Trinity College Newsletter, vol 1 no 4, July 1969

TRINITY Neis<Wetfet COLLEGE A PUBLICATION OF TRINITY COLLEGE WITHIN THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE No. 4

JULY, 1969

APPEAL TARGET APPROACHED

-150,000.00 135,000.00 120,000.00 105,000.00

The total promised to the Appeal is now $132,813 which represents an average donation over five years of about $200. We can be proud of this and of the fact that almost half the promised amount has already been received. For the generosity of so many members and friends of Trinity we are indeed very grateful. But we still need your help. The upwards march of building costs has made its impact already and the Clarke renovations have, contrary to what the College proposed, been required to be done in two stages, with an inevitable increase in costs.

90, 000.00 75,000 D0 60,000.00 45,000.00 30,000.00 15,000.00

Could any who are not currently up-to-date with their promises catch up as soon as possible?

R. K. TODD, Chairman of the Appeal Follow-on Committee.

00,000.00

TOTAL AS AT .... 1/7/69

SIR WILLIAM RIDES AGAIN Two of the buildings for which the College is so indebted to our own Victorian baronet Sir William Clarke (whose portrait hangs in Hall) have recently taken on a new lease of life.

In 1885, Sir William gave us the College Laboratory, the building to the east of Clarke which is so often mistaken by visitors for some sort of Chapel.

Its scientific days over, the building sank gradually into a decline. When it became necessary to set up suitable offices for the administration of the College

Appeal, the opportunity was taken to renovate the building, and it is now a positively elegant Music Room, housing the College's small new grand piano (bought with a bequest in 1968). The Music Room is also used for play readings, lectures and the like, and provides a valuable additional meeting room for Vacation Conferences.

Sir William and his brother Joseph were the generous benefactors for whom Clarke Building was named. Clarke was opened in two stages in 1883 and

SKETCH OF CLARKE BUILDING

1887, and the architect was the wellknown Edmund Blackett. The renovation of Clarke was one of our Appeal projects. Work at last began in January of this year, and as this newsletter goes to press the western wing and central stairway section are on the point of completion. The old building has responded nobly, and the results have surprised even the most optimistic of us.

A new electrical system has brought greatly improved lighting to both rooms and corridors. Rubber flooring has been laid in the corridors, to reduce the noise, and to the same end acoustic tiles have been attached to the ceilings. The pine panelling has been restored to its original natural colour. Panelling has been introduced to the lower walls of the studies (to protect the plaster) and the floors have lino tiles. Both studies and bedrooms have a certain amount of new loose and built-in furniture. The studies are curtained, and heated with a hotwater radiator system. The bathrooms have been completely modernised. At the request of the City Council, there is an external escape stair at the western end of the building and a linking enclosed bridge to Bishops'.

Externally, brickwork and stonework have been cleaned (so far as it proved possible to do so), the window frames

A sketch of the Clarke Building and the College Oak by Victor Cobb (1931)

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have been painted white, and lanterns have been hung the length of the cloister.

A new entrance has been constructed..

The roof has been repaired, guttering and down-pipes renewed where necessary, and the drains attended to.

We now look forward very much indeed to the renovation of the eastern wing, which (if the Universities' Commission approves) will take place next Long Vacation. And when that happens.

Clarke should be in fine form for many years to come.

Meanwhile, in another part of the forest (as the stories always say), certain urgent repairs have begun on Bishops' (to which Sir William was also a donor).

These are designed to give the building the best chance of proving over the next few years that it is worth renovating along the lines of Clarke. Drainage is being attended to, and there will be some external painting and internal repairs.

The new building planned for the west of Clarke and described in the Appeal brochure is before the Universities Commission as a project for the triennium 1970-1972.

Portrait of Sir William Clarke.

VACATION CONFERENCES For more than a decade but with greater frequency over the last few years University vacations have meant "Box and Cox" arrangements at Trinity. In many term vacations and in every Long Vacation students have scarcely left the College before a small army of College domestics descends upon studies and bedrooms, sweeping and scrubbing with unwonted vigour to prepare the rooms for members of residential conferences.

Vacation conferences have become an important part of the College Year and they play a very important role in ensuring the College's financial stability.

The Melbourne University Summer School of Business Administration has been held in Trinity each Long Vacation for over ten years, the members come back each year for a re-union dinner and this year there is to be a short course in Business Administration in the August vacation as well. The E. S. and A. bank and Australian Volunteers Abroad are other organizations which regularly hold training courses in the College. Over the years Trinity has formed friendly and

Mht#uMrg JACK CHRISTIAN RICHARDS

We note with deep regret the death of Mr. J. C. Richards, a member of the Council of Trinity College, as the result of a road accident near Leongatha on February 19th.

Mr. Richards became a member of the College Council in 1955 and was a member of the Executive and Finance Committee and the Wardenship Selection Committee. He always showed a great interest in student life and in the teaching role of the College.

Mr. Richards, who was 57, had a distinguished scholastic career. A Rhodes scholar, he was a Bachelor of Engineering (Queensland) and a Bachelor of Arts (Oxford).

He joined Broken Hill Proprietary Ltd. thirty years ago as a special cadet, became General Manager, Development and Shipbuilding in 1959 and for the last two years had been Executive Assistant to the Managing Director of the company. He played a leading part in the introduction of basic oxygen steelmaking at Newcastle and Whyalla and was responsible for considerable development at the Whyalla shipyard.

Over four hundred people attended the funeral service which was held in the College chapel.

valuable links with these and other organizations.

The conferences have important teaching functions and they frequently attract members from all over Australia. The organization provides the teaching staff while the College provides the catering and cleaning staff. College officers truncate their vacations to help with the arrangements and the College domestic staff are offered year-round employment.

The College buildings and facilities, which would otherwise remain relatively unused for one third of the year, are now much more fully used. The newer buildings have quite satisfactory bedrooms and the collegiate atmosphere provides an interesting and usually much-appreciated change for the conference members.

The Junior Common Room, the Mollison Library, the Music Room and the larger studies, in addition to the small number of regular tutorial rooms are pressed into use for teaching purposes.

The College desperately needs additional tutorial rooms both for its own teaching programme and to assist it in attracting the vacation conferences which are so important in helping to keep College fees from rising. Plans have already been made for additional tutorial rooms to be provided. A successful appeal will enable the plans to be fully carried out.

The other Colleges at Melbourne and those at Monash and La Trobe also seek to attract vacation conferences, all of them in competition with each other and with hotels and motels. The closeness of Trinity to the University and the city, the newer or newly-renovated buildings, the pleasant grounds and the enthusiasm of Mr. Wynne all count strongly in Trinity's favour.

ACADEMIC MATTERS Seven Trinity men topped the final year of their course in 1968.

Two were engineering students. Alan Higgs was awarded the Argus Scholarship in Civil Engineering. He is now working in oil exploration at Barrow

Island off the coast of Western Australia.

David Hornsby shared the Dixson Scholarship in Metallurgical Engineering. He was a notable oarsman throughout his time in College and was captain of boats in his final year. He holds a University full blue for rowing.

In the medical course John Stuckey received the prize awarded to the student with the highest aggregate marks in the final year and John Forbes shared the Keith Levi Memorial Scholarship and the Robert Gartly Healy Scholarship in Medicine. They are both now in residence at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. The final year medical group obtained excellent examination results, five of the six achieving honours.

George Myers was awarded the Dwight Prize in the final examination in English Language and Literature. He now holds a College Graduate Scholarship and is reading for a higher degree.

In Law Frank Callaway capped an outstanding course by taking the Supreme Court Prize and the E. J. B. Nunn Scholarship for first place in the final honours examinations. He has been appointed a resident College tutor and is under articles of clerkship with a city firm of solicitors.

Philip Weickhardt was awarded the Union Carbide Australia Ltd. Scholarship in Chemistry. He also is reading for a higher degree and holds a College Graduate Scholarship.

INVITED TO INVESTITURE AT CAERNARVON CASTLE Mr. Stuart McGregor, a resident member of the College who is in the fourth year of his Law-Commerce course has been invited to attend the investiture of Prince Charles as Prince of Wales at Caernarvon Castle in July. Mr. McGregor, who will be away for the whole of second term, was at Timbertop at the same times as Prince Charles, and was his first study-companion there.

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July, 1969

COLLEGE OFFICERS NEW DEAN APPOINTED

The Revd. R. W. Gregory

The new Dean of Trinity is the Reverend Raymond William Gregory, M.A., Th.L., M.A.C.E. The Council appointed Mr. Gregory to the position in August, 1968, following advertisement in Australia and overseas. He took up his appointment in February, 1969, succeeding Mr. J. D. Merralls, who happily remains with the College as a resident Tutor.

From 1951 to 1968, Mr. Gregory was a senior master of Brighton Grammar School, and Chaplain from 1964. His principal academic interests are English and Classics.

Mr. Gregory is married, with one son (studying Architecture in Trinity) and two younger daughters. His wife, Leslie, is a daughter of the late Judge Stafford, who was for years President of the Queen's College Council.

The Dean has taken to his position as to the manner born. His dog Ella is already as well known in the grounds as Mr. Wynne's Louis and at least five times as large. Louis is a bit sniffy about it.

1964, Dr. Marshall became Joint Acting Warden for a year with Dr. (now Professor) John Poynter. He spent a recent sabbatical leave in studies at the Sorbonne and Oxford.

It would not be too much to say that Dr. Marshall has become one of the best known and most highly respected men of the Anglican Church in Australia, both within the Church and outside it, not only for his scholarship and the originality of his mind, but also for his great priestly qualities.

His gifts and his background should admirably suit him to his new position, while at the same time enabling him to bring a fresh, new outlook to the affairs of Pusey House. This institution was founded in the last century as a memorial to the great Oxford High Churchman Edward Bouverie Pusey (1800-1882).

Regius Professor of Hebrew and a Canon of Christ Church. It serves today as a residence for twenty-five scholars and students, plays a very influential part in the chaplaincy work and general religious life of the University, and is the principal centre for the Oxford Faculty of Theology, the library of which it houses together with a significant collection of its own.

We at Trinity will be very sad indeed to see Dr. Marshall leave us. But we have always known the day would come, and it is some consolation to realise that his worth is appreciated internationally.

He remains Chaplain of the College for the whole of 1969.

CHAPLAIN ACCEPTS OXFORD POST The Chaplain, the Reverend Dr. Barry Marshall, has been named as the next Principal of Pusey House, Oxford. He will take up his appointment in September, 1970.

Dr. Marshall first entered the College as an undergraduate ex-serviceman in 1946, and completed his Arts degree with first class honours in History. He read theology at St. John's College, Morpeth, again graduating with first class honours, and was priested in 1950.

He was awarded the Lucas Tooth Scholarship and went to Oxford. At Christ Church and later at Pusey House he prepared for his Doctorate in Philosophy, the degree being conferred in 1956.

Before going to Oxford, Dr. Marshall spent some years as a member of the Brotherhood of the Good Shepherd in various parts of outback Australia, and upon his return he became priest-incharge of the parish of Bourke, where he served for five years. He has never lost his contact with the Brotherhood, and has generally gone to serve at Alice Springs or some such place each Christmas.

In 1961 he was appointed Chaplain of this College. When the Third Warden, Mr. R. W. T. Cowan, died in office in

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TRINITY MEN HONOURED Members of the College upon whom honours have recently been bestowed by H.M. the Queen are the Honourable Sir Arthur Rylah, C.M.G., (1928), Chief Secretary of the Victorian Government, and Sir Lindesay Clark, C.M.G., (1919), both of whom have become Knights of the Order of the British Empire, and Sir Geoffrey Newman-Morris (1927), who has become a Knight Bachelor. F. F. C. Knight, Esq., (1914), has become a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, and C. Keon-Cohen, Esq., (1926) , has become an Officer of the same Order.

TRINITY'S TUTANKHAMEN TOMB Well, not quite. But the Rusden Museum had been walled up under the Clarke stairs for all of fifty years, so the unsealing (in the course of the renovations) was quite an event. Out of the darkness, where Mr. Wynne had stowed them all in 1919, came aboriginal and south sea weapons, engravings after pictures in the Vatican, some rather large gloomy photographs of the Australian bush, a botanical collection put together

by H. M. R. Rupp when he was a student of the College in the 1890's, a mineral collection, a small but charming collection of oriental antiquities (bronzes, porcelain, netsuke), and cabinets of what our forebears would have called "curiosities". The National Herbarium has expressed great interest in the botanical collection, because Mr. Rupp, one of those scientific clergymen of another age, became quite an authority in the field.

We shall ask other experts to view the aboriginal and oriental exhibits, and, who knows, some of the better pictures and objets d'art might even be put on show again, at any rate from time to time.

The Chaplain

NEW TRADITIONS

THE BURSAR

What? Ladies eating in the Hall of Trinity College?

The College Council has appointed Mr. David Carswell as Bursar, to succeed Mr. George Isbister, whose resignation it has accepted with regret.

Mr. Carswell will be well known to many Trinity men. For nineteen years, until his retirement at the beginning of 1968, he was closely involved in the direction of affairs at the University Union, first as Catering Manager and later as Secretary/Manager.

He took up his appointment late in May, on a part-time basis.

THE SENIOR TUTOR Dr. A. J. Buzzard, M.B., B.S., has been appointed Senior Tutor to succeed Mr. D. J. Muschamp. Dr. Buzzard was an undergraduate member of the College from 1960 to 1965. For the last two years he has been the Resident Medical Officer and Tutor in Anatomy and he has recently taken up a position in surgery at the Royal Melbourne Hospital.

Yes! Not every meal but certainly more often than they used to!

In 1967 and again in 1968 the College Concert was preceded by a buffet dinner in Hall to which members of the College invited the ladies of their choice, and towards the end of last term a highly successful sit-down dinner to which ladies were again invited, was held in Hall, the dinner on this occasion being followed by a dance in the Junior Common Room.

For the past fourteen months ladies attending Sunday Communion in the Chapel have been invited to take breakfast in Hall after the serviceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;only once a fortnight, mind you, since breakfast is served to Trinity men at Janet Clarke Hall on the alternate Sundays.

From 'the end of last March dinner and tea every Sunday have been meals to which ladies could be invited. So far no more than one or two have attended each meal. Could it be the food?

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July, 1969

For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner."

—Samuel Johnson

MENU Huitres en Crustarde Portaguase Consommé de Volaille Julienne Filet de Merlan Mornay Brained Beef Moderne Poulet Roti au Cresson Sorbet au Romaine Caille sur Canape Fleur de Lys Pouding Bombe à la Hosie Scotch Woodcock Dessert Café This was the menu for the Annual Dinner of the Union of the Fleur-de-Lys held at Hosie's Café, Elizabeth Street, in June, 1914. College Dinners today provide much more simple fare but the pleasantness of the occasions remains undiminished.

Did you miss the Annual Dinner of the Union of the Fleur-de-Lys on Friday, May 31st? Whether you did or not make a note to attend the Dinner next year even if you are not a member of the Union.

WILL YOU JOIN THE UNION OF THE FLEUR -DE-LYS? All former members of the College are warmly invited to join the Union of the Fleurde-Lys if they have not already done so. If you wish to join, please contact the Honorary Secretary, Mr. James Court, at 430 Little Collins Street, Melbourne, 3000. The annual membership fee is $1, the fee for life membership is $16.80.

"JOLLY BOATING" .. .

Once again the Mervyn Boumes Higgins trophy hangs in the College Hall.

The Trinity first crew defeated Ormond in the heats and easily defeated Newman in the final of the inter-collegiate rowing in April. The second crew was not so successful, losing to Ormond in the heats and winning against Newman in the losers' final.

Mr. Jon Harry was a member of the recently successful King's Cup crew.

Mr. Brian Clarke rows in the State Lightweight Four as well as in the University Lightweight Four. Two other resident members of the College, Mr. G. Withers and Mr. I. Farran row in the University Eight.

SPORTING MATTERS

season to Ormond. The second match was also lost, this time to Queen's.

Trinity played against Ormond in the semi-final of the inter-collegiate tennis and won 6-3. In the final, Trinity was defeated by Queen's 6-3.

Trinity came second to Queen's in the inter-collegiate swimming and in the Athletics . . . well, the less said about that the better.

Two of last year's residents, Mr. G. Ainsworth and Mr. C. Mitchell, played (by kind permission of the Warden) with the Geelong team in League football.

This year Mr. W. Sykes is training and has played with Fitzroy.

Stop Press

Other Sporting Events in 1969 Despite the dismissal of Ormond's (and Australia's) Mr. P. Sheehan for 24 and the 65 runs scored by the Trinity captain.

Trinity lost its first cricket match for the

The College team in the Trike Race from Portsea to the University (in aid of Aboriginal Scholarships) was twelfth across the line and fifth after swabs were taken of the tricycles.

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WHERE ARE THEY NOW? The College regrets that it does not have the current addresses of the following members. If you know the address of any of them would you please inform the Warden's Secretary (telephone 34 1001) and so help to keep the College records up to date?

The year shown is the year of signing the College roll.

I. McDOWELL .... .... ....

1945

N. D. HOWARD

1948

R. G. KING .... .... .... ....

1948

B. G. SHATTOCK .... ....

1958

J. R. ROLPH .... .... .... ....

1962

K. H. LAUW .... .... .... ....

1963

A scene from Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard" presented last month by the ladies of Janet Clarke Hall and the gentlemen of Trinity under the direction of Mr. Eric Donnison.

My gift to the TRINITY COLLEGE APPEAL will be YEARLY $

APPEAL STILL OPEN

for five years being a

TOTAL of $

on the understanding

that I may vary the amount if necessary.

Signature

Date

Mailing address First contribution in the month(s) of commencing 196........

Please send reminders.

All gifts are deductible for Income Tax purposes.

Cheques should be made payable to the Trinity College Appeal.

The Follow-on Committee has taken over responsibility for the Appeal and is continuing approaches where possible.

If by any chance you have not yet been contacted, either personally or by mail, or if you have mislaid your gift card, please use this form to make your gift. You may also use it if you wish to make an additional gift to the College.

Cut out this form and send it to the Warden, Trinity College, Parkville.