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TheWesleyanWESLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ANNUAL REPORT AND JOURNAL 2018

WESLEY COLLEGE STUDENTS 2018

Thomas Alchin, India Allen, Jack Andrighetto, WilliamAvery, Aimee Ball, Talia Barnet-Hepples, MichaelBartimote, Angus Barton, Victoria Bennet, NatashaBernard, Isabella Best, Thomas Binns, HughBlanchfield, James Boric, Guy Bouchier, GeorgiaBoxley, Caitlin Brown, Eleanor Brown, Jeffrey Brown,Matthew Buckland, Kelly Burns, Emma Carter,Matthew (Andrew) Coetzee, Sarah Cohen, Julia Cole,Edwin Cruz-Garcia, Raquel Cuevas, Timothy D'Cruz,Alistair de Vroet, Emma Dewhurst, Toby Dickinson,James Dominic (IFSA), Hugh Duffield, Darby Durack,Hannah Edgell, Harry Edmondson, Calvin Engelen,Wil Ferguson, Madison Flavel, Leili Friedlander, LuciaGeddes, Katherine Gordon, Jaya Greene, EmmaGutheinz, Philippa Haberlin, Lizzy Hackl, CharlesHancock, Isabelle Harris, Ziggy Harris, Jack Hartin,Lucy Hickman, Lillian Higgins, Rebecca Hockey,Evangeline Hood, Isabella Hood, Isabelle Hooton, NickHoward, Denali Hutt, Andrew Jamieson-Grigg, GraceKalinin, Tessa Kane, Dhivyen Karthikeyaaron, CharlesKensit, Olivia Keough, Olivia King, Airlie Kinross,

Bridget Klemp, Anna Knes Knes, Angus Knott, John(Yianni) Kokolakis , Alice Kotowicz, Sophie Laycol,Cooper Lee, Todd Levine, Madeleine Lockhart,Angelina Lockley, Angus Macintyre, NicholasMarchione, Filippo Martini, Matteo Martini, ColinMcCalhill, Claire McRedmond, Tara Menzies, TraceyMilden, Eliza Millar, Katie Miller, Christian Neoh, LucyO'Brien, Cecilie Okkels, Isabelle Oxley, Sam Parks, EllaPechan, Rosalie Pether, Joshua Pincus , Emma PryseJones, Samuel Ridley, James Robertson, James Rowse,Alistair Russell, Ethan Russell, Darcy Ryan, Issac Salas, Thomas Sanders, Josef Schuler, Matilda Scott-Bowden, Grace Searle, Juliana Shenker , EliseSherrington, Julia Slancar, Cameron Smith, GeorginaSmith, Josephine Springsteen, Madeleine Stephen,Edward Stewart, Allynta Sutherland, MadelineSutherland, Anna Sutton, Elliot Sylvester, RachelToohey, Gwenllian Towart, Danielle Turnbull, PrueTysoe, Charles Umbers, Amy Vanderhor, HaezanVroland, Georgia Waites, Madeleine Waites, HannahWales, Teegan Wattam, David Wilson, Fergus Worrall.

FRESHERS fr 2018

Tan Vichitrananda, Sophia Amerena-Cowie, FreyaAppleford, Isabelle Aucoin, Christopher Ball, JamesBlaxill, Pia Boileau, Genevieve Bowes, JonathanBrunner, Eliza Bucknell, George Bundock, JulietCampbell-Taylor, Jock Capel, Samantha Carr, AbhishekChawla, Jol Choct, Jacqueline Connor, AlexandraCourtney, Juliet Cunningham, Thomas Damjanovic,Nikita Daswani, Amy Dench, Benjamin Devine, GraceDunchue, Ziyi Fan, Cameron Fazzari, Eliza Fessey,Jaime Ford, Rachel Ford, Alice Fox, Harry Gibson,Connor Grindal, Harry groves, Jack Hide, Sophie Hill,Lucy Holcombe, Matthew Holland, Benjamin Holmes,Maddison Hompot, John Hughes, Charlotte Hulme,Sulaiman Hussain, Haruto Ima, Robert Irwin, EvanJenkins, Ojasvi Jyoti, JK Kazzi, Joshua Kazzi, JordanLee, Sean Lowrie, Claire Mackinnon, Georgia Mann,Finn McCullagh, Ross McKinlay, Alasdair McLachlan,

Alice McMillan, Sara McTaggart, Emily Mitchell,Patrick Moore, Tomas Moran, Ellie Morris, GraceMoscou, Grace Moses, Ryan Mulcahy, SayanoMurayama, Olivia Norley, Simon Nortje, ThomasOrton, Alexander Patfield, James Peck, MathildaPenton, Isabelle Plasto, Samuel Posel, Charlotte Power,Angus Pryde, Jack Ridley, Molly Roberts , ThomasRyan, James Ryder, Claire Sharp, Angus Sherrard,Hamish Sinclair, Nathan Snaidero, Nicholas Sprott,Lisa Stevens, Noah Steward, Celia Stewart, LaurenSutherland, David Sweeney, Mia Thrum, Cynthia Tian,Mikaela Tilse, Jack Tizzard, Annabel Tremain, YashikaUpadhyaya, Amelia Vidler, Daisy Waggett, VanessaWashaya, Alexandra Webster, Harriet Weir, HughWheaton, Giles Widdicombe, Artemis Wilson, JackWinterbottom, Courtney Withers, Jack Yao, MihinduYapabandara, Strath Yeo.

RETURNING STUDENTS fr 2017

Gracie Adam, Arslan Ahmed, Rowan Bray, VerennaBrown, Jack Caldwell, Lawrence Chan, LaurenChapman, Louis Cummings, Edmund Delves, CailinFeldman, Billi FitzSimons, Juliette Fleming, WillFlockhart, Madeline Frerer, Hamish Fuller, Katie Fuller,Nicholas Ghee, Lucy Gray, Karl Harbers, William Haskell,Amelia Hellicar-Foster, Alice Hibbard, MirandaHutchesson, Madison James, Giorgi Jardine, Joshua

Joseph, James Kilby, Charlotte Kinsella, Celeste Luisi,Pascale Mann, Alexander McDonald, Jonathon Moore,Sarah Moore, Hunter Murray, Jessica Negus, AlistairNortham, Jack Redman, Zali Rochow, Hannah Ross-Smith, Matthew Sellwood, Samantha Shannon, AlyshaSkerritt, Yarlalu Thomas, Luke Vandenberg, MatildaWalker, Adelaide Wallace, Edith Warne, Allison Whalley,Brittany Wilcock, Peter Xu, Jerry Yu, Michael Zawal.


Rafael Cuginotti de Oliveira


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On 15th of October, the current students and invited guests gathered to celebrate those who have been awardedan Australian or International Honour, including the unveiling of our newest Honour Board for the dining hall.Our thanks to Bill Ford, fresher 54, for his initial instigation of this commemoration.

If there is any Old Col who has been omitted from the Board, please contact us on [email protected].

CELEBRATING OUR OLD COLLEGIANS WHO HAVE BEEN AWARDED AN AUSTRALIAN OR INTERNATIONAL HONOUR

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The crop of graduates profiled forthis edition just about blows themind. They have done extraordinarythings, in a lot of cases globally!Leaving aside the two valetes, the14 graduates profiled are split maleand female right down the middle.Of the seven females, two – EmilyAntonio (fr 1976) and Jane Norman(fr 1986) – became chemicalengineers and another, TraceyKerr (fr 1983), went into miningengineering. There were someremnants of an era when womenwere restricted. Tracey Kerr foundno facilities for females at anoutback mining camp. JennyMorison (fr 1976), who went intoaccounting, started with a firmwhich had a rule: “All female staffbe home by dark”. The wife ofRobert Tsenin (fr 1973) told himshe had gone to a bank for amortgage and the manager’sresponse had been that he did notdiscuss mortgages with women.The Wesley women tended to brushthose inhibitions away, and myfeeling is that the years ofintermingling with young men inthe college environment have greatlysuited them for such challenges.

And just to look at these womenWesley has produced! What adreadful thing it would be if Wesleyhad not gone co-ed 49 years agoand all that vibrancy, life andtalent would have passed by! Iwonder whether in the lead-up tothe 50 years of co-educationsomeone could do an analysis as tohow many marriages have resultedfrom the intermingling at Wesleyand how many products of thoseunions have been to Wesley.

But the issues Wesleyans haveespoused have gone beyond theeternal issue of male/femalerelationships. It might be said thatsome of the serious discussions inWesley, on such subjects aspopulation, resources and theenvironment, have borne fruit.

FROM THE EDITORMALCOLM BROWN (fr 1965)

Emily Antonio became acutelyaware of the environment and theneed to sustain the world we live inwhile using its resources. SusanGray (fr 1981) went into IndustrialRelations, became an adviser to aFederal Minister and worked inIndonesia and the Americas. Hersister Jo Gray (fr 1983) worked inbanking in South Africa and thenpushed her way into journalism tobecome managing editor, as she isnow, of the Australian FinancialReview, and Kim Taylor (fr 1979),taking pharmacy as her career,moved up the chain of commandto become head of a corporateAsian division.

Of the men, we profile onegentleman fresher, MichaelGleeson-White (fr 1947), whoserved in World War 11 andentered Wesley to finish anEconomics degree, beforeembarking on a career instockbroking and finance. MattHinds (fr 2015), at the other endof the age scale, has taken on theenvironment. He started on thoseissues while still at school,furthered his interests by makingmaximum use of an exchangestudent visit to Sweden, andstarted an on-line business whilestill at Wesley. Clifford Kwan-Gett(fr 1953) first studied engineering,then Medicine, and thencombined the two disciplines inexploring the manufacture of atotally artificial heart.

The other remarkable thing inprofiling these graduates is thatthe wider world in some ways istheir backyard. In my parents’ day,there might have been an overseastrip once, perhaps twice, in alifetime, once perhaps to fight awar, the second a post-retirementtreat. Now with air travel soplentiful and relatively cheap,everyone is off overseas. Ty vander Linden (fr 2008), graduated inEconomics and took off overseas

and like Matt ended up in Sweden,before going on to forge a career inprivate equity and finance. Jo Graywent to work in South Africa,initially in banking, then saw thewretchedness of apartheid andopted to become a journalist.Tracey Kerr’s mining adventurestook her to remote areas of Russiawhere she saw abject poverty,noting in passing that a group in aremote town who gave theengineers a lavish reception hadgiven them “everything they had”.Andrew Stead (fr 1990) went rightover the top, symbolically andliterally. After leaving college hejoined the British Army and wentto Sandhurst. When he finishedhis military service, he went intoinnovative corporate management.Marc Burbridge (fr 1957), aWesley one-termer, travelled theworld, went back to the UnitedStates, fought in Vietnam andended up in Brazil.

We must put in two valetes this year,one for Graham Crouch (fr 1947),who graduated in Law but went tohelp his father in business andended having a distinguishedcareer in the public sector, dealingwith primary produce. The other isthe being Desmond Tutu-typecharacter, Dharmasoka Laksiri(Laki) Jayasuriya (fr 1951), whogrew up in Sri Lanka still underthe thumb of racist British ruleand moved to Australia to becomea shining light in multiculturalism.

Malcolm Brown (fr 1965)

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CONTENTSANNUAL REPORTMaster’s Report 4

Wesley in 2018 5

Chair of Council’s Report 7

Chair of Foundation’s Message 8

Wesley Old Cols’ Association Report 10

Foundation Medal Recipients 12

Financials 14

The Cull Fellowship 16

Wesley College Foundation Members 17

Donors 18

Scholarships and Awards 20

Academic Report 22

Profiles of Scholarship Recipients 24

Building Updates 27

WESLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION JOURNALMichael Gleeson-White 31

Clifford Kwan-Gett 33

Marc Burbridge 36

Robert Tsenin 38

Emily Antonio 41

Jenny Morison 44

Kim Taylor 47

Susan Gray and Jo Gray 50

Tracey Kerr 53

Jane Norman 55

Andrew Stead 57

Ty van der Linden 59

Matt Hinds 61

Vale Graham Crouch 64

Vale Laki Jayasuriya 66

Rawson Report 70

Rosebowl Report 72

Palladian Report 74

Senior Student’s Report 76

Social Secretary’s Report 77

OSE Report 79

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EDITOR

Malcolm Brown (fr 1965)

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PRODUCTION

COORDINATOR

Kiri Dumont

– Development Manager

STUDENT EDITOR

Chris Ball

STUDENT

CONTRIBUTORS

Sammi Carr

Chris Ball

Ethan Russell

Pascale Mann

Jessica Negus

Rowan Bray

Georgia Mann

Michael Zawal

James Kilby

Will Flockhart

Katie Fuller

GRAPHIC DESIGN & LAYOUT

Graham Wye

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Ph: 02 9452 1967

DECEMBER 2018

for our students?

Firstly, Wesley has drawn on ourOld Col network over the years toprovide various mentoring andassistance to our current students.This is now sought by morestudents than ever and werecognise that as Universitycurricula change and there is morefocus on co-curricular and workplacement opportunities and thevalue they provide in the ‘’wholeeducation’’ of a student, Collegesare in a unique position tocontribute significantly to thisprocess. Wesley already providesan opportunity through our OSEprogram that is well recognised.We plan now on developingfurther opportunities for ourstudents to engage meaningfullyand network widely and to assistthem to achieve their goals.

Secondly, in times when there is astrong focus on the behaviour andinfluences on behaviour of youngmen in particular, I confirm thatour wider education programs atWesley, provide all our studentswith the support and guidancethey need to make good decisionsand be positive contributors to ourcommunity and the widercommunity. As Old Collegians, we

Wesley is well placed as we end our101st year. We have a strongculture of inclusion. This isreflected in the desire for people toattend Wesley. In 2018, weinterviewed just on 500 studentswho wanted to come and join ourcommunity. We were able to acceptjust over 115 new students, basedon limited place availability. Ourstudents are achieving theiracademic best, with our averagemark this year being 69%,including 5 students with a HighDistinction average and 58students with a Distinctionaverage in their chosen courses.Our student community was ledwell by Mr James Kilby (fr 16) asSenior Student. James’ styleprovided the College communitywith strong guidance and positiverole modelling and he successfullyled a strong group of senior leaderswho provided an interesting andvaried calendar of eventsthroughout the year. We are wellplaced and well represented, butwe must always look to how we canachieve more.

Therefore I find myself asking thequestions, what are our futurechallenges? What do we wrestlewith in our thought processes tohelp make us the best we can be

know that the transition fromHome to University can be a timemarked with uncertainty andstress, as well as newopportunities.

In our Strategy 2022, we outlineour purpose, as being that ‘TheCollege engenders in its students awarmth of character,selfconfidence, strong values andrespect for others that will guidethem to make a difference andcontribute meaningfully to societyin the future’. In order to achievethis, we now have an educationand training program in place thatunderpins our conversations withour students, including mentalhealth first aid (MHFA) training,Harassment and Discrimination

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training, Bystander training,Consent Matters education and‘Responding with Compassion’training. We continue to offer ourMonday Evening Formal Dinnerspeaker program, which attractsinteresting speakers from all areasof life to challenge our studentsthinking. Wesley also employs aCounsellor who works with ourpastoral care team to support ourstudents and provide one on onesupport where needed. Thiscomprehensive program providesstrong leadership and growthopportunities for our students andprepares them well to negotiate theworkplace and wider world.

Our facilities are also an importantpart of any students comfort andat the start of this year, followingon from a generous donation fromBruce and Jenny Pryor of $1million dollars, we were able tocompletely refurbish the interior ofSutherland Wing (built 1969)adding small common spaces oneach floor with kitchenettes,redoing all bathrooms and addinga ceiling fan to each room, alongwith all new furniture and fixtures.It has completely transformed thebuilding into a much lighter andwelcoming space, much to thecurrent students delight. Overthese summer holidays, at the endof 2018, we have now replaced allthe old windows with louvre stylewindows to improve the air flowand the Sutherland Wing boasts anew slate and copper roof, with theslate coming all the way from thePenrhyn Quarry in Wales.

The JCR (Junior Common Room),in the Wyllie Wing, off thecourtyard, has also undergone atransformation this year, with amajor renovation ($800,000),allowing the space to havedifferent zones and to be utilisedby students in a much moreproductive way as a study spaceduring the day. It is now again avery lively space, which has beenpleasing to see (read the article inthis edition of the Wesleyan).

Our College Council has seenmuch change this year, with ourChair, Deborah Page AM,

completing her maximum time onCouncil (8 years). Debbie was aninspirational Chair, who exercisedher role thoughtfully and drove avery clear and strong agenda toachieve financial stability andcultural change. Mr Patrick(Maurie) Cunningham, a wellknown Wesley face and acommitted Old Col, alsocompleted 8 years of service. Hewas awarded the FoundationMedal in September this year forhis loyalty and service to theCollege over many years. We havewelcomed our newly electedCouncil members, Mrs KimberleyHolden (Needham, fr 82) and MsSally Kay (fr 85), to the Counciltable. We have also farewelled RevHaloti Kailahi, a Churchappointed member and welcomedMs Sharon Flynn to replace him.In April, the Council appointedour new Chair, Ms Jenny Morison,who is an Old Collegian from thelate 70’s era. Jenny’s back groundin Accounting and extensive work

with federal governmentcommittees over many years,places her well to lead our Council.

This year, we have welcomed anew Chaplain to Wesley, Rev.David Gore, who is also theUniting Church Minister forMustard Seed congregation atUltimo, just around the corner.David has a background workingin the tertiary space, having alsoworked with students at Universityof Technology. David will beoverseeing our Chapel servicesthroughout the year and attendingCommunity Dinners and workingwith our student community toestablish the best way to interactwith our community.

As we look to 2019, we recogniseanother significant milestone yearin the College’s history, 50 Years ofCo- education. In 1969, the firstwomen joined Wesley College,coinciding with the opening of‘Tutor Wing’, also known as ‘NewWing’ for many years and nowSutherland Wing. At the time, thiswas a major decision in thecommunity life of the College. Itwas a time of significant change insocietal values and Wesley was atthe forefront of leading the changeon this campus.

I look forward to hearing therecollections of our Old Cols andcelebrating 50 Years of co-education, over the coming year.

Lisa SutherlandMaster2018

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STAFFMasterLisa J Sutherland BA (Syd) DipEd (Syd) M.Ed Admin (UNE)

ChaplainRev David Gore

Director of StudentsJonathan Row BEng

Director of ProgramsBronwen Watson B.Ed. (Syd),MSc (Coach Psyc)

Director of OperationsGlenn Weir CPA

Academic DeanDr James WardBEng.(Aeronautical) (Syd),MEd (Syd) PhD, MechatronicEngineering (UNSW)

CounsellorJessie Ogilvy

Development ManagerKiri Dumont, B.Com (Otago)

Master’s PA and Office ManagerJennifer O’Brien

Marketing andCommunications ManagerPatricia Apostolakis B Comms & Intl Studies

Registrar/AdministrationMary Calabro

Finance AssistantJennifer Jordan, Cert. IV Accounting, Diploma HR M’ment

MaintenanceTony Davy

Health and Wellness MentorMiles Downie BExSSc. MExerSc

TST Cleaning ServicesJennifer Khamo

Catering ManagerChartwell, Mr Mark Speechley

COUNCILMEMBERSEmily Antonio

Peter Beaumont

Dr Larry Cornell

Sharon Flynn

Catherine Hallgath

Kimberley Holden

Rev Haloti Kailahi

Sally Kay

Robert (Bob) Lorschy

Jason Masters

Jenny Morison (Chair)

Lisa J Sutherland

FOUNDATIONCOMMITTEEMEMBERSSusie Carlon

Larry Cornell

Kiri Dumont – Secretary

Huw Grenfell

WESLEY IN 2018

Kimberley Holden – Chair

Louise Mitchell

Garry Scarborough

Lisa Sutherland – Master

David Lyons

Ty Van der Linden

STUDENT CLUBREPRESENTATIVES2018James Kilby, Senior Student

Luke Vandenberg, Secretary

Ben Devine, Treasurer

Zali Rochow (Semester 1)Will Flockhart (Semester 2),Social Secretary

Rowan Bray, Rawson Captain

Georgia Mann, Rosebowl Captain

Mike Zawal, Palladian Captain

Jerry Yu, Male Intercol Rep

Billi FitzSimons, Female Intercol Rep

Jordan Lee, 2nd yr Rep

Jonty Brunner & Brittany Wilcock,Logistics & Publications Reps

Louis Cummins & Alysha Skerritt,Domestic Representatives

Rachel Toohey & AndrewJamieson-Grigg, 1st Year Reps

Will Flockhart (Semester 1)Rachel Ford (Semester 2),Licensee

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Having been appointed as Chair ofWesley College Council in April2018, it is a pleasure to provide myfirst report to you. Currently locatedin Canberra, it is indeed an honourto be the first regionally based Chairto be of service to the Wesley Collegecommunity. I was a student atWesley College from 1977-1980.

In taking on this role it is veryapparent that the College is in astrong position in terms of studentoutcomes, college culture,financial stability to supportoperational, scholarship andbuilding demands, connections toOld Collegians and Foundationactivities. This of course has beenachieved through the outstandingdirection and efforts of the Master,Lisa Sutherland, her Executiveteam and staff with the support ofCouncil and Old Collegians.

UPDATES TOCOUNCIL Following on from 2017 whichsaw the College celebrate 100years, 2018 has been a year ofsignificant change for Councilwith the retirement of two longstanding members of the Council,Chair, Debbie Page and member,Patrick Cunningham. I wish toacknowledge them for their hardwork and dedication over eightyears on Council.

Debbie (Fresher 1977) joinedCouncil in 2010, and was electedChair since 2012. During this timeDebbie made a significantcontribution in supporting theturnaround of the College’sfinancial position and sustainability;improved governance and Councilprocesses; development of majorstudent related policies; oversightof significant extension andrefurbishment program of morethan $10 million. Debbie was alsoinstrumental in supporting theMaster and her team to drive asustainable change in culture andpractices at the College, and sheassisted in the development of

strong stakeholder relationshipswithin the University and UnitingChurch.

Patrick Cunningham (Fresher 1986)was a Council member from 2010to 2018 during which time he servedon the Business Committee andprovided invaluable policy andlegal support to the Master andCouncil. Whilst Patrick enteredWesley in 1986 as a tutor in Historyand Governance he quickly turnedhis attention to the development ofWesley College Rugby. Now apracticing solicitor, Patrick retainsextensive sporting links with theuniversity and Wesley.

Other changes included theretirement of the Rev Haloti Kailahi.New Council members appointedduring the year included SharonFlynn- (appointed by the UnitingChurch Synod) and the election ofOld Collegian Councillors andformer senior students, KimberleyHolden (Fresher 1983) and SallyKay (Fresher 1985).

COLLEGE CULTUREWesley College was a participatingCollege in the Broderick Review“Cultural Renewal at the Universityof Sydney Residential Colleges”(the Review) which was issued to theVice Chancellor of the Universityof Sydney, and released to thepublic on 29 November 2017.

Reflective of the cultural renewalprogram which had beenoccurring, under the direction ofthe Master, over the previous eightyears, the Review’s conclusion ofWesley College acknowledged thata strong cultural renewal programwas in place and the Review hadno doubt that the College wouldcontinue on a strong path. TheReview further stated that Wesley“will also be a role model for bestpractice solutions for other universityresidential colleges across thenation”. Whilst our progress hasbeen good, we remain committedto continue our efforts to ensurethat the student community at

Jenny Morison

Wesley is inclusive, respectful ofall diversity, and provides a safeenvironment. As part of this anappropriate understanding andthe use of alcohol by students hasbeen a focus in 2018. A detailedAction plan has been developed toaddress recommendations fromthe Review with implementation(for actions able to beimplemented by the College)expected by the end of 2018. TheCouncil monitors progress ofcultural renewal through aCultural Oversight Dashboard.

CAPITAL WORKS2018 saw a continuation of thesubstantial capital works initiativesaimed at restoring and improvingthe amenity of the College. Theseworks have been largely funded bythe Foundation, and in particularthrough the very generous donationsof the late Bruce Pryor family whohave provided $5 million indonations in recent years. Fromthese donations, $1 million wasspecifically provided for therenovations of New Wing with acondition that in recognition of thesignificant building program whichhas occurred under the Master, thewing would be renamed The LisaSutherland Wing. The renovationswere completed in time for FirstSemester 2018. An additional $1million was also donated forrenovation of the slate roofing onCallaghan Wing and SutherlandWing. A further $3 million was

CHAIR OF COUNCIL’S REPORT

Kimberley Holden

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WESLEYAN FOUNDATIONREPORTIn 2018 the Foundation got towork on its implementation ourStrategic Plan. We had a busy yearworking on Old Col engagementvia several wonderful events andundertaking the CentenaryScholarship Appeal. Our majorachievements include:

• Launch of the CentenaryScholarship Campaign. TheCampaign has resulted in over$900,000 of pledges received;

• The awarding of 29 regularscholarships and 13 sportingscholarships in 2018, includingan extra 7 scholarships resultingfrom the Centenary ScholarshipAppeal;

• Several wonderful eventsincluding the Foundation Medaldinner, dinner to honour therecipients of Australian andInternational Honours, and theSenior Old Cols Celebration Lunch.

We were also very grateful to receivea third scholarship from the Gregand Beverley Alt Foundation and avery large donation and bequestfrom Jenny and Bruce Pryor.

2017 DRAFTFINANCIALSWe began the 2017 year with$3.54 m in net assets. We reportedsignificantly higher revenue of$2,778,342 (up from $766,858 in2016) which included a $2mdonation from Bruce and Jenny

Pryor. Scholarship and otherdonations increased 34% to$460,678 ($343,361 in 2016).Our investment returns (net offees) were also higher at $302,532.We awarded $271,990 inscholarships ($219,650 in 2016).This increase was largely due tothe new Centenary Scholarships.We transferred $323,265 to theCollege (including $273,265 fromthe Raise the Roof donations) andfinished the year with $5.7m innet assets.

IMPLEMENTATIONOF THE STRATEGICPLANA reminder of our strategic vision:

Within 5 years to become a leadingFoundation among Australianuniversity colleges, held in highregard by the Old Cols. Known as astrong supporter of College values;and for providing meaningfulfinancial support to the College andstudents in need.

The Foundation’s core strategicimperatives are being activelypursued with:

• a wider engagement of the OldCollegians via the reinstatementof the Old Cols Association andthe appointment of SuzieCarlon as its head;

• several events providingopportunities to reunite withOld Collegians and have

received in 2018 to be used onbuilding works, includingimprovements and maintenance ofheritage buildings. Bruce was aFresher from 1956, architect of NewWing, a strong advocate of Wesley,and a friend to many of the CollegeCommunity – on behalf of the WesleyCollege community I wish to thankthe Pryor family for their generosity.

In addition, the Junior CommonRoom or “the shop” in my era, hasbeen completely renovated into amodern space including kitchen.

THANK YOU As 2018 draws to a close and welook towards the 50 years of WesleyWomen Celebration in 2019, I wishto thank the Master and her team,

my fellow College Council, ourFoundation board including Chair,Kimberley Holden, students plusour community of Old-Cols’ andAssociation President, Suzie Carlon,for their support and hard work in2018.

Best wishesJenny Morison (Nixon – Fr 1977)

meaningful interactions withCollege (helped by theCentenary celebrations); and

• execution of the Foundation’sfundraising plan including theCentenary ScholarshipCampaign.

EVENTS AND THEOLD COL’SASSOCIATIONUnder Suzie’s stewardship andwith much help from Kiri and theMaster we held several functionsduring 2018 that were a fabulous

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success. The major new initiativewas a dinner celebrating WesleyOld Collegians who have receivedAustralian and InternationalHonours. The evening was held on15 October. We honoured 47recipients who were freshers from1944 to 1980. We have erected anhonour board in the dining roomin recognition of theirachievements. Sadly Bill Ford (fr54) who was a major source ofinspiration for the dinner wasunable to join us on the night. Wewish him the very best.

Other events were the FoundationMedal Dinner which showcasesour remarkable Alumni. They set awonderful example for the studentswith their wit, charm and humility.This year we honoured RawdonDalrymple, Patrick Cunningham(that is Maurie to those who don’tknow his proper name!), JohnTierney and a posthumous award tothe architect Peter Hall. As always,the dinner was intriguing, movingand full of insights from ourawardees. A highlight was a speechmade by Peter Hall’s son who hadnever been to Wesley. He said thatthe evening helped him makesense of why his Father had lovedWesley so much. He saw first-handhow both the traditions andwarmth of Wesley created such anemotional bond for his Father.

FUNDRAISINGFundraising this year focused onthe Centenary Campaign. TheCommittee comprised Larry,Louise, David, Kiri and Kimberley.Working closely with OldCollegians and several largeindividual donors we have 7 newscholarships in 2018 including theKim Taylor Scholarship, (gift ofKim Taylor, fr 79) The PennyPether Scholarship, (gift of PeterPether (fr 79) and his motherBetty); The Martin FitzsimonsScholarship, (gift of PeterFitzsimons (fr 80), Chair of theFoundation Scholarship, TheCentenary Scholarship and theParents Scholarship. In 2019 wewill have another 3 scholarshipsincluding the Robin HenryScholarship (gift of Graeme Henry,fr 51), the Viking Grant (gift ofEric Landquist) and the Fresher’68 Scholarship. We are also verygrateful to the Greg and BeverlyAlt Foundation which has donateda third annual scholarship.

Other major donors includeRichard Roe who has donated a asyet unnamed scholarship, MaxRangott (fr 64), parents Alex andKiki Hill, Jock McCormack (fr 74)and Peter Beaumont (fr 80). Inaddition, donations and pledges of$5,000 and over have been made

by Douglas Craig, Richard Button,Larry Cornell, Peter Schutz, RayFerguson, Debbie Page, BruceWilson, David Jenkins, PeterHoney, Suzie Carlon and NeilGibson, Alison McCutcheon,Christpher Jenkins, Merilee Robb,Weal family, Robert Batey, GregNash, Bruce Bastian, RossPerdrana and Geoff Hui.

We also acknowledge the kindnessof the late Jenny and Bruce Pryor,our largest Foundation donors. Todate their donations and bequestshave totalled over $5.5 million, allearmarked for important buildingprojects. We are exceedinglygrateful to them.

PEOPLEAt our AGM Garry Scarboroughwas elected for another four yearterm. We also welcomed HuwGrenfell (fr 06) who was alsoelected for a four year term.

THANK YOUA very big thank you to Kiri for allher hard work on the FundraisingCommittee, ScholarshipCommittee and on theFoundation. She is greatly admiredby all our Old Collegians and keyto the success of the Foundation. Iwould also like to thank all theFoundation Committee (Larry,Suzie, Louise, David, Garry andHuw) for their work. Also Deb, theMaster, Andrew Hudson and theFinance team for their diligenceon the investment Committee; andJane Glover who retired as acapable and committed Chair ofthe Scholarship Committee.Welcome to Bob Lorschy who tookover Chairmanship of theScholarship committee in the2018 academic year. Also thankyou to the remarkable MalcolmBrown for another fine edition ofthe Wesleyan. All our team showsgreat dedication and it is muchappreciated. Finally our biggestthanks to our donors for theirgenerous support of this wonderfulCollege.

Kimberley HoldenChair – Wesley CollegeFoundation

Kimberley Holden (3rd from left), with scholarship recipients Teegan Wattam, Caitlin Brownand Old Cols Assn Chair, Suzie Carlon

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WESLEY OLD COLS’ASSOCIATION2018 has been a quiet year on theOld Col front after such a busyCentenary year in 2017. The annualFoundation Medal Dinner was heldin August and 4 of our esteemedOld Cols were honoured for theiramazing careers and communitycontributions. In early Novemberthe Old Col celebration lunch washeld for our Old Cols who wereFreshers up to 1973. Every year wepick up a new year of Old Cols soplease join us next year if you werea Fresher in 1974 or earlier.

This year we have also beenconsidering different ways to engagewith our younger Old Cols. We have

recognised that one size doesn’t fitall and we have been consulting withsome of our newest Old Cols todetermine what type of interactionswould suit them best. A couple of theideas being proposed include casualget-togethers in the city and betterutilising social media especiallyLinkedIn as a means of connectingthe new with the old in the businessworld. Many Old Cols have anenormous amount of experienceand knowledge in their specialtyareas which they are be happy toshare with those whose careers arejust beginning, we just need toprovide a way to connect the two.

2019 is the 50th Anniversary ofwomen in Wesley and there are anumber of celebrations beingorganised to mark the occasion,further information to follow. The23rd of March is also the 70’sReunion for all Freshers from1969 to 1979, if this is you pleasesave the date.

Thank you to The Master and thestaff of Wesley, most particularlyKiri Dumont, for your continuingsupport of the Old ColsAssociation.

Suzie CarlonChair, Old Cols Association

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To Contact Suzie or Kiri Dumont:E: [email protected] • M: Western Avenue, The University of Sydney, NSW • P: 02 9565 3179Links:Old Cols Facebook page: facebook.com/wesley.colsWesley College website – Old Cols Association: wesleycollege-usyd.edu.au/old-collegians/old-cols-association/

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Top row from left: Henry Hall, Willy Hall, Antigone Hall, Lucy NiasBottom row from left: Rawdon Dalrymple, The Master, John Tierney, Patrick Cunningham

WESLEY COLLEGEFOUNDATION MEDAL

RAWDON DALRYMPLEAO (FR 1951)Rawdon Dalrymple already had apromising academic career whenhe came to Wesley in 1951. Hetook up rowing, in Sydney RowingClub’s Junior Eight and in theSydney University Junior Eight,and the Wesley Eight. Rowing wasenough to give him his“participation in sport” credentialswhen won his Rhodes Scholarship,and Wesley can claim some creditfor that. In 1952, Rawdon went toOxford where he gained First ClassHonours in Philosophy,Economics and Politics. After aperiod in academia, he joined theCommonwealth Department ofExternal Affairs, now known as

the Department of Foreign Affairs.In 1972, after a series ofdiplomatic assignments, includingpostings to Germany, London, thePhilippines and Indonesia, andassisting in the founding of theAsian Development Bank, hebecame Ambassador to Israel,followed by Ambassadorships toIndonesia, the United States andJapan.

PETER HALL (FR 1950)When Joern Utzon resigned fromthe Sydney Opera House in 1966,leaving a partially completedproject, no detailed plans and apolitical quagmire, the NSWGovernment needed someone to

“fix it”. Peter Hall became the manfor the moment, handling not justthe demands of the building butthe turmoil. When the OperaHouse was opened in 1973, Utzonwas praised but the quieter, moreknowledgeable kudos went toPeter. Peter entered Wesley in1950 and got degrees in Arts andArchitecture. He joined the Officeof the Government Architect, thentook a scholarship and worked inBritain, before returning to NewSouth Wales. He was responsiblefor many fine buildings in Sydneyand elsewhere and in 1977 took athree-year contract with theCommonwealth as anarchitectural director. His designof the Opera House forecourt wonhim the Lloyd Rees Civic DesignAward in 1988.

DR JOHN TIERNEYOAM (FR 1965)As a fresher at Wesley College in1965, a remarkable thing aboutJohn Tierney was his enthusiasmfor things political. It seemedobvious he was going to go placesin politics. John gained his B.Ec.and M.Ed. degrees at SydneyUniversity and gained his PhD atNewcastle University where he

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became a Senior Lecturer inEducation. He developed a parallelpolitical career and served on theNSW State Executive and FederalCouncil of the Liberal Party. Hemet his wife-to-be, Pam, whilehanding out how-to-vote cards forthe 1966 Federal election. In 1991at the age of 45, he became aFederal Senator for NSW. Hechaired numerous Senate andParliamentary Party Committeesand joined the Opposition FrontBench. John led parliamentarydelegations overseas including tothe European Union and theUnited Nations in New York. Hewas member of the councils of theANU and the NLA, NationalPatron of Lifeline Australia andpresident of Polio Australia, and inrecognition of his community

service was awarded an OAM in2012. During a busy life onlyslowed down a bit by contractingPolio as an infant, John hascelebrated 50 years of marriage.He and Pam have produced sixchildren and to date sevengrandchildren. John is now retiredand has turned his hand to writinghis memoirs, most of which, hesays, will have to stay locked in theNLA vaults for at least 30 years,“to protect the guilty”.

PATRICK CUNNINGHAM(FR 1986)Patrick Cunningham came toSydney University in 1975 to do Artsand has in a sense never left. Overhis career he has brought untoldbenefits to students in their studies

and in sport. First acquainted withWesleyans during four years assports editor of Honi Soit, heentered Wesley in 1986 as a tutorin History and Government,achieving excellent results andalso turning his attention toWesley Rugby, which had becomeso depleted that in 1985 it couldnot field a team for the secondround of the Intercol competition.Over the following years heachieved not only memorable winsas a Rugby coach and manager butbrought a stack of Wesley studentinto the Rugby fold and propelledsome of them, such as JohnLangford and Al Kannar, on tointernational representation.Patrick, now a practising solicitor,retains extensive sporting linkswith the university and with Wesley.

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STATEMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOMEFOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2017

2017 2016

$ $

REVENUE

Donations for scholarships

and general building fund 316,678 343,361

Donations to Raising the Roof appeal 0 259,157

Donations – Special Purpose (Buildings)2,000,000

Donations – Centenary Scholarships 144,001 0

Bequests

Other revenue from investment 298,546 140,859

Interest revenue 19,117 23,511

Total Revenue 2,778,342 766,858

EXPENDITURE

Building contributions to Wesley College 323,265 520,000

Scholarships 271,990 219,560

Investment management fees 23,322 22,144

Fundraising & other expenses - 8,894

Total Expenditure 618,577 752,900

Surplus for the year 2,159,765 13,958

Other Comprehensive Income

Net change in fair value of

available-for-sale financial assets 8,190 30,426

Total Comprehensive

Income/(Loss) for the year 2,167,955 44,384

STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITIONAS AT 31 DECEMBER 2017

2017 2016

$ $

ASSETS

Current assets

Cash and cash equivalents 12,696 26,001

Other receivables 141,057 259,665

Total current assets 153,753 585,666

Non-current assets

Other non-current assets 5,565,767 3,264,957

Total Non Current Assets 5,565,767 3,264,957

Total assets 5,719,520 3,550,623

Liabilities

Other payables 6,885 5,943

Total current liabilities 6,885 5,943

Total liabilities 6,885 5,943

Net assets 5,712,635 3,544,680

Equity

Revaluation reserve 326,753 318,563

Accumulated surplus 5,385,882 3,226,117

Total Equity 5,712,635 3,544,680

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WESLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONSCHOLARSHIPS AWARDED IN 2017 ($’000S)

’06 ’07 ’08 ’09 ’10 ’11 ’12 ’13 ’14 ’15 ’16 ’17

$2,500,000

$3,000,000

$4,000,000

$3,500,000

$4,500,000

$5,000,000

$5,500,000

$6,000,000

$2,000,000

$1,500,000

$1,000,000

$500,000

FOUNDATION TOTAL EQUITY ($’000s)


$’000s

1 Cultural Scholarships 3.0

2 David Greatorex Scholarships 40.0

3 Dr A Bromley Scholarship _

4 Indigenous Scholarship Endowment Fund 7.7

5 Indigenous Scholarship Fund 59.20

6 Greg & Beverley Alt Foundation Scholarship 24.64

7 Chair of Foundation Scholarship 5.0

8 John Lindsay Allen Scholarship 4.0

9 Joint Sporting Schols (with USyd Sport) 6.0

10 Linden Edwards Scholarship 6.0

11 Jessie Hope Paterson Scholarship 10.0

12 Master’s Discretionary Scholarship 13.0

13 Prof. DA Ahlberg Scholarship 4.0

14 Rev B Wyllie Scholarships 17.8

15 Rev N Webb Scholarships 8.9

16 Scholarest Scholarships 23.32

17 Awards and Prizes 9.05

115

14

13

12

11

15

6

89

2

4

5

7

10

The Foundation was established by the College Council in1989 to raise funds to support the College.

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16 DECEMBER 201816

THE CULL FELLOWSHIP


THE PURPOSE OF THE CULL FELLOWSHIP IS TO THANK AND RECOGNISE WESLEY MAJOR DONORSAND BEQUESTORS IN THEIR LIFE TIME.

The Cull Fellowship has been named in honour, of Fred and Ada Cull to express the gratitude and admirationthat the present members of the Wesley College community feel towards the Culls. The value of Fred and AdaCull’s contribution to Wesley in today’s terms would be over 20 million dollars.

PLEASE LET US THANK YOU NOW FOR GIVING BACK TO WESLEY

THE CULL FELLOWS*Luke Albrecht, Dennis Ahlburg, Laurie Allen, Greg Alt, J. Russell Baxter, Peter Beaumont, Charles Birch,Cathy Bray, Allan Bromley, John H.C. Colvin, Don Cull, Deborah Edwards, Lyn Edwards, Stephen Fairfax,James FitzSimons, David Greatorex AO, Albert Harris, Kimberley and Angus Holden, Eric Landquist,Arthur McGeoch, Colin Mort, Bruce Pryor, Robert Rankin, Margot Saville, Frank Simpson, Kim Taylor,Lee Ming Tee, Jennifer Turnbull, Amanda Wilkins

* As at 31 October 2018

The Cull Fellowship has our wholehearted support.We wish you every success in this new venture.

– With kind regards, Alison and Don Cull.

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Bronze(Total donations over $5000 or one donation per year for the past three years)Merrilee Robb • Graham Spoor • Milton Osborne • Harry Bell • Mathew HockingMichele Windsor Cherry • Geoffrey Hiatt • Timothy Hewitt • Amanda Hempel

Lisa J Sutherland • Jock McIlwain • Angus Richards • Mr Bill Ford AM • Ian Carroll OAMIan Diamond • Jamie Middleton • David Wade • Dr Larry Cornell • John PeateGordon Clowes • Mr Richard Barnard • Mr Rowan Darke • David Anstice

Sundar & Jenny Ramamurthy • Marni Clayton • Jennifer Morison • Alexander ClaytonIan Edwards • Mrs Anne Hatton • John Heffernan • Ian Huntley • PA & ML WealDr Bruce Wilson• David Jenkins • Ian & Nina Lansdown • Dr Adrienne Morey

Ms Karen Moses • Tess Russo • Jennifer Whalley • Andrew Craig • Patrick CunninghamJohn Francis • Malcolm Gerrard • Peter Hales • Roy Mason • James Pendlebury • Eriks Velins

Gold(Total donations between $50,000 and $99,999)

Peter Beaumont • Anne Bromley • John Colvin • Doug Wilkins • Estate of Dr Tony Shannon Chartwells • Cathy Bray • Don and Alison Cull • Kimberley Taylor

Platinum(Total donations over $100,000)

Mr Ming Lee • David Greatorex AO • Bruce & Jenny Pryor • Mr Russell BaxterGregory Alt • Dr Graham Henry • Ms Kimberley Holden • Robert Rankin

Silver(Total donations between $10,000 and $49,999)

James FitzSimons • Deborah Edwards • Dennis Ahlburg • John Dauth AO LVO • Laurie AllenKeith Taylor • John Walmsley • Mr David FitzSimons • Robert Batterham

Mr Peter FitzSimons AM • Dr Phillip Smith • David O'Halloran • Peter Purcell • Michael TsuiMr Simon Ford • Ms Rosemary Mezrani • Mr Carlisle Procter • Helen Dunstan

Mrs Deborah Page AM • Douglas Bell • Harold Lai • Howard Spark • Neil & Suzie Carlon GibsonMr Jock McCormack • Belinda Gibson • Dr Alanna Horan • Cary James • Merilyn Alt

Ian Warner RFD • Peter Barnard OAM • Derek Silby • Tony & Gretta LucasMichael Gleeson-White • Mr John Holden • Ms Alison McCutcheon • Jennifer Turnbull

Foundation Members:

Due to an amended Wesley College Foundation Trust Deed, accepted by the Foundation Committee on 18 October 2014,a donor (Foundation Member) is defined as any person who has either:

1. Donated a total of at least $5000 since the establishment of the Foundation or

2. Made regular contributions in the last 3 consecutive accounting periods. Accounting periods run Jan – Dec. The current past three periods are 2015, 2016, 2017.

WESLEY COLLEGEFOUNDATION MEMBERS*AS AT 31 DECEMBER 2017

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THANK YOU TO ALL OUR DONORSDONATIONS RECEIVED JANUARY TO DECEMBER 2017

OLD COLLEGIANS BY DECADE AND SUPPORTERS

1940sHarry BellJames Pendlebury William Pryor James Rae Phillip Noel HartleySmith John Walmsley

1950sFrancis Beckett Rawdon Dalrymple John Graham David Greatorex Geoffrey Hiatt Carey James P Laksiri Jayasuriya Roy Mason Prof Robert Nicol Dr. Milton Osbourne Bruce and Jenny Pryor Angus Richards Bruce Wilson

1960sDennis Ahlburg Gregory Alt Reginald Barrett John Colvin Andrew Craig Ray Ferguson John Foung David Gibb Peter Honey James Jelbart David Jenkins David Jones John Kemp Talbot Lovering William Morgan William Nighjoy Womg Alan Paul Merrilee Robb

1970sHoward Spark Robyn Alders Laurie Allen Merilyn Alt Richard Button Timothy Driscoll Deborah Edwards Julie Fallins James Fitzsimons Bruce Gibson Bruce Gibson Brian Hemmings Jock McCormack Deborah Page Kimberley Taylor Jennifer Turnbull Gordon Weiss

1980sPeter Beaumont Gill Campbell Patrick Cunningham Peter FitzSimons Kimberley Holden Alison McCutcheon Bronwyn Opferkuch Jason Ridley Jennifer Whalley

1990sAndrew Stigter

2010sGracie Adam Arslan Ahmed Angus Airth Sophia Amerena-Cowie Freya Appleford Wessley Armstrong Isabelle Aucoin Adelaide Bailey Alexandra Bainbridge-Brook

Lily Baker Christopher Ball Andrew Barron Joseph Barry-Marron Michael Bartimote Hugh Beith Caitlyn Bellis James Blaxill Isabella Bouckley Geneveive Bowes Rowan Bray Laura Brouwers Jonathan Brunner Jessica Buchanan Eliza Bucknell George Bundock Audrey Burns Rosie Burt-Morris Nicola Cadman Jack Caldwell Georgia Campbell Juliet Campbell-Taylor Luther Canute Jock Capel Samantha Carr Nishta Chadha Lauren Chapman Abhishek Chawla Jol Choct Sophie Clark Christopher Cole Ella Connor Jaqueline Connor Georgina Cook Lucy Cottier Robert Coulter Alexandra Courtney Madison Crane Emma Crossing Rafael Cuginotti deOliveira Louis Cummings Tom Cummins Juliet Cunningham Courtney Daley

Thomas Damjanovic Nikita Daswani Edmund Delves Amy Dench Benjamin Devine Grace Dunchue Alexander Eden Mia Evans-Lau Olivia Fairbank Ziyi Fan Conner Farnell Cameron Fazzari George Fell Emma Fessey Eliza Fessey Sarah Fitzgerald Louis FitzSimons Billi FitzSimons Juliette Fleming Will Flockhart Rachael Ford Jaime Ford Alice Fox Madeline Frerer Katie Fuller Grace Gavin Nicholas Ghee Harry Gibson Charlotte Glover Seiya Grant Lucy Gray Christopher Green Conner Grindal Harry Groves Elyssa Haley Oliver Hall Karl Harbers Isabelle Harris Saskia Hartog William Haskell Meg Haynes Amelia Hellicar-Foster Patrick Hendy Holly Heron Alice Hibbard

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THANK YOU TO ALL OUR DONORSDONATIONS RECEIVED JANUARY TO DECEMBER 2017

OLD COLLEGIANS BY DECADE AND SUPPORTERS

Ella Hide Jack Hide Gemma Hill Sophie Hill Edmund Hillsborough Mathew Hinds Lucy Hogg Lucy Holcombe Lucy Holden Benjamin Holmes Anna Holt John Hughes Charlotte Hulme Sulaiman Hussain Miranda Hutchesson Haruto Ima Robert Irwin Giorgi Jardine Ryan Jeffreson Evan Jenkins Mathew Jolly Joshua Joseph Ojasvi Jyoti JK Kazzi Joshua Kazzi James Kilby Charlotte Kinsella Helena Lamberth Angus Lattimore Hana Lavers William Lawless Jordan Lee Tony Lian Robert Liddle Benjamin Lienert Zifel Lin Sean Lowrie Celeste Luisi Aimee Macdonald Alexander Macdonald Claire Mackinnon Georgia Mann Abbey Martin Finn McCullagh Alexander McDonald

Amalia McIntosh Ross McKinlay Alasdair Mclachlan Hugh McLaren Alice McMillan Sara McTaggert Ethan Miller Emily Mitchell Bridie Mitchell Patrick Moore Johnathon Moore Bonnie Moorefield Tomas Moran Ellie Morris Grace Moscou Grace Moses Ryan Mulcahy Sayano Murayama Hunter Murray Jessica Negus Olivia Norley Alistair Northam Simon Nortje Jessica Nutt Robert O'Hara Xavier O'Keefe Frances Orman Thomas Orton Emma Parsons Sebastion Parsons Rohan Patel Alexander Patfield Maddison Pearce James Peck Mathilda Penton Samuel Posel Florence Potter Charlotte Power Angus Pryde Anil Rajanathan Jack Redman Melanie Ridley William Ridley Jack Ridley Charlotte Robathan

Molly Roberts Zali Rochow Emily Rogers Jordan Romeo Hannah Ross-Smith Benjamin Rowse Dylan Ruba Ethan Russell Thomas Ryan James Ryder Lillian Scarborough Bridget Scott Mathew Sellwood Samantha Shannon Claire Sharp Siobhan Shaw Harry Skacel Alysha Skerritt Alysha Skerritt Thomas Smith Nathan Snaidero Emma SotoMacnaughton Edward Spiller Nicholas Sprott Nicholas Starr Lisa Stevens Noah Steward Celia Stewart Abbey Stewart Andrew Sue Lauren Sutherland Davis Sweeney Liam Taylor Yarlalu Thomas Alexandra Thomson Cynthia Tian Mikaela Tilse Jack Tizzard Annabel Tremain Vincent Umbers Yashika Upadhyaya Luke Vandenberg Sophie Verheul Pon Vichitrananda

Amelia Vidler Daisy Waggett Madalyn Walker Matilda Walker Adelaide Wallace Edith Warne Vanessa Washaya Emma Weal Alexandra Webster Archibald Weston Alison Whalley Hugh Wheaton Lauren White Giles Widdicombe Harriet Wier Brittany Wilcock Katie Williams Thomas Willson Artemis Wilson Alexander Wilton-Reeves Jack Winterbottom Courtney Withers Peter Xu Jacj Yao Mihindu Yapabandara Strath Yeo Jerry Yu Michael Zawal

SUPPORTERSBronwyn Ross-Jones

PA & ML Weal

Chartwells Australia

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College Awards Terms RecipientBennett ($400 for best result in Medical Science & Pharmacy) Sanjay Yapabandara

Robson Bryant ($750 for the best ATAR of student entering first year of Airlie Kinrossundergraduate study)

Chapman ($400 for best result in Health Sciences, Allied Health& Nursing) Joshua Joseph

Dawson (“Captain Edward Dawson Scholarship”) Ben Devine($400 for most outstanding overall result for 2017)

Dwyer ($400 for best result in Commerce, Economics, Ben Devine Agricultural Economics)

Eisenklam ($400 for best result in Engineering & Architecture) James Blaxill

Grainger ($400 for best result in Science (including Psychology) Juliet Cunningham

Harrington ($400 for best result in Veterinary Science & Agricultural Science) Rafael CuginottiDe Oliveira

John Irvine Hunter ($1,500 for best pass of student entering final year of Jerry Yuundergraduate study)

Kippax ($400 for best result in Law) Ben Devine

Robson (“Reginald Robson”) ($400 for best result in Languages, Humanities, James BlaxillMusic & Visual Arts)

Dux of the College New in 2018 Juliet Cunningham

COLLEGE AWARDSSoup Bowl Awarded at Valete 2017 for contribution to social services Zali Rochow

Collegian of the Year Awarded at Valete 2017 for contribution to College throughparticipation in all aspects of College life Anil Rajanathan

Hamilton Mott Awarded at Valete 2017 for characterand corporate contribution to College Georgia Campbell

SCHOLARSHIPSNew Scholarship in 2018 – Wesley College Centenary Scholarship – Through the generosity of our Old Collegiansand friends of Wesley College, the Centenary Scholarship Appeal, launched in 2017, has enabled 5 exceptional youngpeople to attend Wesley College in 2018. The scholarships support public high school students from regional and remoteareas of Australia, who can demonstrate financial need. Thanks to additional financial contributions of Old Collegians,we look forward to welcoming more students who will benefit from this support in 2019.

Wesley College Foundation Centenary Scholarship - in memory of Martin FitzSimons: Raquel CuevasWesley College Foundation Centenary Scholarship – in memory of Penny Pether: Hannah WalesWesley College Foundation Centenary Scholarship – general: Tessa KaneWesley College Foundation Centenary Scholarship - supported by Kim Taylor: Ashlynn DaviesWesley College Foundation Centenary Scholarship – supported by Kimberley Holden: Caitlin BrownWesley College Foundation Centenary Scholarship - supported by current and past parents: Josephine Springsteen

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Prof Dennis A. Ahlburg Scholarship Established by 1969 Old Collegian Dennis Ahlburg. The Dennis A. AhlburgScholarship is for a student enrolled in the Faculty of Economics and Business who has demonstrated excellence in, and apassion for, the study of Economics. The award is to the value of $5,000 per annum and will be reviewed each year. Theaward is taken as a discount off College fees – Juliette Fleming (fr 2016).Assoc. Prof. Allan Bromley Scholarship In memory of the late associate Professor Allan Bromley, Old Collegian fr1964. The Bromley Scholarship is for a student of high academic potential who (like Allan Bromley) is the first person intheir family to attend university. The scholarship is to the value of $5,000, and will be taken as a discount against collegefees – Thomas Alchin (fr 2016).David Greatorex Scholarships – The Greatorex Scholarships (up to 4 at any one time) were established by Old CollegianProfessor David Greatorex AO ( fr. 1953 ) in 2002. The scholarship is open to all students who are entering Wesley Collegefor the first time. The holder of the award must show a general all-round ability in the area of their academic results,sporting and cultural life and their community service. The successful applicant must also establish a financial need tohold the scholarship. This will be understood to mean that “but for the scholarship” the student would not be able to attendWesley College. The award is to the value of $10,000 each year for up to 4 years – Charles Umbers (fr 2018); BenDevine and Emma Fessey (fr 2017)Jessie Hope Paterson Scholarship – Established by Old Collegian Cathy Bray ( fr 1972) in 2004 in memory of hermother Jessie Bray nee Paterson. The Jessie Hope Paterson Scholarship is to be awarded to a student who has suffered the death of a close friend or family member or has experienced emotional trauma, and who, but for the scholarship wouldbe unable to attend Wesley College. The scholarship value is $8900 and is to be taken as a discount against College fees –Ross McKinlay (fr 2017)Rev Norman Webb Scholarship – Established by the College Council to honour the memory of the Rev Norman Webb, aformer Master of the College 1965-1978. The Webb scholarship is to assist a student with a fine academic potential whowould find it difficult to attend Wesley College or the University without financial assistance. The Scholarship is to thevalue of $8,900 ongoing each year for up to three years and is received as a rebate on College fees.Jerry Yu (fr 2016)Rev Bertram Wyllie Scholarship – Established by the College Council to honour the memory of the Rev Bertram Wyllie, aformerMaster of the College 1942-1964. The Wyllie Scholarship is given to assist a student with fine academic potentialwho would find it difficult to attend College or the University without financial assistance. The Scholarship is to the valueof $8,900 for up to three years and is received as a rebate on College fees –Michael Bartimote (fr 2018) and OliviaNorley (fr 2017).Wesley College Foundation Indigenous Scholarship – The scholarship is to be awarded to an Australian Indigenousstudent of the University of Sydney who will be resident at Wesley College, and who, but for the scholarship, would be unableto attend Wesley College. The scholarship is to the value of full Wesley College fees – Grace Kalinin, Allynta Sutherlandand Teegan Wattam (fr 2018); Verenna Brown and Yarlalu Thomas (fr 2016).

John Lindsay Allen Award – Established by Mr Laurie Allen fr 1970 in memory of his father. This scholarship isawarded to a student in their 2nd, 3rd, 4th or post graduate year. The student must be from a remote, regional or ruralarea of Australia, and who, but for the scholarship, would be unable to attend Wesley College. Preference is also given to astudent studying German. The award is to the value of $4000 a year – Ryan Mulcahy (fr 2017).

Linden Edwards Scholarship – a scholarship established by Ms Deborah Edwards fr 1976 and the Edwards family inmemory of her sister Linden Edwards ( fr 1974) who was an Old Collegian and College Councillor. The scholarship of aminimum $5000 a year is awarded preferably to a country student. This year this scholarship is $6,600 – Ziggy Harris.

Chartwells Scholarship (formerly Scolarest) – Chartwells have kindly donated two half scholarships for studentswishing to live at Wesley. Scholarships were awarded to a first year student and a returning student who, but for thescholarship, would be unable to attend Wesley College – Samuel Ridley, Haezan Vroland, Josef Schuler (fr 2018);Mihindu Sanjay Yapabandara (fr 2017).

Greg and Beverley Alt Foundation Scholarship – The Greg and Beverley Alt Foundation Scholarship was establishedin 2015 by Old Collegian Greg Alt and his wife Beverley to support students from rural or regional Australia to attend theUniversity of Sydney. In 2016 the scholarship is to be awarded to a student from rural or regional Australian requiringfinancial assistance. This will be understood to mean that “but for the scholarship” the student would not be able to attendWesley College. The scholarship is to the value of half College fees, offered for up to four years and taken as a discountagainst College fees. The scholarship is to be awarded to Jack Hartin (fr 2018) and Annabel Tremain (fr 2017) to thevalue of $11500.

Joint Sydney Uni Sport & Fitness & Wesley College Scholarships – Cooper Lee (Aussie Rules), James Robertson(Cricket), Nicolas Howard (Hockey), Jaime Ford (Rowing), Raquel Cuevas (Rowing), Charlie Hancock (Rugby),Connor Grindal (Rugby), Samuel Ridley (Rugby), Strath Yeo (Rugby), Christopher Ball (Soccer), Fergus Warrall(Soccer), Josef Schuler (Water Polo), Nicholas Marchione (Water Polo).

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ACADEMIC REPORT

2018 proved to be anothersuccessful academic year forstudents at Wesley College. Examsfor Second Semester are justfinishing, and if First Semester isanything to go by our students willacquit themselves admirably. Theaverage mark in the first half of theyear was 69, with 23% of studentsachieving a Distinction or HighDistinction average.

To recognise academic highachievers within our community,in 2017 the Master authorised thecreation of the Academic Dean’sList. Students with a Distinction orHigh Distinction for the semester

are listed. Congratulations go toAnna Knes, Mihindu Yapabandaraand Michael Bartimote for beingon the list with a High Distinctionaverage, and to Airlie Kinross as Duxof Wesley College for Semester 1for the highest average mark.

The tutorial program continues to bea strong point of academic supportfor students in the college. Manytutors are appointed from the seniorstudents within the College, givingthese students an opportunity todeepen their understandingthrough teaching others.

Our Peer Writing Assistant programcontinues to be very popular.

Three students were appointed asPWAs in 2018. Students couldbook a one-on-one hour longsession with a PWA to work on apiece of writing. PWAs deliberatelydo not consult in their subjectareas - the idea is to focus on thestyle of writing and the quality ofacademic argument being created.Over 200 consultations have beenprovided during 2018.

Wesley College continues to attractacademically high achievingstudents, and I look forward to ourcontinued success in the future.

James WardAcademic Dean

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ARSLAN AHMED

THOMAS ALCHIN

INDIA ALLEN

JACK ANDRIGHETTO

FREYA APPLEFORD

AIMEE BALL

VICTORIA BENNET

NATASHA BERNARD

HUGH BLANCHFIELD

JAMES BLAXILL

JAMES BORIC

GEORGIA BOXLEY

JEFFREY BROWN

JONATHAN BRUNNER

EMMA CARTER

JULIA COLE

ALEXANDRA COURTNEY

JULIET CUNNINGHAM

ALISTAIR DE VROET

BENJAMIN DEVINE

HANNAH EDGELL

CALVIN ENGELEN

ZIYI FAN

ELIZA FESSEY

BILLI FITZSIMONS

JULIETTE FLEMING

MADELINE FRERER

KATIE FULLER

AMELIA HELLICAR-FOSTER

NICOLAS HOWARD

CHARLOTTE HULME

GIORGI JARDINE

JOSHUA JOSEPH

TESSA KANE

JAMES KILBY

ANGELINA LOCKLEY

PASCALE MANN

ALEXANDER MCDONALD

ROSS McKINLAY

KATIE MILLER

ELLIE MORRIS

LUCY O’BRIEN

ISABELLE OXLEY

CHARLOTTE POWER

JAMES ROWSE

MATTHEW SELLWOOD

SAMANTHA SHANNON

ELISE SHERRINGTON

MIKAELA TILSE

JACK TIZZARD

AMY VANDERHOR

AMELIA VIDLER

HAEZAN VROLAND

DAISY WAGGETT

MADELEINE WAITES

MATILDA WALKER

ADELAIDE WALLACE

ARTEMIS WILSON

COURTNEY WITHERS

JERRY YU

DISTINCTION AVERAGE

HIGH DISTINCTION AVERAGE

AIRLIE KINROSS

ANNA KNES

MIHINDU (SANJAY) YAPABANDARA

MICHAEL BARTIMOTE

DUX OF COLLEGE

AIRLIE KINROSS

Academic Dean’s List of High Achievers at Wesley College*

*for Semester 1 2018

Grace is a dedicated, intelligent,and thoughtful young woman thatis an inspiration for all WCFScholarship recipients. WesleyCollege is very proud to host acandidate that is as driven andalready so successful such as Grace.

BEN DEVINE(fr 2017)by Chris Ball ( fr. 2017)

What scholarship are youcurrently on?

“I was lucky enough to be the 2018recipient David GreatorexScholarship”

Where are you from?

“I’m from The Gold Coast”

What are you studying?

“I’m studying a double Bachelor’sdegree of Law and Commerce”

When do you hope to graduate?

“2019 for Commerce and 2021 forLaw”

What did receiving a WesleyCollege scholarship mean to youand your family?

“The David Greatorex Scholarshiphas given me the opportunity tocontinue attending Wesley Collegeand undertake my studies at the

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GRACE KALININ (fr 2018)by Sammi Carr ( fr. 2017)

Grace Kalinin is the 2018 recipientof the WCF Indigenous Scholarshipfor Wesley College. She lives inAustinmer, a northern village ofWollongong, on the South Coast ofNew South Wales. Currentlystudying a double Bachelor Degreeof Science and Advanced Studies(Food and Agribusiness), Gracehopes to graduate in 2021. TheWFC Indigenous Scholarshipprovides for an Indigenous studentto attend Wesley College, withoutthe added financial strain. Gracesays that receiving this scholarship,“not only enabled her to come tocollege, but it also allowed me tominimise my travels as it can takeup to 4 hours each day.” College ishighly beneficial for those whowould otherwise have to commutefrom home to University every day.She also says that without thescholarship, she could not haveattended Wesley College.

A particular core value of Wesley iscertainly diversity. We welcomestudents from all parts of Australiaand the world, from Wollongong orPerth to all the way from the US.

Grace says she was immediatelyattracted to Wesley due to its warm

PROFILE OF SCHOLARSHIPRECIPIENTS

and welcoming atmosphere, andthe, “diversity and family likecommunity along with feelingwelcome as soon as I walkedthrough the doors.”

When asking Grace what she mostenjoys at Wesley, and what she hasgained over her first year, sheacknowledges the friendship shehas made with the first, secondand third year student cohorts of2018. Wesley is an incrediblyinclusive college community thatencourages and fosters relationshipsbetween all years because we believeit is important to extend friendshipsbeyond just your own year. Gracehas met a lot of people in hercurrent year and older years thatstudy her degree, who have helpedher tremendously on providinginformation of future careerprospects. The connections youmake at college last a lifetime; youcan always count on Wesleyan nomatter where you are in the world.

Grace is currently excelling in herstudies, and in the workforce. Shehas a cadetship with CSIRO Foodand Sensory, an innovationindustry which improves theefficiency in food, ingredient andequipment manufacturing to createhigh value produce for new markets.This is an amazing opportunityand career prospect for Grace, whohopes to continue working withCSIRO after her studies finish.

The impact that the WCFScholarship has made on Grace’sUniversity career and life extendsbeyond just enjoying what theCollege has to offer. Grace hasbecome deeply engaged in theCadigal program with the Universityof Sydney, a support scheme forAboriginal and Torres StraitIslanders who want to study atSydney Uni. In 2019, Grace willundertake a mentor position forthe program, allowing her to helpother members of the Indigenouscommunity to receive an excellenttertiary education.

Grace Kalinin

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University of Sydney. As aninterstate student, it is clear howmuch I value an education at theUniversity of Sydney, and this hasonly been possible as a result of thegenerosity of David Greatorex andthe David Greatorex Scholarship.Being a student that is driventowards success both inside andoutside the classroom environment,I attempt to make the most of mytime at Wesley College and at theUniversity of Sydney, gettinginvolved in all aspects of Collegeand University life.”

What attracted you to Wesley overall the Colleges?“As an outsider, Wesley appearedto have a rich culture, and range ofopportunities for me to succeedboth in academics and extra-curricular activities. From themoment I stepped inside the hallsof Wesley, it felt as though I waswelcomed as a part of a uniqueand supportive culture of like-minded individuals.”

What did you most enjoy/gainfrom your time at Wesley?“Having had the opportunity tolive on campus has been a hugeconvenience for my time atuniversity. But Wesley College hasoffered me more than that. Frombeing able to participate in sportsand extra-curricular activities, tobeing a part of the Student Clubleadership team as Treasurer, Ihave found that life at WesleyCollege truly enriched myuniversity experience. Life atWesley has made universityenjoyable and couldn’t imagineliving anywhere but Wesley.”

If you hadn’t received ascholarship at Wesley, what wouldyou have had to do eg. stayedelsewhere, worked more etc“I simply wouldn’t have been able toafford to come to USyd and I wouldhave had to study locally at BondUniversity, so it gave me a greatopportunity to move to Sydney.”

What are you doing now/where isyour career taking you?“I’m most interested in a career ininvestment banking but may alsopursue a career in corporate law.

What I have found most potentabout my university experience isthat internship opportunities havegiven me a rare insight intoindustries and helped me shapemy career path. I’m about toundertake a placement at a PrivateEquity firm over Semester 1 in 2019and am excited about potentialinvestment banking / privateequity experience I can gain afterthat, which will help me acceleratea career in the industry.”

Any other comment you wouldlike to make about the impact thatreceiving a scholarship has hadfor you.

“But for the David GreatorexScholarship, I would not have beenable to attend Wesley. It goeswithout saying that all of theamazing experiences I have had atuniversity and at Wesley Collegehave all been possible because ofDavid Greatorex’s generosity. I can’tthank David Greatorex and WesleyCollege enough for the contributionthey have made to my life atUniversity and at Wesley College.”

SAM RIDLEY(fr 2018)by Ethan Russell ( fr. 2018)

Sam Ridley is a fresher at Wesleyand a first-year university student.Ridley spent his high school yearsas a boarder at Scots college andtook a gap year beforecommencing his University studiesand college life. Ridley is amember of the Sydney UniversityRugby club having just completedhis first season with the team andis part of the University’s EliteAthlete Program for his rugbyachievements. He has playedRawson Rugby for the college,while also taking part in theAthletics competition.


“I am currently on a Chartwell’sScholarship.”


“A Bachelor of Science andAdvanced Studies.”


“In 2022… a further three years.”


“Being offered this scholarship wasvery important to me and my familyas it has allowed me the opportunityto attend the University of Sydney,vital to my future education. It alsohelps me develop my rugby skillsfurther which is one of mypassions going forward in life.”

What attracted you to Wesley overall the Colleges?

“Being the fifth member of theRidley family to have attendedWesley, I had a fairly good idea ofwhat to expect coming in.However, what attracted me mostof all to Wesley was the diverserange of people and sense ofcommunity. From what my oldersiblings told me it seemed likeWesley was a place that acceptedmany different types of peoplewith a strong focus on inclusivenesswhich I wanted to be a part of.”

What did you most enjoy/gainfrom your time at Wesley?

“Throughout my first year at WesleyI have gained many things and havehad many positive experiences here.As well as providing me with aplace to study and within closeproximity to the rugby club, themost valuable thing I will takeaway from my time here will be thelasting friendships and sense ofcomradery within the college.”

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If you hadn’t received ascholarship, what would you hadto do e.g. Stayed elsewhere,worked more, etc?

“Without this scholarship I wouldnot have been able to attend collegeand would have had to live elsewhereso that I could attend university. Iwould have had to take on morework to have paid for my rent. Itmay have also interrupted mystrong ambition to play rugby andcompete at a high level.”

What are you doing now/ where isyour career taking you?

“I hope to further my studies withinthe sciences and hopefully workdoing research in agriculture.”

Any other comment you wouldlike to make about the impact thatreceiving a scholarship has hadfor you?

“I would like to express my gratitudetowards Wesley College andChartwells for providing me withthis opportunity. It means a greatdeal to both my family and I.”

HANNAH WALES(fr 2018)by Chris Ball ( fr. 2017)


“I am on the Wesley CentenaryScholarship which is in memory ofPenny Pether”

Where are you from?

“I am from Inverell in regionalnorthern New South Wales”


“I am studying a Bachelor ofApplied Science (Exercise & SportScience), hoping to complete aMasters in Physiotherapy in mypostgraduate studies


“2022 after completing my Masters”


“Receiving a scholarship meantthat I could move from a smallcountry town to University, it gave

me a place to live and call home,and it immersed me into a cultureand a family that I otherwisewould not have had the privilege ofexperiencing. It allowed my familyto recover from the loss that thedraught caused us and support mysiblings that still reside at home.”

What attracted you to Wesley overall the Colleges?

“After receiving offers from bothWesley and St Andrew’s, I wasfaced with the task of choosing theright college for me. After lookingfurther into both colleges, I wasdrawn to the welcoming,wholesome, and communityorientated nature of Wesley. Thething about Wesley that made itstand out in my decision, was theirinterest in the individual, I feltappreciate for my personality ratherthan my academic or sportingability; a characteristic thatembodied my ideal place to live.”

What did you most enjoy/gainfrom your time at Wesley?

“The friendships I have formed aresome of the strongest I have everhad, and I am so grateful to havebeen given the opportunity to meetsuch incredible individuals. Theevents at Wesley never ceased toamaze me, and introduced me tothe crazy, but wonderful, side ofcollege. The community of Wesleyfeels more like a family to me now,than a cohort, and these halls feellike a home. I have gained anunforgettable first year with afantastic crowd.”

If you hadn’t received ascholarship at Wesley, what wouldyou have had to do eg. stayedelsewhere, worked more etc

“If I hadn’t received thescholarship, it would not havebeen possible for me to move toSydney, as neither myself nor myfamily were in the position tosupport living in Sydney.

If I had moved here without ascholarship, I would probably havehad to work a full-time load to affordrent, and therefore missed out onexperiencing the social, sporting, andlikely, academic part of University.”

What are you doing now/where isyour career taking you?

“I am about to go into my secondyear of my degree and amcurrently working as a part-timereceptionist at an allied healthpractice (with physiotherapists,chiropractors, dieticians, etc)which is an invaluable advantagefor my future career.”

Any other comment you wouldlike to make about the impact thatreceiving a scholarship has hadfor you.

“There aren’t enough words toexpress my gratitude for beingoffered a Wesley scholarship – thisfirst year has been an incredibletime, however, like any change,has also been extremelychallenging. Given the endlesssupport that Wesley offers, andhaving now found my feet, I lookforward to being more involvedand increasing my contribution toall aspects of college life next year.”

To support the Wesley CollegeFoundation Scholarshipprogram, please return theaccompanying form to theCollege or download a formfrom the website atwesleycollege-usyd.edu.au.Each year the scholarshipprogram receives applicationsfor financial assistance frommore students than theprogram can support – pleasehelp us give more students aWesley College experience.

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JUNIOR COMMONROOM UPGRADEThe Junior Common Room(known colloquially as the JCR),located in the Wyllie Wing, is thelargest central common area inWesley. Despite this, over the pastcouple of years, it became aseverely underutilised anddeteriorating space. The datedinterior, lack of utilities andfurniture made it unappealing tostudents, who were largely familiarwith the space as a drinkingenvironment. As a result, studentswere resorting to socialising incorridors or in bedrooms. MasterLisa Sutherland had identified forsome years prior that the JCR wasin desperate need for a ‘face-lift’.Working in conjunction with the2017 third year group, especiallyMeg Haynes who helped collateher cohorts and the wider colleges’wishes for the space.

The main concern in the initialstages of the project was the costsassociated with achieving such alarge-scale operation, alongsidethe Student Club’s future challengeof keeping the new space respectedand clean. Furthermore, theMaster and contributing studentsagreed that the JCR needed to alsofunction as a ‘party’ space but bepredominantly available andappealing on an everyday basis.With all this in mind, the JCRrenovations commenced at the endof Semester One, 2018, with thespace re-opening at theculmination of mid-Semester Twobreak (much to the happiness ofthe leaving 2018 cohort).

The successful end result has seenthe JCR become an immenselypopular multi-purpose space,enjoyed by all students. Structurally,there are two distinct areas withinthe JCR – to the left, a largeauditorium space with scattered

tables and chairs for study andreading, as suggested by the 2017Valete group. There are also twotutorial rooms, situated in thecentre of the two main spaces, whichwere also revamped with newfurniture and glass doors; makingthe occupants feel less isolated in amuch brighter environment.

“The JCR has become my newfavourite study space,”, remarkedthird year Sarah Moore, with allher peers in agreeance. “We’ve allseen the JCR become a primaryspace for study and group work,particularly when the tutorialrooms are full. In STUVAC thissemester, it’s been a lot easier tofind somewhere to study now thatthe library and Academic AreaCentre aren’t so packed.”

Partitioned from this via slidingglass door is an open-plan area,flowing from a fully functioningkitchen, to a large multi-mediaspace, and concluding with the

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The updated entertainment area

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fresher favourite gaming area (withpool and ping pong tables). Thiseffect of this ‘flow’ results in thepotential for interaction betweenthe three areas. One could becooking in the kitchen, whilstsimultaneously watching TheBachelor finale and chatting tosomeone playing pool.

“The design is like a QANTASlounge concept – coming from myown vision, along with interiorarchitect Thom Silvius, whodesigned the Atrium space,” notedthe Master. “We knew that a reallyfunctional kitchen and eating spacewere essential for those studentswho want to ‘cook up a storm’ orbake a cake, alongside improvedfacilities such as an ice machine,dishwasher, and commercial gradefridges.” Students find the JCR aneasy place to unwind, taking regularstudy breaks for ping-pong matches.The soothing, cool toned colourpalette, alongside qualityScandinavian-inspired furniture,draws in a constant stream of peoplethroughout the day and night.

The most noteworthy aspect to the

new JCR is that it appeals toeveryone at some level, whether it’sa friendly pool competition or aflair for cooking Nutella pancakesat midnight. Heightening a senseof community in such aconcentrated area has also increasedstudent responsibility with regardsto self-sufficiency and cleanliness.Students are expected to treat thespace and its facilities as if it weretheir own, cleaning up afterthemselves and respecting thenecessity for quiet around thosestudying. Whilst this is inevitablya natural part of such a co-existentspace, it is an important skill thatWesley fosters in its students and isincreasingly doing so through thenew JCR. The JCR has become anembodiment of Wesley’s socialculture, inclusive and respectful, andbreaks down the limitations ofbefriending people solely fromyour wing.

“A lot of my friends from othercolleges have walked past andcommented on how enjoyable thenew space looks,” observed secondyear Jack Winterbottom. Indeed,Wesleyans feel lucky to call the JCR

our own – and we are so happy thatthis space will be enjoyed by manycollegians to come.

Pascale Mann (fr. 2016) andJessica Negus (fr. 2016)

A NEW WINGRENOVATIONOver the Summer of 2017 andearly 2018, Wesley Collegeunderwent a large-scale renovationof one of its wings, New Wing.This new part of the college was tobe ready for the arrival of 270students at Wesley in 2018. Therenovation of New Wing was onlypossible because of the generousdonation of our donors. At therequest of the donor, the wing’sname was changed to SutherlandWing in honour of the currentMaster of Wesley College, LisaSutherland, and her extensivecontributions to the College.

Before the refurbishment, thiswing of Wesley was very different.The rooms within it were muchmore similar to those that existedwhen the College was first built.

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They contained brick lining, grillewindows, and Wesley’s signatureblue carpet; features that still existin many of the older rooms in thecollege. The rooms wereEdwardian Gothic and verysimilar to those in the CallaghanWing of the College today. Whilethese rooms were beautiful andreminiscent of Wesley’s historyand tradition, they had numerousissues which rendered therenovation necessary. After justover one hundred years of use inthe busy College environment, therooms were inevitably beginningto show signs of wear. This meantthat the incredibly generousdonation came at a fitting time,allowing these old rooms to beproperly renovated.

Sutherland Wing has been renovatedinto a more modern style, followingthe similar renovation of PurserWing in 2015 and Pryor Wing in2016. The refurbishment of NewWing was extensive, with all of thefurniture being replaced, the wallsrepainted, and the floors re-carpeted.The first students to live here werevery lucky as they were able toexperience brand new amenities intheir living quarters. One of themore popular amendments tothese rooms amongst students was

the addition of the ceiling fans,with each room in the wing havingone installed. These proved veryuseful in the hot Summer days thatSydney is known for.

The bathrooms were alsorefurbished, with new and improvedcommunal shower blocks andtoilets. Further, the renovationintroduced communal areas toSutherland Wing of Wesley College,featuring kitchenettes with sinks,microwaves, cupboards and fridges,as well as couches. These communalareas have been very successful asthey allow groups of students tocongregate in a relaxed andcomfortable environment. Therewere three of these areas, one oneach of the three floors of the wing.

The majority of the occupants ofthe refurbished Sutherland Wing in2018 were freshers, however secondand third years were also residentsof the rooms. The top floor of thiswing featured larger rooms, withextensive storage and floor spacefor the occupants. This floor waslargely taken up by second yearswho had chosen the rooms theyear before for their superiorrenovated amenities.

These physical changes have beenvery well received by the student

body of Wesley. The 2018inhabitants of the rooms havegiven them glowing reviews andasserted their satisfaction with therenovation.

This refurbishment of facilities hasalso contributed to thedevelopment of a perfect balancebetween old and new withinWesley, giving the college a feelingof both modernity and tradition.Students can experience thecontemporary facilities of thecollege while also being able togain an understanding of the feelof the original college through theolder rooms. The students residingin Wesley College tend to havefriends spread throughout thebuilding, so the new refurbishmenthas allowed all students toexperience a wider diversity ofarchitecture and facilities.

Overall, the refurbishment ofSutherland Wing has proven to bevery successful through the highpraise it has received from thecurrent students of Wesley College.Through continued generosity ofdonors, Wesley will continue to beable to develop and grow as acollege and community.

Tess Kane (fr 2018) andMadeleine Stephen (fr 2018)

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WAR SERVICE, WESLEY,HIGH FINANCE AND ATOUCH OF ARTISTRYTHE STELLAR LIFE OF MICHAEL GLEESON-WHITE AO (FR 1947)

Michael Gleeson-White, returningto Sydney from naval war servicein late 1946 to complete hisEconomics degree, found it hard toget suitable accommodation. Heapproached the Master of Wesley,the Rev Bertram Wyllie. Wyllie, awar veteran himself and delightedto have another ex-serviceman,said: “I’ll find a place for you evenif you have to sleep in my office!”Entering Wesley in 1947, Michaelbecame another of the “GentlemanFreshers” (those entering collegeafter war service). After a fulfillingtime at Wesley, he went into theworld of high finance, whichincluded stockbroking, merchantbanking, investing andgovernance. As well, being a fully-rounded individual, he presidedfor years over the Art Gallery ofNew South Wales.

Michael Gleeson-White was born

in London on 24th October 1925,son of a banker, Eric Gleeson-White, and Betty (nee Bloom).Because he had four sisters,Michael’s parents decided that heshould go to boarding school, toprevent him being swamped by the“female ethos”. In 1938, as Europemoved inexorably towards war,Eric retired from the Bank ofEngland and took his family to thefurthest part of the globe still“coloured red”. That turned out tobe Australia.

“We arrived in Sydney on 14thJanuary 1939, the hottest day everrecorded here – 113° Fahrenheit,”Michael told The Wesleyan. “Thatmorning the whole of Mosmanseemed on fire, covered in smokeand with flames shooting to theskies.” Michael was enrolled atSydney Grammar School, wherethe GPS sporting environment

suited him. He represented theschool in Rugby and rowing.Having to wait a year before heturned 18, he repeated his finalyear, gaining almost a maximumLeaving Certificate pass and then,in December 1943, joined the Navy.

Instead of going straight into action,Michael was given leave to representthe Navy in a series of Rugbymatches, activities which, accordingto the boffins, encouraged the wareffort. Courtesy of an Army forward,Michael suffered a dislocatedshoulder and, going around Sydneyin a Naval uniform with his arm ina sling, received expressions ofsympathy and offers of seats fromtram travellers. He did a course atthe Officers’ Training School atFlinders Naval Depot, Melbourneand in May 1945 was posted toHMAS Parkes, a corvette operatingfrom Darwin, escorting Liberty shipsand evacuating Australian soldiersfrom Timor.1947 Wesley Rugby team. Michael is on the right hand end, back row.

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“When the war in the Pacific ended,we were given the task of leading asmall flotilla to take the Japanesesurrenders in Dutch Kupang andPortuguese Dili,” Michael said.“Amazingly, the most up-to-datecharts we used were inscribed‘Matthew Flinders’.” After that,HMAS Parkes returned Dutchadministrators to their outposts inthe Indonesian archipelago. Backin Australia, Michael served atdepots in Jervis Bay and Sydney.He spent 1946 studying part-timeby correspondence for hisEconomics degree. The Navyattempted to induce him to staybut Michael opted for discharge,which he took in December 1946,turning then to Sydney Universityand Wesley.

Michael, starting in the secondyear of his degree, settled well intothe college and had plenty ofmates, dismissing references tohim as “a bloody pommie” asterms of affection. “There weremany friends from College I haveseen now and again over the years,always with a sense of undiminishedcamaraderie,” Michael said.“Darrel Killen was a great friendfrom my school days who introducedme to the Australian bush at hisfather’s property in Nyngan; andwhose delight in prolix dissertationsand nightclubs necessarily absorbeda lot of my time. Others like BillBelsen, an almost fanaticalacademic always buried in books,unexpectedly turned up in Londonin 1956 as a budding programdirector at the BBC.”

Michael was a certainty for theWesley Rugby team. But his collegefootball career came to a suddenend when he broke two ribs in amatch, and he had to endure thepain during a freezing winter, witha coal strike restricting fuel to warmthe college. “The following year,1948, I joined the College crewand enjoyed the enormous luxurybestowed by the Master of T-bonesteaks for the rowers every night ofthe training season,” Michael said.“The acuity of the Master wasproven when Wesley won theCollege boat race by a recordmargin.”

Michael left college in 1949 toreturn home, due to a family illness,but completed his degree and in1950 graduated and returned tocollege as an Economics tutor.“During this time, I sat at HighTable with the staff, and came toadmire the virtues of the Mastereven more than I had as anundergraduate,” he said. “His greatgenerosity of spirit was coupled withan abiding sense of humour that Ifound constantly endearing.” Onestory recounted to Michael was thatthe Senior Student, Alan Shepherd,went to Wyllie asking that thecollege be allowed to hold a danceon the premises. Wyllie replied:“‘Well Alan, we can’t have studentson the premises doing what theydo with their girlfriends outside.”Shepherd told him that was “aninsult to the student body” andadded: “When I call on mygirlfriend, she sits one side of theroom and I on the other while welisten to the radio or music andthen I go home.” Wyllie, tellingMichael about this over dinner,said with a grin: “You know, Ialmost said to him, ‘Alan, you’rewasting your time!’”

Leaving Wesley, Michael became aresearcher with the stockbrokingfirm, Ord & Minnett. In 1955, hetravelled to the United Kingdom tojoin a merchant bank, LazardBrothers, and worked with them inLondon and New York. He

returned to Australia in 1957 andbecame a member of the StockExchange and a Partner in Ord &Minnett. “This was an era of greatchange in financial markets andOrds was at the forefront of newdevelopments,” Michael said.“There was a huge gap to be filledto establish a comprehensivesystem of security analysis andeconomic research in order to meetthe requirements of investmentinstitutions in London andEdinburgh that had suddenlybecome interested in Australia forthe first time since the GreatDepression.”

On the strength of its capacity inthese areas, Ords was chosen bytwo leading London brokinghouses to form investmentcompanies to channel UK funds toAustralia; and in 1959 also formeda new unit trust to be operated bythe Bank of New South Wales (as itthen was}. This was the firstventure of an Australian bank intothe investment business. Otherinitiatives were to establish anauthorised money market dealer,Trans City Discount; and Darlingand Company, a specialist ininvestment management and a keyagent in Australia for its mainoverseas shareholder, SchrodersLimited of London. Michaelserved as Ords representative onboth these boards. No lessimportant was Ords’ growing

Michael (No 6) in the victorious 1948 Wesley Eight, stroked by Dennis Rourke.

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presence in the business ofunderwriting new equity and debtissues, a market previouslydominated by two Melbournebroking houses. One of the mostsignificant of new flotations wasthat of Lend Lease in 1958 headedby Dick Dusseldorp.

An old collegian, Harry Bell, dueto be married in Rome in January1960, invited Michael to be hisbest man. Michael accepted andwent to Rome, an event that“changed the course of my life”.“The wedding was held in anancient church out on the AppianWay, and the reception was at anelegant restaurant in the gardensoverlooking the Spanish steps,”Michael said. “The principalbridesmaid was a very attractiveItalian girl who, when I said I knewnothing about renaissance art,surprised me by offering to tourwith me around Rome for the nextthree days. She drove in her tinyFiat 500 and we spent all our timevisiting galleries, the Vatican,churches and even the TivoliGardens. I was overwhelmed bythe sheer magnificence of theRenaissance, and the experiencetriggered an enduring fascination(some would say obsession) withthe visual arts.”

In July 1960, Michael marriedJudith Lee Street, who had cometo Australia with her family fromRabaul after the Japanese invasionand had spent most of her teenageyears at Frensham. The couplewould have three daughters. Overthe next decade, Michael workedclosely with Dusseldorp as LendLease completed landmarkprojects like Sydney’s AustraliaSquare and the BankstownShopping Centre, both the largestof their kind in Australia at thetime. In 1961, assisted by Ords asunderwriters, Lend Leaseintroduced the first Real EstateInvestment Trust (REIT) listed onthe stock exchange, which was tobecome the model for a myriadnumber of REITs around theworld, which today representsbillions of dollars in real estateinvestment.

At the end of 1972, Michael leftstockbroking and accepted an offerto join the board of Schroders,merchant bankers of London, asan executive director. Hisparticular responsibilities wereAustralia and the ASEANcountries. Over the next few years,Schroders joined in the formationof a new investment bank inJakarta, majority owned by theBank of Indonesia. Schroders alsopurchased a shareholding in aninvestment bank in Singapore inwhich Overseas Chinese BankingCorporation was the major owner.Michael played an active role inboth organizations, and to betterhandle his responsibilities madeSingapore his base for two years,1977 and 1978. In 1981, Michaelretired from Schroders and wasappointed an adviser to the boardof the newly-formed Governmentof Singapore InvestmentCorporation, chaired by the PrimeMinister, Lee Kwan Yew. He alsobecame an associatecommissioner of the AustralianTrade Practices Commission,which after a lengthy enquirydecided to deregulate the stockexchanges so as to createcompetition on fees and enablecorporate membership.

During this period, Michaelstarted looking further afield. Theartistic inspiration he had gainedduring his visit to Rome decadesearlier manifested itself and hewas appointed president of the ArtGallery of New South Wales. “Ihad many exciting years workingin conjunction with the director,Edmund Capon.” In 1981Michael, also interested ineducation, was appointed to theboard of Winifred West Schools,which he would chair for threeyears. In 1983, Michael andCapon launched the Art Gallery ofNew South Wales Foundation toprovide funds for majoracquisitions. In 1984, Michael wascreated an Officer in the Order ofAustralia in recognition of hisservices to the arts and finance.From the mid-eighties he servedon a number of boards in the fieldof investment management,including MLC Ltd and EquitilinkLtd; and the First Australia Fundswhich were designed to attractinvestment from North Americainto Australian bond markets.

Michael finished his term on theBoard of Trustees of the ArtGallery of New South Wales in1988 but continued to chair thegallery Foundation until 1998.After retiring from First AustraliaFunds in 2002, he continued hisassociations with art and musicand travelled extensively with hiswife, particularly to hear opera.Sadly, Judith died in 2015. But hehad a huge compensation infollowing the lives of his offspring.Daughter Jane became a writerand published two very successfulbooks on accounting, Angeladeveloped “a proclivity for art” anddevoted much of her time to print-making and Sarah became anacademic and writer. Collectively,they had produced seven“wonderful grandchildren”,Michael said: “I must pay tribute tomy three daughters who with theirvery creative lives have kept meconstantly engaged with thecontemporary world despite theencroachments of age.”

Michael Gleeson-White (Fr 1947)and Malcolm Brown (Fr 1965)

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Emmaville, a tiny village in farnorthern New South Wales, knownfor tin-mining and producing atriple Olympian, Debbie Wells,“the Emmaville Flash”, has severalimprobable claims, but one of themost astonishing is that it producedClifford Kwan-Gett, who went on tobecome an engineer, cardio-thoracicsurgeon, professor and inventor ofthe artificial heart. From the UnitedStates, where he is now in retirementin San Diego, Clifford agreed to arequest from The Wesleyan to givean account of himself.

The Clifford Kwan-Gett storybegan when his father, KwanKuong Gett and mother, Amy,migrated to Australia fromCanton. Cliff ’s father becameknown as Walter Gett, managed adepartment store in Glen Innesbefore moving to Emmaville to setup his own store, selling groceries,clothing, petrol, tents, mining gearand livestock feed. Cliff was bornin 1934 into a large family. He hadthree older brothers, three oldersisters and would have twoyounger brothers. Emmaville,principally known for its tin-mining, had attracted manyChinese settlers. But it was veryprimitive in terms of facilities, sothe children had to improvise,giving an early introduction topractical problem-solving.

“Retrieving a ball from the guttercould be dangerous,” Cliff said.

“So, one solution was to twist apiece of wire into two loops thatwere attached to the top of a longpole. By dragging the loops in thegutter, one could feel theresistance offered by a tennis ball.It was then a simple matter to liftthe loops, then bring the loopsdown again, one on each side ofthe unseen ball, trapping it forretrieval. One other simple devicemade catching a designatedchicken easy. A piece of wireattached to the end of a long polewas shaped to form a U. A handfulof corn or wheat placed on theground instantly attracted thechickens. It was then easy toapproach the feeding chicken frombehind and snag one leg with theU-shaped wire.” When Cliff ’sbrother made a portable radio,Cliff became fascinated bytechnology. When he was seven,his mother decided that perhapshe should become a doctor or aprofessor.

Cliff spent a year at Glen InnesHigh School, then moved toTamworth High, where he becameschool captain, captain of thefootball team, and dux. The familymoved to Sydney, settling inWestmead, and Cliff enrolled atSydney University in 1952 to studyMechanical and ElectricalEngineering. But he found thatcommuting from home was toodemanding, so he applied for aroom at Wesley. “The Master,

Bertram Wyllie said there were novacancies, and future years werealready booked. Cliff said: “Iplaced my resume in front of theMaster, just in case an openingoccurred, then took my timebuckling my briefcase andreadjusting my chair. I got up toleave, but before I had reached thedoor, the Master said I could havea room, starting in 1953.”

Cliff enjoyed college. “I enjoyed theatmosphere, the camaraderie, themixture of students from differingbackgrounds, country of originand studies,” he said. “I liked thetradition of a formal eveningdinner followed by coffee in thedownstairs common room, andalso liked the manner in which astudent on duty would hollersomeone’s name for a telephonecall, or to announce that theevening brew was ready. They allused two prolonged calls, one forthe first name and one for the lastname; and for the brew, ‘come andget it’ also in two drawn out calls.”Cliff was a member of the collegerifle shooting team.

And then there was the muckingaround. “At that time there existeda continual friction between thelocal police and universitystudents, that led to the creation ofmany pranks,” Cliff said. “Oneinvolved two telephone calls, oneto the City Public WorksDepartment to inform them that a

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group of students dressed aspolicemen were about to detainworkers doing repairs onParramatta Rd, near the entranceto the Men’s Union. The other callwas to the Sydney PoliceDepartment to inform them thatstudents dressed as workers weretearing up the road. Studentsgathered to watch as police arrivedand battled with the workers.”

It was all too much for aprominent English visitor, whodescribed the pranks as “childish,transparent and poorly executed,fooling nobody”. ThatEnglishman received a phone callfrom someone claiming to be theGovernor, apologising for theinformal nature of the call, butsaying there was to be a receptionin his honour. At the appointedtime, a chauffeur-driven RollsRoyce arrived to transport theEnglishman west of the citythrough a park-like setting to animposing house at the edge of thepark. He was instructed to gothrough the gated fence, throughthe front door to inform thereceptionist that he had arrived forthe reception and dinner theGovernor was hosting in hishonour. The chauffeur waiteduntil he walked through the doorsof the Cumberland psychiatrichospital, opposite ParramattaPark, and drove off.

Clifford did two years ofEngineering, then enrolled inScience, which was a prerequisitefor Engineering Honours. He metTan Joo Een, a particularlyattractive student, and began afriendship. Cliff finished hisEngineering examinations,withdrew from EngineeringHonours and found a vacation jobwith PMG telephones. He startedMedical School but was no longerat Wesley and resumed dailycommuting. He did four years ofthe medical course, then took ayear off, working as an engineer tofinance his further studies.

Cliff got what he described as “awonderful solo job” when he wasassigned to work out how to testthe operational limits of the

Australian telephone system. Heended up building an automatictelephone dialing machine whereone could preset the numbers to bedialed and also preset microadjustments to the impulse rateand impulse width. He proposed toTan Joo Een, by long-distance asshe was then working in theHarvard Medical School. The twoflew to Singapore and married. JooEen, then sporting a Master’sdegree in Library Science, thenworked as a librarian at SydneyUniversity to put Cliff through hislast two years of Medicine.

Cliff worked for two years as anintern at Launceston GeneralHospital. He changed his surnamefrom Gett to Kwan-Gett before hisson, Tao Sheng, was born. Cliffdecided that his engineering skillsmight be useful, and what betterway could be found for it thanconsideration of how a totalartificial heart could beconstructed? He obtained aposition as a Fellow in theDepartment of Artificial Organs atthe Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland,

Ohio, but found that hisapplication for permanentresidency in the United States wasrejected on the grounds that hewas “Chinese” and the quota forChinese immigrants was full.Then it was suggested that JooEen, who was classified asMalaysian, not Chinese, couldapply instead, and he could go asher spouse. That worked, and Cliffstarted work in Cleveland in July,1966. Daughter Mei Lin was bornthere the following year.

In 1967, Clifford joined theUniversity of Utah where he wassoon appointed as AssociateResearch Professor of Surgery, andAssistant Research Professor ofElectrical Engineering. In theengineering building, Cliff chosetwo offices that looked over theGreat Salt Lake, and he wasallocated a large laboratory. Whilewaiting for construction of a newsurgical operating suite in theArtificial Organs headquarters, hemade an artificial kidneyhaemodialysis system which wassufficiently safe for patients to

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wind and sterilize their owndialysis coils, and for a member ofthe family to connect the patientfor hemodialysis at home or evenat an occasional picnic in the parkfor dialysis patients.

An engineering consultant fromthe National Aeronautical andSpace administration (NASA)demonstrated to Cliff how toprogram the computer on theNASA-built artificial heart driver.Cliff created another program thatseemed to be ideal for poweringthe artificial left ventricle. Bothprograms worked well in benchtests. After those programs failedwhile driving the heart in sheep,Cliff designed a completely newpolyurethane diaphragm-typeartificial heart and a companionexternal driver. The new systemworked well.

But after disagreements onresearch strategy, Cliff decided toleave. He was offered a position asa resident in the two-year ThoracicSurgery training program startingJuly the following year. But heagreed to continue supporting theartificial organs laboratory full-time for two six-month periods. Helater upgraded his design to makethe artificial heart that was used in1982 when Dr William DeVriesdid the first implant of a totallyartificial heart into a human.

The kudos went to DeVries and acolleague, Dr Robert Jarvik, but itwas strongly argued that Cliffshould have been named as theinventor and after muchcontroversy and a mostunsatisfactory inquiry, Cliffdecided to leave well enough aloneand to move on. Having completedfour years training as a resident ingeneral surgery, he established apractice as a cardiac, thoracic andvascular surgeon, also doing heartcatheterizations and angiogramsof the vascular system. As he grewbusier and busier, he concentratedmore on heart, lung and bloodvessel surgery, then started using“keyhole” lung surgery.

In 1990, two Sydney Universityformer classmates and Cliffformed SUGUNA, the Sydney

University Graduates Union ofNorth America, to promote theinterests of the University ofSydney. The union honoured Clifffor his outstanding achievements.“It was pleasing to have Wesleyalumni as well as the Chancellorand/or Vice Chancellor of SydneyUniversity attend the SUGUNAmeetings,” he said.

Cliff thought he might continue inmedical practice forever, butseeing colleagues of his era gettingsick and dying, he thought hemight retire as well, and did so in1997. Salt Lake City was anexcellent place to raise a family,but to avoid the cold and the snow,they retired to the San Diego area.

He and Joo Een went exploring ina motor home towing a jeep. Theywelcomed three grandchildren intothe world. Several years ago, Cliffsuffered two cerebral strokes thatleft him with very limited blurredsingle vision, rendering him legallyblind. But such adversity set Cliff ’smind off in another direction.While at the Centre for the Blind,he got to thinking about how hecould make life easier for hisfellow-afflicted. The upshot is thathe is now designing a dining forkwhich has multiple functions, andthis could be a direct replacementfor the common dining fork.

Malcolm Brown (Fr 1965)

Clifford Kwan-Gett and wife, Joo Een

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THE YANK IN WESLEY,WESLEY IN THE YANK THE STORY OF AN AMERICAN WESLEY ONE-TERMERWITH ITCHY FEET (FR 1957)

Richard Marc (Marc) Burbridge,who graduated from high school inSonora, California, in 1956, wasnever going to get away easily withbeing an American in WesleyCollege. He became acutelyconscious of that one eveningwhile studying one night when hisdoor opened, a hand slid throughand turned off the light, andsuddenly the room was full ofupper classmen (senior students,as they are known today, but wewill call them upper classmen.) Avoice called out: “Up on the table,yank! Sing us a song!” As Marcrecounts it, he quietly stepped upon the chair, then the table,cleared his throat, and sang:“Waltzing Matilda, WaltzingMatilda, you’ll come a-WaltzingMatilda …” He was on the thirdverse when one of the listenerscalled out: “Bloody yank you cancome off the table now.”

Presumably, Marc passed acitizenship test. He also learnedhow to make a pot of tea accordingto strict procedure. But when itcame to Rugby, there was a realculture clash. “In the first gamewhere the freshers played theupper classmen, the otherAmerican in college and I took thefield and did the only thing weknew to do well from Americanfootball,” Marc told The Wesleyan.“Upon kick-off, they blitzed downthe field both hitting the receivingupperclassman hard, hard enoughfor the ball to flip free a few yardsfrom the goal line. We looked ateach other asking, ‘What do we donow?’ Well, suffice it to say, ourteam did not win.”

Marc arrived in Australia in later1956 via Pan-American Airways,

which took three days to get himhere. He joined his family inHappy Jack, then a small village inAustralia’s high country, where hisfather was working as an engineeron the Snowy Mountain Scheme.In 1957, Marc enrolled at SydneyUniversity ln 1957 to studyScience, majoring in Physics, andwas accepted by Wesley.. “Fromthe start, I was enthused with theopportunity to understand theAustralian culture and the manyfriends I met,” he said. “For me itwas quite different, a bit strangesometimes.”

On one occasion, students fromthe Women’s College were invitedto Wesley for tea, all above-boardand respectable, supervised by theRev Bertram Wyllie. But in thetime-honoured Wesley tradition, atleast one of the students, Marc’sfriend, Bernard, wanted to take it alittle further, and invited some ofthe girls to his room for “a specialtea and sweets”. Bernard invitedMarc who, who was a bit dubious.Bernard said: “It’s OK, I gotapproval from the Master.” Marcwent, and on his account, it was“very pleasant” till there was aknock on the door. “When Iopened it, the hall way was full ofupperclassman demanding, ‘Haveyou got women in there?’ I relied,‘Why, yes, but Bernard gotpermission from …..’ I saw Bernardwagging his finger despairingly, soI said, ‘Give us a moment’, andforcefully tried to shut the door.Someone called out to ‘let him gethis foot out’, which I did, and thenslammed and locked the door”.Bernard’s room happened to be onthe ground floor so the immediatesolution was to get the girls outthrough the window. Stepping out

the window and turning to assistthe ladies, Bernard was struck witha bucket of water from above. “Atwhich point he stepped back andserenely said to the upperclassmanabove him, ‘I say, would you mindholding it off a bit? We have someladies leaving here!’,” Marc said. “There was a pause and then,‘What?’ Quickly the ladies wereextracted and escorted back to theWomen’s College.”

Marc’s family returned to Americaafter Marc had spent only oneterm at Sydney University andMarc was obliged to leave SydneyUniversity and Wesley. But insteadof going back with his family, hedecided to exchange his ticket toSan Francisco for one to London.He made his way back home,through Asia, the Middle East andEurope. He managed to set foot in15 countries before catching a shipfrom London to New York andhitchhiking the last stretch to hishome in western USA.

When The Wesleyan asked for anaccount of his journey, he saidthere were “too many stories totell”, but he did relate one, when hewandered into the troubled MiddleEast and questions arose aboutwhether he really was just aninnocent traveller. “When Ireached Jerusalem, the city wasdivided by a cease-fire between theIsraelis and Jordanians,” he said.“Most of what I wanted to see wasin the old city on the Jordanianside. When I arrived in Cairo on anearly morning flight, I was heldback as all the other passengerswere processed. I found myself inthe centre of a room surrounded bymen in uniform. After close to anhour of repetitious questioning the

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officer-in-charge explained to methat I should have obtained a visafor Egypt while in Beirut and thatthat my wait-listed flight to Ankarahad not been confirmed. After aphone call, I was told that the PanAm evening flight for the next daywas now confirmed. The nicemilitary officer then gave me a rideto the hotel, helped me check inand then contacted the local touragency telling them to make sure Iwas on the flight. I had a fantastictwo days, visiting the Sphinx andthings like that. Looking back, Iassume that they concluded thatno Israeli spy could possibly be asnaïve as this young American, butthe story could have ended quitedifferently.”

Marc’s international experience,which began at Wesley with hissolo trip around the world lefthim, at the age of 19, with a thirstfor more. “I was hooked oninternational affairs,” he said.Marc enrolled at the School ofAmerican Service at the AmericanUniversity in Washington DC. Hecompleted a Bachelor’s degree,then undertook a Master’s degreein Economics. He also did aprogram on Negotiations offeredby Harvard University. He was avolunteer in the US Army and gota view of the raw side ofinternational affairs during histime in Vietnam. Surviving that,he returned to a more genteel formof international relations and wassent to Okinawa in Japan andKorea. He was then sent on athree-months assignment inBrazil, where his destiny awaited.“I married the first Brazilian Imet,” he said. He remained inBrazil. The couple had twochildren. The marriage ended indivorce after 20 years but hemarried another Brazilian. “Theirwomen are the Brazilian secretweapon,” he said.

Marc is now a consultant formergers and acquisitions and newbusiness development in Brazil.He is a specialist in corporatenegotiations, mediations andconflict resolution. He works withCentres for Mediation andArbitration at both the American

and the Canadian Chambers ofCommerce in São Paulo. He is alsoa lecturer in these areas and inDoing Business in Brazil at theGetulio Vargas Foundation,Brazil’s oldest and most renownedbusiness school. His publicationsinclude a series of articles andbooks including US Army CountryHandbook for Ghana (1962) andVenezuela (1963). He has co-authored of books in Portugueseon Negotiation Management 2nd

Edition (2007), ConflictManagement (2012), StrategicPurchasing (2015) and Mediationin-Company (2016). But of all ofthese, he said, the one that cameclosest to his heart was what hehad written under the pen-name,Mark Storyteller. Called NineMeaningful Lives (2016) it is a“book of true fiction” where “theWesley in the Yank finds its place.”

Marc Burbridge (Fr 1957) andMalcolm Brown (Fr 1965)

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Robert Tsenin, graduating inEconomics from SydneyUniversity in 1973 with theUniversity Medal, and would havedearly loved to have been anacademic. Indeed, he started inacademia, but seeing hisopportunities there were limited,he entered the corporate world,where he went on to enjoy abrilliant career, holding executivepositions and directorships incompanies based in Australia,Europe, Russia and South Africa.It might be stated, without fear ofcontradiction, that academia’s losswas the corporate world’s gain.

There always was an internationalside to Robert. His parents hadescaped to North China as veryyoung children from Russia thenengulfed in revolution. OnlyRobert’s grandmothers were withthem, his grandfathers havingbeen killed in the revolutionaryviolence. Robert’s grandmothersand their children, Eugene andMarina, were penniless andwithout much hope, andtechnically “illegal”. Eugene grewup in China and before World War11 he joined the British Army inHong Kong as an engineer. Whenthe Japanese invaded, Eugene wastaken prisoner. He entered POWcamp in Hong Kong weighing 85kg and four years later, whenJapan surrendered, he wasreleased weighing less than 40 kg.Eugene met Marina in a Russianclub in Shanghai and they marriedin Kong Kong in 1947.

Robert was born in June 1949and started his schooling in HongKong. When Eugene retired in

1965, moved with his family toSydney, where Robert was enrolledat Christian Brothers Burwoodand then Trinity College. He thenwent to Sydney University to do anEconomics degree and in 1969 hedid the not-unprecedented thing offalling in love with a girl fromWomen’s College, in this case afellow Economics student, EstellePavey. Both Robert and Estellecompleted their degrees in 1972.Robert had to wait 18 monthsbefore he started postgraduatestudies overseas and to fill thatgap, he took a position as tutor inthe Economics Faculty. Seeingthere was a place available atWesley, he applied for it andentered the college in 1973.

Robert took up residence in theUpper Wyllie Wing. He respectedthe Master, the Rev NormanWebb, and others at the HighTable. “There was a lot of life andenergy in Wesley,” Robert told TheWesleyan. “The Wesley I knew wasrefreshingly tolerant of diversity,and I think relative to the othercolleges was much better. Thetolerance of people with verydiverse lifestyles and backgroundswas one of the great strengths ofthe college and it has had a greatinfluence on me. For this, I believethe Rev Norman Webb must take alot of credit. I found the Wesleyexperience richly rewarding andmind-broadening. I made life-longfriends there and only wish I hadhad the opportunity to go toWesley earlier. I was able tocontribute by playing in theWesley soccer team that won theRawson Cup competition. I mighthave been the captain but given

the rabble of a team, all 11probably thought they were thecaptain!”

Leaving Wesley in 1974, Robertcontinued his studies at theLondon School of Economics andthen the London Business School.Then, in what he considers anextraordinary stroke of goodfortune, he received an offer fromRoyal Dutch Shell Plc and startedthere as a business analyst in theGroup Planning Division. “The1970s were exciting times in theoil industry because of the so-called Oil Crises,” he said. “But Iwas privileged to work for someexceptionally visionary leaders,including Pierre Wack. People likeWack drummed into me that thefuture is inherently unforecastableand it is delusional to think youcould. One of Pierre’s favouritesayings was to quote an old Arabproverb: ‘He who predicts thefuture lies, even if he tells thetruth’. I took this as a fundamentalprinciple in my approach to thechallenges of the business world.”

In 1978, Robert and Estellemarried in London. Robert leftShell and the couple returned toSydney where they were going tobuy a house. Estelle took a seniorposition with a managementconsultancy company, then askedat her parents’ bank about gettinga mortgage but the manager toldher he did not discuss mortgageswith women (!). Robert decidedthat if he were to get a mortgage,he had better go into investmentbanking. He started with CountyNatwest, where he became theAsian head of the derivative’s

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business. In 1987, he joinedGoldman Sachs in New York. Inearly 1990s Goldman Sachsdecided to set up an office inAustralia and asked Robert tobecome one of the foundingexecutives. He became CEO ofGoldman Sachs (Australia) Ltd afew years later.

In 1997, Robert joined the LendLease Corporation as financedirector. Lend Lease, anAustralian company, had juststarted its overseas expansion,spearheaded by the CEO, David(now Sir David) Higgins and thechairman, Stuart Hornery. “Theywere critical, formative years forLend Lease as David and Stuartrepositioned the company frombeing an Australian propertydevelopment and constructioncompany with a large Australiafinancial business to a truly globalreal estate company inconstruction, development andasset management,” Robert said.“This transition involved the saleof MLC to NAB, in hindsight abrilliant strategic move by Davidand Stuart.” While with Goldman

Sachs and Lend Lease, Robert wason the boards of several Australianand overseas companies, includingTelstra Corporation, AXANational Mutual, Sagasco andGLL.

In 2003, Robert decided to retirefrom full-time work, thoughretaining some directorships. “Ihad a lot of other interests I waskeen to pursue, including love ofmusic and travel,” he said. “But Iwasn’t quite ready for fullretirement.” Robert’s professionalcommitments included beingappointed senior adviser to LazardPlc in London, board positionswith WACO International (a SouthAfrican company), AustralianInfrastructure Fund, Matrix RealEstate Investment Trust (Jersey)and two Russian companies:Sistema JSC and the PIK Group.

Then, it might be said, came thebiggest challenge of all, a task thatwould test Robert to the limit, andin which he had to draw all theexpertise he had acquired duringhis journey through the corporateworld. As a consequence of the

Global Financial Crisis in2008/09, the Centro Group ofcompanies found itself in deepfinancial trouble. It was one of thelargest real estate companies inAustralia, with about 100shopping centres in Australia andNew Zealand and more than 600in the United States, and with itscollapse, shareholders and allclasses of creditors lost billions ofdollars. Robert accepted theinvitation to oversee therestructuring of the group asGroup CEO and ManagingDirector.

The Group had more than $2billion of negative equity (wherethe value of the property fallsbelow the level of the liabilities)but it had high-quality assets,which were performing well. “Theproblem was that there was toomuch debt,” Robert said. “Therewas also a need to redress certainopaque structural features of theGroup and some relatedgovernance issues.” In February2011, Centro struck what Robertdescribed as a “game-changingdeal” to sell Centro’s US shoppingcentres to the US private equitygiant, Blackstone Group, for$US9.4 billion. Interviewed by TheAustralian, Robert said the criticalnext step was to simplify theGroup, “It’s simply not asustainable structure with co-ownership of the assets, some ofthe very-hard-to-understandentities, and the multiple puts andcalls,” he said. The sale toBlackstone released $1.4 billion inequity that was to become thefoundation of an eventualrestructure of the Group’sAustralian assets.

The two-year restructuring periodwas draining for the directors ofmore than 40 entities and theirmanagement. At any time, thecreditors could have thrown theGroup companies into liquidation.“Sensibly, the shareholders andcreditors realised that arestructured company wouldrecover more value than through aliquidation process,” Robert said.Interviewed on television prior tothe vote to create the new

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company, he said there were notenough liquidators and receiversin Australia to manage aliquidation or receivership ofCentro, given the complexity of theGroup. Had there been aliquidation, it would have been“chaotic and value destructive”. InDecember 2011, all relevantclasses of creditors andshareholders of the listedcompanies voted, in a complex setof resolutions, to approve Robert’splan to restructure the Australianassets. The upshot was thecreation of a new, simplified listedcompany. “It was always the waythe company should have been,”Robert said. “The realised losseswere very painful for shareholdersand creditors but out of therestructuring emerged a strongproperty company which has sincemerged with Vicinity Centres andhas performed very well. Now,there is a $10 billion-pluscompany with excellent shoppingcentre assets.”

When asked in an interview whathe had learned from the

experience, Robert said: “Nothingthat you wouldn’t expect. One hasa chance of fixing things if youhave quality assets, which Centrodid. Centro was fortunate becauseit had excellent management anddespite the stress of potentialliquidation, they remained loyaland continued to manage theassets professionally.” His finalobservation was: “Beware of andtry to avoid super complex tax andaccounting structures created byvery clever lawyers and accounts,because such structures are oftennot value-creating at all butaddress other objectives.” Therestructure of Centro was Robert’scrowning achievement. But afterthat experience he decided he wasdone with the corporate world.“I’m going to ride off into thesunset,” he was quoted as saying.“I am not looking for a job. I’m tooold.” Robert stayed on with Centrotill the end of February, 20012,when a replacement CEO wasfound. Robert then retired forgood, giving up all directorships.

Since his final retirement, Robert

and Estelle have been “free andunrestrained”, as Robert puts it.They live in a home unit besideDarling Harbour in Pyrmont andspend about half the year overseas,particularly in Italy. Robert keepsin regular touch with Wesleyfriends, including GarryScarborough, Paul Bailey and RicLucas. He has what he describedas an obsession with RichardWagner’s operas, especially theRing Cycle. This year [2018] hehas attended Ring performancesin Dresden, Leipzig and Sofia.Robert stressed in his interviewwith The Wesleyan that 80 percentof his success in the corporateworld had been due to luck, “beingin the right place at the right timewith the right background to takeadvantage of the opportunity”. Butwith respect this writer woulddisagree. A good man only needs achance and when a series ofchances fell into Robert’s lap, henever looked back.

Robert Tsenin (Fr 1973) andMalcolm Brown (Fr 1965)

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Robert, with the Master, at the Wesley College Centenary Ball in 2017.

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Emily Antonio (nee de Jonge, Fr1996) has tackled one of the greatissues facing the modern world –continuing to produce to sustainMankind while at the same timenot despoiling the environment soas to make the world unlivable.Who could ever forget the Borphaldisaster in India in 1984, whentoxic methyl isocyanite gas leakinginto the environment from a UnionCarbide pesticide plant in India,injuring more than half a millionpeople and killing an estimated16,000? Or at a less dramatic level,the Soviet Union’s disregard forthe environment in its headlongrush to industrialisation? Or thegold mining in Papua New Guineaonly a few years ago that causedcyanide pollution in rivers inMorobe Province. Life, andindustry, must go on, but acompromise must be found. As achemical engineer, that is what shehas dedicated herself to doing.And when she was not being paidto do it, she went and did it anyway.

Emily was born in Wollongongand attended The IllawarraGrammar School. Her parentswere a pharmacist, John de Jonge,whose roots were in the DutchEast Indies, and a small businessowner, Hilary, nee Anderson,whose origins were in SouthAfrica. The families settled in theIllawarra in the 1950s and 1960s.Both Emily’s grandparents hadworked at the BHP steelworks, oneas a metallurgist, another as aclerk, and growing up in thatenvironment was attracted to theChemical Engineering course sheundertook at Sydney University in1996. She chose Wesley College

because family members had gonebefore her: her uncle, DonAnderson, who had studiedMedicine and was to become avery successful paediatrician inNewcastle, and her older brother,Andrew de Jonge, who studiedElectrical Engineering. She was tobe followed by her youngerbrother, John de Jonge (Fr 2001),who studied ChemicalEngineering and then Law. “Forme, university and Wesley Collegewas like waking up in a magicalland, where academia wasuniversally cherished andambition admired, while Wesleywas still stayed down-to-earththough a shared knowledge thatour future depended on our ownhard work and drive,” Emily toldThe Wesleyan. “After taking over E-

Wing in second year, I bondedwith friends who have continuedto be my closest confidants to thisday.” Emily listed her closestWesleyan friends as BethEggleston, Michelle Mallam, LucyAtkins, Cecilia O’Brien, WendyBowden and Anna Heslop. Emilythoroughly enjoyed being part ofthe Rosebowl Basketball team andon her recollection enjoyed beingin a winning team.

Emily met her husband-to-be,Adam Antonio, also a student atSydney University. She graduatedin 1999 with First Class Honoursand went to work as a projectengineer with Purac AnglianWater. For eighteen years, Emilyhas worked as an engineer,consultant and manager across the

Front row left to right: Emily Antonio, Wendy Barry (nee Bowden), Dimity Taylor(middle row), Anna Wilcox (nee Heslop)Back row left to right: Beth Eggleston, Kimberley Masters, Cecelia O-Brien, LucyAtkins, Alison Procter, Michelle Mallam

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manufacturing sector, specialisingin environmental managementand sustainability. She worked in aconsultancy role for Energetics,and for Boral, Veolia, Woolworthsand Brickworks Building Products.It has been a tough andchallenging environment andEmily believes her undergraduateyears at Wesley helped herenormously in her preparations forit. “I feel blessed that these areashave always interested me, evenleading me to enjoy further studyin a Master of BusinessAdministration,” Emily said. “Myjobs have brought interest andnovelty, taken me across the lengthand breadth of the UnitedKingdom, visiting sites fromEdinburgh to Anglesey, allowedme to see many parts of Australiafrom southern Western Australiato Cairns, and from geothermalenergy plants to enormous milkfactories in New Zealand. I havedesigned policies for the EuropeanUnion, piloted cutting-edgetechnologies, commissioned newplants, and set strategies forleading ASX companies.”

A quick search of the internetshows Emily is still hard at it. Anentry for Brickworks BuildingProducts says: “As Group ManagerEnvironment, Emily will bedriving the environment andsustainability strategy acrossBrickworks Building Products.Emily has delivered environmentaland sustainability strategies acrossBoral, Veolia and Woolworths. Shehas improved environmentalperformance throughEnvironmental ManagementSystems and improvementprojects. Her experience rangesfrom site based environmentalissues to corporate widesustainability strategies. Emilydelivers value through setting aclear course through complexissues, networking across thebusiness to build consensus andmotivating people to deliversuccessful improvement projects.Emily has 18 years of experiencein environmental andsustainability management. She isa chartered chemical engineer and

energy manager, with significantenvironmental experience. She hasBoard level managementexperience and a MBA, allowingEmily to deliver focusedmanagement reporting andrecommendations.”

But Emily has always wanted toextend her expertise elsewhere,into the voluntary sector, which inher words brings people “the mostgrowth and challenges … out ofyour comfort zone and self-identityto new worlds and paradigms”.

And that has broken new groundfor others. The idea of a highly-qualified and highly-paid expertdoing things gratis satuncomfortably with some people.“In 2003 I found myself standingon the top of a 16th centurybuilding in Riga, Latvia, beinginterviewed as a curiosity as part ofthe 2003 Eurovision tourismcoverage of the capital,” Emilysaid. “‘So you worked… for free?’the interviewer asked me. I said,’Yes, it’s been a great experience

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working with the farmercommunity for 3 months, and thefarmers gained a grant from theAshoka Foundation’. They giggled.I have never fully understood theiramusement, but it became clearthat some interesting commentarywas going to be added in theediting of the segment. Theinterview was included during theEurovision festivities, featuringfootage of me walking through theold town of Riga filmed from abovesped up clip to 6 x speed.”

Despite such snickers, volunteerwork has been for Emily “aconstant source of fascinatingexperiences, allowing a gatewayinto worlds otherwise inaccessible,and a welcome variation from myday jobs”. “In 2007, I had thehonour of being invited to theTorres Straight island communityon Saibai, the home of ChristineAnu and the inspiration for hersong, My Island Home. Saibai is amud island arrived at by a smallplane flying from Thursday Island,stopping at many islands on theway. The island is also a shortdingy boat ride from Papua NewGuinea, and home to 465 TorresStraight Islanders. In this far northpart of Australia, weekly foodbarges supply a supermarket, andthe island’s medical centre isstaffed by a solitary nurse. Thesecrucial benefits draw many PapuaNew Guinea locals across thewater daily. The island is scatteredwith raised houses for the regularfloods, an airport strip, school, andlively church. Signs nailed to themain street in language suggestrising sea levels are due to poorchurch attendance. I had beenasked to help the Council withdeveloping a recycling program forthe island, but quickly spotted amore pressing assignment. Healthconcerns over the uncoveredlandfill and sewage treatmentsludge took president, and we soonarranged training sessions withthe Council and local operators toavoid health impacts.” Emilyhoped her visit was of help to theisland. She herself had personallygrown a lot from the experience.“This island was so different to my

normal life, and the work gave mean opportunity to be a part of thisworld, attending a 21st birthdaybarbecue, complete with roasteddugong (which I politely declined),attending a lively island churchservice, been taken by speed boatto the neighbouring granite islandDauan and swimming in crocodileinfested waters with the bravechildren.

Since then, Emily has married andbrought two children into the world.“So, my next voluntary adventurehas been Sydney based, in thehallowed Crypt and Reg WalkerReading Rooms at Wesley,” shesaid. Emily was appointed to theWesley Council in 2015. “It hasbeen the start of a valuable andenriching experience, where I trustthat I have contributed as much asI have benefitted,” she said. “Tosome, spending my free timepouring over balance sheets andmeeting agendas may not soundthat fun, so let me share more ofmy background to illustrate mylove of volunteer work. I have beenhonoured to be part of the WesleyCouncil and Business Committee,leading to regular visits to familiar

blue carpet and brown furniture,with the background noise in thehallways of students’ serious debateand boisterous camaraderie.Through these committees, I havehad the chance to benefit fromworking with experiencedprofessionals such as Council ChairsDebbie Page and Jenny Morison,Master Lisa Sutherland as well asthe wide range of experienceacross the Council. On the WesleyCollege Council, I have foundinspirational people, committingsignificant amounts of time toaddress issues from the trivial(weed control) to the intellectual(cultural change). Our impressivestudent leaders volunteer theirtime to contribute and understandthe range of issues involved in thecollege business. Meetingsometimes stretching into the eve,and passion and interest continuesuntil the agenda items close andthe last cup of coffee is drunk. Ilook forward to my upcoming nextyear on the Council to continuemy volunteer adventure.”

Emily Antonio (Fr 1996) andMalcolm Brown (Fr 1965)

Emily with husband Adam Antonio.

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THE FARM GIRL WHOBECAME CHAIR OF WESLEYCOLLEGE COUNCILTHE SPARKLING CAREER OF JENNY MORISON (NEE NIXON,FR 1976) WHO SPARKED A WESLEY DYNASTY

Jenny Nixon, as she then was, oneof four children of a farmingfamily at Boorowa, near Yass insouth New South Wales, and it wasto the rural life she could havereturned after completing herschooling. But her mother, Enid,had not always been in the ruralworld. It was just that she hadfallen in love with a farmer, Clif.Enid had been the first woman tobecome an accountant at the ANZBank. The “rules” at the time werethat Enid had to give up her jobwhen she married. But Enid saw inJenny the potential to go places inthat same world she had left – theworld open to those with highereducational qualifications – so shebecame adamant that Jenny wouldbe the first in the family to go touniversity. Jenny had a chancemeeting with a Wesley OldCollegian, Sue Howard (nee Young,Fr 1974) in Oberon, and Sue toldher about Wesley. Jenny’ decidedthat was the way to go. And Wesley,as with so many others, became aportal for the rest of her life.

Jenny, born in Young on 1stDecember 1958, grew up on themixed cattle/sheep/crop propertyoutside Boorowa. She went to theCentral School. Only 14 studentswent on to do Years 11 and 12. Fortwo of her subjects she was theonly one in her class. She did well,was accepted at Sydney Universityto do a degree in Science, and inFebruary 1976, with a singlesuitcase, boarded a train at Yass totravel to Sydney.

Jenny recalls in her first week at

started studying Economics,which she felt better suited heroutgoing nature. “I studiedBusiness and Economic Theory,and threw in some Accounting asother Wesley students had told methat this might help lateremployment prospects,” Jennysaid. “Little did I know then thatthis would become the basis for mycareer.” Jenny took thoroughly tocollege life and became active onthe House Committee. It was “a farcry”, as she described it, from lifeon the farm. “I never imagined aplace like it existed,” she said.“With College largely comprised ofcountry students, I found manywho shared my background andthe challenges of adapting to citylife. I found it a transformingexperience. I was surrounded bypeople who were full-of-life,intelligent, energetic and caring,even if at late hours they mightcause some trouble on campus.”During her fresher year, Jenny metIan Morison, a long-hairedsophomore at Wesley, who hadcome from Canberra to studyEconomics and Law.

Ian and Jenny were part of a groupof about 15 Collegians who spenttime together in College andduring vacations, but as time wenton Ian and Jenny became veryclose. Jenny left Wesley. Shegraduated in 1980 and in 1981she and Ian moved into a homeunit in Kirribilli. Jenny started herprofessional career at PeatMarwick Mitchell (now KPMG)and soon after completed herqualification as a Chartered

Wesley. “I was standing on thefront steps as an older Wesleystudent attempted to drive atractor into College dining room!”Jenny told The Wesleyan. “Themarks on the steps are still there!”She also recalls going to a Paul’sinformal where “a promising newband called Midnight Oil” wereplaying. She occupied a room inUpper Purser. The college had anew Master, the Rev James Udy, aconventional churchmanappointed to bring the college backon course after the radical movesmade under his predecessor, theRev Norman Webb.

Jenny was to spend her entire fouryears at Wesley, living in UpperPurser. She completed her firstyear in Science but in her secondyear she changed courses and

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Jenny Morison (fr 1976) Sarah Dunbar (née Morison), Kate Morison (fr 2010) and Stephanie Morison (fr 2007).

Accountant. “There were very fewprofessional women at the timeand we were treated as somewhatunique,” she said. “One of thefirm’s policies was, ‘All female staffbe home by dark'.” Ian did anotheryear of study and in 1982 startedwork as a solicitor. The couplemarried at Boorowa, with manyWesleyans present, in December1982. The realities of the rural lifeshe had left behind became quiteblatant to all around them. “It wasthe middle of a severe drought andthe family at the farm werestruggling to pay their stockfeeding costs,” she said.

In November, 1983, Jenny andIan moved to Canberra. Their firstchild, Sarah, was born in 1985,followed by Stephanie in 1988. In1990, Ian, who had gained hisMaster of Law degree, became apartner at the top-tier law firmMallesons. A third daughter, Kate,was born in 1991. Jenny and Ianwent on to build successful careersin Canberra. “I was working in themore traditional areas of audit andtax but realised that as Canberra

was a ‘government town’, greateropportunities and challenges lay intransforming the way governmentfinance, risk management, andreporting operated,” she said. In1995, Jenny started her own firm,Morison Consulting, originallyspecialised in consulting with theCommonwealth on key financialand budget reforms, includingintroducing a more commercialapproach to accounting, and thenmajor financial and systemsimplementations. In 2000, shewas awarded a Centenary Medalfor Services to Accountancy andWomen. Ian moved on to start hisown business with his skills incorporate advisory andmanagement, having major rolesin the corporatisation or sale ofmany large Commonwealthagencies and businesses during theKeating and Howard years.

Today, Jenny, is one of Australia’smost sought-after independentmember or chair of Commonwealthaudit and risk committees. Hercommittees cover more than 50percent of the budget spend by the

Commonwealth, including largedepartments such as HumanServices, Health, Social Servicesand Education. Jenny often speaksat conferences and seminarsthroughout Australia on herspecialities. In the meantime, Ianhas set up, and invested in, manyproperty trusts to acquire largercommercial and industrialproperties. He has recently retiredas a corporate adviser and companydirector and after 10 busy years aschair of Radford College, anAnglican co-education school inCanberra and one of Australia’stop private schools, has steppeddown from that position as well.

The couple’s eldest daughter,Sarah, did not become a Wesleyperson. She gained Bachelor ofCommerce/Bachelor of Artsdegrees at ANU in 2007 and is aSenior Manager at Deloitte,married and living in Canberra.She and her husband arerelocating to Sydney this year(2018) to further their careers. Thenext two girls went the Wesley way.Steph started at Wesley in 2007,

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studying Asian Studies and laterLaw. An introvert and bookworm,she found the energetic pace ofCollege life a challenge at times. “Iloved my time at Wesley and I amvery grateful for the wonderfulnetwork of friends from all overAustralia I made,” Steph said.“College also gave me theconfidence to sit down at anytable – these skills have laid thefoundation for my career which isexternally facing.” Steph graduatedas a Bachelor of Arts Advanced(Hons) in 2009 and Juris Doctorin 2009. After three years inLondon as a HR Consultant forthe international university andnot-for-profit sector, Stephreturned to Sydney earlier this yearto work as the North Americandevelopment officer (includingphilanthropy) at the University ofNSW. Kate entered Wesley in 2010whilst studying her Bachelor ofCommerce. She spent the nextthree years at Wesley, graduating

as a Bachelor of Commerce in2012 and Master of Managementthe following year. Later, sheobtained a Masters ofManagement at Sydney Universitybefore joining Deloitte as a HumanCapital Consultant in 2014. Shecurrently lives in London whereshe has been for two years and isworking as an OrganisationalDesign Consultant at ConcentraAnalytics with clients throughoutthe world. Many Wesley oldCollegians live there and they havewonderful get-togethers.

As they move towards retirement,rather than downsizing into thetraditional home unit, Jenny andIan at the time of writing weresoon to leave Canberra and 'upsize'to a small cattle-property at SuttonForest in the NSW SouthernHighlands. “We hope that formerWesleyans travelling south fromSydney will call in to our SuttonForest home, just like many have

to their Canberra homes over thepast 35 years,” Jenny said. Ian andJenny will also be spending time attheir beach-side cottage at TurossHead, near Moruya on the NSWSouth Coast. They are avid worldtravellers and walkers andundertake an annual bike ridingtrip in parts of France each yearwith Old Collegians Ric andCollette Lucas. “Wesley has had anenormous impact on my life,”Jenny said. “I am passionate aboutensuring the opportunity of aWesley experience remains withinthe reach of regional students likeme, particularly first in family.” InApril 2018, Jenny was appointedchair of the Wesley CollegeCouncil, the first person fromregional Australia to have beenappointed to the position, and thefirst in her family to have gone touniversity. “It’s been quite ajourney,” she said.


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PONDED AS A STUDENTBUT DID NOT STAY PONDEDFOR LONGTHE EXTRAORDINARY CAREER OF PHARMACIST KIM TAYLOR(FR 1979)

Kim Taylor (Fr 1979) foundherself, as a student at WesleyCollege, in the invidious situationof being tied to a chair with Glad-wrap and dunked in the collegepond. Her offence? Not knockingloudly enough at the doors of otherstudents’ rooms when, workingcasually at the college as linenlady, she was delivering freshly-cleaned streets. It was aninauspicious start for Kim, whotook advantage of the WhitlamGovernment’s abolition ofuniversity fees, and workingcasually through herundergraduate years to cover livingcosts. At one point, she became alittle uncertain as to where she wasgoing, but three months workingfull-time as a waitress propelledher to the decision that finishingher degree in Pharmacy andembarking on a career in that fieldwas the way to go. And did she go!As a pharmacist in Australia andSaudi Arabia, and in research &development (R&D) and corporateexecutive positions in Australia,Belgium, Asia Pacific and theUnited States, she finished hercareer as head of Johnson &Johnson (J&J) in South-East Asiaand was on the managementboard responsible for J&J’s $30billion global pharmaceuticaloperations.

Kim Taylor was born in Brisbanein April 1959, the second of fivechildren of a sales manager, RossTaylor, and a teacher-librarian,Barbara. When she was five, thefamily moved to Sydney and shegrew up in Sydney’s north-west,

with a two-year stint living in NewZealand. She had what shedescribes as a pretty ordinarychildhood, though tragedy visitedwhen she was a teenager when hermother was killed in a car accidentand she had to assume a lot ofresponsibility for her youngersiblings. She went to BaulkhamHills High School, and in 1978enrolled at Sydney University tostart her Pharmacy course. Kimshared a flat for a year, which shedescribed as a disaster, and wasreceptive to a suggestion fromfellow pharmacy students to enterWesley. Her application for thecollege was accepted and shestarted in 1979.

Kim supplemented her income byjuggling numerous casual jobs,including jobs at Wesley, one ofwhich involved the delivery of aclean sheet each week to everyroom. “As you can imagine, it wasa highly sensitive job, and linenladies were prime targets,” Kimtold The Wesleyan. She went fromthe then E-wing to LowerCallaghan and finally to the“dizzying heights” of 4th FloorWyllie. “What a floor, what a gang,what a marvellous time it was!” shesaid. “Somewhere in there westudied (to a greater or lesserextent), played numerousintercollegiate sports, andcollectively ensured the financialstability of the Grandstand Bar &Cordobes Pizza.”

Kim left Wesley and enjoyed “thevery happy succession of sharedterrace houses in the Glebe-Newtown-Camperdown zone with

great friends made, as eachembarked on entering the realworld of gainful employment”. Shedecided to take 1982 off from herstudies and work. “My youngersister, Jen, was living with me andthere was a need for us toconsolidate finances,” she said.“And I wasn’t sure whetherpharmacy was the life for me.” Butafter her experience as a waitress,she decided that for her it reallywas a case of “back to the books”.She completed her final year inPharmacy and graduated in 1983.She was accepted for a hospitalinternship and started with theRoyal Alexandra Hospital forChildren at Camperdown, whereshe became a staff pharmacist andlater a senior pharmacist.

By early 1986, Kim had becomerestless. Others among heruniversity classmates had travelledoverseas, she had not. She saw anewspaper advertisement forpharmacists to work to SaudiArabia. “It seemed like a good ideaat the time!” she said. She appliedand three months later flew to theMiddle East, where she worked foralmost two years as the SeniorPharmacist at the King FaisalMilitary Hospital, her first “bigadventure”. “My immediate bossand his wife had been workingthere for a decade and were greatexplorers,” Kim said. “They let metag along on many a trip campingin the desert in the Empty Quarteror diving in the Red Sea, meetingthe local Bedouins along the way.On one occasion, he was almostsuccessful in trading me to a rather

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toothless but sturdy fellow forthree camels and a handful ofgoats. Performance managementtook on a whole new meaning!”

Kim returned to Australia in 1988and joined a Belgianpharmaceutical company, JanssenCilag, as a clinical researchassociate, with the job of co-ordinating clinical trials of newmedicines. She did not realisewhen she first started that JanssenCilag was part of the Johnson &Johnson Family of Companies,and that it would open a door to anextraordinary expansion of hercareer. She had been there 18months when the head of one ofJ&J’s Belgian research groups, on aspeaking tour in Australia, askedwhether she would considerworking in Belgium. Kim took it

up. “I landed in Antwerp in early1990 to one of the coldest winterson record, learning to drive on thewrong side of the road in ice andsnow,” she said. As a clinicalresearch manager, Kim wasresponsible for developing & co-ordinating clinical trials acrossEurope. “I loved living in Belgium,in spite of the almost perpetualgrey weather,” Kim said. “Being insuch a central location to the restof Europe made it easy to exploredifferent places, and the bonuswas that it was a great stopping-offpoint for a decent feed for friendsvisiting from Australia. Importantly,my role allowed me to extend myskills in managing cultural,economic and business practicediversity, and to establish theframework for a rapidly changingcompliance environment.”

After four years in Belgium, Kimreturned to Australia to manageJanssen Cilag’s Clinical Researchgroup. She completely re-engineered the group’s operationsand established a high-functioningteam. In 1996, she became theDirector Clinical Research andwas also appointed to themanagement board. That year shewas sent to the United States on anExecutive Development Programat the Haas Business School,Berkeley University. She wasinspired to do more study and in1997 was awarded an MBA byMacquarie University. Soon after,she was asked to create a BusinessInformation Group from “thescraps of a number of departmentsand functions”. In 1998, she wasappointed her to head Janssen’sSales & Marketing division forhospital and specialty prescriptionproducts. “The move fromresearch to marketing wassignificant, particularly withlimited direct commercialexperience, but the experience ofbuilding a new team managingcore information and data for thecompany proved to be aninvaluable bridge,” she said. “Ihave been incredibly fortunate tohave had the support of seniorleaders who took a risk on my coreskills and leadership capabilities,giving me some really challengingopportunities at key pointsthroughout my career.”

In 2000, Kim was appointed Vice-President, Marketing & MedicalAffairs, Pharmaceuticals AsiaPacific, based in Hong Kong. Shebecame responsible forimplementing marketing andmedical affairs programs, and co-ordinating the strategic andbusiness planning processes across13 countries. “My boss at thetime, a very astute and high-energy Korean businessman, gaveme a budget of zero and the advicethat if I figured out what was ofvalue to the businesses in theregion, they would contributefunds to a general pool formanaging programs,” she said.“With a mix of established andemerging markets, a background

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Kim Taylor

of recurring natural disasters,financial and political instabilityand a major outbreak of SARS[Severe Acute RespiratorySyndrome], pressure took on awhole new meaning. But seeingthe extraordinary compassion ofcolleagues within theircommunities and determination topush through adversity was anunbelievably humbling experience.It was also a time when I felt thereal depth of commitment J&J hadto its employees and theircommunities. You see all the wordsand principles of a company’sCredo, but to see those principlescome alive and dominating issomething else altogether. J&J is amost remarkable company.”

Kim returned to Australia early in2004 and was appointed asmanaging director for JanssenCilag in Australia and NewZealand. “After four years away, itwas great to be home, the firstAussie to be managing thebusiness in many years, and thefirst female managing director,”she said. “It was an amazingwelcome back, and very satisfyingpersonally. Kind of like, ‘Local galmakes good!’” The honeymoon, asit turned out, was short. There hadbeen an economic slump inAustralia and there had been asignificant contraction in Federalbudgets. But all Kim’s training andexperience had not been fornothing. She applied herself, builtnew capabilities and teams andJanssen Cilag soon became one ofthe fastest-growing multinationalsin the industry in Australia. In2007, she relocated to the UnitedStates and joined J&J’s biologicscompany, Ortho Biotech Inc, asVice-President, Sales andMarketing. In January 2008, shebecame Ortho Biotech’s presidentand given the task of leading theintegration of Ortho Biotech withanother of J&J’s multibillion-dollarbiologics businesses, Centocor Inc.In April 2008 she was appointedpresident of the merged company,Centocor Ortho Biotech Inc.

In 2010, Kim was appointed to theposition of Company GroupChairman, Asia Pacific, where she

was responsible for J&J’spharmaceutical businessthroughout the Asia Pacific region,which took in Japan, China andIndia and everything down to andincluding Australia and NewZealand, an enormous area highlydiverse culturally andcommercially. “I was based inSingapore this time, and constanttravel became the norm,” she said.“Developing future leaders withinthe region became a passion.There was an incredible array oftalented people. Identifyingopportunities for them to grow andflourish as leaders, as had beendone for me, was immenselyrewarding.” In late 2013, Kim wasasked to develop and implement anovel business model for emergingmarkets by bringing together allJohnson & Johnson businesses inSoutheast Asia under one roof. Shedid that and became head of OneJohnson & Johnson SoutheastAsia. From 2010, as part of herinternational responsibilities, Kimserved on the PharmaceuticalsGroup Operating Committee. In2015, after 27 years with J&J, Kimdecided to retire, expressing thegreatest gratitude for the chancesshe had been given. “I am

incredibly fortunate to haveworked with people so dedicated tomaking a difference in people’slives,” she said. “There have beenmany, many times when it hasbeen beyond humbling.”

Kim returned to Australia to beclose to her sister, Jen, and family,and revels in playing the part of“eccentric aunt”, as she put it, toher nieces. Kim now lives on asmall farm outside Armidalewhere she was supposed to lead anunhurried life, but was soon in re-engineering mode to rehabilitateand repurpose the property. Kimhas been an active volunteer at theNew England Regional ArtMuseum (NERAM) in Armidale,and is the treasurer for the Friendsof NERAM. In December 2017,she was appointed to NERAM’sboard. “Same skills, differentlocation” Kim told The Wesleyan.

“Occasionally life can deal you areally crummy hand, but life ismore than a single hand. You havea whole deck to play with, andsometimes it helps to shuffle it!”


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FOUR GRAY YEARS ATWESLEY AND SOMEBRILLIANT CAREERS THE STORY OF SUSAN GRAY (FR 1981) AND JO GRAY (FR 1983)

Susan Gray (Fr 1981) and hersister Joanne (Fr 1983) can be saidto be very bright girls, having eachstayed two years at Wesley, eachgraduating in Economics-Law andboth going on a global or nationalscale to contribute to the smoothrunning of industry. Susan is nowthe Global Head of Corporate andInfrastructure Ratings at thefinancial information and analysiscompany, S&P Global, whichfollowed a twenty-year career ininvestment banking in Asia andthe Americas. She was four yearsas policy advisor to the AustralianFederal Government on trade,industry and labour policy. Sheundertook roles in the Labormovement and performed serviceon a number of government andnot-for-profit boards. Jo, presentlythe managing editor of theAustralian Financial Review, hashad an extraordinary career inbusiness and financial journalism.

At the time the girls came into theworld, the girls’ father, RobertGray, was an Economics teacher atKnox Grammar School and theirmother, Elaine (nee Comben), wasa nurse. Susan was born first-born. She and Jo were followed bya brother, Michael. In 1973, thefamily moved to Albury, “just intime for Gough Whitlam’sDecentralisation initiative,” Jo toldThe Wesleyan. The three childrenwent to Albury High School.

Susan enrolled at SydneyUniversity to study Economics/Law and entered Wesley in 1981.When The Wesleyan asked her forher recollections of college, shesaid: “It was a great place to meet awide range of people studying

diverse disciplines.” Susangraduated in Economics, withHonours, in 1984 and in Law in1988, developing an early focus onpublic policy and economicsissues. In 1985, she joined AMPSociety as an economist, rapidlybecoming involved in theimplementation of the newnational superannuation schemefor employees at Australia’s largestinsurer. “lt was a time of

significant change as the conceptof a job for life was disappearingand workforce mobilityincreasingly important,” she said.

Susan was elected as the NSWsecretary of the AMP StaffAssociation and focused onrepositioning the staff associationto meet the changing mobility andcareer needs of the workforce. Shewas intending to go to the bar.

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Instead, she joined the Clothingand Allied Trades Union, whosenational secretary, Anna Booth,was destined to become vice-president of the ACTU. “I waslooking to gain experience inIndustrial Law and I had a stronginterest in public policy,” Susansaid. “The Clothing Union was atthe forefront of change at the time.It was a leading player in thereforms and modernisationagenda which were later to play apart in the [Prices and Incomes]Accord supported by government,business and the trade unions.Most would agree that thestructural changes Australiaimplemented at the timepositioned it to be a more open,competitive and successfuleconomy and society today.”

Susan used her legal skills asNational Industrial Officer at theClothing union to implement acampaign against exploitation ofpieceworkers and led efforts tobuild fair and modern pay andconditions for women workers,which recognised skills andexperience in deciding on rates ofpay and conditions. As the Hawkegovernment started to negotiatethe detail of the Prices and IncomesAccord, Susan took on the job ofadviser to Senator Peter Cook,Minister for Industrial Relations.She spent four years in Canberra,advising Senator Cook and FederalCabinet in the portfolios ofIndustrial Relations, Trade, andthen Industry and RegionalDevelopment. Over this time, shefocused on the Accord, IndustryBest practice, a major study withMcKinsey & Co on the importanceof small and medium exporters,budget policy measures, industryrestructuring and training, a majorTrade Policy Statement andpriority attention to Asia.

In 1994, Susan moved to Jakartawhere Michael Maher, her partnerwas the ABC’s Indonesiacorrespondent. She joinedMacquarie Bank to set up theirproject and structured financebusiness in Indonesia, their firstInfrastructure advisory business inAsia. In this role, Susan became

Macquarie’s Indonesia countryhead, and worked on energy,transport and telecommunicationstransactions, as well as developinga joint venture for the projectfinance business. She thenreturned to Sydney with Macquarie’sInfrastructure business and, at theinvitation of the NSW Premier,Bob Carr, joined the board of thePowerhouse Museum. At theinvitation of the NSW Minister forTransport, Carl Scully, she joinedthe board of the State TransitAuthority. Susan and Michaelmarried in 2002 and had a son,Harry, born in 2003. In 2006, thefamily moved to New York, whereSusan continued to play a leadingrole in the development ofMacquarie’s infrastructureadvisory business in the Americas,as Head of Infrastructure SponsorCoverage and Head of Airports.Michael worked with the ABC andother media organizations such asthe BBC as a documentaryfilmmaker and journalist.

Susan also became a trustee of theTenement Museum in Manhattan,which tells the story ofimmigration in New York throughrecreating the lives of families wholived in a crowded apartmentbuilding on the Lower East Side.The museum has been noted asone of the top 10 non-artmuseums in the world. She wasrecruited by S&P Global in 2015 toestablish a global infrastructurepractice in its ratings division. Inthis role she also developed andlaunched S&P Global’s GreenEvaluation, which assess the“greenness” of an investment on aglobal scale. In 2017, Susan’s rolewas expanded to Global Head ofCorporate and InfrastructureRatings and Sustainable Finance.Today, based with her family inManhattan, she leads a team of600 analysts across 20 countries,rating $US14 trillion of debt. Herbreadth of experience ininfrastructure globally and S&PGlobal’s active engagement in thesector across all of its businesseshas seen Susan work with theWorld Bank and The BipartisanPolicy Centre, a Washington think-

tank supported by congress. She isregularly sought out to speak atindustry events in the US andelsewhere in the world, andrepresented S&P at the G20 andB20 summits, World EconomicForum and the Milken InstituteGlobal Conferences.

Jo for her own part was drawn tojournalism early. She had grown upwith the ABC and newspapers andwas inspired by the ABC’s CarolineJones doing tough politicalinterviews. Current affairs, politicsand economics had often beendiscussed over dinner. “Iremember understanding whatinflation and wage indexationwere when I was 9 years old. Howboring!” she said. After completingthe HSC, Jo also enrolled inEconomics/Law degree at SydneyUniversity, entering Wesley in1983, on the heels of Susan whohad left in 1982. “KimberleyNeedham was the first person Imet as I walked in the Wesley frontdoors, and she became one of mygreatest friends,” Jo said. “I amgrateful that I met a diverse bunchof amazing people. Wesley gave mea sense of belonging in the big cityand in a university full ofincredibly bright, sometimes

Joanne Gray, from Australian Financialreview publicity shot.

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intimidating people.” Jo wasunimpressed by some of theblatant sexist behaviour, but hehad plenty of diversion. She rowedin the Women’s Eight andcompeted in water polo androwing at Intervarsity level as well.

Leaving Wesley at the end of1984. After completingEconomics in 1985, Jo took twoyears off, travelling to South Africaon an AIESEC exchange programfor business and commercestudents, arriving just after the SAgovernment declared a state ofemergency. In mid-1986 she wasworking for human resourcesdivision in Barclays Bank, inJohannesburg with the task ofmaking life easier for the non-white staff, who were beingsystematically discriminatedagainst by South Africa’s apartheidsystem. “There were an increasingnumber of [international]sanctions,” Jo said. “Internationalbanks were not allowed to lendmoney to South Africa. There weresporting sanctions and the USCongress was forcing UScompanies to pull out of SouthAfrica.” Barclays was under a hugeamount of pressure from studentsin the UK who were boycotting itsbranches, arguing for divestment.“But Barclays was actively resistingthe apartheid regime. Themanaging director, Chris Ball,bought homes for black managersin so-called “white” areas, and waslater investigated for meeting withleaders of the African NationalCongress which was outlawed atthat time. He was also accused oflending $40,000 to the ANC toadvertise in South Africannewspapers calling for legalisationto improve their lot.

Jo felt a strong inclination tobecome a journalist and after sixmonths with Barclays she joinedthe Financial Mail, a Johannesburg-based weekly business magazine.One of her first assignments wascovering the national budget inPretoria. She saw at first-handhow, as well as its system of grosshuman rights abuse, apartheid waseconomically unsustainable, withfour separate budgets and

bureaucracies for each of theapartheid created populationgroups. This became increasinglyapparent as international capitalsanctions tightened. She decidedto return to Australia as ajournalist and applied to severalmedia outlets, eventually getting apositive response from ValerieLawson, who worked for a Fairfaxpublication, Times on Sunday. Joreturned in 1987 and joined theTimes on Sunday at a dramatictime. “I started October 19, andthe US stock market crashed thatnight,” she said. “On the day it hitAustralia, October 20, I was inMelbourne interviewing the CEOof Mayne Nickless. His financedirector kept interrupting themeeting with news of how far thecompany’s stock price had fallen.”

The Times of Sunday was closed 12months after Jo joined, but shetransferred to another Fairfaxpublication, the AustralianFinancial Review under theeditorship of Alan Kohler. In 1990she was posted to Canberra as amember of the press gallery. Thelast two years of the Hawke-Keating Government was“fascinating”, she said. During hertime in Canberra, Jo finished herLaw degree part time at theAustralian National University. In1993 Jo and her then boyfriend,Swiss-born Matt Bekier, aMcKinsey & Co consultant, whomshe had met in South Africa,moved to Zurich. Jo landed a jobwith Bloomberg as its Swiss bureauchief, at a time when the US mediacompany was establishing itself inEurope. “One of the mostinteresting times was at the WorldEconomic Forum in Davos [anAlpine town] where Isimultaneously interviewed RupertMurdoch and Conrad Black,documenting the first exchangethey had since Rupert haddeclared an end to the newspaperprice wars.”

After two years in Zurich, Joreturned with Matt to Sydney.After three years as banking editor,she was posted to Washington DCin 1998, as WashingtonCorrespondent for the Financial

Review. Now a McKinsey partner,Matt joined the firm’s DC office. Itwas the end of the Asian FinancialCrisis, and its inevitable postmortem, but the Clinton-Lewinskysaga was dominating US politics.Jo also reported on the US pressureon Australia to take charge of theEast Timor crisis, the build-up andbursting of the do.com bubble, andthe “never-ending” George W.Bush/Al Gore election. Jo and Mattreturned to Australia in 2001,where Jo resumed with theFinancial Review. A daughterAlexandra was born that yearfollowed by twins Charlotte andHarriet in 2003. When the twinswere eight months old, the familywas off again, this time to HongKong where Jo took a role asmanaging editor of AsiaMoney, amonthly finance magazine.

Returning to Australia after twoyears, Jo rejoined the FinancialReview and completed an MBAwith Melbourne Business School.In 2012, she moved back toSydney to become Opinion Editorof the Financial Review, undereditor-in-chief Michael Stutchbury.She took over BOSS magazine aseditor until 2018 when shebecame managing editor of theFinancial Review with a focus onbusiness growth and peoplemanagement. In that role, Jo hasseen the Financial Review’sjournalists highlight a series ofonline businesses with dodgybusiness models. And with theadvent of the Banking RoyalCommission, new light is beingcast on the unconscionablepractices of the financial sector.Meanwhile, having survived andeventually thrived during massivedigital disruption, the FinancialReview is entering a new growthstage, she says, powered by theinherent worth of its reporting andthe realisation that trusted brandsare the best filters for quality news.“The last five years were tough butwe are now growing in circulation,digital subscription and revenue,”she says. “Quality journalism has astrong future.”


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A WILEY WESLEYAN IN ANON-WOMANLY WORLDTRACEY KERR (FR 1983)

Tracey Kerr might have beenforgiven for being a little self-conscious when, as a BHPgeophysicist in an overwhelminglymale-dominated profession, shefound herself at a field camp inoutback Queensland, with ninemale companions and a singleshower and toilet block with nopartitions or screens. Beinggentlemen, the men had to wait tillshe had made use of the facilities.Then Tracey’s Wesley experiencekicked in. “One day we sat downand talked about it [her bathroomproblem],” Tracey told TheWesleyan. “I said I’d been to Wesleyand we had co-ed bathrooms so Iwasn’t uncomfortable with men inthere at the same time if we hadpartitions. They were all happy tohave partitions. One of the guyswas a carpenter and so in no timeat all we had the problem solved.Having a sense of humour andbeing not being too shy to talkabout practical issues always stoodme in good stead.”

Tracey Louise Kerr was born inMurwillumbah in northern NewSouth Wales on 15th January1965, the eldest of three childrenof a potato-processing plantmanager, Ken Kerr, and accountsmanager, Carol (nee Shields). Kenhad had an impoverished familybackground and had not been ableto finish his schooling, but he waskeen to see his children do well.Tracey went to Murwillumah HighSchool, became School Captainand excelled at sport, competing atstate level in numerous sports,including hockey, diving andathletics. She wanted to studyphysical education or become ateacher, because of thescholarships available. But aninsightful teacher suggested she doScience, in particular Physics, and

said that it was possible to supportherself through the universitycourse through part-time andholiday work. Tracey was attractedto Sydney University and heardglowing comments about Wesley.“At that time, it was the only co-edcollege, with a great reputation fora balance of academic andsporting life, and a more open anddiverse college community,” shesaid. “I was lucky that it was in thedays of free university fees as Iwould not have been able to affordit otherwise and would certainlyhave been put off by the prospect ofaccumulating large student debts.”

Tracey, though having to workpart-time, including kitchen andcleaning duties at Wesley, andworking through vacations, wenton to enjoy what she described as“four wonderful years and ahighlight in my life”. She took upnumerous sports, includingrowing, and helped Wesley win theRosebowl. She represented SydneyUniversity in Hockey, for whichshe would receive a UniversityBlue. Tracey, majoring inGeophysics, wrote to the ChiefGeophysicist of BHP’s MineralExploration Group asking forvacation work. “He wrote backsaying that since I was the onlyone that asked I could have a job, ifI got myself to Melbourne andfound my own housing,” she said.“I worked for them in the summervacations for two years and thisexperience really confirmed thatthis was the career for me. Mineralexploration is like a treasure hunt,and the excitement of the teamwaiting as the drill rig reached thefinal target was thrilling for me.The opportunity to work in theoffice and in the field, and to havea highly applied scientific role wasideal for me.”

During the course of her fieldwork, Tracey met a geologist,Frank Bunting, who was tobecome her husband. At the end ofher fourth year at BHP she askedBHP whether she could work full-time and was approved. Traceygraduated in Science 1987 withFirst Class Honours, joined BHPand in 1988 married Frank. Shereceived encouragement andsupport from fellow team membersand managers but there wassometimes awkwardness. “It didmean that I was often the onlywoman in a remote field camp, oreven the first woman at a site, andit did lead to some interestingchallenges,” she said. Tracey wouldgo on to work for BHP for almost18 years and had some memorableexperiences. “I had the chance towork in many beautiful andremote parts of the world thattourists would not ordinarily getthe chance to experience and tomeet some amazing people -hiking, driving four-wheel drives,fly camping, flying in helicoptersin many beautiful and remoteparts of Australia, Papua NewGuinea, Russia, Canada, Guinea

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just to name a few,” she said. “Itgave me the chance to follow mypassions for travel, working withpeople from different cultures andlearning languages. I learnt myfirst foreign language as an adult –Spanish – and continued fromthere, learning Russian (verydifficult), French and Portuguese.”

During her career with BHP,Tracey completed her Masters inEconomic Geology (Distinction)with the University of Tasmania.In 1997, BHP sent Tracey andFrank to its London office andTracey became BHP’s PrincipalGeophysicist in Russia. “This wasa life changing experience. I workedin remote regions of Russia such asthe Russian Far East (Magadan,Kamchatka, Khabarovsk) and theKola Peninsula as well as Moscowand St Petersburg,” she said. Shesaw abject poverty and heard peopledescribe how they grew up in fearof the West dropping nuclear bombs.I was often the first westerner thatpeople had ever met, the first timethey had ever actually spoken theEnglish they learned at universityto a native English speaker,” shesaid. “I particularly remember atrip on the Trans-Siberian railway,where there was a stop in a smalltown in the middle of the night fora couple of hours. My colleagueand I were met with a smalldelegation of the town’s scientificcommunity. They took us to areception and shared with us agenerous buffet meal in the middleof the night. It was even moresobering because we knew theyhad given us everything they had!”

Tracey’s daughter, Michaela, wasborn in London in 1999. While onmaternity leave, Tracey was offereda job in Vancouver as ChiefGeophysicist for BHP Minerals,which she took. “Back then notmany women worked in mineralexploration, and even fewermanaged to remain in technicalroles once they had children,” shesaid. “I am happy that to this day Ihave been able to be a real exampleto young women that it is possibleto combine having a family withworking in the mining andexploration industry. Workwise,

people into an area and we see theimpacts, both positive andnegative, that a mining project canbring. For me this a chance to giveback, to try to make positivedifference both in the safety of ourworkforce and in the lives of thecommunities and societies wherewe operate.“

Tracey has now qualified in boardmanagement with the Institute ofDirectors in London. She is now anon-executive director of theLondon Stock Exchange-listedcompany, Polymetal International,which has mines in Russia,Kazakhstan and Armenia. She hasalso been recognised as one of the“Top 100 Women in Mining”. “As Ilook back I don’t think I wouldchange anything,” she said. I havebeen incredibly fortunate to haveso many opportunities, to traveland live and work in so manycountries with so many greatpeople, to experience so manydifferent cultures and last, butdefinitely not least, to havewonderful family.” And Wesleydoes get a mention. Tracey tookpart in a London Wesley reuniontwo years ago where the Master,Lisa Sutherland, met about fiveWesleyans living in the UnitedKingdom. “We did not know abouteach other,” Tracey said. “But nowwe are a small group meetingregularly.” For the record, the UK-based Wesleyans are Lynne Baird(now Bell), Derek Silby, Jason andCatie Williams, Ross and MeganMacFarlane.

Tracey Kerr (Fr 1983) andMalcolm Brown (Fr 1965)

this was a very excitingtime. Part of my role wasto enable the transitionof the Falcon airbornegravity gradiometersystem from a researchproject to an appliedexploration tool.”

In 2001, Traceyreturned to Australiaand took on a broaderexploration role in theGlobal Iron Ore andCoal exploration team, a divisionof BHP. Her son, Will, was born inBrisbane in 2003 but Tracey wasnot staying still. She found herselfmanaging a concept study at MtNimba in Guinea, West Africa. “Ilearnt important French phraseslike, ‘Stop – it’s dangerous’, and,‘I’ve lost my hammer’,” she said. In2005, Tracey and Frank left BHP,and Tracey joined CVRD, nowknown as Vale SA, a Brazilianmining company, which had set upan office in Brisbane and wasseeking to expand in Australia andSouth East Asia. In her six yearswith Vale, the company was toexpand and become active in 25countries across the world. “It wasa wild and exciting time to be inmineral exploration,” she said.Vale acquired a Canadiancompany, Inco Ltd, a leadingnickel producer and Tracey, as partof the team handling theintegration of the two company,went to Toronto where she becameDirector of Exploration for theAmericas, becoming in one of thefirst foreign directors of Vale.

From Toronto, Tracey and Frankmoved to the headquarters of theexploration department, BeloHorizonte, Brazil. “We loved ourtime living in Brazil but an offer in2011 to take on the role of GroupHead of Exploration for AngloAmerican Plc, based in London,was too great a chance to turndown, so with a heavy heart I leftVale and we moved.” After fouryears in the job, Tracey becameAnglo American’s Group Head ofSafety and SustainableDevelopment. “Exploration peoplecare deeply about sustainability,”she said. “We are often the first

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A GLOBE-TROTTING OILAND GAS PROFESSIONALTHE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE OF JANE NORMAN (NEE JOHNSON, FR 1986)

Jane Norman (Fr 1986 as JaneJohnson) could hardly be said tohave been destined for a shelteredlife, being the daughter of anAustralian diplomat and livingduring her childhood in Indonesia,South Africa and the formerYugoslavia. She started school atthe Auckland Park PreparatorySchool in Johannesburg andcontinued her primary schoolingat the International School inBelgrade. When she reached highschool age, her parents, Michaeland Anne Johnson, were posted toBahrain and Jane was dispatchedto boarding school in Canberra,the fate of many children of thediplomatic and defence services.Jane’s brothers, Benjamin andChristopher, went to CanberraGrammar School and Jane toCanberra Girls’ Grammar School.Jane went home for holidays tovisit her parents in Bahrain, and itwas there that she gained somelife-changing inspiration. Shefound herself surrounded by oilfields and “nodding donkey”pumps and developed afascination for geopolitics. This,she believes, was to influence hercareer in the oil and gas industry.

In her final year at Canberra Girls’Grammar School, Jane was HeadBoarder and deputy head of theschool’s Student RepresentativeCouncil (SRC). Perhaps her extraduties detracted from her study,and in her final exams she justmissed getting a place inMedicine. Instead of repeating herfinal year to get a better mark, sheopted to take on a Science degreeat Sydney University and to go to acollege. “I was offered places atboth Women’s College andWesley,” she told The Wesleyan.

“But after being at an all-girls’school I, opted for Wesley”. Afteran interview with the Master, theRev Dr John Whitehead, Jane wasaccepted and in 1986 became afresher. “During that year,Kimberly Holden (nee Needham)was Senior Student,” she said. “Itwas an era when she, known as‘Kimbles’ and Deb Payton, akaMiss Passion, ruled supreme.”

Jane took to rowing and was to rowin the Wesley women’s four in theinter-col Rosebowl Cupcompetition for four years, servingas captain of the crew. In 1987, inher second year, she received theWesley “Contribution to College”award. During that year, she ranfor election to the university SRCalongside Joe Hockey, then astudent at St John’s College. “Iremember giving an electionspeech with Joe at formal dinnerat St John’s, in a room full ofheckling male student throwing

bread rolls,” Jane said. “Both Joeand I were elected. Joe was acharming, good fun, ambitiousand very big and strong as he wasplaying university Rugby. I haven’tseen him face-to-face since thattime but of course have followedhis very successful career.”

In 1989, Jane was elected theWesley Senior Student. “I regardedit as a privilege to be elected, toserve the student body and tomaintain the spirit of inclusivenessand unbridled enthusiasm whichstill exists at Wesley today,” shesaid. “One of my clearest memoriesof that year is attending the RawsonCup victory dinner at St Paul’sCollege as the only female. As youcan imagine, it was a pretty raucousnight with lots of drinking and theSt Paul’s students kept making toaststo me and there was a lot of spoonbanging on the tables. But I recallmy years at Wesley College with realaffection. I have memories of college

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rowing, formal and ‘informal’ balls,‘pondings’, sculling races at theGrand Stand bar, formal collegedinners, cramming for exams andwonderful friendships.

Jane became interested inChemical Engineering subjects inher first and second years inScience, encouraged by friends shemade in the faculty. “At the timethe Chemical Engineeringstudents were around 30 percentfemale,” she said. In 1990, Janegraduated with a Bachelor ofScience degree and left college tolive with her parents, who hadresettled in Sydney. She thenstarted the first of two yearsremaining at Sydney University tobecome a chemical engineer. In1991, she went to France as anexchange student and spent fourmonths working for ICI in a paintfactory outside Paris in order tolearn French. In September thatyear, the beginning of the newacademic year, she enrolled in thel'Ecole Nationale SuperieureD'Ingenieurs de Genie Chimique,Toulouse, to do her fourth andfinal year in Chemicalengineering. In 1992, Janegraduated from Sydney Universityas a Bachelor of Engineering(Chemical) with Honours.

Following that, she joined ShellInternational Exploration &Production in The Hague, workingas a process engineer in Shell’sgraduate engineering program,which represented a departurefrom what her fellow femalegraduates were doing. “Nearly allthe girls I studied with went towork for management consultingfirms or went into banking at theend of their degrees,” she said. In1993, Shell transferred Jane toAberdeen in Scotland, where sheworked offshore in the BrentCharlie Platform RedevelopmentProject, then in operations at theSt Fergus Gas Processing Plant innorth-east Scotland. “It was verytough as there were so few womenin oil & gas at the time,” she said.“When I worked at the BrentCharlie platform, which had about330 beds, I had to sleep on theBrant Alpha platform several miles

away, which had some femalecabins, and shuttle via helicopterat the start and finish of each day.This meant long days with a 5 amcheck-in for the helicopter.” Afterthat, Jane worked on engineeringdesign in Shell’s Aberdeen office.Her work was obviously very good,because she gained CharteredEngineer Status with the UK’sInstitution of Chemical Engineers.

In 1996, Jane transferred to ShellUK’s Commercial division inLondon. During her three yearsthere, she had responsibility forSouthern North Sea gas salescontracts and infrastructure accessagreements. She also studied for aPost-Graduate Diploma in theManagement and Economics ofNatural Gas at the University ofOxford’s College of Petroleum andEnergy. In 1998, Jane moved tothe City of London, joiningCazenove & Co (now owned byJPMorgan) to help set up an oil &gas sector team in their CorporateFinance division. Cazenove wasthe corporate broker to over halfthe FTSE100 companies and hadjust led the privatisation of BritishGas into BG Group, Centrica andpipeline company TransCo.During her time at ‘Caz’, Janegained experience in initial publicofferings, acquisitions, equityraises and investorcommunications for Cazenove’s oil& gas corporate clients. Janestudied the Corporate Financeprogram at the London BusinessSchool and subsequently joinedGoldman Sachs’ London office tohelp establish a corporate brokingbusiness within their EquityCapital Markets team.

In 2002, Jane married a Londonbarrister, Mark Norman, whomshe had met 10 years earlier. Theyset up home in London and haddaughters Isabelle, born in 2003,and Sophie, born the followingyear. Jane and her family were inthe process of relocating fromcentral London to Cambridge,which would have been in themiddle of Mark’s circuit as abarrister. Then a family friend,Bruce Debelle QC, at the time aSouth Australian Supreme Court

judge, suggested to Mark that herelocate to Adelaide. JusticeDebelle, Jane suspects, might wellhave been acting at the behest ofJane’s mother, who wanted thefamily back in Australia. Whateverthat was, Mark took up thesuggestion and in 2005, the familyrelocated to Sydney temporarily,where Mark had to do a nine-month part-time course at theCollege of Law to be admitted as alegal practitioner in Australia. Thefamily then moved to Adelaidewhere Mark joined the SouthAustralian Department of PublicProsecutions and Jane accepted abusiness development job with thenatural gas company, Santos Ltd.A third daughter, Charlotte, wasborn in 2006. The girls all attendSt Peter’s Girls School in Adelaide.

Jane has remained with Santos tothis day and now leads thecompany’s corporate strategy anddevelopments team. “I ampassionate about supportingwomen in industry andencouraging girls to considertechnical careers,” Jane said. “Butto date our three daughters seem toprefer singing, dancing andmusical theatre!” She hopes thatone day her daughters, now inyears 6, 8 and 10, will also go toWesley and relive what was to Jane“a privileged and wonderful timeof freedom, inspiration andachievement.”

Jane Norman (Fr 1986) andMalcolm Brown (Fr 1965)

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Andrew Stead (Fr 1990) was neverone to read about world events inthe daily newspaper, raise hiseyebrows perhaps, then settle backinto a tame sedentary existence thatso many others enjoy. He was bornin Melbourne and moved severaltimes before the family settled inCanberra and he attended AMESchool and Narrabundah College.Before entering Wesley in 1990,he was off, spending his gap yeartravelling in Europe, North Africa,the Middle East and Asia. Andrewwas hardly inclined to sit stillwhen he got to college. In his fouryears there, he plunged into allaspects of College life, involved inseveral sports, student clubactivities (including running thecellar) and in his third yearbecame Senior Student. He playedRugby for Sydney University androwed for University in theintervarsity championships. Andto cap it off, he joined Taani Taufa,Wesley’s much-loved chef, for asummer trip to Tonga. Andrewmet Alyssa Anstey (Fr 1990) whowas at Wesley doing a Sciencedegree. Andrew graduated in 1993with Honours in Science, thendecided to take off with his thengirlfriend to Britain, where heintended to work and travel. Butthere was also something elseniggling at him. He wanted toparticipate in world events, notthrough commerce or diplomacybut through soldiering. If in thiswriter’s era of the 1960s, with theVietnam War raging, studentswere busy thinking of how theycould get out of a militarycommitment, Andrew went afterit. When he arrived in Britain, thatpredisposition to military servicebecame a commitment. Hedecided to join the British Army.

“It was an institution with a deep

practice.” Andrew was forward-thinking enough to know that hecould use his military experienceto acquire skills that would beuseful in the civilian world. So,commissioned as a SecondLieutenant, he opted to join theRoyal Corps of Signals, thetechnology arm of the army,providing infrastructure andcommunications in the field.

“The 1990s were a particular timein global military affairs,” Andrewsaid. “The Cold War had justended, there had been an invasionof Iraq and the United Nations andNATO were involved in a numberof peacekeeping operations withmixed results. And in the UK, theinternal terrorist threat inNorthern Ireland significantlyimpacted personal and militaryinstallation security.” In 1999,promoted to Captain, Andrew wasdeployed to Bosnia and Herzegovinaon NATO peace enforcementoperations, to deter hostilities,stabilize the country and capturewar criminals. Had he had time totake it in, he would have seen an“amazingly picturesque” country,from the coast to the mountains,but it was deeply divided after along history of conflict. Withteams spread across the country,Andrew ran the communicationsnetwork linking the British andforeign battle groups to the Britishheadquarters in Banja Luka.

At the end of his tour of duty,Andrew decided to retire andreturn to Australia. He had seen alot of the world and mixed with“great people”. He had trekkedNepal, snow-caved in Norway,scrambled in Scotland and walkedin the Canadian Rockies. Now itwas a time to invest what technicalknowledge he had picked up to thecommercial world. Australia at the

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history, long-held traditions andthe promise of something different,”Andrew told The Wesleyan. “It wasluring enough to balance out themore obvious downsides. After aseries of multi-day selection tests, I was invited to attend the RoyalMilitary College Sandhurst as anofficer cadet. Sandhurst wasconsidered one of the top militaryschools in the world, alongsideWest Point in the United States. Itwas an exciting prospect.” Andrewundertook basic training as aninfantry soldier with the RoyalGreen Jackets, a regiment whoseorigins went back to 1800, whichhad gained its name by becomingthe regiment to swap red jacketsfor the less conspicuous green. Butthere were going to be a few hurdlesalong the way. “Honing my fitnessand field craft, I arrived at Sandhurstthinking I had some idea of whatwas ahead but was sadly wrong,”Andrew said. “Having had arelatively free-range childhoodwith limited discipline, I found thenature of the military trainingprocess was by nature the veryopposite. The British Army officertraining process has been perfectedover many years and from day one,a sustained and significantpressure is applied with the aim toteach, to test and ultimately to findthose who will endure it.”

Andrew spent a year of one testafter another, with the aim ofproviding a well-rounded armyofficers’ education. “This coveredacademic, military skills,leadership, fitness and worst of alldrill,” he said. “The bane of mytime was spending inordinateamounts of time marching aboutwhilst being shouted at by varioussergeant-majors. Admittedly thefinal passing off parade was agrand affair and required the

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time was at the height of the dotcom bubble. Of course, the bubbleburst, but Andrew avoided ill-effects.He married Alyssa in Tasmania in2001 and completed an MBA atthe Macquarie Graduate School ofManagement in 2002. He becamea management consultant, thebeginning of a journey that took himinto research, innovation, corporatestart-up and corporate management.

“Today, start-ups make front pagenews and every large organisationhas its take on an innovation unit,”Andrew said. “Entrepreneurs arethe new rock stars with the bigtech CEOs as well-known as anybig-name musician. This was notalways the case. In the early 2000sbeing an entrepreneur hadnegative associations with the likesof Alan Bond and ChristopherSkase. Even the much-publishedfailures of Steve Jobs and ElonMusk do not discount their legendtoday.” Andrew spent several yearsof helping clients understand, buyand integrate technology, but by2005 had started thinking aboutgoing to “the other side”, whichwas helping to identify and createnew technologies. He moved to theUniversity of New South Wales andtook on the role of selling inventionsthat emerged from the researchlaboratories, such inventionsincluding new types of plastic,improving steel recycling, stocktrading algorithms, locationtriggered audio tour guides and anew search engine for Google. “Thesearch engine had been created bya PhD student and introduced to asenior Google engineer at apostgraduate presentation day,”Andrew said. “Impressed by whatthey saw, they flew me and thestudent to California. Googlepersuaded the university to sell theintellectual property and theinventor to join the Google searchteam. The acquisition became oneof only two Australian technologiesGoogle have incorporated intotheir product offerings.”

After helping raise investmentcapital for a start-up, a high-growthtechnology-based business built onuniversity research, Andrew wasinvited to move across to a deep

technology incubator, ATPInnovations, which was owned byseveral universities. Housing over50 start-ups in the life science,software and hardware spaces, itrepresented the largestconcentration of start-up activity inAustralia and was the centre of awide-reaching start-up eco-system.Andrew helped create the SydneyAngels, which was to becomeAustralia’s most active angelinvestment group, that has providedcapital to more than 50 local start-up companies, starting long beforeDragon’s Den hit television screens.While the majority of start-ups inthe incubator were private, Andrewworked with universities to helpsupport researchers’ commercialefforts and extract technologies. Itwas a very difficult task, andAndrew was interested in findingout how others world-wide tackledthe problems. This was considereda worthy enough project for him tobe granted a Churchill Fellowshipin 2009. The aim of Andrew’sresearch was to delve into a varietyof different programs that,supported scientists to validatetheir technologies in the market,and extract the lessons that couldbe applied in Australia. “In the USAthe focus was on philanthropyfunded programs in the Universityof California system, in the UKlisted investment vehicles, and in

Israel a long-lived governmentfunded incubator network,” he said.Andrew finished his research andshared his findings widely. He thenset about creating a number ofinnovation programs: Ignition Labs,Australia’s first clean technologyfocused accelerator; the CSIROON Accelerator, now a nation-wideresearcher commercialisationtraining program; and FiremarkLabs, an inhouse corporateinnovation program focused oncollaboration between start-upsand the insurer IAG, to explore thefuture of the industry.

In 2005 Andrew joined the WesleyCollege Council as an Old Collegianmember. Almost immediately, hewas elected secretary. In his role, hecreated the governance committeeand set about amending the Act ofthe NSW Parliament under whichthe College was incorporated. Hesimplified the rules, halved the sizeof the council and, mostsignificantly, opening the way for asecular Master. In 2007, hebecame chairman of council andoversaw the appointment of LisaSutherland. His three years in thechair also saw council consideringthe proposal for the extension ofthe Purser Wing. Andrew went onto serve on 16 other boards, acrossnot-for-profits, investment fundsand start-ups. “In five of these, I wasfounding director and they havebeen the most exciting, working withthe team to create something fromnothing,” he said. “They have rangedfrom hydrogen production, terroristthreat analytics to optimising thein-store retail experience.” Headded: “A common themethroughout College, the army andthe start-up eco-system has beeninteracting and working with diverseand inspiring groups of people.The aim for the future is to continueon that path in new andinteresting settings.”

Presently living in Sydney, Andrewis keen to move out. His favouriteholiday is skiing in Canada withhis wife and his two children, Zoe,born 2006, and Finaly (2009). Whaton earth could keep Andrew still?


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THE WORLD’S YOUR OYSTER!A GREAT START TO LIFE BY A TALENTED TY VAN DER LINDEN(FR 2008)

For Ty van der Linden, everythingto this date has just gone right. Hegrew up in a normal familyenvironment, with two eldersiblings, at Wauchope on the mid-north coast of New South Wales,excelled in sport through hisschooldays, had a dream runthrough university and WesleyCollege, helped along by hissporting ability. He graduated inCommerce and then went on tothe world, having plenty of time fortravel and work and his career, stillin its early stages, appears to havean unlimited future.

Ty’s grandparents on his mother’sside came from England andDenmark. His parents on hisfather’s side migrated from theNetherlands in the aftermath ofWorld War II. Ty’s mother, Liz,and father, Bill, who trained as afitter-machinist, grew up inSydney’s west. Ty was born inPenrith in January 1989 but wasonly five weeks old when hisparents packed up and moved toWauchope, on the NSW northcoast. He grew up there, playingwith siblings Brant and Alana andthe family dogs, and perplexing hisparents by reciting advertisingjingles as they selectedcompetitors’ products from theshelves of the local grocery store.He went to the Wauchope PublicSchool where his sporting prowesssoon showed, in athletics, soccerand cricket. Ty won numerousstate medals in athletics and crosscountry, and in 2000 went on torepresent NSW in the 800 metresat the National Athletics Carnivaland at the Pacific School Games.

Ty continued to exhibit his sportingability when he went to St Joseph’sRegional High School, PortMacquarie, which went up to Year10. He was a state representative

in athletics, cross country, soccerand touch football and followed inbrother Brant’s footsteps in hisfinal year when he was namedschool captain and Sportsperson ofthe Year. Otherwise, Ty wastravelling, playing representativesoccer and cricket in communitycompetition and going to the beach.In Years 11 and 12, Ty went on toattend MacKillop Senior College.He finished those two years in 2006as a prefect, runner-up- to Dux and,again, Sportsperson of the Year. Dueto his strong all-round academicperformance, Ty was awarded aNSW Premier’s Award and aBusiness School Scholarship fromthe University of Sydney. Ty decided,rather than go straight back to thebooks, to take a year off to work andtravel abroad. He moved to Londonwith £300 and a desire to meet newpeople and travel Europe. Heworked in a purchasing role at amanagement services firm duringthe day and as a cocktail barmanduring the night to fund his travels.Ty decided on a return to Australiaand go to Sydney University butneeded accommodation. He was

impressed by Wesley’s website anda friend from Port Macquarie, TobyMiles was going, so he applied, didhis interview by phone from Londonand entered Wesley in 2008, siteunseen.

The college was, for Ty, a “HarryPotter-esque castle”. Not anoriginal thought, it might benoted. The dining hall was at thetime referred to as “Hogwarts”. Butthere were no demons or witches,just “Fresher Alley”, and hi-jinx.

That included watching the Master,the Rev David Russell, gettingdoused in water and flour multipletimes during O-Week. Ty was atWesley for three years andpredictably enough representedboth Sydney University and Wesleyin soccer and in athletics. He wasthe soccer captain in 2010, howeverhe suffered and injury representingUniversity and was obliged to havea knee reconstruction he could notrepresent Wesley in soccer in hisfinal year. “But I embraced the roleas soccer captain-coach and I wasthrilled to watch the team comeaway as joint-winners with

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Johnnies [St John’s College],” Tytold The Wesleyan. Despitemissing out on playing in his finalyear of Rawson Soccer, Ty was ableto fast track his recovery fromsurgery to compete, albeit a littleunderprepared, in Rawson Athleticsin the 800 metres and as part ofthe formidable 4x400 metres relayteam. “Being the last Rawson/Rosebowl sport gave the eveningextra meaning as it bookendedthree years of passionate intercolsporting rivalry,” he said.

Ty loved his time at Wesley andremembers his time there withgreat fondness and a wry smile. Inparticular, Rawson and Rosebowlsport provided Ty with so manyspecial memories – fromsupporting on the sidelines toplaying in front of a highly vocalcrowd of Wesleyans. Particularhighlights include winning allthree years of Rawson soccer andthe 4x400m athletics relay, andcelebrating the many VDs andVLs, including a Rosebowl win in2008. “However, with these greatsporting memories also came a fairshare of heart breaks, includingnever winning the Rawson Cup,especially after coming so close in2008 and of course not being fit toplay as the soccer captain in 2010,”Ty said. Beyond the sporting arena,Ty was also one of six students toparticipate in OSE for 2009/10.He travelled to Vietnam andCambodia to complete a degree-related internship and variousvolunteering initiatives, includingwith the Street Children Assistanceand Development Program inCambodia. Ty also worked part-time with the university’sProcurement Services team and atvarious professional services firmsduring his summer holidays. “Thisprofessional experience proved tobe very helpful in my role as theStudent’s Club Treasurer in myfinal year,” Ty said. “that was whenbalancing the budget was oftendirectly opposed to funding morestudent events.”

Ty graduated in 2012 with aBachelor of Commerce (LiberalStudies) majoring in Finance andAccounting. He secured a position

arena or the rugby field, where heprovided plenty of “good, cleanAustralian fun” and somefigurative explanations of thegame to the largely confusedAmerican-heavy audience. Witheach event, Ty developed areputation for broadcasting. Heformed an esteemed partnershipwith fellow joker and southernclassmate, Will Booth. “Wethoroughly enjoyed our time withmike in hand and our appearancesspilled over into MC roles fornumerous HBS functions,” he said.

Ty graduated with an MBA in May2018 year and took off travellingagain, with Kate and friends. Thatincluded a month mountain-biking 2,500 km from JacksonHole in the US to Banff, Canada.Ty at the time of writing was dueto start back at BCG in their NewYork office in September 2018where he would be working withtheir Private Equity and PrincipalInvestor clients. “Although you cannever predict where life will takeyou, Kate and I have tentativeplans to move back to Sydney in acouple of years to finally ‘grow up’and to be closer to family andfriends,” he said. And those friendswill most likely include WesleyCollege. Since leaving college, Tyhas remained connected throughcoaching and speaking withsporting teams, joining formaldinners and participating in theWesley College Mentor Program.

Ty van der Linden (Fr 2008) andMalcolm Brown (Fr 1965)

at the Boston Consulting Group(BCG), but delayed his start date tospend seven months travellingaround Europe and the Americas.He returned to Sydney in 2013and started working with BCG,becoming involved in a range ofindustries including private equity,healthcare, consumer goods andindustrials. Based in Sydney, heworked across Australia, NewZealand and Asia. In 2015 hemoved to Stockholm with hisgirlfriend, Kate Milson whom hemet when she was at Women’sCollege while she was studying fora Bachelor of Social Science and aMasters in Management. Heintegrated well with Swedish life –sailing the Stockholm archipelagoand foraging for berries during thesummer ice-skating to work andrunning on frozen lakes during thewinter. He and Kate took theopportunity to travel Europe. “The20-22 hours of darkness in theSwedish winter was a little brutalat times,” he said. “But I had a lotof Nordic experiences. I ran thePolar Night Half Marathon abovethe Arctic Circle in Norway andexperienced the Northern Lights,ran the Geneva and Stockholmmarathons, skied in the Swiss alps,sailed the Mediterranean, did dog-sledding and snowmobiling. I alsowatched a fellow Wesleyan, NickPhipps, in the UK playing for theWallabies at the 2015 RugbyWorld Cup.”

In August 2016, Ty and Katemoved to Boston for Ty’s MBA atthe Harvard Business School. Heagain went travelling throughoutthe Americas, Europe, Asia andAfrica. At Harvard, he was electedco-president of the Australia NewZealand Club, a group dedicated tofostering a strong community ofAustralians and New Zealandersat Harvard and promoting theAntipodes as a place to live, traveland do business. Ty completed asummer internship in New YorkCity with the 3i Group PrivateEquity team. And he was never farfrom sport, either competing orcommentating. His voice wasoften heard booming over thesound system at the ice hockey

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There is nothing like starting early,for future business tycoons, creativeartists and those who would changethe world. So, when Matt Hinds(Fr 2015) was facing his two finalexams in his second year as anEconomics student at SydneyUniversity and a sophomore atWesley College, he started his firston-line business, from his room,with the help of two fellowWesleyans from nearby rooms. “Itbegan as an e-commerce storewhich sold funky legionnaire hats,”Matt told The Wesleyan. “We saidit was ‘like budgie-smugglers butbetter’. The queue outside ourdoors on the top floor proved itwas a horrible decision to launchthe day before two final exams. Butsomehow, and with only an hour ofsleep later that night, those twoexams ended up being my two bestexams in my time at university. Ishould launch a business the nightbefore every exam”.

Matt was nothing if not innovative.If he was quick to take up thecommercial potential of the internet,he was also perceptive about someof the great challenges facing thewhole of mankind, specifically inhis case population growth andsustainability. How can the world,with finite resources hope to copeforever with the demands of thatpopulation for food and power?Matt started thinking about thatseriously during six months of histhird year at Wesley, as an exchangestudent in Sweden. Today, heoperates his own company,AgCrowd, focusing on technologicalinnovation to solve this problem.He started the project while still atWesley, and involved Wesleyans.

Matt was born in Sydney on the23rd October 1996, son of GaryHinds and Christine Byrne. Hisparents themselves were noslouches, showing a willingness tomove, try new things and adapt totechnological change. Gary Hindsgrew in Plettenburg Bay, a smalltown in South Africa, did militaryservice, went to Israel, thenskippered a boat in Greece andTurkey. Christine became aphysiotherapist, then travelled toLondon where she met Gary. Theymigrated to London where Garybegan an IT company. Matt wentto Scots College and did well. Heled the Scots College NationalPipes and Drums band for threeyears and the Scots national skiteam for four. He raced in theScots national sailing team for twoyears and represented Scots inGPS cross-country running. Herowed in Scots’ First Eight and wasvice-captain of the school day-boyhouse. He performed with the

Pipes and Drums Band in theEdinburgh and RotterdamMilitary Tattoos, the Pipe BandWorld Championships, andrepresented Australia in theInternational Children’s WinterGames in Kelowna, Canada,winning a Bronze medal. Duringeach of these occasions, the schooltravelled the students over to thecountry and they undertookclasses from overseas, a fewteachers joining them.

If that was not enough, in 2013,while still a student at Scots, Matttravelled to Papua New Guinea toteach children in local schools inTabubil in the Western Province,and consult the Ok Tedi MiningCompany which had caused severepollution to the local river. Thepollution had had a ruinous effecton villages, agriculture andfisheries. I had the opportunity tobring new perspective andcollaborate on how we couldimprove the quality of life for the

A CAREER START AS ASCHOOLBOY FUELLED UP ASAN EXCHANGE STUDENTTHE VERY FULL LIFE OF MATT HINDS (FR 2015)

From left: Jack Gibson, Matthew Hinds, Andrew Barron, Vince Umbers and Will Lawless atWesley College Salvete, a start to their 2nd year of college

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locals. This impacted Matt’smindset in realising that changewas needed, providing a firstexposure to his commitment toenergy and sustainable thinking.The principal of Scots signed anagreement for the school toprovide an annual scholarship toeducate two indigenous PapuaNew Guinea children in Australia.

When Matt entered Wesley in2015 studying a Bachelor ofCommerce (finance andeconomics), he knew only oneother person. But in one day, hebecame acquainted with “over 300new faces from all over the globeon day one”. College, he said, did“an amazing job at bonding peopletogether from differentbackgrounds”. Matt quickly threwhimself into college life, trying theRawson Cup sport and decided onrowing and athletics. “I always hadan interest in modern music andthe dream of becoming a DJ,” hesaid. “The first college party camearound and I convinced theexecutive team that I was anexperienced DJ, which landed methe position as the college DJ forthe next three years. I instantlyloved the camaraderie and spiritthat only continued to growthroughout my collegeexperience.” From the room in hisfirst year, in what he called “TheDungeon”, Matt moved to the topfloor of the new building in hissecond year, with “a big group ofnew friends”. “This would be theyear of floor parties, ‘windowdebriefs’, lecture proposals andabsolute ruckus,” he said. “Mynext-door neighbour had evenconverted his room into a gamesroom, re-locating his belongings tohis girlfriend’s room. It was safe tosay that I got no sleep or work donethat year, overhearing the boysabuse each other through the wallsabout Mario Kart score charts. Theday before my two final exams Idecided to launch my first onlinebusiness.

In his third year at Wesley, Mattwas Captain of Rowing. “My firstsemester was crazy,” he said. “I wasjuggling a leadership position,working part-time in a new job,

running an online e-commercebusiness, starting a financialservices company directed towardsagriculture and energy, passinguniversity, maintaining a sociallife at college and a relationship. Idecided I needed a newperspective.

I had been toying with the idea ofundertaking an exchange toSweden for the second half of theyear. But I really struggled to makethe decision given mycommitments. I finally managedto pull the trigger and get myselfon the plane. I’d never been up toSweden. To me it had always beena foreign winter wonderland, adistant culture which had very fewcommon traits with a typicalAussie. But there was somethingalways about Scandinavia thatintrigued me – their peaceful wayof living and way of thinking asone. Little did I know how big ofan impact that experience wouldhave on my career path andapproach to life.”

Matt landed in Copenhagen at 5am and took an express trainacross the bridge to Sweden. Heembarked there with no money,knowing nobody and knowing nota word of the language. “The firstthing I noticed was a large offshorewind farm positioned a fewkilometres from the coast,” he said.“There were 48 of them. Theirblades spun freely in the wind and

their towers were like palm treesforming the base of a white island.There’s no way you’d see anythinglike this in Australia yet, I thoughtto myself. As we entered theSwedish coast, in every direction Ilooked there was another fleet ofwind turbines. This marked thethoughts of a country who are verymuch forward looking.Sustainability is a way of life forSweden.” Matt had a difficult timewith boarder security, having toanswer “a million questions”before being allowed into thecountry. A week later he succeededin shredding his passport in awashing machine, which meant hewas” stuck in Sweden for a coupleof months” before moving out toexplore further afield. Getting anew passport, he spent the nextfive months travelling to 15countries. He started a music andevents company, ran a localSwedish bar, designed a newpayments system for their studentorganisations, interviewedNorway’s leading renewableenergy company, spent Christmasin a remote log cabin in ruralFinland, backpacked through theBaltics, spent New Year’s Eve inLithuania and “sneaked” over theRussian boarder top spend a nightwith a local tribe called the “SetoPeople”.

“I gained perspective,” Matt said.“I was extremely curious aboutScandinavia’s sustainable

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approach to all aspects of life. Oneof my most memorable days was atrip I made up to Norway to meet alead project manager from Statoiland Scatec Solar – two Europeancompanies which arerevolutionising global renewableenergy. I managed to land themeeting by cold-calling him fromSweden on my friend’sinternational phone. I wasinterested in understanding whythe group of countries are so muchfurther ahead than Australia andhow they are doing it. It was themiddle of winter so it was onlydaylight for 2-3 hours per day. Itook a nine-hour overnight bus toOslo, spent five hours in the citywhich included our two-hourmeeting, then took a nine-hourbus back to Lund in Sweden.

There were almost no petrol carsin Norway. Each was an electriccar plugged into a charging box onthe side of every street. There wereenormous hydro and wind powerprojects which brought Norway’srenewable energy to 99 percent oftotal electricity production. Veryimpressive. Exposure to thissustainable way of living and beingsurrounded by these mindsetsmade me think more about theimpact we had on our owngeneration and how that would

affect future generations. Yes, weall hear about climate change,drought, and resource shortages inAustralia. But not often do you getthe opportunity to understand howwe can go about solving theseproblems and act on these solutions,resulting in an improved quality oflife for generations to come. Whenhis six months as an exchangestudent came to an end and hereturned to Australia, he was full ofideas on what he might do.

Matt finished his year at Wesley,then embarked on building afinancial services companyfocusing on agriculture andenergy. He has grown aninternational e-commercebusiness, finished a bachelor’sdegree in finance and economics,and travelled up to “the mostNorthern point of the world inLappland, Finland” where he livedfor six months. In 2017, he startedAgCrowd, with two other Wesleystudents, James Kilby and NickThyne. The company is dedicatedto “uncovering a problem of theworld’s resource use”. The world,he said, did not have enough foodand energy to sustain its population,which would be 9.5 billion by 2050.“We realised that a large portion ofthe world points towardsinnovation and sustainable

technologies to solve theseproblems, by improving efficiencyof food and energy production sothat our resources will becomemore sustainable,” he said. “Butthe world doesn’t realise that thereis a significant lack of funding,resources and knowledge directedtowards these innovations andsustainable technology companies,meaning that they cannot actuallylaunch, develop and grow. I found asolution to this, and recruited twoof my best Wesley friends. We builtan online investment platformwhich improves funding, resourcesand knowledge for the agriculturaland energy sectors, focusing oninnovation and sustainabletechnologies which are solvingthese important food and energyproblems. “

Matt Hinds, it might be concluded,is the ultimate example of whatvalue can come from a stint as anexchange student. His experiencesthere, he said, have him“perspective, drive, gratitude andself-awareness”. He said: “Onlytime will tell, but I am convincedthat the principles that you learnand subsequently apply after anexperiences such as this are thekey to success, happiness andbeing able to give back.”


The AgCrowd team are building a new investment platform to solve global food and energy problems. From left: James Kilby, MatthewHinds, Jill Storey and Nick Thyne

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Graham Crouch attended SydneyUniversity between 1947-1952obtaining a Bachelor of Laws. Formost of that time he was at Wesley.Graham was admitted to the NSWBar in 1953 but became a non-practising member. At the start ofthat year he joined his father tolearn the ropes at H W Crouch PtyLtd – importers and distributors ofheavy duty commercial trucks –which his father, Harry WolseleyCrouch, had established in 1919.And something needs to be saidabout Graham’s father, whoenlisted in December 1914 andserved with the 6th Light Horseduring 1915 in Egypt and atGallipoli. Early in 1916 the 4thAustralian Division was formed inEgypt and an opportunity given tomembers of the Light Horse toapply for commissions. Harry wascommissioned into the 12thBrigade Machine Gun Companywhich transferred to France inJune 1916 and were in action atPozieres 2 months later.

Harry married a music teacher,Marie Jenkins, in 1923. Their son,Graham John Crouch, was born atRose Bay on 22nd January 1929.Graham was brought up in a veryhappy family with an older sisterand two younger brothers. Harry,never quite losing the influence ofhis military years, set highexpectations on the virtues ofservice, application … and shoespolished daily. Graham’s mother,Marie, was charming but quiteformal, with great musical talent.Graham’s maternal grandfatherwas also a great influence,teaching him to play golf andtaking him to the Sydney CricketGround to see his first Ashes testin 1936. Golf and cricket were tobecome lifelong passions. Grahamattended Sydney Grammar School,then Sydney University to studyLaw. He thoroughly enjoyed histime at Wesley, making lifelong

friends. In 1947-48, whilepursuing his studies, he undertookarticles of clerkship at J StuartThom & Company. In 1950-51, heserved as an associate to Sir DudleyWilliams on the High Court.

Whatever ambitions his motherhad for his legal career, Grahamwas always destined to join hisfather at H.W. Crouch Pty Ltd. Hisfather had instilled in him thatsuccess in business required anentrepreneurial spirit, great powersof persuasion and indefatigableenergy to close the deal. Grahamwas in his element. “If you wantsomething done, give it tosomeone who’s busy,” was hismotto. He would have no difficultyselling a Diamond Reo chassiswith Cummins Diesel engine &Rockwell axle as the completeanswer for cement mixers, coalhaulage and Australian armytransport vehicles.

H.W. Crouch Pty Ltd sold itsbusiness in 1987. Graham thenforged a distinguished career inthe public sector. From 1988 to1995, he was chairman of MilkMarketing (NSW) Pty Ltd. From1990 to 1992 he was GeneralManager of the HomebushAbattoir Corporation, having beenappointed on a part-time basiswith responsibility to relocate thewholesale meat market so as toprepare the site for the Sydney2000 Olympic Games. From 1991to 1994 he was general manager ofthe Fish Marketing Authority,steering it through theprivatization process. From 1994till his retirement in 1999, he wasCEO of Sydney Fish Markets PtyLtd, inspiring great loyalty, respectand admiration from all whoworked with him.

Graham believed in serving thecommunity on a voluntary basis.From 1959 to 1968, he served onWoollahra Council. He was deputy

mayor in 1964, mayor in 1965,deputy again in 1967 and mayorfor a second time in 1968. Grahamwas always chuffed that he steppedoff council at a time of his choosingbefore remuneration for councillorstook effect, noting that his paternalgrandfather had been a member ofthe NSW Legislative Council butretired at the introduction ofparliamentary stipends. Grahamalso served as a member of theVaucluse House Historic Trustfrom 1959 to 1968 and for the lasttwo years of that he was president.In 1964, he was appointed atrustee of Sydney Grammar Schooland in 1975 became chairman. In1990, he stepped down,completing more than 26 years ofservice with the school, more thanhalf that time enjoying an effectivepartnership with headmaster,Alastair Mackerras. Graham’spublic sector and communitycontribution were recognized withan award of the OAM.

Graham readily acknowledged thathe would not have been able to doanything in industry or by way ofcommunity service were it not forhis wife, Barbara, and the love,stability and support she providedin their almost 65 years ofmarriage. Graham marriedBarbara Jane Showers on 22ndAugust 1953. They producedEwen (born 1956), Catherine(1957), Roderick (1959) andCaroline (1964). None of thechildren went to Wesley, thoughEwen, who followed his father toSydney Grammar and to study lawat Sydney University did apply fora place at Wesley, found it was“full” and went to St Andrews.However, of Graham’s 10grandchildren, five have gone toWesley, being Sarah Crawford,Georgina Crouch, Fiona Crawford,Emily Crouch and AmeliaLaumberg.

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Graham loved sport. He was prettyhandy (and very competitive) atgolf, cricket, tennis and rugby. Heplayed and followed sport all overthe world. He was a member ofRoyal Sydney Golf Club for over70 years serving twice on itscommittee (1958–1960 &1971–1972) and as its Presidentduring 1983-1989. Graham hadbeen quite worried about retiring

but settled quickly into the swingof things. He got back to bridge,travelled widely with Barbara,frequently by ship, and played lotsof golf. He had time to laugh andchat and enjoy his family. Grahamwas serious when he needed to be,clear in his expectations, with agreat sense of humor and providedmost generously for his family. Hewas very excited as the family

numbers at dinner on ChristmasEve progressively increased to 4generations. Graham, who died on3rd July 2018, was widely knownfor his warmth and friendships,taking a great interest in those hemet and never happier than whenin the company of his family.

Ewen Crouch AM

Graham and Barbara Crough, 2015, at their granddaughter’s wedding.

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When Dharmasoka LaksiriJayasuriya, otherwise known as“Jay” or “Laki”, was on his way toAustralia in 1951, he foundhimself and a fellow Sri Lankan inship’s first class. This was notcomfortable. They were fromcolonial Ceylon where the haughtyBritish colonial masters hadalways put them down. It wascertainly not comfortable for thewaiter they approached for coffee,who was dismissive of them. Lakicould then have made a vocal andperhaps physical protest. But thatwas not Laki’s way. Instead, he andhis companion went to the waiterthe next night and asked for “twowhites for two blacks please.” Thewaiter saw the humour, melted alittle, and became cordial.

That might sum up the wholecareer of Laki, a brilliant studentin Sri Lanka (Ceylon as it was thenknown), who was invited toAustralia to become a student atSydney University and enteredWesley in 1951. A bright, laughingnatural diplomat, he might havebeen mistaken in his style, even inhis appearance, for that other greatdiplomat and conciliator,Desmond Tutu. As it was, Lakipaved the way for Australia’sembrace of multiculturalism. Hebecame an academic and memberof a number of pioneering bodiessuch as the WhitlamGovernment’s ImmigrationAdvisory Council. Arriving inAustralia locked in the WhiteAustralia Policy, which was notabandoned till 20 years after hearrived, he became a leading voicein the movement towardstoleration and inclusiveness.

Laki was born in Sri Lanka on 31stOctober 1931, the eldest of threechildren of a prison doctor, and

Laki’s contact with prisoners gavehim his first sociological insights.Laki was sent to the Royal Collegein Ceylon, an upper class Colonialestablishment modelled onHarrow and Eton. But it was therethat he was exposed to left-wingideology. From there, he in 1948enrolled at the University ofCeylon, studying English,Economics and French. Hebecame interested in criminologyand aspired to get to Oxford orCambridge. Instead, he met adistinguished anthropologist,Professor A.P.Elkin, whosuggested he should come toAustralia and persuaded Laki’sparent that it was a good idea.Elkin returned to Australia andtwo weeks later sent Laki atelegram saying: “I’ve enrolled youas a student of Sydney Universityand also found accommodation for

you at Wesley College. Please comein time for the first session.”

Laki finished his CeylonUniversity course, passed hisentrance exams for SydneyUniversity, then in the six monthshe had to wait to go to Australia,he worked as a tourist guide in SriLanka, met Australians and likedthem. He was privately-funded inhis trip to Australia, although theSri Lankan travelling with himwas, like so many other Sri Lankanstudents going to Australia, on theColombo Plan. Laki enrolled atSydney University to study History,Psychology and Anthropology andentered Wesley. He got on verywell with the Master, The Rev BertWyllie, and it became apparentthat Elkin had directed him toWesley because Mabel Wyllie washerself an anthropologist and hadstudied under Elkin.

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Laki threw himself into Wesleylife, and immediately took upissues. He saw in the “fresher”system elements of colonialsubjugation. He was influenced bythe Senior Student, David Ross,son of Lloyd Ross, a Communitytrade unionist. Seeing Laki hadleft-wing ideas, Ross took himunder his wing. Laki saw Wesleystudents as more politicallyconscious and radical thanstudents at the other colleges. Hetook note of Rev Alan Walker’scriticism of White Australia Policy.When in his first year the issue ofthe fresher system came up forfierce debate in the Wesley CollegeStudents’ Club, he heard racistovertones, including one studentcalling out to him: “You yellowbastard.” He led a walk-out. ButLaki was no militant. His viewwas, as he expressed it later:“Look, the Australians have got tolearn more about your neighbours,come to understand them.”

Laki said there should be changesin Australia’s immigration policy,but they should not be rushed.Australia had shown in its supportto anti-colonialist stands in theregion, such as with Indonesia,and had embraced the ColomboPlan. Laki joined the InternationalClub at Sydney University andbecame its president. He joinedthe university’s AnthropologicalSociety and became its presidentin 1952. In 1953 he becamepresident of the university’sPsychological Society. He also satas the Arts representative on theSydney University Union Council.Known as the “Diarising AsianStudent”, he was invited toparticipate, along with otherFilipinos, on a Radio Australiaprogram.

Laki became a co-director of theSydney Film Festival, and he wasinvolved in the establishment ofthe Buddhist society of New SouthWales, to the extent of drafting itsfirst constitution and editing itsjournal. He graduated with FirstClass Honours and won theUniversity Medal, then joined theuniversity’s Department ofPsychology as a teaching fellow.

He married Rohini, with whom hewas to have two children, Kanishkaand Pradeep. Becoming aware of aposition available in theDepartment of Sociology at theUniversity of Colombo, he was intwo minds. He had a brilliantacademic career in front of him inAustralia but his parents wantedhim to go back, He took theposition and returned in 1956, forwhat was to be a stint of 13 years,during which he became theFoundation Chair of Sociology andSocial Welfare. He also did furtherstudies at the London School ofEconomics and Political Scienceand at London University, thelatter awarding him a PhD inPsychology in 1962.

In 1968, Laki did a postdoctoralthesis as a Fulbright Scholar atBerkeley University in the UnitedStates and then returned to Sydneyand to take up a temporarylecturer’s position at the Universityof New South Wales, where helectured in the Departments ofPsychology and Social Work. As aresult of that particular short visithe was awarded a LeeverhulmeFellowship at the university in1969/70 and took the opportunityto conduct a course in thepsychology of communication onRadio University.

Laki remained active in hiscampaign to break down racialstereotypes and had a letterpublished in The Australianarguing that a study of Asianlanguages should not be confusedwith a study of Asia. Australianshad to become more “Asia-literate”.In 1971, the year Australiaformally abrogated the WhiteAustralia Policy, Laki accepted theposition of Foundation Chair ofthe Department of Social Workand Social Administration at theUniversity of Western Australia.The election of the WhitlamGovernment saw Australia raceahead in breaking downboundaries. The incominggovernment invited him to join theFederal Governments ImmigrationAdvisory Council (AIC) andbecame the first Asian to belong toa national advisory body. “It

became very different very fastbecause the man I worked with onthe IAC was Walter Lippmann,whom you might know fromMelbourne connections. Afantastic guy. I became almost his,you know, aide de camp. We wereon a committee of the IAC - theCommittee of CommunityRelations.” Laki helped producewhat became known as theLippman Report, on thePhilosophy of CommunityRelations, which was the firstphilosophical statement ofcommunity relations in Australia.

In 1975, Laki was appointed tothe Australian Council of SocialService. In 1984, he wasappointed by Senator Susan Ryan,Federal Minister for Education, tothe National Advisory Committeeon Multicultural Education, whichwas to have a major impact inchanging official policy fromassimilation to multiculturalism.In 1985, Laki became a Memberof the Order of Australia (AM) forhis services to multiculturalism.In 1997, Laki became a memberof the Western AustraliaMulticultural and Ethnic AffairsCommission and the NationalMulticultural Advisory Council.He became a vice-president at theWestern Australian Council ofSocial Services and joined theBoard of Governors of theAustralian Council for SocialServices.

Laki’s publications include SocialPolicy in the 1980s (1983), Issues ofCross-Cultural Practice (1990), TheChanging Face of Sri Lankan Politics(1994), The Asianasion ofAustralia? Some facts about themyths (1999) and Welfarism andPolitics in Sri Lanka (2000). Hereceived an Honorary Doctorate ofLiterature from the university ofColombo, the AustralianCentenary Medal in 2001 and anHonorary Degree of Doctor ofLetters from the University ofWestern Australia in 2006. Lakidied on 20th April this year. Hislife was celebrated at theUniversity of Western AustraliaClub on 23rd May.


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RAWSON REPORTThis year Wesley performedvaliantly in the Rawson Cup.

The cricketers kicked off thecampaign strongly. Unfortunately,the result did not reflect the hardwork the boys put in. A notableperformance was that of ToddLevine who seemed to bat, bowland field with gusto.

Next up was the swimming anddiving team. Lead by Simon Nortjeand Samuel Posel the campaignwent swimmingly. Josef Schulerrepresented Wesley proudly andgave a strong performance on theday. Wesley placed 4th in theswimming with St. Johns takingthe win.

Next was rowing, led by GeorgeBundock. the boys put in a lot ofeffort with early starts on the waterand in the gym. On the regatta, astrong Wesley crowd cheered onthe rowing team and earned us asolid 3rd place.

The rugby boys gave a solid effortin their campaign After two biglosses they showed great resilienceto snatch a win from Johns. BothJack Ridley and Harry Gibson gavestellar performances throughout thecampaign; with Gibson, and fresherToby Dickinson scoring 2 tries inthe last game to snatch the win.

As per usual the soccer boysstarted training from week 1semester 1 and well equipped tostart their campaign. The boys

started strongly with a win over St.Andrews in a penalty shoot-out,after a last-minute equaliser forcedthe game into golden goal extra-time. Next, the boys had aconvincing 5-1 win over St. Johns.Finally, the boys went down in abitter defeat to St Pauls; Losing toa free kick at the whistle to place3rd in the Competition, despite 3teams winning 2 games each. Allthe boys played to a high standard,but standout players were FergusWorrall and JK Kazzi.

The Basketballers gave anoutstanding performance to beinghome the Rawson Basketball Cup.Clutch baskets from Josh Kazzi andNick Marchione allowed a narrowwin against a highly stacked StAndrews team. From there onwardsthe basketball team had littlechallenge on their road to secure the

cup. Alex Macdonald captainedthe basketball team and won inter-collegian Basketballer of the year;a very well-deserved award for thecommitment and skill he showed.

Under the guidance of NoahSteward and Ryan Mulcahy, thetennis players gave theCompetition a red-hot crack.However, not reflective of theirefforts each match saw the boysfalls short and resulted in 4thplace. Christian Neoh was giventhe most valuable tennis player forhis skills on the court.

Athletics was the final event tofinish off Wesley’s RawsonCampaign. Lead by Jack Caldwellthe boys went into athletics headfirst and gave each and every event110%. Facing tough competitionsfrom each sport notable athleteswere Jack Ridley placing 2nd inTriple Jump and Todd Levineplacing 2nd in Javelin. However,once again our performance fellshort and found us placing 4thoverall.

Although in many cases the effortput in did not reflect the resultgiven; I am still very proud of eachand every Wesleyan whocompeted. In a lot of cases it takesgreat courage and determinationto take the field against strongopposition and never once dropyour head; It’s for this reason thatI’m proud of Wesley’s RawsonTeam this year.

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AthleticsChris BallGuy BouchierRowan BrayJonty BrunnerGeorge BundockJack Caldwell (c)Alistair De VroetCam FazzariCharlie HancockJack HideRob IrwinJk KazziAngus KnottTodd LevinePatrick MooreAngus PrydeJack RidleySam RidleyAl RusselJames RyderTom SandersCam SmithLuke VandenburgFergus WorrallJerry YuMichael Zawal

BasketballRowan Bray (c)Andrew CootzeeToby DickinsonWill Haskell

Sullaiman HussainRobert IrwinAndrew Jamieson-GriggOjas JyotiJosh KazziJK KazziAlex MacDonald (c)Nick MarchioneHunter MurrayJo Schuller

CricketWill AveryChris BallJack CaldwellAbhishek ChawlaLouis CummingsHarry EdmondsonHarry GibsonJack HideJoshua Joseph (c)Todd LevineJack RidleyJames RobertsonJames RowseHamish SinclairSanjay Yapabandara

RowingJonty BrunnerGeorge Bundock (c)Jordan LeeSean Lowrie

Angus MacintyreAl NorthamNed StewartGiles WiddicombeIsabella Best (cox)ReservesCam FazzariJames KilbyAngus Pryde

RugbyMichael BartimoteRowan BrayMatthew BucklandJock CapelToby DickinsonCameron FazzariHamish Fuller (c)Harry GibsonConnor GrindalCharlie HancockHaruto ImaRobert IrwinEvan JenkinsJosh JosephJames Kilby (c)Angus MacintyreFinn McCullaghTom MoranThomas OrtonJames PeckJack RidleySam Ridley

Tom SandersNed StewartGiles WiddicombeStrath Yeo

SoccerJerry YuChris BallThomas BinnsGuy BouchierRowan BrayJack CaldwellHarry EdmonsonKarl Harbers (c)Jack HideJK KazziJosh KazziHunter MurraySimon NortjeAl RussellThomas RyanJames RyderNathan SnadeiroLuke VandenbergFergus Worrall

SwimmingJack CaldwellLouis CummingsTimothy DosSantos D’cruzCalvin EngelenHamish Fuller

Andrew Jamieson-GriggNick MarchionePatrick MooreSimon NotrijeTom OrtonJames PeckSamuel Posel (c)James RyderJosef SchulerHamish SinclarBundockOjas JyotiJack Hide,Simon Noritje

TennisAlistair de VroetGus KnottTodd Levine Ryan Mulcahy (c)Christian NeohAlec PatfieldIsaac SalasNoah Stewart (c)Elliot SylvesterReservesHarry GibsonJoshua JosephCharles Kensit Jordan LeeCharlie UmbersJerry Yu

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Wesley put in a huge effort in thisyear’s Rosebowl campaign. Westarted off the year with netball.Captain Alli Whalley put togethera highly capable team who showedathleticism and skill on the court.They began their campaign strongcoming away with 3 wins after thefirst 3 games. The last game sawWesley face up against St.Andrew’s who put up a strongfight. The final score of 41-31unfortunately left Wesley narrowlymissing out on 1st place despitetheir strong performance.

Next up we headed off to SydneyOlympic Park Aquatic Centre forthe swimming and diving. Divingcaptain, Freya Appleford, put in a

standout performance, comingaway with 3rd place. In theswimming we had someoutstanding performances withHannah Wales coming away with4th place in the highly competitive50m freestyle and Molly Robertsplacing 4th in the 50m backstroke.The 4x50m freestyle relay team(Hannah Wales, India Allen, ElizaBucknell and Georgia Mann) alsoput in a strong performance,placing 3rd overall.

Then it was off to Penrith for theRosebowl Rowing. Following onfrom the strong Rowing campaignin 2017, the girls we eager to putin another stellar performance.Captain Amelia Hellicar-Foster

put the girlsthrough theirpaces in thetrials in order tomuster togethera very strongand capablecrew. The girlswere extremelydedicated,training in theearly hours ofthe morning inthe weeksleading up to therace. On the daythe girls VIII putin a tremendouseffort in their2km race andcame away witha close second tothe highlystacked St.Andrews crew.

Rosebowl sportfor Semester 1finished withHockey. CaptainCelia Stewartput together acommittedgroup of girlswho put intremendouseffortthroughout the

campaign. They performedparticularly well in their gameagainst Sancta, only going downby 1 goal. While all of the girlsperformed well throughout theircampaign, a special mention goesto Fresher Bridget Klemp whoscored Wesley’s only goal againstWomens.

Semester 2 kicked off with soccer,captained by Mikaela Tilse. Thisteam faced some hardshipsthroughout the season, with theiramazing coaches, Amy and Em,sadly having to leave the team.Thankfully Miles and Anil steppedin and took over as coaches. Thegirls showed enthusiasm andperseverance across all 4 games.They put in a particularlycommendable performanceagainst the overall winning side St.Andrews, with Wesley giving awaythe least amount of goals.

Basketball closely followed andwas captained by Alysha Skerritt.The girls trained hard leading upto the games and it showed on thecourt. They started off theircampaign strong with a huge winagainst Womens, 77-30. Theydominated the next 3 games whichput them in good stead for the finalagainst St. Andrews. The gamestarted off close however Wesleypulled away and finished strong,winning 66-33. This gave Wesleythe first Rosebowl VD for 2018.

The next sport in the Rosebowlcampaign was tennis which wascaptained by Sayano Murayamaand Alice McMillan. The girls puttogether a strong team anddisplayed excellent performancesin both the singles and doubles.Wesley placed 2nd overall withtheir only loss against St. Andrews(4-1). We finished off the year atSydney Olympic Park AthleticCentre for the athleticscompetition. Captained by ElizaBucknell and myself we workedhard to put together a team ofhighly capable athletes. We had afew stand out performers on the

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AthleticsSophia AmerenaGeorgia BoxleyEliza Bucknell (c)Jacqui ConnorHannah EdgellLucy HickmanMaddie HompotBella HoodEvie HoodDenali HuttTess KaneLiv KingBridget KlempGeorgia Mann (c)Ella PechanTilly PentonClaire SharpAlysha SkerrittGeorgie SmithLauren SutherlandMikaela TilseAlli Whalley

BasketballBilly FitzSimonsMaddy Hompot

Bridget KlempAlice MacmillanGeorgia MannAlysha Skeritt (c)Mia ThrumCynthia TianRachel TooheyPrue TysoeHarriet WeirAlly Whaley

HockeyAlice HubbardAirlie KinrossBridget KlempClaire MackinnonCelia Stewart (c)Daisy WaggettElise SherringtonGenevieve BowesGiorgi JardineLucy HickmanLillian HigginsLauren SutherlandOlivia KingRebecca HockeyRosie PetherTess Kane

NetballEleanor BrownEliza BucknellRaquel CuevasLucy GrayMaddy HompotIsabelle HoodIsabelle OxleyClaire SharpAlysha SkerrittRachel TooheyAli Whalley (c)Harriet Wier

RowingRaquel CuevasEliza Fessey (cox)Jaime FordAmelia Hellicar-Foster (c)Evangaline HoodEmily MitchellGeorgia SmithLauren SutherlandAmy Vanderhor

SoccerNatasha BernardGen BowesEmma CarterAlexandra CourtneyHannah EdgellLucy HickmanGeorgie JardineGeorgia MannTracy MildenEmily MitchellLucy ObrianCharlotte PowerLisa StevensCelia StewartMikaela Tilse (c)Prue TysoeLucy VanderhorBrittany Wilcock

SwimmingIndia AllenSophia AmerenaFreya ApplefordEliza BucknellLauren Chapman (c)Katie Gordon

Alice HibbardMaddy JamesOlivia KeoghAngela LockleyAlice MacmillanGeorgia MannEliza MillerMolly RobertsGeorgia SmithLauren SutherlandHannah WalesTeegan WattamAlexandra Webster

TennisHannah EdgellOlivia KingAlice Macmillan (c)Sayano Murayama (c)Ella PechanCelia StewartGeorgia WaitesMaddie WaitesArtemis Wilson

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night with Maddie Hompotplacing 3rd overall in triple jump,Mikaela Tilse coming 3rd overallin long jump and Bella Hoodplacing 4th in the 800m.

In the overall 2018 Rosebowlcampaign we came away with 3rdplace, only missing out on 2ndplace by 1 point. I was extremely

impressed with the commitmentand enthusiasm of the girls acrossall sports during the year. I want tothank all of the captains whodedicated their time and effort intoorganising all of the teams andtrainings and for making my job awhole lot easier.

It has been a pleasure captaining

the Rosebowl campaign in 2018and I am excited to come backagain next year to captain the2019 campaign. I was extremelyimpressed with the participationand eagerness of all the girls thisyear so I am excited to see what2019 brings.

Georgia Mann (fr. 2017)

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Wesley achieved some greatperformances this year in andoutside of the intercollegiatePalladian competition, and whilstwe certainly didn’t place first inevery event, there were somefantastic standout moments, bothfrom a competitive aspect, andfrom an enjoyment aspect. I thinkIt’s safe to say that Palladian thisyear has been gratifying for allthose involved.

The beginning of the Palladiancampaign was marked by theoration competition. Under theskilled guidance of captain RossMcKinlay, Wesley served up twooutstanding and entertainingperformances. Jeff Brown’sperformance was quite frankly astand-out, with the audience indead silence throughout itsentirety. Conversely, AbhishekChawla performed quite possiblyone of the most humorous, half-impromptu performances seen foryears at intercollegiate oration,taking out second place.

The Wesley dance teams were ledstrongly by captains BrittneyWilcock and Artemis Wilson, whoself-choreographed two highlyengaging dances. The teamsworked around the clock,performing at Parents’ Weekendand the intercollegiatecompetition, and received a muchdeserved highly commended forone performance, yet perhaps onlypartially reflecting the exceptionalstandard that was displayed. Theyshould be congratulated.

Vocal captains Edie Warne andAlex McDonald did an excellentjob at coordinating all things vocalat Wesley this year. Duringsemester 1, their guidance sawZiggy Harris perform a robust andtheatrical performance of TheVagabond, and Sammi Carr sing avery intimate rendition of Songbirdby Fleetwood Mac; two verydifferent yet standout pieces at thesolo vocal competition. A fantasticarrangement of Fragile by Sting

was showcased during the Parents’Weekend soireé, prior to itsperformance at the intercollegiategroup vocal competition. Edieshould be particularly congratulatedfor taking on the challenging andhighly demanding role of conductorfor Wesley’s small (and large) choir,whilst singing in the sopranosection at the same time. Smallchoir performed A boy and a Girl byEric Whitacre – a very technicallydifficult piece, and scored a welljustified second place, a truetestament to Edie’s efforts and thehard work of the team. A specialthanks to the Valete Choir, led byZiggy Harris and Alice Kotowicz,for what was a beautifulperformance during the ValeteService to farewell the third years.

Instrumental was a success in2018 with Nick Sprott and JolChoct managing a multitude ofinstruments. Not even a severedtendon of the hand just under twodays before the solo instrumentalcompetition would stop Wesleyfrom surprising. Jol Choctperformed a truly moving piece byTchaikovsky, and thanks to thelast-minute addition of CharlottePower, Wesley scored a highlycommended for her captivatingminimalist saxophone performance.Second semester saw the formationof two very entertaining pieces.The careful assembly of a brassband by Nick and Jol saw theperformance of a fun and engaging

arrangement of Mambo from WestSide Story, all completely arrangedby Nick. The second group entereduncharted territory with their ownarrangement of Ocean by JohnButler – a real standout performancethat won over the audience andreceived a highly commended. Themembers should be congratulatedfor what were two difficult yethighly rewarding and killer pieces.

Once again stepping in, CharlottePower took the reins for PalladianArt. With the topic for 2018 beingColour directly influences the Soul,Charlotte and the team generatedtwo eye-catching artworks; thefirst, a series of portraits tintedwith colour that alluded to theemotion expressed by subjectsZiggy Harris and Cecilie Okkels,and the second an experimentaltime-lapse of subject JamesRobertson, that paid homage tothe recent drought crisis faced byAustralian farmers, placing 3rd inthe intercollegiate competition.

During semester 2, CourtneyWithers led a strong debating teaminto battle against the othercolleges. Beginning their debatingdebut at Wesley, Tom Alchin, JeffBrown and Abhishek Chawlaturned heads as they threw downsome near-indisputable rebuttalsagainst the experienced Women’sCollege side, although narrowlymissing the victory. The team laterfound success against Sancta with

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OrationJeff BrownAbhishek ChawlaRoss McKinlay

SoloDramaRosalie PetherHaezen Vroeland

SoloVoiceSamantha CarrZiggy Harris

SoloInstumentalJol Choct (c)Charlotte Power

DanceGracie AdamFreya ApplefordCady BrownSammi CarrJuliet CunninghamTom DamjanovicTimothy D’CruzBilli FitzSimons

PALLADIANKatie FullerLucy GrayZiggy HarrisGiorgi JardineOjas JyotiJK KazziOlivia KeoughJordan LeeAlice McMillanKatie MillerSimon NortjeHannah Ross-SmithNathan SnaideroMaddie StephenJack TizzardRachel TooheyPrue TysoeYashika UpadhyayaBrittany Wilcock (c)Artemis Wilson (c)Courtney Withers

InstrumentalEnsembleJames BoricMatthew BucklandJol Choct (c)

Tim D’CruzZiggy HarrisIzzy HootonJohn HughesNick Sprott (c)Hugh WheatonMichael Zawal

DramaEnsembleAngus BartonJonty BrunnerSammi CarrJK KazziRoss McKinlayEliza MillarGrace MoscouJessica Negus (c)Rosie PetherSammie ShannonPrue TysoeHaezan VrolandArtemis Wilson

ArtJames BlaxillGenevieve Bowes

Andrew CoetzeeJulia Cole Alex CourtneyHugh Duffield Cailin FeldmanZiggy HarrisAirlie KinrossEmily Mitchell Olivia Norley Cecilie Okkels Same Parks Charlotte Power (c)James Robertson Lisa StevensMikaela Tilse Dani Turnbull Courtney Withers

VocalEnsembleJames BlaxillMatt BucklandSammi CarrAmy DenchMaddy FrererKatie FullerBen Holmes

John HughesAlice KotowiczPascale MannAlex McDonald (c)Eliza MillerKatie MillerJessica NegusCharlotte PowerAngus PrydeNick SprottMaddie StephenCharlie UmbersAmelia VidlerEdie Warne (c)Alli WhalleyCourtney WithersSanjay YapabandaraMichael Zawal

Small ChoirMaddy FrererAlice KotowiczNick SprottCharlie UmbersCourtney WithersEdie WarneMichael Zawal

Ben Devine, Jeff and Tom securinga landslide victory for Wesley, on atopic of international relations.Ben had a standout performance,tipping the scales in their favour byexposing the absurd reliance onrandom anecdotes that the Sanctateam had taken fancy to. Despiteseveral close losses, and a fewquestionable calls by some judges,the team did Wesley proud, withall members showing some seriouswit against the opposing colleges.

It’s fair to say that SammieShannon and Jessica Negus lefttheir mark this year as Dramacaptains, and now for the secondyear running. Their success beganwith solo drama, where theyguided Haezan Vroland into 3rdplace as he embodied a frustratedadolescent boy, and Rosie Petherinto 2nd place with what was avery raw and confrontingmonologue that had the audiencedead silent. They continued toimpress at Parents’ Weekend, withthe performance of a literally killerplay, which had the audience atlaughter and I’m sorry if youmissed it because it was a crack-up.

Full credit to the cast for such ahigh standard of performance – itwill be hard to match it in theyears to come. Jess and Sammietruly knocked it out of the ball parkduring the intercollegiate groupdrama competition, once againself-composing two acts.Pemberton Manor 2: Reloaded wassure to impress with its humourfrom start to finish, but it was thesecond piece, Blind, that trulycaught the eye of the judges,claiming 1st place in thecompetition. Sammie Shannon, JKKazzi, Jess Negus and RosiePether should all be congratulatedfor their captivating performancethat got what it deserved andserved as a real testament to thesheer hard work and dedicationthat Sammie and Jess brought toPalladian Drama in 2018.

The year’s efforts placed us in arespectable 3rd place for thePalladian cup of 2018. And whilstwe didn’t place in every event, wesure enjoyed the process, and thesmall successes along the way.Thank you to all the PalladianCaptains for making the year so

effortless. Good luck to theincoming Palladian captain fornext year, Eliza Miller, and all thebest for 2019. It’s been a pleasureoverseeing all the arts events thisyear, and great to see all those whobecame involved reap reward.

Michael Zawal (Fr. 2016)

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SENIOR STUDENT’S REPORT2018 has marked anothersuccessful year for Wesley. Havingundergone the Broderick review in2017 there were some changes toimplement, however the leaders ofthe college really stood up and leadfrom the front. Our Fresher Weekwas a huge success as we welcomed111 new students into the college.The week was largely re-modelledcompared to previous iterationswhich took extra time and effort,but hopefully a solid platform hasbeen laid for future generations.

There were strong performancesacross the arts and sport both withinintercollegiate competitions andoutside of them. We were fortunateenough to win a Victory Dinner ineach of the Palladian, Rosebowl andRawson competitions. The Palladiancampaign was led by MichaelZawal and he did an excellent job,especially in identifying andincluding the vast range of talentwithin our fresher cohort. SammieShannon and Jessica Negus wereoutstanding in their leadershipwithin drama, cumulating to a firstplacing for group drama at the endof semester 2 as well as RosiePether and Haezan Vroland whoplaced 2nd and 3rd respectively insolo drama. Special mention alsoto Abhishek Chawla who placed2nd in oration, small choir lead byEdie Warne and Alex McDonaldwho came 2nd as well as CharlottePower who lead our art team to athird placing. Overall, we finished3rd in what was a tightly contestedcompetition.

In Rosebowl the girls competed inall areas and came away withmixed results. The basketball teamlead by Alysha Skerritt won all fourof their games convincingly. Netball,Rowing and Tennis were our otherstrong sports with second placingsin all three. Another worthymention in the sporting arena isJamie Ford who was awardedUniversity Blues in Rowing. It wasan outstanding achievement forJamie at such a young age. Thegirls finished another strong year

in 3rd place, well done to GeorgiaMann on her leadership of thegroup and we are fortunate thatshe will return for her second yearRosebowl Captain in 2019.

Basketball was also the highlightof the 2018 Rawson season. AlexMcDonald and Rawson CaptainRowan Bray lead the side toconsecutive Victory Dinners afterthey also won the 2017 season. Inother sports it was tough going, thefootball team came agonisinglyclose to a victory but in bizarrefashion finished 3rd. There is astrong rivalry forming betweenWesley and St. John’s Collegeacross many of the competitions.We were fortunate enough to comeout above them in the overallstandings and finish 3rd.

The social side of college life hasbeen colourful and vibrant asusual. There were events heldinternally by the student’s club aswell as our annual Carnival andBlack Ball events. There wereseveral changes in the leading ofthese events, but our ever-reliableWill Flockhart was a mainstay atthe core of each event. He servedmeticulously as the licensee for thefirst semester before taking up therole of Social Secretary for theremainder of the year. Rachel Fordassumed the role of licensee in thesecond half of the year and hasflourished so far. There was anincreased focused on non-

alcoholic events and Will was atthe forefront of this organising anopen-air cinema on the front lawnsduring the first week of semester 2.There was also a Sunday afternoonfront lawns party involving waterslides and jumping castled namedLion Day to mark the end of theacademic year and relieve somestress prior to exams. There was nolack of social interaction for our2018 cohort and I know 2019 willbe as lively as ever.

The inclusion of two new housecommittee roles in place ofintercollegiate representatives hasbeen one of the most positivestructural changes for 2018. Thenew positions include a Charityrepresentative formalising theexisting role as the head of theWesley Charity Group. We hopethis change will see furtherStudent’s Club support for analready strong philanthropicflavour to college life. The secondnew role is an Alumnirepresentative who will beresponsible for improving theconnection between Wesley’scurrent student’s and our Alumni.

It is well worth taking the time tothank all those who served ourcollege community throughout theyear. To all house committeemembers, residential advisors, thefresher week team, sports andcultural captains as well as thosewho simply lend a hand, thank you

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SOCIAL SECRETARY’S REPORTWell third times a charm and afterthe removal of two socialsecretaries before me (one beforethe year began and one a couple ofweeks after getting voted in), I wasfinally fortunate enough to takeover the reins/reign and guide thisbeast of a job into the right direction.2018 was a motivating year comingoff the publication of the Broderickand Red Zone Reports. A lot hadto be changed and modified to fitwith the new expectations oncollege in general and thispresented a healthy challenge.

Fresher week (no longer O-Week)started off with us welcoming over100 new Freshers into thehallowed halls of Wesley. It was afantastic and jam-packed weekfilled with Inter-col events andWesley-only events. It was trulyamazing to be part of Fresher weekand the Leaders, Helpers and RA’sshould be proud of themselves inhow they conducted and plannedsuch a wonderful and fulfillingweek that assimilated the freshersin the college way of life.

Coming off Fresher week, wefound ourselves frantically gettingready for Salvete, welcoming allthe returners back to college withSippers at the Royal, and the firstSals of the semester.

Our segue into the first properexternal event in the socialcalendar was Bait Cruise or as therenamed version is called,Friendship Cruise. We graced thehigh seas of Sydney Harbour withour Baits/Friends and enjoyed aamazing scenic journey under theBridge and past the Opera Houseall while getting to know ourfriends even better. We ended thecruise with a quick bus ride to ourold stomping ground, Side Bar.

Next on the list for the socialcalendar was Carnivale. Carnivalein some senses is a logisticalnightmare and the reason why the

organizing committee doesn’tattend any classes for weeksbeforehand. However, it was ahighly successful and sold outevent with Dom Dolla, Amastroand Nina Las Vegas gracing thestage. It left us all in high spiritsand thankful to the social gods fornot gracing us with torrential rainlike last year that decimated thefront lawns.

Continuing on from Carnivale, wehad a busy schedule fitting in theTKC soccer games and after partyat the grandstand, with somepeople scoring more goals therethan in the actual game. We also

for your hard work and efforts inwhat was a fantastic year for Wesley.I have felt well supported in my roleas Senior Student by all studentsas well as the college staff, theMaster and College Council.Special thanks to my executiveteam of Luke Vandenberg whoserved as our Secretary, BenDevine as Treasurer and WillFlockhart as both Licensee andSocial Secretary. You were strongand disciplined leaders and put incountless hours of your time.

The final celebrations and farewellceremony for our departing Valetegroup of 2018 was a special

evening. We were 47 of a freshercohort of 156, and we paid tributeto their years of commitment andservice to the college.Congratulations to all prizewinners, especially Will Flockhartwho deservedly took home thecollegian of the year prize. As youmay have noticed Will is involvedin everything and will be sorelymissed by the college. Thank youto everyone involved in ourcommunity for a fantastic year andgood luck to Jordan Lee and histeam as they led the next Wesleycohort into 2019.

James Kilby (fr. 2016)

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had the highly anticipated Parents’Weekend, which saw someamazing performance both on andoff the stage. By the end of thesetwo massive events, we foundourselves in wedding season. Itwas down to the wire with votes onwho should win, but a last minuteentry by an annoyed singularindividual ended up winning. Sofor the first time in Wesley history,a girl married herself in front ofthe whole college. The weddingalso marked a milestone as well atWesley as after ten weeks of noCourtyard parties, we finally hadone that was a success and wasable to run until closing time. Sothat ended the last of Semester 1’sevents for 2018.

Semester 2 kicked of with SillySeason with our annual Royalnight, Christmas in July party, andpub-crawl all being greatsuccesses. All that can be said is bythe end of the week our heads weresore and nobody had really been toany classes, but as the saying goesyou don’t learn anything untilweek 6 of University anyway.

Blackball was the most anticipatedevent of the semester, with theorganizing committee outdoingthemselves putting together amarvelous event at the Park Hyattin Darling Harbour. But it seemsthey were not prepared for our

partying and drinking ways and itgot shut down an hour early. TheCargo Bar welcomed us with openarms and we well and truly dancedthe night away.

Unfortunately, Westock this yearhad to be cancelled due to theprevailing weather. TheCommittee worked really hardorganizing this event and it isalways a disappointment having tocancel all the hard work. It wasplanned that the charity wouldn’tgo undonated to so we organizedanother first in Wesley history: aBeyond Blue Mental HealthAwareness Community Dinner.Through shirts sales anddonations made at the dinner, wemanaged to raise a substantialamount to be donated to thiscourageous cause.

We also had a very full Courtyardseason this semester with two VD’sas well to fit in with thanks to theBasketball Girls and Boys. Thisthen brought us to Valete and thatlast Courtyard of the Semester.After a long dinner that was filledwith mixed emotions, we gracedthe courtyard for one last time. Itwas truly amazing time withCourtyard firsts such aspyrotechnics and bangers from thegood old days of the fresher year of2016. We then had the very firstkick ons in the JCR much to the

displeasure of the Master. Thefinal event for the year was LionDay that included pools, inflatableslides and jumping castles on thefront lawns with a good oldfashion BBQ and tunes pumping.It was a great way to finish of theyear and soak in some UV raysbefore Stuvac.

This year can only be described ashighly successful and sociable.Everyone is slightly worn out butin excellent spirits and for thereturners, it has left them with ahunger for what more will cometheir way in 2019. The friendshipsformed through the year are atestament to the positive culturethat exists within Wesley. It isalways astonishing to be part ofsuch a strong and remarkablecommunity of like minded peoplewho are most down to earth attimes but also know how to have agreat time as well. Thanks have togo out to James Kilby and LukeVandenberg in their continuoussupport for me within this role.Their efforts and tirelessness tothe college community isadmirable. To the new socialSecretary, Nathan Snaidero, all thebest for 2019. It’s been a pleasureserving as social secretary for2018 and I hope everyone had asmuch fun as I did.

Will Flockhart (Fr 2016)

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OSE REPORTThe Overseas Study Experience(OSE) is a unique humanitarianprogram which allows up to sixstudents to work collaborativelywith organisations acrossCambodia and Vietnam. Inaddition to this, studentsundertake a four-week placementwith an organisation of theirchoice. OSE not only broadensstudent’s travelling experience, butuniquely positions students towork and communicate with thoseoutside their own cultural context.

The 2017-18 team comprised ofAlex McDonald, Lawrence Chan,James Blaxill, Harry Groves andmyself. Along with our groupleader Amelia Laumberg and theDirector of Students JonathanRow. OSE involves students’fundraising across the year,through a variety of initiatives, inparticular, Parent’s Weekend.

These funds are then distributed tothe chosen NGOs across SoutheastAsia. Thank you to all those whodonated this year and in 2017.

Students are then provided withscholarships to travel to Cambodia

and Vietnam, with a strong focuson fostering relationships with eachorganisation and experiencing thework they are doing. We visitedfour NGOs: Cambodian Children’sTrust in Battambang, StreetChildren’s Assistance andDevelopment Program in PhnomPenh, Blue Dragon Foundation inHanoi and the Starfish EducationProject in Hoi An. This year wewere particularly excited to partnerwith a new organisation,Cambodian Children’s Trust(CCT), which empowersvulnerable families to overcomepoverty, with a focus on preventingchildren from orphanage care.Founded by Australian woman,Tara Winkler, the organisationraises awareness about the value offamily-based care, by working withcommunities throughoutCambodia. Similarly, the BlueDragon Foundation tackles arange of issues, such a humantrafficking, homelessness, povertyand education. The otherorganisations we support arecurrently in the grassroots stage.Notably, the Starfish EducationProject enables rural-basedstudents to attend university byproviding them with scholarshipsand support for their families.

In the second half of the OSE

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program, we each carried outinternships with organisationsacross South-East Asia. Jamesworked with Engineers WithoutBorders in Cambodia, Harry withthe Sae Lao Project in Laos, Alexwith Whessoe in Laos, Lawrencewith TLC Modular Construction inVietnam, and myself with ThomsonReuters in Vietnam. Both personaland professional growth is asignificant outcome of theinternship component, asparticipants gain an authenticexperience of working in a foreigncountry.

OSE has undergone significantchanges in the past year, as ourunderstanding of what it means tovolunteer and travel overseascontinues to evolve. The trip isunique to Wesley College. In thecoming year, students will travel asa group to the organisations wechoose to support. In the secondhalf of the trip, student’s willundertake a research project inSouth-East Asia in their chosenarea of study.

OSE is a learning experiencewhich incites a new culturalunderstanding for those who arefortunate enough to go on the trip.While it is an enjoyable and uniqueway to spend the university break,

it also ensures that students mentorsuccessive OSE teams. We wishthe 2018 team all the best in theirtravels and are excited to see whatlies ahead for the future of OSE.

Katie Fuller (fr 2016)

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