Scotch College

Features

• Tollway Update
• Cameron’s 2020 vision earns VACC prize
• No ordinary people
• The Co-Duxes of Scotch College 2008
• The Class of 2008 leaves its legacy
• Scotch students top university studies
• Scotch unites in compassion and hope
• Gassers take on the Slashers
• Pairing helps Marysville families get their lives together
• Scotch Family helps Kinglake community find its feet
• Strategically reducing our potable water use
• Synthetic surface helps beat drought
• The revealing MYRiveR Yarra experience

Principal

• Small changes in input can result in a major change in output

Chairman

• The only constant is change

Chaplain

• A beautiful Scotch moment

Junior School

• 2009 brings mixed emotions in the Junior School
• Our new Junior School staff
• Enter the Junior School dragon
• A warm welcome to our new boys
• New-look library excites a passion for literature

School Captain’s Report

• Change calls

Senior School

• Meet some of the new Senior School staff
• The experience of a lifetime in Nepal
• New boys to Scotch
• Fiji project a great experience for Venturers
• A humbling, revealing experience in Fiji
• A unique cultural and life experience in Italy
• Journeying to an exciting world of pipe band opportunities
• Helping to change dance stereotypes

Senior School Sport

• Scotch cycling hits the ground pedalling
• Swim team meets expectations in ‘09
• Scotch athletes crowned as
• Preparing the way for surf success
• Cam Rees plunges to new heights
• A strong performance at Nagambie
• A season with great highlights

Senior School Music

• Ending the year with a Prom

Senior School Drama

• From Manhattan to the insect world

Boarding

• A home far from home

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April 2009 issue

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

Editor
Tim Shearer

Assistant Editor
David Ashton

Graphic Designer
Kathryn Cairney

Cover: The Scotch College campus: featuring the resurfaced main and Junior School ovals, and the resurfaced tennis courts.
Photography: Andrew North (Cloud 9)

Inside cover - Main oval Editorial

Selected articles from this issue.

OSCA

• 84th Annual Dinner
• Australia Day Honours 2009
• Increased Commitment to OSCA from a Scotch Family Member
• Were you in the Scotch College Military Band?
• Geoffrey Metz heads up the RACP
• Myke goes bush with his second book
• A truly remarkable generation
• Rovers pitch in to help with bushfire relief
• Remembering a crucial Australian World War I victory
• Creating their own history at two schools
• Old Boy rowers represent Victoria with distinction
• Scotch influence in the Hawks’ premiership
• Helping the grand old flag to fly proudly again
• Two Scotch AFL draftees
• Who played in the first game?
• Door opens for Alistair after Moonah victory
• Scotch weddings

What They’re doing now

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

OSCA Events

Photo Gallery

• 50 Year Reunion Luncheon
  School Council/osca/Foundation Cocktails
  OSCA Inverloch Branch dinner
  OSCA Mornington Branch dinner
  Don Macmillan Head of The River Luncheon
  20 Year Reunion

Old Scotch Clubs

• Cricket’s movers and shakers win back-to-back flags
• Season 2009 well under way for OSFC
• Early start for Old Scotch Soccer Club
• A beautiful day for competition bowls
• Best musical director award to John Ferguson
• Breaking news: Superstar comes to Scotch
• New club pipes up with vigour
• Hawthorn triumphs in top division hockey
• Lance Armstrong inspires cycling club
• Koomerang’s ready for the ’09 ski season
• Strong individual performances by Old Scotch athletes

Foundation

• EMG Chapel Service attracts 130
• McQueen Scholarship further boosts music at Scotch
• A great Scotch experience for grandparents and boys
• Great turnout for Garden Day
• Jeff Kennett and Richard Pratt call in
• Scotch has helped shape you

Archives

• Treasures of the archives
• Move and prosper
• High-tech audiovisual device… in its day
• Archives volunteers—you can help
• Melbourne Grammar’s 150th anniversary - how the Archives found a gift
• The 20 oldest Old Boys

Obituaries

• Obituaries
• Vale Patrick Montgomery Wood (’30)
• Great Scot obituaries for Old Boys who died before 2008