The Melbourne Graduate December 2012

The Graduate Union of The University of Melbourne Inc.

THE MELBOURNE GRADUATE

December 2012 volume 67 No.3


The Melbourne GraduateDecember 2012 – Volume 67, No. 3Periodical Newsletter of The Graduate UnionPrint Post Approved PP337834/00022Australian Business Number 55610664963Incorporated Association Registration Number A0023234BEditorial Shirley Ho, Fiona KerrPrinted by Kwik Kopy Box Hill

“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.”

B.B. King (1925 - )

December 2012 volume 67 No. 3


The 15th President of The Graduate Union 4from the CEO and Head of College 5 The Phillip Law Members’ Lounge 8 Michael Victor Meszaros 9MV Anderson Award and Medal Recipients 10The 2012 Chaiman’s Cocktail Party 11Magnus Victor Anderson 12 The Anderson Lounge 13New Members on Council Dr Meredith Doig 14 Ms Jo Ligouris 14 Mr Keith Ryall 15 The Hon. Justice Tony Pagone 15Membership 16New Graduates Membership 17Our Individual Members Glenys Goricane 18 Huiting Wang 19 Dr Geoffrey Norman Vaughan AO 20 Alexandra Veuthey 21 Ronald Thomas Rye 22Our Organisation Members Carlton-Parkville Probus 24 Acknowledgement of Patronage 25 Organisation Member Event 26Valete 26Monthly Luncheons 27Snippets from the Culinary Section 28Festive Season Products 30College Garb and other Merchandise 31

CONTENTS

Cover Photographthe bronze installation in the newly named

Phillip Law Members’ Loungededicated to the memory of

Dr Phillip Garth Law AC CBE FAA21/4/1912 - 28/2/2010

Australian Scientist and Antarctic Research Expeditioner. Fellow of The Graduate Union and President from 1971 to 1977.

Member and Supporter to 2010.

in appreciation of his generous bequest



The 15th PRESIDENT of The GRADUATE UNION

The Chair of the Council of The Graduate Union, Mr David Sparks, announced Major General Professor Jeffrey V Rosenfeld AM, as the new President of The Graduate Union of The University of Melbourne Incorporated at the Chairman’s Cocktail Party held on Friday, 7th December, 2012.“We are delighted and honoured that Professor Rosenfeld has accepted our invitation to become our next President, and we are most fortunate that he will give of his time to the Association, and in doing so, will join the list of most distinguished past Presidents who have served in this capacity since The Hon Sir John Latham was appointed as first President of the Graduate Union in 1957” said Mr Sparks.

Jeffrey Victor Rosenfeld AM, CStJ

MBBS (Melbourne), MD (Monash), MS (Melbourne), FRACS, FRCS (Edinburgh), FACS, FRCS (Glasgow) Hon, FCNST Hon,

FRCST Hon, FACTM, MRACMA, RAAMCProfessor and Head of the Division of Clinical Sciences and

Department of Surgery, Central Clinical School, Monash University.

Professor and Director of the Department of Neurosurgery, Alfred Hospital and Monash University.

Pro-Vice Chancellor, Advancement (Major Projects) Monash University.

Major General of the Australian Defence Force.

Major General Professor Jeffrey V Rosenfeld AM is an internationally recognised neurosurgeon, a leading Australian academic surgeon and a senior Australian Military Surgeon. He is Professor and Head of the Division of Clinical Sciences and the Department of Surgery at Monash University, Director of Neurosurgery at The Alfred Hopsital and Adjunct Professor at the Centre for Military and Veterans’ Health (CMVH) at The University of Queensland. Professor Rosenfeld was appointed Pro-Vice Chancellor, Advancement (Major Projects) Monash University October 2012. He is a Major General in the Australian Army and immediate past Surgeon General of the Australian Defence Force (ADF) Reserves and has served on seven ADF operations including those in recent times in Rwanda, East Timor, Bougainville, the Solomon Islands and Iraq. He has been invited as Visiting Professor to several universities internationally and has made strong humanitarian contributions through the Pacific Islands Project delivering specialist surgical services to the Pacific Island Rim nations, especially Papua New Guinea where he is a Professor of the University of Papua New Guinea. He is a strong advocate for the banning of landmines, a contributor to Rotary International (Paul Harris Fellow with Sapphire), a previous Commissioner of St John Ambulance Australia - Victoria, and Past President of the United Nations Association of Australia Victoria and National Vice President. A prolific author and keen supporter of the arts through his own musical performance (clarinettist), Professor Rosenfeld is an Ambassador to the Australian National Academy of Music and is keen to perform in 2013 at Graduate House. He has received many awards both nationally and internationally for his medical, community and military achievements, including Victorian of the Year and the Monash Medal of Rotary.We are most honoured to welcome Major General Professor Jeffrey V. Rosenfeld AM as the 15th

President of The Graduate Union.



This edition of the Melbourne Graduate comes at the end of a wonderful year for our graduate association, college and meeting place and I extend sincere gratitude to my staff and to all members who have contributed to this unprecedented period of growth and success.We say a fond farewell to another set of outstanding cohorts of graduate residents who have completed research projects, courses of study, books or sabbaticals and are now living or taking a well-earned break in another part of Australia or the world. We wish you all the very best with your graduate pathways and invite you to continue for life as members of our international interdisciplinary collegium. We thank you for being a part of our unique living, learning and meeting experience here in Melbourne and encourage you to strengthen and use productively the networks that you have cultivated in this great college.The experience that comes from residing here and mingling daily with the best and the brightest from around the world – our resident and non-resident members - is less likely to be encountered in future life phases. Most of the exiting resident members will be seeking and hopefully entering (or returning to) an academic, research or professional career. With the busy-ness that thence ensues, it is difficult to encounter again those wonderful explorative and engaging discussions that are so commonplace here at 220 Leicester Street, Carlton. The meeting of new people with divergent interests and mind-related passions also becomes less frequent – the more so with the emphasis in some popular cultures of placing status on and seeking celebrity. By continuing your membership beyond residency, graduates continue their participation and contribution to an interesting graduate community aged from early 20s to early 100s. Indeed, 101 years ago the women and men who founded this Association did so for just for that purpose – to extend the meeting-of-minds experiences beyond their times in hallowed physical university spaces and to lay the foundations for same for future generations. Near fifty years later, William Berry and Barbara Funder strengthened this legacy by initiating the laying down of college ‘bricks and mortar’ through a buying, selling, renovating, fundraising and building programme that has continued to recent times. In parallel, they honoured the founding traditions of supporting graduates to keep in touch and to share a sense of duty to their alma mater – their ‘nourishing mother’.Having lived, studied and travelled overseas, as well as having resided in colleges both for my undergraduate and doctoral degrees, I see very clearly the potential of this 101-year-old Association of graduates and 50-year-old college. I know that soon we will be mentioned in the same breath as a Cambridge, Harvard or Oxford college but distinguished because we have contributing engaged graduates - as opposed to a bunch of undergraduates - who are all ages, all stages of their careers (studying for doctorate or masters, early in-career, mid-career or in caring duties, late career and retired), from multiple disciplines and from multiple countries. I am confident also that we will feel and be seen as one international collegium – rather than as different groups within the membership – with members who see and demonstrate the benefits provided through education and the responsibility to give back to society.An active membership model is key to culturing the collective global social responsibility of The Graduate Union; and it is this time in history that we can support such activity – real and meaningful - beyond our geographical headquarters and through our connections across Australia and world-wide, particularly with extraordinary information and communication technology at our fingertips (literally). It is thus incumbent upon us all to use this time optimally and constructively to meet a collective civil duty and to acknowledge with vigour the hard work of generations before us and now.

from the CEO and HEAD of COLLEGE



As you enter or leave this residence or as you experience the joys of coming together for our many functions, I ask members for their reflections on their individual contributions to our Union.I know already that many of our exiting resident members acknowledge the privilege of their education and of the experiences here in college. I am humbled by stories of the sacrifices made by themselves and many of their parents and carers in other parts of Australia and the world. Undertaking post-graduate studies a long way from home requires a strong personal and financial commitment.As you leave residence, returning to another part of Australia or to your country of origin, I am proud to have you as ambassadors for The Graduate Union. Each of you is one of the ‘best and brightest’ internationally. Your influence within the global collective is thus important and needed. You have learnt from the resident and non-resident members whom you have met here in Melbourne and you will deploy these lessons for your own career and for the betterment of your discipline and society. You will honour the foundations of our Association by sustaining and fostering continued interactions and opportunities for public benefit, and by applying your collective brilliant minds to real-life global and socially responsible tasks. I hope also that you will keep in touch over the next few decades and provide us with graduate pathway stories that we will publish proudly in the Melbourne Graduate to inspire current and future generations of graduates.For our non-resident members, I thank you for taking action to support our emerging culture of local and global collegiality and for identifying your duty to this Association in advancing education – the basis for our charitable status. Female and male, young and less young, academic, professional or retiree, you are each valued in our unique collegium. Please continue to provide the narratives that remind us all of what is possible, of what can be achieved and of how we can give back to society throughout all stages of our lives after initial graduation from a tertiary education institute.We hope that you enjoy the 2013 Graduate Union calendar sent to you with this edition of the Melbourne Graduate and designed to give some indication to our international visiting graduates of why Melbourne is ranked the best city in the world and Australia is regarded as one of the most beautiful countries in the world. The words ‘live’, ‘learn’ and ‘meet’ throughout this publication are designed to illustrate succinctly our core activities of providing residency, meeting and membership services for graduates. The scheduling of our many collegiate functions is also indicated. Please all – resident and non-resident members - come along to the Summer BBQ on the 1st of February, 2013 to give a warm (both emotionally and hopefully weatherwise) welcome to new and returning resident members and to herald another exciting year of functions with like-minded souls.Our office, kitchen, dining room and meeting services re-open on the 7th of January, 2013. Soon after this, your Council (the governing body of the Association) jumps straight back into action in the New Year with a meeting on Wednesday the 16th of January. A key item on the agenda for this meeting is finalisation of the Strategic Plan that was developed from the Council retreats on the 22nd September and 6th October, 2012 and which will be presented to members in the early part of 2013.The second key item is the legal structure of The Graduate Union and the approach to be taken by our Association to meet regulatory changes in Victoria and nationally. Consultation and information sessions will be scheduled in the New Year to gain input from members and to outline these regulatory changes. In advance of these forums, and by way of a brief explanation, at the state level, the Associations Incorporation Reform Act 2012 (Vic) received Royal Assent on the 1st of May, 2012 and is now in operation (commencing on the 26th of November, 2012). Concurrently, at the national level, Australia’s first independent charities regulator, the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC) commenced operation on the 3rd of December, 2012 following Royal Assent of the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission Act 2012 and the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (Consequential and Transitional) Act 2012.

from the CEO and HEAD of COLLEGE continued



For The Graduate Union the implications of these changes at state and federal level are many and complex but I can assure members that your Council and my team and I are working well to position your Association optimally, appropriately and proactively to address regulatory, legislative and best practice requirements and to ensure financial stability.In closing for 2012, I thank my staff here at The Graduate Union for working tirelessly and with good strong spirit over a year of tremendous change. I thank also the Councillors, particularly the Chair of Council, for bringing the Association with dignity to its current status of vibrancy and potential.

In the words of T.S. Eliot, next year’s words await another voice and to make an end is to make a beginning; and from a well-known Australian aboriginal saying, we are just passing through - our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love ... and then we return home.

Dr Kerry M B BennettCEO and Head of College

happy new year

새해 복 많이 받으세요

sun lin fi lok gelukkig nieuwjaar

selamat tahun baru kia hari te tau hou

xin nian kuai le bon any nou

subho nababarsho bonne année

新年快了 ماع ديعس

ein gutes neues jahr felice anno nuovo

kali chronia 新年好

xin nian hao کرابم ون لاس

feliz año nuevo a gut yohr

gott nytt år es guets nöis

manigong bagong taon eutichismenos o kainourgios chromos

shana tova С Новым Годом הבוט הנש

nav varsh ki subhkamna สวัสดีปีใหม่ ਨਵੇਂ ਸਾਲ ਦੀਆਂ ਵਧਾਈਆਂ

chúc mừng nǎm mới naya sal mubarak

selamat tahun baru szczęśliwego

nowego roku あけまして　おめでとう　ございます



The PHILLIP LAW MEMBERS’ LOUNGE

To honour the generous bequest of Dr Phillip Garth Law (1912 - 2010) to The Graduate Union, the dining and lounge area of the ground floor of the main building was renamed the Phillip Law Members’ Lounge on the 7th December, 2012.The occasion was marked by the unveiling by Dr Law’s brother, David (Peter) Hamilton Law, and by the new President of The Graduate Union, Major General Professor Jeffrey V Rosenfeld AM, of a bronze relief (as shown on the front cover of this edition of The Melbourne Graduate) created by internationally renowned sculptor Michael Meszaros and donated by a generous benefactor who wishes to remain anonymous.As explained by the artist, the design of this commissioned installation features a pathway passing in a jigsaw manner through ice and snow to reflect the period of Antarctic exploration by Dr Law. This path weaves its way also through complex and intricate groupings of geometrical objects shaped as cubes and towers. These man-made structures represent organisations and bureaucracies within and around which Dr Law worked as educationalist, philanthropist, administrator and scientist. These descriptors are sculpted into the bronze to capture the essence of this inspirational leader alongside other words that indicate his similarly high achievements in sport and as author, public speaker and musician. Michael noted that previous sittings with Dr Law had helped with his construction of the slightly smiling side profile which his brother confirmed was a striking resemblance.Dr Law had a long association with The Graduate Union. He was its fifth President, holding office from 1971 to 1977 during which time the M V Anderson room was named (1971), The Graduate Union was welcomed as a College of The University of Melbourne by Statute (1972), and Kidd’s Warehouse - replaced by the central four-storey college wing from 216 to 220 Leicester Street - was purchased for $311,000 (1974).David (Peter) Hamilton Law, eleven years junior to Phillip, describes his older brother as a father figure who took good care of his six siblings while their father worked arduous hours as principal of the Teachers College near The University of Melbourne. Peter graduated during the war from The University as a mechanical engineer and worked around the world with Shell. In Borneo he met and married his wife Thelma and after a seven-month honeymoon on a cruise ship, worked in Venezuela before returning to work in Geelong. He retired 32 years ago, concluding his career life as Engineering Manager for Shell Refining in Melbourne. Like his brother he was a keen sportsman (tennis being his preferred sport) and a naturally talented musician, who performed as trombonist with the ‘grandfather of Australian Jazz’, Graeme Emerson Bell (1914-2012).Last year, Peter came to Melbourne on the 28th October, 2011 for the gala dinner under Leonard French’s kaleidoscopic glass ceiling in the National Gallery of Victoria’s Great Hall to celebrate 150 years of engineering education at The University of Melbourne. He used this opportunity to catch up with eleven of his fellow graduates who were at university together from 1940 to 1944, meeting here at Graduate House for a quiet, elegant lunch and much reminiscing! He reports intent to return in 2013 for a similar reunion.The Graduate Union looks forward to this visit and extends its sincere gratitude to Mr Law for being in attendance at the naming and unveiling ceremony. The evening was all the more special because of his shrp wit and humour, and his generous and articulate story-telling.

Dr Phillip G. Law in the mid 1950s (Photograph by A. Campbell-Drury)



PHILLIP LAW RELIEF SCULPTOR

Michael Victor Meszaros OAM is the artist behind the bronze relief hanging in the newly-named Phillip Law Members’ Lounge.We hope that all members will come into The Graduate Union soon to view and enjoy this stunning piece of art. Through a careful and patient consultation and research process, this artist has skilfully captured the spirit and story of Dr Law with an intricate and clever design. The Graduate Union thanks Michael and the anonymous benefactor for his amazing work and include this brief profile to illustrate to members not only why this artist was commissioned but also to illustrate his just inclusion in the General Division of the Order of Australia Medal in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list of 11th June, 2012 for Service to the Visual Arts as a Sculptor.With a career spanning more than forty years, Michael has contributed significantly to sculpture in both public and private collections nationally and internationally. His work includes medallions, reliefs, trophies, portraits and major public works done on commission. He also has a large body of personal medallion and three-dimensional sculptures.

During the 1960s, Michael studied to become an architect, but in 1969 was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to study medal-making in Italy at La Scuola Dell ‘Art Della Medaglia in Rome. Internationally, he is now a renown and established artist who has exhibited widely, including in the 1980s at the Expatriate Hungarians Exhibition, the Group Exhibition, Mussavi Arts Centre, New York, at Medallion Shows at the British Museum and in Stockholm and at the Budapest National Gallery and in Gotha, East Germany. His personal medallion works have been shown from 1961 to 2010 at the biennial International Medallists’ Federation Congress Exhibitions in Rome, Paris, Athens, The Hague, Cologne, Prague, Helsinki, Cracow, Budapest, Lisbon, Florence and Colorado Springs.

Not surprisingly, Michael has won several competitions, including the 1969 UnoaErre Medal Competition, Arezzo, Italy; golds for Bronze Sculpture at the International Biennial of Dante in 1973 and 1983; and the French-Australian Bicentennial Medal Competition in 1987. In 2011 he was awarded the American Numismatic Association’s ‘Numis-matic Art Award for Excellence in Medallic Sculpture’. His Australian prizes include the Kew Rotary Club Prize in 1990 and the Heidi Prize in 2004.The beautiful medals made by Michael Meszaros are treasures held by the British Museum, the Royal Dutch Coin Collection and private collectors in Europe, America, Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. His large-scale public sculptures include the Copper Birds in St. Kilda Road, the bronze portrait statue of John Pascoe Fawkner in Collins Street, the memorial to Sam the Koala in Mirboo North, Gippsland and the sculpture illustrated to the right outside the Royal Women’s Hospital.

MICHAEL VICTOR MESZAROS

Tension and Compression Civil Engineering School, The University of

Melbourne, Cast Bronze 1.5m x 1.5m, 1979.

This moving sculpture outside The Royal Women’s Hospital expresses the entering and exiting forms and

purposes of women.



MV ANDERSON AWARD and MEDAL RECIPIENTS

The Chairman’s Cocktail Party on the 7th December, 2012 also saw the presentation of the inaugural M V Anderson awards to two worhty early career resident members of The Graduate Union, Jennifer Wu for her contribution to Finance Management and Matthias Könning for his advances in Neuroscience.

M V Anderson was a significant and prominent contributor to The Graduate Union. He was elected President of the Graduates Section of The University of Melbourne Union and became a founding member of The Graduate Union in 1953. The resident lounge area in the William Berry Wing is named in his honour.

The M V Anderson medal has been donated by his descendants to recognise the achievements of graduates who have developed skills and insights which they are able to communicate to others. The family commissioned Michael Meszaros OAM to produce a medal which expresses the personal development of an individual to the point where the results of that development could be communicated to a wider public. The award medal thus demonstrates an increasingly complex pattern of lines at right angles within a human profile that interacts with other overlapping human profiles. It represents the internal workings of the academic mind and the sharing and development of concepts and ideas with other thinkers and influencers who understand the responsibility for application and societal good.

Jennifer WuJennifer Wu has a Bachelor of Business and Commerce and is undertaking a Masters of Management. Her main interests are management, accounting and investment. After having experienced a three-month internship in a Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company, she realised that her passion lay in the financial management of industries that have a social welfare charter.

Jennifer believes in and supports the collegial model at both local and international levels. She recognises the unique opportunity afforded daily in this college to interact and form productive lifelong networks with resident and non-resident graduate members from multiple disciplines, perspectives and fields and is active in promoting the global network of graduates who are collectively socially responsible.

Matthias KönningMatthias Könning has a Masters degree in Biochemistry and is undertaking doctoral studies in Neuroscience. His interest is in the production of myelin proteins that influence the strength and health of the insulation around nerve cells that is essential for the rapid and efficient propagation of the electric pulses required for proper brain function. His research on the regulation of myelin production has been presented at a Neuroscience forum in Barcelona and he has been invited to join a special program for forty PhD students to network with leading experts in the field. His research may find a way for cells to produce myelin and repair damage done in such devastating neurological conditions as multiple sclerosis.

Matthias Könning

Jennifer Wu



The 2012 CHAIRMAN’S COCKTAIL PARTY

Left Mr Rhys Watson, the great nephew of Magnus Victor Anderson, presents the inaugural MV Anderson Awards and Medals to Jennifer Wu and Matthias Könning.

Left The Chairman of Council, Mr David Sparks (right) presenting the Certificate of Honourary Membership of the Association to Major General Professor Jeffrey V Rosenfeld AM during the Inauguration Ceremony welcoming Professor Rosenfeld as the 15th President of The Graduate Union.

Right David (Peter) Hamilton Law, the younger brother of Dr Phillip Law, with Major General Professor Jeffrey V Rosenfeld AM at the unveiling of the Phillip Law bronze relief by Michael Meszaros and the opening of the Phillip Law Members’ Lounge.

Right and Below Members of our 101-year-old Association and 50-year-old college enjoying the sumptious seafood feast at the Chairman’s Cocktail Party on the 7th of December, 2012.



MAGNUS VICTOR ANDERSON

Magnus Victor (M V) Anderson was born in Carlton on the 16th of September, 1884. He was a prominent accountant in the early 1900s in Melbourne, Victoria, continuing as such and becoming increasingly influential and wealthy until his retirement in 1956. He was a founding member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in 1929 and succeeded E V Nixon at The University of Melbourne as a lecturer in Cost Accounting. M V Anderson served on the Council of the Australian Institute of Cost Accountants and was State President of the Institute from 1928 to1946.

Chess and Art Book CollectionsM V Anderson developed an interest in chess and art, and in particular, the collection of chess and art books, the first of which was bought in 1917 whilst on holidays in Perth. This passion led him to collect thousands of publications sourced through painstaking research and investigation from around the globe where he would send family and friends in pursuit of the next must-have edition.From retirement in 1956, MV Anderson worked at the State Library of Victoria until his death in 1966. During this time he was a generous benefactor, donating from the late 1950s to 1966, through his bequest, much of his private library of more than 2,000 art books to the Ballarat Fine Arts Gallery and over 6,700 volumes of chess publications to the State Library of Victoria.The M V Anderson Chess Library at the Library today comprises over 15,000 volumes. It is the largest collection of chess books in the southern hemisphere and the third largest in the world. It

includes books about the history of chess, chess in film and art and novels in which chess is a central theme.

Fitzroy Football Club and The Graduate UnionMagnus V Anderson and William Berry, the first secretary and warden of The Graduate Union, were both ardent fans of the Fitzroy Football Club. Though this is disappointing to the many current Collingwood and Hawthorn supporters in the membership and on staff, they have been forgiven over time because of their shared equally strong support for The Graduate Union. As illustrated in an article which appeared in The Argus (a copy of which was provided kindly by his family), M V Anderson was elected in 1951 as graduates’ section president, Melbourne University and was a founding member of The Graduate Union.His generosity to The Graduate Union is acknowledged through the naming of the M V Anderson Room in the William Berry Wing of the college.

The earliest piece in the chess collection from MV Anderson is a leaf from the game and playe of the chesse published by Caxton

in 1483.

The page 5 news in The Argus, 31st

January, 1951 of M V Anderson’s appointment as President.



The M V Anderson Room was opened in 1971 to acknowledge his generous gifts to The Union and his leadership on Council. It is an elegant and comfortable member-only area used by both resident and non-resident members as a lounge and is referred to fondly as the Green Room because of its distinctive green-leafed wallpaper.

The M V Anderson Room houses part of the library that was initially established through a gift from Sir George Augustus Pape (1903 - 1987) an Australian lawyer and judge in the Supreme Court of Victoria from 1957 to 1975 who was knighted in 1968. The other half of this collection is housed in the Johnston Library just across the hall.

The room also holds fine furniture donated by the Miller Foundation, a Steck grand pianola piano donated by the Shellard family, twelve etchings by Adrian George Feint (1894 - 1971) and nine hunting engravings by Henry Thomas Alken (1785 - 1851) which depict comical, colourful and satirical caricatures of aristocrats attempting to hunt.

In the decades before 2004, after which college wings were constructed from 210 to 220 Leicester Street, the M V Anderson Room was used for drinks, formal dinners and Council and member meetings. The Tin Alley Players, a theatre group for graduates that began in 1939 and performed for over fifty years, held meetings and readings from 1962 with the purchase of Gladstone Terraces to 1980 when the company closed.The Room has also been the learning and social gathering place for a variety of graduate groups, some of which continue today, such as the Italian Conversation Group (which meets for dinner every second Tuesday evening), the Women’s Forum (on the mornings of the third Wednesday of each month, followed by a lunch), the Bridge Group (every Wednesday evening) and the now-named Friday Drinks and Dinner group.

Today the room is a haven for members to sit and read the daily newspapers, periodicals that include Time, The Economist, New Scientist and Australian Geographic or a book from the interesting library collection, while enjoying a leisurely morning coffee or afternoon tea. Studying, working and retired graduates gather here in this common (combination) room regularly in an informal relaxed manner away from the bustle of life, to think, to learn, to discuss, to study and to read; or to listen to recitals on the magnificent grand pianola piano.

The M V Anderson Room

The ANDERSON LOUNGE



NEW MEMBERS on COUNCIL

Dr Meredith Doig, PhD, FAICDFollowing a career as a senior executive in the corporate world (Ford Australia, Rio Tinto and the ANZ Bank), Dr Meredith Doig has spent the last decade as a professional company director and governance consultant. Even though she came from a business background, Meredith has always maintained a particular interest in the higher education sector. In the mid-1990s she was the Business Council’s representative on the Federal Government’s Higher Education Council, and from 2001 to 2009 she was a member of Melbourne University’s Council.

Meredith is keen to see the Graduate Union facilitate opportunities for Members, both old and new, to contribute their skills and experience to making the world a better place – perhaps through supporting projects in developing countries that help young people further their education. She already has some experience in this field and would welcome ideas from reisident and non-resident members about potential projects.

Ms Joanne LigourisMs Ligouris is The University of Melbourne Vice Chancellor’s representative on Council. She replaces Ms Katerina Kapobassis who has been promoted within The University to hold a portfolio which precludes time availability for a governing role with The Union.Joanne is the Executive Manager of the Faculty of Arts. Working in close collaboration with the Dean, she is responsible for providing strategic vision and operational direction to the Faculty, and for aligning strategic initiatives with broader University goals. In her time as Executive Manager, she has been responsible for a number of major initiatives. She is currently overseeing the state-of-the-art redevelopment of the Arts and Music Student Centre in the Arts West building on the Parkville campus, and the expansion of graduate programs and student support in the Faculty.Prior to her appointment as Executive Manager, Joanne was the inaugural Manager the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, where she was responsible for its establishment, and the management of both coursework and research higher degrees. Covering program delivery, evaluation and management, student administration, student support, infrastructure, policy development and governance, Joanne was also responsible for establishing working relationships with industry and international partners.Joanne brings comprehensive experience across a range of senior management portfolios including Operations, Research and Research Training, Student Services, Marketing and Development and Information Technology. She has a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) specialising in Classical Studies from Monash University, and has worked in higher education in Australia for over thirteen years.

Jo Ligouris

Dr Meredith Doig

The Graduate Union is proud to announce and welcome four new members to Council, its governing body: Dr Meredith Doig, Ms Joanne Ligouris, Mr Keith Ryall and The Hon Justice Tony Pagone.



Keith Ryall, Member since 2005Keith’s passion for graduate recruitment and development began in 1972 when he was asked to strengthen Human Resources capability with the Australian Wheat Board. Keith thence established a Cadet Wheat Inspector’s recruitment program where talented young entomologists and agricultural scientists were recruited in every mainland state in Australia.

In 1978, Keith was engaged by Arthur Andersen and Company, Andersen Consulting, to establish a Human Resource department with emphasis on the recruitment and retention of graduates in accounting, finance, business and Information Technology (IT). In 1988, he was the inaugural Secretary cum Treasurer of the Australian Association of Graduate Employers Limited (AAGE) and was made National President in 1959.

Keith’s qualification include a Bachelor of Science and a Diploma in Education (Melbourne) 1966, a Bachelor in Education (Monash) in 1972 and a Graduate Diploma in Human Resources at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 1974.

Originally from country Victoria, Keith was a resident at International House, The University of Melbourne from 1963 to 1965 and later served on the College Council from 1994 to 2008. He is the Immediate Past District Governor for Rotary District 9800, and a member of the Rotary Club of Carlton, which meets at Graduate House at lunchtime every Tuesday. Keith’s favourite life saying came from a USA based mentor who advised him to “Conduct yourself so that people around you will want you to succeed”.

NEW MEMBERS on COUNCIL

Keith Ryall, far left, with his wife Gabrielle, and other members of Rotary

The Hon. Justice Tony PagoneJustice Pagone is a Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria. He is also a Professorial Fellow of the Law School of The University of Melbourne and teacher in the Master of Law.

Previously, Justice Pagone was a practising barrister based at the Victorian Bar. He specialised in taxation law but also practised widely in commercial law, constitution and public law and human rights law, and held a position on the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT).

In 2002 he was appointed to the then newly created position of Special Counsel to the Australian Taxation Office.

Justice Pagone has held governing positions as Chairman of the Australian Community Support Organisation (ACSO), Board Member and President of CO.AS.IT, a not-for-profit organisation for Italians and Australians of Italian descent, and Board Member of Melbourne Girls Grammar School.

The Hon. Justice Tony Pagone



NEW MEMBERSWe extend a warm welcome to newmembers of the Association.

Honorary Life MembersThe Hon. John Cain

Honorary MembersMajor General Professor Jeffrey V Rosenfeld AM

Ms Jo Ligouris, The University of Melbourne Vice-Chancellor’s Representative on Council

Regular (Ordinary) MembersColonel J.R.T. Beckwith Ms J.GillsMr D MorrisMs M Morris

Resident MembersOverseas Country of OriginCanada 3, Denmark 4, Egypt 1, Equador 1, France 3, Germany 1, Ghana 1, Indonesia 1, Iran 1, Italy 1, Japan 1, Malaysia 1,New Zealand 2, Pakistan 1, P. R. China 2, Saudi Arabia 1, Singapore 4, Spain 6, Sweden 3, United Kingdom 3, USA 4.

Australia State of Origin New South Wales 4Queensland 2Victoria 3Western Australia 3

VALETEOur condolences are extended to families and friends.

Dr M Gooey, Life Member since 1955Dr E Koadlow, Life member since 1966Mr H Lorraine, Member since 1955Dr A G Parker OAM, Life Member since 1963

BEQUESTS AND DONATIONSWe are grateful for the generous support of donations and bequests from:

Dr Francis GalvinMs Mary KelleherMs Alicia RaynerMs Elizabeth ShawDr Geoffrey Vaughan

Other kind members and friends who wish to remain anonymous

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OUR INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS

Glenys Goricane, Member since 2011After graduating from La Trobe University with a Bachelor of Science, majoring in Chemistry, in 1975, Glenys commenced her professional career as a Research Assistant at Monash University. In 1977, she married her husband, Stanley, whom she met at University. Glenys then worked at Nicholas Research Laboratories as a cosmetic chemist, and at the Victorian Forensic Science Laboratories in the Drugs Section.

Subsequently, Glenys diversified her professional focus, joining Telstra’s National Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) group in 1981 and undertaking postgraduate diploma studies in Occupational Hygiene at

Deakin University. Whilst at Telstra, Glenys managed the Victorian and Tasmanian regions, and later, national project and consultancy services across Australia. In addition to undertaking professional development courses through Telstra, Glenys gained a Masters degree in Environmental Engineering from The University of Melbourne.The mid to late 1980s saw the arrival of daughters Amanda Joy in 1986 and Alicia Lee in 1989. With Telstra’s increasing emphasis on out-sourcing during its significant structural re-organisation in the 1990s, Glenys took the opportunity to become a private consult in Occupational Health and Safety (OHS). Her major clients are in the tertiary education and research sectors, and have included Monash University, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Animal Health Laboratories and La Trobe University.

In 2000, Glenys was contracted by The University of Melbourne for casual lecturing and subject co-ordination in the Masters degree with the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. She also taught part-time at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT). Having thoroughly enjoyed her eight years in tertiary education, Glenys consolidated her teaching qualifications by completing a Bachelor of Teaching degree in Primary and Secondary Education from Deakin University in 2011. Glenys is currently the Director of Environmental, Health and Safety Services at Phoenix Chemicals, and provides specialist consultancy services to client organisations that are mainly from industry. To increase her involvement in the local community, in 2006, she joined the Friends of Monash Gallery of Art management committee and since 2010, has been its Secretary. In 2013, Glenys plans to commence doctorate studies in Education at Monash University and will actively maintain her commitment and involvement on committees.

In late 2011, Glenys met a group of very enthusiastic Graduate Union members at boat race on the Yarra between Sydney University and The University of Melbourne. From these discussions, she learnt that The Graduate Union provides a professional and intellectually stimulating environment in a social forum for graduates from all over the world. She became a member that same year and has been pleased with The Graduate Union and is looking forward to further involvement in her future years of membership.

Glenys on graduation day

Glenys with her husband Stanley and daughters, Amanda and Alicia

Our Membership comprises non-resident, resident and organisation members. Thank you to the following members for sharing their graduate stories.




Snapshot of the GSBE website featuring the Vocational Business Practicum (VBP) with which Huiting is actively involved.

Huiting Wang, Resident Member since 2011Huiting comes from Beijing, the capital city of China, where she obtained her Bachelor degree of International Economics and Trade in China. She is now undertaking a Masters of Management in Accounting at The University of Melbourne. Her main areas of interest are taxation, management accounting, corporate finance and marketing.

Since arriving in Australia in 2011, Huiting has been putting her studies into practice. In early 2011, she took part in the ANZ Bank sponsored Strategy Presentation Challenge (SPC). In July of that same year she was involved in a project with the Victoria Business Program, whereby she and three other postgraduates worked in Shepparton with the local council and Goulburn Valley Health to analyse the potential economic effects of train service improvement. The results from this project have been published in the Local Council’s 2012 report and have informed planning from the important perspective of regional economics. Over 2011, Huiting was also the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the Graduate School of Business and Economics (GSBE) Student Association and was recognised for her significant contribution with the GSBE Leadership Award in December 2011.

Ms Wang is currently the Bloomberg Assessment Test Ambassador for Australia where her main responsibility is to promote free Bloomberg Assessment Tests at Universities. These tests enable students to self-assess their study progress against global peers, and to make contact with companies across the world that are the leading providers of graduate employment.

Huiting learnt about Graduate House whilst in China when she was searching for graduate student accommodation in Melbourne. She feels happy and fortunate to have found The Graduate Union, “People here are so friendly and

helpful and it is like a big family. You can talk to people from different backgrounds and learn from them. It is really a good opportunity and place for students to make friends and promote networking.”

Huiting Wang

Huiting with friends on a trip to Soverign Hill, Ballarat



Dr Geoffrey Norman Vaughan AO, Life Member since 1963Geoffrey Vaughan was born in Sydney and attended Homebush Boy’s High School where, as we learn from the following graduate story, his Chemistry teacher and school rugby coach, Mr Neil Madsen, was of great influence on his early life.

In 1956, Geoffrey graduated from Sydney University with a Master of Science, majoring in Chemistry, and in 1961 he gained his PhD in Chemistry from The University of Melbourne.Geoff was a Wallaby. For our international readers, this does not mean that he started life as a marsupial. On the contrary it means that he has always been a human but probably through this strong influence of the aforementioned Mr Madsen, developed particularly good skills at the football game known as rugby union. Being a Wallaby means that he represented Australia in a team entitled the Wallabies who are now easily recognised by their gold and green sporting uniforms.Geoff played in six tests in 1957 and 1958. Not surprisingly, he was captain of The University of Melbourne Rugby Club when they won four premierships from 1959 to 1963. He remembers fondly the 1950s and 1960s as golden years with six premiership wins in eight years for The University. Geoff’s first job was as a Lecturer in Pharmaceutical Chemistry at The Victorian College of Pharmacy based, interestingly at the Parkville campus of Monash University just up the road from The University of Melbourne. Over the next twenty-six years he progressed from Lecturer to Senior Lecturer to Dean of Chemistry, and from 1979 to 1986, to Dean and Director of the College. At Geoffrey’s PhD graduation in 1961, William Berry, the then Secretary-Warden of the Graduate Union, was outside Wilson Hall offering new graduates membership of the Graduate Union. It was only a small fee to take up life membership which the newly titled Dr Vaughan so elected to do. This started an association with The Graduate Union that spanned more than fifty years, with Geoff serving on the Council of the Graduate Union during the 1980s.In 1986, Dr Vaughan was invited to take up the position of Director of the then Chisholm Institute of Technology. This college of advanced education was a multidisciplinary institute with a range of courses at graduate and post-graduate levels, and a sound reputation in engineering and business. Four years later Dr Vaughan became the Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research at Monash University under Vice-Chancellor Professor Mal Logan, and thence heavily involved in the start-up of several Cooperative Research Centres (CRCs), and in research management across the University.In 1992, Geoff was invited to the newly created position of National Manager of the Therapeutic Goods Administration in the Commonwealth Department of Health, Canberra. This four year appointment arose from the Baume Report, which had been commissioned by the Keating Government to review drug and medical device registration in Australia. The Report contained 167 recommendations, one of which was to appoint a National Manager who, in the form of Dr Vaughan, subsequently managed to implement the recommendations in full, with the result that Australia met all international standards of that time for drugs and devices.Geoffrey Vaughan then took up directorships of several companies in pharmaceutical and related industries, and was appointed to the position of Chairman of the Australian Government’s Cooperative Research Centres Committee, a committee appointed by the (now-named) Minister for Innovation,


Dr Geoffrey Vaughan



OUR INDIVIDUAL MEMBERSIndustry, Science and Research to provide recommendations about applications for CRC funding, performance, monitoring and review of individual CRC’s activities and the planning, monitoring and evaluation of the CRC Program. Dr Vaughan held this Chair for ten years and thus oversaw significant scientific endeavour and innovation across the nation and across the world in the sectors of the environment, agriculture and rural-based manufacturing, information and communication technology, mining and energy, medical science and technology, and manufacturing technology.He was also appointed as a member of the Industry Research and Development Board, and as Chairman to the Medical Devices Industry Action Agenda.Geoff has gradually semi-retired and currently holds one position as a Director at the Advance Manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre (AMCRC) based at Swinburne University. He now finds time for his hobbies of gardening, swimming and cooking. In this year’s Royal Melbourne Show he scooped the pool in the cooking section for handmade breads with two firsts, two seconds and a third with his five entries. We here at The Graduate Union are looking forward to a demonstration, the more so to experience the wafting aromas of freshly baked bread in Graduate House.Dr Vaughan is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE), has the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws of Monash University, and is an Honarary Fellow of several scientific societies.

Alexandra Veuthey, Resident Member since 2011Alexandra graduated from the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland) in February 2007, and passed the bar in July 2009. During her course of studies, she was also research assistant to Professor Denis Oswald (a member of the Executive Committee of the International Olympic Committee [IOC]), and a scientific collaborator at the International Centre for Sports Studies (CIES). After completing her legal training in 2009, she returned to work on a new research project at this institute. She also served as a graduate teaching assistant and as the Masters Law Module Coordinator for CIES/FIFA [Fédération Internationale de Football Association]. This international Masters is organised in partnership with three universities: De Montfort University (England), SDA Bocconi School of Management (Italy) and the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland). It is endorsed by FIFA and was created to promote management education and the development of top all-round managers. It was named Europe’s best postgraduate sports course by the Sport Business Review in 2012.Alexandra has worked in several law offices, located in Neuchâtel and Geneva. As the author of several published works, particularly in Sports Law, she has spoken at an international conference in Rennes, France, and taught within the International University Network FIFA/CIES in Dakar, Senegal. Her fields of specialisation include hooliganism, gender verification and association law. Currently a postgraduate student in the Melbourne Law School, she commenced her Masters by Coursework in Sports Law in February 2012. Though she is already qualified to practice law in Switzerland, she is keen to deepen her legal knowledge, to experience living abroad and to improve her skills in English - essential in a global world. Alexandra will complete her Masters in February 2013, after which she will try to extend her visa so that she can travel around Australia, and possibly look at job opportunities. She may also return to her country, where many of the world’s major sports federations are based.

Alexandra Veuthey




RONALD THOMAS RYE, Member since 1955Ronald obtained a Government scholarship in 1940 to study electrical engineering. As he was only seventeen in 1941, he was exempted from military training and in 1942, he was in a “reserved occupation”; that is, he was considered of more potential national worth by continuing his education in engineering than by learning to use guns and bayonets.

Apart from those men volunteering for overseas service, the war initially felt a long way away. However, this feeling ended with the attack on Pearl Harbour by the Japanese in December 1941. Concurrently, the Japanese were advancing south down the Malay Peninsula - a huge wake up call to Australia.

Severe austerity measures were introduced and essential items were rationed. Unnecessary manufacture was halted and priority was given to the manufacture of essential goods likely to be cut off from overseas sources should the enemy be so successful. Slit trenches, dug in the lawns of The University of Melbourne, became filled with appealing cold muddy water during the 1942 winter. Ronald was issued with a tunic, trousers, hat and boots for the University Rifles Brigade. An interesting component of his training was the absence of a rifle. Women’s auxiliary units took up some of the colleges’ accommodation, and could be seen parading and drilling on the main sports oval.

Following this fearful period, life became more relaxed with Ronald joining others in social activities centred around the North Essendon Anglican church, in club meetings and choirs. Dances were held from time to time there, and at the Essendon High School.

Some lecture memories were unique to the times. For physics, then called Natural Philosophy, Professor Laby, in the later years of his distinguished career, fined Ronald a pound or two for making a remark to his neighbour during a lecture. This was a tremendous amount for a financially strapped student, and Ronald remembers the generosity of his entire class who pitched in, leaving him with only a few shillings to pay.

Ronald’s lectures in electrical engineering were provided by Professor Brown who was also in the later years of his academic career. The technology that he was introducing to these young students had not changed appreciably from that he had introduced to student cohorts thirty or more years previously. Most of his third year maths was much more esoteric than needed in his subsequent career. By contrast, a curiosity in the first year maths lectures was a short subject called “practical mathematics”, in which he had to revert to elementary arithmetic - long tots, long division, taking square roots, calculating Pi to dozens of decimal places using a classic formula, all using neat and well-formed hand writing.

Engineering calculations used the slide rule, accurate to about one percentage point. Greater accuracy required a book of seven figure logarithms, or for even greater complexity, use of a machine calculator. The first computer monster, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Automatic Computer (CSIRAC), did not appear until 1949 and is now in the Melbourne Museum.

Ronald’s post-University employment was with the Department of Civil Aviation on the development of communication and navigation infrastructure for the rapidly growing airline traffic industry.



OUR INDIVIDUAL MEMBERSIn the early days of his employ, radio and control equipment, including CSIRAC, required valves, glass evacuated tubes from 2 cm upwards in size that were fragile and subject to frequent failure. Communications outside cities mainly used slow Morse code on overhead lines or undersea cables, subject to breakages due to storms. Short wave radio was gradually introduced, relying on reflection from the natural electrically charged layers, 50 kilometres to 500 kilometres above. These reflections were subject to fading, and required routine changes of radio frequency to follow day/night and seasonal changes.

News from USA was received on “Press Wireless” short wave radio at Rockbank, some 25 kilometres west of Melbourne, to avoid city electrical interference, and then via landline to the city. This was “leading edge” technology, using teletype machines, but still limited to about the speed of a fast typist, and only on one channel, running continually, but with occasional fading. In collaboration with ICAO, the United Nations agency for worldwide air traffic standardisation, Ronald adapted this type of equipment to air traffic needs.

Over the following years, key world inventions ensued - transistors in 1948, satellites in 1956 and microcircuits and fibre optics in about 1978. Ronald relished the constant challenge of continually incorporating new technologies into working processes which provided improved efficiency and safety in the workplace.

Ronald retired from The Department of Aviation (DCA) in 1984, and maintains a keen interest

in technology. He was much impressed by a recent exhibition by The University of Melbourne’s engineering students on their research work and hopes to continue to keep his mind open and learning during this exciting period of developments in information and communication technology.

Graduation in 1943 of a curtailed three-year course. Ronald, pictured in the back row first from the left, and about six others, completed the normal

four-year course under the imprimatur of the war time “manpower control” organisation.



OUR ORGANISATION MEMBERS

The Pedallers on the bike path at Abbotsford Convent

Carlton-Parkville Probus Probus clubs exist for the purpose of giving retired and semi-retired professional and business people a framework where they can meet others like themselves and do things in their company. They are often associated with the local Rotary Clubs and share a similar membership base, but Rotary is an active organisation that raises money and performs good works, whereas Probus is essentially social.

The Probus Club of Carlton-Parkville, was set up with the help of Carlton Rotary and the Carlton Residents Association in 2009, and it is still growing. At the end of 2009, their membership comprised 30 members. Three years later, they have over 90 members, which has enabled some newcomers and even some of the ‘oldcomers’ to bring new ideas and positive contributions to the administration of the association.

Most members are local people from around Carlton, Parkville and Fitzroy and tend to share a set of common attitudes. The club is structured to include a number of special interest groups for the purpose of enjoying local resources, particularly the many cafés and restaurants in the area.

Social activities include theatre, movies, bridge, book discussions, practical arts, dining, local bicycle riding and walks in and around Melbourne. The walking group, dine-out group and movie group were formed very early in the club’s history, and reflect the club’s sense of identity today. The most recently-formed special interest group is The Pedallers, formed to take advantage of the good network of bike paths in the area. This group has pushed the range of accessible cafés out to the suburbs of Abbotsford, Coburg and Footscray.

Probus Carlton-Parkville meets once a month at Graduate House, which is comfortable, pleasant and very conveniently located for us. Some of Probus members stay after these monthly meetings for lunch in the dining room, and this is very much in line with the main purpose of the club.

Probus Club members on a walking tour of Albert Park



We acknowledge and thank our Organisation Members for their continued patronage.

AUSTRALIAN ASIAN ASSOCIATION

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF PATRONAGE



VALETE

ORGANISATION MEMBER EVENT

Health Systems Management GraduationThe Hon. David Davis MLC, Leader of the Government in the Legislative Council, and Victorian Government Minister for Health and Minister for Ageing, attended the Health Systems Management Graduation on the 27th of September, 2012, to assist with conferring of awards to 62 graduates of the Professional Certificate in Health Systems Management.Held at The Graduate Union, the graduation was a successful and memorable event with a high turnout of graduates - a tribute to the quality of the course and its academic staff, and to the dedication and commitment of the awardees who put in long hours of study which were rewarded with well-deserved favourable results.The course was initiated to foster best practice leadership and management in the health industry by the Victorian Department of Health which commissioned The University of Melbourne’s Graduate School of Business and Economics to deliver a unique executive education program for health management leaders from hospitals across Victoria. The course has thence been tailor-designed to enable senior management who are in careers the opportunity to become more proficient in the management and practical application of health system operations.The Graduate Union extends congratulations to all graduates of The University of Melbourne Professional Certificate in Health Systems Management and our very best wishes for your ongoing successful careers. We invite all graduates to join as members of The Graduate Union and to contribute their discourses, ideas and actions within our collegium of interdisciplinary, international graduates of universities from around the world.

The Hon David Davies MLC

Dame Elisabeth MurdochIt is with deep sadness that we mourn the death of Dame Elisabeth Joy Murdoch AC DBE (née Greene; 8th February, 1909 – 5th December, 2012), a generous, kind and well-loved Melbourne philanthropist who many of our members had the privilege of meeting and working with over decades. This petite, elegant and intelligent woman was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 1963 for her charity work in Australia and overseas. The Graduate Union extends condolences to her family.

Dr Simon BerryWe are saddened to learn of the sudden death of Dr Simon Berry also on the 5th December, 2012. Simon was the only son of the late Vera Berry and her husband, our long-serving sometime Warden, Bill Berry. A vet who graduated from The University of Melbourne in 1970, Dr Berry was a keen skier, an avid traveller and supporter of the Melbourne Football Club and a reader of World War I history, especially of that relating to the Western Front. The Council, members and staff of The Graduate Union extend our sympathy to his wife Jenny, and to his children and grandchildren.

Dr Simon Berry with Halle, his chocolate labradorRetrieved 10th December, 2012 from www.glenirisvethosp.com.au

with the kind permission of Dr Berry’s family.



MONTHLY LUNCHEONSDR RALPH AUDEHMIn his October presentation “Just another Pill?”, Dr Audehm focused on the use of medications in primary care. Having worked previously with Diabetes Australia Victoria and now as a General Practitioner (GP), his interest is in public health. He explained ‘polypharmacy’ as the new norm and noted the challenges faced by practitioners in understanding the benefits and problems in prescribing multiple medications. He pointed to the lack of research on this issue, notwithstanding polypharmacy being particulalry common amongst the elderly, and to little general understanding in the medical profession of how medications react with one another, especially for people with ‘comorbidity’ - that is, those who have multiple conditions.

Responsible prescribing and use of medications are important issues, particularly with regards to health and the costs to the health system and taxpayers. Only a quarter of Dr Audehm’s regular patients do not take any medications while one-fifth take more than eight per day. People with high blood pressure are those for whom polypharmacy is most common. He is alarmed at the number of drugs taken by people aged over sixty years, and particularly concerned for those with dementia. Using type 2 diabetes as an example, Dr Audehm noted that practitioners and their patients face confusion when managing chronic diseases. Most people with diabetes take at least three different tablets per day, and after ten years, it is common to see them additionally taking blood pressure medications plus a statin for cholesterol, possibly something to thin the blood and other medications for additional illnesses. On the other side of the coin, late prescription of important therapies, a behaviour termed therapeutic inertia when doctors are not prescribing, is dangerous. He explained that some patients who require increased medication are not being prescribed higher dosages, and pointed particularly to insulin where the reluctance pf doctors to prescribe this effective, safe and natural drug, and delaying doing so, is often to the detriment of the patient’s health. Patients contribute to therapeutic inertia by not taking medications when prescribed. Three percent of all hospital admissions are due to adverse drug reactions and a larger percentage of emergency admissions among the elderly are related to drug reactions. In Dr Audehm’s view, costs to the health care system could be avoided. He is calling for a better structured and systematic approach to polypharmacy, proposing that GPs, specialists and physicians could work more effectively with community nurses and pharamacists in sharing medication reviews and management.

SHANE McSWEENEYShane McSweeney is an Occupational Therapist who works at Guide Dogs Victoria, one of Victoria’s oldest and best loved charities, and with the Eye Research Centre Australia at The University of Melbourne.In explaining sight as a main information provider, he said other body resources do not provide this information as conveniently, quickly and with such assurance. For those with no or low vision from birth, the learning of social skills that occurs so subconsciously for people with vision is thus often impacted.In this November monthly luncheon presentation, Shane gave a variety of different

scenarios to illustrate how people with no and low vision can be given experiences for developing their own strategies to improve their safety and confidence in negotiating their social, working and personal lives. He advocates the provision of detailed verbal information about happenings in the surrounding environment, about what is normal behavior and on how to act with dignity and pride; and gave examples of heartbreaking situations where no or low vision people have not realised that they are not fitting in. He followed these stories with practical solutions that can assist in increasing their chances of feeling and being accepted and involved.Shane spoke to his approaches in fostering the learning of social skills and in optmising social inclusion, including taking young males to hotels and other social environments to give them opportunities to engage with the opposite sex; helping youth to develop shopping and dressing strategies to ensure that they are suitably attired for different contexts and occasions; and assisting them to become independent and competent with grooming, shaving, hair styling, dental health, the application of makeup, etc.He spoke with optimism about current advances with the bionic eye and expressed his view that this will change the face of vision impairment in the next 20 years. In the meantime, he regards vision impairment as a challenge only when it is not understood.

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful Helen Keller (1880-1968)



SNIPPETS from the CULINARY SECTION

Hello and welcome once again to the Culinary Section of Graduate House.2012 has been a busy year and the Culinary Section has been kept on its toes delivering breakfasts and dinners for residents and looking after catering requirements and carefully designed menus for our Academic and Professional Development Meeting patrons and our Dining Room lunch and dinner patrons alike.To conclude 2012, we offer here are some fun and handy hints for some common problems for the up and coming amateur cook, together with interesting food facts that may or may not prove to be useful!

Why is my meat always as tough as old boots? This is a very common issue, with a simple solution. Let’s use a roast for example. Imagine the meat you have chosen is a muscle. If you have had that muscle in the oven for a period of time, it tightens, much the same way as if you would if using weights at the gymnasium. At the gymnasium, you will ‘rest’ your muscle before proceeding. The very same technique can be applied to your cooked meat. Once you have removed the meat from the oven, you must allow it to ‘rest’ before carving it. The general rule is resting for half the amount of time it took to cook. By turning off the oven, leaving the door slightly ajar and covering the meat in foil you will help to maintain the meat at a safe temperature.

Did you know that a banana may be classified as a herb? The word herb at its broadest can mean, a plant whose green parts (usually leaves, sometimes stalks) are used to flavour food.The banana leaf is often used in cooking, not only as a wrap in which foods are cooked, but also to impart flavour. In that context, the banana (plant) can be considered a herb.

How do I know when my roast chicken is cooked ? Simple! The chicken, or chicken piece, will exude cooking juices. Lightly press the chicken and observe the colour of the cooking juice. If the juices are pink, it is not ready. If the cooking juices run clear, the chicken is cooked.

My food sticks to the pan! Make sure your pan is hot before adding food. This will help to prevent food sticking.



I cannot stop crying when I cut onions!Keep your onions in some water in the fridge to prevent the flow

of tears when you are later preparing them for cooking.

Whenever I bake a cake, it seems to come out very dry ...There could be a number of reasons for this problem.Firstly, the obvious and I am not for one instant suggesting that you have read the recipe incorrectly but do please remember that sometimes 400 millilitres of liquid is not equal to 400 grams. Every oven has a different personality, cooking times and ideal cooking temperatures so after speaking to it in a loving and calm tone, and giving it a hug, remember that the temperature indicated in recipes should always be used only as a guide.Use a skewer to insert into the cake to help determine if it is cooked. Don’t worry if the skewer comes out a little wet, as the cake will continue to cook after it is removed from the oven.Another possible solution to the dry cake syndrome is to place a tray of water in the bottom of your oven. This moisture within the oven may help to achieve a moist cake.

How do I remove the stone from an avocado safely?Your knives are your ‘tools of the trade’ and your friends in the kitchen. The upmost care should always be observed when using knives and in this example, respectful use of a knife is illustrated.Ensuring that the knife is sharp, slice down into the avocado until you hit the stone. Rotate the avocado away from you, with the heel of the knife rotating around the centre stone. Carefully remove the knife, and place it down on your working bench. Hold the avocado in both hands twisting both halves in opposite directions.Holding the avocado in your palm, carefully stab the stone with the heel of your knife, twist and pull out the stone.Remember that a sharp knife is a safe knife and that a blunt knife, in requiring more pressure could cause more injury to the user should it slip. A visit to the accident and emergency department is best avoided if at all possible over the festive season.

The Culinary Section at Graduate House wishes you all the best and safety in the kitchen over the festive season.

If you have further questions, please feel free to contact us at [email protected]

Kris Reid, Head Chef



FESTIVE SEASON PRODUCTS

For the 2012 festive season and beyondThe 2012 Graduate House festive season products have been prepared by Head Chef Kris Reid and the talented members of the Culinary Section of Graduate House. The multinational nature of this product range has proven to be extremely popular with a membership that enjoys high quality, good taste and the joy of finding a special and unique gift for a loved one.Members have either purchased the jams, sauces, pickles and biscuits as individual items; or small to large hampers with festive wrapping and their choice of product combination.

Fig and Orange Jam $7.50 Chocolate Sauce $5.50 Marmalade $5.50 Asian Pickle $5.50 Egyptian Ma’amoul biscuits $4.50 Apricot Jam Shortbread $4.50

Due to popular demand, Graduate House will continue this product

range over 2013.

Order by telephoning (03) 9347 3428or online at:

www.graduatehouse.com.au



Our gift range also includes:

Mugs $5.00

Pens $5.00

Key chains $3.00

Reusable Keepsake Cups $ 10.00 Metal Handbag Holders $ 15.00

The newly named Phillip Law Members’ Lounge now houses a display cabinet showcasing The Graduate Union apparel which comprises mens and womens polos, a windcheater with hood, a merino pullover, a knitted vest and a cap. This clothing range is made to last and is of the highest quality materials. It is made by Rowboat, a company that specialises in products for rowers and seafarers. Please come in to see this popular range and to purchase from our office. Alternatively, order online from our website - see the link to Rowbust on our home page www.rowbust.com/graduate-house

MENS POLO $40

WIND CHEATER WITH HOOD $50

MERINO PULLOVER $110

CREW NECK T-SHIRT $30

KNITTED VEST $50

CAP$30

WOMENS POLO$40

COLLEGE GARB and other MERCHANDISE



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