Farewell and thank you! According to the Australian Institute of Business: ‘On average, today’s Australian employee changes jobs 12 times throughout their life, with an average tenure of 3.3 years.’ Between them, these three staff members, who are retiring at the end of this year, have over 103 years of service to Trinity! We acknowledge and express our deepest gratitude to Rohan Brown (33 years), Kate Hall (35 years) and Michelle Stanic (36 years) for their loyalty and dedication to the students of this school. While longserving staff members are always acknowledged in The Mitre, Trinity’s yearbook, The Trinity Grammarian reaches the wider Trinity community and seemed an appropriate forum for Rohan, Kate and Michelle to reflect on their time at the school. All are characteristically understated about the numerous roles they have held and the significant impact they have had.
I have always taught Mathematics and coached two sports, football and volleyball, as well as organising loads of camps and rafting trips. I have thoroughly enjoyed every aspect of school: the boys, staff, Old Boys, parents both past and present. Thank you to the Headmasters and Principals I have worked for and with and thank you to all the teaching and administrative and maintenance staff with whom I have shared the journey. If I had my time again, I would not change a thing and, I would probably make some of the mistakes again too. There is a little bit of green and gold in my blood and a little bit of me in Trinity. Thank you for a most satisfying career and I hope to see many Old Boys, parents and past staff at Bulleen or at reunions. I would like to apologise to my kids and my wife for being a Deputy Headmaster at home as well as at school.
Rohan Brown Staff Member since 1989 How do you write something about yourself? It was a gamble in 1988 to accept a teaching position at Trinity when it was offered by Mr Marles. I had also been offered a position at Scotch: imagine that, I could have been a Scotchie! It has been a marvellous 33 years with still a year of long service leave to take, but you have to know when the time is right to finish up. Rohan Brown after a Senior School Assembly
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Michelle Stanic Staff Member since 1986 26/5/1986 – now that is a date I will never forget. I clearly remember walking into the P and F Hall with the entire TGS staff (yes, the whole staff could be seated in there with room to spare). We listened to the address of Mr Don Marles, the Headmaster who had recently appointed me. I wondered if Trinity and I would be a good match, and if I had enough to offer. Fast forward (showing my age) to 2021 and almost 36 years later, and I contemplate what has been an exceedingly happy, exciting, challenging, opportunity-rich and diverse career. I am grateful to record in print my sincere and eternal thanks to Barbara Argall (my first Music teacher who insisted I apply for the position at TGS), Suzanne Brimacomb (Director of Music,
