Malcolm Broun OAM QC (BA '58, LLB '59)  remains, at the age of 71, in full-time practice at the Bar. He has added a literary career to his interests, and for the past four years he has had a play accepted and performed in the Sydney Festival of Short Plays. Malcolm has written the first draft of his play for 2007, and is looking for a publisher for his first novel. He says it is never too late to start a new venture in life.
- Last updated 16/02/07

 

Ivan Curotta (Mat Med '55) recently presented his third book Wizard of the Hempen Square - a biography of the life of Hughie Dwyer, light welter and middleweight boxing champion of Australia during the 1920s - to his alma mater, the University of Sydney.  This book joins his previously published books, Up There With The Best and With Wings On Their Feet.
- Last updated 2/02/06

 

Geoffrey Doepel (BEcon '50 DipEd '51) worked in the Commonwealth Public Service from 1951 to 1958. He was with the Bureau of Agricultural Economics from 1951 to 1965 and worked as a statistical research officer and computer programmer with Commonwealth Superannuation from 1965 to 1983. Geoffrey has been a member of the St Vincent de Paul Society for the past thirty years. He has been married for 55 years and has seven children, 24 grand-children and four great-grandchildren.
- Last updated 16/12/06

 

Douglas Emery (MBBS '55) was a resident at Leqisham Hospital from 1955 to 1956. From 1958 to 1967 he was a general practitioner in Holbrook and from 1967 a general practitioner in Tamworth. He retired in 2001.  
- Last updated 16/06/06

 

Tony Frost (B Ec '83, LLB '85) writes of the passing of his father, Maurice Frost AM (B Sc '56, BE Aero '58, ME '60) who was acknowledged as having considerable influence on the structure of Austrlaia's defence forces, particularly its naval destroyers. Maurice Frost had a strong love for the university and enjoyed university rugby and rowing.
- Last updated 2/02/06  

 

Reginald Gee (BE(Civil) '51 DipTCPlan '53) received an OAM in the recent Queen's Birthday Honours for service to local government, engineering and the Taroona  Community. He retired from his consulting practice in 1995. He served as Mayor of Kingsborough (south of Hobart) and as chairman of Hobart Water. He has lived in Hobart for 40 years.
- Last updated 16/12/06

 

Pauline Haldane (BA '54) has moved to a new house with no stairs. She is enjoying the University of the Third Age, as well as craft, travel and grandchildren, not to mention internet and email. She thinks retirement is wonderful. 
- Last updated 16/06/06

 

Paul Hockings (BA '57) has become the first British Dean of a mainland Chinese university in over 60 years. He is Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at International College, set up by the Hong Kong Baptist University in Zhuhai, a city next to Macau.

- Last updated 16/06/06

 

Dr Clive Mathews (BE '59) has retired after spending 30 years at the engineering faculty of NSWIT/UTS and obtaining a Master of Science and a PhD from UNSW. He is nevertheless teaching at the Workers' Education Association in science and technology.
- Last updated 2/02/06 

 

Ian McNeill RFD (BDS '58 MDSc '81) recently wrote Looking Forward - Looking Back, a history of Wollongong City SLSC 1915 - 2000. Ian spent some time in the Australian Army as colonel consultant (orthodontics) and retired from practice in December 1999. He swims (and trains each morning) and competes in Masters  events. Other hobbies include studying Latin and breeding fancy poultry.
- Last updated 16/12/06

 

David Morris (Mat Med '55) writing as David Mullidan, launched his latest book Angels of Kokoda earlier this year in the officers' mess at the Victoria Barracks. General Peter Cosgrove did the honours. Published by Lothian Books, Angels of Kokoda has a foreword written by the Governor General and is the first book written for young people 10-16 about the 1942 Kokoda campaign.

- Last updated 19/06/06

 

John G Mulford (BEc '51) has written the official history of New South Wales Rugby Union. The Guardians of the Game is published by ABC Books. John is a former SUFC player, president of New South Wales Rugby. He is the foundation archivist for the Australian Rugby Union. 

- Last updated 19/06/06

 

Francis Osborne (BA '50) trained at the Armidale Teachers College (1940-1941). In 1950 he did his BA as an evening student and in 1954 he studied Manual Arts at the Sydney Technical College. Francis taught for eight years in demonstration schools, and then taught for a total of 28 years in teachers colleges in Sydney, Wagga Wagga and Wollongong. In  retirement, Francis writes on local history for the  Illawarra Historical Society. He is also writing an autobiography about a small lad from a bush school who was awarded a bursary. Francis is an honorary life member of the Illawarra Historic Society.
- Last updated 16/12/06

 

Richard Scotton AO (BA '51 BEcon '56), has built a career as an academic health economist at the Institute of Applied Economic Research at the University of Melbourne. He was a joint author of the original Medibank program, and was involved in its implementation during his time as chairman of the Health Insurance Commission (1973-1976). Richard held senior administrative positions in the Health Commission of Victoria and the Victorian Accident Compensation Commission before returning to academia as a professorial fellow in health economics at Monash University. He retired in 2000 and has since enjoyed the opportunity of regular overseas travel. 
- Last updated 16/12/06 

 

Warren Spence (BSc '50) and his wife have moved from Swansea in NSW to Doncaster East in Melbourne to be closer to their children and their families.
- Last updated 2/02/06 

 

Russell Strong AC CMG (BDS '58) practised dentistry in England to support his studies at London University where he graduated with an MBBS in 1964. Russell returned to Australia in 1973, joining the surgical staff at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane. He was subsequently appointed director of surgery and professor of surgery at the University of Queensland. He received many national and international honours related to his work in liver surgery and transplantation and has been a guest lecturer and visiting professor on more than 80 occasions in 22 countries. He is retired, and is now trying to reduce his golf handicap. 
- Last updated 16/12/06 

 

Roger Vanderfield OBE AO (MBBS '52 HonFellow '91) was a member of the Faculty of Medicine (representing RNSH) from 1973 to 1991. For the past 20 years Roger has been actively involved with the Royal Rehabilitation Centre Sydney, which is an affiliated teaching hospital of the University. He was chairman of the board for 10 years, and helped establish three professional units in rehabilitation medicine, nursing and developmental disabilities. He is still chairman of the Medical Appointment and Credentials Advisory Committee and the Rehabilitation Research Foundation.

- Last updated 19/06/06

 

Roy Whitecross EM (BEc '53)  was a prisoner-of-war who went on to establish Sydney's business credentials in international markets. For three years from 1942 to 1945, Roy was a Japanese prisoner-of-war, forced to work under extreme conditions on the Burma-Thai railway line. Roy later wrote about his experiences, and his book, Slaves of the Sun of Heaven, now has close to 200,000 copies in circulation.

- Last updated 16/12/06