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GIFTS TO THE CULTURAL COLLECTIONS

Karolyn Baulch (TC

1979)

Seven photographic prints documenting the 1979 Juttoddie.

Canterbury Fellowship

Chapel ware and ephemera pertaining to the Fellowship’s shared use of the College Chapel from late 1956 through until July 2019, including a ciborium purchased in 1975 and engraved with the names of Fellowship contributors as well as photographs showing the Henty font in situ in the Lady Chapel at St John’s Latrobe Street, Melbourne, in the mid-1950s.

Andrew Bostock

A leadlight panel depicting ‘Katherine’, from the artist William Montgomery’s (1850-1927) ‘Shakespeare’ oriel window in the Brighton mansion ‘Norwood’, c. 1891 (demolished 1955). Eight other panels from this oriel window were acquired by the Fourth Warden Robin Sharwood and installed in the Clarke and Bishops’ buildings in the 1960s.

Tim van Gelder (TC 1996)

Set of six metal goblets engraved on the bowl TCAC DINNER 98, acquired from the Trinity Associated Clubs Dinner held that year.

Ben Hasker (TC

1993)

Forty-three photographic prints loaned for digitisation relating to the donor’s time in residence during the early 1990s.

Owen Forrest

Three photographic prints loaned for digitisation depicting the Sandford Sisters, four of the five who it is understood served as female domestic staff at Trinity during the late 1920s and ‘30s. The lender’s great grandmother was Frances Maud Sandford, known as ‘Nance’.

Andrew Darby

Trinity College green felt pennant, c. 1940, belonging to donor’s father, Geoffrey Darby (TC 1940).

Meaghan Wilson-Anastasios Darby

Rodmil-produced Trinity College blazer, c. 1987, belonging to the donor’s late father, William ‘Willie’ Wilson (TC 1961) along with a copy of the card-mounted photographic print of the 1963 whole-of-college photograph.

Robert Pratt (TC 1962)

A card-mounted photographic print of the 1962 rugby team photograph.

Catherine Tiernan

A large selection of photographs depicting donor’s father, alumnus and later Archbishop Robert Dann (TC 1943), 9th Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne. Several early card-mounted whole-ofcollege photos, and a group photo of Ridley College, dating from the mid1940s alongside transcripts of a series of sermons given on ABC radio during the 1960s by Dann.

David Elder (TC 1963)

Seventeen digital image files depicting the Gentlemen’s Cricket Match held on the Bulpadock in 1966.

Robyn Lea (TC 1989)

Photographic negatives loaned for digitisation relating to a commissioned series of photographs taken of College ‘personalities’ in 1997 by the donor, themselves a college alumna, by Fifth Warden the Revd Dr Evan Burge.

Cecil ‘Boz’ Parsons (TC 1937)

Biography of Cecil ‘Boz’ Parsons (TC 1937), written by fellow Geelong Grammarian Neville Clark in partnership with Boz’ son, William ‘Bill’ Parsons. Signed copy presented to the Rusden Curator upon visiting Boz in late October 2022, shortly after he celebrated his 104th birthday. Inscribed on title page, blue biro: ‘For Trinity College / Best wishes / Boz Parsons / 26.10.22.’

Elspeth Hallowes (JCH 1953)

Fifty-one high-resolution digital images of college and its environs, photographed from an album loaned by Ms Elspeth Hallowes (JCH 1953), daughter of the late George Haydon (TC 1920).

PDG

High-resolution digital renders of the proposed 611 Elizabeth Street development with Trinity College branding on the southern tower.

Jill Ross-Perrier

Two exercise books belonging to, and signed on the cover by, John Ross-Perrier (TC 1955), dating to his student years in the 1950s. One is titled ‘General History I’ and marked in print in the l.r. corner ‘No.1’ while the other is for English, and marked l.r. corner ‘No.2’. Both have the University of Melbourne crest printed centrally on the cover.

Bill Gillies (TC

1974)

An assortment of College ephemeral items, including invitations and dinner menus pertaining to a range of college events held throughout the mid-1990s into the early 2000s.

Dr Ben Thomas (TCTS 2022)

Sterling silver trophy, engraved on the foot ‘Presented to Alexander Leeper, by the Students of Trinity College, November 1917’ and engraved on the bowl with the crests of the University of Melbourne and Trinity College. Hallmarked London, 1913.

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