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1950s

John Bartley (’50) graduated with B.Comm (Hons) from Melbourne University in 1955 and worked for six years at Shell and three years with Ford, including six years in Sydney, 1959–1964. He returned to Melbourne in 1964 as an investment analyst with Ian Potter & Co. (now UBS) and remained there until retiring in 1993. He was married in 1958 and has three children and three grandchildren. John enjoys travelling overseas and throughout Australia. His interests include playing tennis, running his self managed superannuation fund, being Treasurer of a Probus club and spending time at his holiday house at Ocean Grove.

There have been nine Beveridges at Scotch [David (’53), Andrew (54), Graham (’55), Robert (’56), Peter (’57), Richard (’62), John (’63), Scott (’76) and Tim (’93)]. All are grandsons or great-grandsons of James Beveridge OBE, the subject of a portrait recently donated by the family to the Boroondara Civic Collection. The portrait was painted in 1947 by Sir William Dargie, one of Australia’s most successful artists, who won the Archibald Prize for portraits eight times.

James Beveridge, born in Scotland in 1881, was a leader in the Australian printing industry and a local Camberwell resident. As a great supporter of Australian art and artists, James Beveridge felt Australia should have a portrait of the Queen painted by an Australian artist. He commissioned Dargie’s well-known 1954 portrait of the Queen in her ‘wattle’ dress, presented to the Commonwealth by the Beveridge family in 1955 and which now hangs in Parliament House, Canberra. Unfortunately James died before it was finished. Under the same commission and on the same visit to the UK in 1954, William Dargie also completed a portrait of the Duke of Edinburgh. This painting was presented to the City of Melbourne to commemorate the Olympic year [1956] and can be found in the Portico Room of the Melbourne Town Hall.

Graeme Brumley (’50) studied Mechanical Engineering at RMIT and later travelled overseas to Britain and the US for experience in the fields of fan engineering and dust control. He was married in Scotland and returned to Australia, and, prior to retirement ran his own business for nearly 30 years in the field of noise control. Graeme has three children and 10 grandchildren and now lives in Monbulk. Part of his recreation is growing daffodils. This activity led to a major role in the World Daffodil Convention held last year at Mount Waverley.

Alex Buchanan (’51) spent 25 years at CSIRO including 13 years in South East Asia, mainly leading the ASEA N-Australia Economic Cooperation Program specialising in food research. He is a Professorial Associate of Victoria University and was International Director of the Rotary Club of Melbourne for the past two years. More importantly, he is a member of Flinders and Yarra Yarra Golf Clubs!

Gerald Hall (’50) has been actively involved in pharmacy since 1951, conducting his own businesses in Brunswick, Blackburn, Lilydale and Frankston. He has three children and lives in Armadale. His interests include running an avocado orchard on Tambourine Mountain, Queensland and he is actively involved in the running and maintenance of properties on the exciting new holiday area of Agnes Water near Bundaberg in Queensland. Gerald is a Past President of Lilydale Rotary Club and is now retired from business and enjoying an active life.

1960s

Andrew McArthur (’64) was recently named the National Landcare Program Individual Landcarer of the year for his dedication to local conservation and devotion to local and regional Landcare initiatives. He was the inaugural chair of the Tom’s Creek Landcare Group (initially established to control erosion), and was the central figure for setting up the East Gippsland Landcare Network.

1970s

Geoff Bell (’75) studied Science at Monash University and Physiotherapy at the Lincoln Institute. At this time he also campaigned with The Wilderness Society to save the Franklin River from being dammed. He has continued his sporting and outdoor interests, rowing with Mercantile Rowing Club and Monash University, and played football at the Old Scotch Football Club. He also bushwalks, skis, goes rafting, bike riding, and rowing with the Cardinal Club on Sundays. He is married to Frances and has three boys, the older two at Scotch, and works as a Specialist Neurological Physiotherapist in his own practice. He is now President of the Cardinal Club at Scotch.

David Bowden (’75) has worked at Jones Lang LaSalle in the commercial property industry for 24 years. He has four children aged from 9–17 years; one of whom is in Year 10 at Scotch.

Creighton Burns (’75) lives in East Bentleigh with his partner Dr Marissa Lim. He runs his own IT consultancy and also lectures in IT at Swinburne University.

Sandy Dunn (’75) started his own management consulting business, Assetivity, in 2000 which focuses on operations and maintenance improvement for the resources sector. It now employs 12 consultants and was recognised by BRW magazine in 2004 as Australia’s 37th fastest growing company.

Chris Mackey (’75) has been living and working in Geelong over the past 25 years as a clinical psychologist in both public psychiatry and private practice. He was also a senior clinical psychologist at the Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital in Melbourne from 1993 to 1995 where he helped establish a program for Vietnam war veterans. Chris and his wife Sue have a son aged 12 and two daughters aged eight and six years. He has run his own private practice for the past 10 years where he employs 14 psychologists. He has specialised in the field of psychological trauma and has presented at numerous national and international scientific conferences. The practice recently received a Geelong Business Excellence Award (Commercial Services Award) for a second time.

Dr Rob Moodie (’70) is Chief Executive of the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (Vic Health) and was recently awarded the Victoria Father of the Year 2005. He is inspired by the way his children, Penny, 17, and son Nick, 20, live their lives, and encourages the young to be engaged and part of something they enjoy.

1980s

Will Derham (’86) and his wife Avanelle have a daughter, Iasabelle, born on 15 September 2005.

Stuart (’88) and Sue Gibbs would like to announce the birth of Harrison (Harry) Stuart Gibbs, who was born on 20 October.

Richard Mann (’85) is living in London where he works as a Lawyer for DLA Piper. He is married to Saran and has recently become a father to Isabella.

Nicole and Tim Wilson (’89) are delighted to announce the birth of Clancy McKinley Wilson on Saturday 17 September, weighing 7 lb 2 oz (3.26 kg).

1990s

Hugh Cattermole (’93) will marry Rebecca Jonnerhag from Denmark in Copenhagen in December this year. They currently live in London but intend to return to Australia in January 2006. Hugh has been in Denmark and England for the past five years.

James Cattermole (’95) has become engaged to Rebecca (Beck) Martin, of Melbourne. No date has been set for their wedding. James returned to Melbourne in 2004 after two years in England.

Andrew North (’94) and his wife Katherine are pleased to announce the arrival of their first child, a little girl, Jessica Amy North born on 9 August 2005. Jessica arrived 10 days early weighing in at 8 pounds 5 and a half ounces or 3.78 kg. Both mother and daughter are doing very well, and dad’s not doing too badly either.

Matthew Roberts’ (’94) new album Now You Are Gone is now in stores, after its launch on 9 october at the Manchester Lane club in Melbourne. Scotch nurtured academic and musical tendencies, such that he is now training as a medical spe-cialist and has scored a national distribu-tion record deal, with international interest in his music building. For more details visit www.mattroberts.com.au.

David Slattery (’99) graduated Bachelor of Laws in april this year. His brother Tim (’97) is practising as a solicitor at Freehills and younger brothers Rowan (’02) and Lachlan (’04) are following in their brothers’ foot-steps studying Law at the University of Melbourne (pictured below).

Robert Stilling (’92) is living in Ireland and celebrated his marriage to Christine Verveen in county Wicklow, Ireland, on 6 August.

Wedding guests included Andrew Frederick (’92), Robert Carson (’92), Cameron Edgoose (’92), and Chris Taylor (’93).

Matt Welsh (’94) has announced his engagement to Lauren Newton.

Paul Sheer (’95) and his wife Elizabeth (nee Mishura) are delighted to announce the birth of a daughter, Chloe, on 13 August.

2000s

Nick Gill (2000) has had a highly successful debut season playing centre half-forward for the North Adelaide Football Club. Nick was a great athlete at Scotch and played in the 1st XVIII in 1999 and 2000. He was drafted by Melbourne in 2001, then played for Port Melbourne (winning VFL mark of the year in 2002) before being recruited by North Adelaide. His spectacular marking is a feature of his game, and he was recently selected in the 2005 Adelaide Advertiser team of the Year and was runner up in the Magarey Medal by four votes (the SANFL equivalent of the Brownlow Medal).

He also finished third in the club champion award and won club trophies for the most outstanding forward at North Adelaide, and the Harold McFarlane Memorial award for gaining the most Magarey Medal votes by a North Adelaide player. He is a most exciting and ultra-competitive player and he certainly thrilled rooster followers on numerous occasions throughout the season.

Former staff

Former Junior School staff member Gavin Marshall is living on a 25 acre property just south of Yea, on what he describes as his ‘little patch of paradise’. He has just returned from another outback stint with VISE (Volunteers for Isolated School Education), an organisation to which he was introduced by former colleague, the late Don MacMillan. He spent Term 2 on a property of 1641 sq.km south of Alice Springs, and then had a shorter stint on one north of Cloncurry. He is now back at home where he still works in substitute teaching at schools in Melbourne, and the local community. He does this to keep pace with educational trends and to be more effective with the VISE work.

In addition, Gavin and a friend have been songwriting for three years. Their latest CD, ‘New Horizons’, was released in September, with the next one, ‘Desert Winds’ being released in the New Year. The CDs are based on outback adven-tures and experiences.

Gavin’s son Brett has been working in South-East Asia for over 10 years, which has allowed Gavin to visit him in Indonesia, Thailand and now the Philippines. His second son Glenn is in the process of setting up a tag-along Outback touring company.