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TRINITY COLLEGE NEWSLETTER THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
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1996 - Second Semester
Cover: Professor Markwell, Wardern Elect, and Dr Evan Burge, 5th Warden of Trinity College.
In III II Ill From the Warden
Dear Trinity Members and Friends The 1996 exams are over, and most of the students have left. The College grounds are at their most beautiful and peace reigns, at least outside of the office. By the time this is published, the Trinity Choir's Festival of Lessons and Carols and, this year, the Messiah will have inspired many members of the Trinity family to prepare for Christmas. This has been an outstanding year, to which many have contributed. In a comprehensive end-of-year survey of the resident students, the overwhelming majority voted their year in Trinity "excellent". The College has gained a new Library and teaching building, the Chapel and cultural life of Trinity have flourished, the intercollegiate sporting competitions have gone well (with the Trinity women retaining the Holmes Shield) and a dedicated team of resident tutors, through their work as academic tutors, floor tutors and mentors, has had a truly beneficial effect upon college life. Thanks to the efforts of two of the tutors, Richard Wraith and Tim Bell, the College has been connected by fibre-optic cable to the University computer system and to the Internet. I eagerly await this year's academic results, which I am confident will be very good. I have been thinking a good deal about preparations for the next Warden, who will be installed on 15 September 1997, ten days after the Gala Fleur-de-Lys Dinner. Dr Donald Markwell is a splendid choice. A Queensland Rhodes Scholar (1981) with an outstanding record as a scholar and teacher in three Oxford colleges, he is a delightful man who is genuinely interested in students. He has a clear vision of a college which exemplifies
university life at its best. Dr Markwell's appointment provides the opportunity to ensure that the transition from the fifth Warden to the sixth is smooth and positive. The forward momentum we are currently enjoying, generated in large part by the Strategy Plan, will be maintained and increased. There have been several sad events, especially the deaths from cancer of two former members of the Trinity staff, Don Grilli, who was the College chef during the sixties, seventies and early eighties, and Dr Richard McKinney, who until last August was the Director of the Theological School. Both put up a heroic resistance to their illnesses. Don Grilli fought bowel cancer for over twelve years and Dick McKinney battled renal cancer for fifteen months. Another Trinity member, David Wells, heroically struggled with colonic cancer for three-and -ahalf -years, using this time for the benefit of many others. I salute them for their courage, for their devotion to their families, and for the contributions they each made to the College.
Bulpadok has been launched to much critical acclaim: triumph ..." U-En Ng ". a literary tour-de-force" Tini Lane
Featuring the work of David Pennington, Richard Woolcott, Ivan Deveson, Evan Burge, Robyn Lea and a host of current students. Copies of the new-look Volume IX may be obtained by ringing the Trinity College Office on 9347 1044. The cost is $8.00 per copy
The coming year, 1997, marks the 125th anniversary of the College. A varied and exciting program of celebrations is planned. It will be good for me to go with a bang, and not with a whimper.
Evan L. Burge Warden
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Dr Donald Markwell V An Australian political scientist in Oxford, Dr Donald Markwell, is to be the next Warden of Trinity College in the University of Melbourne. On announcing Dr Markwell's appointment, the Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne and President of the College Council, Dr Keith Rayner, said it reflected the College's strong and continuing commitment to academic excellence and to student welfare. Dr Markwell, 37, will succeed Dr Evan Burge as Warden in September 1997. Born in Quilpie, Queensland, Dr Markwell was educated at the universities of Queensland, Oxford, and Princeton. He was a University medallist and Rhodes Scholar for Queensland in 1981, topped his year in Oxford, and later earned a doctorate there in International Relations. Since 1986, he has been a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. He is a committed Anglican layman.
Dr Markwell said that he believed that in a college such as Trinity, students could get `the most stimulating and enriching allround educational experience available anywhere in an Australian university'.
Archbishop Rayner said: `We are delighted that Dr Markwell, a man with superb academic credentials and with an outstanding leadership record in Oxford, has agreed to lead Trinity into the next century. We believe Dr Markwell will help to provide the momentum to make Trinity a truly world-class institution.'
`A College can give students a good measure of individual attention, including advice on their academic progress and career prospects, that is increasingly difficult and uncommon in our mass universities.'
Dr Markwell has extensive experience of university teaching, pastoral care, and academic administration, and has researched and written widely on constitutional and international politics. His major study of `J.M. Keynes and International Relations' is to be published by Oxford University Press, Melbourne, where he is working closely with the former GovernorGeneral, Sir Zelman Cowen.
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Trinity College is the oldest college affiliated to the University of Melbourne, and has historically close links with Oxford, Cambridge, and Trinity College, Dublin. In recent years it has also run a highly successful foundation year programme for overseas students seeking admission to Australian universities. Some of the ablest students in Asia are now doing the foundation year at Trinity before going on to Melbourne University and other Australian universities.
`This includes the College's academic programme, its broader intellectual life, rich opportunities for extra-curricular activities, and the support and stimulus of living in a friendly and diverse community of scholars.'
Dr Markwell said that he looked forward to getting to know each Trinity student individually, and to `working to provide further scholarships to make the Trinity experience available to outstanding students regardless of background'.
III III III A New Organ for Trinity College Chapel • Any lingering doubts that Kenneth Jones of Bray, near Dublin, was the very best choice as the builder of the new College Chapel Organ were completely dispelled during his visit to Trinity from 24 - 27 August. The only members of the Music Foundation who had met him previously were the Warden, Michael Fulcher, the Director of Music, and John Maidment our principle technical advisor. The other members were soon appreciative of his clear perception of the special attributes of the Chapel, especially its acoustics and architectural characteristics. He had the same effect on a specially invited audience of regular supporters of the Music Foundation and a group of Melbourne's leading figures in organ and choir music. His address to this group on his philosophy for the design and construction of his remarkable organs was vividly illustrated by his description of his current major project, the restoration to its original configuration, of the famous Milton organ now in Tewkesbury Abbey; believed to have been played by John Milton himself when it was built for Christ Church, Cambridge in 1610.
Australia and as such is sure to attract the attention of local masters and international celebrities, as well as ensure that the Choir is placed amongst the top performing choral groups. During his visit several small design changes were agreed to by the experts and the architectural design was critically reviewed with George Mitchell, the Melbourne architect responsible for work needed in the Chapel to ready us for the installation, and Caroline Miley, an expert on the architectural history of the Chapel, soon to be published in book form.
Leeper, and the first VicePrincipal, John Winthrop Hackett. Kenneth Jones wore his Trinity College Dublin tie with some pride during his visit, and his Irish wit was especially appreciated by those of us fortunate to have a fair smattering of Irish blood.
The success of the Certificate in Theology course has been very pleasing again this year. During the year 29 individuals enrolled in the five courses which were offered, with enrolment in individual courses varying
The new organ will offer Melbourne, and indeed Australia an outstanding example of the contemporary organ builder's art, and promises to be greatly used not only for liturgical purposes but for recitals, teaching, recording and broadcasting.
The organ will be a further link with the College's Irish founders. One of the chief protagonists, in 1863, for the founding of Trinity College Melbourne was Sir William Stawell, Chief Justice of Victoria and a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin. Two of the first Trustees, in 1869, for the building of the College were graduates of Trinity College Dublin, as was the first Warden, Dr Alexander
from 8 to 17. The Certificate in Theology- is designed to equip lay people to reflect upon their faith. ministry and discipleship, to help them to participate effectively in the mission of the Church. In 1997 nine courses will be offered. While some of these courses will be taught at Trinity College. we are opening more parish based centres so that people can access quality theological education near to their homes. The courses are taught by people well qualified in each of the special areas, and Trinity is very appreciative of their support and the support of the parishes of St. Oswald's Anglican Church, Glen Iris. and Christ Church Anglican Church, Heathmont, the
Kenneth Jones is recognised as one of the world's outstanding organ designers and his organs can be heard in famous churches in Dublin, London and a number of cities in the USA. Each one is unique, quite the opposite of many other organ builders. Among his most important productions are the organs in the National Concert Hall, Dublin, St Peter's, Eaton Square, London, the Cathedral of the Madeleine, Salt Lake City, Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. The Trinity Organ will be his first full organ in
two centres for 1997. The programme for next year provides a wealth of stimulating and enriching courses. If you would like further information about the Certificate Course, or any of its components, please ring Susan Sandford the Course Coordinator on 9482 2695. Rev. Dr John Wright Acting Director George Mitchell, consulting architect; Kenneth Jones; and Davina Hanson, organ appeal committee member
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Richard Woolcott
long since demolished wooden wing, surrounded by ex-service men. It was an abrupt but welcome change. I suddenly found myself in the real post school days world. My mind was stimulated in the search for knowledge and my horizons were widened.
From left: The Archbishop; Mr Richard Woolcott; Frank Henagan, College Porter; and The Warden. Richard Woolcott AC was installed as a Fellow of Trinity College by Archbishop Keith Rayner on 25 September 1996.
So it is a great pleasure and an honour to be back this evening as a newly installed Fellow. Address to Trinity College, Melbourne on the Occasion of his Installation as Fellow of the College by Richard Woolcott AC, 25 September, 1996. Your Grace, The Archbishsop of Melbourne, Members of the Council and Warden, My former Dean, Guests and Students of Trinity. I find myself this evening feeling mixed emotions of humility and nostalgia. Humility, because a Fellowship of this College is the highest honour Trinity can bestow on one of its former students and I wonder what I have done to deserve such an honour. This is in fact the second honour this College has bestowed upon me, as I was `elected' if that is the correct word - as President of the Union of the Fleur-de-Lys in 1993. Nostalgia, because I am back at this great institution of so many memories, which I left rather too long ago to contemplate. It was at Trinity College where there was so much enjoyable and stimulating activity and at which I learned so much which helped in what I have done in later life. I came to the College in the first year after World War II, fresh from school and started life here in the
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I think it would be appropriate to share a few thoughts on this occasion about the pursuit of excellence, about education and about Australia's opportunities in the international community, especially East Asia, which are relevant to us all. The College I left in 1948 was very different from the College of today. For example there were no female students and, under Miss Joske, Janet Clarke Hall was something of a fortress. Misogyny was alive and well. But Trinity also had many values which have endured, such as rewarding excellence, tolerance and a sense of responsibility to the wider community. I believe that one of the most damaging attitudes in Australia has been what is called the "tall poppy syndrome"; the cutting down of prominent achievers in the name of egalitarianism and anti-elitism. This syndrome, no doubt, has its roots in our distant past. Perhaps it is a reaction to the rigid British class system. Perhaps it is a reaction to our own convict origins. Whatever its roots, however, it does us damage. Egalitarianism in itself is good. Indeed it formed part of the famous demand of the French revolution. Social elitism is, of
course, undesirable. Equality of opportunity is both important and just. But professional elitism - the pursuit of excellence in whatever one does - is a national asset and I make no apology for advocating that aspect of elitism. We want our scientists, our doctors, our lawyers, our economists, our academics, our architects, our engineers, our planners, our writers, our agriculturists, our politicians and our representatives to be the best. We should encourage, not discourage, an Australian meritocracy, provided it is based on equality of opportunity. We should aim to level out our society upwards, that is at the highest level attainable; not level it downwards towards the lowest common denominator. To pursue the latter, is the road to mediocrity, or worse. The former way may be harder but it is the route to excellence. I also want to say something about education, because it is so important. As Disraeli said just over one hundred years ago, "Upon the education of the people of this country, the fate of this country depends". He was speaking of England, but it is true of all countries. We face a rapidly changing world. I believe we are witnessing one of the great watersheds in history like the collapse of the Roman Empire, the Reformation, the opening up of the New World, the Industrial revolution, and the end of colonialism. The Cold War is over. The communist system is mortally wounded. Support for democratic principles and support for the maintenance of human rights are spreading. Old ideological antagonisms have faded although they have,
regrettably, been replaced in a number of areas by a recrudescence of ethnic tensions. At the same time a revitalised and economically dynamic East Asia is arising to our north, in an explosion of energy and talent.
trading nation, located on the Southern edge of South East Asia, cannot ignore the realities of the international market, the global economy, the communications revolution, or our location in the world.
that our political leaders - both state and federal - will never lose sight of the priority education must always have, because if the education system fails or breaks down, then the rest of society will fail and break down too.
In our region there is a growing impetus towards regional economic cooperation, focussed on APEC, and towards a post-Cold War regional security dialogue.
Australia's standing will, in future, be linked in large measure to the social and economic health of our society, which in turn will be linked to some extent to our education standards.
Thirdly, education is an apprenticeship for life in society. I am sure you students are serving an excellent apprenticeship at Trinity, as I did, and I wish you all well in the wider Australian community in the future, to which I trust, you will all seek to contribute.
So, as the end of the 20th Century approaches, Australia must increase its efforts to be a more active and informed participant in the affairs of the region. We must act forcefully and positively to link ourselves increasingly in practical ways with this changing and dynamic region to our North. I am glad that Trinity College is already playing a valuable role in this process. The great changes in the world beyond our shores have been mirrored by fundamental, if slower, change in this country. When I left Trinity College at the end of 1948, more than half our trade was with the United Kingdom and our immigration programme was almost exclusively European. We had developed a highly centralised industrial-relations system, unrelated to the international market, and we had built up very high levels of protection. Today, more than half our trade is with Asia and 40% of Australians were either born overseas or their parents were. Some 40% of our migrant intake last year were from Asia. Gradually, Australia has lowered the drawbridge. Successive Australian Governments and more individuals and groups in Australia have increasingly realised, that a relatively small
We can and should be a continent of acknowledged intellectual, scientific, industrial, commercial, technological and cultural attraction and opportunity. If I may philosophise for a moment, those of you who are fortunate enough to live in this country - and fortunate indeed we are in relative terms, despite the present level of unemployment are the inheritors of those historic traditions of western civilisation, forged in the eastern Mediterranean two thousand years ago, which gave rise to the great Copernican revolution of politics; the recognition that the state exists for man, not man for the state; and that the individual human personality carries within it the full range of responsibility and choice. Before concluding my remarks this evening, I would like to make three points about education in Australia. Tertiary education must not take place in a vacuum. It should be targeted to meet the anticipated needs of society. The second point is that education is so important that it should not have to compete for funds with the trade deficit and national defence. The reality is that it will, of course, need to do so because of the conflicting demands and political pressures on budgets. But one would hope
Archbishop, Warden, guests and students, once again I thank you for this honour Trinity College has bestowed upon me tonight. I shall always cherish it and I shall do my best to be worthy of such recognition by this College. Richard Woolcott AC, 25 September, 1996.
1096 was a year of inspiring worship and student involvement in the life of the College Chapel, the student Chapel Committee ! fulfilling its role with distinction and enthusiasm. Of particular note was the "Christmas in July" dinner organised for the whole College in the Junior Common Room on 28 July. Outstanding services included: • Orientation Service (25 February) • First College Eucharist (4 March), and commissioning of the Director of Development and the Business Manager. • Juttoddie Matins (24 March) • "Palm Monday" Service (1 April) • "Port Arthur Tragedy" Service (29 April) • Tenebrae (3 May) • Pentecost Celebration (27 May) Preacher: the Archbishop of Melbourne • Trinity Sunday (2 June) Choral Eucharist (Mozart's Missa Brevis in C. with orchestra) • Evensong with Melbourne Grammar School Choir (31 July) • Barry Marshall Memorial Choral Eucharist (11 August) • Confirmation Eucharist (26 August) • Evensong with the Choir of Melbourne Girls' Grammar School (1 September) • College Valedictory Service (20 October) • College Carol Services (6 and 8 December) The Choir of Trinity College has reached new heights under its Director. Mr Michael Fuleher. and as we go to print - is recording a CD in the remarkable acoustics of the Chapel. David Cole Chaplin
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Calvin Bowman
Calvin Bowman (`90) is currently a resident at Helen Hadley Hall, a Graduate College at Yale University, Connecticut, where he is a student of Professor Thomas Murray at Yale. Calvin is a Doctor of Musical Arts Candidate. On his way to Yale, Calvin visited Professor Peter Godfrey in New Zealand, who was Director of Music during Calvin's Trinity days. Calvin attended Ballarat Grammar School, and at the completion of year 12 enrolled at Melbourne University. He was Organ Scholar at Trinity from 1990 to 1992; in 1994 he completed his B.Music (Hons.) and in 1995 his M.Music. He was the top performance student in all of his years at the Melbourne Conservatorium, and won numerous prizes including the Catherine Gail McWilliams Prize for Best First Year Student.
In 1995 Calvin performed the complete organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach at a variety of venues throughout Melbourne between April and June. This had not been done in Melbourne for over 20 years; the person to do this before Calvin was John O'Donnell, Calvin's teacher. During 1995 Calvin spent a number of months in Paris studying harpischord with Davitt Moroney, organ with Susan Landale, and attended master classes with Jean Claude Zehnder, Michael Radulescu and Marie-Clare Alain. In March 1996 Calvin was awarded a Fullbright Scholarship, and the inaugural Anthony Joseph Pratt Award for Visual and Performing Arts. Calvin's plans for the future include playing the Bach organ works from memory in a recital series whilst at Yale, recording three discs for the British label `Priory', one at the Adelaide Town Hall on his return to Australia, and one at Monash University and the Melbourne Concert Hall. He will also give a recital whilst in Adelaide.
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Trinity Education Centre Tamara Wraith (`89 ). President of the Senior Common Room 1996-97
1996 is rapidly drawing to a close for the TEC students who began their course in February. Their farewell BBQ was held on the Vatican Lawn on a day of bright sunshine and high spirits. The students have since finished their study and their exams. The Valedictory ceremony, held on Thursday 5 December, in the dining hall, welcomed Dr David Kemp, the Federal Minister for Schools, to present the certificates. Students from the 1996 midyear program are feeling at home at the TEC since starting in July. To this end, they have participated in a Mbira happening with guest star, Tichaona Fabio Chivhanda, enticing the students and staff to dance African-style on the Trinity lawns. Dr White and family also held a Welcome BBQ for the new students at their home. Students had a wonderful time trying to beat their lecturers and tutors at tennis and `one-on-one'. The first students of the 1997 intake have already started the program and are studying their English and Maths conscientiously.
TEC students dancing to the rhythms of the Mbira, an African percussion ins trum nt.
Tamara has been a tutor at Trinity College since 1994 - Physiotherapist in residence; Outreach tutor; mentor and floor tutor. For the past three years Tamara has been the Senior Physiotherapist in Intensive Care, Cardiac Surgery, and Transplant Surgery at the Royal Children's Hospital. She has recently taken on new professional challenges working part-time at Preston and Northcote Community Hospital in Adult Orthopaedics and Physiotherapy, and as a Paediatric Physiotherapist with The Department of Human Services in the Eastern Metropolitan region. As well as these two positions Tamara continues to do sessional work at St Vincent's Public Hospital, Knox Private (ICM & Cardiac Surgery), and St Vncent's Private (Ante-natal classes).
Dancer and musician Tichaona Fabio Chivhanda inspiring all to join the fun.
The TEC is steadily increasing in size and is acquiring additional off-campus facilities for 1997. The academic staff is therefore also increasing in size and there will be many new faces in the new year.
When her busy schedule permits, Tamara enjoys swimming, cycling, golf, theatre and ballet. Tamara brings to the role of President of the SCR knowledge and understanding of College life and a strong commitment to Trinity College.
Staff, students and visitors from Malaysia, Betty Ng and Dona Samson, enjoying the sun and the sounds.
The Trinity College Medical Dinner V The Trinity College Medical Dinner was held this year on the 26th July. It was a unique night in the history of these dinners, as it was the first time that medical graduates of the College had been invited back. In addition, of course, the dinner was attended by students, tutors and consultants currently involved in the medical tutorial program. The medical tutorial program is currently running exceptionally well, with a large non-resident enrolment, who were well represented on the night. Rob Sitch (80) addressing the Trinity College Medical Dinner
Pre-dinner drinks were held in the new Evan Burge Building, thus affording an opportunity for attendees to see this new addition to the college facilities. Once the preliminary pleasantries and informal reunions were out of the way, the Warden gave a brief welcome and proposed a toast to the organisers of the evening, Prue Conaghan, the Warden's assistant, and Marinis Pirpiris, the Medical Tutorial Co-ordinator. The party wandered over to the Junior Common Room, which was to be the main venue. An open fire and round tables laid out with linen lent a warm and inviting atmosphere to the room. It was very obvious that for a lot of the guests, some of whom were returning to college after many years away, pleasant memories were being rekindled.
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The food served was of excellent standard, and was complemented by a wonderful selection of wines. After main course, Rob Sitch was introduced by the Warden as the speaker for the evening. Conversation was immediately suspended, as all heads turned as one to listen to this accomplished performer. Rob spoke with the ease and fluency that is his trademark on television. He recounted tales from the days when he was a Trinity resident, from his years as a medical student, and from his brief career as a doctor. The humour inherent in each situation was expertly brought out, and provided obvious entertainment for everyone. Over dessert and coffee, and until much later, conversations carried on, remembering and strengthening old ties from the past as well as forging new ones for the future. The medical dinner was widely acclaimed as a great success, and will hopefully lay the foundation for many more such functions in the years to come. Shomik Sengupta, Resident Medical Tutor.
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ianĂŤron Forbes was ?' elected as Senior Student in September of this year. He brings to the position I an experience in a diverse range of College activities, which will help him in this role. In 1997 Cameron will be in the final year of his Arts/Law course. In 1996 he was President of the Melbourne University Debating Society and Secretary of the Trinity Dialectic Society, composed incidental music for the '96 Trinity production of `Brilliant Lies", and played the piano in the orchestra for the musical "Bye Bye Birdie". In 1996 he combined these activities with the role of College Sexton, in which position he worked closely with the Chaplain.
V A Visit from Brother Hugh from The Society of St. Francis Papua New Guinea
Brother Hugh was educated at King's College London, and since completing his degree in Theology has lived and worked in a Methodist Community in Inner City, Nottingham, and spent some time teaching in Kenya before joining The Society of St. Francis at Popondetta, Papua New Guinea. The Society of St. Francis, the Anglican religious order for men (which has brothers in Brisbane and NSW) has had a friary in Papua New Guinea since 1960. At present it has a group of about 15 novices, mostly primary school leavers in their 20's. Brother Hugh was returning from holidaying in England when he called into Australia for his first visit to his aunt Miss Valentine Leeper. Brother Hugh, who is the great grandson of Dr Leeper, was
very keen to visit Trinity College and to meet The Warden. According to Brother Hugh, "Anglican men with an interest in experiencing life in Papua New Guinea, and especially in religious life, might well benefit from joining in the life and work of the brothers for a period. The food is terrible - mostly boiled bananas. The Open Air Cathedral at Popondetta
The malaria is not too bad, the friendliness and camaraderie are amazing so for further information write to me: — Brother Hugh SSF P.O. Box 78 POPONDETTA Oro Province 241 Papua New Guinea"
He is also supportive of the sporting life of the College and his chosen sport these days is cross-country running. As well as these activities Cameron has been mentor to a group of t year students. and has participated in the trial of "Trinity Link" , professional mentoring `;' program, being linked with 'stian Bennett who is a diplomat with The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Cameron is looking forward to 1997 and his new role in the College "Living in College is a great way to attend University - apart from the tremendous range of activities that Trinity offers to students, the experience of sharing common goals and being part of a large group of present and past students who are loyal to the College is rewarding."
FISA Masters Regatta
The Masters sport message is spreading around the world at a million miles an hour and rowing has been at the forefront of the movement. For nearly 25 years the International Rowing Federation (FISA) has conducted its Annual Masters Competition for athletes and "wannabes" over the not very old age of 27. Masters sport is growing rapidly with many Australian states conducting their own masters competitions in a range of sports annually. The Australian Masters Games is held every two years and the World Masters Games every four years. The next Australian Masters Games will be held in Canberra in October 1997 and the next World Masters Games will be in Portland, Oregon in September 1998. The 1997 FISA Masters Regatta will be held in Adelaide. In 1996 the FISA Masters Rowing was staged at Lake Velence, Hungary - the event's 23rd appearance on the world's sporting stage. I was pleased to be able to attend in my capacity as Secretary to the FISA Masters Commission, the subcommittee of the international federation charged with administering this aspect of rowing. The regatta was a success with approximately 2200 athletes competing. This is a large number considering that an ordinary Australian championship for elite athletes would not attract more
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than about 750 competitors, so it is no mean feat to organise a programme to accommodate such a large number. The weather conspired to make it a damp, wet, windy and cold regatta. The regatta's organisers toiled hard to make what was a very barren site into a pleasant venue. Competitor services were adequate within the constraints of a system which, despite the passing of communism, still labours under considerable difficulty. The regatta programme runs for 2.5 days. Racing is done by age category, and in each category competitors are allocated to a race for people born in their year, or close to it. The winner of each race receives a medal. So if there are 90 entries in the men's A single scull, and each race contains 7 entrants, then my poor maths tells me that there are about 12 medal winners. This is a great system that ensures that everyone gets a chance to race for a medal. Each competitor is, however, only allowed to race in two events on the first two days, and then in two events on the final half day which also has mixed rowing events. In my role as Secretary to the Commission I do the secretarial work as well as take the usual role of a commissioner. The Commission members come from Hungary, Denmark, Germany and the Chairman is Scottish.
Language is not a problem save for the Hungarian who speaks virtually no English - though understands it. Our task during the regatta was to meet with the organising committees for the subsequent regattas and to obtain updates on progress. This year the Adelaide organising committee gave a presentation in anticipation of the Commission visiting Adelaide for an inspection tour in early November 1996. We also met with Munich, Germany which will host in 1997, and Seville, Spain in 1998. Hosting a Masters rowing regatta is big business and many cities are keen to have all these "old" rowers, with deep pockets, visit. Apart from attending the annual FISA Masters regatta I attend the FISA Joint Commissions meeting each year where all members of all FISA Commissions meet. Since I became involved at the end of 1994 I have been endeavouring to develop host city documentation such as is used by the IOC. The purpose is to get a bidding city to commit to delivering us promises. We all know what happened - or didn't happen at Atlanta recently! My Hungarian venture started with a train trip from Vienna to Budapest and on the return I spent a couple of days in Budapest. It is a truly beautiful city straddling the Danube. It is hard to believe that the whole city was reduced to rubble during WW2 and rebuilt. Next year's FISA Masters Regatta is to be held in Adelaide and is promising to be a great event. For all of you who rowed at Trinity or elsewhere, take a moment to think about the feel of the oar in your hands, the clipclop sound of the blade entering the water, and the thrill as you finish your 1000m race, sweat pouring off your face, knowing it has been worth all the effort. See you there! Margot Foster ('76)
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El In II ill LEAP - The Trinity Life and Education Advancement Program V Trinity has always fostered a strong commitment to academic advancement through the provision of an extensive tutorial program and a vast network of support from tutors. Beyond this, Trinity seeks to provide students with an edge when competing with other young graduates in the workforce by developing and promoting other skills in its students. Initially this was provided through a "Life Skills" program. What began as "Life Skills" was transformed in 1996 into LEAP - the Trinity Life and Education Advancement Program. Recognising the need to develop both academic and non-academic attributes in Trinity students, the Strategy Committee conducted a series of interviews with a broad spectrum of employers in 1994. The objective of this research was to determine what employers were looking for in young graduates. The results demonstrated the importance to employers of interpersonal skills including a balanced approach to life, communication and presentation skills, team abilities
and leadership skills. The research also indicated that in these areas graduates were most wanting. The six most important attributes of graduate employees highlighted by the research were: • • • • • •
academic performance presentation at an interview interpersonal skills work experience leadership skills interests and achievements
Although these are skills that have long been sought in graduates, LEAP now seeks to develop practical means of enhancing these attributes in students. In 1996 the program sought to provide students with an understanding of themselves and others by offering a variety of after-dinner speakers who addressed many different issues and potential career paths; a program to develop study skills and presentation skills; jobseeking skills including resume writing and interview skills; information sessions on
companies and employment opportunities; other programs aimed at preparing students for graduate employment. LEAP was also complimented by the introduction of a Professional Mentor Program in 1996, which has been an outstanding success and promises to expand in 1997. LEAP will also be broadening its horizons in 1997, providing opportunities to gnhance leadership and presentation skills while continuing the initiatives begun this year. A major component of the program relies on the support of people in the work force. Trinity is keen to draw on the knowledge and resources of its past residents for support with the program. If you are interested in contributing to LEAP or the Professional Mentoring Program in any way we would love to hear from you. Please write to me outlining the way in which you could participate in the program.
Phoebe Bruce, LEAP Coordinator 1996
Findings of research into what employers want in prospective employees
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We would very much like to thank Blackstone Press and LAAMS Publications for their very generous gift of the following books, which will be of considerable interest and sistance to the College's law students and tutors.
Advocacy techniques: Using medical & financial experts; Vic property lawyers alert; Expert evidence; Problems in succession; Hospital liability & 'medical malpractice; mployment law '95, Employment law `96; Family law decisions nder review; Trade marks in Australia; Shareholders & the corporate advisor; Spotlight on sport; Travel & tourism law; Franchising & the law: Charitable trusts in Victoria. De facto & 2nd marriage partners (Vic.); Evidence: the keystone of litigation practice; Maintenance & child support (Vic.); Pitfalls in estate administration in Victoria, Trusts in Victoria; Psychiatric & behavioural disorders: =workplace issues; Psychiatric & behavioural disorders: family law issues; The building blocks of competition law: Criminal justice: South Africa: prospects for successful transition; Legal letter writing; Glossary of insurance terms; Fed up wth the legal system..
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Peter Barbour
Eulogy for Peter Barbour (1947) 5 October 1925 7 November 1996 Delivered by Dennis Richardson Director-General of Security at Melbourne on 14 November 1996
V I did not know Peter Barbour personally. He was in ASIO for almost 25 years. I've been in the chair for just one month. But as a young public servant I knew of him because of his considerable reputation. Peter Barbour joined the Australian Security Intelligence Organization, ASIO, in 1951. Peter and his family spent the early part of the 1950s abroad. In 1953 he went to The Hague, where he wasted no time utilising his considerable linguistic skills in learning Dutch. In April 1955 he took up duty in Rome. The family returned to Melbourne in 1956. In 1964, after a series of postings in Melbourne and Canberra, Peter was appointed Deputy DirectorGeneral (Operations). Sir Charles Spry selected him from the position of Regional Director in Canberra. Sir Charles undoubtedly saw in Peter, by no means the most senior officer in line for the position, qualities that would be required of the leader of ASIO in the years ahead.
First IX, 1948 Peter Barbour, standing second from left
Peter was subsequently appointed Director-General of Security in January 1970 at the age of 44. He remains to this day the only person to have risen through ASIO's ranks to become DirectorGeneral.
To understand Peter's contribution to ASIO it is helpful to recall some of the changes that were taking place in the late 1960s. In 1968 an uprising in Prague was suppressed by the Soviet Union. There was growing opposition to the Vietnam war and on a bigger scale, Australia was caught up in the broader social changes evident across the Western world. The changing world scene had its effect on Australia's security service, with some diversification from the traditional central themes of Soviet bloc countries. Peter's reflective, thoughtful approach to his job had an important bearing on this. In 1972 the Australian Labor Party was elected to office. This was a significant change for Australia and for ASIO - an organisation set up by a Labor government yet operating for most of its short history under a Coalition Government. Peter well knew the legacy from the Petrov case and the 1954 Royal Commission. I am told that when the AttorneyGeneral visited ASIO so dramatically on 16 March 1973, an enduring memory is the demeanour of Director-General Barbour. He displayed an aura of gravity and calm, giving leadership to his staff by his own
example. Peter Barbour recognised that it was more important to build for the future than to react to the moment. Peter was well aware of the `tyranny of distance' occasioned by the location of ASIO HQ in Melbourne and the seat of government in Canberra. He took the initiative in establishing a Headquarters Liaison Group in Canberra to better integrate ASIO's activities into the machinery of government. He also established routine reporting to government agencies, hardly radical today but insightful in the context of the more secretive world of intelligence which had evolved during the Cold War. Throughout his career Peter Barbour was a loyal, intelligent, energetic and dedicated servant of governments and of his country. As Director-General he confronted a range of issues that would have daunted lesser men. Yet he is fondly remembered by those who worked with him as a gentleman who never raised his voice, or criticised others when all did not go to plan. Under Peter Barbour ASIO was restructured to better reflect the priorities and issues of the day. But he was more than a greysuited manager. Many then junior officers remember evenings spent at dinner at the Barbour home in Barkers Road. This was Peter Barbour, the student of people, at work. In September 1975 Peter was appointed Australian ConsulGeneral in New York. Then, as now, this was recognition of his loyal service to Australia. He subsequently also served in Los Angeles and Caracas, before retiring in 1985. Peter Barbour shepherded ASIO through one of its more turbulent periods. He made a difference, and of no-one can more be asked. To you, Penny, and to your family, I extend deepest sympathy, and real thanks, on behalf of the Australian Government, of the Attorney- General Daryl Williams, and all of ASIO.
Richard McKinney
windows on the Triune God. No student of his could sit on the intellectual fence taking a "bob each way." Just before he arrived in Melbourne in 1984 he wrote: "The commitment, the life and the worship of the Church are as necessary to the well-being of theology as is the intellectual rigour of the university and I look forward to trying to unite these in my teaching in Melbourne." Did he succeed? I think so. Richard William Alexander McKinney, 1938-1996 After a fifteen month battle with cancer, during which on August 31 he retired from the position as Director of Trinity College Theological School, Richard McKinney on Wednesday, November 20, ended his pilgrimage in these mortal realms. For thirteen years Dick taught theology at the United Faculty of Theology, coming to Trinity College as the Maynard Lecturer in Divinity in July 1984, the Theological School's first ever fulltime theological teacher. Before that he taught theology in the University of Nottingham for some sixteen years. With degrees from Belfast, Edinburgh and Oxford, in philosophy and theology, with his experience in teaching, with his friendship and correspondence with many top theologians in Great Britain and Germany, with his expansive teaching style which encouraged students to ask the hard questions and to deal with them, with his Irish wit and brogue, and above all through his love for the Church and the God it seeks to serve, and with a passion for life and the theological endeavour, Dick was a theologian who could inspire and frustrate, one who could open up new
Dr John Henley, Master of Queen's College, said at his funeral service on November 22: "On Wednesday November 20 at midday, a theological light went out in Melbourne." Although Dick did not formally publish very much, his intellectual enlightenment lives on in generations of students. Many of his students are now undertaking postgraduate degrees in some aspect of the theological endeavour. For a period of time he was Consulting Theologian to the Archbishop of Melbourne, and the Church in Australia consulted him on many issues, not the least Ordination of Women, and more recently on lay presidency at the Eucharist. He became Director of Trinity Theological School in 1986 and as such helped in the formation of men and women who were preparing for, or exploring, various forms of ministries, be it as priest, as deacon, or as a lay person. His priesthood meant a lot to him, and those training for this expression of ministry, all experienced the passion he had for this life.
truth or what he perceived as the greater good of the institution or person concerned. His hospitality was renowned. He was, what I might call, expansive with respect to life and his generosity with people. His partnership in life with Margie, and his life with his four children, and more lately with his grandson, were sources of strength and joy. He was proud of them all. Dick will be missed by us all at Trinity, and at the United Faculty of Theology. His favourite prayer was this old Gaelic Blessing, which is most apt now: May the road rise to meet you. May the wind be always at your back, May the sun shine warm upon your face, The rain fall softly on your fields; And until we meet again, May God hold you in the palm of his hand. Rev'd Dr John Wright, Acting Director, Theological School.
tmiano Grilli, known to all in Trinity as "Don", died on 19 August 1996 after a struggle against bowel cancer lasting over ` twelve years. He carne to Trinity as a cook in 1961 having left his native Sulmona in Italy to explore opportunities in South America and Victoria. Dr Taffy Jones, who had been re-elected as Senior Student, remembers with gratitude the immediate 1improvement in the Trinity food. Taffy has remained a good friend and supporter of Don, his wife Anna, his daughter Maria. and his son Peter. 'In 1981, in recognition of Don's twenty years of service to Trinity, the College gave him and Anna a return visit to his original family in Italy with all expenses paid. Unfortunately, illness compelled his retirement in 1983. but he had the joy of watching his young son Peter grow into a fine young man. 'Another firm friend of the family has been Dr Bryan Deschamp, Dean of Trinity from 1978 to 1984. whose affection for them led to his tutoring Maria as a young girl. Taffy, the Warden, and Bryan (on a flying visit from Geneva) were all at Maria's wedding to George Christakis on 27 October last and were very conscious of Don's spirit in the large and happy gathering. The College remembers Don with affection. We extend our sympathy to his family, while rejoicing that his love continues in the lives of a new generation. Evan L. Burge
As a colleague I found him very supportive of what I wanted to do, and he was always open for talking through issues. He was not afraid to stand up against any issue if he felt he had to. But this was done with a concern for the
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From the Archives
V The report in the last issue of the Newsletter of a donation of a reel of film by Bill Potter prompted his brother Dick (`49) of Menindie South Australia to donate three photographs of the Cricket, Tennis and Football teams taken in 1949. Dick was captain of all three teams. `[It] was a time of resurgence in the sporting arena after WW2' Dick writes, ` - the cricket was Trinity's first win for 20 years and the tennis about the same.' At the time the photos were taken Dick was in a wheel chair, and the long whites' concealed two plaster casts on his legs, both of which were broken in a car accident. The accident involved three other Trinity men - Bill Bockholt, Jamie Mackie, and Max Bannister who was killed in the accident. Dick Potter was unable to play cricket
A scene from the College play `The Time of Your Life', taken from the Fleur-de-Lys, 1949. Max Bannister had a major part. But which one is Max?
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or football again, but was `lucky enough to captain South Australia in tennis; and play two Wimbledon's in the fifties.' In 1949 Max Bannister was in his final year of mining engineering. He was football vice-captain and a member of the Committee of Associated Clubs. He also had a leading role in the College play `The Time of Your Life'. Glen Tomasetti was another cast member of The Time of Your Life. The `Time of Your Life' by the American dramatist William Saroyan is set in a water front cafe. It won him a Pulitzer Prize. But the College received letters objecting to its production, describing it as `unhealthy', `sordid', unmoral', `a play which by no stretch of the imagination, could be considered either
uplifting or culturally beneficial.' An article in The Argus newspaper implied that the play had given rise to general protest by parents, and was unsuitable for production by a University College. The Council wrote defending the Play on artistic grounds, and pointed out that College students were adults, only two letters of complaint had been received, and the vast majority of the audience praised both production and acting. Marian Turnbull Archivist
From the Archives
First Eleven 1949, winners of the Kennedy Cup for Inter-Collegiate Cricket.
First Eighteen 1949.
Marian Tu has been appointed College Archivist and will continue work on arranging and describing the collection one day a week. The collection is presently in the Behan basement but will eventually move to a safe location in the Leeper building. Marian has worked previously on the McPhee Gribble records at the Bailleau Library, and in school archives at Princes Hill in North Carlton, and Firbank Anglican School, Brighton.
The Tennis team 1949, winners of the G.E.Mackay Trophy. Dick Potter is the one in long trousers.
She had previous careers as a teacher librarian and nursery
News from Trinity Members
Murray Harris ('81) has recently been appointed Mine Superintendent at the Mt Elliott mine near Selwyn in North West Queensland. Both he and his wife work at the mine and commute to Magnetic Island, where they have set up home, on weekends. After 12 years in North Queensland Murray still does not miss Melbourne's winters!! After recently completing her Bachelor of Music Degree and Graduate Diploma of Secondary Education Sarah Skene ('93) has been offered a place at the University of Bristol to complete a BA in Fine Arts/History. She then hopes to continue her studies in the field of music therapy, either in Canada or the UK. Sarah has been working at St Catherine's School as a Boarding House Mistress and in the Junior School as the assistant in the pre-school and before and after school care programs. She is looking forward to her studies abroad, and is hoping to catch up with many Trinity friends who have moved abroad. Barry Matthews ('65) has for the past 15 years been living in Colac running a small architectural practice and breeding commercial Angus cattle oh 450 acres. Barry and his wife have two sons, 17 and 13, both at school in Geelong.
Richard Wraith and Peter Tregear, in the Orchard at Cambridge.
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He regularly keeps in touch with Ian Raymond ('65) and Chris Morie (`67).
made an Associate Professor in Philosophy, at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena.
Bruce St Clair ('40) has retired to Melbourne having sold his farm at Euroa.
Hon. Austin Asche ('46) will be retiring as Administrator of the Northern Territory, next year, although he will be staying in Darwin with occasional forays to the South.
Reverend Wayne Weaire (`80) has taken a leave of absence from Parish life to work as a counsellor with a Family Preservation program at Goulburn Valley Family Care, in Shepparton. The Program works intensively with families who have had or are about to have children removed due to child protection concerns. The program aims to keep families together by addressing the families' particular issues. Dr Nicholas Gelber (17) has recently joined East Melbourne Radiology, his partners include Clive Morris (`57). Nicholas and Josephine have just had their fourth child, Henrietta (22/06/96). Katrina Weir (nee Mills) (`81) married Stephen Weir in 1990, and moved to Sydney where she has worked in Pharmaceutical marketing for Edelman Worldwide since 1992. Katrina and Stephen had their first child in October `94, and their second in September `96. Dr Alan Hajek ('78) has been
Dr Jane Goddard ('76) has recently been a GP- Anaesthetist in rural NSW but will be returning to Antarctica, where she spent 1993 at Davis Station. Jane and her partner, Warren Blyth, will be celebrating the 50 year jubilee of Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE), in 1997 as the medical officers at Mawson Station. Mr Peter Plavina ('71) has changed career direction, and is now responsible for co-ordinating the development and implementation of safety, environmental and quality management systems at the WMC's Kwinana Nickel Refinery. The move to the city after 17 years "in the bush" has been necessitated by the educational needs of his three children, aged 10, 12 and 14. Margot Foster ('76) was recently appointed to an Advisory Committee working with the
News from Trinity Members
Minister for Sport, Hon Tom Reynolds and to the National Parks Advisory Council, reporting to the Minister for Conservation and Natural Resources, The Hon Marie Tehan. James Porteous ('90) has completed a year in London where he has been studying for a Masters degree in Science Communication at Imperial College, London University. Rear Admiral Tony Hunt ('58) has retired from the Navy and is assisting the Sydney Maritime Museum as Project director for the restoration of an 1874 BarqueThe James Craig. Visitors to Sydney will see her in Rozelle Bay, to the South West of the new Glebe Island Bridge. Andrew Moyle ('83) has recently retired as a partner at the law firm Freehill Hollingdale & Page, to take up a partnership with the US law firm Shaw Pittman Potts & Trowbridge and will be based in New York and Washington DC. Adaobi Udechuku ('84) and her husband Scott Donnellan brought their daughter Ifeoma Rose for baptism by the Warden on 6 October. Both parents are medical practitioners and Ifeoma had her first birthday on 16 November 1996.
Simon Bell ('90) is in 3rd year Engineering (Civil)/Commerce at Melbourne University. Marcus Brazil ('83) and his partner Jacinta are enjoying seeing their son Reuban growing up while Marcus, having completed a Ph.D. in Engineering at La Trobe, is working as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Continuing a Trinity tradition of great black tie functions, a group of Trinity members attended the winter ball at the Waldorf Hotel in central London at the end of October 1996. Tamlyn Worrall (nee Van Rooyen)('87), Melissa Sweetland ('87), 11m Gough ('87), Richard Malcolmson ('87), Lucien Nation ('87), Janet Arnold ('86) and Nicola Scott ('86), met up with several other friends from Melbourne for an outstanding night out! Mathew Hooper ('89) is painting in France. Jeremy Hooper ('90) is working with S.P.C. Warburg Australia James Gorton ('90) has started practice at the Victorian Bar. Sally Gorton ('89) is teaching History at Wesley College's Glen Waverley Campus.
Lisa Gorton ('90) has completed her M. Phil. degree at Merton College, Oxford with first class honours and will be starting her Ph.D. work in October.
ĂŠ note with regret these deaths recorded since the last Newsletter
Graeine HUGHES (1952)
On a recent overseas trip, Richard Wraith ('86) and Tamara Wraith (nee Adams)('89) met up with Peter Tregear ('93) at King's College Cambridge, where he is studying for a PH.D in music, and Jack Turner ('86) who is a Fellow at Exeter College Oxford. As well as visiting friends in England, Richard & Tamara visited San Francisco and Sweden. They spent 10 days on safari in Botswana, and visited family members and friends in South Africa, Tamara's birthplace. Churchill Hooff (`94) writes from the Senate Republican Conference in Washington, D.C. He finished school at Davidsons in North Carolina last May and is now working in Washington and contemplating graduate school. He sees Cameron Read ('94) from time to time, Cameron is planning a move to Chicago. Charles Evans ('88) is off to Hong Kong later this month to study Chinese at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Dr Lindore Archdall LANGLEY (1929) Jack Richard KELAHER (1941) George Joseph FAIRFAX (1946) Dr Phillip Lawrence BROWN (1923) Dr Alistair John DAVIDSON (1951) Dr Ernest Reginald CRISP (1922) (
Leslie Kneale CORTEEN
j1924) Dr Patrick Sellar LANG 1931) --Rev. Dr. R.W.A. MCKINNEY (1986) David John Hayford WELLS (1961) Peter BARBOUR (1947)
Richard Wraith (R) and Jack Turner New College Oxford.
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Florinda Mary (Bonnie) Anderson Rusden V Mary Rusden was the youngest daughter of Arthur and Blanche Rusden. Born at Nhill her formative years were spent in Ballarat. She inherited her mother's musical talent and studied music in Ballarat, England and the Continent. On her return to Ballarat she was in demand as a concert pianist and as an accompanist at the South Street Competitions. From 1944 until 1958 she was a Sister of the Community of the Holy Name. After leaving the Community she trained as a librarian and after a period at the Heidelberg City Library, was appointed as the first professional Librarian of Trinity College in 1966. She retired in 1978, but continued to take a great interest in the College and in music making.
Address by Bishop James Grant at the Requiem Eucharist for Florinda Mary Anderson (Bonnie) Rusden 1907-1996 Trinity College Chapel 27 July 1996.
House, Cheltenham, when she was a Sister, Marcia of the Community of the Holy Name. My next encounter was here at Trinity whither I came in 1970 as Chaplain and Library Tutor and moved into the top flat in the Leeper Building.
We come together this morning to remember Mary (Bonnie) Rusden: to remember her as we knew her aunt, friend, musician, sister-inreligion, librarian, irrepressible, quirkish, loveable - and to remember her before God.
She had been appointed in 1966 as the College's first professional Librarian. Doctor Sharwood was quite open in saying she was appointed on the strength of the Rusden connection. George William Rusden, Clerk of the Parliament, conservative historian, College benefactor, inveterate hunter of autographs and Melbourne Club billiards champion was her great-uncle. But this apart, she more than justified the Warden's choice. She was totally committed to transforming the random collection of books into an operating library.
Since her death, several friends in recalling her have used the phrase "such a gifted individual". When one speaks of Mary as gifted one thinks immediately of her musical gift. I do not need to remind you of how considerable a gift it was. Inherited from the mother she never knew, formed by a succession of notable teachers, not least the great Artur Schnabel (Bishop Andrew reminded me before the service that in Vienna she met musicians who had played with Brahms!) It blossomed and flourished in that most musical of Australian cities, Ballarat. Freda Apsey recalls her recitals there and later in Geelong and, in particular, her accompanying at the South Street Eisteddfod. She was a perfect sight-reader there and in the various groups with whom in later years she made music. To those unaware of her gift it came as a surprise. Doctor Robin Sharwood tells the story of students of this College rounded up to hear her play in Hall, listening in disbelief and then delight, as she began to play. We thank God for that gift so well used and shared. Our gathering this morning comprises several categories. My first encounter was at the Retreat
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She loved books and book lovers and enjoyed nothing more than introducing students to the treasures of the Library. She used to lie in wait' for me, it seemed: "Chaplain, see what I've found" was an almost daily litany as she made a new discovery in the Muniments Room. Admittedly some of her cataloguing was idiosyncratic as when she allotted a book given by Professor Burke, How to draw horses, not to an art number, but to a veterinary number! Very few could gainsay her except, perhaps Sydney Smith, the Mollison Librarian. I can picture him still, sitting in his chair savouring a book, unflappable while Mary buzzed around him. She established the Library as a core activity of the College and must rejoice at the present splendid facility. Performing music and caring for books and their readers were two of Mary's gifts: a third was the gift of ENTHUSIASM. This is not
included explicitly in Paul's lists of charismata - spiritual gifts. Mary was not a charismatic in terms of today's usual areas of leadership and worship. But in Pauline terms she displayed to an unusual extent the charisma of enthusiasm. Whatever she undertook she undertook not forte, but fortissimo - playing, cataloguing, conversation. She was irrepressible - only her sister, Gwynneth, could put her down. In retrospect it is not too hard to understand why she did not continue as a Sister of the Community of the Holy Name. The wonder is that she and they continued so long. Her expression, her interest, her care could not be regulated. She did nothing by rote! As we take our corporate leave of her this morning our dominant note is, surely, one of thankfulness - thankfulness for her and thankfulness that with God and in God nothing of what we have known and enjoyed of her is lost. Our lessons reminded us that Mary is not separated from the love of God. And as we too look forward to that love we look forward to sharing it with her. May she rest in peace and rise in glory. And may our experience of her gifts encourage and sustain us. Amen.
A Reflection
V Read at the Valedictory Chapel Service October 20, 1996.
Afternoon. The poppies bob slightly. Sunshine is held in the leaves and soaked up by grass which is still damp at its roots. A dampness that you can feel if you sit there long enough - which I always do. The afternoon slides into a trance. The birds have lulled into an easy silence, parted gently by jumbled sounds from the choir floating across from the Chapel. Chatter isn't necessary - we're contented to lie in the glint of the sun and the absurdly blue sky. A home is a place of sanctuary, where I feel comfortable. Its where I can cry in angst or cry in relief. Through all of its frustrations a home is ultimately the place where I feel safe. The space here, enclosed by these buildings has sheltered me. Trinity has acquired a familiarity which has seen its role transcend, in my later years, to something greater than a home. This is how I feel when I lie stretched across the grass, letting another afternoon slip by. An early morning. From my warm cocoon of doona I hear voices calling through the chill. Walking briskly through the mist I pass the sweat and the mud and the hands numb with cold. Into the Dining Hall, past familiar early-morning smiles, still blurred at the edges with the remnants of sleep. Rituals like this have moulded the way this place feels. It's my home, but it's more than that. Just last night someone told me that for them, Trinity was only transitional. But in truth its the experience that is transitional. Trinity is an island of solace within our changing world as we grow into adults. These buildings and these grounds are solid in their sameness, history and tradition and the familiarity felt
by countless residents before us. Outside, our world of university swirls and changes on different tides and currents. Trinity rises up, solid as a place we can scramble to. Its familiarity cuts through the whirlwind and confusion of uni, like the bells on the clock cut through the air as they sing out each hour. We are surrounded by transition: in an educational sense, we have our own adjusting expectations, we have numbers taken beyond the realms of our understanding and we have ideologies which question and overturn the roots of the way we think. Personally, this is one of our biggest times of transition our emotions are in turmoil as we mature, as we are isolated from the comfort of school and plunged into a world of adults. Trinity stands the test of time to remain constant: Where elsewhere our foundations are being rocked, Trinity provides us with a basis of familiarity. The voices of students from years before still echo through the cloisters. The punt of a ball and the laughter as it floats through the air - this is timeless. These windows have witnessed me growing from an eighteen-year-old girl through this transition period. They have observed my turmoils of self-confidence, my achievements, my failures, just as they've watched endless students before me. And now, when I sit on the grass, when I'm lulled by the almost imperceptible breeze, when I'm surrounded by floating conversations and laughter, I can feel this place, steeped in its own history and laden with its own kind of spirituality. Its more than just a home. Cathy Pappas Trinity College, 1994 - 1996.
1 first met Dr Reg Crisp and his wife Joy as parents of their on Digby when I 'became Warden in 1974. Reg struck me as one of nature's gentlemen. a man who inspired both affection and respect, one who had a great love of his family and a deep concern for the welfare of his patients. Born in Hobart in 1903, he entered Trinity in 1922, claiming a car from his mother for being the first in his family to study medicine. He graduated in 1926 and became an MI) in 1931. !(In Cambridge he qualified E f as a radiologist, and
returned to Melbourne to practice as a specialist in that field. During the war he served as a radiologist in Egypt. Palestine, Syria. the Western Desert, and New Guinea and returned to marry Joyce Shannon in 1946. They had three children - Kate. Deborah, and Digby who followed his father into Trinity.
He took a major role in forming the Royal Australasian College of Radiologists and in the establishment of a chair in radiology at the University of Melbourne. He amply deserved the award of a gold medal by the College of Radiologists in 1982. His obituary in The Age on 2 December records that "he lost his hair early but from then on never seemed to ' - age. With his pork-pie hat, a camera always around his neck and a fresia in his lapel. he was a good friend to the youngest and the oldest." Until his death at o the age of 93. he always kept the liveliness of youth. Evan L. Burge
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1996 - Second Semester
125th Anniversary Celebration 1997 marks the 125th anniversary of the College and to celebrate, many special functions have been planned. These include lectures, social functions. book launches and exhibitions. We hope that many Trinity members take this opportunity to visit the College, bringing with them family and friends. As you will see from the enclosed calendar, the dates of many of the activities have been set. others will be advised as the year progresses, and invitations will be issued for specific functions. If you would like to receive an invitation to any of the functions, lectures or ,exhibition please ring the College office (9347 1044) and your request will be noted and an invitation mailed giving details of times and venues. We look forward to welcoming you back to College next year.
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