Scotch College

Obituaries

Ian Amess ('45)
Barrie Anderson ('46)
John Anderson ('66)
David Buxton (32)
Clyde Clinton ('21)
Alan Cooley ('31)
Brian Digby ('46)
Donald Douglas ('37)
Douglas Gauld ('31)
Ronald Gibbs ('19)
David Harland ('41)
Ronald Hastings ('34)
Martin Jilovsky ('68)
Alan Lea ('33)
Ingmar Lembke ('25)
George Macaulay ('65)
Bruce McClean ('53)
Andrew McCrea ('26)
John Oaten ('26)
Ronald Paton ('32)
John Philip ('44)
James Riddell ('29)
Sydney Robinson ('41)
Arthur Schutt ('27)
Bill Scott ('28)
Malcolm Stewart ('35)
Bib Stillwell ('46)
Albert Taunton ('39)
John Trengove ('40)
Sydney Trigellis-Smith ('39)
John Warr ('42)

Sir Alan Sydenham Cooley ('31)

Born on 17 September 1920 and died April 13 1997.

Resilient, with a meticulous work nature, Sir Alan's public service career spanned four decades. He rose from a cadet engineer with the Department of Supply in 1940, to the second-highest post in the public service, Chairman of the Public Service Board. His time as chairman from 1971-77 was a torrid period, with three federal elections and massive bureaucratic upheaval. Sir Alan survived, but then moved to the post of Productivity Commission Head.

He retired in 1981.

Robert Bruce McClean ('53)

Robert Bruce McClean, known as Bruce to all his friends, died suddenly on 25th July 1999 aged 62. His death was a complete shock to family and friends. Through his life Bruce maintained ongoing memberships with the OSCA's hockey, tennis, cricket and lodge clubs. The Hockey Club was certainly very important to him, over 47 years. During this time he held the position of Club Secretary, Club Captain and Club President. In 1982 Bruce was made a life member.

Bruce had many great qualities. Loyalty and commitment to everything he undertook. High integrity, and generous with his time. He had a great sense of fun. To meet him was to receive a warm smile and greeting. He loved to socialise.

He is survived by wife Meg and children Jenny, Andrew and Robert.

Sydney John Trigellis-Smith (1939).

Syd was born in Hawthorn in 1923. He entered the Junior School at Scotch, where he chose to be called SJT Smith. After serving in the Army in New Guinea he joined his uncle's firm, Consolidated Merchandising Co, and worked there until his retirement. Having been a book collector all his life, he concentrated in later years on Australian Military History and Australiana, amassing a wonderful collection. In his retirement he wrote Army unit histories, including All the King's Enemies, Britain to Borneo, and with Jim McAllester Largely a Gamble, about the Syria campaign.

James Riddell ('29) was born in Melbourne, and was resident in Ormond College, while studying for his medical degrees in the University of Melbourne. He served as a medical officer in the RAN and later went to England for further study and experience; there he gained the Diploma of Tropical Medicine and Health, at the University of London. He returned to Australia to serve in the RAAF as a squadron leader, as a medical officer. After the war, he worked as a pathologist in several hospitals, in particular at the Austin Hospital, Melbourne, from 1954 until his retirement. After his retirement, he continued teaching in the Anatomy Department at the University.

Geoffrey Hynam ('38), matriculated at Scotch, and then went on to Melbourne University. With World War II becoming more serious, he broke off his studies to join the RAAF. For much of the war he was stationed in Canada's prairie provinces instructing Empire Training Scheme crew, mainly for the Royal Air Force's formidable Bomber Command. Geoffrey came back from World War II and joined the Melbourne stockbrokers, E.A. Hynam & Co, which was owned by his father. He headed for out-of-the-way Perth in 1954, to join stockbrokers S.G. Brearley & Co, with whom he was a senior partner. A year later he was a member of the Perth Stock Exchange, and was its chairman from 1968 to 1970. As things transpired the move was astute, for Perth was to be at centre stage during Australia's hectic mining boom of the 1960s and 1970s.

Geoffrey resigned as a member of the Stock Exchange in 1976 and went on to become a consultant to Perth stockbrokers D.J. Carmichael, where he worked until 1996. In later years he gave an inordinate amount of his free time to an array of charitable causes; chairman of Perth Legacy, a successful fundraiser for the Cottage Hospice at Shenton Park, a member of the Cancer Foundation, and treasurer of the Brain Foundation.