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Beyond 2020 • Art • Books • Science • People ter 2008 IN w SAMSydney Alumni Magazine beyond 2020 • art • books • science • people ISSN 1834-3937 The discovery of Pompeii and Herculaneum in the early 1700s led to a dramatic change in the way people saw their world. The imagery of the past now directly influenced art, architecture, interior design, fashion and literature. This exhibition looks at the people who made this happen; from Josiah Wedgwood and Thomas Hope, to the extraordinary William Hamilton, to Goethe and Piranesi. FREE ADMISSION NICHOLSON MUSEUM FROM 14 APRIL 2008 10am – 4.30pm weekdays, 12 – 4pm Sundays 32 14 Features 10 Profile Professor Gavin Brown AO FAA CorrFRSE retires from the Vice- Chancellorship in July. He talks about life and maths 13 Obituary An appreciation of former Chancellor contents Justice Kim Santow AO 14 Cover Story Advance Australia where? The 2020 ideas summit was the public face of future-planning. University 20 researchers are already on the mountain 20 Art Sydney College of the Arts student Vilma Bader and alumna Fiona Lowry on the thrill of glittering prizes 26 Alumni update Economics & Business: Governor of Editor Diana Simmonds the Reserve Bank of Australia Glenn The University of Sydney, Stevens returned to the University Alumni Relations Office to deliver a major speech Room K6.06, Quadrangle A14, NSW 2006 Phone (61 2) 9036 6372 Engineering: the civil engineers of Regulars Fax (61 2) 9351 6868 1950 are a special, historic group Email [email protected] 28 Research 2 Letters Contributors Stuttering can be cured, Professor Brickbats and bouquets Felicity Barry, Anabel Dean, Matthew Gibbs, Marie Jacobs, Paul Lancaster, Mark Onslow is working on it 4 Nota Bene Helen McKenzie, Maggie Renvoize, Chris Rodley, Jane Sandilands, Ted Sealey, New Alumni Centre to open; Alex 30 Overseas adventure Michael Turner, Linda Vergnani, John A Masters of Education has opened Jones’s literary celebration; how will Warburton, Paul Wright global health challenges affect you? the door to working overseas for Editorial Advisory Committee Finn McCall Blue Mountains mystery to solve; a SAM the Sydney Alumni Magazine is Bernadel for the Con; Hong Kong supported by an Editorial Advisory alumni celebrate; breast health Committee. Its members are Kathy 31 Treasure initiative for Chinese-Australian Bail, editor Australian Financial Review Notorious British politician Enoch women; join Lucinda Watson’s magazine, David Marr (LLB ’71) Sydney Powell was once the University’s African odyssey Morning Herald, Andrew Potter, Media professor of Greek Manager, University of Sydney, Helen Trinca, editor, Weekend Australian 32 Sport 24 Books magazine. Morris in Iceland by Alex Jones; In the thrill of the victorious Published quarterly by the University People of the Book by Geraldine moment it is too easy to overlook of Sydney. Brooks; Louis Laloy by Deborah past heroes, such as HK Ward … Priest; See the Virgin Blest by Barry Publishing Management 10 group Spurr; Lucy Osburn: a Lady Displaced Level 1, 30 Wilson St, by Judith Godden (PO Box 767), Newtown NSW 2042. www.10group.com.au 34 Grapevine Publisher Paul Becker Stay in touch, find old friends Design Wendy Neill Printing PMP Limited 36 Diary Cover photo istockphoto by Duncan P Walker Places to go, people to see Advertising Enquiries Janet Clark [email protected] mobile 0404 112 641 ph: (61 2) 9550 1021 Member of the Circulation Audit Board Audited Circulation 148,263 copies SAM Winter 08 1 letters 11556SAM_Atm08CvrFA2.qxd 21/2/08 10:49 AM Page Cvr1 ColoniAl SMokESCrEEn Congratulations on Helen McKenzie’s AUTUMN 2008 SAMSydney Alumni Magazine terrific cover story on Paul Porteous’s work in Madagascar (Autumn ’08). It was a great read and left me wanting to know more about the world’s fourth-largest island. I also loved your use of Paul’s photos, especially the big, all-seeing eyes of the lemur on the front cover. I was intrigued by the anecdotes about the women of Madagascar - where the women broke their new water pump (not vandals); where local madagascar • art • science • medicine • books ISSN 1834-3937 women are training as midwives and nurses because they are more likely to stay in their local communities; and where the President wished his newly-wed daughter “three children” not “seven sons and daughters” as is the usual Madagascan custom. I cringed at thoughts of the French bureaucracy’s control of its colony through its “Organisational Chart”, VErrEAux AnD SibrEE imagining a colonial smokescreen illuMinAtion SnuFFED Political FliCkS ii which hid all laws, so that the only I appreciated the Madagascan people who knew what was happening It was good to see the future removal One of the best “political” movies of article and hearing of the work of and where taxes were being spent of “alumnus” on page 8 (Autumn ’08). recent years has been Election. Paul Porteous (Autumn ’08) and The 1999 debut feature by director were the French. However, the ban did not last long, the cover photo of the Madagascan as the word appeared on page 10 in Alexander Payne, Election is a biting lemur, Verreaux’s Sifaka (Propethecus Julia Featherstone (BA ’66 DipEd ’67) the article regarding Lee Burns. Let’s political satire set as a school election. verreauxi). Potts Point NSW hope it will really be banished in the Starring Reese Witherspoon and Another Madagascan lemur next issue. Matthew Broderick, it’s a great look at species, Sibree’s Dwarf Lemur rAtS AnD FrogS a campaign and candidate at a micro (Cheirogaleus sibreei), possibly has Laura Jilka (BCom ‘05) level. a closer connection with Sydney Helen McKenzie’s story about Castle Hill NSW Well recommended! University. This lemur species is Madagascar (Autumn ’08) makes the Michael Butterworth (BEc ’86) named after James Sibree, an English claim that the island hosts 223 of the Political FliCkS i Marsfield NSW architect who went to Madagascar world’s 226 known species of frogs. to build churches and stayed on as Even I, with no biology education, The list of movies (Autumn ’08) was a missionary for the then London immediately smelt a rat (so to speak). impressive and contained many fine HAwkESbury/nEPEAn Missionary Society – late 19th century, The webpage wildmadagascar. movies. AnyonE? early 20th century. James Sibree org/ wildlife/frogs.html states less My personal favourite of all At risk of being just a bit pompous wrote a number of books on the flora grandly that of the island’s 300 or American political movies, however, - but I am getting seriously middle- and fauna of Madagascar, hence the so species, around 99 per cent are is Advise and Consent, a 1962 Otto aged :-) reason for the lemur species being endemic. Perhaps this is more like Preminger movie with an all-star I am an alumnus of both named after him. what McKenzie was told. I understand cast headed by Henry Fonda, Charles Cambridge and Sydney, and was His son, also James Sibree, after there are five or six thousand species Laughton, Walter Pidgeon, Gene pleased when a plastic-wrapped serving as a missionary in Samoa, of amphibians world-wide, the Tierney, Peter Lawford and Burgess magazine turned up last week. “Ah”, arrived in Sydney in the mid-1920s majority by far being frogs. However, Meredith, who won an NBR [National I thought, “a new issue of CAM.” to take up a parish in the suburb of if the Madagascan frogs can evade Board of Review] award as Best Then I saw the University coffee mug Epping. pollution-induced reproductive Supporting Actor. brochure and thought: “What a shame, Subsequently two of the disorders and fungal diseases, there It revolved around a Senate Cambridge has started flogging coffee Madagascan James Sibree’s might yet come a day when someone investigation into the President’s mugs and ties, just like Sydney.” It grandchildren have graduated from can confidently state that Madagascar was only then that I realised that the Sydney University, together with six (Franchot Tone) newly-nominated magazine was called SAM and just of his great-grandchildren and one has 223 of the world’s 226 known Secretary of State (Henry Fonda). This happened to have exactly the same great-great-grandchild. species of frogs. reveals a secret from the past that may not only ruin the candidate, but typography and cover layout as the Jim Sibree (BEc ’68 DipAgEc ’75) Dr Barry Craig (BA Hons Anthrop ’60 Cambridge Alumni Magazine. DipEd ’61 MA Hons Anthrop ’70) also reflect poorly on the President’s Fairlight NSW character as well. Is this cultural cringe? Is Sydney Curator of Foreign Ethnology trying to position itself as the South Australian Museum Steve Howard (BA ’77) “Cambridge of the South”? In addition, Adelaide SA Georges Hall NSW the name is silly. It reminds me of the 2 SAM Winter 08 well-known Dr Seuss book Green Eggs F’r inStAnCE unacceptAblE HoMoPHoniA and was buried in Jerusalem as a and Ham, where the noxious “Sam I righteous Gentile. am” offers green eggs and ham to all. Please tell me you were joking and You were just testing us, weren’t you? The only similarities in their At least the Cambridge original has playing a little trick on your readers Please? “Their’s a bear in there” is respective stories are their humanity the same name as the river that runs (trying to catch the unobservant?) in indeed a horror but don’t blame the and success in saving Jewish lives. through the town. your piece on English usage (Autumn blameless apostrophe. The error is ’08). How else could the editor and in the confusion of homophones. Try Michael Neustein (BArch ’71) How about finding a relevant, really Bellevue Hill NSW Aussie name for the magazine? Or sub-editor have committed the “there’s a bear in there” and, if more just going back to the Sydney Alumni dreaded comma fault in para 3, line than one, perhaps sitting on their Editor’s note: this was not the mistake of Magazine? 4? “However” introduces a new and chairs.
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