Gryphon 1962 - Adm.monash.edu.au

Ja n m an . Co n fuse d abou t th e Symphony Orch estraand Elijah's Chosen Six. URIAN DELLA­PIETRA: Ever y morning-c-t'Thn t horry. I'm lat e..·.8DT he rei n is th c epitaph o f twelv e br ill iant you ngmen, the crea m of [h e College , th e el it e, th eupper crust of the Ca u tec Intelligentsia , th e nucleiof a ll bri ght, witty a nd intell ectual tho ug h t, thctlD Chem ists. T hrougho ut this year o f grace on eth ousand nine hundred a nd six ty-two th e aforementioned chemists belliger ently strove for andob tai ned kn owl ed ge in all th e im por ta nt sciences.Und er the b rilliant (?) ju risprudence and lead ership o f :\'Ir . J ohn Ry an , th ey attacked withfe rvent vigour a nd bo un d less cnergy th e deep an dinterest in g su bject of O rganic Che m istry. Althoughth e practi cal classes (re m in iscent to somc of Australia'siron oxide industries) began officia lly atth e unearthly hour of 8.00 a.m., the class sta lwa rts,Gra ha m Roseman and Phillip Sm ith, often managed to arr ive before its concl us ion at 11.00 a .m .,the Department o f Supply and the Ed uca tionDepartment, respective ly, arc ob ta in ing tw o veryval ua ble asse ts in th cse lad s.Per severa nce, and iron will an d V.,,,. a llo wedMr. Allan Davies to di vu lge a few of the seeming lywell-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 tsin on t im e, he has since m odified thi s intentiona 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 noronly produced a first -class R evu e this yea r burg uid ed us through th e many mysteri es o f cont emporaryph ysics. As a res ult it is feared that whileWinslOlI Boa rd is a tte m p tin g to disrupt th e AtomicEne 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 membersarc in th e p ro cess o f isolating eno ugh of theappropriate Alra ni u m isotope to manufacture wh athas been called "a curren t popular size nucleardevice",It has bccn Mr. Harvey Billing's unfortunated u ty to in st ru ct us in th c various technol ogicalas 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 ScienceGerma 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 themea 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 littlemore det ail , we ha ve:Roger F. Ba ile y, a chem ist of some cali b re anda tennis cha m pion of equal sta nd ing . Ea r lier inth e year, during a momen t of brilliant in sp irationRoger expressed hi s di staste for th e new in te riordecor of thc Chemistry Lab. b y perman entlycha ngi ng th c cciling above hi s ben ch. Cha rleston,Ph ys. Che m . exa ms . Organic Preps. and th e wav enature 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 moreth 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 dbef ore classes is ac tua lly used in n u tt ing Llp P hysicsexpe 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 ofdefa ma tio n of character a nd a ll that. Winston isvio lent ly anti-Americ an and would sit on the stepsof the U.S. Co nsu la te all night to prove it . It hasbeen thought th at he p ossesses an ob session fora lcoho l-gin-sq uashes WIthout an y soda-water orlemon. H e had a sma ll ba r built into hi s flyingsuit a nd a la rgc on e into his Morgan.It 's no wonder T a tu ra rid th em selves o f BobMiranda. You co ul d base the scripts for a wh oleseries of the "Un to ucha bles " solely on h is esca ­pades. Seriously, tho ugh, he has no more vicesth an an y normal person: Race horses, holding ahook on dogs, tro ts, Football , swo rd fighting .. .you nam e it , he'll bet on it; he ha s a few otherweak points likc smoking, drinking, wom en , a ndd 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, hemanaged to hold the 1962 R cvu c audien ce spell ­bound. Bob, d ea r boy, th ey weren 't a ma zed atyou r talent ed pi ano playing but your haircut.The first sem ester provided us wi th but fewfleeti ng glim pses o f T om O 'Bri en and hi s newH illman . However, as fate would ha ve it, heretu rned to our m id st for th e second hal f, minuso ne ca rt ilagc and plus one pipe.What becom es of ruet ho-drinkcr s a nd Xa veriansis now popular knowledge a mo ng th e chemists;th ey becom e S.R.C. reps ., or Cau tec Che mists, thebad ones like Frank Pi el e end lip as both. Brutus,as he is affection ately referred to , ha s a ser iouspr oblem but H e's paid us 100 much to print it.Gr a ha m Roseman could say much ab ou t thehandling of a particular n .M. C. automob ile overlong di stances, but h is strengt h of charact er preventshi m from u sing p rofan it y. G ra ham foll ow edR ich mond, righ t up u n til th e tim e Ca rlton a ndU 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 suspectth at in hi s a bse nce Gra ha m turns it in to a womenranch . Oh! this lech er ou s life of d eb auchery,Co lin Shingle to n has taken on his shoulders th etremendou s task of maintaining Austro-Amcrica nrelation s. Mainl y because o f his ahility to get outof th e sticky situations in which he om ino uslyfinds himself, he ha s ch osen to enter t he a dhesiveficld.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 inyac 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 duringthe GI ·6 3 season proposcs to skipper it throughmany a fleet, mayb e eve n J.J :~ . To thc bluer eonsterna tion of h is fellow students, Ken is a n ex cellentscho lar.So ends th e sto r y of th e first che m ists to fulfilth e requ irements o f a Chemistry Diploma in theprecin cts of Ca utec. May th eir na mes be pres ervedetern a lly in the archives of ou r glorious College.47