New & Old June 2013

New&Old Ormond College Magazine No.86 June 2013

The university of the future?

From the Editor

Editorial team Di Bambra Annabel Doyle Peter Edwards Rachel Hardison Kate Higgins Fiona McQueen Ethan Ziv

Ethan Ziv

The magazine’s title New & Old is particularly fitting for this issue. We explore the dramatic

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changes that are taking place in the world of higher education as online learning takes off.

Cameron Dunlop James Grant Alister Sluiter David Williamson Sebastian Wood Ethan Ziv

For the College, this is an opportunity to build on our traditional strengths. But these changes also present the possibility of working with the University to reinvent learning.

We provide an update on a new development for the College – the arrival at Ormond of the Centre for Ethical Leadership. There have also been some important people changes, with the retirement of Ann Badger, whom many alumni will know, and the

New & Old is published twice a year by the College Advancement Office for the Ormond community.

arrival of Di Bambra, our new Director of Advancement.

Printed using FSC-certified carbon-neutral paper stock.

With celebration of the 40th anniversary of women coming into residence, we are

Cover photo: Learning together on Picken Lawn.

reminded that the College has always been at the leading edge of collegiate life in Australia.

Student life remains as vibrant as ever. We include updates on Ormond’s program of supporting students to learn through working on community projects, this year’s Orientation Week activities and recent sporting victories. We also celebrate the return to the College of a sporting trophy from our earliest years.

With the strength of what is on offer at Ormond, demand for places has continued the growth of the College. The Chair of Council addresses concerns about what this means for alumni who are keen for their children to share the experience they had at Ormond.

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Women’s soccer — premiers again With triumphs over Trinity, Newman and International House, the Ormond team met Queens in the grand final.

Despite the stiff competition, the game concluded with a penalty shoot-out, leaving the score 2-0 Ormond’s way.

Captained by Alice Maxwell, Ormond maintained the premiership for the third year in a row.

Ormond Shorts The Drama Club’s first production of the year, Ormond Shorts, had its inaugural offsite performance. The eclectic mix of drama, music and dance amused, dazzled and shocked the audience. This year, the greater artistic risks taken by the directors paid off. Ormond Drama is certainly embracing a more mature and diverse scope of activities.

Men’s hockey victory After two consecutive years of just missing out on the premiership, Ormond was ready to fight back. Drawing a massive crowd, the night final against Queens proved to be a reflection of the truly high quality of sport that is played at Ormond. The team, captained by Addison Davis, came out on top with a score of 3-1.

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Features

Sections

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From the Master

Colleges in the cyber age

6 Life in Ormond A boost to the College’s ethics programs Students sharing their experiences of Beyond Ormond Borders Farewell Ann Badger Welcome Di Bambra New year, new spirit

16 Alumni & community

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Life in Ormond

The Centre for Ethical Leadership arrives at Ormond

First female Chair of the OCSC, Maryjane Crabtree, shares her memories of Ormond in the 1970s The Warburton Breakfast Minyma Uncovering further evidence of our past sporting glories

20 Alumni news 23 Obituaries

10 How Ormond selects students Attracting and retaining a great mix of students

16 Alumni stories

Celebrating 40 years of women in residence at Ormond

Annual feature

P h i l a n t h r o py & S c h o l a r s h i ps A son inspired by his father’s quiet generosity

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Supporting students through scholarships

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Scholarship recipients 2013

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Giving to Ormond 2012

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From the Master

Colleges in the cyber age

Rufus Black Master

Last year in 2012, the University of Melbourne put four

Just as the internet continues to be a force of disruptive

free open-access courses online. The subjects included an

innovation in so many aspects of our lives, from how we buy

introduction to macro-economics and a course on climate

music and do our banking to the way we communicate, so it

change. The University was interested to see whether there

promises to be for universities. Those universities that don’t

would be much uptake. Within just a couple of months, there

adapt to the digital world risk going the way of Kodak, which

were more than 50,000 enrolments.

believed in the romance and relevance of film to the very end.

Online courses and lectures have been around for some time.

In his book The Innovative University, the leading Harvard

Last year they took off. The global network Coursera, through

Business School academic and authority on innovation, Clayton

which Melbourne offers its courses, has enrolled more than 3

Christenson, joins a range of commentators in predicting that

million students since April 2012. Coursera is just one of three

the internet, globalisation, funding pressures and changing

such consortia and the courses offered on these platforms already

expectations of students and industry will see “wholesale

have their own acronym: MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses).

bankruptcies” of traditional universities over the next decade.

The university cyber age has begun and it offers significant The future of college life

advantages over the current age.

Cyber age

Current age

• a well crafted video

• craning to watch distant

by a global expert • pausing whenever you need to take notes • at a time of your choice • in the comfort of your own space

lecturers, of varying quality • while squeezed into a lecture theatre with hundreds of other students • after a commute to a lecture scheduled to fit a university timetable

But the advantage of online learning is more than comfort

In many ways that future is already being invented by our students. Recently we had a group of science students who discovered that they had a less than inspiring lecturer on campus. Being an enterprising lot, they searched and found that much the same course was taught at MIT in the United States by a terrific teacher who put all his lectures online. Each week our students would get together in the comfort of the College to watch the MIT lecture and then find the Ormond tutor to sort out anything that wasn’t clear. The only time they went on campus was to hand in their assignments and turn up for their exams. Not surprisingly, they did very well.

and convenience: “Students in online conditions performed modestly better, on average, than those learning the same

This anecdote fits with the evidence. A second finding of the US

material through traditional face-to-face instruction” concluded

Department of Education’s research is: “Instruction combining

the US Department of Education’s meta-analysis of studies

online and face-to-face elements had a larger advantage relative to

about online learning. Other than for moments of academic

purely face-to-face instruction than did purely online instruction.”

or public theatre, lectures as a mode of instruction are on their way to being a chapter in history e-books.

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“What they are looking for from their university experience is far more than just a degree.”

Ormond’s opportunity

The importance of such houses or colleges to a great university

The opportunity for Ormond, if we choose to go down this path,

education is highlighted by Faust when she concludes her

is to work with the University of Melbourne, or with a leading

observations about an undergraduate education at Harvard by

international university, to reinvent higher education based on

saying: “All of these roads, of course, lead back to the House

what our students are already starting to do. It is the rest of

system, a distinctive aspect of our educational mission and the

college life that will be ever more valuable in this cyber world,

heart of the student experience.”What all of this suggests is

whatever we do about expanding our academic program. We

that, insofar as universities remain physical places for students in

already have many applications from interstate students who, if

the cyber age, they are more likely to be built around the idea of

they don’t get an offer from Ormond, turn down their Melbourne

a college than around anything else. Nevertheless, this will not

University place because, despite it being the best globally ranked

happen without great disruption, as Christenson and

university in the country, what they are looking for from their

others have highlighted.

university experience is far more than just a degree.

Our task, as a college, is not so much to weather the storm but

“Our task, as a college, is not so much to weather the storm but to lead the change.”

to lead the change. To do that, we need a conversation in the whole Ormond community about what we might become.

It will not be a conversation about what we should leave behind, because maintaining the type of community life we

We are not alone in thinking that a college life built around

have is what gives us a future in the cyber age. Rather, we need

people, place and tradition is at the heart of a great university

to explore how far we should expand our educational offering

experience. Probably the entities most proximate to the

and how audacious we should be if we do.

Melbourne colleges are the undergraduate ‘Houses’ of Harvard University. They function in remarkably similar ways. The parallel

References:

can readily be grasped in the recent observation of the current

https://www.coursera.org/ Clayton M. Christenson and Henry J. Eyring, The Innovative University (Jossey-Bass: 2011).

Drew Faust, Harvard Magazine (Jan–Feb: 2013). http://www.pearson.com/avalanche US Department of Education (2010) Evaluation of evidence-based practices in online learning, Washington: Center for Technology in Learning. http://www.ed.gov/rschstat/eval/ tech/evidence-based-practices/finalreport.pdf

President of Harvard, Drew Faust, that: “When I meet with … alumni, I often find that their fondest Harvard memories are House memories: conversations concluded in the early morning hours, first meetings turned lifelong friendships, and beloved traditions adopted and adapted.”

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Life in Ormond

The Centre for Ethical Leadership arrives at Ormond

Professor Robert Wood

The Centre for Ethical Leadership (CEL) has recently

Ethicists help to build people’s capability to think through what

moved to Ormond College. Professor Robert (Bob) Wood,

is the right thing to do. Psychologists help people to become

the Director of the CEL, has advised leaders and delivered

aware of the biases we have that might prevent us from seeing

programs to companies and organisations in many

issues and to develop tools to ensure that our decisions are

countries. His research in leadership, motivation

well thought out. They also help people to develop the skills to

and learning has won several international awards.

manage the social dynamics of groups and organisations as we seek to implement our decisions.

Why a Centre for Ethical Leadership?

Rarely a week passes when the media is not reporting on ethical

The CEL was created to help people in leadership or preparing

issues: the use of supplements in football, the state of garment

for leadership to meet these challenges. It brings together

factories in Bangladesh, safety on building sites, practices in the

ethicists, psychologists and experts in leadership in a unique

police force, the unfairness of banks not passing on interest rates.

combination. Practically, through our Vincent Fairfax Fellowship

Ethics matters in all forms of leadership. The Global Financial Crisis

Program, the CEL has the opportunity to develop these skills in

made us all aware of what can happen without ethics.

leaders drawn from corporations, the public service and nonprofit organisations, including sporting ones.

How does the CEL help to develop ethical leaders?

Making ethical decisions is not always easy. Sometimes, our

What else does the CEL do?

background or the way we look at the world means that

The CEL has a major research program. For example, we are

we don’t see critical ethical issues coming. Think of shoe

currently working on tools to help people in organisations to

manufacturers in the USA who suddenly faced boycotts because

understand how their unconscious knowledge about issues such

the leather they used in their shoes came from cattle raised on

as gender, values and race might be affecting their decisions.

farms that had once been rainforest.

We also work directly with organisations on ethical issues that they are tackling.

Even when we spot the ethical issues, determining what is actually the right thing to do is not easy either. For example,

Why the move to Ormond?

with a limited health budget, should we subsidise very expensive

We see Ormond as a terrific home within the University

drugs for rare cancers, which the majority of sufferers could not

for the CEL. There is close alignment between what we are doing

afford, or should we instead reduce the cost of other drugs that

and what the College is about. Practically, we are able to contribute

are widely used and benefit many people?

to the College’s own ethics program. Already this year, we have delivered a number of seminars. In the longer run, we are looking

Once we decide on the right thing to do, getting our teams,

to make our offerings available to university and school students,

organisation and even our society to do that right thing can be

and we see Ormond as a great base for that work.

a real leadership challenge.

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Students’ discussion at the ethics seminar

Ethics and problem-solving

Deborah J. Hull

In only its second year, the Master’s ethics workshop series

We are exploring how Ormond students

has already become an Ormond institution. As an experience

can best access the great expertise of

shared by all first-year Ormondians, these four workshops

the CEL team. Already this year, Associate

Director of Learning & Community

feed directly into our College identity and vocabulary,

Professor Cordelia Fine and Professor Robert Wood have given

challenging our students to analyse and exchange ideas

wonderful seminars to students, tutors and staff as part of

about difficult moral dilemmas.

our advanced ethics program. Professor Wood has also joined resident tutors and staff in offering a skill-building workshop

The first seminar, in 2011, attracted more than a hundred

as part of our Skills Festival. We have consulted with the CEL

students. The following week, word had spread and there

on questions of applicant selection and community building.

were 120 students. We now run the four-week program

We are only beginning to understand the potential scope of

at the start of each year for our new students, with

this happy partnership.

attendances averaging more than one hundred students.

Dinu Kumarasinghe (Arts 2) To complement the theoretical component covered in the

The CEL has provided me with an

course during the first semester, a problem-solving program

opportunity to explore familiar issues from

is offered in the second semester to provide the students

an unfamiliar angle and provided me with

with practical tools to deal with challenging real-life

interesting food for thought to start my

situations.

week. I attended Associate Professor Cordelia Fine’s advanced ethics seminar, expecting to encounter scientific evidence

For our later-year students, as part of our new partnership

that directly refutes sexist understandings of biology, but was

with the Centre for Ethical Leadership, a three-week

instead confronted by the limitations within neuroscience

advanced ethics program is provided. In these sessions, we

literature itself, which was in fact more interesting. Professor

consider the ethics of gender in the workplace and discuss

Bob Wood’s session on unconscious bias was interesting

the application of ethics in contemporary problem-solving.

again, as it opened my eyes to forms of bias that might otherwise go unnoticed in situations that I had thought I had

This ethics seminar series is now embedded in Ormond’s

already considered. His suggestions in regards to reducing

undergraduate program, as it encourages our first-year

unconscious bias were incredibly helpful, and have allowed

Ormondians to think about the most pressing problems of

me to reflect on my own thought processes, as well as those

today’s world, while providing them with the tools to lead

of others. The focused nature of the CEL’s seminars has

positive change for the betterment of humanity.

allowed me to reconsider specialty fields in detail, and also to learn something about those fields in general.

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Life in Ormond

Beyond Ormond Borders

Special Olympics athletes raise awareness at O Week

Beyond Ormond Borders (BOB) is part of a broad Ormond

With programs addressing educational disadvantage, disability,

learning program that aims to equip our students to pursue

Indigenous affairs and the environment, Beyond Ormond

social and environmental improvements and to experience the

Borders provides students with an opportunity to volunteer,

satisfaction of professional lives that are not only successful,

make a disproportionate difference with communities and

but significant.

issues they care about and gain invaluable life experience along the way.

This year, the BOB program has grown to include five partner

Caitlin Clifford and Huw Hutchison BOB’s coordinators

organisations and, between them, offers eight easy-access, College-supported opportunities to work and connect

Mount Alexander College

with other people living beyond our gates, or in support of

The Mount Alexander College tutoring program allows

biodiversity and the environment. Our partners are: Special

Ormondians to volunteer as tutors for students who may come

Olympics Victoria; the Port Phillip EcoCentre; Mount Alexander

from less advantaged backgrounds than we do. We are striving

College; the African Families Learning Program at the Church

to build strong mentoring relationships to enable students to

of All Nations; and AIME, the Australian Indigenous Mentoring

fully realise their potential and the opportunities available to

Experience. And this year, one third of the College students

them. To achieve this, two programs are run concurrently, once

have signed up to volunteer.

a week; the first provides private tutors for students in their VCE years and the second is a homework club available to years

The BOB program design responds to student interest. We

7–10 that operates on a more casual, collaborative basis.

support these commitments responsively and complement

Stephanie Thorne

them, for maximum effect, with intellectual engagement, critical self-reflection and powerful learning experiences that relate to the work our students do. In so many forums, we have found a real thirst at Ormond for community engagement about what it means to live a virtuous and fulfilling life, and what it is to develop virtue in communities.

Interestingly, too, we have seen a pointed swing in the selfimage that accompanies those who volunteer: gone are the days of self-congratulating and gratefully ushered in is the dawn of the pragmatic idealists who strategically chase the harmonious and synergised development of personal success along with social and environmental responsibility. And why not?

Katrina Renard Self & Society Associate

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African Families Learning Program Through the Church of All Nations (CAN) African Families Learning Program, Ormondians develop relationships with and contribute to communities outside the College. The majority of children who attend CAN are in primary school and of African origin; many of their parents having migrated from the Horn of Africa. Some of the children at CAN struggle academically, so tutors at CAN are crucial to the children’s success at school. The role of a tutor is to aid a child in activities, such as reading with them and helping with school work.

Arnesh Kapur

Special Olympics program The Special Olympics volunteering program is an opportunity for Ormond students to assist athletes to develop their confidence and skills, both on the sporting field and beyond. The program is designed to allow students to be active, meet wonderful people, hear inspiring stories and have a heap of fun, all while mentoring and supporting athletes in building both their sporting and leadership capabilities.

Birigid O’Farrell The African Families Learning Program tutors at the Church of All Nations (CAN)

Port Phillip Baykeeper program The Port Phillip Baykeeper program is a volunteering opportunity that works in partnership with the EcoCentre in St Kilda. For the past two years, the College has actively contributed to the collection of cigarette butts from the area, recording this data for analysis of the amount of this type of rubbish that is washed into the Bay. This year we are also participating in other volunteering opportunities offered through the EcoCentre, such as pest seastar collection.

Neha Nagarkar Connecting students and AIME mentors

AIME AIME (the Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience) is an organisation that encourages Indigenous secondary-school students to complete their schooling by connecting them with university student mentors. In 2013, Ormond College has a growing number of mentors and a strong commitment to the program. With a variety of different programs available for students in different years, AIME allows Indigenous mentees to develop confidence, leadership and the academic skills necessary for success in their future. The program also facilitates a deeper understanding of the Indigenous situation among Ormondians and other mentors.

Lara McArthur-Dowty and Tessa Herbert-Smith

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Collecting pest seastar at Port Phillip

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How Ormond selects Students

Andrew Michelmore Chair of Council

The growth in the number of applicants to Ormond has been considerable in recent years. We are very much the college of choice, attracting more than 25% of all applicants to University of Melbourne colleges. Our retention rates have also been very high. Last year, 92% of first-year students returned.

While we are delighted to be attracting and retaining so many of the most capable students from around the state and the country, I appreciate that the competition for places creates concerns for alumni who are keen that their children are able to share the great experience they had at Ormond. Therefore, I thought it was important to explain how the College selects students and how staff balance selecting on merit with maintaining Ormond’s valued links with its community.

How are students selected?

Every applicant receives an interview of approximately 50 minutes with a senior staff member. The interview explores questions that enable us to form a view about the extent to which Ormond will contribute to their development and the extent to which they will contribute to Ormond. We place particular emphasis on the interview because, other than with the highest scores, marks are a poor predictor of university or college success.

We take care to make sure that the student’s chances of entering Ormond are not affected by the particular interviewer who interviews them. We do this by statistically moderating the

When we reach the point where we have more students in a

interviewers’ results against each other and checking for any biases.

single band than we have places, we need to look to a broader

Using the interview results, we then categorise students into a

set of criteria. The first criterion that we consider is whether the

number of broad bands. The process of banding avoids the false

student is a child of alumni. We give that preference because we

precision associated with individually ranking students. We then

think, when candidates are of equal merit, we should look to

automatically accept all of the students in our top two bands.

sustain a connection with Ormond across generations.

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Because the number of applicants whose parents are alumni in any

from further afield is that the College has made an arrangement

incoming cohort is relatively small, the balance between community

with College Square, which is a 10-minute walk from Ormond,

and equity is maintained. Next, we look to other factors, including

where students can live for the first six months and then move

background, location, course and gender. Our aim at the end

into Ormond mid-year. A senior Ormond student lives with these

of the process is to have a well-balanced College. Since not all

students to make sure that they fully integrate with fellow students.

students accept the offer of a place for one reason or another, the final selection takes a number of rounds, which I appreciate can be

Students coming into College through either of these avenues

a particularly anxious process for students and parents.

live in for Orientation Week, so that from the outset they are part of the College community. Given that non-residents can

With the current high demand for places, we have created

and do participate in all College and intercollegiate activities,

additional pathways into the College for mid-year entrance.

these students are very much part of Ormond life. Indeed,

Given that a number of students’ courses finish mid-year, and

this year a non-resident student was elected to the General

that a range of students go away on exchange, about 40 places

Committee, highlighting the extent to which Ormond students

become available in mid-year. To enable students who might

have embraced the idea of having non-resident members of

fill these places to be part of the College from the start of the

the College.

year and, therefore, to be fully part of the community, we have created two new pathways.

This year we have achieved a great mix of students who want to make a difference in the world and are excited by the idea of

The first is the option for students, especially local students, to

living in a large, vibrant, diverse community. They are energetic

be non-resident from the start of the year and then move into

participants in our academic, sporting and creative programs, no

residence in the middle of the year. The second option for those

matter which pathway they have taken to join us.

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Advancement

Thanking Ann Badger

Ann Badger

At the College’s February Council meeting, on the

Ann has also had a lasting effect on the current student

occasion of her retirement from her role as Director of

community. When student marketing was brought into the

College Advancement, Ann Badger was presented with the

Advancement Team, Ann oversaw a marketing campaign that

Ormond Medal, which recognises the extraordinary and

increased student applications by forty per cent and saw the

lasting contribution that Ann has made to the College.

diversity of schools sending students to Ormond increase by nearly sixty per cent.

What the numbers do not measure are the depth and quality of Ann’s relationships with so many people across the entire Ormond community, from our oldest alumni to our newest students. Ann’s counsel and advice were appreciated in many quarters, and staff found her to be an exceptional manager who took great interest and care in her colleagues’ personal and professional development and wellbeing.

Ann has long been recognised as one of the leading educational advancement professionals in the Asia-Pacific region. In her new role as a consultant she will share that expertise, from which we so profited at Ormond, to help build the culture of educational philanthropy in Australia.

Rufus Black Master

Students in the Academic Centre

During Ann’s eight years at Ormond, she managed the fundraising efforts that allowed the income available to support students to increase by more than eighty per cent. Ann also directed the campaign that raised more than $3 million for the Academic Centre redevelopment.

She rightly took great pride in the fact that the Centre was built from philanthropic support alone. Importantly, Ormond has also seen a dramatic increase in its engagement with alumni under Ann’s leadership: rarely a week goes by without alumni involvement in the daily life of the College.

A new Gables Room

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Advancement

New Director of Advancement

Di Bambra

Welcome to Di Bambra, Ormond’s new Director of College

FCJ College and was previously Director of Admissions and

Advancement, who joined the College in early April. Di is leading

Marketing at Lauriston Girls’ School. Prior to that, Di was Head

Ormond’s outreach areas of admissions, alumni, community,

of Technology at Kingswood College and Services Development

fundraising and marketing, building on the exceptional work of

Manager at Eastern Regional Libraries.

the last eight years performed by outgoing Director, Ann Badger.

Di is passionate about community engagement and the power Di comes to Ormond with a deep commitment to education

of philanthropy in supporting learning environments that inspire

and a strong advancement background. She was most recently

students to fulfil their educational, social and personal potential.

Director of Fundraising and Development at Genazzano

Rufus Black Master

2013 Annual Giving How you can help to keep Ormond accessible “Coming from a rural government school in NSW, I wouldn’t have been able to attend Ormond without scholarship support.”

— Jessica, second-year Arts student With the generous support of alumni and other supporters, the Ormond community is helping to reduce the financial gap for our students. This year around 30% of students are able to be at Ormond because they are receiving scholarships. However, there is still a substantial divide between what we can offer to students and their actual need.

An Annual Giving gift from you towards scholarships, whether to the new Hugh Collins Scholarship that supports government-school students, or to general or other specific scholarships, will enable more students from a wide range of backgrounds to come to Ormond. You may instead be interested in giving towards a new portrait of Jean McCaughey AO or restoring Ormond’s gardens.

Please join others in giving this year to the Annual Giving program, which aims to help keep Ormond accessible. Every gift has a positive impact on the College and students’ lives!

2013 Annual Giving

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New year new spirit

Being an O Week Leader is exhilarating, draining and a little bit frightening. Every aspect of the week is planned and yet we don’t have a clue what to expect. We draw on the energy of the first-year students to sustain our momentum, and this group brought a spirit and passion that made no challenge seem insurmountable.

The most memorable moments of O Week are rarely the ones you expect, be they watching the dances at Mystique Ball, every first-year student standing on Dining Hall chairs performing a drum solo in the First-Year Students’ Exam or the weekends of Picken Music Night, a relaxed, chilled-out barbecue where the Leaders perform. To see so many students get up and perform

Teaching the first-year students how to tie a bowtie

on the night captured everything we were trying to achieve.

Mystique Ball

In the weeks after, this cohort continues to be generous,

The Mystique Ball was intended to recapture some of the

creative and excited, and we all feel privileged to have been

old-world sensibilities of the college experience. We taught

their Leaders.

first-year students to play the gentlemen’s games of croquet and chess, to read Shakespeare and to tie bowties, all a bit

Picken Music Night

of fun with some tongue-in-cheek wit to boot. The salient event

The Students’ Club has developed a profound respect for

of the night, though, was that of all the first-years dancing

the arts, particularly music. On the final night of O Week,

to our in-house jazz band. By teaching them a few simple

we inducted the first-years into that culture. The Leaders set

dances, we were able to break down barriers and make them

up staging, lighting and sound on Picken Lawn, and we put

all approachable to one another, a recipe for a brilliant evening.

together acts to perform for the first-year students. The floor was then opened to any and all first-years who were keen to perform, with some stunning results.

From rehashing Beatles classics to some original compositions to the grand finale – the entire group huddled together for a rousing rendition of the Students’ Club’s unofficial song, Holy grail by Hunters and Collectors – it was the perfect way to end the week.

The O Week Picken Music Night

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Student Support Committee

The Ormond College Students’ Club General Committee 2013: from bottom, clockwise

The Student Support Committee 2013: back row: Darcy Holdsworth, Annabel

– Isobel Dagg, Amani Green, Ellie Ryan, Natalie Walker, Alex Cameron, Fraser Jones,

Scott, Jessie Azzopardi, Georgia Vann, Grace Haslinghouse, Ben McDermott.

Annabel Scott, Valentina Vos, Harry Seward, Jesse Poulton, Scout Boxall

Front row: Leila Enright, Stef McMahon, Ellie Ryan, Georgia Westbrook, Caitlin Clifford. Absent: Cam Muirhead, Kerry O’Shea

Master’s Challenge The Master challenges the first-year students each year to a race around Princes Park. The stakes: if we win, he shouts our

This year, the Ormond College Students’ Club introduced the

next smoko. This annual clash of the Titans brings out the inner

Student Support Committee (SSC) to provide extra support

Craig Mottram in Ormond students as the keen beans push

to Ormondians in innovative and dynamic ways.

themselves to the limit to try and be the first cohort to win the

The committee was developed in recognition of the essential

prize. Many, on the other hand, treat it as an opportunity for

role that students play in supporting and encouraging

a leisurely stroll to get to know their peers.

one another on a day-to-day basis throughout their time

Will Abbey (Arts 2) and Amani Green (Arts 3)

at College and university. The SSC offers an accessible and informal opportunity for students to talk through the spectrum of issues that they may face during the year.

The SSC gives senior students meaningful ways to participate in the delivery of healthcare and wellness activities. It is through involvement with this committee that students gain knowledge and experience in managing the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.

Each member of the team of twelve second– and third-year students has been carefully selected and trained for their role, and they receive ongoing support from the Students’ Club and our College Counsellor.

The SSC members attend weekly meetings to consolidate their training and to ensure they are not overcommitted.

With their Mental Health First Aid training, SSC members can listen and communicate effectively, maintain confidentiality, respect boundaries and recognise when and how to encourage referral to the College Counsellor or other professional support services. Students have embraced the SSC as an integral part of the College’s welfare program and we look forward to seeing it flourish.

The Master’s Challenge at Princes Park

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Alumni stories

Maryjane Crabtree (1975) Maryjane Crabtree on Picken Lawn at the time of the OCSC election for Chair (1977).

In 1973, women were admitted to College as residents

Photo by David Williamson (1976)

for the first time, making Ormond the first university

It was still a controversial thing. I sat next to a very important

college in the country to become co-residential. This

person (a holder of high judicial office, then and since) as a first-

year, we celebrate 40 years of women as residents at

year law student at the Ormond Law Dinner. I brightly asked

Ormond. Maryjane Crabtree (1975), the first female

him what he thought about women in the College— “I resigned

General Committee Chair (1978), shares her memories.

from Council over that particular issue” was his crushing reply!

(From subsequent encounters with this truly delightful man, he

In 1975, women had already made their mark as important

may have been winding me up, but it was daunting at the time.)

contributors to the life of the College, including as members of the General Committee. We were only 23–25% of the

Standing as the first female Chair of the OCSC took all my

College membership then, and I really think we thought it

resolve, and there were many loud detractors. Fortunately they

was up to us to prove that the College, particularly the Master,

were narrowly outweighed by my noisy supporters. However,

had been right.

I have reflected and drawn on the confidence and experience of leadership which that role gave me throughout my career.

I feel that I will always be in debt to the College.

Maryjane (second last) during rowing practice

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Alumni stories

The Warburton Breakfast Minyma

A profile of Ros Beadle (2000) Melissa Holland and Thalia West serving daily meals-on-wheels for the elderly.

Since 2009, Ros Beadle (2000) has been working with an

One of the women describes her work: “I like the breakfast

inspirational group of women in Warburton, WA, supporting

program because it keeps me from staying at home and keeps

a program that has resulted in high levels of engagement

me busy. It makes life easier for me and my children. My children

and increasing autonomy and self-governance.

are happy, they see me go to work. Kids see us, what we do and they learn to do the right thing.”

Unlike other programs and services in remote communities, which are predominantly based on mainstream frameworks, the self-named Mirlirrtjarra Kuurl Mirrka Palyalpayi program (Making good food at Warburton School) is based on developmental approaches whereby the program’s structure has grown from community concerns and has been guided and

The Warburton Breakfast Minyma (women) with Ros Beadle.

monitored by local community members. Ros observes: “The

Ros is a PhD student at the University of Melbourne’s Centre for

high engagement in this program reflects its origin from local

Health and Society. She went to Warburton in 2009 to assist in

concerns and guidance by Ngaanyatjarra values and cultural

supporting a group of Ngaanyatjarra grandmothers, mothers and

imperatives. The Breakfast Minyma have structured the program

aunties who, with the guidance of Aboriginal councillors, initiated

so that they can be workers on their own and not ‘whitefella’

a school breakfast program in response to community concerns

terms, thus allowing them to continue to meet their community

about low school attendance. Situated halfway between Alice

and ’family obligations’.”

Springs and Kalgoorlie, Warburton is the largest community in the Ngaanyatjarra Lands and one of Australia’s remotest places.

Ros’s studies have emerged out of her work alongside the Breakfast Minyma. Her research is focused on understanding

The four grandmothers who started school breakfast then trained

meaningful engagement in activities that contribute to the

the next generation of women to work in this role. Increased

wellbeing of Ngaanyatjarra women from their experiences

capacity among the women resulted in a broader repertoire of

and perspectives. She has taken a collaborative ethnographic

catering activities for school and community events, daily cooking

approach, working alongside the women to tell their story.

and delivery of meals to the elderly, training secondary-school

Ros is conscious of the alienation that the academic focus of a

girls to prepare school lunches and running a support program

thesis can have on contributors and has supported the women

for teenage girls. Through short periods of training in Perth (1600

to also tell their story through DVDs, children’s storybooks,

km down the road!), seven women also gained their Certificate

posters and slide presentations; the last have been delivered

1 in Kitchen Operations and are now known as the Warburton

to a range of audiences including government departments in

Breakfast Minyma (women), a name that is recognised around

Perth. The Breakfast Minyma is providing a new model for policy

their state and beyond.

development for remote Aboriginal communities.

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Our heritage

From cultural collections and heritage

Lesley den Hartog Curator of Cultural Collections

Ormond vs Trinity – a long history. The College is pleased to have recently been able to purchase the trophy won by Albert Coulson in a 150-yard intercollegiate race between Ormond and Trinity in 1886. This beautiful silver-gilt goblet trophy is lusciously engraved with interlinked clusters of grape vines. The inscription states that the cup was presented by Dr Leeper, Warden of Trinity College.

Curatorial research has established that Albert Coulson entered Ormond in 1886 to study Arts at the University of Melbourne.

Although there was no University Review published in 1886, the 1887 Review includes in its Melbourne University Sports calendar a 200-yard ‘College race’ open to members of Trinity and Ormond Colleges. It may well be that the 1886 race was the 150-yard version of this race.

It is gratifying that we have been able to return such an early piece of sporting memorabilia to its roots here at Ormond College.

Coulson’s excitement at winning this race, as a fresher, can only be imagined. So too, it can only be hoped that Dr Leeper, in handing over this beautiful little trophy, parted with it in good grace!

The prominent place that tennis has played in the College’s sporting calendar is demonstrated by these two early tennis trophies – the Buckley Cup men’s tennis trophy and the 1899 Ormond women’s tennis trophy. Tennis was a popular sport at the University and Ormond from their early days.

The 1886 150-yard intercollegiate race trophy

Courts were laid out at the inception of the College in 1881

The Buckley Cup was won by AGH Colquhoun, who was

and they appear to have been of high standard. While women

the Victorian state tennis champion in 1888 and 1889, while

were accepted at the University from 1881 and at Ormond as

he was a medical student at Ormond.The cup is a claret jug,

day students from 1885, they had a somewhat parallel existence

probably made in England, with a crystal body embellished with

with the men and were only allowed to enter designated areas

neoclassical engraving and an Australian-made 9-carat gold

of the College, even being allocated a separate tennis court.

spout, rim and handle, finely engraved with fern-leaf motifs.

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Our heritage

New plaque for College entrance The 1899 Ormond women’s tennis trophy

We are keen to source further information about early Ormond memorabilia such as these sporting trophies and would also appreciate any named photographs that may enable us to put faces to the Ormondians to whom this memorabilia relates.

On Thursday 28 February, the Deputy Chair of Council and the Master hosted a small function to unveil a new plaque in the College entrance. The plaque, commemorating the gift of the College entrance doors by Kelsey Kerridge in 1958, was recently designed by Michael Meszaros and generously donated by a small group of Ormond alumni.

The ceremony was timed to coincide with the commencement of the academic year.

The wording on the plaque reads: Ormond’s entrance doors were formally opened in 1958.

They were the gift of Kelsey Kerridge, who visited the College during the 1956 Olympics. In the spirit of the College’s motto, et nova et vetera, they are made of new English oak with chevrons of ancient bog oak.

The Buckley Cup men’s tennis trophy

The 1899 Ormond women’s tennis trophy makes what would have been seen at the time as an appropriate domestic reference for a women’s trophy, being in the form of a small, elegant Victorian silver and blue-velvet shoe pincushion. It was awarded to Miss Ida Wilson, who later married the physician brother of Sir JG Latham (1894), the famous Ormondian judge and politician. The trophy was donated to the College by Ida’s daughter, Mrs Joan Ramsay (1938).

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Sculptor Michael Meszaros and his wife

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Alumni news

Arnd Götzelmann (1983) lives in Speyer, Germany, with his wife Claudia and their two children, Tim (20), who is studying medicine in second year, and Mia (15). Arnd is a Professor of Social Work and Ethics at Ludwigshafen University

Mark Derham QC (1970) was

of Applied Sciences since 2002.

announced as an Associate

His last books were introductions

Judge of the Victorian Supreme

to social pedagogical ethics and

Court by Attorney-General

business ethics. At the moment,

Robert Clark on 11 December

he is into disability studies. He plays saxophone in a big band

2012. After graduating in law

and a quintet, and likes to cycle and jog.

with honours in 1972 and being admitted to practice, Mr

Mark Shackleton (1986) on

Derham served as an Associate

1 November 2012 was awarded

to Justice Sir Douglas Menzies of

the Science Minister’s Prize for

the High Court before becoming

Life Scientist of the Year. Mark’s

an Assistant Parliamentary

work on breast cancer and

Counsel in Canberra. He joined the Victorian Bar in 1980 and

melanoma is transforming our

has held numerous positions on the Victorian Bar Council,

understanding of how cancers

including as Chairman from 2000– 2001, and has been Director

grow and resist treatment. Mark

and Chairman of Barristers Chambers Ltd from 2009 to 2012.

is now at the Peter MacCallum

Mr Derham was appointed as a Queens Counsel in 1994 and

Cancer Centre in Melbourne,

received the Centenary Medal for services to the law in 2000.

undertaking further work on melanomas that suggests these

Geoffrey Durham-Smith (1969) has sold his farm in the Bluegrass

tumours are intrinsically dynamic, changing their behaviour —

and moved with his family to a suburb of Louisville, Kentucky. He is

sometimes dramatically and quickly — over time. This has huge

still in private plastic-surgery practice in Louisville and has swapped

implications if we are to develop new cancer treatments that

his tractor for golf clubs, hoping to have more time for relaxation

provide lasting benefit to patients.

and less physical and financial stress. Geoffrey plans to bring the whole family back to Australia for Christmas 2014.

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James Pullar (1963) after graduating from the University of Melbourne has spent 30 years in the energy industry. He was involved with development of Australia’s first Liquified Natural Gas project and on behalf of the North West Shelf project shipping company was responsible for the construction and operation of six LNG carriers transporting the fuel from Karratha to Japan. Since 2001 James has been a member of the Rotary Club of Melbourne, working in partnership with a number of not-for-profit organisations on projects to end homelessness in Victoria. In 1967 James married Judy and they have a daughter and a son. He is a keen photographer and enjoys golf and travel.

Greg McBain (1980) is coming up to 20 years in New Zealand, originally having moved across on an expat assignment doing technical and operations stuff in the steel industry. He ended up in the HR field a number of years ago and currently heads up Organisational Capability for Contact Energy. Greg, his wife Glenys and their son Andrew (15) just moved house in Auckland, which prompted a major clean-out. A great Christmas/New Year holiday at the beach house north of Auckland was a welcome break from the smell of cardboard Henry Macphillamy (left) at Mount Kilimanjaro

and the crackle of bubble wrap.

Henry Macphillamy (2010) has accomplished his backbreaking trek up Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. He undertook the trek

Bill Paterson PSM (1968) took up his appointment in April

to honour Billy, his guide dog, who died last year, in recognition

2013 as Australia’s Ambassador to the Republic of Korea with

of the loyalty and love Billy gave him during their time together.

non-resident accreditation to the DPRK and Mongolia. Until

Henry and a blind woman from Sydney, Deb Warren, relied on their

recently, Bill was the Australian Ambassador for Counter-

long canes, trekking poles and guides to negotiate the 5895m

Terrorism. Bill’s daughter, Catherine Paterson (2001), will soon

climb.“It was as much of a mental challenge as it was physical,”

join him in North-East Asia as she takes up a two-year posting as

Henry said to the Herald-Sun in January. There were moments

Austrade’s Trade Commissioner to Osaka, Japan. Catherine has

during the five-day ascent when Henry was struck with self-doubt.

been working as Executive Officer to the Austrade CEO. Prior to

“That final summit night, I was feeling pretty average with altitude

this, she was a senior consultant with Protiviti and worked on

sickness.” Henry, along with other members of Team Doggies

assignment at the UN Office of Drugs and Crime in Vienna.

from Guide Dogs NSW/ACT, reached the summit on 1 December 2013.“To achieve what I set out to do in (Billy’s) memory was very emotional.” The team has altogether raised $106,475, which will help to build a guide-dog puppy breeding colony.

Tony Stern (1982) has been living in London now for 23 years. He works as EVP of Commercial and Business Affairs for FremantleMedia, a global TV production company with its headquarters in London that produces the Idol, X Factor and Got Talent TV franchises throughout the world, among other shows. Tony is married to a Melbourne woman, Jan Finn, and they have a 7-year-old daughter and live in Maida Vale in London. The family visits Melbourne once a year and keeps up with many old Ormond friends.

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Bill (1968) and Catherine (2001) Paterson

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Alumni news

Senior Australian of the year — an Ormond alumnus

Emeritus Professor Ian Maddocks AM (1950)

The Ormond College community congratulates Emeritus

Recipient of the inaugural Bethlehem Griffiths Medal for

Professor Ian Maddocks AM (1950) on his appointment

research in palliative care, Emeritus Professor Maddocks is

as Senior Australian of the Year 2013.

recognised internationally for his work in palliative care, tropical and preventative medicine. Now Emeritus Professor at Flinders

Previously awarded a Member of the Order of Australia

University, he continues daily care for the terminally ill. A key

(AM) in 2003, Emeritus Professor Maddocks is an eminent

value of Ormond College is to make a difference to the world

palliative-care specialist and a passionate advocate for world

and, through his care for people at a critical time in their lives

peace. Emeritus Professor Maddocks entered Ormond College

and sharing his knowledge, Emeritus Professor Ian Maddocks

in 1950 and was a resident again in 1959 and 1960 as a tutor.

is a distinguished example of the values of the Ormond

He was awarded his medical degree in 1961 and fellowship of

College community.

the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in 1967.

The Ormond community extends its congratulations He commenced practising medicine in rural Papua New Guinea,

to the following members of the Ormond

where he recognised the critical importance of combining

community who have been recognised for their

medical and spiritual support for patients, particularly those

substantial contributions to society with 2013

experiencing terminal illnesses. A specialist physician in the

Australia Day Honours:

Australian Administration of Papua New Guinea for 14 years, he became Foundation Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the

Professor Stephen Davis AM (1967) for significant

University of Papua New Guinea in 1971.

service to medicine in the field of neurology.

Since 1982 he has worked with medical groups seeking to

Professor Ian Maddocks AM (1950) on his

eliminate nuclear weapons. Emeritus Professor Maddocks was

appointment as Senior Australian of the Year 2013,

President of the Medical Association for Prevention of War

as part of the Australian of the Year Awards, for his work

(Australia) when it received an Australian Peace Medal and

as a palliative-care specialist.

Vice-President of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War when it received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1985.

Mr Hugh O’Neill AO (1954) for distinguished service to architecture, through contributions to tertiary

Since 1980 he has advocated improved care for the dying and

education and the fostering of relations with Asia,

was first Chair of Palliative Care at Flinders University, first

particularly Indonesia.

President of the Australian Association for Hospice and Palliative Care (now Palliative Care Australia) and first President of the

We would be delighted to hear from other members

Australian and New Zealand Society of Palliative Medicine.

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The College has learned of the following deaths in our community. Our sympathy is extended to the families of these Ormondians.

Walter Robert Giles Bridges (1958) Gordon Maxwell Clayton (1952) Ian Alexander Gordon (1946) Ian William Hankin (1972) Kathryn (Kate) McKinnon (1976) Maxwell James Robinson (1944) George Randall Stirling (1945)

Ian Gordon (1946) Ian Gordon passed away on 21 October 2012.

He had a lifelong interest in Ormond and the Ian Gordon Family Scholarship celebrates his commitment to supporting education and young people, especially those from rural and regional Australia. He was forever grateful for the opportunities and experiences gained at Ormond.

Ian was a student at Ormond from 1946 to 1949, graduating as a Bachelor of Law. He roomed with RN (Bob) Merrett and JB (Jim) Stewart. His interest in supporting students from rural and regional Australia stemmed from his upbringing in Euroa and the opportunity to attend Geelong College on a scholarship.

He practised law in Ballarat in the firm of Heinz and Gordon. His legal training and leadership skills were also utilised in the education sector, where he was a Council Member and then President of Clarendon PLC, Ballarat Teachers’ College, Ballarat College of Advanced Education. In 2006 the University of Ballarat granted him an Honorary Doctorate of Education.

Ian was a gifted public speaker who recalled, with humour, events during his Ormond days.

David Gordon Ian Gordon receives an Honorary Doctorate of Education

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