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The Queen’s College and Wyvern Society magazine Queen’s College The University of Melbourne inAeternum November 2016 Farewell to the Master Wyvern profiles mentoring queeners Enduring Scholarships photo galleries Collegians’ Dinner, Fellows’ Dinner, Wyvern Dinner and alumni events NOVEMBER 2016 1 CONTENTS Sports page 6 Arts page 8 Collegians’ Dinner page 10 Mentoring page 21 Wyvern profiles page 26 Wyvern Dinner page 34 Community News 4 Academic Report 12 Wyvern Profiles 26 UNIHACK Challenge 5 Wellbeing Report 14 Sugden Society 30 Sports at Queen’s 6 Farewell to the Master 16 Alumni Friends and Events 32 Arts at Queen’s 8 Scholarships at Queen’s 18 Wyvern Dinner 34 Remembering Ronald Ryan 9 5 years of the MCR 20 Vale 36 Collegians’ Dinner 10 Mentoring 21 Scholarships 38 Fellows’ Dinner 11 Senior Common Room Profile 22 Thank you to our 2016 Donors 39 In Aeternum November 2016 Edition ISSN: 1832-2301 Editors: Nicole Crook and Mark Johnson Writers: Mark Johnson and Nicole Crook QUEEN’S COLLEGE unless otherwise noted MERCHANDISE Design: Sophie Campbell Photography: Mark Johnson or as otherwise noted View our merchandise range Cover photo: Mark Johnson. and purchase your Queen’s Back cover photo: Mark Chew memorabilia online: All enquiries please email: [email protected] http://the-queens-college- Queen’s College shop.myshopify.com/ The University of Melbourne 1–17 College Crescent, Parkville, Vic 3052, Australia Telephone: +61 (0)3 9349 0500 This magazine was printed on paper made from 100% post-consumer waste. It’s carbon Facsimile: +61 (0)3 9349 0525 neutral and FSC certified. Queen’s is committed to reducing its environmental impact. 2 IN AETERNUM FROM THE MASTER From the Master Two years ago I announced that 2016 would be my last year as Master. The time to say farewell has now come. I invite you to read the contents of this magazine and discover for yourself what a fine year it has been for the College. You will be able to read about the highlights Arch Wyvern Jake Workman explains, This year has also been a time for me to of the year: many community and here the College’s incredible Wyvern reflect on my time as Master. I do believe academic dinners, sporting successes, network can assist. A fine example is that the College and its community have another superb drama production with the relationship established between our been able to flourish during this time and the most serious of themes, numerous College architect and Wyvern, Bruce Allen, I will not conceal that this has given me a outstanding achievements by residents and a Masters student from Botswana. sense of satisfaction and fulfilment. It also living at the College and Wyverns active in gives rise to strong feelings of gratitude, The landscape of higher education the wider world after leaving College. Each towards the many generations of residents, is ever changing, not least in terms of our three residential sub-communities towards my devoted staff, and above all of cost. College fees have to rise if we (as I like to call them), undergraduates, towards my wife Gonni, who has been at are to continue to provide the splendid graduates and members of the senior my side the entire journey. There have been facilities and services that our residents common room, are well represented in a number of farewell events in recent weeks enjoy. But we also have to ensure that various reports and feature articles. and I find the words of appreciation that we can assist promising and talented have been addressed to me quite moving. The two Deans have written articles that applicants who aspire to enter Queen’s give additional background on what we if they come from less advantaged But perhaps the most important article of this issue is found on p. 4, introducing offer our students at the College. Mentoring backgrounds. The Enduring Scholarships the eighth Master of Queen’s. I am fully is becoming ever more important as the Program which I outline in my article is convinced that Professor Stewart Gill is the pressures on young people increase. crucially important for the future of the right person to take this College to the next Some of that pressure has to do with College, and I sincerely hope that there level. I wish him every success as he takes looking to the future and trying to prepare are many readers who will consider over the mantle that I have worn for these oneself for the transition to employment. what they might be able to do to past fifteen years. Aedificamus in aeternum! The university does very little in this support it, whether now or at some area. As our Acting Dean of Studies and time in the future. Prof. David Runia Master social media www.queens.unimelb.edu.au/wyverns/social-media/ www.facebook.com/queenscollegeau www.twitter.com/queenscollege www.facebook.com/QCWyvernSociety www.linkedin.com/groups/2098816 queens_college_unimelb queens_college www.youtube.com/queenscollegeau NovEMBER 2016 3 coMMUNITY NEws New Master of Queen’s College Appointed By Prof. Ross Williams Professor Stewart Gill has been appointed as the eighth Master of Queen’s College. Professor Gill has a distinguished record of Arts from the University of Toronto of leadership and management in and a PhD from the University of Guelph. residential colleges. He has been Principal He is a Fellow of The Royal Historical of Emmanuel College at the University Society, London. His published historical of Queensland since 2005. He is also studies span Canada, Scotland and founder of the Emmanuel Centre for the Australia. Study of Science, Religion and Society, Professor Gill is a strategic thinker with and an Adjunct Professor in the School considerable financial acumen. He sees the of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry. need for colleges to diversify their revenue Photo by Michelle James, Emmanuel College He previously held positions with the bases to reduce dependence on student Melbourne residential colleges as Warden fees. He is committed to ensuring that of Ridley College and Deputy Warden socio-economically deprived students from about providing an ideal environment for of Trinity College. challenged backgrounds are able to take both undergraduate and graduate students and is committed to the welfare of staff. Scottish by birth, Professor Gill graduated up places in residential colleges through with an honours Master’s degree from the provision of financial assistance. Professor Gill is married to Mrs Heather Gill the University of Edinburgh. He continued Professor Gill operates with a respectful, and has two adult sons. He will take up his his studies in Canada, earning a Master highly engaged style. He is passionate appointment as Master in January 2017. Welcome to our new College Chaplain In April of this year the Queen’s community welcomed Rev. Sally Apokis into the position of College Chaplain, with her official commissioning taking place on Sunday 10 April during the service of Evening Prayer. Sally has held chaplaincy roles within education for over 20 years in Australia and the United Kingdom, where most recently she was Chaplain with the Universities of Kent, Greenwich, and Canterbury Photo courtesy of Prof. Tim Corney Christ Church and a Canon of Rochester Cathedral. In the short time that she has been with us, Rev. Apokis has already made a significant New Youth Policy contribution to the life and vitality of the College as a key member of our pastoral care team, and in leading the spiritual life of our community through the weekly service of The Victorian State Government have Evening Prayer. Rev. Apokis has taken up residence in the College’s East Flat with her recently launched a new youth policy titled husband, theologian Rev. Dr Con Apokis. ‘Building Stronger Youth Engagement’. Our Dean of Student Wellbeing, Professor Tim Corney, was a contributor to the writing of the policy and as result was invited to chair a Q&A with the Minister for Youth Baby Boom in the Close and Community Services, the Hon. Jenny Wyverns, Jake and Annabelle Workman Mikados MLC, on the new youth policy. (2005) recently welcomed Elsinore, The event was held at the Victorian Trades sister to Evianna, into their family. The Hall Council with hundreds of young Workmans are living in the Close while people from all over the state coming to Jake is in the role of Dean of Studies hear the minister discuss youth issues along with his Arch Wyvern responsibilities. with a panel of specialists chaired by Prof. And just a day prior, Senior Tutor Kenneth Corney. The event was sponsored by the Moore and Eleni Aicia welcomed their John Cain Foundation, the Youth Affairs first child, baby Benjamin, into the world. Council of Victoria and The Centre for Warm congratulations to all—and Multicultural Youth, The Young Workers Photo by Tim Brown (2011) welcome to our youngest Queeners! Centre, the Youth Workers Association and the State Government. 4 IN AETERNUM coMMUNITY NEws How to Make Something Incredible in 24 hours Graduate resident, Anton Tarasenko (Master of Electrical Engineering), wins the UNIHACK 2016 Challenge Do you spend far too much time staring into your fridge thinking what am I going to cook? Well, ponder no longer as this eternal problem has been solved by our graduate resident Anton Tarasenko during the UNIHACK competition—and all within 24 hours! UNIHACK is a hackathon with a in your fridge.” To create this a user milk bottle by an RFID scanner (which difference—computer programmers have takes a photo of their grocery receipt when implemented would be fitted to the only 24 hours to come up with a software and uploads this to their program, Mango fridge) that showed the item being added (or hardware) solution to a problem they DB, which reads and catalogues the food and subtracted from their application have identified.