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Outlook University of Wollongong Alumni Magazine Spring BRgas^Bram OLLOnQOMQ PRINT POST APPROVED: PP255003/00173 THE OUTLOOK UrilVERSITY ALUMPil MAQAZIPiE Howard Worner - A Colourful Career Wollongong Initiates Graduate Consortium Andrew Schultz' Award-Winning Opera new Campus in the Gulf SPRING/SUMMER 1993 Keeping in touch FROM THE PRESIDENT. .. Editorial comment and preview of this issue Hello again. I hope that you have Just in case you are not aware, A unique Symposium was held at all had a successful and healthy our Alumni Association is broken the end of July to honour 1993, and I pray that 1994 will up into chapters, each of which is Professor Howard Worner, who be equally kind to you and your autonomous in operation. Reports celebrated bis 80th birthday. This families. on these appear in this issue, remarkable man, a 'quiet bringing you up-to-date with their achiever' whose talent for Open Day, one of the premier activities. invention and original thought events in the University calendar, knows no bounds, was joined by took place at the end of August Our first AGM is to be held in many eminent colleagues and fellow researchers from Australia and in conjunction with this we February 1994, details of which and beyond in a very special held our first Alumni Association appear later in the magazine. Like gathering held at the University. reunion. It was for graduates most AGMs it will be over in a from the early years - the 1960s short time, and we hope to see and 70s - and though we were you there to let us know bow Wollongong University's lead in short on quantity, we were your Association can be better the provision of professional and certainly high on quality in those run. We value your feedback. graduate education through the who returned to tread once again national television network is a the 'hallowed turf of the old In closing, may I again ask that if recent initiative of paramount Alma Mater. you know any fellow alumni who importance. The development of do not receive this magazine, the Wollongong Graduate To use a colloquialism, 'we bad please ask them to give us their Consortium with the Special a ball'. All were amazed during current address. Many thanks in Broadcasting Service is just the the campus tours at the changes anticipation. first step towards a new that bad taken place, but equally multimedia approach in the they all said how beautiful the Keith Phipps provision of education. campus bad become. During the President, Alumni Association • barbecue the joyous laughter was Other articles look at testimony to people having a Wollongong's new campus in the good time. A full report appears FROM THE EDITOR... United Arab Emirates, the award- on page 1 6. winning film of Andrew Schultz' As another busy year draws to a opera Black River and the School I would sincerely like to thank all close, this issue of The Outlook of Journalism's Professor Clem those who took-the opportunity reflects on some of the recent Lloyd, recently awarded an AO. to come, and I do hope to see events and developments at the The alumni profiles range from you again on campus somewhere University and in particular, some the Archbishop of Sydney to four down the line. By the way, of the Alumni Association graduates who are all alumni came from Perth, Wagga activities. Wollongong City Councillors, Wagga, Canberra, Sydney, and also include the University's Wollongong and Sbellharbour - first Asian student. quite a geographical spread. W: May I urge all alumni to attend Even at this early stage I ask the Association's AGM on 26 those of you in the graduating February 1994. This is scheduled period 1980-83, to whom we on a Saturday to enable those out shall send invitations for the of town to come along and still 1994 reunion, to please mark have time for a night out down the last Sunday in August afterwards. Remember, it's your for what will be a very enjoyable University and your Association, reunion visit to YOUR university. so this is your opportunity to have I would also urge you to contact a say. a few fellow student friends from your time here and meet with " r. "/>3i: m>T t ',.J: •.-: r^Wit h best wishes for Christmas them on the day. We do hope to and the New Year. have a surprise or two in next year's program, so stay tuned. Juliet Richardson ^^ Alumni Officer & Editor G CONTEFITS THE OUTLOOK SPRIMQ/SUMMER 1993 Editor Juliet Richardson HOWARD WORNER HoriOUREP 4 Design & Layout GRADUATE CONSORTIUM 6 Paul Coster PROFILE OF ARCHBISHOP THIS ISSUE OF THE OUTLOOK WAS SPONSORED BY Q OODHEW 10 BRIDGE PRINTERY DUNNING AVENUE ROSEBERY NSW PRINTERS OF HIGH QUALITY SHEET-FED BOOKS, JOURNALS, LINKS WITH CITY HALL BROCHURES AND GENERAL ASSOCIATION FIEWS PUBLICATIONS 16 AWARD-WINNING OPERA 20 riEW CAMPUS The Outlook is published by the University of Wollongong OPENS IN Northfields Avenue Wollongong NSW 2522 THE GULF 24 Australia UNIVERSITY DAY AWARDS 26 For further information contact: LAUCHLAN CHIPMAN LEAVES 30 Juliet Richardson Alumni Officer ALLAN SEFTON MEMORIAL 31 Telephone (042) 21 3249 Facsimile (042) 21 4299 Newspaper editors are invited to make use of any material this journal. Acknowledgment of the source would be appreciated. The front cover shows Professor Howard Worner at Port Kembia (see page 4). Photography by Simone Rose. Howard Worner honoured > OrillP A COLOURFUL CAREER Wollongong^s undisputed elder statesman, Howard Worner, who calls himself ^the recycled professor^, has never had a birthday quite like his 80th. To celebrate, he was communities of Australia and honoured with a Symposium the world are the beneficiaries attended by a most prestigious of this unique individual who, array of more than 1 50 of his while gardening on a Saturday peers and was profiled across afternoon in 1960, conceived the nation by The Bulletin how continuous ironmaking magazine and The 7.30 Report might be integrated with on the ABC. continuous steelmaking - and went on to pursue his dream.' The publicity brought a deluge of 200 letters and countless And so the plaudits rained - telephone calls, in some cases from other academics like Sir from people Howard lost track Rupert Myers, President of the of 45 years ago. The Australian Academy of Symposium, held in the Technological Sciences and University's Hope Theatre on Engineering, and Professor 31 July, brought together a star Nancy Millis, Chancellor of La cast of scientists, engineers Trobe University, to Mr Brian and industrialists to honour Loton, influential Chairman of one of Australia's outstanding BHP, and Mr John Innes, metallurgists and inventors. As Group Executive of mining founder of the Microwave giant CRA. Howard knows the Applications Research Centre last two men and their (MARC) within the companies well - in 1955 he University's lllawarra was appointed BHP's first Professor Howard Worner Technology Corporation, director of research, and where be now works, served CRA as director of new Howard's creative talents are still Minerals, Metals and Materials process development between as energetic as ever. Society, who travelled from 1963 and 1975. Canada especially for the For a modest man who has never Symposium, spoke of Howard's Howard branched into industry cultivated publicity or popularity, romanticism, heroism and after spending the post-war Howard Knox Worner received optimism. 'These are words that decade as professor of metallurgy plenty of both as be turned 80 in describe many great men and and dean of engineering at August. Speaker after women - people who stand out Melbourne University. (When he distinguished speaker at the because of their attitude to the left there his brother Hill took Symposium acknowledged his human condition, to living, and over the metallurgy chair until great achievements. cause them to achieve,' he said. 1975 and also became dean of 'These are certainly attributes that engineering - a unique succession characterise Howard Worner's President of the Australian in Australian academia.) unique career and set him apart Academy of Science, Professor as a great man. David Craig said, 'Part of the In 1986, aged 74 and in 'semi- country's debt to Howard Worner retirement', chairing federal and is bis world view that basic 'Greatness is not only measured state government committees on science and applied science must in bard achievement but in the energy and other strategic issues, march together as partners, not dreams and heroic efforts of men Howard and his wife Rilda moved rivals.' and women who would make a to Wollongong to be closer to difference. Howard is such a their daughter Ruth and her Professor Keith Brimacombe of person, bursting with ideas and family. (Ruth is a Wollongong the University of British Columbia the passionate desire to pursue graduate and is profiled on the and President of the international them. The metallurgical page opposite.) Graduate profile Howard explains, 'I was supposed The Worner brothers - Howard, to retire for good when Ken Hill and Neil, a civil engineer RUTH PROCTER McKinnon grabbed bold of me who was Sir William Hudson's and said, 'Look, we'd like you to right-hand man on the Snowy take up the directorship of a new Mountains Hydro-electric Scheme BA 1984 research centre.' They'd heard I - are all Honorary Fellows of the was interested in applying Institution of Engineers, Australia, microwave irradiation to the a remarkable achievement for processing of different materials. three men who were raised on a So 1 put my mind to it and we remote farm in Victoria's Mallee built up the Microwave District, before drought and Applications Research Centre.
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