TRINITY t Ner/etfe COLLEGE A PUBLICATION OF TRINITY COLLEGE WITHIN THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE No. 7
MAY, 1973
CENTENARY APPEAL
INTO THE COLLEGE'S SECOND CENTURY
EXCEEDS TARGET
1972 was the College's centenary year. The highlights of the year were the centenary celebrations — a thanksgiving service at the Cathedral, an oration, a banquet and a fair — and the very successful establishment of the Centenary Endowment Fund. Academically the year was very satisfactory, if on the sporting fields somewhat less so. The College enters its second century with confidence: the waiting list for residence is longer and the financial position stronger than for some years, and Government grants are promised for the refurbishing of Bishops', thus completing the current renovation programme.
A message from the Appeal President, Sir Rupert Clarke: It is most pleasing to be able to report that the target of $100,000 set for the first year of the Trinity College Centenary Endowment Fund Appeal has been exceeded: since the Appeal was opened last March $100,564 has been received or promised. The College is most grateful to the donors — individuals, firms, trusts and the Diocese of Melbourne — whose generosity has made the Appeal such a success. The enhanced financial strength of the College will enable it to enter its second century with greater confidence. A leading firm of merchant bankers has been appointed to manage the Fund and the full benefit of dividend income from the Fund should soon be felt by the College. There has never been a time when Trinity, and most universities and colleges, have not relied upon a continual flow of benefactions. Only when a large, new endowment fund has been built up, providing the College with a permanent independent source of substantial income, will the College know that its special and central character as an academic institution is secure, that it can plan responsibly to preserve and extend its buildings and that it can look forward to a period of some financial stability. It is highly desirable that the Centenary Endowment Fund should continue to grow from this promising beginning. Over the next decade it is hoped that gifts will increase the Fund fivefold and a Brochure on future development of the Fund will be distributed shortly. Your past support is deeply appreciated. Your generous and continuing support is warmly invited.
PRESIDENT OF THE APPEAL
THE CENTENARY ORATION The principal academic occasion of the College's Centenary was an Oration in the Wilson Hall on the evening of Tuesday, 28th June, 1972. As this was held under the joint auspices of the College and the University, the Chancellor (L. W. Weickhardt, Esq) presided, and His Excellency Major-General Sir Rohan Delacombe took his seat on the dais in his capacity as Visitor• to the University. The long and colourful academic procession was led by stduent representatives of the College, and there followed officers of the Union of the Fleur de Lys, Tutors and officers of the College, Heads of Colleges, Deans of Faculties, members of the College Council, the Registrar, members of the University Council, representatives of the Colleges of the Founders, the Chairman of the Council and the Principal of Janet Clarke Hall, the Master of Ormond College (representing the Heads of Melbourne Colleges and Halls of Residence), the Warden, the Vice-Chancellor, the Orator and the President of the College Council; the Chancellor and the Visitor were escorted by the Esquire Bedell. After the National Anthem, the Chancellor called upon the ViceChancellor (Professor David Derham) to present an address of congratulation from the University of Melbourne. Then followed further addresses from representatives of the Colleges of the Founders, as follows:— Trinity College, Cambridge: Emeritus Professor A. Dale Trendall. St. John's College, Cambridge: Dr. Richard Perham. Trinity College, Dublin: Professor David Rankin.
Dr. Margaret Blackwood presented an address from Janet Clarke Hall, and Dr. J. Davis McCaughey an address from the Melbourne Colleges. These splendid and elegant addresses are now numbered amongst the treasures of the College. They are mounted and on display in the Muniments Room of the Leeper Library, where they may be inspected. At the conclusion of these presentations, the President of the Council (The Most Reverend Dr. Frank Woods) introduced the Orator and invited him to deliver the Centenary Oration. The Orator was Sir Hugh Ennor, Secretary of the Commonwealth Department of Education and Science. The College had sought him for this role not merely because of his disContinued on Page 2.
Sir Hugh Ennor.