Trinity College Newsletter, vol 1 no 36, July 1988

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Juttoddie as it has never been since. In 1962, Secret Service Agent Boyd Munro hired a helicopter and whisked away Ian Lowry, on whom a large sum had been wagered. Boyd has been undertaking challenging flights ever since.

FLEUR-DE-LYS DINNER 1988 The atmosphere was wonderful. People caught up with people they often hadn't seen for years. The Hall was full, and all generations of College life, from the twenties to the eighties, were well represented.

James Guest, distinguished surgeon and Fellow of the College, was elected President of the Union of the Fleur-de-Lys for the coming year in a meeting so brief that it was over before the Warden could find it in the crowded S.C.R.! Tony Buzzard was re-elected as Secretary.

A few weeks earlier, the organizers had been anxious. The invitations went out rather later than planned and the date, 17th June, clashed with the Medico-Legal Dinner, a large Australian Club dinner, and a twenty-first birthday—all of which were well attended by prominent Trinity members. Despite the rival attractions, the number of acceptances increased rapidly. Towards the end quite a few had to be regretfully turned away.

There was one blemish—the food. Most guests probably thought this was inevitable and accepted it cheerfully. Recently, however, the Catering Department has produced many outstanding meals.

This night was the exception. Next year there will be a great effort to atone for this year's lapse. Fortunately this in no way dampened the exuberance of the evening. There has been general agreement that it was a hugely enjoyable evening. "It's so good to be back in the Hall having a good time and meeting people," was a common comment.

The short speeches were well received. James Guest eloquently proposed the toast and pledged support for the Warden and the College.

In reply, the Warden painted a picture of diverse and lively Trinity life based on a walk he made around the College on the evening Monday, 11th April last. A rehearsal for "A Midsummer Night's Dream" was well under way in the J.C.R.; in the Music Room auditions were being held for "Cabaret"; tutorial classes were well attended and showed signs of lively participation; the

inter-collegiate swimming heats were taking place in the University pool; there was a reading of Aeschylus in one student's room; the choir had sung a magnificent Evensong two hours earlier; and one of our students was practising Bartok on the Hall piano. "This," he said feelingly, "is a community of which I am proud to be the Warden."

The most senior guest at the Dinner was Hal Taylor who entered College in 1929. He has achieved international distinction for his work in the science and technology of concrete—to which the Arts Centre and Underground Rail Loop bear local witness—and well deserved the applause which greeted Jim Guest's acknowledgement of his presence.

(Photographs on Pages 4 & 5)

FRIENDS OF TRINITY

ANNUAL DINNER 1988 FRIDAY, 9th SEPTEMBER Guest Speaker: Prof. Carl Wood INVITATION ENCLOSED WITH THIS NEWSLETTER

A PUBLICATION OF TRINITY COLLEGE WITHIN THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE Registered by Australia Post—Publication No. VBG 4336.

THE SEVENTH ANNUAL TRINITY TRAIN PILGRIMAGE

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1988 TO BENDIGO AND RETURN FOR BOOKINGS AND INFORMATION CONTACT DR. JOHN DAVIS, 347-1044 SPECIAL REDUCTION FOR GROUPS AND FAMILIES

NEWS FROM THE LIBRARY Dr Geoffrey Kenny presented the Leeper Library with the following recently published book: Ernest Sandford Jackson: The Life and Times of a Pioneer Australian Surgeon, A.M.A. 1987.

Ernest Sandford Jackson entered the College in 1876 to begin his medical course at the University of Melbourne. He arrived not long after Alexander Leeper had been appointed and had taken up residence in the College. As Dr Kenny records Jackson was the first student enrolled by Dr Leeper and the thirty-third student on the College roll.

At the Australian Bi-Centennial Medical Congress to be held in Cairns at the end of August, Sir Gustav Nossal will give an oration in honour of Dr Sandford Jackson and Sir Henry Newland.

Dr Kenny, who was one of the contributors to the publication, is Senior Lecturer in Anatomy and Deputy Chairman of the Department of Anatomy. He is a past Chairman of the Medical History Society AMA (Victorian Branch).

We are very grateful to him for making this presentation to the library and we warmly thank him.

American performing artists Brent Runnels and Edmund Le Roy of the Rollins College (Florida) Music Department make their Australian debut this summer during a nine-city concert tour. The duo will offer concerts and master classes in voice and piano during the goodwill tour commemorating the Australian Bicentenary and Rollins Australian Studies program. Their Melbourne concert will be in Trinity at 8.30 p.m. on Sunday 7th August, 1988.

ROBIN WILLIAM SMALLWOOD Trinity 1953-1958; died 5th October 1987

Quite a few members of Trinity College were at a party at the College of Surgeons on the 9th October 1987. An excellent jazz band played and champagne was the order of the day. It was all as Robin Smallwood wished it to be—his friends enjoying themselves, with members of his own family. He himself had been buried privately the previous day at Point Lonsdale, with a waratah growing at the head and the Australian bush all around.

It was all a celebration of life. Of course, there was sadness as well.

Even when it is long expected, death brings the pangs of loss. There was an almost palpable sense of support for Robin's wife Rosalind, his children Kate and Angus, his brother Richard, in their time of mingled sorrow and gratitude for the fact that they had loved and been loved by such a man.

Robin Smallwood entered Trinity in 1953 as a medical student, and achieved some distinction as a member of the winning crew in the Elliot Fours—which does not necessarily mean that he was an accomplished rower! Adrian Smithers, a fellow fresher of that year, still remembers his capacity to eat the College_ food with apparent relish ("It made me wonder what things must have been like at Geelong Grammar") and his frankness in discussing at table details of the more gruesome aspects of medical training ("I still shudder to remember it").

The fifties were a great decade for Trinity drama, and one of the most memorable productions was James Elroy Flecker's Hassan in 1955. It was certainly the most memorable for Robin and Rosalind Smallwood if Adrian Smithers is right—and no one has denied it— in surmising that "the vital spark of love was kindled at the cast party of the same."

Robin enjoyed sport—participating in J uttoddie with zest as well as the Elliot Fours—and especially swimming and tennis. He was unusually skilled with his hands, a craftsman rather than just a handyman, and the family's Point Lonsdale home will bear silent witness to this for many years to come. His friends were often grateful for his practical help and skill.

As if this were not enough for this true all-rounder he took up water-colour painting. He also enjoyed working with a computer while most of us were still wondering whether or not to acquire a skill which seems to come more naturally to the younger generation. And in all this, he maintained a broad smile which sometimes broke into an infectious chuckle, delighted in telling stories calculated to shock, and grew more and more fond of jazz.

In 1969, Robin Smallwood was appointed the first full time Director of Anaesthesia at the Austin Hospital. During eighteen years of dramatic change, he built up and consolidated the Department, caring equally for staff morale, for teaching the next generation of anaesthetists and intensive care specialists, and for the maintenance of the highest professional standards in the care of patients. One of his memorials is the superb design and facilities of the eight operating theatres complex and the eight-bed intensive care unit of that hospital with its specialised attention to patients with spinal cord injury or recovering from cardiac surgery.

Always keen to foster a fruitful relationship between clinical practice and teaching, he introduced in 1978 a rotational training program with a dozen anaesthetic Registrars gaining complementary experience at the Austin, Repatriation, Preston and Northcote, and Bendigo Hospitals. He was always a strong champion of combining departments of anaesthesia and intensive care, believing and demonstrating that each could contribute significantly to the other.

His friends and professional colleagues knew him as quiet, cheerful, and dedicated to what was best. Meticulous in his own practice, he demanded high standards of others and gave the encouragement that enabled them to achieve those standards. He abjured autocracy, but always stood for free, open, honest and critical discussion. Ideas were to be accepted or rejected not because of who held them but only because of their intrinsic worth. His fearless honesty extended not only to a willingness to have others scrutinise his own ideas and performance, but finally to the dignity and candour with which he faced his own impending death and gave others the courage to face it too.

SCENES FROM THE RECENT

Peter Hebbard ('81), David Berry ('71), and Darren Coulson ('78) were amongst some of the younger Fleur-de-Lys Members represented at the Dinner.

Boz Parsons ('37), Philip Sargeant ('52), Tim Murray ('54) and Richard Smallwood ('55) photographed at the Dinner.

FLEUR-DE-LYS DINNER

"What was said at the Annual General Meeting of the Fleur-de-Lys?" newly elected President, James Guest, asks Tony Buzzard, the hard-working secretary!

Simonette Guest talks to Bob Lewis ('37) and his wife Betty who were over from Adelaide.

Richard Guy ('64) and his wife Clare with Heather and John King ('61) photographed in the Junior Common Room before the Dinner.

AMERICAN STUDENTS TO TAKE COURSES IN TRINITY IN A ROLLINS-TRINITY JOINT PROGRAM On 18th July 1988, thirty carefully selected American undergraduates arrived to take a full semester's course in Australian Studies in Trinity College. They are enrolled with us as non-resident students of the College in a program sponsored by Rollins College in Florida. It is hoped that this joint venture of Trinity and Rollins College will be continued each year. One of the initial movers in setting up this exciting development was Dr Christopher Cordner, who was appointed Victoria's Rhodes Scholar for 1973. Like several other Cordners, Chris was a resident student at Trinity. After completing his studies in Oxford, he taught philosophy for a time in Rollins College before returning to lecture in the Philosophy Department of the University of Melbourne. He is currently also a resident philosophy tutor in Queen's College.

The Director of the Rollins College in Melbourne program is Mr Karel Reus, who has an office in Trinity. He has gathered a team of specialist teachers who will be members of the Trinity Senior Common Room. This year the classes will be held in the College Music Room. There will also be a two-week field excursion to Northern Victoria and the Murray.

The areas to be covered in the sixteen week program are Cultural Studies, Australian Society, Environmental Studies, and Research Methods.

Rollins College is a small, highly regarded Liberal Arts College in Winter Park, Florida, with about 1,500 undergraduate students.

For fourteen years Rollins has sponsored an Australian Studies program in Sydney. The success of this led to the establishment of a similar program in Melbourne.

As an Australian Bicentenary gift, Rollins College is sponsoring a tour by two gifted members of their Music Faculty. You are therfore invited to attend a free recital in the Trinity Dining Hall on Sunday evening 7th August 1988 at 8.30 p.m. (You may also care to come to Evensong first, in the Chapel at 7.30 p.m. with the choir of the Canterbury Fellowship.)

You are assured of a most enjoyable evening.

All members of the Trinity family and their guests are invited to a popular recital in the College Hall by

Dr EDMUND LeROY Baritone AND Dr BRENT RUNNELLS Pianist Members of the Music Faculty, Rollins College, Florida on SUNDAY, 7th AUGUST 1988 at 8.30 p.m.

This recital is part of a Bicentenary Tour sponsored

by Rollins College.

IAN MATTHEW CAMPBELL Ian Campbell, a resident Psychology Tutor in Trinity from 1971 to 1973, died on 7 December 1987, on his forty-sixth birthday, after a lengthy illness. His funeral, attended by a large gathering of members of his family, friends, clients, academic and professional colleagues took place in the Trinity Chapel and was conducted by the Warden, assisted by the Reverend Roger Sharr, University Chaplain. Professor Alexander Wearing spoke of Ian's contribution to his Department, and Dr Warren Bartlett offered a more personal tribute.

Adopting the wording of a newspaper notice placed by members of the Psychology Department, the Warden referred to him as "a teacher and mentor, a caring and unfailing friend, a model of rationality and balance".

Ian Campbell arrived in Melbourne from New Zealand in 1970 as a Psychology tutor. He completed a doctorate in 1978. As well as maintaining an interest in research, he was led by his strong community awareness into work with the police, with flight crews and with public health. By 1984 he had been promoted to Senior Lecturer. Perhaps his greatest contribution was to the teaching of clinical psychology, where he was a proponent of Rational Emotive Therapy, a method he introduced to Melbourne. Over 180 of his students are now clinical practitioners in Victoria. The effect of his knowledge and wisdom is thus widespread.

Ian was a private person. Only a privileged few knew of his relish for slapstick and "banana skin" humour, of his ability to let his hair down among close friends, of his delight in puns. More were aware of his deep love of opera. Two musical climaxes were particularly significant for him: Faust's final triumph over the power of evil and the last two movements of Mahler's Second Symphony, a vision of heaven and resurrection. He loved the poetry of Dylan Thomas. His perennial interest in the mystery of life was counterbalanced, at least affectively, by an interest in the mystery of death and of renewal.

At the funeral, Warren Bartlett recalled, among much else, the profound impact on Ian during his last study leave abroad of the singing in a monastery just outside Moscow, and in another monastery outside Barcelona. "For one intellectually so dedicated to controlled understanding, there was a richness in his affective life which we must also honour."

Ian Campbell made a significant and enduring contribution to his Department, and to his profession. He was an ornament to this College. We shall not forget him.

TRINITY COLLEGE PROUDLY PRESENTS

AN OUTSTANDING CONCERT IN HALL On Wednesday 12th October 1988 at 8.30 p.m.

Our Pianist—in Residence

TSOU NAN-CHIEN will play a program including: Beethoven: Sonata in D Minor ("The Tempest") Chopin: Sonata in B Flat Minor ("The Funeral March") as well as works by Mozart and Albeniz.

Tsou Nan-Chien is becoming increasingly admired as a pianist of deep musical insight. She has played in Melbourne, Bendigo and other Victorian centres and will shortly undertake a concert tour of mainland China.

THE TRINITY COLLEGE LITERARY MAGAZINE

"The Bulpadock 1988" including articles, poetry and prose by current students and tutors is now available on request. Please send $3.00 to cover handling and postage to "The Bulpadock", Trinity College, Parkville, Vic., 3052, or collect your copy from the College Office.

Taffey Jones, here shown masquerading as an English Lord at Juttoddie 1962 (who else is in the photo apart from Ted Dexter?) continues to enliven Trinity life in 1988. He is Medical Superintendant of the Austin Hospital but lives in Upper Bishops', and is as popular with the staff, tutors and students as ever.

NEWS OF TRINITY MEMBERS

Richard Woolcott ('46) returns to Canberra in September as head of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. He has been in New York as Australian Ambassador to the United Nations, and has also held posts in London, Moscow (twice), South Africa, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Accra and Manila, as well as Jakarta and the U.N. Ted Blarney ('64) has recently been appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of Sitmar International based in Los Angeles. The appointment of an Australian to the top management position of, the Sitmar organization is a first in the increasingly high profile and fast growing world-wide cruise industry. We congratulate him on his appointment.

John Forbes ('64) has been in Newcastle for almost one year, having been appointed Professor of Surgical Oncology and Director of the Hunter Oncology Centre. His wife, Jenny, (nee Daniels) was a Janet Clarke resident from 1964, the year that John entered Trinity.

DEATHS OF COLLEGE MEMBERS The College records with regret the deaths of the following members reported since the last edition of the Newsletter: Ronald Issac Lowenstein (1916) William Bindon McComas Stoney (1919) Geoffrey Buckhurst Stephen Ha rt (1924) Ronald James Jelbart (1928) John Finlay Anderson (1929) John Monteath Gooley (1931) Alan Champion Hirst (1932) James McLean Eadie (1939) David Lipscombe Hollway (1934) Muir John Myer Lapin (1937) Peter Lawrence (1940) Bruce Victor Wicking (1946) Donald James MacKinnon (1947)

Richard Oppenheim ('64), after 17 years on the faculty of the Victorian College of Pharmacy, has joined R.P. Scherer as Scientific Affairs Manager. The company makes one piece soft gelatin capsules filled with multivitamins or drugs. His wife, Annette ('69) is a lecturer in computer science at Swinburne Institute of Technology. On his world travels, Richard always tries to see his first wife, David Woodruff ('64), who is now based in San Diego.

Michael Burgess (' 78) worked for I.C.I. in Albury for four years and then travelled in northern India for six months. He is now working for Elders IXL in Melbourne.

John Davis ('76) Stewa rt Lecturer in Divinity at Trinity, was awarded a doctorate in Theology recently, for his thesis on the constitutional history of the Australian Anglican Church.

Tim Burgess ('80) is now living in Manchester, working as a project engineer for I.C.I. Before settling down there, he travelled extensively in North Africa, Spain and France.

Janice Baker ('81) leaves in July for a year or more in Japan, where she has been awarded a Japanese Government Teaching Scholarship to teach English. Another Trinity member in Japan is Eric Lucas ('80).

Vicky Griffith ('82) has joined Daryl Jackson's company as an architect. Her present project is concerned with the Bond University.

Duncan McFarlane ('81) is in his third year at Cambridge doing a PhD. He should be back in Melbourne in 1989.

THE QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY HONOURS AC Sir Brian Inglis (1946) for service to Industry and Technology.

PHOTOGRAPHS PLEASE! The College would very much like to augment its collection of photographs of College life. Former residents who would be willing to lend their photographs are asked to contact Miss Angela Mackie at the College Ph. 3471044. The photographs will be copied and then returned. If possible the names of those pictured, the date, and the event should be included.