TRINITY COL tsLEG E NEWSLETTER THE UNIVERS tt, OF MELBOURNE
TRINITY'S THIRTIETH RHODES SCHOLAR ACK TURNER, an honours graduate in classics and currently a Resident Tutor, has been awarded one of the three 1992 Rhodes Scholarships for Australia. He is Trinity's thirtieth Rhodes Scholar and the first since Ann Nicholson won the Rhodes Scholarship for Victoria in 1988. Jack's connection with Trinity began in 1986 when he came to Melbourne from South Australia to study veterinary science. Despite his enrolment, his first year in Trinity saw the beginning of a fascination with all aspects of the classical world, Trinity providing ample opportunities to sample both the Apollonian and Dionysiac aspects of life. In 1987 he switched, with the Warden's encouragement, to studying Greek and Latin, subjects in which he eventually achieved first class honours in the fourth-year examinations. Classical studies afforded Jack an opportunity to work on archaeological excavations in Syria in 1989 and 1990. He returned to Melbourne and Trinity in the wake of Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait to
complete his degree and take up a position as a Resident Tutor in Classical Studies and Ancient Greek. When he sets out for Oxford next September, he hopes to study for an M.Phil. in International Relations at Magdalen College, a college with a strong tradition of Trinity Members going back to John Feltham, who will retire as Law Don there about the time Jack arrives. In the long term, Jack hopes to work for the World Bank or another organization connected with development and aid. It is refreshing that in this day of Green and White Papers and dazzling technology Rhodes Scholarships can still be awarded to students of the humanities. Trinity's 30th Rhodes Scholar, Jack Turner, looks much the same on a dig in Syria as in Parkville. The archaeologically excavated car from a by-gone era also has its counterparts in College.
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ARY 1992
FROM THE EDITOR 2
Trinity College Newsletter Number 44 January 1992 Trinity College Royal Parade Parkville 3052
Editor
Dear Reader,
Angela Mackie
Editorial Committee Evan Burge Angela Mackie
Editorial Administrator Catherine Thawley
Contents TRINITY'S THIRTIETH RHODES SCHOLAR 1 FROM THE EDITOR 2 TRINITY IN THE THIRTIES 2 TRINITY APPOINTS ITS SECOND WOMAN DEAN 3 TRINITY'S NEW BUSINESS AND FINANCE MANAGER 3 WARDEN'S LEAVE AND TRAVELS 4 PETER GODFREY HANDS OVER THE TRINITY CHOIR 5 ROYAL ORGANIST TO TAKE OVER TRINITY CHOIR 6 OBITUARIES 7, 8 THE POND BEQUEST 9 ADDITIONS AND ALTERATIONS TO FOUNDATION LISTING OF DONORS PUBLISHED IN AUGUST 9 NEWS OF TRINITY MEMBERS 10, 11, 12
The fourth Gala Fleur-de-Lys Dinner, the biggest yet, is to be held on the Bulpadock on 20 March, 1992. Your invitation is enclosed with this Newsletter, and you are invited to make up tables for this special occasion. If you prefer not to make up a full table you will be seated with College members from your era in Trinity. Catering will be by Mrs Jan Couche in conjunction with the Hilton Hotel. We are expecting a record turn-out. The Warden returned in October from his travels in Europe and has provided us with a vivid description of some of his experiences. A new Business Manager last September, a new Dean in February this year, and a new Director of Music to take over from Peter Godfrey who returned to New Zealand after the Carol Service — three new faces on the staff before the academic year begins. We welcome Russell Wittick, Mary Chapman and Christopher Dearnley to the College. Details of their appointment are included in this issue. Because of the various staff changes the Foundation will continue to produce the Newsletter for the immediate future. The Warden is looking forward to seeing you at the Fleur-de-Lys Dinner on 20 March if you will be in Melbourne. He's trying to secure a fine autumn night. ANGELA MACKIE
TRINITY IN THE 1930s Left to Right: J F Anderson ('29), C P burner ('29), K G Detheridge ('27), R R Andrew ('30), Horse unknown! Photo: Courtesy of R R Andrew
TRINITY APPOINTS ITS SECOND WOMAN DEAN 3
rinity's second woman Dean will begin duties on 1 February next. She is Elizabeth Mary Chapman, a landscape architect and a New Zealander. The Dean's position has been vacant since Mrs Leith Hancock retired for reasons of health at the end of 1990. During the interregnum the position was filled first by a Joint-Acting Dean, Dr Michael `Taffy' Jones and Mr Jim Craig. Since June, when Jim Craig left for Tokyo, Dr Taffy Jones carried the flag alone. Meanwhile Leith Hancock has made a splendid recovery and continues her retirement in good health. Her successor, Mary Chapman, is aged 45. She holds Diplomas in Horticulture and Landscape Technology from Canterbury, New Zealand, and the Graduate Diploma of Landscape Architecture from the Queensland University of Technology. She has lectured in Horticulture and Landscape Design at Gatton College of the University of Queensland, the School of Environmental Design of Canberra University and the Natural Resources College in Malawi. At the time of her appointment to Trinity she was a Lecturer for the Bachelor of Landscape Architecture at RMIT. Mary Chapman is no stranger to College life. From 1986 to 1988 she was resident in Ormond College, where she was a full member of the Senior Common
Room. Employed there originalLy as an Administrative Assistant to the Master, she had to relieve for six months in the position of Buildings and Properties Officer with no warning and no hand-over period. The responsibility for the well-being of the Ormond College establishment was a formidable task. Her experience of collaborating with all levels of the College will be of great value in her position as Dean. Of even greater benefit in developing interpersonal and management skills were the two years she spent in Malawi, where she set up a horticultural training program funded by the Australian Government for one of the world's poorest countries. The design and implementation of an education program relevant to the needs and aspirations of a third world country was a great challenge, as was gaining the full acceptance of the local people. Mary Chapman's referees testified to her energy, enthusiasm, and vision. She is warm-hearted and likes to engage fully with life. She enjoys the company of young people and working as a member of a team. She looks forward to being resident in Trinity.
TRINITY'S NEW BUSINESS AND FINANCE MANAGER In succession to Don Leane who retired from Trinity last September, the College has appointed Mr Russell Wittick. Prior to his appointment Russell Wittick was a Wing-Commander in the RAAF. He is known in the Air Force as a very effective officer with considerable overseas experience. He is a thoroughly professional man with formal accounting qualifications. In addition he has good interpersonal skills and has already shown himself as an effective communicator with staff and students. He believes in achieving his objectives through group discussion and participation. Russell Wittick has a good understanding of computers and modern technology. His referees described
him as having 'a determination to get the job done in a flexible manner and also able to embrace novel ideas and to think laterally'. On returning from leave to find Russell Wittick already in the job, the Warden said, 'I do not believe the selection committee could have found us a better person. I am sure that Russell Wittick and Trinity will A high-flier! Wing- Commander have a long, happy and productive relationship'. Russell Wittick is now Business and Finance Manager of Trinity, struggling to get income-raising off the ground and stop expenditure from flying too high.
WARDEN'S LEAVE AND TRAVELS 4
THREE MONTHS IN FRANCE AND ITALY
he Warden and Dr Barbara Burge returned to Trinity on 7 October after the three months in France and Italy. The Warden writes: After four days in Paris, one of the highlights of which was Mozart's Requiem in St Germain des Prés, we hired a 1.4 litre Citroën BX and drove south to Chartres. From there we continued south to explore the Chateaux of the Loire before crossing into Italy. Our travels in Italy included a week in a hilltop villa in Tuscany. From here it was possible to visit not only the delighful Chianti countryside but superb towns and cities such as San Gimignano, Siena and Florence. Four days' walking in the footsteps of St Francis in Assisi followed — an opportunity to experience the deep sense of pax et bonum felt by every pilgrim to this holy hilltop city. On the way to Sicily there were three days at the beach at Paestum south of Naples, a centre renowned for its well preserved ancient Greek Doric temples. In Sicily, Taormina high on the cliffs above wonderful beaches, which can be visited by cablecar, afforded three days of delight and recreation — until attempts were made to break into our car. The insurance company paid for the repairs and for a week in Catania. From here we made an excursion to Syracuse, the ancient city associated with the ill-fated Athenian military expedition in the 5th century BC, with the philosopher Plato, and with the great mathematician and scientist Archimedes. On the way back to France we enjoyed two days with former Dean, Bryan Deschamp, now with the International Refugee Organization. We watched with him a magnificent pyrotechnical display over Lake Geneva to mark Switzerland's 700th anniversary. Bryan also took the wheel of our car for an excursion around Lake Annecy. To occupy a cottage we had rented in the Dordogne valley we came back to France for a week-and-a-half. We also managed visits to Carcassonne and Arles. Seeking Van Gogh's bridge near Arles we became hopelessly lost in the narrow streets of the old town and extricated our small car with difficulty. Our visit to northern Italy included a conference in Family Therapy in the resort of Bormio, near the Stelvio Pass. This is the highest pass in Europe but its numerous steep hairpin bends were slowly negotiated before we descended through the Alto Adige (where
German is the dominant language) to Verona. All the seats for the last opera of the season in the Arena di Verona were sold. It was not difficult to find tickets for sale at a heavy markup. Seeing a superb performance of Nabucco in the huge Roman amphitheatre, preceded by a magic stillness as tens of thousands of candles were lit in the darkness before the overture, was unforgettable. Leaving the car in Padua, we caught a boat along the Brenta Canal, with its rich historic villas, to enter Venice by water. The light which has inspired so many paintings shone perfectly for our landing at St Mark's Square. In the evening, four Vivaldi concerti were played in the church nearby, where the maestro himself was once Director of Music. There is not space here to tell of visits to wonderful lakes and to the Palladian buildings of Vicenza, where the Pope was visiting and gave his blessing from the famous popemobile. We have a photo to prove it. Further delights were in store back in France after the Mont Blanc tunnel. We pressed north into Alsace with its charming villes fleuries and riesling. Colmar, Strassbourg, Rheims and Rouen followed, all too rapidly. There remained Normandy and Brittany and the miraculous Mont St Michel high above the rapid tide. Near the mouth of the Seine we heard Compline mystically sung by the monks in an almost completely dark church at St Wandrille. On the way back to Paris we spent several hours in Monet's garden at Giverny. We have long enjoyed impressionist paintings and especially those by Monet but now that we have seen the setting of many of them, including the famous Waterlilies, the paintings possess even greater fascination. The memory of this and many more things of wonder and delight in two complementary and contrasting countries will live with us for years to come. ■
PETER GODFREY HANDS OVER THE TRINITY CHOIR 5 AT A RECORD LEVEL OF EXCELLENCE
he Trinity Chapel Choir reached its highest point to date in the 1 991 Festival of Lessons and Carols. An attentive congregation of 350 crowded into the Chapel and were held spellbound by the readings and singing. Peter Godfrey's legacy is now recorded for posterity on a CD of psalms, anthems and carols to be released in early 1992 by MOVE Records. An order form is enclosed with this Newsletter. The carol which elicited most comment after the Carol Service was from Spain, `Esta noche', and has been included. It is all wonderfully summed up in the following extract from a letter written to the Warden by a Trinity old-boy (who has far more intelligence than he admits!) and current Trinity parent: The Trinity Carol Service has become one of the landmarks of my year, my Christmas sign. This year it seemed to excel even more than before — it was
uplifting in a way I never thought possible. The lessons, singing, music and the wonderful sense of unity culminated beautifully in your own reading from St John. My daughter has bloomed in Trinity, enriched by the collegiate process just as I was. We are not awfully clever, she and I (though she's smarter than I), and one empathises with Pooh Bear who wished he had a brain that told him things. I wish people realised that, far from being elitist, Trinity gently coaxes ordinary brains to perform far above their (delighted) owners' expectation.'
Emeritus Professor Peter Godfrey with the Trinity Chapel Choir of 1991.
This framed triptych by Peter Zageris was presented to Professor Peter Godfrey on his retirement as Director of Music. Signed copies of this limited edition of 75 may be purchased through the Warden's Secretary at the College. Phone: 3490/06.
ROYAL ORGANIST TO TAKE OVER TRINITY CHOIR 6
Finding a successor for a distinguished choral conductor like Professor Peter Godfrey was not easy. It is a tribute to the distinction Peter Godfrey has brought to the choral music in Trinity that there were nine excellent applicants for his position. Dr Christopher Dearnley, former organist of St Paul's Cathedral London, has been chosen to continue Trinity's fine choral tradition. First at Salisbury and then at St Paul's, Christopher Dearnley maintained and extended the musical traditions of two great English cathedrals. Dr Dearnley has led the music at many national services held in St Paul's. In 1981 he was the organist at the marriage of the Prince and Princess of Wales. He masterminded the rebuilding of the Cathedral's historic organ between 1973 and 1977, and established a popular series of organ recitals there. From 1972 onwards he introduced the presentation of Masses by classical composers with orchestral accompaniment, which has since become a well established feature of the music at St Paul's on Sundays in July. Dr Dearnley has a special interest in English music of the 17th and 18th centuries, and has published two books on church music of this period. Through record-
ings and solo performances he has achieved a worldwide reputation as an outstanding organist and leading church musician. In 1987 the Archbishop of Canterbury conferred on Christopher Dearnley the Lambeth Degree of Doctor of Music in recognition of his services to church music. In 1990 he was appointed by the Queen a Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order. At the beginning of 1990, on his sixtieth birthday, Dr Christopher Dearnley retired from St Paul's Cathedral after twenty-two years' service there, and with his wife Bridget came to live in Australia. Since moving to Australia, he has conducted festivals for the Royal School of Church Music, and led choral workshops and organ masterclasses. He has also been Acting Director of Music at Christ Church St Lawrence in Sydney and Organist and Master of the Choristers (as locum tenens) at St David's Cathedral, Hobart. Trinity is indeed fortunate to secure the services of such a distinguished musician. We are confident that he and his wife will enjoy living in College and taking a full part in Trinity life.
Trinity's new Director of Music, Christopher Dearnley, is famous as an organist but is equally interested in choirs. He plans to continue Peter Godfrey's work in Trinity, where the Choir has reached its highest standard to date.
OBITUARIES
HENRY DEVENDISH STEWARD (1913-1991) Henry `Blue' Steward was a student at Trinity from 1933 until 1938 having come from Geelong Grammar. In his last year he was Senior Student. Throughout his life he was known (for obvious reasons) as `Blue'. He had a distinguished career as a medical student and after graduation became a resident at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. Whilst he was there, the war broke out and Blue enlisted with the rank of Captain as a Medical Officer. In 1940 he sailed for the Middle East as Medical Officer with the 2/4 Field Regiment, an artillary unit of the Seventh Australian Division. He served with that regiment until the Syrian Campaign and thereafter 2/16 Infantry Battalion. His battalion was part of the 21st Infantry Brigade which engaged the Japanese in the Kokoda area in one of the worst drawn-out and bloody engagements of the war. Because of casualties to other RMOs Blue was at times RMO of the other three battalions in the Brigade, sometimes all of them at the same time. Throughout this campaign Blue served with the greatest distinction. In the end, when relieved, the Brigade had prevented the Japanese from forcing their way down from the mountains and capturing Port Moresby. Like most red-heads Blue had a short fuse but also a great sense of humour and enormous compassion.
Whilst resting at Port Moresby the Brigade was paraded before Field Marshall Blarney then newly arrived in New Guinea. Supplied with unbelievable misinformation Blarney accused those fine fighting soldiers of cowardice concluding with the words `the rabbit that runs is the rabbit that gets shot'. Blue, who was in the parade, was outraged. Shortly afterwards Blamey visited the Brigade wounded in hospital. Each of the soldiers was (like a rabbit) chewing a lettuce leaf. This was a deadly insult directed at Blarney, who could do nothing about it. The lettuces were supplied by Blue. His book `Recollections of a Regimental Medical Officer' is a fine description of the fighting digger and clearly demonstrates Blue's close identification with and admiration for the ordinary soldier. After the war he travelled extensively in Europe on various missions for the Commonwealth and during this period met and married his beautiful Roman wife Franca. Although entirely unpublicised there is no doubt that Blue rates among Australia's famous soldier/doctors who include Bertie Coates and Weary Dunlop.
WILLIAM BALCOMBE GRIFFITHS (1907-1991) Balcombe Griffiths entered Trinity in 1928, completed a degree in architecture at the University of Melbourne, and also won a rowing blue there while at Trinity. He continued to show a warm and deep interest in the College, and in recent years had the pleasure of seeing his granddaughters Amanda and Sophie become College members. In 1976 a new College eight was christened in his honour. Distinguished in his own profession over a long working lifetime, he was, for instance, President of
the Royal Victorian Institute of Architects (19521954). In WW2 he served as a soldier both in the Middle East and the Pacific, finished the war with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, and was awarded the MC. Balcombe Griffiths was a distinguished Trinity member. The College warmly thanks the Trustees of his estate for the legacy kindly left by Balcombe Griffiths. His granddaughter Sophie has recently completed a charming set of six small watercolours of Trinity scenes, which she has dedicated to his memory.
SIR PETER GARRAN (1910-1991) Sir Peter Garran, KCMG, a former British ambassador to Mexico and the Netherlands, died on July 5 aged 81. He was born on June 15, 1910, and entered Trinity in 1928. A tall, dignified diplomat, Peter Garran joined the British foreign service in 1934 and took UK citizenship after the war though never losing his attachment to his old country, Australia. Peter's grandfather had
emigrated from England and became editor of The Sydney Morning Herald while his father, a constitutional lawyer, was secretary to the commission which drafted the Australian federal constitution and later became his country's solicitor-general. Peter himself was educated at Melbourne Grammar School then at Trinity College, where he took a first class degree in classics and joined the British Foreign Office.
May he rest in peace. SIR JOHN STARKE
OBITUARIES 8
From Lisbon, Peter and Elizabeth Garran served in Berlin then The Hague (1950-1952), a posting which had a formative influence on his later career. So did his five years as minister (commercial) in Washington (1955-1960) which imbued him with a great interest and enthusiasm for trade and industry. His first head of mission appointment was as ambassador to Mexico (1960-1964) after which he returned to The Hague, almost by popular request. Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard were among those who let it be known in Whitehall that the Dutch would welcome the return of this sensible young diplomat, known for his courtesy
and unstuffiness. But the main instrument in securing his return was probably an old friend, the Dutch foreign minister Dr Joseph Luns, who was later to become secretary-general of NATO. After retiring in 1970 Sir Peter, who was knighted in 1961, became director of the Lend-Lease Corporation of New South Wales, chairman of the Quality Assurance Council of the British Standards Institution and chairman of Securicor Nederland. He leaves two sons and a daughter.
LEOPOLD GEORGE BALL (1900-1990) The Reverend Leo Ball, who died in December 1990 at the age of 90, came to Australia in 1920 to undertake training for the ordained ministry in Wangaratta. He was resident on a scholarship in Trinity from 1924 to 1926 studying Arts and some subjects in Science. Assignments in Montreal, Bermuda and Barbados followed. In 1930 he married his first wife Nora Evans and in 1938 joined the RAAF as a Chaplain, where he served until the end of the war. He spent a great deal of the next few years founding small Christian 'Intentional Communities' in NSW and New Zealand — cell groups for the establishment of the Kingdom of
God. From 1961 to 3,963 he was in charge of a parish on Phillip Island and in 1968 established a 'community house' called `Clifton House' in South Yana. After Nora's death in 1974 he travelled to England and India making contact with leaders in community formation and then in 1976 married Hazel Forbes, a widow from Ceylon. The two met the Reverend Dr Athol Gill of Whitley College, founder of The House of the Gentle Bunyip, and lived as senior members of that community from 1982. Trinity records with gratitude the life and pilgrimage of a man now at rest in the Kingdom for which he worked so tirelessly.
Edited from an obituary in The Times, 12 July 1991
The Reverend Leo Ball at a gathering for his ninetieth birthday, six months before he died. Next to him is the Reverend Roger Sharr (whose wife Susan is in the lower right corner).
THE POND BEQUEST
The late Samuel Austin Frank Pond who died in 1986 made provision in his will for Trinity College to benefit from his estate after the decease of his wife which occurred in February 1990. So far, the College has received interim distributions amounting to $200,000. The Council of Trinity is applying the legacy to named scholarships and bursaries in accordance with the wishes of the testator ensuring that the name of Jessie Howison Pond, his wife, will be perpetuated. Samuel Pond was a non-resident member of Trinity during the latter years of the twenties and studied in the Faculties of Arts, Commerce and Law. Whilst a student he joined the Melbourne University Regiment and took out a blue for rifle shooting. With the outbreak of World War II he transferred to the AIF and rose to command the 2/29th battalion. He was awarded an OBE for military service and was mentioned twice in despatches, subsequently being cap-
tured and held as a POW in Changi Malaya for 3 years. After the war Messrs Whiting and Byrne employed him as a solicitor. He maintained his academic interests, at one time becoming a member of the Standing Committee of Convocation of the University of Melbourne. He was also a loyal supporter of the Trinity College Foundation. Through his generous bequest the names of Samuel and Jessie Pond will always be associated with Trinity College and with helping young students to develop their intellectual abilities and their capacity to serve others. * * * * * Archdeacon Stan Moss, the Bequest Officer of the Trinity College Foundation, is always ready to discuss the question of will-making and the possibility of leaving a legacy to the College. In this way, we can all ensure that our interest in, and support of, the College endures beyond our lifetime. Phone: Office: (03) 349 0115 Home: (03) 5712829
ADDITIONSA AL TERATIONS TO FI i i ATION LISTING OF DONORS PUBLISHED IN AUGUST Annual Giving Program 1991 The Chairman's Club ($500) Anne D. F. ANAGNOSTOU Douglas GRAHAM The Founders' Club ($250) John CALDER V. David U. HUNT The 1872 Club ($119) Charles P. ABBOTT Kenneth B. MASON Anthony J. ROUSE Rowan STORY
Members of the Foundation The Jubilee Club ($501 Robin P. GORTON Leo F. I. HAWKINS Gregory P. HARRIS Robert A. HILTON David L. JOHNSON Simon T. PHILLIPSON Christopher J. ROPER Philippa J. SMITH John B. VERNON Kevin C. WESTFOLD
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THE ORCHID MAN THE LIFE, WORK AND MEMOIRS OF THE REVEREND H M R RUPP, BA (1872-1956)
The Reverend Herman MR Rupp, son of the Reverend CLH Rupp, went up to Trinity College in 1892 from Geelong Grammar, and graduated in 1897. For most of his long life HMR Rupp had an abiding interest in botany, especially in orchids, about which he wrote profusely. In the 1940s and 1950s Rupp recorded his reminiscences. In these he recalled life at Trinity in the 1890s, his botanical excursions around Melbourne, and his decision, in the early 1920s, to
The Oak Tree Club ($25) K. John BURNS Ronald J. HENDERSON Carolyn J. LOTON Andrew J. MAFFETT Douglas W. McKENZIE Lindsay K. PORTER Michael R. THWAITES Thomas V. WALPOLE Geoffrey C. WENZEL Annual Giving Total
Governor Estate of Maurice HURRY Patron Robert B. LEWIS Sponsors Chris ROBERTS Estate of Miss M. K. A. BELL Member Peter G. BARNARD Donor Estate of W. B. GRIFFITHS
present the non-orchidaceous part of his extensive herbarium to the University's Botany Department. Introduced by a biographical study based largely upon his prodigious correspondence, his detailed memoirs are now published for the first time. The work is fully illustrated and includes a bibliography of Rupp's published work, compiled with the assistance of Dr J H Wills, former Deputy Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens of Melbourne. The book is due to be published early in 1992 in an edition of 1500 copies. Enquiries should be made to Kangaroo Press, PO Box 75, Kenthurst, NSW, 2156. LIONEL A GILBERT
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F D CUMBRAE-STEWART ('26) was paralysed by a schwannoma on his spinal cord in 1989. We are glad to hear that he has since recovered and resumed practice at the Bar. He is still editing the Tasmanian Reports as he has been doing since 1953. KENNETH SILLCOCK ('29) retired at the age of 65 from the Victorian Department of Agriculture and has been busy ever since! Now, at the age of 80, he is editing `The Superannuant', the quarterly journal of the Retired State Employees' Association (Vic.) Inc., of which he is a Vice-President. JOHN FISHER ('45) has retired as Director of Fisher Stewart Pty Ltd and is now a consultant to the Albury Wodonga Development Corporation as well as conducting a Black Simmental Beef Cattle Stud at Tallangatta and Wangaratta. JOHN ZWAR ('45) reitred from the CSIRO several years ago and lives in the ACT where he has a small farm. He has fond memories of the Wooden Wing in 1945. Bruce Reddrop, Ron Marks and Stan Moss are among those he especially remembers from those days. BOB ROBERTSON ('47) has been 'in orbit' since the end of 1977. He was in Rome until 1981 and then Deputy High Commissioner in London until 1984 when he became the Permanent Representative to the United Nations, a position he held until 1988. He is now the Australian Ambassador in Buenos Aires, and plans to retire in 1993. His French wife, Isabelle, may at that stage resume her diplomatic career and Bob may then be an 'accompanying spouse' of a First Secretary in a diplomatic mission. His wife was a member of France's mission. It is too early to determine where they will be living after Buenos Aires! ALFRED STRINGER ('48) made a welcome brief return to Trinity Chapel in November. He retired from St Peter's School, Adelaide, a year ago and is now the Rector of St Michael and All Angels' in Millicent, South Australia. ROBIN `JOE' ELLIOTT ('51) who has been 'missing' for some years has now been found in London. He kindly wrote informing us of his address and latest news. After many years in South Africa as the Managing Director of his own film, video and multi-media production company he returned to London in 1990. He is now a full-time writer.
GEOFFREY VAUGHAN ('56) has been appointed for the next four years to Canberra, where he will be National Manager of the Therapeutic Goods Administration. He is concerned with the safety, quality, efficacy and timeliness of the introduction of new drugs to Australia, following a Government-sponsored investigation by Professor Peter Baume. JOHN CHURCHILL ('72) is now living in Berwick and starting a practice in the area as an Orthopaedic Surgeon. John and Mary Anne now have two boys — James (3) and David (2). RUSSELL JOYCE ('72) was appointed Vicar of the Parish of St Thomas in Werribee in July 1991. He will continue his work as a Chaplain in the Royal Australian Navy Reserve and as a Member of Council of La Trobe University and Chair of the Welfare Advisory Services Committee of the University. MICHAEL HEINZ ('73), recently retired from a long and distinguished cricket career with the Mafeking Cricket Club, is now a proud father. He and Claire have one on the ground, Stephanie, and one on the way. Perhaps a Bart Heinz will be enrolling at Trinity in 2011! JOHN REEVE ('74), Lecturer in History at the University of Hong Kong, has been elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. A copy of his `Charles I and the Road to Personal Rule' (CUP, 1989) is in the College Library. SUSAN WARNE nee FOWLER ('75) and her husband Bill, a local government executive, have three sons and are living at the base of the snowfields near Bright. Susan completed postgraduate studies in Community Health Nursing and now works at a Community Health Service specializing in Women's Health. BRYAN DESCHAMP ('76) was a gracious host (as ever) to the Warden and Dr Barbara Burge when they stopped in Geneva on their recent travels. Bryan is currently working there with the International Refugee Organization. He and the Burges enjoyed watching the magnificent fireworks display on Lake Geneva to mark Switzerland's 700th anniversary. MARGOT FOSTER ('76) was appointed to the Victorian Government's Melbourne Major Events Committee in late 1990. The MMEC assesses submissions for the hosting by Melbourne of major international sporting
NEWS OF TRINITY MEMBERS and cultural events. Margot has also been appointed to the Victorian Committee for Fundraising for the Paralympics. The Australian Team will compete at the 1992 Special Olympics for the Disabled.
CAROLINE ENNELS nee ALLEN ('79) married Jason in Melbourne in August 1989. They met in England while Caroline was on a two-year trip overseas. Their first child, Samantha, was born on 10 March, 1991.
CAROL MCKELSON-TIMMINS ('76) has been working for the past year as one of fifteen Senior Bankers contracted to oversee the wind up of the Tricontinental Holdings Limited operations. For the seven years prior to this she was working in the Advisory and Corporate Banking Operations of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce.
KATE FLEMING nee PURVIS ('79) married Andrew from Mildura and have a baby boy, William.
SARAH MATTERS ('76) called in to College before Christmas on a short visit to Melbourne to see her family. For some years she has been working for the British Council in London and will shortly move to Manchester. Her work takes her to Africa from time to time and she has enjoyed the opportunity to support educational projects and Universities in Senegal, Ghana, Zambia and Zimbabwe. TONY COHEN ('77) and DEBORAH nee HUTCHINSON ('77) have recently moved from Nhulunbuy (NT) to Rockhampton in Queensland. Tony is working in Obstetrics at the Base Hospital. They have three children — Samuel (7), Philip (3) and Hannah (1). KAMMY CORDNER ('77) was married to Martin Hunt in December 1990 at Timbertop Chapel in a double ceremony with her sister. She recently visited Trinity as a delegate for a National Conference on Environmental Initiatives at a local government level. She was pleased to be able to catch up with Frank Henagan who reminded her of her brief football career in the Ladies' Ranks. JENNIFER HALLOWES ('77) is currently a veterinarian in private practice in Grovedale, Geelong. She lives with her husband, David Perkins (a solicitor), and her two children, Melanie (5) and James(2). ANDREA SKINNER ('77) taught Biology and Science at PLC for three years before marrying Gregory Op de Coul, a Product Manager for CIG, in April 1991 at Trinity College. The wedding ceremony was performed by the Reverend Ron Browning with PENELOPE PENGILLEY ('77) reading `Desiderata' and GINI SKINNER ('78) the maid of honour. Andrea and Greg are now living in Sydney. Andrea taught at SCECGS, Redlands, for six months but is now enjoying a break from teaching. MICHAEL BURGESS ('78) married Jan Truscott from Perth in October 1990. KATHY AVDIEV (a member of the Chapel Choir in 1979) is still in London working as the Music Administrator of St James Church, Picadilly. CHRIS BELL ('79) and his wife Cathy have two boys, Charles (3) and Edward (2). MEREDITH DRUCE nee OSBORN ('79) married Jeremy in 1989.
PETER VELS ('79) was working for Pansophic in Sydney until July 1991 after which he was transferred to Hamburg in Germany. Pansophic has recently been taken over by Computer Associates so he may be on the move again. He would like to catch up with others in Europe and his current address is: Hegrade 2A, D-2411 Sandesneben, GERMANY XENIA WILLIAMSON nee BOYNTON ('79) and husband David have two children — Hector (2) and Ingrid (1). SIMON PHILLIPSON ('80) will be moving to London in February 1992 to work for a law firm, Baker and McKenzie, for two years. He would welcome any Trinity visitors. RUSSELL SMITH (tutor from 1980) has completed a doctorate in Law at King's College, London, and is now lecturing in Criminology at the University of Melbourne. He is currently preparing his doctoral thesis for publication as a book, `Medical Discipline', to be published by Oxford University Press. MICHAEL VAUGHAN ('80) returned from London shortly before Christmas after completing a Master of Surgery on focused ultrasound surgery of the prostate. He is now in Hobart as a Surgical Registrar. WAYNE WEAIRE ('80) is presently the Rector of Numurkah in the Diocese of Wangaratta. He has been appointed as Chaplain to Geelong Grammar School from January 1992. SARAH BISLEY-SCHNEIDER ('81) was living in Budapest studying the cello at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music from 1982 to 1985. During that time she began giving solo and chamber concerts and to date has performed in Austria, Hungary, New Zealand, Belgium and France. She has also given Lecture-Recitals in Germany and England. Between 1985 and 1988 she was studying at the Vienna Conservatorium and has also studied conducting. She is married to an Austrian (a double bass player!) and has two small boys. ANNI GRIMWADE ('81) is currently studying for her MBA at Stern Business School, New York University, after winning a scholarship from Monash University. PETER HEBBARD ('81) will be Anaesthetics Registrar at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in 1992 after spending a year working with ALEX BAKER ('80), also an Anaesthetics Registrar, at the Royal Women's Hospital and the Monash Medical Centre. Peter and his wife MELISSA nee HARE ('82) are enjoying their young son Andrew, born on 15 October, 1991, and baptised by the Warden in the Chapel on 21 December.
NEWS OF TRINITY MEMBERS
nee O'SULLIVAN ('81) completed her Diploma in Education (Secondary) in 1988 and started teaching in Hamilton. In April 1990 she married Cameron Hooke and has moved to Canberra where she now teaches German, English and History at Canberra Grammar School.
KRISTA HOOKE
JESSICA JASPER nee BILLSON ('81) and her husband Terry now have a baby boy — William.
('81) has taken up the position of Audit Manager at Coopers and Lybrand in New York.
TIM SLIGO
J CRAIG BROWN ('82) has recently returned to Melbourne with his fiancĂŠe Suzanne after a few years in London enriching his architectural skills and experience. ('82) has been Associate to Mr Justice Heerey (of the Federal Court) since February, which she has found a challenging and enjoyable experience. SAMANTHA BURCHELL
TIM GRIMWADE ('82) has been enjoying travelling and working overseas. Since graduating in Commerce and Law in 1989 and completing his articles with Arnold Block and Leibler, he has spent six months in British Columbia planting thousands of trees in a reafforestation program. He was planning to work in a ski resort during the Canadian winter and probably travel on to South America before resuming higher studies in international and third-world affairs. ('82) has announced her engagement to Donald Feaver from Ontario, Canada. They intend to marry at Christ Church, South Yarra. Priscilla is currently working in her family firm, Nelson Brothers Funeral Services and Donald is employed with Smith and Emmerton, Solictors.
PRISCILLA NELSON
('82) graduated from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 1986. She toured London, Oxford, Cambridge and Edinburgh with an elementary theatre company in a production of Pygmalion and returned to Australia three years ago. She has been working in theatre and television and is presently working with MTC at Russell Street.
MARIE-LOUISE WALKER
('82) wedding to Stuart Read took place on 7 December. Kelly is one of the Trinity team at Freehill, Hollingdale and Page, where Stuart also works.
KELLY WHITE'S
nee LUDBROOK ('83) is working at the British Embassy in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. She and her husband will be returning to Melbourne in early 1992. They did not evacuate during the Gulf War! CATHERINE BROOKS
('83) is studying for her MBA at Edinburgh University.
CAROLYN LOTON
('83) is now a reporter with the Current Affairs section of the ABC. She caught up with the Warden at the launching of Chris Sexton's latest book.
DEIRDRE OSBORNE
('83) is living and studying at
Oxford. ('83), after work with Arthur Robinson & Hedderwicks, married REBECCA DANIELS ('86) and went to England for further study at Wadham College, Oxford. He graduated in Civil Law and is currently Lecturer in Law at Wadham. He has kept in touch with former Trinitarians in Oxford and London and especially with many at this year's Trinity Ball while holidaying in Melbourne.
NIK YEO
('84) enjoyed seeing the Hall from the perspective of High Table on a recent visit and has written that she is looking forward to teaching English and History at St Catherine's this year.
DIANE CUDMORE
('84) is currently living in London. Early in 1991 she was working as an editor of a travel magazine and travelled to many countries including Poland and Malta researching stories and taking photographs. She is now freelancing and is also a writer for a multi-national information technology firm, Electronic Data Systems.
ELIZABETH ELDER
('84) was married to SHARON MUL('86) in the College Chapel on 28 November. The service was conducted by the Warden and music was provided by the Trinity College Chapel Choir (and a few extras!)
MICHAEL GRONOW READY
BEGGS ('85) is moving to Warrnambool in 1992 after a year in Tasmania practising as a vet in Smithton in the NW corner of the state.
DAVID
('86) studied Italian in Perugia, Italy, for three months and is currently studying at Northern Territory University for her Diploma of Education (Primary) specializing in Aboriginal Education. She is living in Darwin and loving it!
ROSEMARY (POZY) DALGLEISH
('86), after working for Parkside Antiques in South Melbourne, married NIK YEO ('83) and moved to England with him in July 1989. She is involved in various furniture history societies as well as being a voluntary assistant at the Ashmolean Museum. She is also studying for a graduate Diploma in the History of Art at Trinity College, Oxford.
REBECCA DANIELS
('86) and CATHY nee TROIANI ('83) have announced the birth of their first child, David Thomas, born on 21 October, 1991. David was baptised by his grandfather, the Very Reverend David Thawley, at Christ Church, Brunswick, on Saturday, 23 November.
MARK THAWLEY
CHRISTOPHER SEXTON (tutor
from 1989) has published his next biography, the life of Sir Macfarlane Burnet, under the title `The Seeds of Time'. This has won praise for the quality of the writing and its insight into the thoughts of a great scientist. Chris is also working on the life of Sir Rupert Hamer, his first Trinity subject.
ALI MOORE
('89) was awarded first prize in the Australasian Middle East Studies Association (AMESA) 1991 essay competition. Congratulations!
MIRANDA SISSONS