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The University of Newcastle Uninews, No. 20, June, 1992 The University of Newcastle [SSN [032-2272 Number 20. June 1992 Registration NBG 9467 HONORARY DOCTOR OF MUSIC TO PRIMA BALLERINA A memorable start was made to the when she performed, not only to see her 1992 Graduation Ceremony when an dance but also, because she received so Honorary Degree of Doctor of Music many curtain calls we would be paid around him finishing the ballet. When was conferred upon Prima Ballerina, overtime. the curtain carne down, someone had to Miss Marilyu jones. "At 191 joined the BorovanskyBallet, saw through the floor boards to get the The Honorary Degree was conferred a commercial company, and performed poor dancer out," Dr jones said. during the first session of the Grad­ my first ballerina role of Princess Aurora "The Australian Ballet has become a uation Ceremony on Friday, May 1 in in 'The Sleeping Beauty'. In Australia in company of international standard, recognition of Miss Jones' magnificent the 1950's there were no subsidised touring continually since 1965. I have contribution to the art of dance in companies. The Borovansky company been with the company to many pans of Australia. had seasons of approximately 18 the world including China, North and The Dean of the Faculty of Music, Mr months at a time, touring Australia and South America, Europe,South East Asia Michael Dudman, said it gave him great New Zealand. and the Soviet Union. It has been a very pleasure to present Miss Jones for admis­ "From there, my husband, Garth rewarding career," she said. sion to the honorary degree as she had Welch, and I were accepted into the Dr jones has also seen her two sons, established for herself a place of great Marquis De Quevas company, an inter­ Stanton and Damien, take up ballet as a eminence in her an. national company based in Paris. The career to become second generation He said that in our own time and company toured Europe extensively and dancers of the Australian Ballet country, the deep affection in which the ] had wonderful roles to perform and At the moment, Dr Jones is perfonning art of ballet is held, simply demonstrates wonderful partners to dance them with, in a ballet, written and choreographed the ongoing popularity of dance as a including Rudolf Nureyev who had by Stanton, called 'A Blessed Memory', strong strand in everyday life. recently defected from Russia. currently enjoying a season at the ]n her occasional address which delig­ "By 1962, at last a national Australian Sydney Opera House. Stanton has dedic­ hted the graduates and their guests Ballet Company, funded by the Govern­ ated the ballet to his mother and it tells gathered in the Great Hall, Dr jones said ment, was formed. Dame Peggy van the story of the parenUchild relationship she was extremely proud to receive this Praagh was the Company's first Artistic from birth to when the ties are broken. honour and all the more so because it Director and Garth and I were invited The ballet will also be performed in had been conferred by The Universityof back home to perform in the inaugural London in July. Newcastle. season in Sydney. Apart from guesting Two years ago she was awarded an "] had a wonderful childhood here, so with the London Festival Ballet, ] Australian Artists Creative Fellowship Newcastle is very special to me," Dr remained with the Australian Ballet until by the Australia Council which has jones said. my retirement, one of several, might ] enabled her to establish a new organis­ "] started my early ballet training here add," she quipped. ation, The Australian Institute of Class­ at five years of age, under the tuition of Dr jones treated her audience to a ical Dance (A.l.C.D.). As the Artistic Tessa Maunder who taught me until ] humourous insight into her early career. Director of this organisation, Dr Jones was 15 when] was fortunate to win a She said that during the early days of aims to assist, support and unite the scholarship which enabled me to con­ the Australian Ballet Company there classical ballet teachers of Australia and tinue my studies at the Royal Ballet were hard times financially and during to provide an Australian system of asses­ School in London. these periods the Company would be sment of students' standards. "My first professional job as a dancer split into two groups to tour the country ''This honorary doctorate, which you was with the Royal Ballet Company. ] areas. have so graciously conferred on me, I was then 1 7 and during my time with "Some of the halls we had to perform see also as an honour for the art of the Royal Ballet, the company toured in were pretty appalling and on one classical dance, of which ] am a represen­ the United States and Canada. Dame occasion one of the dancers jumped and tative. Margot Fonteyu was the Prima Ballerina went through the floor up to his waist. "] thank you, both personally and on and we, the younger dancers, loved it The other dancers continued to dance behalf of my art." Dr Jones concluded. CONTENTS Editor FRONT COVER Sonja Duncan, lnfomJation Windennere House P4 This striking artwork was painted by and Public Relations Unit renowned local artist and Muswellbrook art A Love Affair with Literature Contributing Writers teacher, Max Watters (AM) in 1982. Thisoil P9 Cae Pattison painting, entitled "Farmhouses Jerry's Plains Road" Fonns pan of the Universitycollection, Bush Tucker P12 - 13 John Miner Sonja Duncan It was presented to the University by Convocation News PIS - 19 graduates of the Faculty of Economics and Design and Artwork Commerce and L'niversity Staff of 1982 in Graduation 1992 P20 - 23 Gill Hughes the memory of Neal J. Dickinson. William Mitchell Page 2 SWATHED IN A CLOUD OF MAN MADE Pollution is now recognised as a major The resolution is now in effect and it is problem confronting the human race. expected that full international cooperation Whether global, such as greenhouse gases on this important issue will result. Com­ and fluorocarbons, or local, with PCB mission 15 of the IAU, a large Commission chemicals and heavy metals, the quality of which deals with planets and satellites, has life on planet Earth is under threat. elected Professor Keay to its ranks in recog­ But the damage does not end at the nition of his efforts in its interest boundary of our planet. The various national "nK Because of his leading role in international space agencies are starting to worry about scientific affairs, Professor Keay has since the level of pollution in the region of space 1985 been listed in the annual Yearbook of surrounding the Earth, extending almost as the International Council of Scientific Unions, far as the Moon. which embraces Science, Engineering and Four years ago. a Conference convened in Medical Science. He is the onlyNovocastrian Washingron by the US National Aeronautics among the sixty Australians listed in the and Space Administration was shown yearbook. alarming evidence of the dangers produced by the rising tide of junk in cislunar space. A Upon induction as President, Professor video movie produced from radar tracking Keay drew attention to a number of problems data showed our planet swathed in a cloud facing his Commission. He suggested that of man -made junk. The effect was just as if the Commission should take the initiative in the Earth were a hive of bees. preventing the pollution of interplanetary The frightening aspect of this situation space while there is still time to do so. The lies in the risk of collision between pieces of Commission members agreed unanimously junk travelling in opposite directions at and, at Professor Keay's suggestion, speeds up to fifteen kilometres per second. appointed Professor Iwan Williams, of One collision can produce hundreds to thous­ London, as convener of a working group of ands of fragments. Each extra fragment senior international space experts, from all multiplies the chance of further collision, of the world's major space agencies, to until the existing space junk is ground down achieve a consensus on the steps to be to dust particles, It is an accelerating process taken. which, according to some estimates, could The replies were highly constructive and take less than a century. formed a basis for progress. While Professor Tiny particles in orbit are far from harm­ Keay was Visiting Professor in London in less. A space shuttle mission nearly 1990, the two Professors drafted a resolution succumbed to the impact of a fleck of paint forthe General Assembly of the International less than a millimetre in size. It bored its way Astronomical Union in Buenos Aires last almost completely through a window panel year. Other related Commissions were invited of the shuttle. to endorse the resolution and, when a A dust cloud surrounding the Earth could proposal agreeable to everyone was reached, make future space missions very difficult, if it went before the Closing Session of the not impossible. This includes the proposed Assembly and was adopted unanimously. space station. The final form of the Resolution on the Scientists are concerned for another reason Prevention ofInterplanetary Pollution reads: also. Man-made dust particles will cont­ The 2 I st General Assembly of the Interna­ aminate samples of natural interplanetary tional Astronomical Union, recognisingthat ,hotographic dust which is not dense enough to pose the pollution of the space environment in much of a threat to space missions. Scientific the close vicinity of the Earth is now of competition investigation of the solar system environ­ serious concern, and that pollution of the ment will slow to a halt if the pollution near remainder of the Solar System is only a the Earth becomes much worse.
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