Scotch College

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1940s

A close involvement with the Lake Boga (14km south of Swan Hill) Flying Boat Museum and having direct contact with ‘flying’ people eventually led DICK PEEL (’49) to become a pilot himself. Mates in the Swan Hill Aero Club challenged Dick to take up flying, and so at the age of 73 he took his first lesson. Two and a half months and 32 hours’ flying later, Dick got his restricted licence, scoring 90% in the test. ‘Then came the big one – navigation,’ Dick told Great Scot. ‘That really tested me out, as well as my instructor. Scotch spent four years trying to teach me maths, to no avail. But after five long-distance flights of three to four hours each, and some study, I had my complete licence at 74 years of age. I also now have 74 hours’ flying in my log book.’

1950s

DON CHAMBERS (’54) excelled in track and field events in Masters Games in the USA and Canada this year, winning four gold, three silver and two bronze medals in the Canadian games.

1960s

After serving for 15 years on the committee of the Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club as vice-president, EUAN CAMPBELL (’63) has received the club’s ‘distinguished life member’ award for 2007.

ROB LA NAUZE (’64) recently exhibited a selection of his paintings at the Australian Guild of Realist Artists’ gallery in Camberwell. Rob says he now paints every day, after finishing his career in the mining industry. He told the Progress Leader his painting has become ‘an obsession, like you have to get out there and do it’. But Rob told the paper that ‘it is very satisfying, after the struggle of the actual painting, to say, “Yes, I would hang that on my wall”’.

While delivering some family memorabilia to the Scotch Archives, Lyndy Macqueen, wife of GREG MacQueen (’64), pointed out that her sons CAMERON (’94), ANDREW (’97) and STUART (’00) were fourth-generation Scotch students through BOTH their parents. Can anyone top that record?

DAVID MORIESON (’65) is now a librarian and information officer at Mueller College at Rothwell on the Redcliffe Peninsula, north of Brisbane.

1970s

TOM HEALEY (’70) has taken up a half-time appointment as Director of Music at St Andrew’s Anglican Church in Brighton, while doing some teaching at St Michael’s Grammar School.

1980s

ANDREW COHEN (’84) has been appointed to the Young Global Leaders Forum for 2007, joining James Packer and Cathy Freeman in the group, a sub-committee of the World Economic Forum. Andrew is a managing director of JP Morgan in the USA, responsible for the private banking business of JP Morgan’s Southern Californian customers. According to the chair of the group, Her Majesty Queen Rania of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, the forum ‘activates a network of insightful, innovative and energetic young people, whose vision and dynamism can usher a future of hope, progress and positive change’.

Mike Evans (’84) and wife Sharon-Katie have welcomed a new son, Jackson Keith, into their family (born 10 June, 7lb 10oz).

JOHN ARMSTRONG (’85) and his wife, Rebecca, welcomed a new son on 5 January, Oscar Alexander Armstrong, a little brother for Jack.

BADEN TAYLOR (’86) and his wife, Bernadette, are the proud parents of a daughter, Jacinta Ann, born on 14 May.

Chris Robinson (’87) married Tomoko Hashiguchi of Hyuga-Shi, Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan, in a civil ceremony at Rex Smeal Park, Port Douglas QLD on 27 July, 2007.

ROSS BECROFT (’88) and his wife, Candice, have welcomed the birth of their first child, Lara Anne, born on 12 April. Ross is a partner with Gross and Becroft Lawyers in Melbourne, working in international trade and commercial law, and he is completing a PhD on dispute settlement in the World Trade Organization. He is also the immediate past president of the Old Scotch Athletics Club, and continues to compete for the club.

TIM LAWSON (’88) is responsible for qualitative research on Asian financial stocks at MIR Investment Management Asia. Prior to joining MIR, Tim was a senior vice-president with Fox Pitt Kelton in Hong Kong for two years, covering Asian insurance companies. Fox Pitt Kelton is a global investment bank specialising in financial sectors. From 1997 to 2004, Tim worked as a sell-side equity analyst with UBS Australia, covering, variously, diversified financial stocks, banks, food, retail, tourism, leisure and small-cap companies. As lead analyst on diversified financial stocks he was consistently highly rated in the Greenwich survey from 2001 to 2003. Tim is a chartered financial analyst, an associate chartered accountant, and received his Bachelor of Economics from Monash University and is married to Susie, with three children.

1990s

RICHARD FINCHER (’93) completed a Bachelor of Engineering degree at Melbourne University in 1998, and has since been working in occupational health and safety and regulatory affairs jobs for various chemical companies. He married Birgit last August, and the couple spent six weeks honeymooning in Europe. They have recently bought a house in Bayswater, and plan to settle down and start a family soon.

ANDREW NORTH (’94) and his wife Katherine have welcomed their second daughter, Samantha Grace, born on 19 June.

DAVID PEARCE (’96), his wife, Lisa, and their son, Mark, are in remote Lokichoggio, on the Kenya–Sudan border, where David works with the Mission Aviation Fellowship. The MAF is a not-for-profit team of aviation professionals providing air transport in places of deepest human need – remote places where flying is not a luxury, but a lifeline. David says: ‘MAF’s goal, and our own goal, is to support the spread of the gospel and bring humanitarian aid through aviation to the remotest corners of East Africa.’

2000s

ANDREW BLACK (’06) has won the University of Melbourne’s Extension Program Prize for Physics. GS