TRINITY í`er COLLEGE "W"fe" A PUBLICATION OF TRINITY COLLEGE WITHIN THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE MAY, 1974
No. 8
THE WARDEN - ELECT At a special meeting held on 29th November last, the College Council elected DR. EVAN LAURIE BURGE, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Classics in the Australian National University, as Fifth Warden of the College. Classical Philosophy. Apart from shortterm teaching experience, his academic appointments have been at A.N.U. as lecturer and senior lecturer in the Department of Classics. His academic studies have been in the field of Classical Philosophy and he is about to publish a work on Plato. He was ordained an honorary deacon of the Church of England in 1960 and an honorary priest in 1971. His main theological interest has lain in the field of liturgical revision and he is currently Secretary of the Liturgical Commission of General Synod. His wife, Barbara, is a Doctor in general practice in Canberra and has an interest in obstetrics. They have six children: John (14); Margaret (12); Ann (10); Caroline (7); Geoffrey (5); and Stephen (3).
Dr. Burge is aged 41, was born in Melbourne and educated in Brisbane. After graduating B.A. with 1st class honours in Classics and University Medal from Queensland University in 1956, he proceeded to Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated with 1st class honours in Literae Humaniores ("Greats") in 1958. He was at Princeton in 1964 and 1969 graduating with an M.A. and Ph.D. in
The Warden-elect is at present on study leave but will take up his appointment at the beginning of Second Term. He will be installed as Warden by the President of the Council, Archbishop Woods, in the College Chapel at 8 p.m. on Monday, 10th June, and will be welcomed by the Junior and Senior Common Rooms at a Dinner in Hall on the next evening. His arrival is awaited with interest and his academic interests recall our first great classicist head, Dr. Alexander Leeper.
UNION OF THE FLEUR DE LYS
MATTERS ACADEMIC
President for 1974 is Peter Balmford, ex Dean of the College, and Secretary, Tony Buzzard, ex Senior Tutor and present Director of Medical Studies. Other Committee Members are Whitney King, Bob Todd, Colin Keon-Cohen, Joe Farran, Mal Smith, John Poynter, Will Lempriere, Fred Knight, Reg Sholl, Clive Fitts, Norman Carlyon, Jim Court, `Taffy' Jones, Ben Bodna, Eric Bellchambers and Hugh Graham.
Results in 1973 were again respectable with 70% of our membership gaining at least one honour and 10% turning in Firsts. Students performed well in First and Third Year medicine, Third Year Vet. Sci., and Third Year Law. Particularly pleasing results came from the 1972 Senior Student, Francis Price, who topped several Final Year Law subjects, and from the 1973 Senior Student, Chris Maxwell.
All former resident tutors and students are now automatically members of the Union and there is no membership fee. This increases the difficulty of maintaining an up to date address list, so changes should be notified to the Warden's Secretary, promptly.
For 1974, over 100 tutorials are available for our 200 resident and 100 non-resident students. To maintain this programme our fourteen resident tutors are joined by over fifty non-resident tutors.
1974 DINNER
CENTENARY ENDOWMENT FUND
In keeping with the change in the resident membership of the College this year's formal Dinner will be a "mixed" one. This will be held at College on Friday 7th June at 7.30 p.m. and will be preceded by drinks and a very brief Annual General Meeting in the Junior Common Room at 7.30 p.m. The incoming Warden, Dr. Evan Burge will be welcomed and will speak at the Dinner. Invitation are enclosed with this Newsletter and more may be obtained by telephoning the Warden's Secretary on 347 1044.
Donors' promises are now being redeemed and the cash total of the Fund at the end of 1973 was $58,000. The latest step in increasing the Fund was the mailing of a Deferred Giving and Bequest Brochure the results of which will naturally take some time to materialise. Meanwhile, the Fund has been invested in equities and debenture stocks designed to provide both capital appreciation and a reasonable return. Dividend income this year has enabled carpet to be laid. in the corridors and some studies of Jeopardy.
BEHIND THE ARRAS Recent dinners in Hall have found themselves puzzled by the latest additions to the furnishings — a range of chaste linen curtains covering the southern and eastern walls. Do they hide an avant garde mural? Are the resident ladies proposing to provide regular after-dinner entertainment? Has the College opted for wall hangings rather than floor heating? The answer in every case is NO. Late in 1972 the Hall was painted but within six months black fungoid growths appeared on the walls in question. So ugly was the effect that as an emergency measure the present curtains were run up. Consultants have now advised that the trouble is twofold. First the installation of a new dishwashing machine and a new bain-marie has increased the amount of steam in the atmosphere of the Hall and increased the condensation on the weather walls. Second, the present ridge ventilation is malfunctioning and increasing the moisture precipitation. To reinstate the Hall a total programme is now under way. This involves the installation of a canopy over the bain-marie; the strengthening of the sagging roof over the 1954 extensions; the provision of new ridge ventilation; the stripping, sealing and painting of a test section; finally, and contingent upon a satisfactory test result, complete redecoration and removal of the ARRAS.
THE LADIES COME TO STAY Following its 1972 decision-in-principle to enrol women as resident members of the College, Council agreed last October to take the plunge and become co-residential from 1974. This was done in the belief that joint bathrooms would be available in the restored Bishops' Building from the beginning of Term. Accordingly, one lady tutor and ten undergraduates were accepted for residence. Of these, four are University freshers; two are in second year; three in third year and one in final year; three have previously been resident in Janet Clarke Hall; and one has two Trinity grandfathers. Their arrival (and lodgement in temporary quarters) of course makes 1974 different from any other College year. But not so very different apart from the novelty of taking Trinity women to a barbecue at St. Mary's or a swap dinner at St. Hilda's and the convenience of having actresses and sopranos on the premises (that from the Senior Student). The Bird's-Eye view is not radically different — one bird writes, "I believe that the transition has worked well not because of or in spite of the fact we are women but rather because we are people too".
MERVYN BOURNES HIGGINS TROPHY We are pleased to announce that following a convincing win over ORMOND by the 1st. Crew, this trophy rests in its rightful place in Hall once again.