Annual 2014

The image on the front cover celebrates our Christian Service program and depicts the start of the Annual Fun Run for India.

The fun run is held in conjunction with other events during the year to raise money to support the following missions in India:

• Mithra, Chennai

Mithra is a day school and boarding facility for multiple handicapped children and young people.

Mithra is a welcoming community which cares for the poorest of the poor children and provides a home and security for women who are destitute. • Mandal High School, Gujarat

At Mandal, children of the Gamit, a group of indigenous people, receive an impressive education at a high school which is run by a group of Indian

Christian Brothers and a female religious order.

Here, our students experience a positive example of self-help where a community, who had nothing, are building hope for the future. • St Mary’s Orphanage, Dum Dum, Kolkata

While at St Mary’s Orphanage, our pilgrims help at projects run by the Christian Brothers in the local area and at facilities staffed by Mother

Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity. They work with people recovering from tuberculosis, with multiple handicapped children and sometimes at the Home of the Dying. • Christian Brothers, India

We support various projects, according to advice from their Provincial. • Jim McGinnis, Railway Mission, Kolkata

One of the experiences which has an impact on all the pilgrims is meeting Jim McGinnis and going with him to meet and distribute food and blankets to the destitute at train stations. Jim uses our donations to cover the cost of this very important work.

We send a team of nine students and three adults every two years to help the regular workers. All donations raised for the India Missions go directly to people in India. The Trinity College India Pilgrims are expected to finance their own costs.

Also on the cover and throughout this publication you will notice some geometric shapes. The design has been taken from the fretwork on the Kirkham pipe organ in our Chapel. In 2014 we celebrate the 30th birthday of the pipe organ which was commissioned by Br Tony Kelly and designed and built by Mr Lynn Kirkham, a lecturer from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Western Australia. Mr Kirkham took fifteen months leave from university duties and employed two tradesmen to help him. He worked on the project during 1983 and 1984 requiring just on two years to complete. Apart from the imported handmade pipes and the solid jarrah casement, built by a local firm, Arcus Shopfitters, all the major internal components of the organ were made by Mr Kirkham and his two employees.

The console consists of two manuals made in Germany with a 32-note radiating pedal board. The organ possesses a floating mechanical action using wire trackers under tension, with the air supplied by means of an electric blower situated downstairs in the sacristy. There are 1,720 pipes incorporated into the organ whose ’voicing’ is that of the Dutch Classical type of the eighteenth century and, as such, is unique among organs in Australia. The pipes in front of each tower group are embossed according to a tradition dating from the fifteenth century.

The organ, which is 4.5 metres high and weighs about four tonnes, stands proudly in the choir loft above the sacristy behind the altar in full view of all. The most important asset of a pipe organ is its ability to produce a high quality sound. Each of the many pipes grouped in 23 stops, transmits its own particular sound which has to blend in with the sounds of the other pipes.

Each year Trinity College offers pipe organ scholarships to students with outstanding keyboard ability. These scholarships are a unique way of cultivating excellence in organ music.

Ms Sandra Doick Director Marketing & PR

2 Trinity Avenue East Perth Western Australia 6004 Telephone: (08) 9325 3655 Facsimile: (08) 9221 4352 Email: office@trinity.wa.edu.au www.trinity.wa.edu.au

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