A MAGAZINE FOR THE ALUMNI AND FRIENDS OF ST GEORGE’S COLLEGE Winter 2020 Issue 1 Volume 44 INSIDE THIS ISSUE Gowns and Guests Visit from the Prime Minister 2013 Rhodes Scholar Ken Freeman PM Award 50 Year Club Lunch Acknowledgement of Australian History and Racial Inequality Be concerned about your wider community directly affected descendants, and governmentally enforced by marginalisation. racial profiling. This ingrained racism brother. You may not be The College Club acknowledges that affects the lives of many BIPOC not only on strike. But either we the traditional custodians of the land are within Australia, but in countries across the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island the globe. go up together, or we go Peoples, and that St George’s College is Reconciliation Week has recently down together. built on Whadjuk Noongar land. We also passed (27th May – 3rd June) and we acknowledge that we have no right to recognise its importance to mend – Martin Luther King Jr. (1968) point out racial inequity in other countries relationships between Australians. if we continue to remain silent on the We strive to be better in commemorating It is not the place of College Club, let racial inequity here within Australia. the lived experiences of Aboriginal alone the Senior Student, to impose Following the arrival of the First Fleet people and acknowledging Australia’s personal and political views upon the of British ships on January 26th 1788, many histories. residents. It is our job, however, to ensure colonisers declared the land terra nullius We are not saying that the majority the happiness, wellbeing, and safety of (nobody’s land) despite the fact that of Georgians have never struggled, every Georgian who calls these grounds it had been inhabited for over 60,000 or worked hard, or that we are all home. Whilst living here at St George’s years by people with their own identities, beneficiaries of class privilege. But we it is easy for some of us to tune out the beliefs, and political structures. In an do recognise how lucky we are to have rest of the world and concern ourselves effort to dismantle these, British colonists the opportunities we do and to pursue only with the happenings within our subjected the First Nations People to our education. own walls. But there are some things we atrocities: massacres, slavery, and forced At St George’s we believe that no cannot ignore. They need to be heard. ‘assimilation’ that divided families and one deserves to be discriminated against In response to the recent protests sparked disrupted spiritual ties. Additionally, in due to their race, sexuality, gender, by the murder of George Floyd on 25th 1901 the ‘White Australia Policy’ came or disabilities. May and the subsequent rallies around into effect and restricted the movement At St George’s we will work to raise the Black Lives Matter movement, of non-British people into the country each other up and stand together. many residents have spoken out about and encouraged the deportation of the injustices that Black, Indigenous, those who had already entered. This St George’s College Club Executive: and People of Colour (BIPOC) face policy was not fully eliminated until the Senior Student Ché Monsiegneur, Vice due to systemic racism within our 1970s. The foundational history of the President James Mazzarolo, Secretary society. The College Club Committee Australia we know today is blotted with Cat Williams, Treasurer Patricia Frazis wishes to reaffirm our absolute support the mistreatment of Aboriginal people and Social Officer Nic Hill on behalf of for our residents and those in the at the hands of white settlers and their the 2020 St George’s College Club The Georgian is a bi-annual Founded in 1931, St George’s College is a co-educational residential publication produced by St George’s college that provides accommodation for university students. College within The University St George’s is a vibrant place of imagination, industry and reflection of Western Australia. where we seek to provide opportunities, to optimise talents and abilities, and to explore and appreciate diversity of thought, experience The Georgian is also available and action. We endeavour to conserve the best of the past, to 167332 UniPrint online at: stgc.uwa.edu.au promote the best of the present, and to seek the best for the future. Cover: One of the posters produced to promote good hygiene practices and remind residents of the To enquire about residence at the College see our web page restrictions introduced due to Covid-19 (p 40). or call the College Administration stgc.uwa.edu.au/apply-now Artwork design: Nicola Holdway on (08) 9449 5555. (2015) 2 WINTER 2020 3 Contents Winter 2020 5 From the Warden 42 Newby Blues 10 From the Board 43 Mockingbirds Chairman 44 2019 UWA Prize Winners 11 From the Foundation 44 ISO Sports Tournament Chairman 13 From the Senior Student The Little Dragon 15 O-Week Formal Dinner: Mel Stewart 45 From the Georgian 16 Commencement President Ceremony & O-Week 46 Covid Weddings: 18 College Lands Distance Makes the Heart Grow Fonder 21 Annual Giving: Covid-19 Emergency Bursary Fund 47 Wine Dinner 22 Scholarships and 47 Great Southern: The Bursaries Realm of Riesling 24 Practice of Government 48 Not Worth Going to See: Dinner Tim Richards 26 Where Music Belongs 50 Vale Tony Munday 31 The College’s Boyd 51 Vale Alex Cohen AO 34 Never Dormant in the 52 Vale David Norman Doldrums: in Memory (1948) of Sub-Warden Rev. 53 Vale John Glover (1942) Christopher Storrs 54 News & Visitors 38 Quad and Kitchen TOP: Gabriela Cannon & Harriet Wilson Renovations 56 Georgian Events MIDDLE: Trying out some socially distanced sports BOTTOM: Tharushi Pallegedara & Mia Jones 39 Formal Dinner: Megan McCracken (Egerton- Warburton 1985) 40 Snapshot of Semester One: College Life in the Time of Covid-19 2 WINTER 2020 3 From the Editor From the Editor 2020 has certainly not followed the to assist Georgians to thrive and the script or gone to plan but we are Georgian community to flourish. Alumni flexible and have quickly adapted who have already listed on the Directory to new realities. Life at St George’s include Tim Richards (p 48) and Jarrad College in Semester One was Seng (p 46). The Business Directory can not the same as usual, but the be found here: https://b2me.com.au/ residents have impressed us all as members/st-georges-college or contact me they have found ways to keep the for more information. College community not only alive Photographs have been contributed but flourishing. Examples of this to this publication by our Photography can be found all throughout the Bursary holders Pailin Harris and magazine (p 5, 13, 40, 44). Nora Wilsbeck (p 7, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 22, 23, 24, 25, 35, 40, 41, 44). Thank As restrictions ease in Western Australia you to them and to everyone else for we can start planning events at the their contributions. Submissions and College again, so keep an eye on the suggestions are always welcome. College website for details. A highlight This edition of The Georgian is being will be the Wine Dinner on Friday 4th distributed on-line. We will be doing December – a perfect opportunity for a a limited print-run so please get in Christmas Get-Together. All are welcome touch if you would like a hard copy of so book your table early (p 47). the magazine. To Georgians living in other parts of I hope you enjoy The Georgian the world where daily life is still impacted magazine and I wish you and your by restrictions, our thoughts are with you families the best of health. G and we look forward to the time when we can all be together again. Jo Evans (1988) The Georgian Committee have Editor, The Georgian teamed up with B2Me Australia to [email protected] provide a digital business directory 4 WINTER 2020 5 From the Warden From the Warden An Inspirational Place The College has been an inspirational place in which to be over the last semester. The residents have displayed Catering team extraordinary imagination and invention, making for a full and affirming College life despite the restrictions. My colleagues in housekeeping, catering, maintenance, groundskeeping, student care and administrative teams have all been energetic and adaptable in dealing with the many challenges; they have also dealt with significant temporary reductions in income, despite the attendant hardship, with forbearance for which I am very grateful. The Foundation and Georgians swung into action with the much-appreciated Annual Giving to support a Fighting Hospitality, Housekeeping and Maintenance team Fund to help residents. College families and friends have contributed to the Fund, they can properly pursue their studies. with disposable crockery, cutlery and as well as Georgians, and we are very At home they do have their bedrooms. containers. The College was divided into appreciative of their care for residents and But crowded kitchen tables with parents four groups and meals were attended on families facing tough times. and siblings working at home, jockeying a rostered basis with only five allowed in The College and Foundation Boards for bandwidth and elbow room, do the servery at any one time and four at and Committees have been very active not constitute an acceptable substitute each dining room table – often residents with additional meetings and initiatives to for the College’s common study areas ate outside as the good weather persisted. deal with changing public health, financial and powerful internet capability; the Sanitiser was as present as admonitions. and resident care environments.