P E R I O D I C A L N E W S L E T T E R O F THE GRADUATE UNION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE INCORPORATED PRINT POST APPROVED PP337834/00022 REGISTERED ASSOCIATION No. A0023234B NOVEMBER 2003 VOLUME 56 No. 4
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CONTENTS Calendar of Events
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New Members
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Valete
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Profile: Dr John Binns 3 Book Review
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Residents & Members 4 Letters
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From the Archives
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Property Development Report
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Donations to the Building Appeal
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CONSTRUCTION OF ‘THE NEW GRADUATE HOUSE’ After the uncertainty surrounding the proposed $250M redevelopment of University Square in Carlton five years ago, harmonious and consensual conclusion was reached at 12 noon on Wednesday, 1 October 2003. In the company of Professor Alan Gilbert, Vice-Chancellor of The University of Melbourne, the guest speaker for the day, the first sod was turned to mark the commencement of the New Graduate House. Gwen Northey, still a regular luncheon attender and Graduate Union’s longest-serving active member and Sieh Ng, the current Residents’ Representative, broke the ground on the site to celebrate the start of construction scheduled for Monday, 13 October 2003. Many members were present to mark the occasion, together with representatives from The University of Melbourne, Architects Perrott Lyon Mathieson, and Mr Allen Ashworth from Contract Control Constructions, the successful tenderers. A champagne toast completed the short ceremony.
(l to r) Dr David Bellair, Seih Ng, Gwen Northey, Frank Lees and Professor Alan Gilbert (Photo: Peter Casamento)
OCTOBER LUNCHEON
THE GRADUATE UNION of The University of Melbourne Inc.
Frank Lees, President of the Graduate Union, introduced Professor Alan Gilbert, Vice-Chancellor of The University of Melbourne, who reflected on the growth of the University in recent decades and the development of University Square.
The presence of the Victoria Bowling Club for around 125 years had impeded the University’s desire to develop the Square. There had been lengthy discussions with the Graduate Union about the development of its facilities.
Aside from the CSIRO, The University of Melbourne is the second-largest research institute in Australia, with an annual research budget of $360m, attracting scholars and prominent researchers throughout the world, united in a common search for truth. The research facilities at the University have attracted Nobel Laureates and there are fifty doctoral research students at the Florey Institute.
With the expansion of some faculty buildings into University Square, Professor Gilbert felt that the new Graduate House and its modern facilities for postgraduate scholars would complete the Square as a suitable extension of the University’s Melbourne campus. He described University Square as ‘the most pleasing educational precinct i n a ny A u s t r a l i a n university’.
Professor Gilbert congratulated the Graduate Union on its decision to build a new residential facility for postgraduate students on the site of the former Kidd’s Warehouse. The development of University Square had been a long and arduous process. Redmond Barry, in the 1860s, had fought for many years to have the area gazetted as ‘University Square’.
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CALENDAR OF GRADUATE HOUSE EVENTS Thursday, 27 November 6.00pm RESIDENTS’ & COUNCILLORS’ CHRISTMAS PARTY RSVP - Monday 24 November Monday, 1 December - 6.30pm ITALIAN CONVERSATION DINNER $25 RSVP – Friday 28 November Wednesday, 3 December12.30pm for 12.50pm MONTHLY LUNCHEON Speaker: Mr Ben Bodna $25 RSVP – Monday 1 December Monday, 8 December AFTERNOON TEA FOR BRENDA GREANEY Friday, 12 December MEMBERS’ CHRISTMAS PARTY Santa and Carol Singing $40 – RSVP Monday 8 December Wednesday, 24 December OFFICE CLOSES, reopens 5 Jan 2004 Friday, 23 January 2004 MEMBERS’ & RESIDENTS’ BARBECUE $20 – RSVP 21 January 2004 Wednesday, 4 February MONTHLY LUNCHEON Speaker: Mr Peter Churcher, Artist
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NEW MEMBERS
STANLEY KEITH (STAN) DEAN
The following new members joined the Graduate Union in the period July - November 2003. We welcome them and look forward to their participation in our members’ programs.
It is with regret that we learned of the death of our life member Stan Dean on 27 September from cancer at the age of 83 years. A life member from 1950, Stan was a popular member who took an active interest in all aspects of the Graduate Union. He Mr Stan Dean served as a councillor from 1973 to the early ‘80s and was Chairman in 1979 and 1980. In later years Stan and his wife Margaret, also a life member, have been consistent participants in Graduate Union activities including the Italian Conversation Dinners, the guest speaker luncheons and mail-outs.
Life Members
Mr J Andrew BINNS, BA(Monash) Dr Desmond BRIGHT BMechE, BA, PhD Dr Ruth Wingate BRIGHT, DMus(Hon) Annual Members
Barbara BREWER, BA Richard BONNETT, BAgrSc Deborah BOYCE, BBSc(LaTrobe) Rhona FAHEY, BA(Deakin), BLitt Paul GEORGE, BSc(Monash) Zosia GOLEBIOWSKI, MA(Poznan), PhD(Monash), MA, DipEd Nita JAWARY, BA(Hons) Frances MOLONEY, MA(Deakin) John NUGENT, BEng(Qld) Joan O’GRADY, DipTeach(Edith Cowan) Christine RICHARDSON, BBus(RMIT) Susan SAHHAR, BEc, PGDES Barbara SMITH, BA, DipEd(LaTrobe), Diploma(Plymouth) All degrees are from University of Melbourne unless otherwise noted. Degrees are stated as presented on members’ application forms.
Stan had a lifetime commitment to study and learning which lead to a wide ranging career as a professional engineer. He worked in England with the British Iron and Steel Research Association and with the French Atomic Energy Commission until 1957 when he returned to Melbourne to work in the private sector and later in the Defence Standards Laboratories as Head of Engineering.
Stan was devoted to Margaret and their family of four sons and daughter He was a founder and first president of the Parkville Association. He was also a director of Technical Aid for the Disabled –Victoria (TADVIC) which is a co-operative VALETE formed by volunteers who design, make and Since publication of the August edition of the modify aids for people with disabilities when no Graduate we have also been notified of the deaths commercial product will do. of the following members: Stan served in World War Two as an army Dr John H Birrell OAM. engineering officer and post-war in Japan with the Life Member, joined in 1974 Occupation Forces. On his return to Australia he studied Electrical Engineering at The University Mr Rongomai G Burton, of Melbourne, graduating in 1949 with current Life Member, joined in 1948 member Ralph de la Lande. Stan later completed a Mr Harold W Collins, Masters in Mechanical Engineering and also Life Member, joined in 1966 obtained an Arts degree. Mr Robert D Croll, We will all miss Stan. Our condolences go to Life Members, joined in 1975 Margaret and family. Mr John F Lyons QC, Ralph de la Lande Life Member, joined in 1978 Rev Canon Neale Molloy OBE, Life Member, joined in 1955 The Graduate Union appreciates the support of these members throughout their lives and extends condolences to their families We regret that space constraints do not allow individual acknowledgement of each deceased member.
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PROFILE - DR JOHN BINNS, GRADUATE UNION COUNCILLOR Members of The Graduate Union were among those stunned when The University of Melbourne announced its grand plan for University Square. This featured a multistorey building on the Graduate House location. As readers are aware, the outcome has been different; the ten terrace houses remain and a new four-storey college building is under construction. Among the newly elected members of Graduate Council in 1996, when all this began, was Dr John Binns. An apprenticeship as Chairman of House Board 1996-99 ensured John was familiar with Graduate House operations. His meticulous attention to management and budgets contributed greatly towards the generation of surpluses needed to cover past losses. He was the first person to discuss the idea of a budget for food costs with the chef. This attention to operations also laid the basis for funding a comprehensive maintenance and renovation program, which had been desperately needed for a long time. This is evident in the proud way Graduate House now presents itself among its neighbours.
negotiations about the tunnel to the underground car-park and the future shape of Graduate House seemed to be an endless game of musical chairs, because every time the music stopped there was another chair in the form of some other building possibility. John Binns steered the Graduate Union through this tortuous piece of navigation until a resolution was achieved. The agreement, which is reflected in the building now underway, was finally signed off and settlement took place in 2002. The tunnel was speedily constructed by The University of Melbourne and the new Graduate House is underway. There was no time lost in preparing foundations, as the columns were already in place as part of the tunnel. He was the right person to be Chairman at that time. John has a strong entrepreneurial streak, which enables him to look ahead and keep his eye on the desired outcome. An orthodontist by profession, he is also well known for his part in the successful art show, conducted by Box Hill Rotary and his highly successful enterprise which manufactures moving electrical signs for use in shops, cafes, public facilities and on roadsides. John Binns embodies the founding aims and true spirit of The Graduate Union - to encourage and assist postgraduates. He takes a keen interest in the residents of Graduate House and has been instrumental in guiding many towards employment opportunities. He is a regular and welcome visitor at Graduate House, with a wealth of innovative ideas and always willing and available to assist with any project. Dr R Gibson
Dr Binns joined The Graduate Union in 1956 and became Chairman of the Graduate Council in 1999. At that stage
BOOK REVIEW THE DARK BETRAYAL by Frank B Walker, publ. Kingfisher Press, NSW, 326p. RRP $19.95 Reviewed by John Champness The book is characteristically dedicated to ‘investigative journalists; there are not many left’. This excellent account could be regarded as ‘factitious’ and makes excellent reading because the author has based the story on personal experiences during WW2 in corvettes. Frank Walker is well qualified to write about corvettes because as an anti-submarine officer he stood by while HMAS Launceston was being built in Brishane. He was subsequently appointed to HMAS Latrobe which replaced the ill-fated Armidale when it was sunk off Timor. This novel is his latest, in which he traces the adventures of Ken Bartlett. An Australian sailor in a corvette in the Atlantic took on a cloakand-dagger mission into Nazi Germany. It was the start of a long and dangerous trail that led him to suspect that the Allied firms traded with Germany and Japan during WW2. Following arduous service in corvettes in both the Atlantic and Pacific sectors, he returned to his job as a journalist and followed the trail of the treason trade. This proved even more hazardous than the war with the FBI, CIA and thugs hired by the double-dealers out to get him. In the end he achieves a bitter triumph.
Frank Walker states in the foreword ‘this book is pure ‘faction’ based on fact and well documented fact at that’. The facts about trading with the enemy and Nuremberg war crimes are recorded in the archives of many countries. The prologue introduces the reader to the main characters when Ken Bartlett wrote: ‘Dear Rose: I can’t sleep a wink, so am dashing this off to get a few things off my chest. The first is that I was bloody crazy to take on this Vietnam trip. I thought I’d be able to find out what is really happening here, after all, when the Foreign Affairs Minister himself sponsors your visit you should be able to get somewhere near the truth but I can now see there’s not much hope of that. They’ve got experts here who make sure you don’t find out too much…. This war is a mass of confusion and contradictions. Nobody here seems to believe that they are protecting democracy against a downward march of communism. Nobody seems to believe anything, and that includes me.’ This prologue is an unusual and mind grabbing way of introducing the reader to what becomes a first rate thriller based on ‘factitious’ data. Frank is a wonderful storyteller and his journalistic expertise comes to the fore in this, his latest book.
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100TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS
CATHERINE SHARKEY
Doesn’t time fly when you’re having fun! I’ve just finished a year’s full time Postgraduate Diploma in Educational Studies at The University of Melbourne. I came here from England to add this to my three- year Bachelor of Education Degree so that I can teach in Australia. I just have the small hurdle of applying for permanent residency to overcome now! I was a primary school teacher in England for 12 years and I’m now doing relief teaching here in Melbourne. Children are generally a lot better behaved here than in the Birmingham schools where I used to teach, so I’ve been able to extend my range Residents Jane Macdougall and Josef Draxler recently celebrated to Grade Six here, as in Birmingham, anything above age six can be very scary! their joint ‘100th birthday’ with a party at Graduate House. Jane is a paediatric nurse from the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh and Dumfries Royal Infirmary in southwest Scotland. She came to Australia to catch up with family and to work and study at the renowned Royal Children’s Hospital. Although she has studied Management she prefers to remain a ward nurse, saying that contact with children and their families is ‘what it is all about’. Jane says her Australian experience has been very positive to date and being looked after so well by the excellent team at Graduate House has made the transition much easier. Josef is a senior lecturer at The University of Leoben, Austria, and is doing research at The University of Melbourne’s Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. He says his stay at Graduate House has been very enjoyable, not only because of its superb location between Princes Park (for jogging), the University, Lygon Street and the City, but also because of its facilities and ever- friendly staff. He finds it most intriguing to be living together with people of all ages and professions, and from so many different countries : speaking with people from Iraq, Iran, Burma, China and Zimbabwe often gives quite a different picture from the views expressed in our sometimes biased western media. Great experience!
MARIO ALVAREZ My name is Mario Alvarez and I come from Spain, where I am a resident in Clinical Psychology at Hospital Universitario Marques de Voldecilla de Santander. I have a grant to do an international term with Origen Youth Health and Early Psychosis Prevention and Intervention Centre (EPPIC) in Melbourne.
Since coming to Graduate House, I’ve eaten twice as much as I did before, but I’m pleased to say that I haven’t put on any weight due to all the walking I do. Carlton is a great place to live, as so much is within walking distance. I used to be lazy and go everywhere in the car. I’ve really enjoyed having my food cooked for me and getting back into student life after …. a long time! Graduate House is great for socializing and meeting people from all over the world. Just one more plus point for me is that there are so many cinemas close by so I can get my regular fix of films!
MEREDITH NASH My name is Meredith Nash and I am from Chicago, Illinois. I moved to Melbourne to pursue a Master’s of Gender Studies and Development. During my undergraduate years, I lived in Canberra whilst studying at ANU. I loved my time in Australia so much, I decided to come back! Living in Graduate House has been a really wonderful experience. I have met some incredibly nice and warm-hearted people while living here. It has been an easy way to make a big city a little smaller!
BRENDA GREANEY
After 18 years of loyal and dedicated service to The Graduate Union, Senior Housekeeper, Mrs Brenda Greaney has announced her retirement at the end of the I arrived in Melbourne one month year. Brenda has seen great ago, but already feel totally changes over the years and is well integrated into Graduate House. It is really easy to make friends here and since my first day I have known to many members. She felt quite at home. I also enjoy the international atmosphere at will be sorely missed. Graduate House and in Melbourne. It’s an experience that I shall never forget. 4
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THE GOLDEN OLDIES
LETTERS To the Secretary-Warden from Mrs Margaret Hendy, Life Member
What a wonderful surprise I had yesterday when a gentleman arrived from a florist bringing me the most beautiful bouquet of flowers – purple irises, yellow-greenish lilies, lemon coloured carnations and small white flowers whose name I do not know. They are set in polystyrene foan in a square container, so that I didn’t even have to look for a vase! Thank you so much for your kind thought in sending them to me – much better here than in the hospital where the heat in the ward soon caused the most lovely blossoms to wilt and die quite quickly. I am enclosing the Professor’s card in case I forget to bring it the next time I come to Graduate House. I hope that I’ll be able to attend the October lunch. With kindest regards and best wishes to you all Jean Barrie, Muriel Johnstone, Betty Clamp, Joan Simpson and Nancye Smith
The Golden Oldies is a group of friends who meet regularly at Graduate House for lunch. These five ladies have known each other for 63 years since graduating from a Melbourne business college in 1940. For the past 25 years, they have been coming to Graduate House where they catch on the news with a light meal and stimulating conversation.
CHRISTIAN ZEILINGER
September 2003 To the Chairman of Graduate Council from Margaret Waterhouse, Life Member Thank you (albeit belatedly, for which I apologise) for your letter congratulating me on my award listed in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List. It was pleasing too, to be listed The Melbourne Graduate with my husband’s old friend, Roy Webb. As a Life Member, I always enjoy my ‘as of right’ visits to Graduate House. September 2003
Christian Zeilinger comes from Munich and is doing experimental work in tissue engineering at the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at The University of Melbourne. He will be here until February next year.
To the Secretary-Warden from Emmaline McFadyen Noel and I should like to write how much we enjoyed our luncheon at Glencoe in June. It is indeed an excellent restaurant and Noel was delighted to win that special prize. With every good wish, most sincerely. August 2003
‘I enjoy being in Graduate House, because you meet a lot of people from different countries and gain experience in speaking English. Graduate House has a very welcoming atmosphere and a friendly staff. Its location, near the city, means that you can reach almost every attraction by foot.’
Comment from staff member, Engineering Department I have been on leave for twelve months and want to say how impressed I am with the appearance of the buildings in University Square. Congratulations on the magnificent restoration work done on the terrace facades. Your new building will fit admirably into the overall development of the Square.
GENERAL SIR JOHN MONASH – THE SHRINE OF REMEMBRANCE The Shrine of Remembrance honours the service and sacrifice of Australian servicemen and women. Built between 1928 and 1934 it was funded by the people of Victoria through through public donations. Sir John Monash, the founder of a group which later became The Graduate Union, was responsible for the decision to build the Shrine. There were many competitive proposals for memorial hospitals and schools, but his wisdom won through. He and the Victoria of the 1920s have left us a magnificient memorial and heritage. F.A. Lees A typical receipt for public donation 1928 November 2003 volume 56 no. 4
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FROM THE ARCHIVES UNIVERSITY DRAMA AND THE GRADUATES By Kathleen Fitzpatrick [The Melbourne Graduate, vol.1 no.2 (November, 1950), p.57-59] T.A.P. map were Associate Professor Harold Hunt, Elden de Steiger, Peggy Tellick, Edgar Harcourt and W.A.G. Scott. The first performance by the T.A.P. – the appropriate anti-Fascist play Judgment Day – was given in 1940, with a wonderful cast including Keith Macartney, Frank Brooks (in one of the most memorable of his many T.A.P. parts) and Murray Sutherland, a young man of high promise who was later killed on active service.
The Players in You're the Cream in My Coffee 29 Sept 1989
Its eleventh birthday, marked by its fortieth production in the Union Theatre, seems a good occasion to pause and reflect a little on the achievement of the Tin Alley Players, the graduates’ drama group. One night in 1939, before the war began, a few graduates - Laurie Thomas, Colin McAlpin, Cynthia Sutton and Murray Sutherland - dined at the Florentino with Associate Professor Keith Macartney (as he now is) to discuss a project with him. As things were then, the only existing University dramatic society was the undergraduate M.U.D.C. Not unnaturally, students did not welcome graduates in their productions and when student actors graduated they were lost to University drama. Keith Macartney’s idea was to retain their talents and interest for the University by founding a graduates’ drama group. The plan seemed feasible to the enthusiasts at the Florentino and was later welcomed and sanctioned by the Graduates’ Section of the Union.
In 1941 it was decided to produce A Midsummer Night’s Dream. This was by far the most ambitious production as yet undertaken and it was not surprising that some members were worried about the financial risks. Keith Macartney, however, was confident that the Bard was good box-office and he guaranteed the T.A.P. against loss out of his own pocket. The profits were over £400. Not the least of the achievements of the T.A.P. has been its frugal and efficient business management. From its profits it has contributed £2,500 to the funds of the Union and £1,500 to charities and has built up, under the guidance of its devoted and capable wardrobemistress, Ida Seitz, a valuable theatrical wardrobe. At the same time, prices have been kept low and Union Theatre costs (which now amount to about £30 a night for a simple production) have been met. 1942, as most of us remember, was a black year. The war-time difficulties of 1940 and 1941 were as nothing compared with those which faced the T.A.P. when the Pacific war began and all our lives were changed. Student dramatic activities had come to an end and it seemed likely that the T.A.P. would have to fold up too. After much discussion it was decided to risk another production and J.B. Priestly’s Time and the Conways was put on. This was so successful that the T.A.P. regarded it as a mandate to carry on. During the worst years of the war University drama was kept going and the Union Theatre was kept open by the graduates. In the early days of the T.A.P. Keith Macartney was the chief producer but as time went on other producers joined the organization or came up from its ranks. These included Ruby
It was the object of the Tin Alley Players not merely to give graduates opportunities of acting and producing but to spread a knowledge and love of the drama. From the first, play-readings of high standard have been held monthly during the academic year and, in this way, scores of good plays have been made accessible to graduates. The first reading was given towards the end of 1939. It was Eugene O’Neill’s Anna Christie, with Dorothea Dixon in the name part. The Tin Alley Players could hardly have picked a more difficult time to be born. The shadow of war hung over it from the beginning and everyone doubted whether the brave new venture would live. There was no money and no wardrobe; the Tin Alley Players were rich only in friends. From the first Associate Professor Maurice Belz was a member of the Committee and the business manager. Members of the University staff have vivid (and grateful) recollections of one of the methods he used to build up the T.A.P. audience in the early days by going from table to table at luncheon in the Union and, by a judicious mixture of bonhomie and bullying, bringing his colleagues to the point of taking tickets. Other graduates who were early (and late) on the 6
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The Director Elizabeth Wentworth giving us the introduction
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May, Elden de Steiger, Peggy Tellick, the late Les Young, Rex Rienits and Myra Roper, the Principal of University Women’s College. As for the actors, Jean Lawson, Joyce Turner, Gwenda Wilson, Marjorie Dyson, Winston Hunter, George Amos and Hugh Neville are only a few of them. Space forbids mention of all who have served the T.A.P. as Presidents, Secretaries, committee members, actors, producer and musicians or in humble and arduous but most necessary tasks which bring no limelight but have given the T.A.P. its reputation for sound work. Our ViceChancellor has often lived in a house stripped of its very chairs and tables because they had been requisitioned by Lady Medley or his daughter, Diana, for the T.A.P. sets. Looking back over the forty productions, it is difficult to make a selection of the finest theatrical experiences the T.A.P. has given us. I suppose everyone would agree that A Midsummer Night’s Dream was outstanding. As Keith Macartney produced it, it was a dream indeed, an enchanted and enchanting vision. It was the traditional Shakespeare, produced and acted by artists who respected the dramatist’s text; it was also fresh as a daisy with Margaret Sutherland’s new music, original scenes and costumes by Kathleen and Florence Martin and dances by Daisy Pirnitzer and Hanny Kilm. Kenneth Wilkinson wrote of it in the Herald: ‘What a performance – its singular beauty was the unity with which several minds had bent themselves to expressing the high imagination of the fantasy … Keith Macartney had drawn these strands of enterprise together, and had commanded his actors with discretion, so that their moments of strength were emphasized, their weakness masked. There were no loose ends to his production. It preserved its quality unfailingly.’ There is general agreement about A Midsummer Night’s Dream; after that, opinion as to which have been the best T.A.P. productions is divergent. For my part, I think I should select three in particular. The first is They Came to a City by Priestley, which was probably the most perfectly cast and acted play ever offered by T.A.P. The actors included Joy Youlden, Frank Brooks, Ruby May and Collins Hilton, and Keith Macartney was the producer. Sean O’Casey’s, Juno and the Paycock was also a memorable production, with that fine artist and good friend of the T.A.P., Ruby May, magnificent as Juno. Finally I must mention Anna
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A play-reading in the Anderson Room at Graduate House
Christie. Desmond Connor, as stage manager, gave us a scene so ingeniously contrived that we could feel the fog in our throats, and Dorothea Dixon, who had read the part at the first play-reading in 1939, was staggeringly good in the part of Anna. As graduates, we have every reason to be proud of our T.A.P., and as our dramatic society the T.A.P. has provided beyond question its right to our full support. [Illustrations from The Melbourne Graduate, vol.42 no.4 (November, 1989), p.8]
WATER SAVINGS City West Water has applauded the action of residents in reducing water consumption at Graduate House, following the installation of flow restrictors earlier in the year. A Media Release on 26 September 2003 notes that over a four-month period there has been a saving of up to 83,000 litres of water in some showers, with significant savings in both gas and water bills at Graduate House.
CHRISTMAS GREETINGS
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The Editors join with the President,Chairman, Councillors, Secretary-Warden and Staff in extending best wishes to all members for the coming Christmas Season and for a peaceful and prosperous New Year.
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PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT REPORT John Gill, Chairman Development Committee I am pleased to advise that we have a successful tender with Contract Control Constructions Pty Ltd who quoted below our estimated cost. Contract Control Constructions is a long established, reputable, middle-sized company responsible for a wide range of buildings around Melbourne, including a number for leading educational institutions. Their Director supervising our project, Malcolm Stewart, is Vice-President of St Mary’s College Council and a member of the University’s Building & Grounds Committee. Construction will be carried out in three stages: firstly, construction of the new building, scheduled to be completed by 27
October next year; secondly, alterations to the ground floor of the adjoining terraces to accommodate new offices, computer room and games room in the area now occupied by the kitchen and dining room, scheduled to be completed by 1 December 2004; and thirdly, the conversion of the upstairs games room into two bedrooms, scheduled to be completed by 20 January 2005. The whole project should be completed before the start of the 2005 academic year. As the foundations are already in place, having been built by the University during the construction of the tunnel to their car park and, as there is no basement, we can expect rapid progress. I am also pleased to advise that the necessary loan arrangements have been put in place with our bankers, the National Australia Bank Ltd.
DONORS TO BUILDING FUND, DONATIONS AT 14 OCTOBER: $75,130 Prof P Bailey Dr R Esdaile Mr A Noble Mr A Bartlett Mr J Franklin Dr P Phair
Mr K Godman Mrs M French Mrs V Rae Prof D Caro Miss H Gordon Mr D Robson
Mrs A Cordner Bishop J Grant Miss T Saccuzzo Mrs M Dean Mrs A Harcourt Mrs E Sevior
Mr A DelBrocco Dr L Hartman Dr E Shaw Mr F Derham Mrs M Hetherington Dr J Upjohn
Miss M Edmondson Dr A Jabara Mr R Vaughan Ms M Ferguson Mr J Knight Mr B Webb
An anonymous donation of $100 to the Library is gratefully acknowledged with thanks.
The New Graduate House Opening Soon
60 Bed Postgraduate Accommodation with private ensuite, new bistro, residents dining room, conference, function and outdoor terrace facilities. For membership and general enquiries please call 9347 3428
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