The Honourable EDWARD GOUGH WHITLAM AC QC Gough Whitlam, Australia’S 21St Prime Minister and a Pauline, Died in Sydney on 21 October 2014, Aged 98
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Number 47 OOMALAKK May 2015 B NEWS FROM ST PAUL’ S COLLEGE UNION A Available from the College website www.stpauls.edu.au The Honourable EDWARD GOUGH WHITLAM AC QC Gough Whitlam, Australia’s 21st Prime Minister and a Pauline, died in Sydney on 21 October 2014, aged 98. He was a great man, complicated and controversial, and he made an enormous impact on his country. A letter from the artist Clifton Pugh, written in June 1972, while he was working on his famous portrait of Whitlam, which won the 1972 Archibald Prize and now hangs in Parliament House Canberra, includes an awkward opinion of the man. “I’m having a hard job to decide just Clifton Pugh’s portrait of Gough Whitlam. Source: how to paint him,” Pugh said. “to decide what News Corp Australia sort of man he really is. … I have now started my fifth ‘go’ and am still trying to find the man He had been guided to Paul’s by the chairman of inside.” Council at Canberra Grammar, Ernest Burgmann, Bishop of Goulburn, himself a Pauline, but It is often the period from about 18 to 23 that Whitlam’s father was Presbyterian and it might determines what a man or woman “really is”, and have been more logical for Gough to have gone there can be no doubt that during Whitlam’s long to Andrew’s. The decision must have been partly period at Paul’s, 1935-42, the College transformed his, because even as a child he was self-directed. him, weaving itself into his imagination and his He had given up believing at 11 or 12, but he was view of the world. He said himself, late in life, always interested in Anglicanism, and religion in “My grounding qualities, church and state, really general. He had insisted on confirmation at St were laid at this college.” Reading his student Clement’s, Kingston, and for a while he went to letters home, now in the National Library, there that church as well as his father’s. can be little question of that. At College, he was Arthur Garnsey’s Chapel He had spent the previous three years at Canberra Warden, and he was later a close friend of Felix Grammar School, sitting for Leaving Certificate Arnott. In 1974 he appointed Arnott to his Royal exams during each of those years, until he was old Commission on Human Relationships. enough to come to University. He had concentrated on Ancient Greek and he finished Whitlam’s biographers hesitate to admit that the Dux of the school, fifth in the state in English and “man inside” was a Pauline. But from the 1850s third in Latin. the College had been identified with a brand of liberal Anglicanism which featured social justice, While at College, for four years Whitlam edited social capital and the conscience of the state. A The Pauline, giving it a new literary lustre, he wrote long line of Paulines had lived and worked in that good verse, sometimes translating from Latin, he tradition, most famously the great industrial and debated, he reorganized the Library and he added women’s rights reformer A.B. Piddington. Every copious detail to the register of Old Paulines. He Warden belonged to it more or less, especially rowed in the VIII and in 1941 he was briefly Arthur Garnsey, Whitlam’s mentor. Senior Student. Afterwards, he was secretary of the Union (1946) and a member of Council (1947- In more ways than one, Whitlam was a Prime 53). The College was then central to his life. Minister whose story belongs to Paul’s. May 2015 B O O M A L A K K A UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY Faculty of Science: First Class Honours & University Medal: HONOUR ROLL 2014 Christopher Watson - (Neuroscience) (left 2011) First Class Honours: Andrew Swan - Applied Mathematics The following members of the College Brandon Munn – Physics have been listed in the University’s Owen Elsley – Mathematics (left 2013) Honour Roll for 2011. Those without dates were still in College last year. Dean’s List of Excellence: Campbell McLauchlan Faculty of Veterinary Science: Academic Merit Prize Poultry Research Foundation Prize in Animal Science: Luke Bouffler James Baumann Jacob Cao (and second in his year in Medicine) Veterinarian Magazine Prize for Written Finnian McHugh-Dillon Communication: Henry Clutterbuck Campbell McLauchlan James Mohun Edward Voet (and top of his year in Arts) COLLEGE PRIZES: The Lehane Medal for Leadership: Edward Armitage Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences & Alistair Kitchen First Class Honours Edward Armitage – English Uther Prize for three years distinguished results and for Timothy Blomfield – Economics (left 2013) service to the College: Wenray Wang Edward Emmett – French (left 2013) Alistair Kitchen - English Judge Humfry Henchman Prize for Final Year Law: Thomas Marr – Latin (left 2013) not awarded Michael Nolan - History (left 2012) McWilliam Prize for Law other than Final Year and Samuel Pickover – English (left 2013) for service to the College: Peter Chen Nicholson Scholarship No IV for Latin: Peter Portus Prize for exceptional examination results in Richardson History, Economic History or Philosophy: Harry Catherine Lumby Prize for Excellence in Media and L’Estrange & James Mohun Communication Studies: Finnian McHugh-Dillon Sir Ian McFarlane Prize for exceptional results in Economics and/or Commerce and for service to the Faculty of Engineering and IT College: Phillip Zhang First Class Honours: Thomas Ryan - Computer Studies Edward Wyburn – Civil Engineering Second Class Honours: STUDENTS’ CLUB Jesse Grantham-Smith – Mechatronic (Space) Office Bearers 2015 Engineering (left 2012) Senior Student: Mr Pat Kelland Business School Hon. Secretary: Mr Robert Ward Dean’s List of Excellence: Luke Bouffler Hon. Treasurer: Mr Alex Corsaro Intercol Rep: Mr Oscar Berry Law School Intercol Rep: Mr Benjamin Sive Second Class Honours: Alvin Leung (left 2012) General Committee Members Medical School Mr James Levy First Class Honours: Martin Seneviratne – Mr John McMahon Medicine (left 2013) 2 B O O M A L A K K A May 2015 Senior Tutor honoured for his references with a graceful ease. Combining a vastness of ideas and a depth of understanding academic achievements with a poetic sensibility, Atkinson draws the Alan Atkinson won the Victorian Prize for reader into the multi-textured life of the mind Literature, Australia’s most valuable literary underlying both ordinary daily relationships and award, in January, for the third volume of The endeavors, and the life of a nation.” Europeans in Australia. On 13 May he received an honorary Doctorate of Letters (DLitt) from the University of Sydney and gave the Occasional Address in the Great Hall. Results of the 2015 Council Election The result of the poll for Lay Fellows is that Mr Andrew Purchas and Mr David Roberts are elected for six year terms. No poll was necessary for the three Clerical Fellow vacancies. The Reverend Andrew Sempell is re-elected for a six year term, The Reverend Dr Max Wood is elected for a three year term and The Reverend Dr James Collins is The Judges' citation for the Victorian award was: elected for a one year term. "Alan Atkinson’s trilogy The Europeans in Australia is destined to be a landmark work in The count of votes was made on the evening of Australian historiography, as significant in its 14 May, 2015. The Returning Officer was way as Manning Clark’s History of Australia. It assisted by our auditor as Chief Scrutineer and climaxes in this accomplished panorama of the three other scrutineers. Also in attendance were continent’s self-transformation into a nation, full three scrutineers appointed by candidates and of sharp observation, agile leaps, startling three of the candidate. connections, magisterial sweeps and granular detail - a history not so much of events as of There were 592 votes cast, 321 votes Australia’s changing ideas about itself. More than electronically, and 271 by post. As the electoral this, it also provides a vivid sense of the roll totalled 2301 this represents a participation historical agency of womanhood as well as rate of 25.7% (2014 – no ballot, 2013 - 15.3%, manhood, households as well as federal 2012- 20.8%, 2011-15.5%). conventions, deep broodings as well as Note that the electoral roll comprises Paulines spectacular events. ‘Running through the whole,’ who are known to have resided in College for Atkinson observes, ‘there is the slow-moving the required time, who are known to be generational turnover of habit, thought and graduates of the University of Sydney and for attachment to the continent.’ whom we have current contact information. DEREK WATT The book was also shortlisted in the NSW Returning Officer Premier’s Literary Awards, and the citation says: 15 May, 2015 “This remarkable book is a history of ideas in Australia. Alan Atkinson creates a strong, engaging narrative by uncovering the stream of ideas nourishing the way Australians have related The Pauline Union wishes to thank The to the landscape, how they thought about Rev’d Dr John Beer (since 1980), Mr Malcolm freedom, how they argued about unity, how they Harrison (since 1989), Mr Stephen Ingate conceived of power. One of the most striking (since 2002) and The Rev’d Dr Brian Douglas qualities is the way he interweaves historical (since 2009) for their devoted service to the knowledge and literary and philosophical College while Members of Council. 3 May 2015 B O O M A L A K K A 63 and Publicity Officer of the University Agriculture OLD PAULINE NOTES Society 1963. DEATHS As an economic and resource management consultant he made his mark in NSW and overseas. John (“Jack”) Maitland Grahame (1957) 21 Always keen to be involved in many organizations he December 2013 aet 80 was a member of the RAS of NSW, Graziers Derek Knight Budd (1949-52) 2 April 2014 aet 82 Association of NSW and the Gundagai Show Society Brian Harvey Watson (1960-63) 12 August 2014 aet Committee.