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The Tuckwell Scholarship at the Australian National University 2014 Edition the Annual Magazine for Tuckwell Scholars the BELL — 2015 EDITION The Tuckwell Scholarship at The Australian National University 2014 Edition The annual magazine for Tuckwell Scholars THE BELL — 2015 EDITION Contents 3 Reflection on our first year 4 Message from the Head of Scholars House 5 The Tuckwell Bell and the Bell Ringer 7 Student stories 35 Timeline 36 Applying for a Tuckwell Scholarship 1 THE BELL — 2015 EDITION Reflections on our first year GRAHAM AND LOUISE TUCKWELL We all knew we were taking applications and interviews, which The commitment of the senior on an ambitious project in creating a is crucial to the selection process management of ANU, led by leading scholarship program from a and integrity of the program. Their Professor Marnie Hughes- standing start with no blueprint. This work is voluntary, yet the time Warrington and Dr Colin Taylor, has was a genuine start-up, with all the commitment is large. been outstanding. At our first usual excitement and chaos that We have been thrilled by the meeting with the ANU Chancellor one associates with a new venture. number of ANU staff who have and Vice-Chancellor it was clear To add to the complexity, volunteered to help in many we all shared a vision for what this the two partners were polar aspects of the program, program could do, and their opposites—an entrepreneur and demonstrating their belief in what support has enabled our complete a national university—which made we are trying to achieve. engagement with the University. for some very interesting Thousands of hours of work have With our own children (just about) conversations early on. been done by more than 100 staff, all away at university, we will We now know what a Tuckwell contributing in all manner of things continue to devote a lot of our time Scholar looks like and they look such as reading and scoring of to this program. We take a great terrific. The quality and diversity of multiple applications, designing deal of interest in each Scholar. To our inaugural group has exceeded and building the website and online us they are like an extended family all our expectations. The long-term application system, creating and whose progress we look forward success of the program will depend distributing information on the to following. on, and be driven by, the Scholars, Scholarship, and advising the in what they do not just at university Scholars in a range of areas. but in the many years ahead. The We are grateful to the Fellows of 2014 Scholars have done us proud Scholars House for their mentoring in their first year and we see the and leadership of the 2014 same potential in the 2015 Scholars Scholars, all of whom were the who are about to start. ‘guinea pigs’ in setting up the The contribution by, and depth of inaugural roles and activities of knowledge of, the Selection Panel such. The success of Scholars members has been incredible. It is House is crucial to us and we feel their judgement of potential the foundations have been laid for a Scholars, based on paper dynamic future. 3 THE BELL — 2015 EDITION Message from the Head of Scholars House PROFESSOR RICHARD BAKER Pro Vice-Chancellor (Student Experience) The Tuckwell Scholarship program played a remarkable roll in starting wonderful work as Tuckwell has an exciting year ahead of it. The the process of enacting the vision Fellows in 2014. Thanks are also number of Scholars in the program Graham and Louise Tuckwell have due to the class of 2014 for putting will double with the class of 2015 for Australia’s most prestigious into practice the Tuckwell ideal of joining the inaugural class of 2014. university scholarship scheme. positively benefiting others in a An innovative enrichment program The attributes used for selecting the most practical way. I am greatly is in place to support the Tuckwell Tuckwell Scholars have proved to be indebted to them for the important vision of highly motivated students inspired and they produced an role they have played over the last fulfilling their potential and extraordinary first cohort. As the few months in assisting me to reinvesting their knowledge, skills recently appointed Head of Scholars develop the program for future and experience in ways that House, I was immediately impressed years. positively benefit others. A new by the way the Scholars have not focus in 2015 will see the class of only individually lived out the Tuckwell 2014 taking a leadership role in attributes, but have collectively running events to benefit the class formed a community that embodies of 2015. the Tuckwell vision. In 2014, the first class of Tuckwell Finally, I would like to thank Scholars excelled in living up to the Professor Simon Rice AO, very high expectations of being the Professor Susan Howitt and Dr Tuckwell program pioneers. They Mary Kilcline-Cody for all their 4 THE BELL — 2015 EDITION The Tuckwell Bell and the Bell Ringer The centrepiece of the ANU will have on the lives of the Each cohort of Scholars must Commencement Dinner each year Tuckwell Scholars. select a Bell Ringer to ‘ring them is the ringing of the Tuckwell Bell. Music has always been very in’ at the Commencement Dinner. Commissioned by Graham and important to Louise Tuckwell, who It is up to each cohort to decide Louise Tuckwell, the Tuckwell Bell sings in her local choir. She how they elect their Bell Ringer. was cast by Britain’s oldest selected the note A, her favourite The 2014 cohort elected Matthew manufacturing company, the note, as the Bell’s tone. Jacob as the inaugural Bell Ringer Whitechapel Bell Foundry in London. The Bell was presented by the to represent them. The crafting of this handbell from Tuckwells to Scholars House as a molten metal into sound signifies gift, with the intention that it would the transformative impact that the be rung once for each new Scholar Tuckwell Scholarship program at entering the program. 5 Student stories Student stories THE BELL — 2015 EDITION occasional assessment threatening heart condition and procrastination. However, unlike surgery for an implantable cardiac most other students, I had an defibrillator, 2014 was, needless to extraordinary support network say, rather shocking. However, consisting of Tuckwell Fellows and whilst my heart was faulty, the my fellow Scholars, on top of strong friendships that I made were academic and pastoral support in not. Much like the defibrillator, I the residential halls and academic sparked many friendships within the colleges. The Tuckwell Fellows were cohort which solidified during exam insightful, intelligent and inspiring. period as we would flock to They were always available to talk to Scholars House to study in order to and consult on a variety of issues escape the libraries. In Scholars, we ranging from academic advice to were able to help each other out on personal issues. assessments, use whiteboards to Matthew Barton, NSW As a part of the Scholarship manifest ideas in scrawl, and use Bachelor of Laws / Bachelor of Arts program, the cohort and Fellows the coffee machine that I so vitally would meet every two weeks in needed to pull me through. Throughout the year, Scholars There aren’t too many people who Scholars House to have workshops became a regular study place as it can say that they have had the discussing leadership, decision- was quiet and spacious for me to opportunity to come to ANU. making skills, and listen to a wide spread all my gear out. I will never There are even less people who can variety of guest speakers. One of my forget my time there. We studied say that their first year of university highlights of the year was an together and we may or may not was christened by breaking bread Academic Dinner at University have consumed an inordinate with the Chancellor and upper House where all Scholars invited an amount of Tim Tams which, may or echelons of the University. Fewer still academic to an Oxbridge style may not have been accompanied who can say that they met the Prime dinner organised by the Master of with peanut butter on several Minister in his office at Parliament University House. There were many occasions during the heightened House within a matter of weeks of academics from a range of periods of stress during exam time. commencing tertiary study. disciplines who were fantastic and To some, the existence of such a engaging. The best element about it Ultimately, 2014 was a fantastic year distinctive series of events defies was its relaxed nature, where we and a large part of that is because belief. However, when you discover were able to talk to academics in a of this amazing Scholarship. I am that a scholarship was the catalyst candid and open fashion. Rather forever grateful and fortunate to be for these events, you immediately than being separated by a lectern, an inaugural recipient of this wonder what it is and how the rest we were sitting right next to some prestigious Scholarship. of the year played out. So, in raw academics who had inspired us and commercial-free coverage, I throughout a course or whose area shall detail the events of the of study interested us. rollercoaster ride that was 2014. Above all else, the best thing about The Tuckwell The first thing I would highlight the Scholarship was the friendships about my experience at ANU as a that I made. I affectionately describe Fellows were Tuckwell Scholar is that this lavish 2014 as ‘My Year of Health insightful, series of events was not a common Problems’; I’m not sure if I could intelligent and occurrence.
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