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Trinity College and part of the University as seen from the air in the early 1920's.
WITHDRAWAL OF GOVERNMENT SUPPORT FOR COLLEGES
All Government support for Colleges will cease by the end of
1986. Each year it will be diminished by a further 25% from the
1983 level. There will be no indexation for inflation and
cost-of-living. For Trinity, this means the progressive loss of
$72,000 each year for the annual budget. This can only be
recouped by increasing student fees, probably to $130 per week
next year.
Things have declined alarmingly since the Murray Report in the
early 1960's recommended substantial help for Colleges with both
capital grants and annual per capita grants. The Report, accepted
by the Menzies Government and its successors, affirmed the
value to students, and to the community generally, of collegiate
living. The per capita grant was to provide assistance for students,
especially in their first year, by way of tutorials and pastoral
care.
Capital grants for approved projects were usually on a matching
basis, and enabled Colleges to maintain and renovate ageing
buildings and to bring kitchens, bathrooms and roofs up to an
acceptable standard. These grants were suddenly cut off in 1975
and there is no likelihood of their being reinstated.
The removal of all grants means that the Government no longer
sees Colleges as a vital part of the educational life of the nation. In
Trinity we are committed to a heritage, the value of which has
been proven over centuries. We shall not allow ourselves to
become a mere boarding house. We are determined to pursue
excellence and the fullness of a true collegiate life.
In August, a representative meeting of Heads of Colleges and
Halls of Residence from across the nation adopted the following
statement:
A PUBLICATION OF TRINITY COLLEGE WITHIN THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
Registered by Australia Post — Publication No. VBG 4336
SENATOR RYAN AND STUDENT RESIDENCES
The Heads of Colleges and Halls of Residence wish to affirm that
they are in sympathy with the stated policy of the Government of
greater participation in higher education, especially by
disadvantaged groups such as those who live in rural and
outer-metropolitan areas. However, they are severely critical of
some of the decisions to this end taken by Senator Ryan, the
Minister for Education and Youth Affairs, especially those relating
to students in Residential Colleges and Halls.
In August 1983, without consultation with the Universities
Council, Senator Ryan announced a 25 per cent cut in the
Recurrent Grant to University Residential Colleges and Halls. She
seemed to be unaware that the burden of this cut would fall on the
80 per cent or more of the residents of these Colleges and Halls
who have to live away from home in order to pursue a tertiary
education. Moreover, the grant is to meet the costs of services,
such as tuition and counselling, which these students need to help
them to make the adjustment from country to city, and from
school to university.
The cut will therefore be counter-productive to the
Government's policy; it both threatens access of rural students to
tertiary education by increasing the financial burden, and also
threatens the support services so necessary to their success.
Since August 1983, the Heads have repeatedly sought an
opportunity to discuss these matters with the Minister, but she has
consistently refused to speak with them. The Universities Council
also warned the Minister, in its report for the 1982-84 triennium:
"The Council is concerned that the effect of this (cut) could be
that fees will rise thus imposing an increased financial burden on

students from non-metropolitan backgrounds who constitute the
majority of residents".
Following the announcement of the cut the Minister continued on
her unheeding way until 5th July, 1984, when, in her press release,
she announced that the Recurrent Grant would be phased out
completely by the end of 1986, and that it would be replaced by a
scheme of loans and grants to students, whether they were in
residence or not. She prefaced this by the very misleading
statement that "The Government accepts the Commission's
advice". The Commission's advice was quite otherwise - that an
amount equal to the Recurrent Grant should be made available to
the Heads of Colleges and Halls for grants to needy students in
residence to help them meet the cost of accommodation, an
amount which could be effectively used for the limited number of
students in residence. Instead, the Minister is asking the
Universities to set up costly administrative structures to lend a
relatively small amount to a vast number of students with the
probable outcome that no-one will benefit.
Cumbrous loan procedures will not promote the Government's
policy to increase participation in tertiary education by rural and
outer-metropolitan students; nor is the 10 per cent increase in
TEAS an adequate response.
There is no readily available substitute for the support services
provided by the Colleges and Halls for these students, and the
Government should continue to finance them. At the same time,
if it is really serious about giving opportunities for increased
participation to these students, it should introduce an adequate
living allowance, without means test, for all students who have to
live away from home in order to pursue a tertiary education.
For Trinity's survival as a true College, the Trinity College
Foundation is now more important than ever. Major renovation of
buildings to meet modern standards must now be funded by those
who care for the College. Funds must be found to enable good
students, who would not otherwise afford to come, to share in the
benefits of Collegiate life.
EVAN L. BURGE
WARDEN
A TRINITY OF INTERNATIONAL DINNERS
The Warden, who is at present on leave at Selwyn College
Cambridge as a Fellow Commoner (one who has all the rights of a
Fellow except voting rights) recently managed to attend three
Fleur-de-Lys dinners in almost as many weeks and on different
sides of the world!
The evening before his departure for the United Kingdom Dr
Burge attended the Sydney Fleur-de-Lys dinner organised again
this year by Brigadier John McDonagh ('49).
Then it was off to London where the Warden brought back
memories of College life to the 22 Trinity members at a dinner
held at the Duke's Hotel in St James Square and organized by
David Emmerson ('59) who is with Mobil Oil. Among the guests
was Mr Robert Cripps who happened to be in London on business
at the time.
Ten days later the Warden flew across the Atlantic to attend the
New York Dinner organized by Phillip Cohen ('66) and his wife Jill.
Amongst the guests were Chris Dunstan ('76), Jack Cohen ('52),
Mary Perrett ('79), David O'Callaghan ('80), Fred Grimwade ('76),
and Ed Billson ('78).
The Warden was delighted to be able to catch up with so many
former residents on such happy occasions, and we look forward to
his return in January.
FOR YOUR DIARY
Fleur-de-Lys Dinner 1985
Next year the Annual Fleur-de-Lys Dinner will be held in
June and not in February.
It will take place on Friday 14th June 1985 and be held in the
College Dining Hall.
TRINITY
THE GREAT BANQUET HALL
At the 1984 Valedictory Dinner Dr John Gaden, Director of the
Trinity Theological School proposed the toast to the Valedictees
and likened Trinity to the great banqueting hall depicted in Bede's
Anglo Saxon story:—
"When we compare the present life of man on earth with that time
of which we have no knowledge, it seems to me like the swift flight
of a single sparrow through the banqueting-hall where you are
sitting at dinner on a winter's day with your thanes and
counsellors. In the midst there is a comforting fire to warm the hall;
outside, the storms of winter rain or snow are raging. This sparrow
flies swiftly in through one door of the hall, and out through
another. While he is inside, he is safe from the winter storms; but
after a few moments of comfort, he vanishes from sight into the
wintry world from which he came. Even so, man appears on earth
for a little while; but of what went before this life or of what
follows, we know nothing.
Trinity is like the great banquet hall and you are the sparrows
flitting through for a while. There is King Evan, with his trusty
Thanes—Mike, Frank, Tom and Mustapha, wise
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Counsellors—Arthur the chief one, Bryan, Peter and the Tutors,
attractive retinue—Susan, Marie, Lisa and Joyce, and, if you
pardon the expressions, his Churls—Sally and Louise.
What King Evan and his company remember is the flight of the
sparrows as they pass from the elegance of Chicken and
Champagne Breakfast on the Bulpadock in 0' Week to this more
sordid Dinner, punctuated by some jousting and battle games,
St Joan, and the Mikado. But little things stick out as well—Alison
the sun-lover and Bruce the dark-room pounder, the more
notable thrusts of Andrew the great strider and Alistair the Barman,
or the quieter touches of Samantha the dancing gazelle and
Brecon the window-cleaning crooner, and many others. All of you
in the 60 or so valedicting this year one could mention. As you go
winging on your way, we thank you for your company and the
pleasure of your flight, and these memories that you leave
behind.
And as you go,
Live creatively
Fly strongly, and
May you find a good place in which to nest ..."

WE NEED YOUR HELP
The Trinity College Foundation has now reached $850,000
in pledges and it is the ambition of the Executive Committee
to reach its initial target of $1.5 million at the earliest possible
date.
The success of the Foundation is vital to Trinity's survival and
development and every College member is urged to
become a member of the Trinity College Foundation. Only
with your support will the Foundation reach its eventual goal
of $6 million.
If you have not already been approached but feel you would
like to help in some way you are invited to contact the
Chairman, Mr John Gourlay or the Executive Officer, Miss
Angela Mackie at the College Tel: 3471044.
Donors to the Foundation are designated for life as
follows:
Governor
Patron
Sponsor
Member
Payments may be spread over a five year period and all
donations are fully tax-deductible.
PLEASE SUPPORT THE OLD COLL.
$25,000
$10,000
$ 5,000
$ 2,000
Various members of the Executive Committee of the Foundation discuss progress to date.
From left to right: Mr Arthur Day, Miss Angela Mackie (Executive Officer), Dr Evan Burge (Warden), Mr John Gourlay (Chairman), Mr Clive Smith
(Vice-Chairman), Mr David Wells (Hon. Secretary).
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RESTING FROM 'BEING RELEVANT'
(Reprinted with kind permission from Church Scene)
"Give us a TRINITY; Tiger Wh000000000... For God," cries
Vicar!
"Seems to be more young Geoffrey Chaucer's idea of what a
pilgrimage ought to be than Bunyan J's", observed Bendigo's
Bishop Oliver Heyward, eyeing the happy band of 500-plus
pilgrims from the safety of his cathedral pulpit.
Knowing that Christ's pilgrim people need to keep on the move if
they're going to achieve the good things of God's Kingdom,
Archbishop David Penman, mitre on head and metropolitical
Cross at ease, gallantly shepherded his nuns, priests, and assorted
Wives of Bath aboard Vicrail's fast, efficient STEAM.
And thus, for the third consecutive year, Trinity College and their
fellow-travellers were back on the rails again last Saturday. Issued
with ration boxes containing rum truffles, coconut ice and gooey
fudge the pilgrims of 1984 went forth in quest of ... Bendigo!
Banners fluttering in the clouds of incense, the pilgrims marched
through the streets of the city to the skirl of pipe and drum ...
Fast, efficient Vicsteam proving more stately than expected;
solemn mass at St. Paul's Cathedral concluded with a late
afternoon feast of cider and roast ox washed down with a full
half-acre of the very best sort of rich country puddings from the
kitchens of the ABM Women's Auxiliary. Eating was to the tune of
the local Irish orchestra.
Neither was the intellectual aspect of the day's festivities
neglected. Luncheon on the cathedral lawns led inevitably to
readings from "Winnie the Pooh"; Fr Geoffrey Taylor acquitting
himself admirably as a bear of very little brain, and Theological
School Director, John Gaden, giving a whole new meaning to the
subtle nuances of the role of Piglet.
In his homily, Bishop Heyward reminded the packed
congregation of the great cloud of witnesses; saints of our own
time and the past who support and encourage the followers of
Jesus on our journey.
Inevitably Christians will discover a solidarity with the wanderers
of the world, with the lost and the homeless, said the Bishop. Even
The pilgrims make their way to St. Paul's Cathedral.
as we share most intimately in the world's despair we draw
strength from the knowledge that we have a leader, we have
confidence in the goal towards which we press, and we are
encouraged in the hope which has been planted in our hearts.
Gathering to share in the eucharist we receive a taste of the reality
of God's Kingdom. This treasure we must take back to share with
our friends and neighbours.
Chugging along home the general verdict was that this had been
the best Trinity Pilgrimage yet. We had set out expecting to do our
bit financially to support the expansion of Victoria's Provincial
Theological School at Trinity College.
Organisers John Davis and Pamela Oddy saw to it that we did!
Trinity fulfils a a unique role amongst Australian theological
colleges by preparing men and women for ministry in community
with future leaders in other aspects of the country's life.
By journey's end the pilgrims found they had done rather more
than just raising a couple of thousand dollars. Concluded Altona's
Fr Noel Whale; "The value of an event like today's is that it brings
together people from all around the diocese. We get to share our
hopes and joys and difficulties; we discover we are not the only
Christian, not the only congregation in the world. We look around
and see how many of us we are and how good it is."
Like Chaucer said—on a gloriously hot Spring day Christians are
allowed to shrug off their soul-searching and set forth to celebrate
together.
So, this is the story of how, one October day, a band of Melbourne
Anglicans took a holiday from "being relevant", and stewardship
campaigns, women priests, and Bishop Jenkins, to wave the flag a
bit and say "Thank you Lord for ...
*Trinity College
*The pastors he has given us (well, with some reservations)
*The fun to be had in following Jesus
*How good it is for Christians to get together."
'In cognito', the Rev. Christopher Seton, the Rev. Andrew St. John and the
Rev. Noel Whale looking splendid.
CHRISTOPHER SETON
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HUMANITARIAN 'TAFFY' JONES WINS V.E.F. COMMUNITY
SERVICE AWARD
There are few people who have earned the
right to be described as humanitarian, but in
the case of Dr. Michael Jones (or Taffy to all
who know him) he certainly fits that
definition of one who seeks to promote
human welfare.
And it is that on-going desire to promote
human welfare that has earned Taffy Jones
the Victorian Employers' Federation's
Community Service Award for 1984.
Dr. Jones was nominated for the annual
Award by the Geelong City Council for his
wide ranging activities associated with caring
for the needs of many of Geelong's
not-so-fortunate citizens.
Professionally, Dr. Jones is the Director of
Medical Services at the Geelong Hospital,
but his extensive community activities tell far
more about this humanitarian than his job
title.
Dr. Jones' interest in promoting human
welfare has extended outside the hospital
and has virtually covered our whole life
span.
For example, as Chairman of the Barwon
Regional Consultative Committee, he
identified the social issues causing most
concern to the region—the special needs of
adolescents living in isolation and loneliness,
unemployed youth, support for those
confronted with unemployment.
He set up an Adolescent Task Force and Emergency Aid Task Force,
he also helped establish a Rape Crisis Centre and was instrumental
in finding funds for the Geelong Women's Refuge.
He has also helped others like single mothers, wards of the State
and parolees, as well as borderline mentally deficient children.
Dr. Jones also established the Geelong Hospice Care Association
which provides for the terminally ill their wish to die in their own
home in familiar surroundings rather than in a cold, clinical
hospital.
The winner of this year's Community Service Award, Dr. Michael 'Taffy'Jones is congratulated by the
President of the Victorian Employers' Federation, Mr. Ken McGregor (left) and the Lord Mayor of
Melbourne, Cr. Eddie Beecham (right).
Dr. Jones, 45, was born in Geelong but practised in Melbourne,
Deniliquin, Mansfield and Hobart.
He returned to Geelong in 1975 to take up the position of Deputy
Director of Medical Services and was appointed Director in
1980.
Dr. Jones received his Community Service Award from the Lord
Mayor of Melbourne, Cr. Eddie Beecham, at a recent ceremony at
the Melbourne Town Hall.
Reprinted with the kind permission of the Victorian Employers' Federation.
VALEDICTORY DINNER 1984
The address at the Valedictory Dinner was given by Mr Peter
Mitchell (1956) of the Moonie Oil Company Limited. In his
introduction, Mr Mitchell noted that his intention was to
challenge his audience and provoke a reaction. This he certainly
did! Mr Mitchell's remarks are reproduced here:
Trinity is a college with a great religious tradition, so I thought a few
remarks on the great Australian religions might be appropriate.
There is of course the ecclesiastical religion—a brief check on
chapel attendance records tells me that you are all expert at this
religious form.
Then there is Hedonism, a religion much practised by the rich of
all ages and many otherwise idle souls lost in the no-mans land
between school and marriage and/or a career.
Hedonism is the doctrine that pleasure is the chief good.
In its simple form, Hedonism presents the perfect life. Totally
uncomplicated beyond the immediate problems of avoiding dull
people, dull places, after dinner speakers and of course, most
college wines.
It can become complicated if one's pleasure palate grows bored.
Clearly it is probably then time to seek another religion.
Hedonism only becomes dangerous to our community when we
seek to superficially satisfy and gratify our need for moral pleasure
or comfort.
Here there is the danger that we seize on simply stated and
obvious moral truths and needs, for example, high social
spending, taxing the successful, land rights, immigration for all, the
environment, uranium, and last but not least, full pensions for
anyone who stays in Trinity beyond a second year; and, luxuriating
in a warm wash of moral rectitude, we fall mindlessly for the values
established by our often breathlessly indignant and deep, deep
thinking current affairs programmers.
I only want to say for each Hedonistic moral issue there is a cost,
and often a massive and permanent cost to our society, and you,
the future generation, must not blindly accept media established
morality.
So to the moral hedonists please, think, and read, and make up
your own minds—and slowly.
It is quite foolish for me to speak to you of hedonism. Close
observation of certain un-named members of the College have
convinced me that there are several professors of this theology
currently in residence and masquerading as students.
For those hedonistic palates that pall, there is always materialism.
Clearly one of the most superficially satisfying of all religions.
A lifetime of dedication is quite possible, the rewards endless but,
I suggest for some of you, endlessly unsatisfying.
Finally there is a fourth set of beliefs.
So unfashionable that its few remaining adherents are neanderthal
outcasts and pariahs. I only dare mention this because my remarks
purport to be a brief but global look at Australian religions, and this
set of beliefs did play a large part in our history.
i have great diffidence and embarrassment in listing some of these
beliefs and beg that you do not attribute (outside of this Hall) any
of them to me. They include:
Australia is an outstanding country.
The Australian is gutsy, hard-working, loyal, trustworthy and
fair-minded. - (cont. on P-6.)
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CLOSING COMMENTS FROM PETER BENNIE
By CHRISTOPHER DAWSON
The Rev. Peter Bennie, Warden of St. Paul's College, Sydney—Picture: BOB FINL4YSON
His memorial already appears on the roof of St Paul's College,
Sydney University, in the form of sculptured toads.
For years students have referred to their Warden, the Rev Peter
Bennie, as Toad of Toad Hall. He admits the affectionate
sobriquet sprang from a distant likeness to a Queensland cane
toad.
One enterprising Pauline cemented the figures high above the
Gothic courts.
Mr Bennie will soon retire, but the toads will remain.
The college union is giving him a farewell dinner on Saturday
although he will stay as Warden until his 70th birthday in
February.
For more than 20 years he has presided over Australia's oldest and
most traditional university college.
Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, might be the desirable
progression for Britain's social elite, but in NSW the preferred
course is a Greater Public School of an Anglican foundation
followed by St Paul's.
This is the college of Whitlam and McMahon which has nurtured
many of Australia's lawyers, captains of industry and men of
commerce. It has remained single-sex (90 per cent of students
voted against admitting women), stylish, sports-oriented,
academically distinguished and socially attractive.
St Paul's was created by an Act of Parliament in 1854, the year the
university was founded, and has remained a corner of calm away
from the clamour of the main campus.
In 20 years, Mr Bennie says, he has seen little change in student
attitudes, except during the Vietnam War years. Students today
have reverted to what they were like in 1963, he says.
Mr Bennie has encouraged the enrolment of a large number of
postgraduates in the college on the basis that "too many
youngsters straight from school means too much noise".
Not surprisingly, he is very much against the Federal
Government's decision to phase out recurrent grants to
residential colleges and reserves some of his strongest criticism for
the Minister for Education and Youth Affairs, Senator Ryan.
"What they want to do is to spend the money on "disadvantaged
students" ... what the Government will succeed in doing is
crushing some student residences and making others more
exclusive," he says.
Commenting on this decision, Mr Bennie said: "This Government
is entirely Philistine. I think it is ideological. As soon as the Prime
Minister gets rid of his Minister for Education the better. It could
not get worse.
"What you want is somebody who looks at the facts, not an
ideologue. She gets the direct opposite result from what she
thinks she intends to do."
He says it should be no surprise that the scholastic standard of the
college is higher than the university. "If you live on campus and
don't have to commute you have a chance to study," he says. "It
would be very disgraceful if we were not above the average.
"We also have a tutorial system which offsets the vast numbers of
people at university. If you have a tutorial class of eight people
who know their tutor then you have enormous advantages."
Mr Bennie shared a similar background to most of his charges. He
is an old boy of Scotch College, Melbourne, and of Trinity College
at Melbourne University.
Reprinted with the kind permission of 'The Australian'
Our society has been built on opportunity, and hard work
and continuity of these conditions is required to keep our
society safe, just and prospering.
The rights of the individual are fundamental.
You can see why this, if I may call it, nationalistic religion is so
unpopular. Governments of both persuasions have quite
correctly perceived these tenets as unnecessarily restrictive and
are progressively undermining these beliefs and reducing our
freedoms.
The freedom of work for many people is severely restricted by
union closed shop tactics, legal secondary boycotts, artificially
high wages and a raft of government regulations rigidly imposed
by a mindless and massive bureaucracy.
The right to choose a form of education is seriously impaired by
confusion over funding and the determined destruction of
educational standards by some powerful teachers'
organisations.
VALEDICTORY DINNER (Continued)
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The right to change our social and cultural make-up has been
arrogated by a government who claim because it was
democratically elected that it has a 'mandate' to do specific things.
Semantic nonsense.
There are other examples. It is hard to cause Governments to
change direction, particularly if your religion has too few disciples.
It was not ever thus.
Your great-great grandfathers thought that this country gave them
an opportunity, free from the shackles, prejudice and favours of
19th Century European society, to establish a free and
independent way of life and a particular Australian ethos.
They battled the bush, the alien soil, the worst that nature could
deal them, and they built country, an economy, and, considering
the starting point, a great society.
Many of your great grandfathers fought a bloody war on an ideal,
forcing themselves up the scrubby heights of Gallipoli into the
(continued on page 8)

THIRST FOR KNOWLEDGE
Australian wines and how to enjoy them
Jeremy Oliver (1979) former resident of Trinity and son of former
chaplain, the Reverend Rodney Oliver, has just completed a
splendid book on Australian wines and how to enjoy them. This
handsome volume has been delightfully illustrated by Tim
Lindsay (1981) a current student at Trinity.
THIRST FOR KNOWLEDGE takes the reader through a
crash-course in viticulture and winemaking, Australian wine
history (From Convicts to Connoisseurs), wine tasting and our
local wine styles. It passes through the wine areas, wine labels,
wine and food, and has a chapter written to help the individual
find out which wines he or she may prefer.
Other chapters deal with cellaring and serving wine, cask wine, a
few wine reviews, and how to drink wine safely from a medical
point of view (I Shouldn't Have Had That Last Flagon).
THIRST FOR KNOWLEDGE provides you with everything you
have always wanted to know about wine, but were too
embarrassed to ask.
The book will be available shortly in selected retail outlets at a cost
of $12.95. However this book is being made available to Trinity
members at the special price of $11.00 plus $1.00 postage and
handling—the ideal Christmas present! Please fill in the order
form below and send to "Winerite" together with your cheque.
Jeremy who was in residence at Trinity from 1979 to 1982 has a
degree in agricultural science and is now working on a graduate
diploma in wine at Roseworthy College. His secret fantasy is to
commentate on cricket for the BBC!
Tim, currently in residence at Trinity, is an Arts/Law student at
Melbourne University and has had several illustrations published
in the Melbourne press. His unique style will soon be seen on
everything from greeting cards to newspapers.
Tim Lindsey '81 (left) and Jeremy Oliver '79 put their theory into
practice!
Please detach this form and send to: "Winerite"
7 Wilson Street,
Dandenong, Vic. 3175
I would like to purchase
(number of copies) of THIRST FOR KNOWLEDGE at the special price of $11.00 each plus $1.00 for postage and handling.
Please find payment enclosed of $
Cheques payable to "Winerite"
NAME
POSTAL ADDRESS
(please include
State and postcode)
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VALEDICTORY DINNER (Continued)
deathly machine-gun fire of the dug-in Turks ... and then, a year
later, out of the putrefying mud of the Flanders trenches, over the
parapets, into near certain mortality at the hands, this time, of the
German machine gunners.
Your grandfathers saw 150 years of progress and prosperity eroded
by the Great Depression, but they kept on, making their own way
and never quitting, and then took up arms again to protect and die
for what had been so hard won. Your fathers were luckier.
They had no major battles, but finally they made this country,
through their hard work and creativity, truly prosperous and, by
their efforts, allowed us to take unprecedented care of our
needy.
Alas we, your fathers, did not resist as Government became too
big, too intrusive, too dominating and tragically, too
self-serving.
But how, how could these few generations develop the fortitude
and drive necessary to create, to protect and to develop this
nation, this race, this ethos, this culture? Hedonism played no
part.
Classical religion, and materialism in respect of essentials, were
substantial contributors, but it required an accompanying great
faith and belief.
The great belief was in the building and being part of a great
nation, with the powerful ideals of freedom, equality, free
enterprise and justice for all. Some of you may care to consider
these beliefs and some may find them relevant, if unpopular.
Your generation faces huge challenges
—Governments motivated by what will seem good rather
than what is good.
— An onrushing depression of potentially monumental
proportions.
—A determined demand bya section of the community fora
totally multiracial society.
— and the probability of armed conflict to protect our way of
life in your lifetime.
For those with courage, and a sense of our history and identity,
these may turn out to be minor challenges. To our valedictees, I
see stirring times with much at risk. The College is proud of you but
expects much. I wish you the greatest good luck.
NEWS OF TRINITY MEMBERS
A. G. L. SHAW (1935) has been fully occupied until recently with
the Victorian Sesquicentennial History Project which is now ready
for publication. Also involved was a former tutor, Richard
BROOME (1974). 'AgI', as well as serving on the College Council,
gave a lunch hour talk in April on 'Why celebrate centenaries?'
Donn CASEY (1951) sends his greetings. He is living in Cambridge,
England, and describes himself as 'Inventor' and refers to a
number of publications in the field of reproduction, obstetrics and
gynaecology.
John STAREY (1952) is Australian High Commissioner in Brunei.
John CALDER (1959) having re-joined CRA is now in West
Germany as General Manager. He is living in Dusseldorf, and he
would be delighted to see any Trinity men passing through or
living in Germany. He recently spent a weekend in Bavaria with Dr
Robin Murray and is hoping to see Peter MONIE (1960) and his
wife Jo next year.
Hal Kempley COLEBATCH (1963) is Senior Lecturer in Politics at
Kuring-gai College, Sydney.
Graham Kenneth FORBES (1964) has been appointed Deputy
Actuary for New Zealand for Colonial Mutual. He expects to be in
New Zealand for the next three years.
Paul COOPER (1966) has been appointed Head of the Continuing
Legal Education Department at the College of Law in New South
Wales.
Haden J. DOWNING (tutor 1966-1969) Director of the Science
Museum of Victoria, was recently elected President of the
Museums Association of Australia. For the last three years he has
been editing their two publications Muse News and Museums
Australia.
Miles KUPA (1967) is currently Australian Ambassador in Iraq.
James Hollis MINSON (1968) is now back in Melbourne after his
sojourn in North America. He gained his MS at Stanford U.S.A. and
he has been working as a civil engineer in Canada.
Ian KING (1973) is now in Boston where he is working as a
landscape architect. He was recently married. He may be
contacted at 371 Beacon Street, No. 5 Boston, M.A. 02116,
U.S.A.
Peter COLLINSON (1974) is now working with Mallesons having
recently returned from New York. In December of last year Peter
married Jane Walter, a former resident of Queen's College.
Andrew ODDY (1974) has been appointed Incumbent of St. Mary
the Virgin, Chadstone East. The Induction was on 20th November
1984.
Lynne Deborah BEYNON (1975) now with the Education
Department in the Maroondah Teaching Unit (Ringwood) is to be
married on 22 December 1984 to Tony Massingham.
Linden HOPE (1977) is a general practitioner in a West Brunswick
group medical practice. Both he and his wife Priscilla (nee
BOADEN 1975) recently visited the College for lunch with the
Warden.
Alison M. S. TODD (1977) who married last June is now Mrs. David
John Brideson. Alison is a solicitor employed by the RACV.
Edward BILLSON (1978) has been working with Don
Goldberg/Terence O'Connor Architects in New York for a year
now. A recent project was the renovation of a mansion for the King
of Morocco, just south of New York City. Edward was the project
architect responsible for co-ordinating all the work which
involved consulting for a French design firm and dealing with
Italian building contractors. All this by an Australian working in
New York!
Sue CRAMER (1978) who works at the Heidi Gallery has been
writing regular art reviews for 'The Age'.
Anne (Noddy) WARD (1978) has announced her engagement to
John Anagnostou. They plan to be married in the College Chapel
on 8th April 1985. Anne is a solicitor practising in the general
commercial field specialising in superannuation with Messrs
Herbert Greer and Rundle.
James William GRAY (1979) sends his warmest regards. He is a
Company Director (Tax/Property Investment) with Garrick Gray
and Company, and is currently State President of Task Force Drug
Rehabilitation.
Rebecca FLETCHER (1981) has moved to Sydney where she is
working with Australian Kontax in a managerial position. She may
be contacted in Room 10, 5th Floor, Dymock's Building, Sydney,
N.S.W. 2000 (Tel: (02) 235 2049).
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