AD ASTRA The Geelong College Community Magazine December, 1989 No. 63 The Geelong College Council The College Strategy Plan MANAGEMENT OF THE COMPOSITION OF THE COMMITTEES COLLEGE COUNCIL Th e Coll ege's const itution provides The Finance Committee is chaired For the first forty years of its life the by the Vice -Chairman 01 Council, Mr K. Coll ege was owned by the Morrison that one quarter of the members of the Council are appointed by the Uniting Doery. The other members of th e family: For the next seventy years or Finance Committee are : Dr J. Ay erb e, more It as owned by the Presbyterian Church Synod , and that the Minister of St. David's Church is a member ex­ Mr M. Dowling , Mr G. Fielding , Mr R. Church. Since 1982, however, the officio. These provisions express the Hal e, Mr A. Hope, Mr J. Kaye and Mr P. Colleg e has been an independent, College's link with the Church . The Sheahan. autonomous corporation, the govern­ remaining three-quarters of its Th e Committee exercises a general ment of wh ich is solely in the hands of members are appointed by Council oversight of the financial affairs of the the College Council. itself. Co ll ege, the management of the The College's constftution, fts Articles The backgrounds of the Council School's investments, the approval of of Association, pro ide that the members are varied . There are men recommendations as to stal renum ­ responsibility of the Council is "the and women from town and country. eration and benefits, and the pre­ flovernment, management and super­ They are lawyers, farm ers, doctors, paration of the Annual Budg et lor Intendence of all the affairs, concerns clergymen, businessmen, teachers, a re co mmendation to Counci l, incl ud ing and property of the College and the dist inguished retired headmistress , a fee levels and capital expend itu re . promotion of the objects of the College". Supreme Court judge, two unive rsity The Planning Committee is headed professo rs and an ind ustri alist. A by th e Ch airman of Council, Mr. G. The Council sets the policy and the Fielding . The other members of the direction of the School, and has as its significant number are Old Co lleg ians, and past or present parent s of Plann ing Comm ittee are: Mr W. Dix, Mr goal he securing of it s enduring Coll eg ians. K. Do ery , Mr A. Hope, Mr J. Kaye and financial vitality. Policy may be defin ed Mr P. Sheahan. Mr J. Gilson and Mr P. as the fram ewor within wh ich operat­ Council meetings are also att ended by the Foundation President, a Parents' Hughes are members ex-officio. The Ional decisions are made, and wh il e representative and th e O.G.C.A. Committee has full responsibility for the Council has the control of po licy, overall President, as Council's guests. implementation, on Council's behalf, of direction, and finance, it de legates to th e Strategy Plan . the Principal, whom IT appoints, the 'nternal management of the school. PROJECTED OPERATING BUDGET, 1990 The Co lege Council has budgeted for INCOME $9,074,532 a surplus of S229,403 to provid e funds or he purchase of capital equipment, to mee loan repayments and to provide some scholarships and bu rsaries. In 1990, th e College will undertake Cap al Expenditure of approximately -->r---Boarding 7.5% 2,250,000. Projects to be undertaken include he following: Preparatory School: --+--Federal Aid 7.1% - completion of the Performing Arts Centre ---+--Stale Aid 5% - al era ions 0 the General Office, Staff Offices and Robertson Hall Ot her 0.5% - pro Ision of netbal ennis courts and prac ice cric et pitches - a grounds/storage shed - more classroom computing equipment - computer automation of the Midd le School Library Sen ior School: - erection of the Noble Street classroom building - levelling, drainage and irrigation of the EXPENDITURE $8,845,129 Mac ie and Main ovals. Front Cover: The Geelong College Council --lr--Adminislralion 15.1 % Left to right: Michael Dowling, Professor Weston Bate, Fay Maries, Peter Hughes, Joan Montgomery, Rev Marvin Hagans, Carolyn % Menzies, Rev John Lavender, Keith Staff 64.6 --+--Properly 12.3% Doery/-, John Kar.e, Garnet Fielding, Gary tJent, Paul Sheahan, Dr Marcus Benjamin, Dr Jack Ijyerbe Geoff Betts, Robin Smith, Bob Hale, Jill --+---Ceneral 6.2% Evenst, Alistair Hope. Absent: Hon. Mr Justice Barry Beach, Bill Dix, Kees Smit, Or Norman VC:.....----Miscellaneous 7.8% Wettenhall. Paqe 2 The Chairman of the College Council, Mr Bill Dlx A.D. attended the College and is a Deputy Chancellor of Melbourne Mr Garnet Fielding, was educated at as a student from 1939-41. Mr Dix is University and Deputy Chairm an of the State Trustees and member of the Board Scotch College and Ormond College at currently Chairman of Ford Motor Company of Austral ia, Qantas Airways of the Alfred Group of Hospitals. the University of Melbourne. After taking and the Au stralian Manufacturing Mrs Carolyn Menzies has close family his law degree he commenced practice Council. He is also Deputy Chairman of li nks with the College and she herself in Geelong and is now the senior Telecom, a Member of the Business attended Physics classes at College Partner of Whyte , Just and Moore, one Council of Australia and an Executive wh il e at 'The Hermitage'. A Melbou rne of Geelong's oldest established law Member of the Federal Chamber of University Agricultural Science graduate, firms. He is a Notary Public. He was Automotive Industries . His hobbies she is currently occupied with home and appointed to Council in 1979 being include tennis and golf. farm duties. Mrs Menzies' interests elected Chairman of Council in 1981. He Mr Keith Doery is Vice Chairman of include gardening, landscaping, bush­ heads Council's Planning Committee. the Council and has been a member walking , children and education. He was made an Honorary Life Member since 1974. He attended College Miss Joan Montgomery A_M., C.B.E. of the O.G.C.A. in 1982. His two sons 1939-45, was President of the O.G.CA taught for ten years in Australia and are Old Collegians. He is a Knight of the and Chairman of Council 's Finance overseas before her appointment as Committee for the past 10 years. He Order of Merit of Italy. Head of Clyde School (1 960-68) and was an accountant and then Managing Presbyteri an Ladies' Colleg e (1969-85). Dr John (Jack) Ayerbe was educated Director with a heavy eng ineering at Wesley College. He qualified in She is now enjoying retirement at company until three years ago when he Shoreham and retains ed ucational links Veterinary Science at Melbourne and became the National Ch ief Executive of through membership of university, co llege represented Australia at the World the Child Accident Foundation of Aust­ and school councils. Ethics Committees ralia. His interests include mountain Games in swimming. He then travelled are another interest wh ile gardening, golf walking, golf and runn ing . and practiced in the U.K. and Ireland. He and travel fill spare hours happily. and his wife Georgina settled in Geelong Mrs Jill Everist is a graduate of Melbourne University and a secondary Mr Kees Smlt arrived from Holland in in 1974, and he founded the New10wn 1949 and attended schools in Melbourne Veterinary Service and served on the school teacher of Humanities . Mrs Everist is the wife of the School before attaining a Degree in Chem istry local council and the R.S.P.C.A. In 1986 Architect, Neil, and the mother of four and Metallurgy at the University of he became founding director of M.A.S.T. Old Co llegians. She is currently working Melbourne. He worked as a metallurgist Management organisation . He has four in Pastoral Care at All Saints' Church, for Mt. Isa Mines and later at Alcoa's children at the school from Year 1 to New1own, and also with the Neigh­ Point Henry plant and in 1984 founded Year 8. bourhood Med iation Centre. She gives Environmental Health Services (Aust­ Professor Weston Bate, Professor of high priority to spending time with fam ily ralia) Ltd . He is married and his two Australian Studies at Deakin University, and friends and enjoys read ing, children have both att ended the College. historian and broadcaster. Professor walking , music, film , theatre and travel, He has been involved in various com­ munity organisations; Rotary, National Bate was educated at Scotch College especially to Italy. Trust, Deakin University and United and Ormond College. He has taught at Reverend Marvin Hagans was born and educated in Northern Ireland. He Way. Ballarat and Melbourne Grammar was a graduate of Trinity Co ll ege, Mrs Robin Smith is a solicitor for ANZ Schools and Melbourne and Monash Dublin, and Queen's Un iversity, Belfast. Trustees in Geelong. Mrs. Smith is also Universities . He chairs the Museum's He taught Eng li sh for nine years before a member of the Boards of Management Advisory Board, Victoria, is a Sovereign entering the Ministry. Mr Hagans is of the Grace McKellar Centre and the Hill consultant, author of histories of currently Minister of st. David's Uniting Geelong District Nursing Service . She Brighton, Ballarat and Geelong Grammar Church, New1own, and is Chaplain of has a son who attended th e College, and School (publication 1990). A keen ex­ Deakin Un iversity and Morongo Girls' a daughter who is currently in Year 8.