50th reunion uwa graduates 1970

50th Reunion UWA Graduates 1970Saturday 21st November 2020

Convocation

ConvocationThe University of Western AustraliaM362, 35 Stirling HighwayCrawley WA 6009 AustraliaTel: +61 8 6488 3006 Email: [email protected]/groups/78667

Date: 21st November 2020

Time: 11.00am

Location: Winthrop Hall, The University of Western Australia

CONVOCATION Master of Ceremonies: Angela Evangelinou-Yiannakis

Warden: Lesley Cala

Deputy Warden: Brett Davies

Convocation Officer: Juanita Perez

Reunion Booklet Editors: Kris Bather and Devon Cuneo

Official Photographer: Manny Tamayo

Tour Guides: Carl Altmann, Friends of the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery Ron Bodycoat, UWA Historical Society Terry Larder, former Manager of the UWA Visitors Centre Mary Ann Yeats and Barbara Kent, Friends of the Grounds

1970 REUNION ORGANISING SUB-COMMITTEEAngela Evangelinou-Yiannakis (Chair), Devon Cuneo, Ric Stern and Elliott Wallace

VOLUNTEER HELPERS Geoff Bower, David Fletcher, Neil Jarvis and Anne Robinson

FOREWORD This booklet includes a précis of the information submitted by the 1970 graduates who responded to our request for biographical information. We apologise for any errors or omissions.

Front cover sketch by Don Thomas, UWA Graduate 1938Inside cover sketch by John Mungham

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50th Reunion of the Graduates of 1970IN MEMORIAMIt is understood, with regret, that the following graduates of 1970 are deceased. Every effort has been made to ensure this list is correct at the time of printing. Any errors or omissions are entirely unintentional.

ARCHITECTURE, LANDSCAPE AND VISUAL ARTSDigby Cullen

ARTSIan AndersonJohn AndersonWilford ArndtJill Bain (née Cox)Miervaldis BalodisRonald BarryMaureen Bickley (née Wong)Kathleen Brenton-Coward

(née Prebble)Mal BrycePeter BubbMary BurnsHal ColebatchFrancis ConnellBarbara ConnorDolores CostelloHenry CourtJohn CoxValerie CreaseyPeter CrossGeorge DunnLillian EllisCatrina Florides

(née Hoeberigs)Howard GaskinAlbert GilbertErnest GoldfinchJohn GradyGraeme HawkinsRonald HawkinsKathleen HoughPeter HuljichJohn JobPru Joske (née Apperley)Roger KellyDonald LethamAntony LordJohn LoveMary MaddoxMichael MarinovichClive Markey

Harold McCarthyKenneth McDonaldEdward McGowanBarrie McMahonJennifer Medcalfe-MooreBrian NelsonDavid PalandriJohn PriceSuzanne Reeve (néeMcGlinn)Ruth Sampson (née Snell)Colin SearsEdward SharpeBruce ShawJoan SmithKenneth SpanneyTom SputorePauline SteelLaurel Stockwell (née Parry)Doreen TrainorRonald UpsonMargaret Van HattemAllan WhiteBrian WilliamsJohn WinfieldSally Woods (née Brathwaite)

BUSINESS SCHOOLRoss HarroldAndrew RoseBrian TraynorCharles FeltonGary CookIan FawcettKenneth KirkbyKevin BennettMalcolm BaileyMichael SainsburyPeter KotaiRobert WinchDoctor of LawsStanley Prescott

EDUCATIONAllan BagleyJoy BignellLeslie BowlerIan EastwoodNaomi Ferreirinho

(née Saggers)Irwin GellMargaret GordonRaymond HenryPeter JorgensenMurray LakePauline LambertJulia Leat (née Munday)Janet LeiversMichael LouisIan MarkeyTrevor MillerJohn NewbyCharles NolanLarry OatesGordon PalmerGeoffrey PowerGwendoline RussellHubert TilbrookKevin WassRobert WeilandMargaret WhiteHelen Zani (née Bennett)

ENGINEERING, COMPUTING AND MATHEMATICSGeoffrey AdamAlan CookDonald CousensIan CrawfordSamuel FisherPeter HenfryHarry Jones

GRADUATE RESEARCH SCHOOLGarry BartramAnton DraytonChristopher HilfordVincent Horner



HONORARY DOCTOR OF DENTAL SCIENCEGilbert Henderson

HONORARY DOCTOR OF LETTERSAlexandra HasluckHans Pollak

HONORARY DOCTOR OF SCIENCEHarry Waring

LAWPaul HealyJohn JustisJames MacDonaldMichael StevensonDavid WignallGeorge Winterton

MEDICINE, DENTISTRY AND HEALTH SCIENCESAndrew BarclayPeter BurvillDavid CarneRobert ColemanDouglas HutchinsonDanuta JemielitaZylvain JemielitaRichard NowotnyRay OwenRussell RigbyGillian SchlafrigGraeme StewartAndrew TresisePeter Webster

SCIENCECraig AitkenErica Baker (née Rudeberg)Mervyn BrounWilhelm BuchholzWilliam ClarePeter ColomberaIvor De SouzaDayalji DeviaRichard DimondRonald DrynanDennis HarwoodCatherine KoehnePatricia Mather (née Kott)Richard MerrittDonald MurrayBarry PerichDonald PhilpMaxwell PittKevin RichardsVivian RobinsonFrancis SouthcombeDomenico TassoneStephen Trevenen


50th Reunion of the Graduates of 1970APOLOGIESThe following graduates are unable to attend the Reunion; many of whom sent their best wishes and regrets that they were unable to join us on this occasion.

ARCHITECTURE, LANDSCAPE AND VISUAL ARTSJohn Bingham

ARTSRoberta AtkinsonPeter BarrettKevin DavineSarah EbnerElaine ElliottPamela FoulkesGeoff HammondGillian Kerr-SheppardPamela McLeanBronwyn MellorNeil MilliganJane PeachJohn PrattEva PriceDiane SnooksNgiap-Joo J TanAnnette Fowler

BUSINESS SCHOOLNeal DavisTimothy HantkeRobert PemberGeoff Totterdell

EDUCATIONColin AbeJohn AndertonClyde BantNeil BardsleyMaureen BartonGary CongdonToni EveringhamGeorge FauldsRobin FouldsIrene FroylandMargaret GunnRay HouseRobert MacMathJohn McPheeJohn PearceRobert PowellRon WaddyPeter MallaboneJohn Ferrell

ENGINEERING, COMPUTING AND MATHEMATICSJohn AndersonKenneth BeerGeoffrey BinckesAsvin ChintakanandaPeter HopwoodJohn JeffreysRichard LeeDavid McBeanGeoffrey MogridgeTimothy RileyTony Scott

GRADUATE RESEARCH SCHOOLMilton ClarkRoss GamblePeter HealyTanveer KhanTom Ratajczak

LAWAndrew Thompson

MEDICINE, DENTISTRY AND HEALTH SCIENCESTine AdamsGeoff Brooke-CowdenColin MastersZeke PervanPeter RandellJust U StoelwinderTony Taylor

SCIENCERoger AtkinsonGlenis AylingAnnette BarbettiJon BuckeridgeMyra CakeAlan CamacDavid CookPatricia CookeLawrence DavidsonKen FungRichard HaynesJonathan HillmanNeil HogstromIan HumeDoris JohnsonPatrick LaiMarion LuggWaverley LynchAnne MastersErrol MuirArthur PattersonMike PerryDavid RomeArnold RosielleDelys ShiersRodney SmithAustris ZalaiskalnsFrances Allen

Apologies and best wishes for an enjoyable luncheon have also been received from:

ARCHITECTURE, LANDSCAPE AND VISUAL ARTSDavid A. Sutton Teong-Lian Yew

ARTSJudith M. Baker Robert G. Bennett Susan M. Bennett-Ng

(née Bennett)Anne R. Bosman Frances T. Bowman

(née Tilbrook)Clarke A. Brown Ann M. Bruse Warwick A. Bubb Felicity C. Buttrose Mary-Rose Callaghan

(née McAuliffe)Judith M. Carroll Chaya C. Chulasiriwongs Irina Cleland Abraham Cohen Jocelyn R. Colleran (née Payne)Janette Colless Pamela W. Cook Mary J. Crocetti David A. Curtis Kathleen L. Dawe Lorna H. Dick Joanne C. Donohoe Mary-Jo Duffy Mary G. Evans Anne E. Evans

(née Firstenberg)Mary C. Fearnley-Sander Robin E. Fitzgerald Siobhan A. Foley Richard F. Fuller Robin R. Gillett Rodney D. Guthrie Lim K. Hee Elizabeth M. Hill Christine A. Hoar

Vaughan Howard Peter I. James Philip C. James Wolf M. Jordan Rhonda C. Kelly Helen M. Kennedy Juliet M. Knauerhase Silvia S. Koce Maria Kuczma Whye S. Kwan John F. Lazzari Donald E. Lee Pauline J. Lee Janette E. Little Laurel M. Low (née Cooper)Caryl A. MacLeod Judith V. Mann Francine E. May Kerry A. McDougall Paul E. McGillick Roland J. McKay David P. McKeich John M. McLeod Jennifer A. Mews James C. Miller Susan E. Moulten (née Jenkins)Judith A. Parker

(née O’Mahony)Glenn G. Pipitone Roma F. Richards Paul H. Roberts Carolyn L. Roberts Marion J. Roberts Maureen C. Robinson

(née Lightowlers)Leslie A. Sadowsky Robert A. Saffrey Mary T. Salter (née Baczynski)Sydney G. Sandow-Richardson Diana R. Sargent Janette H. Slattery Suzanne Slowiak (née Simpson)Colin L. Smith Gayle P. Sweeney Robin R. Tan

Mary G. Tormey Elizabeth T. Tuppin Anne T. Vigar (née Barrass)James A. Vile Janet M. Wallwork Jane R. Watkins Yoke-Lan Watt Alan E. Wilkinson Jillian A. Williams

(née Bohnsack)Bette C. Woodward Peter L. Young

BUSINESS SCHOOLRoderick M. Aitchison David G. Atkinson Christopher E. Bennett Peter G. Blake Andrew J. Booth Patrick K. Brennan Howard Ping Kwan Chak Boon Heng / John B. Cheak Sin W. Chew Soo Eng E. Chew Huez L. Chiou Pinkie Y. Chung Edward T. Dyer John S. Fitton Betty P. Goh Fook-Yeow Heng Peter R. Kidman Yuk K. Liu William J. Lochting Leslie Mann Peter J. Martin Geoffrey Miller Helen M. Morgan (née Court)Jill L. Nash Choon L. Ng Maxwell R. Nichols Eng Hai Ong Graham R. Parker Chanpen Puckahtikom Andrew S. Quek Anwer R. Rizvi

LOST – GRADUATES OF 1970We are still trying to find some ‘lost graduates’ listed below. Anyone knowing the present address of any of these graduates is requested to pass the information to the Convocation Officer at [email protected]. Please note that names in brackets are maiden names.



John L. Segal Thomas S. Sim Stephen R. Smith Marie C. Then

EDUCATIONChristopher Albany Michael J. Anderson Leslie B. Banyard Jacqueline J. Bell John J. Browne Roseann BudiselikCarlsa J. Carter (née Gillson)Paula M. Cruikshank Thomas M. Docherty Trevor B. Gallagher Stacy G. Gallagher Theresia C. Glover

(née McGowan)Peter F. Gribble Wendy M. Griffiths Walter G. Hall Peter B. Hamilton Edward J. Harken Susanne Harris Florence M. Haycock Lynnette M. Healy (née Lapsley)Terrence W. Jackson Jeremy M. Jordan Brian A. Lange Nguyen V. Ninh Max J. Petrich Robin D. Porteous Pamela M. Relton Rosalind M. Rennie

(née Raymond)Margaret J. Reynolds Donna K. Rogers Sheila Rogers Carole J. Rowe

(née Hutchinson)Jane A. Sax Philip A. Shea Margaret J. Sherwood Rommert A. Spoor Robin A. Stark John D. Turnbull George M. White Christopher Hon Phin Wong Stephanie J. Wood

ENGINEERING, COMPUTING AND MATHEMATICSJohn Blackborrow Richard A. Campbell Kin-Wei Chia Chen T. Chua Michael L. Cliff Tit B. Fung Kok P. Goon Kock-Eng K. Koh Tong Mok Daryl N. Rapley Richard J. Turner Le A. Vu

GRADUATE RESEARCH SCHOOLSubramanium Nagarajah

LAWPatricia M. Furnival Frederic H. Gillett

LIFE AND PHYSICAL SCIENCESAlan W. Russell

MEDICINE, DENTISTRY AND HEALTH SCIENCESSiak K. Eng Kim G. Halliday Terrence J. O’Sullivan


50th Reunion of the Graduates of 1970LOST – GRADUATES OF 1970

SCIENCELawrence J. Adams Teng C. Ang Christina J. Armstrong Terence W. Arnott Hendrik J. Bakker David R. Baxter Jeff Beng Peter V. Birch Peter B. Birch Mike D. Bolland James J. Brennan Sunthorn Buranaviriyakul Robert H. Caldwell Neil T. Campbell Gavin M. Cann Rosalyn Carson Lewis J. Carter John D. Chapman Po S. Cheng Doreen C. Chin Roland T. Choo Glen J. Coffey Warren R. Davis Katherine Day (née Durk)Frank R. De Hoog David M. Druskovich Trudy J. Edmonds James R. Elliott Sandra D. Elson Keith J. Hall Paul L. Harris Kim Henrick Robert J. Higgins Davy C. Ho Yok W. Ho Fern E. Holmes Michael J. Hough Richard G. Jessop Kok C. Jin Brian R. Jones Bee G. Kam-Yeoh Peck W. Khong Chong Aun A. Koe Wah M. Kok Shoshana Kotlar Chea T. Kwok Kam S. Lam Bouke J. Lange Pick K. Ling

Mooi H. Liow Yoke L. Mah Graeme D. Martin Michael P. McShane Jane M. Mengler Simon J. Millar Charles Musca Bruce R. Myles Boh K. Ng Lee F. Ng Robert J. Nichols Janice M. O Mahony Philip W. Okely Frederick Hock Choon Ong James W. Paganoni Anthony J. Pepper Peter F. Price Richard L. Ringrose Kevin N. Rose Jonathan S. Rowe Ian R. Royce David M. Saunders Omar B. Serudin Michael J. Shepherdson Peter R. Smith Jillian A. Stewart (née Power)Celia A. Stewart (née Rhine)Thomas R. Sweeny Boon W. Tan Pwei C. Tan Reginald F. Thornton Ing C. Ting Mary L. Tucker Darrell Wells Alan T. Wilkie Richard F. Wilkinson Pichaet Wiriyachitra Lawrence H. Wong Kwai W. Wong Robert J. Woodrow Frederick Y. Yip


50th Reunion of the Graduates of 1970LOST – GRADUATES OF 1970

ARTSPhillip K. AbbeyJohn AdamsGillian M. AlcockLucinda H. AllenJune E. AndersonHilton W. AndersonPeter G. AppletonSusan M. Armstrong (Lewis)Hazel M. BarkerDonald J. BarkerRobert E. BartlettMarilyn A. Beech (Anthony)Louisa BellValerie J. BevanRichard N. BlissWilhelmina BonkerRobert L. BootCoral L. BullockDianne J. BurtonMartyn L. ButcherEdward B. CalderFrank J. CamilleriVivien F. CarrAlba A. Chiffelle (Pagnozzi)Ramanathan P. ChittyJoseph H. ChristensenRosemary J. ClarkeMichael N. CostinLorraine D. DaglishFrederika DaviesSusan R. DeakLina DemarteAnne F. DullardAngela R. DuncanMargaret A. Evans (Macoboy)Catherine M. Fauvrelle (Ryan)Paul A. FeldmanAnne L. Fergusson StewartCarol J. FirthDaniel W. FreitagMonique FrichotRoger M. GillisonSonja C. Gottfried (Halliday)Susan J. Gould (Over)

Susan Green (Murray)Peter J. GriffithsJudith M. HeinrichLudwig B. HeinrichSuzanne HigginsMichael M. HoadJohn W. HollandPauline C. JenningsJune E. KennedyEdith M. KernohanIrene G. KohlhagenDeidre N. LanderWilliam V. LenskySuzanne J. LockeKatherine J. LoweLoretta J. Marshall (Tomich)Keven J. McIldowieJoseph McIntyreJohn A. McKenzieChristopher R. McLeodAdele M. McWhaeSandra K. MillsLinley I. MorrisWilliam J. MullerGeoffrey N. NelsonErnest R. NiemackPatric C. NolanMax A. NolanJeanette F. O’NeilMarie R. PagottiMichael F. PalmerRosamond D. PierceIrene M. Pritzker (Dryburgh)Bryan J. ReidMargaret J. ReillyPiah RidzuanPeter C. RodgerChristine RostenLee R. RudkinMarilyn SeatonCharles SkeleChristopher R. SkinnerStuart James SlingerRobert J. SpeechleyRobert J. Steer

Maureen A. StepanoffEarl D. StocktonRosemary N. Stuckey (Beale)Ronald L. SummersValerie J. SurridgeRoland E. TchanRobynne G. ThompsonGregory J. TillettJohn W. TuffenCaroline M. TurnerSrisakra VallibhotamaJohn M. Van BeekGreta J. van der RolRobert J. WalsterTerence G. WatsonChristine M. WhiteLawrence L. WhitmorePeter M. WillettJohn L. WilliamsJeffrey N. WolinskiCheryl A. YoungAhmad YussofZaitune Zaitune

ARCHITECTUREBernard B. ArdaghGregory J. DeasRichard W. MannRichard P. MuhlingGavin A. PerryAngelo StranoFrancis J. Young

LOST – GRADUATES OF 1971We have lost contact with the 1971 graduates listed below. If you have any idea of their whereabouts, please contact the Convocation Office on +61 8 6488 3006, or email us at [email protected], so that we can send them an invitation to next year’s reunion. Please note that maiden names are in brackets.


Can you help us find these Graduates?

BUSINESS SCHOOLNik M. AbdullahRay AnnsonPeter O. BakerSuwarat BhekasutMalcolm J. BromleyKovid ChalinratYoke L. ChanManeerat ChirapaetMurray R. DaveyRaymond C. EvansGraham C. EvansFrankie K. FungPeter J. FurzePaul M. HammondRonald G. HancyHarold C. HodgsonAhmad JamalBethia M. Kennedy-PritchardJean Koh Susanna Koh (Khoh)Richard J. LambMurray B. McDougall Robert R. Meredith Donald G. Moss Lian S. Ng Teng H. Ng Tiong E. Ong Tiong-Eng (Ong)Meng S. PoonMeng O. Poon Jonathan G. Scott Muthialu Semudram Michael K. Thorley Anthony A. TreadgoldGeorge Verevis Pauline B. White (Lawrence)Neil M. WilliamsTony WongWing K. YeungThomas Yow Meng-Tuck (Yow)

EDUCATIONBrian E. RichardsonIan R. RoyceLesley SearleMichael J. ShepherdsonRobert J. SteerJillian A. Stewart (Power)Pwei C. TanColin D. ThieleHeather M. ThompsonJanet K. Tilmanis Anne T. Vigar (Barrass)Janet M. Wallwork Wilfred C. Wong Bette C. Woodward

ENGINEERINGTak-Yim Chan Tak-Yim (Chan)Chee L. Chang Anthony T. Choong Kai-Ken Foong Richard H. Hartley Ming-Thye Lau Say-Kwee Lim Andrew G. Maluish Lloyd F. Margetts Gregory R. Martin Brian R. McKimmie John F. Naunton Frances K. Ng Ian M. Pineira Walujo Subroto Ah Soon Tan Chock-Nguang TaySouko Uusioja Reinier Van De Ruit Chi-Leg Yee

GRADUATE SCHOOLLeslie R. BousfieldFaqir M. ChaudhrySeigo FujimotoWilliam L. LowtherDavid H. Turner

LAWGraeme N. CalderHaydn W. DixonHendrik KremerAlistair R. MacKinlayTerence J. MaloneKathleen D. Morrissey

MEDICINESerge BajadaDiong I. CheeGodfrey S. KaziroLiew S. OngPatricia M. ReynoldsJim SommervilleJohn A. WaddellRodney J. WhiteMargaret N. Wright


Can you help us find these Graduates?LOST – GRADUATES OF 1971

SCIENCERobert J. Aird John B. Ayre Ireneo C. Beltran Merryl M. Bradley (Taylor)Neil M. Butcher Peter Butcher Lewis J. Carter Andrew Chapman Ching-Ping Chih Richard A. Collins Phillip J. Collyer Olwen M. Cook Harvey R. Corish Robin B. Day Anne De Haan Kathleen M. Devine Michael L. Emory Susan G. Ferguson Wayne B. Fulford Roger W. Green Kerren C. Hames Christopher R. Higgs Raymond L. Hobbs David R. Hole Gregory P. Hope Terry R. Howlett Philip A. Jenkins David R. Jones Joseph T. Kam Ting Kwong

Joseph (Kam)George Kirczenow Peter J. Kirton Siew L. Kok See K. Kwong Ralph D. Ladd Huck M. Leow Diana E. Lewis Beverley Lim Tatt-Tuck Loh Bin M. Maarup Karen Majer (Pearce-Shorten)Kok W. Mak Leigh G. Marshall Alan F. Masters Putit Matzen Francine E. May Christopher R. McLeodPamela T. Molloy Dianne M. Murrell Neville C. Punch

Susan D. Rae Nicholas T. RajaretnamRichard M. Robinson Gordon D. Sanson Margaret M. Seeber Gayle V. Shattock Thomas J. Stubbs Richard Szewczyk Kiat Tan Swee T. Tan Martin J. Taylor Jeyalingam TharmalingamPhilip L. Ticehurst Anne E. Utting Raymond M. Walker Varangkana Wall (Apaisuwarn)Edward C. Willock Mark R. Wolinski Nan C. Wong Chee-Hoong Wong Lai-Fung Wong Thin Wong Ting H. Wong Wilfred C. Wong


Can you help us find these Graduates?LOST – GRADUATES OF 1971

Ms Diana ADLER BA ‘65, GradDipEd ‘66, BEd ‘70

Graduating from Claremont Teachers’ College in 1965, I began my teaching career at Hollywood Senior High School, teaching English, French and Social Studies. The following year I was transferred to Gnowangerup District Junior High School where I spent one term before being transferred to Kwinana High School to work as a teacher-librarian. I was on the foundation staff at Balga High (1970) and Thornlie High (1971- 1973).

I’ve always enjoyed learning. Following my BA in 1965, I gained my Diploma of Education (1966), which I then converted to a Bachelor of Education (1970), and I qualified as a librarian in 1971. In 1973 I was awarded a post-graduate scholarship by the French Government, and in 1974 I graduated with a Licentiate in French Linguistics from the University of Besancon. I also studied Spanish for nearly four years.

In 1975 I was appointed lecturer and later, senior lecturer in the Technical Education Division, being the first female Senior Lecturer in English and Languages at Leederville Technical College, as it was then, and at Bentley Senior (now Canning) College. At Midland TAFE, I was the second female Senior Lecturer (the first in General Studies) where I lectured in TEE English and Business English courses.

With re-structuring, my position was made redundant, and ill-health forced me into early retirement in 1998.

In 2008-9 I returned to TAFE as a student and completed a Diploma in Business Management.

In the real world, during the mid-90s I was Vice-President of the Gifted and Talented Children’s Association for two years and Group Leader of the First Maida Vale Scouts, also for two years. More recently I joined the CWA in Kalamunda. I was Branch Secretary for two years, and International Studies Co-ordinator for three years. In this role, I researched the country of study and co-ordinated a day of celebration, with guest speakers and entertainment.

In 1971 I moved to Maida Vale, where I still live. At home, I enjoy working in my yard; the garden is doing reasonably well.


Graduates of 1970 biographies

Mr Roger James ATKINSONBSc (Agric) Hons 1966, PhD 1970

After Perth Modern School (1956-60), I enrolled in the Faculty of Agriculture, residing at St George’s College. I was following a path inspired by my parents, my father Bill, a farmer at Dalwallinu, and my mother Jessie, a graduate from Perth Mod and UWA. Upon graduating BSc (Agric) Hons in 1966, I continued my UWA enrolment as a PhD student in the Department of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, funded by a CSIRO Senior Postgraduate

Studentship. After completing my PhD in 1969, I became a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in the Department of Mining and Mineral Technology, Royal School of Mines, Imperial College, London. At the end of 1970, my wife Anne and I moved to Port Moresby, where I took up a lectureship in the Department of Chemistry, University of Papua New Guinea. Our two children, Julian and Zoe, were born in Port Moresby, but as they approached school age, we returned to Australia in mid-1976. In 1977 I obtained a Reserve Bank Fellowship in Agriculture, enabling me to continue some research in UWA’s Department of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition.

Thereafter, a career change into the field of education, due in part to a lack of immediate employment opportunities in soil science or surface chemistry of minerals, and in part to an attraction into science education, influenced especially by the UK’s Open University. I joined Murdoch University’s External Studies Unit at the beginning of 1978, starting a lifelong learning journey into distance education, educational technologies, and the design and publication of learning resources and educational research works. This has been a very absorbing journey packed with transformations in technologies and pedagogies, so I did not return in any significant way to my science beginnings. Much of this journey which was shared with my partner Clare, continued after my early retirement from Murdoch in mid-2001, most notably in the and Learning Forum series and the Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, and is still continuing with the journal Issues in Educational Research. I enjoy a new and much loved role, Grandpa for Tobias, Matty, Sarah and Annabel. My farm and Faculty of Agriculture experiences are not forgotten, and IIER now competes for time allocations with horticultural experiments in our small courtyard and at my grandchildren’s homes in nearby suburbs.

[email protected]


Ms Kaye BARR BPsych (Hons) ‘70, GradDipEd ‘73

Following graduation, I worked for a year as a Probation and Parole officer, quitting in 1971 to marry and move to Kalgoorlie. Equal pay was an issue, and was obtained only by working as a bar person! With my geologist husband, we later camped in the goldfields prospecting, then later moved to the coast, eventually travelling by small yacht to Africa and the West Indies. The sailing life was not for me in the long term and we separated. I taught in London

for a time. After 7 years away, I returned to Perth where I met and married my second husband, Frank Legge. Our first child died in infancy followed by a secondary infertility struggle. We were fortunate in having and raising two children, the joy of our lives.

I worked as a school psychologist for 9 years after which I opened a private practice. Further training enabled me to work as a psychologist and psychotherapist, which I continue till the present, although now in a semi-retirement phase. Although we lived in Perth, we ran my husband’s farm in the Albany Shire, mainly running specialty AMS sheep. I am widowed now, and the farm is sharecropped, with no sheep, but is deeply loved by our family.

I feel fortunate to have had the training I received that led to the opportunities to work independently and in settings I enjoy, and now to have grandchildren living in nearby regional WA. Whilst modest, income has been sufficient and health has been a blessing. Life has smiled.

Dr Daniel BEDO BSc (Hons) ‘70, GradDipEd ‘71, Msc (University of Toronto) 1973, PhD (ANU) 1978

As a child living near Cottesloe beach, I became interested in nature and wildlife, often exploring nearby bushland reserves or investigating inshore reefs while stalking fish. In high school I attended the WA Naturalists Club and developed an insect collection to museum

standards making it suitable for my later university course work. Inevitably, on leaving school a BSc degree in Zoology was the most attractive option for me. After completing my BSc, with no clear career path in mind, I undertook a DipEd and commenced teaching at high school level. However, my interest in zoology quickly drew me to pursue research on Simuliid (black) flies in a world leading cytogenetics group at the University of Toronto. After gaining my Msc, I returned to Australia for further Phd research at ANU.


On completion of my PhD I worked in the CSIRO Division of Entomology on biological control of sheep blowfly with occasional forays into other insects during outside collaborations. I enjoyed experimental and field work which were a large part of these activities. I have fond memories of Zoology Department field trips in sometimes uncomfortable conditions searching for frogs on a cold, wet night or collecting crabs and shells on Rottnest reefs. Such pursuits continued with collecting Simuliid larvae in cold rushing streams in Canada and the USA. My Simuliid work led to engagement by the Word Health Organisation to visit Africa and apply techniques I had developed to Simuliid vectors of onchocerciasis. The final satisfaction from these adventures came from publishing research results providing new and useful knowledge. I had the opportunity to travel to many interesting places and experience them in a different way to normal tourists.

Unfortunately, reduced funding forced me to leave CSIRO in 1996 and work for the then Commonwealth Department of Primary Industry and Energy. Although mostly clerical work, I could still enjoy field trips to parts of rural Australia in the role of inspections for drought relief applications. I was also able to apply scientific and computing skills in analysing rainfall records for drought assessments. I retired in 2005 after a final year contracted to CSIRO for computer modelling of sheep blowfly life cycles influenced by climate change. Since retiring I moved back to Perth to enjoy the remnants of my childhood environment. I have engaged in various interests including travel, photography, Tai Chi and amateur radio.

Dr Geoff BOWER MBBS ‘70

Dr Geoffrey Bower was:• born in June 1946 and grew up a bit in Dalkeith

when it was a housing estate developed by Peet&Co. One sister and two brothers still communicate.

• offered a place at Perth Modern School for his secondary education along with two good friends from Dalkeith Primary School, Patricia Wauchope and Mal Wilson. High School highs were mostly on the Rugby field and Rifle range but passed his 1963 exams.

• accepted into the Medical Faculty of UWA as a student in 1964.

Rugby and Uni Camp for Kids were the main distractions until his marriage to Carol Stagbouer in early 1969 improved his study habits. Awarded MBBS

With GAB 2015 while working at St George Hospital.


(WA) in April 1970 with the RPH Clinical Staff prize in Medicine and the Lamard prize in Surgery.

After SCGH residency he held Registrar positions at PMH in Perth and was awarded Membership of RACP as a Paediatrician in 1974.

Renal Fellow at The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada 1974/75. Carol and he produced three beautiful children.

Set up the Renal Unit at PMH in 1976. Appointed a Lecturer in Child Health with an NH&MRC Grant for research in Nephrotic Syndromes 1976-1980. A half sabbatical doing further research on Diabetic Nephropathy at University of Minnesota in 1979 was followed by an unsuccessful application for Senior Lecturer, so he left UWA and took up part time training in Nuclear Medicine at SCGH. Also achieved anti-smoking notoriety with BUGAUP activists in 1980.

Awarded an M.Sc (Lond.) in 1985 after Nuclear training at Guy’s Hospital in 1983/84. Part time Nuclear work at PMH then forced his opening of a private Nuclear Medicine practice “Isotope Imaging” in West Perth. This grew to three practices based at Hollywood Private Hospital, The Mount Hospital and Glengarry Hospital with a partner and Associates over almost 30 years. Now a Life Member of RACP and FAANMS. Married Alison Bower in 1996 and had two more handsome children, one seen above – a B. Env. (U.Melb).

Semi-retired in 2014 to work as a part time travelling locum tenens Nuclear PET /CT Physician. Fully retired in September due to the Covid-19 pandemic and travel restrictions.

Dr Sue BOYD BA ‘69, GradDipEd ‘70, DLitt ‘02

Sue is a retired diplomat, with 34 years in the Australian Foreign Service behind her. She was Head of Diplomatic Missions in Bangladesh, Vietnam, Hong Kong and Fiji and also served at the UN in New York, Portugal and East Berlin. Returning to

WA in 2003, Sue started her second career as a non- executive company director, Executive Business Coach with Foresight Global Coaching and, from 2004 to 2013, as President of the AIIA Western Australian Branch. She continues on the AIIA Board as Immediate Past President. Sue has also been on the Boards of Gold Corporation, Volunteering WA, and Gelganyem and Kilkayi Trusts in the East Kimberley.


She is currently on the Council of St Catherine’s College and a member of the Advisory Committee for the Cruthers Collection of Womens’ Art at UWA. Sue loves theatre, opera and music and was once a good golfer. Sue entered UWA in 1966, immediately on arrival as a migrant from the UK and lived at St Catherine’s College for her four years at Uni. She was Miss Judo in the Miss Uni Quest in 1966. Elected to Guild Council in 1968, she became Guild President for 1969 – the first woman to win the position and the first Guild President to serve on the University Senate. Sue again served on Senate from 2004-2013.

Sue has just published her memoir, “Not Always Diplomatic” which covers her time at UWA, her career with DFAT and her “afterlife”, since 2003.

Ms Brenda BUCHANANBA 1965, DipEd 1967, BEd 1970

I began my BA studies as a part-time student while working in commercial offices then continued while a student of Claremont Teacher’s College, also when teaching in the high schools of the State Education Department. After graduating, I was appointed to the Guidance Branch of the Education Department and

continued within the high schools until I was appointed, in 1972, to lecture in Education and Psychology at Mt. Lawley Teacher’s College.

I remained within that Institution through its various name changes. During those years I continued studies for a Diploma of Education, a BEd and further studies in Psychology to become a Registered Psychologist. In 1983, I was appointed as a Student Counsellor and worked in that field until retirement at the end of 1991.

After retirement, I engaged in voluntary activities within migrant groups and other areas within society. I remain interested in interfaith activities, the Arts and politics.

Mr Patrick CORNISH BA ’70, BA ’78, MA ‘80

Still writing after all these years . . . it’s not strictly true that Pelican led directly to Patrick’s career as a journalist, but certainly the university newspaper was a good grounding . . . hanging around for opportunities to show off in print. A survey of UWA’s student toilets was one of the more useful efforts. An arts degree, majoring in


English and French, enabled him to apply for a place on a journalism training course in Wales. Two years on the daily South Wales Echo resulted. These days he writes obituaries and travel stuff for The West Australian, as well as writing and/or editing family histories.

As well as learning much on that launch pad in Wales, he worked in South Africa and Singapore. A hiatus of the intellectual/cultured kind – doing a Master of Arts (thesis) in English at UWA, preceded joining The West in 1980.

As guest speaker for Convocation a couple of years ago, Patrick enjoyed the opportunity to recall, with strong emotion if not 100 per cent exactitude, some of what this campus had brought to him over the decades.

“His academic record was never spectacular but there have been so many fond interludes. For a year he learned Japanese (included the three writing systems) preparatory to trying out his language skills in that country. On a ferry from Hokkaido to Honshu . . . well, if he could explain with competence to locals why children outside Japan were allowed to write left-handed . . . he must have learned well at Crawley.

Patrick’s play, Rise and Shine, was performed at the Octagon. As a break from newspaper work it was enormous fun. In the field of obituaries, one of his poignant moments was writing a tribute to Professor John Hay in 2017. Speaking at the University Club of WA, he credited his former tutor in English with encouraging him to calm down while compiling essays. Hay was absolutely correct to do so. As a consequence, the boyish love of showing off stopped at Pelican, half a century ago. It was time to grow up.

Associate Professor Frances CRAWFORD BA (Hons) ‘70, MSW ‘77, PhD ‘94 at University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana

My time at UWA is treasured as a magical mystery ride into the unknown supported by generous scholars, fellow students and a Commonwealth scholarship. It was a more wide-ranging world than the science stream at Tuart Hill High School where being one of four girls amid 40 boys was the biggest challenge. Some fifty years later in 2017

my last full-time position was with the Hanoi National University of Education under the auspice of the Australian Government to support the development of social work in Vietnam. I am currently an Adjunct Professor of Rural and Regional Social Work at the University of New England, NSW. My research interests focus on rural and regional social work, cultural diversity and child protection with publications clustering around rural social work, community development and international social work.


My first experience on graduation was a posting to cold and strange Canberra. After 12 months with the Commonwealth Public Service I was ready for a change. I spent the same length of time in Sydney as a market researcher for the Colonial Sugar Refinery looking at the building materials required for the mining towns being developed in the Pilbara. This was a greatly improved position with business trips around Australia and interesting work, but I hadn’t been on the trip ‘back home’ to Britain. After the conventional time in London working as a temporary typist between travel trips, it was back to WA in search of a career. I ended up in the Kimberley as a social worker at a time of extraordinary change for Aboriginal people on issues such as voting, mining, drinking and land rights. In Broome I met my husband, Michael Dwyer and we had one child before being transferred to Perth. Our next two children led to deciding on part-time work and this in turn led to thirty years of mainly full-time work at Curtin as a social work academic before retiring after two years at UNE in Armidale, NSW. Now I enjoy time for reflection, family, travel and a modicum of academic work.

Mr Stephen DOBSON BE ‘70, BCom ‘74

Stephen Dobson graduated in Engineering in 1970 and then in Commerce a few years on. He later became a Registered Builder and in 1979 founded Australia’s first company building in modern rammed earth. He was a pioneer in developing this technology in which Western Australia now leads the world. Having built over 750 rammed earth projects, much time is now spent

in making Government approvals easier for this innovative and world leading building technique. With the world seeking to decarbonise the economy, rammed earth buildings, well designed, built and operated can achieve low embodied carbon, low operational energy, true sustainability, long life, high resistance to cyclones, to earthquakes, to impact, to poor geotechnical conditions and all whilst providing thermal comfort naturally ( using it’s very high thermal mass) in most climates including the warmest climates on earth. Prices are reasonable and the aesthetics are often outstanding. All this makes retirement difficult, despite a lifelong love of the ocean.

Married for 43 years with 2 children who are both Architects and 3 grandchildren each 3 years old.

Phone 0419956819Email [email protected] website www.ramtec.com.au


Dr Ian ELIOTBA ‘70

Failure to complete my first academic year in 1960 meant I moved away from UWA for several years while completing teacher training, fulfilling requirements of indenture to the WA Department of Education and establishing a young family. My academic pursuits resumed on a part-time basis in 1965 with enrolment for an Arts Degree, majoring in Geography. Selection of

the two units I chose to study each year was constrained by their availability to part-time students. However Academic staff discussions in meetings of UWA Show Cause Committees for the Faculties of Arts and Science triggered personal introspection for me at least a quarter century after my graduation in 1970. At the end of 1959 I finished high school with no income, little appreciation of university and the possibilities it offered, and was faced with a decision about what course of study I should follow. I had a loose focus on employment as a primary school teacher; a prospect tied to holding a Teaching Bursary that enabled my parents to support me in finishing high school. Physical maturation and a strong interest in progressing through senior levels of my chosen sports also coloured my thinking. Retrospectively, I made very poor decisions about my initial university enrolment, thinking it necessary to pursue a degree in Education and little else. I gradually learnt the necessity of developing my interests through an academic programme.

Dr Annette FINN MBBS ‘70, DipArts ‘16

Following graduation, I undertook my pre-registration year at Royal Perth Hospital (RPH). This involved a general surgical term, a general medical term, a secondment to Fremantle Hospital (paediatric and adult medical), and a secondment to Royal Perth Rehabilitation Hospital, Shenton Park (orthopaedics and paraplegia). The paediatric term

at Fremantle Hospital confirmed my interest in paediatrics such that my year at RPH was followed by fourteen months at Princess Margaret Hospital (PMH).

In February 1972 I flew to England for further experience and training in paediatrics. I initially held locum positions at Central Middlesex and Northwick Park Hospitals, before commencing a twelve-month rotating position at Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children (QEH), Hackney Rd. This hospital was affiliated with the Great Ormond Street Hospital and provided paediatric teaching for London Hospital and St Bartholomew medical students. It was in


a poor area (Tower Hamlets) with a high migrant population and we saw a wide variety of problems, including lead poisoning and tuberculous meningitis. During this time, I attained my D.C.H.

In mid1973 I moved to a highly sought-after SHO/Registrar position at Hammersmith Hospital, which had one of the top neonatal units in London at that time. The workload was onerous, 2 in 3 rather than 1 in 2 after hours on call, but it was a very interesting and instructive term.

At that time in England, MRCP was common to adult and paediatric medicine. The clinical part was either paediatric or adult as requested, but the written part was heavily weighted towards adult medicine. Therefore, I returned to work in paediatrics at Northwick Park Hospital where there was plenty of teaching in adult medicine. I passed the MRCP in 1974 and then worked in paediatric locum positions at Edgeware General and Northwick Park Hospitals until I could afford the flight home in 1975.

Mid 1978 I attained FRACP and became a sessional Neonatal Consultant at PMH as well as joining a private paediatric practice. This involved both seeing referred paediatric patients in the rooms and providing neonatal services to several maternity units outside the tertiary hospitals.

Being on two different rosters was quite onerous and so in 2006 I retired from Private Practice, but continued as a sessional neonatologist at PMH until mid2011. Not quite ready to completely retire, I then held a baby and toddler clinic at a private GP Practice weekly until 2016.

Professor David FLETCHER AM MBBS ‘70

Biography:

Intern 1970 Fremantle Hospital, RMO 1971 RPH, Surgical Registrar 1972 – 1974 Fremantle Hospital (passed Fellowship RACS and Chair Hospital Doctors Association WA), Management Project Officer and Senior Surgical Registrar 1975 – 1976 SCGH.

Senior Surgical Registrar and Resident Surgeon 1977 – 1980 Royal Postgraduate Medical School and Hammersmith Hospital London (upper GI and Hepatobiliary/pancreatic surgery, began gut endocrinology research).

Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor Surgery 1980 – 1994, completed MD 1985 (research Doctorate University of Melbourne), member Victorian Liver Transplant Team and introduced laparoscopic surgery to Australia (1990), awarded Honorary Life Membership Society American Gastrointestinal


Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) for international contribution to endoscopic/laparoscopic surgery.

Professor of Surgery University WA 1994 – 2000, NHMRC supported research in surgical epidemiology with Prof Michael Hobbs.

Clinical Director Surgery and Head Department General Surgery Fremantle Hospital 1994 – 2105, member Reid Reform Committee and HDWA committees planning the building of Fiona Stanley Hospital (FSH) and determining distribution of SMHS surgical services.

Head Department of General Surgery, Chair Consultant Staff Association FSH 2015 – 2020. Foundation Board Member National Institute of Clinical Studies of NHMRC, member Clinical Casemix Advisory Group of Independent Health Pricing Authority, member General Surgery Medicare Taskforce.

Elected to Council of RACS 2015 – 2023 representing Australian and New Zealand General Surgeons, chaired Professional Development and other committees, currently chair Environmental Sustainability Working Party. Awarded Australia Medal AM 2018 for services to gastrointestinal surgery. Graduate Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD).

Semi-retired Feb 2020 to make FTE available for 2 younger capable surgeons. Continue management role at FSH and WA Country Health plus RACS, Commonwealth committees, Chair Surgical Service Registrar Employment Advisory Committee for HDWA, chair SMHS Human Research Ethics Committee, undertake surgical locums in Rural WA.

Married Chrissy in my Intern year, also celebrating 50th wedding anniversary. We have a son, daughter in law, grandson (age 5) and granddaughter (age 3) we love dearly, but sadly have not seen for 8 months as they live in Melbourne. Zoom is not the same!!

Mr John Richard FOSTERBEc ‘70

In 1970 I graduated with an Economics Degree majoring in economics and political science. Whilst at Uni I played rugby, athletics and was a member of a number of clubs and societies including as a committee member of the Bulls and Bears Society. In January that year I married Vie and we went to Canberra where we spent over three decades. I

commenced as a graduate clerk in the economics area of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet followed by a number of years in the international division of the same department. On 11 November 1975 our work


came to a sudden halt upon the dismissal of the Whitlam Government by the Governor General. Interesting times to say the least.

The remainder of my time in Canberra was spent in the Department of the Special Minister of State as well as the Attorney General’s Department. I had an opportunity to undertake many short term government assignments both in Australia and overseas.

We were foundation members of the Brumbies Super Rugby team and spent many years downhill snow skiing and horse riding in the Snowy Mountains. During our time in Canberra we saw it grow from a large country town to a vibrant national capital.

We returned to Perth in 2003 and now live in an apartment in Crawley, not far from where Vie and I first met as undergraduates all those years ago. In those days we just called it The Uni, as it was the state’s only university. We have a daughter Natasha, who recently married, and who has lived in Perth since 2004 having graduated from the ANU in the 1990’s. She lived in London for a number of years before moving to Perth.. Prior to retiring in my late sixties I spent a number of years on contract in the WA state office of the Commonwealth Department of Health assessing tenders for approved aged care homes and in-home care packages.

Returning to Perth has provided opportunity to re-establish many friendships formed during my early primary/secondary years in Kalgoorlie/Boulder and at Scotch College in my senior secondary years. Like many who have returned to Perth in their retirement, Vie and I have come to appreciate all that Perth and the State have to offer.

Mr Ken FUNG BSc ‘70

I was barely 19 years old when I arrived in Perth from Hong Kong to study at UWA in 1966. Those apprehensive days are still very fresh in my mind. However, I settled down to study and graduated in 1970 with a BSc (Hons) degree in Organic Chemistry. In spite of all the usual challenges a foreign student had to face in that era, the time I had at UWA remains

one of the most enjoyable and memorable experiences in my life. My life took a dramatic turn when I met and married an Australian girl, Robyn. We moved to Melbourne to commence our married life and professional careers at the end of 1970. As of October 2020, we have been happily married for 50 years during which time we raised 3 boys and we now have five grandchildren.


I commenced my professional career as a research chemist at the State Chemistry Laboratory (SCL) of Victoria. I finished at SCL as one of the two Assistant Directors prior to working in the policy area with the then Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs in 1988. During this period of my career I gained two postgraduate qualifications: a MAgSc degree from La Trobe University, and an MBA degree from Monash University.

In 1990 I became Manager of the State Water Laboratory (SWL), but it was privatized as Water EcoScience Pty Ltd (WES) by the Kennett Government in 1994. However, I continued to manage WES as its General Manager until 1998 when I was recruited by the Snowy Mountain Engineering Corporation (SMEC) Victoria as Manager Planning and Environment to lead the strategic planning of the company and to develop markets for a range of environmental products. In 2001 I was invited to join the Sustainable Investment Research Institute (SIRIS) to build the business of researching and evaluating environmental and social performance data of organizations for Socially Responsible Investment (SRI).

In 2002 I was recruited by URS Australia as Principal Consultant Catchment Management to provide environmental and sustainability capabilities for natural resource management. In 2006 I set up a sustainability consulting firm (Net Balance Management) with a colleague to provide sustainability services to corporations in developing and achieving their sustainability goals. We also set up Net Balance Foundation on a not for profit basis to meet similar demands in the Small to Medium Enterprise (SME) and non-profit sectors. In 2011 I relinquished my interest in Net Balance and formed my own consultancy KF Sustainability Pty Ltd. I continued to be active in this consulting area, mainly in Asia, until 2018.

I am now retired from my technical professional life, but have developed an importing and selling French vintage ware business with my wife, Robyn. We purchased La Maison Blanche - a cute little stone cottage in Cabrerets, Lot, SW France back in 2006, and have been living there for 4 to 5 months a year. The cottage is for rental listed with Air B&B. Our French vintage ware is for sale on Instagram @afrenchaffaire. [email protected]


Dr Pamela (Gill) GARNETT BSc ‘69, GradDipEd ‘70

Pam attended UWA after her school education at Applecross High School and completed her BSc (chemistry major, with mathematics, physics and geology) and then a Dip Ed. She met her husband, Patrick Garnett, in the chem labs and they married at the end of 1969. They have three daughters, Sally (medical doctor), Megan (occupational therapist)

and Katie (IT TAFE lecturer who now runs a yoga practice in Busselton), and three gorgeous grandsons who live in the south-west.

Prior to having a family, Pam taught chemistry and physics in government secondary schools. Once her daughters were at school, and now with a Masters degree, Pam wanted to return to teaching in state schools, but was told she wouldn’t be eligible for permanency. Pam had been asked on several occasions to take up a position at St Hilda’s Anglican School for Girls and the then Superintendent of Science advised her that she would be better off taking the position at St Hilda’s. She subsequently became Head of Science and then Dean of Curriculum (Deputy). Later the superintendent told Pam that he used her as a ‘test case’ to change the conditions of re-employment for women after they had time off for children.

Prior to returning to work Pam completed a Graduate Diploma and a research-based Master of Science Education at Curtin University. While teaching, Pam continued her involvement in research, completing a PhD at ECU. As a result of this research, she incorporated Working Scientifically outcomes into classroom practice.

Pam has won numerous awards including:• Prime Minister’s Prize for Excellence in Science Teaching in Secondary

Schools in 2003;• Outstanding National Achievement in School Improvement: Project leader

for Adding Values;• The Faculty and ECU Research Medals for the most outstanding research

thesis in 1998 and the Western Australian Institute of Education Research Medal;

• Most Valuable Paper Award, jointly with Patrick Garnett and Mark Hackling, for the Australian Science Teachers Journal in 1995.

Pam has also been involved in a wide range of professional activities. She was President of the WA Science Teachers’ Association from 1998-2000 and Chairperson of the Chemistry Syllabus and Science Learning Area Committees. She was on the Premier’s Science and Innovation Council from


2001 to 2009 and has also been involved in judging Engineers Australia awards, the Governor’s STEM Awards and last year, the Prime Minister’s awards for science teaching.

In recent years Pam has served on the Edith Cowan University Council, the Zoo Board and the RPH and Perkins Animal Ethics Committees.

Dr Carl GAZIA BE ‘70, BCom ‘76, PhD (85)

Following schooling in Kalgoorlie, Carl moved into residence at St Thomas More College and joined the influx of 1966. Graduating in Electrical Engineering, Carl worked extensively in the telecommunications industry in a variety of engineering, commercial and management roles, primarily in WA and Victoria. He completed his BCom through part time study at UWA, and subsequently spent several years in the

UK studying at the Victoria University of Manchester (Manchester Business School), with the award of a PhD in 1985.

Carl established and operated a consulting firm focussd primarily on broadband infrastructure development, subsequently retiring and returning to Perth in 2008 with wife Susan.

Mr John GLADSTONE LLB LLB ‘70, Grad Dip Business and Administration (Business Systems Option) WA Institute of Technology ‘85

In 1969, I married Christine Zeck. We have recently celebrated our 51st wedding anniversary. Our daughter, Laura is a UWA graduate.

My full time working life started in a clover cleaning shed in Kojonup when I was 15.

After 5 months, I moved to Perth to work in the State Public Service. I worked in Records in the Crown Law Department and then the Child Welfare Department. I was then a warrant/acting bench clerk in the Summary Relief Court (Family Law) and Court of Petty Sessions.

I was then fortunate to obtain a Commonwealth Scholarship. This provided a living allowance and paid university fees, which enabled me to attend University full time for the final 3 years of my LLB.

I was admitted to practice at the Supreme Court of WA as a legal practitioner in 1971.


From 1972 to 1986, I was in private practice as a solicitor, either as a partner or sole practitioner. My principal areas of practice were in conveyancing, contract, property and commercial law.

In 1986, I returned to the State Public Service as Deputy Commissioner of Titles, then Acting Commissioner of Titles and finally from 1998 to 2006 as Commissioner of Titles.

For 8 years during that time, I was Operational Manager of the Legislation Program in the Department of Land Information. Solicitors in the program were instructing officers on various land law related Acts of Parliament, including the Land Administration Act, Strata Titles Amendment Acts 1995 and 1996 and Transfer of Land Amendment Act 1996. It was an exciting time!

From 1991 to 1997, I was Chairperson of the Strata Titles Consultative Committee, which consisted of government and industry representatives interested in reforming the Strata Titles Act 1985.

In 1994, when the original instructing officer resigned, I became the instructing officer on the Strata Titles Amendment Act 1995.

Shortly after retiring as Commissioner of Titles, I became a volunteer Member of the Board of Starick Services Inc. and its Chairperson from 2007 to 2010. At that time Starick Services operated two women’s refuges for women with or without children escaping family and domestic violence and provided other support services.

In 2010, I returned to the State Public Service as a part time Senior Solicitor with the Department of Transport.

From 2017 to 2019, I was in private practice as a very part time sole practitioner.

Dr Hamid HAMZAH MBBS ‘70

Born 16th March 1946, Johor Bahru, Malaysia

Schooling and Education:• Primary school Muar Johor, Malaysia• Guildford Grammar School, Guildford, WA 1956 –

1963• The University of Western Australia Medical

Faculty 1964 – 1970• MBBS WA 1970• Medical Resident 1970 – 1972• Local Medical Officer, Exmouth, WA 1973 – 1974• Anaesthetic training 1975 – 1979


• FFARACS 1979• FANZCA 1992• Private practice in anaesthesia and pain medicine 1979 – 2018• Retired from private practice 28/6/2018

Marital Status:• Married to Joan 1972• 4 children and 10 grandchildren

Interests:• AFL member of West Coast Eagles and Fremantle Dockers• WACA member• Royal Perth Yacht Club

Memberships:• AMA, ASA, APS, IPS, ANZCA

Currently retired and enjoying caravanning and boating.

Mr David HAYLES BA ‘70, MA ‘73

Following my graduation, I accepted a Commonwealth Scholarship to undertake a Masters degree in Classics and Ancient History which I completed part-time in 1973.

1973 I worked as an Education Officer with the Commonwealth Dept of Education. Duties included counselling Vietnam veterans seeking to undertake

university studies, assisting with the Colombo Plan PG students and monitoring applicants for Commonwealth Scholarships.

In November 1973 I was appointed as the inaugural Schools Liaison Officer with UWA. In addition to many other duties, I was required to visit and liaise with Secondary schools throughout the State.

In 1978 I was appointed as the Careers Adviser in the University’s Counselling Service.

!983 I became the Director of the Careers Service and served in that position until 1996. During that time, I served for 5 years on the Board of the Gradate Careers Council of Australia.

After a brief spell working at The WA institute of Sport, I was invited to establish Student Services at The University of Notre Dame.


Two years later I was appointed to a new part-time position as the Community Liaison Officer with the Faculty of Economics and Commerce at UWA.

Three years later I retired.

Professor Richard HAYNES BSc ‘67, PhD ‘70

1. The University of Western Australia: Bachelor of Science with First Class Honours: Completion November 1966, Graduation 25 April 1967

2. The University of Western Australia: Doctor of Philosophy, Organic Chemistry: Commencement February 1967, completion November 1969, Graduation (in absentia) 25 September 1970.

Synopsis:Richard attended Hale School, Perth, Western Australia, and in 1962 gained distinctions in English, German, Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics B in university entrance examinations for which he received a State General Exhibition Award. He enrolled at the University of Western Australia in 1963 as a Commonwealth Scholarship holder, and was a resident of St. George’s College for the duration of his undergraduate and postgraduate programmes at the University.

After completing formal undergraduate coursework and examination requirements in the Faculty of Science in a rather less than distinguished manner, Richard found the research medium of an Honours programme decisively more to his taste, and in the Department of Organic Chemistry under the direction of Professor Frank Hewgill, conducted a most enjoyable year of research in 1966. Frank was a supervisor who exercised adroit supervisorial skills, and coupled this with a gentle and scholarly demeanour. Richard graduated with a B.Sc. degree with First Class Honours in Organic Chemistry, for which he received the CSR Chemicals Prize, shared with an Honours student from the Department of Inorganic Chemistry. As a holder of the General Motors Holden Scholarship, he then conducted research to his Ph.D. Degree in Organic Chemistry, again with Frank Hewgill on the oxidative coupling and mode of action of amine antioxidants. He completed research requirements in September 1969 and submitted the PhD thesis “Oxidative Coupling of Primary Aromatic Amines” in November 1969.

At the time of submission of the PhD thesis, Richard was awarded the Gillette International Fellowship for carrying out postdoctoral research with Professor Hans Musso in the Institut für Organische Chemie at the Universität Karlsruhe, Germany from 1970-1972. The German experience was highly stimulating.


In addition to learning to ski, and coming to more intimate grips with the wonderful logic of the German language and the notable cultural life that Germany had to offer, Richard worked on phenoxy radical coupling involving electron spin resonance spectroscopy. After a brief stint as Instituts Assistent at the Universität Karlsruhe, he moved in August 1973 to the group of Nobel Laureate Professor Sir Derek Barton in the Organic Chemistry Department at Imperial College, London. Richard worked on biologically active natural products, in particular, on reactions relating to biosynthetic oxygenation processes leading to naturally occurring peroxides, aspects of which continue to the present day. The time in the group was wonderful: Sir Derek (affectionately called ‘Cedrick’ by the Australian postdoctoral fellows in his group at the time) was one of the great organic chemists of the 20th Century. He was an inspiring mentor who enthusiastically shared his knowledge, and he effectively imparted the sense of foresight and introspection required for the conception and successful execution of the varied and potent research projects which many of the members of his large research group subsequently evolved as academics in different parts of the world. The time at Imperial College was indeed the high point of Richard’s early career path.

Richard took up his first academic appointment as senior tutor in the Department of Chemistry at Monash University Melbourne in January 1975. He then moved to the Department of Organic Chemistry at the University of Sydney in July 1978, where he progressed through academic ranks to Reader in 1989. His earlier research activities at Sydney focussed on the synthesis of biologically active natural products such as prostaglandins and vitamin D; emphasis was on the development of new reactions for these synthetic efforts. Whilst at the University of Sydney, Richard participated twice (1988, 1990) in the exchange programme managed by the Australian Academy of Science and the Chinese Academy of Science. He visited mainland Chinese academic and research institutions operated by the Chinese Academy of Science in Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Chengdu and Kunming and set up collaborations on the synthesis of prostaglandins for birth control and eventually, development of antimalarial drugs. After the first visit to China, Richard became interested in the remarkable Chinese antimalarial drug qinghaosu or artemisinin (a naturally-occurring peroxide) that had been isolated from a classical Chinese herb used in traditional Chinese medicine by the Chinese in 1972. At the University of Sydney, he conceived and developed a biomimetic synthetic approach, for which he obtained early patents, and became involved with the French company Rhone-Poulenc Rorer in development of artemisinin derivatives.

Richard took sabbatical leave in 1985 at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) in Zürich with Prof. Albert Eschenmoser, and then at the Université de Genève in 1991-92. Because of the need to service the


Chinese collaborations, and to enhance research activities, Richard moved from the University of Sydney to the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 1993. Whilst at HKUST, he served as external member on the Chemotherapy of Malaria Committee within Tropical Diseases Research (TDR), World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva (1993-97) and then the Drug Discovery Research Committee, TDR/WHO (1998-2002). He collaborated with TDR/WHO on a project involving formulation of the antimalarial drug artesunate, a derivative of artemisinin, for treatment of severe malaria and participated in the Australian Government AusAID Vietnam Malaria Control Project in 1993 and 1995. He instituted a collaborative program under a formal contract with the pharmaceutical company Bayer AG Leverkusen in Germany (1995-2007) on development of new artemisinin derivatives for malaria using medicinal chemical principles to by-pass problems with the current clinical derivatives. The work culminated in development of artemisone at HKUST that in clinical trials on malaria patients at the Mahidol University Hospital in Bangkok elicited complete cure at one-third the dose of the most active current antimalarial drug artesunate. Development of artemisone for treatment of severe malaria is planned; this is now designated as an orphan drug with the US FDA for this purpose.

With the unpleasant cut-off of activities at HKUST enforced by reaching the Hong Kong Government mandated retirement age of 65 for civil servants, Richard was enticed in 2011 by collaborators at North-West University (NWU), Potchefstroom, South Africa to move there. He is currently research professor in the Centre of Excellence for Pharmaceutical Sciences in the Faculty of Health Sciences at NWU. In 2013 he was awarded the South African Medical Research Council Flagship Project Grant ‘MALTB-Redox’ for development of new drugs for TB and malaria involving groups in South Africa, Australia, Italy, Germany, Singapore, Hong Kong and the US. The project involves synthesis of so-called ‘oxidant’ drugs that in their own right act as anti-infective agents, and are designed to synergize effects of known and new redox active drugs for malaria, tuberculosis and related mycobacterial infections. The ultimate aim is to develop completely new drug combinations for treatment of drug-resistant malaria and TB. With respect to TB, two potential lead compounds have been identified in recent research. The current research interests follow on from this work: these involve local and international groups and include mechanism-based development of new agents for malaria, chemotherapy of other parasitic diseases, chemotherapy of tuberculosis and related mycobacterial infections, and mechanism-based cytotoxic agents for cancer chemotherapy. He is currently collaborating with the Hebrew University and its commercial arm in Jerusalem for development of artemisone for treatment of cytomegalovirus that causes an otherwise intractable disease in immuno-compromised patients, for which a PCT patent was awarded in 2013, and a


US patent in 2018. Artemisone is more active than the current clinically-used drug ganciclovir against this virus, in particular against clinical isolates resistant to ganciclovir. Given the extraordinary circumstances engendered by the COVID-19 pandemic this year (2020), Richard is now working with the Hebrew University group and others in the US and Europe for developing agents active against the causative virus SARS-CoV-2.

Richard has supervised and co-supervised overall some 17 Postdoctoral Fellows, 39 PhD, 22 Masters, and 42 Honours students at universities in Australia, Hong Kong and South Africa, is author and co-author of 190 research papers in the international peer-reviewed scientific literature, author and co-author of 9 book chapters, inventor listed in world and individual patents, and has authored over 60 consulting reports for TDR/WHO, government agencies and industry. Richard is Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute, Member of the American Chemical Society, Member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and was an A(ii) Rated Researcher of the South African National Research Foundation (2014-2019).

Richard acknowledges with fondness the efforts of his undergraduate lecturers in the Faculty of Science at the University of Western Australia in unconsciously evolving his interests so that he was able to enrol in research degrees in organic chemistry, and for completion of the latter under the direction of Frank Hewgill, such a gentle, humble yet highly alert individual who further laid the groundwork for his later career. The time at the University of Western Australia was a wonderful one indeed, and is always remembered.

Emeritus Professor Ian HUME AO FAA BSc(Agric) ‘66, PhD ‘70

I graduated from UWA with First Class Honours in Agricultural Science (BSc (Agric)) in 1966 and a PhD in 1970 for research on microbial protein synthesis in the ovine rumen. This was followed by a PostDoc in Animal Sciences at the University of Kentucky, then a temporary lectureship at the University of California (Davis). It was here that I developed an interest in the comparative nutrition of wildlife, having to teach an undergraduate course on the topic! On returning

to Australia, I spent a year as the Edward Moss Research Fellow back in my old stamping ground of the Institute of Agriculture at UWA, where I was able to initiate a research program on marsupial nutrition. A Lectureship in Biochemistry and Nutrition at the University of New England in Armidale, NSW, followed in 1973, and this is where I established my research group in


marsupial nutrition. I felt very privileged to be able to work on our native fauna, and I was able to share my love of the animals and concern for their long-term conservation with a dedicated group of postgraduate students over the next 30 years.

I left UNE in 1987 after having been promoted to Associate Professor (in 1983) and awarded a DSc degree in 1986 for my dissertation on the digestive physiology and nutritional ecology of mammalian herbivores. The move was to a Chair in Biology at the University of Sydney, and I retired from the School of Biological Sciences as the Challis Professor of Biology in 2003. I was elected to a Fellowship of the Australian Mammal Society (FAMS) in 2003 and then to the Fellowship of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA) in 2007. In 2017 I was appointed to be an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) “for distinguished service to science in the field of biology, particularly through contributions to nutritional ecology and the conservation of Australian native animals, and to tertiary education.”

My final position at the University of Sydney, from 2011 to 2018, was in the University’s Research Office where I was an advisor on research grant applications. This was a richly rewarding period, helping research colleagues, particularly early and mid-career researchers, climb the slippery ladder of grant success. It was a great way to finish what has been for me a richly rewarding academic career that began with that wonderful Agricultural Science degree at the University of Western Australia.

Mrs Carole-Anne KAGI BA ‘70, MPhil ‘82

I graduated in 1970 with a BA majoring in psychology. My first job was as an Adoption Officer in the Child Welfare Department, at a time of major social change in attitudes. Especially important was the creation of the Supporting Parents Benefit by the Commonwealth Government, which contributed to the way single mothers were viewed and impacted significantly on the number of children placed for adoption. Other changes followed, such as children with a disability being eligible for adoption whereas previously the Medical Practitioner would certify “Unsuitable for adoption”.

Over the ensuing years of my professional life, I completed a Master of Social Work at UWA and went on to work in the areas of child protection, parent support, family information, rehabilitation, aged care, rural health and domestic violence in the State and Commonwealth Governments. I also became heavily involved in a voluntary capacity with the National Association for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, as both the National and State Presidents.


The highlight of my professional career was as Director of the Domestic Violence Prevention Unit which was charged by the then State Government to implement an ‘Action Plan’ with government departments and the non-government agencies working together to address this terrible problem. Most notable was the development of a mass media community education campaign “Freedom From Fear – Campaign Against Domestic Violence” which sought to achieve change in community attitudes and behaviour. The results were impressive, and the campaign was recognised with many State, National and International Awards. It also created a vehicle for the implementation and co-ordination of many services and programs to help those affected by family and domestic violence.

In my retirement I have retained my community involvement with membership of the Ministerial Advisory Council on Disability, a Human Research Ethics Committee membership as well as representing the consumer voice on a public hospital Consumer Advisory Council and a national research council on asbestos related diseases.

Mr John KARAJAS BSc ‘70

John Karajas attended UWA between 1965 to 1969 and graduated with a BSc (Hons) majoring in Geology in 1970. During his undergraduate years, he was an enthusiastic member of the UWA Soccer Club and attended Inter-Varsity Soccer carnivals at Armidale (1966) and Monash (1967). His field mapping project area, inland from Horrocks Beach near Northampton subsequently became an established area for the second year geology students from the Geology Department to learn field mapping techniques. John married Jansje Schippers, also a UWA graduate, in 1972 and they have two sons, Ivan and Timothy, as well as three granddaughters.

His career encompassed exploration for a wide range of mineral commodities as well as for oil and gas. His work has been predominantly in Western Australia, but it has also included significant periods in the Mt Isa region of Queensland, the Beetaloo Basin of the Northern Territory and northern Tasmania. He also has had lengthy periods in Iceland and Macedonia, and has carried out field work in Sweden, and evaluations in Morocco and Kazakhstan. He has served on the boards of a number of ASX-listed companies and participated in the float of Red River Resources in 2005 and was its Managing Director till 2011. Subsequently, his last hurrah as a practicing geologist was to serve as Technical Director for Genesis Resources guiding a young field crew in a major drilling program at the Plavica Miocene-aged caldera complex in Macedonia. During his time significant progress was made in unravelling


the gold geology of the prospect and ongoing metallurgical and economic evaluations are currently underway.

He has spent considerable periods in a volunteering capacity including:• Regional Group Coordinator (WA) for Amnesty International Australia• Secretary of the Macedonian Community of WA (Inc.)• Board Member of the Stirling Ethnic Aged Home (now Myvista)

Mr Albrecht (Albert) KOENIG BE ‘70, MBA (Dist)

Albert Koenig was born in Bavaria, Germany in 1947 and arrived in Perth in 1957 with his parents and two older sisters. He later attended Perth Modern School and won a Commonwealth Scholarship and Public Works Department of WA cadetship to study electrical engineering at the University of WA (UWA), completed in 1969.

Whilst at UWA, he was fortunate to have resided for almost three years at Kingswood College, one of

UWA’s residential colleges for students. Here he was able to make many good friends from various parts of the world, immerse himself in university life and enjoy the wonderful campus. During this time he also learnt to play Billiards and Bridge, the latter mainly in the Engineering Student Common Room.

The early part of his career focused on building services electrical engineering with the then Public Works Department. Later he worked in consulting engineering firms, the State Electricity Commission (SECWA) and also heavy industry. In 1983 he rejoined SECWA due to his interest in the power industry and worked in various operational and design roles before moving into senior and then executive management.

In 1995 as part of nation-wide changes to the utility industry, SECWA ceased and gave birth to Western Power, AlintaGas and the Office of Energy. Albert was a key player for creation of the latter, WA’s new energy industry policy and regulatory body. As part of that, he became WA’s inaugural technical and safety regulator for electricity and gas, an independent statutory appointment.

During his 15 years as a regulator and Executive Director of what later became known as the Office of EnergySafety WA, he provided extensive advice to Ministers about legislation reforms. He was also influential in the energy industry policy scene at national level, through the national electrical regulator council ERAC (which he chaired for two terms) and through various Standards Australia boards and committees.


In 2009 he decided to “semi-retire” and returned to industry as a consultant through his own practice Koenig Contract Services. He also lectured at the University of WA’s School of Electrical, Electronic & Computer Engineering which appointed him as an Adjunct Professor, and additionally lectured at all the other major WA universities. He retired in 2017, but remained an active volunteer until recently within The Institution of Engineers Australia, the learned society body for engineers and chaired its national Electrical College Board during 2009 and 2010.

Mrs Molly KUKURA (SANDFORD-JOYCE) BA ‘69, GradDipEd ‘70

My fondest memories of my studies at UWA are of the former Music Department, a lovely two storey property on Mounts Bay Road where, with other students, we would sit in the garden and soak in the sun and the beauty of the Swan River instead of completing our Harmony Assignments. The lunch time

concerts in Winthrop Hall and being a part of the Undergrad Choir remain a favourite memory. We had the privilege of having Professor F. Callaway and Professor D. Tunley amongst others who inspired us to not only develop our personal depth of knowledge and talent, but to also invest our energies into music education within the school system and wider community.

After graduation, Molly was posted to Collie Senior High School and from there moved back to Perth and taught in the Metropolitan Area in the Secondary WA State School system. “My subject areas were Music and English and I was able to combine the two during musical productions, in collaboration with a fellow English staff member who wrote the scripts due to the cost of obtaining the rights to perform the more popular musicals. I relocated to Melbourne in 1979 where I managed a children’s entertainment business, which once again involved lots of musical activities. In 1982, I relocated once again, this time to Sydney.”

In Sydney, Molly took positions as a Casual Teacher, then bought a printing franchise which she operated for 5 years. “Since 2000, I have operated my own private piano/theory/musicianship practice where my joy has been to see the students I’ve mentored continue their passion for music and take it into their adult lives. As part of my practice, encouraging students with learning disabilities has been a major focus. I have also been involved in Church


Music in our local area, and this has been a constant throughout my life since childhood. Being a grandmother of four has also kept me on my toes (and fingers) and it’s great to see my family sharing my love of music.

Dr Patrick LAI BSc ‘70, PhD ‘78

After completing his PhD research in viral immunology, Patrick left Perth for postdoctoral research training, first in Canada, then in England.

For his PhD studies, Patrick focused on studying the immunopathology of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection in humans. He was awarded a fellowship from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (France) in 1976 to study EBV-induced cancers in new world monkeys, called marmoset, in Professor Fritz Deinhardt’s Laboratory, Chicago, USA. He did his postdoctoral training with Professor Gordon Kaplan, studying intracellular signaling in lymphocytes, a type of white blood cells, at the University of Ottawa, Canada. He was awarded a postdoctoral Fellowship by the Imperial Cancer Research Funds (England) in 1979 and joined Professor Ave Mitchson’s laboratory in The University College in London, England, where he studied the immune responses to minor histocompatibility antigens by use of transplantation models. During this postdoctoral period, he was awarded a Short-Term Scholarship from the European Molecular Biology Organization (Heidelberg) to study T-lymphocyte cloning with Professor Hans Hengartner and Professor Rolf Zinkernagel at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

After his postdoctoral trainings, Patrick joined the University of Nebraska Medical Center at Omaha (USA) as Assistant Professor in 1984, where he continued his research on immune responses to virus infections, especially to EBV and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the causative virus of AIDS. Patrick relocated to the Tampa Bay Research Institute, St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1987 to initiate an anti-HIV drug discovery program. The focus is on Natural Products and the research was supported by a Discovery Program Grant from the US National institute of Health (NIH). In 1996, he was recruited as Associate Professor to create a Graduate Program in Molecular Biology at the Salem International University, West Virginia. He was promoted to Full Professor and Chairman of the Biology Department two years later. As Chair, Patrick oversaw the teaching, research and scholarly publications of 12 faculty members as well as obtaining research and teaching grant supports for the Department.

In 2004, Patrick joined the Center for Scientific Research (CSR), NIH, as Administrator to the Immunity and Host Defense Study Section (IHD), an Advisory Subcommittee, that determines the scientific merits of research


grant applications and makes Funding Recommendations to the US Federal Government. This represented a significant career change from academic/industrial research/development to Government policy advisory and recommendations on immunity to infections to the tune of approximately US$100-150 million a year.

Patrick was promoted to Chief, Immunology Scientific Review Branch (IMM IRG) CSR, NIH in 2014. In that capacity, he supervised 11 Administrators who managed 14 Study Sections (including IHD) and Special Emphasis Panels. The Branch reviews approximately 2,500 research grant applications, including small business product development grants, requesting approximately US$2.7 billion a year. The portfolio includes applications associated with all areas of immunological science, such as allergy, autoimmunity, vaccines, tumor/transplant and neuroimmunology. Other than applications from North America, the European Union and occasionally from Australia, the IRG also evaluates the scientific merits of collaborative research-programs between US and China, US and Brazil as well as US and South America.

After serving as academic/industrial scientist/educator and as a health science administrator for over 40 years, Patrick retired in January 01, 2020. During his research career, Patrick published over 45 scientific papers in reviewed journals, chapters in books and 6 invention patents. He also served as scientific journal reviewer, guest editor for journal special issues and external grant reviewer for the Hong Kong Government. He now lives with his wife, Priscilla, in Rockville, Maryland, a suburb near Washington DC.

Dr David LORD MBBS ‘70

David, known as Dave whilst resident at St George’s College [1963 – 67] and attending UWA [1963 – 69], spent his childhood on a wheat and sheep farm to the east of Lake Grace before attending boarding school in Perth. After completing two years of science at UWA he transferred to medicine. Dave became engaged to Jan [whom he had met during second year zoology] in 1967. They married in 1968 [Jan by then working and prepared to support a student husband] followed by the birth of their daughter in 1969. Sons arrived in 1970 and 1973 during Dave’s rotations as a junior medical officer at Perth teaching hospitals.

Dave commenced post graduate training in psychiatry before moving in 1974, with his young family, to Dunedin in New Zealand in order to complete his training at the University of Otago where he had obtained a junior academic appointment. Jan, Dave, Jenny, James and Jonothan made many new friends and enjoyed three very happy years in New Zealand before a decision was


made to return to Perth where Dave had been offered a senior lectureship in psychiatry at UWA.

In 1980 Dave accepted a part time appointment at Fremantle Hospital with an attached opportunity to join a private psychiatric practice. This change in direction allowed Dave to engage in the delivery of clinical care to rural and remote areas including the Pilbara, South-West and Mid-West. A country boy at heart, he was well aware of the difficulty experienced by many from the bush in accessing general health and psychiatric services.

Grandchildren began to arrive in 1999 coinciding, happily, with the opportunity to transition to semi-retirement in 2005. Since then, Jan and Dave have enjoyed a very pleasant mix of family activities, travel [both within Australia and overseas] and part time work [mostly rural leave relief locums]. Having recently retired from his Board positions with the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards, Dave now assists the Mental Health Tribunal one day a week as his sole occupational activity.

As the life cycle moves on, both grandparents are delighted, of course, to have two of their grandchildren participating in courses at UWA.

Dr Neil LYNCH BSc ‘70, PhD ‘74

I completed a BSc with a double major in Biochemistry and Microbiology in 1969, and graduated with 1st Class Honours in the area of microbiology/virology 1970.

I received a PhD in 1973 for work undertaken in the area of immunology, through the Department of Microbiology, Clinical Immunology Unit, which was sited at Princess Margaret Hospital.

In 1973 I received a Fulbright Scholarship for a Post-Doc at the National Asthma Centre, Denver, Colorado. There I undertook research into childhood asthma.

In 1975 I took a position in France at the Institute for Scientific Research into Cancer, which was part of the French National Centre for Scientific Research. There I worked on potential immunological treatments for cancer.

In 1978 I was offered the position of Professor of Medicine in the Central University of Venezuela, Caracas, working in the Pan American Centre for Research and Training in Leprosy and Tropical Diseases, which was a node of the World Health Organisation. There I was working on the development of a leprosy vaccine.


This centre then became the National Institute of Biomedicine, where I was the Head of the Immunochemistry laboratory. This institute broadened its activities to include a wide variety of diseases that devastate many tropical populations, such as malaria, tuberculosis, dengue, leishmaniasis, trypanosomiasis, schistosomiasis, intestinal parasitosis and infantile diarrhoea, amongst many others.

This work involved extensive activities in a number of the impoverished “slum” areas of Caracas, as well as with the indigenous populations living along the Orinoco river in the Amazon basin.

Whilst in Venezuela I married a Venezuelan lady, and we had children. My wife was very concerned about my health and safety as I was working in notoriously dangerous slum areas (in which I actually felt safe, as I was “looked after” by the inhabitants). Also, the work in the Amazon basin was undertaken in very remote areas that were completely out of radio contact and were only accessible by river journeys of several days in motorised canoes, or in light planes that had atrocious safety records. In addition, the area was on the border with Columbia, where the Columbian guerrilla movement (FARC) was a constant threat, particularly for a “gringo” such as myself. Despite these obstacles I published a large number of scientific papers on my work, and was awarded a number of awards and prizes for this.

As a result of my wife’s concerns about my work in Venezuela, in 1999 I took a sabbatical year in the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research (now the Telethon Kids Institute) in Perth. My wife absolutely loved life in Perth and so I then took leave of absence from my Venezuelan job and obtained a position in the Research and Evaluation Unit, Public Health Division, of the WA Department of Health (WA Heath).

In 2002 I took leave of absence from WA Health to return to Venezuela with the intention of spending a year tidying up unfinished work. Unfortunately we had only been there for a few months when there was an attempted military coup against the then President Hugo Chavez. This then resulted in the country descending into what was effectively civil war, and as I was unable to complete my work we returned to Perth.

Since then I have worked in the Research Development Unit (now the Research and Innovation Office) of WA Health, where we deal with many diverse aspects of supporting health and medical research in WA. The most significant of these is the Future Health Research and Innovation Fund, which is currently being established by the State Government, and which will substantially increase the amount of research funding on an ongoing and sustainable basis. I hope to continue working for as long as I practically can.


Mr Colin MAGENNIS BSc (Hons) ‘69, GradDipEd ‘70, BEd ‘73

After attending White Gum Valley Primary and John Curtin S.H.S., I commenced studying Science at UWA, majoring in Physics, with an Education Dept. Teacher’s Bursary.

How times have changed. I can remember using manual calculating machines with a side handle in the Maths Dept. and using hundreds of specially punched cards to produce a programme to solve simple algebraic equations on the computer in the Physics Building that occupied a whole room.

Professor Boyle (Physics) purchased all the materials used in the Nuffield Science teaching programme and as part of the Honours course, myself and John Rennie were required to assess it for potential use in W.A. schools.

I was appointed to teach Science at Bunbury S.H.S in 1970. In 1972 I was transferred to Pinjarra S.H.S., which enabled me to continue my external studies at UWA. In 1973 I graduated with a B.Ed.

In 1975 I was promoted to Senior Master of Science (later Head of Department-Science) at Pinjarra S.H.S., where I remained until I took early retirement in 1997. My short stint as Acting Deputy, in 1977 was when the cane was still wielded as a punishment and a deterrent for likely offenders.

Highlights of my career included 12 month Teacher Exchanges in 1979 in Ontario, Canada and in 1990, in a prestigious Private school in London, U.K.

Long service regulations enabled me to take 12 months on half salary in 1985, when I back-packed around the world using a round-the-world air ticket and again in 1994, when I travelled around the top of Australia with my partner, Ray Latch.

From 2000 until 2008 I enjoyed a part time job setting up home oxygen systems in the Peel region, working for my niece & her husband & BOC gases.

Since my retirement, we have spent many months each year travelling overseas, as well as a trip around the bottom of Australia in 1998.

My time at UWA has enabled me to pursue a rewarding career and indulge my passion for travelling, having visited about 45 countries over the past 50 years.


Mr Murray Meaton AM BSc(Agric) (Hons) ‘70, BEc ‘80

Murray graduated in Agricultural Science and Economics from UWA before working as an economist in agriculture, urban economics, minerals, oil and gas, energy and regional development. Government employment included Agriculture, Treasury, Commonwealth Primary Industry, Industries Assistance Commission and CSIRO before finishing as Director of Economic Policy and Royalty Administration in WA.

On leaving government, Murray established a boutique economics consulting company that has now operated in Perth for 24 years. Clients include companies, government departments and industry associations. Combining work and a love of travel, Murray has completed studies in all Australian States, PNG, NZ and eight African countries.

Murray was a 1994 Churchill Fellow and was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2014 for work in the mining and oil and gas sectors and community service.

Murray continues to work full-time primarily engaged in compensation negotiations over the impact of land use activities on native title rights.

Murray and Christine have been married for 37 years and have three daughters and one grandson. Two daughters have degrees from UWA and all three live in the Eastern States.

Mrs Jackie MUSKLLB ‘70, BA ‘95, BA(Hons) ‘97

I studied law in the 1960s having qualified to do so on a mature age matriculation. After four years of study and two years articles I was admitted to practice in 1971. I was also married in the same year and shortly after admission I left the state and accompanied my husband on his postgraduate study in three different continents for a period of seven years. During that time we had two children.

When we returned to Western Australia in 1980, I was able to secure a position as a solicitor with KN Allan. Thereafter I took a post as secretary to the barristers board (now the legal practice board) for seven years until I was appointed as a magistrate in the children’s court. I remained there for some years until transferred to the general magistracy and spent the next 20 years as a magistrate based in Perth, Fremantle and Joondalup and at the same time


was able to carry out relief for country magistrates as required. This was a most interesting, challenging and enjoyable position. Retiring from the magistracy at the age of 68, I returned to work as a solicitor with the mental health law centre and subsequently became an advocate with the mental health advocacy service, finally retiring in March this year. I enjoyed every aspect of my career in the law, but all good things come to an end and now I’m ready for retirement.

Ms Chris OLNEY BA ‘70

After graduating, Christine headed overseas for a couple of years and was based in London. Back in Australia, she joined Ansett as a flight attendant – in the hope of getting a cheap fare back to Europe - but didn’t stay around long enough to qualify.

The bulk of Christine’s career was in the media based in Perth.

She worked as a journalist (The West Australian, Daily News) covering everything

from law courts to parliament, a broadcaster (6NW Port Hedland), in public relations (Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital) and as media adviser to ministers in both State and Federal Governments.

Chris retired in 2013, after a 15-year stint as a sub editor at The West Australian, then immediately started training as a volunteer guide at Kings Park. As well as showing visitors the State’s unique flora in the Western Australian Botanic Garden, she edited the guides newsletter for several years and served two years as guides’ president 2018-19.

A highlight was hosting the week-long 16th Australasian Botanic Guides Conference in Perth last year, which attracted more than 200 delegates from Australia and New Zealand.

Chris also volunteers with the Growing Friends at Kings Park, propagating plants for their popular native plant sales and is Assistant Editor of the Friends of Kings Park glossy quarterly magazine For People and Plants.

She has a son and daughter and six grandchildren – and still counting!


Mr Arthur PATTERSONBSc ‘70, GradDipEd ‘73

Professionally1970 - Commenced teaching science at Kwinana Senior High school.

1970 (last half) to 1973 - Teaching science, mathematics, chemistry and biology at Busselton Senior High School

1974 to 1975 - Teaching science, chemistry and physics at Rossmoyne Senior High School

1976 - Took up the position of Senior Master (Maths and Science) at Margaret River High School

1977 to 2004 - Held the position of Senior Master (Science) at Mount Barker Senior High School, teaching mainly physics and chemistry.

PersonallyI married Sue before going to Margaret River in 1976. After moving to Mount Barker, we bought a small block of agricultural land and dabbled in grazing sheep and cattle until, in 1982, we planted our first hectare of vines. Over the next few years, we expanded our vineyard to 7 ha, purchased more land and increased our herd of cattle.

In 1993 we opened our cellar sales and continued producing and selling wine under the “Pattersons Wines” label until the vineyard was sold in 2006.

We still run around 30 beef breeders on 210 acres and live on the property a few km SW of Mount Barker.

Other interestsBetween 1975 and 1998 I flew gliders at Narrogin, ending as a senior instructor with a “Diamond” certificate.

From 1972 to 1975 I was a driving instructor with the Schools’ Driver Training Programme.

Since 1998 I have been involved with our local catchment council promoting sustainable agriculture, environmental responsibility and habitat restoration.


Mr Robert POWELLBSc ’69, GradDipEd ‘70

Having worked mostly in Government bodies involved with nature conservation, Robert Powell is now retired and living in Devon, United Kingdom, near where his wife, Jane Emberson, grew up.

Robert grew up in Floreat Park, attended school at Jolimont and Hollywood and spent his spare time exploring local bushlands and keeping native fish. He studied science at UWA, with a double major in mathematics and including a first-year zoology unit

in his second year. After graduating, he completed a Diploma of Education with the Nedlands Secondary Teachers’ College.

After three years as a high-school mathematics teacher (in Geraldton and Bunbury), he decided on a change of career that would be more consistent with his lifelong interest in natural history. He therefore entered the State Government as a graduate assistant, originally attached to the State Housing Commission, but quite soon obtaining a transfer to the Department of Fisheries & Fauna. In the following years, he enhanced his understanding of the natural world through studies in botany at UWA and ecology at Curtin University. Until his retirement (2009), he continued working for this Department and its successors, mostly in the role of acquiring land for nature conservation.

In 1976 he married Jane Emberson, who subsequently worked at UWA (ultimately as academic student adviser in a science faculty). She helped him develop skills in writing, and thereafter, in conjunction with her or others, he wrote various books, papers and articles, including a number of articles for his Department’s magazines. His books include Leaf and Branch: Trees and Tall Shrubs of Perth and Growing Locals: Gardening with Local Plants in Perth. He was pleased to be able to provide some help to a number of conservation groups - and thereby to make many cherished friends. In recent years, he has developed a website about some West Australian trees, www.robertpowelltrees.org. In all his home gardens, both in WA and in the UK, he has sought to provide habitat for wildlife (with an emphasis on butterflies and other insects), particularly through growing local plants.

He continues also to pursue his other lifelong interest in music, chiefly through recordings of wonderful performers such as Artur and Karl-Ulrich Schnabel, and by singing early music in an informal group with friends.


Mrs Gay REID (née COMBS) BA ‘70, GradDipEd ‘72

I began my teaching career in 1967, before I had completed my BA, teaching Music and Mathematics and a few other subjects as required by the schools. When I finally completed the degree I went on to do the Diploma of Education over the next two years.

During this period, I met my future husband and we married in 1971. Our first child was born in 1972 and this led to an absence of eleven years from the school teaching scene. However, I did continue a form of teaching, being the piano with the Suzuki teaching method. In 1981 I attended a week of seminars in Sydney to learn more about the method and become an accredited teacher. I thoroughly enjoyed those years working with many young and older children.

When I returned to school teaching, there was a shortage of Mathematics teachers, so this is where I would spend the rest of my teaching career.

Along the way, I was fortunate to obtain an exchange teaching position in the UK. The year I spent at Plymouth in Devon was a wonderful experience. I was able to attend the International Mathematic Teachers Conference in Seville in Spain and spend the summer holidays touring in Europe.

I retired from fulltime teaching in 2001 and then had four years doing relief teaching in State schools and Private schools.

In 2005 my first grandchild was born in the UK, so from that time I found myself travelling back and forth, sometimes twice a year in the early years of the grandchildren. As the children have grown older, my trips have become annual events with opportunities to visit other parts of Britain and Europe with my family. 2020 has of course put all of these activities on the back-burner, but I hope it won’t be too long before I can resume my trips.

Dr Graeme ROBERTSON BSc (Agric) ‘70

Graeme Robertson is a graduate of UWA in1970 and completed his DPhil at Oxford in plant physiology as a Rhodes Scholar. On returning to Australia, Graeme resumed his career with the Department of Agriculture where roles in marketing and economics led him to 5 years in the Kimberley leading a research and extension teams working on cropping options for the Ord River and pastoral land management.

The salinity crisis of the 1970s saw Graeme appointed Commissioner of Soil Conservation and Director or Resource management where he played a major role in developing the Landcare movement in WA and nationally.


Graeme was Director General of Agriculture from for nearly 10 years before accepting the position of Director of Muresk and Head of Environment and Agriculture at Curtin University. He has worked in and experienced agriculture in many countries and led training programs for international agricultural agency staff. He has contributed to national agriculture over many years through boards, committees and working groups including inaugural chair of Land and Water Resources Research and Development Corporation and board member of Grains Research and Development Corporation.

Since leaving Curtin, Graeme has participated in and led teams in developing national strategies for agricultural research, education and training and food security in several countries in North Africa and the Middle East.

Graeme Married Angela in 1974. They have three sons and six Grandchildren, all in Perth.

Mrs Anne ROBINSON (née REVELL) BA ‘70, GradDipEd ‘71

My parents migrated in 1948 from England. My dad transferred from the London Branch of Commonwealth Bank to Perth CBA. Dad experienced WWII active service in the Royal Navy and after marrying, wished to emigrate.

I was their first born in Australia, attending Kensington Primary, with a trip back to the UK during Year 1. Our P&O ship Oransay journey involved ports of Colombo, Aden, Suez, Naples,

Marseilles and Gibraltar and with family experiences in England, influenced my interest in places.

Kent St SHS fostered my interests in sport, geography, sciences and Art. Geography was my main love back then and has continued throughout my life.

As a bonded teacher (Education Department), I studied geography, economics and maths at UWA. I enjoyed all geography fieldwork experiences on offer.

After a Graduate Diploma in Education in 1971, I was appointed as a secondary teacher to Tuart Hill SHS teaching Maths, Social Studies, Geography and later Biology. I became a part of a team in the Geography Teachers Association in planning teacher professional development courses.

I enjoyed travelling extensively in Asia during school holidays, taking many slides for use in my classroom.


In 1977, I transferred to Girrawheen SHS for Year 11/12 Geography. From 1983 - 84, I was appointed to Corrigin DHS as Deputy. During that time, I was awarded a Japan Foundation trip with a group of teachers from Canada, Malaysia and Australia. In 1985, I was appointed to Mt Barker SHS as Deputy. My country service provided community involvement including sport and practical farming from my interest of agriculture. Mt Barker’s school farm created further interest and involvement.

From 1986 – 2001, I was appointed to Greenwood SHS as Deputy with some acting principal experiences.

In 1986, a year of long service leave with an ‘around the world ticket’ meant travel. This included US/Canada (Rockies, San Andres fault, Niagara Falls), Europe’s midnight sun, Paris, Italy and much more, and then Egypt’s sights and experiences.

From 2002 – 03, I was appointed as a temporary principal at Geraldton Highbury campus as the school went through a process to finalise the future model for the secondary school across two sites. Aboriginal education work continued with local community, achieving a special girls Netball program.

I was appointed to Como Secondary College from 2004 - 06 as Deputy.

From 2007 – 2018 I was appointed as principal to Lockridge SHS, which in 2015 was renamed to Kiara Secondary College. Kiara also has a school farm, so I continued my involvement in agriculture. Aboriginal education involved the Polly Farmer foundation, Crawley Rotary and others to promote opportunities for students.

I retired in 2018.

I have continued my love of travel, particularly to Europe with my partner and friends. Most recent was two weeks in the UK canal boating and catching up and attending family events in England.

My parents, aged 92 and 96, in Aged Care since 2015, kept me busy. Both have now passed, Dad most recently in January. I continued researching Dad’s war experiences as he was reluctant to discuss them. From his British Naval records, I obtained new Arctic Star and Legion de Honneur medal, presented to him last year by representatives from the French government (Canberra). It was a wonderful ceremony with Dad proud.

I’m now planning to visit places from WWII (UK, France & Russian Convoys). I have been able to link up with the sons of two of Dad’s Navy colleagues from their time on LCT 737 (Normandy Landings & Walcharen); one in Melbourne and others in Bristol. Also from Mum’s war service involving Churchill’s War Cabinet, Lord Mountbatten’s Combined Operations and Wuban House.


Overseas and domestic travel has been put on hold during Covid.

I have also been assisting my niece’s twins attending after school activities and am now learning soccer skills!

Emeritus Professor Alan ROBSON AO CitWA PhD ‘70, DLitt ‘15

Prior to his appointment as Vice-Chancellor in 2004, Professor Alan Robson was Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost of The University of Western Australia from 1993. He retired from his position as Vice-Chancellor in 2012. He has also held the positions of Foundation Director of the Cooperative Research Centre for Legumes in Mediterranean Agriculture (CLIMA), Dean of

the Faculty of Agriculture, Head of the School of Agriculture and Professor of Agriculture (Soil Science) at The University of Western Australia.

Professor Robson was Chair of the Group of Eight (2007-2010), Deputy Chair of the Council of the National Library (1998-2005), Deputy Chair of Universities Australia (2009-2011), a member of the Western Australian Science Council (2003-2009), and the CSIRO Board (2003-2008).

Professor Robson was Foundation Chair of the Grain Legumes Research Council, Deputy Chair Research Grants Committee of the Australian Research Council and a Member of the Committee for University Training and Staff Development (1998-1999), the Australian Teaching and Learning Committee (2000-2004) and the Board of Directors of the Australian Universities Quality Agency.

In 2001 Professor Robson chaired the Ministerial Taskforce on Structures, Services and Resources Supporting Government Schools. In 1989, Alan Robson was a member of a three person committee to review agricultural and related education in Australia. He has also been a member of review panels in Denmark, India and Canada.

In 1987, Professor Robson was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. Subsequently he was awarded the Australian Medal of Agricultural Science. In 2003, Professor Robson was made a Member of the Order of Australia, and awarded a Centenary Medal and in 2013 was made an Officer of the Order of Australia. In 2009, Professor Robson was made a Citizen of Western Australia.


Mr Christopher SAYER BE ‘70

After arriving from Melbourne in 1966, I began the Mechanical Engineering course at UWA on a scholarship and later became a cadet to the Department of Supply. I worked at the Ammunition Factory in Footscray during 2 vacations and after graduation. This was my introduction to high volume precision manufacture.

I joined Robert Bosch in 1970 as a trainee in the tool design office and ended up in the Production Inspection Department testing automotive alternators, starters, ignition coils, switches, and components etc.

My wife and I moved back to Perth in 1973 and I joined Westralian Transformers where my role involved electrical and mechanical design of distribution transformers, manufacture of high voltage switchgear, fan testing, cooling calculations and much more.

In 1977, I became design engineer for Westralian Equipment and Nova where I controlled a small drawing office. We designed press brakes (largest was 1000 tonne capacity), guillotines (largest 25mm capacity) and presses, including their hydraulic and electric control circuits. We also designed agricultural equipment.

In 1981, I joined Orbital Engine Company where I remained for 20 years. I worked with the drawing office in the design of engine and fuel injection system components. With high volume production in mind, I designed some high speed air compressors, high speed solenoid valves, the mechanical design of a 3 cylinder 2 stroke engine and components. The engine was direct fuel injected and met emission standards. I also spent some time in Michigan with Orbital’s partners.

In 2002 I joined Orontide Group (previously called Madco) as their Mechanical Engineer. I established their 3-D CAD design office. We provided support for our workshops and design, manufacturing and testing services to the mining and mineral processing industries. I was the design engineer for many interesting projects.

I retired in 2012 after a very satisfying career with a wide range of experiences.

In 2003, I joined UWA as a part time lecturer and facilitator to final year Mechanical Engineering students with a desire to pass on some of what I had learned over my 42 years’ experience.


Professor Fiona STANLEY AC CitWA MBBS ‘70, MD ‘87

Trained in maternal and child health, epidemiology and public health, Professor Stanley has spent her career researching the causes of major childhood illnesses such as birth defects. Her research includes the gathering and analysis of population data for epidemiological and public health research; the causes and prevention of birth defects and major neurological disorders, particularly the cerebral palsies; patterns of maternal and child health in Aboriginal and Caucasian populations; various ways of determining the developmental origins of health

and disease; collaborations to link research, policy and practice; and strategies to enhance health and well-being in populations. She pioneered the development, linkage and analysis of population level data and record linkage in Western Australia as a research and evaluation capacity.

Her major contribution has been to establish the Telethon Kids Institute, a unique multidisciplinary independent research institute focussing on the causes and prevention of major problems affecting children and youth and to establish the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth, a national organisation of researchers, policy makers and practitioners. She has over 300 publications, books and book chapters. She is a board member of the Gurrumul Yunupingu Foundation, a Governor of The Ian Potter Foundation and a former member of the Prime Minister’s Science, Engineering and Innovation Council, and a former board member of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. She has also served on major international, national and local committees. For her research on behalf of Australia’s children and Aboriginal social justice, she was named Australian of the Year in 2003 and in 2006 she was made a UNICEF Australia Ambassador for Early Childhood Development.

More recently she has become a spokesperson for the Climate Council, Doctors for the Environment Australia (member of their Scientific Advisory Committee) and 350.org, on the health effects of climate change.

As a former Director of ANDI (Australian National Development Index), she worked alongside a group of researchers led from the University of Melbourne where they undertake trans-disciplinary research that explores factors that both contribute to and detract from the wellbeing of individuals, communities and society at large from a variety of perspectives. This project is attempting to


go beyond GDP as the singular measure of the progress of societies and seeks measures of sustainable and equitable wellbeing.

Professor Fiona Stanley AC, FAA, FASSA, FAHMSMSc, MBBS MD, FFPHM, FAFPHM, FRACP, FRANZCOG, Hon DSc, Hon DUniv, Hon FRACGP, Hon MD, Hon FRCPCH, Hon LLB (honoris causa)Founding Director and Patron of the Telethon Kids InstituteDistinguished Research Professor at the University of Western Australia Hon Professor, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of MelbourneFormer Director, ANDI (Australian National Development Index) University of Melbourne where she was Director, 2013 Festival of Ideas.

Dr Lindsay STEWART MBBS ‘70

Six years of medical school was long enough for me to observe that specialist training then made quite unreasonable demands on those submitting to it, and with an uncertain outcome. So having done my first two years of practice at SCGH, I then did paediatrics and obstetrics & gynaecology, as in those days general practitioners needed great skill in both.

But slowly it dawned on me that general practice required a much broader range of skills than I was ever likely to gain and maintain. Psychiatry appealed, but the rosters were appalling. So, while I thought about things, I began sessional work in the Casualty Department at PMH and in the Assessment Area of SCGH (to which patients came only on referral from a GP).

In 1974 the Health Department sought expressions of interest from doctors wishing to get involved in computing – the government had just established, at UWA, the WA Regional Computing Centre (WARCC) with two large Cybers and a Dec-10. Off I went and did some UWA units on a not-for-degree basis, as there was no degree available. I gave up the PMH Casualty sessions and went fulltime at SCGH, with time off to attend UWA.

SCGH was in a real growth spurt, with new blocks being built every few years, the Raine Medical Statistics Unit booming, the Perth (later QEII) Medical Centre being established and many departments of the Faculty of Medicine moving there.

The Assessment Area with a medical staff of one (me) morphed stage-by-stage into an Emergency Department with twenty-two medical staff also covering quite a few other functions, a Head of Department (Tom Hamilton) and a new name. Although I derived great pleasure from teaching the medical


students, RMOs and registrars assigned to the department, it was clear to me that none of the available further training was suitable. The clinical data systems I had set up (data being processed at WARCC) provided invaluable information about our activities.

Apart from my descendants, it will soon transpire that nobody will even know that I once existed, but I would like to be remembered for one thing – proposing, at a meeting in Sydney in the late 1970s, that we should establish the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine. The others had assembled with the notion of setting up an Australian Casualty Association, and were a bit taken aback. However, with others doing all the enormous amount of work required, that college was established by 1982/3 and I am proud to say that standards in emergency medical care are now greatly improved.

In 1985 I moved to Medical Administration at SCGH, and over the following decades was involved in just about anything you can think of – junior staff recruitment, allocation, rostering, training, payment; complaint management; hundreds of medicolegal actions against staff and hospital; implementing new industrial and legislative requirements; insanity among senior medical staff; nurse education; policy management; innumerable re-structures within government bodies, hospitals and universities, and so on. I retired in 2006, being then able to use the postnomials MBBS, D(Obst)RCOG, FFACEM, FRACMA, AFCHSE.

Biggest regrets: • The deliberate dumbing-down of teaching and education in Australia. • The widespread lack of clear thinking in Australia, and the rise of anti-science

and fake news. It seems that many journalists and commentators do not even know the difference between inductive and deductive science, let alone which branches of knowledge are in which of those two phases.

• Devaluation of history – to the extent that in WA it is now possible to complete one’s entire formal education without encountering the concept or any details of it.

• The failure of television and the internet to be used to its potential.• Society’s failure to fill the social voids left by the gradual diminution in religion.

Young people now might find it difficult to find any socialising avenue not by default involving mind-altering drugs.

• KEMH is still not at QEIIMC. Not till that is achieved will patient care and staff satisfaction in all clinical departments in the faculty reach the high goals intended by our predecessors.

Best things:• Wife, four children, four grandchildren.• Genealogy and hundreds of close relatives.


• Book club and wide reading (history of science and scientists, in particular).• Equal opportunity and greater acceptance of mental variations including

illnesses. • Written and spoken language, numbers and music systems and their

evolution.• To my knowledge I am the only hospital administrator whose (self-written) job

description for accreditation purposes included the entry “court jester”. It was never questioned.

• Continuing contact with medical students through the faculty’s mentoring system in ethics, continuing professional development, work-life balance and so on.

• Dexter Dias (Ten Types of Humans) seems to be optimistic about our future – but does he reach the masses?

• I like to think that while at SCGH, I helped large numbers of medical and other staff to see that the practice of medicine and other walks of life do not require nastiness or heavy-handedness. I hope they will continue to spread that notion.

Dr Johannes U (Just) STOELWINDER MBBS ‘70 MBBS (W.A.), MD (Monash), FRACP, FRACMA, FCHSM, FAFPHM

Emeritus Professor Just Stoelwinder was Chair of Health Services Management and Head, Division of Health Services and Global Health Research, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University.

Originally trained as a specialist physician Just’s career has involved long-standing appointments at the highest level as a hospital and health service manager, including the foundation CEO of both Monash Medical Centre and of Victoria’s largest public health service, Monash Health.

Just has been a board director of a number of health companies including Medibank Private Ltd, the Private Health Administration Council, Macquarie University Hospital and Ambulance Victoria, where he was the Chair.

He has consulted and held visiting appointments in a number of countries including the USA, Canada, the Netherlands, Great Britain, Malaysia and UAE.


Mrs Sandra TAYLOR (née SULLIVAN)BA ‘70, GradDipEd ‘71

After completing my Bachelor degree in French and English, I gained my Dip Ed and began a teaching career that has spanned almost fifty years. I have been fortunate to teach English, French, Italian and/or ESL from Primary grades through to Senior College level in Perth and also lecture part-time in Communications at the WA School of Mine sin Kalgoorlie. While at Tuart College in 2005 and 2007, I undertook a teacher

exchange to Vietnam and spent just over a month in a rural high school on the Mekong River.

My husband Ian and I met at UWA in Prof Bolton’s lectures on The Rise of the West. We married in 1971 and in 1981 relocated to Kalgoorlie, my husband’s hometown, where he had just been elected the local member of Parliament. Over the next fifteen years, as well as bringing up three children, I was able to assist in the community in a number of volunteer roles especially with regard to various school committees, the Women’s Refuge and the Activ Foundation.

In 2011 my husband and I celebrated our 40th wedding anniversary with friends at the University Club and will probably do the same again next year for our 50th!

Our three children are all graduates of UWA albeit in different fields and it would be great to see at least one or two of our five grandchildren follow in the family tradition.

As you can see, UWA has had a prominent place in the lives of our family.


Mrs Katherine (Kathy) Jane TEAGUE (née PACKARD)BA ’69, GradDipEd ’70, MA (Qual), MEd (Uni of Adelaide)

Kathy is married to Baden. They have three adult sons and nine grandchildren, ranging in age from 3 to 15.

After graduation from UWA, Kathy worked as a staff worker for Intervarsity Fellowship visiting students in Australian and PNG Universities. As an educator, Kathy then went on to a wide range of work involvements. She taught in secondary schools (government and non-government in WA and SA) and was a Project

Officer – writer, examiner and moderator in the Curriculum and Assessment Branch at SSABSA (Senior Secondary Assessment Board in South Australia). In addition, she worked at Adelaide University as tutor and lecturer in History and in Education and as a University supervisor in the Graduate School of Education.

As a committed Christian, Kathy has been active in the Anglican Church and has very much enjoyed sharing her life journey with her husband and family, including each of the nine grandchildren from when they arrived. Other specific activities and interests have included being a member of the Australian College of Educators, a member of the Education Advisory Committee Australian Scholarships Group, member and Chair of the SA Ministerial Advisory Committee on Non-Government Schools, member of the St Dominic’s Priory College Board of Directors, member St Peters Collegiate Girls School Board, Lay Assistant St Peters Anglican Cathedral, Examining Chaplain for the Anglican Church in SA, Anglican Schools Liaison in SA, member St Barnabas Theological College Board and member of the ambassador group for Nature Foundation SA. Kathy won a NEITA excellence in teaching Award in 1995.

Kathy has travelled extensively in China, India, Turkey, Syria, Zimbabwe, North Africa, Russia, UK and Europe, NZ, SE Asia, PNG, Cook Islands, Tonga, Japan, Jordan and Israel. She was also a regular visitor to the Pitjantjatjara Communities in SA for a number of years. Kathy has interests in music, film, theatre, reading and editing, farming, sailing, and bushwalking; and is co-author of the book: Chapel, Cloister and Classroom, Reflections on the Dominican Sisters at North Adelaide, Adelaide, 1993.

Kathy and Baden enjoy spending time on their small farm at Inman Valley in the south of the state where the family produce wine, beef and olive oil as well as an array of amateur theatrical productions which are put on in their home theatre each year.


Mr George TEALE BSc ‘67, GradDipEd ‘70

My initial appointment was to Governor Stirling Senior High School, Midland, in 1968. I enjoyed teaching science to all year levels for many years. My first link to the Education Department came via a Teaching Bursary for Years 11 and 12. Successful secondary education lead to the State subsidising my university education with the proviso I be bonded for four years to state education.

During my appointment at Governor Stirling SHS, in addition to the teaching role, I managed and

mentored a student Chess Club between 1968 and 1976. During this period the Club, as well as providing a welcome retreat for chess enthusiasts, fostered three State Junior Champions. I also supported and coached the Cross-country team.

I was promoted to Senior Master Biology at Governor Stirling SHS in 1971. This subsequently opened other professional opportunities. In recognition of my commitment to Biology education I was appointed to the Biology Syllabus Committee in 1971, and later Chaired the committee for many years. I was seconded to the Curriculum and Advisory Branch to take on the role of Biology Advisory Teacher between 1975 to 1977. I participated as a writer and editor for the Second Edition of the Web of Life curriculum materials. I was later seconded to the role of Acting Superintendent of Science from July 1983 to 1985. Following this secondment, I returned to Governor Stirling and invested energy into teaching and managing school wide curriculum change and re-invigorating administrative structures.

I was successful in a promotion to Deputy Principal at Belmont SHS in 1900.

In a new role, I enjoyed providing leadership and managing challenges on both student and staff levels. For ten years I provided continuity, stability and consistency over a period of regular educational and administrative change. I also became involved with the Deputy Principals Association throughout the 1990’s.

When Belmont and Kewdale Senior High Schools were combined, I elected to transfer to Eastern Hills SHS in 2000. I again provided leadership and continuity, including a period as relieving principal. I retired in 2012, following heart and prostate operations.

Over this journey of 44 years, I have been fortunate in my appointments and have enjoyed the many and varied challenges, and delighted in meeting


and knowing the many colleagues, characters and friends, supporting and mentoring students and staff.

FamilyJoy and I married in 1968. In the years that followed, we have raised three children, and now are proud grandparents to five grand-children. Along the way we also fostered several children, sponsored overseas children and hosted exchange students aligned with AFS [American Field Scholarship].

RetirementRetirement sees us living comfortably north of Mundaring, sharing our time between hobbies, providing support to our family in number of ways, working on home renovation projects and travelling.

Professor James TREVELYAN BE ‘70, MEngSc ‘72

Emeritus Professor James Trevelyan is an engineer, educator, researcher and has recently become a start-up entrepreneur.

He is CEO of Close Comfort, a tech start-up introducing new energy saving, low emissions air conditioning technology to Australia, Indonesia, Pakistan, and other countries with a large potential global market.

His research on engineering practice helped define the current Engineers Australia professional competencies for chartered engineers. His book “The Making of an Expert Engineer” and advances in understanding how engineers contribute commercial value are influencing the future of engineering education in universities and workplaces. Another book, “30 Second Engineering”, is helping to build greater awareness of the key importance of engineering and will reach a global audience. His latest book “Learning Engineering Practice”, to appear late in 2020, will help graduates transitioning to professional practice.

He is best known internationally for pioneering research that resulted in sheep shearing robots from 1975 till 1993 and for the first industrial robot that could be remotely operated via the internet in 1994. He received the leading international award for robotics research in 1993, the Joseph Engelberger Award for Robotics Science and Technology development, equivalent to the Fields medal in mathematics.

In 2018 he was awarded West Australian of the Year in the professions category in recognition of his achievements.


Web pages:https://www.closecomfort.com/ https://JamesPTrevelyan.com/ https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/persons/james-trevelyanhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/jtrevelyan/

Mr Bruce VARLEY BE ‘70

Bruce has had a long career in industrial control, working throughout the world. He retired in 2017 and lives in Melville WA. He still keeps his hand in as a keyboard and mandolin player with various groups.

Mr Richard WATSONBSc ’69, DipComp ‘70

Richard Watson is a Regents Professor and the J. Rex Fuqua Distinguished Chair for Internet Strategy in the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia. In 2011, he received the Association for Information Systems’ LEO award, which is given for exceptional lifetime achievement in Information Systems.


Mrs Mary-Jane WHITEHEAD BA ‘68, GradDipEd ‘70

After graduating with a BA Honours degree in Music, I spent 6 months in 1968 as a Master’s student before realising that the big world beckoned irresistibly. Withdrawing from the study, I got a casual job teaching, and discovered that I liked it! Except for a brief 3 years travelling the world and working in a variety of jobs, my working life has been as an educator, mostly in government schools and mostly in the area of music.

I have taught all student levels from pre-primary to Year 12, and have lectured in music education at various times at UWA, ECU and Curtin Uni. I have worked both as a regional and state wide music advisor, as a curriculum developer and writer, and as a policy consultant. The last ten years of my working life were spent managing the Education Department’s instrumental music scheme, that at that time provided instrumental lessons to over 15,000 students in more than 400 schools across the state. (It has since grown in size!). Upon retirement from full-time work, I worked for some years part-time, supervising teaching practice students.

During my working life, I attempted to return to study, trying again for a Master’s degree, but real life got in the way again! However, I did eventually earn a Graduate Certificate in Administration from Curtin University during my last working decade.

I have also been active in my professional association, the Australian Society for Music Education (ASME), both at the State and National level. Ten years on the National Executive included a term as National President. I was a music representative on the National Affiliation of Arts Educators (NAAE) and was deeply involved in the development of the National Curriculum in the Arts. I was also the founding Chair of the Affiliation of Professional Education Associations (APEA), a body that drew together associations across many areas of school education for a common purpose.

Since my retirement in 2008, I have followed my mother’s advice and taken up the game of bridge, which I have found deeply enjoyable and addictive. I am currently the President of Nedlands Bridge Club. I am a committee member of Dying with Dignity WA, working for legislative change to allow voluntary assisted dying in WA. I am also the besotted grandmother of two primary age grandchildren!


The Revd Ted WITHAM BA (Hons) ‘70

I graduated from UWA with an Honours degree in French studies and with irreplaceable experiences as Secretary to the Guild’s Societies Council and a member of various debate teams.

After leaving the Crawley campus, the Education Department employed me as a MaT (Master – Temporary) at Brookton and Beverley District High Schools, where I had much fun teaching and enjoying the social life of a country town with the rest of the young teaching staff.

Two years on, I changed direction and returned to study; this time at Trinity College in Melbourne, where I earned a Bachelor of Divinity before being ordained an Anglican priest in the Diocese of Perth. My teaching experience fitted me for the role of school chaplain. I had a wonderful year as Acting Chaplain to Hale School before returning to Applecross Parish to complete my formation as a priest.

After 18 months of parish life, I was recruited to be Senior Chaplain to Christ Church Grammar School in Claremont. I found this ministry rewarding. It included teaching an almost full load, being available for pastoral care, and leading worship most days. The most memorable part of school chaplaincy is possibly, and strangely, ministry to the bereaved. Students, and young past students, died. Planning for their funeral, grieving with the family and attending to the grief of the whole school community demanded an investment in time and emotion.

After 8 years, I felt the need for more study and the Diocese, my employer, awarded me a scholarship to complete a Master of Religious Education at the prestigious Duke University in North Carolina. Living in the USA for 20 months was a rewarding experience for our young family, and I appreciated the opportunity to be absorbed in Duke’s intellectual culture – and its humungous library!

On my return to WA, I took up the role of parish priest in Armadale, where I spent four years. There I struggled with my health, and eventually took up the offer to be Associate Priest, with less responsibility, in the parish of Claremont.

After three years there, I returned to UWA as chaplain to St George’s College for two years. Following that, I worked for myself as a consultant in Religious Education, including lecturing at Murdoch in its Theology Department.


In 1999, The Churches’ Commission on Education (now known as YouthCARE) appointed me its Executive Director. During my four years there, the number of chaplains in Government schools grew from about 80 to 130. By 2003, every High School in the State that wanted a chaplain had one. I also oversaw the teaching of Special Religious Education in state primary schools.

In 2003, my ill-health intervened again, and I returned to part-time roles in the diocese of Perth training parishioners in Religious Education. In 2007, the Professional Teaching Council of WA awarded me an Outstanding Professional Services award. I served as President of the Australian Association for Religious Education from 2004-2006. The Association elected me to life membership in 2007.

Since my complete retirement in 2006, I have returned to my first love of teaching French, Latin and English grammar in the University of the Third Age (U3A) in Busselton. I have published short stories and poetry and enjoy participating in the rich creative writing community down south.


Currie Hall. Courtesy UWA Archives

View taken from steps in front of Hackett Building showing Winthrop Hall and Whitfeld Court before paths were paved - early 1970s. Courtesy Frank Parkinson



Group photograph of Physiology Department staff. Courtesy Dr Susan Kaldor - Department of Anthropology

UWA Choral Society - Frank Calloway - Winthrop Hall. Courtesy UWA Archives



UWA Boat Club - Men’s rowing team - c1970s. Courtesy UWA Boat Club

Boating club members winning teams rowing scenes race scenes



The Cheating Hearts - New Fortune Theatre. Courtesy School of English and Cultural Studies

UWA Boat Club - Men’s rowing team - c1970s. Courtesy UWA Boat Club



Lecture Theatre. Courtesy Fritz Kos

Sunken Garden. Courtesy UWA Archives



Aerial views of several buildings on campus - from the Great Court. Courtesy Clive Jarvis

Conductor & young musicians - names unknown. Courtesy UWA Archives



Staff and scenes of the University ‘ s Reid Library - Card catalogue - circa 1970. Courtesy UWA Archives



Arts Building, May 1969. Courtesy UWA Archives

Music Recital at the Octagon Theatre, 1969. Courtesy UWA Archives



Geography Honours Room, 1969. Courtesy Ian Eliot

Associate Professor Darrel Turkington - Economic Faculty - circa 1970. Courtesy UWA Archives



Excerpt from Daily News. Courtesy UWA Guild



Guild Council, 1970. Courtesy UWA Guild



Excerpt from the Guild Council Annual Report. Courtesy UWA Guild



Vietnam War protests in 1970. Courtesy UWA Archives



Newspaper excerpt courtesy David Hayles



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