Trinity College Newsletter, vol 1 no 36, July 1988

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Juttoddie as it has never been since. In 1962, Secret Service Agent Boyd Munro hired a helicopter and whisked away Ian Lowry, on whom
a large sum had been wagered. Boyd has been undertaking challenging flights ever since.
FLEUR-DE-LYS DINNER 1988
The atmosphere was wonderful. People caught up with people
they often hadn't seen for years. The Hall was full, and all
generations of College life, from the twenties to the eighties, were
well represented.
James Guest, distinguished surgeon and Fellow of the College, was
elected President of the Union of the Fleur-de-Lys for the coming
year in a meeting so brief that it was over before the Warden could
find it in the crowded S.C.R.! Tony Buzzard was re-elected as
Secretary.
A few weeks earlier, the organizers had been anxious. The
invitations went out rather later than planned and the date, 17th
June, clashed with the Medico-Legal Dinner, a large Australian Club
dinner, and a twenty-first birthday—all of which were well
attended by prominent Trinity members. Despite the rival
attractions, the number of acceptances increased rapidly. Towards
the end quite a few had to be regretfully turned away.
There was one blemish—the food. Most guests probably thought
this was inevitable and accepted it cheerfully. Recently, however,
the Catering Department has produced many outstanding meals.
This night was the exception. Next year there will be a great effort to
atone for this year's lapse. Fortunately this in no way dampened the
exuberance of the evening. There has been general agreement that
it was a hugely enjoyable evening. "It's so good to be back in the
Hall having a good time and meeting people," was a common
comment.
The short speeches were well received. James Guest eloquently
proposed the toast and pledged support for the Warden and the
College.
In reply, the Warden painted a picture of diverse and lively Trinity
life based on a walk he made around the College on the evening
Monday, 11th April last. A rehearsal for "A Midsummer Night's
Dream" was well under way in the J.C.R.; in the Music Room
auditions were being held for "Cabaret"; tutorial classes were well
attended and showed signs of lively participation; the
inter-collegiate swimming heats were taking place in the University
pool; there was a reading of Aeschylus in one student's room; the
choir had sung a magnificent Evensong two hours earlier; and one
of our students was practising Bartok on the Hall piano. "This," he
said feelingly, "is a community of which I am proud to be the
Warden."
The most senior guest at the Dinner was Hal Taylor who entered
College in 1929. He has achieved international distinction for his
work in the science and technology of concrete—to which the Arts
Centre and Underground Rail Loop bear local witness—and well
deserved the applause which greeted Jim Guest's
acknowledgement of his presence.
(Photographs on Pages 4 & 5)
FRIENDS OF TRINITY
ANNUAL DINNER 1988
FRIDAY, 9th SEPTEMBER
Guest Speaker: Prof. Carl Wood
INVITATION ENCLOSED
WITH THIS NEWSLETTER
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THE SEVENTH ANNUAL
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SATURDAY,
NOVEMBER 12,
1988
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CONTACT
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NEWS FROM THE LIBRARY
Dr Geoffrey Kenny presented the Leeper Library with the following
recently published book: Ernest Sandford Jackson: The Life and
Times of a Pioneer Australian Surgeon, A.M.A. 1987.
Ernest Sandford Jackson entered the College in 1876 to begin his
medical course at the University of Melbourne. He arrived not long
after Alexander Leeper had been appointed and had taken up
residence in the College. As Dr Kenny records Jackson was the first
student enrolled by Dr Leeper and the thirty-third student on the
College roll.
At the Australian Bi-Centennial Medical Congress to be held in
Cairns at the end of August, Sir Gustav Nossal will give an oration in
honour of Dr Sandford Jackson and Sir Henry Newland.
Dr Kenny, who was one of the contributors to the publication, is
Senior Lecturer in Anatomy and Deputy Chairman of the
Department of Anatomy. He is a past Chairman of the Medical
History Society AMA (Victorian Branch).
We are very grateful to him for making this presentation to the
library and we warmly thank him.
American performing artists Brent Runnels and Edmund Le Roy of
the Rollins College (Florida) Music Department make their
Australian debut this summer during a nine-city concert tour. The
duo will offer concerts and master classes in voice and piano during
the goodwill tour commemorating the Australian Bicentenary and
Rollins Australian Studies program. Their Melbourne concert will
be in Trinity at 8.30 p.m. on Sunday 7th August, 1988.

ROBIN WILLIAM SMALLWOOD
Trinity 1953-1958; died 5th October 1987
Quite a few members of Trinity College were at a party at the
College of Surgeons on the 9th October 1987. An excellent jazz
band played and champagne was the order of the day. It was all as
Robin Smallwood wished it to be—his friends enjoying
themselves, with members of his own family. He himself had been
buried privately the previous day at Point Lonsdale, with a waratah
growing at the head and the Australian bush all around.
It was all a celebration of life. Of course, there was sadness as well.
Even when it is long expected, death brings the pangs of loss. There
was an almost palpable sense of support for Robin's wife Rosalind,
his children Kate and Angus, his brother Richard, in their time of
mingled sorrow and gratitude for the fact that they had loved and
been loved by such a man.
Robin Smallwood entered Trinity in 1953 as a medical student, and
achieved some distinction as a member of the winning crew in the
Elliot Fours—which does not necessarily mean that he was an
accomplished rower! Adrian Smithers, a fellow fresher of that year,
still remembers his capacity to eat the College_ food with apparent
relish ("It made me wonder what things must have been like at
Geelong Grammar") and his frankness in discussing at table details
of the more gruesome aspects of medical training ("I still shudder to
remember it").
The fifties were a great decade for Trinity drama, and one of the
most memorable productions was James Elroy Flecker's Hassan in
1955. It was certainly the most memorable for Robin and Rosalind
Smallwood if Adrian Smithers is right—and no one has denied it—
in surmising that "the vital spark of love was kindled at the cast party
of the same."
Robin enjoyed sport—participating in J uttoddie with zest as well as
the Elliot Fours—and especially swimming and tennis. He was
unusually skilled with his hands, a craftsman rather than just a
handyman, and the family's Point Lonsdale home will bear silent
witness to this for many years to come. His friends were often
grateful for his practical help and skill.
As if this were not enough for this true all-rounder he took up
water-colour painting. He also enjoyed working with a computer
while most of us were still wondering whether or not to acquire a
skill which seems to come more naturally to the younger
generation. And in all this, he maintained a broad smile which
sometimes broke into an infectious chuckle, delighted in telling
stories calculated to shock, and grew more and more fond of
jazz.
In 1969, Robin Smallwood was appointed the first full time Director
of Anaesthesia at the Austin Hospital. During eighteen years of
dramatic change, he built up and consolidated the Department,
caring equally for staff morale, for teaching the next generation of
anaesthetists and intensive care specialists, and for the
maintenance of the highest professional standards in the care of
patients. One of his memorials is the superb design and facilities of
the eight operating theatres complex and the eight-bed intensive
care unit of that hospital with its specialised attention to patients
with spinal cord injury or recovering from cardiac surgery.
Always keen to foster a fruitful relationship between clinical
practice and teaching, he introduced in 1978 a rotational training
program with a dozen anaesthetic Registrars gaining
complementary experience at the Austin, Repatriation, Preston
and Northcote, and Bendigo Hospitals. He was always a strong
champion of combining departments of anaesthesia and intensive
care, believing and demonstrating that each could contribute
significantly to the other.
His friends and professional colleagues knew him as quiet,
cheerful, and dedicated to what was best. Meticulous in his own
practice, he demanded high standards of others and gave the
encouragement that enabled them to achieve those standards. He
abjured autocracy, but always stood for free, open, honest and
critical discussion. Ideas were to be accepted or rejected not
because of who held them but only because of their intrinsic
worth. His fearless honesty extended not only to a willingness to
have others scrutinise his own ideas and performance, but finally
to the dignity and candour with which he faced his own impending
death and gave others the courage to face it too.

SCENES FROM THE RECENT
Peter Hebbard ('81), David Berry ('71), and Darren Coulson ('78)
were amongst some of the younger Fleur-de-Lys Members
represented at the Dinner.
Boz Parsons ('37), Philip Sargeant ('52), Tim Murray ('54) and
Richard Smallwood ('55) photographed at the Dinner.

FLEUR-DE-LYS DINNER
Simonette Guest talks to Bob Lewis ('37) and his wife Betty who
were over from Adelaide.
"What was said at the Annual General Meeting of the
Fleur-de-Lys?" newly elected President, James Guest, asks Tony
Buzzard, the hard-working secretary!
Richard Guy ('64) and his wife Clare with Heather and John King
('61) photographed in the Junior Common Room before the
Dinner.

AMERICAN STUDENTS TO TAKE COURSES IN TRINITY IN A
ROLLINS-TRINITY JOINT PROGRAM
On 18th July 1988, thirty carefully selected American
undergraduates arrived to take a full semester's course in
Australian Studies in Trinity College. They are enrolled with us as
non-resident students of the College in a program sponsored by
Rollins College in Florida. It is hoped that this joint venture of
Trinity and Rollins College will be continued each year. One of
the initial movers in setting up this exciting development was Dr
Christopher Cordner, who was appointed Victoria's Rhodes
Scholar for 1973. Like several other Cordners, Chris was a
resident student at Trinity. After completing his studies in Oxford,
he taught philosophy for a time in Rollins College before
returning to lecture in the Philosophy Department of the
University of Melbourne. He is currently also a resident
philosophy tutor in Queen's College.
The Director of the Rollins College in Melbourne program is Mr
Karel Reus, who has an office in Trinity. He has gathered a team
of specialist teachers who will be members of the Trinity Senior
Common Room. This year the classes will be held in the College
Music Room. There will also be a two-week field excursion to
Northern Victoria and the Murray.
The areas to be covered in the sixteen week program are
Cultural Studies, Australian Society, Environmental Studies, and
Research Methods.
Rollins College is a small, highly regarded Liberal Arts College in
Winter Park, Florida, with about 1,500 undergraduate students.
For fourteen years Rollins has sponsored an Australian Studies
program in Sydney. The success of this led to the establishment
of a similar program in Melbourne.
As an Australian Bicentenary gift, Rollins College is sponsoring a
tour by two gifted members of their Music Faculty. You are
therfore invited to attend a free recital in the Trinity Dining Hall
on Sunday evening 7th August 1988 at 8.30 p.m. (You may also
care to come to Evensong first, in the Chapel at 7.30 p.m. with
the choir of the Canterbury Fellowship.)
You are assured of a most enjoyable evening.
All members of the Trinity family and their guests are
invited to a popular recital in the College Hall by
Dr EDMUND LeROY
Baritone
AND
Dr BRENT RUNNELLS
Pianist
Members of the Music Faculty, Rollins College, Florida
on SUNDAY, 7th AUGUST 1988
at 8.30 p.m.
This recital is part of a Bicentenary Tour sponsored
by Rollins College.
IAN MATTHEW CAMPBELL
Ian Campbell, a resident Psychology Tutor in Trinity from 1971 to
1973, died on 7 December 1987, on his forty-sixth birthday, after
a lengthy illness. His funeral, attended by a large gathering of
members of his family, friends, clients, academic and professional
colleagues took place in the Trinity Chapel and was conducted
by the Warden, assisted by the Reverend Roger Sharr, University
Chaplain. Professor Alexander Wearing spoke of Ian's
contribution to his Department, and Dr Warren Bartlett offered a
more personal tribute.
Adopting the wording of a newspaper notice placed by members
of the Psychology Department, the Warden referred to him as "a
teacher and mentor, a caring and unfailing friend, a model of
rationality and balance".
Ian Campbell arrived in Melbourne from New Zealand in 1970 as
a Psychology tutor. He completed a doctorate in 1978. As well as
maintaining an interest in research, he was led by his strong
community awareness into work with the police, with flight
crews and with public health. By 1984 he had been promoted to
Senior Lecturer. Perhaps his greatest contribution was to the
teaching of clinical psychology, where he was a proponent of
Rational Emotive Therapy, a method he introduced to
Melbourne. Over 180 of his students are now clinical
practitioners in Victoria. The effect of his knowledge and wisdom
is thus widespread.
Ian was a private person. Only a privileged few knew of his relish
for slapstick and "banana skin" humour, of his ability to let his
hair down among close friends, of his delight in puns. More were
aware of his deep love of opera. Two musical climaxes were
particularly significant for him: Faust's final triumph over the
power of evil and the last two movements of Mahler's Second
Symphony, a vision of heaven and resurrection. He loved the
poetry of Dylan Thomas. His perennial interest in the mystery of
life was counterbalanced, at least affectively, by an interest in the
mystery of death and of renewal.
At the funeral, Warren Bartlett recalled, among much else, the
profound impact on Ian during his last study leave abroad of the
singing in a monastery just outside Moscow, and in another
monastery outside Barcelona. "For one intellectually so
dedicated to controlled understanding, there was a richness in
his affective life which we must also honour."
Ian Campbell made a significant and enduring contribution to his
Department, and to his profession. He was an ornament to this
College. We shall not forget him.

TRINITY COLLEGE PROUDLY PRESENTS
AN OUTSTANDING CONCERT IN HALL
On Wednesday 12th October 1988
at 8.30 p.m.
Our Pianist—in Residence
TSOU NAN-CHIEN
will play a program including:
Beethoven: Sonata in D Minor
("The Tempest")
Chopin: Sonata in B Flat Minor
("The Funeral March")
as well as works by Mozart and Albeniz.
Tsou Nan-Chien is becoming increasingly admired as a
pianist of deep musical insight. She has played in
Melbourne, Bendigo and other Victorian centres and
will shortly undertake a concert tour of mainland China.
THE TRINITY COLLEGE LITERARY MAGAZINE
"The Bulpadock 1988"
including articles, poetry and prose by current students
and tutors is now available on request. Please send
$3.00 to cover handling and postage to "The
Bulpadock", Trinity College, Parkville, Vic., 3052, or
collect your copy from the College Office.
Taffey Jones, here shown
masquerading as an English Lord
at Juttoddie 1962 (who else is in
the photo apart from Ted
Dexter?) continues to enliven
Trinity life in 1988. He is Medical
Superintendant of the Austin
Hospital but lives in Upper
Bishops', and is as popular with
the staff, tutors and students as
ever.

NEWS OF TRINITY MEMBERS
Richard Woolcott ('46) returns to Canberra in September as head of
the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. He has been in New
York as Australian Ambassador to the United Nations, and has also
held posts in London, Moscow (twice), South Africa, Kuala Lumpur,
Singapore, Accra and Manila, as well as Jakarta and the U.N.
Ted Blarney ('64) has recently been appointed President and Chief
Executive Officer of Sitmar International based in Los Angeles. The
appointment of an Australian to the top management position of,
the Sitmar organization is a first in the increasingly high profile and
fast growing world-wide cruise industry. We congratulate him on
his appointment.
John Forbes ('64) has been in Newcastle for almost one year, having
been appointed Professor of Surgical Oncology and Director of the
Hunter Oncology Centre. His wife, Jenny, (nee Daniels) was a Janet
Clarke resident from 1964, the year that John entered Trinity.
Richard Oppenheim ('64), after 17 years on the faculty of the
Victorian College of Pharmacy, has joined R.P. Scherer as Scientific
Affairs Manager. The company makes one piece soft gelatin
capsules filled with multivitamins or drugs. His wife, Annette ('69) is
a lecturer in computer science at Swinburne Institute of
Technology. On his world travels, Richard always tries to see his first
wife, David Woodruff ('64), who is now based in San Diego.
Michael Burgess ('78) worked for I.C.I. in Albury for four years and
then travelled in northern India for six months. He is now working
for Elders IXL in Melbourne.
John Davis ('76) Stewart Lecturer in Divinity at Trinity, was awarded
a doctorate in Theology recently, for his thesis on the constitutional
history of the Australian Anglican Church.
Tim Burgess ('80) is now living in Manchester, working as a project
engineer for I.C.I. Before settling down there, he travelled
extensively in North Africa, Spain and France.
Janice Baker ('81) leaves in July for a year or more in Japan, where
she has been awarded a Japanese Government Teaching
Scholarship to teach English. Another Trinity member in Japan is
Eric Lucas ('80).
Vicky Griffith ('82) has joined Daryl Jackson's company as an
architect. Her present project is concerned with the Bond
University.
Duncan McFarlane ('81) is in his third year at Cambridge doing a
PhD. He should be back in Melbourne in 1989.
DEATHS OF COLLEGE
MEMBERS
The College records with regret the deaths of the following
members reported since the last edition of the Newsletter:
Ronald Issac Lowenstein (1916)
William Bindon McComas Stoney (1919)
Geoffrey Buckhurst Stephen Hart (1924)
Ronald James Jelbart (1928)
John Finlay Anderson (1929)
John Monteath Gooley (1931)
Alan Champion Hirst (1932)
James McLean Eadie (1939)
David Lipscombe Hollway (1934)
Muir John Myer Lapin (1937)
Peter Lawrence (1940)
Bruce Victor Wicking (1946)
Donald James MacKinnon (1947)
THE QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY HONOURS
AC Sir Brian Inglis (1946) for service to Industry and
Technology.
PHOTOGRAPHS PLEASE!
The College would very much like to augment its collection of
photographs of College life. Former residents who would be willing
to lend their photographs are asked to contact Miss Angela Mackie at
the College Ph. 3471044. The photographs will be copied and then
returned. If possible the names of those pictured, the date, and the
event should be included.