SYDNEY ALUMNI Magazine

Summer 2006

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regulars Editor Dominic O’Grady The , Publications Office 4 OPINION Room K6.06, Quadrangle A14, NSW 2006 Bring on the festive cheer. Telephone +61 2 9036 6372 Fax +61 2 9351 6868 5 NEWS Email [email protected] Sydney wins US Studies Centre bid. Sub-editor John Warburton Design tania edwards design 8 RESEARCH Contributors Tracey Beck, Vice-Chancellor Professor Gavin Joe Gumbula: our first indigenous research fellow. Brown, Graham Croker, Julie Ji, Valerie Lawson, Stephanie Lee, Alison Muir, Richard North, Maggie Renvoize, Chris 14 ESSAY Rodley, Ted Sealy, Mark Tedeschi, Richard White. The pleasures of idleness means different things to Printed by Offset Alpine Printing on 55% recycled fibre. different folks. Offset Alpine is accredited with ISO 14001 for environ- mental management, and only uses paper approved by 18 SPORT the Forest Stewardship Council. A bumper crop of medals. Cover photo Getty Images. 21 GRAPEVINE Anita Larkin’s fictional tools for unknown purposes. Advertising Please direct all inquiries to the editor. Editorial Advisory Committe SPECIAL The Sydney Alumni Magazine is supported by an Editorial Advisory Committee. Its members are: Kathy Bail, editor; SUPPLEMENT Martin Hoffman (BEcon ‘86), consultant; Helen Trinca, Sydney Annual: Editor, Boss (Australian Financial Review); David Marr A report on achievement (LLB ‘71), Sydney Morning Herald; William Fraser, Editor, and philanthropy. ACP Magazines; Don Wilson, Vice-Principal, University Relations, University of Sydney; and Andrew Potter, Media Manager, University of Sydney.

summer 2006 1 letters

airline” (Sydney Alumni Magazine, in Genesis, (to which many still Spring 2006), but it has also been adhere); of course the Genesis writer’s complemented as the safest. That’s reasoning was restricted to the available getting the job done without fuss. knowledge at the time, as is ours. But Mark Lawrie (BVSc ’83) the gaps are slowly filling. Abbotsford, NSW Dr Kevin Orr (MBBS ’51) Blakehurst, NSW Ambition re-ignited Thank for inspiring me with your Biblical science? profile on ’s ambassador to the I was disappointed that a science graduate US, Dennis Richardson (Sydney Alumni such as the Rev. Peter R Dunstan would Magazine, Winter 2006). make such a fundamental error as to I too completed a Bachelor of Arts claim that intelligent design is “a theory with Honours under the supervision that can be tested against the fossil of Professor Neville Meaney. Unlike record and the observable natural the ambassador, I tried but was world” (Sydney Alumni Magazine, unsuccessful in entering the Spring 2006). In what way, pray tell? Department of Foreign Affairs Can Rev Dunstan offer up even one and Trade. testable prediction? As far as I’m aware, Richardson’s passion and joy in his intelligent design proponents can dismiss No fuss values work has awoken my ambition and scientific evidence by claiming the I really appreciated Charles Littrell’s inspired me to see what DFAT offers a designer made the evidence look that way. consideration of six Australian values University of Sydney graduate 14 years on. As for using the bible to help on (Sydney Alumni Magazine, Winter 2006). Linda Fagan (BA ’92) scientific matters – that’s as inappropriate It saddens me that some Australians fail Lawson, NSW as expecting guidance on spiritual matters to appreciate the positives and constantly from science. accentuate the negatives. Can’t we just God of the gaps Luke Kendall (BSc ’81) celebrate the successful nation that we are? There is probably not much to disagree Marrickville, NSW The confusion we faced when Steve on with your intelligent design corre- Irwin died is fascinating. It seems that spondents, Rev. Peter R. Dunstan and Searching for Zheng He’s fleets outsiders appreciate us more than we Associate Professor David Emery I am part of an international team do, unless those outsiders are certain (Sydney Alumni Magazine, Spring 2006). which is planning to search for wrecks Aussie ex-pats with tongues sharper Yet, with all the different interpretations from the Chinese fleets which cruised than stingray barbs. Surely we should of intelligent design, it is hard to know the Indian Ocean, under Admiral focus on Steve Irwin’s positive contri- to which they refer. To me this is merely Zheng He, in the early 15th Century. butions. How about we make an effort a posh name for “God of the gaps”.One On several occasions the fleets traveled to be a little more optimistic and positive has only to look at the number of gaps along the northern coast of Oman to about ourselves and our nation? It might that have been filled in over the past and from the Straits of Hormuz, and this even make us more happy inside. century to be certain that the same will will be the area for our investigations. Claire Wagner could well criticise happen to our own gaps in the future. However, very few remains of these Qantas as “the world’s most monolingual It is rather like the explanations given fleets have ever been found and a number

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‘Tis the season when our thoughts inevitably turn to anagrams and an old man known as Belsnickle, writes Vice-Chancellor Professor Gavin Brown AO.

hen the Christmas decora- We get Belsnickle from the tions started going up at Pennsylvania-Dutch. The name is a WRandwick Racecourse in corruption of the German, Pels-Nickle, mid-November I was reminded of Nicholas with furs, and he roamed the curious fact that Saturnalia is an the region searching for good children anagram of Australian. This leads to to be rewarded with nuts and fruit, the crossword clue ‘Pagan festival and bad children to be admonished confuses antipodean’ which, in its own and even struck sharply with his rod. right, is a succinct statement of both Well jolly old Belsnickle seems Vice-Chancellor Professor Gavin Brown. the robustness and the ambiguity of pleased with us this year. We had an cross-cultural borrowings. outstanding performance in the In the Southland we celebrate two Australian Research Council grants, ancient festivals from the North while leading the nation yet again and slip-slopping factor 15 on the beach. winning more than all the other In both cases we remain alert but not Sydney-based universities put alarmed by the dark days of winter as together. Because this measures we invoke the gods of harvest and of weight of support money it is based the sun, scheduled to return in due mainly on Science and Technology. course. Apparently it is Mythras who Accordingly it was good to see our gives the birthday date of December Humanities and Social Sciences 25, appropriated in 353AD by Pope earn their place in the sun through Liberius for Christian business. the university rankings in the London My grasshopper mind recalls another Times. In Social Sciences, Sydney puzzle. Why do mathematicians confuse was placed 19th amongst the world Halloween and Christmas Day? It is universities with a citation rate per because October 31 equals December paper which led the Southern 25, or, to be more specific, the number Hemisphere. In the category of Arts 31 in counting to base 8 is the same as and Humanities, the University of 25 in base 10. Sydney was ranked at number 5 Most people can name Santa’s reindeer after only Cambridge, Oxford, (St. Nicholas being bishop of Myra) Harvard and Berkeley. from the 1848 poem by Clement Charles Belsnickle may worry about our Moore, but Rudolph is a ring-in, from, humility because we were also “Although our I think, a Montgomery Ward department selected as the host university for ambition is unlimited, store catalogue in the late 1930s. If you the United States Studies Centre, want some truly challenging festive kicked off by a $25 million grant we will work hard trivia name Santa’s reindeer as invented from the Federal Government to the to provide a valuable by L. Frank Baum, creator of the Wizard American Australian Association. of Oz. Successful with the Wicked Witch We are good children and, although resource for all of the West and the Cowardly Lion, he our ambition is unlimited, we will of Australia”. failed miserably with his listing of work hard to provide a valuable Gnossie and Flossie, Racer and Pacer, resource for all of Australia to Reckless and Speckless, Fearless and forge understanding between our Peerless, Ready and Steady. two countries.

4 sydney alumni magazine news China links strengthened Alumni celebrations in Shanghai and Hong Kong

he University of Sydney has managers have been investigating alumni attended this event, which show- strengthened its foothold in further research and collaborative links cased the importance of the network to TChina with a first-ever gradua- with Chinese universities including University alumni programs in China. tion ceremony and alumni reunion Fudan and Jiao Tong. In the following week, the University in Shanghai, the city at the heart of The conspicuous yellow robes of hosted another graduation ceremony, China’s economic boom. economics and business graduates were this time in Hong Kong. More than 130 University Chancellor Justice Kim an indication that more than 50 per graduates filled the ballroom of Hong Santow welcomed more than 300 people, cent of Chinese students at Australian Kong’s Conrad Hotel, receiving their graduates and their families to Shanghai’s universities are studying business courses. degrees from the Chancellor. Grand Theatre on November 1 for the Many came to Sydney with a clear An alumni reception at the Hong degree presentation ceremony. view of returning to China and playing a Kong Bankers’ Club on 1 November The Shanghai setting was far removed role in the country’s ‘economic miracle’. attracted over 250 people. Hosts of the from the sandstone and ivy of the Quad- Much of the boom is centred on event were the Vice-Chancellor, the rangle at Sydney. But as Vice-Chancellor Shanghai, where 14 successive years of Chancellor and Professor John Wong Gavin Brown pointed out, the occasion double-digit GDP growth have made it (BSc (Med) ’64, PhD ’72, HonMD ’95), gave many Chinese parents an opportu- one of the world’s fastest growing chairman of the Department of nity they would otherwise have missed cities. With a population approaching Surgery, University of Hong Kong. to share in their children’s success. 20 million, it is the biggest city in China Professor Wong spoke of his pride in Professor Brown said the Shanghai and the eighth biggest in the world. the University and the value of alumni graduation ceremony and associated The Shanghai graduation was pre- networks in both a professional and alumni events “make a statement about ceeded by an alumni reunion dinner to personal sense. the strength of Sydney’s commitment celebrate the China Alumni Network, to China”.University deans and faculty established in Beijing in 2006. Over 300 – Richard North photo: Rodney Evans

Vice-Chancellor Professor Gavin Brown with graduates in Shanghai … making a statement about Sydney’s commitment to China.

summer 2006 5 Sydney to host US Studies Centre Commonwealth pledges $25 million endowment; opinion survey to measure our attitudes to the US

he University of Sydney has been “The University of Sydney has an selected to host Australia’s new excellent standing, both in Australia and The first year’s agenda TUS Studies Centre. overseas, and its links with institutions Highlights planned for the first year The new think tank, which will be in the US will complement and provide of the US Studies Centre include: Australia’s leading centre for research leadership on current Australian- into American political, economic and United States educational endeavours.” • A national opinion survey meas- cultural issues, will be based both at It is anticipated that the NSW uring what Australians think the University’s Camperdown campus Government will also provide financial about the United States and in the heart of Sydney’s central support for the centre. Additional funds • A national summit on US studies business district. have been raised from the private sector. which will include an academic The chairman of the American Donors include (BA conference and public forum Australian Association, Malcolm Binks, ’77, LLB ’78) and Lucy Turnbull (LLB ’82), including lectures and workshops announced the decision on November 14 News Corporation, and the Lowy family. • A classic American film festival at the association’s fund-raising dinner “We are very excited to be working run in cooperation with University attended by the Prime Minister, John with the University of Sydney,” said the of California, Los Angeles’ School Howard (LLB ’61), the chairman and AAA’s Malcolm Binks. “The centre will of Theatre, Film and Television chief executive of News Corporation, make a vital contribution to the enhance- which has the world’s largest Rupert Murdoch, NSW Premier Morris ment of the already outstanding rela- university-held collection of Iemma (BEcon ’84) and other business, tionship between our two countries.” motion pictures and broadcast political and academic leaders. The new centre, which will have its programming. In a statement issued soon after, own governing board of directors, has Prime Minister John Howard said: been established with the specific purpose will run an active executive education “During my visit to the United States of deepening the appreciation and and public outreach program which in May this year, I announced, as a joint understanding of American culture, its will include short courses, debates, initiative with the American Australian political climate and government, and public lectures and forums. Association, that Govern- with strengthening the relationship The University’s submission was ment would contribute $25 million between the two countries. made after consultation with academic towards the establishment of a United University of Sydney Vice-Chancellor and business advisers in the United States Studies Centre at a prestigious Professor Gavin Brown said: “This is a States and Australia who identified core Australian university. centre for all of Australia. The University themes for the centre. These included “I would like to congratulate the of Sydney is honoured to host it.” power and democracy; wealth creation University of Sydney on its selection by As well as a strong academic program and rights protection; and American the American Australian Association to including postgraduate research studies thinking, focussing on US social, host the Centre. at Masters and PhD level, the centre cultural and media studies.

Key scholars in American studies Many of Australia’s key scholars in American studies are currently at the University of Sydney. They include: • Professor Shane White (BA ’79, PhD ’89), one of the world’s leading authorities on African-American culture; • Professor Jennifer Hill (BA ’87, LLB ’79), an expert on corporate governance; • Professor Helen Irving (PhD ’87, LLB ’01), who holds the Harvard Chair in Australian studies; • Professor Ed Blakely, an urban planning expert who has advised US administrations after major disasters; and • Professor Alan Dupont, one of Australia’s foremost thinkers on international security. Professor Helen Irving ... Harvard Chair.

6 sydney alumni magazine Heavyweight support for US initiative Concerns about Australia’s perception of America fuelled the US Studies Centre idea, as Valerie Lawson reports.

upert Murdoch’s reaction to a poll revealing Australia’s negative Rfeelings about the United States was the spark that led to an A-list benefit dinner hosted by the American Aust- ralian Association on November 14. Murdoch, chairman and chief executive of News Corporation, who was honoured at the dinner as “a quintessential American Australian”, was horrified at last year’s Lowy Institute poll that showed only Indonesia, the Middle East, Iran and Iraq generated fewer positive feelings than the United States. The poll found that of the 39 per cent of Australians who felt negatively towards the US, almost all thought Australia paid too much attention to Washington’s views. Murdoch asked Malcolm Binks, chairman of the American Australian Association, and Michael Baume, its patron, what they were going to do about the survey result. The two men then raised the idea of a United States Studies Centre with the former minister for education, Brendan Nelson, and received the enthusiastic backing of Baume’s friend photo: aap the Prime Minister, John Howard. Prime Minister John Howard, Janette Howard, Rupert Murdoch, and the chairman of It was announced at the November the American Australian Association, Malcolm Binks … convergent views. 14 dinner that the University of Sydney would host the centre, a joint initiative between the association and Canberra and Washington has arguably to $35,000 a table, also raised money the Australian Government. Murdoch never been stronger.” for the fellowship program for Australian commented on the “strained relation- The new centre would conduct and US postgraduate scholars to study ship” between the US and France. He research, raise awareness, dispel in both countries. said “none of us wants to see America myths, groom new leaders and increase The American Australian Association and Australia share the same fate”. ties between the two countries, Ltd, formed in Australia this year, is an “First and foremost, Australians must Mr Murdoch said. affiliate of the 58-year old US-based resist and reject the facile, reflexive, Prime Minister Howard attended the American Australian Association Inc. unthinking anti-Americanism that has dinner as a special guest, along with Murdoch’s links to the US association gripped much of Europe. Recent surveys , Malcolm Fraser, began when he bought into the US have shown such sentiment to be more Andrew Peacock, Frank Lowy, Sol media in 1973, 12 years before he prevalent than ever, and perhaps even Trujillo, Murdoch’s son Lachlan and his became a naturalised US citizen. His on the rise … wife, Sarah, and their friends Collette father, Sir Keith Murdoch, was one “This is not to indict the current Dinnigan and Baz Luhrmann. Also of its founders. government for this problem. During present were the NSW Premier, Morris Prime Minister Howard’s premiership Iemma, and his predecessor Bob Carr. Reprinted with permission from the the working relationship between The dinner, for which guests paid up Sydney Morning Herald.

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Sydney welcomes its first indigenous research fellow

Joe Gumbula, a Yolngu elder, scholar, and musician, has won ARC funding to identify and contextualise a history where none was thought to exist. Julie Ji reports.

ustralian Research Council (ARC) which have been hidden away for reveals the common ground on which funding of $245,000 over two decades in boxes in the University of we can talk about the history of Ayears will enable the University’s Sydney Archives. pre-Commonwealth Australia in a way first indigenous research fellow, Joe “I am very happy that the work I am that honours and respects the Yolngu Gumbula, to start work on a historic doing will be for future generations, and other indigenous peoples of project in 2007. both in Arnhem Land and for Australia Australia,” said Gumbula’s mentor on Gumbula is a Gupapuyngu Yolngu in general,” Gumbula said. the project, Aaron Corn, an ARC Elder from North East Arnhem At the north eastern tip of the Australian post-doctoral fellow in the Land, and is recognised as a leading Northern Territory, Arnhem Land is Conservatorium of Music. authority on Yolngu law, knowledge one of the most remote regions in Gumbula will work to identify and and material culture. Australia and had no English-speaking contextualise the collection of photo- His research will involve examining presence until the 1920s. graphs and sound recordings taken by the earliest known collection of photo- “The area was considered to have early missionaries and anthropologists. graphs, audio recordings and personal no history, just natives in the bush, They include records of his own records from North East Arnhem Land so this project is significant because it immediate family. In his previous work with Museum Victoria and the National Museum of Australia, Gumbula not only examined and studied records from Arnhem Land but also returned digital copies of them to the Yolngu community. “Technology has made it possible for me to bring back these photos and audio records back to my community; it was the first time many people had seen these pictures of their families from 60 to 70 years ago,” he said. Dr Corn said that, until recently, early records from Arnhem Land were rarely shown or returned to their source communities and the partnership with the University Archives had important ramifications for the Yolngu.“These people are now seeing how they lived at the time of first contact with Anglo- photo: Aaron Corn Australia. They feel better grounded in their community and history, and are Sydney's first indigenous research fellow, Joe Neparrnga Gumbula (left), with able to see their families long gone in a Dhamanydji Gaykamangu ... sifting the University archives.

8 sydney alumni magazine “My people really University maintains gold standard in look forward to me Australian Research Council funding continuing my work because it affects The University’s run of success in attracting research funding has continued with a commanding performance in this year’s Australian Research Council how we think about (ARC) awards. ourselves as Yolngu The latest round of ARC allocations gives Sydney more than $49 million for 120 research projects starting in 2007. The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Gavin and our place in Brown, said the results would bolster Sydney's position at the leading edge of the world.” international research and generate “an ethos of intellectual creativity” at the University. – Joe Gumbula The biggest winners were the School of Chemistry, the School of Physics and the Faculty of Engineering. Professor Peter Harrowell from theoretical way that validates their struggle for chemistry shares in the University’s biggest award of more than $1.7 million cultural survival and language mainte- for a five-year project looking at the fundamental physical chemistry of super- nance,” said Dr Corn. “In essence, these cooled liquids, a project of significant interest to Australian manufacturing records help to keep this struggle alive.” and pharmaceutical industries. The records are from the personal The project will bring world renowned physical chemist Austen Angell archives of A.P. Elkin, Professor of to Sydney on a professorial fellowship. Professor Angell, an Australian, is Anthropology at the University from currently at the University of Arizona. 1934 to 1956 and an expert in Sydney’s Federation Fellows feature prominently in the list of award winners. Aboriginal history and culture. Cathy Stampfl heads a research team in the School of Physics that will receive “These archives have never been $330,000 over three years to investigate hydrogen as an alternative energy shown to the public before,” said Dr source to fossil fuel. Corn. “This project will produce findings Professor Rick Shine, another Federation Fellow and a regular winner of of world heritage significance.” research grants, receives $503,683 over three years for a project to help predict As a Yolngu Elder, Gumbula has which native species are at risk from cane toads in North West Australia. decades of experience in Yolngu law, Projects with tangible social benefits are a notable feature on the list of ceremonial leadership, and traditional funded projects. Dr Jason Sharman in economics receives $488,000 over song, dance and design, but holds no five years for research to counter international crime and terrorism by university qualifications. Dr Corn tackling their financial underpinnings such as money laundering; while said his research fellowship represented Professor Branka Vucetic in electrical and information engineering receives a major leap forward in academic $200,000 for a one-year research project looking at the development of 4G recognition of the unique and wireless technology. – Richard North invaluable knowledge held by indigenous Australians. “This is essentially an accord between our community of scholars and the great intellectual traditions of indigenous Australia. It shows we are mature enough to learn from rather than fear alternative ways of thinking about the world around us,” said Dr Corn. Gumbula has also been selected by the University Senate to receive an honorary Doctorate of Music. The award recognises his work as a musician, scholar and community elder whose work in teaching and preserving Yolngu culture has had a lasting impact. “My people really look forward to me continuing my work to bring back more knowledge to the community because it affects how we think about ourselves as Yolngu and our place in Professor Rick Shine ... studying native species at risk. the world,” he said.

summer 2006 9 Court in the

Senior crown prosecutor, Mark Tedeschi QC (LLB '74), earlier this year celebrated his sixth solo photo- graphic exhibition, this time at the Justice and Police Museum in Sydney. The exhibition, titled Court in the act, featured photographs of court interiors, court staff and legal personalities, particularly around the Darlinghurst courthouse. Tedeschi has prosecuted many of the major trials in , including the trials of , Neddy Smith, the murderers of Dr , the Hilton Hotel bombing trials, John Laws, Philip Bell, Dolly Dunn, Phuong Ngo, Kathleen Folbigg, Sef Gonzales and Bruce Burrell. Tedeschi has been a passionate photographer since 1988. His images are included in the New South Wales Art Gallery collection and the National Library in Canberra. Over 150 of his images are in the NSW State Library. He has published in photographic journals and his photographs have been included in many books, including the definitive text on Australian photography Eye for photography (2005) by Alan Davies and also Lucy Photos by Turnbull's (LLB '82) iconic Sydney: a Biography (1999). Mark Tedeschi QC

Justice (BA '54, LLB '58, LLD '00) act

Chester Porter QC (LLB '47)

Silence Please

Margaret Cuneen (LLM '89) Not guilty, your Honour alumni updates

A confederation of physicists

Four out of five Federation these Federation Fellows account for University. He leads the Complex Fellows in the School five of the 124 Federation Fellowships Systems Group, which includes brain awarded throughout Australia. dynamics, plasma theory, space physics, of Physics have been Professor Ben Eggleton has returned to nanoscience, and theoretical astrophysics. here before, writes Australia after a spell at Bell Laboratories His work, and that of his colleagues, Alison Muir. in the US to take up the position of has enhanced our understanding of research director at the Centre for the physical basis of brain activity, Ultrahigh bandwith Devices for winning a Eureka Prize for he University of Sydney’s School Optical Systems (CUDOS). Interdisciplinary Research. of Physics has an impressive “It is a fact that young scientists have Professor Marcela Bilek’s research Tconcentration of Federation to go overseas for exposure to big scale focuses on the use of plasma-based Fellows, thanks to the work of four programs,” Professor Eggleton says. methods to modify surfaces and create University alumni: Professors Marcela “CUDOS is looking to reverse that new materials. Her research can prolong Bilek (BSc ’91), Ben Eggleton (BSc ’93, trend. We’ve become a vehicle not only the life of building materials, for example, PhD ’97), Bryan Gaensler (BSc ’95, for young Australian researchers but also and material used in prosthetic limbs. PhD ’99) and Peter Robinson (BSc ’84, for researchers from around the world.” “The Federation Fellowship has PhD ’87). Professor Peter Robinson’s work, Together with their School of Physics meanwhile, has been supported by the Continued on page 13, after the Sydney colleague, Professor Cathy Stampfl, Australian Research Council and the Annual supplement. December 2006 SydneySydney AnnualAnnual A REPORT ON ACHIEVEMENT AND PHILANTHROPY

MARK ELKINS’ RESEARCH BREAKTHROUGH cover story: page 4 > VICE-CHANCELLOR’S MESSAGE Ambition inspired by achievement

We must retain the capacity and the imagination to leap into the unknown, writes Vice-Chancellor Professor Gavin Brown AO.

t is a rare bird who finds financial data compulsive In all of this we are heavily indebted, and reading. Even mathematicians, familiar with deeply grateful, to those who support us by Imulti-dimensional spaces and equations which benefaction. The University is committed to involve only letters (preferably Greek), have eyes investing in its own future but we can do so which glaze over when confronted by columns of much more with the help of our friends. A fine numbers. Arithmetic is for lesser beings. example is the Brain and Mind Research This is a great pity when it comes to understanding Institute, recent location of a highly successful how the University is travelling because the bottom Asia-Pacific conference, where the University line is also the enabling resource. Just as our rugby made the initial investment and has since XV won the grand final through discipline as well as received significant support from committed flair, so too do our recent achievements in research, individuals and, through them, from federal and teaching and student life depend fundamentally on a state governments. base of disciplined financial prudence. We are grateful for support for the new Law Sadly, league tables of universities do not award School on campus. It is on track, first as a gigantic brownie points for operating surplus and its wise hole and recently as the deepest open-air re-investment. Sadly, because we are clear national swimming pool in the Southern Hemisphere. leaders in this area. Until a few years ago it would The space, however, will soon be transformed have been seen as reprehensible not to overspend into a magnificent building and will allow each year. Demonstrated helplessness was the recipe imaginative outreach activities from the existing for winning government support – and it still seems Phillip Street premises. to work for those who play that game, in Australia if Even as the Campus 2010 building program not elsewhere. is realised, we have a bold vision and pressing In opening our stunning new building for the need for research infrastructure for the medical School of Information Technologies, I noted that we biosciences. A close reading of our financial had funded the project accounts shows that blue ribbon research, in ourselves from operational which we lead Australia as measured through “We are heavily savings. Of course, I added ARC and NH&MRC, costs us money because that it is designed to be a grants do not provide necessary overheads. indebted, and deeply honey pot, accommodating a There is an issue of government strategy here grateful, to those research boom and drawing which requires a political solution, but, in keeping collaborative partners for with our basic philosophy of self-help, we can who support us shared success. also become more adept at deploying our by benefaction.” The message is that we research strengths to garner additional resources. are prudent rather than rich Never comfortable with describing ambition and we evaluate our priorities more than achievement, I should return to the with great care. There is an apposite Japanese proverb league tables which I mentioned. The most to the effect that one taps the stone bridge before recent international listing was compiled by venturing upon it. Newsweek and it is the one which best accords

2 with my personal impressions, even if the Times placed Sydney a little higher in world rankings. As you know, our aspirational slogan for the University as a whole is 1:5:40. Newsweek gave us 2:5:50. We were one of only two Australian universities in the world top 50, with ANU in the lead. Melbourne led the group of five in the second 50. Newsweek is highly derivative of the two existing indices but removes the subjective element from the Times Higher Education Supplement’s methodology and the highly variable Nobel Prize factor from the Chinese index. Nobody has found a way to incorporate the quality of the student experience. Presumably it is regarded as too subjective and difficult to translate across national boundaries. Perhaps we could throw in Olympic achievement as a surrogate? The opening of the IT building coincided with the 50th anniversary of the SILLIAC computer. The celebrations for that event were outstanding and Harry Messel was in fine form. Surrounded by sceptics in 1957, Harry showed unflagging energy and absolute faith in having built at the University of Sydney a clumsy expensive monster of a machine which had unlimited potential but little immediate payoff. By that act of will he ensured that Australia was at the forefront of the computer revolution. We must have the capacity and the imagination to make similar leaps into the unknown today, and history shows that no panel of wise advisors setting national priorities is likely to do it for us. ■ Vice-Chancellor Professor Gavin Brown. g{tÇ~ çÉâ

To all of the alumni and friends who have supported The University of Sydney with your generous gifts. Your support helps provide the critical resources necessary to continue the University's landmark contributions to teaching, learning and discovery and ensures an even stronger University of Sydney for future generations of students and scholars. MEDICAL RESEARCH Trust makes a difference

A refugee from Nazi Europe was years ahead of his time when he set up a fund to raise money for medical research.

hen patients with cystic fibrosis began reporting that their lungs felt clearer Wafter surfing, it raised the possibility that salt water was making the difference. Preliminary research had left many questions unanswered, so in 1999 Mark Elkins began prepara- tions for a national trial to test a salt water solution as a treatment for cystic fibrosis. Seven years later, inexpensive saline – inhaled through a nebuliser twice a day – is being used to treat cystic fibrosis around the world. For co-ordinating the trial of this ingenious treatment Elkins, a doctoral candidate at Sydney, recently received the inaugural Sir Zelman Cowen Universities Fund prize for discovery in medical research. Designed to reward innovative research by young scientists, the $5000 award is the latest initiative of the Sir Zelman Cowen Universities Fund, a charitable trust that supports the advancement of medical knowledge. A Sydney businessman, the late John Hammond, established the fund in 1978 to raise money for research projects at the University of Sydney and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His vision was to find new treatments and cures for conditions that were proving resistant to those already available. So far, the Fund has provided millions of dollars for research into AIDS, diabetes, cultured skin for burns victims, the early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s and many other areas.

Doctoral candidate Mark Elkins … ingenious treatment for cystic fibrosis. The gift of “John Hammond knowledge wanted to alleviate human suffering, The University of Sydney achieved a new bench- and he felt not mark in philanthropic enough money was achievement for 2005, according to the Vice- being devoted to Principal of University pure research to Relations, Don Wilson. Vice-Principal of University achieve that.” Relations, Don Wilson. spirit of giving has emerged among our alumni and we “Adeeply appreciate the generosity they have shown,” says VP Don Wilson. “More than $32 million was contributed by According to Michael Dunkel, one of the fund’s individuals as well as trusts, corporations and trustees, that focus on research put John Hammond foundations during the year, making a difference ahead of his time. to teaching, research and across the spectrum “He wanted to alleviate human suffering, and of University life.” Projects benefiting from this philanthropy he felt not enough money was being devoted to include new facilities for the Law School on the pure research to achieve that. Giving to research has Camperdown Campus and the headquarters for increased in recent years among philanthropists Pharmacy in the Bank and Badham buildings. such as Warren Buffett, but John was ahead of Gifts are also creating new scholarships and his time.” new academic positions such as the Hintze Another purpose of the fund is to foster Chair in International Security. co-operative study between the University of But Wilson says giving must keep growing if Sydney and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for the University is to maintain its position. the benefit of both institutions. Money is given to “The quality of our research and teaching is co-operative projects – current research topics of a global calibre,” he says. “But providing include malaria and the vascular basis of dementia quality is expensive, and if we are to continue – as well as to staff and student exchanges. providing Australia’s students with facilities on Originally from Hungary, John Hammond’s a par with the world's best universities, we family fled Europe during the rise of the Nazis, must look to increasing gift income to bridge arriving in Sydney in 1938. After achieving success the gap caused by the precipitous decline in in business, John began giving his money to a range federal funding.” of charitable causes, including the Sir Zelman According to Wilson, many alumni are Cowen Universities Fund, named in honour of the surprised when they hear that the Government former governor-general of Australia. gives Sydney less than 20 per cent of its budget “His motivation was to return some of his in uncontested block grant funding and that the personal wealth for the benefit of humanity,” rest has to come from fees, investments, Dunkel says.“John felt most people had a contribution commercial enterprises and philanthropy. to make, but couldn't afford to. He could afford it, so “Although much has been achieved, Sydney that’s what he did.” ■ remains behind universities in America and other Commonwealth countries in terms of the Key Contact philanthropic support it receives. At the same Sue Freedman-Levy time, we are competing on the world stage with Tel: (02) 9351 6558 these universities for the best academic staff Email: [email protected] and students. That is why the support of our www.szcuf.org.usyd.edu.au alumni and friends is so important.” ALUMNI AND FRIENDS

Annual Fund provides a vital link

Gifts to the Annual Fund go straight to the areas donors specify, or wherever they’re most needed.

6 omework is important,”was the advice Shirley Hokin (BSc ’42, DipEd ’43) “Hremembers her mother giving her as she grew up in Bondi in the Depression. Life was difficult – three generations lived in the one small cottage – but Shirley’s parents were convinced that education was the key to a better life. So Shirley and her brother Ernest (BSc ’46, DipEd ’47) studied for their matriculation exams and both won Teachers’ College scholarships to attend the University of Sydney. “At University, life was serious. We were well aware that to succeed we had to pass our exams, so Many alumni and friends around the world we got on with our studies,” she recalls. have contributed to the fund, which provides a vital After graduating, she taught geography and channel of support for areas ranging from scholar- then rose through the ranks to become principal of ships and research to building restoration. As North Sydney Girls’ High, a school with a long-held administration costs are sourced elsewhere, gifts to reputation for academic success. the Annual Fund go directly to the areas donors On her retirement, Shirley decided to give back specify and where they are needed most. to the institution that she says had a pivotal Shirley began by supporting the library and influence on her. “The University of Sydney set us now directs her gift to the University’s current on the right path: it allowed us to get degrees and to priorities. “I’m very grateful for what the University lead worthwhile lives.” has done for me and my brother, and this is my way For two decades she was a member of the of repaying it. Education is a very important thing: Chancellor's Committee, giving guided tours of as a teacher, I can't think of anything better.” ■ Sydney’s famous cloisters and working in the committee’s shop. In 1993 she made her first Key contact: contribution to the Annual Fund, the University’s Suzi Devine, Annual Fund Manager yearly fundraising program, and has been a donor Ph: (02) 9036 5165 every year since then. Email: [email protected]

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In recognition of donors to the University of Sydney in 2005

The University of Sydney thanks the following individuals and organisations for their generous gifts. This list includes individuals and organisations who have donated funds of $10,000 or more to the University of Sydney in the 2005 calendar year. Space does not permit us to include the names of the further 5,815 donors who contributed amounts less than $10,000. However, we gratefully acknowledge their generosity and we recognise that every gift counts. We also appreciate and thank our many donors who wish to remain anonymous.

INDIVIDUAL DONORS Neil Burns Alexander Cambitoglou, AO $100,000 - $499,000 Alan Cameron, AM Tom Austin Brown John and Helen Carter Thomas Cropper Cecil Churm, OBE William P R Gibson, AM Leigh W Delbridge H. Phillip Greenberg Paul Espie Dorothy E Lamberton Lady Fairfax, AC OBE Seng-Huang Lee Rob Ferguson Margaret J Ure Lucinda A Frantz Jane Fulton $10,000 – $99,000 James Graham David Anstice Elizabeth Hawker Yvonne Austen Francis M Hooper C Axelsen Mathilde Kearny-Kibble L Berson Patrick Kilby Richard D Boon Steve Killelea Mrs Marian Borgelt (Gift in Kind) W. Bruce and Juliet Kirkpatrick John Boultbee, AM The L'Estrange Family L Brancourt Ching Ma Ross Brown, AM RFD ED Ann M Macintosh A father’s honour

oseph Habib (BA DipLaw (SAB) ’93) and eÉÄÄ his wife Miriam lend their support to more eÉÄÄ Jthan 15 philanthropic causes. But two Sydney University scholarships are especially close to their hearts, for they were created in the name of their parents. ECCH When his father Nemettallah died, Joseph wanted a permanent way to remember the ECCH man who had migrated from Lebanon. So in 1998 Joseph created the annual Nemettallah and Kamle Habib Family Scholarship, which provides $1000 for research into cardiovas- Harry Messel, AC CBE cular diseases. “He was a well-read man who never had Charles F Moore the chance to go to university. This way, his Jonathan M Morris name will be heard in the University's halls David A Mortimer, AO every year,” explains Joseph. Stephen C Newnham Miriam decided to remember her own father through the Colin Gladstone Harrison G R (Rowan) Nicks, OBE Family Scholarship, which offers $1000 to Anne O’Brien postgraduates undertaking research into John O'Reilly curriculum development. It was a fitting Shelley Phillips memorial, Miriam says, for a man who was Geoff Pike passionate about developing school curricu- lums around the world. Lady Proud Supporters of the University of Sydney Neil Radford since 1993, the couple most recently con- Garry and Susan Rothwell tributed to the Cell and Gene Trust headed Joan Rowe by Professor John Rasko of the Faculty of Medicine. Joan Rydon “We wouldn’t necessarily call ourselves Andrew Simons philanthropists: we just feel that if you’re Joseph Skrzynski, AM working and you’re well enough, you should Chris J Smithers share what you have,” says Miriam. Pierre St. Just Fred Street, AM and Dorothy Street Rade Subota Jean Isobel Swirles Ven Tan Aida Tomescu (Gift in Kind) John Toon John O Ward F. Michael Wong John Wong Dennis K S Yue Garry and Roslyn Zell

Miriam and Joseph Habib ... sharing what they have. CORPORATE DONORS & FOUNDATIONS The Reginald Ward & Adrian Cotter Foundation $100,000 – $499,000 The 60th Dhammachai Education Australian Capital Foundation Donald Boden Memorial Trust Digital Support Services Pty Ltd Trustees of the Claffy Foundation Dunn Family Trust Sir Zelman Cowen Universities Fund Eli Lily Australia Pty Limited The Lincoln Centre Epitan Limited Mulpha Australia Limited The Finkel Foundation North Shore Heart Research Foundation Fozzard's Consulting Engineers Pain Management Research Institute Limited Freehills Rasay Pty Limited The Helpmann Family Foundation Schering Pty Limited Hill Foundation Pty Ltd Vincent Fairfax Family Foundation IBM Australia Limited The University of Sydney USA Foundation Inc. International Myeloma Foundation Janssen Pharmaceutical KK $10,000 – $99,000 James N Kirby Foundation Pty Limited Amgen Australia Pty Limited The Karen Lynch Foundation AnorMED Inc. Lo-Chlor Chemicals Apex Laboratories Pty Limited Maple-Brown Charitable Foundation Limited Arminella Pty Ltd Macquarie Bank Australian Dental Association (NSW Branch) Macquarie Bank Foundation Limited Matist (Aust.) Pty Limited Australian Diabetes Society Edward and Emily McWhinney Foundation Australian Natural Care Products Pty Limited Medtronic Australasia Pty Limited Australian Pain Relief Association Merrylands RSL Club Limited Australian Society of Orthodontists' The Millennium Foundation Foundation Ministry for Education and Religion (Greece) Barbouttis Tyler & Co NAI Fletchers Fotographics Pty Ltd The Baxter Charitable Foundation National Heart Foundation of Australia, Bayer CropScience Pty Ltd NSW Division Blake Dawson Waldron Ophthalmic Research Institute of Australia Bristol-Myers Squibb Australia Pty Limited The Order of Australia Association Bruton Holdings Pty Limited Foundation Ltd The Lenore and Frank Buckle Family Trust OZWAC Australian Women & Children's Bus and Coach Industrial Association (NSW) Research Foundation The Cardiac Society of Australia & Parkinson's New South Wales Inc. New Zealand The Petre Foundation The Ken and Alse Chilton Charitable Trust The Population Council Community Health and Tuberculosis Pratt Foundation Australia Psoriasis Australia Inc. Consulate-General of Greece The Clive and Vera Ramaciotti Foundation The Rebecca L Cooper Medical Research The Returned & Services League of Foundation Limited Australia Limited

10 The Ross Family Trust Sports Rotary Club of Campbelltown Rotary Club of Sydney Cove alumni lend Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists a hand Royal Institute of Architects Sanofi-Synthelabo Australia Pty Limited The Julian Small Foundation ccording to Rod Tubbs (BEc ’70), sport Sony Foundation Australia Limited at the University of Sydney gave him Athe best 10 years of his life. Southern Scene Pty Limited Ten years ago Rod decided to give back to Sydney Eye Hospital Foundation the Sydney University Sport, lending his Sydney Water Corporation (Gift in Kind) time and expertise to organise functions for Symbion Health the Blue & Gold Club – a social and fundraising network. He soon realised there were Tenix Investments Pty Limited thousands of alumni with fond memories of Tetra-L Corporation Pty Limited their sporting days, but who had drifted Transfield Services away from the University. Westmead Institute of Reproductive Now manager of corporate and alumni relations for SU Sport, Rod urges these Medicine Ltd sporting alumni to return to their alma mater Woodend Foundation and lend their support. He has a personal Woodend Pty Limited history of gifts to sport at Sydney and believes philanthropy is critical to the survival of the University’s sporting tradition. ESTATES & BEQUESTS “Sport receives no government funding and our loss of income from the introduction Over $100,000 of voluntary student unionism will be dramatic. Estate of George Henderson It falls to our corporate and individual Estate of Margaret Henderson supporters to make up the shortfall,” he says. “We are aiming to raise $2.5 million for Estate of Fancy E Lawrence sporting scholarships. This will ensure that Estate of Esen Marshall 200 elite athletes get the chance to achieve Estate of Jack McGregor Stacey their ultimate sporting goals without Sir Hugh Denison Bequest compromising their education.” Eric Dreikurs Bequest Estate of Patrick Desmond Fitzgerald Murray Estate of Kurt Neubauer Estate of William Ritchie Neale G Sandbach Bequest Estate of Ellie Grace Smith Estate of Olive Margaret Stewart Elsie Mary Thompson Bequest Estate of John Atherton Young Estate of Sophie Valentina Ambroza Estate of Nicholas Anthony Aroney Estate of Robert Joseph Atkin Estate of Mavis Jean Best

Rodney Tubbs ... giving as good as he got. USA Foundation works with expatriate community

avid Anstice (BEc ’70) still remembers his first lecture 40 years ago by the Dlegendary Professor Hermann Black, later chancellor of the University of Sydney. “It was on a very specific subject – the European Economic Community – but he made it a universal one, about humanity trying to do things differently and better. He also taught me about the importance of never stopping learning,” Anstice says. A resident of the US since 1988, the senior executive with Merck & Co is a passionate supporter of the University, in recognition of those formative years. As well as being a personal donor, Anstice motivates other expatriate alumni to support Sydney as chairman of the USA Foundation, a fundraising body that has generated in gifts more than $2 million for teaching and research at the University since it was formed in 1993. In his role as a volunteer for the USA Foundation, Anstice plans to expand the ESTATES & BEQUESTS organisation’s funding base while strength- ening its network of supporters by holding Brigadier Harry Charles Bundock Bequest alumni events in cities across America. Estate of Gusta Gasson “We can’t rely on governments to be Estate of Philip Arthur Hanks the sole provider of education,” he says. Elise Herman Bequest “Individuals also have an obligation to play a strong supporting role. We to whom so much James McCartney Hill Bequest has been given owe much back in return.” Estate of Albert Himmelhoch, AM Hugh Hughes Bequest Key contact: Allison Louise Larsen Bequest Don Wilson, Vice-Principal, University Relations Rachel Lipton Bequest Ph: +61 2 9351 7638 Francis Henry Loxton Bequest Email: [email protected] Estate of Earnest Trenchard Miller Estate of Marjorie Millicent Mitcham Estate of Grace Mary Mitchell Neil Menzies Ogilvie Bequest Arthur Ronald Parker-Hughes Bequest Jacqueline Diana Oscar Paul Bequest Estate of Thomas Lawrance Pawlett Evelyn Pigot Bequest Estate of Alice Florence Ratford Estate of Dr William Peter Richards Robert Strauss MBE Estate of Marjorie Gwendolin Turner Estate of Edward J Vigo

David Anstice ... passionate supporter. PHARMACY Dispensing the right stuff

rancis Bacon wrote that we all owe Passion for the practice something to our profession, and I think “Fit’s up to us to convert that obligation of pharmacy keeps alumni into something tangible,” says pharmacist Ross such as Ross Brown and Brown (Hon MPharm ’97). It’s a sentiment shared by fellow pharmacists and John and Lyn Bronger University of Sydney alumni, Lyn and John Bronger. connected to campus. “Our careers have been a passionate adventure,” says Lyn Bronger (BPharm ’75), a joint director of the Chemistworks group with her husband John (BPharm ’71). “That passion for the practice of pharmacy is something we want to see nurtured in students today.” As head of the Pharmacy Guild of Australia, John Bronger worked closely with the Faculty of Pharmacy as it expanded its student intake. Both John and Lyn are closely involved with the University’s pharmacy alumni: John chairs the fundraising committee and Lyn works to redress the gender imbalance among Australia's pharmacists through the Women’s Network. As well as donating their time, both make generous gifts to the faculty in appreciation of the opportunities the University gave them. Similarly, Ross Brown has a long history of philanthropic support through the University’s alumni community. Brown is president of the Pharmacy Alumni Council, and has played a prominent role in the creation of four professorial positions in the Faculty of Pharmacy. Most recently, Brown helped create the new Chair in Pharmacy (Aged Care), which aims to improve the health of older people. “I deeply believe that pharmacists have been underutilised, and that they can take on a greater role in improving the health care of Australians,” he says. Brown adds that he is also motivated by a strong sense of allegiance to his alma mater: “I owe much of my modest success to what I learnt as an undergraduate at Sydney in the 1950s, both in lectures and in the culture of the wider University John and Lyn Bronger … close involvement with environment.” ■ future pharmacists.

13 LAW CAMPAIGNS Good grounds to appeal

The recent loss of two distinguished Law School graduates is being marked with fitting tributes.

hen news reached an American busi- nessman that a memorial appeal had Wbeen created to honour the late Justice Peter Hely (LLB ’67, 1944–2005), he immediately pledged $20,000. Seven years before, the man explained, Peter Hely had represented him in court and had made a lasting impression. As a barrister and on the bench of the Federal Court, Justice Hely was renowned for his ability to unravel tangled legal problems. His judgements were “chiselled, economical and speedily delivered”, as the High Court put it in Lockwood v Doric. 2005 Fundraising at the University of Sydney Now the appeal established to honour his contribution to the profession has raised more than Annual Fund $807, 650 Endowment $801, 458 $330,000 from University of Sydney alumni and others around the world in support of the next Grants $5, 325, 668 generation of law students. A visiting-scholar scheme will bring overseas experts in commercial law and equity to Sydney, while a scholarship will offer assistance to students who need financial help. “The aims of the appeal have a direct connection with Peter’s own interests and activities,” explains High Court Justice (BA ’64), who heads the appeal organising committee. “We wanted both to further those aims and to ensure a permanent memorial for Peter. “His death was very sudden and a great shock, and the response so far is a reflection of the general Other $7, 750, 877 esteem in which Peter was held.” Bequests $17, 480, 329 Sydney lawyers lost another distinguished colleague this year in well-known corporate lawyer

14 “Donations have come in from around the globe from people who have worked with Peter Cameron, and against him.” – Diccon Loxton

Peter Cameron (BA ’73, LLB ’76, 1951–2006). As with Justice Hely, Cameron’s family and friends are creating a lasting memorial in his honour. By October 2006, the appeal had raised over $460,000 to enable Sydney law graduates to study at Oxford University. “When Peter died of cancer at the age of 54, we decided that he would have liked to strengthen links between the two universities,” says Professor Ron McCallum, Dean of Sydney Law School, who points out that Peter's son is a Rhodes scholar studying for a Bachelor of Civil Law at Oxford. “This is a very special scholarship for me because I worked closely with Peter in his time as chair of the Law School Advisory Board. Peter touched the hearts and minds of very many people, and I know this is what he would have liked.” As with the late judge, many contributors to the Peter Cameron appeal accompanied their gifts with notes expressing fond memories and condolences. “Donations have come in from around the globe from people who have worked with him and against him, and were struck not only by his enormous professionalism but by his charm and humour,” says the appeal’s co-ordinator, Diccon Loxton (BA ’75, LLB ’78), who is a partner with Allens Arthur Robinson. ■

Key contact: Guy Houghton, Development Officer, Law Ph: +61 2 9351 0391 Fax: +61 2 9351 0200 Email: [email protected] Justice Dyson Heydon ... helped establish permanent memorial for the late Justice Peter Hely.

15 BEQUESTS

Affection leaves a lasting legacy

Many of the University’s icons were established through a bequest, a tradition that shows no signs of slowing.

hen I first came here, I had no idea why Australian people wanted to “Wstudy Japanese,”Associate Professor Sakuko Matsui recalls. “And I was very much afraid of anti-Japanese sentiment after the War.” Born in Osaka, Professor Matsui arrived in Australia in 1961 to teach Japanese literature at the University of Sydney. After that initial apprehension, she says she was warmly welcomed into the University family and has especially fond memories of her stint as a tutor at Women’s College. In a career that spanned four decades, she rose to become head of Japanese and Korean Studies before retiring from teaching in 2001. “I have the greatest affection and attachment to the University and its Japanese department,” says Professor Matsui, who today continues her research Sakuko Matsui ... at Sydney as an honorary associate professor. sees literature as a cultural bridge. She speaks of the joy of teaching, her lifelong

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$0 M Income from Research Government Other Students Funding Operating Grants Private Income 2004 $M 318.5 282.9 174.8 178.7 2005 $M 326.9 315.0 181.7 208.9 16 “I have the greatest friendships with colleagues and her pride in playing affection and attachment a role in the lives of so many students: one highlight was an afternoon tea at the Australian embassy in to the University and its Tokyo in 1995 with five of her former students, all Japanese department.” of whom had found jobs in the diplomatic service. Inspired by that affection, Professor Matsui – Sakuko Matsui decided last year to leave a bequest to the University in her will. The funds will go towards research and who inspired generations of Classics students, set education in the Japanese department, which has aside more than $6 million for the study of Ancient led the discipline in Australia since 1918. In that Greek at the University. Other benefactors use their year Sydney became the first university in the country contributions to achieve specific goals, such as to establish a Department of Oriental Studies, Robert Storr’s bequest, which is funding research teaching Japanese language and history. into liver disease. As well as supporting staff and students, Planning a bequest is only the latest show of Professor Matsui's contribution will help to ensure support from Professor Matsui, who has also that the study of Japanese literature and culture created prizes in Japanese studies and contributed flourishes into the future.“Studying literature is not funds for research. Over the past decade, she has practical, but you don't just study for practical even donated more than $70,000 worth of her own purposes – you do it to help you understand other books to the University library. cultures and other human beings,” she explains. “I already thought Fisher had a strong collection Bequests have long been an important channel of Japanese literature, and I wanted to make it even of support for the University and have established stronger,” she says. “I can also continue to use the many of its icons. The Great Hall itself was funded books: the Library's east Asian collection is more or by the John Henry Challis bequest, while a surprising less my second home anyway!” ■ gift in benefactor Thomas Fisher’s will was the catalyst for dramatically expanding the library's Key Contact: book collection. Gavin Thomson, As in the case of Professor Matsui, bequests Senior Development Officer, Planned Giving sometimes grow out of a long-held attachment to a Ph: +61 2 9036 9036 specific department or faculty. For example, last Fax: +61 2 9036 6150 year’s bequest by the legendary Professor Bill Ritchie, Email: [email protected]

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otal revenue for the University of Sydney increased These figures demonstrate the continuing transfer of the $77.6 million to $1,032.5 million in 2005. The primary cost of education by the Commonwealth Government to Tsources of revenue were research funding (which the student. In contrast, Commonwealth Government increased by $32.1 million), investments (up by $23.3 operating grant funding has declined in relative terms from million) and overseas student fees (up by $12.5 million). 18 per cent of revenue in 2004 to 17.4 per cent for 2005.

The University received $245.1 million in research funding The University's income from private sources in 2005 from Commonwealth Government agencies in 2005 reached $208.9 million. This represents an increase of (up from $212.1 million in 2004). $30.2 million over the previous year. A $23.3 million increase in investment income accounts for 77 per cent of The value of 2005 research funding represents 23.7 per the total increase in this category. cent of revenue, and places the University at the top of the field in research funding in Australia. The University's 2005 revenue was directed toward the following expenditure and reinvestment items: Income from students totalled $326.9 million in 2005. This represents an increase of $8.4 million (or 2.6 per cent) Academic staff employee benefits 29% over the 2004 amount of $318.5 million, and represents Non-academic staff employee benefits 25% 31.7 per cent of revenue. Equipment, materials, maintenance 18% Teaching & research contracts 11% Overseas student fees contributed $136.8 million (or 13.2 Other operating expenses 8% per cent) to revenue, and HECS contributed $117 million Capital works 9% (11.3 per cent).

18 ALUMNI RELATIONS Life after graduation

A smorgasbord of activities helps keep the University connected to its alumni communities.

rom a mummified cat to ivory cleaned with face cream by Agatha Christie, the Nicholson FMuseum’s Unearthed Tales exhibition is a treasure house of curious objects from the past. Open until mid-2007, the free exhibition brings to life a range of historical eras by telling the stories of individual artefacts, without assuming any specialised knowledge. For alumni, the University of Sydney can be a vibrant hub of cultural and sporting activities. As well as museums and galleries, the University offers lectures which alumni are encouraged to attend. Eminent speakers in 2006 included Justice Michael Kirby, Tim Flannery and many other public figures. One popular 2006 lecture series is Key Thinkers, which gave audiences the chance to explore the ideas of Plato, Marx, Immanuel Kant and others. Music provides another way for alumni to reconnect with university life. Concerts range from Great Hall organ and carillon recitals and Sunday chamber music concerts at the Conservatorium of Music, to rock bands playing in venues such as Manning Bar. Alumni also perform in highly regarded ensembles such as the Sydney University Graduate Choir. Off-campus events such as the Graduate Connections Breakfast series held in the Sydney CBD also provide alumni with access to interesting speakers – the first breakfast in 2007 will feature Paul Kelly (BA, DipEd ’69), editor-at-large at The Australian newspaper. Over 40 alumni associations on campus, in regional NSW and other Australian states offer an eclectic range of events, networking opportunities, service programs and communications for alumni. Internationally, alumni events and reunions are held across Asia, the USA and UK, and provide many opportunities for graduates to network with Detail of the god Thoth, taken from the coffin of fellow alumni. Padiashaikhet, c. 725–700 BC. From Egypt: The Black Visit www.usyd.edu.au/alumni for more details. Land, at the , until July 2007.

19 Key Contacts

Don Wilson Sade Nasser Guy Houghton Vice-Principal, Senior Development Officer, Development Officer, University Relations Major Gifts Law Ph: +61 2 9351 7638 Ph: +61 2 9036 9378 Ph: +61 2 9351 0391 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

Tracey Beck Gavin Thomson Kim Lockwood Director, Senior Development Officer, Development Officer, Alumni Relations Planned Giving Economics & Business Ph: +61 2 9351 3219 Ph: +61 2 9036 9036 Ph: +61 2 9036 6271 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

Nick Jaffer Sue Lord Rodney Tubbs Director, Development Officer, SU Sport Development Office Architecture Ph: +61 2 9351 7958 Ph: +61 2 9351 7395 Ph: +61 2 9351 5906 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

Sobhini Sinnatamby Lyn Conybeare Senior Development Officer, Development Manager, Major Gifts Conservatorium of Music Ph: +61 2 9036 5255 Ph: +61 2 9351 1329 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

This annual supplement was written by Chris Rodley with photos by Ted Sealy, Ross Barnett and Kristen Clarke. Editor: Dominic O’Grady. Design: tania edwards design. photo: Kiah Roache-Turner and Leigh Louey-Gung photo: Kiah Roache-Turner

Professor Ben Eggleton, Professor Marcela Bilek, Professor Cathy Stampfl, Professor Bryan Gaensler … Federation Fellows. continued from page 12 return to Australia. I was at Harvard best physics students. “To have four and needed to convince myself that I School of Physics alumni return as enabled me to focus on my research would not be going backwards by leaving. Federation Fellows shows that the and to build a substantial research However, the resources offered by the school is reaping what it sowed 10 to 20 team,” she says. “It has also enabled me Fellowship, the commitment to years ago,” he says. "It’s nice to come to expand interdisciplinary efforts.” research by this University, and the full circle from undergraduate to PhD Professor Bryan Gaensler gave up quality of students made me decide student to Federation Fellow. I now a professorial position at Harvard that moving to Sydney would provide see things from a different perspective. University in order to pursue his better opportunities.” I hope to contribute at a higher level." astronomy research as a Federation Professor Gaensler says the University It’s good to know these physicists Fellow. "It was a very difficult choice to of Sydney is a magnet for some of the once again call Australia home. essay Essay by Richard White Away The pleasures of idleness mean different things to different folk. For some, holidays are about status and service. But the die-hards enjoy nothing more than closing their eyes to the cacophony of modern life.

nce, when Australians faced the question of where to Where did that holiday come from and where has it gone? go for their holidays, the answer was often simple: Many of its elements had been sketched in by the end of the Owhere we always go. Each year the ritual would be the nineteenth century. Australians had already long had a reputation same: packing the kids in the car, sitting in a traffic jam getting for holiday-making: alone of Anglo-Saxon populations, they out of the city, enduring the long drive to the coast and the had adopted a kind of Mediterranean attitude to work and life, scorching vinyl seats, the cries from the back seat of ‘are we working to live, rather than living to work. Both convicts and there yet?’ and ‘he’s looking out of my window’, the Aboriginal people had been condemned for their lackadaisical Schadenfreude of passing other cars pulled over with their radi- attitudes to work soon after the British arrived. But even the ators boiling. The destination would be the same – often the Sydney Morning Herald could, in 1859, proclaim that: same camp-site or caravan or cabin at the same beach among the same people. And then, for two or three or four weeks, We are the children of the sunny south, and we borrow nothing much would happen until it was time to face the even from the clear skies above us, and from the general clime, more congested roads coming home. much of that lightness of heart and of that vivacity, which Now of course we are faced with far greater choice. The so eminently distinguish us as holiday-making people. standard Australian beach holiday has dissolved into a plethora of niches. We juggle short breaks now throughout the By the end of the century, many Australians were taking recog- year, and designer resorts have replaced the humble beachside nisably modern holidays. The wealthy had substantial holiday camping ground. homes. Others could enjoy the cheap guest-houses or great As Australian working lives become increasingly stressful, tourist hotels which sprang up in the new coastal resorts and memories of those older holidays are overwhelmingly positive. older ‘hill stations’ close to most colonial capitals. Even many Nostalgic retirees even turn the holidays they had as children workers could find some time to escape to a weekend’s camping into a permanent way of life. They might be seen through rose- or a visit to relatives, aided by cheap excursion fares, long coloured sunglasses but there is surprising unanimity in the weekends and some limited expectation of constant, fair and memories of holidays steeped in the simpler sensual pleasures reasonable wages. of childhood: long lazy days of vacancy, the sounds of surf and These kinds of holidays were a product of the second half of children's squeals, the smell of barbecues and sun-screen, the the nineteenth century, part of the massive transformations exquisite physical sensations of sunburn, thumping waves, salt brought about by modernity and urbanisation. The technologies drying on the skin and sand between the toes. of steamers, railways and photography had promoted the

14 sydney alumni magazine This changed in the 1950s. Where, between the wars, the car allowed a holiday away from the masses, it now became a The annual beach holiday gave democratic right. In 1946, there was one car for every 14 Australians; by 1960, it was one to 3.5. Now the vast majority of shape to the year's rhythms, the families had access to a car. The result was that the ‘individuality’ holy days of Christmas and Easter and ‘distinction’ that the car promised in the 1920s disappeared. Everyone had access to the holiday that was intended to get now meaningful for the holidays away from everyone else. they represented. The other fundamental precondition for the holiday boom was paid annual leave, which arrived along with full employment and job security. Through the 1940s and 1950s, in arbitration courts and in parliaments, a debate took place about the relative values of time and money. For all the flaws of the arbitration spaces to holiday in. The possibilities of profit for entrepre- system – it had some, though not nearly as many as those who neurs, and the transformation of work, helped create the time. destroyed it claimed – it did provide a forum for a debate as to And the experience of modern life itself, of the rush and routines whether productivity gains should take the form of more of modern cities, and new ways of thinking about time and leisure or more consumption. Workers consistently opted for space, had created the desire to get away in the first place. more leisure: shorter hours and longer holidays. For 35 years Robbed of its distinct identity by civilisation and work, the from the award of a week's paid annual leave to printing workers ‘true’ self could only be rediscovered, it was now thought, by in 1938, there was a steady move to establishing paid annual getting away on holiday. leave as a right, and then extending it. In NSW the McKell Yet in 1900 the modern holiday was far from democratic. Labor government passed an Annual Holidays Act in 1944, Many could only indulge in the holiday experience as a day trip providing all workers with two weeks paid leave. Then it became on a Sunday or public holiday or at best a long weekend. They three weeks, and then four. And then, in the 1970s, it stopped. could not afford a holiday overnight, and most had no provision for a holiday within their working conditions. Single women and many men and women with families were constrained by social convention, lack of time and poverty.

The motoring classes

efore the long summer holiday could become possible for a majority of Australians, two foundations needed to Bbe put in place: mass car ownership and paid annual leave. Until the majority had access to cars and to paid leave – both achieved in the 1950s – extended summer holidays were more likely to sharpen social distinctions than to weaken them. Take the car first. Steam – boats and trains – meant large numbers of people could get to the popular beach or mountain resorts that had developed by 1900. But it also meant the typical holiday was a mass experience. The holiday crowd was its defining feature. In the 1920s, however, ‘mass’ culture was increasingly derided by the elite. A stereotype developed of the Australian crowd at leisure, mindlessly demonstrating their philistinism at the beach, the races or the football. The arrival of the motor- car suited the times perfectly, promising a new individualism in travel. Between the wars, the motorcar became the greatest symbol of middle class independence from the mob. The new motoring classes quickly explored the new holiday opportunities that opened up. Motor camping became a demonstration of independence, happy campers setting up tent wherever the fancy took them. Caravanning also took off, with a number of local manufacturers as well as do-it-yourself kits. The ‘weekender’ entered the Australian lexicon in the 1920s. Shacks at out-of-the-way fishing spots, only reachable by car, became a new form of individual expression, even if their amenities meant the holiday experience was often comparable to the everyday lives of the very poor. photo: Getty Images Happy campers

ass car ownership and paid annual leave – in them- selves not unique – made the long summer holiday a Mdefining element of the new post-war ‘Australian way People who otherwise would of life’,constructed around the family, home ownership and job security. The annual beach holiday gave shape to the year’s not meet outside relationships rhythms, the holy days of Christmas and Easter now meaning- of power and economic ful for the holidays they represented, and created its own ritu- als. In the very repetition of going to the same place year after exchange could pretend for year, seeing the same people, doing the same things, there was a time to be equal. something ceremonial, dependable and emotionally uplifting. Increasingly fulfilment was to be found, for many Australians, not in church or in the workplace or in the department store, but on holiday. It was built around the family, and that increased its moral value. Australia was not a classless society, but it liked to think it home cooking, barbecues, the occasional take away hamburger was, and holidays seemed proof of it. As J D Pringle put it: “you or fish and chips. There were not many extras. cannot tell a man’s income in a pair of swimming trunks”.True, There were critics who condemned it as predictable, mind- the beach produced new kinds of social distinction – body lessly hedonistic, crudely escapist, quintessentially daggy. shape, beauty, depth of tan, physical prowess. The 1950s were Serious bush-walking zealots scoffed that far from these the heyday of Mr Atlas body-building advertisements around campers getting away from it all, they brought it all with them, the theme of weaklings not getting sand kicked in their faces. all packed into the boot of the car. Satirists claimed the camping But for conventional social hierarchies, though they might ground, with its rows of ordered tents or caravans and cars, re-emerge on the return home, on holiday, for a time, they where people put down roots, and met the same people year were irrelevant. after year, simply imitated comfortable suburban routines. Part of the reason was that the stereotypical holiday did not Tourism entrepreneurs saw these campers as not spending actually cost much. In many cases the camping area – often run enough, and wanted to break down the institutionalised on egalitarian principles by local councils – had the best seasonality of the family holiday. Teenagers were encouraged to location, closer to the beach than more elaborate motels and condemn it as uncool. And those who believed life wasn’t apartments. The typical beach holiday kept expenses down: meant to be easy wanted to see Australians working more. photo: Hood Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Belmont South holidays and camping, 1953. But the attractions were in the very familiarity and enforced sociability. The ritual of returning to the same place was part of the pleasure. Families made friends; social interaction took place around the barbecue and the other queues for the showers and the laundry and the fish and chips. The special camaraderie of the holiday was an escape from the normal day-to-day rela- tionships based on work or shopping or commuting. The cheap holiday meant a special social connection was possible, where everyone could appreciate the sun and sand and sausages together; people who otherwise would not meet outside relationships of power and economic exchange could pretend for a time to be equal. And above all there was time to do nothing, no call of work deadlines or house repairs or cleaning. The critics were missing the point.

Niche markets photo: Bicentennial Copying Project, State Library of New South Wales.

t was in the family that the democratic ideal of everyone having access to time off on holiday came unstuck. The Camping out in luxury, Evans Head, NSW. Ifamily beach holiday was profoundly gendered, the leisure of the male worker and the carefree play of the children under- pinned by the work of the housewife. Women complained – those that were typical of the 1950s and 1960s. A proportion only half in jest – that a holiday meant only a change of kitchen were doing it ironically, celebrating its retro-chic nostalgia. sink. The complaint could be overstated in the interests of Others simply continued to do what they always had done. But holiday politics. Often others pitched in. Standards of cleanliness these holidays were under siege. Cheap caravan parks were might be compromised. Meals were often ‘scratch’ meals, the targeted for more intensive development. National Parks began ubiquitous salads of cans of beetroot and pineapple rings and, balloting desirable camping spots, preventing groups of if the budget stretched, asparagus, or fish and chips from the campers meeting up in the same place at the same time year co-op. Holidays were often the only time a family would eat after year. Family beach holidays were also threatened as the take-away food. beach became associated with newly perceived dangers: the sun As mothers entered the paid workforce in increasing numbers, and skin cancer, strangers, drowning, the lack of surveillance. the typical beach holiday satisfied them less. Women’s growing Irresponsible parents had the traditional beach holiday: the insistence that ‘they should have a holiday too’ produced a responsible middle classes were measuring their responsibility holiday structured around the provision of services, supported by how much more they paid and how much their children by the cheap paid labour of hospitality workers rather than the were kept occupied. unpaid labour of the housewife. By the 1980s that labour was What had once been typical, the family holiday as a shared increasingly out-sourced to Bali, Fiji and Vanuatu. annual event enjoyed by a mass market, now itself become a Two other factors contributed to the decline of the long summer niche packaged and marketed by the tourist industry, holiday. Working conditions changed dramatically. Job security commodifying the nostalgia. When Ron Clarke opened Couran disappeared in the name of flexibility. Fewer had access to Cove resort on South Stradbroke Island, he ‘wanted a place that awards providing for holidays. After a century and a quarter of would offer an old-fashioned Australian family beach holiday’. declining standard working hours, Australians began working But it also offered, among 115 activities, a gym, sprint track, more from the 1980s. Casualisation, underemployment, part- lawn bowls, lifestyle counselling, tai chi, helicopter rides, bead time work and individual bargaining all made holidays more jewellery making, jet skiing, environmental awareness courses difficult to negotiate, and with two parents working, more difficult to organise. Declining home ownership also played a and complete body rejuvenation. The industry has trouble role: renters naturally resented paying twice for accommodation conceptualising that ‘old-fashioned’ beach holiday because it when they went on holidays. Economic change was making the actively resisted consumerism’s fundamental assumptions. The idea of long weeks of doing nothing at the beach harder to sustain. regulars want the same holiday every year. They resist change Short breaks seemed simpler. and fashion. They want to just do nothing, to block the ears and The intrusion of the tourist industry into the family holiday close the eyes to the cacophony of modern life in the world of also changed it dramatically. The industry had a clear interest signs, and indulge in the pleasures of idleness. in promoting the dagginess of the cheap, communal camping holiday where pleasures were free rather than paid for. In their Richard White (BA ’73, DipEd ’74) is a senior lecturer in place the industry promoted shorter, more expensive holidays Australian history at the University of Sydney. His most recent that could be taken any time of the year, and which packed in book is On Holidays: A History of Getting Away in Australia.It experiences. In the place of sociability, they emphasised status, was developed as a collaborative project with students from his facilities and service. seminar on the History of Travel and Tourism: Sarah-Jane At the end of the twentieth century, it was still possible to Ballard, Ingrid Bown, Meredith Lake, Patricia Leehy, and find Australians going on beach holidays that look a lot like Lila Oldmeadow.

summer 2006 17 sport

A BUMPER CROP OF MEDALS

Female athletes from the University of Sydney have enjoyed a big year in international sport, writes Graham Croker. Susan Pratley ... Commonwealth Games silver medallist.

omen’s Rowing Club members In September, Belinda Snell was “You can’t be overwhelmed by people WLiz Kell and Brooke Pratley a member of the Australian Opals when you're out there,” Kell said after staged a coup at the 2006 basketball team that defeated Russia the race. “OK, they were the reigning World Rowing Championships in Eton, 91-74 to win the World Championship world champions. But at the start line England, in August when they defeated in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Earlier in the year you all have a chance to win.” the New Zealand pair of Caroline and Snell collected a gold medal at the Kell and Pratley’s time of 6:47.47 Georgina Evers-Swindell to claim gold Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, over the course that will be used at the in the double scull. where the Opals defeated New Zealand 2012 Olympic Games was 0.28 seconds A few weeks before, another Rowing 77-39 in the final. ahead of the German crew and 1.15 Club member, Elsa O’Hanlon, won the Commonwealth Games silver medals seconds ahead of the New Zealanders. lightweight single scull title at the 2006 were won by Alexander Croak in “Everyone was rowing well,” Kell said. synchronised diving and Susan Pratley World University Rowing Championships “It is really the stuff in your head that in netball, while young cyclist Kaarle in Trakai, Lithuania. gets you through to the line.” The McCulloch won a bronze medal in More gold came at Hazewinkel, Beijing Olympics are calling. Belgium, where the University’s Renee the final of the 500-metre time trial They might also be calling for Kirby and Verena Stocker teamed up at the World Junior Track Cycling O’Hanlon, an 18-year-old pharmacy with Annika Naughton (of Western Championships at Ghent, Belgium. student and Sydney University Sport Australia) and Charlotte Walters The double scullers, Kell and Pratley, scholarship holder, after her gold-medal (NSW) to win the women’s four at the had an enormous task to defeat the effort at the 2006 World University Under-23 World Championships. The Evers-Swindell twins, who dominated winning crew was coached by Sydney the event at the 2004 Olympic Games Rowing Championships. Coached by University Boat Club’s Phil Bourguignon. and at the 2002, 2003, and 2005 World her father, Terry O’Hanlon, Elsa Also in August, Fiona Hammond and Championships. They were unbackable showed experience beyond her years, Tanielle Gofers were members of the favourites leading into the 2006 final, confidently claiming the lead early Australian water-polo team that defeated having posted the fastest semi-final time. in the race and holding her own Italy 10-6 in the World Championship Their imposing shadow fell wide of despite rowing into a strong headwind, decider in Tianjin, China. the University of Sydney pair, however. crossing the line 5 seconds in front.

18 sydney alumni magazine Kirby, Stocker (bow), Naughton and Walters were thrilled with their efforts in the blue-ribbon under-23 women’s four, rowed in a heatwave in Belgium. They recorded the fastest time in the heats before cruising to gold in the final by a length and a half in 6:39.97. Kirby and Stocker also rowed in the women's eight, and finished fifth. Sport scholarship holders Hammond and Gofers are back competing for the Sydney University Lions in the national water polo competition following their gold-medal performances in China. Ranked sixth in the world after the 2005 championships, the Australians won through to the final with round wins over Canada, Italy and Hungary and a tough semi-final win over Russia. The crown – Australia's first in the competition since winning in Sydney in 1995 – augurs well for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. It has been a bumper year for Snell, a former sport scholarship holder with the Sydney University Flames basketball team who transferred to the Phoenix Mercury in the US after winning gold at the Melbourne Commonwealth Games. The Australian Opals backed up their performance in Melbourne with a stunning win over Russia in the World Championships at Sao Paulo after the Russians had knocked the photo: David Lane, Action Snaps Photography US – the short-priced favourites – out of the tournament in the semi-finals. Cyclist Kaarle McCulloch ... bronze in Belgium. Snell is also an Olympic silver medalist from the Athens Games. Croak, a member of Sydney University when she teamed with 13-year-old scholarship holder, McCulloch, whose Sport’s talented athletes program, Melissa Wu to win silver in the synchro- bronze medal in the time trial at the became the first Australian woman to nised 10-metre platform in Melbourne. Junior World Track Cycling Champion- compete at consecutive Commonwealth Susan Pratley, yet another sport ships was achieved just a year after she Games in different sports when she scholarship holder, was a dominant switched from athletics to cycling. earned a berth in the diving team for force in the Australian netball team’s McCulloch, 18, posted a time of 35.763 the 2006 Melbourne Games. She had progression to a gold-medal play-off seconds to finish third behind France’s competed as a gymnast at the 2000 with New Zealand at the Melbourne Sandie Clair (35.223) and Lubov Olympic Games and at the 2002 Games. The Kiwis won a gripping Shulyka of Ukraine (35.367). Commonwealth Games in Manchester, final 60-55. McCulloch also qualified for the where she won a team all-round gold and One of the most amazing performances semi-finals of the sprint but lost to individual vault silver. After switching to was by the young education (exercise Great Britain’s Anna Blyth and finished diving, she added to her medal tally and sports science) student and sport fourth overall.

summer 2006 19 grapevine

Carly McIver (BVA ‘00) Megan Walter Affairs as second secretary 2000s was recently appointed to (DipFarmMgt ‘01) has at the Australian High the position of Comm- worked on a cattle station Commission in Islamabad, Jeremy Hyman (BA ‘01) unications and Events for six years as head stock- Pakistan. Matthew is now would like to let readers Officer at ACU National. man and is now working on back in Canberra and know about his website at a 15,000-head cattle feed lot working on East Timor www.cheapdrinks.com.au. Marian Niluka Pinto in Calgary, Canada, running issues. His wife Elizabeth He says it is a great place to (BSc ‘01) has graduated the station when the manager Grady (BA '96) lives in Yass find a bar, pub, club or from the Royal College of is away on conference. and they are expecting their liquor outlet in Sydney. Surgeons in Ireland and first child in March 2007. Penang Medical College Win Soe (MEd ‘03) Pamela Lofthouse with a Bachelor of Medicine completed his Master of Akilan Krishnamoorthy (MHeritCons ‘05) is and Bachelor of Obstetrics Education in TESOL (BSc ‘98 BE continuing her heritage with first class honours. She (Teaching English to Speakers (Aeronautical) ‘60) has conservation studies with a joined the National of Other Languages) in 2003 worked as a design engineer PhD on the semi-detached University Hospital in and returned to Dhurakij with BAE Systems, and in housing typology. Pamela Singapore in September. Pundit University in August 2001 moved to does part-time heritage Bangkok, Thailand. He now GKN Aerospace work through her business, Nerada Turner heads the English Specific Engineering Services. Heritage Detective. (BA (AsianStud) ‘02 Purposes (ESP) Program at During his career with MTeach '05) recently the Language Institute of BAE Systems and GKN Vanessa Martins moved to the Gold Coast. Dhurakij Pundit University. he spent significant time (GradDipDesSc ‘00) has She was contacted by the overseas on various been living in the UK for chairman of Education military and commercial the past three years, and Queensland International and 1990s aircraft programs, including says she plans to stay there asked to be the director of working at Lockhead for some time. Vanessa is studies for their international Simon Collins (BVA ‘90) Martin in Fort Worth, Texas. currently moving to program at Varsity College, had his first solo art show on Akilan is currently working London and is in the preparing international 11 October this year at the on the A380 program with process of changing jobs. students for high school. Canvas Gallery in Surry Hills. EADS in Germany.

Avrum Ehrlich Rev. Dr Robert (PhDArts ‘97) was McFarlane (PhD 96) has appointed Professor of just graduated with a SHARE YOUR NEWS Jewish Philosophy at the Master of Educational University of Shandong, Leadership (Education & University of Sydney alumni are invited to share their China. Prior to that he Work) at Macquarie news in this section of the Sydney Alumni Magazine. completed a post doctorate University. He also received We’re interested in hearing about your career, academic at Cambridge University the Vice-Chancellor's achievements, community involvement, or other events. (Clare Hall). Avrum is now commendation for editor-in-chief of the academic excellence. This Please send details via email Encyclopaedia of the Jewish study program has greatly or post to the Sydney Alumni Diaspora, due for publication assisted him in his work as Magazine editor. Full contact next year. details are listed on page 1. director of continuing education for the Uniting You can also update your Matthew Gerber Church in Australia (NSW details and search for classmates (BCom ‘97 Synod), in conducting online by registering with your MInternatStud ‘02) leadership development Alumni Web Community at recently returned from a programs within the church, www.usyd.edu.au/alumni posting with the and in leading change- Department of Foreign oriented working groups.

20 sydney alumni magazine Artistic Vision

A Visual Arts graduate specialises in Shazia Naser Ud Din fictional tools for unknown purposes. (DipPHlthDent ‘96) reports she has been Anita Larkin (BVA ’93) was recently promoted to associate awarded a resident artist position at the professor and head of the Wollongong City Art Gallery. The award orthodontic department provides her with a studio space at the at Fatima Jinnah Dental gallery for a year, $3,000 towards material College in Karachi, costs, and a solo exhibition of her artwork Pakistan. She has published at the gallery from 23 June to 9 July 2007. a book, Concepts in The residency also involves a mentoring Orthodontics, for under- program in which the resident artist is graduates in dentistry, and available to offer assistance and advice to co-chaired the scientific three young people wishing to further committee at the Asia Pacific their artistic careers. Dental Congress 2006. According to Anita, the residency will give her the opportunity to focus on a body Malcolm Pacey of work which explores our relationships photo: (BEd(Hum) ‘97) was with collected objects, and how this Anita Larkin wearing an item from a appointed head of German informs our perceptions of sculpture. sculpture titled "apparatus for inducing at Scotch College, Melbourne As part of her research, Anita will gather empathy – A.I.E." in January of this year. This images and stories from members of the follows a varied career public about objects they feel a particular teaching languages and connection to. classics in Hobart, London Constructed from obsolete collected “I am fascinated by the stories discarded and Chicago. objects such as typewriter parts, wheels, objects can tell, and how this informs the old machines and tools, Anita’s sculptures viewer's response to contemporary sculp- Robert Shobbrook are eclectic and intriguing, suggesting a tural assemblages. (MSc ‘96) retired from the hidden narrative. Segments of the sculptures “I would like to think that my sculptures University of Sydney are often wrapped in pages of textbooks or engage people in thinking about themselves Astronomy Department in hand-made felt. or the world they inhabit a little differently, 1994. He then continued research at Siding Springs “I am interested in the role of function to see everyday things in a new light.” Observatory as an honorary and dysfunction in sculpture,” she says. During her Wollongong residency Anita observatory visitor at the “I often make fictional tools for unknown plans to make wool and felt sculptures Australian National purposes. which are large enough for people to fit University. Robert lived “I have always been intrigued by the inside. She says she is looking forward to near the observatory abandoned object, and seen in it the sharing her knowledge of this ancient (outside Coonabarabran) potential to create something new. Mongolian art form. from 1996 to August 2005. Robert moved to Canberra in September 2005. services to the student pro- 1990, a Master’s in and Advanced Placement gram. Married with three International Studies. Programs. 1980s teenage children, his love for By 1999, she completed touch football continues. doctoral studies on a Matthew Noone (BA ‘84) Philip Camden fellowship at the University is managing a drug and (BPhysio ‘81 Mari Conea-Rosenfeld of Miami and in 2000 she alcohol treatment service in GradDip(SportSc) ‘87) (BA '83) has continued her received a PhD in History. South Western Sydney. In runs two practices, one in studies at Florida Presently, Mari teaches at May this year he graduated Auburn and the other in International University Gulliver Preparatory with a Master of Health Camden Hill. He has recently (FIU) where she earned a School, which is part of Service Management, with been awarded an honorary BA Hons in international Gulliver Schools, in the distinction, from Charles associate lectureship for his relations in 1983, and in International Baccalaureate Sturt University.

summer 2006 21 Michael Pezzullo (BA ‘86) wrote The Money Flood: Patricia Stabback (BA element molybdenum (Mo) joined the Defence How Pension Funds ‘70) gained her Masters in can be a key factor in poor Department in 1987, and Revolutionized Investing and Educational Administration seed formation and low bunch then later transferred to the (with Zvi Bodie of Boston in 1997 through ANU. yield of merlot grapevines. Department of the Prime University) Worry Free Patricia retired as assistant Minister and Cabinet. In Investing. He and wife Ellen principal at MacKellop Chuji Yasuda (DipTEFL ‘73) 1993 he joined the staff of have three children. College, Bathurst on 30 has been a committee the Hon Gareth Evans QC June 2006, after 26.5 years management member of and in 1997 was appointed Amy Dutton (BA ‘70) teaching at the College. the National Federation of deputy chief of staff to the (formerly Lesley Baikie) She has now moved to Educational Organisations Hon Kim Beazley MP. He retired after many happy 30km north of Coffs of Japan, which is funded returned to the Defence years of mathematics teaching Harbour to enjoy her by the Ministry of Japan. Department in 2002 and in high schools. Amy is now “sea boomerang change” The Curriculum Council was promoted to deputy enjoying avicultural interests (Patricia grew up in has announced a plan to secretary (strategy) in and is involved with her Manly, NSW). teach English as a compulsory January 2006. Michael and husband in wildlife rescue subject at primary school. Lynne Pezzullo have four and rehabilitation. She Brian Taylor (BSc ‘76) Chuji was nominated to wonderful children. sends her best wishes to all has been appointed Dean of present a project proposal former friends at the the School of Earth Science on this initiative at the Mark Tredinnick University of Sydney. and Technology (SOEST) at Council's general meeting (BA ‘84 LLB ‘86), has the University of Hawaii. taught creative business Robert Fay (BPharm ’71) Brian went to Columbia writing for ten years at the has recently returned from University on a Fulbright 1960s University of Sydney’s overseas where he worked Scholarship and there Centre for Continuing with the poor and margin- received his PhD in Marine Oliver Cordell (BA ‘60) Education, and his new alised. He was reunited Geology and Geophysics. retired in 1993 from the book The Little Red Writing with his wife, Leziel Gaudel He married Barbara in Department of Foreign Book appears in October Abarrientos, who is a past New York in 1979 and their Affairs as high commissioner 2006. Mark has five chil- Miss Philippines Beauty daughter Stacy was born in to Nigeria and previously, dren and lives in Glebe. His Pageant winner, on 5 1986. Brian joined the first resident ambassador to book The Blue Plateau will August 2006. Both are faculty at the University of Hungary. Oliver is now the appear in 2007. blessed by the expected Hawaii in 1982, became a accompanying spouse to arrival of twin girls. professor in 1991, and the third secretary at the acting associate dean for Swedish embassy in Addis 1970s David Partlett (LLB ‘71) research of SOEST in 1994. Ababa. He teaches English assumed the deanship of He has secured $8 million to patients at Addis Ababa Michael J. Clowes Emory University School of in grants, led 30 oceano- Fistula Hospital. (BEc ‘70) has Law, Atlanta, Georgia, on 1 graphic research cruises, retired from Crain July 2006. He has been a published 90 papers and Chester Meurant Communications Inc., faculty member at edited nine books. (BPharm ‘66) retired after New York, where he had Vanderbilt Law School and 18 years as a pharmacist and been editorial director of Australian National Chris Williams in 1992 co-founded the two financial publications, University, and earlier (BScAgric ‘70) completed Wollongong Academically Pensions & Investments and worked on human rights a PhD in Agronomy at the Gifted Class. Chester has InvestmentNews.Mike and racial discrimination Waite Institute, University programmed and taught began his career with the issues for the government of Adelaide. He then went science for the class over the Sydney Daily Mirror in in Canberra. David earned on to work in the South past 14 years and served on 1958 and later was the first an LLM from the Australian Department of the academically gifted US correspondent for The University of Michigan Law Agriculture and in New committee and selection Australian. He earned an School in 1974 and a Zealand on seed production panel. In 2002 Chester received MBA from Columbia Doctor of Legal Science and crop agronomy. This a NSW Director-General’s University in 1971. He from the University of was followed by work on Award for his outstanding received the Lillywhite Virginia School of Law in potatoes, vegetables and contributions to public Award from the Employee 1982. He remains an active grapevines in the South education and training. Benefit Research Institute, scholar, with recent work Australian Research and Washington, D.C. in 2005 focussed on tort law, as well Development Institute Peter Meyer for "extraordinary lifetime as defamation and free (SARDI). Chris led a research (BA ‘68 DipEd ‘70 contributions to Americans' speech, child mental health, team which identified that a MA ‘71 MEd ‘78) has economic security." Mike and medical malpractice. deficiency of the trace recently published his

22 sydney alumni magazine family history entitled The Teacher from Snowy River: Carl Meyer and his family. An original survivor It details the adventures and misadventures of an Roy Whitecross was a prisoner-of-war immigrant Dane in the who went on to establish Sydney's business hostile environments of credentials in international markets. remote NSW country public schools in the For three years from 1942 to 1945, Roy 1870s and 1880s. Whitecross EM (BEc ’53) was a Japanese prisoner-of-war, forced to work under Claire Williams extreme conditions on the Burma-Thai (née Stevenson) (BA ‘65 railway line. Roy later wrote about his DipEd ‘65) writes that at experiences, and his book, Slaves of the the University's graduation Sun of Heaven, now has close to 200,000 photo: ceremony on 19 June this copies in circulation. year her sister, Gwen “Post-traumatic stress wasn’t even Roy Whitecross ... wrote about his Richards (BA ‘95 MA ‘99 experiences as a WW2 prisoner-of-war. known about when we came back from PhD Arts ‘06), was awarded the war,” he says. “We were told to go a Doctor of Philosophy for home and forget about it, and our families her thesis From footnotes to were told not to discuss our experiences. in the Faculty of Economics in 1946, narrative: Welsh noblewomen That had a terrible effect on us. Many graduating in 1953. in the thirteenth century. blokes took to drink and drugs to try and He became a private secretary for a Claire was a proud member minister of the Crown in 1954, and he of the academic procession get over their experiences. says his degree was responsible for his for her sister’s graduation. “I had a desk job after the war, and appointment to a two-man economic Claire retired in 2003 but when a thought came into my head about mission in 1958, charged with encouraging has full academic status at what happened in the camps, I'd write it industries and merchant banks from Flinders University. down. I'd also kept a diary while I was in Burma and Thailand. I buried it somewhere around the world to come to NSW. in Tamarkan before the war ended, but I The mission’s success led to the estab- 1950s was lucky enough to have a friend who lishment of a permanent NSW government went out and dug it up. The diary finally office in New York, which Roy administered Malcolm Broun OAM QC found its way into my hands, and it’s now in for three years from 1959. In 1963 Roy became assistant registrar (BA ‘58 LLB ‘59) remains the rare book department of Fisher Library.” at the University of Sydney, retiring in 1978. in full-time practice at the Roy returned from the war and enrolled Bar at the age of 71. He has added a literary career to his interests, and for the past four years he has had and computer programmer practice in 1995. He served events. Other hobbies a play accepted and with Commonwealth as Mayor of Kingsborough include studying Latin and performed in the Sydney Superannuation from 1965 (south of Hobart) and as breeding fancy poultry. Festival of Short Plays. to 1983. Geoffrey has been a chairman of Hobart Water. Malcolm has written the member of the St Vincent He has lived in Hobart for Francis Osborne (BA ‘50) first draft of his play for de Paul Society for the past 40 years. trained at the Armidale 2007, and is looking for a thirty years. He has been Teachers College (1940 – publisher for his first novel. married for 55 years and Ian McNeill RFD 1941). In 1950 he did his He says it is never too late has seven children, 24 (BDS ‘58 MDSc ‘81) BA as an evening student to start a new venture in life. grand-children and four recently wrote Looking and in 1954 he studied great-grandchildren. Forward – Looking Back,a Manual Arts at the Sydney Geoffrey Doepel history of Wollongong City Technical College. Francis (BEcon ‘50 DipEd ‘51) Reginald Gee (BE(Civil) ‘51 SLSC 1915 – 2000. Ian taught for eight years in worked in the Common- DipTCPlan ‘53) received an spent some time in the demonstration schools, and wealth Public Service from OAM in the recent Queen's Australian Army as colonel then taught for a total of 28 1951 to 1958. He was with Birthday Honours for serv- consultant (orthodontics) years in teachers colleges in the Bureau of Agricultural ice to local government, and retired from practice in Sydney, Wagga Wagga and Economics from 1951 to engineering and the December 1999. He swims Wollongong. In retirement, 1965 and worked as a Taroona Community. He (and trains each morning) Francis writes on local statistical research officer retired from his consulting and competes in Masters history for the Illawarra

summer 2006 23 Historical Society. He is also Richard Scotton AO in 1986 from the University ladies’ bowls group in writing an autobiography (BA ‘51 BEcon ‘56),has of New England where he Port Macquarie. about a small lad from a bush built a career as an academic had been head of the school who was awarded a health economist at the English Department during Keith Lyttle (BA ‘45) bursary. Francis is an Institute of Applied the 1970s and ’80s, and pro- was pleased to read the honorary life member of the Economic Research at the vice-chancellor and acting Grapevine entry of Reg Illawarra Historic Society. . vice-chancellor in the latter Walker (MBBS '45) in the He was a joint author of the part of the ’80s. Since his Sydney Alumni Magazine Russell Strong AC CMG original Medibank program, retirement he has published (Spring 2006). Keith's late (BDS ‘58) practised dentistry and was involved in its short stories in Australia wife of 55 years, Virginia, in England to support his implementation during his and the USA. had a grandmother, Isabella studies at London University time as chairman of the Hay, who donated a bell to where he graduated with an Health Insurance Comm- Phillip Farmer the Carillon in memory of MBBS in 1964. Russell ission (1973–1976). Richard (MEd ‘89 MA ‘96) taught her son, Jack Hay RFC, who returned to Australia in held senior administrative history and worked as a was shot down by Baron 1973, joining the surgical positions in the Health careers advisor for 26 years von Richthofen (the Red staff at the Princess Commission of Victoria at St Aloysius College. After Knight) in 1916. Alexandra Hospital in and the Victorian his retirement he moved to Brisbane. He was subse- Accident Compensation Mudgee where early in 2006 Marie McGlynn quently appointed director Commission before he accepted the honorary (BA ‘40 DipEd ‘41) taught of surgery and professor of returning to academia position of archivist of St in state schools until 1944. surgery at the University of as a professorial fellow John’s Anglican Church. Marie entered the Sisters of Queensland. He received in health economics at many national and interna- . Phillip says it's amazing Good Samaritans in July tional honours related to He retired in 2000 and has how interesting local 1944 and taught in secondary his work in liver surgery since enjoyed the opportunity history can be. colleges. In 1986 she was and transplantation and of regular overseas travel. appointed archivist of the has been a guest lecturer Stella Graetz (BA ‘44) Sisters of Good Samaritans. and visiting professor on is part-owner of a department Marie graduated in 1988 more than 80 occasions in 1940s store. In 1982 she won the from the University of 22 countries. He is retired, croquet fours event in NSW with a Graduate and is now trying to reduce Peter Elkin Wimmera. Stella has also Diploma of Archival his golf handicap. (BA ‘44 DipEd ‘47) retired acted as secretary of the Administration. diary

24 December 2006 Wesley College Chapel Christmas Service Until January 2007 Nine lessons and carols with Wesley Living Water Note: University Museums are Chapel Quire. All welcome. 7pm. Macleay Museum open Monday- Living Water celebrates the ingenuity Friday, 10am- of Pacific and Indigenous Australian 4.30pm and the Until 9 February 2007 design in this exhibition of water- first Sunday Strange Matters – the uncanny, related vessels and objects from the of each month, supernatural and fantastic Macleay collections. noon-4pm. University Art Gallery Contact: www.usyd.edu.au/museums Entry is free. Showcasing works from the University University of Sydney Art Collection, Museums will the Union Art Collection and the be closed over University Library Rare Books the Christmas/ collection, Strange Matters focuses New Year period on darker and stranger realities. from Saturday Features artists such as Norman 16 December Lindsay, Nick Nedelkopoulos, 2006 until Tim Maguire and Tony Tuckson. Monday 15 Contact: www.usyd.edu.au/museums January 2007. 10 February 2007 Chalk figure ... Macleay Museum. Wesley College Foundation 1980s Old Collegians’ Reunion Dinner, bed and breakfast. Contact: Cathy Bray (02) 9565 3299 Bark painting ... Living Water. 13 December 2006 Australian witnesses to the murky 23 February 2007 Until April 2007 beginnings of archaeology in Cyprus Medicine Reunion for Lebanon: From Baalbek to Beirut Public lecture by Dr Robert Merrillees, Graduating Year of 1952 Nicholson Museum Nicholson Museum, 6.30pm Medicine graduates from 1952 Explore the rich cultural heritage This pubic lecture explores the 19th (year of graduation, not year of of Lebanon in this exhibition of century history of excavation on the academic completion) are invited to artefacts and photography from island of Cyprus and its connection attend a reunion at the Royal Sydney antiquity to the modern day with the Nicholson collection Yacht Squadron at Kirribilli at noon. Contact: www.usyd.edu.au/museums Bookings: (02) 9351 2812 Contact: Monica Bullen (02) 9969 3206 or Hugh Patterson (02) 9428 1647

25 February 2007 Classical Fantasies: the Use and Abuse of Same-Sex Love Nicholson Museum, 2-5pm In conjunction with the 2007 Mardi Gras Festival. Six experts on sexuality discuss issues arising from the modern use and perception of ancient same- sex love. Participants include Prof. Robert Aldrich, Dr. Alastair Blanshard, Prof. Stephen Garton, Dr. Gail Hawkes, Assoc. Prof. Vrasidas Karalis, Dr. Suzanne McAlister and Prof. Elspeth Probyn. Lebanon: From Baalbek to Beirut ... at the Nicholson Museum. Bookings: (02) 9351 2812