for the past four years, Mrs. Eirene Clark, wife of former Trinity Senior Student, Canon Russell Clark, took up the position of College Librarian in February, continuing the tradition of professional service that Trinity has been privileged to receive from its librarians. Mrs Clark has spent most of her life as a busy vicar's wife involved in parish life and in raising her three children. She has also worked within the State Library System. Her sister, Mrs. Helen Brown, was Assistant-Librarian until the end of last year. Mrs. Helen Brown has been succeeded by Mrs. Gillian Forward. We thank Mrs. Margaret Brown and Mrs. Helen Brown for the loving service they gave both staff and students and we wish their successors well in their new appointments.
The Warden himself, Dr. Alexander Leeper, was ever mindful of the economics involved in running a college:
"During a vacation in which I and a number of others remained in residence, some eminent foreign scientists were accommodated at Trinity. They were attending an international science conference which was being held in Melbourne. We were told that they were our guests, and we were asked to look after them. This was not very easy as they were away most of the time, and in any case they were not very interested in us." "Wanklyn, the New Zealander, decided to do something for the entertainment of those who were lodged near him. His study in Upper Bishops' was near the head of the staircase. It was rather late one night when Dr. Leeper was conducting three or four of the guests to their quarters in Upper Bishops' As he ascended the stairs he walked into the college skeleton which Wanklyn had suspended from the ceiling." "This form of entertainment was not appreciated by the Warden who summoned Wanklyn to his presence the next day, and reproved him, 'Don't you realise, Wanklyn, that that skeleton is the repository of some man's soul? Besides, it cost the college ÂŁ 11.6.8'" (p.83) The economics of life aside, Trinity had, and still has, a special place in his heart. Fred Knight completes his chapter on Trinity College with these simple words: "So ended my first and only year in Trinity. The year 1914
was one which marked the end of an era in the history of this country. Apart from the tribulations and upsets caused by the outbreak of war, I can look back on that year as one of happiness and pleasant experiences." (p.97)
Mrs. Margaret Brown, recently Mrs. Eirene Clark, recently retired College Librarian. appointed Leeper Librarian.
AUSTRALIA DAY HONOURS Officer in the General division of the Order of Australia:
Peter Frederick Williams (1940) For service to medicine, particularly in the fields of children's orthopaedic surgery and surgical training programmes. Member in the General division of the Order of Australia: Daniel Robert Rhys Thomas (1950) For service to arts administration. Medal of the Order of Australia in the General Division:
Thomas Russell Clark (1932) For service to religion and to the community.
OBITUARY Saturday 11 October 1986
The Trinity Theological School Fifth Annual
TRINITY PILGRIMAGE To Wangaratta Cathedral Our Special Train will leave from Spencer Street Station. Parish Groups welcome; Family, Student and Pensioner discounts. Further details and ticket books available soon through the College Office (347-1044).
We learned with sorrow of the death in March of Neil Andrew Clifton who entered Trinity in 1973. He graduated as a Bachelor of Music in 1981. He held a Composer's Fellowship from the Australian Council and in 1982, his first opera "Hunger" based on the Knut Hamsun novel, was performed by the Victorian State Opera. In 1984, the company appointed him as its first composer-in-residence. He had also written several orchestral works, and prior to his death, was working as composer-in-residence with the Queensland Youth Orchestra. The director of the Australia Council's music board, Dr. Richard Letts, paid tribute to Neil Clifton, describing him as "one of Australia's brightest and best young composers, whose work had shown a striking and uncompromising talent". Mr. Clifton, who was admitted to hospital at the end of last year, is survived by his wife Virginia and two-year-old daughter.
GOD'S GARDEN (A Sermon preached by Dr. John Gaden at the Farewell Eucharist Trinity College Chapel on February 4, 1986. You will expect and therefore be ready to forgive me for being very personal in this sermon tonight, and yet for my own protection I have been forced to distance myself a little from the real content. I want to speak about the two gardens we have tended while we have lived in Trinity this time, each for the space of four years. I have often meditated in the gardens and on these gardens. The Stewart House Garden — the Garden of Growth Towards the end of 1977, as the building of the Stewart House drew to completion in the bare corner of the College between Jeopardy, the Tennis Court and the Kindergarten, Janet and I surveyed the surrounds and were somewhat daunted by the prospect — lots of clay in the back and rubble in the front. What would possibly grow there? Once we had moved in, we set to work — a path might go here, a fish pond and fernery there, some native trees and shrubs here and there, a vegetable plot and some fruit trees in the back. So we dug and planted and watered, found and laid bricks for a path and, before we knew where we were, things were springing up and growing at a tremendous rate; but we didn't know why, until one day we were talking with Dr. Yvonne Aitken, a long-time agricultural mentor, and she said, "Don't you remember? Your garden is right where the cow-sheds were in the old days when cows grazed on the Bulpadock. You've been turning over the cow manure of years, so no wonder it's grown!" The ground was indeed ready to bring forth abundantly and overwhelmingly. We, who were amateurs in the garden, had produced such a show that even the Botany Department sent its students on excursions to have a look. What a joy it was to see that development and to delight in reaping the fruit of what the cows had deposited in the past. One plants, another waters, but God gives the increase, some thirty-fold, some sixty-fold and some a hundred-fold. The Deanery Garden — the Garden of Ceaseless Toil Janet moved house to the Deanery at the end of 1981, while I had already gone on leave, but when we returned together halfway through 1982, we turned our attention to the Deanery Garden. It was large and already established with two huge elms and the overhanging Moreton Bay Fig dominating it — a lovely cool garden in summer, but let me focus only on the vegetable garden near the back-yard. In a garden one expects weeds, and one can live with them, as in the Parable of the Tares, or even respect them as Theodore Roethke says, musing on a line of Hopkins' "Long Live the Weeds". Long live the weeds that overwhelm My narrow vegetable realm! The bitter rock, the barren soil That force the son of man to toil; All things unholy, marred by curse, The ugly of the universe. The rough, the wicked, and the wild That keep the spirit undefiled. With these I match my little wit And earn the right to stand or sit, Hope, live, create, or drink and die; These shape the creature that is I. However, this vegetable garden was a never-ending battle not with weeds, but with the roots of the elms and Moreton Bay fig and jasmine that sucked the garden dry, spreading their tangled web three or four inches under ground. No matter how much one person dug and watered, he never succeeded in producing a constantly good crop. Plants grew spindly and withered under the scorching sun. So what was the gardener to do? He could ask for the long-standing trees to be cut down, but that was impossible. He could move the garden patch somewhere else, but he couldn't find a place. He could hire some people to assist in the gardening and he began to do that But finally, wearied by the constant toil, he decided he would have to take his few gardening skills to another garden, if there was such a one. Now these two gardens are an allegory of the Trinity Theological School, a veritable Garden of Eden. Those with ears to hear let them hear.
A Third Garden — the Garden of Transplantation Yet there is a third garden, of which I cannot speak at present, but only reflect on the experience of being uprooted and transplanted. During the summer we dug up some plants at Janet's mother's place in Lorne, prising up the soil with a fork, pushing in the sharp edge of the spade to cut the roots all around and then heaving them out of the ground to be tied up in a plastic bag and carried across country to Deep Spring Road near Daylesford. There they were planted, they drooped for some time, but after lots of watering they stiffened up and began to bloom. The thing about being uprooted is that it's not your own choice, as the exiled Jews in Babylon knew well. How can we sing Yahweh's song in a strange land? We did not choose to go to Adelaide. For the first time in my life I had no say in deciding the next step of my path. A word of inevitability said "You must go", and Janet and I knew we could not disobey God's call. Did not the Gospel of the day after we returned from our visit to Adelaide declare, "If any would come after me let them deny themselves, take up their cross and follow me"? (Mark 8:34). I preached that to myself all the Saturday night and on the Sunday too. In order to arrive there, To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy. In order to arrive at what you do not know You must go by a way which is the way of ignorance. In order to possess what you do not possess You must go by the way of dispossession. In order to arrive at what you are not You must go through the way in which you are not And what you do not know is the only thing you know And what you own is what you do not own And where you are is where you are not (T. S. Eliot adapting St. John of the Cross) But we take heart from Jeremiah's advice to the exiles. "Plant gardens and eat their produce... seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you, for in its welfare you will find your welfare." (Jeremiah 29:56,57) Alice Walker's mother often had a little choice about where she would garden, but she got to and made it blossom. As. the Jews found in Babylon, God was there too and the same process of one sowing, another watering and God giving the increase goes on. Blessed be God our merciful maker who graciously breaks and remakes, filling us with abundant fruit of the Spirit. I cannot help but see even here what has become increasingly clear over these years in this place vestigia Trinitatis—traces and footprints of the Trinity. The fruitful garden in which God walked in the cool of the day is God's. The garden of toil in which the Son laboured is God's. The wind that uproots and sets down again is God's. Beata et gloriosa Trinitas. Thanks be to God.
Archbishop Penman blesses the Gaden family at their Farewell Service. (L. to R.: Jeremy, Mai, Thomas, John, Janet Timothy. The server is Jennifer Inglis.)
VERA JENNINGS A service of Thanksgiving for the life of Miss Vera Jennings took place on 19 February in the Trinity College Chapel. Professor Bill Scott gave the following eulogy: Many of you will be thinking — as I am — that it was wonderfully fitting that Vera should have died working in the garden where she loved so much to be, with secateurs in her hand. Vera Jennings 1918 It was her second garden at Coal Mine Creek, grown almost literally over the ashes of the first. When the dreadful 1983 fires wiped out her cottage and she lost nearly everything she possessed, she never hesitated for one moment but simply started thinking about plans for rebuilding. It was an act of great courage and determination for a woman already well into her eighties. The old cottage had been extended some years earlier by the addition of a room for an old J.C.H. friend whom Vera looked after in her retirement and when that friend died it became a place to which Vera's other friends could come. This too she rebuilt, generously, making it very comfortable — she referred to it as the motel — and it continued to be a home to some of us for summer holidays and at other times, where we could be near her but not depend in any way on her. Vera was born in the last year of the last century, so she was in her 87th year. Her father was a teacher so she moved around the country in her early days, finishing with some time at University High School and then finally to P.L.C. She took a distinguished degree in English and French at Melbourne University, became a tutor at Trinity and Janet Clarke Hall and then went to Oxford in the twenties. She returned to J.C.H. and at one period was Acting Principal for a year. Her career for many years was jointly with the College and the University. Later she gained a full-time appointment at the University until she retired in 1964 as a Senior Lecturer. She had a very long association with J.C.H. and I know she was looking forward to the centenary celebrations. It is very appropriate that this service should be held here, where she made so many lasting friendships. Vera was an unusually well-read woman with a remarkable memory and a fine mind. She was much too self-effacing to be a really successful lecturer, but she could be an inspiring tutor, never pushing her own opinions, interested in what other people had to say and proferring now and then unexpected side-lights of her own. She had wide and catholic tastes in literature and she sought simply to share her knowledge and enjoyment. The remarkable thing I have heard from so many people is that it was not until some years later that, looking back, they realized — as they had not done at the time — just how much she had stirred their interest or aroused their curiosity in this or that. I have mentioned the fire in which she lost pretty well all her personal library, a most remarkable and varied collection. She said that what she most missed from the shelves was Sir Thomas Browne. Someone found a replacement copy for her. I doubt if she read it but she wanted to have it there as a sort of companion. The interesting thing is that I still remember her lectures on Browne after fifty years. One of the most distinguished graduates of the Melbourne English Department is Dr. Bruce Mitchell who has lived and worked for some decades in Oxford. He remembers his early teaching from Vera in Anglo-Saxon and acknowledges this in the preface to his monumental work on Old English Syntax recently published. I have spoken at some length and admiringly about this part of her life because teaching was her profession. I could have said much more about her contribution to the social life of the Department because she was always at the centre of things and did much in some difficult times to hold the place together, e.g. after Howard Secombe's death. But something must be added about her skills in the writing of occasional verse at which she
was very gifted. I suppose much has been lost but there must be many copies of her very spirited light verse. One interesting product of it was the correspondence she entered into and continued for some time with the Poet Laureate John Masefield exchanging verses. I understand that this material is now in the National Library. Vera loved the nature she cultivated in her garden as she loved the birds that used to come to her window (but not since the fires). But still more she loved its wilder aspects or grander aspects, mountains and the sea. In her younger days she was a most adventurous and intrepid traveller. Though I have known her for some fifty years I know nothing at first-hand about her explorations in the late twenties and thirties of the mountains of Victoria and Tasmania and no doubt further afield. There are people here who accompanied her on some of those camping holidays in her Overland Whippet (her first car) or partly on horseback and foot. Many of these places are now standard tourist resorts but she and her friends were pioneers. They camped in cattlemen's huts on the Bogong High Plains or explored Cradle Mountain or drove over Mount Hotham or camped on the Howqua and so on. She drove right across America by car in the mid-thirties. These are all normal things today but it was very different fifty years ago. She had lots of friends in England and America — and of course relatives in England — and she travelled extensively all over the World. She knew Europe on both sides of the Iron Curtain, South America, India and so on. One of her great regrets was that she lost her records of many of these journeys in the fire. In her eighties she journeyed up the Nile and went on to visit a wild-life park in Kenya. Late in 1984 she went on an arduous trip to China and enjoyed it immensely, keeping in good health until almost the very close. And there is no doubt she really did enjoy it though she felt frustrated by her illnesses after her return. This did not stop her from thinking of visiting America again. She was a most remarkable woman, always looking ahead to the next undertaking. Over the last few years she took to wearing contact lenses or had implants in her eyes so that she could keep driving. Certainly she came up to Melbourne less frequently than in the past but she was here for a few days just a fortnight ago. She was planning a few days before she died to get a new car. She seemed indestructible. But of course no one of us is. Those of you who have been with her over the last year or so will have noticed that with increasing age she seemed to have shrunk a little. For many years as she lived through her seventies and on into her eighties you felt that she still looked and for that matter behaved like a woman 10 or 15 years younger. Then China and old age took its toll and perhaps she never recovered completely. Margaret and I spent a fortnight with her in January. She was not very well at first, worried and even more frustrated by breathlessness, but after a few days she picked up very much. She went swimming several times, she was cheerful and said she felt very much better, and meant it. Her great worry had been that she might have to leave her home. But none of us could think that Vera could have endured living on in some sort of half-life in a nursing home. Fortunately, Ken McDonald and his wife, through their constant care and attention, made it possible for her to stay where she wanted to be until her time came. I think she knew it might be close but who could know when and so she kept on planning for the future. She was often at her desk while we were there, trying to catch up on mail. She had so many friends all over the world, in Australia and overseas. She was in some ways a very private person, undemonstrative, but she had tremendous interest in all her friends' doings and kept in touch regularly. It is impossible to do justice to as rich and crowded and long a life as Vera's was in a few minutes. I have a final image of her, as we chatted, with that characteristic duck of the head and selfdeprecating smile or chuckle as she agreed to something said or acknowledged something she had forgotten. She was a remarkable woman, a quite special and distinctive character. She will be greatly missed and lovingly remembered by her many friends.
A NEW ERA FOR THE TRINITY THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL The contribution of Trinity College to the leadership of the Anglican Church in Australia has been far from negligible. Our first student, John Francis Stretch, enrolled in 1872, became a bishop, the forerunner of many more Church leaders. The Theological School within the College was formally established by Bishop Moorhouse and celebrated its centenary in 1978. Bishop James Grant then became Honorary Director of a Centenary Appeal for the Theological School. Thanks to his continuing efforts, and the generosity of parishes and individuals, the College was enabled to build a block of four Moorhouse Flats, and also a house for a theological lecturer. These useful buildings are also an investment to support theological teaching through income from rents. For a decade until last February, the Director of the Theological School was Dr. John Gaden, who combined an incredible number of responsibilities — academic, pastoral, administrative — with two other roles: as Chaplain of the Canterbury Fellowship and as Consultant Theologian to the Archbishop and Diocese. When a packed congregation assembled for the Eucharist on 4 February last (Dr. Gaden's delightful sermon is printed in this Newsletter), and then for a Farewell Supper in the College Hall, it was not difficult for the Warden and Bishop Grant to pay a glowing tribute to one who had carried such a burden for so long, and with great success. Before Dr. Gaden was called to Adelaide, the Revd. John Davis had already been appointed to take office from February 1986. On 2 February, he was duly installed by Bishop Peter Hollingworth as Chaplain of the Canterbury Fellowship, Assistant Chaplain of Trinity College, and as Registrar and Lecturer in the Theological School.
Numbers in the Theological School have been steadily increasing for some time. By 1985, they had reached 30, including both ordination candidates and 'associates' (those Anglicans who come to Trinity for theological education in an Anglican, ecumenical and scholarly context). One sows, another reaps. A few days after John Davis' installation and the Gadens' departure for St. Barnabas' College in Adelaide, the Theological School underwent a dramatic expansion. By the opening of the 1986 academic year we suddenly had nearly sixty theological students, nearly all of whom are nonresident. Dr. Richard McKinney became Director of the School in February and was officially inducted by the Archbishop on 14 March. Following the loss of Dr. Gaden, we now need a great increase in staff. Last July an appeal was launched to establish a fund for a Frank Woods Lectureship, to commemorate our former Archbishop's work for the Church, for the College, and for the cause of Christian unity. Archbishop Penman has enthusiastically commended this appeal to the other Victorian dioceses and to the Church at large. We hope to have a Frank Woods Lecturer in Trinity by Sir Frank's eightieth birthday in April 1987. The labours of John Gaden and James Grant have borne abundant fruit. May we not believe that it is the Lord who has given the increase? Richard McKinney and John Davis have inherited a mighty responsibility as they move into their studies on the top floor of Leeper.
THE TRINITY COLLEGE CHOIR Lovers of music are indeed fortunate if they live near the Trinity Chapel. Every Sunday night, the famed choir of the Canterbury Fellowship sings evensong at 7.30 p.m. During the week there are frequent concerts by small groups of instrumentalists and singers with music from the Middle ages and Renaissance to the eighteenth century. Jocelyn Terry can often be heard on 'Melbourne Makes Music' (3L0, Saturday mornings) extolling the virtues of the Chapel as one of Melbourne's leading places for fine music. In addition to all this, Trinity members and friends are invited to Chapel at 5.30 p.m. for half-an-hour on Tuesdays during term. This is when the Trinity College Choir sings evensong. This choir of twenty-two voices, directed by Bruce Macrae, maintains in Melbourne the same tradition of choral singing which is so
The Trinity College Choir directed by Bruce Macrae.
famous a feature of the Colleges of Cambridge and Oxford. True — we do not have a choir school to provide the exquisite purity of boys' voices — but our sopranos nevertheless have admirable tone and clarity. The works sung are selected from the cathedral and collegiate repertoire of the past for hundred years, as well as a number of striking contemporary compositions. This choir should be distinguished from yet another superb choir drawn largely from the University and directed by Professor Peter Dennison for the annual Festival of Lessons and Carols, which is such a valued feature of the College's — indeed Melbourne's — musical life.
TWO SPLENDID CAROL SERVICES At 7.30 p.m. on 1 December 1985 in the College Chapel, the choirs of the Canterbury Fellowship and Trinity College burst into Palestrina's Matins Responsory. So began a wonderful Advent Carol Service well attended by members of the Canterbury Fellowship congregation and the College community. The music was under the direction of John O'Donnell; the lessons were read by members of the two congregations represented; the service was led by Dr. John Gaden. It was a fitting start to the Season of Advent. Two weeks later, the Chapel was the setting for another brilliant Carol Service, namely the annual Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols. This time the choir was under the direction of Professor Peter Dennison, a Fellow of the College. The lessons were read to the overflowing congregation by a variety of distinguished representatives from the Community, the University and the College. These included the Governor-General, Sir Ninian Stephen, and the Vice-Chancellor of the University, Professor David Caro. A fitting conclusion to this inspiring service was provided by way of afternoon tea under the College oak.
Deaths of College Members FRIENDS OF TRINITY DINNER Friday 26 September 1986 in the College Hall
GUEST SPEAKER: Mr. John Howard Leader of the Opposition
Invitations for this dinner will be sent out in the next Newsletter.
The College records with regret the deaths of the following members reported since the last edition of the Newsletter: Garry Brown (1985) Mervyn Charles Brumley (1936) Studley Carthew Burston (1924) Neil Andrew Clifton (1973) Gordon Colvin Lindesay Clark, AC KBE CMG (1919) Edward Alexander Cook (1930) Kenneth George Dethridge (1927) Vera Crowther Jennings (1917) Oswald Kyle (1930) Ian James Middleton (1966) Samuel Austin Frank Pond, OBE ED (1924) Clifford Ernest Sawrey (1932) Richard Ramsay Webb (1923)
NEWS OF TRINITY MEMBERS Professor Sir Sydney SUNDERLAND (1932) has been honoured by the Faculty of Medicine in the University of Melbourne, (of which he was appointed Dean in 1953, and in which he served for 21 years as Professor of Anatomy and for a further 14 years as Professor of Experimental Neurology) by the unveiling of a portrait of him and the naming of an Anatomy Lecture Theatre after him. Noel Henry Maxwell COLYER (1937) was promoted in October last year Knight of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. John George MACKINOLTY (1945) ended his term of office as Dean of the Faculty of Law in the University of Sydney, and in 1986 has taken over the position of Chairman of the Academic Board of that University. Chester Arthur EAGLE (1952) in the "Age" Book of the Year Award 1985 shared the non-fiction prize for his Mapping the Paddocks which is about his childhood and his adulation for Donald Bradman. John William BROWNBILL (1955) has just taken up the post of Visiting Professor in Paediatric Dentistry at the University of Minnesota. Ross Murray Calved NANKIVELL (1962) has been teaching Law at the University of Illinois while working for a post-graduate degree. For Christmas he was back in Melbourne enjoying a honeymoon with his bride of only a few weeks, Elizabeth Long. They found a warm welcome from Ross's many friends, not least in the College and the Canterbury Fellowship. Carillo Baillieu GANTNER (1963) was back in Melbourne for a flying visit at the end of March. Carillo is Australia's Cultural Attache to China, a position which he describes as that of a cultural "marriage broker", although he handles a whole range of activities — "Basically anything in the Embassy at Peking that isn't politics, trade or aid is called 'culture'." He travels as much as he can — "the view from the provinces is very different from the view from Peking". He was a little concerned about the amount of criticism of the Spoleto Festival in Melbourne "We have the opportunity to push ourselves overseas on a much broader front by supporting the things that are uniquely Australian and are here. Philosophically, the relationship is wrong between the government and the artists. It ought to be the artists who create the art and the government that back them, rather than the artists being told they can have a little corner of the government programme which has been created". Ian Donald MacLEOD (1967) recently gave a plenary address at the second International Conference on Conservation of Archeological sites at Ghent He lectured on the work at museums in London, Portsmouth, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Amsterdam. He is currently restoring W.A.'s oldest marine steam engine. It is the only one of its kind left in the world.
Ronald Martin NOONE (1974) called into the College briefly before Christmas with his wife Susan Maushart, on their way from New York to Perth. Ron will be Director of Religious Education for the Diocese of Perth and returns after completing a doctorate in this subject. Christopher Mark Andrew BELL (1979), now a dentist in Shepparton, recently married Catherine Burchell. Brett SULLIVAN (1977) was the best man; Rob WARNOCK (1978) and Jeremy BELL (1975) were groomsmen. David ARCHIBALD (1977) gave the reading, and many Trinity members attended. Chris and Cathy honeymooned in Fiji. Catherine Elizabeth PURVIS (1979) has been overseas since June last year and is presently working as a Social Worker at St Marys Hospital, Paddington, London. Her residential address is 31 Camden Square, Camden Town, London, NW1. Peter Reynold STANLEY (1979) has just been commissioned the first full-time Parish Priest in the Anglican Parish of Darlington, S.A. after two curacies, each of two years, in the parishes of Glenelg and Elizabeth. Michael William TRAILL (1979) experienced the vicissitudes of political life recently whilst working in the office of the then Leader of the Opposition, Mr. Andrew Peacock. With impeccable timing Michael resigned three weeks before the deposition of his boss! He is now studying for an M.B.A. at the Harvard Business School. Martin John LECKEY (1980) is making a sometimes slow but always inspiring recovery after severe spinal injuries received in a car accident on a visit to Tasmania some months ago. It was a joy to see him as a guest at the Hebbard-Hare wedding. Russell Gordon SMITH (1980) is currently undertaking doctoral studies at the Centre of Medical Law and Ethics, King's College, London. Wayne Harold WEAIRE (1980), Assistant Curate at St. Matthew's Anglican Church, Albury is to be married on 12th July 1986 to Ann Eiseman. Peter Dale HEBBARD (1981) and Melissa HARE (1982) were married in the Chapel on 7 December 1985 by the Warden, with the Dean and Chaplain, Dr. Peter Wellock, assisting. Music, including the Lohengrin Wedding March, was provided by the Trinity College Choir. Peter is son of Dale HEBBARD (1947, and Melissa is the niece of Bill HARE (1942). Duncan Campbell McFARLANE (1981) is now in residence at Queen's College, Cambridge, studying for a doctorate in Engineering. Catherine Jane LUDBROOK (1983) was awarded the Keio University Exchange Scholarship 1986, and is at present studying at that University.