Publications

Features

• Tollway widening nears completion
• Voices: The Carrical Project
• Building the Education Revolution (BER) Project in the Junior School
• 2008 Premier’s VCE Awards
• Old Scotch memories fill Leonda
• The performing arts: an enriching tradition
• The Insect Play
• West Side Story wows capacity houses
• Peter Pan
• Generations in jazz
• A season of fabulous fine music
• Vive le String!

Principal

• Scotch as a place of belonging

Chairman

• Scotch depends on its family
• Chairman David Crawford awarded AO

Chaplain

• Texting Calvin

Junior School

• Junior School Arts: ‘success is in the look’
• Visual Arts in the Junior School
• The Years 5 and 6 Music Concert
• An insight into the Junior School Music Program

School Captain’s Report

• Bearing the flame

Senior School

• Scotch successful at Monash University’s inaugural Viewpoint Economics debating competition
• Meet some of the new Scotch staff for 2009
• Class of 2009 – A dinner dance to remember!
• Class of 2009 Committee focuses on care
• Junior School Mentoring
• Scotch work experience allows exploration of passions
• Blogging makes its debut in the Senior Library at Scotch!
• Scotch boys driving in Morrison Street: a recipe for safety
• Scotch boy wins prestigious scholarship
• Curator takes centre stage on water initiatives
• Scotch Vic Metro AFL Representatives
• Funds will help patient rehabilitation
• Sea Scouts make waves in 2009
• Geoffrey McComas Theatre rocks to a hip-hop beat
• Bands battle it out for a cause
• Elliott Lodge survives Black Saturday

Senior School Sport

• Back to back APS hockey premierships
• The 1858 Club’s annual breakfast was another great success
• Soccer celebrities continue the breakfast tradition
• A case of what might have been
• Scotch rugby players beat rugby states
• Scotch hosts the Victorian Schools’ Rugby Finals
• Snowsports@Scotch

Boarding

• Many countries represented on the Hill

Scotch Parents’ Association

• The Origins of the Swap Shop
• A recent history of the Swap Shop

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September 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: Gareth Whelan (Year 10) playing the part of the Inchneumon Fly in the Scotch/PLC Middle School Play The Insect Play in May 2009.
Photography: Ms Jocelyn Pride

Inside cover - Foundation Day at Hamer Hall
Editorial

Selected articles from this issue.

OSCA

• In support of Scotch
• You didn’t have to wear a straw boater
• Queen’s Birthday Honours
• Colin McDonald: a cricket warrior tells his story
• Scotch’s man at the IOC
• Alex Linossier’s (’08) Monash University scholarship
• Learning more about Robert Lawson
• Donald Findlay Fergusson Thomson OBE – and Rraywala Mildjingi
• Old Scotch rowers take on the world
• ’69 crew celebrates 40th anniversary
• Asia Trip
• New University Chancellor
• Doug Ackerly on cricket assignment in India
• Scotch weddings

What They’re doing now

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

OSCA Events

Photo Gallery

• Perth Branch Dinner
  Echuca Branch Dinner
  30-Year Reunion
  55-Year Reunion
  60+ Year Reunion
  5-Year Reunion

Old Scotch Clubs

• Old Scotch Athletes break the drought
• A successful season for Old Scotch cricketers
• Old Scotch bowlers’ performances rewarded
• A mixed bag for Old Scotch footballers
• Old Scotch Cycling Club: ‘For the love’
• Koomerang lodge renovations completed for the new season
• ‘If you missed Les Misérables last year, don’t miss this’
• The Lodge’s year of friendship and charity
• The Lord Mayor holds court with former colleagues
• Calling past players: the Old Scotch Tennis Club turns 50

Foundation

• Supply truck for Tiwi Islands
• Great setting, great friendship – the 2009 EMG Winter Lunch
• Ken Field Art Show
• Official opening of the Scotch College Cadet Museum
• Old Boy Alexander Morrison Circle members by year group: 1950–1980

Archives

• Influenza and Scotch
• Scotch versus Xavier, 1913 style
• Scotch College Cadet Unit: Older than Australia
• The 20 oldest Old Boys
• Unhonoured war dead
• Archives volunteers – you can help
• Albert Hartkopf (1889–1968): a great-all-rounder

Obituaries

• Obituaries