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Trinity College Trinity College was founded in 1872, and was affiliated as a college 'of and within the University of Melbourne' in 1876. The Trinity Theological School was founded in 1877. The Trinity tA/omen's Hostel, later Janet Clarke Hall, was founded in 1886. The Trinity College Foundation, the arm of the College seeking philanthropic support, was founded in 1983. Trinity College Foundation Studies was founded in 1989 to prepare able students from around the world for entry to degree courses of the University of Melbourne. The Trinity College Learning Innovation Centre was stated in 2000.
An Anglican institution, Trinity welcomes students of all faiths and none. Trinity aims to offer 'large and liberal education' to all its students, emphasising high academic standards, personal breadth, balance, integrity, leadership, service, and international awareness.
As at October 2002, Trinity College had a' total of 1 366 students: • 269 university students in residence in the College, and 31 non-resident university students, • 248 Theological students, including candidates for ordination, associates of the Theological School, students studying away from theCollege for the Certificate of Theology, and in distance education courses, including` online Theology, and • 818 students of Trinity College Foundation Studies.
a snapshot As well as teaching on the main College campus on Royal Parade, the College leases several buildings adjacent to the University in Parkville and Carlton for the teaching of Trinity College Foundation Studies. The Trinity buildings cluster in two precincts: • a Royal Parade Precinct, centred on the main College campus but including other buildings in Royal Parade, and • a Swanston Street precinct, centred on the buildings we lease at 715 Swanston Street and around the corner in Lincoln Square North.
To provide teaching and mentoring for Trinity students, the College employs alarge academic staff including • resident and non-resident tutors for our university students, spanning the full range of University of Melbourne faculties, • Theological lecturers, • lecturers in Trinity College Foundation Studies who each a wide range of academic subjects to students seeking entry to every University of Melbourne faculty.
The College offers tuition in every University faculty discipline: subjects in Arts; Economics and Commerce; Education; Engineering; Land and Food Resources; Law; Medicine, Dentistry, and Health Sciences; Music; Science; and Veterinary Science. Trinity also teaches a variety of aspects of Theology. Subjects taught in Trinity College Foundation Studies, by Trinity College staff, are: Core subjects: History of Ideas, English Literature, Drama, and English for Academic Purposes Optional subjects: Maths 1 A, Maths 1 B, Maths 2, Computing and Information Management, Physics, Media and Communications, Chemistry, Accounting, Economics, Environment and Development, Biology, Psychology, Music History, Music Practical.
The vast majority of our students are between 18 and 21 years of age. As in the University of Melbourne as a whole, approximately 55% of our students are women, and 45'X) are men. Far more students apply for places at Trinity than can be offered places. Entry to the College is unavoidably competitive and selective. Taken altogether,Tonity students conerfieni all States and mainland territories in Australia, and over 20 different countries at any one tire: Of the over 50 countries in which there are Trinity alumni, the largest numbers are in • Australia, • Malaysia, • Singapore, • Hong Kong, and • Indonesia.
Trinity staff also provide services for the College as a whole in Information Technology, Library, • Chaplaincy, • Staff development; accounting, property and operations, • Music, including the Choir of Trinity College, and • Alumni relations, Development Office, and Trinity College Foundation.
Trinity places much emphasis on • music—including an excellent Choir, and an annual College Musical production, • drama – with an annual College Play, and a compulsory subject in Trinity College Foundation Studies, • sport, • visual arts, and • community service
The College encourages all Trinity students, past and present, to recognise that they have benefited from the generosity of past generations, and should, when they are able, do what they can to help generations of Trinity students who follow them.
RINITY Tod ay
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Magazine of Trinity College the University of Melbourne
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Editorial
The Main Event From the Warden—'Large and liberal education: what the world needs now' Undergraduate Education for the 21" Century: Australia at the Crossroads Visiting Scholars Archbishop Rowan Williams atTrinity College Speaking From the Heart: Writer in Residence, Kim Scott Indigenous Peoples and International Law—the Caldwell Lectures Canadian Legal Luminary Visits: Mr Justice lacobucci Greetings from Oxford! International Human Rights Law Program Rising to the Challenge of Our Future: Carrillo Gantner, AO, speaks Inter-Faith Dialogue Singing Their Praises: The Choir of Trinity College continues to impress Consultation Study Helps Hone Plans for Trinity's Future Philanthropy: Venture Capital for the Community Dr Susan Lim, Surgical Pioneer and Seeker for Excellence New Fellows Elected: Ms Diana Smith and Mr Barry Capp A Legacy of Letters: letters of Valentine Leeper to be published Dr Leeper's College—the home of academic excellence The Burge Years seen from the Leeper Library Sir Rupert Hamer Unveiled! 'Elastic but Strong': condom crusader fights HIV and poverty The Library, Archives, and Art Collection of Trinity College Nurturing Creativity at Trinity—Summer Schools Encouraging Students to Think Tertiary: the Melbourne Access Program Freedom to Educate and Innovate: Trinity's use of Open Source Software Alan Arthur Patterson—A Tribute Academic Adventures of Trinity Staff
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® Residential Learning and Life
From the Dean Cripps Middle Common Room Outreach and Community Service Our Trinity Senior Scholars 'Forum' was a Funny Thing 'A Street Car Named Desire' Intercollegiate Cultural Cup Win Misadventure in Clarke's Corridor Dialectic Society: Encouraging Intellectual Debate Harvard study helps Trinity students make the most of College Women's Sport Men's Sport 'You are never lonely in College': TCFS graduates in residence Opportunities, Friendships, Memories... Student Moves: student achievements national and international Scholarships in 2002
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Reunions: Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra Postcards and Letters Honours, Deaths Obituaries
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61 Trinity College Theological School Sydney Celebrations for 125,h Anniversary Archbishop Rowan Williams in Discussion Trinity College Theological School, 1877 – 2002 Revd Dr Ruwan Palapathwala, Noel Carter Lecturer Ordinations A Theological Feast: Revd Dr Andrew McGowan
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65 Trinity College Foundation Studies Liberal Education and International Connections International Alumni Program Launched at Inaugural Dinner Acting Up: Drama finds applications in other areas Success of Trinity College Foundation Studies Students 'Under the Stars' Trinity College Foundation Studies Ball Environment and Development How Many of These Facts about Trinity Do You Know?
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® Developing Trinity Medical Scholarships Dinner Major Gift for Research in Economic History: Bruce McComish Prize Supporting Excellence atTrinity: Our Donors Gifts to the Leeper Library
Editor: Rosemary Sheludko
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Graphic Design: Blue Apple Design
Before my appointment to the newly-created position of Director of Communications at Trinity, my perception of the College was predominantly one of an august institution, blessed with attractive grounds and buildings and offering a tranquil oasis somewhat set apart from the 'real' world. In compiling this edition ofTRINITYToday, I soon discovered that beneath its deceptively calm exterior, today's Trinity is, in fact, a vibrant, dynamic institution, energetically pursuing the delivery of a world-class education. This is evidenced within these pages as they tell of the cavalcade of eminent scholars and dignitaries from all corners of the world who have visited Trinity this year, of inter-faith events, and of staff members' contributions to international courses, publications, and conferences. The diversity and extent of the Trinity community is particularly striking. Over 800 students from many countries in Trinity College Foundation Studies provide a wealth of crosscultural learning and teaching experiences that, as outlined in Carrillo Gantner's address to the inaugural international Members and Friends' Dinner, are essential for Australia's future. Brief profiles of resident students reveal a breadth and depth of achievement, both academic and extra-curricular, that is quite breathtaking, while Susan Lim's story suggests that commitment to community service is a lifelong legacy of a Trinity education. Trinity's role as a college 'of and within' the University of Melbourne is integral to its existence, and has been at least since Dr Leeper's introduction of the tutorial system. Now, it is apparent in everything from international Summer Schools to drama workshops for law students. Certainly, the current vigour of the College is underpinned by a tradition of educational leadership, so it is not surprising that Trinity College Theological School is receiving accolades for its innovative online courses while celebrating its 125th anniversary. An initial consultative study indicates that today's Trinity is strongly positioned and, through the philanthropic generosity of the College's many supporters, is poised for further development. To enable her to direct more of her considerable energy to this area, Director of Development, Clare Pullar, has relinquished the editorial reins ofTRINITYToday. However, she remains a vital member of the editorial committee so that her flair and imagination will, I hope, continue to be reflected in its pages. Following in Clare's footsteps is certainly a challenge, but with generous assistance from many staff, students and friends of Trinity, I have greatly enjoyed compiling this issue. I hope you will enjoy reading it. Rosemary Sheludko
Cover Misadventure, a computer-generated work by former resident student David Harley, is the
most recent addition to the Trinity College ER White collection. See story on page 40.
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From the Warden 'Large and liberal education'— what the world needs now For Trinity College, 2002 has been a year in which the celebration of significant achievements and planning for exciting future developments has been intermingled with sorrow. We have been deeply saddened by the deaths of some very special members of the Trinity community—most recently, of Alan Patterson, the Director of Trinity College Foundation Studies—and by the serious illness of the fifth Warden of the College, Dr Evan Burge. Yet there has also been much cause for celebration. Our resident students have secured the best academic results in many years. We have won the Cowan Cup for men's inter-collegiate sport for the fourth time in five years, come third in the Holmes Shield for women's inter-collegiate sport, and won the inter-collegiate Arts Shield for the third year in a row. The calibre and diversity of our resident students is very encouraging, with students drawn from all States and mainland territories of Australia, and from several other countries. Not surprisingly, competition for places in College is intense, as students realise how significant an impact on their lives a Trinity education can have. Trinity College Foundation Studies also maintains its strong emphasis on high academic standards as it prepares talented students from many different countries for entry into undergraduate degree courses at the University of Melbourne. Over 800 such students have been studying at Trinity this year, and we will soon have over 5,000 alumni of Trinity College Foundation Studies drawn from over fifty countries. This global reach and impact of the College is something of which we can be very proud, and we are hoping that all of these alumni—like all members of the College—will keep in contact with us, take part in alumni events, and support the work of Trinity College as we seek to provide better and better opportunities to future generations of students. I have been delighted to welcome many alumni and friends of the College back to Trinity this year, and to meet many others inter-state and overseas. As we celebrate—in 2002 and 2003—the 125th anniversary of the founding and first teaching of the Trinity Theological School in 1877-78, we are deeply conscious of how much we at Trinity owe to the vision and generosity of past generations. Not least, we have
been reminded of the importance of Trinity's offering—in the words Bishop Moorhouse used in founding the Theological School—'large and liberal education' to all its students. 'Large and liberal education' for today's world must involve—alongside the nurturing of intellectual and personal breadth, independent thinking, and clear communication—an encouragement to develop awareness of other nations, cultures, and faiths. The need for greater inter-cultural and inter-faith understanding is acute, both within Australia's multi-cultural society and internationally. Trinity's capacity to encourage international awareness and connectedness amongst our students is enhanced by the distinguished visitors from around the world whom we are fortunate to welcome to the College, and the presence at Trinity of students from dozens of different countries—students in residence in the College, non-resident university students, Theological students, and students of Trinity College Foundation Studies. How we can best encourage our Australian students
to seize these opportunities—and others—to develop strong international connections, and our international students to make strong Australian connections, is an exciting challenge for Trinity—and an important one for our students, who must make their careers in a world of intense global competition and live in a strife-torn 'global village' where the need for sympathetic understanding of others has never been more crucial.
Undergraduate education for the 21St century: Australia at the crossroads The Warden, Professor Donald Markwell, spoke to the Oxford Society in Victoria on 5 September on the kind of university education needed in the 21' century, and what must be done if undergraduate education comparable with the best in the world is to be
The importance of world-class undergraduate education for Australia The Federal Minister for Education, Science, and Training, Dr Brendan Nelson, has initiated a review of higher education under the title 'Higher Education at the Crossroads'. There is no doubt that Australian higher education is at the crossroads, and decisions taken by government and by institutions of higher education in the next year will significantly determine whether Australian higher education will
offered to students in Australia. A summary follows. 4 TRINITYToday Summer 2002 -2003
continue to slip into mediocrity when compared with the world's leading universities.
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In this context, the Board of Management, Council, and staff of the College have been giving a great deal of thought to how we ensure that Trinity offers all our students, throughout the College, the very finest education we possibly can. Our aim is a very ambitious one: to offer every student a Trinity education that is, over time, increasingly comparable with the best in the world. In this high aspiration, we are keeping faith with the vision of the founders and early leaders of the College. They wished students to be able to obtain in Trinity and the University of Melbourne an education comparable with—even better than—the education they had received in Cambridge, Oxford, and Trinity College, Dublin. In the competitive global economy of today—in which at the 'top end' of the job market our graduates compete increasingly directly with graduates of the leading universities of the US, UK, and elsewhere—it is important that our students have an education comparable in quality, and seen to be comparable in quality, with the graduates of the world's finest institutions. In thinking carefully about how we achieve this, the College has been examining: • our educational philosophy and academic strategy, • how to build up the strongest team of academic and administrative staff we can, • what buildings we need, and • how to raise the funds the College needs for these and other purposes (including for scholarships to make aTrinity education available to students who could not otherwise afford it). In thinking about our educational strategy, we have been identifying what the attributes of the world's finest education are, and what the purposes of a 'large and liberal' Trinity education are, and also thinking how we can build on our existing strengths. My own thinking about the needs of undergraduate education in the 21" century is set out elsewhere in TRINITYToday in extracts from a speech I gave in September. I hope it is of interest to you. The education that Trinity offers is, of course, very much in the context of our being a college of the University of Melbourne: our resident and non-resident university students are almost all students of the various faculties of the University of Melbourne, and our
Trinity College Foundation Studies students are undertaking demanding academic preparation for entry to the various faculties of the University. We work as closely as possible with our friends and colleagues in the University, benefiting from and contributing to the strength of the University as a whole. Amongst the other strengths on which we build is the fact that, taking all parts of the College together—the residential College, Theological School, and Trinity College Foundation Studies—Trinity College employs a very substantial academic staff to provide teaching, mentoring, and pastoral care for a total of over 1,350 students. The research, publishing and related achievements of many of these staff are reported in this magazine. If you would like to see the full extent of our staff and their impressive qualifications, there is a list in the last Annual Report of the College, which is available online via www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au/news, or ring my office (03 9348 7106) and we will gladly send you a copy. In late 2001, the College Council adopted an architectural Master Plan which had been prepared by Professor Peter Elliott, working closely with the College leadership. Over the subsequent year, we have—with Professor Elliott—been giving further careful attention to the space needs of all parts of the College, including • the need to eliminate the worst of our resident student rooms, so-called 'dogboxes', which will only be possible through the construction of a new residential building, the 'Woodheap Building', • the need to provide better facilities for the Theological School (now temporarily housed in the Old Warden's Lodge), and • the need to provide better facilities for Trinity College Foundation Studies, preferably consolidated together near to the other Trinity facilities, so that we can gain the full benefits of the academic and other synergies that come from the talented staff and diverse students in TCFS. To provide a genuinely 'world-class' education for all our students, we also envisage the conversion of the Burge Building into an 'Information Technology and Learning Centre',
multi-million dollar 'Campaign for Trinity'. Elsewhere in this issue, Clare Pullar, the Director of Development, has written about the very encouraging and helpful consultations which have so far taken place about the proposed Campaign, and about the importance of our pressing ahead as soon as we reasonably can with fund-raising for the long-overdue 'Woodheap Building'. I am deeply grateful for the encouragement and support which we are receiving in this important work. Early in his time as Warden, Evan Burge had a vision of a Choir atTrinity which would be comparable in quality with the finest choirs of Oxford and Cambridge. Over the subsequent quarter century, not least through Evan's own splendid efforts, the Choir of Trinity College has truly become—in the words of one European authority 'one of the finest collegiate chapel choirs in the world'. I believe that the truly 'world-class' quality which has been achieved in this way can— with vision, determination, and resources— be achieved for all we do at Trinity. To aim for anything less is to sell short the vision of our founders, and—more importantly—to sell short the present and future generations of students whose education depends on what we do. Professor Donald Markwell Warden
A long period of tightness in public
The needs of graduates in a world of change
the intellectual and personal skills which
funding of universities, and the inability
and the development of much more suitable facilities for the music and drama which play such important roles in the curricular and extra-curricular life of the College. For these and other important projects, the College will need to raise very substantial sums over the years ahead. We are in the 'quiet stage' of preparing a multi-year,
knowledge—which will soon date—are enable them to come to a fresh body of
of universities to gain sufficient resources from private sources, including from
What sort of undergraduate education
knowledge, to identify its essence, think it
student fees, has meant a significant
is needed to help prepare students for
through for themselves, and apply it to the
deterioration in the quality of our university
meaningful and productive lives in the 21"
problems with which they have to deal.
education.
century?
Yet a high quality of undergraduate
to be significant social and economic
international and inter-cultural awareness
education is crucial for Australia's
contributors, to be all they can be, graduates
and perspectives to operate in a globalised
economic well-being in the fiercely
of the 21" century will need many qualities.
To be well-educated, to be effective citizens,
The graduate of this century needs the
world. We need people able to think globally while acting locally—but also able
competitive global 'knowledge economy'. In such a world, the career opportunities
One of the most crucial qualities they will
for individual Australians will be
need is the capacity to cope with significant
around the world, able to do business in
determined in competition with graduates
and rapid change in their own lives and
Seoul or Shanghai or Frankfurt as well as in
of the world's most prestigious and finest
careers, and in the 'knowledge' they need to
Collins Street.
universities.
master. What they need more than specific
to act locally in several different locations
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Undergraduate education for the 21" century...continued from page 5 One of the drivers of change today is,
The world's finest undergraduate education
• an emphasis on intellectual and
of course, scientific and technological
personal breadth, including learning
research and development. Our
through wide reading and debate about
graduates—all of them—need the capacity
a diverse range of human experience
What are the characteristics of the finest
to work with advanced information and
and the clash of great ideas,
undergraduate education in the world?
anyone wishing to engage with the great
• the encouragement, through such learning, of key intellectual skills such
communication technology. Moreover,
I am thinking here of Oxford and Cambridge in the UK; of the top universities—Ivy League
ethical issues of the day will need some
as a capacity to think for oneself, to
or otherwise—in the US such as Princeton,
degree of scientific literacy. How is it
express oneself clearly, and to interpret
Harvard, Yale, and others; and of the leading
possible to consider the ethical issues
the nuances of words and other things
liberal arts colleges in the US, such as
arising in stem-cell research if one doesn't
in their context,
Amherst, Swarthmore, Haverford, and others.
• encouragement to be an active citizen
know what a stem-cell is?
in society, who has thought carefully
The 14 attributes which I identify in the finest
We are seeing a rapid growth in the scale
about her or his values and beliefs, and
undergraduate educational institutions are:
and depth of specialised knowledge in
who has wide and humane international
(i)
probably every field of human endeavour.
and inter-cultural awareness and
(ii)
And yet the need for specialists exists
understanding, and
alongside the need for graduates to have the generic skills I have identified of critical
Residential education. (iii) Mentoring or 'advising' of students.
• a belief that such education should come before, or at very least
thinking and clear communication, to be
accompany, purely vocational
able to see linkages between fields, and to
(career-specific) education.
(iv) High quality of academic instruction (v)
'Large and liberal education'
and staff. Emphasis on small group teaching and individual academic attention.
(vi) Emphasis on mastery of material,
have a broad knowledge so that they can see their own field in context.
Concentrations of the very best students.
Many people argue that the events of and
independent thought, and clear
since September 11 last year show how
communication.
important such liberal education is. Those
(vii) Some form of 'liberal education'—
events have encouraged a growing interest How do we balance the need for specialist
in liberal education in various countries.
knowledge with these other needs which
Interestingly, for example, the former
point to the importance of what has been
Indonesian president, and a long-time
rather than a narrow 'vocational' focus. (viii) Natural commitment to the highest academic standards. (ix) Engagement in a rich intellectual life
called 'large and liberal education'?
Islamic scholar and leader, Abdurrahman
and public debate outside the classroom.
One excellent way of producing that
(x)
balance is in the American system of a
Wahid, argues that the liberal education of young Muslims is a crucial safeguard
'liberal arts' undergraduate education
against Islamic fundamentalism.
(xi) Emphasis on shaping character and
followed by professional or vocational or other specialised education or training.
Emphasis on student welfare and pastoral care. values.
(xii) Encouragement to spiritual reflection. (xiii) Extra-curricular activities.
The expression 'liberal education' has
(xiv) Institutional focus on the quality of undergraduate education.
various meanings, but at the core would normally be such elements as:
Islamic scholar on liberal education and violent fundamentalism In arguing for liberal education, Professor Markwell quoted from the writings of former Indonesian president and distinguished Islamic scholar, Abdurrahman Wahid, who in April 2002 wrote: 'Most Muslims are strongly opposed to acts of
understanding of modern technology and science but
religion. Consequently, it hurts us to constantly see
it is, of course, left to them to reconcile this newly
the name of Islam, "the religion of peace", linked
gained knowledge with the faith that, as foreign
with international terrorism.
students in the West, they increasingly come to feel
We face a dangerously schizophrenic approach to educating our young people. At present, tens
to be at the core of their identity. Because they have not been trained in the rich
of thousands of Muslim students, mostly from
disciplines of Islamic scholarship, they tend to bring
impoverished developing nations that comprise the
to their reflection on their faith the same sort of
bulk of the Islamic world, are sent abroad to study
modelling and formulistic thinking that they learnt
in technologically more advanced societies in order
as students of engineering or other applied sciences.
that they may bring back home and apply to their
Students studying liberal arts are rather better served
own societies an understanding of modern science
when it comes to reflect on the place of Islam in the
and technology. And so it is that every year thousands of young Muslims from developing nations such as Indonesia come of age while studying as strangers in foreign
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lands. Their education provides for them an
violence in any form, undertaken in the name of
modern world. But precious few young Muslims from developing nations have the privilege of undertaking liberal arts courses in Western universities. This might seem but a small matter, but the
mainEvENT ...... On each of these 14 attributes, it is
Thirdly, we need the resources
possible to point to what is done in
to offer our students the very
Australia, some of which is very good.
best undergraduate education.
Yet, it is inescapable that very few
Inescapably, although a greater
Australian undergraduate students have
expenditure by government on
an undergraduate education which
university education should be
would rate highly on more than a few, if
encouraged, this must involve an
on any, of these attributes. This is highly
end to the excessive reliance on
unsatisfactory.
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public funding which will never be sufficient, and finding the means
From here to there: vision, determination, and resources
which mediocrity is our certain
What would we need to do to provide
this can be achieved except with
to generate the resources without destiny. It is impossible to see how
such undergraduate education in
some form of expanded HECS or
Australia?
fees, which are combined with
First, we need the vision to see what is
scholarships, loans, and financial
needed and what can be achieved. We
assistance grants to ensure that
need, in our university leaders and in the
access to excellent undergraduate
key public policy-makers, a vision of a
education is not determined by a
quality of higher education that looks far
student's personal or family financial
beyond the prevailing 'mass production'
capacity. We also need to develop a
model of undergraduate education. We
much deeper culture of philanthropy
need far sharper focus on the real quality
towards universities and colleges.
Conclusion
Professor Donald Markwell, Warden of Trinity College, met with the President of Princeton University, Professor Shirley M Tilghman, in her office in March. education is truly at the crossroads, and
of the education which our students get, and an aspiration to offer our students a quality of education which is increasingly comparable with the best in the world.
It is not possible to lead the institution
There are some encouraging signs that
which I do—Trinity College—without
with it the possibility of genuinely world-
such vision exists or is coming again to
having a buoyant optimism about the
class undergraduate education for the 21"
exist in some of our universities.
quality of the finest young people in
century. This, it seems to me, is truly a crossroads for Australia.
this country. I have in my care a cohort Secondly, we need a determination on
of remarkably able, energetic, and
the part of public policy-makers and our
positive young people. But unless there
university leaders to make it possible for
is vision and determination on the part
this vision to be achieved. I think it is very
of government, and very much greater
important that the University of Melbourne
resources become available to our
has a clear agenda for becoming, over the
universities and colleges, Australia will
next two decades or so, one of the finest
be selling short, not only its best and
universities in the world.
brightest, but itself. Australian higher
The full text of this speech, published as Trinity Paper No. 20, is at
www.trinity.unimelb.edu.aulnews, or is available upon request from the Tutorial Office at the College (phone: +61 3 9348 7101), or email: enquiries@trinity.unimelb.edu.au
ramifications are far reaching. Left to themselves,
Analysing problems in a reductionistic fashion
these future leaders of Muslim societies apply the
and rigorously applying simple formulas may be an
same intellectual principles they have learned in the
appropriate approach to building a bridge, or even
classrooms to understanding the place of Islam in
erecting a skyscraper, but it is grossly inappropriate
the modern society. Many end up going down a familiar path, taking a more or less literalistic approach to the textual sources of Islam: The Koran and the traditions of the Prophet... Grabbing a few verses out of context, they seek
and inadequate to the task of building modern Muslim society. Sadly, without at all intending it to be so, we take the best of our young people and school them in such a way that, in the face of alienation, loneliness and the search for identity, they are unable to approach
to find answers to the challenges facing Muslim
their faith with the intellectual sophistication that the
society today. The result is that they use these texts
demands of the modern world require of them.
in literalistic and reductionistic fashion without
Until we begin to value a broad education for our
being able to undertake, or even appreciate, the
young and face up to the nature of the intellectual
subtly nuanced task of interpretation required of
challenges that face them, we are unwittingly
them if they are to understand how documents from
condemning ourselves to forever struggle with the very
the 7th and 8th centuries, from the alien world of
forces of violent radicalism that we regard as being
tribal Arab society among the desert sands, are to be
anathema to our faith.'
correctly applied to the very different world that we live in today.
What a powerful statement for liberal education.
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Visiting Scholars, 2002 One of the important elements of Trinity's academic program—and the one that perhaps speaks loudest of the College's high academic standing both nationally and internationally—is the extraordinary vitality of the Visiting Scholars Program. Trinity has long been able to attract visitors of the highest academic and community reputation and this year has been no exception, with the College hosting no fewer than nineteen national and international scholars for periods ranging from a few days to a few months. While visiting schools around the country this year, it has been heartening to see how brightly the eyes of prospective applicants light up when they are told that Trinity students regularly get the chance to chat with Nobel Laureates, lunch with award-winning novelists, and meet with professors from places such as Cambridge, Yale and New York. 2002 has been a most memorable year in this regard. We have enjoyed welcoming back to Trinity some long-standing friends, as well as making some new ones. As our first academic visitor for the year, we were delighted to welcome back to Trinity Associate Professor Annabel Bhamani from Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. Later in the year, we were delighted to have an alumnus ofTrinity College and now Professor of Aeronautics at Caltech (California Institute of Technology), Professor Dale Pullin, return for a month. Associate Professor John Watson and Nobel Laureates, Professor Peter Doherty and Professor Bert Sakmann, all of whom have contributed enormously to the College's medical tutorials in the past, have again been invaluable members of the College community this year. With such a strong cohort of medical students, it is extremely exciting to be able to provide them with rolemodels of the stature of Professors Doherty, Sakmann and Watson. Indigenous artist-in-residence, Mr Richard Barnes Koolpinyah.
Visiting Scholar, Professor Donald Akenson from Queen's University, Ontario, with the Chancellor of the University of Melbourne, Ms Fay Maries. Even more pleasing is the way in which connections made at Trinity can provide networks internationally. One of the College's medical students, Katie Mendra, who is now also contributing to the medical tutorial program herself, is a case in point. Having met Professor Doherty during one of his previous visits to the College, Katie was subsequently given the opportunity to undertake research at Professor Doherty's home hospital, St Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. That opportunity has not only provided Katie with research that counts towards her degree, but has also put her in touch with some of the world's leading researchers in children's health. In addition to the renewal of old friendships, we have deeply appreciated the contributions made to College life by such outstanding scholars as Professors John Merriman (Yale) and Donald Akenson (Queen's University, Ontario). Both are historians and we were privileged to have them stay with us at Trinity during the term of their Miegunyah Fellowships within the Faculty of Arts. The College was also enormously appreciative of the work that Professor Benedict Kingsbury and Professor Vivian S Lee (both from New York University) did during their time with us in July, in particular the inaugural Caldwell Lectures which were delivered by Professor Kingsbury on the topic of Indigenous Peoples and International Law. These visits were all made possible through philanthropic benefactions. Once again in 2002, Trinity has been active in the promotion of indigenous scholarship and to this end has hosted two scholars—one from Darwin and one from Perth—as part of the College's Indigenous Scholars program. Mr Richard Barnes Koolpinyah, a community leader of the Larrakia people in the Northern Territory and a widely-respected artist, spent a week at Trinity in April as our artist-in-
residence, conducting workshops in fine arts for interested students and speaking to various groups in the College and University. In August, the award-winning novelist Kim Scott ran seminars and workshops for creative writing and English students. During his visit, Trinity hosted a public forum at which Kim's novels were discussed by leading scholars from the Arts Faculty of the University of Melbourne and beyond. The Indigenous Visiting Fellows Program is made possible by Perpetual Trustees through the Oliver-Affleck Bequest. The Theological School, too, has played a most active role in the College's Visiting Scholars Program this year, sponsoring the visits of Archbishop Rowan Williams in May and Revd Dr Andrew McGowan in August, to coincide with the school's 125"' anniversary celebrations. Archbishop Williams, who since his visit to Trinity has been appointed Archbishop of Canterbury, presented two public talks in the Evan Burge Building, on 'Living Baptismally' and 'Living Eucharistically', as well as holding discussions with Theological faculty and students. Revd McGowan presented the Barry Marshall Memorial Lecture and also spoke at a combined UFT/MCD colloquium and at the school's Friday Formation Program. One of the greatest benefits of the Visiting Scholars Program is that it brings together the various parts of the College. As a program that spans the residential, Theological and Foundation Studies elements of Trinity College, it has the strength of being able to put the entire College community in touch with one another, as well as with some of the keenest minds in the nation and, indeed, in the world. Images that stand out clearly from the midst of such a busy year include Richard Barnes Koolpinyah's talk to 200 Trinity College Foundation Studies students about the Dreamtime and the impact of white settlement; students and staff from the residential College, Foundation Studies and the Theological School discussing with Archbishop Williams the ramifications of his talks; and Professor Merriman hosting drinks in the Leeper flat for faculty, tutors and various postgraduates he met while working in the History Department. This is a program that strengthens the already strong links between the College and the University, which in turn carries with it the seeds for the program's vital future. If it only did this, it would be of indisputable value. Its outstanding virtue, however, is that it brings together current and future leaders, in areas as diverse as medicine, history, law and theology. To be able to put our students in touch with such fine scholars, leaders and role-models is an activity well worth developing—and the fruits of which, I suspect, will benefit the wider community in the years to come. Dr Mark R. Lindsay Director of Academic Studies
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Archbishop Rowan Williams at Trinity In 2002/2003 Trinity College Theological School celebrates the 125th anniversary of its founding. The celebrations began in May 2002, with a visit by Archbishop Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Wales and one of the Anglican Communion's leading bishop-theologians. Morna Sturrock's report on his visit follows. Another distinguished visitor in 2002 was the Revd Dr Andrew McGowan, a Trinity graduate now teaching at the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who was in residence during August as the Frank Woods Fellow for 2002, and delivered the Barry Marshall Memorial Lecture in Trinity College on 21" August. Professor Keith Ward, Regius Professor of Divinity, Oxford, and one of the world's outstanding theologians, will be in residence in Trinity in March of 2003.
Trinity College Theological School will long remember the opening celebrations of its 125" anniversary. Only weeks before the much-awaited announcement that Archbishop Rowan Williams was to move to the ancient See of Canterbury, he was Trinity's distinguished guest. During his two-week visit to Victoria, from 12 to 26 May, the air was quietly buzzing with the possibility of the Canterbury announcement from London's 10 Downing Street, but, as far as is known, no-one was tactless enough to put this question to the visiting prelate. It was known that he 'did not want the job' (but then again who would be foolish enough to want it?). There was, however, a ripple of empathy, or perhaps excitement, when he invited all present to pray for him as he returned home to prepare his sermon for Queen Elizabeth's Jubilee visit to Wales. A happy collaboration between Trinity College and the Hughes-Cheong Trust saw the pre-planning
This was followed by a joyful dinner in the College
and the actual visit to Victoria run smoothly.
dining hall, hosted by the Warden, Professor Donald Markwell.
The Hughes-Cheong Lectureship, as it was called when established in 1943, honours the life and work
In reflecting on Rowan Williams' visit, Revd
of two Trinity graduates, Father Ernest Selwyn Hughes
Dr David Cole, Director of the Trinity College
and Father James Cheong, at St Peter's Eastern Hill
Theological School, said: 'Archbishop Williams gave
in the Diocese of Melbourne. Particularly since the
us first-rate food for the mind and heart.'
1980s, the Trust has been able to bring distinguished theologians from overseas to give lectures and
Professor Robin Sharwood, fourth Warden of Trinity College and convenor of the Hughes-Cheong
seminars on a wide range of topics of interest to
Trust, called the visit of Rowan Williams the most
Christian thinkers.
outstanding in the history of the Lectureship.
On this occasion, the Trust's choice of the Welshborn prelate for what are now called the 'St Peter's
Archbishop of Melbourne, Peter Watson, who is chairman of Trinity College Council, saw him as 'a
Lectures' gave Trinity College the opportunity to
humble, accessible
invite him to be the honoured guest for the opening
person, which is
of the Theological School's 125" anniversary, 2002-
wonderful to discover
2003. The Archbishop's two lectures, given before a
in a person possessing
'Archbishop Williams gave us first-rate food for the mind and heart.'
such a keen mind.
packed audience in the Evan Burge building at Trinity
He is one of those rare persons who combines a
College, were titled 'Living Baptismally' and 'Living
personal grace with a truly "big" mind. In my view
Eucharistically'; they will be published in the Trinity
he is one of the few contemporary churchmen to
Papers series.
stand within the spiritual and scholarly
As well, the Theological School celebrated its great occasion with a Festival Eucharist in the
Conversing with Abp Rowan Williams after his lecture were resident students, from left, Buffy Greentree (2nd year Arts) and Tamara Vu (2nd year Creative Arts/Law). Both are members of the Chapel Committee.
heritage of a person like Archbishop Michael Ramsey.'
College Chapel on the eve of Trinity Sunday, 25 May, its feast day, with a superb performance by the Trinity Choir, and with Rowan Williams the preacher.
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Panellists at the Kim Scott forum (from left), Associate Professor Kate Darian-Smith, Judge Peter Gebhardt, Professor Marcia Langton, and Ms Marion Campbell share a lighter moment with Kim Scott and the Dean, Dr Stewart Gill, who chaired the forum.
In August of this year, indigenous author, Kim Scott, was writer-in-residence at Trinity. Kim's latest novel, Benang, published by Fremantle Arts Centre Press, was joint winner of the Miles Franklin Award for 2001. Mike Heald, Lecturer in Literature at Trinity College Foundation Studies, spoke with Kim about his writing and his situation, in particular, as a Nyungar writer. As a person with language skills, Kim Scott feels he has a kind of duty, or responsibility, to represent
— spoke with a striking unanimity about the ordeal of reading Benang. They all expressed a
aspects of the experience of his people. This can
reaction of shock, and yet of a difficult kind of
also present him with dilemmas, however. Kim
healing, which the book sets in motion. The forum
spoke of situations where he is told stories relating
certainly led one to reflect on the importance of
to particular communities. The question then is
a country being aware of, and acknowledging, its
whether to place such stories in the public domain,
own history, and how difficult it is to achieve such
or to leave them with the community. This is just one
knowledge and openness. During our conversation,
aspect, as Kim sees it, of finding himself in the role
Kim spoke of the dangers of people being trapped
of spokesperson and intermediary, as well as the role
in simplistic, impoverished discourses about the
of writer.
nation and themselves. A severe case of this, he
Since Kim's own history is so much a part of
said, is when people with an aboriginal background
his literary activities, he also has to manage the
find it difficult to acknowledge it, anticipating,
suspicions and fears which those close to him
or internalising, the view that they are 'bludgers'
might have towards
exploiting the 'gravy
his 'exposure' of
train' of aboriginal
that history. Kim himself speaks of the necessity to be vulnerable; but
As a writer, a lowering of one's defences is often part of the exploratory and creative process.
to cause another's vulnerability is of course another matter. As a
On a brighter note, Kim and I agreed that literature can be a powerful
counter to such cultural debasement and atrophy.
writer, a lowering of one's defences is often part
In literature, habitual and simplistic views and
of the exploratory and creative process. From my
concepts can be evaded, through the rendering of
perspective, having read the searing accounts of
people's immediate and interior experience. In this
mistreatment in Benang, this seems a peculiarly
way, literature can witness and reveal humanity,
intense ordeal for indigenous writers in Australia.
clear of the often distorting and
Indeed, the panellists at Kim's forum held in the Buzzard Lecture Theatre — Professor Marcia
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welfare.
manipulative agendas of politics and the media, and speak, as the
Langton, Ms Marion Campbell, Associate Professor
subtitle to Benang has it, from
Kate Darian-Smith, and Judge Peter Gebhardt
the heart.
ABOVE:
Winner of the 2001 Miles Franklin
Award, author Kim Scott discusses his book, Benang, with Chancellor of the University of Melbourne, Ms Fay Martes, following the public forum at Trinity. ABOVE RIGHT: Kim Scott discusses a point with resident student Sana Nakata (2"d year Arts/ Law) following the public forum on his work.
Deep in discussion following the Kim Scott
Enjoying a lunch with writer-in-residence, Kim Scott (seated left) were (continuing
forum were former Governor of Victoria,
from left) resident students Sana Nakata (2"" year Arts/Law), Michael Pottenger (4th year
Dr Davis McCaughey and Ms Rowena
Arts/Commerce), Simon Griffiths (2"d year Engineering/Science), Lilly Brophy (2"" year
Armstrong, QC.
Veterinary Science), Georgia Coutts (2" d year Commerce/Law), and Julian Anderson (2" d year Commerce), with (standing, from left) Director of Academic Studies, Dr Mark Lindsay, and the Dean, Dr Stewart Gill.
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The Caldwell Lectures, 2002 Indigenous Peoples and International Law
Canadian Legal Luminary Visits Distinguished Canadian, the Hon. Mr Justice Frank lacobucci visited the College with his wife, Nancy, in September. During his stay, Justice lacobucci addressed a lunch at Trinity with students and staff of the College and the Law Faculty of the University of Melbourne. Justice Susan Kenny of the Federal Court, former Governor-General, Sir Zelman Cowen, and prominent members of the Melbourne legal profession also attended to hear him speak on the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which he argued has made a very positive impact in defending human rights in Canada.
Students were keen to discuss indigenous issues with Professor Benedict Kingsbury, Professor of Law at New York University, following the 2002 Caldwell Lectures.
In his generous benefaction to the College, Colin Hicks Caldwell (1913-1989) provided, amongst other things, for a visiting lectureship from some international scholar 'in art, art history, law or literature', all fields which reflected Colin Caldwell's own life-long interests. The inaugural Caldwell Lecturer, Professor Benedict Kingsbury, sometime Rhodes Scholar for New Zealand and Professor of Law at New York University, recently visited the College to deliver two lectures on 'Indigenous Peoples, International Law, and Liberal Democracy'. Large and appreciative audiences filled the Buzzard Lecture Theatre in the Evan Burge Building on both occasions. In his first lecture, Professor Kingsbury noted that because indigenous issues are so very complicated, and so different in every society, there is great uncertainty as to what
Born in Vancouver, Justice lacobucci
the concepts are with which the problems are to be addressed, especially in an era of rapid change on both the national and international level. He outlined and commented
received his LLM from the University
upon five such concepts: human rights, minority rights, self-determination, sovereignty,
of Cambridge and during his years of
and indigenous peoples' rights. All these concepts had merit, he thought, and should
practice specialised in corporate law.
be 'kept in play', but their outcomes could conflict, and further thinking was necessary. In his second lecture, Professor Kingsbury examined each of these concepts in its application to indigenous issues at greater length and with reference to particular case
He has served as Vice-President and Provost of the University of Toronto,
studies. It raised the contentious issue (in Australia) of a 'treaty', and in this connection
federal Deputy Minister of Justice, Deputy
he examined the operation, especially in recent years, of the New Zealand 'Treaty
Attorney-General of Canada, and Chief
of Waitangi' of 1840, copies of which he distributed. He pointed out that all five
Justice of the Federal Court of Canada,
of his 'concepts' were to be found in that Treaty, but that the current Treaty process required that they be held in some sort of balance, to achieve, overall, a better set of relationships. In brief, Professor Kingsbury's thesis was that progress on indigenous issues was only
and in 1991 was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada. Justice lacobucci's visit was made
possible if there was a readiness to re-shape the debate (legal and otherwise), and to
possible through the efforts of Ms Krista
use concepts flexibly and constructively.
Slade, Asia-Pacific Advancement Officer
Professor Robin Sharwood Warden, 1965-1973
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with the University of Toronto.
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On sabbatical leave, Dr Emma Henderson, Resident Tutor in Law and Legal Studies, participated in a stimulating course on international human rights law. She shares her experience with TRINITYToday...
Greetings from Oxford! I am writing this in the stunning Oxford Law Library, reflecting back on six weeks which have been among the most frenetic, exhausting, challenging and rewarding of my life. Six months ago I was accepted into the International Human Rights Law program at Oxford University, but I had very little idea, when I applied, what I was letting myself in for. The website listed a host of intriguing subjects: the human rights of
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women, international rights of minorities, the rights of indigenous peoples, refugee law, international human rights lawyering, and international human rights and the marketplace, but having strained myself to make my selections, I put it to one side and thought no more about it. Upon my arrival at New College in June, however, I was greeted with smiles, a stack of texts and notes about five feet high, and a class schedule to make anyone swoon. Classes started at 8.30am and ended at 7pm, five days a week—with formal hall, films, and trips thrown in. At the orientation function, it was hard to know
couple of three-day weekends thrown in so we could
Dr Emma Henderson
whether to be more intimidated by the student body or
jump on the plane and go to Paris, or—as I did—head
(4th from right)
the faculty. There were 79 students from 41 countries, all
for the Cotswolds on our bikes and cycle idyllic country
celebrates the
of whom, it seemed to me, were engaged in inspirational
lanes searching for badgers and blackberries in the
conclusion of the
human rights activities. Many worked for the United Nations while others included policy advisors from
hedgerows. We also managed to find time to sit in
International Human
the ancient pub next door to New College, to nurse
Rights Law program at
Russia, Slovenia, and Croatia, and the Pakistan refugee
beer and engage in passionate debate on matters
Oxford University
co-ordinator. There were heads of NGOs, like the
with some of her
individual who is successfully leading the Amazon
international. I participated in the Refugee Law option, along with
Indians in their fight to retain their traditional lands,
eight others, half of whom worked for the UNHCR all
and barristers and solicitors pushing their clients into the brand new world of international human rights law
to work, as refugee representatives. So I learned the
engagement. There were also a number of American law students (unlike their Australian counter-parts, these are
spirit of its international obligations in this arena. It is
all postgraduate students), virtually all of whom had
a relief finally to understand the rules and rationales
over the world, while the other half worked, or aspired myriad ways in which Australia is in breach of the
substantial work experience in diverse human rights
behind concepts such as Non-Refoulment (the non-
projects before heading to law school. In addition, there
derogable duty not to return people to situations where
were the Masters students from Oxford's International
they may face persecution), and also to grapple with
Human Rights Law degree. The faculty were inspirational: from Harold Koh
forced migration.
the complex realities behind refugee production and
(Bill Clinton's Assistant Secretary of State, who has
In the morning sessions we pored over (and can now
been everywhere and met everyone) and Radhika
recite) the UN Charter and its numerous conventions,
Coomarawamy (the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence
thinking about the differences between reality and
Against Women), to Ralph Steinhard (the leading US
practice, and brainstorming practical solutions to the
litigator in the use of the Alien Torts Act, which allows
many abuses of human rights we read about in the
non-American citizens to sue international companies
papers every day. As may be expected, many aspects of
for breaches of human rights in US courts) and Richard
this course were deeply disturbing and, after a couple
Goldstone (Justice on the South African Constitutional
of days discussing Rwanda, it was hard to sleep at night.
Court and judge on the UN tribunals in Rwanda). The
However, there can be few things more appropriate,
long list of exceptional faculty was bolstered even
at this time in history, than to have a crash course
further by the guest speakers who participated in the
in international human rights law. I urge those who
Oxford Lecture Series on IHRL, such as the special
practice law, or engage (or aspire to engage) in human
prosecutor in the Yugoslavia tribunal at The Hague.
rights work, to think seriously about the benefits, both
The working day started with a plenary lecture, followed up with intensive small group seminars, then
fellow students.
in terms of knowledge and professional networking, of this course.
optional small group subjects, then back together for the
But a note of warning—the IHRL Program has
Oxford Lectures. Dinner, a vigorous game of soccer (the
been running for a decade and, while its fame grows,
World Cup was going on as we studied) and then it was
the class sizes do not; entry is becoming increasingly
time to hit the books; it took a minimum of five hours a
competitive. In addition, it is very expensive
night to keep up with the reading. Luckily there were a
(AUD$10,000—so advance planning is required. www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au 13
Rising to the challenge of our future Carrillo Gantner, AO, a leader in cultural and other linkages between Australia and Asia, returned to his old College to address Trinity College Foundation Studies graduates at their inaugural reunion dinner. He encouraged the students to be open, to have wide international focus, and to embrace diversity and new ideas. Highlights of his text are reproduced here. I focus my remarks on Australia's place in the world and on our values — in simple words, where we live and how we live. I will talk mainly of Australia in the context of Asia because that is what
because he built a department store but because of his exceptional philanthropy, his values. At the end of the 19'h century, when Sidney Myer arrived in
I know, but wherever you are from, I hope my words may have
Melbourne, the Americans talked about their immigration program
some relevance. Of course geography is easy and self-evident:
creating a 'melting pot'. In Australia we are in that 'melting pot'
Australia is aligned with what Gareth Evans used to call 'the East
right now. Being in a pot is not a comfortable place for some,
Asian Hemisphere'. We are next door to South East Asia and in
our political masters included. In the context of the debate about
the same time zone as North East Asia. Darwin is closer to Jakarta,
Asian and Middle Eastern immigration which has continued to
Singapore and Kuala Lumpur than to Melbourne or Sydney. On
erupt throughout our history since the Chinese, like every other
the other hand values, personal or collective, are not so easy. As a
nationality on earth, came here for the gold rush in the 1850s, it is
nation, it is clear that Australia is finding it very hard to reconcile
worth reminding ourselves that, apart from the indigenous peoples .
its stated values with its public and collective behaviour.
who have inhabited this continent for many tens of thousands of
I am sure that all of you who have graduated from the Trinity Foundation Studies program and gone on to the University
years, we are all 'boat people', all recent arrivals. For the last 200 years Australia has been a society, a culture, in
of Melbourne or other tertiary studies feel proud of your own
constant transition as wave after wave of immigrants from Great
achievements. You should be proud and your parents should be
Britain, Europe, the Middle East, the Americas and Asia have come
too. It was almost certainly they who sacrificed their own good to
here in search of opportunity, of a better life for their children, of
invest in you and in your education. You are the most important
education, of peace and freedom. We should celebrate the fact
investment they will ever make.
that this process has, in the main, happened so smoothly and that
The Foundation Studies Program is fundamentally important to
the outcome has been so fortunate for so many of us.
the life of the College. Your presence in the program reminds us of
In very recent years, however, indeed in the term of the current
where we live in the world. You can also help to teach us how we
federal government, the whole tone of the debate about migration
should live.
and settlement has changed. So, according to the polls, have
Tonight is not a graduation but a reunion. The last time I attended a graduation ceremony at this University I recall
community attitudes. I do not accept, however, the assertion that the entire Australian community has fundamentally changed from
being struck by the overwhelming number of non Anglo-Saxon
being open and receptive to migration from other countries and
names among the graduating students. Over one third of them
cultures, to being mean spirited and xenophobic. I do not believe
seemed to be Chinese or Vietnamese. At the very least, these
that a majority of Australians believe it is good public policy to
nationalities were present in numbers well beyond their statistical
lock children in a razor wired camp for the crime of trying to flee
representation in the wider community, an outcome I put down
oppression and unite their families.
to both the high motivation to succeed that exists in all migrant
My wife Zi Yin is Chinese, from Beijing. She came to Australia
communities and, in particular, the respect for education that is very much part of Confucian tradition.
for postgraduate studies in 1986. She was here in 1989 when
Tonight I would also like to be proud, proud of Australia, but
On hearing the news the then Australian Prime Minister, Bob
at least for some Australians, myself included, it is harder to be
many young people died in the so-called 'Tiananmen Massacre'. Hawke, cried in public and in front of the television cameras.
so. We do have much to celebrate — our liberal democracy, our
He also approved the immediate extension of visas for 20,000
economic development, our educational opportunities and our
Chinese students in this country. My wife and other Chinese
cultural achievements. Most of all, however, I would like to be
friends here tell me that in the days and weeks that followed,
proud of our fine record of multiculturalism which has contributed
there was an enormous outpouring of sympathy. People would
so much to the rich diversity of this
stop them in the street or on a tram to
country. My grandfather arrived by ship in Melbourne in August 1899 at the age of 21. He came from that part of Russia which is today a separate nation
express their warm support, solidarity
Sidney Myer was loved not because he built a department sttore but because of his philan thropy, his values.
called Belarus. He was fleeing religious
and welcome. Today the media tells us that many migrants, especially those who look different and those who follow Islam, are experiencing active hostility
persecution. He was penniless and without a visa - they were not
and prejudice, even isolated incidents of violence. Have the
necessary or available in those days. There was no queue, just
Australian people really changed that much? I am an optimist and
a welcome mat. I suppose that in today's vocabulary he would
I would hate to think so, although it is true that every new wave of
be called an 'asylum seeker'. Fortunately Australia gave him that
immigrants is denigrated by those already settled.
asylum and Australia has been the beneficiary. His name was Simcha Baevski, or later, Sidney Myer. 100,000 people are said to
I would say that leaders of government who place short term political advantage above national values and long tern national
have lined the roads to see his coffin go by when he died in 1934.
interest should not be surprised if their behaviour is reflected,
That's one in every ten people in Melbourne at that time. Can you
however crudely and inappropriately, in the licence felt by
think of a businessman, let alone a sporting hero or pop star, who
citizens to denigrate and abuse others. The national tone is set at
would attract such a crowd today? Sidney Myer was loved not
the top of the tree.
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mainEvENT The environmentalists may not agree, butt would also say that we need more migration, not less. More diversity, not less. You can argue this coherently on grounds of national economic self-interest. I think we also should argue about values, not simply the moral values that demand we take in a more generous number of those who are made homeless by war and oppression in Europe, the Middle East and Asia, but also because our social values are greatly enriched by adding people of other cultures, colours and creeds. Sadly, there are some Australians who would wish to deny the right of people of Middle Eastern or Asian origin to settle here and be part of the great Australian fruit cake mix. To those people I would say that we cannot turn back our history, stop immigration, close our eyes to the harsh realities of our world, and erect cruel barriers in the name of recreating some mythical, nostalgic Anglo Saxon paradise, a paradise that for most people was never here in the first place. The reality is that we need Asia and the international community much more than they need us.
Guest Speaker at the inaugural Trinity College Foundation Studies
The overwhelming long-term economic trends make it obvious
Members and Friends' Dinner Mr Carrillo Gantner (seated,
that we face a compelling economic imperative to integrate with
centre), with seated, from left, Mrs Zi Yin Cantner, Professor
our region.
Donald Markwell, Ms Ashwinny Krishna Singam, and standing,
It is not, however, simply economic self-interest or geographic proximity that ought to be driving our push for partnership with
from left, Mr Vincent Ramos, Ms Jessie Mutheu, Mrs Susan Patterson, Ms Clare Pullar, Mr Alan Pattersont, Ms Rebecca
the many diverse countries and peoples of this region. Rather
14/ebster, and Ms Diana Smith.
it is an understanding of the positive and, rewarding cultural opportunities that are offered to us if we make our future home
and fear are overcome by knowledge and understanding.
with Asia. Or to use the phrase of the Prime Minister in another
I hope that, wherever you are from, all of you here will rise to
context, if we become 'relaxed and comfortable' in our own
the challenge of our future by seeking such knowledge and understanding between the countries and people of our region,
neighbourhood. East and West have so much to teach each other. Learning
their values, beliefs and hopes for the future. Whatever your field
about and coming to terms with Asia does not mean that we lose
of endeavour, you can do this best by making connections at a
our own identity or values though they may, in time, change. us, but rather that we must all shift our bearings to some degree.
deeply personal level. For those of you who have come to study here from the Asian region, or indeed from any other part of the globe, I hope that
We have a fine Western heritage in this country. We also have
this has been both rewarding and enjoyable for you. Whether you
'Convergence' does not mean new migrants must all become like
the opportunity to enrich this with the
know it or not, you have come here
wondrously diverse cultural heritage of
to teach as well as to study and, on
the East. In the post industrial and selfsatisfied societies of the West, we need
Prejudice and racism arise from ignorance and fear. Ignorance and fear are overcome by knowledge a nd understanding.
I think particularly of the Confucian values of family, of self
have shared your time here, I thank you most genuinely for your contribution to making Australia a
to absorb some Eastern values if we are a to survive as healthy civilisation in a period of intense and dislocating change and spiritual decay.
behalf of all those with whom you
more understanding, caring, vibrant, diverse and exciting place to live. I hope you will look back on your time at Trinity and at
discipline and social order, of group cohesiveness balancing
university as fortunate, happy and productive, that you will work
individual rights with collective responsibility, of frugality, modesty
to keep alive and fresh the friendships you have made here,
and devotion to education, of respect for personal dignity or
and that you will speak well of us to your families who have
'face', of respect for authority and the acceptance of government
sacrificed and supported you. Trinity College and the University of
activity for the common good in the ordering of society and the
Melbourne have a very high reputation for academic excellence
economy. The values of Buddhism, also, sit very comfortably with many
and this should offer you a head start in your professional careers.
young Australians: concern for the environment, respect for all life,
integration with the Asian region, by learning and experiencing
I believe we can make this a better country by closer
the desire to generate prosperity without exploitation of people or
Asian values. In this process we must all make the effort to be both
place, the integration of spiritual and earthly values, the profound
student and teacher, sharing and valuing each other's cultures and
respect for both personal happiness and universal harmony.
beliefs.
I want simply to emphasise that we have so much to learn, so
If we can do this, Australia's future offers no less excitement,
much to gain from our active understanding of and identification
challenge, danger and romance than that which faced our early
with our neighbours and friends in Asia and beyond. Prejudice and racism arise from ignorance and fear. Ignorance
European pioneers. I would like to think that the young generation will accept the challenge to be pioneers of the new Australia.
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Inter-Faith Dialogue This year has been culturally and religiously significant for Trinity College, due to a number of major events and key initiatives throughout the year to promote inter-faith dialogue and religious understanding and tolerance. Some of these are outlined:
Buddhist and Christian approaches to suffering ìi e t d ec tire ' entre 'A capacity crow the Evan Burge Building on 30 October for the 200' Noel Carter 1 ecttire in Pastoral 'Theology. The newest staff member in the Trinity College. Theological School, Revd Dr uwasi i alapathwala, addressed the subject 'BuddhisI and Christian responses to suffering'. Noting his exper i circe of growing up in a family that represented Buddhism and Christianity, Dr Palapathswala indicated that in this context he had imbibed the Ivey insights of both faith traditions. He could not avoid respecting their differences, and sought to help their adherents learn from one another, an approach evident in the lecture itself. A formal response to the Lecture was made by the Revd Dr Bruce Rumbold, formerly Professor at Whitley College, now Senior Lecturer in Palliative Care at La Trobe University. He noted that palliative care, begun by alay Anglican, Dame Cecily Saunders, was seeing a growing number of publications, both academic and popular, by Buddhists. The College was delighted that Mrs Mary Hoy, sponsor of the Noel Carter Lectures named in memory of her late husband, was able to attend. A lively question time saw Ruwan's familiarity with Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish and Christian scriptures come to the fore. Equally animated discussion continued over supper, concluding a stimulating evening.
What is Ramadan?
'nts front Trinity tudies presente. information session for staff and fello` students of the College to explain various aspects of Ramadan, the ninth month of ~4 the lunar calendar during which Muslims: fast from dawn until sunset. The idea for this session came from The Council of Christians and Jews (Vic) the !slaty-tic students' support_ group whic One of the ventures that is pc. icularly Revd Kim Cruickshank, Trinity College xcit ng is the strengthening or Trinity's, Foundation Studies Chaplain, established` elationship with the Council of Christians earlier this year. The students told the larg nd less (Victoria). This is a branch of an lunchtime audience ghat fasting, in the to international organisation t at xi month of Ramadan is one of the five pilla' promote reconciliation between these two of Islam and that fasting in Islam means faith communities and to learn from the io ahstahi from eating, drinking, smoking, tragedy of the Holocaust. With a longswearing, sexual acts and all worldly standing academic and personal concern desires. for Jewish-Christian reconciliation, my We fast for the sake of God. We are appointment to the editorial board of showing our devotion to God by our GESHER —the Council's annual journal self-discipline. Those who are unwell or — in August of this year has helped further suffering other hardships need not fast, but the College's interest in Jewish-Christian if a Muslim is physically able to fast, then dialogue. they should,' one of the students explained. Partly as a result, Trinity and the CC) 'In short, a person should try to refrain will be able jointly to host a major public from all kinds of sins—protecting their oration to be given by the President of the ears, eyes, tongue and all other organs International Council of Christians and from indulging in unlawful activities. When Jews, Revd Professor John T Pawlikowski, a Muslim spends Ramadan in this manner OSM, during his visit to Melbourne in then they will notice great changes in their August 2003. John Pawlikowski is Professor life. Spiritual strength will be gained, which of Social Ethics at the Catholic Theological will facilitate them to conduct their life Union in Chicago and an internationallyaccording to Islam, together with Allah's renowned leader in the areas of social Pleasure.' ethics, post-Holocaust theology and In concluding this speaker said: 'We education, and Jewish-Christian dialogue. will be fasting all during the day in this His speech is sure to attract enormous el Carter An edited ersion of the 2002 month, and we ask simply that you respect interest and will clearly further signal Lecture can be found in the November 2002 our obligation, or might join us.' Following ;.. Trinity's own commitment to dialogue and edition of Pro Ecclesia at their presentation, the students served tolerance. www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au/theolog/ dates and coffee—traditionally used to Dr Mark R Lindsay newsletter break the fast at the end of Ramadan. Director of Academic Studies Rev Dr Charles Sherlock Senior Lecturer in Theology The Revd Kim Cruickshank, Trinity College Foundation Studies Chaplain (centre) with the student-presenters who explained various aspects of Ramadan to Trinity staff and students.
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Inter-Faith Events at Trinity College, 2002 have included:
Singing their praises The Choir of Trinity College continues to impress diverse audiences
3 March The commissioning of Revd Dr Ruwan Palapathwala as the Noel Carter Lecturer in Pastoral Theology, with a particular emphasis on Christian-Buddhist dialogue. 20 May A multi-cultural commissioning of Mr Alan Patterson as Director of Trinity College Foundation Studies with a service including elements of
2002 has been another very fine year for the Choir of Trinity College—building on the work of 2001, which ended on a high note with two wellattended and well-received Carol Services, a 'Sunday Live' broadcast direct from St Paul's Cathedral on ABC-FM, and finally a Christmas concert for the Governor of Victoria and Mrs Landy at Government House, Melbourne.
various faiths. 25 July Symposium with Dr Catherine Cornille of Boston College on
In 2002, music students have continued to do well in their studies
The Choir of Trinity College with, from left, Director of Music, Michael Leighton Jones, the Governor of Victoria, and Mrs Landy, following the 2001 Christmas Concert that the Choir was invited to give at Government House.
and there is always a great deal of demand for the limited practice space available in College. Resident students now
Trinity College Foundation Studies (20 May) as well as the Trinity Eve Eucharist (with the Archbishop of
'Conditions for the Possibility
make up half the choir-twelve, including one from
Wales, Dr Rowan Williams) and Festal Evensong to
of Inter-religious Dialogue'.
Janet Clarke Hall, the highest proportion on record
celebrate Trinity Sunday. The Choir also performed
thus far. Talking numbers, we are also at the halfway mark
at the Trinity Medical Dinner (16 March) and the
17 October Information session on
for naming and endowing the twenty-four choral
regular appearance at the Founders and Benefactors'
Ramadan for staff and
scholarships. A choral scholarship set up in 2001 by
Dinner in October. A successful concert was
students of Trinity College,
Dr Norman Curry in memory of his wife Nancy was
given in the Chapel (6 September) as part of the
with speakers from among
awarded for the first time this year. The inaugural
Trinity College Foundation
Nancy Curry Choral Scholar was Peter Badger, who
Melbourne Early Music Festival, and the Choir also sang at the opening of the Australasian Conference
Studies students.
is currently furthering his design studies in Holland.
of the Association of Development and Alumni
Fleur- de-Lys Dinner (3 May) in addition to their
New scholarships have also been established this
Professionals in Education (ADAPE) held at the
year in memory of Professor Peter Dennison, the
Melbourne Sofitel (15 September). Two of their
Noel Carter Lecture by
College's first officially-appointed Director of Music,
more colourful engagements were to sing a concert
Dr Ruwan Palapathwala:
and Ken Horn, former State Librarian of Victoria and
in the spectacular surroundings of the ballroom at
'Buddhist and Christian
Mollison Librarian at the College in his retirement;
Government House (28 October) and to launch
30 October
Perspectives on Human Suffering: Dialogical Frontiers in Pastoral Theology'. 7 November Inaugural meeting of the Trinity College Inter-Faith Working Group.
and to honour Professor Peter Godfrey, Director of
this year's Christmas stamp for Australia Post
Music at the College a decade ago.
(31 October).
The Choir has sung at many different functions in the course of the year: weddings, funerals
2003 beckons with our third tour to the UK in June/July and invitations to perform at the Ludlow
and memorial services, as well as the normal
and Lichfield Festivals, on BBC radio for Daily
commitment to providing music of the highest
Service and to sing a week of Evensongs at Christ
standard for College services. There have been
Church Cathedral, Oxford.
some significant special services in 2002, most notably the installation of Dr Damian Powell
Michael Leighton Jones
as Principal of Janet Clarke Hall (3 March), the
Director of Music
commissioning of Mr Alan Patterson as Director of www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au 17
Consultation study helps hone plans for Trinity's future
Clare Pullar, Director of Development, reports: Trinity is in the midst of a consultative study as part of its preparations to face the
Findings from initial Melbourne study builds confidence A Melbourne consultative study
educational opportunities and challenges
involving more than sixty people was conducted over June, July and September.
of the 21" century. We are at a crucial
The findings from this first study and
moment in the history of the College—
the many valuable contributions by
a moment where we have an opportunity,
participants have given the Warden and the
over time, to take the College forward
College leadership confidence to continue
to be among the best colleges of its type
to fine-tune and develop the planning.
anywhere in the world.
While it is too early to give a full report,
This is essential if any Australian higher education institution is going to offer students an education comparable with
some highlights are produced here. Opinions about the College naturally varied, but the one opinion which held
the best in the world—something Australia
true throughout the Melbourne study is that
certainly needs in the global competition
Trinity is a college that matters greatly, both
of the 'knowledge economy'. Trinity is
to those who know it intimately and to the
already widely recognised across all its
national and international communities it
programs as a leader in Australian higher
has served so well for more than a century.
education. Now it is poised to build on its strong traditions with new vigour and
Ninety-four percent of respondents indicated that they support the current
creativity, and set its course to strengthen further the meaning, value and benefits of
support and enthusiasm which Marts and
a college experience in an international
Lundy said they very rarely encountered.
context. The consultation study involves a
direction of the College—a degree of
There was wide admiration for the College's current leadership and particular
sample of Trinity's alumni, friends, parents
appreciation of the strong educational
and students from all parts of the College
vision and energy of the Warden, Professor
—the residential College, the Theological
Donald Markwell. There was heartening
School and Trinity College Foundation
support for his vision for the College to
Studies. The study seeks advice about
achieve undergraduate education of the
its present strengths and weaknesses, its
highest international quality. There was generally a belief that the current staff
reputation, its leadership, and its capacity to accomplish its ambitious aspirations for
team was strong enough to implement and
this century. Marts and Lundy, a leading
support the vision. There was also faith in
firm of specialists in providing service
the present strength of Trinity's reputation,
to philanthropic institutions in both the
confidence in its financial management,
USA and in Australia, has been asked to
and support for the educational vision
conduct the study.
and the list of needs to be addressed
The consultations, which will take place across the world, test the planning
to ensure this vision becomes a reality, although priorities varied between those
being undertaken by the College over
interviewed. The interviews have given the
the last eighteen months which has
College very valuable feedback on many
been summarised in an evolving Case
issues, including suggestions and questions
Statement. This planning process sets out
which have already been of considerable
the vision for Trinity and what is needed
assistance in further planning.
to achieve that vision. It argues that the
In the opinion of almost all
time may have arrived for the College to
interviewees, the momentum established
enlarge its scope through initiating its first
fully justified the College moving ahead
truly comprehensive Capital Campaign of
with the ambitious fundraising effort
the type run in the USA and Oxford and
required to meet its educational vision—
Cambridge.
and soon!
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Outcomes of the study While the study will continue interstate and overseas in 2003, the initial Melbourne study has confirmed the College is on the right track. Accordingly, we intend to move ahead with planning for a major fundraising Campaign by preparing the case for the most urgent of the College's needs. These fall into three broad areas—improving the standard of buildings both for residential and teaching purposes, providing scholarships for needy students, and endowing teaching positions. The nine specific needs within these three broad areas are: • To improve student and tutor residential accommodation. • To continue to enhance the endowment of scholarships • To endow positions for highcalibre staff, to enhance the teaching and mentoring of our students, and to encourage engagement in a rich intellectual life in the College. • To develop an Information Technology and Learning Centre. • To upgrade facilities for music and drama and endow the position of Director of Music. • To develop an auditorium and performing arts complex. To provide first-class facilities and staff support for the Theological School. • To consolidate Trinity College Foundation Studies in quality facilities t-vhich enhance the College's overall facilities and educational capacity. • To strengthen the College's general endowment. The next edition of TRINITYToday will feature more on the study for Trinity.
Removing the dogboxes in the residential buildings a long-awaited project The smallest of our undergraduate rooms are commonly known within the College as 'dogboxes' and are a great disappointment for students. The quality of our accommodation also limits our capacity
Some of the anecdotal observations gleaned from the study so far.
to retain later-year students in College—a key College objective.
Trinity was... a great halfway house between school and the real world—a source of pastoral care—a wonderful base where you could enjoy University life and retreat back to your haven—partial seclusion from the stormy, huge, and impersonal institution next door. Trinity enabled students to do things they could never do if they were commuting back and forth—introduced them to activities and wonderful opportunities—
In recent decades, three students have occupied spaces intended to accommodate
provided long-term friendships—was a
two. Sets of rooms which were originally
place where all-rounders could go to
designed and used on the basis of two
build and cement friendships...
students sharing a study but having separate bedrooms have—for financial reasons and
Trinity is... still a terrific place—things
because of pressure for places been used
are going well, you can feel it the minute
to house three, each in a separate study-
you walk in—the College continues to
bedroom. The removal of the 'dogboxes'
make a big difference for those lucky
will raise the quality of the accommodation
enough to be Trinity residents. Students
we offer, but not the numbers of students
get a far more powerful and enriching
in residence, which will remain, ideally, at
University education—it remains a first-
around 260.
rate institution offering a broad education to a wide variety of students excellent
This summer, renovations will begin on the Cowan building to convert four
atmosphere—great reputation—an
dogboxes into two higher-quality rooms
extremely exciting place - everyone is
for students to trial in 2003, and (by
moving in the same direction. Trinity.
arrangement) for prospective donors to
makes the University experience more
view. The College's master-planner and
worthwhile—attachment to the College
architect, Professor Peter Elliott, is working
is a privilege and a benefit—it gives one
with College staff on designs as we go to
more confidence and it inspires lasting
press. As well as creating larger bed/studies
loyalty.
for individuals, the option will be presented of a return to the shared study with separate
And what of the challenges? Trinity needs to... maintain its openness and remain outward looking—remain
bedrooms (known by many as 'wiving') Removing the 'dog-boxes' entirely will require the construction of a new
uncompromisingly committed to high
residential accommodation building
academic standards, stay in step with
on the 'Woodheap' site (in the corner
what was happening in the wider
between Behan and Clarke's) and will be
community—keep the student population
started once the Campaign is underway
broad and diverse and balanced between
and sufficient funds have been raised.
younger and older students—keep the
The need for a Woodheap Building has
teaching and tutorial system strong and
been recognised each time the College
central—encourage Trinity students to
has reviewed its space needs in recent
maintain proper balance in their lives—
decades and its construction is overdue.
and keep the wider Trinity community well
The Woodheap Building would enable the
informed, well connected and involved.
College also to raise the quality of tutor accommodation (including offering more flats suitable for married tutors) and to improve its provision for visiting scholars who greatly enrich the College's life.
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Philanthropy: Venture Capital for the Community Elizabeth Cham is the National Director of Philanthropy Australia — a national organisation which facilitates and supports philanthropy and provides advice and expertise to individuals and organisations. She is currently a member of the Prime Minister's Roundtable on Business and Community Partnerships and is a founding member of the International Meeting of Associations Serving Grantmakers. Trinity invited Elizabeth Cham to address the Annual General Meeting of the Trinity College Foundation in June on the latest trends in philanthropy in Australia. Her address intrigued her audience and extracts are reproduced here: Philanthropy--the often unsung
farmers in a practical and immediate way
the national health system going for even
voluntary work performed by so many
that both ecologically and economically
a week.
individuals and foundations—cannot
sustainable agriculture could be achieved. It
replace the ever-shrinking public sector.
has pioneered a pattern of farming practice
any case, money alone is not the solution
Philanthropic monies are small and, in
But philanthropy can sponsor some lively
which now attracts substantial government
to society's problems. What philanthropy
debate and fresh thinking about the nature
support through the Land Care program.
can do, that is distinctive and valuable,
of civil society. This is especially important
The arts have also benefited. One bequest
is to bring together the people who have
as the relative roles of the state, corporation
alone, the Felton Bequest, has funded more
identified a problem with those who have
and community have become blurred.
than 30 percent of the National Gallery of
the ideas and energy to explore solutions.
Victoria's acquisitions.
And philanthropy can give them what they
In Australia, philanthropy is almost always seen as an American phenomenon.
Philanthropy has established fine
Yet, paradoxically, its deep influence on
medical research centres such as the
American society has been underestimated.
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute and the
A large number of vital services that
Garvan Institute. Research centres such as
need to make progress together: a little money and a lot of time. Vigorous debate and analysis are sorely needed, especially now that the
underpin American society were originally
these have contributed very significantly
boundaries between business, government
funded by philanthropic foundations—such
to Australia's international reputation for
and community are becoming porous,
as the 911 emergency response system
excellence in medical research.
and the accident prevention initiative of
These and countless other examples
a development starkly illustrated by the fact that only 19 of the world's 50 largest
white lines along the outside shoulders
show the strength of philanthropic
economic entities are nation states. Further
of highways. Another example is Sesame
foundations in long-term planning; some
evidence of these uncertain boundaries is
Street—the most widely viewed children's
innovative projects run for five to ten years,
the sale of public assets by governments,
television series in the world — which
thereby bringing lasting benefits to the
stripping the infrastructure of communities.
became self-supporting after an initial
community. By contrast, governments too
seed funding from a foundation. Then
often have a short-term focus.
there are institutions such as the Getty and
In this way, philanthropy has been the
Philanthropy's real role at this critical moment in history is to fund the debate about the kind of civil society we should have and to expose people to
the Guggenheim Museums; the Carnegie endowment to libraries; and the huge endowments to the Ivy League universities such as Yale and Harvard.
In Australia, philanthropy has been largely invisible, yet it is also pervasive.
new ways of thinking, as well as continuing to provide funding for innovative schemes that would benefit the community. A hundred years ago, Australia was seen as a social laboratory.
In Australia, philanthropy has been largely invisible, yet it
venture capital for the community. There
is also pervasive. The concept is usually
is a growing perception that philanthropy
People from overseas marvelled at
understood in the context of privately
is important today because governments
innovations such as a basic wage, a pension system for the elderly and votes for
sourced money for the social welfare
are retreating from traditional community
of the poor and disadvantaged. Yet, the
services – such as basic health care,
women. Now, at the beginning of a new
range of activities that are supported by
education, supporting cultural institutions
century, philanthropy can be the catalyst
philanthropic foundations covers the
and providing for the disadvantaged.
to ensure that, once again, people look
environment, the arts, medical research and
But philanthropy can never replace the
to Australia. The lesson we can teach is
innovative social welfare programs.
role of government in providing such a
that without creative social and political
range of services. All of Australia's annual
structures, we cannot grow into a truly civil
philanthropic giving would not keep
society.
Beginning in Victoria's western districts, the Potter Farmland Plan demonstrated to
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C71aif1EVENT
Dr Susan Lim, Surgical Pioneer and Seeker for Excellence Dr Susan Lim's photographic portrait— vital, intelligent, youthful, glamorous—
in Edinburgh in 1984, and win a Winston
Changing to the private sector in 1995,
Churchill Scholarship to undertake a
Susan has continued her pioneering work
adorns the cover of the June 2002 issue of
doctorate in Transplantation Immunology
in surgery, especially minimally-invasive
the glossy Singapore magazine Prestige.
at the University of Cambridge from 1985 to 1988.
mammotome breast biopsy. Shortly before
Three words on this cover may be taken
I retired as fifth Warden in late 1997, she
to refer to her personal qualities, her
Trinity's Director of Medical Studies
professional life and Trinity College:
for many years, Tony Buzzard, has long
visit to Trinity. Despite her catalogue
'Quest for Excellence'. I well remember
maintained close links with surgical
of impressive achievements, including
brought her three children for a short
the day in 1976 (can it
motherhood, she still had the
really be over a quarter of a
same zest for life and seemed
century ago?) when this lively
not to have aged at all.
Singaporean approached
Early in 2001, Susan
me outside Trinity's Dining
and Deepak Sharma, head
Hall. Could I perhaps find
of Citigroup Private Bank
a residential place for her
for Asia-Pacific, celebrated
in College? My immediate
their wedding in Singapore.
answer should have been:
Tony Buzzard and I, with our
'I'm sorry; this is a College of
wives Pamela and Barbara,
the University of Melbourne
were honoured to be invited.
and we can't take Monash
Unfortunately, because of my
students.' Something about this
health, the Burges could send
applicant stopped me. Instead,
only regrets and wishes, but
I heard myself saying, 'As
Tony and Pam were there and
you'll be mainly at the Alfred
witnessed the launching by
BB SUSAN LIM'S
Hospital for your clinical work,
QUEST FOR EXCELLENCE
provided you can handle. the travelling time we'll be
SLOWLY DOWN
delighted to welcome you here
THE GANGES
to Trinity. We have an excellent
BLOOM
medical program.'
BRIGADIERS
From the outset I knew that
Susan and Deepak of the new Indiapore Trust. Rather than give personal gifts, the guests were invited to contribute to this Fund. 'The aim of the Trust is to educate and equip young children of potential
SPECIAL
there was something special
HUME
SUPPLEMENT
about this student—one
from underprivileged areas in Singapore and the region,
of a growing number of
with a specific focus on
exceptionally gifted students
technology. We believe,' say
from Asia who have found
this enterprising couple, that
their Australian academic
'the nurturing of a creative
home in Trinity and flourished
and entrepreneurial spirit in
here. Soon I discovered her
our young is a fundamental
keenness for sport, especially
necessity for our nations'
swimming, running, tennis
developments in Singapore, Malaysia
and rowing, to which golf, sailing and
and Hong Kong. He told me proudly in the
in the face of globalisation and sweeping
skiing were destined to be added. She was
early 1990s that his former pupil, Susan
technological changes'. Trinity College is proud of Dr Susan
economic progress, especially
certain to do well in her medical studies,
Lim, had become an associate professor
but I could not have foreseen that she
in Singapore and was doing pioneering
Lim, whose own entrepreneurial spirit
would graduate from Monash with first
work in liver transplantation. As the recent article in Prestige points out, establishing
is combined with scientific prowess, philanthropy, patriotism and personal
for medical service in the Singapore Armed
this program 'involved not just the surgical
grace.
Forces, be awarded the GB Ong Medal as
skills but also the funding and establishing
class honours in 1979, volunteer in 1982
the most outstanding candidate in general
of the infrastructure for something
surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons
totally new'.
Dr Evan L Burge Warden, 1974-1997
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New Fellows elected Trinity has bestowed its highest honour—a Fellowship of the College—on two members of the College. Fellows are elected by the College Council, on the recommendation of the Fellowship Committee, in recognition of outstanding achievements or outstanding contributions to the College.
The number of Fellows is limited to 30. Two Fellows
I;
of the College—Miss Valentine Leeper, and Professor Kevin Westfold—passed away in 2001, and in May 2002 the College Council elected two new Fellows. The new Fellows are: Diana Smith and Barry Capp will be formally installed as Fellows in 2003. Ms Diana Smith— Director of Studies in Trinity College
Mr Barry Capp— Chairman of the College Board of
Foundation Studies, 1991-1999 and 2000— present, and
Management, 1997—present
Deputy Director of Trinity College Foundation Studies, 1996 –1999 and 2000— present.
Barry Capp was a resident student of the College from 1952 to 1955, and has three University of Melbourne degrees. All those
Diana Smith was elected in recognition of the exceptional
familiar with the work of the Board of Management recognise
contribution she has made to Trinity College, to the University of
that he has been an extremely dedicated and highly effective
Melbourne, and to international education through her tireless and
Chairman, to whom the College owes a very great deal. He brings
dedicated work over more than a decade in helping to develop
a clear mind, wise judgement, and generous spirit to the College's
and to lead Trinity College Foundation Studies. In the words of
affairs. He is a senior businessman, including serving as Chairman
the College's Annual Report, 'Her immense knowledge, care,
of National Foods and as a Director of, amongst other companies,
and commitment are deeply appreciated by all who work with
Westpac. His community service, philanthropic and educational
her, and make a very considerable contribution to the success of
activities include—amongst many others—past service as Chair of
Trinity Foundation Studies.' Diana's commitment to the well-being
the Finance Committee for the Brotherhood of St Laurence, and as
of students, and her wise judgement, are amongst many qualities
a Director of Melbourne University Private.
that contribute to her outstanding work. A mathematician with two degrees from the University of Melbourne, Diana's career prior to coming to Trinity in 1991 was principally at Camberwell Anglican Girls' Grammar School, including as Head of Studies.
Fellow of the College, Tony Buzzard (1960) has retired as Secretary of the Union of the Fleur-de-Lys after twenty-six years. Without Tony's enthusiasm and hard work the Fleur-de-Lys may not have survived. Highlights of his terms included the 125th celebrations and farewell for the fifth Warden, Dr Evan Burge, in 1997, when around 1000 members and friends returned to the College for dinner under a giant marquee on the Bulpadock. The Secretary's baton for the Union of the Fleur-de-Lys has been passed to Clare Scott (1983). Tony continues to serve on the College Board of Management. He has, amongst many other achievements, contributed enormously to modern, internationally-minded Trinity through his leadership in the creation and success of Trinity College Foundation Studies.
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A Legacy of Letters On 14 February 2002, the ashes of Miss Valentine Alexa Leeper, Fellow of Trinity College, were interred in the garden beside the Leeper Building in which she was born on the same day in 1900. A plaque on the wall beside the garden records this event, which was marked with a simple ceremony In loving memory of attended by family, friends and staff. Elected a Fellow of the College (14 February 1900 — 26 July Zoos ), " in 1998, Miss Leeper's intimate elder daughter of the first. Warden of Trinity College Dr Alexander Leeper, and Mary Leeper (nec Moule) association with Trinity was literally ' Born and baptised in this' building,, where she lived a lifelong one. She had a particularly throughout her childhood, Valentine. Leeper was a classrcal scholar, teacher, vigorous advocate of many.causes close relationship with her father, the and benefactor and Fellow of the College. first Warden, Dr Alexander Leeper, Her ashes were interred In •the gaiden of this Leeper Building 'ton 14 February 2002. and like him she was not only a I' wdl give thanks unto thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made prodigious writer of letters, but also Psalm r39 rg:S a hoarder of them. When she died, she bequeathed her considerable collection of correspondence to the College. This rich archive contains insight into her character,' Marion says. 'I thousands of letters written both to and by am constantly amazed at the broad range of her interests, her penetrating remarks, her over almost all of the twentieth century. her firmly stated views—some so stern and Mrs Marion Poynter, who undertook a conservative, others so liberal and ahead of great deal of research for Professor John her time.' Poynter's biography of Dr Leeper, is now The size of the collection is such working on producing a book of the letters of Valentine Leeper. 'They offer an excellent that publication of the book will take a
VALENTINE ALEXA''LEEPER_
considerable time but it is sure to provide both a fascinating picture of the life and times of this exceptional woman and a unique perspective on the history of Trinity College.
'Most satisfactory' was very high praise from Valentine! In her last letter to her god-daughter in Israel, written on 29 May, just weeks before she died in July 2001, Miss Leeper wrote: The most interesting thing that is to report is that l have been sent the last annual report of the College. It is the first time I have one, and I suppose that I have got it now because I am now a Fellow. It is quite voluminous, and it seems most satisfactory. Such was not her view of everything about which she wrote letters!
Dr Leeper's College the home of academic excellence Geoffrey Blainey's book, A Centenary History of the University of Melbourne (Melbourne University Press, 1957), contains a clear account of Dr Alexander Leeper's profound influence on the establishment of the college system and college domination of academic results within the University in the late 19" and early 20" centuries. The following excerpts are reproduced with the kind permission of the author. 'Alexander Leeper was... appointed
with the ladies on Saturday mornings
1902 when fifty-four of the seventy-six
warden of the college, and his advent
was the subject of rhymed jests. Trinity
scholarships awarded in the university went to the colleges.
inaugurated the remarkable college system
staged the first Latin plays in Victoria, and
at Melbourne university. The son of a
the play Aulularia yielded the surprising
Dublin clergyman, Leeper did a brilliant
sum of £270 at the ticket box and caused
had elevated the academic standards of the university...
There was not a doubt that the colleges
course at Trinity College, Dublin, and St.
the bishop to proclaim that the college
John's College, Oxford, before coming to
had a reputation "as a home of classical
Australia as second master of Melbourne
culture even beyond these shores". And in
perhaps no parallel in the new universities
the lace-curtained studies – their marble
of the British Empire in the second half of
fireplaces loaded with bric-à-brac and
the last century.
Grammar School... 'He established a system of college
'The rise of the Melbourne colleges had
tutorials to supplement the university
surmounted by family photographs heavily
lectures, thus attracting to the college
framed — many of the students studied by
derived most of their strength from the
students who for many years won
gas jet with a diligence that was envied by
benefactions of the wealthy God-fearing
the majority of university prizes and
those outside the colleges.
scholarships. 'A vigorous community life had developed in the colleges in the eighteen-eighties and these, rather than the university, attracted the loyalty and
...the colleges... were quick to emulate
'The colleges of Melbourne university
pastoralists... Without their bequests the colleges would have remained small.
Leeper's tutorial system, employing gifted
The colleges, however, would never have
teachers to instruct small classes in each
won such power but for the three men
subject; Leeper himself valued the tutorials so highly that he made a trip to England
who ruled them and courted the wealthy churchmen. Leeper, MacFarland, and Sugden stand as giants in the past. Their
pride of their students. They had their
in 1889 to select two tutors in classics
sporting clubs, concerts, dinners, debating
and mathematics. The college students,
aggregate span of office totalled nearly
societies, lectures on Saturday evenings,
resident and non-resident, soon dominated
one hundred and eighteen years, and
and in the mornings and on the Sabbath
the university examinations, particularly
their influence on much of the university's
their bells summoning the students to ,
in the arts courses where the final year
talent exceeded that of the university's
worship sounded across the parklands.
scholarship in classics was won by Trinity
most influential professors. Their mastery
They published their magazines of topical
students ten times in fourteen years. For
embraced the same period and even their deaths were close together, Leeper dying
prose and verse in which the clumsy
years the College students headed the
whiskered theologian from the bush or the
university class lists, and this superiority
in 1934, Sugden and MacFarland dying on
dapper student who paraded the Block
was most marked between 1897 and
the same day in 1935.'
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seen from the Leeper Library
How appropriate that the Evan Burge Building, housing the Leeper Library, stands as a tribute to the fifth Warden, also a classical scholar, a linguist and liturgist. The present Leeper Library was opened on 19 April 1996 on the first floor of the new Evan Burge Building, named for the fifth Warden. I was fortunate to serve as the librarian during the latter part of Dr Burge's wardenship and to see, as part of his legacy, the relocation of the library to its new site Trinity's library tradition dated from the earliest days of the College. The first book collections of Trinity reflected the classical interests of the first Warden, Dr Alexander Leeper, who began his library in the Provost's Lodge in 1876. A tablet which now resides on the wall of the new library, designating the library as the Leeper Library in appreciation of Dr Leeper's interest in andcare of the collections, was originally unveiled on 11 October 1918 in the Leeper building. Many of Dr Leeper's own books, and his valuable classical and philological serials, moved to the new library. Dr Evan Burge was in his eleventh year as fifth Warden when I first met him, one late Spring day in 1985 after walking across the red brick path of the Bulpadock. I was being interviewed in the office of the Dean, Dr Peter Wellock, for the position of assistant Librarian, to work part-time with the newlyappointed Leeper Librarian, Eirene Clark. Although I had no idea at the time, this was the beginning of fourteen wonderful years at Trinity. I remember Dr Burge quizzing me with a gentle smile, which belied his words, as to how I would get on with the students. As it turned out, the students were to become the most rewarding part of my job, and many were to remain lasting friends. The Trinity which I entered in the mid1980s was Evan Burge's Trinity, bursting with energy and enthusiasm, reflecting his generous spirit, his care of the staff and students, his guiding hand in the Chapel, its choir and music, and his support for all the clubs, from art to sport. At that time, the College was culturally rich but operating on a stringent budget. The library was housed on two floors of the old Leeper building, in quiet rooms with high ceilings perfect for study, but with overcrowded shelves and financial constraints. Older books were consigned to stacks in the Behan basement, while the College archives had no fixed address, moving from place to place.
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The first exciting change for the library occurred in 1988 when the Warden moved to establish the Rollins College program. Thirty American undergraduates came to Trinity to take a full semester's course in Australian Studies. This joint venture between Rollins College in Florida and Trinity was supported by Evan Burge, under the directorship of Mr Karel Reus. Areas covered in the program were Cultural Studies, Australian Society, Environmental Studies and Research Methods. At the time this creative program, like so much that Evan Burge initiated, was innovative and challenging. The library benefited from a Rollins College grant to acquire course texts. Australia's bicentennial year 1988 was a heady time which coincided with the publication of ground-breaking books on indigenous art and culture, environmental issues, and Australian history. The multivolume A People's History of Australia led the way in an exciting contemporary Australiana collection of two hundred books on literature, history, fine arts, sociology and environmental studies. These books were also available to Trinity students who discovered new ways of looking at their country. The following year in 1989 the Trinity Foundation Year Program was established. It was a radical step, again reflecting the Wardens' fresh ideas, taking the Rollins program further by offering a bridging year between school and university for overseas students wishing to enter the University of Melbourne. The core subjects were English, Maths and History of Ideas. These subjects, in particular the History of Ideas, gave students from Asia an insight into Western culture, starting with Socrates and Plato and the democracy of the ancient Greeks, and moving through the revolutions of the Enlightenment and the upheavals of the 20th century. I often heard the stirring words of the Marseillaise drifting into the library from the lecture room as the
lecturer inspired her students with the spirit of the French Revolution. Dr Burge bent all his energies on setting up the course which also gave overseas students a caring and supportive environment. He never lost his understanding of how hard is the road to academic success, especially for students from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds. He saw the program enriching Trinity students with new cultural values and realised the benefits for Trinity. It was not an easy time, and looking back I can remember some deeply divisive responses to the program within the Trinity community. Dr Burge did not waiver, and from its first small beginnings the program enrolled sixty-seven students by 1992 from a wide range of Asian and Pacific countries. They worked hard on and off campus; they studied in the library and achieved outstanding results. By the year 2002 there were over 800 students enrolled. Dr Burge loved to teach, especially New Testament Greek. His students would emerge on a high from his lessons. He was happiest at gatherings which brought the Trinity family together, when he could talk to students and staff, on the Bulpadock, in the Dining Hall or the lecture-room. When the Trinity Drama Club was putting on a production of'Lysistrata', the Warden at morning tea one day gave the staff an impromptu lecture on Greek tragedy and comedy, retelling the fairy tale of Cinderella as interpreted by Euripides and Aristophanes. He had the gift of making clear even the most obscure subject. His best beloved speech, his Brief History of the College (long or short version), became famous, but always with fresh insights each time. Equally clear-sighted as his educational vision were the initiatives of Dr Burge on gender and equality issues. The education and rights of women were dear to the heart of the first Warden, Dr Alexander Leeper. Before they were admitted to Oxford and
mainEVENr Cambridge, Dr Leeper was instrumental in having women undergraduates admitted to Trinity. At a time of crisis in gender issues in other colleges, Dr Burge was at the forefront of pioneering and revising procedures for all colleges in relation to sexual harassment and for dealing with it effectively. A document was accepted by the Trinity College Council on 15 March 1993. As a female staff member, I remember Dr Burge calling us together, providing forums for women to become aware of their rights. This strengthened and affirmed women's identity within the Trinity community Dr Burge arranged for a series of seminars on the topics 'Valuing Myself', 'Valuing Differeno 'Sexual Harassment' and 'Health and Sexuality He said 'What we need is to allow all Trinity members, male and, female, to feel free to be themselves without feeling a pressure to conform to some stereotype'. By 1993, Dr Burge was looking towards the long-term future of the College into the next century. In this context, the College Council established a Strategy Committee under the leadership of Mr Robert Clemente. Dr Burge saw the Strategy Committee as a turning point, similar in significance to the Foundation Studies program and gender equality. He wanted it to consider all aspects of Trinity's present and future, with a mission to make Trinity 'an academic community based on a rigorous intellectual and Christian ethical values, and characterised by an enlightened Anglican ethos.' Four years before, in 1989, a marvellously generous bequest, the Colin Caldwell bequest, had come to Trinity. The College library was named first among the terms of the bequest and was also the beneficiary of many of Colin Caldwell's beautiful books. One of the key initiatives of the Strategy Committee, in keeping with its aim of making Trinity a place of serious academic excellence, was the relocation of the library to a new two-story academic building. From 1994 to 1996 work on the building proceeded. Finally the historic move to the first floor of the Evan Burge Building lifted the dust of a century from many old and valuable books, and the full riches of the collection were brought together for the first time. The Order of Proceedings of the Opening by Sir Ninian Stephen on 19 April 1996 echoes the cadence of Evan Burge's voice as Anglican priest, liturgist and linguist in the words: We dedicate this building For the use of all whose training and gifts will prepare students here for a full understanding of themselves, a broader knowledge of humankind, and a deeper knowledge of [God's] creation.
The following year, in 1997, the 125' anniversary of Trinity, Evan Burge retired, handing over the College to Professor Donald Markwell, sixth Warden. Much had been achieved, and he left behind a staff and student body who farewelled him with love and, as he wished, 'not with a whimper, but with a bang'.
Sir Rupert Hamer Unveiled! A special tribute was paid to former Victorian Premier, Sir Rupert Hamer, AC, KCMG, when his bust was unveiled in the Trinity Hall on 18 September, 2002. 'Dick' Hamer, as he was known from his university days, is one of Trinity's greatest sons. He was an undergraduate before World War II, subsequently becoming a Member of its Council and is now a Fellow of the College. He was a notable Parliamentarian for twenty-three years, from 1958 to 1981, serving for nearly half that time as Premier of Victoria (1972-1981). He was the first Australian Premier or Prime Minister to require that the Arts Ministry report directly to the Head of Government. By this action, he significantly changed Victoria's cultural life from 1972 when he was both Premier and Minister for the Arts. Sir Rupert's bust was acquired by the College on the initiative of another member of Trinity, Sir Andrew Grimwade, who, as long-serving President of Trustees of the National Gallery of Victoria, was closely associated with Sir Rupert when he was Premier and Minister for the Arts. He recalled: 'Premier Hamer, through his direct influence as Minister for the Arts, was the driving force for the support and invigoration of the Arts—not only in Victoria but also by flow-on effect throughout Australia. The Premier realised that, if the Arts community has access to the top man, the Arts would flourish and prosper. As indeed they did!' The Hamer bust is the work of sculptor Peter Nicholson, widely known for his incisive and satirical caricatures, including his lively political cartoons in the daily editorial pages of The Australian. The bust was originally commissioned by Sir Andrew in 1982 just after the Premier's retirement, as a way of acknowledging his great contribution to the Arts in Victoria and to the National Gallery of Victoria. The National Gallery of Victoria recorded in its acquisition report: 'The bust of former Premier, Sir Rupert Hamer, demonstrates the sculptor's admirable powers of observation, his ability to instil a work with a genuine sense of the sitter's presence and bears the hallmark of his lively surface modelling. Nicholson's works are very much in the spirited tradition of political caricature, of which the French sculptor, HonorÊ Daumier, could be considered as the chief progenitor.' The Hamer bust was originally produced in an edition of two 38cm high bronze casts. In 1985, the first cast was presented by Sir Andrew to the National Gallery of Victoria and the other by him to the Victorian Parliament. At the unveiling, Sir Andrew observed: 'There is no doubt that a great College should have a great collection of portraits and busts. This vision is also shared by Trinity's Art Committee and great progress has been made under the wise chairmanship of another eminent member of Trinity, Professor AGL Shaw. 'With this renaissance of art within Trinity, and some fifteen years after the original casting, Peter Nicholson was asked to revitalise the original mould and to create a third bust. With its presentation to the College, it joins the other portraits and bronzes of distinguished persons connected with the College, including the series of commissioned gargoyles by sculptor Peter Corlett. 'Most importantly, by taking up permanent residence in Trinity, this fine bust of Premier Sir Rupert Hamer will provide an enduring tribute to a man widely regarded as the College's most famous, most effective and most distinguished politician.'
The man, the model and the maker: Sir Rupert Hamer, AC, (left) and sculptor, Peter Nicholson, were all smiles as they posed with the bust of the former Victorian Premier and now Fellow of Trinity College.
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'Elastic but strong': condom crusader fights HIV and poverty Mechai Viravaidja has worked for 40 years towards the economic and social development of Thailand. Given his heritage —aThai father, Dr SamukViravaidja, and Scottish mother, Dr Ella Mackinnon Robertson —this is perhaps unremarkable. and the extensive What is extraordinary is his unconventional yet ultimately common sense approach to what he does use of cabbages and condoms to achieve his ends. Clare Pullar profiles a Fellow of Trinity College and University of Melbourne alumnus now helping rid his country of HIV and poverty, and stemming population growth. In July 2001 Senator Mechai Viravaidja gave a
shop selling fresh produce and family planning advice
lecture on the privatisation of poverty in Thailand at
and condoms. The shop was known as 'Cabbages
the Asialink Centre in the University of Melbourne.
and Condoms' and has now grown into a chain of
After his lecture he greeted me and we chatted. As he
restaurants across Thailand, and in other countries.
fumbled for a business card from his pocket something
It is only a matter of time before one is opened in
else fell to the floor. He picked up a small square
Melbourne and Mechai is already working on that.
packet, looked at it and said excitedly, 'Now that is a
PDA also has helped with the efficient and fair
very rare condom! It is made from sheep's gut which
provision of clean water to communities
is particularly elastic but strong. That is the only one I
In the 1980s, a vast and radical program of
have, so I am sorry but I can't give it away.' I couldn't
eradicating the debt of poor people and building
help but chuckle. This encounter was unconventional
economic communities in the poorest regions of
but entirely typical of the man. Mechai Viravaidja is the man who made the Thai
Thailand had enormous impact. With the help of the Harvard Business School, Mechai developed a
people overcome their natural shyness and propriety
program to sell rural debt to corporations in return
to laugh en masse at his bunches of flowers made from
for the one commodity poor people have plenty of
coloured condoms on sticks, and his recommendations — their labour. This way farmers stayed on the land, to teachers: 'The condom is actually a very versatile
traded out of debt, and villagers developed their small
implement. It can be a tourniquet, for snakebites and deep cuts. It can cover the barrel of a gun, and the
factories. PDA's Thai Business Initiative in Rural Development
lubrication can be used for skin cream. It can carry
(TBIRD) was established in 1988 and brings
water, coffee or Coca Cola. It is also a balloon.' He
companies and poor villagers together by generating
then proceeded to blow it up. The teachers roared with
income through small-scale sustainable agricultural
laughter. He popularised the condom so radically that
projects, cottage industries and small enterprises.
condoms are referred to as Mechais and he is referred to as Mr Condom. Mechai studied Commerce at the University of •
A biography of Mechai Viravaidja, From Condoms to Cabbages, by Thomas D'Agnes, was published in 2001.
Melbourne, rather than the science of population control. But his gentle larrikinism and showmanship, apparent since his school days in Australia, developed into an impressive ability to use the media in clever
An offer for young graduates
and unorthodox ways to touch mass audiences. He would try any stunt to get the media to carry his message. His organisation, Population and Development Association (PDA), established in
and if you have recently graduated from university,
1974, was initially set up to deliver family planning
you can apply to the College for an opportunity to
information and services to stem Thailand's staggering
work with PDA in Thailand and be mentored by its
population growth. This has resulted over the years, in
visionary leader, Mechai Viravaidja
conjunction with the national program, in a dramatic drop in the Thai birth rate from 3.2% to 1.1%. Mechai developed a concept which he called
Mechai has offered Trinity graduates the opportunity to work in Australian-Thai business development. He is offering accommodation and
'Fertility-related Development', in which families
a modest stipend. Preferred graduates might have
who exercised birth control were given preferential
skills in IT or language teaching or training and
treatment for other economic opportunities, such as
research experience in public health, HIV/AIDS,
being able to rent a team of buffalo to plough a field
environmental, rural or development topics. It
or to secure a low interest loan. His reasoning said
would also be helpful if interested graduates have
that once families benefited economically from having
extra support from the University of Melbourne and/
fewer children, there would be natural population
or the Australian Volunteer Service. If you have the
control. His job was to demonstrate that to villagers. His organisation, PDA, expanded its portfolio of
extra skill of being able to throw a boomerang, that would be an advantage, according to Mechai.
development projects. It managed refugee camps in eastern Thailand in the 1970s. This in turn spawned
For further information please contact the
a program in which refugee camps bought food
Development Office, Trinity College.
direct from Thai farmers, bypassing profit-taking middlemen. This project spurred the idea for a small
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Does reading this excite you to be a part of such an innovative program of social change? If it does,
The Library of Trinity College
Trinity College Archives
The Trinity College Art Collection
The Leeper Library, named after the first Warden, commemorates the establishment
The Archive Collection at Trinity College holds the valuable records and
of collegiate education in this community. The first book collections reflected the classical interests of Dr Alexander Leeper and, through many gifts of books, grew rapidly. In 1993, the College Council approved the building of a new library based on the design of the Long Room in the old library of Trinity College, Dublin. In 2001 the Library upgraded to a
memorabilia of Trinity College life since its founding in 1872. These include: • Correspondence and papers documenting the establishment of the College, Council Minutes and Annual Reports, • Files and records from the offices of
The Art Collection has developed and grown as a result of the College's ongoing involvement with art and collecting which began in its earliest years. The collection now
web-based catalogue. This now means easy access for patrons to our catalogue of resources via the Internet. Searching, renewal of items online, and placing holds
Dr RL Sharwood, and Dr Evan Burge, • Student records, minutes and proceedings of student sporting and other societies, and copies of the Fleur-de-Lys, • Records of the College Chapel and the
or requests is straightforward. Special electronic resources and links have been developed for students throughout the College, and we also have a postal service and an E-query (email query) that have proven extremely popular. We provide electronic access to exam papers, newspapers, journals and databases, the resources of the University of Melbourne, and the catalogues of other libraries. We look to integrating and developing our digital library of resources so that the Library staff is able to spend more professional time on information literacy and learning skills with staff and students throughout Trinity. www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au/library/
Housed with the Leeper Library is the Mollison Library, the Library of the Anglican Diocese of Melbourne. A gift from Miss Elizabeth Mollison as a memorial to her brother, Alexander Fullerton Mollison, enabled this library to be opened in the St Paul's Cathedral buildings in 1893. It was moved toTrini t College in 1967 and, while retaining its y own identity, has recently been integrat ed into the Leeper Library collection. The collection is largely theological and supports the research of students and st tt of the Trinity College Theological School and also researchers from the Anglican ' Church and the wider community. A brief history of both the Leeper and Mollison Libraries may be found in this link: www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au/library/ history.shtml
Nina Waters Leeper Librarian, Mollison Librarian
the five previous Wardens: Dr Leeper, Sir John Behan, RWT Cowan,
•
Women's Hostel, later Janet Clarke Hall, Photographs and architectural drawings of the College buildings and landscaping.
Private Collections include: • Correspondence, diaries, and photographs of Dr Alexander Leeper and his family, including Miss Valentine Leeper, • The 'Rusden papers' and a collection of porcelain and oriental artefacts collected by GW Rusden, and donated to the College by him in 1896, • Notebooks, diaries, and papers of Archbishop Frank Woods, the Revd Dr Barry Marshall, and Dr KT Henderson, and • The Australiana collection, including the Atkinson collection, together with volumes of journals, and letters of founding fathers, scientists and explorers, covering much of Victoria's colonial history. The Archives welcome any new contributions of documents or other memorabilia, in good condition, to add to the quality and breadth of the Collection. Archival displays are held regularly in the Leeper Library, and then scanned and stored in the Library homepages: www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au/library/ archive A project to reproduce important archival documents digitally is being conducted under the management of the art and archive collections of Trinity College. This means that originals are stored and copies are available for display purposes. The photographs in the Bishops' corridors and in the Billiards Room have already been preserved in this manner.
Nina Waters Leeper Librarian
includes: • Curiosities from the Rusden Museum collection (including Japanese netsuke), • A set of 19th century reproduction Greek and Roman coins, and a coin collection from the 17th to 19'5 centuries, • Paintings, • Portrait gallery collection, • Works on paper, including drawings, prints and watercolours, • The Sharwood collection of antique prints, • The Sharwood collection of porcelain china, • Sculpture, including several portrait busts, and • Religious works in the Chapel including paintings, sculpture, plaques and stained glass windows. In a New Light: the Art Collection of Trinity College, the University of Melbourne by Lara Nicholls, a former student and tutor of Trinity, is a wonderful testament to the variety of works that the College has acquired since the 1890s. It can be purchased from the Development Office. The Art Collection is managed under the guidance of the Art Committee, who approve all gifts in accordance with designated artcollecting parameters. The College is deeply grateful for the many gifts of artwork it has received, for which tax deductions are often available.
The E R White Collection The basis of the Edward Rowden White Collection is the student ER White Club. Mr and Mrs HA Moran, the daughter and son-in-law of the late Edward Rowden White, donated a painting to Trinity College in 1958 by the artist John Brack, entitled The Breakfast Table. The painting was later sold at auction with the consent of the donors, and a trust fund was established. One third of the income is available to the ER White Club each year for the acquisition of contemporary works of Australian art for the College. The student Club is established for the purpose of promoting and encouraging the understanding, appreciation, enjoyment of, and interest in art within Trinity College. The contemporary works hang as a collection in the Lower Clarke's corridor and invoke much debate. www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au/library/archive/ art.shtml
Nina Waters Manager of the Art Collection www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au
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Nurturing creativity at Trinity The inaugural Creative Thinking Summer School 'Be creative, study smart and have fun at the same time', so Ainnur Rahela from Malaysia described the
2002 Summer Schools
inaugural Creative Thinking Summer School at Trinity in December 2001. Twenty-seven secondary school students from Malaysia and Singapore attended the two-week Summer School, designed to extend high-achieving students and give them an edge in their final years of secondary schooling. The Summer School also provided an opportunity for students to become familiar with the wider University of Melbourne and to experience a taste of international student life. The curriculum included compulsory units that focussed on international
As TRINITYToday goes to press, two Summer Schools are being held concurrently at Trinity. Both have attracted students from many different countries. First offered in 1997 as a vehicle for developing and extending students' interest in science, the
University of Melbourne Science Summer School is being held at Trinity for the first time this year, following an approach to the College from the University last February. A product of the close partnership that exists
relations, cultural studies, drama, and
between the College and the University, the Science
literature. Electives in mathematics,
Summer School enables students to spend two weeks
psychology, economics, accounting, music and writing were also offered, each with a creative focus and related field trip. Students
participating in a residential program of scientific and social activities that includes lectures by senior academic staff of the University of Melbourne,
were in residence for the duration of the Summer
hands-on laboratory sessions, field trips, industry
School and attended classes and presentations in
exposure, and mentoring. A highlight for students
the Evan Burge Building's Multi-Media classroom
was meeting and talking with Nobel Laureate,
and on the main University campus. The program
Professor Bert Sakmann, who is again resident in the College.
also included a range of extra-curricular activities including a visit to the theatre and museums and a trip to the Great Ocean Road. Trinity is well placed to offer a program in the area of critical thinking and creativity, following the success of subjects such as History of Ideas and Drama
Extra-curricular activities are shared with students attending the 2002 Creative Thinking Summer
School, thereby providing a broader experience for both groups. Trinity's second Creative Thinking Summer School
in Trinity Foundation Studies and the establishment of
builds on the success of 2001's inaugural program
the Multi-Media classroom and Learning Innovation
and has again attracted interest from students of diverse backgrounds.
Centre. Additionally, Dr Tim van Gelder, Associate Professor of Philosophy, the University of Melbourne
To address the growth in this area, the College
and Research Fellow at Trinity, has developed the
recently appointed Mr Tom Derham as Director of
ReasonAble! software designed to assist students to
Summer Schools. As well as overseeing the planning
analyse arguments and practise thinking on a wide
and running of both the 2002 Summer Schools, he
range of issues. The College has supported Tim in
will be directing other initiatives planned for 2003.
this work by providing him with resources in the
Mr Derham has experience as a headmaster and
Learning Innovation Centre at Trinity in recent years.
has worked in many parts of Australia, including the
Creative Thinking Summer School students used the ReasonAble! software as part of their studies in a
Northern Territory in recent years.
number of subjects during the Summer School.
at Trinity can be found on the College website at
Strong bonds were forged between students during the Summer School which have continued
the links.
via the students' website which the College created for the group and which can be viewed at
www.geocites.com/trinityss2001
More information about Summer Schools
www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au and follow
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Pilot program encourages students to think tertiary
Freedom to Educate and Innovate Philosophy can be more critical than hardware and software in determining effective outcomes from the use of Information Technology. In this article for TRINITYToday,
Tim Bell, IT System Administrator, and Dr Richard Wraith, Director of IT&T and the Trinity College Learning Innovation Centre, explain Trinity's approach.
Seventy Victorian high school students from diverse backgrounds are taking part in a
Give a man a fish and he has food for a day.
pilot program that encourages them to think
Teach a man to fish and he has food for a lifetime — Chinese proverb
about tertiary study. The Melbourne Access Program (MAP) is designed to motivate
A 'large and liberal' Trinity education aims to help students develop a lifelong capacity for
students who may not normally think
critical thinking and reasoned action. This aim is clearly evidenced in the curriculum of the
about applying for university to consider
Trinity College Foundation Studies subject, Computing and Information Management (CIM).
the University of Melbourne as a desirable
Rather than merely training students in the details of current software, the subject is designed
and achievable option for when they finish
to ensure that students come to grips with fundamental principles of information technology.
school. Trinity is working with the University
This allows them to grow from being mere followers or users of information technology, to
of Melbourne on this program to encourage
become leaders in the application, or even creation, of new technology.
students to attend the University and will be
The software which is used in CIM is Open Source Software (OSS). So, too, is the Linux
offering a scholarship to a student entering
operating system that runs most of Trinity's IT servers, and the numerous other packages that
through this scheme in 2004.
support teaching in all parts of the College.
According to Ms Carmel Murphy,
Open Source Software is based on two principles: first, that the software's source code,
Director of Academic Services and Student
written by the programmers, should be available for anyone to read, use, modify and copy at
Access in the University of Melbourne,
will, and secondly, that the source code is available subject to the provision that no further
the University is proud to draw students from different cultural and socio-economic
restriction is placed on the use or distribution of the code. Commercially-supplied software is like the fish in the proverb above: it provides limited
backgrounds and is actively encouraging
utility and flexibility to one individual. On the other hand, OSS is like the knowledge of how
this trend. 'Traditionally, access programs
to fish: it provides potentially unlimited utility and flexibility, with the added bonus that it
have been focussed on targeting a selection
may be shared with others without diminishing its benefit.
of students at the end of their final year of
While the key principles of OSS are about freedom — freedom of access and freedom
secondary schooling but in many cases the
from dependence on individual vendors — the end result is that most OSS is also available
negative effects of disadvantage means that
for free. In an educational setting, this can be a very compelling argument. Indeed,
Year 12 is too late,' Ms Murphy said. 'For
it was its price — or lack thereof — which, in 1996, first prompted Trinity to consider
many of these students achievement, or the
its use.
potential to achieve, is not the key issue
Despite (or maybe because of) its free nature, OSS is generally of very high quality, often
because they do not see university study as
higher than competing commercial software. OSS is developed by thousands of talented and enthusiastic people, both unpaid and professional, around the world, who coordinate,
an attainable, or even desirable, outcome.' Seventy Year 10-12 students, chosen
distribute and meticulously inspect and review their work over the Internet. Those developers
from three rural and seven metropolitan
may have slightly different aims when they write software, but they usually include
schools, have taken part in the pilot program
conformance to open standards and the need for stability, security and efficiency. Recently,
that offers support for language skills, study
companies such as IBM, Telstra, HP and Sun Microsystems have made major strategic
and discipline-specific issues. Students in
commitments to OSS, which only serves to increase the range and quality of OSS available.
the program are also mentored by a unipal
At first glance, the motivation to invest so much effort in developing OSS software only
- an undergraduate student - who visits the
to give it away appears nonsensical. In reality, there are many driving factors, including
school and hosts the MAP student for an on-
collective self-interest, reputation and peer respect, altruism, a desire to give life to a good
campus day at the University. Participating
idea that would not otherwise be possible, and more. When these things happen on a large
students receive skills support through
scale, as made possible by the advent of the Internet, each individual problem solution can
printed and electronic materials and a
add to a very powerful, yet inexpensive whole.
workshop program based in their school. A
The use of OSS helps Trinity foster local IT knowledge and experience, because rather
'parent pack' and seminar is also offered to
than spending money which supports an outside software company's development, that
their parents. From 4 to 5 October, Trinity sponsored
with expertise that can, and has, enriched the educational experience for our students.
money can be targeted towards developing in-house expertise. That provides the College
the Melbourne Access Program Spring
OSS empowers Trinity to take
School with forty of the seventy Year
control of its IT future. It gives us
11 MAP students in residence. On the
the ability to choose what is best
morning of 4 October, the Dean, Dr Stewart
educationally and technically, in a
Gill, welcomed students from schools in
way that is also financially attractive.
metropolitan Melbourne, Bendigo and
Through its use of open standards, OSS
Shepparton along with their unipals and
provides the guarantee thatTrinity will
Marketing and Recruitment staff from
always have access to, and control
the University of Melbourne. There were
of, its electronic information and
lectures and mock tutorials and workshops
systems, and won't become locked
centred on goal setting, learning skills
into a proprietary system. Because
and transition. Trinity looks forward to
of its foundation on principles of
continuing its work in this and other ways
freedom, OSS is ideal in helping
to help widen access to the University and
Trinity achieve its goal of advancing
the College.
knowledge through education.
ome IT projects at Trinity based on Open Source Software: • computer labs which support the CIM requirements, are easy to administer and do not require the purchase of software licences efficient and secure central servers, without the cost of specialised hardware web-based student-attendance tracking software, developed at Trinity on time and under budget, that does not require the effort of installing software on each individual computer that needs access to the system.
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Alan Arthur Patterson
a tribute
Staff and students were shocked and saddened by the sudden and untimely death of Alan Patterson, Director of Trinity College Foundation Studies, on 9 November 2002. A moving and memorable service to celebrate his life was held in St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne, on Monday 18 November. Following the service, mourners gathered at Trinity under the College Oak for refreshments and to exchange memories of Alan. The following is taken from the welcoming remarks made by the Warden, Professor Donald Markwell. 'Alan was making a profound impact as Director of Trinity College Foundation Studies, and we — staff and students of Trinity College — mourn him. All of us share that great sense of loss and sadness. But intermingled with our sadness is our gratitude to have shared in the life of this remarkable man. We remember the extraordinary richness of personality, and of private and public commitment and achievement, that was Alan Patterson. Alan's commitment to, and pride in, his family was evident to those of us who worked with him... The qualities which I especially valued in Alan were his capacity to make people feel appreciated, and to achieve rapport with students; his probing, questioning, restless mind, with his striking ability— as a lateral and pictorial thinker — to generate fresh insights and innovations; his valuing of individuality, his own and others; his commitment to the happiness of staff and students; and his range of interests, including conservation, painting, counselling, community service at home and abroad, and especially international
PATTERSON, Alan Arthur
education. Alan, who had had such a distinguished career in school education, was proud that, on his retirement from Mowbray, he was able to return to the University of Melbourne
21 April 1941 — 9 November 2002
— where he had secured four degrees and diplomas. He was deeply proud of, and excited about, what was being accomplished at Trinity: he told me this in almost those very words the day before he died, when we discussed the College's commitment, which he
The Warden, Fellows, Council, staff and students of Trinity College
enthusiastically shared, to liberal education and to international education. Alan was at Trinity ten months: yet his impact in that time was immense, and he leaves us changed. Above all, he has helped us to see more clearly than before the importance of
in the University of Melbourne
international awareness and engagement — the importance of understanding and goodwill
deeply mourn the sudden death of
between people of different nations, cultures, and faiths. Alan Patterson was a man who always made a difference. He made a difference here,
Alan Patterson, Director of Trinity College Foundation Studies.
as he did throughout his life. We will miss him, but will treasure our memories of him, and we will honour his legacy to us always.'
Alan was an educational leader of vision, energy, and enthusiasm; remarkable creativity;
Alan Patterson International Scholarship Fund One of Alan Patterson's passions was international understanding and goodwill, which he thought could be developed by young people of different nations,
wide international awareness; and profound concern for the happiness of students and staff.
cultures, and religions meeting and studying with each other. Towards this ideal, and as a permanent memorial to Alan, Susan Patterson and Trinity College have agreed to the creation of the Alan Patterson International Scholarships. These scholarships will be for graduates of Trinity College Foundation Studies who, in going on to undergraduate study at the University of Melbourne,
Our deepest sympathy goes to
will become resident students of the College. In the absence of a suitable graduate of Trinity College Foundation Studies to receive the scholarship, it may he offered
Susan, Emily, Celia, George, and Laura, their loved ones and friends. We share in their loss and grief.
to another student from overseas coming into, or already in, residence at Trinity College. The first Alan Patterson International Scholarship, an award of $5,000, will be awarded for a Trinity College Foundation Studies graduate going into residence at Trinity College in 2003. Already, over $50,000 has been contributed to a fund to endow such
(This notice appeared in The Age on Monday 11 November 2002.)
scholarships in perpetuity. This includes a substantial donation which Alan himself made to the Trinity College Foundation, a contribution by the College in memory of Alan, and some personal donations already received. Donations to the Alan Patterson International Scholarship Fund are welcome in his memory, and can be made to the Trinity College Foundation.
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Alan Patterson]- leads a discussion of pastoral care with overseas representatives of Trinity College Foundation Studies visiting the College in May 2002.
Alan Arthur Patterson was born at Woodend on 21 April 1941, the third child of four. He attended Geelong Grammar
Principal of Mowbray College at Melton, near
recently, was a member of the Board of
Melbourne, a position he held for almost
Internationalism of the International School
School and, as an undergraduate at the
twenty years. In the words of his colleague,
of the Regents in Pattaya, Thailand.
University of Melbourne, was a resident
Mr John O'Shea, Alan created at Mowbray 'a
student at Queen's College. He gained a Bachelors degree in Agricultural Science,
school in his own image—eclectic, diverse,
Education Faculty of Monash University,
creative, full of the unusual...' which, under
and as a Director of Conservation
and subsequently a Masters degree in Science, a Diploma of Education, and most
his visionary leadership and resourceful
Volunteers Australia, the largest volunteer
management, grew to having 1300 students
conservation group in Australia.
recently a Graduate Diploma of Adolescent
on two campuses.
In 1983, Alan became the founding
world and first nation countries and, more
He served on the Board of the
Alan took up his appointment as
Mowbray College has the largest number
Director of Trinity College Foundation
Health. After a decade of teaching from the
of international exchange students in any
mid-1960s at Melbourne Grammar School,
Australian school, and Alan Patterson's
where he was Head of Biology, and at schools in India and the UK, Alan Patterson
commitment to international education was also reflected in his active involvement in
cooking, storytelling, travelling, and
held senior leadership positions at Ballarat
international education bodies. He was a
outdoor adventuring. Throughout his sixty-
Studies at the beginning of 2002. Energetic and enthusiastic, his personal interests embraced painting, gardening,
and Queen's Anglican Grammar School
Director of Round Square, an association
one years, Alan Patterson gave generously
from 1976 to 1982. Throughout this time
of 50 schools from five continents. He was
of himself to those in any kind of need, as
he was a leader in developing Biology
actively involved in Global Connections, an
well as philanthropically. He is survived by
curriculum and assessment for Victorian
organisation which brings together educators
his wife, Susan, and children, Emily, Celia,
secondary schools.
from around the world, including third
George, and Laura.
Remembering Alan... 'Thanks for being so sweet and thanks for making Trinity College a wonderful experience.' 'Thanks for encouraging me. I will always remember that.' 'I was really proud when he came to my presentation, and congratulated me afterwards.' From the tributes from students of
Trinity College Foundation Studies
'Alan was a builder, a creator, a mender, a nurturer, an artist, a gardener and a carer. He was a leader by example and action.' 'His achievements will last. They are in gardens, paintings, buildings, schools, organisations, and most of all in the minds and spirits of those he helped.' 'We are all of us the better for knowing him. That is not a bad legacy.'
'He was by any measure an extraordinary and complex, multi faceted person.' '...he was off in the bush climbing with his Foundation Studies students, introducing another, different generation to the idea of living outside the comfort zone.' 'Pastoral care, looking after the spiritual and emotional needs of adolescents was the central plank in Alan's life.' 'He was passionate about giving kids an international perspective.'
From the eulogy given by
From the eulogy given by
John Keogh at Alan's funeral
John O'Shea at Alan's funeral
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The staff of Trinity College offers enviable scope and quality to all students of the College. 163 academic staff across the College offer teaching and academic support to 1,366 students—resident and non-resident university students, theological students, and students in Trinity College Foundation Studies (TCFS)—in a broad range of academic disciplines spanning 60 subjects and 12 faculties of the University of Melbourne. The calibre of Trinity's academic staff is truly impressive. Considerable emphasis is given to pastoral care and academic mentoring for students, with the vast majority of academic staff having both a teaching and a mentoring role. Additionally, many academic staff at the College actively undertake research and participate in a range of forums in the wider academic community. Recent publications and presentations by Trinity staff members include those listed below.
Dr Stephen Bedding, Tutor in Mathematics, is Chief Examiner of Mathematics Studies for the International Baccalaureate. In this role he has conducted teacher-training workshops in Helsinki, Singapore and Adelaide, and undertaken the curriculum review for a new syllabus to commence in 2004. In January 2003, he will be visiting Brazil to further his research in trace maps and dynamical behaviour of quasicrystals. Tim Bell, IT System Administrator, Peter Hawkins, Resident Student, and Dr Richard Wraith, Director of IT&T and the Learning Innovation Centre, presented a paper entitled 'TrafficWatch' to the 10th Annual Conference of the System Administrators' Guild of Australia, held in Melbourne in August 2002. The paper described the design, development and use of the TrafficWatch system, which tracks students' internet usage and bills them if they go over the quota allocated to them. Tim and Richard, together with Simon Wilkinson, Lecturer-in-Charge of Computing and Information Management, Trinity College Foundation Studies (TCFS), also authored the paper, 'Open Source Software: Freedom to Educate and Innovate' which was presented at ACEC2002, the Australian Computers in Education Conference, in July in Hobart. Rosemary Blight (formerly Dansick), TCFS Drama Lecturer, has two articles being published this year. 'More Than Words — a Passionate Vision' is based on a paper that Rosemary gave at an international Drama and Theatre conference in Norway in 2001. It was selected for publication in an international online journal, The Applied Theatre Researcher, edited by John O'Toole, Griffith University, Queensland. It discusses the use of mime and movement activities in the TCFS Drama program, which Rosemary pioneered and designed in 1990. A second article, 'Intercultural Theatre Workshop — Surreal Stories', appears in the Spring 2002 edition of EQ magazine, an education quarterly. Rosemary was guest speaker at a Secondary Teachers' Forum, 'Beginning Teachers: Our Future', Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne, in November, where she spoke about communication skills.
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Geoff Browne, the Warden's Research Assistant, has published articles on Sir John Spicer, JT Thompson and AH Tipper in volume 16 of the Australian Dictionary of
Biography. Hamish Coates, Resident Tutor in Politics, Psychology and Statistics, has contributed to two publications: P Griffin, H Coates, and KK Kirby: Australian Students'
Knowledge, Understanding and Attitudes of Asia, DETYA, Canberra, 2002; and B Raban, P Griffin, H Coates, and M Fleer, 'Profiling Preschool Literacy: Evidence of Indigenous Children's Capabilities', Journal of Australian Research in Early Childhood Education, 9(1), 74-8, 2002. He presented a paper entitled 'Analysing and Treating Item Nonresponse' at the Faculty of Education Postgraduate Students' Conference, University of Melbourne, on 1 December 2001. In February 2002 he was a visiting fellow at UNESCO's International Institute for Educational Planning in Paris. The College Chaplain and Director of the Trinity College Theological School, Revd Dr David Cole, was awarded a PhD from the University of Newcastle. David has previously been awarded a DMin (Doctorate of Ministry) from the San Francisco Theological Seminary at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, and has been working on this second doctorate over the last several years. His PhD thesis is on aesthetics and liturgical theology, and its implications for the teaching of liturgy. David presented a paper entitled 'Making
Connections: Connecting with Praise' at the National Anglican Conference in Sydney in July 2002. The paper explored the place of congregational song in post-modern times, the need for a variety of styles, international sourcing of congregational song, and contemporary texts and music. David delivered the 2002 Richard McKinney Memorial Lectures in the parish of East Ivanhoe in November and December, on
the topic 'The Arts: a window on the Divine'. Brett Considine, Resident Tutor in Accounting and Finance, co-authored a paper, A Razeed and B Considine, 'Green Companies: Do they exist on the web?', which was presented at the AAANZ Conference. Dr Sasha Cyganowski, Lecturer-in-Charge of Mathematics 2, TCFS, has co-authored a book, S Cyganowski, PE Kloeden, J Ombach: From Elementary Probability to
Stochastic Differential Equations with Maple, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, 2001, and has contributed chapters in two other books: S Cyganowski, L Grune, PE Kloeden: 'Maple for Jump-Diffusion Stochastic Differential Equations in Finance' in Programming
Languages and Systems in Computational Economics and Finance, edited SS Nielsen, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002; and S Cyganowski, L Grune, PE Kloeden: 'Maple for Stochastic Differential Equations' in Theory and Numerics of Differential Equations, edited JF Blowey, JP Coleman and AW Craig, Springer-Verlag, 2001. Anya Daly, Lecturer in Literature, TCFS, gave a paper at the Australasian Association of Philosophy conference in Christchurch, New Zealand in July 2002. The title of the paper was 'The Problem of the Other in Merleau-Ponty's Ethics.' This is also the title of her proposed PhD. Dr Alan Davison, Lecturer in Music, TCFS, had his PhD conferred in August 2002. His thesis, undertaken at the Faculty of Music, University of Melbourne, was on Studies in the Iconography of Franz Liszt. In April 2002, he presented a paper entitled 'Visual Constructions of the Musician in the Nineteenth Century', at the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies 2002 conference, 'Nineteenthcentury Knowledges', held at George Mason University, Virginia, USA, and followed this, in September, with 'The Iconography of the Musician in the 1830s: The Formation of Enduring Visual Types', which he delivered to the 2002 European Studies Research Institute conference, 'The 1830s', held at the University of Salford, near Manchester, UK. Rose de la Cruz, Lecturer in English for Academic Purposes and Lecturer-in-Charge, Environment and Development, TCFS, was
mainEVENr awarded a Master of Arts in Environmental Studies by the University of Melbourne in December 2001. Rose gained this degree by coursework together with the preparation of a minor thesis based on the environmental education work she undertook in Mexican schools over two years while working with Australian Volunteers Abroad. Frank Di Marzio, Lecturer in Physics, TCFS, has published a paper entitled 'Analytic Nuclear Scattering Theories' in Computer Physics Communications, Issue 3, Vol. 143, March 2002. Serryn Eagleson, Resident Tutor in Geomatics, recently submitted her PhD thesis, entitled GIS Applied to
Administrative Boundaries Design. Felicity Fallon, Director of Pastoral Care, TCFS, presented a paper on 'Reasons for Absences from Class by International Students and their Implications for the Pastoral Care of these Students' at the 2002 Conference of the International Student Advisers Network of Australia (ISANA) held in December. Early in 2002, the Dean and Deputy Warden, Dr Stewart Gill, was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in London. He has continued to work on a history of the United Aborigines Mission. In September, he presented a paper at the Australian and New Zealand Canadian Studies Conference in Canberra on 'The Age of Encounter to Coming of Age But Slowly: An Historiographical Survey of Missionaries Among Indigenous Peoples in Australia and Canada' which is to be published in the proceedings. In October, Dr Gill gave a paper at a Celtic Connections conference at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand, entitled 'Covenant, Kirk and Community: John Dunmore Lang and an Empire of the South Seas'. He gave a further paper on John Dunmore Lang at Manning Clark House, Canberra, in November. Mike Heald, Lecturer in Literature, TCFS, has had a number of poems published during 2002. These include: 'In the Shack', Antipodes (J ournal of the American Association of Australian Studies), Summer 2002; 'Managed Retreat' and 'Fire', Salt (UK), Spring 2002; 'Catchment', Thylazine (Internet Journal), Summer 2002; and 'Leaving Tasmania', Island, Autumn 2002. Dr Emma Henderson, Resident Tutor in Law and Legal Studies, has been on sabbatical leave in 2002. After completing the International Human Rights Law program at Oxford University (see page 13) she took up a Visiting Fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies at the University of London where her research has been in the area of asylum and refugee law. She presented a paper entitled 'Re-colonising the Discourse of Rights in Western Australia' at the Gender, Sexuality and the Law Conference held at Keele University, Staffordshire, in June, and gave another at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies concerning the impact that the UK Human Rights Act 1998 has had on asylum and refugee legislation.
Keith Higgins, Resident Tutor in Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics, is currently working towards a PhD in Fluid Dynamics. During the year, he published the paper Keith Higgins, Andrew Ooi and MS Chong: 'The structure of an unstable circular vortex in a background straining flow', in Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 462, July 2002. In June, he was invited to give a seminar at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge University, on the topic, 'Vortex tubes, spirals and passive-scalar mixing'. Glen Jennings, Lecturer-in-Charge of Literature, TCFS, has seen two papers published this year: 'Frank Hardy: Gambling on Justice,' Melbourne Journal of Politics, vol. 27, 2000/2001 (but released in 2002), and 'Mao's Children in the New China,' The Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol. 48, no.1, March 2002. In addition, he has written other reviews and articles for the Trinity College web journal, Steep Stairs Review, which can be accessed by following the link from www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au/news, and edited anthologies of student writing. Resident Tutor in Economics, Hsein Kew, has contributed to two papers: J Creedy, A Duncan, G Kalb and H Kew: 'The Melbourne Institute Tax and Transfer Simulator (MITTS)', Melbourne Institute Working Paper, 16/01, November 2001, and J Greedy, G Kalb and H Kew: 'The Effects of Flattening the Effective Marginal Rate Structure in Australia: Policy Simulations Using the Melbourne Institute Tax and Transfer Simulator', Melbourne Institute Working Paper, 10/01, September 2001. Already a fully registered Member of the Australian Psychological Society (APS), Anita Krautschneider, Counsellor/ Psychologist for TCFS, this year also became a Member of the Counselling College of the APS, having completed two years of supervised practical and theoretical professional development work. Dr Tamar Lewit, Lecturer-in-Charge of History of Ideas, TCFS, has recently completed an article on the effect of cultural change on elite housing in the 5th-6th centuries AD, entitled 'Vanishing Villas: What happened to rural settlement in the West in the 5th and 6th centuries AD?' Her book, Agricultural
Production in the Roman Economy AD 200-400, Oxford, 1991, is to be reprinted, following a number of citations in the 1998 and 2000 editions of Cambridge Ancient History. Her next research project, tentatively titled 'Bones in the Bathhouse', will be on changing burial patterns in the 5th-7th centuries AD. In the last year, Dr Lewit presented a poster on behalf of Trinity College Foundation Studies at the University
of Melbourne Cultural Diversity Forum and at the Vice-Chancellor's Colloquium on Teaching and Learning. She also delivered a workshop on 'Overseas Students: making the transition across intellectual traditions' at the University of Melbourne conference, 'Mind the Gap: transition from all perspectives'. In October 2002, Director of Academic Studies in the residential College, Dr Mark Lindsay, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. One of his recent projects has been to co-edit, in collaboration with Church historians and theologians from Germany, Canada, the UK and USA, the English translation of the collected works of Friedrich-Wilhelm Marquardt, a German theologian who was a leading figure in Jewish-Christian reconciliation and who died earlier this year. His other publications this year have included: Introduction, 'Dabru Emet: A Critique, Commentary, Elaboration and Restatement of the Document known as Dabru Emet', in Gesher, vol.2, No.5, October 2002; 'Karl Barth-Rezeption Since 1990', Arbeitsgemeinschaft kirchlicher Zeitgeschichtler, vol.VIII, No.10, October 2002; and 'Nothingness Revisited: Karl Barth's Doctrine of Radical Evil in the Wake of the Holocaust', Colloquium, vol. 34, No.1, May 2002. Grantley McDonald, Tutor in German, graduated with his PhD and is working on the first book-length study of the sixteenth century German poet and composer, Laurentius Corvinus. On 5 September, the Warden, Professor Don Markwell addressed the Oxford Society in Victoria on the theme of 'Undergraduate education for the 21st century: Australia at the crossroads', since published as Trinity Paper Number 20 and accessible via www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au/ news (See pages 5-7). Professor Markwell also delivered the keynote address, 'Leadership and the role of the CEO in educational development', to the National Conference of ADAPE (the Association of Development and Alumni Professionals in Education), held in Melbourne in September. In August, Jack Migdalek, Drama Lecturer, TCFS, gave a lecture entitled 'Drama in the Language Lesson' to ELC teaching staff, Melbourne University Private, at Hawthorn English Language Centre, and delivered another in September to the Drama Australia Conference, held at Notre Dame University, Fremantle, WA, under the title, 'Drama in Language Education'. His published articles this year include 'Performing English: The Classroom as Rehearsal Space', which appeared in
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Academic Adventures of Trinity Staff Philip Nicholls, Assistant Director of Music, has recently submitted an Honours thesis to the Faculty of Music, University of Melbourne, entitled The Anglican Choral Tradition at the Chapel of Trinity College Melbourne: 1917-57. His research, drawn from published and archival sources, documents the College's efforts to set up and maintain this important tradition during the period between the Consecration of the Chapel in 1917, and the arrival of the Canterbury Fellowship in 1957. He hopes that his study in this area will culminate in the publication of a history of the Chapel's music from 1917 until the present day. In addition to delivering the 2002 Noel Carter Public Lecture, 'BuddhistChristian Perspectives on Human Suffering: Dialogical Frontiers in Pastoral Theology' in October at Trinity College, Revd Dr Ruwan Palapathwala, Lecturer in Pastoral Theology, also lectured on the topic 'Black Holes and the Origin of the Universe: Perspectives from World Religions' for the Department of Applied Physics, RMIT University, on 28 May. In September, he gave a special lecture on 'Social and Spiritual Implications of Wholeness and Healing' to the Annual General Meeting of the Peninsula Health Board, Frankston. His article, 'Beyond Christ and System: Paul Tillich and Spirituality for the 21st Century' was published in Religion in the New Millennium, edited by Frederick J Parrella and Raymond Bulman, Mercer University Press, USA, 2001/2002. The late Alan Patterson, Director of TCFS, presented a paper in April 2002 to the Global Connections Conference in Wuhan, People's Republic of China, under the title 'Facing the Future: What to do in the classroom?' and had been invited to deliver a paper in December 2002, in The Sultanate of Oman, at the UNESCOsponsored conference on the Reform of Secondary Education on the subject, 'Secondary Education for a Better Future: Trends, Challenges and Priorities'. Clare Pullar, Director of Development, presented a paper on Investment Fundraising to the National Conference of ADAPE (the Association of Development and Alumni Professionals in Education) in September 2002. During the conference, she was installed as a Fellow of the Association in recognition of her work in fostering philanthropy in education. Jon Ritchie, Director of Student Welfare in the residential College, is continuing work on his PhD thesis in History, on the topic, Popular Participation in the writing of Papua New Guinea's Independence Constitution. In December 2001, he presented a paper at the New Zealand Historical Association conference in Christchurch, NZ, entitled: 'Constitutionmaking in Papua New Guinea: a western import or a home grown product?' He also presented a paper as part of the University 34 TRI N ITYToday Summer 2002-2003
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of Melbourne History Department's 'Brown Bag' seminar series (for staff and near-to-completion PhD students) on 29 August 2002, entitled 'Making Their Own Law: Popular Involvement in Papua New Guinea's Independence Constitution'. Dr Simon Royce, Tutor in Pathology, obtained his PhD in June, with a thesis entitled Brunner's gland cell phenotypes in normal and pathological tissues . He contributed to the paper: PP Tagkalidis, SG Royce, FA Macrae, and PS Bhathal: 'Selective colonization by Helicobacter pylori of the deep gastric glands and intracellular canaliculi of parietal cells in the setting of chronic proton pump inhibitor use', published in European Journal Gastroenterol Hepatol, vol 14, 2002. Neil Saul, Resident Tutor in History, received an Australian Postgraduate Award and has commenced a fulltime PhD in History at the University of Melbourne. In April, he gave a paper at the Australian and New Zealand American Studies Association. He has also presented two papers to the American Civil War Round Table of Australia: in August on 'Capture Experiences of Union Soldiers in the Civil War', and in October on 'The Architecture of Civil War Prisons.' Ecumenical theology, and applying information technology to Christian worship have been major areas of research undertaken this year by the Revd Dr Charles Sherlock, Senior Lecturer in Theology. A member of the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission, a body of sixteen international theologians who are currently working towards an Agreed Statement on Mary, he attended their 2002 meeting in Vienna during July and returned to the monastery of Chevetogne, Belgium, for a further week in November to work as a member of the drafting team.
He presented a paper on 'The Ministry of Mary' to the Australian Church Union in October and his article, 'Re-receiving God's Yes Together', on an earlier Statement of the Commission, 'The Gift of Authority', was published in One in Christ: a Catholic Ecumenical Review, 37/1, January 2002. Dr Sherlock has twice visited Norway this year to continue his work on the development of 'e-pray' software. Dr Sherlock offered a workshop on computing and liturgy to
the National Anglican Conference at the University of NSW in July. Alexandra Teague, Resident Tutor in Architecture, won the 2002 Dean's Prize for Published Postgraduate Research in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, for the article 'Conservation and Social Value: Rose Seidler House'. In September, 2002, she travelled to France to deliver her paper on 'Rose Seidler House: The Representation of Use Value in Modern Places', at Image, Use, and Heritage: The Reception of Architecture of the Modern Movement, the conference and roundtable meeting of the Seventh International DOCOMOMO in Paris. Associate Chaplain and Lecturer in Theology, Revd Richard Treloar, was awarded a Monash Graduate Scholarship for 2002 to complete his PhD on Hebrew Biblical Narrative and Theodicy full-time. Associate Professor Tim van Gelder, a research Fellow of the College who also works in the College Learning Innovation Centre, has published 'A Reason!Able Approach to Critical Thinking', Principal Matters: The Journal for Australasian Secondary School Leaders, May 2002; 'How to improve critical thinking using educational technology' in G Kennedy, M Keppell, C McNaught and T Petrovic (eds.): Meeting at the Crossroad: Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education, Melbourne, Biomedical Multimedia Unit, University of Melbourne; and 'The Reason! Project', The Skeptic, Winter 2001. He has also given numerous academic presentations, including: 'Intelligence Augmentation Through Argument Mapping' for the Department of Information Systems, University of Melbourne, and the Institution of Engineers, Australia; 'Computer-Supported Collaborative Argumentation', in the Department of Computer Science, University of Melbourne, and 'Does it Work? How Much? And Why? Evaluating Effectiveness and Causal Factors in The Reason Project', Department of Teaching, Learning and Research Support Colloquium Series, University of Melbourne. Megan Warner, Resident Tutor in Law and Theology, was awarded the degree of Bachelor of Theology by the Melbourne College of Divinity in April 2002. Nina Waters, Leeper Librarian, presented a paper to the ANZTLA (Australian and New Zealand Theological Library Association) Conference in Canberra in July. It was entitled 'Building relationships with vendors: the Horizon Application Service Provider solution by epixtech'. The Leeper Library at Trinity is the first tertiary library in Australia to outsource the hosting of software and databases, while still maintaining individual system parameters, data management and administration.
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The Dean, Dr Stewart Gill, joined students (from left) Kate Hathaway (lit year Commerce/Law; 2002 Arts Representative, Cressida Griffith (3" year Arts/Music); Edmund Griffith (1" year Arts); Catherine Finch (1" year Arts) and Louise Doolan (1st year Arts) at the unveiling of the ER White acquisition.
Despite the complexity of today's world, an ideal education stills boils down to three essential elements: a student, a teacher and a place for them to interact. The best of all possible educations adds a fourth element: a commitment to research, to discovery, to transforming knowledge and making it new. Trinity College has long been committed to attracting the brightest students and the finest tutoring, pastoral and administrative staff and creating an
in the pursuit of common goals. Examples of that kind of leadership are evident in the stories about Trinity tutors and students that are included in this issue ofTRINITYToday.
environment that nurtures excellence in learning and discovery. Our vision is to be a leader in this evolving knowledgebased society through our teaching and presentation of knowledge in an environment that demonstrates an understanding of the interrelated spiritual, social, ethical, cultural, historical, political, economic and intellectual dynamics of
Their ideas and achievements are impressive. This year, we have had, in first semester, higher academic averages than we have
modern life. Effective leadership is often the greatest challenge facing both private- and publicsector organisations today. The need is for modern-day leaders who are innovative, guided by a strong moral code and able to unite employees, colleagues and citizens
had for many years and we have won the Cowan Cup for men's intercollegiate sport for the fourth time in five years. Besides our academic and sporting achievements we have excelled through the play, musical and ArtsFest. The Choir has continued to build its reputation throughout Australia and particularly with the release of its new CD, Rejoice. There has been a continued emphasis on caring for others outside of the College community through Outreach. It has also been an exciting year with high profile visitors including the in-coming Archbishop
of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams. The challenge before us in 2003 is to build upon the great achievements of this year. On the accommodation side in 2003, we will begin to renovate some of the smaller rooms in College with some reverting to single bedrooms with shared studies, and others becoming model rooms for future renovations. We will also be providing a mentor for every student in the College. Mentoring is central to building a College that aims to offer the best all-round education in an Australian university. With such a talented and diverse group of students and staff, it has once again been a great privilege to serve in the Trinity community in 2002. Dr Stewart Gill Dean
Cripps Middle Common Room The refurbishment of the Cripps Middle Common Room was celebrated in October with a reception hosted by the Dean, Dr Stewart Gill, and the 2002 President of the Cripps Middle Common Room, Ben Namdarian (5''' year Medicine/Surgery). Among those present were many whose support made possible the aesthetically-pleasing refurbishment of this amenity, which is used to advantage by the College's academically senior students. A wall plaque in the Room now records this generosity for future generations. The reception was followed by Choral Evensong in the Chapel.
Present at the reception in the Cripps Middle Common Room were, from left, Mr Robert Cripps; Mr Martin Scott; Associate Professor Tim Lindsey; Mrs Jan Cripps; Mr J Craig Brown; President of the Cripps Middle Common Room, Mr Ben Namdarian (5 11' year Medicine/Surgery) and the Dean, Dr Stewart Gill. In the background is the portrait of Robert Cripps, after whose family the Room is named.
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Outreach and Community Service V-Week How many students would give up their last precious week of holidays to do full-time volunteer work? Twenty-five Trinity students, to be exact. Organised by the student-run Outreach committee, Volunteer Week—or V-Week, as it has come to be known—is now
Kevin Westfold Medal for Leadership and Service
something of a Trinity tradition. But this year an unprecedented number of participants made V-Week 2002 among the most successful so far.
The Kevin Westfold Medal for
As we soon discovered, twenty-five participants is one thing, but finding the places to send them all is another. Former member of Trinity and Volunteer Coordinator at Here
Leadership and Service has been created and awarded for the first time in 2002 to
for Life, David Oliver, came to the rescue, taking a number of students to help in the
honour the memory of a distinguished
preparation of Victorian Youth Week. Most of our time at Here for Life was spent putting
member and Fellow of Trinity College,
together yellow ribbons and showbags to promote the prevention of youth suicide. Every student also had the opportunity to help out at the Brotherhood of St Laurence,
Professor Kevin Westfold, who died in October 2001. Subject to the decision of
serving an evening meal to residents of their Aged Care Hostel. Although it was at times
the Warden and the Dean, it is intended
sad and even distressing to see people suffering from dementia and other impairments,
that the Medal be awarded to the Senior
as some of the residents were, it was wonderful to see the effect that our short chats had.
Student of the College, on the conclusion
Many of the residents were very talkative and we certainly came away from the hostel with some interesting insights!
of his or her time in office, and that the
A small group of students also helped out at the Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind, where they made a significant contribution to the Braille library. They helped to produce and proof-read Braille books and even learnt some Braille themselves. While these activities and others were going on outside the Trinity gates, three
Senior Student not then be eligible for consideration for the award of Student of the Year. Recipients of the inaugural Kevin Westfold Medals were the last two Senior
students remained inside them, conducting a project of their own initiative. In just a few
Students, Andrew Meagher (2001) and
days, they arranged for the donation of wood and built a set of painting and chalk easels
Michael Pottenger (2002). A further medal
to donate to the children at the Hippy Program, a support program for families from
has been sent to Christopher Watkins
Third-World backgrounds.
(2000), who is studying for a doctorate
The end of a very successful V-Week was marked with pizza, pasta, and, we admit, just a few bottles of wine atToto's in Lygon Street. Indeed, V-Week would not have been the success that it was without the support of the greater College community,
in Oxford and is now Junior Dean of Pembroke College, Oxford. A resident student at Trinity for five
and especially that of the Dean, Dr Stewart Gill. This kind of support reflects Trinity's
years and Senior Student in 1943, Kevin
dedication to giving service back to the greater community.
Westfold later received a doctorate at Oxford for work in radio astronomy. He
Claire Henderson (2"d year Arts (Media and Communications)) Outreach Society President.
went on to a remarkable academic career, including as a professor of two different subjects at Monash University—first as foundation professor of Mathematics, and later as professor of Astronomy. He served
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ABBO WILL SHAVE HI HEAD IF $1000 IS I RAISED BEFORE THE FIRST FOON.GAME
During May, fifteen resident students of the College shaved their heads to raise money for charity. Students nominated a price for which they would shave their heads and sought donations from the College community and beyond to raise that sum. Organised by students MattTilleard (2"d year Science/Law) and Simon Griffiths (2'd year Engineering/ Science) in conjunction with Outreach, this activity raised over $2,500 for the AntiCancer Council of Victoria. Simon Griffiths (2^d year Engineering/Science) shows off his 'clean-cut' look.
for a decade as Dean of Science from 1965 to 1975 and later, in the 1980s, as Deputy Vice-Chancellor at Monash. In his retirement, Professor Westfold became a resident tutor at Trinity and was a committed and keen supporter of the College in all in its aspects—the Choir, the Theological School, the College Foundation, and Trinity College Foundation Studies. He was also a very active layman in the Anglican Church, including serving in 1983-1984 as chairman of the board that elected the Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne. A generous supporter of Trinity in his lifetime, he also left a bequest to the College in his will. At the first awards in August, the Warden paid tribute to Professor Westfold, describing him as 'a man with a very clear and precise mind, a very warm heart, and unassuming friendliness. It is most fitting that a medal for Leadership and Service be given in his memory.'
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Recipients of these scholarships are outstanding students in their fourth, or later, year of university study.
John Dethridge John Dethridge is in his fourth year at Trinity where he holds both a Trinity College Senior Scholarship and a C Hebden Scholarship. He graduated last year with a BSc (Hons) degree and, having won an Australian Postgraduate Award, is now in the first year of a PhD in mathematics. John comes from Camberwell and aspires to become either an academic or a computer programmer. One of the things he appreciates most about Trinity is 'the opportunity to meet students who are among the best in their field'. Stop Press: John Dethridge's programming skills have just made him the 2002 TopCoder Invitational Champion, defeating fifteen other international finalists and earning him a ĂšS$50,000 cheque. Working against the clock, contestants had to write code that provided functioning solutions to three complex problems. Organised by software development company, TopCoder, John's latest achievement can be viewed at www.topcoder.com/index/t_tournament&c_ invit02_champ
Darius Isaac Darius Isaac's five years in Trinity have been characterised by extensive participation in virtually all aspects of College life. While playing major roles both on and off the stage in College plays and musicals, he has represented Trinity in cross-country and football, captained both the First Cricket XI and First Soccer XI, been President of the Informal Dining Society and the Intercollegiate Council (ICC), a member of the Film Society Committee, a Fire Warden and a Safety Officer. He has also done well in his studies for a Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Science degree, majoring in Finance and Statistics, and has been the recipient of C Hebden, FF Knight, RA Must and Trinity College Senior Scholarships. Darius's parents came to Australia in 1972 from India and Iraq but he 'I look forward to giving back describes himself as 'a born and to Trinity, in some way, all it has bred Aussie'. In 2003, he will offered me.' be starting work with Macquarie Bank's Investment Banking Group in Melbourne. Darius believes the most valuable part of residing at Trinity College is that it offers opportunities bounded only by one's desire to achieve. 'I have learned valuable lessons about myself and have been inspired to achieve by the abundant talent of other students at Trinity. I have had an absolute ball over the last five years and will leave Trinity with a wealth of memories of fun times had on the sporting field, in plays, at black tie functions and in friends' rooms over a glass of scotch.'
Mike Pottenger 'Life at Trinity has given me opportunities I simply would not have been able to obtain elsewhere. It's an environment which encourages participation at all levels, and supports you in whatever you choose to do. It's not surprising that many of my friends and I plan to stay on into our later years of university.' So says fourth-year Arts/Commerce student and Trinity College's 2002 Senior Student, Mike Pottenger, who hails from the Goulburn Valley. Having played lead roles in every College play and musical since 1998, it is good to know that his considerable dramatic talents will be retained in 2003 as he returns for a fifth year as a resident student. Mike holds a Trinity College Senior Scholarship and, in both 2001 and 2002; received an Academic Award and the Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Arts. He has honed his sporting skills in the seconds football team, has served on several committees, including two years on the TCAC committee, and has been elected President of the Intercollegiate Arts Council for 2003. Mike currently has four major areas of study—history, political science, economics and finance—and is finding it hard to choose between them for his future career direction.
Meg Mulcahy The current recipient of the Trinity College Senior Scholarship for Community Service, Meg Mulcahy, is in her fourth year at Trinity, and is completing her. Honours year in Science under the supervision of Dr Simon Cropper of the Psychology Department at the University of Melbourne. Her thesis focuses on the perception of colour. Meg is originally from Tasmania, but five years ago her family made the big move to Darwin, Northern Territory. She now likes alternating between university life in Melbourne, and the sunny, hot weather up north. Meg has enjoyed extensive involvement in College plays and musicals, particularly in 2000 when she produced the musical Sweeney Todd at St Martins Youth Arts Centre. She has been Coordinator of Outreach and Captain of Cross-country for two years running. Meg was Social Secretary of theTCAC in 2001, edited the students' magazine, Fleur de Lys, and also started her existing role as an Harassment Advisor for the College. This year she has acted as a Residential Advisor and continued her athletic pursuits. Next year promises to be another busy year as she will be producing the College play, which, she hopes, will be part of the Melbourne Comedy Festival. She also plans to start a Bachelor of Teaching course in pursuit of her aspirations to teach Science and Psychology at secondary level. www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au 37
'Forum' was a Funny Thing
Trinity College Music Theatre Society Union Theatre, 27-31 August 2002
Reviewed by Peter Campbell This year's Trinity musical returned to Sondheim, but with a classical twist. Inspired by the comedies of the Roman writer Plautus, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum has a convoluted plot involving all the 'classic' comedic turns of a good G & S—mistaken identity, children swapped at birth, love potions gone wrong, libidinous old men, devious servants and incompetent masters—coupled with the modem, easylistening, jazz-influenced tunes we expect from a good Sondheim. The whole conception is held together by the central character, the slave Pseudolus, here played admirably—as we have come to expect—by veteran Michael Pottenger (4th year Arts/Commerce). Motivated by the prospect of freedom, Pseudolus embarks on a plan to arrange for his master's son, Hero, to marry the girl he adores, Philia. Once set in train, however, no one can predict the complications and consternations that result from this seemingly simple quest. In his attempts to restore order (and extricate himself from the mire of intrigue that he has created, whilst still ending up a free man), Pseudolus is ably assisted by the highly strung chief of the household staff, Hysterium, over-acted to delightful pantomimic effect by Lachlan Harrison-Smith (1" year Arts). The cast was dripping with principals, this being rather more an ensemble production than one in which a select few soloists overshadow the supports. It is a show, too, that relies overly much on spoken dialogue and melodramatic acting rather than good singing to achieve its comic effect, which is perhaps a good thing. Not to say that there weren't moments of very fine musicmaking. Jacqueline Porter (2nd year Arts/Music) sang with her usual confidence of tone and characterisation in portraying Domina, the almost cuckolded wife (if I may be permitted to reverse the usual gender-assignment of the term) of the head of the house, Senex, a role acted with memorable lasciviousness by Edward Thomson (2"d year Arts/Law). Pipi Lamb (1" year Arts) also contributed some fine singing and acting, seemingly in her element as the beautiful-if-a-bit-blonde, but nonetheless principled and faithful courtesan, Philia. The remaining male leads were, on the whole, convincing in the portrayal of their parts. Andrew 38 TRINITYToday Summer 2002-2003
Borthwick (2"d year Arts) as the scene-setter Prologus had a fittingly jolly and conspiratorial manner; Alex Watkins (1" year Arts) as the love-struck son, Hero, had the good looks to pull off the part but, as his programme bio noted, needed just a little more practice in the shower for the high notes. The part of the valiant and well-muscled centurion, Miles Gloriosus, was more than adequately filled by Peter Burns (3" year Arts/Law) who, for a sportsman, made an excellent soldier. It was an oddity to have cast Richard Vaudrey (1st year Music), perhaps one of the leads with more singing and musical experience, in the speaking role of Erronius (on second thought, perhaps not...), but he nonetheless played it with characteristic confidence and humour. Lycus, the keeper of the disorderly house and purveyor of human flesh, was played by Simon Atkinson (.1st year Arts/Science) with obvious delight and suitable unctuousness. The chorus gave excellent support throughout the night. The troop of soldiers—Keystone Cops meets 'A Policeman's Lot is not a Happy One'—performed with spectacularly well-planned disarray, led from behind (or was that below) by a plucky Scott Pasquill (2^d year Engineering/Science). The women (certainly not ladies) presented a delectable smorgasbord of talent that was disappointingly but perhaps luckily only required to sing in the finales. Mention should also be made of the delightfully obsequious Eunuch as portrayed by Alexander Forbes-Harper (4th year Science/Law), dressed in the skimpiest pink tunic I have ever seen. Gordon Little (2"d year Arts/Commerce) directed the small band from the rear of the stage, and while this meant that there were rarely any problems of balance, ensemble did suffer on occasion. Director Andrew Plant created a well-paced and nicely signposted narrative from the tortuous plot, all played out on his single, efficient set that served its purpose of obscuring the orchestra admirably. In summary, this was an entertaining and lighthearted romp. There were many comic opportunities that the cast grasped with enthusiasm and milked mercilessly, just as they did their singing. Some of the orchestral playing may have been rough, some of the voices may have seen too few singing lessons, but the overall effect was greatly enjoyable, and I look forward eagerly to the next one.
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The Trinity College Play 2002
A Streetcar Named Desire Reviewed by Duncan Gilmour, (3rd year Arts/Science) During first semester, Trinity College students rehearsed and performed the Tennessee Williams classic A Streetcar Named Desire. The play proved to be a very successful production thanks largely to masterful and sometimes manic management by producer, Ken Shaw (2"d year Computer Science/Law) and his assistant, Angela Johnson (2"d year Mechatronics). The performances were extremely well-received, particularly on Gala Night when the College community turned out in force. The assembled actors were able to display their true talents under the direction and vision of Catherine Jean-Karista, who was ably aided by Sana Nakata (2nd year Arts/Law). The star role of Blanche Dubois was passionately performed by the dedicated thespian Lucy Forge (2"d year Creative Arts), who put her all into every performance. Stepping into Marlon Brando's shoes in the role of Stan, Jeremy Nicholls (2"d year Arts/Law) displayed a previously unseen dark side and a powerful sexual magnetism that thoroughly suited the role. Acting veteran Mike Pottenger (4t" Year Arts/Commerce) also displayed a surprising level of evil in the role of Mitch, while Anna Kaufman (4t" year Science) delivered an understated, yet powerful, performance as the tireless Stella. In the supporting cast, Pipi Lamb (1" year Arts) showed her maternal side as the supportive Eunice. Alex ForbesHarper (4t" year Science/Law) and Ryan Reynolds had the chance to gamble, drink and tell some truly awful jokes,
while Simon Atkinson (1st year Arts/Science) amused everybody with his cries of 'Hot sauce!' (you probably had to be there). Frances Derham (1st year Arts) and Lahnee Clark (1st year Arts (Media & Communications) made successful debuts in the out-of-character roles of 'prostitute' and 'white trash', while Sam McMahon (2"d year Arts/Law) found his inner Dustin Hoffman as the foil to Blanche's seduction. In an effort to reconstruct the period, we were also treated to some appropriate jazz standards and 'drunken' singing by Kieran Rowe (3 rd year Medicine/Surgery) on clarinet and vocals, Alice Braden (1st year Arts/Music) on bass, and Mike Hone (1st year Arts/Law) on drums. The actors were well-supported by a hard-working production team and an energetic, yet disciplined, stage crew. Set-designer Sarah Lerner (2nd year Architecture) found creative ways of coping with a difficult script on a constrained budget, while the costumes crafted by Ashley Kay (2nd year Science) and her team, Rob Canning's lighting, and the make-up skills of Rebekah Gane (3'd year Medicine/Surgery) combined effectively to evoke the necessary 1940's working-class atmosphere. Altogether, the play provided a great experience for both the audience and those involved, and reaffirmed Trinity's reputation as the Drama College of the Crescent.
For the third year in succession, Trinity has won the Intercollegiate Activities Council's (ICAC) 'Cultural Cup'. To earn this trophy, all colleges compete in a number of different areas in the Arts field. This year saw the addition of Darts and Pool competitions and Trinity earned third place in both. Theatre Sports was a very entertaining night with our final result just one point away from first place! Debating dominated a busy second semester and after a lengthy, but entertaining, six weeks of Sunday night debates, Trinity secured first place in the final against Ridley College. In the three categories of the soiree ontemporary classical and jazz -Trinity also excelled, with another overall first placing. In the 'Battle of the Bands' Trinity came third, but then won the year's final event, the Writing Competition, to secure our overall lead. Congratulations to everyone who contributed to Trinity's success in this year's ICAC events. Hopefully, next year our wins in a row!
Cressida Griffith (3rd year Arts/Music) Arts Representative
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Misadventure in Clarke's Corridor The ER White Committee's 2001 purchase, Misadventure, is the most recent addition to the expansive Trinity College ER White Collection.
David Harley's work is computer-generated,
Dr Inglis, who has had, and continues to have, a
and enters the College's contemporary art collection
significant influence on the committee's workings,
as the Club's first purely abstract purchase,
welcomed the new abstract image into what had
expanding the breadth of artistic creativity in the
been a collection of purely figurative work and
collection. Harley uses the computer as a tool
outlined Harley's compositional method with
to extend processes previously explored in his
insightful clarity before introducing him to add his
painted works. Aside from adding a focus on size
own words about his work. Being a former resident
manipulation to his works, Harley claims that the
student of Trinity, David Harley mentioned his joy
computer 'encourages speculative work because it
in having his work return to the College. He humbly
defies finality which one is conscious of in painting'.
claimed to feel very honoured by the event, and
Having transgressed the limitations of painted
grateful to the College for having invited his family.
material (and naturally reacting to a new series of
The event was highly informative and engaging,
restrictions), the work creates a seductive aesthetic
whilst still being refreshing and entertaining, and
of luminous colour, subtle overlapping and depth
provided a vehicle for dialogue between students
of perspective.
and the new work. To accompany the work, the 2001 and 2002 committees decided to purchase special lighting to resemble that used in the Storey Hall exhibition at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology where the committee originally discovered Misadventure. This produces an illusion of backlighting, hence emulating the computer screen where it was first constructed. This costly initiative is a first for the committee, acknowledging the importance not only of the work, but also of the work's presentation and maintenance in the collection. In making this purchase, the committee sought advice from specialists to ensure the work's long-term preservation. The installation of a time switch minimises power consumption
The moment of
The unveiling of Misadventure took place on
and the direction of light on the work, whilst still
revelation—Alison Inglis
Sunday 25 August, the highlight of the Trinity
unveils David Harley's
College ArtsFest. After welcoming drinks and finger
luminous colour interaction. The lighting also
Misadventure.
food in the JCR — generously provided by the
provides a new focus for the Club on the interaction
College — students, staff and guests made their
of the collection space with the art works, providing
way down the Clarke's corridor to where the work
a metaphor for the interaction of the student body
is now positioned. After an introductory welcome,
(the collection space is, after all, a student corridor) with the contemporary arts at Trinity.
the Warden introduced the speakers: myself; Dr David Harley's
allowing the highest possible viewing of Harley's
Alison Inglis, Lecturer in Fine Arts at Melbourne
Misadventure is
University; and Mr David Harley himself. My own
Huw Hallam (2"d year Arts/Music)
reproduced on the front
subjective reflection on the importance of the
President, ER White Club
cover of this issue of
collection involved both my personal growth through
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Dialectic Society
Encouraging intellectual debate
'The essay that won the Wigram Allen Essay Prize was described by one of the judges as "a well written piece, and an impressive and convincing discussion of a difficult and delicate subject"'. So said the Warden at the End-of-Year Dinner
Griffith (3 rd year Arts/Music), Arts Representative on the TCAC Committee. It was the view of the Dialectic Society Committee that such debates are not generally of a high standard. A further difficulty,
when announcing that this year's winner, for an essay on 'The
as foreseen by the Committee, was the lack of clear guidelines as
Administration of Justice in the Third Reich, 1939 —1945', was
to how such debates would be judged. Although the College was
James McComish (3rd year Arts/Law). Run by the
unsuccessful in opposing comedy debates this year,
Dialectic Society, the annual competition for the
the Committee is hopeful that its efforts will see a
Wigram Allen Essay Prize dates from 1883, and is
return to the original format.
named for Sir George Wigram Allen, a Speaker of
The Trinity team of Alex Cameron, Duncan
the New South Wales Parliament and father-in-law
Campbell-Avenell, Joshua Quinn-Watson, and the
of the first Warden, Dr Alexander Leeper.
writer showed its versatility by winning two comedic
The Dialectic Society this year undertook
debates throughout the Competition. The team then
a full review of the Society's Constitution and
progressed to the final and won the Intercollegiate
thoroughly researched the Society's history.
Debating Competition over Ridley College. Joshua
The College Archivist, Mrs Marian Turnbull,
Quinn-Watson, who was awarded best speaker in the
generously assisted and our thanks are recorded
final, was recently elected to the position of Dialectic
here, particularly for her efforts in organising a
Society Secretary for 2003.
display of Society memorabilia in the second
It has been the Committee's aim that the Society
semester.
re-establish itself as a facilitator of intellectual
A major responsibility of the Society is to select
debate by inviting prominent individuals to come
a team to represent Trinity in the Intercollegiate
to the College to give occasional lectures. We have
Debating Competition. This year, many won
been working with the Warden to ensure that that
that honour. They were: Simon Atkinson (1st year Arts/Science),
objective is fulfilled by the Society next year. The Committee of
Alexander Cameron (2"d year Medicine/Surgery), Duncan
2002 extends congratulations and best wishes to the Committee-
Campbell-Avenell (1" year Creative Arts), Lachlan Harrison-Smith
elect for 2003.
(1" year Arts), Oliver Hodson (1"t year Arts/Science), Joshua QuinnWatson (1" year Arts/Law), Richard Vaudrey (11t year Music),
Lachlan Edwards (3rd year Arts/Commerce)
Alexander Watkins (1st year Arts) and the writer.
Dialectic Society Secretary
The Intercollegiate Debating Competition was established in order to promote serious debate on matters of import. However,
Above: Well-chosen words from debaters (from left front) Lachlan
before the competition commenced this year, the Intercollegiate
Edwards (3'd year Arts/Commerce), Joshua Quinn-Watson (1"
Activities Council (ICAC) flagged its intention to institute 'comedy'
year Arts/Law), and Alex Cameron (2"d year Medicine/Surgery),
debates as part of the Competition. The Dialectic Society
together with Duncan Campbell-Avenell (1' year Creative Arts),
Committee voiced its opposition to such debates through Cressida
won the 2002 Intercollegiate Debating Competition for Trinity.
Harvard study helps Trinity students make the most of College A best-selling book based on the experiences of undergraduates at Harvard and other leading US colleges and universities has had considerable impact at Trinity and the University of Melbourne in 2002. The book is Making the Most of College: Students Speak Their Minds, by Professor Richard Light (Harvard University Press, 2001). The Warden met with Professor Light at Harvard in March and was very impressed with his messages for students everywhere. Based on interviews with hundreds of top US undergraduates, Making the Most of College focuses on what helps students fulfil their potential at university. It highlights the benefits of •
working together in study groups outside of the classroom,
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thinking hard about making the best use of time,
•
setting out to get to know academic staff, and having personal contact with them,
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seeking connections between what students are studying and their personal lives, values, and experience,
•
seeking out students of other national, cultural, and religious backgrounds, to learn from them, and
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taking part in volunteer community service activities (which around 65% of Harvard undergraduates do).
Professor Markwell drew this book to the attention of Trinity students and staff, and also the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne, Professor Alan Gilbert. Professor Gilbert and the President of the Academic Board, Professor Peter McPhee, decided to give a copy of it to every Dean and Head of Department in the University, hoping to stimulate fresh thinking about teaching and learning.
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With seniors leading the way and some great fresher recruits, the year was bound to be a good one for women's sport. First semester saw our softballers narrowly miss out on the premiership in a nail-biting final against Ormond. Next came the Multi-Sport Weekend of table tennis, squash and volleyball. These were two very busy days, with many participants running between games and finals for various sports. Somehow, amongst the chaos, all teams breezed through to the finals, with table tennis and squash
Standing out in their new red Trinity singlets-and for thei performance in winning the intercollegiate 4 x 400m relay were, from lefts Portia Morgan (2"d year Arts/Commerce); Diana Johnston "
(1" year Graphic Design), Alex Merry (3'd year Arts/Comm, bbie., andbu: ,:, .
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placing second and volleyball gaining a third. Athletics was
and three runners in the top ten helped us achieve a rewarding
also a weekend affair, with heats on a Friday night and finals on
third place. The Rowing Regatta was held on a beautiful day with,
the Sunday. The Trinity women certainly stood out, not only in
seemingly, the whole of Trinity there to cheer a brilliant win by the
terms of talent but also due to their racy, red, streamlined singlets
Women's First VIII
— a big improvement on the old, white, gaping ones. The new tops proved to be very aerodynamic with all our representatives
Second semester was a little less chaotic with only four sports. Multi-Sport Weekend 2 was again large with badminton and
reaching 'A' finals and subsequently taking out the shield on the
basketball players having a lot of fun. Our netballers had a break-
Sunday. So, too, did the men, making athletics an all-round Trinity
through this year, winning their first match in many years — a
victory.
definite victory for them! Finally, hockey saw the traditional,
Second term saw more sterling performances and a lot of fun.
nail-biting play-off between Ormond and Trinity. It was a thrilling
Our tennis and swimming teams both placed fourth, with some
game but, alas, despite a gutsy performance by our women
great individual efforts recorded. Footy season meant hard, serious
against the clear favourites, Trinity went down, two goals to one.
training...flying tackles, wonky kicks, and oversized jerseys
All in all, the year saw many fine individual and team
(thanks to the boys)...all of which led to a lot of laughs and a day
performances contributing to third place in the overall
to be remembered.
Holmes Shield.
The Trinity spirit really shone in the cross-country where, once again dressed in red singlets and fielding the most participants,
Alex Merry (3rd year Arts/Commerce)
our runners were highly visible. Great efforts by all our women
Women's Sports Representative is-
Standing, from left: Laura Fowler (1” year Arts/Commerce), Anna Saw (1" year Arts) (partially obscured), Alice Braden (7s° year Music), Brydie Flynn (1 5' year Arts/Science), Lahnee Clark (1''' year Arts (Media & Communications)), Elizabeth Lord (1" year Medicine Surgery), Sarah McLean (2"d year Arts/Science), Susannah McComish (1" yearArts/Commerce), Jane Fitzherbert (1' year Science), E Heathcote (1' year Agriculture/Commerce), Susannah Lempriere (2'd year Architecture), Miranda Skelley (1' year Arts), Tamsin De (1 `f year Veterinary Science), Angela Johnson (2"d year Mechatronics), Kate Bruce-Rosser (I ' year Arts (Media &Communications)/La r, Elisabeth Dewhirst (Pr year Medicine/Surgery), Andrea Berardino (USA exchange student, 3rd year Arts), Jamie (USA exc r student, 3'd year Arts), Xenia Hammon (1" year Arts (Media & Communications)). Kneeling: Alex Merry (3'd year Arts/Commerce), Caris Cadd (3'd year Law), Diana Dickinson (1" year Arts/Scien Louisa Payne (1' year Commerce/Prop Constr), Debbie Handbury (1" year Arts/Science), Cameron Butts (2"d ye Creative Arts), Melissa Kavals (2"d year Commerce/Law), Frances Derham (1" year Arts), Portia Morgan (2'd ye., Arts/Commerce), Sabriyah Denham (3rd year Arts/Commerce), Nicole Fazio (USA exchange student, 3'd year Arts. a rd , sfŸ ~- I ti':.
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Victory in the intercollegiate men's sport competition this year saw Trinity create the imposing record of having won the cup for four of the last five years. This year marked a slight change in the approach to men's sport at Trinity, whereby overall sporting success (as opposed to success in individual sports) was the priority. It must always be remembered that each sport is worth the same number of Cowan Cup points. As a result, there was an emphasis on the 'Trinity Men's Sport Team.' Success this year came in a number of areas. Premierships were won in the squash, golf, athletics, rowing Firsts, and rowing Seconds competitions (and we also won the traditional rugby 15s match against Ormond). Trinity was the runner-up in the basketball and volleyball. Perhaps most impressive were the significant improvements in sports that were not apparently so successful. The formation of the 'Trinity College Football Club' fostered success in both the Firsts and 'All Star' competitions. The All Stars won two matches this
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year, after having not won previously in my time at Trinity. The Firsts finished third and were unlucky not to make the final. Improvements in some sports were not always marked by match results but the enthusiasm and commitment shown in sports like soccer will no doubt pay dividends in the future. I attribute much of the success of the 'Trinity Men's Sport Team' this year to the captains. The leadership and organisation shown this year was the best that I have seen, and I hope future captains follow and improve upon this precedent. The banning of alcohol at all intercollegiate sporting events this year has fortunately not dampened the enthusiasm of players and spectators alike. The atmosphere has been fantastic and the celebrations even better. Trinity Men's Sport continues to be one of the best experiences that I, and many others, have ever had. Peter Burns (3rd year Arts/Law) Men's Sports Representative The Men's First VIII, who were victorious in the 2002 Intercollegiate Rowing Regatta, from nearest to camera: Julian Anderson (2"d year Commerce) (Cox), Tim Allen (1"t year Science) (Stroke), David Youl (2"d year Engineering/Commerce), Andrew Sypkens (6'h year Architecture), Mark Leslie (2"d year Arts), Chris Ellinger (2"d year Arts/Commerce), Peter Gaunt (2"d year Commerce/Information Systems), Tom Wilson (1" year Arts) and Mike Connors (1" year Arts/Science).
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'You are never lonely in College' Alumni of Trinity College Foundation Studies are discovering the benefits of becoming resident undergraduate students at Trinity. Rebecca Webster, Director of International Alumni, spoke to two students about their experiences... 'The College cares about your future' Ricky Kurniawan, who comes from Jakarta, Indonesia, has just completed his first year of Computer Science at the University of Melbourne and also his first year in residence at
Charlini Yogeswaran Thambaiya Charlini has just completed her second year as a resident student at Trinity and the second year of her Commerce/Law
Trinity. Ricky earned an average of 97% in his Trinity College
degree at the University of Melbourne. A member of the February
Foundation Studies course, placing him in the top band of his
2000 Foundation Studies class, Charlini has held one of the three
2001 Foundation Studies cohort and earning him an award for
Trinity College Foundation Studies Scholarships for high-achieving
Academic Excellence. Whilst in Foundation Studies, Ricky served
Foundation Studies alumni wishing to become resident students.
on the Foundation Studies Student Committee, the elected studentrepresentative body, and also the Yearbook Committee. These
Charlini chose to become a resident student at Trinity for a number of reasons, but mainly to meet Australian students. The
extra-curricular interests and outstanding academic results were
extensive tutorial system offered by Trinity was a particularly
instrumental in Ricky being awarded a Trinity College Foundation Studies Scholarship for Foundation Studies alumni coming into
appealing feature and one that Charlini has found to be of great assistance, especially during her first year when it helped
residence in College as undergraduates.
to smooth the transition from Foundation Studies to first year
The Trinity Foundation Studies Scholarship was a major determining factor for Ricky
university. The ease of College living, being on the University of Melbourne campus and not
in deciding to come into
having to cook were also
residence. Ricky was also keen
factors she considered.
to meet and form friendships
While the two years
with Australian students,
have not been without their
although this proved to be
challenges—she says it took
challenging in the early days
the first semester to adjust
of College life. The close
to her new environment-
proximity to the University of
Charlini enjoys the culture
Melbourne and the extensive
and traditions associated
tutorial system were other
with living in the longest-
factors which led him to choose
established College on
Trinity as his home away from
campus. She has also
home.
achieved her goal of meeting
Like all students living in
and forming friendships
residence for the first time,
with Australian students
Ricky faced challenges in the
and encourages other
early days and believes it took
international students to
the whole of first semester to
ensure they do this while
adjust to the 'Australian way of
Charlini Yogeswaran Thambaiya (left), from Malaysia, and Ricky
life'. Learning to live in close
Kurniawan, from Indonesia, both appreciate the support available for resident students at Trinity.
quarters with students from all
walks of life he also found challenging at first. Far outweighing the challenges of College life, however, were
studying in Australia. Charlini appreciates the
supportive atmosphere within the College, always having friends to talk to and activities
to participate in. With her home in Seremban, Malaysia, a long
the many advantages Ricky experienced throughout the year. The
way from Melbourne, she has found it comforting to be living in
strong friendships he has now made, the diversity of the student
College and has never been lonely or homesick.
population, and the different perspectives and points of view he has encountered in tutorials and general College living have been highlights for him. The Mentoring Scheme, Skills for Life sessions on topics such as time management and exam preparation, and the weekly tutorials, Ricky said, were 'invaluable' and he believes
'You must mix with other students, not just international students.'
these contributed to his outstanding academic success in first semester. Ricky earned His in all of his first-semester subjects and received an Award for Academic Excellence from the College. Ricky is now looking forward to his second year as a resident student in 2003. Once he has completed his Computer Science degree, he would like to tackle a postgraduate course in Medicine at the University of Melbourne.
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Opportunities, Friendships, Memor TRINITYToday profiles some of the College's senior diverse range of talents and interest Douglas Ellinger Born in Germany, Doug has lived on the Ivory Coast, the Bellarine Peninsula, in Rome, Holland, on a farm near Geelong and, currently, in Canberra. He also spent a GAP year in Germany, so that his four years at Trinity are actually the longest time he has spent in one place. Initially embarking on a combined degree in Science/Forest Science with a focus on Environmental Science, he has now changed to a straight Science course, majoring in Geology with a co-major in Environmental Science. He hopes to work for an established natural resources company or environmental protection agency or, ideally, as a consultant for the World Bank. Holder of an R A Must Scholarship, Doug enjoys hiking and has represented
Ingrid Horner has just completed the sixth and final year of a Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery degree at the University of Melbourne. Originally from Canberra and with a nonmedical background, she believes that her time in Melbourne, although occasionally daunting, has always been an exciting adventure. Awarded the Trinity Medical Scholarship, she has spent the last three years at Trinity, serving on the Chapel Committee in 2000 and 2001. 'The aspect of Trinity that I have
Trinity in football, swimming and squash, as well as captaining both rugby and rowing. He has also played rugby for Melbourne University. The inaugural President of
appreciated most has been the sense of community which is able to bring together such a diverse range of people - even us "oldies". From Juttoddie, to Sunday Soirèes, to Monday Chapel - there has always been the notion that anyone can take part,' says Ingrid, who has held a Melbourne National Scholarship, won prizes in Biology, Physiology, Dermatology, and Otolaryngology, and was awarded a Melbourne Abroad Scholarship for 2002.
Trinity Recreational Alpine Club (TRAC), Doug has served as Treasurer for both the Intercollegiate Sports Council (ICSC) and the Trinity College Associated Clubs
'One of the highlights of my course was my study at The Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, USA, as well as visiting the amazing spectacle of Niagara Falls in winter! I will also cherish the
(TCAC). He sums up his Trinity experience in three words: 'friendships, opportunity and memories'.
times I have spent on placements to country and regional areas including Warrnambool, Swan Hill, Ballarat and Geelong. There is no better way to find out what it is to be Australian than to work alongside other Australians in a multitude of different settings.' Ingrid is excited at the prospect of working as a doctor at the Canberra Hospital next year,
Alexander Forbes-Harper Winning a Melbourne National Scholarship after completing high school in Darwin enabled Alex to attend the University of Melbourne and commence a combined Science/Law degree. With a family that travels frequently and has lived in Australia, Papua New Guinea, Turkey and now Thailand, Alex believes Trinity has provided him with the academic and social framework necessary to get the most out of his university career. Over the last four years, he has participated in a variety of clubs, including the Dialectic, Film and Informal Dining Societies, and performed in several College musicals and plays. Alex says: 'My decision to attend university in Melbourne and reside at Trinity College has perhaps been the best choice of my life.'
with a possible placement to Albury, and is hoping she may also get a chance to play her flute with the Australian Doctors' Orchestra who perform each year to raise money for charities.
Rochelle Howie is currently in her fourth year of a five-year Engineering (Electrical)/Commerce course at the University of Melbourne. A resident student at Trinity for three years, she has been President of the Trinity College Music Theatre Society, Assistant Musical Director of the Musical, and Treasurer of Beer Budlay. Not surprisingly, she has 'thoroughly enjoyed' life at Trinity. In 2001, Rochelle won the Mary Kingsmill Baxter Prize for Engineering and a Bruce Munro Scholarship. She also holds an Engineering Faculty Scholarship and was included on the Deans' honours list for Commerce. Rochelle served for two years as a student representative on the College Council.
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Anna Kaufman A change in the course requirements for her majors of Geology and Environmental Science has resulted in Anna being a fourth-year BSc student who will be undertaking Honours in Geology next year. This is also her fourth year at Trinity and, although she lives in Melbourne, she 'would love to come back for another!' 'I think Trinity is the place to learn anything you want, or need, to know about yourself and other people. What I love most about Trinity is its community spirit, its inclusive nature and how supportive everyone is of each other in every kind of pursuit possible.' She has been involved in several Trinity plays, a member of the athletics and netball teams, a Fire Warden, a Bursary Co-ordinator, TCAC Treasurer, and on the Trinity College Foundation Executive Committee. She is also the recipient of an RA Must Scholarship. Anna would like to go into exploration geology and work for a mining company, preferably overseas.
Amelia Lavery Now in her fourth year at both Trinity and the University of Melbourne, Amelia last year completed her Bachelor of Science, majoring in Psychology, and is currently studying for her Graduate Diploma in Management Studies through the Economics and Commerce Faculty. Aspiring to a career in Commerce, she is looking forward to commencing as a Graduate Trainee with ANZ Banking Group in 2003. Prior to starting university, Amelia spent two years pursuing ballet full-time. As this dedication to her art left her somewhat isolated from her friends, she thought living in Trinity would provide a great opportunity to meet more of her peers — a move that has more than matched her hopes. 'While at Trinity I have been a Committee Member of the Trinity College Drama Club, a Fire Warden, and a Sexual Harassment Advisor. I also have tried out for the Women's Tennis Team three times, never being successful but enjoying the experience just the same!' she says. 'I believe Trinity provides an invaluable opportunity not only to make many life-long friends but to learn more about oneself by interacting with others. Such an experience would not be possible living at home or even with friends in a flat. Trinity and university are so intertwined for me cannot imagine one without the other. The academic and social balance provides a unique springboard for residents as they develop during their time at Trinity and the many years beyond.'
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Sidney Levy is a fifth-year medical student currently studying at the Royal Melbourne Hospital Clinical School. Originally from Melbourne, he has returned to Trinity after completing a Bachelor of Medical Science in France at the University of Bordeaux II. Supervised by Melbourne plastic surgeon Professor G. Ian Taylor, and with support from the Queen's Trust for Young Australians and the University of Melbourne, this saw him researching the microvascular anatomy of the nerves of the upper limb. Currently holding the Ian McKenzie Medical Scholarship, Sidney tutors secondyear Trinity medical students in Neuroscience and Endocrinology. During four years at Trinity, his interests have included the Trinity College Musical, music, tennis and debating. He has been President of the Music Society and represented the College on the Intercollegiate Activities Council. Beyond Trinity, he has been the Academic Representative of the Royal Melbourne Hospital Students' Club and the Secretary of the Melbourne University Amnesty International Club. His career aspirations include plastic and
'I believe that the Trinity community has nurtured my ideas and dreams and allowed me the opportunity to learn how to lead, to serve and eventually to make a difference.'
reconstructive surgery and international health. Sidney has had a wonderful time at Trinity and made lifelong friends along the way.
Andrew Meagher was born and raised in Melbourne but spent a year studying at Rugby School in England during his final years of schooling. Now in his fourth year of university, he holds a Bachelor of Arts and is completing Honours in History. A keen debater for both Trinity and the University of Melbourne, he has served as Secretary of the Dialectic Society and performed in two successive College musicals. He has greatly enjoyed playing sport for Trinity as a member of the squash team, the First XVIII football team, and as captain of the First XI hockey team. Winner of a Trinity best and fairest award for rugby, he has also captained the Melbourne University Under 21 Rugby Team and competed in rugby at the Australian University Games. In his third year in College he was Senior Student and, this year, has been a Residential Advisor. For the past two years he has been involved with the National Student Youth Leadership body, attending forums and seminars in Canberra and Sydney, and is currently training to be an officer in the Army Reserve with Melbourne University Regiment. At Trinity, Andrew has held the RA Must and C Hebden Scholarships. He has also been awarded the Gyles Turner Prize for the student gaining the highest marks in Australian History at the University of Melbourne. This year, a Melbourne University Study Abroad Scholarship enabled Andrew to study for part of the year in the United States.
rofiles of some of the Colle e's senior resident s u:ents Ben Namdarian Currently completing his fifth year of medicine at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, Ben has been singing the praises of Trinity College since 1998 — as a member of the Choir and recipient of the NHM Forsyth Scholarship and, more recently, the Peter Dennison Scholarship. Although his home is in Melbourne, Ben recognises that Trinity has had a great influence on his life: 'In my five years as a student I have had many opportunities and experiences which would not otherwise have been available to me. I have made many lasting friendships with a diverse range of people from various faculties and many countries. I enjoy living in this community.' He has twice toured the UK with the Choir, captained the soccer First XI and co-captained the Second XVIII, and played major roles in College plays and musicals. In 2002 he has been President of the Cripps Middle Common Room. Further afield, he has been a member of the University of Melbourne Debating Team, is a tutor for the National Boys' Choir and has played in two premiership indoor soccer teams. Ben's medical interests lie in the fields of ophthalmology and general surgery and their application in the Third World setting. Awarded a Melbourne Abroad Scholarship for 2002-2003, he intends travelling to East Timor over the summer of 2002 – 2003 to work in the Bairo Pite Clinic in Dili. Although he moved to Australia over thirty years ago, Ben's father is Persian and of Zoroastrian faith so Ben hopes one-day to visit Iran to acquaint himself with his heritage.
Emma Solly A fourth-year Arts student, Emma lives on a farm near Rainbow. Her father, Peter, was also a resident student at Trinity (1970 – 1973), as is her younger sister, Lauren. Although undertaking a double major in Linguistics and a Diploma in Modern Languages (German), Emma has brought considerable interest and work experience in rural fire-fighting to her position as Trinity's Chief Fire Warden. She has worked as an assistant in the Leeper Library and as a waitress at High Table and co-ordinated the weekend duty-officers. She has enjoyed 'the excitement of competing in the College spirit' in swimming, basketball and netball and is particularly proud of having rowed for Trinity as a member of the Women's First VIII. An accomplished pianist, Emma has often performed in College soirèes and hopes soon to achieve her AMusA. A member of the Chapel Committee for four years, she regularly attends College Eucharist on Monday nights and is glad that this, along with the Chaplaincy and other support structures at Trinity, has been available to her. In 2002, she received a Trinity College Award for Academic Excellence but her career aspirations are uncertain: teaching, fire operations, newsreading or small business all appeal. Emma reflects: 'The friends I've made, the opportunities I've had and my experiences at Trinity have all developed me as a person and contributed positively to my life. I wouldn't be the person I am today if I hadn't been to Trinity.'
Norman Repacholi After spending 90 minutes travelling to and from high school each day, fourth-year Commerce student, Norman Repacholi, found it was 'magnificent to live a stone's throw away from any lecture theatre at University.' He recalls: 'My transition from the flood-irrigated paddocks of Tongala to the Bulpadock of Trinity was shaky at first but, aided by friendly fellow students, my anxieties were soon "put out to pasture"'. During his four years at Trinity, Norman has held positions as Student IT Manager, Tech Committee President, Bulpadok Editor, College photographer and Residential Advisor and believes that this experience has helped him secure graduate employment with the Commonwealth Bank. The holder of a Melbourne Equity Scholarship, Trinity also awarded him the Andrew Sprague Bursary and RA Must Scholarship. 'Living at Trinity College has presented opportunities to expand my horizons beyond the confines of an undergraduate degree and given me memories, experiences and friendships I will never forget.' Norman says.
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RINITYToday spoke to some of those who are extending their horizons in this wa Paula Fong (2'd year Arts/Science) has a record of participation at national and international forums
Early in 2002, Josh Quinn-Watson (1st year Arts/ Law) travelled to Singapore to compete as a member
that clearly substantiates her selection as the 2002
of the Australian Schools' Team in the World Schools'
Darwin Young Citizen of the Year. In 2001, she was a
Debating Championships. Eventually finishing second
Member of the Australian National Youth Roundtable,
behind Ireland in a closely contested grand final, the
Youth Health and Living Team and one of only thirty
Australian team recorded wins over Scotland, Canada,
Australian delegates to attend the Commonwealth
Estonia, Israel, England, Indonesia, and The Phillipines during this tournament.
Youth Forum on the Gold Coast. This was the official sister youth forum to CHOGM and involved
(3rd year Arts/Commerce), Alex Cameron (2nd year
five Australian representatives chosen to attend
year Creative Arts) to win the Intercollegiate Debating
the 2000 Community Aid Abroad International
for Trinity. He was also a member of the team that won the Accenture
Youth Parliament. Held
Medicine/Surgery) and Duncan Campbell-Avenell (1st
in Sydney, this event
Cup, the University
attracted 250 participants
of Melbourne's
from 161 countries. She
internal competition,
captained the Northern
and together with
Territory Senior Team at
two other first-year
the National Schools'
students recorded
Debating Championships
an impressive
in both 1999 and 2000
performance in
and won the Lions'
the Australasian
Youth of the Year Public 2002 Darwin Young
Speaking Award at the state level. She has been a member of the Darwin
Citizen of the Year,
City Council Youth Advisory Committee, the NT
Paula Fong, lunching
Ethnic Communities' Council's Sub-Advisory
with Australia's Foreign
Committee and the Chief Minister's Roundtable of
Minister, Alexander
Young Territorians.
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Intervarsity tournament. Josh Quinn-Watson argues his case during the grand final of the World Schools' Debating Championships in Singapore.
Katie Mendra (4th year Medicine/Surgery), writes: 'I recently completed a year of research for my
Downer, in Parliament House, Canberra, during
This year, Josh teamed with Lachlan Edwards
132 delegates from 52 of the 54 Commonwealth Nations. A year earlier, Paula was among the twenty-
Matt Tilleard (2"d year Science/Law) spent a
Medicine degree at the St Jude Children's Research
the National Youth
month of the 2001 summer vacation with the
Roundtable, September
United Nations Humans Rights Unit in Dili, East
2001
Timor, where he worked within the Commission for
Doherty at Trinity College, and the experience
Reception, Truth and Reconciliation. The first of its
was spectacular. I was based in a cutting-edge
kind in the Asia-Pacific region, the Commission's role
developmental neurobiology laboratory, which had
is to establish the truth about human rights violations
strong links with the hospital's brain tumour program.
committed in the period between 1974 and 1999,
This meant I participated in the tumour clinics,
facilitate community reconciliation, and submit a
saw paediatric neurosurgery, and was introduced
report and recommendations to the government.
to excellent scientific research. Furthermore, it was
Matt's role included acting as a personal assistant to
a great adventure! I lived across the road from the
the Executive Director, assisting in the training of East
Mississippi River in a city famous for Elvis, barbeque
Timorese staff, and other miscellaneous tasks. Closer
ribs and "the blues" — an odd but amazing part of the world.'
to home, Matt has been elected as Treasurer of the Intercollegiate Activities Council for 2003.
Right: Matt Tilleard at work in Dili Far Right: Katie Mendra (right) with colleagues in the laboratory in Memphis
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David Smerdon (right) competing in the Asia Under 20 Chess Championships in Sri Lanka where he finished in 7th place.
Angela Johnson (2nd year Mechatronics) has been involved in Surf Lifesaving since joining the Torquay club in 1989 as a 'Nipper' (an 8 to 14 year-old David Smerdon (1st year Commerce/Science) is
Junior Lifesaver). Winning National titles in several
the current Victorian Chess Champion and has
events between 1996 and 1999, she captained both
already represented Australia in six world age
the Under 14 and Under 16 Victorian teams, also
championships. At the most recent of these, in 2000, he was placed equal 4th in the World Under 16 Chess
'Brownlow' for Nippers — in 1997. More recently,
Championships. In the previous year, he achieved
she has been a member of the five person Under 19
being named 'Nipper of the Year' — described as the
the title of International Chess Master (the level
Rescue and Resuscitation team that won successive
before Grand Master) and won the Australian Junior
Australian Championships in 2001 and 2002, and is
Championship. Internationally, he has also captained
the current holder of the Under 19 Women's Beach
his school chess team to a second placing in the 2000
Flag Championship of Victoria. She is also a Bronze
World Schools' Chess Championships in New York and
Medallion Award instructor
this year travelled to Sri Lanka where he finished 7th
and has been a Surf Safety
in the Asia Under 20 Championships. He is currently
instructor, teaching primary
the top-ranked Under 20 player in Australia (and 8th
school students about
overall) and will be representing Australia in the World
surf lifesaving and beach
Under 20 Chess Championships to be held in India in
safety. Those who are
December 2002.
intending to head for the
Apart from his preparation for India, David is
surf this summer should
trying to 'give back' to chess by tutoring juniors as
try swimming between
well as trying to raise the game's profile at Trinity. He
the flags at Torquay, where
recently ran the Trinity Chess Championships — won
2003 will be Angela's
by Mike Connors (1st year Arts/Science) — which
second season as Beach
David describes as 'a big success, with a good range of
Team Captain.
Angela Johnson (right) as a member of the Under 19
players and plenty of spectators.'
Rescue and Resuscitation A second placing overall in the 2001 Men's
As the recipient of a John Flynn Scholarship,
team that has won
National Gymnastics Championships earned Nick
Elisabeth Dewhirst (1st year Medicine/Surgery) will be
back-to-back Australian
Mackenzie (1st year Engineering/Science) a place in
undertaking a two-week work experience placement
Championships.
the Australian Men's Gymnastics team that was invited
in a rural or remote community annually for the next
to compete in the American Region 1 Championships
four years. Her first placement will be in Quirindi,
in Honolulu at Easter this year. In that competition,
near Tamworth, NSW, where she will be mentored by
he was placed fourth overall and equal first on the
a local general practitioner.
high-bar. At this year's Nationals held in Brisbane in September, he again came second in the individual
'I will be spending time in a hospital as well as attending home visits, visiting nearby towns with
competition, taking silver on parallel-bars, and
fewer medical facilities and really working side by
bronze on both the pommel horse and the floor. This
side with the local doctor and getting involved with
performance contributed to the Victorian team winning
the community', explains Elisabeth, who comes from
gold in the teams event and again qualified Nick for
Brisbane and whose interest in rural health issues
the Australian team to compete in the 'Jurassic Classic'
helped gain her the scholarship.
in Canada in 2003. However, Nick has decided to retire from competition and 'go out on a good note'
This scheme is funded by the federal government and aims to help medical students develop a better
but intends to continue his involvement in gymnastics
understanding of the challenges and rewards
by undertaking a judging course.
associated with rural medical practice and nonmetropolitan health care services. Students who have achieved their Gold Duke of Edinburgh Award in 2002: Elisabeth Dewhirst (1st year Medicine/Surgery), Catherine Grainger (1st year Physiotherapy) and Debbie Handbury (1st year Arts/Science).
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Scholarships in 2002 The College congratulates the following students who have been awarded Scholarships in 2002 and recognises, with gratitude, the individuals who have supported Trinity College by establishing scholarships. Charles Abbott Scholarship
The Cybec Scholarship
C Hebden Scholarship
Established in 1987 for an outstanding scholar and sports person with leadership qualities awarded to David Brice (3rd year Science/ Information Systems)
Established in 1995 by Roger and Sally Riordan for a student who demonstrates academic merit, financial need and an interest in technology awarded to Simon Griffiths (2nd year Engineering/Science)
Established in 1918 by Elizabeth Hebden awarded to Simon Coronel (4th year Arts/ Engineering), John Dethridge (5th year Science), Alexander Ingram (2nd year Arts/Commerce), James McComish (3rd year Arts/Law)
Peter Dennison Choral Scholarship
The A J Herd Scholarship
Established in 2002 by Mr Robert Cripps AM to honour the memory of Professor Peter Dennison, Ormond Professor of Music at the University of Melbourne, a contributor to Musica Britannica, Chair of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Board of Management and Trinity's first officiallyappointed Director of Music, 1976 — 1985 awarded to Benjamin Namdarian (5th year Medicine/Surgery)
Established in 1996 by Stuart Stonemant in memory of Tony Herd for a student who will contribute to choral music and would not otherwise be able to be a resident member of the College awarded to Samuel McMahon (2nd year Arts/Law)
Randal and Louisa Alcock Scholarship Established in 1927 awarded to Mailie Ross (2nd year Arts/Science)
Mary Armytage Scholarship Established by Mary Armytage in 1883 not awarded in 2002
Berthon Scholarship Established in 1886 by Charlotte Moriarty awarded to Simon Coronel (4th year Arts/ Engineering), Eve Temple-Smith (3rd year Science/ Law), Susan Williams (2nd year Biomedical Science)
The Alfred Bird Theological Studentship Established by Mrs Ellie Bird, in memory of her husband, Alfred Bird awarded to Dawn Treloar (3rd year Bachelor of Theology and 3rd year Ordinand)
Trinity College Foundation Entrance Scholarships Established in 1996 by Martin Armstrong, Aurel Dessewffy, Philip Roff, Bill Wilson and Richard Sutcliffe for an outstanding first year student who would not otherwise be able to enter the College awarded to Christopher Newman (1st year Arts/ Commerce), James Stegeman (1st year Medicine/ Surgery)
Reginald Blakemore Scholarship For a good all-round student studying any discipline awarded to Maille Ross (2nd year Arts/Science)
The Evan Burge Entrance Scholarship Established in 1995 by Bill Cowan, Robert Cripps, Davina Hanson, Tom Quirk and David Wells for an outstanding first year student who would not otherwise be able to enter the College awarded to Jennifer Hutchinson (1st year Science)
The Champion de Crespigny Scholarship Established in 2000 by Robert Champion de Crespigny, AC, in honour of the many members of his family who have been students of the College. The scholarship is intended to encourage indigenous students to study at the University of Melbourne as resident members of Trinity College and to explore the opportunities for leadership in their chosen field and eventually, to enter into decision-making roles in their chosen field awarded to Lisa-Marie Brophy (2nd year Veterinary Science)
N H M Forsyth Choral Scholarship Established in 1997 by Jannie Brown in memory of Neil Forsyth awarded to Jacqueline Porter (2nd year Arts/Music)
Clarke Scholarship Established in 1880 by Sir William Clarke Bt awarded to Alexander Ingram (2nd year Arts/ Commerce), Lucy Ralston (2nd year Medicine/ Surgery)
The Robert W H Cripps Scholarship Established in 1994 for a student from Caulfield Grammar School, Korowa Anglican Girls' School or elsewhere who will contribute to the music program of the College awarded to Megan Warner (Theology student and Resident Tutor in Law)
The Nancy Curry Choral Scholarship Established in 2001 by the Revd Dr Norman 'r Curry AM in memory of his wife, for a talented student of any discipline who will make a valuable contribution to the choral music program awarded to Peter Badger (4th year Architecture), Peter Hawkins (2nd year Engineering/Science)
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Established in 1999 awarded to Ingrid Horner (6th year Medicine/Surgery)
Arthur Hills Scholarship Established in 1987 following the death of Arthur Hills who was College Porter from 1973 to 1987 awarded to Simon Griffiths (2nd year Engineering/Science)
Ken Horn Choral Scholarship Established in 2002 in memory of Ken Horn, former Mollison Librarian of the College, long time supporter of the Choir, and mentor of choral scholars awarded to James McComish (3rd year Arts/Law)
Maurice Hurry Law Scholarship N H M Forsyth Assistant Directorship of Music Scholarship Established in 2001 for a senior choral scholar who can make an outstanding contribution to Trinity's choral music program through both performance and administrative assistance to the Director awarded to Philip Nicholls (4th year Music)
Simon Fraser Scholarship For an advanced student of Engineering awarded to David Brice (3rd year Science/ Information Systems)
Fulford Research Scholarship For medical research awarded to Katie Mendra (4th year Medicine/ Surgery)
Miltiades and Alkestis Chryssavgis Scholarship Established in 1997 preferably for a student studying in the areas of Arts, Humanities, Theology or Music awarded to Stuart Minson (3rd year Arts)
The Trinity Medical Scholarship
The James Grant Entrance Scholarship Established for an outstanding first year student, preferably who is the first in the family to experience a university education and whose financial circumstances may not otherwise allow access to a college experience awarded to Andrew Matthews (1st year Arts/Engineering)
for a student of law awarded to Tamara Vu (2nd year Creative Arts/Law)
The David Jackson Scholarships Established in 1999 and 2001 by David Jackson AM, DSC, an old boy of the Anglican Church Grammar School, Brisbane, and an undergraduate at Trinity College, 1932-1937. These two scholarships are to be awarded to alumni (undergraduate or postgraduate) of Anglican Church Grammar School (Churchie), Brisbane awarded to Kieran Rowe (3rd year Medicine/Surgery) . The second scholarship is to be awarded for the first time in 2003
The F F Knight Scholarship for a student of Law or Accounting awarded to Kenneth Shaw (2nd year Computer Science/Law)
Robert B Lewis Scholarship Established in 1989 awarded to Nitin Rughoonauth (2nd year Science)
The Ian McKenzie Medical Scholarship R Grice Scholarship Established in1879 by Sir John Grice awarded to Susan Williams (2nd year Biomedical Science)
Peter Godfrey Choral Scholarship Established in 2002 by Mr Robert Cripps AM in appreciation of the contribution made by Professor Peter Godfrey as Director of Music at Trinity, 1990-1991 awarded to Richard Vaudrey (1st year Music)
The Leith Hancock Scholarship Established in 1992 for a student outside Melbourne who is perhaps the first in the family to experience a university education and whose financial circumstances may not otherwise allow access to a college experience awarded to James Stegeman (1st year Medicine/Surgery)
Established in 2001 honouring the life and work of Ian McKenzie, a much-loved physician and long-term medical tutor at Trinity. The scholarship supports the education of talented young men and women who are likely to contribute to the wider Australian community through medical practice, research or teaching awarded to Sidney Levy (5th year Medicine/Surgery)
A G Miller Scholarship Established by Mary Miller for a student enrolled to study for Bachelor of Music awarded to Cressida Griffith (3rd year Arts/Music)
Bruce Munro Scholarship
The Amy Smith Scholarship Fund
Established in 1984 by Bruce Munro for a student in 3rd year or above who demonstrates a combination of personal qualities, academic merit and financial need awarded to Samuel Cook (3rd year Engineering/ Science), Rochelle Howie (4th year Engineering/ Commerce), Clare Kentmann (3rd year Arts/ Commerce), Katie Mendra (4th year Medicine/ Surgery), Christopher Thomas (3rd year Science/ Law), Mary Wallis (3rd year Science)
Established in 1985 by Clive Smith for a student who would not be able to continue as a resident of the College without financial assistance awarded to Marissa Daniels (2nd year Medicine/Surgery)
Bruce Munro Organ Scholarship Established in 1989 by Bruce Munro for a student of the organ who will contribute to the musical life of the College awarded to Jonathan Bradley MA
The R A Must Scholarships For students in their 4m or later year at University awarded to Peter Badger (4th year Architecture), Julian Chan (4th year Engineering/Science), Simon Coronel (4th year Arts/Engineering), Douglas Ellinger (4th year Science/Forest Science), Alexander Forbes-Harper (4th year Science/Law), Rochelle Howie (4th year Engineering/Commerce), Anna Kaufman (4th year Science), Amelia Lavery (5th year Science), Andrew Meagher (4th year Arts), Katie Mendra (4th year Medicine/Surgery), Adnan Nagrial (4th year Medicine/Surgery), Norman Repacholi (4th year Commerce), Georgina Smibert (4th year Commerce/Information Systems), Emma Solly (4th year Arts), Andrew Sypkens (6th year Architecture), Rhys Thomas (4th year Science), Edward Wu (5th year Dental Science)
Established in 2000 by Roger Riordan, AM. The Scholarship is named in honour of Oodgeroo of the tribe Noonuccal (1920-1993). It is awarded to a student of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent, who is recognised as such by their community, who is academically strong, wishes to study or is studying at the University of Melbourne, and can make a worthwhile contribution to Trinity College awarded to Sana Nakata (2nd year Arts/Law)
The Perry Scholarship awarded to Claire Henderson (2nd year Arts (Media & Communications)), Mailie Ross (2nd year Arts/Science)
Established in 1989 by Susan Stribling for a student who shows outstanding ability in photography and an interest in College history, archives and records awarded to Claire S Stewart (3rd year Medicine/Surgery)
The R F Stuart-Burnett Scholarship for students of Veterinary Science awarded to Dylan Barber (2nd year Veterinary Science), Tamsin DewĂŠ (1st year Veterinary Science)
Student of the Year 2002 Andrew Sypkens (6th year Architecture), Eve Temple-Smith (3rd year Science/Law)
Outstanding Contributions to the College Belinda Bowman (2nd year Arts), Douglas Ellinger (4th year Science/Forest Science), Simon Griffiths (2nd year Engineering/Science)
Outstanding Contribution to the Arts Michael Pottenger (4th year Arts/Commerce)
Sportsman of the Year for students of Greek or Latin awarded to Samuel McMahon (2nd year Arts/ Law)
Sportswoman of the Year
The A C Thompson Scholarship
Awards for Academic Excellence
Established by Eleanor Thompson for a student in second or later years, studying electrical engineering awarded to Peter Hawkins (2nd year Engineering/Science)
Presented by the Deputy Chancellor of the University of Melbourne, Dr Norman Curry AM, on 5 September 2002 to
Trinity College Entrance Scholarship awarded to Lydia Wong (1st year Arts/Law)
For outstanding graduates of Trinity College Foundation Studies coming into residence at Trinity College to undertake a degree at the University of Melbourne awarded to Ricky Kurniawan (1st year Computer Science/Mechatronics)
Trinity College Senior Scholarships awarded to John Dethridge (5th year Science), Darius Isaac (5th year Commerce / Science), Michael Pottenger (4th year Arts/Commerce)
Trinity College Senior Scholarships for Community Service awarded to Meg Mulcahy (4th year Science)
Established in 1997 for an outstanding scholar of Law who would not otherwise be able to benefit from all that Trinity offers not awarded in 2002
The A M White Scholarship
(1st year Medicine/Surgery)
Agnes Robertson Choral Scholarship
John Wion Music Scholarship
Established in 1999 awarded to Annabel Reid (5th year Arts/Science)
Given by an anonymous donor awarded to Huw Hallam (2nd year Arts/Music)
Helen Macpherson Smith Trust Scholarship
The Nerida Wylie Scholarship
Established in 1985 by the Helen M Schutt Trust for students with outstanding academic and leadership potential who could not otherwise enter the College awarded to Marissa Daniels (2nd year Medicine/Surgery)
Established in 2001 by Mr John Wylie in memory of his mother. For an outstanding student in any discipline whose education will benefit significantly from this scholarship to be awarded for the first time in 2003
The Sydney Wynne Scholarship
Established in 1990 awarded to Suzanne Shakespeare (6th year Arts/Music)
Established 1998 Rochelle Howie (4th year Engineering/Commerce)
Julian Anderson (2nd year Commerce)
Established in 1918 by Anna Maria White for a student in Arts or Law or Medicine or Science awarded to Berwyck Poad (2nd year Science)
Helen Macpherson Smith Trust Choral Scholarship
Mary Kingsmill Baxter Prize for Engineering
J H Sutton Scholarship
The David Wells Law Scholarship S A F Pond Scholarships awarded to Kate Austin (1st year Arts/Law), Duncan Campbell-Avenell (1st year Creative Arts), Lahnee Clark (1st year Arts (Media & Communications)), Alexander Johnson (1st year Arts (Media & Communications)), Victoria Ling (1st year Medicine/Surgery), Joshua QuinnWatson (1st year Arts/Law), James Stegeman
Peter Hawkins (2nd year Engineering/Science)
The Andrew Sprague Bursary
Trinity International Scholarship Oodgeroo Scholarship
Trinity College Medal for Outstanding Achievement
Given on the basis of all-round ability to a student in any discipline to assist and encourage their academic studies and their other university activities awarded to Berwyck Poad (2nd year Science)
Laura Fowler (1st year Arts/Commerce)
Charlotte Beeny (non-resident student, 2nd year Arts/Law), David Brice (3rd year Science/ Information Systems), Alexander Cameron (2nd year Medicine/Surgery), Simon Corone) (4th year Arts/Engineering), Marissa Daniels (2nd year Medicine/Surgery), Frances Dunn (2nd year Arts/Law), Paula Fong (2nd year Arts/Science), Simon Griffiths (2nd year Engineering/Science), Huw Hallam (2nd year Arts/Music), Lachlan Harrison-Smith (1st year Arts), Peter Hawkins (2nd year Engineering/Science), Richard Hewett (non-resident student, 1st year Arts), Fern Ho (4th year Science/Engineering) (in absentia), Sam Huang (2nd year Dental Science), Jessica Huntington (3rd year Arts), Alexander Ingram (2nd year Arts/Commerce), Ashley Kay (2nd year Science), Ricky Kurniawan (1st year Computer Science/Mechatronics), Gordon Little (2nd year Arts/Commerce), Nicholas MacKenzie (1st year Engineering/Science), James McComish (3rd year Arts/Law), Sam McMahon (2nd year Arts/Law), Adrian Minson (1st year Arts/Law), Chris Moule (2nd year Dental Science), Meg Mulcahy (4th year Science), Belinda Parker (1st year Arts/Law), Berwyck Poad (2nd year Science), Thomas Poole (3rd year Science), Jacqueline Porter (2nd year Arts/Music), Mike Pottenger (4th year Arts/Commerce), Gareema Prasad (1st year Dental Science), Josh Quinn-Watson (1st year Arts/Law), Lucy Ralston (2nd year Medicine/ Surgery), Natalie Robertson (1st year Veterinary Science), Mailie Ross (2nd year Arts/Science), Thomas Rowland (1st year Engineering/Science), Ken Shaw (2nd year Computer Science/Law), Emma Solly (4th year Arts), Andrew Sypkens (6th year Architecture), Eve Temple-Smith (3rd year Science/Law), Chris Thomas (3rd year Science/ Law), Susan Williams (2nd year Biomedical Science), Poh Ping Yeoh (1st year Commerce/ Science)
2001 Melbourne National Scholarships were awarded to the following first year students at Trinity College: Nicholas Mackenzie (1st year Engineering/ Science), Belinda Parker (1st year Arts/Law), Joshua Quinn-Watson (1st year Arts/Law), David Smerdon (1st year Commerce/Science), Lydia Wong (1st year Arts/Law)
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Taking the opportunity to Gazette
reconnect
Over 1000 members of the College caught up with friends and news of the College at events in Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra this year. Don't feel you have missed out if you were unable to attend this year. More events are planned in Melbourne, interstate, the UK and in Asia in 2003.
,ill Cowan, John. Pettit and Henry Edge
James Merralls, Professor Robin Sha he Warden Professor Donald Mark and Aurel Dessewff
ns concentrated on reconnecting member from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s and were held in the Junior Common Room. Many people took the opportunity to take a tour, offered by student volunteers, of their favourite haunts and some new developments and refurbishments. The College Bar located in the JCR, now in its second year of operation, was generally applauded by old members and provided a great place for the reunions. Further photographs of the reunions are on the website. Follow the links fr y www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au .;
Michael Munckton, Liz Kelly, John Kelly, and the Dean Dr Stewart Gill
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Development Associate Toni Rob with Robert and Robyn Coffe
Warwick Ross, Renn Wortley, Ross Anderson and Margot Ross
David Moodie, Sharon and Peter Batt
Alexandra and Fred Grimwade wit Alan Patterson"-, Director of Trinit College Foundation Studies
Staying in touch with Trinity Members can now update their contact details and personal news in a variety of ways Online updates can be completed at www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au/development.index.shtml and while you are there you can register for the searchable alumni directory— its . ;: good way to search for friends you have lost touch with Otherwise, please contact the staff in the Development Office, phone +61 3 9348 7116 and fax +61 3 9348 7139. If you know of people who don't receive TRINITYToda , it is •robabl because we don't have a current address. Please encourage them to update their details.
Sophie Griffiths, James Ramsden and Mandie Griffiths
Margaret Kirby with Alumni Officer Bishop James Grant
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Trinity memsers iving in Sydney too t e opportunity to gat er for a drinks party at the home of generous hosts Warwick and Margot Ross and their children, Madeleine, Christina and William (and Molly the toy poodle) in Bellevue Hill. And what a marvellous evening it was, assisted by a warm night, a bracket of music by the Choir, an update on Trinity from the Warden, and sights of the harbour! Many members took the opportunity the following clay to bring friends and famil to a recital b the Choir at St James' Church, King Street.
Diana Hill with John Falkingham.
amie Adamson, Nick Freeman, Rebecca damson, and Richard Malcolmson
T eir Excel encies t e Governor-General and Mrs Hollingworth were our hosts for the Canberra reunion in the wonderful drawing room of Yarralumla, overlooking the Yarralumla kangaroos grazing peacefully, on sweeping parkland gardens. Guests were treated to music by the Choir and enjoyed an opportunity to meet the Warden.
Director of Music, Michael Leighton Jones, with Fellow of Trinity College, Michael Thwaites.
Take a trip down memory lane Photographic archives from the 1960s to the early 1990s have made a wonderful record of life at Trinity over the years. The archive can be accessed on the College website. Trinity's part-time archivist Mrs Marion Turnbull has coordinated the task of bringing together the considerable photographic material from each era and Development Office and IT staff have developed the slide shows for each era. www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au/development/gallery.shtml Please take a look and let us know what you think.
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In addition to the items below, a number of Trinity College alumni were included in the 2002 Australia Day and Queen's Birthday Honours Lists and are listed separately.
Neale Molloy OBE (1931) has recently celebrated his 91st birthday. As Patron of the St John's Old Boys' and Girls' Association he has been very much involved in their activities, in particular, the publication of Reminiscences of St John's, the history of St John's Homes for Boys and Girls. The history has been written by John Hutchinson and is, Neale says, most fascinating reading. Frank Milne (1946) retired from the Department of Foreign Affairs in 1997 after forty years service. His last overseas assignment was as High Commissioner in Brunei. Before that he was Ambassador to Burma (1982 —1986), to Ireland and also the Holy See (1986 — 1988), then from 1988 to 1992 in Yugoslavia, Rumania, Bulgaria and Albania while the regimes in Eastern Europe were falling apart. For the past three years or so he has been working with the National Archives of Australia, working mainly on the old Foreign Affairs files. He retains a particular interest in Burma after spending more than six years there in two postings. From time to time, he contributes a piece on developments to the Asian Analysis newsletter produced by the ANU. Charles Sligo (1948) has travelled extensively overseas for the past six years after retiring in 1995 after twenty-one years as headmaster of Ivanhoe Grammar School, Melbourne. He has settled at Bundanoon in the southern highlands of NSW. John Wion (1955), Professor of Flute at the Hartt School, University of Hartford, recently retired as Principal Flute with the New York City Opera after thirtyseven years. John's internet site address www.johnwion.com includes memoirs. Roger Richards (1959) is currently completing a Graduate Diploma in Ornithology at Charles Sturt University. He worked as a civil engineer from 1965 to 1977 mainly on construction projects including the Westgate Bridge and the Melbourne Underground Rail Loop. Since then he has been the Managing Director of Windmill Educational Supplies, a company that he started with his wife. He has three adult daughters. Jonathan Dawson (1960) has retired as Professor and Foundation Head of the School of Film, Media and Cultural Studies at Griffith University and is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of
Tasmania. His latest book is Screenwriting (Oxford University Press, 2000 and revised 2001). David Longmuir (1963) is head of audio
and Heathcote. He launched Shelmerdine
at the Canberra Theatre Centre and is a freelance theatre designer and consultant. Hew Richards (1965) resigned from
Melbourne on 25 August 2001 which was published in the ANU Reporter. Douglas Mackenzie (1972) has been a visiting fellow at ANU since April 1999. In June 1999 he was awarded a research grant by the Grape and Wine Research and Development Corporation for a project dealing with the chemistry of viticultural soils. He has also formed a private consultancy which provides field mapping and advice on soils to wine companies www.terroir-australia.com Stephen Moss (1972), second son of Stan Moss (1946) received an award under the Military Section at the recent Australia
Yallourn Energy in 2001 and has built a new house in Romsey. He has taken a course in Viticulture at Northern Metropolitan TAFE. Ian MacLeod (1967) recently delivered a public lecture in Naraou, Japan on the effects of composition and structure on the performance of gold and silver alloys from shipwrecks. This year he has dived on the artificial reef HMAS Swan off Dunsborough to monitor the corrosion of the wreck and set up similar data for HMAS Perth off Albany, and he will study corrosion of World War II aeroplanes and ships in Truk Lagoon, Micronesia. Richard Trembath (1968) has lived in San Diego, California, for the last twenty years working for the Parsons Corporation. He was recently appointed a Vice President of Parsons Infrastructure and Technology Inc. and is responsible for the corporation's water practice throughout the arid western USA. On a trip to Europe in 2001 with his partner Joann Denbow, he met up with Philip Thomas (1968) who now lives in the UK. Lauchlan Chipman (Philosophy Tutor 1969-1970, Senior Tutor 1971-1972) has recently retired as Vice-Chancellor of Central Queensland University and has established his own educational management consultancy service with an international focus. He is based on Queensland's Gold Coast. Aurel Dessewffy (1969) has embarked on a new career in Business, Executive and Life Coaching after 30 years in investment banking and stockbroking. Stephen Shelmerdine (1969) was awarded an AM in the Queen's Birthday Order of Australia Honours for services to the Australian and Victoria wine industry. He has served the Winemakers' Federation of Australia, the Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation, the Victoria Wine Industry Association and the Victoria wineries tourism council. He was director of Mitchelton Wines (1991-2001) and of Petaluma Wines (1994-2001). Stephen now operates 375 acres of vineyard at Nagambie
Wines in August. Erwin Byford (1970) delivered the graduation address at the University of
Day awards for outstanding achievement in the performance of duty. Christopher Stevenson (1972) graduated with his PhD in Epidemiology from the Australian National University in September 2001. Christopher and Amanda are the proud parents of Emily Kate Stevenson, born in November 2001, a baby sister for Lachlan. Warwick Ross (1973) left Trinity in 1977 and headed directly for Hollywood to study filmmaking. He has produced a number of films with Yahoo Serious including Young Einstein, Reckless Kelly and Mr Accident. He and Margot (Pincas) and their three children, Madeleine (15), Christina (13) and William (10), live in Bellevue Hill. Duncan Reid (1976) has returned to Melbourne to take up the position of Dean of the United Faculty of Theology. Claire Darby (1976) and Hugh Champness have four children. Claire works in General Practice on the Bellarine Peninsula as a surgical assistant. Margot Foster (1976) has been appointed to the Hillary Commission which administers sport in New Zealand — the equivalent of the Australian Sports Commission on which she also serves. Peter Israel (1976) and Gina (nee Shakell 1978) have joined forces with Rick Potter (1975) in his solar energy business. They love the change from corporate life and the challenge of growing a small business. Wayne P Marriott (1976) and Amanda (nee Lane 1979) have been living in Sydney for 13 years where they operate www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au
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Marriott Lane Real Estate in Crows Nest.
Direct Investments to establish Social
They recently moved to their new home in Forestville. Their two children are Charlie (10) and Sophie (7).
Ventures Australia, a new organisation that aims to take the venture capital expertise from the corporate sector and instil it in the not-for-profit sector.
Karen Dahlitz Weiss (1977) is working as a fitness instructor at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra. She has two children, a 9 year-old boy and a 5 year-old girl. She is married to Steven Weiss and lives in Forrest, Canberra. Max Cameron (1978) is a partner at Minter Ellison in Melbourne where he has been for the last four years. When not at work, he and his wife, Helen Baillie, and their children spend time at the family property at the foot of Cradle Mountain, near Deloraine in Tasmania. Darren Coulson (1978) was awarded a certificate by the Melbourne University Lacrosse Club for having played lacrosse across four decades. He is not sure there'll be a fifth decade. James Royston (1978) and Gabrielle have two children, William (7) and Nina
(2). Geoff Hebbard (1979) has taken up the position of Director of Gastroenterology at the Royal Melbourne Hospital after a post- doctorate in Zurich, Switzerland, and work as a Gastroenterologist at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and at Registration General Hospital, Daw Park. He was married in 1989 to Heather. They have three children. Martin Hosking (1979) has left Looksmart, the NASDAQ listed company, of which he was a co-founder. He is now back in Australia with his family and will be living at Lakes Entrance before returning to Melbourne. He is involved in a number of private investment activities. Duncan Thomas (1979) and Nell have two daughters, Pippa (4) and Kate (1). Duncan graduated from the University of Melbourne as a Veterinarian in 1983. He did an MBA at Cornell University (1993) and was a consultant in McKinsey & Company (1993-1995) and Bain & Company (1995-1997). He was with Acacia Capital (1997-2000) and is President of SmartForce (Nasque, SMTF). Xenia Williamson (1979) is breeding warmblood horses for showjumping, dressage and general performance. She competes in showjumping on the weekends when her four children aren't looking. David and Xenia are also breeding Angus cattle at their property at Tallarook just north of Melbourne. Rowena Christiansen (1980) is currently a graduate student in the fourth year of the new medical course at the University of Melbourne based at St Vincent's Hospital Clinical School. She is still a proprietor of Beaumont & Christiansen, Commercial Lawyers, and sings with St Francis' Church Choir.
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Barry Paterson (1981) is teaching Theology at Wontulp-Bi-Buya College in Cairns. The College is a foundation of the Anglican, Catholic, Lutheran and Uniting Churches in Queensland. He is preparing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders for leadership in their church and community. In 2001 he returned to the Trinity Theological School scene as a Tutor and course developer in the Diploma of Ministry program. Tim Roberts (1981) and Anni (Grimwade) added Hamish Reginald Abraham Roberts to their family — Hannah (6) and Archie (31/2) — in June 2001. Since 1997 the Roberts family has been living in Jakarta and is looking forward to returning to Melbourne in 2003. Good friends in Jakarta include Michael and Fiona Sheridan who teach at Jakarta International School.
Samantha Marks (nee Kirwan-Hamilton 1982) is still enjoying life as a commercial barrister and has just had her third child, Katie. Lucy Carruthers (1983) has completed her MBA at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management in 2001 and will remain in Chicago to work with McKinseys. Peregrine Mills (1983) has recently been appointed Senior Landscape Architect at the Melbourne office of Earth Tech Engineering, and will soon be moving with his wife and two girls to Torquay on the Surf Coast to manage the Landscape Architecture branch at Earth Tech's Geelong office.
Caroline Nancarrow (1983) is priest-incharge of the Parish of St Peter by the Lake, Paynesville, on the Gippsland Lakes. If you are on holiday, sailing, surfing, or boating, please call in. There is easy access from Ocean Grange, Newland Arm, Eagle Point, even Metung! Sunday Service is at 9.30am and all are welcome. Caroline Burge (1984) has finished her MBBS at the University of Queensland and will be working next year at the Royal Brisbane Hospital.
Elizabeth Elder (1984) recently moved to Manhattan with partner Richard Carey and Thomas (Tom), born on 21 June 2002. She has a contract catering business in London and runs it from New York. Michael Gronow (1984) and Sharon Mulready (1986) are still enjoying living in North Fitzroy with their two children Miranda (8) and Christian (nearly 4). Sharon is teaching English and Classics at Melbourne Grammar, and Michael is practising as a barrister at the Victorian Bar. Julia E Lucas (nee Frith 1984) has two children, Henry (21/2), and Peggy (14 months). She was co-producer of Holding your breath, an animation shown at Cannes Film Festival 2002, the only Australian film
in competition. She is married to director, Anthony Lucas.
David Ward (1984) studied at the Trinity College Theological School in 1985, and is now an authorised representative with AXA financial planning. Emma Welsh (1984) has returned from living in Europe for four years where she took an MBA at INSEAD (France) and worked as a strategy consultant for LEK Consulting and then had an Internet business. She is with National Australia Bank as head of consumer marketing and product development and is based in Melbourne.
Adaobi Udechuku (1984) and Scott Donnellan have two children, Ifeoma (6 years) and Miles (21/2 years). Training in Psychiatry at the Austin Repatriation Medical Centre, they spent 1998 in California USA while Scott completed his Urological Training. Since returning they have lived in East Malvern.
David Beggs (1985) is enjoying life as a country vet in Warrnambool, with wife Elsa and daughter Anna. Jenny Rose Gill (1985) spent 2001 travelling around Australia and is now preparing a repertoire as a classical contralto for both work and international travel in 2003. She remains friends with Stephen Kenny (1989), who is married to Aida and continues to work at the Bar in London. Matthew Horton (1985) has a daughter, Imogen Marguerite Horton born on 20 February 2001. Janet Arnold (1986) attended a 2001 party at Steve Hasker's Manhattan loft in New York and caught up with Scott Charles (1986), now based in NY, and Dave Studdart, based in Boston. She caught up with Georgie Summerhayes (Capp 1987) and Hugo Gibbs (1986) in April 2002 at a charity fundraising effort. Marcus Bogdan (1986) has been appointed Head of Retail Asset Management for Herschel Asset Management. His wife, Vanessa Morgan (1989) has passed her Fellowship exam for Dermatology. They have a two year old boy, Hugo. Matthew Forwood (1986), his wife Nicola and their three children have returned to live in Melbourne after almost nine years in Hong Kong. Matthew is working as a senior project manager with Sinclair Knight Merz, with an emphasis on infrastructure and business development.
Jim Houston (1986) was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in June 2000, for services to the development of the national policy of multiculturalism, and to the Anglican Church in cross-cultural ministry. Prue Keith (1987) finished her training as an orthopaedic surgeon in 1998, and worked as a surgeon with the international committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in
residentia East Africa. She also has served on three
'retired' in December 1999 from 61/2 years
separate missions with an independent relief organisation in Papua New Guinea working with the tsunami victims. She spent 12 months in post-graduate fellowship positions in Richmond, Virginia, USA and in the UK specialising in Sports orthopaedics (shoulder and knee) and upper limb reconstruction. She has now set up practice in Wangaratta, Victoria.
in the Middle East, she lives at Fairhaven. Her daughter, Janice, married Mark Lucas in March 2001.
Andrew Tulloch (1987) continues to work in the Australian Consulate in San Francisco. Last year he was assisted by recent Trinity student Kate Huntington (1997), who undertook a summer internship while doing a year exchange at the University of North Carolina. Ahmed Fahour (1988) has recently been promoted to business head of Citigroup Alternative Investments in NY.
Andrew Gourlay (1988) and wife Rachel (1990) had their second child, Rosie Louise Lillian in July 2001. William Edward Graham was three years old on 16 July 2002.
James Mitchell (1988) is currently living in San Francisco with his partner Robert Miller, working as visiting faculty in the Department of Anaesthesia at the University of California. His clinical work is predominantly neuro-anaesthesia and he is also doing research into opioid tolerance and mechanisms of peripheral inflammation. Fiona Smith (1988) has been working in Athens for the last 12 months as Specialist Technical Consultant to the Athens 2004 Olympic Organising Committee. The consultancy contract has come to a close and after several weeks' travelling through Scandinavia and mainland Greece she is back in Sydney.
Lucinda Edselius (nee Meagher 1989) and Stefan announced the birth of their daughter, Freya Emily Alexandra, on 13 July 2002 in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Julian Liberto (1989), after a number of years teaching in the United Kingdom at Sherborne School for Girls, returned to Australia with his wife Rebecca to take up teaching positions at Trinity Grammar School in Sydney as of July 2002. Ross King (1989) has a son, James, born on 25 August 2001. Amanda Morgan (nee Graham 1989) married William Morgan in April 2002. James Richards (1989) is teaching at MacRobertson Girls High School. He and Deborah have a son, Lachlan James Richards, born on 12 March 2001. Michael Ryan (1989) is working for BMC Media — an online communications agency working in eDM, online advertising and web development.
Jennie McInerney (nee Bromell 1990) is working at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre as Sales Manager and is married to Brian McInerney.
Deirdre Baker (1991) writes that having
Sally Glen (1992) and Todd have been living in Perth since April 1998 after two years in the Pilbara. They have bought a house near Scarborough beach. Sally has joined North Cottesloe Surf Life Saving Club and was state champion last season. She has been a member of the boat crew for the Western Stingrays team for the Kelloggs National Surf League for the last two seasons.
Christina McLeish (1991) is currently completing the first year of a PhD in philosophy of science at Magdalene College, Cambridge, after securing a Cambridge Commonweath Trust scholarship. She caught up with an old friend Helen Bott (1991). David Hamnes (1992) is working as Organist in Kocitad Church, Trondheim and part-time atVidaros Cathedral. He is a musician union board member for Norway, and freelance concert organist and conductor.
Nathan Taylor (1992) led a sea kayaking expedition from Wilson's Promontory Victoria to Lt. Mussellroe Bay, Tasmania in January 2001. Davin Ardlie (1993) is on an extended overseas visit.
Justin Drerup (1993) has been working for the past five years as an Enterprise Internet Architect for Colonial and Commonwealth Banks. He has also been spending a significant amount of time travelling for his snowboard travel company, Boardtheworld.com. Justin is currently located in London. Peter Tregear (1993) is Director of Studies at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, and is lecturing in Music. Recent musical engagements include conducting the UK stage premiere of Max Brand's opera Maschinist Hopkins at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. The performance was introduced by Barry Humphries. Peter would always be happy to be a point of contact or information for members of the College who might be planning to visit or study in Cambridge. Also at Cambridge are Christina McLeish (1991) and Julie Page
(1992). Claire Spragges (1994) is working with
in Caracas. Justin Nash is a production engineer in Schlumberger, Venezuela/ Texas. Ivan Oswald (1995) is Australian Youth Ambassador, Vanuatu (ex IBM User Experience Consultant, Melbourne).
Chucky Showers (1995) is a research scientist in the Department of Natural Resources and Environment in Rutherglen/ Beechworth.
William Spraggett (1996) is currently working with Goldman Sachs in London. Sheree Bailey (1998, Tutor) is now working for Handicap International as a landmine monitor. One Saturday, she did a trip to a village near the Armenia/ Azerbaijan border complete with a military escort with flashing lights and siren for the two and a half hour journey. She was told afterwards that snipers would know they were on a humanitarian mission and not shoot!
Julian Lim (1998) is in his final year of a Bachelor of Commerce/Information Technology at ANU after spending one year in University of Melbourne in 1998. Marney McQueen (1998) has been accepted into the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in Sydney. Georgia Nosworthy (1999) won a Scholarship to study at Vienna University in Semester 2, 2002, through the University of South Australia. Douglas Burns (1999) is studying at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, MO, USA. Susan Rea (1999) (Princeton undergraduate degree) completed her Marshall Scholarship in England and is now finishing a PhD while playing semiprofessional soccer. Matt Chou (1999) and Katie Mahon (1999) are working and living in Boston. Robert Thacker (1999) and Stephanie Abramson (1999) are living in Los Angeles. Greg Blunkush has moved to France for a year to teach English. Stephanie Parker (1999) is moving to Philadelphia and Sarah Putnam (1999) has recently moved to Boston. All of them encourage Trinity students to contact them during their travels in the USA. They would be very interested in forming a Trinity USA club for our Australian counterparts looking to travel or work in the USA. The Development Office will help with this endeavour!
Complinet, an info tech provider, as a marketing events co-ordinator. Kate Ardlie (1995) is presently in the UK to commence a course in garden design at Oxford College of Garden Design.
Charles Shower (1995) writes with a 'Bursary boys' update: Andrew Woolley (1995) is working as an energy analyst at Deutsche Bank, Melbourne. Nathan Cook (1995) is a Chemical Engineer at AMCOR in Melbourne. Nathan is recently back from Guyana/South America, where he caught up with Justin Nash (1995)
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Australia Day Honours 2002
Deaths
William CHANEN (1945) AM Toorak, Victoria, for service to medicine through contributions to the early detection, prevention and treatment of gynaecological cancer, particularly cervical cancer, and as
Professor Emeritus Sir Geoffrey BADGER, AO (1935)
an educator in colposcopy and the management of precancerous diseases.
Dr James Edmund BANFIELD (1943)
Thorold Harvey GUNNERSEN (1959) AM Mount Eliza, Victoria, for service to the forest industry, particularly to sustainable timber resource management and development, and to the welfare of communities dependent on the timber industry. Anthony Rowand HEWISON (1953) AM Brighton, Victoria, for service to education, particularly as headmaster of St Michael's
Clarence John BEAUMONT (1939) The Revd Canon Emeritus Alexander Peter Bruce BENNIE (1933) Peter Charlot BOUVIER (1943)
Grammar School and through the Association of Independent Schools of Victoria. Roger Hamilton RIORDAN (1951) AM Hampton, Victoria, for service to the community, particularly through the provision of a range of scholarship funds, and to information technology as a pioneer in the field of computer anti-virus software.
Dr Geoffrey Leighton BUCKWELL (1950) Francis Keith BULLEN (1941) Dr Peter Haydn CANNINGTON (1961)
Percy Neil EVERIST (1951)
OAM Geelong, Victoria, for service to the architecture profession, and to the community through the Geelong Art Gallery and Lifeline.
Queen's Birthday Honours 2002 Robert James CHAMPION de CRESPIGNY (1969)
Kin Pong Jeff CHAN (2000) (Trinity College Foundation Studies - September Accelerated Program) Dr David Crosby COWLING (1938) John Stanley ELDER (1933)
AC
Parkside, SA, for service to mining industry, to business, and to community in cultural
Professor Quentin Boyce GIBSON (1932)
preservation and education. Hugh Matheson MORGAN, AO (1958)
Rodney Stephen HART (1929)
AC
Toorak, Victoria, for service to business and trade development, to mining industry in Australia and internationally through leadership in formation and evolution of sustainable development policy; to community through cultural and educational research activities. Professor Richard Graeme LARKINS (1961)
Robert Angus KENNISON (1948)
AO
Hawthorn, Victoria, for service to medicine and health as advocate for increased investment in research, contributor to health policy reform, initiator of innovative medical programs and provision of training opportunities for medical officers in Oceania. Professor John Douglas RITCHIE (1961)
Thomas HASKER (1964)
AO
Aranda, ACT. Recording history of social sciences and humanities as general editor
Walter F Whitney KING (1925) Dr Leonard LANGMORE (1931) Dr John Farquhar MACDONALD (President, 'Friends of Trinity', 1982-1986)
of The Australian Dictionary of Biography, maintenance of international standards of historical biography and encouragement of new initiatives.
Dr Robert Norman MELLOR (1946)
Michael RaynerTHWAITES (1934)
Revd Julie Elizabeth NELSON (1986)
AO
Campbell, ACT, for service to the Anglican Diocese of Canberra-Goulburn, to literature as author of poetry and narrative works reflecting emergence of Australia's nationhood.
John Charles OPPENHEIM (1934)
Norman Murdoch CARLYON (1957)
Alan Arthur PATTERSON (Director of Trinity College Foundation Studies 2002)
AM
Merricks North, Victoria, for service to horse racing and breeding industries in Victoria. Stephen Ross SHELMERDINE (1969)
AM
Melbourne, Victoria. Development and promotion of wine industry through Winemakers Federation of Australia, Victorian Wine Industry Association and Victorian Wineries Tourism Council. Rowan Darroch STORY (1968) RFD
Dr Jacob Albertus POUTSMA (1948) (Ian) Patrick ROE (1957)
AM
Hawthorn, Victoria, for service to dentistry as oral and maxillofacial surgeon, educator
Dr John Layton ROUSE, OAM (1947)
and administrator. Murray George CHESSELL (1962)
Stuart Rusden STONEMAN (A patron and benefactor of the College)
OAM
Malvern East, Victoria, for service through administration at Australian Gymnastic Federation.
Dr Roderick Frank Arthur STRANG (1934)
Honorary Appointment within The Order of Australia — 19 July 2002
Professor Ronald Godfrey TANNER (1946)
Robert Winston Humphrey CRIPPS (Fellow of the College)
Nicholas Hume TURNBULL (1936)
AM
for services to the community, particularly education through philanthropic contributions.
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Revd Peter Julian Vincent WHITE (1975)
Gazette
resiclentia
Obituaries Stuart 12 June 1927
Stoneman; 14 August 2002
A major benefactor of Trinity College, Stuart Stoneman was born in Castlemaine to a second-generation grocer, Thomas Clarence (Clarrie), and his wife Blanche Baddeley (Ellie) Stoneman (née Rusden). He left school at sixteen and studied to be an industrial chemist. Having decided chemistry was not his true vocation, Stuart and his parents decided that he should spend some time in Europe. There he saw collections of fine art, libraries,
Sister Deirdre Rofe IBVM
and business operations that forever changed his life. He returned to Castlemaine and established one of Australia's first self-service style grocery shops, the genesis of Stonemans Supermarkets, a chain that dominated grocery retailing in central Victoria for more than twenty-five years. His management style was legendary: whilst loudly (and publicly)
The College was deeply saddened by the passing in August of Sister Deirdre Rofe IBVM, who had been
berating staff for labelling an item with an incorrect price, he would turn a blind eye when suppliers with needy families 'skimmed off the top' of their deliveries. His ever-present sense of duty and care to those of his own community extended past these 'oversights' to the delivery of food parcels from the supermarkets to those in need, and to munificent donations for local causes and charities ranging from the rebuilding of a civic fountain, to
Principal of St Mary's College since 1997. Sister Rofe was a loved and
the financial welfare of the Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum, of which he was trustee for over forty years. Stuart retired from his working life in the late 1980s and settled at Mount Macedon.
admired educator, whose career with the Loreto Order included a period as Principal of Loreto Mandeville Hall and as Provincial Superior. Awarded an honorary
He has been described as a 'gentleman-larrikin', whose gentlemanly legacy is Duneira, his hill-station estate at Mount Macedon. The house is filled with his art and bookcollecting pursuits of more than fifty years, and the gardens are unique, both in design and in the specimens planted. Duneira is to be maintained by the Stoneman Trust, in which Trinity College plays a major role. His larrikinism was shown primarily in his ability (and propensity) to discuss (and argue) any topic with people of all walks of life, whether it be a public argument with a politician at an official function, or a quiet discussion with a local in the pub. His relationships were completely individual — no two people ever had the
Doctorate from the Australian Catholic University earlier this
same impression of Stuart, although all acquaintances will remember his hospitality and genuine warmth of character. Philip Nicholls
year, Sister Rofe was an active participant in many professional
The Rusden Legacy
bodies, including the Association
distinguished amongst the Founders and Benefactors of Trinity College, not only
George William Rusden (1819-1903), first Clerk of the Parliaments of Victoria, is
of Heads of Independent Schools and the National Committee of the
as a generous donor to its Building Appeals, but also as a major supporter of its academic and cultural interests. His gift in 1883 of the bulk of his collection included the nucleus of the Leeper Library's Australiana Collection, while his gift, to the College Museum, in 1896, of works of art, antiquities, oriental artefacts and
Australian Conference of Leaders of Religious Institutes. It was as
'curiosities' laid the foundations of the College's Art Collection. Thus, in his passion for books and art works, Stuart Rusden Stoneman worthily maintained this family tradition. He was also very dedicated to the memory of his aunt, Mary (Bonnie)
Principal of St Mary's College,
Rusden, first full-time Leeper Librarian at Trinity, and a noted pianist.
however, that she came into most contact with this College, and all those who had dealings with her — whether Trinity students, tutors,
e Hon. Mic ae A astair C ar e '8 September 1915 — 11 August 2002 The Hon. Michael Clarke was the son of the Hon. WL Russell Clarke, a College Councillor for many years. Although not a member of the College himself, he rendered it
or other staff — will miss her, and remember her with much love
signal service by his biographies of his great grandfather, the Hon. WJT 'Big' Clarke and grandfather, Sir William Clarke of Rupertswood. These brought to vivid life the creator of Australia's first pastoral empire and Victoria's first Baronet.
and respect.
Trinity owes much to Sir William, his wife, Janet, and his brother, Joseph, for a range of benefactions, notably the Clarke's Building, the Janet Clarke Building for the Trinity Women's Hostel (now Janet Clarke Hall), the Chemistry Laboratory (now Sharwood Room) and the Clarke and Rupertswood Scholarships. Michael himself served Victoria as a Member of the Legislative Council for the Northern Province, 1964-1976. Bishop James Grant
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Obituaries
Nick Turnbull, courteous and unfailingly helpful, entered Trinity to study science in
When he died on 4 July this year,
1936, and remained in residence for four years. He went on to complete a Master's degree
Whitney King was one of the College's
in Chemistry by 1941, when he went to work in the laboratories of Nicholas Pty Ltd of
oldest alumni. Born in 1906, he recalled
Aspro fame. After a long and distinguished career as a research chemist and finally as a
driving down St Kilda Road in a horse and carriage.
Director of the company, Nick retired from Nicholas. He came to see me on 27 August 1975. He asked if there was something he could do for the College now that he had some more time. He was a kindly, gentle and friendly man. His hair, originally red, was now
Whitney attended Trinity College from 1924 until 1929, while he studied for
grey, and he was obviously still fit in body and mind. He believed that most people want
degrees in Classics and Law. In his time,
to help a good cause and are glad to be asked. When Nick did the asking, he was seldom refused.
cows still grazed on the Bulpadock and
With my encouragement Nick arranged and hosted a long series of small luncheons in the College, often twice or three times a week, beginning in February 1976. He invited former residents to return to the College so that they could 'meet the new Warden'. After a year or two, it was so that the Warden could meet them. The coming of women students into residence in 1974 always intrigued those who remembered strict visiting hours and clandestine attempts to outwit the tutors and Dean who enforced them. These lunches were hugely enjoyable. Many stories and pranks of the past were recalled, and
Warden Behan appeared at Sunday chapel in a morning suit complete with cravat, striped trousers and spats. The women of JCH sat facing the Trinity men at chapel, and this is how Whitney first caught sight of his future wife, Ethleen O'Dwyer. Ethleen was one of the first female law students at Melbourne
occasionally embellished. A recurring favourite was the day Trinity students (who were
University. With characteristic charm
they?) closed off the Sydney Road in a fog and directed the traffic into a tooting jam on
and organisational drive, she persuaded
the Bulpadock. Alfred Bird, chaplain in the 1950s, returned to the College as Records
Whitney to push a wheelbarrow of law
Officer in 1977 and regularly joined the guests. Later, Angela Mackie of the Trinity College Foundation came too.
tomes into her open book exam. For the
Nick's lunches continued for 13 years until 1989, even though Nick and his wife Judy (daughter of Sir Edmund Herring, Trinity's longest serving Council member) moved to Mannerim on the Bellarine Peninsula. This entailed a long drive each time. Nick's
rest of their lives together, he continued to offer practical encouragement and devotion. Whitney and Ethleen maintained their
sustained and generous efforts in setting up these luncheons, and his graciousness as a
interest in the College when two of their
friendly host, has been significant in building up the widespread affection and support that
three daughters attended JCH, and five of
Trinity enjoys today. It was fitting that in 1978 Nick was elected President of the Union of the Fleur-de-Lys. In time, Nick's daughter Sally (1982) followed her brothers Henry (1968) and Richard (1971) into residence. Over lunch I soon learned of Nick's enthusiasm for bridge, golf and royal tennis. I heard of a long-standing Trinity Bridge four that met every week, of which Nick had been a member since 1941. Another keen member from the beginning was Professor AGL Shaw — who happily is still playing. The remaining two in the original four were John Darby and Stuart Philpott. The membership changed over the years. AGL Shaw was away from
their nine grandchildren attended Trinity. Indeed, at the age of 83, Whitney was called upon to judge the Boat Race. Whitney took a postgraduate degree in law at Cambridge. Following his admission to Gray's Inn, he returned to Melbourne to practise as a barrister in Selbourne Chambers. He served in the
Melbourne from 1950 to 1964, and Alan Hamer joined in about 1948. Alan had been a
war as a legal officer, attaining the rank
contemporary of Nick's in College, and his lab partner at University. The group welcomed
of Lieutenant Colonel. After the war, he
over the years several non-Trinity members — Geoffrey Whitehead, Richard Allen and
became a solicitor and partner in the firm
then Bob and Ken Aitken. Nick played his last game with the group in the winter of 2001
of Alexander Grant, Dickson King (now
— after 60 years. When I last saw him soon after that, his last words to me were to regret that 'some people couldn't play cards'. He thought everyone should learn. Nick played Golf for the University of Melbourne for the three years he was in College.
absorbed into Gadens), where he remained until he retired at the age of 89. Whitney was a man of integrity, quiet
He became an esteemed member of the Royal Melbourne and Barwon Heads Golf Clubs. Royal tennis, the centuries-old forerunner of lawn tennis, was another interest Nick shared
good humour and infinite patience. His
with Alan Hamer. Nick was a member of the first royal tennis team from Victoria to play an
faith, which he maintained without
interstate match in a game that demands both bodily and intellectual strength.
ostentation, in keeping with his manner of
Nick's long-term interests included Lansdowne Pastoral Company Ltd, with extensive
character was founded upon his Christian
courteous tranquillity.
pastoral interests in Queensland, of which he was a Director. He was also for many years a keen worker for the Liberal Party, especially in the electorate of Hawthorn.
Lisa Gorton
Typically, he asked for a private family funeral. A few weeks later, a large group of family and friends met for drinks on a delightful afternoon in the courtyard of the Melbourne Club to recall his life and many contributions, and Bishop James Grant said a short prayer. It was the kind of informal, friendly and modest gathering that Nick would have most enjoyed.
Revd Dr Evan L Burge Warden, 1974 — 1997
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Lisa Gorton is a former resident student of Trinity College (1990-1993), Rhodes Scholar (1994) and granddaughter of Whitney King.
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Other articles on Theology at Trinity appear in The Main Event section.
heological School
The Trinity College Choir with special guests at St James' Church, King Street, Sydney, following the 125th anniversary service: from left, Bishop Phillip Freier (Northern Territory); Bishop James Grant; the Revd Dr David Cole; the Primate, Archbishop Peter Carnley; the Warden, Professor Donald Markwell; Archbishop Peter Watson (Melbourne); the Revd Richard Treloar.
Sydney Celebrations The Primate, Archbishop Peter Carnley, preached at a Festal Choral Evensong in St James' Church, King Street, Sydney, to celebrate the 125th anniversary of theological education in Trinity College. A large Trinity contingent travelled to Sydney for the event on 21 July, which brought together Trinity graduates and friends from around Sydney and beyond, to give thanks to God for Trinity College's long ministry in theological education. The Choir of Trinity College provided outstanding music for the occasion, singing music by Herbert Howells, and Bryan Kelly, as well as Kenneth Leighton's sparkling anthem, 'Let us now laud and magnify'. The first lesson was read by the Governor-General, Dr Peter Hollingworth, a Trinity graduate and Fellow of the College. The second lesson was read by Ms Colleen Hodge, a St James' parishioner and good friend of the Theological School. Following the service, the Warden hosted a celebratory dinner on the 14th floor of the adjacent Supreme Court building. In proposing a toast to the Theological School, the Archbishop of Brisbane, Dr Phillip Aspinall, a Trinity alumnus, spoke warmly of the importance of the School to the Church, nationally and beyond. The service and dinner for the 125th anniversary, which coincided with the second National Anglican Conference, echoed a similar celebration at St James' in August 1977 for the Theological School's centenary, an event which coincided with a Sydney meeting of General Synod. On that occasion, a reception was hosted by the fifth Warden of the College, the Revd Dr Evan Burge, and Bishop James Grant, Director of the Theological School's Centenary Appeal. The guest of honour was Bishop Michael Ramsay, who had recently retired as Archbishop of Canterbury. How appropriate, then, that the guest of honour at the Melbourne 125th celebrations last May should have been Archbishop Rowan Williams, subsequently named as the new Archbishop of Canterbury.
From left, Professor Chris Roper, AM, Revd Sandra Salmon, and Mrs Ellie Bird were among those who attended the 125th anniversary dinner in Sydney in July.
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The highlight of Archbishop Rowan Williams' visit for theological staff and students was the afternoon the Archbishop spent with them on 24 May, in informal discussion on 'The Anglican Church and the Future'. Rowan Williams gave no precise predictions, but opened up possibilities of varying kinds, along with the belief that the very diverse Anglican Communion can and will hold together.
Abp Rowan Williams and Bp David Farrer with Trinity staff and students. The 'Balkanisation' of the Anglican Church was to some a possibility resulting
even more messy than it is now, but should we worry about that?
Rowan Williams mentioned his conservative views on fidelity and money,
in a kind of world federation of Anglican
His answer to that question, like the
while acknowledging he was in a minority
churches, but he was not happy with this
good Anglican he is, was 'both yes and
among the episcopate for his liberal views
prospect, although the polarities within the
no'. 'Yes,' we need to defend and nurture
on sexuality. He believed nevertheless
Communion were complex.
our understanding of others, but not at the
that his views on homosexuality were an
cost of any one group. 'No,' we should
acceptable part of the conversation.
'There is no simple "Them and Us" theory,' he said. 'I'd be sorry if our attitude
watch the ways in which tough churches
to any other Christians were dominated
both grow and decline.
by the Either/Or. We need a measure of
He did refer nevertheless to the changes
He did not regard matters to do with sexuality as all-defining, but added that sex allowed us to feel connected, even
caution when we engage in doctrinal
in worship style and doctrine that went
controversy. We have backed ourselves
along with social and economic shifts,
in the search to feel connected in an
into a corner by insisting on our own
noting how powerfully conservative
uncomfortable society could, at its most
religious groups flourished in affluent
diabolical, lead to lust, sadism, even
areas.
death. For such reasons, the Church should
conclusions in certain areas of doctrine.' The implications in a less polarised Communion were that Anglicans would continue their ingrained habit of muddle.
Later that afternoon, staff and students moved back from their mentor groups to
if it failed. Spirals of sexual activity
be looking at why our culture was so obsessive about sex.
He saw no sign of 'a deep, wordless
pose specific questions to Rowan Williams,
blissfulness' ahead for his Church.
on leadership, sexuality and mission.
Williams stated the issue must always be that a difference had been made. Unless
On the question of Mission, Rowan
'Remember that Anglicans have an
In the light of the still-awaited
historical investment in muddle,' Rowan
announcement about the Canterbury
there was a tangible sense that Jesus made
Williams continued. 'Our history read
appointment, his all-too-brief comments on
a difference, there was nothing. He made
honestly is a history of muddle. The
leadership were revealing.
more of this in his Festival sermon. Jesus
providence of God happens not to be an
poured His life into
utterly clear intervention; it comes in both
God, and those who
straight and crooked lines.
'The fertile mind does not stay still'
'And it's God's fault, because he made us free to muddle. So you see, I'm at a loss as much as you are!' The Archbishop also made much of
become His disciples are touched by that, knowing they are
He likened the quality of Christian leadership to 'a symphonic skill', a co-
now capable of radical love and trust.
ordinating skill rather than one that
They begin to shape a new doctrine of
the need for 'good talking', that shared
homogenises and flattens out. 'I still come
God, there is a place for a responding love.
experience in conversation which is itself
across a fair number of clergy whose
Unless we are caught by the depths of that
'a mark of communion'.
leadership is linear rather than symphonic,'
vision, we will never do theology at all.
'The fertile mind does not stay still,' he said. 'We need to nudge one another
he said. 'I would like to see something
'I am totally convinced there is a centre
of that skill which likes being different.
from generation to generation which
constantly, for it helps enlarge our
Remember King Lear's line "I will teach
defines us, such as a community of prayer,'
understanding. Such networking I find
you differences"?'
quite healthy.' He foresaw quite a lot of new, varied networks and alignments developing
England's Guardian newspaper has
he told the staff and students. 'There are certain things which are basic and we have
lately reminded readers that the next
a responsibility to perpetuate and animate
+Cantuar's 'only agenda is spiritual
them. In Wales I am trying to weave a web
within the next ten or fifteen years. This
leadership'and that 'the only authority he
in which people will be recognisable to
could make the Anglican Communion look
will claim is the authority to unify.'
one another as Christians.'
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Trinity College Theological School 1877 - 2002
heological School
Trinity College's Theological School was founded by the second Bishop of Melbourne, James Moorhouse. Finding Melbourne 'a place of spiritual destitution' when he arrived in 1877, he made theological education his most urgent priority. He declared that if the laity wanted to see their pulpits occupied by a body of cultivated men, liberal provision must be made for their education. With every evidence of determination and faith, he decided such education should be based on Trinity College, where our candidates for orders would obtain the advantage not only of theological teaching, but of a large and liberal education, and would further gain the inestimable privilege of daily association with their peers in age and knowledge. And so his vision has been proven over 125 years. In that time, the Theological School has provided outstanding theological education for many clergy and, in recent years, laity who have faithfully served the church throughout Australia and beyond, and continue to do so. It has encouraged post-graduate study of a very high level, and formed its students for theological reflection and spiritual growth. Some of Trinity's graduates have gone on to leadership positions of great influence; they include the present Primate of the Anglican Church of Australia, Archbishop Peter Carnley, the Archbishop of Brisbane, Philip Aspinall, and the Governor-General of Australia, Dr Peter Hollingworth. The Trinity College Theological School today is a partner in one of Australia's premier theological consortia, the United Faculty of Theology, joining in its teaching with the Jesuit Theological College and the Uniting Church Theological Hall. Together, the United Faculty of Theology forms a part of the Melbourne College of Divinity, to which Trinity is an active contributor.
The Revd Dr Ruwan Palapathwala, BEd (Applied), MEd, BTheol, MTh, PhD is Noel Carter Lecturer in Pastoral Theology. Ruwan undertook his initial theological studies at the Theological College of Sri Lanka and completed post-graduate studies in Melbourne and New Zealand. His research interests are in Christian Ministry in the 21st Century, theology and culture, Theravada Buddhism, Asian religious thought, inter-faith dialogue, and adult education. Ruwan has responsibility for co-ordinating the Supervised Theological Field Education (STFE) program and Friday Formation Program. In 2003, he will also teach the first Melbourne College of Divinity BTheol unit on Asian Religions in the United Faculty of Theology and online for the GradDipTheol and MDiv. He is the Priest-in-Charge (part-time) of St. Albans Parish, North Melbourne, and a Research Associate of the Centre for the Study of Religion and Theology at Monash University. He holds the doctorate of the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
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Ordinations Ordinations of Trinity College members in late 2002 and early 2003: Ordained priest In St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne: Helen Creed (Overnewton College) Gregory Seach (St John's, Camberwell) Heather Vander Reest (Freemason's Hospital) Jo-anne Wells (Holy Trinity, Williamstown) In Holy Trinity Cathedral, Wangaratta: Brad Kemister (Cobram) In the Cathedral Church of Christ the King, Ballarat: Campbell Carroll (Colac) Ordained deacon In St Paul's Cathedral, Bendigo: Christine Kimpton In St Matthew's, Albury: Mark Andrews (Trinity Grammar School and North Albury Parish) In St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne: Christine Barren Tat Hean Lie Judith Marriott Elisa Waterhouse
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A Theological Feast During the month of August, the Trinity College Theological School was fortunate to have in residence, The Revd Dr Andrew McGowan. An outstanding scholar and world-renowned expert on early Christian meals, Dr McGowan is a graduate of the Theological School, previously taught at the University of Notre Dame (Australia) in Fremantle, and is currently Associate Professor of Early Christian History at the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. During his stay, he preached in chapel, conducted a seminar for staff of the United Faculty of Theology and the Melbourne College of Divinity, and participated in the formation programs of the Theological School. The highlight of his visit was the Barry Marshall Memorial Lecture, which he delivered to a packed lecture theatre. Entitled 'Whose Meal Is It Anyway? Jesus, the Church and Eucharistic Origins', Dr McGowan sought to reassess modern eucharistic practices that seem to derive from an image of Jesus as an inclusive host - one who ate with 'sinners and taxcollectors'. Examining the New Testament accounts, he argued that while we have a firm picture of Jesus as an inclusive guest, rather than an inclusive host, Jesus' own meal practice itself, and that of his earliest followers, was not distinctive. It simply replicated that of his socio-cultural milieu. Drawing on the work of the renowned anthropologist, Mary Douglas, Dr McGowan showed that a distinctive meal practice only arose with the emergence of a distinctive sense of community. Therefore, those of us who seek models for contemporary liturgical practice need to look, not to the example of Jesus' meal practice, but to the practices of the early Church. While the early Church understood its eucharistic meal to be exclusivist — participation was restricted to those who were baptised — in fact all of its meal practices were exclusivist. To a large extent, this was because the Church understood itself as comprising the marginalised and excluded - comparable to the tax-collectors and sinners of Jesus' day. As such, the Eucharist needs to be understood as the Church's meal. We need to see ourselves as hosts as much as participants. Dr Craig de Vos Lecturer in Theology
For information on • • • • •
Theological study at Trinity, Credo: a course for the curious, Our parish-based Certificate in Theology and Ministry, Continuing education for clergy, Online theological study,
visit our website at www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au/theolog or contact Deborah Guess Phone +61 3 9348 7127 Facsimile +61 3 9348 7460 Email tcts@trinity.unimelb.edu.au Revd Dr Andrew McGowan 64 TRINITYToday Summer 2002-2003
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Other articles on Trinity College Foundation Studies, Alan Pattersont,
Foundation Studies
Diana Smith, and international engagement appear in The Main Event section.
Liberal education and international connections through Trinity College Foundation Studies Alan Pattersont, Director of Trinity College Foundation Studies until his death in November, had written this piece for TRINITYToday on the liberal education which underpins the academic curriculum of Trinity College Foundation Studies, and on the great potential benefits—in international, inter-cultural, and inter-faith awareness — to all members of the Trinity College community from the inter-connection of students from around Australia and from many overseas countries. Alan wrote: In essence Trinity College enrols over 800 international students from over 40 countries, but principally from Asia, and in one year makes them ready to enter a university of high academic standing. Trinity College Foundation Studies can be proud of this achievement. For to do it the staff must necessarily understand the educational backgrounds of those taught in the Islamic, the Confucian and the Socratic traditions. The `Core Curriculum Mission Statement' arises out of the perception that our international students have a common need which can be met by engaging in tough academic and practical studies of English, Drama, English Literature and History of Ideas. Each of the four subjects of the core curriculum contributes in a unique way to the development of the individual. In so doing, they complement each other and enhance students' learning in their chosen disciplines. In History of Ideas, students' intellect is trained to comprehend and to question society and the guiding ideas by which societies and their systems (including education) are constructed. In Literature, the vital cultural and personal issues dramatised in literary texts lead students to reflect on their own sense of meaning and purpose, and challenge them with new perspectives. They learn to read extensively, with critical insight, and to articulate sophisticated analysis in academic and creative English. In Drama, students publicly and creatively express themselves, and learn to interact confidently and co-operatively with others. In English for Academic Purposes (EAP), students learn to formulate and present their individual ideas within an academic framework using context-appropriate style, conventions and structures. Implicit in the educational goals of the core curriculum is the concern for transition and development of the whole person.
The educational goals of the core curriculum are especially important to students who are removed from their family, friends, culture,
Foundation Studies students
language and familiar environment, and who are facing the considerable challenges of achieving their goals within a new society, language,
Independence Day on 30 September with a lunch in the Sharwood Room.
These Trinity College celebrated Botswana's
and intellectual context. The core curriculum is specifically designed to address the cultural and educational transformation faced by such overseas students, and to provide an explicit forum in which they can formulate a successful intellectual and personal response to these challenges. The core subjects teach students to become fluent in a Western tradition of learning, ideas, and forms of communication. This is in order to prepare students fully for success in their chosen path: study at an academically demanding university in Australia, where teaching and learning are formed and informed by the Western cultural heritage.
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Liberal Education...continued from page 65 Alan Patterson,' was welcomed into the Trinity College community by, from left, the Warden, Professor Donald Markwell; Professor Stephen Nicholas, University of Melbourne; Deputy Warden and Dean, Dr Stewart Gill; and the Deputy Director of Trinity College Foundation Studies and Fellow of Trinity College, Ms Diana Smith.
The role of Drama in the core curriculum
Foundation Studies students and we should so plan our days as to make that a reality.
language of another culture necessitates learning the embodied language practices as well as verbal ones'.
One of the great events of College life is the foundation of friendships which last a lifetime. There is a chance for everyone to make friends across
There can be little doubt that the emphasis on drama creates a situation in which our international students can increasingly put their bodies in spaces appropriate to the language chosen.
the globe and in a world increasingly dominated by multi-national businesses and policies the opportunity is too good to miss.
The staff understand the need to develop personal relationships, to meet students through
Faith richness in any community can be seen as one of the avenues to combat ignorance, stereotyping and even fear. Trinity College
community activities, and through fun and games. Any true act of learning requires learning on both sides. It is easy to argue therefore that the presence
Foundation Studies brings to the College an increasingly strong sense of Islam alongside Buddhism and Hinduism and a wide selection of
of international students in Trinity has (i) caused staff to develop skills appropriate
Christian faiths. We cannot afford to miss out on the vast educational opportunities embodied in our inherent richness.
to the challenge of providing an excellent liberal foundation year to a group arising from a huge diversity of intellectual, faith and cultural traditions (ii) caused students to become aware of each others' cultural diversity and wealth. Whilst we, in Trinity College Foundation Studies, are able to engage fully in the riches provided in this way, there is much to be shared College-wide. There is a very real opportunity for the whole of
At a dinner held in the Sharwood Room for overseas representatives of Trinity College Foundation Studies were, from left, TCFS Admissions Officer, Ms Yvonne Au; TCFS Director, Mr Alan Patterson,'; TCFS Director of Admissions, Ms Alison Menzies; and Hong Kong representative, Ms Pancy Cheung.
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Trinity to be enhanced by absorbing the cultural, intellectual and faith richness of our Trinity
emphasises the fact that international students must make huge cultural leaps. Our Drama staff understand that `learning to use the spoken
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International Alumni Program Launched at Inaugural Dinner This year, the College has established an international alumni network for graduates of Trinity College Foundation Studies (TCFS). Almost 5000 graduates have now followed in the footsteps of the first TCFS students who celebrated their valediction in December 1990. Many of these former students have gone on to graduate successfully from the University of Melbourne, and other universities in Australia, and are now serving their communities in fifty-three different countries around the world. This alumni program is managed by the Director of International Alumni, a newly-created position within the College's Development Office. As a step in reconnecting all alumni with the College, there is now a Members and Friends website (www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au and follow the links) and an electronic newsletter to keep members in touch with College news and alumni events. It is hoped that all former students will access these facilities regularly. The major event in 2002 was the inaugural TCFS Members and Friends' Reunion Dinner and Awards Ceremony, held in Melbourne in July. Former students, enjoying their mid-year break from university studies, returned to the College for an opportunity to meet the Warden, Professor Donald Markwell, and the Director of Trinity College Foundation Studies, Mr Alan Pattersont, and to renew friendships with fellow students and staff. The highlight of the evening was provided by guest speaker and former member of Trinity College, Mr Carrillo Gantner, AO. Well-known as a philanthropist and leading advocate for international understanding, he is a graduate of Melbourne, Harvard and Stanford Universities and is currently Chairman of Asialink in the University of Melbourne. In his powerful address, he encouraged alumni to maintain their international focus, and drew on his own international experience and that of his wife, Zi Yin Gantner. (Extracts from this address appear on page 14-15.)
From the Director of International Alumni Greetings to all alumni of Trinity College Foundation Studies! We hope that you will enjoy staying in touch with each other and with the College. If you are in Melbourne, please contact us or visit us. Please come to the events that we will organise from time to time in, or near, your country. Let us know of your career news for this magazine - that way we can help you keep up to date with the many friends you met while you were studying at Trinity College. An online directory of alumni email addresses will help you maintain contact with each other as the years pass. Please encourage your friends to keep in touch also. You can update your contact details via the Trinity website (www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au and follow the links), email to rwebster@trinity.unimelb.edu.au or call me directly on +61 3 9348 7149. When you are next in Melbourne, please let me know. It will be great to see you. Rebecca Webster, Director of International Alumni Relations (Rebecca was formerly Director of Admissions for Trinity College Foundation Studies and a former resident student at Trinity.)
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Acting Up The use of drama within the curriculum of Trinity College Foundation Studies and its proven success in giving students the confidence to communicate their ideas more freely is now finding application in other areas. Two recent instances are outlined below.
Courtroom drama? In August and September 2002, Trinity College Foundation Studies (TCFS) joined with the University of Melbourne Law Faculty to run a series of six drama workshops for first-year law students. Designed and led by TCFS Lecturer-in-Charge of Drama, Stephan Faubel, the workshops aimed to increase students' confidence in presenting their own ideas and performing in front of others. The workshops were offered to students on a voluntary basis and a core group of twelve students from Australia and several other countries took part. The students participated in movement exercises, individual and group improvisations and self-devised performances. As was evidenced by a high level of ongoing attendance, the students enjoyed and appreciated the opportunity to explore ideas and express themselves in new ways. As one student commented, It was fun taking part in a tutorial where you were encouraged to be silly and say what was going through your mind, and to not be concerned about being judged. It gave me the confidence to express my ideas.' One of the activities undertaken during the final class saw students participating in an improvised re-telling of the story of Little Red Riding Hood in the style of a John Wayne and a Jackie Chan film. The performances were filmed on video, and two short films, complete with soundtrack and titles, were produced from the footage. Each of the students involved in the workshops received a digital copy of the films. These workshops illustrated how much of what is taught in the Drama Department at Trinity is applicable to students already studying at university. It was an excellent exercise in co-operation between the University of Melbourne Law Faculty and Trinity College.
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Intercultural Theatre Workshop Ms Rosemary Blight had been troubled by the lack of interaction between international and local Australian students in the university setting. However, her experience as a Drama Lecturer - Rosemary was one of the original members of staff who established Trinity College Foundation Studies - gave her an idea for an innovative solution. In May, Rosemary trialed a ninety-minute Drama Workshop for twenty-eight students. The unique aspect of this workshop was that it brought together Trinity College Foundation Studies students - from China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Indonesia, Taiwan, and Singapore - with Australian students, some of whom had recently migrated to Australia with their families, and others who were Australian-born. In collaboration with widely-acclaimed Australian actress Tracy Harvey, artistin-residence at Merrilands P-12 College in Reservoir, Rosemary structured the workshop to ensure that students from all groups could mix and interact, despite cultural differences. The emphasis was on having fun, laughter and getting to know each other. In order to address the challenge of communication, the workshop centred around mime and movement, with students breaking into groups and presenting their mime for the whole group. After a warm-up focussing on relaxation and energy, students were divided into mixed groups and given a problem to solve: a series of structures that had to be designed by and composed of a group of people. For example: how would five people represent an electric beater? Easy! A group of people weave together to become a container, one person in the middle is the `beater', and another person the switch! Other group designs included tables and chairs, a yacht, the human digestive system, a clothing shop and a headache. The highlight of the day was a virtual chat room session called `Bridging the Cultural Divide'. Students sat in pairs facing each other, with the width of the stage between them, typing on an imaginary keyboard and reading an imaginary computer screen. They sent each other messages: `Where are you from?' `Hong Kong. What about you?', moving closer to each other each time a message was sent and received. The climax of this exercise saw students sitting quite closely together conversing freely. Participants were delighted with this format and commented in their evaluation forms: `It felt great to know there was no sort of `friction' between us and we worked together. It's an experience I'll be able to share with family and friends.' The Australians were just as nervous as we were to meet them. I found this similarity comforting.' 'We walked in without a clue what was going to happen, yet, as equals, we worked together and crossed the cultural divide to complete the task or solve the problem. The best thing about the workshop, in my opinion, was there was no weirdness between us. We got along with each other as soon as we met.'
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Success of Trinity College Foundation Studies Students The inaugural Trinity College Foundation Studies Members and Friends' Dinner also included an awards ceremony to recognise the academic excellence of the Trinity graduates listed below. Prizes were awarded to the following students who all achieved an average above 95% in their best four subjects. February 2001 intake Anushia ASHOKAN, Malaysia Regina Sari BASUKI, Singapore CAO Xiao, China Brian CHANG Kuang Hsian, Malaysia Thiraphat CHATTHAWEESAK, Singapore Jad EL - BARHOUN, Lebanon Hilda HU Haoling, Singapore Ricky KURNIAWAN, Indonesia LEE Chih Feng, Malaysia LEONG Kai'en, Singapore (Dux of intake) LEUNG Siu, Hong Kong LIE Yenni, Indonesia LING Zhi Yi, China Michelle LOH Hui-lynn, Singapore Chatapiwa MOKGOPO, Botswana Adeline CHUING Chin Ying, Singapore HA Thi Van Chi, Vietnam (Dux of intake) Susan IRAWATI IE, Indonesia Davinia KHONG Jun Hui, Singapore LIU Jiaming, Singapore
Mohammed Yousef OMAR, United Arab Emirates 001 Wei Ming, Malaysia Flora PRAWIRA, Singapore Winnie SIM Huiyan, Singapore Krystal SONG May-Jii, Malaysia TAN Ying Fung, Malaysia TIAM Ker Hui, Malaysia WANG Lu, China Wirawati, Indonesia Karine Nair WONG, Malaysia Iris WONG Tsz King, Hong Kong Dennis YANG Guang, China Inggrid YAUWALUDDIN, Singapore ZHU Shuoqing, China
Fast Track 2001 intake LIM Amabel Jamie Bihui, Brunei Darussalam (Dux of intake) Denny Gozana ONG, Indonesia Stefanie TANUWIDJAJA, Indonesia TUNG Ka Ho, Hong Kong
July 2001 intake Alison Wehrmann Medals, for the highest Wendy Charles KO, Indonesia achievement in the subject of Environment and Development, were awarded to: Natalie TSO Wing Sze [Hong Kong, February Main], Davinia KHONG Jun Hui [Singapore, Fast Track] and YEUNG Pui Ki (Hong Kong, July Main]
Smiling stars: 430 staff, students and their friends attended
`Under the Stars
the 2002 Trinity College Foundation Studies Ball. Held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, this year's event had the theme, `Under
Trinity College Foundation Studies Ball
the Stars' and was voted an enormous success by this happy
1 November, 2002
group, and everyone else who attended.
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Environment and Development: Global Issues of the 21st Century
Environment and Development: Global Issues of the 21st Century is one of a selection of stimulating elective subjects offered at Trinity Foundation Studies. The Lecturer in Charge of this subject, Ms Rose De la cruz (pictured left, centre), and her team of lecturers are committed to inspiring passion for this subject in their students by taking them outside the classroom. By organising field trips, for example to beautiful cool temperate rain forests outside Melbourne, students are able to witness first hand the ways in which forests can be managed for people's enjoyment without compromising benefits to the ecosystem. Lecturers also take students to various spots on the Victorian coast, for the purpose of investigating coastal management, and the occasional swim (if it is warm enough!). Different suburbs of Melbourne are visited for contrast, and the local case studies assist to extend students' vision from a local to a global perspective. Students are exposed to the different ways in which people live in the world, the way they tackle environmental problems, and theories and practises of sustainability. Environment and Development is a subject that is particularly appealing for students who enjoy `getting out and about' and `learning on the go'. It especially nurtures a sense of community and fosters a genuine care for the world around us.
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Big Noise is the special Trinity Foundation Studies percussion experience. Here we see students from the July Main 2001 intake strutting their stuff!
How many of these facts about Trinity do you know? Trinity College has been home to resident and non-resident students of the University of Melbourne since 1872. The College's initial site was granted by the Government of Victoria to the Church of England in 1866, and the Foundation Stone of the first structure—now the Leeper Building—was laid in 1870 by the Bishop of Melbourne. In 1872 an Acting Principal (The Revd George William Torrance) was appointed to lead the new institution, and the first students were enrolled. Four years later, in 1876, Alexander Leeper was named first Principal—the title was changed to 'Warden' in 1881—and he served in that capacity until 1918, to be succeeded by: Dr, later Sir, John CV Behan (1918-1946); Mr Ronald WT Cowan (1946-1964); Dr Robin L Sharwood (1965-1973); Revd Dr Evan L Burge (1974-1997); and Professor Donald J Markwell (1997 to the present).
The forty-two Leeper years were distinguished by impressive growth. Several new buildings went up, the Trinity College Theological School was founded in 1877, and in 1883 women were first admitted as non-resident members of the College; three years later Trinity Women's Hostel (eventually to become Janet Clarke Hall) was opened, and women students were admitted to residence, making Trinity the first university college in Australia to welcome female students as full resident members. In 1961 Janet Clarke Hall separated from the College, but women students were admitted to Trinity on a co-residential basis in 1974.
In 1979 the institution was incorporated under the Trinity College Act and given a new constitution. The Trinity College Foundation was established in 1983, setting Trinity well ahead of its peer colleges in Australia in terms of fund-raising practice and capacity. In 1989, the then Warden, Dr Evan Burge, with the assistance of Trinity members created Trinity College Foundation Studies to attract and prepare able international students for degree courses at the University. The new program experienced significant growth in the decade to follow, reaching annual enrolments in excess of 800 and requiring the leasing of a number of buildings and spaces adjacent to the University campus.
Trinity College Foundation Studies helps to transform the lives of its students, who feel strongly attached to Trinity; has given Trinity College high prestige in many countries, especially in Asia; and has greatly strengthened the position of Trinity College within the University of Melbourne. Trinity Foundation Studies means that the College now employs a very large academic staff, who can increasingly enhance the education of all Trinity students, and has made possible the provision of very significantly better Library, information technology, and other facilities and services for all Trinity students than would otherwise be possible. Trinity's having so many students from around the world creates the opportunity, yet to be fully realised, of exposing our Australian students to a greater awareness of the wider international context in which their lives will be lived.
Throughout its distinguished history, the College has produced leaders for every sphere of Australian and international life. Among other areas, Trinity graduates have assumed significant roles in business, law, medicine, education, politics, and the Church, and other professions. It is a remarkable fact that the College has produced a total of thirty-five Rhodes Scholars during the last century.
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Other articles on philanthropy and developing Trinity appear in The Main Event section.
Medical Scholarships Dinner A dinner in March this year celebrated the establishment of three medical scholarships. The medical community was joined by other members and friends of the College, medical students and aspiring undergraduates. Particularly welcome were the McKenzie family and their many friends to support the Scholarship established in memory of physician, Ian McKenzie. The guests of honour were Their Excellencies the Governor—General and Mrs Hollingworth. Dr Hollingworth, who has long been a champion of medical research, gave the address and extracts are reproduced here: 'Ann and I are delighted to be with you here at Trinity tonight.. We are all here to celebrate and to support medicine at Trinity. Some of my oldest and closest friends studied medicine at Trinity and are here tonight. I know from my time in the College, studying alongside medical students, that it provides a wonderfully enriching environment in which medical students can live and learn. They are supported by the College's extensive medical tutorial program. They make lasting friendships with students of all disciplines. Their time at the College helps them to develop inter-personal skills within a community. And they are imbued with values for which the College stands, including - very importantly - the ideal of community service. It is in this context that we must recognise the contribution made by Trinity medicos to the greater good over many decades, a contribution founded upon the ideal of service to the community that is very much a part of the Trinity experience. During my first year at Trinity, I was one of around thirty students from here, and from Janet Clarke Hall, who participated in a workexperience program for the Brotherhood of St Laurence. We worked in slums, in a retirement
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village and in what was then the Kew Mental Hospital. It was an experience that was truly life-changing for me. Nearly fifty years on from that formative experience at Trinity, I am gratified to see that this awareness of social obligation, this splendid tradition of community service, continues to flourish at the College. Trinity also offers a college base to some of the most distinguished medical researchers who come to the University of Melbourne and its research institutes. These include, in recent years, Nobel Laureates Professor Peter Doherty and Professor Bert Sakmann. The college base for distinguished visiting researchers helps to underpin the medical research program of the University and affiliated institutes. I am delighted that Peter Doherty has decided to accept a full-time appointment here in the University of Melbourne. I am aware that Professor Doherty's vigorous support for the Trinity Medical Scholarships Appeal is driven by his recognition of the benefits of a college experience and education for medical students. Among the many Trinity names in all fields of specialist medicine, let me mention a muchloved individual whose name is honoured and remembered through a scholarship, now being endowed through generous gifts. Dr Ian McKenzie, a Trinity student from 1945 to 1950, was a physician of great humility and
What really happened, and why?
Major gift for research in economic history A generous benefaction aims to encourage rigorous research in economic history which questions conventional wisdom and seeks new empirical evidence and interpretations. Mr Bruce McComish — who becomes a Governor of the Trinity College Foundation — has made the benefaction, which will be used to fund prizes, scholarships, visiting lectures, and other initiatives to encourage the use of analytical and quantitative techniques to establish 'what really happened and why' in business, finance, national economies or the international economy. Mr McComish is a businessman and author of Antilogic: Why Businesses Fail While Individuals Succeed (John Wiley & Sons, London, 2001). He has agreed to the College's request that the fund be called the Bruce McComish Fund for Economic History.
Special guests at the Medical Scholarships Dinner in March included: (seated from left) Mrs Kym Markwell; Her Excellency Mrs Ann Hollingworth; His Excellency Dr Peter Hollingworth; the Dean, Dr Stewart Gill; Mrs Heather Gill; (standing from left) Professor Richard Smallwood; Dr Michael Long; Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne, Professor Alan Gilbert; and Mrs Carol Smallwood. commitment, and a revered teacher who, throughout his life, encouraged young people. He served as a medical tutor here for over twenty years, exemplifying all that is best in Trinity's medical tradition. Two quotes in the scholarship brochure especially struck me. My good friend Dick Smallwood is quoted saying: 'Trinity meant a lot to me. Living with students from many other disciplines was an ideal environment for broadening the outlook of a pretty immature medical student. These scholarships will provide a wonderful opportunity for us to support the talented young of tomorrow.' And Taffy Jones says, 'I don't believe that I would have got through my course without the help and support that was available at Trinity. The outstanding tutorial program together with the willingness of the more senior medical students within the College to help was invaluable.' These words sum up what I mean. They tell us of a fine and enduring record of medical education. They also demonstrate a culture of caring commitment, which I recall with gratitude from my own days at Trinity. Let us ensure that both continue to flourish.'
It is hoped that others will be interested in helping to advance the same purposes. The Trinity College Foundation will receive and gratefully acknowledge any further donations which may be made to this Fund or to support its purposes (eg through other named Funds). The Bruce McComish Fund is to be run by the College in close consultation with Mr McComish and the Dean of Arts and the Dean of Commerce and Economics at the University of Melbourne. The first initiative is a prize of $4,000 to be awarded in 2003 for the most original recent research in the field of Australian or international economic history undertaken in Australia or New Zealand. The Prize will be awarded for work of high academic quality and originality which fulfils the purposes of the Funds, and which may be published or unpublished. Further details of the Bruce McComish Prize are on the College's website at www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au/news The creation of the Bruce McComish Fund is an exciting move to give new life to the study of economic history, a significant discipline in understanding the world of today, and is an excellent partnership between a benefactor, the College, and the University of Melbourne.
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Supporting excellence at Trinity our donors who make all the difference In her words to toast the Founders and Benefactors of Trinity College this year, philanthropist and community worker, Mrs Louise Gourlay, OAM, recommended that everyone have on their list of organisations they support one which champions excellence. Trinity, she said, represents excellence for her and she was delighted that she and husband John had been able to support the College for many years. She threw the challenge out to the students and young graduates present to begin to support the College from which they gained so much, in order to leave it well supported for the next generation of students. These were inspiring words and a wonderful challenge! Philanthropic support for Trinity in 2001 was a record for the number of gifts from members and friends. The level of support reached the second highest level of giving ever through the Trinity College Foundation, and made a grand total of $863,863. Philanthropy has supported teaching and learning across all programs of the College. It has: • Supported students through the creation of further scholarships for talented undergraduates who might not otherwise be able to attend Trinity College. In 2001 over $240,000 was disbursed from endowments for scholarships, • Enriched teaching through the Visiting Fellows, who have been invited to contribute to the academic life of the College and who have come from throughout Australia and around the world, • Supported teaching through the creation of lecturerships and faculty support. • Improved the fabric of the College through refurbishment, and • Enlarged the general endowment of the College so it is made stronger and can respond better to opportunities and challenges in the future. The College acknowledges with gratitude the following individuals, companies, foundations and trusts for their generous support in 2001. As well, we are grateful to the donors who requested anonymity for their gifts. Those who gave gifts to the College from 1 January to 31 December 2002 will be recognised in the next edition of TRINITYToday in 2003.
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BUILDING FUND Timothy Baylis John Brown John Calder Lucy Carruthers Robert Colvin Terence Cook Peter Cudlipp Andrew Gourlay Andrew Guy Richard Guy Gerald Harding Graham Harris Charles Ingle James Kimpton Melinda Law James Lemaire James Madders Donald Markwell Douglas Meagher Michael Munckton Geoffrey Mustow Geoffrey Patience Geoffrey Pitcher Barrie Purvis John Ritchie Maxwell Schultz Ronald Selkirk James Selkirk Ben Wadham Anonymous 1 ENDOWMENT FUND Jonathan Adler Gwen Allen Peter Atcherley John Balmford David Beggs Janet Bell Thomas Blamey Charles Blandy Ian Boyd Gwyneth Britten Clive Brookes Richard Cherry Charles Clark John Clark Rupert Clarke Graham Cooke John Cotton William Cowan Trevor Currie Jonathan De Fraga Guillaume de Pury Martin Drerup Hubert Du Guesclin John Dudley David Elder Lorraine Elliott Archibald Ellis David Evans Neil Everist Bretton Forge Nicholas Freeman James Gardiner
Bruce Garratt William Gourlay John Gourlay Robert Grant Chester Gray James Gray Richard Green Frederick Grimwade Alan Gunther Peter Guy Leith Hancock Peter Hannah Ben Hasker Christopher Hennessy Anthony Hiscock Douglas Hocking Romayne Holmes Geoffrey Hone Matthew Horton Anthony Hunt Victor Hurley Rodney Irvine David Jackson Michael James James Jelbart Stewart Johnston Gradon Johnstone Gwenda Jones Warren Kemp William King Richard King Walter King George Koczkar Nicholas Langdon Elizabeth Litchfield Brian Loton Lachlan Mackellar Robert Mackie Donald Mackinnon Andrew Maughan Christopher Mitchell George Mitchell Charlotte Moffatt Adrian Monger John Monotti Clive Morris Philip Moss Norman Munro Kenneth Nelson Danielle Nichols John Oliver Richard Oppenheim Malcolm Park Amy Paton David Perrin Winton Phillips Vernon Plueckhahn Clare Pullar John Read Gary Richards Alan Richards Harold Riggall William Ross Elizabeth Roydhouse Marco Santini
Christopher Selby-Smith Elizabeth Sevior Geoffrey Shellam Michael Shoobridge Clive Smith Gwyneth Smith Adrian Smithers Isidor Solomon Frank Stephens David Stewart David Thomas Michael Thwaites Richard Trembath Nicholas Turnbull Catherine Veall Anne Ward Michael Webb Anna Webb Philip Weickhardt David Were Peter Williams Daryl Wraith John Zwar Anonymous 13 MUSIC FUND Thomas Adamson Bruce Addis John Beale Genevieve Binns Ellie Bird Jaunie Brown Julian Brown Ronald Browning Evan Burge Ann Burgess Nicholas Cable Andrew Cannon Fiona Caro Alan Chong John Clark Eirene Clark Rupert Clarke Adrienne Clarke Peter Clements Michael Collins Persse Diane Colman Nell Cooper Anne Court Josephine Cowan Rosie Creswell Robert Cripps Andrew Curcio Keith Doery Hayden Downing Moneta Eagles Edna Eggington Richard Elliott Helen Farrell Cameron Forbes Robert Frood Richard Gilmour-Smith Andrew Godwin Claire Gomm Chester Gray
Raymond Gregory James Grimwade Michael Gronow James Guest Alan Gunther Evelyn Halls Leith Hancock Patricia Hancock Davina Hanson Janet Harris David Hing Janet Horn Geoffrey Hosking Ian Potter Foundation Alastair Jackson Stewart Johnston Warren Kemp Alan Lane Cyril Lansell Ceri Lawley Michael Lempriere John Lester Brian Loton Margaret Mackie John Maidment Richard Malcolmson Donald Markwell William Maxwell Kay McLennan James Merralls Francis Milne George Mitchell Stanley Moss Norman Munro Elisabeth Murdoch Martyn Myer Joyce Newton Lara Nicholls Joan Nicholls Miklos Pohl William Pugh Margaret Purvis Barrie Purvis Ian Reid Margaret Rice William Ross Ann Rusden Robin Sharwood Peggy Shaw Alan Shaw Janise Sibly Richard Smallwood James Smibert Ian Southey Henry Speagle Denzil Sprague Hugo Standish Ninian Stephen Reginald Stock Stuart Stoneman Elsdon Storey Richard Sutcliffe Shirley Sutcliffe The George Hicks Foundation
Peter Tregear Richard Treloar Anthony Way R E Williams John Wion Erica Wood Anonymous 5 SCHOLARSHIP AND BURSARY FUND Charles Abbott David Abell Michael Adamson Richard Allen Stephen Alley Catherine Alston Martin Armstrong Elspeth Arnold Janet Arnold John Barton Patrick Bell Bell Charitable Trust Thomas Bostock William Brett Judith Brookes Graham Brown Noel Buckley John Calder Frank Callaghan Susan Calvert Barry Capp Norman Carlyon Robert Carter Robert Champion de Crespigny Peter Champness Anne Chenoweth Miltiades and Alkestis Chryssavgis John Churchill Jane Clark Arthur Clark Raymond Cleary Michael Clyne Frederick Coates Eric Cohen Sarah Cormie Anne Court Josephine Cowan Robert Craig Robert Cripps Lindsay Cuming James Cuming John Cuming Norman Curry David Curtis June Dalrymple David Danks James Darling Patrick Day Archer Des Cognets Peter Dohrmann Ronald Doig Hayden Downing Paul Elliott
Lindsay Ellis Harold Elphick John Emmerson Max Esser John Feltham James Fleming Donald Fleming Rosemary Foot Tamara Fraser Andrew Fraser Richard Freeman David Galbraith Simon Gaylard Charles Gelber Ernest Gilbert William Glen William Gourlay Rachel Gourlay James Grant Michael Gronow Andrew Grummet Brian Grutzner John Gubbins James Guest Peter Guthrie George Hale John Hambly Leith Hancock Davina Hanson William Hare Leonard Harlan Roger Harley Paul Harpur David Hay The late Alison Hay William Hayward William Heape Dale Hebbard Ian Henderson Robert Hilton Eric Hobson Beverley Hookey Stephen Howard Peter Howard Samuel Howes Peter Israel Georgina Israel David Jackson Robert Jamieson Stewart Johnston Donald Johnston Helen Joshua Lindsay Keating Prue Keith Bryan Keon-Cohen Nym Kim William Kimpton Nancy Kimpton Richard King John King Richard Larkins Dawn Leicester Ewan Letts William Lewis Wendy Lewis
Robert Lewis Elizabeth Lithgow Michael Long David Longmuir Peggy Lusink Francis Macindoe Isabel Mackenzie Alastair Mackenzie Catherine Mackenzie K W Mackinnon Peter Manger Ian Manning Donald Markwell Leigh Masel James McCracken Patricia McKenzie William McKenzie. Edwina McLachlan Gilbert McLean lain McLean Peter McMahon Robert Mellor William Meredith John Middleton Francis Milne Susan Mitchell Peter Mitchell Michael Moore Lynton Morgan Diana Morgan Nigel Morgan Sandra Morrison Edward Muntz James Murray Lara Nicholls Roderic O'Connor Suzanne Officer Frank Osborn Jeannine Paton John Patterson Penelope Pengilley James Perry Simon Phillipson Robert Pockley Philip Ponder Douglas Pope Jacob Poutsma John Poynter Roy Prentice Arthur Pulford Clare Pullar Richard Read Robert Reed Margaret Reid Donald Richardson Geoffrey Ripper Robert Robertson Philip Roff Belinda Roper Ian Roper Kingsley Rowan John Royle William Royston Robert Sanderson Peter Scott
Jocelyn Searby Robert Searls Robert Seymour John Shackell Charles Sitch Andrea Skinner John Skuja Graeme Sloman Alfred Smith Adrian Smithers Ann Sprague Douglas Stevens Robert Stewart Reginald Stock Thomas Stokoe Elsdon Storey Joy Streeton Nettie Stringer Richard Sutcliffe Susan Sutherland Ross Sutherland The Northern Hospital Medical Staff Association and Executive Michael Thwaites William Traill Michael Traill Richard Travers Nigel Tulloh Adaobi Udechuku John Upjohn John Valsinger Edward Vellacott Jitu Vohra Ben Wadham Hector Walker Rosalind Wallis Elizabeth Waters James Weatherly Geoffrey Webb Joan Wells Geoffrey Wigley Harold Wigley Paul Willows Philip Wilson Renn Wortley Tamara Wraith Michael Youl Anonymous 37 SPECIFIED FUND Julian Brown David Brownbill Colin Caldwellt Prue Conaghan William Cowan Robert Cripps William Edwards Thomas Elliott Arabella Georges Andrew Godwin Andrew Gourlay Michael Gronow Prue Keith Timothy Lindsey
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Our supporterts in the year 2001 continued Matthew McGuigan-Lewis George Pappas Alison Payne Perpetual Trustees Gregory Reinhardt Ian Savage Penelope Stewart George Stogdale Stuart Stoneman' Charles Thompson Brodie Treloar Adaobi Udechuku Anna Webb Paul Willows John Wylie Anonymous 2 THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL All Souls Opportunity Shop Susan Andrews The Anglican Diocese of Melbourne Rowena Armstrong Jeremy Ashton Frederick Bedbrook Janet Bell John Bodycomb Marcus Bogdan Elizabeth Britten Margaret Brown Margaret Campbell Sarah Chomley Christ Church South Yarra Christ Church Opportunity Shop Essendon David Cole Collier Charitable Fund Robert Cripps Keith Dempster Diocese of Ballarat Diocese of Wangaratta Thomas Elliott James Grant Andrew Grummet Hunter Harrison Ronald Henderson Holy Trinity Anglican Church Surrey Hills Kenneth Horn Walter Jack John Johnson Donald Johnston John Kollosche Stanley Kurrle Ceri Lawley Ernest Leslie Hany Levy Susan Lim John Liversidge Robert Long Bruce Macintosh Dugald McDougall Robert McMullin Melbourne Grammar School Roger Meyer Angus Mill 76 TRINITYToday Summer 2002-2003
Stanley Moss Philip Newman Glenda Owen Richard Pidgeon Meron Pitcher Keith Rayner Catherine Reichert Michael Reid Alexander Reid Ann Rusden Alan Sharp-Paul Henry Speagle St Agnes' Anglican Church St Aidari s Anglican Church St Aidans Ladies Guild St Albans Anglican Church St Andrew's Anglican Church St Francis in the Fields St George's Anglican Church St James' Anglican Church Andrew St John St John's Anglican Church East Malvern St Mark's Anglican Church Leopold St Michael's Anglican Church Kalorama St Peter's Anglican Church Box Hill St Stephen's Anglican Church Mount Waverley George Tung Yep David Warner Peter Wellock Geoffrey Williams Edward Witham Anonymous 12 ENDOWMENTS The College is deeply grateful to the following individuals who have supported Trinity College by establishing Endowments John Gourlay Endowment Fund Established in 1990 by John Gourlay Cheong Yu-Lin Endowment Fund Established in 1992 by Cheong Yu-Lin David Jackson Endowment Fund Established in 1992 by David Jackson GIFTS IN KIND Trinity extends sincere gratitude to those who gave a 'Gift in Kind' to the College in 2001 M A Bonfield Chris Creswell Peter Gebhardt Stewart Gill James Grant Andrew Grimwade Charles Helms Estate of Miss Valentine Leeper Eric Meadows Lara Nicholls Charles Parkinson Craig de Vos Angela Were
NEW SCHOLARSHIPS IN 2001 AND 2002 The Alfred Bird Theological Studentship Established by Mrs Ellie Bird, in memory of her husband. The Nancy Curry Choral Scholarship Established in 2001 by the Revd Dr Norman Curry AM in memory of his wife. Awarded annually to a second or subsequent year chorister. Peter Dennison Choral Scholarship Established in 2002 by Mr Robert Cripps AM to honour the memory of Professor Peter Dennison, Ormond Professor of Music at the University of Melbourne, a contributor to Musica Britannica, Chair of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Board of Management and Trinity's first officiallyappointed Director of Music, 1976 —1985. The N H M Forsyth Assistant Directorship of Music Scholarship Established in 2001 for a senior choral scholar who can make an outstanding contribution to Trinity's choral music program through both performance and administrative assistance to the Director. The James Grant Entrance Scholarship Established for an outstanding first-year student, preferably who is the first in the family to experience a university education and whose financial circumstances may not otherwise allow access to a college experience. Ken Horn Choral Scholarship Established in 2002 in memory of Ken Horn, former Mollison Librarian of the College, long time supporter of the Choir, and mentor of choral scholars. The David Jackson Scholarship (2) Established for a properly deserving alumnus of Anglican Church Grammar School, Brisbane. The Ian McKenzie Medical Scholarship Established in 2001 honouring the life and work Ian McKenzie, a much-loved physician and long-term medical tutor at Trinity. The scholarship supports the education of talented young men and women who are likely to contribute to the wider Australian community through medical practice, research or teaching. Alan Patterson International Scholarship A fund created in memory of Alan Pattersont to provide graduates of Trinity College Foundation Studies coming into residence as undergraduates at Trinity College. The John Wion Music Scholarship Given by an anonymous donor. The Nerida Wylie Scholarship Established in 2001 by Mr John Wylie in memory of his mother. For an outstanding student in any discipline whose education will benefit significantly from this scholarship.
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1944 Leader: Geoffrey Wigley Geoffrey Wigley 1 Anonymous 1945 Leader: Bruce Nelson Bruce Nelson Eric Cohen Robert Craig Stanley Kurrle Robert Sanderson John Zwar 1946 Leader: Stewart Johnston Stewart Johnston Stephen Alley Trevor Currie Gerald Harding Robert Mellor Stan Moss Alec Reid Henry Speagle David Warner 3 Anonymous 1947 Leader: Dick Potter Dale Hebbard Donald Mackinnon Robert Robertson 3 Anonymous 1948 Leader: John Poynter John Poynter John Balmford Graham Cooke Lindsay Cuming Donald Johnston 1 Anonymous 1949 Leader: Gordon Adler George Hale 1 Anonymous 1950 Leader: Brian Loton Brian Loton John Feltham James Grant John Johnson Mick Letts Michael Moore Bill Muntz Bill Royston Philip Wilson 2 Anonymous 1951 Leader: Maxwell Schultz Maxwell Schultz John Cuming Neil Everist Hector Walker Michael Webb 1952 Leader: Stephen Cherry Stephen Cherry Barry Capp John Clark Guill De Pury Adrian Monger Vernon Plueckhahn Barrie Purvis 1 Anonymous
1953 Leader: John Lester John Lester Roger Brookes David Danks Robin Gray Frank Milne Adrian Smithers Bill Traill 1954 Leader: Warren Kemp Warren Kemp John Gourlay Peter Pockley John Royle Clive Smith 1 Anonymous 1955 Leader: James Grimwade James Grimwade Ian Boyd Tony Hiscock John Skuja John Wion 1 Anonymous 1956 Leader: John Monotti John Monotti John Emmerson Kim Jelbart Geoffrey Mustow Philip Roff Geoffrey Webb 1957 Leader: Clare Pullar John Cotton William Heape Peter Manger Clive Morris Richard Read 1958 Leader: Charles Abbott Charles Abbott Peter Atcherley Tom Bostock Richard Green Graham Harris Christopher Hennessy Tony Hunt Richard King Robert Seymour 1 Anonymous 1959 Leader: Daryl Wraith Daryl Wraith Eric Hobson Gradon Johnstone 1 Anonymous 1960 Leader: Harold Riggall Harold Riggall David Abell John Calder Michael Clyne David Curtis Alan Lane Geoffrey Ripper 2 Anonymous
1961 Leader: John King John King Peter Clements Ronald Henderson Richard Larkins Alan Richards John Ritchie Chris Selby-Smith Edward Vellacott 1962 Leader: Richard Oppenheim Richard Oppenheim Geoff Shellam 1 Anonymous 1963 Leader: Will Kimpton Will Kimpton Sandy Clark Bill Cowan David Elder Richard Gilmour-Smith Geoff Hone David Longmuir Ian Manning John Oliver Alf Smith 3 Anonymous 1964 Leader: David Were David Were Ted Blarney Lindsay Ellis Ted Gallagher Simon Gaylard David Grutzner Peter Guy Richard Guy Ian Henderson Peter Howard David King Gary Richards 1965 Leader: Stephen Howard Stephen Howard Bill Blandy Graham Brown James Darling Alan Gunther Rob Mackie' Christopher Mitchell 1966 Leader: Andrew Guy Andrew Guy Rupert Clarke Hayden Downing Paul Harpur Bryan Keon-Cohen Philip Weickhardt 2 Anonymous 1967 Leader: James Selkirk James Selkirk Hubert Du Guesclin John Dudley Lachlan Mackeliar Rob Stewart 2 Anonymous
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Donors to the 2001 Annual Givin A peal continued 1968 Leader: Paul Elliott Paul Elliott Terry Cook James Fleming Brett Forge Andrew St John Richard Trembath 1969 Leader: Michael James Michael James Robert Colvin Philip Moss 1970 Leader: John Hambly John Hambly 1971 Leader: Peter Champness Peter Champness Rob Hilton John Middleton Philip Ponder 1972 Leader: Chris Roper Chris Roper John Churchill Victor Hurley Michael Munckton Peter Scott Ted Witham 1 Anonymous
1979 Leader: Andrew Cannon Andrew Cannon Gwen Allen Judy Brookes James Gray Dawn Leicester Elizabeth Litchfield Michael Traill Kate Veall 1 Anonymous 1980 Leader: Simon Phillipson Simon Phillipson Arabella Georges Andrew Maughan Alison Payne Penelope Stewart 1 Anonymous 1981 Leader: Clare Pullar Richard Allen Anne Chenoweth Marc Santini
1973 Leader: Renn Wortley Reran Wortley David Galbraith Elsdon Storey 2 Anonymous
1982 Leader: Clare Pullar Craig Brown Anna Webb Peter Wellock 2 Anonymous
1974 Leader: David Evans David Evans Alan Chong Max Esser Romayne Holmes John Shackell Bruce Thomas
1983 Leader: Bruce Garratt Bruce Garratt Lucy Carruthers Tony Way 1 Anonymous
1975 Leader: Clare Pullar Peter Cudlipp Janet Harris James Madders Edwina McLachlan 1976 Leader: Fred Grimwade Fred Grimwade Robert Carter Roger Harley Rod Irvine Peter Israel Frank Macindoe Jane Mackenzie 5 Anonymous 1977 Leader: Penelope Pengilley Penelope Pengilley Jane Clark Nicholas Gelber Peter Hannah Susan Lim Andrea Skinner Joy Streeton 1 Anonymous
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1984 Leader: Michael Gronow Michael Gronow William Gourlay Melinda Law Matthew McGuigan-Lewis Adaobi Udechuku 1985 Leader: William Gourlay David Beggs Fred Coates Robert Grant Matthew Horton Patrik Valsinger Erica Wood 1986 Leader: Scott Charles Janet Arnold Marcus Bogdan Thomas Elliott Nick Freeman Andrew Godwin Lara Nicholls Danielle Nichols Amy Paton Alan Sharp-Paul David Stewart
1987 Leader: James Ramsden James Ramsden Prue Keith Sue Mitchell 1988 Leader: Nicholas Langdon Nicholas Langdon Raymond Cleary Jonathan De Fraga Andrew Gourlay Nym Hamilton Leith Hancock George Stogdale 1989 Leader. Tammy Wraith Tammy Wraith 1990 Leader: Ben Hasker Ben Hasker Rachel Gourlay James Murray 1991 Leader. Jim Cuming Jim Cuming Betty Bracken David Perrin 1992 Leader: Paul Willows Paul Willows Prue Conaghan Ian Savage Ronald Selkirk Brodie Treloar 1993 Leader: Clare Pullar Jon Adler Peter Tregear 1998 1 Anonymous
Other Members and Friends Bruce Addis Susan Andrews Elspeth Arnold Jeremy Ashton Timothy Baylis Hampton Beale Fred Bedbrook Janet Bell Genny Binns John Bodycomb Elizabeth Britten Mary Britten Margaret Brown John Brown Ann Burgess David Cole Austin Day Keith Dempster Keith Doery Martin Drerup Moneta Eagles Lorraine Elliott Helen Farrell Bill Glen Andrew Grummet Leonard Harlan
Hunter Harrison Bill Hayward Beverley Hookey Charles Ingle Gwenda Jones Nancy Kimpton James Kimpton George Koczkar John Kollosche Ceri Lawley Hany Levy Wendy Lewis John Liversidge Bruce Macintosh Margaret Mackie Donald Markwell Dugald McDougall Iain McLean Roger Meyer Angus Mill George Mitchell Charlotte Moffatt St Francis Mooroolbark Philip Newman George Pappas Geoffrey Patience Jeannine Paton Richard Pidgeon Meron Pitcher Geoffrey Pitcher Miklos Pohl Bill Pugh Arthur Pulford Clare Pullar Keith Rayner John Read Margaret Rice Elizabeth Roydhouse Ann Rusden Elizabeth Sevior Gwyneth Smith Ian Solomon Douglas Stevens Nettie Stringer Holy Trinity Surrey Hills Charles Thompson George Tung Yep Rosalind Wallis 9 Anonymous
Annual Giving Appeal Grand Total $129,414
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Gifts to the Leeper Library The Leeper Library gratefully acknowledges the generosity of Trinity members who have given books to the collection recently. Mr Paul K Cooper sent a generous offering of more than forty law books, including a leather-bound volume of Blackstone's Guide to Australian Legal Books 1986-1990 edited by himself. A further twenty LAAMS publications of law seminar papers were also sent. These deal with presentations of current legal issues. Mr John and Mrs Sandra Wilson continue to keep our runs of the TCD and Oxford journals up to date. Judge Peter Gebhardt continues to be exceedingly generous to the Leeper Library and sent a further forty titles from his personal indigenous library. These included For the record: 160 years of Aboriginal print journalism edited by Michael Rose (with a foreword by Marcia Langton), Black inside: 6 indigenous plays from Victoria, and Josephine Flood's Rock art of the Dreamtime. Martin Flanagan's In sunshine or in shadow was also a gift from Judge Gebhardt, who signed the book in memory of the Public Forum held during Kim Scott's visit in August. Justice Frank Iacobucci, Judge of the Supreme Court of Canada, presented a copy of The Supreme Court of Canada and its Justices 1875-2000 on the occasion of his visit in October. This year we have been very fortunate to receive several large donations of theological works of excellent quality. Over 300 books from the research library of the late Revd Peter Julian White has provided us with scholarly works in excellent condition, many of which were first editions. We also received 143 titles from the Revd Robert Houghton's personal library in March that included several current political biographies, and Hebrew grammar texts, as well as core Anglican theological books. Mr Henry Speagle, OAM, gave copies of Francis I. Andersen's Habakkuk and Arthur Middleton's Fathers and Anglicans: the limits of Orthodoxy. These are a valuable acquisition to the theological section of the Library. The Revd Dr Craig De Vos, lecturer in Theology, presented a copy of John Barton's Joel and Obadiah and Befit Olam: studies in Hebrew narrative and poetry: Psalms by Konrad Schaefer. Dr Stewart Gill kindly presented The Scottish Church in Victoria 1851-1901 by C. Stuart Ross, published in 1901. The Revd Dr David Cole offered Abide with me: the world of Victorian Hymns by Ian Bradley. A copy of Robert TrumblĂŠ s Kenneth Thorne Henderson: broadcaster of the world, was presented by Dr. Margaret Henderson, Kenneth Henderson's daughter. This monograph is signed by the author. A copy of Saints by the sea: St Peter's Anglican Church in Mornington 1861-2001 was presented to the Mollison Library after Bishop Grant launched the book for the parish. The Bishop also presented the Library with a copy of The church mission society and world Christianity, 1799-1999, edited by Kevin Ward. This volume was published to mark the bicentenary of the Church Mission Society. Other gifts include a copy of Links with other days, a beautiful book of pen drawings by Herbert Moore, published in 1927, Bunyan's Choice Works by James Semple, 1864, and Peter Anson's The building of churches, 1964, and a copy of John Tonkin's Cathedral and community: a history of St George's Cathedral Perth. We are very grateful for Bishop Grant's kindness.
Dr Desmond McDonnell, a former Trinity College student, was happy to give a copy of his doctoral thesis, An intractable institution: a textual study of the report of the Royal Commission into New South Wales Prisons 1978 and prison reform policies in NSW 1978 to 1998. Mr Michael Gronow donated a copy of Sir Robert Randolph Garran's Prosper the Commonwealth published in 1958 and now out of print. Mr Chester Eagle sent copies of his own publication, The centre and other essays. Ms Catherine Herrick sent a copy of the Supplement to a collection of Cambridge mathematical examination papers; as given at the several colleges. Part I containing papers in Pure Mathematics, published in 1832. The book is inscribed with Bishop Charles PerrĂż s name and bears his bookplate. The book had been held in the old Victorian Education Department Library and was fortunately deemed more appropriate for our collections. Mr Charles Parkinson, a non-resident student since 1998, sent two papers that had been accepted as refereed journal articles. 'The 1875 Constitutional Crisis in Victoria' was published in the Journal of Australian Colonial History, and 'The Early High Court and the Doctrine of the Immunity of Instrumentalities' appeared in the Public Law Review. A recent student of architecture, Mr Peter Badger, presented a beautiful edition of Robin Boyd: a life by Geoffrey Serle as a memento of his fond memories of his time spent at Trinity College. Ms Georgina Smibert, also a leaving student, donated six current computing and management textbooks. Ms Belinda Wong, a former residential tutor, donated six current text books on economics. Several Sothebys and Deutscher Menzies art catalogues from Mr Lachlan Edwards, a resident student, will be catalogued and held in the Library for the use of all members of Trinity College. Interesting memorabilia was also given to the Leeper Library this year. Two Victor Cobb etchings, Trinity College, and the "College Oak" and the Entrance, Trinity College, Melb. University were donated by Mrs Lesley Williams. We were also very excited to receive a blazer, in excellent condition, that was worn by Mr George Haydon, a resident of Trinity College in the early 1920s, from Mrs Elspeth Hallowes. His three daughters, Anne, Elspeth and Peta Haydon were residents of Janet Clarke Hall during the 1950s and 1960s.
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The Governor-General of Australia, Dr Peter Hollingworth, a Fellow of Trinity College, met with students from around the world at the Trinity College Foundation Studies Valedictory Ceremony on 4 December 2002 at the Melbourne Town Hall. From left: Town Hall attendant, Lerato Letsamao (Botswana), Ellyana Cendana (Indonesia), Mak Sue Ann (partially obscured) (Malaysia), Dr Hollingworth, Otsilie Matshaba (Botswana), Fatma Al Malrizi (Oman), William lndrawan (Indonesia), Wong Chun Him Marius (Hong Kong).
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