Gryphon 1962 - Adm.monash.edu

Ja n m an . Co n fuse d abou t th e Symphony Orch estra
and Elijah's Chosen Six. URIAN DELLA­
PIETRA: Ever y morning-c-t'Thn t horry. I'm lat e..·.
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T he rei n is th c epitaph o f twelv e br ill iant you ng
men, the crea m of [h e College , th e el it e, th e
upper crust of the Ca u tec Intelligentsia , th e nuclei
of a ll bri ght, witty a nd intell ectual tho ug h t, thc
tlD Chem ists. T hrougho ut this year o f grace on e
th ousand nine hundred a nd six ty-two th e aforemention
ed chemists belliger ently strove for and
ob tai ned kn owl ed ge in all th e im por ta nt sciences.
Und er the b rilliant () ju risprudence and lead ersh
ip o f :\'Ir . J ohn Ry an , th ey attacked with
fe rvent vigour a nd bo un d less cnergy th e deep an d
interest in g su bject of O rganic Che m istry. Although
th e practi cal classes (re m in iscent to somc of Australia's
iron oxide industries) began officia lly at
th e unearthly hour of 8.00 a.m., the class sta lwa rts,
Gra ha m Roseman and Phillip Sm ith, often manage
d to arr ive before its concl us ion at 11.00 a .m .,
the Department o f Supply and the Ed uca tion
Department, respective ly, arc ob ta in ing tw o very
val ua ble asse ts in th cse lad s.
Per severa nce, and iron will an d V.,,,. a llo wed
Mr. Allan Davies to di vu lge a few of the seeming ly
well-kept secre ts of Ph ysical Che m istry a nd T cch.
Che mis try A to us th is year. Initially, Mr. Davies'
ambition was LO hav e all Phys. Chc rn. ex pe ri men ts
in on t im e, he has since m odified thi s intention
a nd now asse rts tha t th ey sho u ld be handed in .
T he capable h ands of M r. Geoff. Ri chards nor
only produced a first -class R evu e this yea r bur
g uid ed us through th e many mysteri es o f cont emporary
ph ysics. As a res ult it is feared that while
WinslOlI Boa rd is a tte m p tin g to disrupt th e Atomic
Ene rgy Commission and hence ~cgo tia tc th c ba n .
nin g of th e homb, ot hc r lcss e thic al cl ass members
arc in th e p ro cess o f isolating eno ugh of the
appropriate Alra ni u m isotope to manufacture wh at
has been called "a curren t popular size nuclear
device",
It has bccn Mr. Harvey Billing's unfortunate
d u ty to in st ru ct us in th c various technol ogical
as pec ts of fat s, oils and waxes. Vcr y interesting,
indee d, 11'/1'. Bill ing.
W e're to ld th at th e Pavilion hou sed Science
Germa n classes on friday aft e rn oon wi th a Mr s.
Segal. We're so rry we d id n' t kno w a bo u t them
ea rlier , rnaam . T his ma y ha ve assu re d some at ­
tendan ce.
En u me ra ting th e che m ists th ems el ves in a little
more det ail , we ha ve:
Roger F. Ba ile y, a chem ist of some cali b re and
a tennis cha m pion of equal sta nd ing . Ea r lier in
th e year, during a momen t of brilliant in sp iration
Roger expressed hi s di staste for th e new in te rior
decor of thc Chemistry Lab. b y perman ently
cha ngi ng th c cciling above hi s ben ch. Cha rleston,
Ph ys. Che m . exa ms . Organic Preps. and th e wav e
nature of golf balls arc his o ther int er ests.
Ncxt we have Gc off. Beaumont; Ceofl. ha s a
:\/ orr is, Geoff. has a Pam ella, Ge off. has more
th ou ghts of Pa rne lla [han he does of Che m istry.
I wo nde r if th e ti me he spends between an d
bef ore classes is ac tua lly used in n u tt ing Llp P hysics
expe r ime n ts.
A little has already been said of Winston Boord,
a lot mo re cou ld be sai d , bu t wc must th ink of
defa ma tio n of character a nd a ll that. Winston is
vio lent ly anti-Americ an and would sit on the steps
of the U.S. Co nsu la te all night to prove it . It has
been thought th at he p ossesses an ob session for
a lcoho l-gin-sq uashes WIthout an y soda-water or
lemon. H e had a sma ll ba r built into hi s flying
suit a nd a la rgc on e into his Morgan.
It 's no wonder T a tu ra rid th em selves o f Bob
Miranda. You co ul d base the scripts for a wh ole
series of the "Un to ucha bles " solely on h is esca ­
pades. Seriously, tho ugh, he has no more vices
th an an y normal person: Race horses, holding a
hook on dogs, tro ts, Football , swo rd fighting .. .
you nam e it , he'll bet on it; he ha s a few other
weak points likc smoking, drinking, wom en , a nd
d ri vin g h is father's H olden.
D uring th e ti me tha t "Scab" (Bob Northausen)
was not being subjugated by Mr. Marshall, he
managed to hold the 1962 R cvu c audien ce spell ­
bound. Bob, d ea r boy, th ey weren 't a ma zed at
you r talent ed pi ano playing but your haircut.
The first sem ester provided us wi th but few
fleeti ng glim pses o f T om O 'Bri en and hi s new
H illman . However, as fate would ha ve it, he
retu rned to our m id st for th e second hal f, minus
o ne ca rt ilagc and plus one pipe.
What becom es of ruet ho-drinkcr s a nd Xa verians
is now popular knowledge a mo ng th e chemists;
th ey becom e S.R.C. reps ., or Cau tec Che mists, the
bad ones like Frank Pi el e end lip as both. Brutus,
as he is affection ately referred to , ha s a ser ious
pr oblem but H e's paid us 100 much to print it.
Gr a ha m Roseman could say much ab ou t the
handling of a particular n .M. C. automob ile over
long di stances, but h is strengt h of charact er prevents
hi m from u sing p rofan it y. G ra ham foll ow ed
R ich mond, righ t up u n til th e tim e Ca rlton a nd
U nited bought them OU l.
G raha m Rutherford's father owns an orch a rd ,
but several of th e ch emists ha ve grounds to suspect
th at in hi s a bse nce Gra ha m turns it in to a women
ranch . Oh! this lech er ou s life of d eb auchery,
Co lin Shingle to n has taken on his shoulders th e
tremendou s task of maintaining Austro-Amcrica n
relation s. Mainl y because o f his ahility to get out
of th e sticky situations in which he om ino usly
finds himself, he ha s ch osen to enter t he a dhesive
ficld.
Ph illi p Sm ith: th e norma l do mi na t ing, flamboyant,
turgid Phillips; th is yea r he saw th e light,
he has d roppcd maIlY of his left ist tenden cies.
wh at say you Sm ythe .. . " to hell with the Prolerariat
".
By virtue of h is in iti al s (a nd hi s position in
yac ht races), Ken Wall ace rates last place in this,
our ep itaph. KCIl, in partnersh ip with his father,
sails an Atunga-a class of ca ta mara n, and during
the GI ·6 3 season proposcs to skipper it through
many a fleet, mayb e eve n J.J :~ . To thc bluer eonstern
a tion of h is fellow students, Ken is a n ex cellent
scho lar.
So ends th e sto r y of th e first che m ists to fulfil
th e requ irements o f a Chemistry Diploma in the
precin cts of Ca utec. May th eir na mes be pres erved
etern a lly in the archives of ou r glorious College.
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