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DOWNING COLLEGE ASSOCIATIONA SSOCIATION M EMBERS D OWNUNDERBy John Hicks (1955), President.In December 2011 my wife Janet and I paid one of our periodic visits to Australia,her home country. For the third time we were able to meet some of the dozenor so Downing Association members living in Western Australia. We joinedBrian Trenbath (1954), Michael Crouch (1954) and Cecil Walkley (1948) onemorning in the Botanical Café in a delightful setting in King’s Park, overlookingthe City of Perth which can be seen in the background of the photograph. Cecilwas the subject of a piece in Magenta News 2011 and he is still as active. Thelocal arrangements had been made by Jeff Bowen (1961) who, unfortunatelyfrom our point of view, happened to be out of the country on holiday at thetime. Coincidentally the West Australian Branch of the Cambridge Society wereholding a cocktail party in the same week to which they kindly invited us. Therewe met Alan Berens (1934) who was unable to join in the Association gathering.Earlier in the year he had moved from Melbourne to Perth to live with his familyfollowing an injury. He was in very good heart and from the photograph youwill see that he sported his Association tie.Association members in Perth, Western Australia, December 2011: l-r: John Hicks, Michael Crouch,Brian Trenbath, Cecil WalkleyAfter Perth we moved east to Victoria where, in Melbourne, we had arrangedto meet our Past President, Gwyn Bevan (1948). He very sensibly had opted tospend the worst of the UK winter there. The weather we encountered this yearboth in the east and west of Australia was most unconventional. We landed in16