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SYDNEY ALUMNI Magazine SYDNEY ALUMNI Magazine Summer 2006 And the winner is ... Sydney UniversityUniversity toto hosthost USUS StudiesStudies CentreCentre Details,Details, pagepage 66 andand 77 >> INSIDE: SYDNEY ANNUAL, A 20-PAGE SPECIAL REPORT SYDNEY ALUMNI Magazine 6 8 14 19 NEWS: SYDNEY WINS US BID RESEARCH: INDIGENOUS HISTORY ESSAY: HOLIDAY PLEASURES SPORT: MEDAL HAUL Summer 2006 regulars Editor Dominic O’Grady The University of Sydney, 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 Australia’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 Letters to the editor should include contact details, degree and year of graduation if applicable. Please address letters to: The Editor, Sydney Alumni Magazine C/- Publications A14, The University of Sydney NSW 2006. Letters may also be sent by email to: [email protected] Opinions expressed on these pages are those of the signed contributors or the editor and do not necessarily represent the official position of the University of Sydney. Space permits only a selection of edited letters to be published here. Visit us online at www.usyd.edu.au/alumni for more. 2 sydney alumni magazine of scholars have disputed the claimed size of the largest ships, up to 134 metres long, and the number of people said to have sailed on them, up to 28,560. Earlier this year I had discussions in Oman with His Excellency Abdul Aziz al-Rowas, and he is very interested in the project. Also supportive are the Royal Navy of Oman, the Omani Coast Guard and Sultan Qaboos h University. The Institute of Acoustics, h Beijing, part of the Chinese Academy h of Sciences, is also enthusiastic. A h illustration: Maggie Renvoize h planning meeting is scheduled for S January 2007 in Muscat. The purpose of this letter is to invite Peac on ear h Sydney University alumni to become e t part of the team. I can provide further details on request. Phil Mulhearn, (BSc ’66; BE ’68; PhD ’73) Ocean Technology Group, University of Sydney contributions made by alumni in time in the CSIRO Laboratories at academic endeavours, in literature, in Fisherman’s Bend. His wife, Dorothy, Do you know Dorothy Large? anything that advances human welfare who also worked there, drew John’s The University of Sydney Archives was and knowledge, and respect for others. attention to a strange butterfly in the contacted recently by someone who had I like to acknowledge the positive. gardens. It was immediately identified discovered a 1920s and 30s photograph But what a waste of space, and a through the window by John and finally album while renovating one of the waste of my time, to read the profile caught by a colleague two days later. It University’s lecture theatres. of Federal Communications Minister was probably a stowaway from one of The album belonged to Dorothy Helen Coonan in the latest issue the ships in the near- Kathleen Large, who graduated BSc (Sydney Alumni Magazine, Spring 2006). by docks. 1936, and is full of family photographs Please, no more glorification of rather than University-related shots. politicians who betray the public Dorothy Large was born in 1907 trust, I beg. and attended North Sydney Girls’ High Jim Kable (BA ’70) School. She worked for the University Japan for 32 years, first as a demonstrator In in the Faculty of Pharmacy, then as Lamberton's other love 2003 Lecturer until 1962. Your article on the Lamberton legacy Dorothy If any alumni are family or know (Sydney Alumni Magazine, Winter kindly donated of the family of Dorothy Large please 2006) did not mention John John’s butterfly collection and also contact the University’s Reference Lamberton’s other passion – his love of several books from his library to the Archivist on 02 9351 2684 or email butterflies. His beautiful butterfly University of Sydney. Some [email protected] collection, of over 1,000 mostly foreign of these specimens are on exhibition in Julia Mant specimens, is now part of the natural the Macleay Museum Gallery, the Watt Archivist, University of Sydney history collection of the Macleay Building and the foyer of the Heydon- Museum at the University Lawrence Building. image: Matt Rowlings, www.eurobutterflies.com Political spin of Sydney. Margaret Humphrey I look forward to news of the University, One of the European specimens, a (BSc ’71, DipAgEnt ’85, PhD 2001) especially via the Grapevine section in Camberwell Beauty, Nymphalis antiopa Curator, Natural History the Sydney Alumni Magazine. I also (pictured), was caught amazingly in Macleay Museum, enjoy reading about the positive Melbourne. John was working at the University of Sydney summer 2006 3 opinion It was a good year, indeed ‘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.
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