Luce Luce Number 17, 2018 (incorporating the Janet Clarke Hall Newsletter) is a publication of Janet Clarke Hall, The University of Melbourne, Royal Parade Parkville 3052 Victoria Australia. ABN 41 004 522 589 Janet Clarke Hall 1 L UCE FROM THE P RINCIPAL

With Vice-Chancellor Glyn Davis at the Leadership Dinner From the Principal 2018 was a year of significant change for the University, with the retirement of Vice-Chancellor Prof Glyn Davis AC after a relatively long and successful period in which the ‘Melbourne Model’ was embedded through his vision as the University grew in national and international esteem. On the occasion of Glyn’s final visit to the College as Vice-Chancellor, I reflected on his generosity of spirit towards Janet Clarke Hall over the years. From the College perspective, the Melbourne Model Our cover image, drawing on this 1970s image featured on the has created some challenges for students, who must navigate back cover of Luce no.13 for inspiration, features three JCH a course from the expansive subject base of their bachelor’s students elected as presidents of the three peak intercollegiate degree into a professional degree or career. Yet it has also student bodies in 2018: Carol Isaac, President of the allowed our students to seek out their vocations and their Intercollegiate Council (centre); Mara Quach, President of the passions, preparing them for the rigours of graduate study Intercollegiate Arts and Activities Council (left), and Ella James, while allowing them precious space to think about who they President of the Intercollegiate Sports Council. No college had With the Director of Melbourne University Sport Mr Tim are and who they wish to become. previously had all three intercollegiate presidents elected from Lee at an intercollegiate netball match the same college, and this is the first time in its history that all these things speak to benefits of a collegiate education one of the Intercollegiate Councils are led by women. For more on Within the College, the balance between (seemingly limitless) the young women behind this JCH ‘clean sweep’, see p.13. individual choice and adult development is a constant source would wish for all students in a university setting. of reflection. In his study of the human species Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari suggests that we as people have a distinctive In 2018 the College refreshed its sense of Who we are and tendency to seek community in a way that is increasingly what we stand for through considered discussion between threatened by modern life. For him, the ‘liberation’ of the Council, staff and students (see p.30) and decided (in the individual through a persistent cultural program of the West words of our new Chair of Council Clare Pullar) that we ‘comes at a cost’, as many of us ‘now bewail the loss of strong should aim to remain ‘proudly small’, as this is the context families and communities and feel alienated and threatened in which our strengths are most powerfully demonstrated. by the power the impersonal state and market wield over To maintain and expand upon this vision, we will need our lives’. Millions of years of evolution, he concludes, ‘have to increase all at the same time our physical amenity, our designed us to live and think as community members. Within social and intellectual support, and our financial capacity. a mere two centuries we have become alienated individuals. We will also need to focus ever more sharply on ways to Nothing testifies better to the awesome power of culture.’* encourage our students to flourish – but also to be willing to fail (as we all inevitably do from time to time), rebounding At times, it is a challenge to believe that the countervailing from disappointment and pressing ahead to future success. culture of a college such as Janet Clarke Hall will hold strong Regardless of continuing changes in tertiary education, it is in the face of a modern emphasis on individuality at all costs. my hope that Janet Clarke Hall will stay true to our vision Our collegiate identity competes increasingly with well- – of being proudly small, intellectually lively, and open to backed and well-resourced private accommodation providers all whom we would wish to join us, regardless of means or that trumpet all the benefits of ‘community’ with few of the circumstances. I very much hope you enjoy reading about costs – transaction without communion, if you will. some of the events that shaped life in the College in 2018.

As I sat in the courtyard before writing this reflection, students Dr Damian Powell and tutors were sitting together in the sunshine eating lunch. Principal They were laughing, talking, and sharing stories with a Our back cover features a Celtic motif embedded in the wall sense of belonging which is sometimes taken for granted in of Traill Wing that is probably not well known to the majority intentional communities such as ours. Their willingness to of students, tucked away as it is on the Ormond College side. speak openly about things of the mind, things of the world – * Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011), pp. 403-4

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The Honourable Diana Bryant AO, QC (1967) is the former Chief Justice of the Family Court of Hon. Diana Bryant AO, QC Australia and currently Judge in Residence at Melbourne University Law School. She is a distinguished advocate for the advancement of women in the legal profession. Shelley Roberts met with her to talk about her life and her perspectives on the legal profession.

SR Perhaps we might start back in the When I started in practice – when I was reported and we were successful. It 1960s when you were a law student an articled clerk in 1970 and through was a very exciting time and those here at JCH. What are your main until I went to Perth at the end of 1976 opportunities don’t come around too recollections of your time at the – I did a bit of family law. Of course often in a lifetime. University and indeed at College? it was very different then because the Matrimonial Causes Act was in place We were in Perth for about thirteen DB I really loved my time at University. whereby we had ‘fault-based’ divorce. years. Initially I think we had six partners I remember relishing the freedom We would get reports from private in our firm and I was made a partner to learn at your own pace, with no investigators in those days and it could after about eighteen months – the first one telling you how to do it and no be pretty unpleasant at times. I should female partner in a firm of that size. one making sure you did do it. It was say, though, that it was the early 70s and I was head of Family Law in our firm the beginning of an autonomy that I there was already a desire to change the and it grew and grew. We merged with thoroughly enjoyed and embraced. I legislation. The Act changed in 1975, but another Perth firm and we had a loose don’t think I worked as hard as I could people had been thinking and talking arrangement with some other law firms have! Some of my fellow students about it for a good five years before around Australia. Eventually we merged were very hard-working – much more then. with those firms in the mid 80s and than I – but looking back I don’t really became Phillips Fox. regret that. I managed to enjoy all of After I finished my articles I went to my time at University. In my first year I London and spent 18 months in Europe. SR You seem to have become involved joined MUSKI and skiing has remained I worked as a law clerk in London for in quite a wide-ranging variety of a passion. about nine months in a West End firm activities while in Perth? where they handled a lot of family law I have very fond memories, too, of my which I found quite interesting. DB I was always interested in time at JCH. Mostly, the pleasure of contributing to the profession and more meeting people from other faculties, I moved to Perth at the end of 1976 broadly – I was a founding member of our lively conversation over dinner and because I married and my husband the Family Law Practitioners’ Association the tutorials that were both important came from Perth and had a job there. and of the WA Women Lawyers’ and enjoyable. It was, in a way, what I arrived there without any contacts Association. I ended up being appointed SR You have advocated strongly for gone to the High Court in the five years been an ongoing discussion about how I expected of university life – like and ended up taking a job in a smallish to the Barristers’ Board in WA (the first more women appearing before the leading up to this and I’d always felt best this could be done. the traditional Oxford or Cambridge firm where I was doing a mix of things, woman on that Board) which was the higher courts and being appointed that there was something missing from experience that I had read about and broad common law practice with some regulatory admitting authority. I was to judicial roles, and I read that you the advocacy – constitutional lawyers People say, probably correctly, that imagined. family law. The Family Law Act had only on the Board of Royal Perth Hospital led only the second all-women team tended to run the cases – and they didn’t although almost everybody thought that been in operation for 18 months and and on their Ethics Committee and then to appear before the High Court in a really understand family law. they should be placed in the Family SR How have things changed for young the Family Court of Western Australia I was appointed to the Board of TAA landmark case in 1998. Can you tell us Court (to be a lower level of the Family women studying law today? had only been operating for about 12 which soon after became Australian about that? So I was fortunate – lucky – that Court), an ongoing dispute between the months. It was all very new; there was Airlines – that was something different someone knocked back the brief and I then Attorney General and the Chief DB In my first year we had about 12-15 a very small separate Bar and there was and very interesting. DB It was a relocation case, the first to got it! Our solicitor was a woman and Justice meant that the Attorney General women out of about 100 students. no Family Law Bar, so everybody was be brought to the High Court. I’d been my junior was also a woman who had didn’t want to increase the responsibility Today, women make up more than doing their own appearance work. The I was invited to be the Practitioner interested for quite a while in the area been an academic and recently gone to of the Chief Justice – he wanted to have 60 percent. More than half of the senior practitioners had been appointed Representative on the Child Support of relocation – it was a bit controversial the Bar; she agreed to take the brief on a a separate court and the Federal Court legal profession are women but there to the Bench, so most of the rest of the Review Committee. Our committee – and at that time everybody was pro bono basis too, and did the drafting. was more inclined to support a separate remain areas in which women are not profession had about the same amount actually devised the Child Support interested in whether somebody could I wasn’t expecting we would win the court. Most of the profession and most well enough represented – the upper of experience as me – about six years. Scheme which started in 1987. Before get a case to the High Court. It was a case, but it was very satisfying that we of the stakeholders said there shouldn’t echelons of the Bar, for example. But that, people just got an order for WA case and they had been granted did! be two courts and, of course, we’re now overall, in the solicitor profession at But the difference was that they’d been maintenance which was very hard to special leave to take it to the High seeing the government proposing to least, women represent more than 50 doing advocacy for six years and I hadn’t enforce. You had to come to court to Court based on a particular point of SR In 2000 you were appointed Chief merge the two courts into one. percent. and I found that quite a challenge; I try to enforce the order – just $30 a law which, as it turned out, was not Federal Magistrate of the Federal decided fairly quickly that I really ought week was a typical order in those days especially relevant to the case. Magistrates Court? I appeared for the Victorian Bar at SR Was family law always your special to concentrate on one area. I chose and hard to change. I found this very the parliamentary inquiry at the time, area of interest? family law and, as I tell students today, rewarding work. They were looking for counsel and they DB Yes, that’s an interesting story arguing that there should not be a it was a fantastic time; it was a really offered it to somebody who declined in itself, and germaine to current separate court. There was wide-spread DB No, it wasn’t always. In fact, I unique opportunity because it was an After thirteen years in Perth, we returned because it was to be a pro bono brief. discussions about the Family Court. consultation; a Parliamentary committee didn’t actually study it as a subject at entirely new Act. to Melbourne in 1990. I decided that Then they offered it to me and I grabbed The government back then had been went all round Australia and took University because it was optional and I’d go to the Bar, having been doing it willingly; having never appeared in talking for some years about putting submissions from all the interested there were other subjects that I needed It was totally different law – there were advocacy for so long in Perth. I had the High Court, I saw it as a wonderful some lower level judicial officers into organisations. We all lost that argument to do. But I went to some of the lectures no precedents so we were literally a really enjoyable ten years at the opportunity. I had been reading both the Family Court and, to a lesser and they set up a separate court. out of interest. making law. In my second year there Victorian Bar and I took silk in 1997. transcripts of some of the cases that had extent, the Federal Court. And there had (continued overleaf) I did a Full Court appeal which was

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were important reasons why we ought to to happen. They were strongly opposed I particularly enjoy the opportunity to publish all of our judgements. I was also – almost everybody else was in favour, sit in on courses. I’ve been involved in very concerned about transparency. We and I look back and think it was such an private international law as a Hague gained funding and set up a publications opportunity missed. In between times Network Judge for Australia for the last office and decided to publish everything. we tried to have a joint administration ten years and I’m currently chairing the We anonymised the cases – giving them but it was difficult and there was a working group for the Hague Bureau names, not just initials which are too lot of ill feeling that arose at the time which has responsibility for overseeing hard to remember (same initials, but institutionally. the operation of all of the private fictitious names). It meant a cultural international law conventions. change for the judges because, I’m not The present proposal is to have one I’ve done three Masters Intensives and saying that they were sloppy in their court with two divisions. That’s really sat in on the public international law judgements, but they were now going uncontroversial. But the controversial and I’m going to do another one. I really to be scrutinised by everybody. I was part of that is that the Attorney General enjoy getting to know the presenters and hopeful that the newspapers would has said that the government does not also the students. publish them and they do a bit, and for propose to replace judges who retire the most part it’s accurate reporting. It from the superior division. So, in other SR Maybe looking inside or outside needed to be done and it’s probably the words, that will ultimately abolish the professional sphere, can you tell us most important thing that I did. No one the Family Court, effectively abolish about anyone who really has inspired could any longer criticise the Court for a specialist court. You can’t abolish you in your life? not being transparent in its decisions. a court while there are judges with a commission, so it will be done as a DB That’s quite difficult because The other thing that I think is quite process of attrition. there probably isn’t any one person important – it hasn’t come to fruition yet but there are a number of people … I but I believe it will – is that in 2012 I set The Attorney has proposed removing always thought about Elizabeth Evatt, Director of Development Shelley Roberts talks law with Diana Bryant up a Children’s Committee. the section that specifies a requirement especially when I had to start a new They got the legislation through the applicants for various positions – to are things that I wish I had achieved for specialisation. That’s concerning court, and Mary Gaudron because I remarkably quickly, within about work with the Department to interview that I didn’t achieve and that’s what I’m Children’s views are before the court everybody as several recent enquiries always admired the way she doggedly three months and then advertised for for a CEO, a Principal Registrar, the inclined to focus on. Certainly, though, from family, reporters, expert witnesses have consistently reported that the supported women. I have been inspired a Chief Federal Magistrate. I thought other staff and then, of course, we setting up the Federal Magistrate’s Court and children’s representatives, but I stakeholders want judges doing this by some of the other Chief Justices along momentarily about it and decided I had to interview for sixteen Federal obviously was a huge achievement for felt that maybe the children themselves work to be better trained – not less the way that I’ve got to know at the was not interested in it. But the night Magistrates. We travelled all over the me and I guess, because you move didn’t feel sufficiently connected with trained – that they need more experience Council of Chief Justices. before the closing day for applications, country doing this. on after four years, it’s all good – you the proceedings and actually feel that and training in all of the areas that go I went to my pigeon hole in my clerk’s haven’t out-stayed your welcome! they were being heard. It has taken along with making decisions about SR And for the final, predictable office and found some material that Once I had the CEO on board we started Of course I was much longer in the a long time; it’s hard to get research children. question…If you had to give advice to the Women Barristers’ Association had working with the other courts to sort Family Court, and there are some done into how children who have been your young self at JCH back in 1967 placed there with a view to encouraging out how we were operationally going things we did that I thought were through the process actually felt, but it The other thing that’s concerning what would you say to her? women to apply. I went home and to make this work – because we didn’t really important. One of them was has started and is beginning to have a everybody is that there is a proposal thought about it in more detail, and have any of our own infrastructure, there completely my initiative, resulting from bit of an impact. The Institute of Family to give all the appeal work to the DB You’ve got to have the fundamentals decided that it might be an interesting was a lot to be done. I had a pretty clear the Australia-wide consultation we did Studies finally gained funding and Federal Court which has no family law if you want to succeed. You’ve got to challenge and that I probably had the idea of what we should be doing that the when we set up the Federal Magistrates they’re currently doing more research. experience. Again, that’s an issue of be a hard worker – and it’s important necessary skills and experience to bring Family Court wasn’t doing: we wanted Court. The Family Court at that time There’s no doubt it’s a long-term project, specialisation and of some concern. that other people know that you’re a to the role so I decided to apply. Even to create a quicker, cheaper, simpler did not publish anything much except but I am pleased that I got it started, that There’s a lot of jurisprudence built up hard worker and that you do your job then I was slow in actually getting my process that was less bureaucratic and the jurisprudentially important cases, the Committee is keeping up with its over 40 years, so it’s difficult to know well. You must aim to identify what you application completed , and before I had drawn-out. And that wasn’t too hard to and lawyers were constantly advocating work and I’ll be really interested to see how judges who have never done this don’t do so well and strive to improve done so the following day, I received a devise, working with people who had for the need for published cases about how they keep it going. work will decide future cases. Those two in those areas. I think, too, that taking call from the Attorney-General’s office the same ethos. Right from the start, we practice and procedure and everyday changes are quite significant. opportunities is really important, even asking me to become a member of the appointed people who were genuinely cases – and it was completely lacking. SR Soon after your retirement, early in if that means taking on work that is a selection panel; I think that decided hard workers, passionate about their 2018, the Attorney General announced SR Back to your current involvement... bit out of your comfort zone or a bit me that I might have some chance of work with a ‘can do’, innovative attitude. I had already formed a strong view that the Family Court would be Tell us please about Judge in Residence different. being appointed! It’s due to the women They really did set the culture for the that there were some quite significant merged with the Federal Court with at Melbourne Law School and what that barristers that I am where I am today! Court. There’s no doubt it still has a ramifications of not publishing. The appeals to be heard by a new division. entails. I mean, taking a position as Chief I often give advice to young lawyers, culture of being a very hard-working first was that media, politicians and I understand you wanted that earlier. Federal Magistrate was risky for me. whatever happens to you in life… of Court and I’m really proud of that. people generally could criticise the What are your thoughts now about DB It’s a wonderful opportunity to Nobody knew what would happen – it course you have to work hard, but luck Family Court easily and you were this? contribute whenever I can to the life could have gone horribly wrong, lasted plays a big part in all of it as well! SR You were appointed Chief Justice unable to respond because Section of the University. I mentor students twelve months and been disbanded! of the Family Court in 2004 and 121 of the Act prohibits publication of DB There are a number of different interested in family law and I’ve given I guess I’d say, take risks and try to be SR So you were Chief Federal retired in October 2017. Of all that proceedings which identify anyone, aspects to what is being proposed. But some lectures – not in family law confident in your own abilities. I also Magistrate then for four years? you’ve achieved in this amazing career, so we couldn’t do anything with the with regard to the merging of the Court, interestingly enough – but a public law think it’s very important to enjoy what are there any highlights that remain written judgements. The second thing almost everybody agrees that should course on separation of powers. People you do; to do family law you need to DB Yes, and of course the opportunity especially meaningful to you… or is was that I was conscious of comparisons happen. In 2009 the then Attorney send me family law articles to peer be interested in people, in the human to set up a new court is really that an impossible question? between courts and the work they do General had a review carried out and review; I have a wide interest in different condition. If that’s not your thing, then extraordinary. Only Elizabeth Evatt did – rightly as it turned out. The Federal the review recommended that the areas of law, and family law itself is look elsewhere. that before me. The other thing I had to DB It is a bit of a difficult question, there Court publishes all their judgements and courts be merged into two divisions. a discipline with vast areas including do at that early stage was to help choose are so many different things…There I thought that as a superior court there The Federal Circuit Court didn’t want it trusts, companies, contracts, all sorts of things apart from parenting. 6 LUCE Number 17 2018 Janet Clarke Hall 7 N ews and Events N ews and Events

The Ants Are Our Friends Each year, students of Janet Clarke Hall have the opportunity to participate in the College’s annual play. This year’s offering was a reading of the play The Ants Are Our Friends written by Pera Wells (1968), former Secretary-General of the World Federation of United Nations Associations. I had the privilege of coordinating the play reading and credit the rewarding nature of the experience to the active involvement of both Pera herself and a large number of Janet Clarke Hall students. With three students behind the scenes and 21 members of the student club performing – and even Dr Powell taking on a role – there were many ways to become involved. Andrew Haveron and Anna Goldsworthy delivered an electrifying performance

The play itself was both thought-provoking In Concert: and occasionally light-hearted, providing John Marsden opens up on writing a timely insight into the intersection of Literature Dinner climate change and global politics. It An Afternoon of Musical Excellence offered insights into the complicated politics Described by The Australian as a ‘musical ambassador,’ Janet Clarke Hall’s Kenneth Internationally acclaimed writer John Marsden was speaker and guest of surrounding climate change and looked Moore Memorial Music Scholar, Dr Anna Goldsworthy, is one of Australia’s most honour at our Literature Dinner, speaking with candour and humour about into the lives and differing perspectives of acclaimed and versatile musicians. In our 2018 ‘In Concert’ Anna writing, the creative process, and offering tips for young writers. While John university students. A panel discussion held was joined in concert by Dr Andrew Haveron, Concertmaster may be best known for his Tomorrow series of young adult fiction (translated after the play raised thoughtful questions of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and one of the most into five languages and selling many millions of copies), his more recent about climate change which were explored sought-after violinists of his generation, playing on a violin convict novel South of Darkness provided the background to his talk. and considered with Pera. Especially made in 1757 by G.B. Guadagnini. interesting was consideration of how we While it was John’s first time in the College, as students can create change, particularly In a virtuoso performance, Andrew and Anna took the connections to JCH abound. Our Artist-in-Residence when overwhelmed with a lack of political audience through a musical journey spanning both sides Alice Pung, who welcomed John, has written reform. movingly on their friendship and the influence that of the English Channel over four tumultuous decades in which Europe was riven by catastrophic warfare and artists John’s books had on her younger life in Alice Pung Miriam Lewis questioned the role of music in the face of human degradation. on John Marsden. Having engaged with a student Janet Reid (née Malley) Scholar panel, the vote of thanks was offered by first-year As the accompanying CD suggests, the works performed are strikingly eclectic, student Rose Forrest, who was awarded the John revealing the marriage of violin and piano in multiple guises. We hope you enjoy the Marsden and Hachette Australia Prize for best challenging repertoire so wonderfully rendered. fiction for her story ‘A Stretching Summer’ at the 2017 Melbourne Writers Festival. Leadership Dinner

Our outgoing Vice-Chancellor Prof Glyn Davis AC spoke forcefully and eloquently on the realities of leadership, drawing from his personal experience within the public service, academia and in association with veterans of Officer Training Unit Scheyville, established in Grappling with climate change through 1965 to expand the Army officer corps performance for service in Vietnam.

Citing the Empire poetry of Alfred Lord Tennyson (‘Into the valley of Death/ Rode the six hundred’ ) – a call to ‘heroism’ belied by the experience of Vietnam veterans Glyn has come to know and respect – he noted an ever-present challenge for good leaders to avoid clichés and to accept honest The Principal met up with College Fellow Tim Thwaites (1973) and Artist-in- discourse and critique in matters Residence Alice Pung at the Jewish Writers Festival. While Alice joined a writers’ Shamus Clarke and Rose Forrest talk literature Pera Wells takes us through our paces in ranging from war making to university panel, Tim’s wife Lilit spoke on her translation of Antonio Iturbe’s The Librarian of with John Marsden preparation for the play reading policy. Auschwitz

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From the Archives: The Alcestis of Euripides

The performing arts have been a long- standing tradition upheld by the students of Janet Clarke Hall and have always been a great source of entertainment and enjoyment for both performers and audience alike. Perhaps the most famous and historically significant of these performances was the Alcestis of Euripides. In 1898, when the students of Trinity College performed the Alcestis Hon. Adam Bandt, Belinda Yorston, Hon. Chris Holtby, Thenu Herath Recent alumnae Lizzie Barnes-Keoghan, in the Melbourne Town Hall, it was met Chris Ebbs, Jacky Oulton, Laura Main, Toni with great acclaim. ‘It is doubtful if there ‘Shaping the Future’ – Meehan at the networking evening were fifty people in the hall who knew a word of the Greek. But everyone who the Student Club’s inaugural panel event listened with humility and imagination must have been struck by the stately of the nineteenth century and the late Christian whose book of poems, Hymns In recent years, professionals from a variety of industries have noted that the next grandeur of the whole thing’ (The 1960s (Monaghan, 2016). Ancient and Modern, caused a stir. generation of leaders is facing a future of radical change. In order to solve some Weekly Times, 2 July 1898, p.13). Ironically, Marshall-Hall was invited to of the biggest political, humanitarian, scientific and economic issues of our time, Several performances were initially take up the Ormond post again in 1914 we must ask ourselves: What is the future of work? Are our careers laid out for us, It was the first Greek tragedy to be planned. Florence Towl, one of the lead (Monaghan, 2016). mirrored in those of our predecessors? Or are they something we ourselves performed in Victoria. The University actors in the role of Alcestis, was injured can shape? of Sydney had performed the Greek in a bicycle accident and, as a result, In spite of the internal dramas, the production of Agamemnon in 1886 with only a single performance with the full production was a resounding success. The Janet Clarke Hall Student Club’s inaugural panel event and networking night an all-male cast, but the Alcestis was the cast took place, on 22 June 1898. ‘Miss In the 1899 edition of Hermathena, a aimed to answer these questions. Titled ‘Shaping the Future’, the evening brought first Greek production in Australia with Towl was first class in her singing part publication of Trinity College, Dublin, together some of the brightest, most innovative minds from different industries. both male and female cast members. of the Alcestis. Her death scene was a Professor Tucker noted that the Featuring Adam Bandt MP (Member for Melbourne), Chris Holtby OBE (Diplomat ‘Undoubtedly, the most interesting fine piece of dramatic soprano singing’ performance was met with ‘a tumultuous and UK Consul General), Josh Farr (Founder of Campus Consultancy) and Belinda feature of the coming play is that for (The Weekly Times, 2 July 1898, p.13). outbreak of applause…it deserves to Yorston (CEO of yLead), the panel discussed what it takes to build a successful Former Chair of Council Prof Doreen the first time the students of Trinity Florence later went on to become an be said with all confidence that neither and meaningful career in the current global context. Taking place in the week of Rosenthal AO was granted the Doctor will have the assistance of the “sweet opera singer on the world stage. Oxford nor Cambridge has yet presented the 2018 federal leadership spill, the night went beyond simple career advice and of Science (Honoris Causa) by the girl graduates” of Trinity Hostel’ (The a Greek play with such magnificence offered a stimulating debate about how young people can make a positive change University of Melbourne in recognition Weekly Times, 18 June 1898, p.12). In Dr Alexander Leeper, the first Warden of staging as that which Dr Leeper in our national and global societies. of her leadership in the scientific Australia, like elsewhere, productions of Trinity College, collaborated with caused the “Alcestis” to be presented investigation of human development of Greek drama predominantly began Professor George Marshall-Hall, the in Melbourne’ (Fleur-de-Lys, November Following the panel discussion, current students had the opportunity to network from childhood to old age, and in the in universities and slowly crossed into first Ormond Professor of Music at 1922, p.30). with professionals from a number of different industries. A huge thanks goes to application of behavioural research to professional theatre between the end the University. The magnitude of the the JCH alumni who joined us as guests. It was wonderful to hear about their promoting sexual health. The citation production was captured by The Argus Reference: experiences after leaving College. noted that Prof Rosenthal’s intellectual, (21 May 1898, p.12), which reported, Monaghan, Paul, 2016. ‘Greek drama organisational and moral leadership ‘Professor Marshall-Hall has undertaken in Australia’ in A handbook to the To our executive team’s surprise, the event continued past midnight; proving to be a has been nationally and internationally the training of the chorus. This consists reception of Greek drama, edited by valuable opportunity that the College embraced. influential in the study of adolescence, of about 100 members of the Melbourne Betine van Zyl Smit, 422-445. West sexually transmitted disease, and Liedertafel, who will render the choral Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. A special thanks must go to Mr James Carey (residential tutor) for his advice and development across the life span. lyrics from the wings, without appearing help in making the event such a huge success. I hope the connections made and on the stage.’ The cost of the production Ms Jennifer Martin ideas discussed will prove to be useful for Student Club members as they transition itself was projected to be ‘little short of College Librarian & Records Officer out of University and shape the future in their respective careers. £500’.

Thenu Herath However, pre- and post-production Senior Student & Betty Elliott Scholar was not without its own dramas, with the relationship between Leeper and Marshall-Hall souring both during and after the production. Leeper and Marshall-Hall reportedly had a difference of opinion over how the College Visitor Prof Peter Doherty AC’s latest book The Incidental Tourist offers a Greek tragedy should be staged. Leeper, typically down-to-earth and highly enjoyable account of Peter’s extensive travels an Irish Anglican Classicist, was also during his long and distinguished scientific career. instrumental in Marshall-Hall’s removal from his position in June 1890 and later from Melbourne. Marshall-Hall was purportedly a Nietzschean, anti-

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Mara Quach Inter-Collegiate Activities Council President

Coming to Australia as an international student, I never thought I stood a chance of obtaining any leadership positions. It scared me to think I’d have to speak for and in front of people with my horrendous vocabulary and confusing accent that is neither Aussie nor Vietnamese. Plus, always lingering was this illusion that in order to be a leader you had to be perfect, or have been Shake it off... Rowing regatta Mara Quach, Carol Isaac, Ella James born with the skill set, or at least have been exposed to it from a young age – matches to crowd-surfing at the Fresher is a community that, for many, becomes a From the JCH Students Leading Inter-Collegiate Councils none of which applied to me. In a word, Dance-Off, Knighty has had a very home away from home. I’d like to take this my own inadequacy was what I feared. Senior Student memorable debut year. opportunity to thank everyone who made As noted earlier, the intercollegiate scene has a particularly ‘JCH’ flavour at present: my College experience so special. From here our three Presidents reflect upon their life at JCH and their new roles. However, the last three years at JCH Is a college simply a place to live? My personal highlight of the year was my very first day, I was amazed by the has completely changed my mind. The A place to eat? A place to learn? organising our inaugural panel event and kind, energetic and inclusive nature of our Carol Isaac Ella James College was different from my high During my first few months as Student networking night, ‘Shaping the Future’ College and will always be proud to call Inter-Collegiate Council President Inter-Collegiate Sports Council President school experience. From the very first Club President, Dr Powell and I had (see p.10). This event stemmed from myself a JCHer. moment I set foot into JCH, the motto of many lengthy discussions about our our desire to provide members of the After being part of the 2017-2018 JCH At the inter-collegiate level, sport ‘give it a try’ was being echoed by my vision for JCH in 2018. In the wake of student club with non-traditional career It has been a pleasure to serve the Student Club Executive, I was eager provides us with far more than simply O-Week leaders, my fellow JCHers, and much attention from the media regarding advice and a chance to connect with community this year and I wish the to get more involved and contribute a physical and mental challenge. It the staff members. I could not simply the culture of colleges around Australia, young professionals. new executive and the wider College more to the inter-collegiate culture connects us with a range of people sit around. I was able to participate in we reflected on our College values and community all the very best for the future. and tradition. In my role at JCH I have not only from JCH but also from other almost all the sports, most of which what makes JCH such a special place When I began my time as Student Club learned countless valuable lessons about colleges, forcing us to step outside our I’d never played before, and ended up in which to to live. Following these President, I wrote a list of everything I Thenu Herath leadership from staff and fellow students comfort zones and delivering us a sense becoming the student club’s Sports Rep discussions, the Student Club Executive wanted to achieve. While I am delighted Senior Student and including teamwork, time management of pride in our College. at the end of the year. Before JCH, the narrowed down our vision statement to report that everything on this list (and Student Club President and understanding different viewpoints. only sport I played was badminton, and to three simple words: Unity, Passion more!) has been completed, I cannot Betty Elliott Scholar I have learned to give everything my Attempting to develop a program suitable the last time I had thrown a ball of any and Enrichment. Each of our goals for take all the credit. This year would not best, improve on my mistakes and not for the needs of both the smaller and sort was in Grade 4! the year was drawn from our ultimate have been possible without the efforts be afraid when taking chances. JCH has larger colleges is one of the ICSC’s objective which was to create a united of my executive team. Zach, Marize, a wonderful culture in which students greatest challenges. Problems faced I have to admit, my year of leadership and passionate community that offers Cyrielle, Emily, Naomi, Carol and Will and staff are connected to one another. by the larger colleges in sport are not as Sports Rep was mediocre at best - enriching opportunities for its members. have shown an incredible commitment This community has always supported the same as those faced by the smaller but I gained the confidence needed to the College in each of their roles. I me in my endeavours and encouraged colleges and endeavoring to provide a to become an O-Week leader in We implemented a number of projects cannot thank them enough for trusting me to think ‘outside the box’. solution to suit all can prove difficult. my second year, which led me to throughout the year, including the our vision for the year and for all the I think the ICSC President role will give so many other opportunities (one of reintroduction of academic gowns for hilarious memories. When campaigning to be a Sports JCH a stronger voice in the intercollegiate which included being the publicity the Junior Common Room. Perhaps our Representative at Janet Clarke Hall, I setting, and hopefully deliver some manager for a project at the University’s most exciting legacy is the creation of On my first day in Janet Clarke Hall, I was surrounded by the friends I had positive change. For me, the role is an musical association which I enjoyed a College mascot. Knighty McKightface was unsure of exactly what it meant to made during my first year at College. It opportunity to serve JCH and attempt to enormously). I had the chance to has become a treasured member of live in a ‘college’. Two and a half years was a lot easier to win votes when my implement a few changes to the program participate in things outside of my our small community. From cheering later, I have grown to know that it is not contribution to JCH was well known. to benefit all colleges involved. biomedicine degree. our students on at early morning sports only a place to live, eat and learn. JCH Good pass! In stark contrast was the process of electing the ICC President, which JCH has been my home for the past The role of ICAC President has kept me in part included a panel interview two years and has taught me lots about quite busy, but the joy and fulfilment it with people I didn’t know well. This harnessing the opportunities that emerge, has given me allows me no complaints. process was fraught with nerves and valuing the people around me and I learnt how much I enjoy all the aspects uneasiness. However, I knew that having being honest in everything I do. I think of being a leader and came to appreciate representation from JCH on the Inter- that some of the best advice someone the opportunity these experiences Collegiate Council could only make us could receive about leadership is to be will offer me in the future. I went from better as a community. fearless in pursuing the opportunities a timid person ashamed of my own that present themselves, making the most inadequacy to someone eagerly chairing As President of the ICC I want to be of the talents of the people that you are meetings with absolutely no trouble – able to ensure that the most valuable involved with and, in whatever decisions all thanks to having a great network of elements of the JCH culture are you make, doing the ethically right supportive people surrounding me every incorporated into the entire inter- thing. I couldn’t be more thankful for the day at JCH. collegiate community. lessons JCH has taught me and hope to represent the College well in the inter- DownShani at the Brampton river bank Thenu as Moana Intercollegiate soccer collegiate setting. 12 LUCE Number 17 2018 Janet Clarke Hall 13 J unior C ommon Room J unior C ommon Room

Hear for you Research Project in India

Second year Arts student Tilda During the winter break nine other Unfortunately, due to the huge demands During this internship we were also doing Melbourne University students and on development organisations and the ethnographic field work to examine Carnegie interviewed former Prime I travelled to India to take part in an lack of staffing available, the app had whether unequal power dynamics Minister the Hon John Howard overseas research subject. We worked not been worked on since 2016. Our between the ‘Global North’ and ‘Global at the ‘Hear For You Limited’ tenth in Delhi for one month as volunteer roles were to update and standardise South’ are reproduced or deconstructed anniversary celebrations. ‘Hear For interns for ‘Restless Development’, the content of the app to meet current during these kinds of university-facilitated which focuses on empowering young international health standards and ‘global learning experiences’, informing You’ mentors and inspires teenagers people through education, particularly conduct qualitative research to organisations such as Australian Volunteers who are Deaf or hard of hearing in Sexual and Reproductive Health understand young people’s access International (AVI) and the University on through evidence-based programs Rights (SRHR). Their projects include to phones, the key barriers to SRHR how global learning experiences can be and services. Tilda wrote ‘A Day educating girls, efforts to end child knowledge and the kinds of changes that best structured to avoid the reproduction of marriage, normalising menstruation, could be made to popularise the app. global inequalities. in the Life of a Deaf Student’ for creating youth resource centres in Farrago, explaining her personal communities, helping young girls and I worked on the qualitative research side Whilst in India we also had the challenges and success in the daily women in Delhi’s urban slums to gain of the project, conducting focus groups opportunity to attend a youth forum on routine of College and University life. workplace skills, engaging parents and in the community with young girls and the sustainable development goals and communities to support young people’s boys from Jaitpur and Badarpur urban brainstorm ways in which young people aspirations and inspiring young people village areas in Delhi. We also created in both India and Australia can contribute to become leaders of the future. an online survey tool that could be towards achieving these important goals. accessed on a mobile phone app and Farm Trip 2018 Our research work with ‘Restless aimed to uncover patterns in mobile Overall, it was an incredible experience On a cloudy Saturday morning, we at us intently as we started to clear fallen a significant impact by helping others Development’ was focused on the phone access, appealing features of which taught me a huge amount about packed the cars with food and began branches. Tim lit the bundles of branches and giving back to our communities. development of an app they have apps and young people’s level of access social science research, sexual and the trip to Amphitheatre Farm in after we finished collecting them, stoking Jaan is playing an important role in created called M-Sathi (mobile friend) to SRHR services. We trained 24 young reproductive health issues in India and Labertouche, Gippsland. Thanks to our a powerful red flame that flew high into her community, by supporting the which contains educational modules ‘Restless Development’ volunteers on the development sector in general. I drivers, Mrs Davies and James Carey the sky as the dark smoke dissipated. agricultural industry and creating jobs. on puberty, sexual and reproductive how to use this mobile technology to was so inspired by the work of ‘Restless (residential tutor), six JCH students were JCH students like me can appreciate the health and gender-based violence. gather data. They then went into their Development’ and their visions for a excited to be travelling to visit Jaan Although the fire brought happiness to opportunities provided by the College In India there is a widespread lack of communities and surveyed the young future of educated and empowered young Enden (1960), JCH Fellow and former us as we gathered round and roasted and strive to engage so much more education in these areas and a lot of people they knew. We analysed the people. I hope to carry this inspiration Chair of Council, to help her with marshmallows, the crackle and heat with our very special community. We social stigma surrounding sexual and data we received and created a report into the rest of my degree and use what I farm work. forced me to reflect on Jaan and her are inspired to volunteer, donate blood, reproductive issues. This makes access for ‘Restless Development’ with the key have learnt to make a positive impact in to SRHR information extremely limited. farm suffering through Black Saturday make anonymous gifts to another student recommendations for potential changes development in the future. Due to the huge rise in young people to the app that came from the insights of Upon our arrival, Jaan and her farm in 2009 – the incredible hardship she during our ‘Secret Angel’ Week, or join using mobile technology, the app was the young people studied. Naomi Parris-Piper manager, Tim, kindly welcomed us with endured, and the resilience she showed the ‘World’s Greatest Shave’ campaign created to make SRHR information Sarah Stock Scholar hot coffee and a scrumptious loaf. At in continuing. Building on the hard to raise funds to help beat blood cancer easily accessible through phones. the beginning of September, pale green work of JCH students who helped plant – this year we raised $6341.92! While trees and grasses heralded spring. The saplings almost ten years ago, we had a JCH helps us develop our academic mixed smells of grass, a working farm, chance to stand on this thriving land and abilities and potential as students, we and livestock, along with views of the contribute to those trees’ survival. also contribute to its culture and shape beautiful landscape, drew us away from its future. the bustling city to this peaceful farm. On our way back to College, we saw The mountain ranges hidden in the grey the spectacular sunset. It lit up the end Lily Li clouds and the cattle just one step away of the trip and imbued the grassland Betty Elliott Scholar ensured we recognised we were a long with a glorious golden colour. The trip way from Melbourne. The cattle stared reinforced for me that we could all make

Naomi Parris-Piper (back row second from left) at the Taj Mahal Child’s play down at the farm College Fellow Mrs Jaan Enden (at right) and volunteers

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From the From the Deputy Principal Director of Studies

My first year at Janet Clarke Hall was In the academic life of Janet Clarke It is this support that contributes so a delight beyond my expectations. Hall, one of the challenges for our strongly to the success of our students. I discovered a gentle, friendly and students is the transition from child In 2018, JCH provided close to 70 welcoming place that manages to to adult learner. The evolution of the tutorials per week across a wide range combine the quest for academic learning system worldwide has led of teaching areas. These tutorials excellence with a vibrant community, to the development of many different enable our students to question, clarify cultural and sporting life. After many approaches to learning. Many of and extend their understanding. Our years in another college, I certainly us understand the term ‘pedagogy’ tutors spend many hours preparing not knew the cycles of the college year but which, plainly stated, refers to the art only content, but method of delivery, was introduced to new traditions and of teaching and is often child-focused. that move students towards becoming Facilities Manager Bruce Stewart & celebrations. Less well known is ‘andragogy’ which self-directed learners. Donna Davies Margie Welsford and her blue heeler ‘Delta’ at intercollegiate cricket refers to the learning methods and In twelve years I have never experienced champion, so he and Katherine lifted the range of experts from different fields. strategies for educating adults. Our strong academic results in 2018 We complement our tutorial program an Orientation Week that was more JCH squash team to a new level. Mayuri began the year with a forum on continue to impress with 40% of all with an equally impressive selection respectful, warm-hearted and fun. New research skills. Dr Steve Carey, father of The premise of andragogy is the ability student subjects awarded First Class of guest speakers and visitors who are students, drawn from a diverse array of Congratulations to Michael Stuiber James, talked about his literary interest to respond to internal motivators. It is honours and 91% of all grades at regularly welcomed to the College. places around Australia and across the our physics tutor, who submitted and in Jane Austen. Dr Caitlin Overington more problem-centred than content- honours level or above (60% or above). The speakers cover a wide variety of world, brought a richness of creativity passed his PhD thesis shortly before presented her fascinating PhD findings centred. For a young person moving The average grade achieved by all subject areas and interests and challenge and talents. Orientation and welcome flying off to Germany to visit his family in the area of criminology, surveillance from a secondary school system of students across the College was 77%. the students to consider the world activities included watching Shakespeare for Christmas. Michael also started an and safety. Former JCH tutor, Katherine teacher directed knowledge-based outside Janet Clarke Hall. In addition, in the Botanic Gardens, a Scavenger astronomy club at JCH and brought in Hart, gave a very helpful talk to our learning, the andragogy style of Of course, some outside observers we provide opportunities for field trips Hunt around the city and an ‘Open Mic’ astronomers and powerful telescopes for students about sleep hygiene. James learning can be challenging. may wonder whether our students and ventures outside the College. It night showcasing the talents of students the students to experience. Carey offered a forum on ‘How to are studying 24/7. That is certainly is pleasing to see the students taking and tutors. Net work’. This is the journey we witness almost not the philosophy of the College and an active role in the preparation and Jack Tan returned to JCH after three daily with our students as they move to we work hard to select students on planning of many of these events – We began the year with a relatively years at Whitley College to tutor creative The Formal Dinners throughout the year a self-directed style of learning. It is a their willingness to contribute to our embracing opportunities to develop inexperienced Resident Tutor group, writing and literature. Jack helped our were highlights. The Mid-Winter Dinner, journey that is well and truly supported community through service, leadership, into self-directed seekers of truth and who, nonetheless, gave wonderful international students to settle in and which includes the Ethel Bage Memorial by our talented tutors who encourage sport and arts and cultural programs. knowledge as they venture into the teaching, mentoring and care for our prompted us to go and listen to some Debate, was held on the first evening our students to see past the content of Their ability to balance participation world beyond JCH. students. They also involved themselves of the wonderful music on offer in of second semester. A serious and their subjects and move to a deeper in these areas, whilst maintaining a in the full range of College activities, Melbourne, including by some of our spirited debate occurred on the topic: understanding and meaning. scholarly life, can only be described Mrs Donna Davies supporting and involving themselves own talented students. ‘This house believes that robots that as impressive. Director of Studies in sporting, cultural and social events, exhibit Artificial Intelligence (AI) should major dinners and other events. Dr Mayuri Wijayasundara tutored in be granted limited human rights’. The business subjects. She worked at the Junior Common Room, arguing for the New tutors included: University of Melbourne for the first affirmative, was the winner. A Public half of the year before being appointed Speaking Competition was sponsored James Carey who tutored in politics and to a lectureship at Deakin University. by tutor and barrister Brian Kennedy history. James completed his Masters Mayuri was a valuable player on the and his partner Laura Hartmann. in International Politics in the middle of basketball team and involved herself in Twelve speakers performed eloquently the year and participated in a number many aspects of JCH life. Although she and the judges, His Honour Judge of sporting competitions. James was will not continue as a tutor, she will still Joshua Wilson QC and VCAT Senior awarded the Enid Joske Scholarship for be around the College and living with Member Silvana Wilson, had a hard job his contribution to JCH and the wider partner Michael and son Leon. choosing winners. A Creative Writing community. Competition also saw a number of We farewelled David Chan and his budding writers submitting poetry and Emily Delahunty tutored in literature partner Dieu after two years with us. prose. Jack Tan and Alice Pung were and sociology whilst studying a Masters David was our commerce tutor and, the judges and Dr Powell sponsored the in Secondary Teaching. As well as among other things, was a member prizes in each category. Students and supporting the netball team, Emily of the rowing team. He was also seen staff enjoyed hearing some of the entries enjoyed craft activities with students and handing out treats on Halloween, read out around the fire in a most almost won the debate singlehandedly. dressed as a Golden Gaytime. enjoyable event.

Katherine Fitzgerald tutored in maths The College year often feels like a Ms Margie Welsford and psychology and taught at Knox whirlwind of amazing events and Dean and Deputy Principal School. She was also studying a activities – many of which I will leave Masters of Counselling through Monash you to read about as they have been University and holds yoga classes for mentioned elsewhere in this edition. our students. Her partner, Rex Hedrick, Regular forums throughout the year is currently the Australian Open squash offer opportuniies to hear from a Michael Stuiber, Mayuri Wijayasundara, James Carey, David Chan, Katherine Fitzgerald, Rex Hedrick, Emily Delahunty, Jack Tan

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Travels Abroad is the second largest library in Britain behind the British Library. Janet Clarke From the Chair of Council As part of my doctoral studies, I was Hall’s library collection of approximately You may have read about Michael Legal expertise and acumen is provided given the opportunity to present at 15,850 items is tiny in comparison! Bloomberg’s magnificent gift to his by current Corrs Senior Associate the ‘Global Criminal Justice Hub Early alma mater Johns Hopkins University Mr Alex Murphy (2004), and former Career Conference’ at the University Another highlight of my study travels late last year. In an opinion piece in Corrs partner Ms Jenny Ross (1970). of Oxford in June 2018. You may be abroad included a visit to Trinity College The New York Times, Bloomberg wrote Our University representation and wondering why a librarian would be Dublin at the University of Dublin, where that ‘denying students entry to a college expertise in publications and marketing attending a criminology conference I visited the famous Long Room of the based on their ability to pay undermines is enhanced by the knowledge of the but, in actual fact, the conference also Old Library. The Long Room was built in equal opportunity. It perpetuates inter- University of Melbourne’s Marketing focused on research methods and the 18th century and houses 200,000 of generational poverty. And it strikes at and Communications Manager Ms research impact, key considerations for the Library’s oldest books. I also enjoyed the heart of the American dream: the Anne Shea (2000). And expert financial anyone pursuing doctoral studies. My an exhibition of the Book of Kells, which idea that every person, from every guidance is provided by the Chair of paper was titled, ‘The globalisation of is believed to date back to the 9th community, has the chance to rise based our Finance and Investment Committee qualitative research: the value and use of century. It is an illuminated manuscript, on merit.’ It struck me just how this truly Mr Tony Wood, who retired from in-depth interviews’. In-depth interviews which contains four gospels of the New wonderful aspiration resonates deeply long service as a partner in a financial are a source of content-rich data and are Jenny in Oxford Testament in Latin. Such tomes are a with the history, the mission and indeed firm with strong expertise in audit and widely used in many fields of research. reminder of the value and importance of the challenge of Janet Clarke Hall. risk, with co-opted expertise from Mr I was afforded a view of the Radcliffe books in our lives. Paul McGlinn who helps guide our My stay in Oxford included Camera from the window of my room Educational philanthropy has shaped my investment strategy for scholarship accommodation at Hertford College, and visited the Old Bodleian Library Jennifer Martin career over thirty years most recently as income and future projects. Dr Powell & Adjunct Prof Pullar which gave me first-hand experience of across the way. The Old Bodleian College Librarian & Records Officer Pro Vice-Chancellor of the University college life from a student’s perspective. Library is a librarian’s dream holiday of Queensland, and including ten years Through our collective contributions of This bequest, together with many other Hertford College was founded in 1874 destination and it is one of the oldest at Trinity College, and nine years in the work and wisdom the College’s place in, gifts from regular and first-time donors, and college life is not dissimilar to that libraries in Europe. The Bodleian libraries 1980s building the Development Office and engagement with, the University of has meant a dramatic and permanent of Janet Clarke Hall in terms of the hold over thirteen million printed items of Goulburn Valley Grammar School Melbourne remains vital. upswing in the College’s capacity to practicalities such as shared bathrooms which is testament to the magnitude in Shepparton where my family were welcome outstanding students who and communal dining areas. and importance of the collection. It growing fruit on the family orchard. In July, the Council held its annual will contribute to our vibrant College During my time at Trinity I served strategy meeting, exploring with community. It’s all hands to the wheel as on the JCH Council under the expert Dr Powell the opportunities and we maintain this momentum. As well as giving birth to her second son Daniel, our Peggy and Leslie Cranbourne Artist-in- direction of Prof Ruth Fincher AM challenges for the future of the College. Residence Alice Pung found time to publish a new collection of selected writings, Close to (1969). Now, I am honoured to serve as The Council confirmed unanimously In 2019, we all have an opportunity to Home, reflecting with her characteristic honesty and insight on matters ranging from writing, the recently elected Chair of Council, that, while other colleges of the examine the kind of society we wish to migration, family, and identity. and wish to note publicly my thanks to University are growing their cohorts be, reasserting our values in the face of the previous Chair and Deputy Chair, significantly, JCH will proudly remain public pressures within and beyond our Ms Margie Richardson (1968) and Ms a small community, focused on community in Janet Clarke Hall. The Jan McGuinness (1965), who gave such excellence, and open to all deserving Council is always looking to refresh exemplary service to the College. students irrespective of background or and renew its vision as the College, and Rex Hedrick wins 2018 Australian Open circumstance. others like it, continue to shape the lives Congratulations to JCH resident Rex Indeed, accepting the role of Chair and futures of those who have resided Hedrick who in 2018 became Australian was made easy by the high quality and It was also agreed that, to secure within our privileged walls. We wish Open Men’s Squash Champion. It was dedication of fellow Council members. the future for JCH as a human-sized to honour the past, as we revel in the a case of third time lucky for Rex, as he As the Council moves to appoint three community open to all, the building present, and toast the possibilities of the secured a major tournament win in his new members in 2019, the College is of a scholarship endowment over the future. I warmly invite you to join us on home state following runner-up results at served well by the ongoing service of next decade or so must, by necessity, this journey and would love to hear your Mulgrave in the 2016 and 2017 Victorian highly committed and distinguished become a sharp focus. As you will know story. I can be contacted on email at Opens. Rex is the partner of our resident tertiary educators including Prof from the previous edition of Luce, the [email protected] Maths tutor, Katherine Fitzgerald. Susan Sawyer (1981), Director of the College received, among many other Royal Children’s Hospital Centre for gifts, a very generous bequest from Mr Adjunct Prof Clare Pullar Rex grew up with a passion for sports, Adolescent Health, and Prof Julie Charles Dunn in memory of his wife. Chair of Council beginning with AFL football as a Willis (1987), Dean of the Faculty of youngster, but soon following his father Architecture, Building & Planning. Our on to the squash court where he showed understanding of the interface between great promise. Upon graduating from secondary and tertiary education is Deakin University where he studied informed by former school heads and Exercise and Sports Science, he took senior educational leaders Mr Stephen up the opportunity to move to New Higgs, who retired after long service as York and train seriously for six months, Travel for squash took him all over Headmaster of Ballarat Grammar to head exploring his real potential on the the world until he returned to settle up the Victorian Ecumenical System of squash court. Returning to Melbourne he in Melbourne in 2015 to combine Schools (VESS), and Mr Paul Turner combined work and squash training until his international squash career with who retired from serving as Principal he set off again for two years in London, a managing and coaching role in of the Woodleigh School to focus on training and playing full-time squash. Templestowe. youth development, including as CEO of the Youth Affairs Council of Victoria. Jan McGuinness Margie Richardson

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From the Director of Development

As an alumna of the College almost half the JCH community those students who a century ago, I always find it especially are the ‘right fit’ for JCH. Academic interesting to talk to today’s students achievement is rightly very important, about their experience of JCH. I never but so too are character, empathy and cease to be impressed and delighted by a social conscience. Thanks to the their spirit, intelligence, maturity and generosity of donors, testators and perception – and their awareness of and trustees, our comprehensive scholarship gratitude for the privilege they enjoy in and bursary program means that Susan Sypkens and Margie Welsford Janet Limb, Jenny Happell, Fiona Caro being part of the JCH community. financial constraints need not preclude Nothing could better express the feelings the most deserving students from a place so often expressed to me than this at JCH. Friends and Society Reunion extract (re-produced with permission) from an email sent to the Principal late As a small College that is determined Once again, Henderson House was the This commitment to maintaining the community spirit and the personal in 2018: to remain small, the ability of JCH setting for another enjoyable gathering modest size of JCH student numbers growth of the highly motivated young to continue to fund a strong level of JCH Friends and Society members. was strongly supported by the people within its walls. ‘I thought I should at the very least of endowment in an increasingly The official reason for the afternoon tea gathering. Dr Powell also emphasised express my gratitude for the College competitive environment is critical to event was to celebrate fifty years since the College’s need to continue to grow As always on such occasions, for the last two years. Janet Clarke our future. My keen awareness of the the Trinity Women’s Society, established our scholarship and bursary program conversation was lively and varied Hall has been one of the greatest importance of this funding once again in 1899, was proudly re-born in 1968 to ensure that all worthy students have with friends sharing memories and things to happen to me – giving me prompts me to thank sincerely those as the Janet Clarke Hall Past Students’ the opportunity to enjoy the privilege news. There was much amusement at the opportunity to meet unique and alumni and friends who so generously Society. However, there was certainly of JCH, regardless of their economic the recollection of ‘The Morgue’ (now interesting people who I can now illustrates. Whether in academic, support the College through bequests a warm agreement amongst the circumstances. He shared aspirations, the Bursar’s office) where young men comfortably say are my family. Over sporting, artistic, community or career and donations. I hope they will take assembled group that no ‘reason’ was too, for continuing building works to were required to wait when collecting these last two years, I have met people pursuits they so often exemplify all some meaningful gratification from the necessary to facilitate a gathering of extend the Junior Common Room and a young lady for an outing in the sure knowledge that generosity towards with different passions and views but all that JCH strives to nurture in its young old friends with a lively interest in the build tiered seating in the back garden 1950s, and of the practice of the then residents. Janet Clarke Hall today will contribute with a common drive to make a positive JCH of today and tomorrow. The group for performance and recreation. Principal, Miss Bagnall, of entering to valuable – sometimes life-changing – change in the world and it is why I am was joined by Dr Powell, Ms Welsford, students’ rooms and writing her initials so proud to be a part of this wonderful At the gathering of Friends and Society support for deserving young people in Mrs Davies, and Palawa woman, Everyone was delighted and in the dust on the mantelpiece as a JCH community. members in October, it was gratifying – the future. Chancellor’s Indigenous Scholar and appreciative that Eleanor McCormack none too subtle hint to the occupant although not at all surprising – to witness Student Club Vice-President, Eleanor kindly made time at such a pressured that a little housework was in order! On a smaller scale, I have been able their heartfelt validation of the Council’s Ms Shelley Roberts McCormack. time of the academic year to join the to participate in events like the Fresher determination for JCH to remain small, Director of Development group to share a little of her experience Dance Off and even try out for the even as other colleges continue to Dr Powell brought everyone up of JCH today. Eleanor came to College rowing and basketball teams. Along with expand student numbers to a ‘new to date on the College’s strategic from Ulverstone, Tasmania and spoke the JCH Ball and many other events, I normal’ of 300+ and the University priorities: he spoke about the frankly of her joy at being part of the have made many valuable memories that increasingly promotes accommodation Council’s commitment to the College ‘family’ that is JCH and of the wonderful will stay with me for the rest of my life.’ options from private providers. A JCH Living overseas friendships she already feels sure will that provides a supportive and respectful and want to support remaining small in contrast to the expansion of neighbouring colleges be lasting. She praised the culture of the Our alumni and our current students academic environment for deserving Janet Clarke Hall? are an endless source of pride for the students from a range of backgrounds and the rapidly increasing number of College, valuing as it does academic College, as this magazine so clearly and financial circumstances is a JCH that university accommodation options. achievement, cultural diversity, our alumnae heartily endorsed. We know that there are many JCH alumni spread across the globe! As I observe the painstaking process of Your donations to the College student interviews and final selection would be greatly appreciated and carried out by Dr Powell and his team every year, it reinforces for me the vital can be made securely and tax- importance of scholarships and bursaries effectively online. in enabling the College to invite into For details, please visit: Mary Stannard (1955) and Mary www.alumni.unimelb.edu.au/give/ Schramm (1957) (seen here with giving-overseas College Librarian Jenny Martin) were welcome visitors when they dropped by the College to present a copy of College Fellow Dr Valerie Asche AM’s memoir Walking My Baby Back Home: My Margie Richardson and Elizabeth Meredith Donna Davies, Student Vice-President Eleanor McCormack, Jenny Ross, journey with TB before antibiotics. Angela Grutzner

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Alumnae Reflections... Alumnae Reflections...

Carol Richardson Indeed, my scientific ‘career’ was very won their first intervarsity race, stroked Elizabeth Vines planet’s survival! Indeed, the UNESCO (known in the legal profession as the (Austin 1958, short lived. ‘Farmer’s wife and mother’ by Pat Oddie, a cousin of mine. OAM (1972) Sustainable Development Goals of LPLC) to manage civil claims made Senior Student would be my main career – and I enjoyed I was in Janet 2015 – particularly Goal 11 (Make cities against solicitors. This new venture of 1960) it immensely. Somehow, despite the fun and Clarke Hall and human settlements inclusive, safe, self-insurance came at a time when distractions, we all managed to fit for my second resilient and sustainable) – stress the insurance markets were very expensive. I studied for a * Founded in 1929 by Leila Tulloch in lectures, pracs, tutes, exams and year of my need for heritage to be a core element of It was the second scheme of its kind in BSc at Melbourne and Nancy de Crespigny, ‘Tulligny’ graduation! My first job was at Sydney’s architecture our future. the common law world of UK, Canada University and was a scavenger hunt in which JCH Royal North Shore Hospital where I degree – and the other states in Australia, all of was in JCH for freshers had to find an extraordinary saved enough in one year to join several following in I found my time at JCH a wonderfully which followed suit in the following three wonderful and amusing set of objects (and people) ex-JCHers on a sea voyage to England. the footsteps grounding time, sharing ideas with other years. years. The highlight of my time in JCH within a three-hour period. Trinity and of my mother Vera (Hanly 1942) and architecture students and having easy was, without doubt, being in Alice in Ormond men did their utmost to thwart In London I worked as a research sister Robyn (1970) – before leaving access to all that Melbourne University As CEO of the LPLC from 1996, I was Wonderland, the play we performed the girls’ efforts! assistant at University College Hospital Melbourne for a year’s study at Carleton had to offer. I realise now what a encouraged by my Chairman to expand with Trinity in 1959. Those years were, Medical School, but also managed University, Ottawa. privilege it was, and how lucky I was to my experience, which included being indeed, our salad days – working out the trips around Europe, including skiing have this wonderful experience! a Trustee of the Melbourne Cricket world under the oak tree, being part of Susan Sypkens in Switzerland where I met my future Like many students, I had no idea what Ground, and a director of another ‘Tulligny’*, or watching Med. Medleys (a (Oddie 1958) husband, John Sypkens, a South African my degree would lead to, and in fact statutory insurer. I now sit on various fun event run by the medical faculty) and Living in JCH mining engineer and rower. was quite unsure that I wanted to be Miranda Milne committees at the Royal Australasian hoping for an invitation to the Trinity Ball. was not only a an architect! However, after travelling (1972) College of Surgeons. supportive home- John and I married in Trinity Chapel in in Europe, (particularly four months in It is 40 years Post-JCH, life started with the almost away-from-home, 1963 and moved to live in Armidale, Italy learning the language and sketching since I graduated After 32 years at the LPLC, an office obligatory world trip and then came but also where I NSW. I worked in the Physiology old buildings), I found my passion and from Melbourne of three people become one of 20, some of the best years of my life. enjoyed one of Department at the University of New was very fortunate to find a niche/ University after and a fund of $4M became $240M, I worked at the Walter and Eliza Hall the best times of England (UNE) while John did mining specialisation in heritage conservation. completing what insuring all Victorian barristers, Victorian Institute for more than four years in my life. consulting and prospecting work. Later, Since leaving Melbourne in 2000 to was then known solicitors and many large national law Sir Gus Nossal’s lab. The exhilaration we had apple and pear orchards, then a move to Sydney and subsequently to as Law/Arts. I firms. of working in this environment Until then, my education, particularly cattle and sheep farm. Adelaide, I have been very fortunate embarked on a career in civil litigation, made every day a treat. Gus made tertiary, had been very piecemeal. When to have worked Australia-wide and more by accident than by choice. In my final year at University, one us all feel as though we really were I was not yet 16 our family moved to the Rowing and skiing were our lifelong throughout Asia. My recent adventures barrister lecturer said from the lectern contributing to science. Today’s work USA. Between 1954 and 1959 I attended interests. In 1988 we and a few others have included consulting with the After working for a city firm in that female students should confine looks so complicated compared to our no fewer than three US colleges and founded the Armidale Rowing Club, European Union in Yangon, Myanmar Melbourne, circumstances took me to themselves to conveyancing and family experiments, yet I guess the work in the two Australian universities – but it was and later coached and managed rowing (in 2015) to assist with writing their North Carolina and then to Oxford, law as they would find it hard to be 1950s and 1960s was providing building at the University of Melbourne and JCH at several schools. Both John and Conservation Planning Strategy, and where I worked for a law firm, housed employed in other areas of practice. I blocks for today. where I completed a BSc (Physiology and our younger son, Andrew, rowed for in 2016 spending a memorable three in what was once a grand eighteenth am pleased to have been a small part of Pharmacology). Australia at World Championships, John months at the Getty Centre in Los century house near the Oxford Union. proving him wrong. Following this exciting period I married being world champion in five events. Angeles, researching ‘Creative Heritage Among my Dickensian experiences was Don, who was running a large cattle By moving into JCH I was following the In 1957 I became a foundation member Cities’ with my most recent book, riding to court down the High Street – property in the high country near Mt. tradition of many family members who of the Thredbo Alpine Club where we Streetwise Design, being the outcome of sometimes in snow – on the office bike, Madeleine Hotham. No medical research up there, had been at Trinity and JCH. My late spent many winter holidays. Later we this research. file in the basket on the front of the Heyward (2002) but Don was very interested in the father, Dr Hal Oddie, was the co-founder travelled extensively to mountain regions bike and double decker buses rushing JCH was a really science of cattle breeding and that forced of ‘Juttoddie’, the Trinity steeplechase in New Zealand and Norway, and to the Together with my historian business by. It was also the days of fault divorce fundamental part me to learn to use a computer to keep originally over the fences of the Bulpadok Andes, the Canadian Rockies and the partner, Kate McDougall, we ran a – ‘unreasonable behaviour’ being the of my university records. I felt learning to use a computer where the cows grazed – a variation of Himalayas. successful conservation architecture most common ground. This made most experience. I was like scaling a mountain – a big which continues to this day. practice in Adelaide for 30 years, and couples I knew eligible. had taken a year challenge. After 47 years in Armidale we moved are now both semi-retired. I continue off after high Life in JCH was great fun – making friends to Melbourne when John became ill. to take on advocacy roles in relation The firm acted for members of the school to travel, And then children arrived – another with girls from across Australia and Although a wrench to leave Armidale, to heritage issues, lobbying about Thames Valley police who were and moved to dimension to life which cannot be overseas who were studying a variety it has meant more time with my inappropriate development here in themselves in trouble. Cases ranged Melbourne from a stint as a nanny in appreciated until you have them. There of courses and had a broad range of three children and six grandchildren. Australia where I think inappropriate from theft of a bicycle to assault of a Washington DC knowing no one other was little time to do anything but look interests. Retirement has remained busy with design outcomes are negatively prisoner at the local police station. I also than my grandparents… JCH quickly after the children, tend the garden and gardening, competitive bridge and U3A impacting on the urban environment. acted for criminals, and was shocked felt like a place to return ‘home’ to after feed people. We had jackeroos as well as Having been envious spectators at men’s German. by the meaty sentences – particularly classes – and equally importantly, gave other extra hands coming and going. And rowing, some of us organised a JCH eight I am a visiting Professor at Hong for crimes against property – handed me lasting friendships with a diverse when shearing occurred I learnt, with crew, with difficulty persuading Trinity to Kong University where I teach in the down by the courts. This took me to the group of people all heading in different help from Don, about cooking in bulk. lend us a boat. We challenged Women’s Architectural Conservation Program, Crown Court in Oxford and to the Royal directions in life. Had I not lived in Buying as we did in bulk, made it easy College and St Mary’s to a Boat Race and also undertake consultancy work Courts of Justice in London. College, my university friends would to cater for whatever might turn up… in 1959, which we won – and this was with the Getty, UNESCO and other likely have been found only in the Law On one occasion, a bus broke down on the start of university women’s rowing agencies on conservation issues in I returned to Melbourne to civil litigation School, and I would have missed out on its way to the snow, landing 32 cold and in Australia. It wasn’t until 1968 that Asia. I am strongly committed to the in 1982, working in private practice. so much. hungry people on our doorstep! Melbourne University Ladies’ Rowing protection and good management of our After three years I joined a new Club was formed. In 1970 a MULRC four heritage cities and towns, and believe statutory corporation, now called the I was always interested in international eflections...that this is an essential part of our Legal Practitioners’ Liability Committee R (continued overleaf)

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law, and got as much work experience Former Chair After a career break to raise the Marita Cheng as I could while studying – spending two of Council Prof children, Sharelle returned to the (2007) was summers in Canberra working on the Ruth Fincher University of Melbourne to work as named in the global climate change treaty, and doing AM (1969) has a study co-ordinator in bowel cancer 2018 Forbes Top a lot of research work, including for Prof been appointed research within the Faculty of Medicine, 50 for Women Gillian Triggs (1964) who was at that Deputy Vice- Dentistry and Health Sciences and is in the World in time Director of Melbourne’s Institute Chancellor currently based at the new Victorian Tech, having for International and Comparative (International) by Comprehensive Cancer Centre – less founded Aubot Law. A project between the Institute the University of than one kilometre from JCH. When she – a telepresence and the Cancer Council led me to the Melbourne. enjoys a work lunch at Naughton’s she robot for children World Health Organization Framework reflects on how she has not travelled with cancer – and Airpoly, an app that Kelsey Hayes, Dr Powell, Ruby Jacobs Convention on Tobacco Control, the first very far in life (and also how much recognises and relays objects in real time treaty negotiated under the auspices of Naughtons has changed since College for the visually impaired. JCH alumnae Kelsey Hayes (2014) and WHO – and from there I took my first A creative days!). Ruby Jacobs (2015) visited the College ‘real’ job as Legal Policy Adviser to a collaboration Allan Joseland (1988) and Sharelle Congratulations to speak on ‘Embrace Education’, a non- global alliance of NGOs supporting the between Joseland (Dann 1988) spent three years Upon returning to Melbourne, Allan to Kim Ho (2014), profit, university student-run organisation new treaty. Headlam and in JCH whilst completing their respective worked in ethanol distillation and Melbourne-based that offers free educational support Wallace-Crabbe degrees, Bachelor of Engineering and the fertiliser industry. He is currently playwright, actor, to high school students from refugee, This work cemented my love of In 2012, JCH Bachelor of Science. Sharelle organised working for the RACV in the role of and the 2017 new migrant and low socio-economic multilateral problem-solving, and after alumna, the the ‘Masquerade’ College Ball in 1989 General Manager - Safety, Property & recipient of the backgrounds in Melbourne. a couple of years in the job I was lucky distinguished and became Student Club Secretary Capital Works. Allan has very recently Sydney Theatre enough to be awarded a scholarship to artist Kristin the following year. Allan enjoyed joined the JCH College Council where Company’s ‘Embrace Education’ runs three undertake my Master of Laws at New Headlam (1972) playing College sport and was Male he hopes his facilities management prestigious Patrick educational support programs: York University, an amazing place to was commissioned by the University Sportsperson of the Year in 1988 and and capital works experience will be White Playwrights’ Award for his Homework Clubs, In-School Tutoring study international law. There I worked of Melbourne’s Rare Books Collection 1989, before becoming Student Club of assistance to the College. Allan and play Mirror’s Edge, which explores the and Individual Tutoring, while to support another prominent Australian, to create a work to accompany an epic President in 1990. This was a big Sharelle look back very fondly at their interplay of Anglo-European, Chinese, conducting the ongoing mentorship of Philip Alston, in his mandate as UN poem by her partner, the acclaimed sporting year for the College when JCH time at JCH, in what truly was a life- and Indigenous cultures in Australia tutors. Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial poet, Chris Wallace-Crabbe. The won the W.K.Tickner Trophy for the first changing experience! across three centuries. Executions – while also continuing Universe Looks Down was written by time, with both our female and male The organisation was started in 2006 consulting work on the WHO treaty. Wallace-Crabbe over the period sporting teams punching well above Dr Madeline Mitchell (2005) (seen Kim explains that his play is ‘based on the by Emil Kogan, with a group of other This led to a year in Canberra in the 1988-2005. their weight in competition with the here on a recent visit to the College joys and complexities of cross-cultural Monash University students. After ten Department of Health, strengthening larger colleges. with her partner Ross Dennis) has been interaction and how sharing cultures is a years of success, ‘Embrace Education’ international cooperation on tobacco Kristin’s response was a suite of 32 a proponent for advances in synthetic way of sharing knowledge, and the more established the University of Melbourne control as we worked towards etchings with aquatint and hand Allan started working life as a Chemical biology, seeking ways to mirror the cultural collaboration we can have, the chapter. Recently, the University of implementation of ground-breaking colouring, and 32 photo etchings of Engineer for Exxon/Mobil and Sharelle benefits of synthetic fibres in the more we can know our environment and Melbourne chapter hosted ‘Creating plain packaging laws (recommended as selected texts from the poem. The completed a Diploma of Education production of natural fibres such as the world’. Change in Education’, a panel discussion a means of implementing the treaty). suite is an imaginative commentary before returning home to Shepparton cotton. with experts from the education on the poem and was exhibited at the to start work in the food industry, The first time Mirror’s Edge was sector, including representatives from From Canberra, I was sent to Geneva Baillieu Library’s Noel Shaw Gallery developing new products for S.P.C. Two performed was when an excerpt of it Macpherson Smith Rural Foundation, as World Trade Organisation (WTO) between August 2018 and March 2019. years later she returned to Melbourne was presented as part of the Melbourne Centre for Multicultural Youth, Teach challenges to the plain packaging laws Six complete, boxed editions of all 64 and was soon co-ordinating the Product Theatre Company’s ‘Cybec Electric’ for Australia, and Maths Pathway. The got underway – and six years later, prints and a copy of the poem were Development team for Peters Ice Cream, rehearsed readings in 2017. The whole goal was to broaden the discourse I’m still here… As Counsellor (Health) made available in 2018 and one set was whilst completing a Graduate Diploma play was then produced by the University surrounding educational inequality and for Australia’s Permanent Mission to swiftly acquired by the National Library in Marketing. of Melbourne’s Union House Theatre. to offer a variety of ways university the UN, as well as the Mission to the of Australia. students, teachers and the general public OECD in Paris, I cover matters as Allan and Sharelle married in Kim’s short film, The Language of can contribute towards bridging the gap broad-ranging as Ebola, pandemic flu Castlemaine in 1997 and relocated Love, has screened at over 30 film in education. preparedness and global health security, to London in 2000. Allan worked festivals worldwide. He composes antimicrobial resistance, development of as a Production Manager for UK film music, plays the clarinet, and is At a university level, the work of and access to medicines and vaccines, sugar manufacturer Tate and Lyle, currently working on a play about the ‘Embrace Education’ is promoted prevention and control of diseases like whilst Sharelle used her marketing 1930s Lasseter’s Reef hoax as a VCA through various events on campus. cancer and diabetes, promoting mental qualifications to move into the area of Master of Writing for Performance Fortnightly coffee catch-ups at ‘House health, addressing violence and injuries, marketing research. student. of Cards’ are open to tutors and managing food security and nutrition, members to get to know each other and health system reform as well as After several years of work and a lot of Kim appeared at the Melbourne’s over a free coffee. Everyone is welcome cross-cutting UN reform efforts. The job travel, the lure of returning to Melbourne Emerging Writers Festival together with – and invited to visit the organisation’s is challenging, sometimes frustrating, grew strong after the couple welcomed Rhea Bhagat (2012), who has also Facebook page for more information. but always rewarding – and I’m glad to identical twin girls, Neve and Emily, into developed a growing reputation as a say there are very few days when I don’t the world. Sharelle and Allan moved to writer of fiction and non-fiction. Kelsey is the current President of the learn something. Our former female sports representative Williamstown shortly after the girls were Melbourne University chapter, ably Jacqui Street (2003) has reported for born and a few years later a third child, supported by Ruby (a former chapter ABC News on radio, television and Rhys, was added to the family. Vice-President) and Olympia Sarris online for more than a decade, covering (2015), her current chapter Vice- politics, courts and general news. President.

24 LUCE Number 17 2018 Janet Clarke Hall 25 Obituaries Obituaries

Ivy Roberts (Shaw 1949) Karen Lane (Roberts 1974) Mary Lugton (1942) Deirdre Robertson Farfor (Hyde 1952) 5 December 1929 – 6 May 2018 19 June1956 – 18 January 2014 8 September 1924 – 16 May 2018 28 September 1932 – 11 October 2017

Miss Lugton was one of the three After spending a year at Mildura in Karen entered Janet Clarke Hall Deirdre was the only child of Isla women Heads of Department 1948, Ivy moved into Janet Clarke in 1974 as one of only two female Hyde, later Lady Hyde, and Rear (along with Miss Turnbull and Hall in 1949 while studying science engineering students at the Admiral George Francis Hyde, later Miss Semmens) who really ran the at the University of Melbourne. University of Melbourne. During Sir Admiral Hyde. She was born at Baillieu Library, in a time when She thrived in the culture and her time at University Karen the family home ‘Wandarra’, Toorak you had to be a man to hold the opportunities at JCH as part of a developed a passion for nature and was only five when her father position of University Librarian. small cohort of women who were and the environment, which passed away. trailblazers in their academic and would shape her personal and Miss Lugton was Reference Deirdre’s education began at St career pursuits, particularly in science. professional life. She studied hard during the week so that Librarian when I came to the Baillieu Library in 1974. Catherine’s in Toorak and continued as a boarder at her weekends were free for outdoor adventures such as Under her guidance I checked catalogues from antiquarian After University Ivy had her first job with the Department Toorak College, Mt Eliza where she excelled both in the kayaking (in fibreglass kayaks she built herself) and cross- book dealers as she worked to build up the University of Health at the State Health Labs, and was seconded to classroom and also on the sports fields. In her final year country skiing as a member of the Melbourne University Libraries Research Collections, in particular the Baillieu’s the Department of Agriculture during this time. As was she was a School Prefect and House Captain. Mountaineering Club, and formed life-long friendships. holdings of Private Presses. Thanks to Miss Lugton and required at the time she had to give up her permanent Miss Turnbull, Melbourne University today has fine and After completing matriculation, De was accepted to study employment in 1955 when she married her husband Karen was an avid learner, and after moving to Perth with complete holdings of many of the great Private Presses. Agricultural Science at the University of Melbourne and Geoff, a fellow science student she met at University, but husband Chas she completed a Master of Engineering resided in Janet Clarke Hall during her time there. She stayed on as a temporary employee until the birth of her Science at the University of Western Australia in Miss Lugton as Reference Librarian for the Baillieu was thrived at University and particularly loved College life. first child. Ivy and Geoff later started their own chemistry 1990 while raising three young daughters. She later in charge of supporting the University’s research effort She excelled in snow skiing and swimming, also playing consulting business in 1970. completed a Master of Leadership and Management at through its Library. She later became the University in the JCH tennis, hockey and baseball teams when time Curtin University, and in 2000 was awarded the MLM Bibliographer, again supporting the University’s research Ivy and Geoff had four daughters and as a young mother permitted around her academic pursuits. Scholarship for the best MLM student. effort, building on her wide contacts with academics and of two Ivy completed a Diploma of Education from the University community. In addition to enjoying her sporting and academic studies, Monash University in 1966. She then began a Masters Karen built a successful career in environmental De filled various positions within Janet Clark Hall, being of Education, however she was unable to complete it as engineering and sustainability, which at the time was When I started working for her she presented a formidable Treasurer of the College Club and later as Senior Student her family grew. While she never formally taught she did a small emerging field, and formed the Sustainability figure – immaculate, when professional women wore where she was the chief link between the Principal, tutors work as a demonstrator in the labs at Monash and instilled Practitioners Association. Her work focused on water, beautifully tailored suits to work – with a very distinctive and students. the value of education in her daughters who all achieved water resource management, and contaminated land, and slash of white hair amidst the normal colour. She was a academic success at university, with daughter Karen and while working for the Centre for Water Research at UWA mannered, exacting perfectionist and she gave me the best De graduated with a Bachelor of Science and worked as granddaughter Lucy also attending JCH. she worked on projects in Venice and Japan. training I could have received: check, check and check a Biochemist until meeting and marrying Keith Ronald again. Farfor. After having three children, she returned to study Ivy was an active member of the College community, Having followed in the footsteps of her own mother, Ivy and began a new career as a librarian and then later as serving on the JCH Council as its Society representative, Roberts, Karen was proud to see her youngest daughter, I remember her with great fondness; she was a very kind a remedial teacher. She continued to be a passionate chairing its Executive and Finance Committee, and Lucy Lane (2007), also become a JCH-er. mentor to a young staff member. sportswoman enjoying skiing, golf, tennis and swimming serving as President of the Janet Clarke Hall Society. She as well as briefly playing bowls in later years. She never ceased to enjoy College functions and the life-long In a time when many women had to choose whether to remained an active member of a number of sporting clubs friendships she made at JCH. have a career or a family, Miss Lugton devoted her life to until her death. her work, her University, and her belief in the importance of knowledge and scholarship. De was also a keen adventurer and would-be ‘country girl’ and thought nothing of packing the kids in the back A tribute from Patricia Smyth, a Baillieu Library friend and of an old Valiant station wagon and heading off to places colleague. such as Bourke, Coober Pedy and Innamincka to name a few. Well into her seventies, she and another adventurous friend drove the Gibb River Road in De’s Subaru wagon.

Deirdre is survived by daughter Katie, sons Malcolm and Tony, grandchildren Angus, Douglas and Gabrielle and her beloved black labrador Nudge.

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Mary Tyler (Mackney 1955) A tribute to Mary Tyler from her friends Donations and Scholarships 12 November 1936 – 17 May 2018 To the end of her life, Mary was in touch with friends made The College is deeply grateful to Ms Jennifer McCormick The funds provided by donors M Buesst Scholar when she was at JCH and Melbourne University. Mary was born in Rangoon, Burma the following philanthropic bodies Dr Heather McKenzie allowed the following College William Bonwick for their support of scholarships in Mrs Elizabeth Meredith scholarships to be awarded in (now Myanmar), the daughter of We remember her shining intelligence and integrity, steadfast 2018: Mrs Susan Morgan 2018: N McDougall Scholar Englishman, Herbert Mackney, Judge loyalty and excellent common sense, these sterling qualities Mrs Louise Morris Devni Wimalasena of the High Court of Burma, and his accompanied by a twinkle in the eye. wife Sybil (Minto). Mary’s childhood in The Compass Group (Chartwells) Dr Heather Munro AO Janet, Lady Clarke Scholar The May Dunn Trust Prof Robert Nicol Colleen Yeow Sarah Stock Scholars Burma was cut short by the Japanese After graduation Mary shared flats with some of us in The Peggy and Leslie Cranbourne Mrs Elizabeth Oliver Islay McDougall invasion, with the family returning Melbourne and later with others in London. We visited one Foundation Dr Patricia Phair Chair of Council’s Scholar Naomi Parris-Piper to live near her mother’s family in another over the years whenever our paths crossed. Some The Trust Company Limited Dr Mary Playford Daniel Ho Victoria. After school at Toorak had similar life histories – parents scattered across the British The Vera Moore Foundation Ms Victoria Ponsford AF Bage Scholar College, Mary won a scholarship to Empire, a boarding school education and, later, marriage to The William Angliss (Victoria) Dr Damian Powell and May Dunn Scholars Cyrielle Yu Janet Clarke Hall where she took an Honours Degree in partners who worked in different corners of the globe. We felt Charitable Fund Ms Dieni Powell Caitlyn Brennan English and French. On graduating, Mary was a tutor in the the tug of these trajectories as we worked to put down roots. The Reid Malley Foundation Adjunct Prof Clare Pullar Alyssa Moohin G Maudsley Scholar Melbourne University English Department and then went to The family of Cecily Faith Statham and Mr David Pullar Rohini Poonyth London where she worked in publishing. Those who stayed felt the loss of those who left. But as a result The Victorian Women’s Ms Alice Pung William Angliss Scholars of these separations, we realised instinctively how important Benevolent Trust Dr Joanna Pyper Hilly Pammer-Green Janet Clarke Hall Scholar Mary met her future husband Antony (Tim) Tyler at a it was to nurture our friendships. These provided an unspoken An anonymous Trust Mrs Diana Renard Lyla Wilson Navina Adriannalakshumee Ms Margaret Richardson school ball and later, at Trinity College, made masks for his understanding, a continuity that helped overcome dislocation. The College is deeply grateful to Ms Shelley Roberts Chartwells Scholar FC Stainbridge Scholar production of The Bacchae. They married in London in 1962 Enriched by this support, we have maintained those early alumni and friends for their Prof Doreen Rosenthal AO Shaveen Bogahapitiya Gamage Marize Smith after Tim had joined the UK Foreign Office following his bonds forged at JCH and University. donations to the College in 2018. Ms Jennifer Ross postgraduate course at Cambridge. Tim’s career took them It acknowledges donations Prof Susan Sawyer First in Family Scholars Constance Tisdall Memorial from London to Senegal, where their daughter, Cassandra, Sallyann Richardson (Blair 1954) received from: Ms Heather Scott Alison Fane Scholar was born, and then to New York. Their son, Edmund ,was Mary Young (Tait 1955) Mrs Elizabeth Sevior Stella Liu Stephanie Hyun born in London. Pat Cameron (Gill 1955) Dr Sally Adams The Rt Rev’d Andrew Sidney Ruthven Jennifer Kaye (Paxton-Petty 1955} Miss Wendy Addis St John DD B McKenzie Scholar In the 1970s they spent some years at Macedon in Victoria Penelope Pollitt (Ralph) Ms Julie Ager Dr Christoper Stevenson Janet Reid (née Malley) Scholars Fynn Oppermann where Mary created a garden from scratch on a ten acre Dr Terri Allen Dr John Swain Miriam Lewis block. They also had a flock of pedigree Romney Marsh sheep Dr Valerie Asche AM Mrs Susan Sypkens Claire Livingstone L Lewis Scholar and Mary carded, spun and knitted pullovers for the whole Prue Morse (1995) Ms Jan Barnard Mrs Helen Todd Iris Lin family from their fleeces. They were both involved in the 5 November 1976 - 9 April 2018 Ms Tricia Blombery Ms Jane Tribe Kenneth Moore Memorial Music founding of Braemar College at Woodend. Mr James Carey Mrs Barbara Ward-Ambler Scholars GM Turner Scholar Dr Fiona Caro Ms Pera Wells Alison Fane Christian Romhany Gonzalez Prue battled illness for many years Tim’s career took them back to England in 1977, and Mary set Assoc. Prof. Catherine Cherry Ms Deborah West Joshua Hooke but faced every day with a smile and about enhancing an old English walled garden at their home in Mr Darryl Coote Prof Judith Whitworth AC A M White Scholar determination to succeed that was Ms Meredith Creightmore Mrs Christine Wilson Vera Moore Scholars Kathy Zhang Kent as well as devoting herself to fulfilling her artistic talent. nothing short of inspirational. Mr John Cudmore Mrs Ruth Wilson Courtney Browne She had rigorous lessons in watercolour, oils and pastels, and Mrs Hilary Day Julia Catania Janet Clarke Hall Entrance then embarked on many years of life-drawing with a Royal Her family, friends and work Mrs Katharine Derham Moore Zach Dettmann Scholars Academy-trained artist, Stephen Rose. In later years she took colleagues admired her cheeky spirit Mrs Jaan Enden Anonymous donors Maria Gatto Raph Chang lessons in etching at the Chart Farm Studio in a neighbouring and wonderful bravery. She was very Mrs Floranne Everson Monique Gilham Planning Saw village. Her talent for this new medium was soon apparent. special to us all. Prof Ruth Fincher AM The College gratefully Ciara Harrison Shintaro Umeki She exhibited twice a year and there are now plans for her Dr Susan Foster acknowledges a bequest from Michael Klemke work to be exhibited posthumously in Verona, Italy in 2019. Tribute provided by Prue’s mother, Sue Morse. Dr Beverly Gillard The Estate of Ms Mary Lugton Hannah Langford Enid Joske Centenary Scholar Ms Julie Goode Molly Love Mr James Carey Mrs Amanda Gordon Jack Perry Mrs Judith Gregory The College gratefully Annabel Weiss Peggy and Leslie Cranbourne The College acknowledges, in sympathy, those deceased alumni of whom it has become aware since the Mrs Angela Grutzner acknowledges bequests Artist-in-Residence Mrs Pamela Hall generously promised by: Phyllis Fry Scholar Ms Alice Pung previous edition. Together with the accompanying obituaries, the College has also learned of the following Mrs Alexandra Hamilton Katherine Enright deaths in our community. Mrs Jennifer Happell OAM Ms Julie Ager Kenneth Moore Memorial Music Mr Stephen Higgs Mrs Susan Morgan Janet Clarke Hall Society Scholar We extend our sympathy to the families of these alumnae: Mr William Jobling Ms Margaret Richardson Scholar Dr Anna Goldsworthy Mr Brian Kennedy Mrs Susan Sypkens Mara Quach Patricia Best Bradley (Atkins 1943) Mrs Elizabeth Kennedy Anonymous testators Anonymous bursary recipients 22 April 1925 – 29 June 2018 Mrs Penelope Lewisohn Yvonne Aitken Scholar (College bursaries are kept Dr Gail Littlejohn Ellie-Rose Rogers confidential to the College, the Judith Mackinnon (Rau 1949) The Very Rev’d Dr Andreas Loewe donor and the recipient). 25 April 1929 – 18 December 2018 Dr Katherine Lubbe Betty Elliott Scholars Dr Margaret Lush Thenu Herath The College has endeavoured to Louise Reeve (Desborough 1958) Mrs Jennifer Martin Lily Li report accurately on all donations 11 February 1940 – 4 February 2017 Mrs Fiona Maslen and apologises for any errors or Dr Ellen Maxwell AR Grice Scholar omissions in this list. Ella James

28 LUCE Number 17 2018 Janet Clarke Hall 29 Janet Clarke Hall Janet Clarke Hall The University of Melbourne 2018

President of Janet Clarke Hall The Most Rev’d Dr Philip Freier COLLEGE STAFF Principal Dr Damian Powell College Visitor Prof Peter Doherty AC Dean & Deputy Principal Ms Margie Welsford Director of Studies Mrs Donna Davies Fellows Dr Valerie Asche AM Bursar Ms Jennifer Smith Prof Elizabeth Blackburn AC Director of Development Ms Shelley Roberts Dr Fiona Caro Office Manager Ms Carolyn Stewart Prof Adrienne Clarke AC Bookkeeper Ms Mari Nicholls Mrs Jaan Enden Facilities Manager Mr Bruce Stewart Dr Helen Garner IT Coordinator Mr Amrick Singh Prof Mary Hiscock Librarian Ms Jennifer Martin Mrs Penelope Lewisohn Dr Lynne McArthur Reid RESIDENT TUTORS Mr David Chan Dr Fay Marles AM Mr James Carey Prof Cheryl Saunders AO Ms Emily Delahunty Mr Timothy Thwaites Ms Natalia Evertsz Prof Gillian Triggs Ms Katherine Fitzgerald Prof Sally Walker AM Mr Jack Tan Prof Alexandra Walsham CBE Mr Michael Stuiber Prof Judith Whitworth AC Dr Mayuri Wijayasundara

Music Scholar Dr Anna Goldsworthy

COUNCIL Artist-In-Residence Ms Alice Pung Chair of Council & Ms Margaret Richardson Chair of Advancement Adjunct Prof Clare Pullar STUDENT CLUB EXECUTIVE Commitee Senior Student & President Ms Thenu Herath Who we are and what we stand for Vice-President Mr Zach Dettmann Deputy Chair Ms Jan McGuinness Secretary Ms Marize Smith As a leading academic College of and within the Mr Paul Turner Treasurer Ms Cyrielle Yu University of Melbourne, Janet Clarke Hall offers General Representative Ms Emily Zhao exceptional opportunities to its students, providing: Chair of Finance & Mr Anthony Wood Arts and Cultural Representative Ms Naomi Parris-Piper Investment Committee Sports Representative Ms Carol Isaac • a small, supportive College which enables real friendship Sports Representative Mr William Bonwick and real community Chair of Governance & Mr Stephen Higgs Nominations Committee • a place not only for the mind, but the whole person, Mr Alex Murphy with opportunities to engage with the wider community Ms Jennifer Ross and the rich social, cultural, musical, and sporting life of Prof Susan Sawyer the College Ms Anne Shea Mr Paul Turner • outstanding academic support and broad-ranging Prof Julie Willis intellectual stimulus

• experience of diversity, through a vibrant mix of backgrounds, orientations, interests and beliefs, contact with leading scholars, visiting artists, doers and thinkers

• a place of equality and empowerment, founded in the Anglican and feminist traditions, with shared values of respect and mutual care

At Janet Clarke Hall we challenge our students to be curious, brave and passionately engaged in the world; responsible citizens and future leaders.

30 LUCE Number 17 2018 Janet Clarke Hall 31 D E EO UC L DU O CE VERB Janet Clarke Hall The University of Melbourne

“A smaller college offering real friendship, real community” 32 LUCE Number 17 2018