Dr Mark Alexander (BDS '88, BSc (Dent) '88) is a full-time dentist at the AHM Dental Centre at Parramatta. Mark has enjoyed a successful sporting career in lawn bowls, having represented NSW, and was a member of the Harbord BC team that won the prestigious 2005 Premier League competition.
- Last updated 8/02/06

 

James Barahanos (B Sc '87)  helped win an award for Australia at the recent Akira Kurasawa Film Competition in Tokyo Japan.  The award was presented by Hiao Kurosawa, son of the famous director, Akira Kurosawa, to the makers of the film, The Kitchen. James shot the film in one continuous take.
- Last updated 8/02/06

 

Philip Camden (BPhysio '81 GradDip(SportSc) '87) runs two practices, one in Auburn and the other in Camden Hill. He has recently been awarded an honorary associate lectureship for his services to the student program. Married with three teenage children, his love for touch football continues.
- Last updated 16/12/06

 

CHIEN Jiao Ru (MA '81) taught at Nanjing University after returning from Sydney and became chair of the English department from 1988 to 1992. Was a visiting scholar at Cornell University in 1986-87, and had experience with UNESCO from 1983. Was appointed in 1993 as a regular staff member in UNESCO's translation division, where he served until he retired in 2003. He then taught again at Nanjing University and currently serves as chair of the English Department of a private university.

- Last updated 16/06/06

 

Mari Conea-Rosenfeld (BA '83) has continued her studies at Florida International University (FIU) where she earned a BA Hons in international relations in 1983, and in 1990, a Master’s in International Studies. By 1999, she completed doctoral studies on a fellowship at the University of Miami and in 2000 she received a PhD in History. Presently, Mari teaches at Gulliver Preparatory School, which is part of Gulliver Schools, in the International Baccalaureate and Advanced Placement Programs.
- Last updated 16/12/06

 

DU Rui Ging (MA '81), with an MA in literature, returned to Xi'an International Studies University to teach. He initiated classes in American and British literature to English majors and served as vice chair of the English Department. He then spent three years (1987-90) at Brigham Young University in Utah in the USA working for his doctorate in educational leadership. Upon completion of this program he returned to work at the same university, teaching as well as taking administrative responsibilities as chair of the English department, vice-president and president of the university.

- Last updated 16/06/06

 

Richard Francis-Jones (BScArch '81, BArch (First Class Honours) and University Medallist '85), architect and Design Partner of Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp, has been responsible for the design of some of Australia's most highly acclaimed buildings. His awards include the Sir Zelman Cowen, Sulman, and Lloyd Rees Awards. In 2001, he was one of only two Australian Architects selected to take part in the limited international design competition for the MCA at Circular Quay. Richard was President of the RAIA (NSW Chapter) from 2001-2002.
- Last updated 1/12/05

 

Matthew Gibbs (B Ec '89, Grad Cert Public Affairs '00) has twice graduated from the faculty east of City Road, firstly with a Bachelor of Economics in 1989 and then with a Graduate Certificate in Public Affairs in 2000.  In between those years and since he has enthusiastically pursued other University delights including a continuing education course on Latin in 1997 and election to the Council of the Friends of the Nicholson Museum in 2006. 
- Last updated 19/10/06

 

HU Wen Zhong (MA '81) is president of the Chinese English Education Association, which oversees English language teaching in tertiary institutions and at primary and secondary school level. English language teaching in China is booming - 300 million people are learning English. He is also a member of the International Association of Applied Linguistics, president of the China Association of Intercultural Communication and editor of Foreign Literature, a bi-monthly journal that publishes translations and critical articles on foreign literature. He has occasionally returned to Australia, most recently in 2003. After his Australian studies he returned as Professor of English at Beijing Foreign Studies University, where he still does some teaching. 
- Last updated 16/06/06

 

HU Zhuang Lin (MA '82) is a tenured professor at Peking University; director, PKU Australian Studies Centre; chairman, China Language and Semiotics Association; honorary chairman, China Functional Linguistics Association; honorary chairman, China Stylistics Association; vice-chairman, Beijing Linguistics Association; and chairman of the Academic Committee of the Foreign Language Education Research Centre in the Ministry of Education. 
- Last updated 16/06/06

 

HUANG Yuan Shen (MA '81)mainly supervises PhD and Masters students in Australian Literature at Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade and is Professor of English at East China Normal University, where he has taught for 44 years. After his return he published an anthology of Australian literature in 1987, followed by a History of Australian Literature, the first of its kind in China, in 1996, when he also updated the anthology. These are used as text books in Australian literature courses. He has also translated several Australian authors into Chinese, including Miles Franklin, Martin Boyd, Peter Carey, Henry Lawson and Alan Marshall.
- Last updated 8/02/06

 

LONG Ri Jin (MA '82) returned to China to teach at the South-West China Teachers' University in Sichuan, where he remained until 1993 when he joined the English department of the Sichuan Foreign Languages Institute. He is now a professor in the English department and teaches linguistics, discourse and analysis to post-graduate students.
- Last updated 16/06/06

 

Chris Mansell (BEcon '76) recently published her long awaited collection of poems, Mortifications & Lies. It includes Lies (winner of the Queensland Premier's Poetry Award) and & (a winner in the subversive awards).
- Last updated 16/06/06

 

Mark Nicholl (BEd (Second) (Hum) '88) is working as Rusty the Robot, a character clown, in The Jollybops Science Shows. Together with Trevor Atkinson (BEd (Second) (Sc) '91) he has combined the creative arts and science disciplines in a wacky science show for K-6 primary schools. They tour Australia, making science fun through explosions, loud pops and all sorts of colourful, chemical reactions. 
- Last updated 16/06/06

 

Michael Pezzullo (BA '86) joined the Defence Department in 1987, and then later transferred to the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. In 1993 he joined the staff of the Hon Gareth Evans QC and in 1997 was appointed deputy chief of staff to the Hon Kim Beazley MP. He returned to the Defence Department in 2002 and was promoted to deputy secretary (strategy) in January 2006. Michael and Lynne Pezzullo have four wonderful children.  
- Last updated 16/12/06

 

Dr Paul St Pierre (PhD Arts '82) is the author of A Portrait Of The Artist As Australians: L'Oeuvre Bizarre Barry Humphries (McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal, 2004).  Dr St Pierre is an associate professor at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, where he teaches Australian literature.
- Last updated 8/02/06

 

Yvonne Sum (BDS '86) advises that her initial dental career led her to working with families with apprehesive and phobic children, and facilitating parenting programs. She hung up the drill seven years ago to enter the field of corporate training, coaching and facilitation. She says her experience shows how a bachelor's degree is never wasted, it's a launch-pad for those in pursuit of their true purpose in life.

- Last updated 16/06/06

 

Liane Tooth (BEd (PhysEd) '84), the first female hockey player to compete in four Olympic Games (1988 to 1996) and twice a gold medallist, began playing hockey at school in Sydney. Since 1994 she has devoted much of her professional life to increasing sporting opportunities and physical activity, particularly for girls and women; for the Active Women unit of the WA Department of Sport and Recreation.
- Last updated 15/12/05

 

Mark Tredinnick (BA '84 LLB '86), has taught creative business writing for ten years at the University of Sydney’s Centre for Continuing Education, and his new book The Little Red Writing Book appears in October 2006. Mark has five children and lives in Glebe. His book The Blue Plateau will appear in 2007.
- Last updated 16/12/06

 

WANG Guo Fu (MA '81) was professor of English, then vice-dean and dean of the foreign languages department of Soochow University from 1983 to 1991. Was the founder and chairman of the Australian Studies Centre of the university from 1991-2002, is now the honorary chairman of the centre and a council member of the China-Oceania Friendship Society. He has visited Australia six times. Has translated the Macquarie Concise Dictionary, the Macquarie Dictionary of Australian Education and A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language into Chinese as well as compiling and publishing An English-Chinese Dictionary of Australianisms.

- Last updated 16/06/06

 

YANG Chao Guang (MA '81), on return to the University of International Business and Economics in 1981 was immediately assigned to run an English course in linguistics, gradually breaking away from the traditional approach to language teaching which starts with the study of forms and ends up with the study of meaning. Instead he focuses on the study of meaning, then on the specific realisation of meaning by words, sentences and speech sounds. Now 12 years past retirement age, he still teaches a full load and works as an education inspector. "I go on teaching because each semester offers an opportunity for reading and writing, research and reflection."
- Last updated 19/10/06[[b||]]