TRINITY N e e #et isr/ COLLEGE A PUBLICATION OF TRINITY COLLEGE WITHIN THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
No. 9
APRIL, 1975
FROM THE WARDEN Dr Evan Burge reports on his Wardenship so far. "My first view of Trinity was idyllic — a warm November dusk, trees in full leaf, birds singing, and in the distance the choir of the Canterbury Fellowship. Even when students are bustling to and fro there is a great peace in the buildings and gardens of Trinity — and for this, like many before me, I have often had cause to be grateful.
Seven ninths of the Lodge Family.
I found here a wonderfully diverse, stimulating and friendly Trinity community. This community was, as it has remained, in good heart. My arrival coincided, however, with an unprecedented level of inflation and with soaring labour costs. Sooner than I could have wished, I had to wrestle with the great problem of the economic viability of the College. A fee-rise of $100 for the third term proved insufficient to prevent a deficit of $24,000 on the total year's operations. The question was whether fees would have to be set so high that we would price ourselves out of the market. Difficult problems demand imaginative solutions. It was immediately obvious that Trinity remained a genuine academic community and was contributing an enormous amount to the development of its members. I could never look at our buildings or at the books in our library, so many of them gifts of people who have loved this place, without reflecting that other Wardens had faced hard times, and had been determined that Trinity would serve the generations of the future as well as of the past. Here is what we are doing. In 1975, our budget will balance. At $1,450 for the year, the fees should be sufficient to cope with inflation. Bursary help has been promised to several good students who could not otherwise afford to come. Our management staff has been reduced by appointing Mr. Alan Todd to act as both Bursar and Domestic Manager. A system of
Domestic Bursaries means that many members of the College share, as is normal in a family, in such tasks as gardening, cleaning and waiting at table. For such students the fees are greatly reduced. This is one way in which members have a personal stake in the condition and efficiency of the College. It has been known for some years that the College should increase its membership to remain viable. Our kitchen and dining hall are adequate for about 250 students. We do need a further building, for we are desperately short of space for tutorial rooms, common rooms, music rooms, and efficient offices. Unlike other Colleges we have no married tutors' flats. A private dining room would also be a great advantage. Yet, even without another building, much has been done. This year, the College opened with 225 students in residence, an increase of 17 upon last year. The additional places were gained by using four staffrooms for students, and by turning the bedrooms of Clarke into single bedstudies. The increase in numbers, the Domestic Bursary arrangements, and the reorganization of our staff will go a long way towards securing our financial viability. The essential academic elements of College life are being preserved and developed. My predecessor, Dr. Sharwood, once spoke to me of the important links between the Senior Common Room, formal meals (including the wearing of the academic gown), and the tutorial programme. My ex-
perienCe in Trinity, in contrast to other places 'where these things are not honoured, shows clearly that he was right. Trinity remains a place where students can work, and where academic study and research of a high order is being done. I must leave to the Senior Student's report on the back page the many other facets, social, sporting and cultural, of College life. I do want to say, however, that last year's group of nine women students proved an asset to the College in every way. They took a full part in sport, contributed fully to our social life, helped to bring about a more gracious atmosphere in Hall, and finally did well in their examinations. This experience has encouraged us to increase the number of female residents to 43 (of whom onethird are in second year and beyond). Ultimately the number of resident Trinity women will be between 65 and 70. There we must draw the line to preserve our appeal to lovers of traditional college sports and to keep the College, despite many changes, essentially the same College as it has always been. It will be clear from all this that I am greatly enjoying the challenge and responsibility of being the fifth Warden of the College. My wife and family have been welcomed unreservedly by all members of the College, past and present, and we are honoured to have been chosen to enter a community which spans several generations and many fields of experience. Your support and friendship are somehing we value highly."
UNION OF THE FLEUR-DE-LYS 1975 DINNER Following the outstanding success of last year's `mixed' Dinner, arrangements this year will be similar. The Dinner will be held at College on Friday, 9th May, at 7.30 p.m. and will be preceded by drinks and a very brief Annual General Meeting in the Junior Common Room. Professor A. G. L. Shaw has been nominated as President for 1975. Invitations are enclosed with this Newsletter and more may be obtained by telephoning the Warden's Secretary on 347 1044. The Warden is keen to meet members of the Union, i.e., all former members of the College and would like to hear from those who are able to lunch or dine in Hall.
CRICKET 1975 As we go to press news comes that Trinity has won the Intercollegiate Cricket (by beating Ormond). This is the first win since 1960.
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BEQUESTS AND GIFTS
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1974 RHODES SCHOLAR
The College has received a number of valuable and useful gifts and bequests in the last year. The executors of the Estate of the late Maurice Hurry have assigned $25,000 to the Centenary Endowment Fund from his residuary estate. Mr Hurry (1902), a solicitor of Kyneton, died in 1968 and his books which include a copy of Hardy Wilson's "Old Colonial Architecture" have already come to the Leeper Library. Under the will of the late Reg Must of Ballarat the College is to receive $1,000 and, subject to a life interest, a share of his residuary estate. The executors of the Estate of the late Canon Maynard have given to the College a set of ten bronze medallions by Andor Mezaros. These have been mounted and fixed on the wall of the Ante-Chapel. To commemorate the Centenary of the College in 1972, a number of its members have subscribed for a copy of the painting of the College's principal founder, Bishop Charles Perry, by Henry Weigall for Hall. This has been executed by Peter Zageris and now hangs between the portraits of the first two Wardens. The Victoria Law Foundation has made a grant of $3,060 for the purchase of a number of specified volumes, particularly the new edition of Halsbury's Laws, for the College's Law Library. A gift from the retiring Warden, Dr Sharwood, has made possible the replacement of the small metalframed windows installed by Syd Wynne in the 1958 Common Room extensions by full-length wooden sash frames. These have immeasurably improved the Common Room and opened up a new vista of the Music Room (Chem. Lab.) Courtyard. All gifts to the College are still taxdeductible. Members of the College in the higher tax brackets who would like to reduce their tax liability — and others — are invited to send their cheque to the College and indicate its destination on the tear-off coupon on Page 3.
THE COLLEGE COUNCIL Following retirement from their sees, Bishop Allen Winter, Bishop of St. Arnaud from 1951-1973 and Bishop Ronald Richards, Bishop of Bendigo from 1958-1974 relinquished their membership of the Council. However, in the absence of the President, Archbishop Woods, through illness, Bishop Richards presided at the Warden's Installation in the Chapel on 10th June. New members of Council are Mr Michael de B. Collins Persse, who replaces the late Louis Voumard as representative of the Diocese of Wangaratta and Bishop David Shand of St. Arnaud as representative of the Victorian Bishops. Mr Norman Carlyon, Senior Student of 1959, has accepted co-option on to the Council's Executive and Finance Committee.
Mr C. M. Maxwell
Mr Chris Maxwell, Senior Student in 1973 and Vice-President of the Melbourne S.R.C. in 1974, was elected the 1974 Rhodes Scholar for Victoria. Following an Honours course in History and Philosophy he is continuing with his Law degree at Melbourne before proceeding to Oxford. There he will read `Modern Greats' at New College. Incidentally, he is the twenty-fifth Rhodes Scholar from Trinity.
WE REGRET the deaths of former members of the College including NORMAN ALBERT MILLER 1896 DOUGLAS MURRAY McWHAE 1902 HERBERT MAYO, Kt. 1904 JOHN CECIL MADDEN 1914 JAMES PERCIVAL AINSLIE 1919 GEOFFREY JAMES PARDEY 1919 ERIC WALTER KYLE 1920 PERCIVAL HOWARD WORCESTER 1922 ARTHUR GORDON RYLAH, K.B.E. 1928 GEOFFREY HUGH FELL 1931 WILLIAM READE LANE 1932 JOHN AUSTIN DERAVIN 1939 EDWARD KEITH HORWOOD 1939 DENISO'BRIEN 1948 IAN ROBERT LANGMAN 1964 SIMON NICHOLAS NETHERBY CARTER 1971 also JOHN STEWART HOLDEN former resident tutor in Agricultural Science. N. A. Miller was probably the oldest living member of the College; he graduated in Law in 1898 and practised as a solicitor. Sir Herbert Mayo had a distinguished legal career retiring as senior puisne judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia. Sir Arthur Rylah was M.L.A. for Kew 1949-71 and Deputy Premier and Chief Secretary of Victoria 1955-71. I. R. Langman and S. N. N. Carter were both young men of considerable promise who were killed in motor accidents.
CENTENARY VOLUME Copies of the College's Centenary Volume, "Perspective of a Century" by Bishop James Grant are still available from the College at $5.95 including postage.
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FABRIC AND FINANCE No major works have been undertaken since the completion of the Bishop's renovations. The needs of the larger number of women have been met by bathroom conversions which provide self-contained showers and toilets to be used by either men or women. The bathroom in Upper Clarke, three of the eight bathrooms in Cowan together with those in Bishop's are now available for use by women. In the Dining Hall, the sagging roof over High Table has been straightened and strengthened; a copper ventilator has been fitted along the whole of the roof ridge; the windows have been freed and now open easily; and holes have been drilled in the wooden ceiling to allow hot air and steam to escape directly. Tests have been made on the walls and, hopefully, repainting of the walls will now be feasible. In Jeopardy, the bathrooms are urgently in need of attention and require gutting and rebuilding to a new design. As a first step, an adequate ventilation system is expected to be installed this year.
M.C.C. FIRE REGULATIONS The Melbourne City Council, some time ago, introduced new and very stringent regulations to ensure the safety of residential institutions. Trinity's buildings, like those of the other older colleges, were not constructed with thermal detectors, auxiliary lighting systems, and avoidance of blind ends to passageways in mind! So, to comply in full with the M.C.C. Regulations will involve for Trinity an expenditure of nearly $150,000. Work required immediately will cost $87,000, towards which the Australian Universities Commission has generously made a grant of $65,000. However the College must now find $22,000 as its share this year, and this is not in sight let alone in hand. The College has considerable capital funds for special purposes but like so many others in a time of inflation has a liquidity problem. The College Officers would be glad to hear from any members who may have suggestions on the financing of this unexpected work. So far there have been suggestions of a small-scale appeal, of low-interest loans from members, and of wholesale backing of Beer Street.
WE'RE LOOKING FOR A PIANO The musical life of the College is developing vigorously (ten music students this year) but we badly need a good grand piano for Hall (as a gift or on long-term loan) and an upright for an extra practice room. Somewhere someone has an unused piano which we could use. So, do let us know. The Warden will be personally responsible for the care of any instrument entrusted to us. The Kawai Grand Piano in the Music-Room is in almost continuous use and some.relief would be much appreciated.
TURNER FELLOWS Two Fellowships in Theology became vacant in 1974. As Sir George Turner Fellow the Council elected the
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Reverend Peter Hughes, Senior Student in 1968; he has proceeded to Christ Church, Oxford, where he will submit a thesis in the field of moral theology. As Lady Rosa Turner Fellow the Council elected Mr Martin O'Donovan; he will read theology at New College, Edinburgh.
THE BIRDS'-EYE VIEW 1974 saw ten hand-picked young ladies drag Trinity into its new era — the era which withdraws `women' from the category of exploitable college delights, like wine and song, and places them firmly in the ranks of the exploiters. At first it looked as though the College was regretting its decision to go co-residential when it shunted the first starry-eyed and bushy-tailed women off to the Deanery. But all was well: Bishop's renovations were behind schedule. Nonetheless, aware that two hundred critical male eyes were focussed on our every move, we decided that attack was our best defence and resolved to throw caution to the wind. Although extremely few in numbers we managed to show our determination, talent and clear superiority on the sporting-field by coming third out of eight women's colleges in Athletics and finishing equal seventh with a one-`man' Swimming team. Shums was lifted to new heights by our presence and by our leading of the College cheers on the riverbank. By the time the handicaps for Juttoddie were posted it was clear that the gentlemen had come to realise that equality was a fact of life, even when it came to carrying the maximum number of bricks to the top floor of Cowan. And, despite full participation in Ball, Dinners, Play Camp, Concert, Debates and Revue, academic honours were not lacking. We who were first, feel privileged to have blazed the co-residential trail and we hope that those who swell our numbers in 1975 and those yet to grace Trinity's ivied cloisters will come to feel as much affection for, and as much a part of the `Dear Old Coll', as we now do.
RESIDENTIAL MANAGEMENT CENTRE For the past nineteen years, the University School of Business Administration has conducted its Residential School of Advanced Management in the College during the Long Vacation. Revenue from this School is a major component of the College's income and provides Trinity with the largest share of any Melbourne College in the "conference trade". The University now wishes to extend its programme of continuing education and plans its own Residential Management Centre for small group courses throughout the year. There are obvious advantages to both University and College if such a building could be built on Trinity land and still allow access to College facilities for the Summer School. Plans are by no means finalised, but late last year the College Council approved in principle an arrangement by which Trinity would lease to the University an area of about 10,000
NEWSLETTER square feet for a period of fifty years in return for an economic rental. The suggested location is in the south-east corner where the squash court and the tennis courts now are and these would be reconstructed elsewhere at the University's expense. There is no question of permanent alienation of College land and under the 1958 Trinity College Act any such leasing proposal must be sanctioned by the Governorin-Council.
RESIDENT FELLOW Professor Joseph Burke, Professor of Fine Arts in the University, was elected a Resident Fellow of the College at the April meeting of Council. He is usually in residence during the week but is undertaking a lecture programme in Canada and England during 1975.
NEW FACES At the close of 1974, the College said farewell to three College functionaries and welcomed two others. Those departing were the Bursar, Mr John Wilson; the Domestic Manager, Mr Michael Mellenfield; and the Domestic Supervisor, Miss Ann Hyland, B.E.M. Their departure was occasioned by a survey of the College's administrative structure undertaken by Arthur Andersen and Co at the request of the Warden and the Executive and Finance Committee. This recommended that the positions of Bursar and Domestic Manager be combined, and that a person with qualifications in both accounting and catering be appointed. The College is fortunate to have secured such a person in Mr Alan Todd, for the past twenty seven years Manager and Managing Director of the Windsor Hotel in Spring Street. His assistant as Domestic Supervisor is Miss Joan McCormick who came to the College last year on a working holiday from New Zealand. Miss McCormick combines a university degree in music with extensive experience both as a social worker and as a catering supervisor. In the College Chaplaincy, the Reverend Albert McPherson is succeeded by the Reverend Roger Sharr. His appointment is a full-time one in which he will give administrative assistance to the Dean. Mr Sharr trained both at Trinity and at St. Michael's House, Crafers, South Australia. He holds an M.A. in English from Sydney and is now working towards a doctorate at London on "Patrick White and the theological implications of his work".
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CONGRATULATIONS are extended to the following . . . Manning Clark, Honorary Doctorate, Melbourne John Chisholm, first Archbishop of Melanesia Murray Maxwell, President of the Australian Medical Association, Victorian Branch Philip Roff, Principal of Scotch College, Melbourne Jim Merralls and Clive Tadgell, both Queen's Counsel Peter Johnson, Vice-Principal of St. Chad's College, Durham
COLLEGE FEES The cost of college supplies and labour soared during 1974 female domestic rates rose by 66% — and inevitably college fees have had to follow. Consequently, in 1975 the fee for the full academic year of thirty-one weeks is $1,450, exclusive of lunches on weekdays. This was the lowest figure possible even after economies had been made in both the administrative and domestic establishment. To help ensure that no intending applicant is excluded on financial grounds, a system of Domestic Bursaries has been established. In return for services within the College, students can receive a remission of up to half the standard fee. This arrangement is proving attractive, particularly to senior students and College Schola rs. r Please tick the appropriate items and return to: THE WARDEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, PARKVILLE, 3052. I enclose a donation to — TRINITY COLLEGE CENTENARY ENDOWMENT APPEAL TRINITY COLLEGE BUILDING FUND copies Please send me of the COLLEGE CENTENARY VOLUME — PERSPECTIVE OF A CENTURY $5.95 posted copies Please send me of the COLLEGE MAGAZINE FLEUR DE LYS FOR 1974 $2.00 posted Please note that my address has changed I should appreciate an invitation to Dinner or Lunch in Hall during the year I can offer a gift/loan of a piano Name (Block Letters)
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THE COLLEGE IN 1974 The Senior Student Reports — This year marked the beginning of a The artistic talents of the College new era in two very important ways. were well displayed throughout the Dr. E. L. Burge took office at the year. "Rabelais", directed by Robin beginning of second term as Fifth Hardiman, was a very enterprising Warden of the College and, for the modern production, but was generally first time, women were admitted as well received. resident members of the College. It The play was very "different". The has been a smooth and fruitful period Concert maintained a high standard of transition for College residents and throughout with many and varied perindications are that this will continue formances including piano and violin with the increased number of women solos and some madrigal singing. The residents in 1975. Dialectic Society, in conjunction with Although 1974 was not, as Chris J.C.H., produced an outstanding Roper, the Senior Student, had hoped, revue. Among the items was a perfor"the year the Cowan Cup came home", mance by the Warden, backed by the yet there were some notable sporting Senior Common Room, singing his performances. version of Gilbert and Sullivan entitled "And now I am the Warden of A win by the first crew in the RowTrinity". ing, and second place by the seconds, saw the year off to a great start. The The evening was a great success, a firsts triumphed over Ormond in the fitting reward for those who worked so Final and the Mervyn Bournes Higgins hard to put it on. Dialectic Society Trophy returned again to the Diningmeetings, in fact, proved popular Room wall. The golf team won again, throughout the year, especially the after another final against Ormond quizzes and the opening debate of the and so retained the golf. The year between the freshers and the cricketers achieved some success senior gentlemen. reaching the final, and although neither the Athletics or Swimming Trinity's intercollegiate Debating teams were successful, there were Team had a most enjoyable and sucseveral fine individual performances cessful year winning the competition in each sport. The Tennis team, after against Newman, who had defeated us winning their first round match, were in the final the previous year.
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year. John Churchill, the Indoor Representative and Edward Shackell, the Outdoor Representative, attended to their duties but there was no major expenditure throughout the year on T.C.A.C. property. The T.C.A.C. Committee of 1974 felt that Juttoddie should return after an absence of a year in 1973. However, the spirit, it felt, should change. No longer should it be looked upon as an initation ceremony, but rather as a "fun" day for all. And so it proved. Most of the freshers, including the nine girls, participated eagerly in the races, the climax of which was the final of the Juttoddie Cup. There were a number of side shows as well, including a fortune teller, and a contest in which one had to guess how much water the Bishop could displace! Traumatic experiences for college freshers at Juttoddie are now over in the years to come, may the tradition develop to an enjoyable day for all. Club dinners again proved popular. Professor Joe Burke, a Fellow of the College, Dr. Don Cordner, Barry Jones, M.L.A. and a speaker from the Glendonald School for the Deaf, to which part of our Appeal was forwarded, all proved entertaining and informative, and this 1973 innovation appears to be here to stay. The year was a happy one. The College's activities continued as in the past, and the women residents, although few in number, adapted readily to life at Trinity offering a wide choice to very different types of people. There is scope in Trinity for everyone to find something interesting to do.
MATTERS ACADEMIC
The volume of the episcopal half of the Joint Acting-Warden about to he measured at the / 9 74 Juttoddie.
surprisingly knocked out of the competition in the second round while the Hockey players and Basketballers, although keen, lacked ability. The Squash team were unfortunate enough to draw International House in the first round and proceeded no further, that College easily winning the competition. The College 1st XVIII, coached by Chris Maxwell and captained by Howey Bellchambers, the General Rep, won one match only (against Whitley) and was generally found to be lacking in talent. The second XVIII seemed to have the same problem, meeting with similarly limited success. The 1975 K.K.K., Jim Sloan, a fresher to College, provided encouragement to all teams, both at the matches and in the Dining-Hall.
The general representative of the T.C.A.C., Howey Bellchambers, ensured an enjoyable year on the social front, beginning with a most enthusiastic Orientation Week for the freshers. Swap dinners with other colleges, a barbecue with St. Mary's, an inter-collegiate Dinner and a most successful Ball were the social highlights of the year. The secretary of the T.C.A.C., Stephen Cordner, handled correspondence tactfully and, together with the Senior Student, Chris Roper, represented the students on the College Council and Executive and Finance Committee. The Treasurer, Justin Cook, proved an excellent choice, since the T.C.A.C. was in credit at the end of the financial
Members of the Senior Common Room performed particularly well in 1974. Doctorates went to Senior Tutor, John Davis, and to historian, Richard Broome; Rod Tucker, former resident tutor in engineering, was awarded a Harkness Fellowship; and physicist, John Emmerson, won the Supreme Court Prize with incoming law tutor, John Middleton, second. Within the Junior Common Room, Trinity men again had a very fair share of University prizes and exhibitions over a wide range of disciplines. Particularly strong performances in Medicine, Law, Veterinary Science, Dental Science and Music were gratifying to both students and tutors. The College is in the fortunate position of having a number of extremely able senior students who can offer tutorials and supplement those of the resident tutors. Nonetheless, the College could not sustain its tutorial programme, the largest of any Australian College, without its non-resident tutors. Special mention should be made of the contribution of Tony Buzzard and his team of medical tutors, many of whom teach on an honorary basis. The results of our first resident women were awaited with more than usual interest. In fact, despite the demands of exhausting community participation, their academic results compare well with the men. However, these women were a selected group and with over forty women in residence in 1975, this year's results will be more representative.