Gryphon 1962 - Adm.monash.edu.au

EDITORIAL" What you have to say I will wit h patience hear,and find a tim e bo t h me et to h ear a nd a nswe r suc hh igh things. Till then , my nobl e friend, che wup on this ."-Sh ak espeare.Du rin g the com plex pr ocesses of tr ansformi ngream s of illegibl e scrawl inro a m agazin e wo rt hyo f bea rin g t he nam e "G ryp hon" , we ha ve o flenhad occasio n [Q refer lO previou s issues to see howo u r " p redecessors" had overcome some o f th e prob ­lem s t hat arise. As a b y-product of our researchwe ha ve gai ned a co nside rable in sigh t into thehi story of th e ma gazioe.It appear s that back in 1947 a group of eage ryo u ng chroni cle rs pr oceeded to record for po steriryaccounts of a ll th e ch aracters, eve nts, incide n ts,occasions, a nd achi evem ents th at co ns t iru ted lifea t a sma ll T echn ical School - which was, at th attime, still nursing its first Senior Students throu ghto Diploma stand ard . Since th en the Gr yphon hasp roceed ed to ca p tu re and p reser ve, in its o wnmodest fashion , some of t he echoes from rh e so undsof eac h pa ssing yea r. It continues to a lter, expa nd,a nd p rogress as lh e Co llege it serves alters, expands,a nd p rogr esses, but its purpose rem ains, an d willforever rema in en tirely unchanged .T he G ryp ho n is p roduced sole ly to p ro vid e foryou a pe rm anent reco rd of your sojo urn a t Ca ulfield. In it we en deavour to imbue a gene ra l crosssectiono f the studen ts a nd their th ou gh ts, for thismagazine is not in tended to be rea d and th end isca rded, but rathe r to be re ad then put asi de forfut u re ref er ence - [or, l.ike wine, its value in cr easeswith age. If, in some years hen ce, you come acrossthis musty old mag azin e in th e back corner of acu pboard , and it manages to stir up the sm allestno stal gic m em or y, t he n we sh all co nsider that th et ime we spe n t beating o u r heads against th e wallwas well Justifi ed . logical English .But let 's "go on with th e show" as the o ld say inggoes, and so, with on ly a short pause to th an k~\I I". Ri ch ards o f i h« Englis h sta ff for his pai nstakingan d in valuable assis ta nce , Mrs. Newcom befor the wonderfu l jo b done in typ ing a ll ou r co pies,a nd the usu al sm a ll number o f people who do th cusual eno rmo us a mo un t of work, we blowout allth e candles o n the ca ke an d presen t you with th eFifteenth Ann ual Edition of th e Gryp hon._..Graeme Carroll, Don Brown.ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSIf [or some unknown reason, Mr . Richards (ofthe Eng lish Dept.), was unable to correct yourrevision papers th en it is almost ce rt a in that hewas correcllng, and pe rhaps even rewriting, materialfor this year's G rypho n. If during the exa msYOll saw someone peek ou t from behind a stack ofga lley p roofs, th en you can bet >our bottom dollarit was Mr. Richards. Thanks once again.,\-[1". Wi shart, ou r photogr apher, is an oth er persond eserving of o u r th anks as, once again this year,he has gone ou t o f h is way ( 0 take exc ellen t photograp hs of th e college organization s. Our th anks area lso extended to Hughes and Son Pry. Ltd. for thebl ock s and to Too ron ga Press for th e p rinting.Fine job s.Thanks al so to the ed itor's friends, th e contriburors, th ose people who sa w fit to ta ke someof th e burden off our sho u ld ers . Wi lh olll youth ere would be no magazine .Fo r the second year in succession we, the edi to rs,wis h to th ank M rs. Ne wcombe and her comm erc egir ls (a di ffer en t lot this yea r) for volun teeri ng totype our th e ma gazin e. Thanks to th ese fairmaiden s of room 26 wh o, under th e astute leadershipo f Mrs. Newco m be , man aged to translate th eream s of ill eg ible manuscripts in to reada ble and3