THE SCOTCH FAMILY MAGAZINE No 115 SEPTEMBER 2005 Dates Contents SEPTEMBER NOVEMBER 02 OSCA 40-year Reunion – 01 Exeat – Melbourne Cup Principal’s Report 1 Cardinal Pavilion 10 OSCA AGM and President’s 03 APS Athletics Meeting Dinner – Cardinal Pavilion Chaplain’s Report 2 08 TERM 3 ENDS 11 Remembrance Day Assembly 21 OSCA Wagga Wagga Branch and Veterans’ Luncheon Dinner Cadet Tattoo – Main Oval Features 3–9 12 1st Cricket R1 v BGS at BGS OCTOBER 1st Tennis R1 v BGS at BGS Junior School 10–13 04 TERM 4 BEGINS 14 School examinations 07 OSCA 55-Year Reunion – commence Cardinal Pavilion 15 Junior School Concert – Senior School 14–19 08 House and Form Athletics and Ian Roach Hall, JFA Family Day – JS and SS 18 OSCA 50-Year Reunion – School Captain’s Report 16 Ken Field Art Show – Krongold Cardinal Pavilion Gallery, JFA (8–9 October) 19 1st Cricket R2 v Xavier at XC Boarders’ Cocktail Party and 1st Tennis R2 v Xavier at XC Senior School Music 20–21 Boarders’ Review 25 Correction Day SS – no classes 09 OSCA Bellarine Branch OSCA YOBS Function – Senior School Sport 22–25 Luncheon PA’s Richmond 15 APS Athletics Meeting – Boarders’ Exeat Olympic Park 28 Results Day Senior School Boarding 26 17 Year 12 Valedictory Dinner 29 Summer Prom Concert – 19 APS Athletics Heats – Ian Roach Hall, JFA OSCA/Old Boys 27–35 Olympic Park 20 Year 12 Presentation Night – DECEMBER Memorial Hall 01 Junior School Speech Night – What They’re Doing Now 36–37 21 Year 12 Final Assembly and Memorial Hall Torch Ceremony 02 Prize Giving Assembly – Old Scotch Clubs 38–40 OSCA London Branch Dinner – Yrs 9, 10 and 11 – Memorial Hall Caledonian Club 05 Scotch Family Carol Service – 22 APS Athletics Sports – Memorial Hall Branches 41 Olympic Park 06 Junior School Christmas 26 Junior APS Athletics – Concert – Memorial Hall Reunions 42 Olympic Park 07 Prize Giving Assembly – 27 October Concert – Years 7 and 8 Ian Roach Hall, JFA 08 TERM 4 ENDS OSCA 43–44 28 VCE examinations commence (28 Oct–18 Nov) Foundation 45–48 OSCA Bangkok Branch Dinner 31 Exeat OSCA 10-Year Reunion – Archives 49–51 PA’s Richmond Obituaries 53–60 Published by: Scotch College, 1 Morrison Street, Hawthorn 3122, Victoria, Australia. ABN 86 852 856 445 Print Post Approved PP349181/00189 Editor: Mr Tim Shearer (03) 9810 4302; email: [email protected] Graphic Designer: Kathryn Cairney (03) 9810 4443 Photography: World Vision, Richard Berry, Stephen Harman, John Ferguson, Jen Thomson, Tim Shearer, Kathryn Cairney and staff Printed by: Mercedes Waratah Press, 8 Elliot Place, Ringwood, 3134 Victoria, Australia, (03) 9870 7788, [email protected] Front Cover: Courtesy World Vision Members of the Scotch College Pipe Band at the Shrine on ANZAC Day THE PRINCIPAL Reaching out Two major initiatives are allowing Scotch to reach After numerous discussions the idea emerged to well beyond Hawthorn. link with World Vision and embark on an ambitious project with education at its core. Scotch would One originated ten years ago when a Year 10 raise the required funds and World Vision would Football tour to Darwin included a match against oversee the construction of a school in an area of Xavier CEC in the Tiwi Islands. Our boys received an acute need. overwhelmingly enthusiastic welcome. Two return visits, in later years, led to a strong relationship Zambia, population around 11 million, has seen its between the two communities, cemented by their life expectancy fall from 58 to around 37 years over visit to Melbourne in 2002. Each year since then at the last three decades. Infant mortality is a shock- least two Tiwi boys have attended Scotch as board- ing 20 per cent, unemployment is over 50 per cent ers on a short-term ‘leadership scholarship’, where and the average daily per capita income is less than football has created a ready avenue for involvement $1.50. Literacy and numeracy levels are poor, thereby within the Scotch student body. The boys undertake limiting the capacity of the population to establish training in art, physical education, numeracy and a sustainable economy. With a stable government literacy as well as work experience with our grounds and good prospects of visits by future groups from and maintenance staff. The Essendon Football Club Scotch, Zambia became our target and World Vision also included the boys in some of their activities. identified Kopa in the Mpika region, some 600 km north-east of Lusaka. We intend to re-build the A recent ‘Tiwi Islands Community’ newsletter stated Kapumfi Community School, where seven primary that ‘Our Tiwi young men bring the knowledge and classes occupy only two dilapidated classrooms. experience gained during the program back to the Phase One will create a classroom block with basic Tiwi Islands and share this with their family and equipment, along with teachers’ housing, which is friends. In ten years’ time we will have had twenty- required to attract qualified staff. plus young men complete the program and they will be better prepared to lead the Tiwi Islands into Material and labour will be obtained locally. Stage a prosperous and harmonious future. It is a ‘win-win’ Two will add a clean water supply along with toilet outcome for all involved as the Scotch students and facilities and a third stage will construct another staff also benefit in learning more about their fellow classroom block and residences allowing a much indigenous mates and issues affecting them’. needed extension into secondary schooling. The Zambian government will pay teachers’ salary costs. The program has been extended with the arrival of Cyril Rioli (Year 10) from Tiwi and Nathan Djerrkura Scotch has accepted the challenge of raising a total (Year 11) from Arnhem Land, as long-term boarding of $150,000 to fund all three stages, requiring about students. Both are very talented footballers who three years of energetic fundraising. The level of contributed to a great year for our First XVIII and they enthusiasm is such that we may well raise the total are undertaking courses of study leading to their sum in less time, in which case World Vision will be VCE. Each expects, in due course, to return home and able to complete the project more quickly. to contribute to the future wellbeing of their com- The Scotch community is privileged that its facilities munities. and programs are of the highest calibre. Recognising The second initiative extends to Africa where Scotch that privilege brings attendant responsibilities it has embarked on a venture that should have a is fitting that we are now reaching well beyond major impact. The Kapumfi project has emerged, Hawthorn. To all, staff, boys, parents and Old Boys, indirectly, as Scotch’s response to the tsunami which who provide such willing support, a very sincere killed hundreds of thousands on Boxing Day, 2004. ‘Thank you’. At the start of this school year Scotch boys sought a DR F. G. DONALDSON, AM collective response. A committee of senior students Principal and staff quickly discovered that Australian relief agencies required five years to use money already donated and suggested we find another philan- thropic target. GREAT SCOT SEPTEMBER 2005 1 THE CHAPLAIN When the colours bleed into one When the AFL introduced the blood rule in the early Testament, not all of which are palatable today. We ’90s it was clear that in the popular mind blood readily accept that Jesus’ blood inspires and models was dangerous; it was important for our health that sacrifice, but it also propitiates and atones. This is everything on the field be antiseptic. Where there problematic, even offensive to some. For instance, was once said to be life in blood, the AIDS panic JD Crossan critiques Mel Gibson’s Passion movie as assured us there was death in the blood. ‘Hymn to a Savage God’. He particularly objects to atonement and propitiation. Who wants a God that War and bloody violence are communicated to us Graham Bradbeer calls for blood? Crossan wants a blood-free theol- daily on television, but are typically and thank- ogy, a theology that makes no call for propitiation or fully remote from our personal experience. Today atonement. emergency and even primary health care is increas- ingly handled by specialists. Citizens are less and Life is not simple, clinically clean or antiseptic. less exposed to blood. Meat comes on blood-free Wherever we find real people, their relationships polystyrene trays. The Red Cross is critically short of are muddied and bloodied. From ethnic cleansing in blood donors. Srebrenica to our divorce statistics, we find people acutely hurting. Our experience is that when the While everywhere else candour about blood was hurt is close, the pain is increasingly personal and unacceptable, Alice Cooper’s counter-cultural song, acute. For God it is always personal. The grief we ‘Only Women Bleed’, was a striking aberration. cause one another grieves the God-who-would- Action movies wallowed in special effects, but have-it-different. depicting the real thing could cost ratings. The ads for sanitary napkins use blue. This trend is difficult God is rightly angry. Only an act of atonement (at- for church-goers since the death of the bloodied one) can reconcile God with us. But who can deliver Jesus is the climax of the Gospels. Holy Communion justice for a murdered daughter or a child’s stolen goes even further and brings into focus his words innocence? Where does it stop? The cross of Christ is ‘this is my blood’. the Christian answer. Christ stands in for the guilty; he is our substitute, the ‘shock absorber’ for human- It is clear that blood is not kosher, so to speak; it’s off ity.