Scotch College

Features

• The torch burns brightly – the baton changes hands
• OSCA’s 83rd Annual Dinner–a night of fun and fellowship
• Scotch celebrates its unique role in the sesquicentenary of football
• Team of the sesquicentenary
• Hugh Mackay delivers Monash Lecture
• Hidden talents at Scotch

Principal

• The baton is now in my hand

Chairman

• ’We are very fortunate to have found Tom Batty

Chaplain

• A city on a hill

Junior School

• Positive pathways to the future
• ’Jump Rope for Heart’ health
• German Day
• Prep Grandparents’ Day 2008
• Junior Primary Footy Day

School Captain’s Report

• Continuity and change, spiced with the usual ’Scotch Spirit’

Senior School

• Seven Scotch boys earn Premier’s Awards
• A very successful semester art exhibition
• Library’s longest Literary Lunch
• I booked in as a library officer
• Sights and sounds in Shanghai
• “Give him a hug!”
• Young filmakers strut their stuff
• John Buin makes the Science Olympiad
• Scotch breaks off for Burma – and China

Senior School Sport

• Three Scotch rugby players in state under 18 team
• Scrum Club supports international rugby festival
• Hockey team’s premiership triumph
• Successful NZ tour for Scotch soccer
• Scotch shuttlers make it five in a row
• Victorian representation
• World-class performance by Scotch crew at Henley

Senior School Music

• A wonderful evening of superb orchestral music
• Chamber Choir acclaimed as one of the best
• Piano virtuosity to the Max
• Much ado about something!

Senior School Drama

• Much ado about something!

Boarding

• Reaching out – a local and world view

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September 2008 issue

Great Scot is published by Scotch College
ABN
86 852 826 445

Editor
Tim Shearer

Assistant Editor
David Ashton

Graphic Designer
Kathryn Cairney

Printed by:
New Litho, 124-138 Union Road, Surrey Hills, Victoria 3177

Photography: Photoplay, James Grant, Kate Collingwood, Andrew Murdoch, Jocelyn Pride, Kathryn Cairney, Tim Shearer and Scotch College staff

Cover: New Principal Mr I Tom Batty is installed as the ninth Principal of Scotch College Photography: Andrew Murdoch
Inside cover - The Scotch Family welcomes Tom Batty

Selected articles from this issue.

OSCA

• Old Scotch – a fine spirit!
• Fast, feverish fun as Skybombers take off for the big time
• Queen’s Birthday Honours 2008
• Casey’s part in inspiring Tiwis project
• Old Scotch grabs inaugural Clayton–Wagstaff Trophy
• ’Their name liveth for evermore’
• The ’world’s most popular musical’ comes to Scotch

What They’re doing now

• 1940s
• 1950s
• 1960s
• 1970s
• 1980s
• 1990s
• 2000s

OSCA Events

Photo Gallery

• Adelaide Branch Dinner
  Past Staff
  1858 Club Breakfast
  APS Centenary Dinner
  OSCA President Luncheon
  40 Year Reunion
  

Old Scotch Clubs

• Perelberg Award
• Help wanted with RAAF history
• Scotch’s heritage – a rich, eventful journey
• Help! Archives bulge with work to be done
• Fresh air, fun and fabulous fellowship
• Refurbishments at two Koomerang lodges
• Great contest, but the good guys get up
• Soccer club – buzzing off the field, too

Foundation

• Excellence in Australian art
• Bequest enabled construction of two boarding houses
• EMG lunch with a topical theme
• Old Boy Alexander Morrison Circle
• Another most successful Foundation President’s Dinner

Archives

• Vaiben Solomon
• How were these men linked to Scotch?
• HMAS Sydney
• The 20 oldest Old Boys
• Textbooks wanted

Obituaries

• Obituaries
• Vale Tim Gates (’69)