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75 Years of Distinction Swinburne: 75 Years of Distinction 1908 1983 f 11' . 44': 1 'LAM • Swinburne campus First students 1913 $ \ \ JNr.c 'RN£ IN;:snrr 'TE • .,.. T t:, 'E-f,v, 'L, 'd\. /l,,.._,. f,, •'.•✓ r,/j/ ( df I ..._ 7.,,,,,:-. I 11 ~.,,, · l.r,,,.,._, I II I I \ THIS BUJLDING WAS ERECTED IN THE YEAR 1917 :i~RI3~~G~N.SBY HADDON · ·· XRcmrEc The first seal Plaque, Art building Official badge An early crest Variation early crest A Swinburne family crest Coat of arms Book plate Seal. College ofT echnology Swinburne: 75 Years of Distinction Written by Bernard Hames Published by Swinburne College Press Contents Foreword 17 Establishment 19 • Diversification 26 The Depression 33 Post-war Innovation 35 The Swinburne Vision 46 Published by Swinburne College Press Text Copyright © Bernard Hames 1982 Illustration of Swinburne campus Copyright © Peter Schofield 1982 Typeset by Swinburne Graphic Design Centre in Italia Designed by David Whitbread, Swinburne Graphic Design Centre Printed by Gardner Printing Co. (Vic.) Pty Ltd 36 Thornton Crescent, Mitcham, Victoria 3132 All rights reserved ISBN O 85590 550 6 Foreword George Swinburne took him to vmious construction sites in England and Austria. and within three years he became a partner in the firm. while his uncle sailed for Australia to seek business opportunities Within the year George Swinburne followed his uncle to Melbourne and became immediately engrossed in setting up gas plants and bringing gas­ light to the cities and towns. Though most installations were in Victoria. they ranged from Albany to The Swinburnes lived for many generations in Cairns. In 1924, he was appointed Chairman of the Northumberland. in the north of England. In early board of directors of the Mount Lyell Mine at times the family owned a castle on the bank of a Queenstown. Tasmania. small brook called the Swin Burn the brook of the Since his early days in Newcastle-on-Tyne. he boars: and by about 1245 the Swinburne coat of had been deeply interested in politics and hence, arms was ·Gules, three boars heads argent' Hence as his business stature increased, he entered State the origin of the crest today. Parliament and was appointed a minister. He was George Swinburne was born in 1861 al also a nominee of the Government on the Melbourne Newcastle-on-Tyne. His father had been appren­ University Council. ticed to a leading engineering firm and was With such a background, and his interest in the senior draughtsman at this time. Later his father welfare of people. he was perhaps predestined 10 opened a business as brass founder. engineer become the founder of a technical college. and coppersmith. This history has been compiled by Bernard Hames, At c1ge 13 young George was indentured to a firm who joined Swinburne in 1938 as a teacher of of chemical merchants at four shillings a week. He English and was instrumental in forming the first completed his apprenticeship after six years and library at Swinburne. He became Vice •Principal in then commenced evening classes in engineering 1956 and Director in 1968. a post which he retained because he decided this profession was more to until his retirement in 1970. His contribution his liking than a business career. to the development of Swinburne and technical He also studied shorthand and German before education in general. particularly during the late omg o wor m 1e mornm 5 an a essons m s, was enormous. IS mem c:rs 1p o t e singing, piano and organ - history does not tell us Council of the Victoria Institute of Colleges during how he had time for his music. but it does say he its early formative days was particularly notable. enjoyed it immensely. He continued to assist the VIC in an honorary He became interested in politics.joining the Liberal capacity until its dissolution. Party. taking part in local elections. and becoming an This book. commemorating 75 years of service admirer of Mr Gladstone. to education. has been designed and produced by A devout Methodist. he taught Sunday school. the Swinburne Graphic Design Centre. and started a church cricket club and a young man's Council expresses its grateful thanks to all who debating society. He beLieved his Christian en­ have assisted in th is work deavours on a Sunday kept him going through the week In 1882. at 21. he began his engineering career in earnest when he joined his uncl~.John Coates, who was a leading consultant in gas and mechanical engineering in London. The dynamic energy of B.R. Martin Presidem Establishment 1909, less than a fortnight after the first Director was appointed, and · nearly two months before classes began, sums it up, Enrolment is far in excess of the number the rooms will hold. Applications have been received from ... as far away as Brunswick but many will perforce be shut out because oflocal preference - an effective commentary on an educational system which leaves young men striving to learn, neglected and uncared for. Established in 1908, Swinburne was the last of the That tens of thousands of those 'striving to learn' council schools. Two years later, the Government, were no longer to be neglected and uncared for was acting belatedly on the recommendations made in due to the vision and determination of George 1901 by the Fink Commission, passed the Education Swinburne, Minister for Water Supply and Minister for Act of 1901 that empowered the Education Depart­ Agriculture in the Government led by Sir Thomas ment to assume control of technical education. Bent, and a former Mayor of Hawthorn. He had long Consequently, technical schools established after . been interested in educational matters. His own Swinburne, such as Footscray which began seven education had been gained the hard way by many years later, came under the direct control of the years of study outside working hours, for he began Education Department. Forty years had passed since work at the age of thirteen. His daughter, Miss 1868, when the attention of the Legislative Assembly' Swinburne, says that her parents had considered 'was directed to the desirability of promoting technical establishing an institute of the type about which Sir education amongst the working classes of the colony·. Walter Besant had written in his powerful book All The Fink Report called that pronouncement the Sorts and Conditions ofMen. This book had led to commencement of technical education in Victoria. the setting up of what would now be called a com­ One result of the forty year lapse was that, unlike munity centre in the East End of London. Though this some of the earlier colleges, the Eastern Suburbs concept appealed to the Swinburnes, they rejected it Technical College (the title by which Swinburne in favour of a technical college, the latter being more College was first known) did not experience any definite and more likely to be properly staffed as the difficulty in attracting students. The Honourable years went by. The fact that his father had been •-••-f••--' •- .., __l.,._.. •-.-..f .-.A.,..,..-.••,....,..• ... ,•ur,...,..'...,.,< .-f.... ,..,.....,,,.. George Swinburr1e !v1LA and his tearn of prominent lllVUlV\::U Ill l\::l...lllU\..Ql IC::-UU\..QUVll Ul 'C.V'C-llUl~ \..10.::>.:>'C-::, and concerned citizens from the eastern suburbs, also influenced George Swinburne. realized correctly that a real demand for technical By April 1907 he was ready to put his ideas into education existed in Hawthorn and the surrounding practice. His technical college would be based firmly area. The Working Men's College in the heart of in ·the local community. He deplored a system where Melbourne had been operating for twenty-one years, ·the efficiency or inefficiency of a school is the concern but there was no technical college in the suburbs. of a far off, slow-moving department .. with the (Mr C.A. Lawrence, later Head of Plumbing, tells how, parents and the organized manufacturing and even as late as 1919, he had to travel from Chelsea commercial interests holding aloof. An effective and each day, catching the 7.10 a.m. train, because there enduring link with the local community would best was no nearer technical school.) Proof of the accuracy be forged by enlisting the support of local municipal of their estimate of demand is seen in the enrolment councils who would feel a civic pride in the progress figures for the new college, eighty when classes of the college, and by ensuring that its council began in 1911; 947 in 1912. The mordant comment comprised local business and professional men of the Melbourne Argus newspaper on 13 January interested in the project. ... 19 jaw1horn &4amberwtll "G IT I ZEN." With wLicL is Iucorpomted _THE "BOROONDARA STANDARD.'' (Established 26 years.) SATURDAY, JUNE 29. 1907. He had noticed that many students came from Box Hill, Camberwell, and adjacent districts to study in Melbourne, A Munificent Donation. therefore, they were put to considerable expense for travelling, loss of time,&c., and owing to the crowded state of the The Hon. Geo. Swinburne, who be.s college, often had to wait six or twelve for several yea.re past represented Haw­ months before they could secure thorn in the State Assembly, bas for admission into the classes they wi~hed some time pa.et been giving his particu­ to join. He considered, therefore,that lar attention to Technical Education. a local college would mean a great It has been apparent to any thinking saving of time, and !ilso pro'\'i:de person tbe.t for some time past the instruction for a large number of Working Mens' College bas been pupils, who, when properly instructed severely strained owing to the number in the rudiments, could proceed to the of scholars desirous of obtaining techni­ Central College to be instructed in the cal education on various subjects, and higher grades.
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