From the Warden: 2000 in review

The last year has been another year of remarkable achievement The Foundation Studies Program (FSP) has had record student at Trinity. As well as securing good — in many cases, outstanding numbers in 2000 — at present there are 671 students preparing — academic results, our resident students have: for undergraduate study, and (in a trial program) over 60 preparing • won the Holmes Shield for women's intercollegiate sport; for postgraduate study. Despite our record numbers, steering • won the Cowan Cup for men's intercollegiate sport for the Foundation Studies through a very uncertain environment in third year in a row, the first time any College has done this; international education is a major challenge for the leadership and of the College. • won the new Intercollegiate Shield for the Arts. If you count all Trinity students — resident and non-resident The College play, The Importance of Being Earnest, and musical, university students, Theological students (including online Sweeney Todd, were both very striking productions, and the quality students), and Foundation Studies students — there are now over of our Choir — which has been described as one of the finest 1,100 Trinity students. The College aims to offer every one of collegiate chapel choirs in the world' — was recognised in its them the best educational experience we can. The presence of so selection as one of the very few Australian groups to perform in many students at Trinity, including in the several buildings leased the 'Bach 2000' segment of the Melbourne Festival. And they around the perimeter of the University for FSP, makes it possible sang beautifully! for the College to offer all its students better facilities and services Among the many outstanding individual achievements were (including in the Library, IT, security, and much else) than would the selection of two Trinity members — Tom Snow and Cameron otherwise be possible. Hepburn — as Rhodes Scholars for 2000, and Tom King's securing a The years ahead will see a need for significant improvements in gold medal in sailing (470 class) at the Sydney Olympics. Tom had accommodation for resident students, and in teaching and office previously topped his year in Engineering Honours while a resident provision for the Theological School and Foundation Studies. tutor in the College. The College has for some years been accommodating three The year 2000 has seen the renovation of the Junior Common resident students in spaces intended for two, and this cannot Room and the creation there of a College bar, and the revival continue much longer. We are determined at last to eliminate the and strengthening of the position of Dean of the College, now so-called 'dog boxes', and we can only do this through creating new, combined with the new title of Deputy Warden. We were delighted and much better, student rooms. to welcome Dr Stewart Gill, previously Warden of Ridley College, The elimination of the 'dog boxes' is a central element of the to this position. formal master planning exercise we have just started with the noted The year has also seen remarkable generosity on the part of architect Professor Peter Elliott. When this exercise is completed members and friends of the College, not least gifts for scholarships in mid-2001, we will be seeking the support of members and for resident undergraduates, for Theology, and for music. The friends of the College to help solve the acute accommodation College is deeply grateful, as, I know, are individuals whose lives are problem we have. profoundly changed by the generosity of others. One significant The revolution in Information Technology is creating significant development is the gift of two scholarships, to be awarded for the opportunities and challenges for campus-based educational first time in 2001, for indigenous students. In this, as in so much institutions such as Trinity and the University of Melbourne. else, Trinity is working closely with the University of Melbourne. Already placing considerable emphasis on IT, Trinity is moving to The Trinity College Theological School has continued to offer an enable our tutors, lecturers and students to take fuller advantage excellent environment for Theological study and priestly formation; of IT in their teaching and learning here at the College. We have has expanded its offerings for lay people, with the new Certificate also dipped our toes in the water of online distance education course and Credo: A Course for the Curious proving popular through online Theology, and that is going very well indeed. around Australia; and our online Theological courses are attracting Our online teaching — 'accompanied online learning' — seeks to students around Australia and overseas. It is quite a thought that replicate online the benefits of individual attention to students there are now students studying Theology with Trinity in Arizona which is a hallmark of collegiate education. and Montana, Hong Kong, New Zealand, and elsewhere. And so the College is in excellent shape, but not complacent Trinity's contribution to international education, and specifically about the challenges we face. I am extremely grateful to all members to the recruitment and preparation of able international students and friends of the College who have helped to make 2000 a year of for degree courses at the University of Melbourne, has continued such outstanding achievement at Trinity, and whose help in facing superbly in the Trinity College Foundation Studies Program, with the challenges ahead is crucial. its strong emphasis on academic standards and pastoral care. Warmest good wishes for Christmas and for 2001.

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Editor Editorial Clare Pullar Contents Overwhelmingly, this issue is one of celebration and looking Contributors Trinity pays tribute to Olympians forward. As the College enters the new millennium, there is David Barmby, Geoffrey Browne, past and present 4 much in which we can take pride but complacency is not an Evan Burge, Kate Challis, David Cole, Two Rhodes Scholars for 2000 option. The Warden's article on the opposite page highlights Charles Day, Colin Douglas-Smith, Our new Rhodes Scholars write 10 the challenges and the opportunities. Chris Fernie, Margot Foster, Trinity and the Rhodes Scholarship, Scholarships for Indigenous Australians mark the beginning Tony Gibbs, John Glover, James Grant, Alan Hamer, Cameron Hepburn, by John Poynter 12 of a tangible response by the College to reconciliation with Kim Jelbart, Bob Joyce, Bruce Kent Making a difference: Rhodes Scholars Australia's first people. Two scholars are expected to be Tom King, James Lowe, review how the Scholarship shaped welcomed in 2001 and we look forward to the contributions Don Markwell, Chris Maxwell, their lives 15 they will make to the residential community. The College is Carl McCamish, Will Moase, deeply grateful to the old members of this College who have Adrian Monger, Meg Mulcahy, CUT AND THRUST made this important step possible. Philip Nicholls, Tressie Norton, Visiting Scholars, Roberta Sykes, There has been much exploring of the issues around the Peter Pockley, John Poynter, Ray Vincent, Peter Gebhardt and future for black and white Australians. Contributing to our Clare Pullar, Imogen Pullar, Jack Rush QC on Dreaming the future understanding of the past and our plans for the future have David Prest, Philip Roff, for black and white Australia 22 been outstanding speakers such as Dr Roberta Sykes, Chris Selby-Smith, Tom Snow, Dagmar Eichberger on the Dance of Death 26 Professor Marcia Langton, Jack Rush QC and Judge Peter Elsdon Storey, Michael Thwaites, Richard Treloar,Jack Turner, Profiling the Senior Scholars 27 Gebhardt. Transcripts of these addresses can be found on John Vernon, Nina Waters, Scholarship and Award winners 28 the Trinity web site. Chris Watkins Who's writing what: A quick review 30 The cover photograph of an oil painting by Aboriginal artist Theological School: God goes global 31 Ray (Kuwyie) Vincent was completed during his stay as artist-in- Research Foundation Studies record enrolment 32 residence in July. It symbolises Trinity at the heart of, and Geoffrey Browne embraced by, the Kulin nation, the Indigenous nation of the Marian Turnbull geographical area on which Melbourne is now built. The The arts — bringing a community painting, which now hangs in the Junior Common Room, Production together 33 is a powerful symbol of hope for the future for Australian Maree Cooper The E R White Collection rehang 34 and international students alike. Evan Burge Where music and architecture meet 34 In this Olympic year, the College celebrates Trinity women Geoff Browne Melbourne International Festival and men who have represented Australia. We celebrate the

Photography and the Choir 35 Sydney gold medal won by tutor, Tom King, in the sailing, and Paul Chadder, Nick Jacometti, our former Olympians have contributed fascinating stories from Clare Pullar EXTRA CURRICULAR the London Games through to Atlanta. What is striking is how Sport 36 many of our Olympians were inspired through College sport. Cover Outreach 37 (By the way, if we didn't track you down please let us know.) Trinity and the Kulin: A painting This edition brings news of the election of two new Rhodes by Ray (Kuwyie) Vincent. DEVELOPING TRI "`.. Scholars who headed for Oxford in 2000. Trinity and the An immigrant's story: a conversation Rhodes Scholarship is a fascinating story, and John Poynter Back Cover with Miltiades Chryssavgis 38 writes about it on the eve of the OUP publication of the At the launch of Snake Circle New scholarship honours poet Oodgeroo 39 centenary history of the Rhodes, to which he has contributed by Dr Roberta Sykes. Our supporters 40 the Australian chapter.

Top from left: Lisa Bellear, Everything we know about Philanthropy 44 Broadening the base of the College through the provision of Jane Wright-Gryst scholarships remains a strong focus for the College. In the last Middle Row: Artist Ray Vincent, edition, I mentioned that the Trinity resident students were Dr Roberta Sykes, Professor Marcia Honours 45 drawn from over 85 schools across Australia, interstate students Langton, Professor Donald Trinity farewells: Archbishop Rayner, made up 24% of students and overseas students made up 17%. Markwell Gillian Forwood, Janet Bell 45 Over one quarter of students came from rural areas. Women Bottom from left back row: Professor Trinity welcomes: Stewart Gill, students were in a slight majority. That pattern continues. Marcia Langton, Archbishop Watson, Nina Waters, We are becoming more diverse, and all the richer for it. Judge Peter Gebhardt, Janie Gibson, Leanne Habeeb 46 Please write in by email, fax or post. The editorial team Lisa Bellear, Nina Waters, Book reviews: Michael Thwaites, enjoys your comments, suggestions, and more importantly, Destiny Deacon Atlantic Odyssey and Andrea Inglis, keeping in touch. For our readers who are connected to the

Web Site Beside the Seaside 48 Internet you will now find TRINITYToday on our website address www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au Postcards and Letters 50 www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au Deaths and Obituaries 53 Clare Pullar, Editor Graphic Design Blue Apple Design 3 awn Event [OLYMPICS]

In this Olympic year

TRINITYToday honours our OLYMPIANS past and present.

It's GOLD for Tom!

Trinity tutor, Tom King, and his crew, Mark Turnbull, won deferred for three years as I prepared for the '96 Games. gold in the Sydney Games. The pair led by five points from I completed my engineering degree while tutoring at Trinity United States before the start of their 11th and final race and in 1998, and have been training full time since then. needed to finish within five places of the US crew to secure the The '470' is a 4.7m, two-person dinghy, a class suited to small gold medal. Many Trinity fans converged on the foreshore, on athletic sailors. The boats are `one-design', strictly controlled cliffs and in boats to cheer them on. And when they crossed by measurement regulations ensuring that all boats are almost the line champagne corks flew off in Parkville as the College identical, and that skill and performance, not equipment, are the celebrated. Australia last won an Olympic sailing gold medal determining factors on the race course. I am the helmsman, and in Munich in 1972. have sailed with forwardhand, Mark Turnbull, for nearly four years. Here Tom reflects on his long campaign for a medal. We secured selection late last year in a very tough battle against 'My dreams of competing in the Sydney Games began while two other Australian teams, and competed in Sydney against was at Trinity. I clearly recall being crammed in a Jeopardy room in teams from 30 countries. the early hours of the morning, waiting for Samaranch's famous We spent four and a half months in Europe training and announcement, "Sydenee"! I knew at the time that the direction competing on the international circuit, winning the World of my life had just changed. That was seven years ago. Championships in Hungary during May, with further victories in two A very disappointing result at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, and grade one World Cup events. With our sights focused so firmly on the dream of competing at a home Olympics, determined my resolve preparation for the September Games, our European results were to campaign for the Olympics again. I trained in Melbourne and unexpected but enormously satisfying and established us as one competed in limited international events while I finished my studies, of the leading contenders in our event. I am enormously proud of what Mark and I have achieved — far more than almost anyone considered us capable of even a year ago. I had two ambitions during this Olympiad — firstly, just to be a part of the Olympics in Australia, to be a part of the Australian Team, to carry the torch, to march in the opening ceremony. Secondly, and more importantly, after failing in Atlanta, I vowed to go into battle at the Games knowing that we were properly prepared, that we had worked harder than many of our competitors, and that we could not reasonably have done any more. The ultimate goal was within reach.'

Tom King completed his Bachelor of Engineering with outstanding results in 1998. He was tutor in his subject, and has been a great contributor around College in rowing, football, hockey and musical theatre. He is a regular visitor to the College when he is in Melbourne.

Skipper, Tom King (left) and Mark Turnbull cross the finishing line to win gold in the 470 class sailing event at the Sydney Olympics.

4 Six of our past Olympians reflect on their Olympic campaigns.

Dr Colin Douglas-Smith test race for Olympic ROWER -1948 LoN€oon C selection in Ballarat I was in Trinity from 1938 to 1940. I in January 1948. stroked a couple of Trinity crews and the We beat the MUBC crew in those years. I was doing other state crews Science (Zoology being my first love) when and gained selection. the war started on September 3 1939. We We set off by train all tried to join up, but I was told that I was to Sydney, then in a in a reserved occupation. Constellation aircraft -S5107,7„ It was suggested that I could switch to which took us to Packing to go, Colin Douglas-Smith with his wife Kathleen Medicine - second year - in 1940 to do the Darwin - overnight Aberdeen (JCH 1939) 'short' course to get into the services stop - then to because I would still be 'manpowered' when Singapore (overnight again) then Karachi and if I finished the BSc in 1940. After the (overnight) then Cairo (overnight) and we :s inter-varsity race in 1940 Dunkirk happened finally reached London. We were in time When the Games came to Melbourne the and I tried to join the Navy. Strangely, to see the Henley regatta. We set about whole city came to life. The crowds rose to I was accepted and then sent back to the training, which seemed to be going well, but the occasion as never before with elaborate University. I failed my exams in November, we were beaten in our heat and then in the decorations in the city. Black and white TV put my case to the manpower and advisory repecharge, which was very disappointing. I had only just arrived and so most people committee at the University, and finally will not go into the few reasons responsible gathered on footpaths to view whatever was made it into the RANVR in December 1940. since it is 52 years ago. Mervyn Wood won to be seen through sales showroom windows. How could anyone forget the journey all the way from Heidelberg Olympic Village to the main stadium — a continuous convoy of buses which ferried the teams of all nations. I was 'demobbed' in December 1945, gold in the sculls, so all was not lost. The There was hardly a vacant space in the married in March 1946 (to Kathleen whole episode meant that I was absent for crowd on each side of the road, applauding Aberdeen, JCH 1939-40) and started third the entire second term (three per year in each bus for the length of the journey to year medicine that year (a couple of 'supps' those days) in my fifth year. I graduated in the MCG. The final random procession of and a chat to Pansy Wright meant I did not 1949 — we had a 50th reunion at University athletes from all competing nations for the repeat second year). House last October. Closing Ceremony and the tumultuous I had been told in 1939 in May that I I gave up Obstetrics on April 30th 1995 impact of the whole crowd in their rendition could be stroking the crew to go to the (the day I last delivered a baby after 42 of Will ye no' come back again' was Olympics in 1940, but there were no games years' practice). I last rowed in April 1993, unforgettable. after Berlin in 1936 until 1948. So Hitler at the Australian Masters Games, and The Australian team demonstrated that caused a serious interruption to my rowing. managed four gold medals over two days we had no divisions. Surely this was unique. No longer in College, I started rowing again in various combinations. I carried the Class, colour and language divisions did not and stroked the 1946 and 1947 MUBC Torch on 8 July over 400 metres and exist. Our athletes came from all levels of crews. I then gained selection in a coxed turned 82 three days later. social structure — from labourers to highly four in the number two seat in a Victorian qualified professionals. Wherever else crew, which was selected to compete in a would you find such unity! »

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The event in which I competed is Adrian Monger That was the first time an American eight remembered by many. Even to this day ROWER -1956 MELBOURNE OLYMPICS had been defeated in an Olympic regatta spectators recall the contest between I took up rowing towards the end of my since 1912! Charles Dumas (USA) and Australia's Charles Geelong Grammar days but when I entered We qualified for the final by coming a Porter. The event was concluded in the last Trinity in March 1952, I had decided to close second to the USA in our semi-final. light of the day, with Dumas taking the return to my first love - cricket. However Canada and Sweden qualified in the other. honours. I wonder what the young people the Captain of Boats, Brian Loton, had other We prepared ourselves for a supreme effort today would think about Dumas's winning ideas, and on my first day in College he in the final but we were quite nervous, jump, 2.12m, which stood about 30 asked me to make up the numbers in the knowing how fiercely contested it would be. centimetres below the current Olympic College crew that evening. It must have As things turned out we were right on the record? However, at the time the winning been a promising outing because I was then pace with 500m to go but the Americans, performance was very close to the then prevailed upon by other crew members, rowing with all the resolve of their great world record. Dumas was an African- including Rod Carnegie, to stay with the Olympic tradition, managed to pull out American with extraordinary suppleness, crew. Two short years later, I found myself in something very special towards the end. co-ordination and spring. As part of the record-breaking Victorian King's Cup The Canadians also finished strongly and the warm-up, he nonchalantly adopted a eight and was then given the nod as the so we had to be content with bronze. standing splits position against the Olympic No 7 man in the Australian Olympic eight. Time has not dimmed my memory of flagpole in the stadium's central arena. So, looking back on it, I guess that if it that truly wonderful experience. By the To complete the stance he wrapped his hadn't been for Brian Loton's powers of standards of the day I suppose we achieved arms around the flagpole. persuasion, I probably would have remained outstanding levels of strength and stamina `Chilla' Porter, runner-up, set an Australian a rather wayward cricketer! and skill. We went into the Olympics regatta schools record at 6'6" (1.98m) only a year We were a tall, strong crew but we had `with wings on our heels and hope in our before the games. The form of jack-knife no previous international experience. hearts' and gave it everything we had. straddle style, used by the Russians, was of Excitement was high as the pace quickened We were very proud to be representing our particular interest to him. I am sure that in training and we received our Australian country and Australian oarsmen in such a his mind clicked in that direction and his uniforms and blazers. Then with about ten prestigious event. And in my own case it confidence expanded as a result. He days to go we moved to Ballarat, where all sparked a long and continuing involvement was unlucky not to take out the 'gold'. the crews were accommodated at a disused in what I still think is one of the cleanest Kachkarov (USSR) in 3rd place was a RAAF training base. We got very matey with and most unselfish sports. 'reject' weight-lifter. Stig Pettersson the Americans and Canadians - they were (Sweden) - 4th place - came from the great guys and we established a bond of middle of a Swedish winter direct to friendship which has lasted to this day. Bob Joyce Melbourne. He had been doing all his HURDLER - 1956 MELBOURNE OLYMPICS jumping training outdoors, sweeping the My Olympic experience began with a run-up clear of snow before placing braziers ...looking back on it, letter I received from the Victorian Olympic on each side of the run-up. Ken Money Committee in April 1955, inviting me to join (Canada) in 5th walked around and trained I guess that if it hadn't a Training Squad in Melbourne to prepare while carrying weights as an addition to a for the Olympics that were to be held in trouser belt, wrist and ankle straps. On the been for Brian Loton's November of the following year. The day he threw off the weights and performed eminent European coach, Franz Stampfl, a personal best. His excitement was so great powers of persuasion, had been brought to Melbourne by the that he instantly sprang out of the pit and Committee specifically to maximise local into a cartwheel followed by a back flip and a I probably would have Olympic potential, and I was to train under variety of acrobatics and took all quite by him with twenty or thirty others. surprise, generating thunderous applause remained a rather I was jackerooing in the Riverina at the from a near-capacity MCG crowd. time, and my recollection is that until I As a competitior my experience was not wayward cricketer! received that letter I don't think I had one of success, but one where I shared so ever heard of the Olympics! I had been much of the sense of achievement of many - In the eights, the four English-speaking the Victorian Schoolboy Champion Hurdler some of whom I knew so well. I sat my last crews were drawn in the same heat: USA and High Jumper in 1954 and have always exam at Melbourne University and put on an (from Yale University), Great Britain, Canada assumed that to be the basis of my Australian blazer and moved straight into the (from the University of British Columbia) invitation, although that was never expressly Village at Heidelberg. It was only then that I and Australia. The amount of pent-up stated to me. I accepted the invitation realised what a thrill it was to represent energy and emotion unleashed in that heat and enrolled at Melbourne University and Australia in an Olympic Games in the city was something I'll never forget! We blazed Trinity College and left the Riverina in which was virtually my own home town. off the start, held on to our lead and went January 1956. It seems more like last week than so on to win the race well in a fast time. My objective over the next nine months many years ago. Canada were second and the USA third. was to return to competitive fitness (lacking

Dr Colin Douglas-Smith John Vernon ROWING EIGHTS —1948 LONDON GAMES HIGH JUMPER — 1956 MELBOURNE GAMES

John Lewis (`Jack') Foster Adrian Monger WATER POLO — 1952 HELSINKI AND ROWING 1956 MELBOURNE GAMES 1956 MELBOURNE GAMES Bob Joyce rr°° HURDLER — 1956 MELBOJJRNE GAMES. where nothing short of Bronze Medalist in the Lightweight Double a riot occurred every Sculls in Atlanta in 1996. night making sleep Forty-four years on, I was part of the virtually impossible, Olympic Torch Relay at the Bay of Islands on I could probably pass the Great Ocean Road. I know cynicism and exams during the disappointment had dogged the Olympic Games!) I nevertheless 2000 story up to that point, but the decided to sit two exams reception for the Torch Relay Runners in February, which I reflected the deep reservoir of goodwill failed. I passed the two people still felt for the Olympics, and for I sat during the Games the ideal the flame represented. in November! The real highlight for me was passing In the Games all three the flame to Rebecca. This had enormous Australian hurdlers were significance for both of us, not only eliminated in the heats. symbolically spanning that forty-year gap For my part it was a as Olympic representatives, but also as bigger occasion than I Olympians from the same family. For me it had ever been exposed was a very moving and uplifting moment. to previously and I performed below my best as a result. James Lowe, ROWER — 1980 MOSCOW The Melbourne AND 1984 Los ANGELES GAMES Olympics were an My Olympic journey began with exciting time and never success in the Head of the River in 1974 to be forgotten by those and representation in the Victorian King's who experienced them. Cup crew in 1976. It began in earnest During the next three watching the 1976 Olympic Games while years, whilst completing recovering from a major knee operation. my degree, I continued I decided then that I wanted to achieve running - albeit at a success at that level. This photo of Bob Joyce appeared in The much lower level of intensity and Nearly four years later, after representing Argus in 1956 with the following caption: specialisation. I was hampered by injury, Australia in the 1978 and 1979 World 'It was just like home to Bob Joyce — missing one season completely. I ran at Rowing Championships, I was selected in the hurdling the sheepyard fences, sprinting national and international level during this eight for the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games. across the green paddocks. Bob who comes time and played football during the winter. The lead-up to selection had been intense, from a sheep station at Narrandera, I failed selection in 1960 but was the involving 13 training sessions per week. NSW was at it again at the University assistant track and field coach in Rome. However it paid off. yesterday — jumping the cowyard fences. The team trained for two months in Bob, a Commerce student, was selected in Australia before departing for Europe to the Olympic hurdling team on Sunday.' I was jackerooing in the compete in the major pre-Olympic regattas. We competed first in East Germany and were Riverina at the time and my after fifteen months without any sporting unlucky not to beat the East Germans involvement), and to reach Olympic (defending World and Olympic champions) qualifying standard and then run into a recollection is that until I after a ferry wash swamped us whilst leading place in the Olympic Trials. I was ready by with 250 metres to go. The coaches the time the trials came around in October, received that letter I don't maintained an extremely heavy workload one month out from the Games. I won on the crew. This eventually told on us, think I had ever heard of the the Olympic trial and was assured of and showed in a deterioration in our selection as number one string for the performances. Olympics! 110 metre hurdles. At Moscow, after a comfortable row in Difficulties soon developed between the heat, we were berated by the coaches, Olympic commitments and exams, which In 1961, I returned to farming in Western and gave a `blood and guts' performance to were happening at the same time. The Vice- Victoria. I married and had three children, win the repecharge ahead of the eventual Chancellor's intervention ensured that those Matthew, Bridget and Rebecca. The silver medallist, Great Britain. However, of us who wished to do so could sit exams in youngest of these, Rebecca has an athletic with little time for recovery before the final, February. (My view was that if I could win record that pales mine into insignificance. we dropped pace after the 1000 metre an Olympic trial whilst living as a freshman She won the World Championship mark, slipping from third boat to come in the Wooden Wing at Trinity College, Lightweight Single Sculls in 1995 and was a home in fifth place. »

Kim Jelbart James Lowe Hamish McGlashan ROWER — 1960 ROME GAMES ROWER — 1980 MOSCOW AND ROWER — 1988 SEOUL GAMES 1984 Los ANGELES GAMES John Hunt Tom King ROWING-COXLESS PAIR — 1960 ROME GAMES Margot Foster SAILOR 1996 ATLANTA AND ROWER — 1984 Los ANGELES GAMES 2000 SYDNEY GAMES I ain Even t. [OLYMPICS]

The invasion of Afghanistan and the In any event I succumbed to the pressure subsequent boycott of the Games by the and spent the best part of the next ten US, Germany and other countries, followed years getting up early, training twice a day by the difficulties with sponsors, meant that and fitting university and, subsequently, the rowing team was forced to leave Moscow work around what went with elite for London whilst the Games still had six competition. days to go. After study in 1981 and 1982, I again set myself for another crack at Olympic I succumbed to the glory. In April 1984 I was selected in the coxless four for the Los Angeles Games. pressure and spent Unlike four years earlier, we did not go to Europe to compete in the pre-Olympic the best part of the regattas but went straight to the US, after AUSS%~ two months' training in Canberra and next ten years getting Sydney. Notwithstanding that the Eastern 'AUSS9E Bloc boycotted the Games in retaliation up early... for the US-led boycott four years earlier, competition was extremely intense, I could never have envisaged that particularly in our event. The hot weather women's intercollegiate rowing, which and lack of racing told on us and we started in 1976, and which I joined in 1978, finished in eighth place. could have led to the Olympic Games in 1984 in Los Angeles, where we took a bronze medal in women's fours. Two years ...the roW9ng team later we won gold in the women's eights at the Commonwealth Games. Since those was forced to eave days there has been ongoing involvement in 01, Oi, Oi. sports administration, culminating in my Mosc®w for London present position as a Board member of the Australian Sports Commission. I can thank whHSt the Cames Stlll Trinity for giving me the opportunity to be involved in a great sport, having lots of d sIx days to go. success, meeting great people and generally having a lot of fun. In 2000, on day fifty-two of the Olympic I played a small part in the Torch Relay, Torch relay, I carried the torch along the running along Williamstown Road in Port banks of the Barwon River, the scene of my Melbourne at the end of its first Victorian initial rowing years. It was a very emotional journey. I enjoyed the experience and, in experience and I felt very privileged to be particular, the enthusiasm and happiness an Olympian. of the crowds which lined the route to the Spirit of Tasmania before the torch headed James was a resident of Trinity in 1975, off for the tour of the Apple Isle. I had not and rowed in the first eight (2nd). intended to take part in the relay, but am Another of our Olympians: Lyn Young, He coached Trinity's winning second glad that I did as it has rounded off my the Warden's Assistant, carried the Olympic eight in 1977. Olympic experience as spectator, athlete, torch when it passed through Melbourne administrator and now Torch Relay-ist! on 30 July 2000. Lyn won silver in the 4 x 100m Medley Relay at the 1960 Rome Margot Foster Margot Foster is a member of the Games. Flanking a very happy-looking Lyn ROWER 1984 College Board of Management. are the Warden and Jon Ritchie, Director LOS A. ES of Student Welfare. Lyn joined the GAMES The College is very keen to have our Trinity community in June 2000. I had never records as complete as possible. If there thought about are gaps in our records, please let us rowing as a sport know. Ed. 155 for me until I got to Trinity and even then, when it was suggested to me, I resisted it quite strenuously: I had got a less than favourable impression of it from a then boyfriend who thought he was it-and - a-bit after having rowed for his school. The Flame Team undergoes training at Trinity students burn their Shell's Refinery at Corio. Front, from left: Myles Fisher (1956), lan Jasper (1953), way into Olympic history Barry Johnson (1945), Peter Read (1954), Ken Mason (1952) (obscured), Peter Pockley (1954) and the Shell supervisor. The photo was taken by Peter's father, the late The XVI Olympiad, the first Games in Robert Pockley. Three at rear are not identified — Australia that were held in Melbourne in please help us fill the gaps for the College archives. Ed. November 1956, involved a band of Trinity from disaster. Earlier, singlet, shorts, socks and shoes, running men in minding the Flame at the MCG. the Olympic organisers alone and with fluid style around a track free had asked Trinity for of athletes and officials... After our spotter The team was coordinated by Ken Mason 10 scientists and engineers to tend the called out that Clarke had started his climb [Trinity 1952-1956] and included Peter precious symbol of the then amateur sport. [up the steps to the cauldron], the valves Pockley, who recalled those halcyon — and In return for long hours over 16 days and were opened ten seconds earlier than on dramatic — days in a three-page spread in nights, we received free passes to the MCG, rehearsal. But at the moment the gas was The Australian newspaper on the day the a magnificent viewing platform all to due to emerge, unlit, from the burner, Clarke XXVII Olympiad opened in Sydney. Peter, ourselves, and drab grey dustcoats with had not appeared. What to do? By the time who was resident at Trinity from 1954-57 the Olympic rings stencilled on the pocket. he reached the podium our hearts were in (BSc, DipEd) and was Captain of Athletics, The ink had barely dried on our final exam our mouths: there was no way of stemming has been based in Sydney as a science papers when we did a crash course in gas the flow of gas. broadcaster and writer since returning from control at the Shell refinery at Corio, Before Clarke had reached even half-way Oxford (DPhil) and teaching in England in near Geelong.' across the cone with his torch, the gas had 1964. He says the story of Trinity's Flame The Trinity team discovered on the day seeped invisibly over the edge. It did not reflects the values of a science education of the opening that the cone of the burner just ignite — it whooshed audibly upwards and College life! Here are short extracts was too high for the runner to light and they into a gigantic flame. The effect took Clarke from that article. scrounged an old butterbox for him to stand by surprise and put him off balance as he on. Also, the gas needed to be turned on hurriedly stepped back and off the 'Ron Clarke entered the Melbourne earlier, to allow sufficient gas to gather in butterbox, which tumbled over. Indeed, Cricket Ground on November 22, 1956, the cone to light the flame at the very had Australia's star distance runner stumbled carrying not so much an Olympic torch as a moment the runner reached into the cone. forward at this moment, he would have sputtering, magnesium-charged fireball. He Dr Pockley recalls the triumph of Clarke's risked tripping over the edge of the podium. lapped the stadium in a shower of sparks, appearance in the stadium, and the near There was no safety rail or net and a mounted the, steps and dipped his hand into disaster which followed: frightening drop. We breathed a sigh of relief a cauldron already geysering with gas. The public address announcer boomed when Clarke moved safely away to the rear, Clarke retreated sharply from the surging out that Ron Clarke, 18 years old and the but my hands still go clammy whenever I flames, his arm singed. At that moment, he world junior mile record holder, was arriving recall those moments... Strangely, perhaps, could have easily plunged from a podium with the torch. The sheer simplicity of the I have never met him. He may not want to built without barriers. The Melbourne event made it work so brilliantly. Here was know who helped to singe him into history.' Olympic opening was just a whisker away a young amateur, dressed in plain white

9 Two Rhodes Scholars for 2000 with interests in the developing world

oth Tom Snow, Economics and Cameron Hepburn, Rhodes Scholar for BScience student, and Cameron Australia-at-Large, is originally from Mildura. Hepburn, Law, Engineering and Modern He is a Law, Engineering and Modern Languages student, have headed for Languages student, whose principal interest studies at Oxford with an eye to making is in responsible environmental policy. His a contribution in developing countries; knowledge of French, Chinese, Esperanto, Cameron in responsible environmental German and Thai stand him in good stead policy and Tom in development economics. for a chosen career path in international While their interests have converged at environmental policy. As an undergraduate Oxford, they come to this point from he took himself on a research visit to quite different pathways. Thailand where he investigated ways to Tom Snow, elected Rhodes Scholar for encourage industry to clean-up, rather Victoria, is originally from Canberra, and than pollute, the environment. His project had been a resident at Trinity since 1996, resulted in recommendations which have and in1999 and 2000 has tutored in since gone forward to various NGOs Economics and Statistics. His interest in in Thailand. the study of sustainable increase in living Was there a defining moment which standards for the world's poor is a natural triggered his decision to pursue a path in progression from his voluntary work both environmental economics? Cameron is at home and overseas. He has tutored in sure it came during his research into the the Brotherhood of St Laurence tutoring Thai government's attempts to reduce water program and worked for Anglicare and pollution in Bangkok. 'I realised that Trinity's Outreach program. As Senior economists were pivotal in setting the Student in 1997-1998 his contribution policy frameworks in which environmental was defined by his interest in serving lawyers and engineers operated. At this others less fortunate. point I understood that a knowledge of His decision to take Development environmental engineering and environmental On the "Rhodes" to Oxford. Cameron Economics at Oxford was a slow realisation. law was not enough: to have real credibility in Hepburn (left) and Tom Snow. 'Working with a number of community the environmental policy arena one needs to organisations in developing nations was an be able to speak the language of economics.' experience that showed me just how a small As a member of Trinity, Cameron was a effort can significantly improve the lives of chorister and talented soloist in the Trinity many people.' Studying the formal subject Choir and in first semester in 2000 was a of Development Economics [at Melbourne] resident tutor. He has also been a member 'showed there are many economic of the Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Choir questions still to be answered which and the Chorale de la Cathedrale de Saint have a direct practical benefit in Jean in Lyon, France. He holds a teaching developing nations.' qualification for both clarinet and organ. Tom's other interests include major In other areas, he is a strong competitor in achievements in triathlon at state level, public speaking and debating, and enjoys and flying — he has a commercial pilot's the opportunities to tutor in Mathematics rating and has recently secured his at the University, and at Ormond, as well helicopter licence. as VCE students. Both Cameron and Tom have contributed articles to this edition of TRINITYToday.

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From our 2000 Rhodes

e r Developing permits to p te Th powe of a BY CAMERON HEPBURN lone voice BY TOM SNOW

Like Tom Snow, I will be going to Magdalen Market mechanisms promise efficient and A few years before the end of their College, Oxford, to read for an M.Phil. in dramatic reductions in GHG emissions to undergraduate university career, most Economics. My particular interest lies in avert this 'tragedy of the commons'. students start seriously to contemplate what Environmental Economics. My interest stems One might envisage the operation of a they're going to do after their degree. Most, from the fact that policy-makers around the completely privatised international GHG including me, think of applying for graduate world are increasingly using economic emissions trading framework within the next positions in a wide range of employment. instruments in the battle to protect the 10 years. Emission permits are based upon Fortunately for me, during this time, a environment in a way that is politically the 'polluter-pays principle' and therefore lone voice mentioned that I should consider palatable to the western world, without costs are shared according to the level of further study -whether in Australia or restricting growth of the developing world. pollution, not according to ability to pay. overseas. Although I had spent my earliest When used in the context of environmental Permits to pollute might be traded on the years at university studying actuarial studies, regulation, economic instruments are tools global financial markets just as important I had later become more interested in explicitly designed to link financial self- commodities are today. In Australia, the economics, and in particular, development interest with behaviour that is favourable to Sydney Futures Exchange is already planning economics. The relationship between the environment. for a futures and derivatives market in economic theory and the way that both In the last decade, the use of economic emission permits to commence operation in industry and consumers operate in practice instruments as a cost-effective method of 2000. It has been predicted that an is fascinating. environmental protection has been preferred international GHG permit trading system Whilst working and studying in developing by policy-makers, regulators and business could have a turnover of up to $US400 nations through my undergraduate years, in the United States. Moreover, given the billion by 2010. I found the disparities in wealth and wages movement towards market economies in Is this a good thing? There are a particularly startling. For example, a teacher Eastern Europe and the spirit of privatisation number of important social and equity in Indonesia with a tertiary degree, as well as in Latin America, the global environment considerations for policymakers a good command of English, earns as much is currently receptive to market-based contemplating the first steps down such a in a month as a tutor at Trinity College earns approaches. path of environmental privatisation. in an hour — a disparity that cannot be explained fully by existing economic theory. I came to the conclusion that I wanted to undertake a doctorate in economics. Once I had worked out what subject I was most interested in pursuing, it was useful to consult with people at the University and Trinity who were able to discuss, with some I am particularly interested in the A major consideration is that such a system, authority, the merits of various universities advantages and limitations of these if not implemented with safeguards, may and scholarship opportunities for graduate approaches in the field of global climate restrict the growth of the developing world. students in my area. The Rhodes was one change, which has achieved recognition as Factories in developing countries may not of these scholarships. one of the most significant environmental have the capital to pay for permits or, Interestingly, Oxford is probably not quite problems facing the earth over the next alternatively, the technology required to as strong in many areas of economic theory century. Although some dissent remains, reduce their emissions. While the 'polluter- as some of the American universities. the majority of scientific opinion now pays principle' has been very successful in However, it is particularly renowned in the accepts that the anthropogenic emission providing a conceptual basis for improved field of the economics of underdeveloped of greenhouse gases (GHG) since the environmental preservation in western countries. And, from my experiences at industrial revolution is producing a countries (where there is a relatively even Trinity - its sense of community and the global warming effect. economic playing field), it might have highly diversity of people — collegiate-style Threatened with more frequent cyclones inequitable outcomes if it is unintelligently learning and living has considerable and hurricanes, increased drought, applied on a global level (where there is advantages over 'department' universities. 1 desertification, deforestation and the enormous inequality between countries). The next three years spent completing my submerging of entire island states, the In Oxford, I hope to have the opportunity studies promise to be very rewarding and international community adopted the to develop these ideas and to do some work then I'll be, once again, making major Framework Convention on Climate Change on designing economic tools that satisfy decisions about the future. in 1992 and its Kyoto Protocol in 1997. The three criteria: environmental protection, Kyoto Protocol envisages extending the use equity for the developing world and of market mechanisms into the global arena. economic efficiency.

11 When Cecil Rhodes died in 1902, his unprecedented visionary scheme for falling at the same time; he completed each in half the time allowed, sprinting from one international scholarships caught public attention around the world. Some seventy room to the other. In 1909 he became the first Rhodes Scholar elected to a College scholars, from the Empire, the United States and Germany, chosen for their Fellowship. The next Rhodes Scholar from Trinity was potential as leaders, were to go to Oxford each year, `for their instruction in life GM Sproule in 1911; he became a civil servant in Britain. In 1912 the Committee and manners' and to instil in them the value of `the unity of the Empire. The Will, chose (Sir) Edmund Herring, whose Oxford studies were interrupted by the war. He later drawn up before the new Commonwealth of Australia existed, gave an annual combined legal and military careers, achieving the highest rank of any Rhodes Scholarship to each of the six colonies. Selection procedures varied, but Scholar from any country in the Second World War, before resigning to become everywhere the annual selection of the Rhodes Scholar became a major event. Chief Justice of Victoria. In 1953, when Oxford gave him an Honorary Degree, Lord Elton, Secretary of the Trust, told the That two of the Rhodes Scholars selected athletic medical student, over Behan; Trustees that in his view Herring was 'as to go to Oxford from Australia in 2000 Warden Leeper withheld the election result near an approach to the "ideal" Rhodes should have Trinity affiliations is no surprise. from the Selection Committee because he Scholar as we can hope to have'. Always Since the first Scholarships were awarded in thought it unrepresentative, but the students devoted to Trinity, Sir Edmund sat on the 1904, some thirty-five Trinity men and sent it anyway. Behan's application explained College Council for many years women have been chosen for what remain the that 'the fact that he has had to earn his own In 1917 the war interrupted Rhodes most famous scholarships in the world. It is living has debarred him from taking an active selection, so that a backlog of Scholarships not so widely known that for much of that part in competitive athletics'; to Behan, was filled in 1919-20. Four Trinity men were time, and especially during the Wardenship 'earning a living' seems to have meant winning selected: for Victoria, SC Lazarus (later a of `Jock' Behan, Trinity has had close links scholarships and making the most of them; Civil Servant in England) and CEG Beveridge with the administration of the Scholarships he attempted three Honours Schools at once (a medical officer, working in the Sudan and in Australia. and gained Firsts in all three. Sporting then Melbourne); for Tasmania, AW Clinch The Will seemed to imply that Rhodes organisations called a meeting of protest; (an engineer, mainly with the Main Roads Scholars should be elected, by their the Town Hall was `crammed to the very door', Board in New South Wales); and for a 'companions and friends', and that, in and resolutions condemning the selectors and special Scholarship created for Australia-at- choosing them, academic ability was less asking the Trustees to cancel the nomination Large, the only Rhodes Scholarship awarded important than excellence in character and in were carried with `acclaim'. Reports of the on a national rather than state basis before sport. But the Trustees, and Oxford, decided that Rhodes Scholars should be chosen by a committee rather than elected, and that Sporting organisations called a meeting of protest; intellect and character were more important qualities than sport. the. Town Hall was crammed to the very door.. The Victorian Selection Committee, chaired by the Governor and with school and university representatives, required each meeting filled columns in the newspapers. 1977, (Sir) Keith Hancock, widely regarded applicant to provide a certificate from his The Selection Committee insisted that a very as the most distinguished historian Australia 'School or College' that he had been selected strong candidate 'should be eligible for the has produced. as the candidate 'who best fulfilled the ideas scholarship whether he does or does not 'Jock' Behan had returned to Australia in of Mr Rhodes' bequest'. The affiliated possess a distinct record in sports', and the 1918 to be Warden of Trinity, and in 1921 colleges, then Trinity, Ormond and Queen's, Trustees ,ccepted their judgement. The the Trust appointed him to the new post of immediately dominated the competition: all Warden had to preside over a congratulatory 'general secretary for Rhodes scholarships but five of the first fifty-one Scholars from dinner for Behan, made a little less awkward in Australia; to advise the Trustees and to Victoria, and about forty of the NSW because LN Morrison, another Trinity student, be their 'normal channel of communication' Scholars, came from residential colleges. won the Tasmanian Scholarship. Protests died with Selection Committees. The Western In June 1904 the Victorian Committee away when Harvey Sutton won the 1905 Australian Selection Committee, prone to 'unanimously selected' JCV Behan, a young Scholarship (see Dinner Program opposite). secessionist impulses, exploded: 'Western law graduate from Trinity, as Victoria's first He later became a professor in Sydney, very Australia has nothing whatever to do with Rhodes Scholar. The decision raised a storm. influential in the field of public health. the State of Victoria except that both States Behan's lack of a 'sporting record' caused In Oxford, Behan again achieved the feat belong to the Australian Federation. It fierce complaint. Trinity's undergraduates had of entering for two degrees and taking Firsts would be undesirable for any gentleman elected as their nominee Harvey Sutton, an in both, despite two examination papers from Melbourne, however distinguished...

12 to give us advice usefully as to our selection Australia 1930), a research radiologist in recognition of his work for Rhodes of Rhodes Scholars. It would be impossible Britain and a Fellow of the Royal Society. A Scholarships. for him to give you advice as to what we Garran (Victoria 1928) became Chairman of Trinity men won eight of the next twenty- should do thereon.' The Trustees told their the Victorian Public Service Board. Trinity five Victorian Scholarships awarded between new General Secretary to lie low until peace dominated Victorian selections in the mid 1950 and 1974: JR Poynter (for 1951), JD was restored. 1930s: JG Mann (1935), a brilliant lawyer, Anderson (1954), BE Kent (1955), AM Gibbs Despite this early hostility, Behan was killed in action on Crete in 1941 ; MN (1956), PAV Roff (1960), C Selby-Smith succeeded, over the next thirty years, in Austin (1936) became a headmaster in (1965) CD Cordner (1972) and CM Maxwell establishing uniformity in procedures among Sydney and an influential Professor of (1975). Six have had careers in education, in the six State Selection committees. Rows Classics in Perth; MR Thwaites (1937), various disciplines and roles; Anderson over particular selections erupted quite among other achievements a distinguished became a Senior Officer in the Prime often during this time, and he did not shirk poet, has just been made a Fellow of Trinity; Minister's Department, and Maxwell, like controversy: in 1928 a Sydney leader- writer remarked that Behan had `borne the brunt of the annual storm over what a Rhodes Scholar ought or ought not to be... an Adonis or a THE' âàL.® STUDENTS. To be proposed by Mr. C. Serum's. ' Matthew Arnold or a W. G. Grace'. "Hold up your aitieldë before your henrte."—pmxoìerrwew

In 1928, during one such row, a1d résponded to by Rev. T. J. Stnax. and Mr. J. T. Cor.orvs. Behan sent an official statement to fis theee two great púnciploe we have owed much in the peg, uurt. we wort oit,01s uphold thorn in the future."—Omura tondu—Noel Prio lem the Hobart Mercury, explaining m a a ... ~ . GC7D SAVE :,THE I49tVG,". selection criteria. Rhodes' 'unusual Tidmtlo at ... '000010000 01"-T ervry I ' " 0o I Q hr Sriooy!. conditions' had `most unhappily Pti,rho C!e+atu`s. trinity College, created in the public mind the utterly BC2etUourne tlnluersltqlr`°' erroneous notion of the "good all- rèdap. 5eBly. 1905, round man"; hence 'the assiduity with which candidates compile records subtly calculated to entrap committees of selection into the Ÿn--bônour of MESSRS., oGILVIE, MILLER & FINNIS delusion that they are prodigies of te" fs hiroaa€ÿ,. ;...,..,. Dr. 6arucy Snitoòt, N, learning, physical prowess and moral z, 5cog . MR. FRANK MAIDMENT Sccond Pocks Sctlolar perfection'. The Mercury promptly Trol ty 4 t" (by mn attacked Behan's essay as 'resembling MR. GUX141ÏIL Falstaff's hotel bill — a ha'porth of orls. e1 ëarlege A~rtl bread to an intolerable deal of sack'. 5, Song Behan was also successful in " Soot of establishing an Association of Rhodes Prlutoril. .11,1 to he good enough not hu change th Scholars, partly to participate in until MI the epcaohce +we coheluded. selection. He persuaded it to publish a journal, the Australian Rhodes Review, with distinguished articles by Hancock and and AW Hamer (1938) became Chairman of many earlier and even more recent Rhodes others. One of the Association's purposes ICI India and Deputy Chairman of ICI Scholars, is a lawyer. was to encourage support for residential Australia. In 1941 war again forced When I replaced Sir George Paton as colleges; Rhodes had chosen Oxford for his suspension of selection; when it resumed in Australian Secretary of the Trust in 1974, scholarships partly because he valued 1946, AH Cash, later headmaster of the I was given the task of reorganising selection residential university education, and many Armidale School in NSW, was among those procedures in Australia to accommodate two Rhodes Scholars were and are involved in the selected. major innovations. Women became eligible development of colleges in Australia. Behan had chosen Lewis Wilcher, a South for the Scholarships in 1976 (three years After Hancock's selection in 1920, nine Australian Rhodes Scholar, to be the first after they were admitted to Trinity); and in Rhodes Scholars were appointed from Trinity Dean of Trinity; and in 1946 Behan was 1977 the Trust created an additional in Behan's time. RR Sholl (1924), an all- himself succeeded as Warden by another, Scholarship to be awarded on a national basis rounder credited with introducing the annual RWT Cowan (South Australia 1934). At one and selected by a committee in Canberra. Well pleased with the quality of Australian Rhodes Australian Rules football match between stage it seemed Cowan might also succeed Scholars, the Trust gave Australia another Oxford and Cambridge, became a Supreme him as the Trust's Australian Secretary, but in Scholarship in 1988 as a Bicentennial gift, Court judge and a member of Trinity's 1951 the post went to (Sir) George Paton, and created another in 1992, making nine each Council. FKS Hirschfeld (selected for an Ormond Rhodes Scholar recently year: three selected in Canberra and one in Queensland for 1927) became a leading appointed Vice-Chancellor. Sir John Behan's each State. » surgeon in Brisbane; and JF Loutit (Western knighthood in 1949 was primarily in

13 There have been nine Trinity Rhodes Scholars since those changes. Two are women: AE Nicholson, a computer engineer and cricketer (Victoria 1988) and Lisa Gorton, poet and English scholar (Australia-at-Large 1994). Among the men, )S Glover (Victoria 1979) and CD McCamish (Victoria 1993) are Lawyers, E Storey (Victoria 1980) is a medical professor at Monash, JC Turner (Australia-at-Large for 1992) e writer, and CRB Day (Australia-at-Large For 1993) an engineer. The aspirations of TR Snow and C Hepburn, both selected for 2000, are reported elsewhere. In 1997— the year that Trinity appointed Professor DJ Markwell (Queensland 1981)as its third Rhodes Scholar Warden— Professor Graham Hutchinson (Victoria 1971) took over as Australian Secretary. Much has changed since Behan was selected a Rhodes Scholar in 1903. Latter-day candidates are not the young schoolboys Rhodes envisaged, applying for his Scholarships to gain experience of the world outside their remote localities. Virtually all have already travelled internationally, many have worked in foreign countries, in a variety of roles and causes, and men and women candidates have had very similar experiences. Their views of the world are international, not imperial, as are the Rhodes Scholarships themselves. The fields of applicants a re remarkably strong; their abilities Tsy dear hr Behan, the nave much Flessure in sending you would have impressed Cecil Rhodes, atulations of the rraetece on Your honour You Tore and their sophistication astonished warm aongx and the auoaesa,. ~, name in rea him. Trinity applicants are up with distinguished You are cutting yo the best of them. bxau:Int them. roll of honour• letters in our regar&e, With hind Professsor Poynter has written the Believe tae,

chapter on the Rhodes Scholarship Yours very einoerelY, and Australia for the centenary history

of the Rhodes Trust which is at present with Oxford University Press TRINITY Making a rd, TRINITY Today asked our scholars to reflect that i3rhe SCHOLARS and how the Rhodes has helped shape their lives

1904 J C V Behan with me before the War. Among those who 1904 L N Morrison welcomed us was "Ned" Herring (Lieut. The story is told of an Oxford don during General Sir Edmund, Chief Justice and 1905 H Sutton World War One accosted by a lady-recruiter, Lieutenant Governor of Victoria). He and his who handed him a white feather and asked wife remained our warm friends. Unknown to 1911 G M Sproule what he was doing in the War. With dignity he me he played a decisive part in my career and 1912 E F Herring replied, 'Madam, I am the civilisation they are fortunes. When to my surprise, my three-year fighting for. My father would not have gone Rehabilitation Lectureship was not renewed, 1919 S C Lazarus so far. But the scholarship he won from his I spent the next nine months without salary, Yorkshire Grammar School to Trinity, Oxford, with a wife and family to support, a house to 1919 A W Clinch in 1897 was a gateway to a new life for him. pay off, and a dwindling bank balance. Then, 1920 C E G Beveridge Appointed Senior Chemistry Master at out of the blue, the telephone rang, and a Brisbane Grammar School, he met my third- voice announced himself as 'Colonel Spry, 1920 W K Hancock (Aust) generation Australian mother on the voyage Director General of Security'. I had never out; they were married in 1913. He could heard of him or of ASIO. He explained his 1924 RRSholl not mention Oxford without a semi-religious recent appointment to a sensitive job of vital 1927 F K S Hirschfeld tremor. It represented the summit of his national importance. He wanted to strengthen ambition for his two sons. When I rang to his research staff, and someone to head 1928 A Garran tell him that I had been selected as the Rhodes Counter Espionage. Who had suggested my Scholar for Victoria for 1937, his well controlled name to him? Herring, under whom he had 1930 J F Loutit 'Good' was eloquent beyond words. He had served in the New Guinea campaign. So began 1935 J C Mann been ill and unemployed for six years during an eventful and totally unexpected chapter the Depression. There would have been no in my life. 1936 M N Austin possibility of my getting into Oxford without The story continues, when I moved to the Rhodes Scholarship. Canberra in 1971 as deputy head of the 1937 M R Thwaites I had some influential referees, including Parliamentary Library. Keith Hancock, eminent 1938 A W Hamer my old Headmaster, James Darling, but the historian and first Australian to be elected a selection interview in the old Treasury Building Fellow of All Souls, Oxford, was a valued friend. 1946 A H Cash was an anxious ordeal, crowned with relief and Recently Sir Anthony Kenny, Warden of Rhodes delight. Along with congratulations, one of the House, read the manuscript of my memoir 1951 J R Poynter committee (it may have been Reg Sholl) pointed "Atlantic Odyssey" and encouraged me to 1954 J D Anderson out that my stated aim of a writing career could publish it. It was wholeheartedly launched lead to self-preoccupation; whereas Rhodes' at Rhodes House by Bob O'Neill, Chichele 1955 B E Kent Will looked for a man who would make 'the Professor of History of War at All Souls, performance of public duty his highest aim'. and finally in Melbourne at Trinity, with 1956 A M Gibbs John McKie, Chaplain of Trinity, suggested overwhelming warmth and generosity by Sir 1960 PAVRoff that I apply for New College. I travelled to Zelman Cowen, introduced by the Warden. Oxford in company with Doug (WD) Allen, As I re-read the detail of what each said on 1965 C Selby-Smith the South Australian Rhodes Scholar also going that occasion, I feel humbled by the sense of to New College. We became life-long friends. gratuitous privileges and gifts unearned. 1972 C D Cordner A distinguished physicist, he later did vital Of course one gift stands apart from all 1975 C M Maxwell work on the development of radar, and the others. Honor Mary and I met in Tin Alley on 'Manhattan Project' which ended the war. 10 October 1934, and began a communication 1979 J 5 Glover The Warden of Rhodes House, CK Allen, that continued — with breaks and variation — and his open-hearted wife Dorothy were through the fifty-nine years of our life 1980 E Storey generous friends before, during and after the partnership. 1988 A E Nicholson War. When I came back to Oxford for the final To celebrate my Rhodes Scholarship she year of my Scholarship, after six years service in planned a special dinner for two. But it 1992 J C Turner (Aust) the RNVR, they invited me with my wife and two turned out to be the date of the Trinity dinner small children to stay at Rhodes House while we to celebrate the scholarship. I have her diary 1993 C D McCamish found suitable accommodation. in which she records her concession that 'the 1993 C R B Day (Aust) My debt to the Rhodes fraternity has been College should have prior claim for that beyond measure. The inimitable Jock Behan particular evening'. 1994 L M Gorton was Warden in my Trinity days. When I returned to Australia in 1947 to lecture in English at Michael Thwaites, one of Australia's most 2000 T R Snow Melbourne University, he had just handed over distinguished authors and poets, was 2000 C J Hepburn (Aust) to Ron Cowan, who had been at New College recently elected a Fellow of Trinity. 15 (my tutor usually went to sleep during this!). Mackie. The experience demonstrated two The return voyage, in the Australian Star, great truths about education — that students was an adventure, taking place at the height learn most from each other, however good My two and a half years at Trinity I found of U-boat attacks during September-October their teachers, and that residential colleges delightful and I believe the experience 1942. I was fortunate to return to the ICI are good places to do it. probably the most rewarding period of my ANZ Office in Melbourne, and at Yarraville, After two exciting years tempered only by formative years. Freshmen were allotted jobs where I was responsible for building the new regret that I had not taken advantage of all and mine was Library Curator. In a corner of plants. I remained 38 years with ICI. I was the things Oxford had to offer — no one ever the billiard room in Upper Clarkes' was a sent for three years to Sydney (where I met does — I came back to Trinity as Dean, and small fiction library in my care. I was given a my wife), to the new factory complex at to an academic career. I had some desultory sum (I think 20 pounds) to spend on books, Botany and had 31/2 years in India. On return involvement with the Association of Rhodes and Margaretta Webber in the city to Australia I was made Managing Director. Scholars, and a stint on the Victorian persuaded me that we should get a copy of My years with ICI were full of interest as we Selection Committee, but was totally the works then on the Government banned expanded local manufacturing and kept up surprised to get a letter in 1973 from the list. I remember Brave New World and Cage with technological advances. then Secretary of the Rhodes Trust, saying me a Peacock with pleasure. the Trust wanted me to succeed Sir George My tutor at Trinity was named Malcolm Paton as their Australian Secretary. It was a Fraser! He was a wonderful man, though a characteristically informal handwritten note hopeless lecturer, and took a great interest in from `Bill' Williams, with the peremptory his students. He was a graduate of When, late in 1950, Warden Cowan concluding message that he would `brook Magdalen College, Oxford and seemingly suggested that I apply for the Rhodes I was no refusal'. He did not tell me what the job had read widely about the Rhodes surprised. I didn't think I had much chance, entailed; I soon learned, and for the next Scholarship. He was convinced that Rhodes and neither I think did he When I was chosen twenty-four years coordinating the selection had meant his scholarship to go to people — from one of the smallest fields of the of Rhodes Scholars in Australia was an who would go to Oxford as undergraduates, century — the Scholarship immediately important part of my life. I have told some as he thought intimate contact with young taught me the first of innumerable lessons. of the story elsewhere in this journal, and British students most desirable. He The Argus was running a campaign for better much more in a chapter on 'The Rhodes therefore encouraged me to apply in my pay for teachers; its reporter took me Scholarships and Australia' for the Centenary second year The final interview took place straight to a pub, and announced next day History the Trust is soon to publish. at the end of the year 1937, at the Treasury New Rhodes Scholar won't go in for It is obvious that the Rhodes Scholarship Building, with the State Governor as teaching: "there's not enough money in it", changed my life — perhaps unusually, twice. chairman. Manning Clark was the clear he says'. The second time, as Australian Secretary favourite, but he had an attack of petit mal To travel overseas in the 1950s you had between 1973 and 1997, I joined a most epilepsy, collapsed and had to be carried out to be rich, have the kind of job which would remarkable group holding similar positions on a stretcher ...and to my great surprise I support a working holiday, or win one of the all round the world, from America to was awarded the Rhodes. few scholarships. The Rhodes didn't then pay Zimbabwe, and made many friends among Supported also by my Trinity Tutor, I had fares, the stipend was meagre and Britain not them. I also sat in on most of the annual no question but to try Magdalen and luckily fully recovered from the war. 'British meetings of the eight Australian Rhodes was accepted. I left for the UK in mid- Restaurants, set up during the war, still sold Scholarship Selection Committees, in the six August on the RMS Stratheden. In those lunch for 1/6, and Magdalen food was little States and the ACT, to be always heartened days Rhodes Scholars had to find their passage money and my father had very generously given me a first class ticket. AGL .students learn most from each other, however good their (Aggle) Shaw, later Professor, was also off to Oxford, and we also had two ex-GGS lads teachers, and residential colleges are good places to do it going to Cambridge. A well-known English actress, Fay Compton, was there with her company which had been touring Australia. Aggle Shaw and I made up a bridge four with better. But Rhodes House was welcoming, by the quality of intellect and character I saw Fay Compton's secretary and Michael Wilding Oxford was beautiful and exciting, and I had on both sides of the table. Being an observer, (better known later as Elizabeth Taylor's excellent tutors at Magdalen, including AJP and not a member, at more than a hundred husband) and we played every evening from Taylor. (I formed a nodding acquaintance such meetings, obliged to stay silent even 5 to 7 pm before descending to our cabin to with CS Lewis, whose rooms were on the next when the debate got lively, was a final put on our dinner jackets. staircase, but never noticed his Shadowlands excellent lesson from Mr Rhodes' The Oxford exam I found quite hard but visitor.) Above all I had the luck to be in the Scholarships, even if I never learned to when I got a little stuck in the practical brightest group of students doing PPE restrain myself entirely. section, the instructor was quite happy to (Philosophy, Politics and Economics) the help me out! One had hours with one's tutor College had ever had. We worked together, Prof Emeritus John Poynter was awarded each week, when he discussed briefly what and collected seven of the thirteen Firsts the OBE in 1999 'for services to the you had been doing. Often one had to write given that year; among the thirteen were two Rhodes Scholarship program in Australia'. an essay on some subject, and read it to him friends from Trinity, Kit McMahon and Jamie 16 '/ i'. SCHOL.ARSI.

rUCe ent, ISTORIAN, HoDES SCHOLAR FOR 1955 Although selection as a Rhodes Scholar depended primarily on academic references, there was something about Trinity in the 1950s, apart from its system of entrance scholarships, which helped it to produce four Rhodes Scholars in six years. Because there were only 120 residents in those days it was a close-knit community in which everyone knew everybody else's name. Although many students came from either Geelong or Melbourne Grammar, the plethora of cultural, sporting, and social activities ensured that old boy and disciplinary cliques were impossible. If plays were to be staged, concerts performed, teams put on the field, social events organised, a lot of people had to rub shoulders. The presence of ex-servicemen (mostly medical students approaching final year) and of Duntroon graduates who were completing engineering degrees was also a Trinity College Rugby XV 1951 (Bruce Kent — back row, fourth from left). valuable source of diversity and maturity. Finally, compulsory chapel attendance, Gibraltar before we were called on deck I recall three questions and answers: while not necessarily enhancing spirituality, early one morning to view the White Cliffs. Sir Dallas: What is the purpose of the provided the gateway to rewarding It is sad that this experience, and the shock comma in the English language? acquaintances with the opposite sex. of encountering the antiquity of Oxford Reply: (without having any ready examples in The melting-pot effect was such that a unmediated by television, is denied to mind): It helps prevent ambiguity. dozen otherwise sane members of the contemporary Rhodes Scholars. Sir Dallas: Who do you consider to be the College from a wide range of academic greatest twentieth-century writer of prose in disciplines (most of whom fortunately Bruce Kent was a Reader in Modern the English language? survived to occupy prominent positions in European History at the Australian Reply:(diplomatically) Sir Winston Churchill. society) were persuaded by the Duntroon National University until his retirement in He did turn out to be the Governor's elements and Fred Gurr, a medical student 1997. He is currently a Visiting Fellow in favourite writer, but mature reflection from Tasmania, to risk life and limb in an the ANU's Faculty of Economics and suggests I should more honestly have said alien winter contact sport (see photograph Commerce where he is writing a book Bernard Shaw or James Joyce. of the Trinity College Rugby XV, 1951). called The Price of Peace, which is about Sir Dallas: Do you think you can fulfil This is an extreme example of the manner in the economic origins of the Cold War. Rhodes's intentions? which Trinity residents of the 1950s were Reply: I think the world has changed quite a tried in the fire and found to be not bit since they were announced, but I would altogether wanting. Tony Gibbs, PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, do my best! The cultural and social cut-and-thrust of RHODES SCHOLAR FOR 1956 The Rhodes shaped my career in too Trinity life was, of course, crucial to instilling I remember my days in Trinity (on a Major many ways to summarize easily, but I can say the awareness and confidence needed to Residence Scholarship) as amongst the I've never mis-pronounced the word navigate the intimidating Rhodes selection happiest in my life. I could hardly believe 'controversy' since my final interview. With process. Although the calibre and panache my luck at discovering the wonderful worlds kindly tact the Melbourne University of candidates has risen since women it opened up, of excellent companionship, Registrar privately advised me afterwards became eligible to apply, the interviews a superb study environment, of blissful days that I had got it wrong in the interview by were as probing as they are today. The on the sports field, and thespian activities placing the emphasis on the second syllable. press also focussed a great deal of on the Union stage in College productions, attention on successful applicants because and so many other enjoyable experiences. Since Oxford, Tony Gibbs' contributions the northern hemisphere was physically far 'Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive.' to research in English literature have less accessible and fewer overseas One of the newspaper clippings reminded ranged from the Renaissance to the scholarships of any sort were available. me that my Rhodes award completed a hat twentieth-century, with special interests The considerable euphoria of success was trick of Trinity successes in the Rhodes in modern drama, literature and heightened by the prospect of a free first Scholarship -1954, 1955 and 1956. Out biography, in relation to intellectual, class sea voyage which meandered for five of the hazy but joyous memories of my cultural and social history. He became weeks through such ports as Colombo, final interview, presided over by the then internationally known as a leading Bombay, Aden, Port Said, Marseilles and Governor of Victoria, Sir Dallas Brooks, authority on the life and work of

17 George Bernard Shaw, and he has promising students with a marvellous future excellent supervisor for my doctorate recently completed A Bernard Shaw behind them". This touch of realism was not (John Vaizey of Worcester College, later Chronology (published in August 2000 abroad in the school-teaching world. Lord Vaizey of Greenwich). He was an by Macmillan). His current work is a Most Rhodes Scholars these days outstanding scholar with an extraordinary study of the connections between nation undertake graduate study at Oxford, an area range of interests; for example, he financed and self in early modern Ireland, with a which has grown substantially in numbers plays and kept three secretaries busy. He special focus on comparative study of and quality in recent decades. This matches took a close interest in my progress with a Yeats, Shaw and Synge. He is Emeritus the increased quality of the scholars. I found wealth of constructively critical suggestions Professor of English at Macquarie serving on the Selection Committee both a for my thesis and a caring interest in me University and a Fellow and former stimulating and a humbling experience. The personally. The Magdalen College Fellow in Council member of the Australian ability of the young people applying for the Economics, Keith Griffin, was also friendly Academy of the Humanities. He has scholarship these days is such that I would and supportive. This was critical to my held lecturing posts at the Universities have had the greatest difficulty in making the enjoyment of, and benefit from, my time at of Adelaide, Leeds and Stirling, and from short list if applying now. Oxford. The President of the College, Tom 1969-75 was Professor of English and Boase, an urbane art historian with a kindly Head of Department at the University interest in Australians, also made me feel a of Newcastle (NSW). welcome visitor. In terms of my life-journey two things about the Rhodes Scholarships were I was greatly influenced by Warden Cowan particularly influential. First, marrying my whom I admired enormously. He died during wife in Magdalen College chapel in 1967 my time at Trinity, but had encouraged me at the end of my second year, and being My mother was an anglophile and my to consider applying for the Rhodes punted down the river afterwards. Secondly, father an Englishman and a Cambridge Scholarship. it led me into an academic career, whereas graduate who had migrated to Western I had been dux of Scotch College in 1959 prior to winning the Scholarship I had Australia in the 20s. There is a story, (equal) and Captain of the School in 1960. planned to work in private enterprise, probably not apocryphal, that the I won an entrance scholarship to Ormond in probably in the financial sector. Headmaster of Guildford Grammar in Perth 1959, but decided to accept the major The only thing I regret about my time wrote to the Head of his Cambridge College resident scholarship I won at Trinity in in Oxford was that by finishing my D.Phil. saying that he wanted a science teacher who 1960 to broaden my range of contacts and thesis in May of my third year it was too was preferably a scholar and a gentleman. experience. For example, my father was late to play a season of cricket for the The Head of College wrote back, 'Scientists Headmaster of Scotch; and the Master of University. I might not have succeeded, are rarely scholars and never gentlemen, Ormond, although a wonderful person, was but I had been hoping to give it a good try. but you might like to consider this young a close family friend and a member of the Instead I played a few games for the man Roff'. Scotch College Council. Many of my school College, which proved to be a taste of There was a lot of mystique surrounding friends went on to Ormond. As far as I can village cricket at its best, and the pleasant Oxford for me, but with my English family remember I was the only Scotch boy to enter memories of which have stayed with me connections and both a Headmaster and a Trinity in 1961. I knew virtually nobody in for the rest of my life. Warden of Trinity who were Rhodes Scholars the College when I arrived. the idea of studying there was not I enjoyed my five years at Trinity very entirely strange. much indeed (four as a student, one as a I counted being awarded the Rhodes tutor in economics prior to my departure Scholarship as a stroke of quadruple good for Oxford). I made life-long friends, enjoyed fortune. It enabled me to change direction fellowship at the chapel and was able to mix I owe a great debt to my Trinity from engineering to school teaching rather across a wide range of faculties and other contemporary, Chris Cordner. Without his more easily than might have been the case. interests. I was pleased to be the only encouragement I would not have applied for Because of this change in direction it student in my year who won a Major the scholarship in 1974. Chris had gone to enabled me to experience undergraduate Resident Scholarship every year. I enjoyed Oxford as the 1972 Rhodes Scholar. In study at Oxford which is the area of greatest a range of sporting activities, including August 1974, he was back in Melbourne for distinction between it and most other cricket, squash, football and swimming. a holiday and suggested that I should apply. universities. I valued the experience of the I participated actively in university life, Eventually, in my second year, I shared a tutorial system greatly. Going to Oxford including the MU debating team, choral house with Chris and others in the enabled me to row with great enjoyment for society, cricket club and mountaineering gloriously named Squitchey Lane, another three years. Finally, being a Rhodes club. Being located on the campus gave me North Oxford. Scholar conveyed an inordinate advantage the opportunity to make the most of the Bob Hawke — then President of the ACTU in my career in teaching. wide range of activities available in the — was on the selection committee. Hawke is, The late Sir George Paton, himself a College and in the wider University (from of course, one of the most celebrated of Rhodes Scholar and a former Vice- home it saved me about an hour each Australia's Rhodes Scholars. At Oxford he Chancellor of the University of Melbourne, way every day). drank 21/2 pints of beer in 12 seconds and used to say "Rhodes Scholars are very While at Oxford I was fortunate to have an was entered in the Guinness Book of Records!

18 So there was more than a little press scholarship outside Oxford, and agreed to of law as an intellectual discipline. It led interest when, following the final meeting of support me for a year at the Inns of Court me to re-evaluate my aspirations and choose the selection committee in the Old Treasury School of Law. I joined Lincoln's Inn, ate the an occupation which combines my interests Building, Hawke invited me to join him for requisite number of dinners and did a in philosophy, history, writing and a beer in the Cricketers' Bar at the pupillage in Pump Court, Middle Temple. jurisprudence. Whilst I am a firm believer in Windsor Hotel. I had almost two years in London. the capitalist system and the opportunities which it allows the individual in all fields of endeavour, including material self- improvement, I have embraced a career that stresses quality of intellectual life rather than monetary reward. John Glover completed the BCL in 1982 and returned to Corrs, before becoming a barrister in 1984. He married Dr Millicent I am one of the last products of the 'men Thanks to the scholarship — and, in Vladiv, a Melbourne academic, in 1987. only' generation. I narrowly missed out, particular, the flexibility of the Trust's He published on the subject of Restitution several times, on institutional modernisation: policy — I had the opportunity both for law on a Pinkerton Research Fellowship in I left Trinity at the end of 1973, and the first post-graduate study and for professional the University of Melbourne's Faculty of women were admitted the following year. I experience, at the end of which I was able Law and in 1990 he took up a lectureship applied for the scholarship in 1974, at a time to begin legal practice in Australia. in the David Derham School of Law at when (unbelievable as it now seems) it was It was an extraordinary privilege to Monash University. His book Commercial only open to men. That changed not long be able to spend four years in England. Equity: Fiduciary Relationships was published after. I left New College in 1977, and the Extended immersion in a foreign culture — by Butterworths in 1995. In 1997 he first women were admitted the following year. even one as familiar as England's — is an obtained a PhD (Monash) on the basis of Before I left for Oxford, Sir James Gobbo experience which reverberates down published work, and became Associate urged me to be in touch with what was then the years. Professor in 1998. known as the "Victoria League for Commonwealth Friendship". He assured me that this would lead to a warm welcome from an English family. I did what I was told and, on Boxing Day 1975, I arrived at Rose Castle, When I went to Oxford in the 1979-1980 Oxford is probably a marvellous place the official residence of the Bishop of year, I found most English students to do a second undergraduate degree or Carlisle and his family. I was, I think, the first somewhat aloof and slow to strike up a Bachelor of Civil Law, but several of its Australian they had ever met, so some fairly friendship with an Australian like me. undergraduate colleges did not treat basic questions had to be answered at first. An eventual acceptance by part of the scientific research doctoral candidates But it was, as Sir James had promised, the mainstream population of the college well in the late 1970s and early 1980s. beginning of a lasting friendship which happened in this way. I joined the Magdalen I sincerely hope that they have sustained me through my four years in Rowing Club shortly after I arrived. Over improved since. England and continues to this day. the winter I became a member of a newly- I left for Oxford in mid 1980, having The graduates at New College were formed crew and worked diligently at graduated in Medicine in 1978, and collected together in a modern building mastering how to row — a skill I had not completed intern year and half of second which was, architecturally, a close cousin of much developed in Australia. To my year residency at the Royal Melbourne. Jeopardy. It was strategically hidden behind surprise, I was invited to become the stroke I intended to work on a malaria vaccine, the old city wall which bordered the College of the Magdalen second eight. In fact I which was then, as now, one of the world's garden. It had one telephone! was the only non-Englishman in the boat — most pressing health needs. I had been I had only been at Oxford a short time which was an interesting microcosm of required to choose a college before I left when the Whitlam Government was English society from bluff northerners to and decided on Magdalen on the basis dismissed by the then Governor-General, suave ex-public schoolboys. Differences of a guide book and some discussions Sir John Kerr. Kim Beazley was in Oxford as a fell to the side, however, and we met at the with those in the know. West Australian Rhodes Scholar, and I recall hotel for a final drink. You haven't done a I expected the Magdalen College his dramatic return to Australia in December bad job', I was told, and they each bought experience to be similar to that I had 1975 to help with the ALP election campaign me a beer. Small praise. But the ice enjoyed at Trinity, but richer and more which followed. His father had been was broken. remarkable as it was the original article education minister in the first Whitlam In 1978 I was an applicant for a Rhodes rather than an antipodean offshoot. Government. It was not difficult to see then Scholarship, with the intention of reading Unfortunately, the courtesy, respect and that Kim was headed in the same direction. for the Bachelor of Civil Laws degree. At the fairness I had taken for granted at Trinity Another of Sir James Gobbo's suggestions time I was an articled clerk at Corr & Corr, were sadly lacking. At the end of my first was to read for the Bar in London after solicitors in the city, and had finished my year I only knew two dons, the chaplain and finishing at Oxford. The Rhodes Trust has LLB in the previous year. My experience at the engineering tutor (who was the college's a discretion to fund a third year of the Oxford taught me to appreciate the pursuit wicket keeper). The President invited me

19 in after a year and asked me how my medical There is no doubt that the University's the Caucasus, focusing on the myth and course was going. He was quite surprised to history and traditions are interesting, and history of the major Caucasian nations: find that it had gone well, elsewhere, several the architecture and gardens are beautiful Chechens, Georgians, Abkhaz and Ossets. years before. No one seemed to think that in parts. Certain aspects of the Oxford My wife (whom I met at Oxford, as it I might be able to help their own medical experience, such as punting on the Cherwell happens) and I have recently moved to New students in clinical years, who received no on summer evenings, I remember with York, where we plan to stay for another year tuition from the college at all (a very poor pleasure. All this said, I found my time in or so before moving back to the field. comparison with the Trinity system). Boston, where I did my post-doctoral It might be worthwhile to consider some I planned to marry in my second year research, vastly more pleasurable and of the factors that have contributed to there, but was told that marrying in the productive. Trinity's success with the Rhodes over middle of their academic year was not done. the years. I can think of several reasons I couldn't have a married room for the year Elsdon Storey is Professor of why. As a bare minimum, the college clearly and I couldn't move into one half way Neuroscience, Monash University, produces sufficient numbers of students through. I tried to change colleges, but Director of the Van Cleef Roet with the necessary grades. More was told that I could only do so at the end Centre for Nervous Diseases and importantly, perhaps, Trinity gives many of the academic year. I moved into digs, Head of the Neurology Unit at the opportunities for branching out, in sport, and later found University married Alfred Hospital. debating, art and so forth. Doubtless the accommodation in Iffley village, just college environment helps develop inside the ring road. confidence arid the communication skills On reapplying to change colleges at the which can be neglected in the much larger end of that year, I discovered that I was only For me one of the great strengths of the and more faceless context of the university. allowed to move to a post-graduate college. Rhodes was that, perhaps uniquely among One of the most important reasons for I applied to Wolfson, only to be turned scholarships, it gave me a chance to branch Trinity's success, I am sure, is the least down as being of insufficient academic out. Whereas most scholarships provide for tangible. I remember Trinity as having a merit. I was surprised at this, but was post-graduate study in the field in which the culture that balanced academic and extra- subsequently told that the then Warden successful candidate has already excelled, curricular pursuits; it managed to be of Rhodes House had applied pressure to the Rhodes gave me the opportunity to try competitive without being a hothouse. stymie my transfer. It seemed that he was something a little different. In fact, subject Thankfully the atmosphere in the college afraid that if too many scholars moved to being accepted by the relevant faculty, had not quite reached the same pitch as in colleges, he would have difficulty finding the new Rhodes Scholar can apply for America (when I went up to Oxford I was places in future for candidates from anything from the bewilderingly rich horrified to learn that some of the Ivy academically weaker parts of the world. smorgasbord of studies offered by Oxford. League universities provide coaching in how Fortunately my Head of Department, I moved from Classics to International to get a Rhodes Scholarship), but clearly himself a Magdalen Fellow, sorted it out. Relations — the jump was not as illogical Trinity students had more encouragement to I discovered that the two previous as it sounds. Although the Rhodes has apply than most: the Rhodes was in the air.' Rhodes Scholars undertaking doctoral evolved since the endowment was made, this Lastly, it is worth remembering that research in the Department of Medicine emphasis on a rounded education remains although the Rhodes has the highest profile felt obliged to leave their respective one of the scholarship's defining principles. of all the scholarships, and its selection undergraduate colleges for Wolfson as well. In this day and age of increasing pressure on process and criteria are unique, it is far from Unlike the University proper, the the universities to provide a more narrowly being the only scholarship. Depending on Department of Medicine in the new NHS skills-based and job-oriented education, it is the applicant's ambitions, other scholarships hospital at Headington was a congenial a rare privilege indeed to be one of the might suit certain students better. There are place. The Department was largely staffed lucky recipients. dozens of other good ones in the UK, Japan, by northerners: a straight-forward and Such a fertile milieu opens many doors. the USA and elsewhere. It is a good index friendly bunch. As my scholarship wound down (and as of Trinity's continuing health as an The most enjoyable aspects of Oxford the money dried up), I was awarded a institution that its alumni continue to for me, however, were mainly those MacArthur Junior Research Fellowship in win these awards. associated with the town and environs International Relations at Exeter College, rather than with the University. I played where I completed my D Phil. After two cricket with a town team across summer, years I decided to take a break from took singing lessons from a retired opera academia and took a job in Madrid. Three singer in a nearby village, performed with months in a suit was more than enough to the town opera studio, and worshipped in convince me that my real metier was that of One of the things that I first noticed the Iffley village church. I frequently went a writer. I quit my job and moved to Tbilisi, when I arrived in Oxford was how closely the to London for the opera. A cheap second- and I have been writing ever since. My book colleges at Melbourne University sought to hand car rendered the glorious Cotswold on the cultural history of the spice trade is model themselves on the Oxford colleges. countryside and the theatre at Stratford being published by HarperCollins and Alfred Many of the traditions were the same, accessible, and improved my knowledge A. Knopf. I hope to follow that up with indeed much of the language was the same. of mechanics at the same time. another based on my experience of living in It made me feel very much at home right

20 from the start, even though the room I first looking forward to getting back into life in in civil engineering... moved into was built long before Trinity was Australia: I had had enough of English Sobering experiences like these even dreamed of. winters and relished the thought of some sometimes make me forget how exciting the The most striking difference between decent food. In applying for jobs I found build-up and the application were; the old the idea of a college at Oxford and at that my background was a good guy at the photograph shop who made me Melbourne was the extent to which an conversation starter, but beyond that you promise to tell him if I won (thinking back, Oxford college is the centre for student still had to prove yourself: there was no such I never did); dinner with my parents the academic life. Whilst I look back on my thing as a guaranteed job. My first move was night before (how are mothers so serenely Trinity days with fond memories of sporting into manufacturing consulting with Hagen & confident at times like that?); talking tennis and social activities, my academic life in Co. I remember that after having been with with the Governor's wife over lunch and Melbourne was centered on the University. them for a couple of months I was standing sweating whether to take the glass on my This is not so true for undergraduates at one day on the floor of a sawmill in country left or on my right; and calling my father Oxford: teaching is based in the colleges NSW. It was freezing cold, and I was from the Student Union to tell him I had and the tutorials are much more reflecting on just how far away I was from won. And then there was the guy I had demanding. This creates a much stronger the sherry and awkward conversation of high never met before who came out running sense of 'academic life' in the college, table in Oxford just a few months earlier. with Frank [Henagan] one afternoon at although this doesn't mean that the rugby Later that day, I had to laugh when I was Trinity a week after I won — he told us how players and rowers were any less rowdy explaining something to the plant manager: he knew the guy that won the scholarship after successful competitions! It does mean after listening carefully he turned to me and and what a complete jerk he was! said Well that's not too complex, The excitement died down after a week I mean, you don't have to be a or so. In the eight years since, I have only Rhodes Scholar to figure that once talked about the Rhodes meaningfully I found that my background was out!'. At the time he didn't know in conversation outside work and, as far as I anything about my background, know, it has only affected one decision in my a good conversation starter, but although we had a chuckle about life — my job application. It was great to it later. win the Rhodes. It is also wonderful to beyond that you still had to prove I have now left manufacturing have known and met at school and and am working in strategy university people who have gone on to yourself: there was no such thing consulting at The Boston achieve fantastic things — some publicly Consulting Group. It's a long way appreciated (like Rhodes), some very as a guaranteed job. from the fundamental research on private. The Rhodes is a high point on the jet engines that I did whilst in easy path laid out by school and university, Oxford, although the problems but other friends — like writers and actors — are still very challenging and the have followed braver paths, made more that the success of the colleges is measured technical skills do come in handy. Somehow difficult decisions and known more drastic largely by their academic results, placing a all the bitterly cold winters in Oxford haven't turning points. lot more pressure on the undergraduates survived in my memory as vividly as the But winning the Rhodes shaped my life, than I ever remember at Trinity. short but brilliant summers, and I still have and in great ways. My horizons have As a newly arrived Rhodes Scholar in a great fondness for the place: seven years changed — I studied law for seven years Oxford, one of the unexpected blessings after winning the scholarship, and three but took a job at McKinsey (management was the complete lack of fuss about the years after returning to Australia, I'd do consultants) because it offered an fact that you are a Rhodes Scholar. After all it all again tomorrow if you gave me international challenge with people from the fanfare and excitement that surrounded the chance! places like Oxford. Partly it is age, but also the announcement of the award in Australia, it is the luxury of being publicly acclaimed it brings you quickly back to Earth to realise so young (and without actually achieving that you are just one of over 200 scholars anything!), but in many Rhodies the in residence, and that all the tutors have intensity and focus we had when younger seen many Rhodes Scholars before you. has been diffused a little. The opportunities I certainly found it rather a relief to be a Given the enjoyable fuss that surrounded we have enjoyed open so many doors that it bit anonymous while I found my feet in an the scholarship when I won it, it is surprising can be hard to focus on just one! We also unfamiliar environment, especially after the how few of the people I have met since then carry a vague sense of obligation for the glare of attention I had received in Australia. actually know what a Rhodes Scholarship is great chances we have been given by the Amongst British students in Oxford the — certainly no-one in England does. Rhodes, and of expectation. Getting the Rhodes Scholarship is largely seen as just a The Shepparton News ran a nice little article balance right between the 'roundedness' source of funding, and the expectation that on page 3 when I won it — and a half page rewarded by the scholarship, the focus you will play a sport is driven more by the front cover story the next day on a guy who rewarded in careers, and the enjoyment of fact that you are Australian than your won a $1,000 scholarship to Monash! One friendships and access all around the world, scholarship. former girlfriend asked me recently why I is the next challenge. When I returned from Oxford, I was can't fix a spark plug if I won a scholarship

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black intellectuals and the general public. Dr Sykes challenged and activists. students, tutors and staff to dream the Born in the 1940s future where black and white Australians in Townsville, Queensland, lived together in a fair and equal society. Dr Sykes has recorded the 'White people must take responsibility for inspirational story of her life in her their own education about racism and their Snake Trilogy — Snake Cradle (1997 — role in it. They must devise their own Winner of The Age Book of the Year), Snake strategies to combat racism. It is not up to Visiting Scholar, Dr Roberta Sykes, Dancing (1998) and most recently Snake us to do that for them,' she told students. is a distinguished international speaker and Circle (2000). Snake Circle was launched She challenged students to awaken lecturer, poet and author of nine books. at Trinity by Professor Marcia Langton, themselves from their own ignorance She was awarded the Australian Human Foundation Professor of Indigenous Studies about the history of the country, to educate Rights Medal in 1994 — Australia's highest in the University of Melbourne. themselves rather than expect black people humanitarian award. She was the first black In welcoming Dr Sykes to the College, the to do the teaching for them. Australian woman to gain a PhD at Harvard. Dean, Dr Stewart Gill, told resident students She challenged students to 'dream She wrote her thesis on Aboriginal that Dr Sykes' life was an extraordinary tale this nation's future — a future in which education issues and in 1983 returned to of battling against... entrenched institutional blacks play a positive part. We have to Australia in order to lecture at the School of racism — because nothing was made easy for imagine that future in such fine detail that it Medicine at the University of NSW. her in Australia.' With Trinity working towards becomes tangible. It has to be so concrete Passionate about education, she founded two scholarships for indigenous students (in and substantial that we can reach out and the Black Women's Action in Education 2001), Dr Gill commented that 'Dr Roberta grasp it, pass it to our children, to our Foundation in order to provide similar Sykes is a most appropriate Trinity scholar companions,' she told listeners. opportunities for other black students. in residence.' 'The imagining, sharing and refining of The visit of Dr Sykes provided the first During her stay, Dr Sykes spoke to resident this future allows us to develop a plan. opportunity in Trinity's history for students students, Trinity's Foundation Studies We need a strategy in which we all play to take advantage of living with, listening to students from Asia and Africa, indigenous our parts to realise that future. It's not and speaking with one of Australia's eminent students in the University, Chapel gatherings something that one person can do alone.'

°The Dialectic Soapbox was an 'I think a continuing College 'Congratulations on a fantastic excellent discussion. I was relationship with Dr Sykes would art exhibition! Ray's talk on particularly refreshed to hear be extremely beneficial to Trinity Aboriginal spirituality and work the answer that Roberta gave to students. This might also wake was very moving. The political the question of what we can us up to greater issues outside comment that is also in the work contribute to reconciliation. college life.° challenges artists to go beyond That we should figure that out the decorative and the popular. for ourselves, based on a Most important of all, it is knowledge of our own skills, 'We have Ray [Vincent] to thank clearly a symbol of healing seems to me far more practical for alerting us to the fact that through art, Aboriginal symbols than to walk around saying Trinity is actually the land of the taking on a spiritual and sorry... This approach puts the Kulin people, and Roberta to powerful message for us all, onus back on us to work thank for making Trinity students when we are ready to receive through the issues, and does recognise their role in the the energy through the work.° not let us off the hook.' reconciliation process.'

So said students, tutors and staff after a 10-day visit by writer-in-residence Dr Roberta Sykes and indigenous artist-in-residence Ray Vincent in late July 2000.

22 Roberta Sykes' visit to Trinity culminated in a public lecture, in the Copland

Theatre at the University. The lecture was introduced by Jack Rush QC, lead counsel for the plaintiffs in the Northern

Territory Stolen Children case. Passages from the lecture are printed here.

We are now in a period of time when Roberta Sykes and Trinity friends. Clockwise from top left: Katie Mendra, Allie Hanly, Australians generally want to make sense of Shaun Flint, Kate Green, Peter Badger, Nick Jacometti, Imogen Pullar, Cathy Matthews the past so as to be able to come to grips and Carissa Christianto. with the present and plan for the future. The mythical and white blind-fold history of the true history of the country and its speaking to me tell me they want to learn Australia that was created as some sort of impact on people other than themselves. about the black community and racism, and cell for the past doesn't cut it for this new It is, I think, unfortunate in a way that they tell me this with the expectation that I generation of people. They realise it isn't this trilogy of books was released during will teach them. Every black person I know logical and it does not make sense. This this period which white people think of as complains that when they are employed situation creates fertile ground for black reconciliation. They were not written for they have to do two jobs, the job they are writers to help fill in the blanks. However, in this purpose. Indeed, I am quite scathing employed to do, and on top of that they order to do so, first they have to deal with about the notion of reconciliation, and I have to assume responsibility for the the misconceptions which have been personally will never be reconciled. I education of all the white people they developed as part of the colonial process of watched in admiration at the process and work with. White people do not realise that inventing a past. False images of blacks have some of the outcomes, especially at the they are asking for the impossible, creating been created that have to be chipped away social level, of South Africa's Truth and impossible demands on black individuals, and such a process takes time... Reconciliation Commission. In Australia and they are usually also without any I recall how that for over twenty years there is an expectation that there can be sympathy for the black person who people kept telling me how lucky I had been. reconciliation without truth, and I do not cracks up under the burden of these 'Oh, you were allowed to go to school and believe that this is so. Thus it seems to me impossible expectations. you're literate, that's unusual amongst your that a lot of effort has been expended for a I write in the hope that I won't have to people isn't it? Aren't you lucky.' 'Oh, you necessarily limited outcome. Still, I suppose talk, that I won't have to say the same have a Doctorate from Harvard, and you've it's a step. I always encourage people to things over and over to my thirty-six white got the Human Rights Award, oh my, aren't take steps. friends. Supporters of the liberation of you lucky.' Since I have published my As a writer, I spend a lot of time reflecting blacks will read to save us from going autobiography, no-one has come up to me on things. I have met a lot of white people hoarse. Supporters will thrust black books to tell me that I am lucky. who tell me that they have never met an on their friends and encourage them to read Luck has had very little to do with it. I am Aboriginal person and consequently find it too. This is not an advertisement. I have a convinced that my autobiographical work has hard to sympathise with their situation. publicist who does all that for me. My shed light on part of Australia's recent past, I have spoken about this before, but it is reasons for wanting you to read are much a past which very few people knew existed. worthwhile speaking of it again. There are different from hers. She urges people to Hundreds of readers have written and told eighteen million white people in this country read to make money for their company. I me so. It is not a past about which anyone and half a million blacks. For every white urge people to read in an effort to gain can feel proud — but this contribution, I have person to have a black friend, every black liberation and save lives. Writing is my way been told now, countless times, has assisted person would have to have thirty-six white of talking to many people at the same time. many white people to begin to understand friends. These whites who have been I can only hope that you will listen.

23 The black community for more than two decades has been urging the white community to educate themselves about racism, divest themselves of ignorance as a means of countering racism and inequality. And the answer it seems has often been 'I don't want to do that, what can I really do?' Some of the people who do read go on to realise what else there is that they can do. I continue to meet white people who say they know nothing, and it's Many students engaged Aboriginal disappointing that so many say that without the least trace of shame. It seems to me a painter, Ray (Kuwyie)Vincent, in tragedy that so many want to bask in their own ignorance and expect me and other blacks to conversation during his stay as artist-in- give freely of our time to educate them when they have been too lazy to educate themselves. residence. Ray Vincent, a member of As well, they want the two minute complete picture - the answers to the most vexing and the Dhungutti tribe from the north persistent problems in the entire country delivered to them in a few minutes during the coast of NSW, shared his journey from cocktail hour. I have lost count of how many people have approached me when I think I am stolen child through the long years of out socialising at a party, and they prop up an elbow on the bar or wall and they say 'How's discovery of his identity and cultural the black movement going?' roots. As he says of himself, 'I spent Many years ago I analysed a range of books by white Australian authors in which there 30 years travelling between Sydney were black characters. There weren't a lot of such books but in no book was there a black and various country areas, gradually hero or heroine, always they were the victims. I wrote an article about this for The National going deeper and deeper into my Times, which was entitled 'Where are the Black Heroes'. Given this lack of ability in the white spiritual dreaming.' community to be able to conceptualise a present or a future in which blacks play a positive Ray Vincent's paintings hung in role, it is obviously the task of black writers to imagine that future and to relentlessly project the Hall behind high table in stark that future to the wider audience and, even more importantly, to our own children. Children, and thought-provoking contrast to black and white should not be encumbered by the racism of the past and the present. They the portraits of the Irish and English should be taught by the literature that they are encouraged to read how to behave in this founders of the College. His exhibition new future... was opened by art dealer, Beverly

Judge and poet, Peter Knight, of Alcaston Galleries. The Gebhardt, thanked Dr Sykes N ng Day, show, curated by the artist, Fine Arts on behalf of the audience, lary 26th 1788 tutor Kate Challis and students, with a reading of his poem sold out over the week. Over the course of his visit, an oil completed only days before: With a volley of words; painting was completed by the artist. The flash of a fusilade, It depicts the Trinity community New names rolled out across the water embraced by the symbolism of the Marched with the changing tide Kulin Nation and the Wurundjeri sub Into the estuaries group - the original inhabitants of That soon would know blood. the land Trinity now stands on. The picture will hang in the JCR. Myall Creek Ray Vincent's honesty about his life was deeply appreciated by students, Bentick Island, Coniston, Forest River tutors and staff, and is best summed Massacre Plains. up by Dr Gill in his comments to resident students '...Ray's painting I Their stories, their map, find beautiful but also confrontational Our history as he deals with the issues in his life Our flag that have shaped him as a person... Over their dreams. thank you for sharing who you are A new vocabulary was at large. with us this week. Through your story represented on these walls you have challenged our community to take the Welfare, Patrol, Protector, issue of reconciliation seriously.' Policeman, Gaoler and Priest:

"Just give me more time, You in your black car Which is a death warrant.

And he finished with these words: 'Thank you Roberta. You have helped to enlarge the vocabulary.'

Full texts of Dr Sykes' addresses and the lecture are available on the Trinity website www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au For printed copies please contact the Development Office. Ray Vincent in conversation with (clockwise, Cathy Matthews, Phillippe Vranges, Carissa Christianto, Innogen Pullar, Kate Green, Peter Badger and Allie Hanly ;1r 1 ss es of the St ben Jack Rush QC was invited to the College in April to address students, tutors and staff on the highly charged issues surrounding the Stolen Generation. In 1996, Jack Rush, a Melbourne-based barrister, was briefed to appear on behalf of two Northern Territory Aboriginal people of mixed descent taking legal action against the Commonwealth Government arising from their removal as children from their families — the Cubillo-Gunner 'stolen generation' case. In speaking at Trinity he said, 'I was not particularly interested in indigenous issues when I accepted the brief. I had attended a Melbourne school, gone to University and had a comfortable career. These issues did not concern me'. Through what he has learnt of the systematic and horrifying removal of children from their families, Jack Rush has become deeply interested in issues affecting indigenous Australians, and a powerful advocate of an apology for what was done. He spoke to a packed and highly attentive audience, some of whom had difficulty coping with the horrors of the case he revealed. He talked about the oral evidence taken in the trial, about the documents taken from archives that indicated the policy of the Commonwealth Government in the Northern Territory, both before the Second World War and afterwards until more recent times. He related the evidence of the removals of the children from their families, culture, land and therefore religion. He emphasised the enormity of the loss when Aboriginal people are removed from their land. For Aboriginal people, 'land is life — land is traditions — land speaks. Whites find it difficult to comprehend the significance of land in Aboriginal culture,' he said. Jack Rush detailed the legislation which gave the Commonwealth government extraordinary power over Aboriginal people, intruding into every aspect of life. The Commonwealth's policy, over several decades, was clearly designed to strip so-called 'half-caste' children of their Aboriginal heritage. He concluded that without a sincere apology to the stolen generations our nation can only be seen as belittled and shallow. His address was followed by a vigorous discussion of white Australia's responses to the past treatment of indigenous peoples. The full text of Jack Rush's address can be found on the Trinity Website: www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au Copies are available by contacting the Development office. Jack Rush captures his audience.

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VISIT FROM EXPERT ON THE

The College's senior

dance of death scholarships are reserved

BY KATE CHALLIS for outstanding students

in their fourth or later

year of university study, ALAS RHIANNON BARKER BLACKMORE

A public lecture in April and our Bruce Munro Informal Dining Society. He has also on the iconography of the scholarships are reserved served on the Tech Committee, which provides the technical support for Dance of Death attracted for students in their third student events, the Billiards Room committee and the Emergency an audience from a range or later year at university. Response Team. Alistair is the sexton of the College Chapel, assisting the of university faculties TRINITYToday profiles chaplaincy with the management and running of the Chapel. In his spare across Melbourne as well these scholars. time there is mountain biking, or hunting through music shops in Dr Dagmar Eichberger as members of the arts the city.

community. ALISTAIR BARKER, originally from Toowoomba in Queensland, is RHIANNON BLACKMORE is in the The presenter, Dr Dagmar Eichberger, is a completing his honours in Actuarial third year of a six year course in Law/ distinguished art historian specializing in Northern Studies, with a second major in Chemical Engineering. 'What on Renaissance Art, and was a Visiting Scholar during finance. His thesis examines earth are you going to do with that?' first semester 2000. Her fellowship at Trinity arose volatility in interest rate pricing people ask her. She knew that she from the celebrations of the first quarter century models, and their application to wanted to study engineering, and of women in co-residence in the College. She was Australian bank bills. Concurrent thought law sounded like a good in Melbourne as Senior Visiting Research Fellow in with his studies, Alistair is also idea. It was, she says. It has opened the Department of History. The College was employed as a portfolio manager by up good opportunities, including fortunate to have Dr Eichberger among us. National Asset Management, part working at Dow Chemicals over last Not a stranger to Melbourne, between 1990 and of the National Australia Bank. summer. No slouch, Rhiannon has 1994 Dr Eichberger was a Senior Lecturer in the Alistair assists the Faculty of been named in the Esso Mobil Dean's Department of Fine Arts at the University of Economics and Commerce as a Honours list and received a Trinity Melbourne, where she established the postgraduate course adviser, advising College award for academic course in Art Curatorial Studies. Her visit in 2000 undergraduates on subject planning. excellence. arose from her previous collaboration with the This may seem a lot when one is She brings an international focus Renaissance historian Charles Zika. In 1994 they studying but Alistair points out, to the College from living an itinerant organized an international conference on Albrecht 'working and completing my studies life from early years in Melbourne Durer which coincided with the National Gallery simultaneously is definitely an and then Sale, Gippsland to Perth — of Victoria exhibition of that artist's work. The arduous task, particularly around Jakarta — Perth — Jakarta — Kuala proceedings of the conference were subsequently exam time, but the application of Lumpur before Trinity. She serves on published as Durer and his Culture by Cambridge my technical skills into a practical the editorial team of Bulpadok, is a University Press. Since 1995 Dr Eichberger has environment through my member of the Dialectic Society, been associated with the Art History Institute at employment is proving to be a very and has performed in College plays the Universitat des Saarlandes where she is rewarding experience. In fact it has over the last three years. She plays currently working on a book on the collection of actually improved my marks!' the violin and performed with the Margaret of Austria. Over the four years of residence Victorian Youth Symphony Dr Eichberger participated in a range of College at Trinity Alistair has contributed to Orchestra. Rhiannon has a no- events and was more than willing to meet and give the College community in a wide nonsense attitude to staying fit advice to students about their art historical range of ways. He has served in the by playing soccer with the research. Drama Club and was treasurer of Melbourne University women's team the Centenary Production of and participating in street Latin Alcestis, the Film Society, and the dance classes.

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TOM PARIZA ORLEY TAVERNER AHMAD ROSLEY, NOSWORTHY DETHRIDGE KUTSCHERA

Competition and represented MILES ANDREWS is in his third year have produced drugs such as the SARAH NOSWORTHY is in her Australia in the International studying a Bachelor of Science and a world's first flu vaccine, Relenza (from final year of a Physiotherapy degree Mathematics Olympiad in India. Diploma in Music (Practical). His Melbourne!), as well as anti-cancer at the University of Melbourne. She As an undergraduate, he has science majors are Biochemistry and and anti-viral drugs which are just has had ample opportunity to put participated in various mathematics Molecular Biology, and Immunology now being trialled; he says. her physiotherapy skills into and computer science research and will head into honours next year. The Chemistry Department practice, looking after many of projects and represented Australia He works at the Walter & Eliza Hall employs him as a first year Trinity's sporting teams over the last in the ACM Inter-University Institute of Medical Research as demonstrator and also as a research four years. Programming Contest in Orlando, a medical researcher in the assistant, which involves performing Aside from her studies, Sarah has Florida in 2000, achieving equal Immunology Division. calculations on some interesting a hectic schedule of extra-curricular second place. He plans to start A talented oboist, he is currently molecules. activities. She has been a member a PhD next year with a view to principal oboe in the 'Demonstrating chemistry is of the Choir of Trinity College for eventually becoming a computer Conservatorium Sinfonia, and has enjoyable, though I'm still learning the last four years, and played a programmer or an academic. played with the Victorian Youth how to teach students properly. In major role in the fundraising effort In what spare time there is John is Symphony Orchestra. In College he my opinion, teaching is a very for the Choir's 1998 tour of a keen reader and has an interest in has played in West Side Story and undervalued professional skill.' Tom England. the law. for the Trinity College Chamber also serves on the University staff/ A fine athlete, Sarah devotes a Orchestra. He also plays piano and student liaison committee for large amount of time to sporting JENS KUTSCHERA, a German enjoys exercising his bass voice Physics. activities, representing the College citizen, began his university occasionally. 'Music is a nice change In his spare time he rides his bike, in rowing, athletics, marathon and education in Cologne, and has spent from Science and provides me with a sings with the Melbourne University cross-country during her time at almost three years studying in the much needed outlet, although the Choral Society and is a keen Trinity. Currently, she is training areas of economics, finance, approach to both (in terms of participant in College soirees. with Melbourne University Athletics management and psychology in the getting better at it) is identical; Bulpadok readers enjoyed his risque Club and was selected to represent University of Melbourne. As he says he says. piece on Sn2 reactions in last year's the University in the 800m and 'I believe my time spent in both He is an editor of Bulpadok and edition. 1500m at the 2000 Australian countries has enabled me to develop was a sub-editor last year — which, University Games in Ballarat. a strong and outward-looking in part, satisfies another interest — PARIZA ORLEY AHMAD ROSLEY Whilst not studying, singing or approach.' Jens tutors in economics writing, particularly writing for comes to Trinity from a small town in running, Sarah is busy in her roles as at the University of Melbourne and speech. the north of the Malaysian peninsula. Chief of the Trinity College at Trinity. During the summer he She first enrolled in 1997 in the Emergency Response Team, works as a researcher at the Tasman TOM TAVERNER is in the final year Foundation Studies Program, and President of the E R White Club, and Institute, in collaboration with the of a Bachelor of Science majoring in then entered as a resident student as a sexual harassment adviser. She Productivity Commission. Chemistry. He says, 'My main studying for a Bachelor of was Student of the Year at Trinity in A Kung Fu enthusiast, he is Vice- concern about doing research Commerce, majoring in Accounting 1999, and is looking forward to President of the University's Kung Fu science as a career is that one day and Finance. Pariza was named in the starting her career as a Club and was a gold medalist in the somebody will find out how much Dean's Honours last year. She is physiotherapist in 2001. 2000 Australian Universities South fun I'm having and stop me from sponsored by Petronas, Malaysia, an Championships in the welterweight doing it!' He is interested in doing organisation which helps students to division. Jens also enjoys volunteer research in chemistry/biochemistry study overseas. There are about JOHN DETHRIDGE is currently work, travel and skiing. crossover areas, such as computer 100 Petronas sponsored students completing an honours year in modelling of proteins and drug in Melbourne. Science, majoring in Mathematics Other Senior Scholars discovery. 'These fields are still in She enjoys listening to music, and Computer Science. His interest Shaun Flint, Tim Elliot, their infancies, as computer power is films, drawing and travel. On the last in computer programming stems Rohan Humberstone, Calvin only now reaching the point where score, she has already seen much of from school days. In his final year at Bowman and Shelley Beer we can do accurate simulations of Australia, which she finds 'so different school, he won the Australian were profiled in the last large molecules; but already they from my home country'. Computer Programming edition of TRINITYToday.

27 Scholarships in 2000 The College congratulates the following students who have been awarded Scholarships in 2000 and recognises, with gratitude, the individuals who have supported Trinity College by establishing scholarships.

Mary Kingsmill Baxter Prize for Engineering The Robert W H Cripps Scholarship Elizabeth Hebden Scholarship Established in1998 Established in 1994 for a student from Established in 1918 awarded to Shelley Beer Caulfield Grammar School, Korowa Anglican awarded to Jeremy Bostock, Julian Chan Girls' School or elsewhere who will contribute Charles Abbott Scholarship to the music program of the College The A J Herd Scholarship Established in 1987 for an outstanding scholar awarded to Sarah Nosworthy Established in 1996 by Stuart Stoneman and sports person with leadership qualities in memory of Tony Herd for a student who awarded to Ekapak Nirapathpongporn The Cybec Scholarship will contribute to choral music and would not Established in 1995 by Roger and otherwise be able to be a resident member Randal and Louisa ,4lcock Scholarship Sally Riordan for a student who of the College Established in 1927 demonstrates academic merit, financial awarded to Andrew Schofield awarded to Simone Alford, Chris Fernie need and an interest in technology awarded to Will Moase The Hill Insurance Medical Scholarship Mary Armytage Scholarship Established in 1999 Established by Mary Armytage in 1883 The Foundation Entrance Scholarship awarded to Ingrid Horner awarded to Aidil Zuhairy Azman, Ekapak Established in 1996 by Martin, Armstrong, Nirapathpongporn, Hilary Thwaites, Phillip Aurel Dessewffy, Philip Roff, Bill Wilson, Arthur Hills Scholarship Ingle, Philip, Riley, Chris Watkins Richard Sutcliffe for an outstanding first yea awarded to Simone Alford, Andrew McGregor student who would, not otherwise be able Berthon Scholarship to enter the College M Hurry Law Scholarship Established in 1886 by Charlotte Moriarty awarded to Robin Gough, Lina Ly awarded to Rhiannon Blackmore, awarded to Alex Forbers-Harper, Amelia Lavery, Nicholas Haines Nick Jacometti N H M Forsyth Choral Scholarship Established in 1997 byJannie Brown in The David Jackson Scholarship Reginald Blakemore Scholarship memory of Neil Forsyth Established in 1999 for a good all-round student studying awarded to Benjamin Namdarian for a properly deserving alumnus of Anglican any discipline Church Grammar School, Brisbane awarded to Will Temple-Smith Simon Fraser Scholarship awarded to Kieran Rowe for an advanced student of Engineering The Evan Burge Entrance Scholarship awarded to Shelley Beer and Jeremy Bostock The F F Knight Scholarship Established in 1995 by Bill Cowan, Robert for a student of Law or Accounting Cripps, Davina Hanson, Tom Quirk, David Wells Fulford Research Scholarship awarded to Harriet Gee, Will Temple-Smith for an outstanding first year student who would for medical research not otherwise be able to enter the College not awarded Robert B Lewis Scholarship awarded to Kimberly Davis Established in 1989 R Grice Scholarship awarded to Tobias L'ocsei" Miltiades and Alkestis Chryssavgis Scholarship Established in1879 by Sir John Grice Established in 1995 preferably for a student awarded to Jens Kutschera A G Miller Scholarship studying in the areas of Arts, Humanities, Established by Mary Miller for a student enrolled Theology or Music The Leith Hancock Scholarship to study for Bachelor of Music awarded to Miles Andrews, Meagan Burbury, Established in 1992 for a student outside awarded to Kate Green Campbell Carroll, Hayden Gaunt, Elena Pappas, Melbourne who is perhaps the first in the family Hilary Thwaites to experience a university education and whose erruce Munro Scholarship financial circumstances may not otherwise allow Established in 1984 by Bruce Munro Clarke Scholarship access to a college experience for a student who demonstrates a combination Established in 1880 by Sir William Clarke Bt awarded to Peter Burns of personal qualities, academic merit and awarded to Helen Everett, Harriet Gee, Eunice financial need Lin, Katie Mendra awarded to Pariza Orley Ahmad Bosley, Miles Andrews, Rhiannon Blackmore, Tobias Locsei, Thomas Taverner

28 Awards 1999/2000

Bruce Munro Organ Scholarship The Andrew Sprague Bursary Medal for Outstanding Established in 1989 by Bruce Munro Established in 1989 by Susan Stribling Academic Achievement for a student of the organ who will contribute for a student who shows outstanding ability in Tobias Ldcsei, Thomas Taverner (1999) to the musical life of the college photography and an interest in College history, Student of the Year awarded to Calvin Bowman (Senior), archives and records Sarah Nosworthy (1999) David Black, (Junior) awarded to Nick 'Jacometti, Paul Chadder Chris Watkins (2000)

The R F Stuart-Burnett Scholarship The R A Must Scholarships The Franc Carse Essay Prize awarded to Shelley Beer, Jeremy Bostock for students of Veterinary Science Miles Andrews (2000) Synn Lynn Chin, Susannah Gwynn, Phillip awarded to Meagan Burbury Ingle, Paul Lee, Lucy Matthews, Andrew Trinity College Awards for academic Mc Gregor, Andrew Sypkens, Nicholas Taylor, J H Sutton Scholarship excellence — 2000 winners Chris Watkins for students of Greek or Latin Miles Andrews, Rhiannon Blackmore, awarded to Michael Mantle David Brice, Julian Chan, Jenny Chu, The Perry Scholarship Tim Elliott, Christopher Goddard, Kate Green, Samuel Griffiths, Deborah awarded to Zoe Asher, Clare Cameron, Joshua The A C Thompson Scholarship Horowitz, Rochelle Howie, Phillip Ingle, Coleman, Georgina Fast, Kate Green Established by Eleanor Thompson Eunice Lin, Catherine Matthews, for a student in second or later years, studying Dougal McInnes, Will Moase, Ekapak S A F Pond Scholarships electrical engineering Nirapathpongporn, Imogen Pullar, awarded to Rochelle Howie, Ekapak awarded to Helen Everett, Nicholas Haines, Thomas Taverner, Christopher Thomas, Katie Mendra, Eve Temple-Smith, Jamie Foong, Nirapathpongporn Mary Wallis, Ian Wheal Clarissa Nah, Christopher Stewart, Christopher Thomas Trinity College Entrance Scholarships Outstanding contribution to the College awarded to Peter Badger, Helen Bishop, Catherine Matthews, Caroline Adler, Agnes Robertson Choral Scholarship Carissa Christianto, Jenny Chu, Jamie Foong, Meg Mulcahy (2000) Established in 1999 Laura Hart, Emily Moody-Nobbs, Jeremiah awarded to Peter Badger Mulcahy, Elena Walsh Outstanding contribution to the Arts Michael Pottenger (2000)

Helen M Schutt Trust Scholarship Trinity, College Senior Scholarships Sportswoman of the Year Established in 1985 by the Helen M Schutt awarded to John Dethridge, Tim Elliott, Rohan Christine Maughan (2000) Trust for students with outstanding academic Humberstone, Jens Kutschera and leadership potential who could not Sportsman of the Year otherwise enter the College Trinity College Senior Scholarships for Christopher Fernie (2000) awarded to Peter Badger, Nicholas Haines, Community Service Katie Mendra awarded to Alistair Barker, Sarah Nosworthy President's Medal for Oratory Nicholas Haines (2000) Helen M Schutt Trust Choral Scholarship The David Wells Law Scholarship Established in 1990 Established in 1997 for an outstanding scholar Wigram Allen Essay Prize (2000) awarded to Philip Nicholls of Law who would not otherwise be able to Patrick Porter benefit from all that Trinity offers Fine Art Prizes in Artsfest 2000 The Amy Smith Scholarship Fund awarded to Deborah Horowitz Kristin Murphy for a work in pencil, Established in 1985 by Clive Smith Lizza Hearn-Kokkinos for painting, for student who would not be able to The A M White Scholarship Nick Jacometti for digital work and Established in 1918 by Anna Maria White for a continue as a resident of the College Cathy Matthews for works on paper. without financial assistance student in Arts or Law or Medicine or Science Special Commendations awarded to Catherine Matthews awarded to Thomas Taverner William Pohl for poster of Sweeny Todd Imogen Pullar for fabric and thread The Sydney Wynne Scholarship poetry installation awarded to Caroline Ray Peter Badger for digital imaging

29 articles, books, theses, poems and papers in progress and published by Trinity staff o-Y Li Ÿ.'k~„k'i:íY~';vü i. ~,vih. ~.'.~~' t' E.1_`..~ := A~`Y+si.~}'.kk íYa.•r;r ~.1, Y

PROFESSOR DON MARKWELL, DAVID COLE, College Chaplain and EMMA HENDERSON (tutor in Law) Warden, has recently published `Griffith, Director of the Theological School, has has been awarded her PhD in law from the Barton and the Early Governor-Generals: contributed significantly to the preparation University of Melbourne. Her thesis focused Aspects of Australia's Constitutional of the new hymn book Together in Song: on the use of privacy as a legal strategy in Development' in the Public Law Review Australian Hymn Book ll (published by human rights struggles (using as an example (Vol 10, No 4, December 1999), whilst his HarperCollins Religious). David was a the struggle for gay law reform in Tasmania research paper, Keynes and Australia, has member of the editorial committee for over and England). Her study concluded that no just been published by the Reserve Bank. ten years, and was chair of the Music matter how dedicated or theoretically aware Entries by Professor Markwell on the leading Editorial Committee. The new hymn book the activist, the power of law and the inter-war internationalist, Sir Alfred is already chalking up a very healthy track dictates of privacy are so strongly tilted in Zimmern, and former Australian Governor- record, whether or not it ever meets its favour of reinforcing the status quo that General, Sir Paul Hasluck, will appear in predecessor's record of sales of over other routes are necessary if substantive forthcoming volumes of the English New one million copies. He has also recently social change is the object of engagement. Dictionary of National Biography. published two articles. 'Theological In February she was awarded the University Education and the Future' in The Melbourne of Melbourne 1999 Graduate Student STEWART GILL, Dean and Deputy Anglican. December 1999, and `Singing the Published Research Prize for a book chapter Warden, is continuing to work on a history Faith' in The Hymn, July 2000, published by based on a section of her thesis, entitled of the United Aborigines Mission for Allen The Hymn Society of the USA and Canada. 'I'd Rather Be An Outlaw: Decriminalisation and Unwin, and has had a new proposal and Social Change in Tasmania'. accepted by McGill-Queen's University Press RICHARD TRELOAR, Assistant Chaplain. to write a joint biography of John and has completed study leave in the UK and PATRICK PORTER, Assistant Director Charlotte Geddie. The research for the Israel. during which he presented a paper of Student Welfare and tutor in History, latter work will be partly supported by a to an Old Testament Seminar convened will publish an article in the Melbourne 2000 Faculty Research Award, granted by by Professor John Barton of Oriel College, Historical Journal on the Julian laws of moral the Canadian Government and the Oxford University. The paper, 'Learning reform passed under emperor Augustus International Council of Canadian Studies. to live in textual exile: reading Esther between 22BC and 14AD. The laws Publication will be supported by a Stanford rabbinically?', arose out of doctoral work promoted Roman virtues of procreation, and Priscilla Reid Grant. In September, he through Monash University on Hebrew civic duty, austerity and sexual fidelity by travelled throughout Canada gathering narrative, and a version of it is currently targeting some of the immoral practices material for this work. Other recent being prepared for publication in an associated with the fall of the republic. publications include `John Dunmore Lang - Australian theological journal. Contributing These included adultery and luxury. Republican' in the Proceedings of the Uniting periodically to Eureka Street's `Summa The article re-examines the context and Church Historical Society, Volume 6, Number Theologica' column has provided an purpose of the sumptuary laws, suggesting 2, December 1999. Stewart wrote a opportunity for Richard to reflect more that they were essentially symbolic laws chapter on 'Charlotte Geddie' in J S Moir widely on issues in the public domain, intended to address the anxieties of the ed., Called to Witness: Profiles of Canadian including comments by Justice Kirby elite rather than the eradication of Presbyterians (Presbyterian Church in on the churches and homosexuality decadent social practices. Patrick Porter Canada, Hamilton, Ontario, 1999), and was (Vol. 10 No. 5 [June] 2000). won the Wigram Allen Essay competition a contributor to Volume 1, 4th edition of in 2000. Die Religion Geschichte and Gegenwart (Mohr CRAIG DE VOS, lecturer in New Siebeck). Testament, has had a revised version of his SHEREE BAILEY, Student Adviser PhD thesis published under the title, Church and Resident Tutor at Trinity College, is DAMIAN POWELL, Director of Academic and Community Conflicts: The Relationships undertaking a PhD on the role of media and Studies, has published his second book, Sir of the Thessalonian. Corinthian, and civil society in the international campaign to James Whitelocke's Liber Famelicus 1570 - Philippian Churches with Their Wider Civic ban landmines. In early September Sheree 1632: Law and Politics in Early Modern Communities by Scholars Press. It was attended the Second Meeting of State England. It considers constitutional issues launched at Trinity in September 1999, and Parties to the Ottawa Convention banning in the lead up to the English Civil War. He has already received critical acclaim from anti-personnel landmines at the United has also written an article on legal education eminent scholars. Later in 2000, a chapter Nations in Geneva with official "observer" for The Journal of Legal History and is he has written entitled. 'Popular Graeco- status as part of the International Campaign currently completing entries on a range of Roman Responses to Christianity', to Ban Landmines (the co-recipient of the legal luminaries for the New Dictionary of was published by Routledge as part of 1997 Nobel Peace Prize). Sheree is also the National Biography. a very large (49 chapter) work on the Early Australian Convenor of the ICBL Working Christian World, edited by Professor Philip Group on Victim Assistance. Those Esler of the University of St. Andrews. interested can contact her at the College.

30 THEOGV::vZ God goes giola Ì

GEOFF BROWNE; Warderi?s ,R«eéarch providing global access a~si's,taf i. has wntten'two entries for ~:olumë to some of Australia's ~5'ót the DictiOnarÿ of Bro,vtaphy,,- finest theological education published in 2060.'1:1,0 conípletmg-fou+ is an important achievement etresn o• the ne~t=volume." of Trinity College Theological School at the turn of the :RICHt1'RD:WRr41-rtH::IT.Manager,-fiâs, • millennium. Trinity's published a rèsearcli paper.'Piessure Loads theological educators and on ship HuA'Plating.Causëdby Slarhming', _~ information technologists which mve5ligates fhè pressurés and l'gads have combined their skills app~iPd.to the s.urfacë ot.octan-going and insights at the forefront vessels w,henimpacting wavès in stoímy of the global education seâ ; The ti3st ehtre ne impacts usually frontier. As a result, this high ocGü; when.a,tiessël ìs beating into the quality study is already being wéather..andriseso'vër a wa\+e only to fall a' undertaken by students Ross Fishburn delivers courses and accompanies substntialcJistance into the tiough:kiéhind. not only in Victoria, but students in their learning the world over. Dç,Virraith's réseanch'was prirnarily focused throughout the world. In on`cúrvéd,hJkls. Thè-results Of these .` 2000, students were enrolled from as far away as Hong Kong, Arizona and Montana! experiment help in the develUpmenfi ot A degree in any discipline will give you access to one of the world's best theological desïgn.stand'ards and in naval . diplomas. The Graduate Diploma in Theology (awarded by the Melbourne College of Divinity) is a one-year equivalent degree of high quality. Working at an academic level PHILIP-NICHOLLS: Assista nt _Dìrzcto_i appropriate for graduates, it provides secure grounding in fundamental theological 6f Mirsrc"and.Music Tutor has recently disciplines. Successful completion of the diploma opens the way to Master's level completed a prolectfor the°Melbourne programs within the Melbourne College of Divinity. Festivak advising the,ArtrsticDirector. Trinity also offers the opportunity of studying for the Melbourne College of Divinity's Jonathon "Mills, arrd the Artistic Diploma in Ministry, a course of more general theological study for undergraduates. Administrator, in preparation for Bach In developing this innovative program, Trinity's educators have fixed their eyes firmly 2000 comttiemorating th< 5,0th on Trinity's historical strength: tutors and students working closely together. The anniversary,of Bach's death.-The Fe§tival personal support of Trinity's expert tutors in accompanying their students as they learn, pretented°a çycle gf,_cantatas`and other is as important a characteristic of Trinity's new program as it is of Trinity's traditional major chaud works mn the "churches and methods of tutoring within the residential college. `Accompanied online learning' has caf fí' dt~ls óf Melbourne. Philip sar g with become a motto and a guide in Trinity's use of information technology to connect the College,Choc and Ensemble Gomherti,' teachers with students, and students with their peers. It is an exciting development in educational and technological terms, and one which opens Trinity's Theological TfbgY'BELL tutq'r`iriCPiemistry and School to the world. Chcvtacâl Engrneenrig, has had a' paper The Revd Ross Fishburn (Dean of Studies in the Theological School) and Dr Craig ac><é,pted for:publìr.'a,tión in ThN Juurr~al óf de Vos (Lecturer in New Testament, and the School's 'webmaster') manage the program thsi~nurtçcín'CliermGal~Societj~: Heha3:won on a day-to-day basis and are now preparing course offerings for 2001. A visit to the the tonf~rerice prize for his:pieseniation Theological School website is recommended: www.trinity.unimelb.edu/TCTSOnline rn th'~ f~hysrcàl ÇhemisttyDivssron Student . CoríferènGe,of the Roÿ.al'Austrai+ân.Chemrcal ]rls.fittrte w+tfi'his âddiéss 'Dyriamres'óf ", ~hotoinduced Electron Transfèr rn a ~ Trinity WI' College Gràfit Tetrad: Tfirs pCize éaEnè after the , arínu'a) -conf?ren.e at'Australia,n NâtiCtnal THEOLC? GiCAL, SCHOOL llriìvét,srtyr..",vhe re his;póster p'résentation Online, was }crint winne'r of.the physical cherttistry '' www.tri n ity.0 n i m elb.ed u /TCTSO n l in e studént prl~~e._ STUDY THEOLOGY AT HOME Accompanied online learning Melbourne College of Divinity Courses • Graduate Diploma in Theology • Diploma in Ministry

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FOUNDATIONSTUDIESPROGRAM

Foundation Studies 2000 ENROLMENT A RECORD BY DAVID PREST

From its humble and uncertain beginning, with fifty students in 1990, Trinity's Foundation Studies Program is now a prominent and important part of the University of Melbourne's involvement in international education. Trinity lays the foundation for international students to spend a rewarding period of their lives as undergraduates at the University of Melbourne. In 2000 there were over 600 international students at Trinity and the majority of those, judging on past performances, can expect to win a place at Melbourne. The students are clever and resourceful: many of them find places in elite faculties such as Law and Medicine. It is now eighteen months since I took up the position of Director of Foundation Studies and there is much that impresses. The sheer size of this educational enterprise is surprising. Numbers continue to increase despite the economic downturn in the region and political unrest in Indonesia. The February 2000 enrolment is a record. A first for Trinity Trinity has three full-time marketing officers who travel widely in Asia and Foundation Studies Director, David Prest reports that to a lesser extent in Africa and the Middle East. We share offices with the Trinity is engaged in a World Bank funded project for the University of Melbourne in Jakarta, Tokyo and Bangkok. Recently, Trinity and post-graduate education of 60 Indonesian health workers. the University hosted a week-long conference in Melbourne for about thirty Trinity is providing Foundation Studies for those students of our overseas agents. Schools in the region are regularly visited; a few who begin their higher degrees at Melbourne, LaTrobe weeks ago my wife Jean and I visited nine in Hong Kong and discovered and ACU at the beginning of 2001. The project is that awareness varies from zero to almost complete understanding of and under the direction of the Australian International enthusiasm for the program. Health Institute (AIHI). In 2000 Trinity conducted preliminary classes in Jakarta. Our links with Indonesia are strong and we are now involved in Foundation Studies for post-graduate students from that country. Students in the program hail from about twenty countries in all and are taught and cared for by about eighty members of staff. Lest readers imagine that this arm of Trinity should displace or intrude upon the resident undergraduates or the theological students, the traditional owners of this historic and beautiful College, let me assure you that this is not so. Educational configurations are carefully and sensitively arranged and always with the full support of the Warden. Leasing of space in Royal Parade, Grattan Street, Lygon Street, Swanston Street, Bouverie Street, as well as within Trinity and the University itself, enable imaginative lectures and tutorials and laboratory classes to proceed harmoniously for Foundation Studies students. Students typically have one year at Trinity before proceeding to the The official welcoming lunch in the College Hall for University but catering for individual differences, particularly in English the Australian International Health Institute. language, means that some courses run for as long as eighteen months Clockwise from left: Mr Phil Mande, International Student and others, for very bright Fast Track students, for just seven months. Coordinator SPGN; Mr David Perry, Administration Besides the cultural core of Literature, Drama, English for Academic Manager AIHI; Dr Peter Harris, Assistant Dean, Purposes and History of Western Ideas our students choose three others The University of Melbourne Medical School; Mr Nigel (usually) to equip them for a specific faculty. Wood, Senior Associate AIHI; Dr Rhonda Galbally, Trinity's contribution to the education of international students is nothing Managing Director AlHl; Dr Hartanto, Indonesian but outstanding. Director of the project; Mr David Prest, Foundation Studies Director; Dr Elizabeth Tully, Physiotherapy School; David Prest is Director of the Trinity College Foundation Studies Program. Ms Robyn Wright, School of Post Graduate Nursing.

32 The arts bringing a community together BY CHRIS WATKINS

he hectic, intense and thriving the recent inter-collegiate art exhibition. TCAC to assist our eleven artistic clubs Tartistic life at Trinity serves two We have a myriad of performers, from a rock and societies in the work they do. The purposes. First and foremost the arts give band to a theatre-sports team who recently production of The Importance of Being us a vehicle to lift us out of our surroundings won yet another intercollegiate competition. Earnest in first Semester was a great success and regain our perspective on the world. All of this requires the kind of team work and and Sweeney Todd was performed with full They challenge, inspire and occasionally mutual encouragement that brings people orchestra in St Martin's Theatre in South provoke us to move and think differently, together in the best collegiate spirit. Yarra. Likewise Artsfest, our annual artistic whether as creators and performers or as Sustaining this level of activity in the arts festival, involved almost all of the student observers and interpreters. This is the requires the student body to pull together. body in some aspect, be it a trip to Bell same purpose that the arts serve To take just one example, the student Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida or throughout the world. committee responsible for the annual mural painting on the Bulpadok. Secondly, a thriving artistic life serves to musical is every year faced with the task When in years to come we look back bring the community together throughout of raising over twenty thousand dollars in at our experience of College, I doubt we the year. Trinity College is the only college sponsorship and ticket sales to retain the will remember the competition victories, to put on two major theatrical productions level of professionalism we have come to financial challenges and other structural every year. We are home to the only expect of ourselves. The business, improvements of 2000. I like to think that permanent producer of musical theatre in teamwork and communication skills required we will certainly remember those moments the University of Melbourne. We host on to perform this supporting role push us to of beauty, in music, in theatre, in print average two concerts a month at a student excel and to work together even before the and in the visual arts, when we were lifted level, and of course the choir performs many artistic process begins. The community above the daily rush of events in College more times. Bulpadok, the annual journal spirit and pride that such achievements life. I am certain that we will remember the for the literary arts, is supplemented by the produce is central to our college experience. bonds of friendship forged by our common more frequent student newspaper, The Beer We have won the contest for the Inter- efforts in that amorphous and inspiring Garden. Our Arts Studio and dark room are Collegiate Shield for the Arts, a Trinity world we loosely term, the arts'. home to a thriving community of fine artists initiative two years ago. We have created who contributed to a convincing victory in the position of Arts Representative on the ARTS & LIFE

ANPI

BY IMOGEN PULLAR BY'DAVID BARMBY

Is it a cow or a sofa? This is the Since the Club began, ten works have Second year Architecture student and question posed by many who ponder the been purchased, some of which have Trinity chorister, Peter Badger, has assisted painting 'Thing' by John Kelly while taking a become quite significant in the realm Harry Seidler, AC with a unique Bauhaus stroll down Clarke corridor on their way to of contemporary art in Australia. project. The project came about after breakfast, to University or to a footy game. The collection holds works by eminent Seidler— architect of Shell Tower, Spring The bold letters 'E R White Collection' Australian artists: Bill Henson, who Street; the Australian Embassy in Paris; scrolled along the wall indicate the long has exhibited through Australia and Grosvenor Tower, Sydney; and other awaited consolidation of the collection. internationally, and in 1995 represented award-winning buildings around the world — For many years the works purchased by Australia at the Venice Biennale; Jenny was invited to speak at a symposium for the ER White Club have been situated in Watson, who in 1993 was the solo the Melbourne Festival on The influence different parts of the college. A dedicated Australian representative in the Venice of the Baroque on Modernist Architecture' group of people with interests in art and Biennale, and in 1990 won the Portia in association with the Festival's Bach curating set about bringing the collection Geach memorial award; collaborative 2000 event. together, at the same time making the artists Charles Green and Lyndell Brown; In preparing his paper, Seidler came students more aware that the club exists and John Kelly, famous for his life-sized across plans for a steel sculpture by and what it is about. cow in a tree on the Champs Elysee. Bauhaus artist, Nengeboren, based on So what is the E R White all about? These are just a few of the artists the music of a fugue from J S Bach's Well- The club started in 1989 when the Art represented in the E R White Collection. Tempered Klavier. The Bauhaus, a German Committee of the College Council decided The collection also holds an intriguing Modernist school of architecture and to sell the John Brack painting, 'Breakfast lithograph by Juan Davila on long-term design founded by Walter Gropius in 1919, Table', donated by Mr and Mrs HAL Moran loan from a private collection. has had a major influence on Seidler's work. in memory of Mrs Moran's father Edward The proposal for the Clarke corridor Seidler requested a research assistant Rowden White. ER White entered Trinity in E R White rehang was put to the Warden to develop the project and Peter Badger 1901. Outstanding in sport and in studies, by Kate Challis (fine arts tutor), Nick was invited to contribute his skills in both he became senior student in 1906. In later Jacometti, Kate Green, Catherine Matthews, music and architecture. Peter has worked life he was a leader in obstetrics, and in Georgina Fast, Jessie Zhang, and the on a 3D, computer assisted design (CAD) WWII a prisoner-of-war at Changi. The author. Appropriate lighting has been representation of the sculpture, which proceeds of the sale of the Brack painting installed, the walls painted, signs at the was animated to the music on which the were used to establish the E R White entrances to the hall erected and each sculpture is based for the Seidler talk Investment Fund, which allows for the annual painting hung securely. 'Portrait through in October. Plans are also now afoot to purchase of contemporary Australian art. Glass', by Jenny Watson, in accordance with manufacture the sculpture to be housed A committee of students, tutors and other the Ian Potter Proposal recommendations, in one of Seidler's office foyers members of the college community has been hung behind a perspex box to This has never happened before, administer the E R White Club. protect the fragile mixed media work. says Seidler. We will be making history.' Each work has been labelled with the artist's name, title, date, medium, date of purchase and an explanation of the work. This will raise awareness and appreciation of art within the College, raise the profile of the ER White Club, and consolidate the collection. The collection can be viewed by visitors to the College. It is well worth a look.

Imogen is a second year student and is studying architecture.

The re-hang gang — clockwise from left, Kate Challis (fine art tutor), Nick Jacometti, Roger Selleck, Allie Hanly, Imogen Pullar, Cathy Matthews and Wedge, the border collie. David Barmby (left) and Peter Badger discuss the project

David Barmby is resident music tutor at Janet Clarke Hall and a Trinity chorister. Since 1998 he has been occupied with the artistic administration of Bach 2000 and Symposium for the Melbourne Festival. He is now engaged with PhD research in architecture and music.

Artistic Director of the Melbourne whose plaudits of `true elitism': are Festival, Jonathon Mills' program for the usually reserved for Olympic athletes. 2000 festival in October and November Some people may recall the previous featured an unprecedented celebration collaboration of the Choir and the of the life and work of Johann Sebastian Elysium Ensemble in 1996, culminating Bach, commemorating the 250th in a performance of Handel's Messiah. anniversary of his death. In 2000, their collaboration resulted in The Bach 2000 performances gave a performance on Wednesday November Mills the opportunity to show off who 1 in the Scots' Church (Collins Street, he considers are the world's greatest Melbourne) of four of Bach's fine church interpreters of the music of JS Bach, cantatas for the liturgical period ending including the Bach Collegium Japan, on Palm Sunday, symbolised by a Cantus Colln, the Australian Bach performance of Cantata 182, Ensemble, Collegium Vocale of Ghent Himmelskonig, sei willkommen and the Choir of Trinity College in (Welcome, Heavenly King). collaboration with the Elysium Ensemble. The Choir also performed as part of The Choir of Trinity College's inclusion the Festival 'The Heritage of the Motet', amongst such an array of leading lights a one-hour survey of the motet from its in the world of music performance marks earliest manifestations by Josquin to its a milestone in the Choir's history, a romantic apogee in the works of Bruckner further step on to the world stage. The and Brahms, on Wednesday October 25 Choir performed alongside professional in the Collins Street Baptist Church. ensembles of truly world-class standard,

O Clap Your Hands 8, Alleluya! A New Work SPECIAL CHRISTMAS OFFER : 2CDS FOR $40 Includes postage and special Christmas packaging Contact the Development Office Telephone +61 3 9349 0116 Email [email protected] Women win the Holmes Shield BY TRESSIE NORTON

T rinity women have proved that the Holmes Shield is not so elusive after all. It is finally back in the College after four years. First semester gave the College an extraordinary start. The Softball team, captained by Annabel Reid, made history by giving Trinity their first win in seventeen years, and opened the year by giving us a nine point lead on the Shield. Following this, we narrowly missed out on places in the Swimming, Tennis and Table-Tennis, yet were able to redeem ourselves by mid- April by gaining second place in Squash, captained by the author, and Badminton, captained by Caroline Ray. Dazzling performances on the Yarra River from the Rowing Crews saw the Second Eight take out their event for a third consecutive year and the Firsts gain second place for their second year running. Special thanks go to Shelley Beer, Captain, and Cassie Williams, Vice-Captain, for their enormous contributions. Second semester also saw its fair share of glory. The Volleyball team were placed third; then a second place for the Athletics team, captained by Catriona McGregor, secured a considerable lead, only to be whittled away by near misses in First and Seconds Netball and Basketball. With only two sports remaining, Trinity was equal with St Hilda's on 42 points and only 5 points separated both colleges from Ormond and Newman. Hockey captain, Caroline Adler, put Trinity in the Grand Final against Ormond; whilst cross-country captains, Sarah Nosworthy and Cassie Williams, led their team to victory, blitzing the field and defeating rivals, Ormond, who finished in second place. After four years away, the Holmes Shield has finally returned to us. Success is the sweet reward for turning believing into achieving. We set our goals high and pursued them with a passion.

36 EXTRACURRICULARMatters

Outreach a report from MEG MULCAHY, WILL MOASE and RICHARD TRELOAR

BY CHRIS FERNIE At Trinity, Outreach's aim is to continue to build and to strengthen its program by Trinity has had a stellar year in men's sport. the Rugby team, led by Tom Staley, was involving as many students as possible in Eight premierships and four second placings victorious in both the 7s tournament and service of the wider community. In doing saw us victors of the Cowan Cup. And that's the Trinity vs Ormond 15s match. so, we hope that Outreach will become three years in a row. one of the best supported extra-curricular Our first cricketers captained by Eddie A rowing story activities in College, taking its place Wilson narrowly lost the final to Ormond, Rower, Andrew Sypkens' selection to alongside sport and the arts. After a after a sensational year. Even more remarkable represent Australia in the International World successful and diverse program last year, was the performance of the 2nd cricketers, Cup Regatta has made the 2004 Olympics, an active group of freshers has helped to captained by Darius Isaac, who managed once just a dream, further this vision. to claim the premiership, despite the fact a distinct possibility. Each year, a small group of students that they were playing against most colleges' The Armidale rower move into College a week early in order first teams. competed in the to participate in volunteer week. Outreach This was followed up with premierships Australian rowing spent `V-week' in the Coolibah Centre, a in Golf, captained by Tom King, and Squash, team for the World shelter for the elderly in Fitzroy run by captained by the author. Ekapak Cup Regatta in the Brotherhood of St Laurence. Nirapathpongporn spearheaded the golf team Switzerland and Throughout the year students have with the best score in the competition. The Andrew Sypkens the Under 23 World supported the work of St Mark's Fitzroy squash team's victory was the culmination of Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark, in Community Centre, which serves the poor, two years' hard work. July. Now ranked 2nd in Australia he was to homeless and disadvantaged of the inner The Rowing crew had been decimated by compete in the Under 23 Lightweight double city. In addition to helping prepare and the loss of most of last year's premiership sculls overseas as well as the single sculls at the distribute food parcels there, Outreach crew. However, Andrew Sypkens led a crew of World Universities Rowing Championships in members joined with the Chapel inexperienced rowers to a sensational second Poland in August, but withdrew with a back Committee in celebrating `Christmas in in the intercollegiate regatta. The Badminton injury. It has probably been the most fulfilling August' — a service and supper at which team, captained by Ekapak Nirapathpongporn, experience in my life — representing Australia food items and donations were collected also came in a very credible second, losing to at a world championship level. Next year I aim for the Centre. Students have also Badminton heavyweights International House. to make the team again, and come home with participated in joint sporting activities at At the end of first semester Trinity was a medal,' he told TrinityToday. the Juvenile Justice Centre, and in sitting equal with Queens' College. A huge A year of work experience — part of his Outreach's ongoing commitment to second semester was needed to secure the architecture course — has fortuitously enabled fundraising efforts for bodies including the cup for a third successive year. Trinity won him to devote more time to training over the Anti-Cancer Council, Salvation Army, the four of the seven premierships on offer in course of 2000. He is also grateful for all the Royal Children's Hospital, World Vision the second semester. The volleyball team, encouragement he has had from others in and the Mirabel Foundation. captained by Haydn Ellis, demolished the Melbourne. `When I came down to Melbourne As the Outreach Committee continues opposition, winning the entire tournament University, which has a fairly elite rowing club, to raise its profile in the life of a College without losing a set. The Soccer team, led by there were a lot of blokes just wandering around which has a long history of community Tom Woolley and Phil Ingle, performed similar who have represented Australia. I turned up service, it seeks to offer a range of heroics, winning the entire soccer tournament a little Armidale boy and some of them took opportunities for student involvement in without conceding a goal. The Athletics team, me aside and said if you give it a red hot go, one-off and more regular project work. In led by Jeremy Bostock, were unlucky to be you'll probably make the Australian side.' the process of assisting agencies of help beaten by a very strong Queens' team. and change, Outreach hopes to raise However, this was reversed when the cross awareness of and passion for local and country team, captained by Tom Mills, narrowly global issues amongst Trinity residents. won the premiership from Ormond. Meanwhile DEVELOPING

An immigrant's story: a conversation with Miltiades Chryssavgis

BY CLARE PULLAR

I came away from spending three hours

with Miltiades and Alkestis Chryssavgis

feeling as though I had been in the

presence of a higher being. Miltiades is Miltiades Chryssavgis in The Attic; Trinity College, 1955. a person who inspires affection and awe.

He certainly inspired me to see the advertisement in The Age for the Trinity College Entrance Examinations. As a major beauty of the everyday. scholarship holder he studied Classics as a resident student in Trinity. The English teacher He is a Trinity man of the fifties. He is and mentor, Lillian Scholes, has continued over the years to be a 'mother' and then 'friend'. an immigrant who studied Classics with 'I did not have any idea what Trinity College was or what it could offer me during my honours and he is a priest of the Greek studies at Melbourne University. But when I came to live in the College, I understood Orthodox Church. His story is one which what a great blessing it was and I fully appreciated the vast facilities it offered me in my reveals Trinity at its very best. life as a student, including accommodation, food , tutorials, recreation and a variety of Our rendezvous was the Rose Bay wharf student activities.' in Sydney, and he and his wife, Alkestis, He had great support from Ronald Cowan, the Warden, Alfred Bird, the Chaplain, and proudly drove me around the sights of the Sydney Wynne, the College overseer. Ron Cowan, understanding that the young immigrant eastern suburbs to the South Head naval had no home to go to in the long summer and winter breaks, insisted he consider Trinity facility, where we contemplated the Tasman his home, without charge, over the long breaks. Sea from the eastern window of the chapel. 'While multiculturalism is a concept that was developed in the late 1970s, one should I had been eager to meet Miltiades for admire Mr Cowan in the early 1950s for his foresight of this spirit of cultural and intellectual some time. He had endowed a major diversity, in helping young students to reach their potential,' he reflects. scholarship at Trinity half a century after We have lunch in a small Greek restaurant in Rose Bay. Miltiades seems to know everyone his arrival from Greece all alone — a young in the street and in the restaurant. He greets each person with quiet humility. I am man on an adventure. He arrived with scant embarrassed that he introduces me as the eminent person from Trinity College in Melbourne English on a journey in which Trinity played who has come to see him'. The chef is brought out to meet me too, and bears a generous a pivotal role. fresh salad, on the house, to welcome the guest and whet the appetite. On our tour, he very graciously answered I sense that Miltiades and Alkestis have been key people in building up this community my curiosity about his past, and an amazing closely and I am eager to hear why both of them are so demonstrably fond of his old story unfolded. College. So, what of this accusation that Trinity is a special institution of the socially elite? The young migrant was eager to pursue Of course, that is not true in many cases and in my case, many people from all walks of higher studies. Wandering in the central life were encouraged to study at Trinity, and it was a great privilege to do so. Trinity served streets of the city of Melbourne, he saw as my home for four consecutive years, from 1952 to 1955, during my four year course, as a notice 'Austral Coaching College' in Little well as for 1956 for my Master's Degree in Arts. I enjoyed five years of beautiful residence Collins Street. He entered the College, at the College, enjoying its many facilities, indeed [it was] an unexpected gift that I could which was situated on the second floor call heaven-sent. The more I remember those years the more I gratefully appreciate the of the building, and was welcomed by great gift of Trinity College.' a smiling woman, a teacher of English. After completing his degrees, Miltiades responded to a vocation and contacted the Greek Lillian Scholes urged the young Miltiades Orthodox Archbishop of Melbourne, who took him under his wing and trained him for the to improve his English expression before priesthood. Parish priests in the Greek Orthodox Church must be married, which posed no attempting anything else. He took the problem. He and Alkestis were married and served the church in Adelaide, and then in Rose advice. Bay, Sydney, where he established and built the local church from scratch. She encouraged him to take his Of the Miltiades and Alkestis Chryssavgis Scholarship, he says with obvious pleasure and matriculation with an eye to gaining entry satisfaction, 'I am in a position to offer back to the College some small measure of to the University of Melbourne, and later repayment, that may help it carry out its great mission in the educational field.' in that year she showed the young man an

38 DEVELOPING Trinity

Fellowship FOR INDIGENOUS Leeper Society BY JAMES GRANT SCHOLARS In 1990, the Leeper Society was established to encourage the making of bequests and to recognise those who have already done so. Currently, eighty-three members and friends of the College are A public announcement of new Trinity scholarships and Fellowships enrolled in the Society. At its first event, held in April, members for indigenous students was made by Dr Roberta Sykes, Visiting viewed some of the treasures of the Library, inspected the Scholar, during her major public lecture 'Writing for Liberation' at refurbished Junior Common Room and met the Warden in the the University's Copland Theatre on 27 July. Two new scholarships to Sharwood Room. The next event will be a visit to Duneira, Mount be offered for 2001, are for either undergraduate or post-graduate Macedon, to view the gardens and Art Collection of Mr Stuart indigenous students undertaking study at the University. Stoneman, a good friend of the College. In the words of the Warden, Professor Donald Markwell, the There is no limit to the membership and the only qualification is contribution of indigenous students and also indigenous Fellows the making of a bequest to the College. Those interested in joining to Trinity will greatly enrich it as an educational community.' are invited to contact Bishop James Grant, Bequest Officer, at the College! Telephone 03 9349 0119 Riordan's Sc'hoiiarship honours kiodgeroo Email: [email protected] au. One of the scholarships, named The Oodgeroo Scholarship', was endowed by the Cybec Trust, administered by Roger Riordan. Where There's A Will The Trinity scholarship was named by Mr Riordan to honour the memory of Oodgeroo of the tribe Have you made a Will? If you haven't, Noonuccal, who died in 1993. Oodgeroo, formerly known as Kath Walker, was one of you're not on your own: a high proportion Australia's finest poets. She also taught children traditional Aboriginal culture and values, and was a tireless of Australians die without making a Will. campaigner for Aboriginal rights. Her poetry, which is studied by students throughout the country, provides inspiration for her own To die without making a Will means losing the right to people and education for non-Aboriginal Australians. decide the ultimate destination of our money, property and Roger Riordan was a resident of Trinity from 1951 to 1954 and other belongings. Instead, our assets are distributed by was the author of the Vet anti-virus software. Roger and his late wife, formulas laid down in legislation. This deprives us of the Sally, founded Cybec Pty Ltd, and established the Cybec Trust in opportunity of remembering our families and friends in the 1999 following the sale of Vet. They have already endowed several way we would like, of supporting causes and institutions which scholarships, including the Cybec Scholarship in 1996 at Trinity and mean much to us and of expressing our gratitude for benefits the Koiki Mabo Trust Fund at Newcastle University in 1999. we have received. At the announcement, the Warden remarked that the opportunity Since 1903, outstanding graduates from throughout the for indigenous students to come to Trinity College and the University Commonwealth and from the United States have furthered of Melbourne was an exciting development for Trinity itself and for their studies at Oxford University, as recipients of Rhodes indigenous students and Fellows. Scholarships, established as the result of a bequest by Cecil Leading black educationalist, Dr Roberta Sykes, said she had Rhodes. Trinity College has contributed its share of Rhodes no doubt that the two successful applicants will enhance Trinity's Scholars; Tom Snow and Cameron Hepburn have commenced student body by sharing with them some aspects of Aboriginal at Oxford in 2000. culture, the oldest continuing culture of this continent, which will Just one year after the awarding of the first Rhodes hopefully enable the newer Australians to begin to genuinely feel Scholarships, the Victorian businessman and philanthropist, at home in the country of their choice.' Alfred Felton, bequeathed almost eight hundred thousand Dr Sykes thanked Roger Riordan for 'foresight and generosity in dollars for public purposes in this State. In addition to enabling Trinity to improve the quality of the educational experience supporting a whole range of charitable agencies, gifts acquired of all Trinity students by facilitating the presence of Aboriginal through the Felton Bequest have made the collections of students on campus.' the National Gallery of Victoria outstanding in both depth and range. Visiting Indigenous Fellowship Trinity College, although remembered in a number of Wills, In a second initiative, Trinity has established, with the assistance has not yet been the recipient of such munificence. But who of Perpetual Trustees, annual Visiting Fellowships for indigenous knows what may be contained in a Will already made or about academics and professionals. The presence of black leaders, to be made! Our personal circumstances, our assets, our intellectuals and public figures in the College will provide role models dependants vary enormously, but few members of the College for young indigenous undergraduates; and will also raise awareness are so poor that they could not include a small bequest to of indigenous culture amongst other students. Those who will the College in their Will. benefit by contact with the Visiting Fellows will become, in time, the future leaders of their professions.

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THE COLLEGE RECORDS WITH GRAT The College acknowledges with gratitude the following individuals, companies, foundations and trusts for their generous support for Scholarships, Music, the Theological School and General Endowments. As well, we are grateful to the donors who requested anonymity for their gifts.

ENDOWMENT FUND Nicholas Langdon SCHOLARSHIP AND Peter McMahon Keith Dempster David Abell Brian Loton BURSARY FUND John McMillan Diocese of Wangaratta Stephen Alley Donald MacKinnon Charles Abbott Glenda McNaught John Falkingham Elspeth Arnold Jane Mackenzie Roger Ackland Peter McPhee William Glen Janet Arnold Jeremy Madin Martin Armstrong David Moore James Grant John Balmford Danielle Marshall William Armstrong Stewart Moroney Ray Gregory Laurie Baragwanath Laurence McDonald Ian Barker J Morrice Hunter Harrison Roderick Barnard Dugald McDougall David Batt Geoffrey Nettle John Hodgetts David Beavis Matthew McGuigan-Lewis The Bell Charitable Trust Nathalie Mguyen Holy Trinity East Melbourne Vanessa Bede Edwina McLachlan John Bignell Andrea Op de Coul Holy Trinity Surrey Hills Genny Binns Julian McMahon Ian Boyd J Phillips Ken Horn Theo Bischoff Robert Mellor Judy Brookes Simon Phillipson John Howells Budge Bleakley James Merralls Joseph Brown Peter Pockley Janice Hudson Marcus Bogdan Frank Milne Peter Butler James Prell John Johnson Tom Bostock George Mitchell Bruce Carpenter Peter Read William Jolly Mary Britten Richard Molesworth Lucy Carruthers Geoffrey Ripper John King John Brookes John Monotti Ian Carson John Roberts Stanley Kurrle Roger Brookes John Morris Robert Carter Arthur Robinson Phillip Law Evan Burge Bruce Munro David Clappison Hedderwicks Ceri Lawley John Calder William Muntz Arthur Clark Philip Roff Ken Leslie Andrew Cannon Edward Muntz Robert Clemente William Ross John Liversidge Lucy Carruthers James Murray Timothy Clemons Peter Ross-Edwards Bruce Macintosh Peter Chesterman Bruce Nelson David Cockayne Hugh Scott-MacKenzie Dugald McDougall John Churchill John Oliver Barry Connell Sacha Seneque Marjorie McGregor Harry Cole John Oppenheim Graham Cooke Jonathan Serpell Robert McMullin Bill Cowan Richard Oppenheim Bill Cowan William Sherwin Melbourne Grammar School Hubert Du Guesclin Bernhard Ostberg Robert Cripps William Shmith Roger Meyer Henry Edgell Peter Parsons Aurei Dessewffy Richard Smallwood Angus Mill Lorraine Elliott Ross Paton Peter Doherty Adrian Smithers Jim Minchin Lindsay Ellis Penelope Pengilley W Dott Penelope Stewart Neale Molloy George Farmer James Perry John Dudley Rob Stewart Michael Moore John Feltham Vernon Plueckhahn Kenneth Eldridge Richard Sutcliffe Stan Moss Peter Field John Poynter John Emmerson Clive Tadgell Warwick Papst James Fleming Robert Pratt John Evans Robert Todd Richard Pidgeon Andrew Fraser Clare Pullar Keith Forbes Gordon Trinca Geoffrey Pitcher Nicholas Freeman Ian Reid Simon Foster Trust Co of Australia Ltd Meron Pitcher Ted Gallagher Alan Richards Jeanine Froomes Patrik Valsinger Clare Pullar Richard Gilmour-Smith Gary Richards David Galbraith Edward Vellacott John Roffey Andrew Godwin John Robert Richard Gedye Greta Walter Elizabeth Sevior Andrew Gourlay Robert Robertson Eugene Gillard Joan Wells Elizabeth Smith John Gourlay Anthony Robinson Rachel Gourlay Nat White Henry Speagle Rosemary Grabau John Rouse William Gourlay Paul Willee St Aidan's Ladies Guild James Grant Gerald Ryan James Grimwade Ray Williams St Alban's West Coburg James Gray Maxwell Schultz Andrew Grummet William Wilson St Eanswythe's Altona James Grimwade Kit Selby-Smith George Hale Renn Wortley St George's Flemington John Guest James Selkirk Leith Hancock Sir John Young St George's Malvern Richard Guy William Sherwin Davina Hanson r THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL St James Dandenong John Hambly Michael Shoobridge Alex Harper All Saints Newtown Andrew St John Ian Hardingham Ken Sillcock Fred Hawkins All Souls Sandringham St John's East Malvern Roger Harley John Skuja Keith Haye Anglican Diocese of St Mark's Leopold David Harper Alf Smith Geoff Hebbard Melbourne St Mark's Opportunity Andrew Hay Douglas Stephens Douglas Hocking Anglican Parish of Shop Trust Dale Hebbard Jeremy Stewart C Ingle Hawksburn-Armada le St Matthew's Cheltenham Anthony Hiscock Bruce Thomas Peter Israel Rowena Armstong St Michael's Kalorama Geoff Hone Michael Trait David Johnson Jeremy Ashton St Oswald's Glen Iris Andrew Hooper Kate Veall Stewart Johnston Fred Bedbrook St Paul's East Kew Matthew Horton Anne Ward Taffy Jones Ellie Bird St Peter's Box Hill Geoffrey Hosking Michael Webb Amanda Judd Paul Bower St Stephen's Mount Waverley Stephen Hosking Geoff Wenzel David King Betty Bracken Clive Tadgell Stephen Howard Kevin Westfold Ross Lanyon The Canterbury Fellowship Geoff Tisdall Samuel Howes Peter Williams Richard Larkins Suzanne Chapman Phillip Turnbull Anthony Hunt Daryl Wraith Michael Letts Christ Church Opportunity Richard Waddell Victor Hurley James Yeager Robert Lewis Shop David Ward Rowan Ingpen John Zwar Cheng Lim Christ Church South Yarra David Warner Andrew Jack Donald MacKinnon David Cole Rodney Wetherell David Jackson Catriona McKenzie Robert Cripps Geoffrey Williams John James Kay McKenzie Andrew Curnow Philip Williams Stewart Johnston Trish McKenzie David Curtis Ted Witham John Kelly William McKenzie Robert Dann Bridget Woollard David King Gilbert McLean Austin Day Stuart Young

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MUSIC FUND Richard Malcolmson Gerald Harding Michael Gronow The College is deeply Bruce Addis Twink Malcolmson Gradon Johnstone Christopher Hamer grateful to the following Neil Archbold Kenneth Mason Alan Lane William Hare individuals who have Angus McDonald James Madders Leo Hawkins Ina Arlaud supported Trinity College William Armstrong James Merralls lain McLean Diana Hill by establishing Hampton Beale Frank Milne Christopher Mitchell Robert Hood Endowments Chris Beeny Michael Moore Heather Neilson Priscilla Hope Genny Binns St Peter's Mornington Chris Renwick David Hunt Ellie Bird Michael Munckton John Ritchie John Hutchings JOHN GOURLAY Geoffrey Blainey Michael Naylor Richard Roach Lindsay Iles ENDOWMENT FUND Ian Boyd Joan Nicholls Peter Ross-Edwards Murray Ingpen Established in 1990 Jannie Brown Sean Parton Robert Sanderson Colin Juttner by John Gourlay David Brownbill Julia Patterson David Stewart Bruce Kaighin Evan Burge James Perry William Trail! Lindsay Keating CHEONG YU-LIN Nancy Kimpton Janet Calvert-Jones James Potter Brodie Treloar ENDOWMENT FUND Peter Cantillon John Poynter Don Walker John King Established in 1992 Barry Capp William Pugh Philip Weickhardt Russell Knight by Cheong Yu-Lin David Caro Barrie Purvis Renn Wortley Sir Harold Knight Alan Chong Margaret Purvis John Lester Eirene Clark Ian Reid SPECIFIED FUND Jeremy Long DAVID JACKSON John Clark Gregory Reinhardt Diocese of Ballarat Robert MacGregor ENDOWMENT FUND Adrienne Clarke Peter Rennie David Brownbill Peter Manger Established in 1992 Sir Rupert Clarke Margaret Rice David Cole Ian Manning by David Jackson David Cole Klaus Richter The Collier Charitable Fund William McCarthy Nell Cooper Robert Rofe Robert Cripps James McCracken Richard Cotton Ann Rusden William Edwards John McMillan Josephine Cowan John Salter Peter Gebhardt William Meredith Robert Cripps Robert Sanderson Leslie Hill Adrian Monger Arthur Day Peter Scott Donald Markwell Joyce Newton Aurei Dessewffy Simon Seward Duncan McNab John Nutt Keith Doery Wendy Seward Justin McNab Andrew Patterson Rosaleen Dove Robin Sharwood Warwick Papst Richard Prytula Lorraine Elliott Peggy Shaw Susan Peden Arthur Pulford Thomas Elliott Stephen Shelmerdine David Purvis Richard Read Neil Everist Richard Smallwood Royal School James Richards Irwin Faris Adrian Smithers of Church Music Harold Riggall Peter Forwood Henry Speagle Robin Sharwood Kingsley Rowan Robert Frood Denzil Sprague A G L Shaw John Royle Claire Gomm Hugo Standish Peggy Shaw Malcolm Smith Louise Gourlay Sir Ninian Stephen Adrian Smithers Robert Grant Reginald Stock GENERAL FUND Reginald Stock Judith Gregory Stuart Stoneman Ross Adler Nicholas Turnbull Ray Gregory Richard Sutcliffe Stephen Ahern John Vernon James Grimwade Clive Tadgell Richard Allen Geoffrey Webb Geoffrey Gronow Estate of Agnes John Best Geoffrey Wigley Alan Gunther Tait Robertson Eric Black Paul Willows Andrew Guy Brodie Treloar Ted Blarney Philip Wilson Maggie Hadley Nicholas Turnbull Graham Brown John Wion Sally-Anne Hains John Vernon Noel Buckley Michael Wright Evelyn Halls Anthony Way Lindsay Carroll Warwick du Ve Patricia Hancock John Wellington Peter Champness Davina Hanson Tinka Wells Stephen Cherry Peter Hebbard Kevin Westfold Jane Clark John Henry Erica Wood John Clark Douglas Hocking Ian Woolley Neville Clark Ken Horn John Wriedt Eric Cohen Russell Howey David Wright Nell Cooper Kammy Hunt Tom Coulter Alison Inglis BUILDING FUND Josephine Cowan Sir Brian Inglis Jon Adler John Cuming Alastair Jackson Derek Begg Trevor Currie Russell Jackson Peter Clements Margaret Davey Victor Jennings Terry Cook Arthur Day Ian Jones Hayden Downing Paul Elliott Warren Kemp David Elder Max Elliott Ernest Knight Graeme Fowler Andrew Farran Ceri Lawley Jeanine Froomes Don Fleming Brian Loton Jenny Gome Christopher Game David Mackey Richard Green James Gardiner John Maidment Fred Grimwade James Grant

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1925-29 LEADER: CLARE PULLAR 1943 LEADER: BILL HARE 1952. LEADER: STEPHEN CHERRY 1960 LEADER: HAROLD RIGGALL Tom COULTER Laurie BARAGWANATH Stephen CHERRY David ABELL Colin JUTTNER Robert DANN John CLARK Harold RIGGALL Ken LESLIE Andrew JACK Kenneth ELDRIDGE JOHN CALDER Richard MOLESWORTH John WRIEDT Adrian MONGER David CLAPPISON Ken SILLCOCK Anonymous 1 Ross PATON David CURTIS Anonymous 1 Vernon PLUECKHAHN Andrew HOOPER 1944 LEADER: GEOFFREY WIGLEY Anonymous 1 Alan LANE 1930 LEADER: CLARE PULLAR Geoffrey WIGLEY Jim MINCHIN Reginald STOCK Anonymous 2 1953 LEADER: JOHN LESTER Geoffrey RIPPER John LESTER Anonymous 1 1931. LEADER: DOUGLAS STEPHENS 1 945 LEADER: BRUCE NELSON Roger BROOKES Douglas STEPHENS Bruce NELSON Frank MILNE 1961 LEADER: JOHN KING Neale MOLLOY Theo BISCHOFF Adrian SMITHERS John KING Eric COHEN Bill TRAILL Peter CLEMENTS 1932 LEADER: DAVID JACKSON Stanley KURRLE David COCKAYNE David JACKSON William McCARTHY 1954 LEADER:. WARREN KEMP Peter FIELD John McMILLAN Robert SANDERSON Warren KEMP Christopher GAME Peter PARSONS John ZWAR John GOURLAY Richard LARKINS Jim MERRALLS Chris RENWICK 1933 LEADER: DAVID JACKSON 1946 LEADER: STEWART JOHNSTON Peter POCKLEY Alan RICHARDS Stewart JOHNSTON Peter READ John RITCHIE 1934. LEADER: DAVID JACKSON Arthur CLARK John ROYLE Kit SELBY-SMITH Patrick BELL Trevor CURRIE Anonymous 1 Edward VELLACOTT Andrew FRASER Stephen ALLEY Michael WRIGHT John GUEST Gerald HARDING 1955 LEADER: JAMES GRIMWADE John OPPENHEIM Robert MELLOR James GRIMWADE 1962 LEADER: RICHARD OPPENHEIM Stan MOSS David BEAVIS Richard OPPENHEIM 1935 LEADER: JOHN BIGNELL Jim, PERRY Ian BOYD Ian BARKER Don FLEMING David WARNER Leslie HILL Henry EDGELL A G L Shaw Geoff WENZEL Tony HISCOCK Robert PRATT Geoffrey WILLIAMS Anonymous 2 John SKUJA Anonymous 2 John VERNON 1936 LEADER: NOEL BUCKLEY 1947 LEADER: ROBERT ROBERTSON. John WION 1963 LEADER: GEOFF HONE Noel BUCKLEY Robert ROBERTSON Geoff HONE Lindsay CARROLL Dale HEBBARD 1956 LEADER: JOHN MONOTTI John BROOKES John FALKINGHAM Donald MACKINNON John MONOTTI Bill COWAN Bob LONG John ROUSE John EMMERSON David ELDER James McCRACKEN Anonymous 3 Philip ROFF Carillo GANTNER Stewart MORONEY Clive TADGELL Christopher HAMER Nick TURNBULL 1948 LEADER: JOHN POYNTER Geoffrey WEBB David HARPER John POYNTER Andrew HAY 1937 LEADER: BERNHARD OSTBERG John BALMFORD 1957 LEADER: LAURIE COX Russell JACKSON Bernhard OSTBERG Graham COOKE Laurie COX Robert MACGREGOR Lindsay KEATING Harold KNIGHT John COTTON Adrian MITCHELL Robert LEWIS John MORRIS Andrew FARRAN John OLIVER Gilbert McLEAN Peter MANGER John ROBERT 1949 LEADER: GORDON ADLER Richard READ Alf SMITH 1938 LEADER: KINGSLEY ROWAN Gordon ADLER Dick SUTCLIFFE Ian MANNING Kingsley ROWAN Peter ROSS-EDWARDS Anonymous 1 Anonymous 3

1939 LEADER: KINGSLEY ROWAN 1950 LEADER: BRIAN LOTON 1958 LEADER: RICHARD GREEN 1964 LEADER: TED GALLAGHER Bill POTTER Brian LOTON Richard GREEN Ted GALLAGHER John FELTHAM Roger ACKLAND Ted BLAMEY 1940 LEADER: MICHAEL SHOOBRIDGE Keith HAYES John BEST Lindsay ELLIS Michael SHOOBRIDGE James GRANT Tom BOSTOCK Richard GUY James GARDINER John JAMES Timothy CLEMONS David KING Douglas HOCKING Mick LETTS Leo HAWKINS Gary RICHARDS Robert HOOD Michael MOORE Tony HUNT Bill MEREDITH Bill MUNTZ 1965 LEADER: STEPHEN HOWARD Kevin WESTFOLD Philip WILSON 1959 LEADER: DARYL WRAITH Stephen HOWARD Daryl WRAITH Graham BROWN 1941 LEADER: MICHAEL SHOOBRIDGE 1951 LEADER: MICHAEL WEBB David BROWNBILL John HENRY Stanley WIGLEY Michael WEBB Neville CLARK Jeremy MADIN Peter WILLIAMS John CUMING Murray INGPEN Christopher MITCHELL Bruce KAIGHIN Gradon JOHNSTONE Anonymous 1 1942 LEADER: BILL HARE Maxwell SCHULTZ John NUTT Bill HARE Anonymous 1 George FARMER Peter McMAHON DEVELOPING Trinity

1966 LEADER: ANDREW GUY 1974 LEADER: DAVID EVANS 1983 LEADER: LUCY CARRUTHERS OTHER DONORS Andrew GUY David EVANS Lucy CARRUTHERS Elspeth ARNOLD Hayden DOWNING Evan BURGE Jeanine FROOMES Hampton BEALE David JOHNSON Alan CHONG Angus TRUMBLE Genny BINNS Peter McPHEE Max ESSER Anonymous 2 Elizabeth BRITTEN Don WALKER Geoffrey NETTLE Mary BRITTEN Philip WEICKHARDT Jonathan SERPELL 1984 LEADER: MICHAEL GRONOW Joseph BROWN Anonymous 1 Bruce THOMAS Michael GRONOW Suzanne CHAPMAN Anonymous 1 Diana HILL Peter CHESTERMAN 1967 LEADER: JAMES SELKIRK Matthew McGUIGAN-LEWIS David COLE James SELKIRK 1975 LEADER: ELIZABETH Nathalie NGUYEN Harry COLE Hubert Du GUESCLIN MCCORMICK Richard WADDELL Nell COOPER John DUDLEY Elizabeth McCORMICK David WARD Margaret DAVEY Scott FOWLER Priscilla HOPE Austin DAY Alastair JACKSON James MADDERS 1985 LEADER: WILLIAM GOURLAY Keith DEMPSTER Rob STEWART Edwina McLACHLAN William GOURLAY Lorraine ELLIOTT Anonymous 1 Matthew HORTON Keith FORBES 1976 LEADER: FRED GRIMWADE Erica WOOD Richard GEDYE 1968 LEADER: PAUL ELLIOTT Fred GRIMWADE Patrik VALSINGER Bill GLEN Paul ELLIOTT Robert CARTER Hunter HARRISON Rob CLEMENTE Roger HARLEY 1986 LEADER: SCOTT CHARLES Geoffrey HOSKING Terry COOK Peter ISRAEL Scott CHARLES Samuel HOWES Andrew CURNOW Jane MACKENZIE Janet ARNOLD Lindsay ILES John ROBERTS Anonymous 2 Marcus BOGDAN C INGLE Malcolm SMITH Thomas ELLIOTT William JOLLY James FLEMING 1977 LEADER: PENELOPE PENGILLEY Simon FOSTER Nancy KIMPTON Andrew ST JOHN Penelope PENGILLEY Nicholas FREEMAN John KING Geoff TISDALL Roderick BARNARD Andrew GODWIN Phillip LAW Jane CLARK Danielle MARSHALL Donald MARKWELL 1 969 LEADER: JEREMY LONG Alex HARPER Julian McMAHON Dugald McDOUGALL Jeremy LONG Stephen HOSKING John ROFFEY Marjorie McGREGOR Aurei DESSEWFFY Kammy HUNT David STEWART lain McLEAN Ray GREGORY Andrea OP de COUL Angus MILL David MOORE Anthony ROBINSON 1987 LEADER: DAVID BATT George MITCHELL Stephen SHELMERDINE Anonymous 1 David BATT Edward MUNTZ Anonymous 1 Vanessa BEDE Joyce NEWTON 1978 LEADER: ANNE WARD Sally-Anne HAINS Richard PIDGEON 1970 LEADER: JOHN HAMBLY Anne WARD Sean PARTON Geoffrey PITCHER John HAMBLY Kay McKENZIE Anonymous 1 Meron PITCHER Neil ARCHBOLD Heather NEILSON Richard PRYTULA John HUTCHINGS 1988 LEADER: NICHOLAS LANGDON Bill PUGH Rowan INGPEN 1979 LEADER: ANDREW CANNON Nicholas LANGDON Clare PULLAR Andrew CANNON Derek BEGG Klaus RICHTER 1971 LEADER: RUSSELL KNIGHT Eric BLACK Andrew GOURLAY Gerald RYAN Russell KNIGHT Judy BROOKES Sacha SENEQUE John SALTER Stephen AHERN Rosemary GRABAU Jeremy STEWART Elizabeth SEVIOR Peter CHAMPNESS James GRAY Anonymous 1 Peggy SHAW John KELLY Geoff HEBBARD John STANDISH William SHERWIN Michael TRAILL 1989 LEADER: EDWINA CURZON- Bridget WOOLLARD Anonymous 1 Kate VEALL SIGGERS Stuart YOUNG

1972 LEADER: CHRIS ROPER 1980 Leader: Simon Phillipson 1990 LEADER: JAMES MURRAY Bruce CARPENTER Simon PHILLIPSON James MURRAY John CHURCHILL Ross LANYON Amanda JUDD GRAND TOTAL $70,075.47 . Victor HURLEY Cheng LIM James MURRAY Peter SCOTT Laurence McDONALD James RICHARDS Ted WITHAM Penelope STEWART Phillip TURNBULL Ian WOOLLEY 1973 LEADER: ED SHACKELL 1991 Leader: Jim Cuming Ed SHACKELL 1981 LEADER: RICHARD ROACH Jim CUMING David GALBRAITH Richard ROACH Betty BRACKEN Renn WORTLEY Richard ALLEN Anonymous 2 Paul BOWER 1992 LEADER: TIMOTHY A'BECKETT Timothy a'BECKETT 1982 LEADER: ANNA WEBB Brodie TRELOAR Anna WEBB Paul WILLOWS Jenny GOME Elizabeth SMITH 1993 LEADER: TIMOTHY A'BECKETT Jon ADLER Jim YEAGER

EVERYTHING WE KNOW ABOUT PHILANTHROPY WE LEARNED IN BY NINA WATERS The Leeper Library gratefully acknowledges the generosity of Trinity members who have given books to the collection recently.

Among titles received have been several written by Trinity authors. Dr Damian Powell's new monograph is entitled, According to Dr Diana Leat, Professor Sir James Whitelocke's Liber Famelicus 1570-1632: law and politics in Early at City University Business School in Stuart England, and Professor Robin Sharwood has given his 1999 London and Visiting Scholar, everything St George's Cathedral Lecture, The Book of Common Prayer and we know about philanthropy we first Anglican Identity. Mr Angus Trumble continues to keep his Trinity learned at kindergarten, and can connection alive by forwarding his latest catalogue and monograph 1 be summed up in the words of titles, Bohemian London, Vive la France! and The Bowmore Collection. Robert Fulghum: Associate Professor Christopher Hamer's A Global Parliament: Principles of World Federation was presented by Lady Hamer, and will 'Share everything, play fair, don't hit people, put things back be of interest to History and Political Science students. where you found them, clean up your own mess, don't take things Mr Annesley DeGaris has donated several law volumes as tribute that aren't yours, say you're sorry when you hurt somebody, wash to his parents, the late John De Garis and Kate De Garis. your hands before you eat... live a balanced life; learn some and Mr Michael Gronow has forwarded history books including, think some and draw some and paint and sing and dance and play The Constitution of Europe and Governing Australia. Traditional and work every day some; take a nap every afternoon, watch for Aboriginal Society and Citizenship and Indigenous Australians traffic; hold hands and stick together; be aware of wonder.' will be valuable additions to a growing collection of literature on Dr Leat spoke to members and friends of the College at the Indigenous Australia. Foundation Annual General Meeting on April 26. The Revd Dr Colin Holden presented the Library with a She argued that: wonderful collection of works relating to gnosticism, early church • philanthropy is not simply the act of giving a gift or raising history, and doctrinal theology, many of which are first editions, money, but is much more about creating 'a society in which and also a copy of the Rudolf Kittel edition of Biblia Hebraica. we respect each other and the environment; a society which is Bishop Grant donated Ronald Winton's A Body's body, which is a socially, economically and environmentally sustainable because history of the first twenty-one years of the Royal Australian College it is fundamentally just and considerate; a society which of General Practitioners, and Professor John Ritchie's wonderful maximises the potential of all its resources for growth' publication from Miegunyah Press, The Wentworths: father and son. • philanthropy is about outcomes, rather than inputs or outputs Our connections with Melbourne University resulted in a • philanthropy is about ethical investment donation of books from the Educational Resource Centre. Ancient • philanthropy and education have the common goal of Near East: texts relating to the Old Testament will be of great achieving sustainable public benefit interest to our theological students. The beautifully illustrated Biblia • philanthropy as the voluntary giving of money for good Pauperum and also Time sanctified: the Book of Hours in Medieval causes was, and is, insufficient, paternalist, particularist Art and Life are quite exquisite. and unaccountable. We were also fortunate to receive a generous collection of She told the gathering that... 'foundations (such as Trinity's) theological monographs from Wesley College. These included have a responsibility to achieve a social impact disproportionate a comprehensive collection of valuable biblical commentaries. to their spending, not least because some of the money they give away belongs to all of us.' 'Organisations like Trinity have a particularly important role. They are in a powerful position to inculcate the future leading citizens (as donors, corporate leaders and investors) with the values of respect for others in everyday college life and, in the bigger scale, towards a sustainable and socially just society.' She concluded with an anecdote from Ted Turner. Last year, she told the gathering, Turner gave $1 bn (US) to the UN Foundation. A month later he gave his wife control of a $10 million charity foundation for her birthday. Among his early gifts were $25 million to each of his alma maters, which he chose because he thought that's what you're supposed to do — 'Got that out of the way', he said. It would be wonderful if all Trinity alumni gave not because it was the "done thing", but because they believe it is the very best way of giving away their money.'

A full text of Dr Leat's address is available from the Development Office.

44 Honours AUSTRALIA DAY HONOURS 2000 Barrie AARONS (1952) of Hamilton Vic OAM For services to the community of Hamilton and to medicine.

William Ronald BEETHAM (1949) of Miners Rest Vic AM For services to medicine, particularly in the field of orthopaedics, and in the development of training programs for overseas doctors, and to the community.

Professor Robin SHARWOOD (1964) of Prahran East Vic AM For service to the Anglican Church of Australia, particularly in the field of canon law, and for legal education.

Farewell and thank you to our President Dr Michael Robert (Taffy) Jones Archbishop Rayner took up the Presidency of the Council of the College in March 1991, several (1957) of Parkville Vic PSM months after he became Archbishop of Melbourne and just a few months before he became Primate For outstanding public service through health care in Victoria, particularly the of the Anglican Church of Australia. Alfred Hospital. In November 1999, on the eve of his retirement as Archbishop, he chaired his final meeting. He and Audrey Rayner were fondly farewelled and warmly thanked by the College community. QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY The Archbishop provided outstanding support to Dr Burge in the last six years of his Wardenship HONOURS, 2000 and Professor Markwell in the first two years of his. Michael Gerald COULTAS (1950) of Mornington, Vic OAM Bill Cowan, Council and Board member, thanked the Archbishop for his wonderful years of For service to the promotion of service to Trinity; years in which the College has grown not only stronger but also much larger international trade and the fostering and more complex. He said of the Archbishop's leadership of the Council, 'I believe we can look of Australian-Sri Lankan relations. with great pride at what has been accomplished at Trinity during this decade, academically and otherwise. Most of all, we can be proud of the calibre of the residents and their accomplishments, Dr Richard Peter FREEMAN, RFD, RD (1944) of South Frankston, Vic OAM and this of course includes the students of the Theological School, which is now going from For service to otolaryngology, strength to strength. particularly through the Garnett Passe One measure of the change that has taken place is the growth in our revenues: in the early and Rodney Williams Memorial 1990's our revenues were in the order of $1 .5 million, this coming year we expect them to be Foundation, and through medical $10.5 million. Much of this increase in size has been, of course, the result of the growth and practice, research and training. success of the Foundation Studies Program. FELLOWS OF TRINITY Also during this time the Council itself has grown. At your first meeting in March 1991, Archbishop Peter Carnley (1962) Archbishop, there were twenty-one in attendance, including only one woman! Today we have over Primate of the Anglican Church thirty at this meeting, including seven women. This is a result of the change in the governance of Australia. structure for the College that was put in place four years ago, following the major strategy study Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, friend and led by Rob Clemente. I might add that ten of us have survived from your first meeting, Archbishop, supporter of Trinity, and outstanding although some of us did need to take off various periods to rest and rejuvenate... No such contributor, in many spheres, to the opportunity for you, I'm afraid, Archbishop! wider community. 'Over the years Archbishop Rayner has had strong links with Colleges in three States. He was Vice Warden of St John's in Brisbane, in 1958; he was President of the Council of St Mark's Mr Michael Thwaites (1934) distinguished author and poet. in Adelaide during the fifteen years that he was Archbishop of Adelaide between 1975 and 1990,

and of course he was involved with the Trinity Theological School for the six years between 1969 Dame Elisabeth and Mr Thwaites were and 1975 when he was Bishop of Wangaratta. installed on Monday November 20 in 'So I think it is clear that you, Archbishop, have contributed magnificently, not only to us here the College Chapel. The story will be at Trinity but also to our sister colleges, in a way that is probably unique in Australia. Many others, covered in full in the next edition. who have worked closely with you, have been paying tribute to you. They have praised your IN THE ARTS intellectual leadership in our Church and our community, your scholarship and your objectivity, Kristin Headlam (1975) First prize in and your outspokenness on social issues. the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize 'This Council will remember you as a great supporter of the College through a time of for 'Self-Portrait in Bed with the Animals: substantial change. We will also remember you as a Council Chairman who had an incredible The work will be exhibited at Span Gallery Melbourne next April and May. ability to bring complex and lengthy discussions to happy and productive conclusions, usually capped off with a witty and pithy comment.' AUSTRALIAN SPORTS MEDAL The Archbishop and Mrs Rayner will always be very warmly remembered at Trinity. Mr Frank Henagan (1976) for outstanding service to the game of cricket. I

45 Arrivals @Trinity An impeccable job-share: Trinity farewells Librarians Gillian and Janet

Gillian Forwood, Leeper Librarian, and Janet Bell, Assistant Librarian, made Archbishop Peter Watson January 2000 their joint swan-song at Trinity, after many years of outstanding Archbishop Peter Watson, the new service — Gillian for fifteen years and Janet for seven years. The following is an President of the College Council, and Mrs edited address by the Warden, Professor Don Markwell, at their joint farewell Watson were welcomed to Trinity on Sunday in the Leeper Library on January 27 2000. 6 August in a special choral evensong. As President of the Council, the It is especially fitting to begin this tribute to Gillian and Janet with reference to Robin Archbishop is the highest office-holder Sharwood because it was he who, as Warden, in 1966, appointed the first full-time Leeper in the College. In his welcoming remarks, Librarian of the College, Mary Rusden, beginning the, as it were, apostolic succession of the Warden commented that the Diocese Mary Rusden, Jean Waller, Margaret Brown, Eirène Clark, Gillian Forwood, and now Nina have instantly recognised [the Archbishop] Waters. It was also in Robin's Wardenship that the Mollison Library, the Library of the as a person of great warmth, whose ministry Anglican Diocese of Melbourne, moved to Trinity — a very significant development. is expressed in an engaging style that is at It was the fifth Warden, Evan Burge, who appointed Gillian as Assistant Librarian in 1985, once relaxed and self-evidently based on assisting Leeper Librarian Eirène Clark. In 1989, Gillian and Eirène smoothly swapped jobs, deep personal conviction — a man who Gillian becoming Leeper Librarian and Eirène Assistant Librarian. Eirène retired from the speaks from the heart.' Library at the end of 1992, and in January 1993 Janet Bell became Assistant Librarian. He remarked that the Archbishop's Their 'job-share' has been a partnership which has been impeccable in its smooth life and ministry until 2000 had been co-ordination and effectiveness, both members of the team bringing quite exceptional in Sydney, and observed that, In some skills and personal qualities to their roles. important respects, it has often been Janet Bell has brought, amongst other fine qualities, a very fine intellect and an especially said that Sydney — for all its exciting fine eye for detail. Perhaps this is not surprising in someone who has worked in the Fisher cosmopolitanism — lacks the diversity of Library at the University of Sydney, the National Library in Canberra, the Prime Minister's Melbourne. This is most obvious in that key Department, the Aeronautical Research Library, the Wadhurst Library at Melbourne Grammar matter of Sabbath observance, that crucial School, and at Trinity. She has been, in Gillian's words, an `absolute Rock of Gibraltar', issue of religious choice — which football devoted to the job, and highly conscientious. team to support. When asked about this at Gillian has brought to her work at Trinity, as to her work in fine arts, great qualities of his first press conference in Melbourne, the scholarship, industry, and persistence. Yet all of this is done calmly, and in the friendliest Archbishop-elect is reported to have said: of ways, with elegance and charm. Gillian has been a splendid leader of the team comprising "I am advised that a man in my position herself, Janet, Ken Horn in the Mollison Library, Marian Turnbull in the archives, and — of would be better off supporting the Saints course — dear to her heart and testament to her skill and warmth - a succession of student and not the Demons." To which it library assistants whom she has nurtured and befriended. can only be said, Archbishop, that the Gillian provided exceptional leadership during the move of the Library from the Leeper Saints certainly need you!' Building to this superb new Evan Burge Building, opened in 1996. She also presided over The Warden also recognised the the computerisation of the Library, and the increasingly professional organisation of the dedication and commitment of Mrs Watson College archives at the efficient hands of Marian Turnbull, which has seen more frequent use in supporting her husband throughout his of the archives in bringing alive the history of the College. ministry, and warmly welcomed her into the As well as creating, with Janet and other colleagues, a library that is truly `user-friendly', Trinity community. Gillian has also been an active member of the College's Art Committee, taking the minutes Although Trinity is an autonomous self- of its meetings, as well as the minutes of the College Council and other College committees. governing institution, the links with the She has always contributed great insight to discussions — insight characterised by deep Diocese of Melbourne have been very close humanity and a deep commitment to Trinity as a community. and for almost all of the College's history Miegunyah Press, the distinguished imprint of Melbourne University Press, has accepted the Archbishop has served as President a proposal for Gillian to write a full-length monograph on painter Lina Bryans, replete with of the College Council. reproductions of her paintings. A benefactor has made a generous grant to cover the considerable costs of such a fine publication. It is to work full-time on this project that Gillian has decided to retire from the position of Leeper Librarian.

46 Dr Stewart Gill, and his wife, Heather Ms Nina Waters (left) and Ms Janie Gibson

Dr Steward Gill, Dean and Nina Waters, Leeper Librarian Dr Leanne Habeeb, Deputy Warden of Trinity Nina Waters joined the College Academic Registrar community in January 2000. She taught Dr Stewart Gill was formally commissioned The Big Apple is a long way from Fine Arts in Canberra and Adelaide before and installed as Dean and Deputy Warden at Melbourne, but Trinity has recently attracted undertaking further studies in librarianship a special service in Chapel on Monday 31 July. Dr Leanne Habeeb, a lecturer and assistant at the University of South Australia. The Right Reverend James Grant officiated. registrar at Barnard College, Columbia Working in public and educational libraries Dr Gill, and his wife, Heather, were welcomed University, New York, to the role of Academic in Adelaide and Melbourne, Nina has by the Trinity community at a reception Registrar in the residential College. Her pioneered resource-based learning following the service. appointment reflects ongoing efforts methodologies and specialised in literacy, Dr Gill came to Australia from his native to strengthen the academic provision research and international educational Scotland via Canada, where he undertook of the College. programs. She has also worked as a postgraduate study in history, and met and A philosopher with an expertise in cognitive consultant in the field of library and married Heather. Since they came to Australia process, she brings a wealth of administrative information services at both tertiary and in 1985, Stewart has held teaching and and educational expertise to her role, in secondary levels. Nina remains committed academic leadership positions at the Presbyterian which she will work alongside the Director to the optimum delivery of library services Theological College and at Ridley College. of Academic Studies, Dr Damian Powell, to in support of critical, reflective and In January 1998, he became Warden of Ridley ensure the academic well-being of Trinity's articulate learning and research. College. Dr Gill is also a Senior Fellow in the students and tutors. Dr Powell believes History Department of the University of that Dr Habeeb's appointment adds a new Janie Gibson, Assistant Librarian Melbourne, and has published widely. dimension to the Tutorial Office, in which Janie Gibson has been appointed In his welcome address the Warden observed her administrative skills will combine with Librarian assisting the Leeper Librarian, that Dr Gill has a clear understanding of, and a capacity to inspire and direct students in Nina Waters. Having completed a BA and commitment to, the values of collegiate academic mentoring, and through her direction Dip Ed at the University of Queensland, education which Trinity seeks to embody.' of the Skills for Life Program. On a personal she taught English and History in The appointment of Dean and Deputy Warden note, her appoinment to Trinity continues Queensland and Victoria for a number is an historic event which marked the revival of the an association with the University colleges of years, before completing a Graduate post of Dean, not filled since 1996. The position that began with her husband David, who was Diploma in Teacher-Librarianship. For of Dean was first created in 1933 after a difficult resident in Ormond College before moving the past twelve years she has been the time within the College, during the course of to the United States. senior teacher-librarian at Xavier College, which Warden Behan famously closed the buttery. introducing an integrated program of The position of Dean was created, according to resource-based learning and information the Council minutes at that time, to ' discharge skills, as well as the Literature program for various functions which are now discharged by the Senior Campus. She has completed a the Warden in person: The Dean was entrusted Masters degree in Business in IT, at RMIT. with The general maintenance in the College of discipline in the highest sense, meaning thereby not merely matters of routine administration but intimate contact with College life: Among a number of other specified responsibilities was 'Regular supervision of the dairy herd and the various plantations, requiring occasional consultations with experts'. Dr Gill certainly does not have a herd of cattle to worry about but is already, in the words of 1933, establishing `intimate contact Dr Leanne Habeeb with College life'. Andrea Inglis Beside the Seaside Michael Thwaites Miegunyah Press, MUP, 1999 REVIEW BY EVAN L. BURGE Atlantic Odyssey The beach has long held a fascination for Australians. Many enjoy family holidays there New Cherwell Press, Oxford, 1999 as children and some, mainly young men, later become surfing addicts. Many older people REVIEW BY EVAN L. BURGE desire to spend their retirement there. We see the beach as a place of relaxed informality and a great social leveller. It is tempting to think that Australians have always thought of This is a distinguished and absorbing the seaside in these terms. In Beside the Seaside Andrea Inglis reveals the totally different book, strongly recommended. It offers attitudes, customs and values that prevailed at Victorian beaches in the 19th century. insight and delight at many levels. There Then, going to the seaside was an esteemed social and consciously health-producing are books that capture the danger and activity, especially for the self-styled upper classes. exhilaration, the smells and the toil, and This book is beautifully presented. It will appeal at first sight, and long thereafter, sometimes the boredom, of the sea in because of its beautiful images of historic seaside scenes, many in full colour. They include storm and fair weather. There are books old photographs, etchings, postcards and paintings by such artists as Eugene von Guérard, that tell of heroic deeds that prove decisive Charles Conder and Tom Roberts. Scenes of familiar places a century and more ago are in times of war. There are poets' books that always interesting, and the splendid images in this book have no doubt contributed to its distil for others the meaning of experiences, popularity as a gift. decisions and feelings. There are books that tell of deeply human experiences of love, life and death. Michael Thwaites' Atlantic Odyssey is all of these, though it sets out mainly to tell a modest and intimately personal story. The author makes clear, however, the essential part played by small ships, like his own anti-submarine escort trawler Wastwater with her crew of thirty-two, in the Battle of the Atlantic, and so in the defence of the free world against Hitler. Michael Thwaites, Trinity's Rhodes Scholar for 1937, met his future wife Honor while she was a student at Janet Clarke Hall. It was in Trinity that the two began a rich conversation and relationship that The author's focus is mainly on the development and distinctive characters of Sorrento, continued until Honor's death in 1993. Queenscliff and Lorne, but bay beaches closer to Melbourne, such as St Kilda, Mentone During his studies in Oxford, Thwaites was and Mt Martha, are not overlooked. Pictures of the steamers Ozone, Hygeia and Weeroona awarded the Newdigate Prize for poetry. evoke old memories for some of us. Once these vessels carried hundreds of holiday-makers Honor came to join him there in 1938. and weekend trippers to Mornington, Sorrento and Queenscliff. Here they are handsomely Her engagement ring was bought with the displayed in their historical and social contexts. money given as the prize. In December Wonderful though the images are, the text is every bit as interesting. It was prepared 1939 they were married. By this time, as a Master's thesis (clearly first-class honours). It has the careful research but none of so great was the threat to the future of the pedantic dryness associated with that genre. Andrea Inglis' researches concerning the world, they believed they must do the Victorian beach show that everything possible to help withstand the Far from being an egalitarian paradise where people relaxed and put aside the constraints of horrors of Nazism and the threat of the convention and ceremony, all was earnestness and sobriety. Highly ritualised seaside customs invasion of Great Britain by the German owed much to a British legacy which imbued the colonial shore with distinctive character forces. And so, Thwaites, the recently and tone. married poetic scholar of twenty-four This legacy is traced back to the aristocratic watering places of England and the years, resolved to remain in England and Continent, where wealthy clients sought both improved health and social prestige. enlist in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve. The manners, attitudes and customs of the spas were later extended to the assumed Along with Oxford, he would in later years benefits of bracing seawater and the 'ozone' (a chemical misnomer for the salt-laden air) describe the Royal Navy as among Britain's that the seaside provided so abundantly. greatest educational institutions. The pursuit of health was `prescriptive and serious. One went to the beach to improve Some of the most affecting pages of both body and mind.' A walk along the shore, fully dressed in one's finery, was not merely the book tell of the difficult separation for exercise or enjoyment but an opportunity for serious nature study, including scientific the war imposed upon the young couple, observation and collecting biological specimens and shells. Resorts advertised their special as on many others. Their first child Robert health-giving properties, but they also were expected to provide libraries, concerts, was born, and then died from an infected teahouses and facilities for cards, billiards and meetings. kidney after less than three weeks. His This is a delightful and enlightening book. One should buy two copies. One is to give to father was at sea and believed all was well. someone who remembers being told not to swim for two hours after eating and that the best We are given the privilege of sharing in time for a swim is in the early morning. The other copy is to keep as a delightful possession. Robert's birth and tragically early death by seeing it through Honor's eyes and in her Andrea Inglis was a resident member of Trinity 1980-1982.

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own words, written at the time in eagerly protecting small vessels, to withstand the describing an old sheep dog that heroically awaited and long-delayed letters. Extracts formidable attacks of Admiral Doenitz's engages a wolf in fight and so allows most from others of Honor's letters also give a U-boats. of the sheep to escape, should be excised. sense of the wider war, with their reflections This book tells vividly of the part played Fortunately, Thwaites trusted his own about such things as Rommel's successes in in that protracted battle by the Wastwater, judgment. Other poems are included. Like Africa, the fall of Tobruk and the Japanese a converted trawler, and her small crew, the choruses in a Greek play, the poems descent upon Singapore. Throughout brave, diverse and human. As well as add reflective depth to the narrative. One is Thwaites' 20-month Odyssey around the some fine photographs there are vivid an amusing light ballad, Tale of the Ferryboat Atlantic, some of it in unforgettably fierce descriptions of shipboard life and of the That Met a U-Boat, which was written by a weather including the worst gales in twenty sea in all manners of moods and weathers talented shipmate from Liverpool. It was years, one is always aware of Honor waiting from Arctic ice and gales to the sweltering later published in Newsweek. for him. Many different kinds of struggle tropics. Thwaites, as First Lieutenant, was The book evinces satisfaction in a contributed to the final victory of the second-in-command, and kept sharply necessary job well done. There is evident free world. observed notes of all that occurred. gratitude for the privilege of serving with so We learn not only about him and fine a crew of "cheerful individualists". his inner reflections, expressed with Undergirding all is a strong faith and a natural modesty, but a good deal sense of trusting in the guidance of a about the crew and what the war higher Power. References to the Oxford was like for them. Throughout, there Group, later Moral Rearmament, are telling is a quiet, sometimes ironic, humour, but not intrusive. They occur in settings of as in friendship and mutual support, and in a There was even a concrete-mixer matter-of-fact way. How true it remains that who in emergencies did duty for to change the world we must first be the cook. His porridge was changed ourselves! noteworthy. The Melbourne launch of this book was Apart from shipboard food, and in Trinity College on 26 September 1999, the arrival from time to time of long- when one of the Wastwater's company, Jack awaited mail, one minor theme is the Wilson, came from New Zealand with his Captain's inability during the whole wife to be present. The College can be 20-month voyage to get the hot proud that its Rhodes Scholars include water tap for his shower fixed. We Michael Thwaites, now a Fellow of the last hear of it in Freetown, West College, who has served his country not Africa, as a new crew takes over: only in war but also in peace, and who As we watched, a rotund figure continues to enrich us with his poetry and emerged on the casing and prose. Above all, we who live in freedom began work with a spanner on and peace can be grateful for his advocacy the after bulkhead of the bridge of justice, honour, honesty, human decency, structure. It was the new Chief freedom, moral courage and mutual respect Engineman starting work on the — in a word love, the love that extends even Captain's shower. to our enemies. Being ready, if necessary, In another small incident, even to die for such values remains as one crew member, who became crucial in peace as in war if all that is best uncharacteristically stubborn after in our civilisation is to survive for our drinking, had been ashore in New children and their children. Few people are aware of the crucial York. When he refused to return to the ship, importance of the Battle of the Atlantic, he was brought round by enlisting his Atlantic Odyssey, New Cherwell Press, which lasted for virtually the duration of help to deal with another member who Oxford, 1999. RRP $35 hardback, the War. The Battle of Britain, courageously pretended to be even drunker. $25 paperback, plus p&h, fought by so few against more and better Thwaites' best known poem is probably available from Grosvenor Books, planes, and the endurance, camaraderie The Jervis Bay, which tells graphically how a Toorak (03) 9822 1218 and humour of the British during the Blitz slow and weakly armed merchant cruiser deservedly remain stamped upon the drew the fire of a heavily armed pocket popular consciousness until the present battleship for twenty vital minutes, thus day. Yet, as Churchill knew, everything allowing most of the convoy to get away. depended on maintaining the supply route A substantial extract is included in the across the Atlantic. Without oil and food book, together with a fascinating account Britain could not long have held out, let of the circumstances of its being written. alone taken part in the final liberation of Far more than decoration, this poem Europe. The key to this lifeline was the symbolises the book as a whole. The Poet convoy system, at first rejected to their cost Laureate John Masefield, to whom the poem by the American admirals, which enabled so is dedicated, had urged that, to speed up many cargo vessels and tankers, and their the action, certain passages, such as one

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College Porter, athletics and football coach and general 'presence' in the College, Frank Henagan went to the Olympics thanks to the efforts of a group of old members who organised an appeal cleverly titled 'Send Off Frank Committee for the Olympic Games' (SOFCOG). The appeal was run by email and attracted interest from many members of the College, who wanted to show their appreciation of Frank's help over the years. Frank joined the College community in 1976 as a gardener. He quickly took on other responsibilities, becoming College Porter, and has since been a most significant and positive influence in College and Melbourne University sport. He is an Honorary Life Member of the Melbourne University Sports Association. Over the years, numerous sportswomen and men have Paul Willows and Ben Hasker celebrate with College Porter, Frank Henagan, and many well- benefited from Frank's wise advice. wishers in the College Baron the eve of his Olympic excursion.

The moo-cows over yonder,

Are the boast of Trinity,

They look so beastly blasé,

As they gaze at you and me,

As we go past them with our books,

To lectures and to totes,

wonder what they think of me,

those blessed bovine brutes.

Margaret Bartlett From the 'Freshers' Revue University Women's College, University of Melbourne, Term 1. 1945

Two Wardenical babies Miss Valentine Alexa Leeper, born at Trinity on Valentine's Day 1900 and Miss Elizabeth Kate Markwell, born in 1999. The picture was taken on Miss Leeper's 100th birthday celebrated at Trinity on 14 February 2000 with a special choral service and reception.

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Mildred Prentice (nee Barnard), Janet Paul Elliott (1968) was appointed as a relationship to wine flavour. Douglas has Clarke Hall 1926, married Sydney Prentice Queen's Counsel in November 1999. Paul also formed a private consultancy (Terroir in 1939. They had three daughters and was a resident of Trinity from 1968 until the Australia Pty Ltd) working with wine one son. In 1950, Sydney was appointed completion of his honours degree in law in companies to identify the best sites and Professor of Electrical Engineering at the 1971. After practising as a solicitor for two soils for premium vineyards. University of Queensland. They moved to years, Paul completed his Masters Degree in Libby Robin (1975) is a Research Brisbane with their four children. Mildred Law at London University in 1975. He was Fellow at The Centre of Resource and commenced lecturing at the University of a lecturer in law at London University from Environmental Studies at the Australian Queensland, which she continued until her 1976 until 1978. Since his return to National University and is working on a retirement in 1978. In 1999 she was Australia in 1978, he has practised as a history of ornithology in Australia for the selected as one of 30 outstanding women barrister in Victoria specialising in Common centenary of Birds Australia (formerly the scientists at a celebration of the Law and defamation. Paul met his wife, Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union) contribution of Australian women scientists Dr Gillian Elliott, whilst they were students next year. Her book, Defending the Little in Canberra. She was unable to attend due in London and they married on their return Desert: The Rise of Ecological Consciousness to ill health. Mildred passed away on March to Australia in 1978. They have two in Australia was published by Melbourne 9 2000. children, Vanessa and Nicholas, who may University Press in 1998. E Vernon Griffith (1944) has retired well continue the Elliott name in the Erica Wood (1985) and her husband Ian from IBM. He lives in Los Gatos, USA. He College. As the Victorian government has Woolley (1980) have returned to was delighted to receive TRINITYToday for announced that no more Queens Counsels Melbourne to live. Erica is working at the the first time, but was sorry to hear of the will be appointed, Paul probably is the last Australian Red Cross Blood Service in South death of his old friend Donald Malcolmson. Trinity man to be a member of Her Melbourne. Ian is continuing his research on David Kent (1947) is involved with Majesty's Counsel. In the future all chosen malaria at the Alfred Hospital, and is doing the U3A music group. The group enjoys will be termed Senior Counsel. clinical infectious diseases work at Frankston listening to recordings. David provides Sir Francis Price Bt (1970) and his Hospital. the group with guidance on themes, styles wife, Justice Marguerite Trussler, visited the John Daley (1985) and his wife Rebecca of music as well as some historical context College in 2000 from Edmonton, Canada are proud parents of baby daughter Vita helpful to the appreciation of the music. where they live. Sir Francis was Senior Charlotte, born on 21 May 2000. Michael Coultas (1950) OAM has Student at Trinity in 1972, and Marguerite Les Pyke (1976) lives in Ardross, stepped down as President of the Australian was a tutor at St Hilda's in 1972-73. They Western Australia. He is chairman of Institute of International Affairs after a were very impressed with the substantial the Centre for the Indian Ocean Inc. term of five years. He is Chairman of the renovations to and refurbishing of the JCR He presented at the Australasian Australia-Sri Lanka Council and led the last and the rest of the College, and the Evan Environmental Engineering Conference Australian trade mission to Sri Lanka. Trinity Burge Library. Sir Francis was appointed in Auckland in 1999 with a paper titled was well represented at the Conference a QC in 1992 and a Chartered Arbitrator 'Future Accountabilities and Beneficiaries on Australian Studies in Australia House, in 1994. His practice includes both civil in Environmental Engineering'. London during Australia Week in July. litigation, and, as an arbitrator, in labour, Roy Preece (1977) has recently moved The discussions were opened by commercial and other matters, both to Bendigo with his family after teaching Archbishop Peter Hollingworth (1955), domestic and international. Marguerite is at Dimboola for twelve years. Chairman, National Council for the a Judge on the Alberta Court of Queen's Edward Billson (1978) is working for Centenary of Federation. Also present were Bench, a court of general jurisdiction over Wong Tung Architects in Hong Kong. Michael Cook (1950), Andrew Farran matters including criminal, civil, divorce and Richard Bayley (1978) is Senior (1957) and Leo Hawkins (1958). estate. She has just finished a seven-month Contracts Administrator for Baulderstone David Were (1964) is the Director judicial study leave, during which she has Hornibrook. He married Diana Herd in the of Practical Training at the Leo Cussen been examining family court structures College chapel in 1998. Dr Evan Burge Institute in Melbourne. He runs a post- and services in jurisdictions around the conducted the service and Rob Warnock graduate course which is an alternative to world (including Australasia). Their three (1978) was best man. Articles, leading to admission to practice daughters, Adrienne, Megan and Glynis, Ann Rowland-Campbell (1979) has as a legal practitioner. David writes that have all completed school and are either just completed a Master of Business and in May, following a study tour to the UK, at University or travelling around the globe, Technology and the University of New he stayed in Munich with John Davis. or both! South Wales and is about to commence John Davis (1964, Senior Tutor and Douglas Mackenzie (1972) has a PhD in Knowledge and Technology. Dean 1970s) has been, since 1983, a transferred from the Australian Geological Daryl Chambers (1980) and his wife Reader and Researcher at the Physiological Survey Organisation to the Bureau of Rural Samantha became parents to Alexander Institute of the University of Munich. Sciences. He is on extended leave as a in March 1999. They have moved to the He is married and has three children. Visiting Fellow in the Department of United Kingdom where Daryl runs a new John follows developments in Trinity with Geology at the ANU, where he is involved business unit for Ericssons, developing a keen interest. in research on soil chemistry and its and marketing satellite terminals.

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John Whittington (1980) married Susan Bilston (nee Manger) (1986) Kimberley Hobbs (1989) and her Shirley Howlett in October 1999 and, is living in Brisbane with her husband Paul husband Jack were married in 1996, and following a six week honeymoon in Chile and their two children, Simon (1997) and moved to Kentucky, USA in 1997. and Argentina, they moved to Singapore Timothy (1999). Susan is working part- They returned to Melbourne in 1999. so John could take up a new role with Nokia time as a physiotherapist at the Royal Diane Heath (1990) has resigned Networks as Business Manager, WAP and Women's Hospital. as Rector of the Parish of St Cecilia Messaging for Asia Pacific. John can be Prue Keith (1987) finished her after six years of ministry to become contacted on +65 9742 0359, orthopaedic surgery training in 1998 the editor of the Anglican Messenger in [email protected] and spent four months working for the Western Australia. David Morley (1981), his wife Trish International Red Cross in Kenya/Sudan in James Porteous (1990) completed his (nee Luckeneder) (1981) and their 1999. She undertook three rescue missions BSc (Hons) at the University of Melbourne two sons, Graeme and Jason, are looking to Papua New Guinea with the Australian in 1993, and in 1996 completed his MSc in forward to spending some time in Defence Force after the Tsunami of 1998. Science Communication at Imperial College, California, where David is taking up a Prue is working in America and the United London (Queens Trust Jubilee Award). position at SRI. Kingdom in 2000 on postgraduate research He commenced work as Web Producer Richard Billson (1983) married in upper limb surgery. She will commence at Nature (Macmillan Publishers, London) in Susan Dyer and they now live in London. a consultant position in 2001 providing 1996, and in 1997 became Web Production Richard is an industrial designer and was an orthopaedic service to Wangaratta and Editor. In 1999 he commenced work as responsible for fitting out the interior of plans to settle on a farm, breeding cattle. Nature Electronic Production Manager. the Millennium Dome. Andrew Tulloch (1987) has been He is living at Chalk Farm in London and Angus Trumble (1983) is Curator of Investment Manager at Austrade in the returns to Melbourne once a year or European Art at the Art Gallery of South Singapore High Commission. He recently so for weddings. Australia. In May he was Visiting Fellow won the Young Achievers Award for David Thornton (1991) completed his at the Yale Centre for British Art in New assisting investment between Singapore engineering degree in 1995 at RMIT and Haven, Connecticut. and Australia and was presented with the now works in the family business as a steel Rebecca Ledzion (nee Pitt) (1983) and award at the Singapore Australia Business fabricator. He marries Gillian Brown, a husband Michael are living in Oxford. They Council President's Dinner in October last research scientist at the Ludwig Cancer are pleased to announce the arrival of their year. Andrew joined Austrade from the Research Centre, in March. daughter, Isabel Chloë, born on January 9 Melbourne office of KPMG Management Dr Wesley Thevathasan (1993) has 2000. Consulting in December 1997 to re- spent the last two European winters James Billson (1984) has started establish the Invest Australia Office in working as a ski instructor in St Anton, an internet company called Commercial Singapore. In just two years, he built the Austria. He has completed his medical Interactive Media. one-man operation in Singapore into one of degree and is now working as an intern Ian Marschner (1984) returned to the most successful links in the Invest at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. Australia last year after five years teaching Australia's global network, attracting Sarah Wainwright (1994) completed and working on AIDS research at Harvard. considerable corporate investment into her BSc at the University of Melbourne in He and his wife Simone live in Sydney Australia. Andrew has now transferred to 1997. She then spent six months in London where Ian is working as Associate Professor San Francisco to undertake the same role working as a nanny. In 1998 Sarah moved of Bio-statistics at the University of Sydney. with Austrade. to Adelaide to study for a graduate diploma Robert Nelson (1985) is working as Andrew Muirhead (1988) is Senior in Viticulture and now works as a technical an export manager in the grain industry in Engineer for Lufthansa. He is in charge officer at Yering Station in Victoria. Western Australia. He married Priscilla of a team of ten engineers devoted to Tim Riley (1997) is studying for a in 1997 and they have a baby daughter the design of entertainment and DPhil (mathematics) at Oxford University, born in 1999. communication systems for Airline Cabins. specialising in Geometric Group Theory. Charlotte Forwood (nee Muirhead) His team also installs cabin electrical He is the Garside Senior Scholar at (1986) and her husband John (1987) systems for Lufthansa. Corpus Christi College. are living in London with their two year Wayne Corker (1988) was forced to Sam Roggeveen (1998) has moved old daughter Eleanor. Charlotte is working leave the Parish of Tailem Bend in April to Canberra to take up a position in as a speech pathologist, specialising in 1999, where he was priest, when the rural the Department of Defence. paediatric language impairments and also recession resulted in financial difficulties Emma Henderson (1998) has been freelancing as an education consultant, for the parish. Wayne and his wife Fiona awarded the University of Melbourne's while John is working as an investment (1991) have moved to Adelaide, where Graduate Student Published Research Prize banker. Wayne is undertaking his honours in for 1999, for an article which is being David Smallwood (1986) has Theology, investigating the infertility published in 2000 in the United Kingdom. completed his training as a respiratory stories of the Old Testament and whether The article originated from a paper Emma physician at the Royal Melbourne Hospital they give insight into contemporary presented at the Keele conference in 1998. and in 1999 began a PhD looking at assisted reproductive technologies. Fiona permanent airway changes in asthmatics. has returned to University and is studying primary education. Both are enjoying being parents to Imogen Grace, born in 1998.

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We "pie with regret these d The Honourable Thomas Weetman Smith AC, QC recorded since the last editi, 28 September 1901-16 June 2000

Tom Smith was also a prolific contributor Wilfred Talbot AGAR On the retirement of Tom Smith from the Victorian Supreme Court Bench in 1973, of poetry and prose to the magazine. All in all, he regarded his final years at Trinity Colin Joseph COISH (194 it was said of him that the prediction of the Bar is that your name will be linked with as 'very interesting and diversified.' He graduated MA in 1925 (with first class Humphrey Chadwick CLEGG (1940) that of the late Sir Leo Cussen. It is well known that that name is generally cited as honours in English) and LL M in 1926. Tom Smith did his articles with the small Randolph Edmund CRESWELL (1954) that of the greatest Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria.' firm of McLeary, Robson & Mendies and signed the Bar Roll on 5 August 1926. He William Braithwaite EGGINGTON (1940) Tom Smith spent his early years in New South Wales. His father was a jute read in the chambers of Charles Lowe and Wilfred Fullagar. He particularly admired Wilfrid Somers. FREY (1941) manufacturer — a 'dreadfully speculative' business — and twice suffered catastrophic Fullagar, whose work was mainly in equity, and who possessed 'a beautifully, clear Eric Bruce GARRATT (1945) losses. Tom was 'reputed to be a sickly child, with a tenuous grip on life.' concise' manner of expression. His first three years at the Bar were 'very difficult', David George HURLEY (1941) Consequently, he did not go to school between the ages of six and ten. During but he eventually established himself as an equity practitioner with interests in Robert Geor (1936) that time he became an omnivorous reader. He then attended Abbotsholme School, commercial and constitutional law. In 1934, he married Agnes Mary Malcolm Sco where he languished until 'rescued' by a master who gave him intensive coaching, (Mollie) Harrison. They had five children, four daughters and a son (who is presently I!ii 1L 1 (1"J10) resulting in a scholarship to Shore (North Sydney Church of England a Supreme Court judge). In 1942-45, Tom Smith worked for the War Cabinet (IJJ Grammar School). In 1919, the family toured Europe, Secretariat, serving as secretary to two committees concerned with the allocation k,el Bolton i JE'r✓,`,1R visiting some of the major battlefields of the war just ended. The images of conflict, of supplies and munitions production. ~;~-- chaos and destruction made a deep Returning to the Bar, he was appointed ~~rìl~.;arrJer Uuu;i.,s (1943). impression on a young man already aware King's Counsel in 1948. of the uncertainties of life. It enhanced a In February 1950, Tom Smith was natural tendency towards caution. He never appointed to the Supreme Court Bench, travelled again. In 1920, the family moved succeeding his mentor, WK Fullagar (who to Melbourne and Tom began a law course had been appointed to the High Court). at the University of Melbourne. He felt in He came to be regarded as an outstanding Stanley t +hú~rr b'✓ICLF i (1941). Melbourne 'very much as a migrant feels. jurist. It was said of Tom Smith that 'particularly in the conduct of criminal trials Raymon e (i.10lldi°} AY!IIL WILSON (1962) In effect I knew nobody here.' That situation changed dramatically there emerged plainly a distinctive though never rigidly formulated philosophy of life. N (1951) during his years in residence at Trinity College, in 1921 -24, most especially during The key to [his] outlook was a profound his last two years of study. According to respect for the individual.' He succeeded Tom Smith, 'when I was offered the job of because he 'gave an individual solution secretary to the Students' Club at Trinity I carefully tailored for the particular case, took it on. When I was offered the which analysed and balanced the ever editorship of the students' magazine I took present conflict of interests that exists in that on. When I was offered a part in the any situation and produced a result which Trinity College play, I did that. I learned was demonstrably just.' A prodigous to row and competed in regattas... another worker, whose knowledge of the law was very interesting activity was debating, 'encyclopaedic', he had complete — and and particularly intervarsity debating. easy - control of his court, and was We competed interstate and against a pre-eminent in his ability to charge a visiting English team.' One of his fellow jury in the proper manner. debaters in the Dialectic Society was During his first decade on the Bench, Reginald Sholl, later a Supreme Court Tom Smith was, as he saw it, 'in a rather colleague. As well as editing Fleur-de-Lys, vulnerable position.' He found that the Gazette

Obituary continued...The Honourable Thomas Weetman Smith AC, QC

general attitude of his fellow judges was Melbourne in 1933-46 (Contract from strength. Tom Smith died less than two one of hostility towards appeals.' But he 1941). He was a clear and authoritative months later, in his ninety-ninth year. His was a 'very persistent dissenter,' believing lecturer, whose lecture notes were highly funeral was held at St Michael's Uniting that 'it was of critical importance that prized. He chaired both the Legal Church, Collins Street. At the request of criminal trials, in which the force of the Education Committee and the Victorian his family, and with the co-operation of the community is directed against the Chief Justice's Law Reform Commission Reverend Dr Francis Macnab, Professor individual, should be conducted with in 1962-73. As chair of the former body, Robin Sharwood, who worked closely with perfect fairness and that if an accused he was given the task — carried through Tom at the Victoria Law Foundation, person was denied some safeguard, or successfully — of setting up an articled officiated at the funeral. Professor subjected to some irregularity, which could clerks' course at RMIT in just six weeks Sharwood spoke on aspects of Tom Smith's reasonably be regarded as a possible cause during 1962. The course survived until life and career, as did Chief Judge Glen for conviction, then you should intervene.' 1978. Tom Smith was also a member of Waldron, three of his daughters, and one of He was aware that regular dissents created the Advisory Committee set up in 1963 his grandaughters. His son, Tom, another the risk of 'being regarded as a crank.' to plan the Monash Law School, and was grandchild, the Chief Justice of Victoria and Hence, it was a matter of 'enormous for a number of years a member of the Dr Macnab contributed to the service, satisfaction' to him when, after two years Monash University's Faculty of Law and whilst the choir of Trinity College provided on the Bench, one of his dissents (in a Faculty Board. music. Many serving judges attended in full murder case) was upheld by the High When he retired from the Supreme ceremonial dress. Tom Smith leaves behind Court. In the Tait case of 1962, where Court Bench in September 1973 — having a remarkable legal legacy: a common lawyer application to the High Court was made reached, as he put it, 'the age of statutory of the highest quality, he was also a leader for a stay of execution, the application was senility' — Tom Smith immediately took in law reform. granted by Chief Justice Sir Owen Dixon up an appointment as Victoria's first Law on Tom Smith's dissenting judgement in Reform Commissioner. During his three- Geoff Browne the Court of Appeal. An 'Irishness' in Tom year term of office, he produced six reports. Smith's character (there was Irish blood on He assessed the implementation of his The author is grateful for the assistance both sides of the family and he was acutely recommendations as being 'about eighty of His Honour, Mr Justice Tom Smith of aware of Irish history), enhanced a natural per cent.' His first report, on the law of the Supreme Court of Victoria, and of sympathy for the underdog, and a certain murder, contributed to the abolition Professor Robin Sharwood in the scepticism towards accepted views. of capital punishment in Victoria. It was preparation of this article. Tom Smith's judgements were a result that gave him 'the greatest distinguished for their lucidity, and for satisfaction.' Major reports dealt with Geoff Browne is Research Assistant simplicity and vigour of language. This was, rape trial procedures, and with spouse to the Warden. perhaps, not surprising, in someone who witnesses (both of these reports were fully enjoyed 'a love affair with English literature' implemented), whilst another suggested during his first three years at university. ways in which delays in civil actions might There was also the infl uence of Fullagar be reduced. Tom Smith continued his who, in Tom's Smith's opinion, 'wrote the work for law reform through his service, in finest judgements from the point of view 1977-84, on a working party advising the of the English language that we have had Victorian Attorney-General on criminal law. on the High Court.' In the normal course of He attached particular importance to events, Tom Smith too could have expected criminal law: 'so long as the people have a High Court appointment. But it was faith in the criminal law system as their never offered because he made it clear that protector, and it functions with reasonable he was not interested. His firm commitment fairness, I think you have good odds on to family life and dislike of air travel having a community that is worth living in.' precluded regular absences from Victoria. Tom Smith was also a member of the A naturally modest and diffident man, Victoria Law Foundation. His wise advice he almost invariably refused public to establish a reserve fund enabled the speaking engagements. He also declined a Foundation to survive later financial crises. knighthood, being strongly of the opinion Tom Smith was made a Companion in the that serving judges should not receive Order of Australia (AC) in 1990. honours from the Executive. The death of his wife, Mollie, in April Tom Smith had a long association 2000, marked the end of sixty-six years of with the causes of legal education and marriage. Although both endured the trials law reform, beginning with his period as of dementia in later years, theirs was — and an independent lecturer in Contract and remained — an extremely close and secure Personal Property at the University of partnership, from which their children drew

54 A new JCR and a College Bar

The Warden and the 1999-2000 TCAC Committee successfully steered a complete refurbishment of the Junior Common Room into a more welcoming and relaxing space for students. Students have welcomed the new JCR enthusiastically. The refurbishment has included a complete repainting and refurbishing with both coffee table and sofa-seating. The hanging of appropriate works from the College's collection and the ER White collection have softened the once austere walls. For a quiet drink with friends, perhaps a card game, a place to listen to some good music over a coffee or a wine — the College Bar is the place to be. The Bar (unique around College Crescent) opens four times per week on non-tutorial nights. The Bar is a much more official version of the Buttery closed down in 1933. The Bar, open to College students and staff and their guests, has helped enrich the opportunities for social interaction. Around Trinity.

Professor AGL Shaw and Mrs Peggy Shaw pose with a bronze likeness unveiled on Professor Shaw's 84th birthday in February 2000. The bronze is one of six, by sculptor Peter Corlett, mounted on the Leeper Library overlooking the University. The bronzes celebrate outstanding figures in the history of the College and the University.

A partnership in excellence: Acting Vice- Chancellor of the University of Melbourne, Professor Sally Walker (left) after the unveiling of the plaque marking the opening of the newest Trinity Foundation Studies Learning Centre with the Chancellor-elect of the University, Mrs Fay Martes. The Foundation Studies Program now prepares, in close collaboration with the University, over 730 international students for tertiary studies. Trinity College TEI~ UNIVERSITY 01' MELBOURNE

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