Ormond College (University of Melbourne)

style="font-size: larger;" | **Ormond College, The University of Melbourne**

Motto	Et Nova et Vetera The New and the Old
Established	1879
Master	Assoc Prof Rufus Black
Address	49 College Crescent Parkville Parkville, Victoria Parkville is an inner city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3 km north from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Melbourne. At the 2006 Census, the population was 4,980.... , Victoria Victoria (Australia) Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....
Undergraduates	332
Postgraduates	30
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Ormond College is the largest of the residential college

University college

The term "university college" is used in a number of countries to denote college institutions that provide tertiary education but do not have full or independent university status. A university college is often part of a larger university...

s of the University of Melbourne

University of Melbourne

The University of Melbourne is a public university located in Melbourne, Victoria. Founded in 1853, it is the second oldest university in Australia and the oldest in Victoria...

. It is home to 332 undergraduates, 30 postgraduates and 27 professorial/academic residents.

Establishment

The University of Melbourne

University of Melbourne

The University of Melbourne is a public university located in Melbourne, Victoria. Founded in 1853, it is the second oldest university in Australia and the oldest in Victoria...

was established by an Act of the Parliament of Victoria

Parliament of Victoria

The Parliament of Victoria is the bicameral legislature of the Australian state of Victoria. It follows a Westminster-derived parliamentary system and consists of The Queen, represented by the Governor of Victoria; the Legislative Council ; and the Legislative Assembly...

in 1853. Seventy-five (quickly reduced to sixty) of the one hundred acres (400,000 m²) of the University site were set aside for residential colleges, to be founded under the auspices of the churches. Ten acres (40,000 m²) each were allotted to the Anglican

Anglican Church of Australia

The Anglican Church of Australia is a member church of the Anglican Communion. It was previously officially known as the Church of England in Australia and Tasmania...

, Presbyterian

Presbyterian Church of Australia

The Presbyterian Church of Australia is the largest Presbyterian denomination in Australia. .-Beginnings:...

, Methodist

Methodist Church of Australasia

The Methodist Church of Australasia was a Methodist denomination based in Australia.It ceased to exist in 1977 when most of its congregations joined with the many congregations of the Congregational Union of Australia and the Presbyterian Church of Australia to form the Uniting Church in...

and Roman Catholic

Roman Catholic Church in Australia

The Catholic Church in Australia is part of the worldwide Catholic Church under the spiritual and administrative leadership of the Pope.Australia is a majority Christian but pluralistic society with no established religion. There are approximately 5.1 million Australian Catholics . Catholicism...

churches, the remaining area being reserved for sporting facilities. The Anglican Church was the first to accept the offer, and Trinity College

Trinity College (University of Melbourne)

Trinity College is the oldest college of the University of Melbourne. Founded in 1872 on a site granted to the Church of England, Trinity is unique among Australian university colleges in its diverse education programs...

opened in 1872.
At the end of August 1877, Alexander Morrison, Headmaster of Scotch College

Scotch College, Melbourne

Scotch College, Melbourne is an independent, Presbyterian, day and boarding school for boys, located in Hawthorn, an inner-eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia....

and convenor of the Presbyterian Church

Presbyterian Church of Australia

The Presbyterian Church of Australia is the largest Presbyterian denomination in Australia. .-Beginnings:...

Assembly's Committee to "watch over the land", received a letter from the Director of the Victorian Education Department, proposing that if the Church did not mean to take the land for a College, that it be sold and the proceeds divided, half to the church, and half to the state for University purposes. This spurred Morrison into action. A subscription list was opened, with a target of £10,000; on this list Francis Ormond

Francis Ormond

Francis Ormond was a Scottish-born Australian pastoralist, member of the Parliament of Victoria and philanthropist in the areas of education and religion....

's name appears against a donation of £3,000.

Building commences

The General Assembly meeting in November 1877 resolved that the Church should immediately proceed with the building of a College and that £10,000 be raised for the purpose, that the buildings be used as a College of Residence for University students, and as a Theological Hall. Immediate steps were taken to raise the money. In the course of three years, some £38,000 were raised, of which Francis Ormond contributed £22,571. The foundation stone of the College (now lost) was laid by the Governor of Victoria, George Phipps, 2nd Marquess of Normanby

George Phipps, 2nd Marquess of Normanby

George Augustus Constantine Phipps, 2nd Marquess of Normanby, GCB, GCMG, PC , styled Viscount Normanby between 1831 and 1838 and Earl of Mulgrave between 1838 and 1863, was a British Liberal politician and colonial governor.-Background:Normanby was born in London, the son of Constantine Phipps, 1st...

, on 15 November 1879.

The original buildings consisted of the front wing of the Main Building and the Tower, which is 50.3 metres high, and imitates that of the University of Glasgow

University of Glasgow

The University of Glasgow is the fourth-oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's four ancient universities. Located in Glasgow, the university was founded in 1451 and is presently one of seventeen British higher education institutions ranked amongst the top 100 of the...

. The Master used the southwest door as his private entrance. The formal opening of the College took place on 18 March 1881. At this ceremony it was announced that Francis Ormond had offered to bear the whole cost of building. On opening there were 20 students, soon growing to 24.

Rapid growth

The rapid growth of the College soon outstripped the available accommodation, and Francis Ormond provided funds for the southwest wing, together with a temporary building (which was, however, stone-walled and tin-roofed) where the cloisters now are, which served as kitchens and a Dining Hall. The next addition to the buildings of the College was the Wyselaskie building, which was completed in March 1887. Wyselaskie was a Western District squatter

Squatting (pastoral)

In Australian history, a squatter was one who occupied a large tract of Crown land in order to graze livestock. Initially often having no legal rights to the land, they gained its usage by being the first Europeans in the area....

, who also gave generously to the Presbyterian Ladies' College

Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne

Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne , is an independent,private, Presbyterian, day and boarding school predominantly for girls, located in Burwood, an eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia....

. The building contained a lecture hall and two residences for Theological Professors, and was adapted and divided in 1968 so as to provide for four residences. On 6 July 1887, the portrait of Francis Ormond which now hangs above Hall Door was unveiled by Sir James McBain.

Victoria wing

In honour of the silver jubilee of Queen Victoria

Victoria of the United Kingdom

Victoria was the monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death. From 1 May 1876, she used the additional title of Empress of India....

in 1887, Francis Ormond funded the building of the Victoria Wing which came into use in 1889. In 1893 the dining hall, kitchens, staff quarters and the original Lodge (Allen House) were opened. On either side of the end window of the hall are effigies representing Francis and Mary Ormond.

1920s expansion

No further significant alteration to the College structure occurred until after World War I

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

. After the war, the demand for places in College was far greater than the room available. The College took rooms in Parkville

Parkville, Victoria

Parkville is an inner city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3 km north from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Melbourne. At the 2006 Census, the population was 4,980....

(a practice which has been resumed in the last few years) and in 1922 the fourth side of the quadrangle buildings was brought into service. This wing contained the MacFarland library (now the Chapel), the Students' Common Room, the various walks, and further student accommodation.

Post WWII expansion

The period after World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

saw great demands for accommodation; for the first time the College passed 150 men. Three-man studies appeared, which continued into the early 1960s. Following an appeal for funds in 1949, a series of improvements were made to Main Building. The kitchens were extensively modernised and general maintenance was brought up to date after the lag resulting from the Depression of the 1930s and the shortages of men and material during and after the War. In 1955, the squash court was built to commemorate the Ormond men who died in the Second World War.

New lodge

The new Lodge was designed by the architects Grounds, Romberg and Boyd and was completed in 1958. It was occupied by tutors for some time until the Master and family moved in after the Lodge had been extended over the summer of 1960-61. At the same time, a permanent residence was provided for the Vice-Master by the conversion of a few rooms of the old Lodge (Allen House) and the addition of a semi-circular cream brick building. The remainder of Allen House was converted into tutors’ flats and student studies.

1960s building

In the vacation of 1960-61 a new domestic wing was built to accommodate the extra staff and facilities required for the larger College planned for 1962. The three octagons of Picken Court were built during 1961 and were ready for occupation in 1962. They now contain accommodation for 104 students and eight tutors. The Chancellor of the University, Sir Arthur Dean, opened the building in March 1962.

1965 saw the erection of the new premises of the MacFarland Library, which were combined with a new Theological Hall Common Room. The Library had so far recovered from the shocking neglect of the years after 1930 that, while still having room for improvement, it had grown beyond the capacity of the original building. The former library became the Chapel, the official opening of which took place on 19 March 1967. For the first time the College had its own place of worship, as befits a Church foundation. In 1982 the Library was reorganised, separating the Ormond College and Joint Theological collections.

The Chancellor of the University, the Right Honourable Sir Robert Menzies

Robert Menzies

Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, , Australian politician, was the 12th and longest-serving Prime Minister of Australia....

, on a Sunday in April 1968 and in the company of a distinguished gathering, officially opened the southeast building and named it McCaughey Court after the Master, Dr Davis McCaughey

Davis McCaughey

John Davis McCaughey, AC was a bible scholar, church and university administrator, and was Governor of Victoria from 1986–1992.-Working life:...

. This building, which caused much comment, won awards for the architects Romberg and Boyd.

Admission of women

The College approached the end of its first century with the admission of women to resident membership in 1973. Women had been admitted from the beginning as ‘out-patients’ (non-resident students), receiving the advantages of tutorials but suffering the disadvantages of exclusion from the Ormond residential community. From 1961-1974 female students were able to live in College in return for waitressing duties, (they were known as student waitresses) and attend tutorials; from 1969, they became members of the Ormond College Students' Club. After the 1973 admission of women as residents, it became clear that an Ormond composed of both men and women lost none of its vitality. Indeed, having come under the control of the Uniting Church in Australia

Uniting Church in Australia

The Uniting Church in Australia was formed on 22 June 1977 when many congregations of the Methodist Church of Australasia, the Presbyterian Church of Australia and the Congregational Union of Australia came together under the Basis of Union....

in 1977, by 1978 the College was to see a woman as Vice-Master (Rachel Faggetter) and no fewer than nine women have been elected to the Chair of the Students' Club. In 1996 two women took up senior positions within the College: Dr. Ann Hone as Dean of Studies, and Mrs. Phillippa Connelly as Dean of Students.

Centenary

The Centenary was recognised with much pomp and ceremony in the presence of the former Master and then Governor of Victoria, Dr Davis McCaughey

Davis McCaughey

John Davis McCaughey, AC was a bible scholar, church and university administrator, and was Governor of Victoria from 1986–1992.-Working life:...

, whose twenty years of responsibility developed the College in so many ways to its present strength and size.

Recent history

The last twenty years of the College has seen progressive maintenance and modernisation. In the eighties, bathrooms, the tower, JCR, MCR the quad and the plaza were all renovated. The current tennis courts were built in 1982, and the four Parkville houses were acquired in 1985. The nineties saw the installation of both individual student telephones and network connections. The gym was opened in 1999.

The College has recently developed major new facilities. In 2010 the Junior Common Room was redeveloped into cafe style space and lounge. In May 2011 the College opened a stunning four million dollar student academic resource centre. The building contains a wide range of formal and informal learning spaces along with the College library and information technology facilities. These facilities are complemented refurbished tutorial rooms in McCaughey Court and beautiful library for the College historical collections in Main Building.

List of masters

1881-1914 John Henry MacFarland
John Henry MacFarland
Sir John Henry MacFarland was an Irish–Australian University Chancellor.MacFarland was born in Omagh, Tyrone, Ireland and was educated at the Royal Academical Institution, Belfast....
1915-1943 David Kennedy Picken
(J.C. McPhee, Acting Master, August 1943-September 1944.)
(The Revd J. E. Owen, Acting Master, September 1944-December 1945.)
1946-1953 Stanley L. Prescott
1954-1958 Brinley Newton-John
(The Revd John S. Alexander, Acting Master, 1959)
1959-1979 John Davis McCaughey
Davis McCaughey
John Davis McCaughey, AC was a bible scholar, church and university administrator, and was Governor of Victoria from 1986–1992.-Working life:...
1980-1989 David Henry Parker
1990-1993 Alan Gregory
(Kenneth Robin Jackson, Acting Master, September 1992 - December 1993)
1994-2008 Hugh Norman Collins
2009-present Rufus E.R. Black

Notable alumni

Sir Edward "Weary" Dunlop AC - Australian World War II Hero, Surgeon, Wallabies Player
Justice Kenneth Hayne AC
Kenneth Hayne
Kenneth Madison Hayne AC is a Justice of the High Court of Australia which is the highest court in the Australian court hierarchy.-Education and professional life:...

- Justice of the High Court of Australia
Sir Daryl Dawson AC
Daryl Dawson
Sir Daryl Michael Dawson, AC, KBE, CB Australian judge and naval officer, was a Justice of the High Court of Australia from 1982 to 1997.-Education:...

- Justice of the High Court of Australia
Major General Rupert Downes
Rupert Downes
Major General Rupert Major Downes CMG, KStJ, VD, FRACS was an Australian soldier, general, surgeon and historian in the first half of the 20th century. Downes attended the University of Melbourne, graduating with his medical degrees in 1907...

CMG - Soldier, General, Surgeon and Historian
Sir Zelman Cowen
Zelman Cowen
Sir Zelman Cowen, was the 19th Governor-General of Australia. He is currently the oldest living former Governor-General of Australia.-Early life:...

AK, GCMG - 19th Governor General of Australia
Sir Kenneth Wheare
Kenneth Wheare
Sir Kenneth Clinton Wheare CMG was an Australian academic, who spent most of his career at Oxford University in England...

- Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University
Hugh Taylor AC
David Crawford
David Crawford (director)
David Crawford is a prominent Australian non-executive director. He was educated at Scotch College, Melbourne and the University of MelbourneHis directorships have included*Chairman of Foster's Group,*Chairman of Lend Lease Corporation,...

AO - Prominent Australian Company Director.
Major General "Pompey" Elliott CB, CMG
Harold Edward Elliott
Major General Harold Edward "Pompey" Elliott CB, CMG, DSO, DCM, VD was a senior officer in the Australian Army during the First World War. Elliot also served as a Senator in the Australian parliament.-Early life:...

- Senior Officer in Australian Army during WWI, Senator in Australian Parliament, Solicitor, VFL Footballer, Athlete
Lieutenant General Hon. Sir James McCay KCMG, KBE - Australian general and politician, champion of women's suffrage and federation
Brigadier General William Grant CMG
William Grant (General)
Brigadier General William Grant CMG, DSO and Bar, MBE was an Australian Army colonel and temporary Brigadier General in World War I.-Early life and career:...

- Engineer, Temporary Brigadier General in First AIF, Commanded Australian Light Horse Charge at Beersheba
General Peter Gration AC OBE
Peter Gration
General Peter Courtney Gration AC, OBE is an Australian general who served in the positions of Chief of the General Staff and Chief of the Defence Force; the professional head of the Australian Army and Australian Defence Force respectively.-Early life:Gration was born in Richmond, Victoria, on 6...

- Chief of the Australian Defence Force
Stanley Simpson Reid
Stan Reid
Stanley Spencer Reid was an Australian rules footballer with the Fitzroy Football Club from 1894 to 1898.Soon after his retirement from VFL football, he became an ordained minister of the Presbyterian Church....

- Australian Rules Footballer, Presbyterian Minister, Soldier
Sir Archibald Glenn
Archibald Glenn
Sir Archibald Glenn OBE is an Australian industrialist and founding Chancellor of La Trobe UniversityJoseph Robert Archibald Glenn was educated at Scotch College, Melbourne and studied engineering at the University of Melbourne and later in London.He joined ICI where he became managing director...

- Industrialist and Founding Chancellor of La Trobe University.
Sir George Whitecross Paton
George Whitecross Paton
Professor Sir George Whitecross Paton, B.A., B.C.L. , Hon. LL.D. , D.C.L. , M.A was an Australian legal scholar and Vice Chancellor of Melbourne University....

- Vice Chancellor of Melbourne University
Sir Frank MacFarlane Burnet OM, AK, KBE
Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, , usually known as Macfarlane or Mac Burnet, was an Australian virologist best known for his contributions to immunology....

- Immunologist, Nobel Prize Winner
Sir John Latham GCMG - Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia
Sir Ian McLennan
Ian McLennan
Sir Ian Munro McLennan was a prominent Australian director of public companies, most notably as Chairman of Australia's largest company BHP....

KCMG, KBE - prominent director of Australian Companies, Chairman of BHP.
Sir John Frew MD - physician, President of the Royal Australian College of Physicians
Sir Benjamin Rank-Pioneering Plastic Surgeon
Alastair Nicholson
Alastair Nicholson
Alastair Bothwick Nicholson AO RFD QC was the Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia from 1988 until 2004.Nicholson was born in 1938 in Melbourne returning with his mother Jean to Papua New Guinea , where his parents owned a rubber and coconut plantation...

AO- Chief Justice, Family Court of Australia
Peter Nicholson - political cartoonist
John Duigan
John Duigan
John Duigan, is an Australian film director.Duigan emigrated to Australia in 1961, having been born to an Australian father...

- Film Director
Professor Peter Singer
Peter Singer
Peter Albert David Singer is an Australian philosopher who is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University and Laureate Professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne...

- prominent philosopher
Senator Rod Kemp
Rod Kemp
Charles Roderick "Rod" Kemp is an Australian politician. He was a Liberal member of the Australian Senate from 1990 to 2008, representing the state of Victoria....

- politician and federal government minister.
Paul Sheahan
Paul Sheahan
Andrew Paul Sheahan was an Australian Test cricketer who played 31 Tests and 3 One Day Internationals as an opening and middle order batsman between 1967 and 1974.He made his first class debut in 1965 for the Victorian Sheffield Shield against New South Wales scoring 62 and 5.An elegant stroke...

- Australian Test Cricketer
The Reverend John Flynn OBE ("Flynn of the Inland")
John Flynn (minister)
John Flynn OBE was an Australian Presbyterian minister who founded the Royal Flying Doctor Service, the world's first air ambulance.-Biography:...

- Founded Royal Flying Doctors' Service, featured on Australian $20 note.
John Button
John Button
John Norman Button was an Australian politician, who served as a senior minister in the Hawke and Keating Labor governments...

- politician and federal government minister
Ian MacFarlan
Ian MacFarlan
Ian MacFarlan was the Deputy Leader of the Australian Liberal Party in the Australian state of Victoria during 1945...

-Premier of Victoria
Bill Rogers AO - Chancellor of Monash University
Ian Renard
Ian Renard
Ian Renard FAICD was the 19th Chancellor of the University of Melbourne, from February 2005 to January 2009. He holds a Master of Laws from the university and is an alumnus of Ormond College. Renard is a former partner of major Australian law firm Allens Arthur Robinson. He is also chairman of the...

- Chancellor of Melbourne University
Charles Goode
Charles Goode
Charles Barrington Goode AC is a prominent Australian director of public companies. He resides in Melbourne.Goode attended Scotch College, Melbourne and is a graduate of the University of Melbourne, completing a Bachelor of Commerce...

AC - prominent director of companies, including ANZ bank, Woodside Petroleum, Singapore Airlines.
Sir David Derham
David Derham
Sir David Plumley Derham KBE CMG was an Australian jurist and university administrator. He was an expert in Australian constitutional law...

KBE - jurist and Vice Chancellor of Melbourne University
Sir Peter Derham
Peter Derham
Sir Peter John Derham, AC was an Australian business executive and philanthropist.Derham graduated from the University of Melbourne with a BSc in 1959. He is a former resident of Ormond College and International House...

- business executive, philanthropist
Mark Seymour
Mark Seymour
Mark Seymour is an Australian musician and vocalist best known for his work as the frontman and songwriter of rock band Hunters & Collectors...

- Frontman of Hunters and Collectors
Dr Ziggy Switkowski
Ziggy Switkowski
Dr Zygmunt "Ziggy" Edward Switkowski is a Polish Australian businessman and nuclear physicist.He is most known as the former Chief Executive Officer of Australia's largest telecommunications company Telstra, and for overseeing major aspects of the implementation and planning of its full...

- CEO of Telstra, Nuclear Physicist, Chancellor of RMIT University.
Sir Wilfred Fullagar
Wilfred Fullagar
Sir Wilfred Kelsham Fullagar, KBE, KC was a judge on the High Court of Australia.-Early Life and Studies:...

KBE - Judge on the High Court of Australia
Dr E. Neil McQueen
Ewen Neil McQueen
Ewen Neil McQueen was an Australian headmaster, prominent educational innovator, scientist, psychologist and General Practitioner. He was most often known as Neil McQueen or E. Neil McQueen.-Early life and training:...

- prominent educational innovator, scientist, psychologist and GP.
Giselle Rosselli
Giselle Rosselli
Giselle Rosselli is an Australian singer–songwriter. Rosselli is known mainly for her voice, melody and lyrics on the first original song by Flight Facilities, "Crave You", but also for her song "They Stay Down Deep" which was featured on the UK television series Skins...

- musician

Rhodes scholars

John Seitz (1906)
Charles Littlejohn
Charles Littlejohn
Charles William Berry Littlejohn MC was a rower who competed for Great Britain in the 1912 Summer Olympics....

(1909)
Neil MacNeil (1914)
Donald Sandral (1916)
Patrick Hamilton (1917)
William Hancock (1920)
Lindsay Ride (1922)
George Paton (1926)
Kenneth Wheare (1929)
Richard Latham (1931)
Ross Campbell (1933)
Alan Treloar (1940)
Zelman Cowen (1941)
Hugh Stretton (1946)
Alan Serle (1947)
Robert Shaw (1948)
Graeme Davison (1964)
Alistair Christie (1967)
Kenneth Hayne (1969)
Colin Norman (1970)
Graham Hutchinson (1971)
Martin Wardrop (1974)
Andrew Michelmore (1976)
Richard Caro (1978)
Michael Penington (1980)
Ralph King (1982)
Sharon Korman (1983)
Timothy Orton (1986)
Mark Moshinsky (1989)
Mark Chiba (1990)
Rufus Black (1991)
Catherine Anderson (1992)
Joanna Masel (1997)
Kate Brennan (2007)
John Feddersen (2008)
Kate Robson (2008)

Fulbright Scholars

Zelman Cowen (1936)
George Gellie (1936)
Edgar French (1937)
Ronald Doig (1939)
James McAllester (1939)
Leon Taft (1945)
Daryl Dawson (1951)
Duncan Ironmonger (1953)
Michael Hill (1955)
John Henley (1958)
Charles Goode (1959)
Derek McDougall (1963)
Rodney Crewther (1964)
Malcolm Smith (1966)
Anthony Moore (1967)
Kevin O'Connor (1972)
Michael Burke (1972)
Bruce McKellar (1973)
Robert Bartnik (1974)
Hilary Charlesworth (1974)
Gregory Ball (1976)
Liam Murphy (1978)
David Goodman (1980)
Alan Mayne (1983)
Nicholas Haslam (1983)
Jeffrey Borland (1984)
Gregory Hunt (1985)
Pamela Stavropoulos (1987)
Kim Rubenstein (1988)
Timothy McEvoy (1989)
Fraser Cameron (1995)
Craig Cameron (1997)
David McCann (1999)
Gus Schrader (2006)

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