Trinity College Newsletter, vol 1 no 51, March 1996

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from Trinity Members Ken Mason (`34) recently celebrated his 80th birthday at the Australia Club in Melbourne. Enez Lesser nee Ainslie (`34 JCH), who introduced Ken to his wife Phyllis nee McDonald (`34 JCH), and Canon Russell Clarke (`32), who performed the marriage ceremony in the Trinity Chapel in 1940, were amongst the many guests who were past residents of Trinity College or JCH. Ken's son Peter Mason (`62) and daughter Robyn McKenna nee Mason (`64 JCH) hosted the celebrations. Gerald Harding (`46) and his wife Mary, recently returned to Canberra to their family home after spending nearly six years in Adelaide and Melbourne. They joined the Warden at a graduation lunch at the College in March to celebrate the graduation of their son Fabian ('89). Miltiades Chryssavgis (`52), is a priest at the Rose Bay Greek Orthodox church in Sydney. He returned in June from a wonderful trip with his wife, Elkistis, to Belgium, Holland, Egypt and Istanbul, home of the ecumenical patriarch. They visited several monasteries in remote desert regions, including one with the astonishing population of 500 monks. Fr Miltiades is very conscious of his membership of Trinity. Ian Donaldson (`54) after four years in Scotland (as Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at the University of Edinburgh), is moving in October 1995 to the Chair of English at the University of Cambridge and fellowship at King's College. Lauchlan Chipman (`69) was an Emeritus Professor of the University of Wollongong and is now Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Monash University. Lauchlan is Director of the new Monash Berwick Campus as well as the Monash Gippsland Campus, and has university-wide responsibility for Open Learning, distance education, libraries, computing, multimedia and EEO. He lives in Gippsland with his two cats, Figaro and Cleo. Spencer Collins (`69) and his wife Elizabeth had a happy return to the

College from their home in Lismore, Victoria, last November, when their daughter Marguerite Grace was baptised by the Warden. They were delighted to find Spencer's former teacher from Caulfield Grammar, Norman Kaye, playing the organ for the service. Cam Kneen (`69) graduated in Civil Engineering in 1972 and spent twelve years in the concrete industry working in South Africa, Alabama and Texas before returning to Perth in 1983. He joined the timber industry in 1985 and is now Executive Director of the Forest Industries Federation (WA), a group which is about to celebrate its 100th anniversary as an association for the timber industry. His main involvement is in industry policy but he is also active in technical marketing support and skills training. John Hall (13) and his wife, Pam, moved back to the Mornington Peninsula after nearly 10 years in Sale. John now practices law at Rye and Mornington having purchased Law Partners, Rye. Pam has retired from teaching and assists in the practice. They and their three children: Andrew 11, Caitlin 8 and Timothy 18 months are enjoying living on the Peninsula. Bryan Deschamp (Tutor `76 and Dean `78-'84) now holds a senior position with the International Refugee Organisation in Geneva. He called in to College after Christmas to see the Warden and was delighted to meet Frank Henagan and see the recent developments in College. He also called on former chef Don Grilli and his family in Brunswick. Margot Foster (`76) recently spent a few days in London on her way home from a meeting of the International Rowing Federation in Spain. In London, Margot caught up with Simon Birkett ('78) who is renovating a house in Hampstead North London and is working for James Capel Stockbrokers, Michael Fullerton (75) who is practising as a barrister in Brighton, and Michael Keeley (`80), who is enjoying English life and a charming American girlfriend as he works for Kleinwort Benson. As for Margot, she has been appointed to the

National Tennis Centre Trust and the Olympic Park Committee of Management, as well as the newly formed Trinity College Board of Management. Nick Thomas (16) has recently been admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the State Court of Victoria. His admission was moved by Campbell Horsfall (`76). Since Nick's return from London with an MBA in 1988, he has worked with the Boston Consulting Group, and has more recently been with Clayton Utz in Melbourne, after completing a Law degree in Adelaide. Richard Leckey (`78), his wife Victoria, and their daughter Miranda, currently live in Hawthorn. Richard is in his third year of running a practice in Treasury Management Consulting. Heather Nelson (`78) is currently working in the department of English at the University College of the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra. Geoffrey Hebbard (`79) is studying for his PhD at the University of Adelaide and has a small practice as a consulting Gastro-Enterologist at Broken Hill. He and his wife, Heather, have a daughter who is two years old and are now expecting their second child. Terry Mason (19) and his wife, Truda, recently celebrated the birth of their first child, Claire Alice. Terry has been working as the project architect for the Melbourne Exhibition Centre. James Galbraith (`80) trained in Ophthalmology and spent two years as Senior Registrar at Taunton, Somerset, before taking up practice `back home' in Melbourne at the Cabrini Medical Centre. He and his wife Katrina have three children including one set of twins. Martin Leckey (`80) has recently returned from a secondment at the Philosophy Department of the University of California, Davis. He is currently completing his PhD in Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics at Monash University. Joanne Binns (`81) and husband, Peter Drofenik, recently sailed up the east coast of Australia on their


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