VOLUME 4 NUMBER

THE GAZETTEThe University of Newcastle

New 50mh Wales 2308

MAY 1970

THE GREAT HALL

Commonwealth Governments, funds of the order

The Great Ha/llooking towards Rankin Drive

e With the allocation of $500,000 by the State andof $1,000,000 are now assured for this project.

By courtesy of David Moore. Sydney

The University Council and the Au tralian Universities Com­mis ion have approved the architect's final sketch plan and tbeworking drawings and specifications for the Hall are advancing witha view to calling tender for construction in June next.

The main auditorium will seat 1,500 people at University andpublic functions and will provide seating for 600 students at exam­inations. The stage in the auditorium is designed to accommodatea symphony orchestra and an acoustics consultant has been engagedto ensure that the highest possible standard of acoustical per­formance in the auditorium will be achieved. The ancillary accom­modation to tbe auditorium includes spacious foyers, adequatedressing room facilities, a coffee bar, cloakroom, toilets and alarge green room which will also serve as a conference meetingroom.

On the lower ground floor level a large supper room withkitchen facilitie has been planned. This room is also designed fortaging exhibitions. The lower ground floor contains three mall

special purpose rooms and a lecture theatre seating 250 wbichis designed for chamber mu ic presentation in addition to normallecturing purposes.

A model of the Great Hall has been built and photographs ofthe model appear in tbis issue. The model is at present on di playin the City Library in the War Memorial Cultural Centre buildingin Laman Street, so tbat those of tbe public who have contributedto the cost of the Hall may see for themselves the form the buildingwill ultimately take.

It is expected that the building will be erected and ready foruse at the beginning of 1972.

Associate Professor E. C. ParkerUniversity Planner

2 THE GAZETTE MAY 1970 MAY 1970 THE GAZETTE 3

CONFERRING OF DEGREES-1970

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John Alexander CooperDouglas Neil FleckDonald Chris HerdegenWilliam Edward Propert

Alan Murray Buchanan

Bruce Michael GibbsJames Ross IIesBarry James Robson

Peter PhillisHelmut Schultz

Theng Choo .SweeThomas William Tyler

Electrical Engineering

Tarn Kai-Shing-with Merit

Mechanical Engineering

Barry John Hill-with MeritLee Cho Kuen Francis-with

MeritEdward Rye Baguley

M echClnical Engineering

Grahame Maxwell Sawyer (Honour Class I)Gary Denis McCarthy (Honours Class IT, Division I)John Findley (Honours CIa s n, Division IT)Brian James Lee (Honours Class Il, Division Il)Geoffrey Robert Moran (Honours Class H, Division 1I)Robert John Nickels (Honours Class H, Division Il)John Neil Pitstock (Honours Class n, Divi ion IT)Robert Anthony Smith (Honours Class IT, Division H)Cheng Tsang Ngok John WilIiam PuIJen

Bachelor of Engineering

Chemical Engineering

John Marshall Burgess (Honours Class I and University Medal)Peter John Armour (Honours Class I)Wolf Val Pinczewski (Honours Class I)Wayne Frederick Roderick (Honours Class I)Gary Victor Want (Honolll'S Class I1, Division I)~obert Waiter Patterson

Robert Gregory Dombkins­with Merit

Michael orman Barry

Civil Engineering

Paul William ClarkeRobert Joseph JarvieWaiter Alexander Mills

Civil Engineering

Christopher Colin McDonald (Honours Class I)Philip Kendall McLeod (Honours Class Il, Division I)Peter James Cooper (Honours Class I1, Division Il)Tony Keith Frost (Honour Cia s n, Division IT)Bruce Kenneth Chisholm Ngo Tok PinHo Ping Kwong Paul Michael SimpsonKwok Stephen Kam-Fai Voo Tain-Yuk

Electrical Engineering

Peter BucklandEdward John Reynold­Michael Roy Taylor

Bachelor of Science (Engineering)

Chemical Engineering

Bachelor of Engineering/Bachelor of Science

Civil Engineering

Richard Hough (Civil Engineering-Honours Class 1)

Electrical Engineering

Darrell Williamson (Electrical Engineering-Honours Clas I)

Mechanical Engineering

Brent John CoupeI' (Mechanical Engineering-Honour Class I)

Kevin Reginald Pearce

Ron Robin on

FACULTY OF APPLIED SCIENCE

Metallurgy

John Graham Shaw, BSc.

Bachelor of Science

Metallurgy

John Henry Bourke (Honours Clas n, Division I)

David Arthur Win borne (Honours Cia s n, Division I)

Michael Vining Hobbs (Honours Class H, Division Il)

Bachelor of Science (Technology)

Industrial Chemistry

Leigh William Neilson

Metallurgy

Leonard Anthony Dean

Thomas Alien Harnmond

Doctor of Philosophy

Civil EngineeringGraeme Blatchford Frecker, B.E.(Melb.)

John Edmund Kentish

FACULTY OF E GI EERI G

Doctor of Philosophy

Bachelor of Commerce

Master of Engineering

Chemical Engineering

John Archibald Church, B.Corn.(N.S.W.), AS.T.C.

Electrical Engineering

David John Parker, B.E.(Q'ld.)Murray Graeme Wood, B.Sc., B.E.(N.S.W.)

FACULTY OF ECO OMICSAND COMMERCE

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colin John Bowers (Economics-Honour CIa sI)

Harold Edward Gordon (Accounting-Honours Class Il, Div­i ion I)

Peter John Housden (Accounting-Honour Class IT, Division I)

Gerald Frank Rooney (Accounting-Honours Cia s n, Division I)

Gregory Terence McCosker (Accounting-Honours Class ITI)

Craig Andrew Ee Ping Lau

Gregory Stephen Bell Raymond Mathieson

Leila Binol Philip John Miller

John Kenneth Booth Harry Rayrnond Pugsley

Ro s Albert Bucklon Vonny Norma Paula Runtu

Robert Glover Campbell Ross Page Springer

Peter Maxwell Chard Thomas Gordon Taylor

Raymond John Colgate Ronald Mitchell Thomas

Michael John Duckworth Grahame Robert Tickl~

Michael James Embleton John Gerard Van Santen

Ross Roderick Gittins Howard Richard Williams

Kevin Leonard Grice Cotin William Wirth•,.

John Allan KerrKevin Alphonsus LaffeyEric Johnson LoweHilary Marie LowesRichard James McAlisterChristine Joy McCormickGillian McKerihanFrances Jean McLeanSu an Lynette MansfieldKathryn Joy MathiesonLoretta Nea Phyllis MoodicNeil MordueElizabeth Ann MorrisMartha MoscovisMarilyn Diane MoxeyAnne Adrienne MunroMiriam Norman-AllanJohn Peter NovakTerence Jeremiah O'BrienDenis Markham O'DonohueErnest David PhillisJohn Maxwell PriceCatherine Anne RaeHeinz RahnDenise Readford _Phillip Gordon Richards ..Margaret Thea ShepherdJohanna Catharina Liberata

SkeldingRonald WilIiam SurteeJohn Ross TassellJudith Anne TheobaldMary Christine ThomasJames Joseph TimbsPatricia Anne TindallGlynis Ann TylerValerie Anne WaitersPamela Janet WestcottRobin Sanderson WheadonRonald Norman Wright

Peter Wesley ewton (Geography-Honours CIa s H, Division I)

Thomas Denis O'SuJlivan (Economics-Honours Clas I1, Div-ision I)

Kenneth John Perrin (English-Honours Clas H. Di ision nLynette Trent Prince (French-Honours Class IT. Division I)

John. 9raham Robertson (Geography-Honours Cia s I1, Div-ISIon I)

David Allan John Seargent (Philosophy-Honours Class I1 Div-ision I) ,

Julie Elizabeth Stobbart (Economics-Honours Class I1 Div-ision I) ,

lan Ronald Wood (French-Honours Clas n, Division I)

Graeme Bell (Geography-Honours Class IT, Division I1)Wendy Katherine Bilbie (History-Honours Class H, Division H)Carmel Agnes Butcher (Economics-Honours Class H, Division H)lan Ross Carlin (Hi tory-Honour Class H, Division I1)Paul Danilenko (Education-Honours Class n, Division H)James Arthur Fuller (Economics-Honours Class H, Division II)JiIl ~orraine Novak (Engli.sh-Honours Class n. Division la...Dennls Grabam Shannon (History-Honours Class I1, DivisionI.Katalin Sipos (History-Honours Cia s 1I, Division II)Davi~. Roy Waterhouse (Geography-Honours Class n, Div-

ISion H)Susan Lesley BakerGeoffrey Rockley BaxterPatrick John Bei ler

oel John BellDesmond Trevor BielerJoan Muriel BlishenHelen Burnett BrazelEdward Francis ChalkleyChristopher ConrickAnnelte Margaret CoulthardAlix Robyn CoupeI'Robert Charles Grant CowleyJanet Gaynor DaviesStephen Lawrence DaviesBronwen Janet DickinsonLynette Margaret DicksonSusan DornanCassandra Clare EvansJohn Stuart FarquharsonCarolyn Gae FlanaganJanette May FraserGarry Clive FryJohn Thaddius GebhardtSu an Lee GeerAnthony lan GeorgesonFlorence Bernadette GibbsBrendon John GillJohn James Alexander GreigMarie Clare GrossGrant oel HarrisonHelen Christine HartAnn Delores HoleyIrene HolokizDavid James HookerKeith Winston HopkinsPatricia Margaret HousdenPrudence HubyWarren JohnstonJohn Joseph KearneyJennifer Kennedy

Master of Arts

FACULTY OF ARTS

Henry Gordon Appleby, Dip. T.C.P., A.R.A.I.A.. A.R.I.B.A.

Bachelor of Architecture

Gilbert Frank Williams (Honours Class I)William Leslie Franks (Honours Class Il)lan Harley Bailey John Robert LaneTrevor Bly Peler Douglas SpenceAnthony Christopher Chambers Toh Pung Seng JesseGordon Robert Dick Wee Beng Teck MauriceFung Kee Yau Andrew Ron Gabriel WeinstockDonald Keith Gilson John Gerler WyattAndrew John Jackson

Master of Architecture

FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE

EnglishRenata Ratzer, B.A(Syd.)

FrenchJohn Archibald Wayne Caldwell, B.A., Dip.Ed.( .S.W.)

GeographyWilliam James Albert Jonas, B.A.. Dip.Ed.( .S.W.)

GermanGwyn Margaret Gillard, B.A.Hans-Georg Melson, B.A.(Alta.)

HistoryFrancis Joseph Meaney, B.A.(N.E.)Dan O'Donnell, (B.A.(Q'ld.)

PhsychologyAlbert Colin Ha)l, B.A.(R'dg.)Algirdas Ivinskis, B.A. (Q'ld.)

Bachelor of Arts

Alan John Lawson (English-Honours Cia s r and UniversityMedal)

James William Wafer (German-Honours Class I and UniversityMedal)

Gwenda Joy Hopk.ins (Latin-Honours Class I)Denis Warwick James (Economics-Honours Class f)John Anthony Jones (History-Honours Class 1)

igel Lawrence Krauth (English-Honours Cia s I)Terence Gerard Lowes (Philo ophy-Honours Class I), (Phychol-

ogy-Honours Class IT, Division I)Robert Louis Purdon (Geography-Honours Class 1)Catherine Anne Vogelzang (Geography-Honours Class I)Margaret Louise Allen (English-Honour Class IT. Division I)Michael Vincent Bowen (Economics-Honours Class IT,

Division I)Ross Desmond Boyd (Economics-Honours Class IT, Division I)Michael Alexander Broughton (Economic -Honours Class IT.

Division I)Frederick Edmund Goldsworthy (English-Honours Class I1,

Division I)Margaret May Moon (psychology-Honours Class IT, Division I)Leighton Brooke Murphy (English-Honours Class IT, Div­

ision 1)

T\\ 0 ccngregations were h~ld in the City Hall on March 20for the conferring of degrees. Sir Hugh Ennor, C.B.E., D.Sc.(Melb.),F.AA.. Secretary of the Commonwealth Department of Educationand Science gave the occasional address at the second ceremony.

The Dean of each Faculty presented his Faculty's graduands tothe Chancellor, Sir Alister McMullin, K.C.M.G .. D. Litt., whoadmitted them to degrees as follows:

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DEGREES CONFERRED SINCE GRADUATIONCEREMONY HELD ON 21 MARCH, 1969

FACULTY OF APPLIED SCIENCE

Diploma in Applied Psychology

Stepben John Alien, B.A. Gregory John McIntyre. B.A.Judith Ann Blayden. Dip. Ed.

B.A.(N.S.w.). Dip.Ed.(N.S.W.) Lileen Elva Shaw, B.A.(Syd.)Anne Hamilton Furner, B.A.

Diploma in Education

Marilyn Elizabeth Alien, B.Sc. Margaret Anne Hutt, B.A.Jennifer Allomes, B.A. Geraldine Keily, RACheryl Margaret Anderson, B.A Campbell Phitlip King, B.A.Dorothy Constance Andrews, Paul Alexander King. B.A.

B.A. Susan Margaret KnOll, B.A.Jacqueline Suzanne Margaret Krauth, B.A.

Andrews, B.A. Cecily Margaret Laing, B.A.Phfllip John Ashby, B.Sc. Felicity Jane Mary Lee, B.A.Robert John Ayliffe, B.A. Jennifer Mary Elizabeth Lee,Patricia Margaret Booth, B.A. B.A.Helen Burnett Brazel, B.A. Margaret Lynelte MacDonald,Robert Edward Brenton, B.A. BA.Barbara Anne Browne, B.A. Margaret Alison McLean, B.A.Jan Yvelle Burns, B.A. Graham McLeod, B.A.Lynette Gaye Carmichael, B.A. Susan Maher, B.A.Kairen Maria Casey, B.A. Joan Mathieson. B.A.Ida Consalvo, B.A. Kathryn Joy Mathieson, B.A.Christopher Francis Curran, Paul Morton, B.A.

B.Sc. Marilyn Diane Moxey, B.A.Evelyn Margaret Dan, B.A. Pamela Murdoch, B.A.Robert Tony Davidson, B.A. Andra Renate Neilands, B.A.Roslyn Elizabeth Davis, B.A. Ruth Elizabeth Neild, B.A.Lynette Margaret Dickson, B.A. Kelvin WiIJiam Nesbitt, B.Sc.Caro1yn Doreen Dixon, B.A. Gary Kent Newman, B.A.Graham StanJey Drennan, B.A. Pamela Anne Passlow, B.A.Cassandra Clare Evan , B.A. Jane Maree Peake, B.A.Phillip John Ewers, B.A. Pauline Ingrid Lorna Peffer.Francis Bruce Fitzpatrick, B.sc. B.A _Donna Suzanne Fo ter, B.A. John Edward Pegg, B.Se. •Stan Peter Francuz, B.Sc. Jennifer Joan Puckeridge. B.A.Ronald George Frew, B.Sc. Rosemary Anne Rogers, B.A.Harold Barry Fryer, B.A. Ursula Ross, B.A.Rosemary Gardiner, B.A. Kathleen Mary Shannon, B.A.Michael David Gibson, B.A. Barbara Joy Sidney, B.ABrendon John Gill, B.A. Paul Leslie Smitb, B.Sc.Peter Christopher Sebastian David PauL Stace, B.Sc.

Goldman, B.A Ronald William Surtees, B.ARobert Graeme Hagan, B.A. Nadine Virginia Tiernan, B.AFrances May Hallinan, B.A Susan Margaret Tutt, B.AElizabeth May Ba well, B.A. Valerie Anne Watters, B.A.Susanne Dorothy Hollis, B.A. Janis Eileen Webber, B.A.Stephen Crilly Hood, B.A. Sherrill Anne Wbittington, B.A.

Gillian Jennett Woodward, B.A.

The Vice-Chancellor, who delivered the Occasional Address at

the first of the two gradua'tion ceremonies, aid:

It is a great delight to the University that so many friends and

relatives come to see our new Graduates receiving their degrees

from the Chancellor. Since the majority of those graduating are

from the Faculty of Artstbi means that many of you have been

part-time students and all know what sacrifices this has demanded

in your home and ocial life. Naturally 1 congratulate all our

Graduates alike but at the same time 1 would wish to offer special

thanks to those who made our part-time graduates a po sibility.

Those graduating today have attended the University at times of

exciting development and on occasion have suffered from the speed

and progress of that development. Till all our Faculties are happily

e tablished at Shorlland some are bound to suffer the inconveniences

of moving from one site to the otber but wel1 before 1 speak on

such an occasion next year I hope that problems of a split campu

will be long forgollen and that every Graduate of this University

will be leaving us, not merely with an affection for the University

as an institution, but with a pecial affection for the campus, the

buildings and all that goes to make up the Shortland site.

Today we are conferring approaching 300 degrees at our two

commencements. Our graduates are to be found all over the world.

Our student body at some 3,000 is now so large that r have long

ince cea ed to know personal1y more than a tiny proportion: but

it is my good fortune that 1 am sufficiently obvious to be recog­

nizable and I have been delighted when travelling interstate or

overseas at the number of our graduates already who come up and

make them elve known to me. It has happened in London, Montreal,

Singapore and New Delhi a well as in Canberra or Melbourne

and uniformily the e gradua,tes come to peak to me because they

are proud of their Newcastle degree and are happy in their mem­

ories' of their time with us. It is our ambition to send out graduates

who can compete on equal terms with those of our sister universitie

and 1 am confident that increasingly our reputation is being enhanced

by the quality of these graduates. For remember that whilst a

university degree i no doubt a good thing in itself as a qualifying

necessity, the real reputation of a university depends on the quality

and research output of its staff and the acceptability and ful1 rec­

ognition of its graduates. For this reason Convocation, the Graduate

body, is an important and integral par,t of the University which

is a body politic with perpetual succession-student flowing in at

one end to replace (1 hope a long time hence) the graduates who

pass on from tbis world at the other. Convocation provides the

largest elected group on the University Council and 1 hope you

will all exercise your franchise privilege as elector when the time

comes and in addition that those of you who have the opportunity

and continue to live in the neighbourhood of Newcastle wil1 take

an active part in the meetings and proceedings of Convocation which

of course has its own elected standing committee to represent you

all. The graduate is one of the two main objects of university

activity: one of our main end-products it might be claimed. Once

a graduate always a graduate and I hope always a continuing studentbut enrolled undergraduate students are too often temporary phen­omena, The failure rate in Australian Universities is still re­grettably high and too many of those active in the public domain

Miss Vonl1Y Norma Paula Runt// (B.Com.), Miss KathrynMicheala Pope (B.Se:.,) Mi.\·s University and the Mallara Princessfor 7967, Miss Marelle Gay Tacon (B.Sc. Honours Class I andUniversity Medal in Mathematic.l) and Miss Gail Patricia

Hallinan, (B.Sc. Honours Class II Division I in Physics).

1970 GRADUATION

FACULTY OF ENGINEERINGDiploma in Industrial Engineering

Richard John Burgess, B.E. Ricbard Bodyl, RSc.(Tech.)(N.S.W.) John Christopher Lindus,

Philip Stanley Cooper, AS.T.C. B.E.(N.S.W.)Bitthal Dass Damani, M.Se. Peter Hans Sboobridge,

(Ban.) Dip.App.C.(H.T.C.)John Brian Donn, B.Sc.(Tech.) Paul Lewis Stark. B.E.(N.S.W.)Richard Leslie Griffin, Denis Paul Tobin,

B.E.(N.S.W.), A.S.T.C. B.Sc.(N.SW.)Alexander Cecil Heaton,

B.E.(N.S.W.), A.S.T.c.

By courtesy of Newcastle Morning Herald

Foul' of the new Doctors of Philosophy are seen after the Grad­uation Ceremonie.\'. Dr. Kenneth A lan Thom.l'on (Chemistry)with daughter Welldy, Dr. John Graham Shaw (Metallurgy), Dr.Christopher Paul L10yd (Chemistry) and Dr. Graell1e Blatchford

Frecker (Civil Engineering) with daughter, Rosalyn.By courtesy of Ncwcaslle Morning Herald

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FACULTY OF ARTS

Bachelor of Arts

Bachelor of Science (Technology)

FACULTY OF ARTS

Garry Peter LaycockArthur Boaz Roe

The following Diplomas were awarded:

MetallurgyMalcolm Douglas Bowmaker

Master of Science

Bachelor of Science

Richard Albert Heath (Psychology-Honours Class J and Univer­sity Medal)

MareJle Gay Tacon (Mathematics-Honours Class I and Univer-ity Medal)

Ronald Groenhout (Mathematics-Honours Class I)

John Frederick Ashton (Chemi try-Honours Class n, Division 1)

Paul Frederick Goldsbrough (Physics-Honours Clas n, Div-i ion 1)

GaiJ Patricia Hallinan (Physics-Honours Class H, Divi ion I)

Ivan Roderick 'King (Mathematics-Honours Class n, Division 1)

Edward James Essington Lewi (Psychology-Honours Class n,Divi ion J)

Gregory Frank McGrath (Chemistry-Honours Cia s IT, Div­ision I)

Christopher John Moore (Physics-Honour Class n, Division I)

Allyn Grahame Morris (Mathematics-Honours Class IT, Div­ision 1)

Lloyd Frederick Nicholas (Chemistry-Honours Class IT, Div-ision I)

Betty Ann Parkinson (Geology-Honours Class H. Division I)

Noel Clarence White (Geology-Honour Class n, Division I)

Jeffrey George Allison (Phy ics-Honours Class H, Division IT)

Leslie James Muldoon (Physics-Honours Class n, Division JI)

Reginald Christopher Pogonoski (Physics-Honours Class IT, Div-ision IT)

Wan Mohammad Rafaei Bin Wan Abdul Rahman (PsychoJogy-Honours Class 11. Division IT)

Steen Elias Lauge Krislensen (Geology-Honours Class lIT)

James Herbert Alien Norma Edward Knagge

Elizabeth Iris Baines Alan John McKim

Ralph Douglas Burkett Adrian John McNeill

Christopher Francis Curran Francis Zdzislaw JosephWendy Annetle Davie Mieszala

Peter Jobn Eadington Peter James Murtagh

Ross Brent Flanagan John Arthur Owens

Frederick Edward Flower Robert John PitlsAllan Waiter John Fowler Kathryn Micheala PopeEric Gayne Gibbons David Francis PoneusJeffrey David Hazzard Richard Henry Sanders

Robert Hodges Horne Victor SkladnevPaul a Elizabeth Jarvie Sreetharasivam

Peter Satya Juwana Stephen Anthony Tarbox

Peter John Kennewell Robert Charles Watters

Physics

lan Campbell Graham, B.Sc.

Barbara Ann Manchester, B.Sc.

Algis Peter Seskus, B.Sc.

FACULTY OF SCIENCEDoctor of Philosophy

Chemistry

Robert Driver, B.Sc.

Christopher Paul Lloyd, B.Se.(N.S.W.)

William Barton Rippon, B.Sc.(Syd.)

Kenneth Alan Thomson, B.Sc.(Lond.), Dip.Ed.(Melb.)

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Mr. A. V. Everett, B.A.(Qld.), took up his appointment asSenior Tutor in the Department of Education on February 3.

Mrs. A. H. Furner:, a 196-8 Bachelor of Arts has been appointed

Student Counsellor at the University.

Mr. P. E. Stonham. M.Sc.(Econ.) (Lond.), formerly Lecturer.

was appointed a Senior Lecturer in Economics from February 2.

Professor F. G. HanneH, B.Sc., Ph.D. (Bristol), is Visiting Lect­urer in the Department of Geography from January 2 to Mid-Sept­ember, 1970.

UNIVERSITY NEWS

As part of Newcastle's Captain Cook Bi-Centenary Celebrations,Professor Geoffrey M. Badger, D.Sc., F.A.A., Vice-Chancellor ofthe University of Adelaide, delivered a public lecture entitled"Captain Cook: First of the Scientific Explorers" in the City Hallon March 23. Professor Badger was made a Fellow of the RoyalSociety for his interest over many years in Captain Cook's activit­ies as a scientist. The lecture was arranged by the University inco-operation with The Newcastle City Council.

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Miss M. Moon who will graduate this year as a Bachelor ofArts. has been appointed a Demonstrator in the Department ofPsychology, University of Melbourne.

Mr. D. 1. Breen, a 1966 Bachelor of Commerce graduate, is nowa lecturer in Economics at Mitchell College of Advanced Education.Mr. Breen in 1968 was awarded the degree of Master of Sciencein Economics by the University of Surrey, United Kingdom.

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Mr. P. R. Bentley, who graduated in 1968 as a Bachelor of Artswith Honours Class II, Division (i) in Economics has been appointedLecturer in Economics at Macquarie University. Mr. Bentley waspreviously a Tutor in Economics at Flinders University.

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Mr. F. L Ward, M.Sc. (Qld.), A.S.T.c., F.R.A.C.I., Senior Lect­urer in Chemistry, retired on December 31, 1969 after servicewith Newcastle Technical College, Newcastle University College andthe University of Newcastle.

A Festival of Carols was held in the University Courtyard onDecember 6. The soloists were Beth Meiklejohn and John Ebert. TheFestival and the Bel-Air Primary Choirs and various NationalGroups participated.

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Mr. Nigel McDonald, who graduated in 1969 as a Bachelor ofArchitecture, has joined the 1970 Australian Antarctic Expedition.

A test match between the New Zealand and Australian Universitiesat the University Oval on February 9, 10 and II resulted in a draw.Newcastle players in the team were-

C. A. Whitehead (Bowler) - 25 overs, 7 maidens; 2 for 47.S. Tarbox (Batsman) - 27 runs.

The University records with regret the death on December 11 ofBrigadier J. M. C. Corlette, C.M.G., D.S.O., V.D., Chev. Legiond'Honneur, B.E. (Sydney), on whom in 1966 the University conferredthe honorary degree of Doctor of Engineering.

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Mr. C. A. Whitehead. B.A. (N.E.), M.A. (Syd.), Senior Tutor inFrench, has been named the "Newcastle Morning Herald" Cricketerof the Sea on for the second year in succession. Mr. Whitehead isCaptain of the University team.

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The University's Anniversary Dinner was beld in the UniversityUnion on November 21. Professor A. M. Gibbs who had recentlytaken up his appointment as Professor of English proposed thetoast, "Hail and Farewell."

his appointment as Com­

Carpenter was formerly

Company Limited in the

New Lecturers in the Department of Education are as follows­

.r. E. 1. Braggett, B.A. (N.E.), MA (N.SW.), M.Ed. (Syd.),Dip.Ed. (N.E.)

Mrs. A. L Chopra, B.A. (Melb.)

Mr. R. 1. McNeil, BA (N.Z.), M.A. (Lond.)

Mrs. G. E. Reeves, B.A. (N.E.)

Dr. Daphne M. Keats, BA (Syd.), M.Ed., Ph.D. (Qld.), Dip.Ed.(Syd.), took up her appointment as Lecturer ID the Department ofPsychology on March 6.

Mr. P. M. Whyte, the Senior Student Counsellor, has been ap­pointed Dean of Students at the University of Hong Kong and hisresignation from the University of Newcastle will take effect fromthe end of First Term.

Two Commerce Graduates of the University, Mr. G. L. Harrison

and Mr. J. K. Winsen, have taken up their appointments as Senior

Tutors in the Department of Commerce.

Or. R. P. Cooney, B.Sc., Ph.D.(Qld), took up his appointment

as Lecturer in Chemistry on. February 2. He was previously a

Post-Doctoral Fellow in Oklahoma State University, U.S.A.

Dr. T. K. Sheng, B.A. (Marian College, New York), B.Sc. (Lond.),

Ph.D. (Malaya), took up his appointment as Lecturer in Mathematics

on January 30. He was formerly a Lecturer in the University of

Malaya. His main research field is Number Theory.

Mrs. R. N. Smith, B.A., Dip.Ed.(N.E.), a Senior Tutor at the

University of New South Wales. took up her appointment as Lect­

urer in the Department of Economics on February 16.

r. J. G. Couper, B.Sc. (N. E.), who has just submitted his Ph.D.at the University of New England, has been appointed to lecture­ship in the Department of Mathematics. He commenced duty on26 February, 1970. His main research field is Ordinary Differential

~uations.

.wo Professional Officers in the Department of MechanicalEngineering have been appointed to the Academic and Teaching

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Mr. H. A. WiIlems B.E. (N.S.W.), M.E., Dipl. Naval Arch.S. (Dordrecht), A.S.T.C. has been ap!?ointed to the position of

Lecturer and Mr. B. T. Valaire B.Sc. (Tech.) (N.S.W.), to the pos­ition of Senior Tutor.

.Jtr. J. Carpenter, B.E. (Melb.), took up

~r Programmer on January 27, Mr.

employed by the Broken Hill Proprietary

Computer Section.

The Council of the University at its meeting on November 22,1969 approved the following promotions:

To Associate Professor

C. S. L. Keay, M.Sc.(N.Z.), Ph.D.(Cant.), M.A.(Toronto)­(Physics)

L. A. Summers, B.Sc., Ph.D.(Glas.)-(Chernistry)

To Senior Lecturer

Robyn K. Bach, B.A.(Syd.)-(English)G.D. Butler, B.E.(N.S.W.), D.A.E.(Cranfield)-Mechanical

Engineering)P. N. Chopra, B.Sc.(Benares), B.A.(Adel.)-(Education)K. F. ColJis, BA, M.Ed.(Qld)-(Education)W. Ficker, Prom.Mat., C.Sc., RND(Comenius)-(Mathematics)R. W. Gibbins, B.Com.(Qld.)-(Comrnerce)1. R. Giles, B.A.(Syd.), Ph.D.-(Mathematics) •A. C. Hall, BA(R'dg.), MA-(Psycbology)W. T. F. Lau, M.E.(N.S.W.), Ph.D.(Syd.)-(MathematicW. J. Sheehan, B.Ec.(Syd.), M.A.-(Economics)J. D. Stowell, B.A.(Melb.)-(German) _N. C. Talbot, B.A.(Dunelm), Ph.D.(Leeds)-(English) _

Mr. D. D. Morris, B.Arch.(N.S.W.), A.S.T.C., A.R.A.i.A., theStaff Architect, was promoted to the position of Assistant Planneron Decem ber 1

Dr. A. Bartbofer, Dr. Phil.(Vienna), formerly a Lektor in German,was promoted to the position of Lecturer in German on December12.

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UNIVERSITY STAFF.

Mr. R. McL. Robinson, B.A., formerly Senior Tutor, was pro­moted to the position of Lecturer in Philosophy on January 1.

Mr. J. A. Prichard, B.Se.(Hons.) Birmingham), has taken upduty as Director of the Computer Centre. Mr. Prichard was formerlySecond in Charge of the joint University of Tasmania/HydroElectricity Commission Computer Centre in Hobart.

1972 nevertheless with a capital allocation for the current trienniumof $6,760,000 which includes provision for the erection of TheGreat Hall and of a residential college as well as the purchaseof a computer, we should be able to house our student-bodyand staff in much more reasonable conditions by 1973 and ofcourse by that date also our School of Biological Science shouldbe in full operation. It is just five years since Newcastle becamean independent university and they have been years of great andcontinuing development. It is not yet possible to provide instantuniversities; we have all been inconvenienced by building delays andcrowded conditions in muddy surroundings but we are buildingfor tbe centuries, laying out a campus for long term developmentand these considerations must be ever in the minds of the planners,architects, engineers, builders and other who work for us andwhose work I hope all of our visitors appreciate as mucb as wedo ourselves. Included at the moment of course, is the new Sehoolof Architecture, well on its way to completion. You Graduatesin Architecture have been very successful in strictly utilitariansurroundings; I hope your successors will be even more fortunate intheir woodland setting.

Once again on behalf of tbe University and of all present Toffer our congratulations to the Graduates and wish them every goodfortune in their future careers, confident that they will never fotheir mother university.

never become permanent members of the university. You haveformed that permanent group today and tha,t is why in welcomingyou I ask you never to give up your interest in your motheruniversity. A university degree should not be a final end in itself.It is a platitude to assert that we live in a changing world; that isa privilege enjoyed by mankind since the beginning of time, but itis the nature of our changing world that new knowledge is beingaccumulated at a speed without precedent in history and accordinglyin many subjects a degree can become out-dated long before aworking life is completed. Universities used to be predominantlYundergraduate teaching institutions; today the proportion of post­graduate students for degrees and refresher courses is annually in­creasing. I hope and trust that many of you will avail yourselvesof these opportunities for still further education, whether as can­didates here or elsewhere for higher degrees, or as intlividuals en­suring that your special skills, knowledge and competence arekept ::ontinually up·to-date. During the year the Council of theUniversity established The University of Newcastle Research Assoc­iates Limited. familiarly known as TUNRA. Primarily of coursethis organization will be mo t closely associated witb the scientificand technological faculties but work sponsored by its educationcommittee in accordance with tbe fourth of its aims-To organizeand arrange the presentation of courses of instruction, seminars andconferences for persons, companies and organizations, not beingregistered students of The University of Newcastle will be assoc­iated with all Faculties and the advantages of the University'sfacilities will be made available at university academic level in manyfields of specialized study. So once again I stress your need tokeep in toucb with developing knowledge and information andam glad to report that your University is increasingly going toarrange its activities to assist you.

The United Nations has declared 1970 to be InternationalEducation Year and whilst many of the stresses in its programmeselaborated for that year are primarily concerned with the devel­oping countries one of the two major principles adopted for uni­formly increased attention is LIFE LONG INTEGRATED EDU­CATION which is an aspect of what I bave been stressing; the othermajor objective INCREASED FUNCTIONAL LITERACY isless relevant to our ceremony today. What is considered of worldwide importance must have implications for Australia and accord­ingly I hope that you realize that when I emphasize the need forcontinuing education and refresher courses I am reflecting a worldtrend and not just "Contemporary Australia" thinking.

commend to you a statement by the Anthropologist, MargaretMead, realizing that you will in many cases take exception to thepersonal application of one of the words in the quotation-

A Youngster of 17 has as much righl to work as 10 .Wtdy:

Oldslers have as much right 10 Sludy as 10 work.

This is the principle to be stressed in this International EducationYear.

The recommendations contained in last year's Report of the Aust­ralian Universities Commission, and accepted by the Government ofNew South Wales, have at last made it possible for Universitydevelopment in Newcastle to proceed on a financial basis similarto that of other Australian Universities. We have always claimedthat universities with a small student body have certain advantages,though in this technological age, equally obvious disadvantages,over the multi-varsities of our captial cities and overseas but thegreat increase in our student body last year made these advantagesalmost illusory. An increase of over 30% in our recurrent fundsfor the current year has made it possible to rectify the disastrousdown-grade in our staff/student ratios of last year by the appoint­ment of some 40 new academic and teaching staff and whilst thebuildings on our campus will be very crowded during 1971 and

8 THE GAZETTE MAY 1970

Dr. C. 1. Hawkins, who graduated from the University in 1960as a Bachelor of Science with Honours Class 1 in Chemistry andfrom the Australian National University in 1963 as a Doctor ofPhilosophy, has been awarded a grant of $10,867 by the A thmaFoundation of Queensland for studies of the stereospecificity ofbronchodilator drugs. Dr. Hawkin, a member of staff of theUniversity of Queensland ince 1965, first as Lecturer and since 1968as Senior Lecturer in Chemistry, has during tbat time been awardedpersonal grants totalling $38,000 by the Australian Research GrantsCommittee.

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The internationally famou Newcastle violinist, Mr. Ronald Wood­cock, played tbe six Bach Sonatas for unaccompanied violin duringa series of Free Lunchtime Concerts held in the Main LectureTheatre during the week commencing April 6. This was a rareopportunity to hear these great works of Bach's middle period.

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1970 U lVERSITY MEDALJSTS

From le/t: Alan .lohn Lawson (English), Richard A/bertHeath (Psychology), James William Wafer (German), MarelleGay Tacon (Mathematics) and John Marshall Burgess (Chem-

ical Engineering)

By courtesy of Newca,t1e Morning Herald

Mr. Warren David Tres ider. a 1964 Arts Graduate. has beenawarded a $16,000 doctoral fellowship by the Canadian Council.a body endowed by the Canadian Government to further the devel­opment of tbe arts and social sciences in Canada. The fellowshipis renewable for four year. Mr. Tressider was awarded the degreeof Master of Arts by the University of British Columbia in J969.He is at pre ent an Associate Professor of Art History at GuelphUniversity, Ontaria.

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ELECTION OF COUNCJL

An election of members of the Council will be held on 9 June.1970 in order to fi.1l the following vacancies which will occur on1 July, 1970.(a) Two members, being Professors, elected by the Professors of

the University.(b) One member, being a member other than a Professor of tbe

Academic Staff of the UniverSity; elected by the Academic Staffof tbe University other than the Professors;

(c) One member, being a member of Staff other than the AcademicStaff of tbe University, elected by the Staff of the Universityother than tbe academic staff;

(d) One member, elected by the Undergraduates of the University;(e) Five members, elected by the Convocation of the University.

The names of candidates for election will be posted on the noticeboard of the University on 15 May, ]970.

TRAVEL CONCEssrON FOR GRADUATES

The Australian University Graduate Conference (A.U.G.C.) has

established a travel service for graduates and their families which

will provide significant travel rebates. All members of the University

of Newcastle Convocation are eligible and full detaiJs of prospective

tours for 1970-7 J, e.g. visits to Japan and Expo '70. will be pub­

lished in next edition of the Gazette.

Further information is available from Mi s Mary Kane. Secretary

of Convocation, C/- The Univer ily of Newcastle, N.S.W., 2308.

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THE GREAT HALL

From the Main Plaza

By courtesy of David Mooro, Sydr.ey

A westerly view with the Geology Building on the left

By courtesy of David Moore, Sydney