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TRINITY<br />

Newskfret<br />

COLLEGE<br />

A PUBLICATION OF TRINITY COLLEGE WITHIN THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE<br />

No. 6 MAY, <strong>1971</strong><br />

S. A. WYNNE SCHOLARSHIP<br />

The generosity of a group of friends of Mr. Sydney Wynne has enabled the <strong>College</strong><br />

Council to establish an endowed scholarship which bears his name and which<br />

commemorates his many years of invaluable service to the <strong>College</strong>.<br />

Mr. Wynne retired from his position of<br />

Overseer early in 1970 after fifty years of<br />

devoted work for the welfare of the<br />

<strong>College</strong> and its members. Many and<br />

many a student over the generations,<br />

tutors, college officers and members of the<br />

domestic staff have k<strong>no</strong>wn his helping<br />

hand, his plain speaking, his sensible<br />

advice, his firmness when firmness was<br />

required and, at bottom, his generosity<br />

and kindness.<br />

The response by Mr. Wynne's friends,<br />

most of them already contributors to the<br />

general <strong>College</strong> Appeal, to the approach<br />

made to them (largely through the energy<br />

of the Senior Tutor, Dr. A. J. Buzzard),<br />

has been most gratifying. The appeal for<br />

this scholarship is still open and contributions<br />

to the general <strong>College</strong> Appeal may<br />

be earmarked by the do<strong>no</strong>r for this<br />

special purpose. One scholarship has been<br />

established and it is hoped that further<br />

contributions will enable a second scholarship<br />

to be endowed.<br />

The first S. A. Wynne Scholar is Mr. C.<br />

D. Cordner, a resident member of the<br />

<strong>College</strong> and a member of the University<br />

Blacks football team, <strong>no</strong>w in the final year<br />

of a distinguished ho<strong>no</strong>urs course in<br />

Philosophy and English.<br />

Mr. C. D. Cordner,<br />

first S. A. Wynne Scholar.<br />

DEATH OF MR. WYNNE<br />

While this <strong>Newsletter</strong> was at the<br />

printers the <strong>College</strong> learnt, with great<br />

sorrow, of the death of Sydney ("Syd")<br />

Arthur Wynne, on 22nd April at Ferntree<br />

Gully.<br />

THE BUILDING PROGRAMME<br />

In November, 1970, the <strong>College</strong> lodged<br />

its Submission to the Australian Universities'<br />

Commission for the Triennium 1973-<br />

1975. The Submission proposes the<br />

completion of the current re<strong>no</strong>vation programme,<br />

begun with Leeper in 1964-1965,<br />

and looks ahead to some increase in residential<br />

places (<strong>no</strong>t necessarily of the<br />

traditional kind), more tutorial and meeting<br />

rooms, and better facilities for <strong>no</strong>nresident<br />

students. (Because it is still<br />

before the Commission the details of the<br />

Submission are at present confidential.)<br />

All the projects described in the Submission<br />

seem to the <strong>College</strong> Council to be<br />

essential. Only the support of Appeal<br />

funds, however, will make them possible.<br />

COLLEGE APPEAL<br />

$139,432<br />

S<br />

- 150.000.00<br />

135,000.00<br />

120,000.00<br />

105,000.00<br />

90,000.00<br />

75,000 DO<br />

50,000.00<br />

45,000.00<br />

30,000.00<br />

15,000.00<br />

00,000.00<br />

TOTAL AS AT 16/4/71<br />

THE PROBLEM OF COLLEGE FEES<br />

The Warden writes: For the first time for a<br />

very long while indeed — in our case,<br />

since the 1930's — the men's <strong>College</strong>s this<br />

year have experienced real difficulty in<br />

filling their places, and some (including<br />

ourselves) still have vacancies.<br />

The situation is complex, and I can<strong>no</strong>t<br />

here examine it in full. While there are<br />

various factors at work, it is certain,<br />

however, that the principal reason for the<br />

shortfall in entries and re-entries is the<br />

size of <strong>College</strong> fees. An increasing proportion<br />

of students and their parents find<br />

them unacceptable. This is despite the<br />

fact that there is an overall shortage of<br />

residential accommodation for students in<br />

the vicinity of the University.<br />

Our fees are high primarily because<br />

household costs are so high; and our<br />

household costs will remain high even<br />

with the most careful and eco<strong>no</strong>mic<br />

management.<br />

It is <strong>no</strong>t that our fees have risen out of<br />

all proportion to the general increase in<br />

costs throughout the community; it can<br />

be shown that the contrary is the case.<br />

What has happened is that priorities have<br />

changed. For good or ill, students and<br />

their parents are less prepared than they<br />

once were to pay large sums out of their<br />

private pockets for anything connected<br />

with tertiary education.<br />

MORE ENDOWMENTS NEEDED<br />

If, as I believe, we must <strong>no</strong>w recognize<br />

this as the long-term situation, then action<br />

must be taken to reduce the fees, or at<br />

least to stabilize them: for reasons which<br />

are <strong>no</strong>t only eco<strong>no</strong>mic, the <strong>College</strong> can<strong>no</strong>t<br />

afford vacancies.<br />

Something can be achieved (and is being<br />

achieved) by internal re-arrangements.<br />

All <strong>College</strong>s are pressing for further Gov-<br />

ernment subsidies. What I should like to<br />

stress particularly in this <strong>Newsletter</strong>,<br />

however, is the importance of increasing<br />

our endowments — the urgent importance<br />

of increasing them substantially. It would<br />

help the fees problem a great deal if<br />

certain areas of <strong>College</strong> expenditure —<br />

such as the educational establishment,<br />

scholarships and bursaries, the Library<br />

and (perhaps above all) a proportion of<br />

building maintenance — were a charge<br />

upon endowment income alone. It is<br />

worth remarking that we have only half<br />

the endowment of Ormond <strong>College</strong>, and<br />

that it is for this reason that our fees must<br />

be set significantly higher than theirs;<br />

Ormond, be it <strong>no</strong>ted, is full.<br />

It is my hope that a sustained and systematic<br />

effort to improve our endowment<br />

situation will mark our entry into our<br />

second century.<br />

99<br />

That is our age this year — ninety-nine<br />

— and planning is well advanced for the<br />

celebration of our Centenary in 1972.<br />

Finals details are yet to be settled, but<br />

ideas under consideration include a special<br />

centenary publication (probably a "coffeetable"<br />

book about the <strong>College</strong>), a grand<br />

academic occasion, a Cathedral Service,<br />

and a Ball. Most of the functions would<br />

occur in the latter half of the year. The<br />

Cathedral is booked for the after<strong>no</strong>on of<br />

Sunday, 2nd July, being one hundred<br />

years to the day after the enrolment of<br />

the first <strong>Trinity</strong> student (John Francis<br />

Stretch, later a Bishop).


Page 2 NEWSLETTER <strong>May</strong>, <strong>1971</strong><br />

TRAGIC DEATH OF<br />

DR. BARRY MARSHALL<br />

The last issue of the <strong>Newsletter</strong> (June,<br />

1970) reported the departure of Dr.<br />

Marshall for England and published his<br />

own review of his years at <strong>Trinity</strong> as<br />

student, Chaplain and Joint Acting<br />

Warden. Within two months he was dead.<br />

He died in Oxford on 12th August, from<br />

injuries received in a fall at Pusey House,<br />

of which he was about to become Principal.<br />

Characteristically, he was at the<br />

time of the fall acting as his own handyman<br />

and changing a light globe on a<br />

staircase.<br />

A Eucharist of Thanksgiving for his<br />

life and priesthood was held in the Chapel<br />

of this <strong>College</strong> on 15th August, and his<br />

cremated remains were interred beneath<br />

the pavement of the Chapel at a Burial<br />

Service on 24th August.<br />

Fuller accounts and remembrances of<br />

this remarkable and much-loved man —<br />

surely one of the greatest and most influential<br />

scholar-priests this <strong>College</strong> has<br />

produced — will be found in the 1969 and<br />

1970 editions of the Fleur de Lys. Later<br />

this year it is hoped to publish a small<br />

memorial <strong>vol</strong>ume, with contributions from<br />

men and women who knew him at different<br />

stages of his life and in various<br />

contexts.<br />

A Marshall Memorial Fund has been<br />

opened. It is proposed that the income<br />

from the Fund should be applied to<br />

extend —<br />

(1) the ministry and witness of the<br />

<strong>College</strong> Chapel, especially in its liturgical,<br />

pastoral and apologetic aspects. It is<br />

hoped to sponsor such activities as<br />

addresses, festivals and exhibitions, and to<br />

enrich the Chapel furnishings with choice<br />

works of fine or applied art;<br />

(2) the resources of the <strong>College</strong><br />

Library, in both its theological and<br />

general sections, bearing in mind his own<br />

particular scholarly interests.<br />

Some copies of the Fleur de Lys for 1969<br />

and 1970 are still available from the <strong>College</strong>.<br />

A recording was issued of the Eucharist of<br />

Thanksgiving, which includes the sermon<br />

preached by his former <strong>College</strong> study-companion,<br />

the Venerable Stanley Moss; copies of<br />

the recording are also available.<br />

Names are being registered <strong>no</strong>w for reserved<br />

copies of the memorial book.<br />

The Memorial Fund has already been<br />

generously supported; it is still open, and contributions<br />

(which are tax-deductible) may be<br />

sent to the <strong>College</strong>.<br />

A return slip for these various purposes is<br />

included with the <strong>Newsletter</strong>.<br />

NEW APPOINTMENT<br />

FOR THE DEAN<br />

The Dean, the Reverend R. W. Gregory,<br />

has accepted appointment as Headmaster<br />

of All Souls' School, Charters Towers,<br />

Queensland. He will, however, remain at<br />

the <strong>College</strong> for the whole of <strong>1971</strong>.<br />

PROPOSED CHANGES IN THE<br />

UNION OF THE FLEUR-DE-LYS<br />

Basic and far-reaching changes in the<br />

nature of membership of the Union of the<br />

Fleur-de-Lys have been adopted in principle<br />

by the committee of the Union.<br />

These in<strong>vol</strong>ve, among other things, inviting<br />

all former resident members of the<br />

<strong>College</strong> to the annual Union dinner. The<br />

next dinner will be on <strong>May</strong> 21st.<br />

A re<strong>no</strong>vated study in Clarke. The re<strong>no</strong>vation, which was made possible by the <strong>College</strong><br />

appeal, has enhanced greatly the value of rooms in Clarke to both students and conference<br />

members.<br />

NEW COUNCIL MEMBER<br />

Sir Rupert Clarke, M.B.E., M.A.<br />

(Oxon.), has joined the <strong>College</strong> Council.<br />

It gives the <strong>College</strong> great pleasure to reestablish<br />

in this fashion its links with a<br />

family so closely associated with its<br />

earlier years.<br />

NEW BISHOP<br />

Like Gaul, the Diocese of Melbourne<br />

has been divided into three parts for<br />

greater efficiency of episcopal administration<br />

and care. By resolution of Sy<strong>no</strong>d<br />

each of these areas is being tended by one<br />

of Melbourne's assistant bishops. When<br />

the departure of Bishop Ar<strong>no</strong>tt left only<br />

one co-adjutor in this diocese, two more<br />

were sought and one of these was our<br />

Chaplain, James Alexander Grant. He<br />

was consecrated in St. Paul's Cathedral<br />

on St. Thomas' day last year and a great<br />

gathering of the <strong>College</strong> was with him for<br />

the occasion. It was <strong>no</strong>t until February<br />

that he undertook his duties which in<strong>vol</strong>ve<br />

the charge of the Western Region comprehending<br />

the Archdeaconries of Geelong<br />

and Essendon. Besides the new<br />

bishop's natural talents, he has the<br />

advantage of being a Geelong man and<br />

of having started the parish of Broadmeadows<br />

before becoming Domestic<br />

Chaplain to the Archbishop in 1966.<br />

The <strong>College</strong> offers its congratulations to<br />

Bishop Grant on his appointment and<br />

wishes him well in his new task.<br />

Happily, although the new task is<br />

onerous, the bishop will remain in residence<br />

as Ho<strong>no</strong>rary Chaplain to the<br />

<strong>College</strong>. Apart from his affection for the<br />

<strong>College</strong> which led him to want to stay,<br />

this is a central location for him; it keeps<br />

him in touch with students and progressive<br />

(?) thought and "it provides a place<br />

to eat and pray". He continues to have<br />

responsibility in the United Faculty of<br />

Theology and cares for theologues,<br />

although the pastoral and liturgical care<br />

of the <strong>College</strong> communities will be largely<br />

in the hands of the Assistant Chaplain<br />

who takes office this month.<br />

THE MOST MAN<br />

The Reverend J. B. Minchin, B.A.,<br />

Th.L., when he was in residence as a<br />

student from 1960 to 1965, enlivened the<br />

<strong>College</strong> in many ways but <strong>no</strong>t least<br />

through The Most Men, a musical group<br />

which interpreted the Gospel in modern<br />

terms. Since 1968 he has been working<br />

in the Diocese of Singapore, mainly at St.<br />

Andrew's Cathedral. Much of his own<br />

modern church music has been published<br />

and recorded; in fact a new record was<br />

released a few months ago. He returns as<br />

Assistant Chaplain and we expect that<br />

J.C.H. and <strong>Trinity</strong> will hear much of him,<br />

perhaps in the oriental mode? During<br />

second term he will be at the heart of the<br />

<strong>College</strong> in Lower Bishops'.<br />

CUP WINNER<br />

Strollers through the <strong>College</strong> grounds and<br />

even the inhabitants of neighbouring colleges<br />

on the after<strong>no</strong>on of the last Caulfield Cup<br />

would have heard a mighty shout ring from<br />

many study windows as the horses passed the<br />

finishing post in the main event. The Cup was<br />

won by Beer Street, which is jointly owned by<br />

Dr. and Mrs. M. M. Wilson and Mr. J. D.<br />

Merralls.<br />

Dr. Wilson, for some years Senior Tutor at<br />

<strong>Trinity</strong>, and Mrs. Wilson are living <strong>no</strong>w on<br />

their property, Harpley, out of Devonport in<br />

Tasmania. Dr. Wilson, who is currently President<br />

of the Tasmanian Division of the Bloodhorse<br />

Breeders' Association of Australia, and<br />

Mrs. Wilson are enthusiastic livestock breeders<br />

and have a keen interest in horse breeding<br />

and racing.<br />

Mr. Merralls, a resident tutor in Law and a<br />

former Dean and Senior Tutor of the <strong>College</strong>,<br />

generously provided champagne for the whole<br />

<strong>College</strong> to celebrate the win. Enthusiastic were<br />

the toasts in Hall for Beer Street and his proud<br />

owners.<br />

Beer Street's previous most important win<br />

was the Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Launceston<br />

on 4th April, 1970, after which the owners<br />

were presented to Her Majesty the Queen.<br />

Landau, a grandsire of Beer Street, was raced<br />

in England by the Queen.<br />

Beer Street raced well to gain fifth place in<br />

the most recent Melbourne Cup.


<strong>May</strong>, <strong>1971</strong> NEWSLETTER Page 3<br />

The Union of the F1eurD&Lys<br />

by F. F. Knight<br />

PERIOD THREE: 1945-1967<br />

Although there were <strong>no</strong> formal committee<br />

meetings and <strong>no</strong> minutes were kept<br />

during the war, the Union of the Fleur-de-<br />

Lys had <strong>no</strong> difficulty in resuming its<br />

<strong>no</strong>rmal activities shortly after hostilities<br />

ceased. The President (W. H. Moule) instructed<br />

the Secretary (A. W. Hamer) to<br />

arrange a meeting and dinner. This meeting,<br />

followed by the dinner was held in<br />

<strong>College</strong> on 28th November, 1945. The<br />

Warden and Senior Student were guests,<br />

and 87 members were present. It was<br />

recorded that "this was the first meeting<br />

since 1941".<br />

Dr. H. G. Furne11, C.B.E., D.S.O., was<br />

elected President and re-elected the following<br />

year It will be recalled that since<br />

1886 <strong>no</strong> President had been in office for<br />

two consecutive years, except where the<br />

<strong>no</strong>rmal activities of the Union had been<br />

in abeyance, as they had been in this case.<br />

During the war he had risen to the rank<br />

of brigadier and the appointment of<br />

D.D.M.S., 1st Australian Corps., In 1954<br />

he was elected President of the Victorian<br />

Branch of the Australian Medical Association.<br />

During this period there were only three<br />

Secretaries. The first was A. W. Hamer,<br />

a Rhodes Scholar, who is <strong>no</strong>w Executive<br />

Director of I.C.I.A.N.Z. When he was<br />

transferred to Sydney in 1946 he was<br />

succeeded by his brother, R. J. Hamer, a<br />

solicitor, <strong>no</strong>w a member of the Legislative<br />

Assembly and Chief Secretary and<br />

Deputy Premier. Until recently he was a<br />

member of the <strong>College</strong> Council. He had<br />

52 years service in the 2nd A.I.F. He remained<br />

Secretary for ten years except<br />

during 1953, when his brother, who had<br />

returned to Melbourne, acted in his stead.<br />

The next Secretary, J. A. Court, B.Com.,<br />

an accountant, served for over ten years<br />

and until recently was the representative<br />

on the <strong>College</strong> Council, following the<br />

death of Dr. E. R. White.<br />

Meetings and dinners were held every<br />

year, on each occasion in <strong>College</strong>. It was<br />

possible to hold them there because they<br />

took place in vacation and there were <strong>no</strong><br />

accommodation difficulties. Except in<br />

1945 and 1967 they were held in late <strong>May</strong><br />

or early June.<br />

The annual meeting was held in the<br />

Common Room immediately before the<br />

dinner. The business before it was conducted<br />

with an expedition which reflected<br />

confidence in the committee and the Secretary.<br />

The minutes merely record<br />

formal business, but reports by the Secretary<br />

in the Fleur-de-Lys give a more<br />

intimate picture. Of the following<br />

extracts, three relate to early meetings and<br />

the fourth to a much later one:—<br />

"The Annual Meeting was held . .<br />

and, amid the customary confusion, the<br />

above office-bearers were declared<br />

elected."<br />

"The above office-bearers were hastily<br />

elected and the financial statement made<br />

The history of the Union of the Fleur-de-Lys since its foundation 82 years ago<br />

falls into three periods due to the fact that its activities were interrupted by two<br />

world wars. These periods are 1885-1915; 1918-42; 1945 up to the present time.<br />

The first two periods were described by the author in the first two issues of this<br />

<strong>Newsletter</strong>.<br />

a brief appearance and was adopted<br />

unanimously."<br />

"Amidst unusual decorum the election<br />

of President and Committee was quickly<br />

disposed of and the Balance Sheet was<br />

taken as read."<br />

"The minutes of the previous meeting<br />

and the Annual Report and Financial<br />

Statements were taken as read and were<br />

adopted unanimously and the Meeting<br />

was concluded in near record time."<br />

It may be mere conjecture but it is<br />

possible that legal influence was responsible<br />

for the "unusual decorum" at the<br />

meeting in 1952. The retiring President<br />

was J. H. B. Armstrong, a solicitor and<br />

son of Bishop Armstrong. A Supreme<br />

Court Judge, R. R. Sholl, was elected to<br />

succeed him.<br />

What had become traditional procedure<br />

was followed at the dinner, though variations<br />

took place on special occasions.<br />

Normally the Warden and Senior Student<br />

were guests. As early as 1949, the committee<br />

decided that <strong>no</strong> outside guests<br />

should be invited, and an invitation to<br />

the dinner of a kindred association was<br />

declined with this explanation. Until<br />

1956 the average attendance was about<br />

85, the peak year being 1946 when the<br />

Secretary commented in the minutes, "106<br />

members attended 98 of whose signatures<br />

appear below". From 1957 onwards<br />

yearly attendances were well over 100,<br />

increasing to a record number of 180 in<br />

1963.<br />

The cost to members of the 1945 dinner<br />

was 10/- and this was reduced in the<br />

following two years to the low figure of<br />

7/6, but war-time price restrictions (which<br />

would <strong>no</strong>t have applied to the <strong>College</strong>)<br />

had continued in force. From then on the<br />

costs rose but remained steady at 15/- for<br />

seven years. In 1952 the Secretary reported<br />

that "the <strong>College</strong> would again<br />

charge 12/6 per head, and with the aid<br />

of the Wallace Collection we could<br />

manage at 15/- per head". The <strong>College</strong><br />

charge did <strong>no</strong>t include liquor and other<br />

extras, but the income from Wallace's<br />

donation of £450 amounted to about<br />

£20 and this sum usually covered any<br />

deficiency. Since 1959, through increased<br />

prices there has been a steady profit without<br />

recourse to the Wallace Collection.<br />

During this period there were four<br />

<strong>no</strong>table dinners. In 1946, Dr. Behan, the<br />

retiring Warden, and Mr. Cowan, the<br />

new Warden, were invited as guests of<br />

ho<strong>no</strong>ur, so two extra toasts were added<br />

to the list. R. R. Sholl proposed the health<br />

of Dr. Behan and B. C. Meredith that of<br />

Mr. Cowan. Dr. Furnell was in the chair<br />

and the attendance of 106 was a record<br />

at that time. In the following year Dr.<br />

Behan was elected President. He is the<br />

only ex-Warden to have held that office.<br />

As is well k<strong>no</strong>wn he was an old <strong>Trinity</strong><br />

man and the first Victorian Rhodes<br />

Scholar.<br />

In 1950 J. S. Bloomfield, in proposing<br />

the toast of the Union of the Fleur-de-Lys,<br />

congratulated R. R. Sholl on his elevation<br />

to the Supreme Court Bench. His Ho<strong>no</strong>ur,<br />

replying to the toast, mentioned that there<br />

were nine Supreme Court Judges in Victoria<br />

and five of them were <strong>Trinity</strong> men.<br />

Major-General Sir Samuel Burston was in<br />

the chair. He had served with distinction<br />

in two wars, and retired as Director-<br />

General of Medical Services in the A.M.F.<br />

Bloomfield, a barrister and former <strong>no</strong>ted<br />

athlete, was to become Minister of Education<br />

in 1956 and to hold that portfolio<br />

for eleven years.<br />

A recently completed portrait of Mr.<br />

Cowan was presented to the <strong>College</strong> in<br />

1963. The presentation was made by the<br />

President, The Rt. Reverend A. E. Winter,<br />

Bishop of St. Arnaud. In the course of<br />

his speech the Warden said that he<br />

wondered how much pleasure the students<br />

would derive from seeing him hung in<br />

Hall. The attendance was a record<br />

and remains so. Unfortunately, Mr.<br />

Cowan died the following year.<br />

Members had an opportunity of meeting<br />

Dr. Sharwood, the present Warden, at<br />

the 1965 dinner. He was welcomed by the<br />

President, Dr. E. A. C. Farran, who paid<br />

a tribute to the three great men who had<br />

guided the destiny of <strong>Trinity</strong> for nigh on<br />

one hundred years. After dinner many<br />

members inspected the re<strong>no</strong>vated Leeper<br />

Library.<br />

In 1945, members were invited to subscribe<br />

towards the cost of a portrait of<br />

Dr. Behan. This was done through a<br />

<strong>no</strong>tice in the Fleur-de-Lys. One third of<br />

this cost was guaranteed by the Union.<br />

In all £60/16/2 was subscribed, the<br />

balance, £11/11/8, being met from<br />

ordinary funds. The following year the<br />

committee instructed one of its members<br />

"to inform the Council that the Union<br />

wished to be represented at the presentation<br />

of the portrait but it did <strong>no</strong>t regard<br />

Annual Dinner ... as a suitable occasion".<br />

It was represented at the subsequent unveiling,<br />

which took place at a special<br />

after<strong>no</strong>on function. Members also had an<br />

opportunity of subscribing to Mr. Cowan's<br />

portrait. Their subscriptions amounted to<br />

£82/3/0. This time the dinner was regarded<br />

as a suitable occasion to present the<br />

portrait and, as previously recorded, it<br />

was presented at the 1963 dinner. In 1966<br />

members were asked to subscribe towards<br />

the cost of chandeliers in the <strong>College</strong> Hall.<br />

A substantial sum was raised, most of the<br />

donations being sent direct to the Warden.<br />

A new activity was inaugurated when<br />

Newman Old Collegians suggested an<br />

Inter-Collegiate Golf Day. On the committee's<br />

instructions the Secret a r y<br />

attended a meeting to "undertake to support<br />

the proposal without being able to<br />

promise a good response". However, this<br />

competition became popular and is <strong>no</strong>w<br />

held annually although there were lapses<br />

in earlier years. Unfortunately, there is


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only one record of a <strong>Trinity</strong> win. That<br />

was in 1964.<br />

Quite recently the Secretary reported<br />

that the <strong>College</strong> Record Club was endeavouring<br />

to find a recording and a copy<br />

of the words of the <strong>College</strong> Song. It was<br />

suggested that the late Dr. L. A. Adamson<br />

had composed the music. Later a complete<br />

copy was discovered by J. H. B.<br />

Armstrong and, as mentioned in the<br />

history of the first period, Ar<strong>no</strong>ld and<br />

Finnis had written it and Finnis was<br />

probably the composer. A Records Book<br />

was referred to in the Fleur-de-Lys of<br />

September, 1907, when old students were<br />

asked for help in compiling it. On the<br />

same page the Rev. E. S. Hughes was<br />

thanked for the loan of a book containing<br />

old <strong>College</strong> songs, "one of which we print<br />

in this issue". It would be a pity if that<br />

old song, "Hearts and Voices", should<br />

disappear. For very many years, it was<br />

sung regularly at dinners and until about<br />

ten years ago the veterans did their best<br />

"to shout the triumphs of our Fleur-de-<br />

Lys" but, as their numbers dwindled and<br />

their vocal cords grew weaker, they became<br />

disheartened. No one k<strong>no</strong>ws who<br />

wrote the words but it is certain that <strong>no</strong><br />

<strong>Trinity</strong> man composed the music. It was<br />

set to the tune of the famous Neapolitan<br />

song "Furniculi".<br />

The committee and the Secretary in<br />

particular gave close attention to finance.<br />

A cash book was and still is kept and<br />

financial statements were presented at<br />

each annual meeting. In 1948 the Secretary<br />

reported that only 3/- interest was<br />

produced from each Life Member's subscription<br />

and the cost of the Fleur-de-Lys<br />

alone was 3/6. As there was a small<br />

surplus that year action was deferred<br />

until 1951 when the annual subscription<br />

was raised to 10/- and Life membership<br />

to 7 guineas. The annual subscription has<br />

<strong>no</strong>t risen but Life membership was raised<br />

to the present 8 guineas in 1958. These<br />

rises do <strong>no</strong>t appear to have had a deterrent<br />

effect as at least three-quarters of<br />

those who are financial are Life Members.<br />

Income has benefited by a rise in<br />

Loan interest and many Life Members<br />

have died but costs have risen also, particularly<br />

in the case of the Fleur-de-Lys,<br />

which fortunately is <strong>no</strong>w subsidised. In<br />

round figures the capital account rose<br />

from $1,496 in 1945 to $5,987 in 1967.<br />

If the Wallace Collection of $900 is disregarded<br />

it has risen from $596 to $5,087.<br />

The committee did its best to increase<br />

membership and to recruit at least one<br />

member who had left <strong>College</strong> within three<br />

years to serve on it. The Secretaries were<br />

very active in trying to attain these objectives.<br />

They were assisted by both<br />

Wardens, who supplied the names and<br />

addresses of those leaving <strong>College</strong>. From<br />

1946 to 1966, membership increased,<br />

approximately, from 185 to 470. These<br />

figures, though <strong>no</strong>t spectacular, do show<br />

substantial growth. It was <strong>no</strong>t always<br />

easy to find young members able and<br />

willing to serve on the committee, because<br />

many of the newly graduated become<br />

scattered throughout the Commonwealth<br />

and beyond it. However, there was some<br />

success in attracting new blood.<br />

It may appear to some that this third<br />

period in the history of the Union of the<br />

Fleur-de-Lys has been uneventful. Certainly<br />

the committee has <strong>no</strong>t been faced<br />

with any great problems. The resumption<br />

of activities after the war took place<br />

smoothly. There were <strong>no</strong> disputes with<br />

the <strong>College</strong> authorities or with the student<br />

body. Except that all dinners were held<br />

in <strong>College</strong> there were <strong>no</strong> great changes.<br />

On the other hand this has been a period<br />

of solid progress with a steadily increasing<br />

membership and a financial position<br />

which is very sound. It may be that this<br />

progress is beyond the dreams (if any) of<br />

those twelve gentlemen who in 1885<br />

founded a Society to be k<strong>no</strong>wn as the<br />

Union of the Fleur-de-Lys.<br />

MENS SANA .. .<br />

For the statistically minded<br />

— At the 1970 examinations <strong>Trinity</strong> won sixteen<br />

Exhibitions and Prizes, six other students<br />

topped their Class Lists; there were fortynine<br />

first-class ho<strong>no</strong>urs and one hundred and<br />

twenty-six second-class ho<strong>no</strong>urs.<br />

— Again this year the <strong>College</strong> offers about<br />

ninety tutorials each week.<br />

— Just under half the <strong>College</strong> is reading<br />

Medicine, Engineering or Science; Law,<br />

Arts and Commerce are the other well<br />

favoured faculties.<br />

— Over half the <strong>College</strong> is in first or second<br />

year of the course.<br />

— One quarter of the <strong>College</strong> is from Melbourne<br />

Grammar; one fifth is from country<br />

High Schools.<br />

... IN CORPORE SANO<br />

R. W. T. Cowan Cup<br />

In the second half of 1970 <strong>Trinity</strong> was beaten<br />

in both the intercollegiate hockey and football,<br />

so that the R. W. T. Cowan Cup for intercollegiate<br />

sport which <strong>Trinity</strong> had held is <strong>no</strong>w,<br />

temporarily of course, held by Ormond.<br />

Hockey<br />

<strong>Trinity</strong> was defeated in the final, six goals<br />

to one, by Ormond.<br />

Football<br />

In the first round <strong>Trinity</strong> defeated Ormond,<br />

the eventual winners, but successive defeats by<br />

Whitley, Newman and Queen's kept <strong>Trinity</strong><br />

out of the final.<br />

This Year<br />

<strong>Trinity</strong> was defeated in the cricket but won<br />

the rowing so that at present <strong>Trinity</strong> is running<br />

second in the competition for the Cowan Cup.<br />

Cricket<br />

The introduction of one-day matches has<br />

considerably enlivened inter-collegiate cricket<br />

and in quite a few recent matches the outcome<br />

has <strong>no</strong>t been decided until the last over of the<br />

day.<br />

<strong>Trinity</strong> had a bye in the first round of a<br />

"k<strong>no</strong>ck-out" competition.<br />

The first game, against Queen's, resulted in a<br />

tie. <strong>Trinity</strong> were in a poor position, being seven<br />

down for 73, until they were rescued by Mr. F.<br />

C. R. Price (38 runs) and Mr. G. J. Bennett<br />

(39 runs n.o.), making 158 runs all out. Queen's<br />

in reply started well with one for 70 but, largely<br />

because of the excellent bowling by Mr. J. M.<br />

McRae for <strong>Trinity</strong> (6 for 53), they still needed<br />

three runs off the last over of the day to win,<br />

with two wickets in hand. One run was scored<br />

before a batsman was run out and with Queen's<br />

playing boldly to score the necessary runs the<br />

tenth man was run out having scored one off<br />

that ball, which ended the game.<br />

In the replay Queen's were nine for 166 when<br />

time ran out, Mr. P. B. Grant of <strong>Trinity</strong> having<br />

taken five wickets for 27 off nine overs. In<br />

reply <strong>Trinity</strong> were in trouble, having scored<br />

only 44 for loss of six wickets. Twenty-five of<br />

these runs were made by the captain, Mr. E. S.<br />

Bellchambers. However, excellent playing by<br />

Mr. S. J. McGregor (48) and Mr. R. J. Ch. de<br />

Crespigny (49 runs) left <strong>Trinity</strong> needing seven<br />

runs from the last over to win. Unfortunately,<br />

Mr. de Crespigny was run out and the match<br />

was lost to Queen's.<br />

Rowing<br />

In the heats the <strong>Trinity</strong> crew, a crew of good<br />

individual rowers but said to be <strong>no</strong>t working<br />

well together, defeated Queen's.<br />

In the winners' finals the <strong>Trinity</strong> second crew<br />

was beaten by Ormond but the first crew rowed<br />

well to defeat Ormond by a length and a half.<br />

The <strong>Trinity</strong> gentlemen had hired a launch<br />

in order to take a better view of the races but<br />

the driving shaft broke and the good "St.<br />

Anthony" drifted across the river almost bringing<br />

one of the races to a halt. One bus load<br />

of <strong>Trinity</strong> supporters missed the final altogether<br />

when the purportedly experienced bus driver<br />

made a wrong turning and was unable to get off<br />

the south-eastern freeway until the bus had<br />

almost reached Scotch <strong>College</strong>. The heart of<br />

even the most confirmed "landlubber" must be<br />

moved by the sight of the victorious crew carrying,<br />

at head height. the cox aloft the Mervyn<br />

Boumes Higgins shield through the cheering<br />

Hall to hang the trophy in its place next to the<br />

portrait of the first Warden.<br />

TRINITY AND THE<br />

NATIONAL TRUST<br />

Clarke has become the third <strong>Trinity</strong> building<br />

to be classified by the National Trust of Australia.<br />

In December last, the <strong>College</strong> was advised<br />

that "this important building" had been<br />

awarded a "C" classification; the citation refers<br />

to it as "a major work of Edmund Blacket, of<br />

interest for its free use of both detached and<br />

engaged Romanesque Columns with wide<br />

foliated Capitals". Leeper has had a "C"<br />

classification for some years, and Behan is<br />

classified "D".<br />

Suitable plaques will soon be placed on all<br />

three buildings.<br />

My gift to the TRINITY COLLEGE APPEAL will be<br />

YEARLY $<br />

for five years being a<br />

TOTAL of $<br />

on the understanding<br />

that I may vary the amount if necessary.<br />

Signature<br />

Date<br />

Mailing address<br />

First contribution in the month(s) of<br />

commencing 197 Please send reminders.<br />

All gifts are deductible<br />

for Income Tax purposes.<br />

Cheques should be made<br />

payable to the<br />

<strong>Trinity</strong> <strong>College</strong> Appeal.<br />

APPEAL STILL OPEN<br />

The Follow-on Committee has<br />

taken over responsibility for the<br />

Appeal and is continuing approaches<br />

where possible.<br />

If by any chance you have <strong>no</strong>t yet<br />

been contacted, either personally or<br />

by mail, or if you have mislaid your<br />

gift card,, please use this form to<br />

make your gift. You may also use it<br />

if you wish to make an additional<br />

gift to the <strong>College</strong>.<br />

Cut out this form and send it to the<br />

Warden, <strong>Trinity</strong> Collége, Parkville.

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