Scotch College

Features

• Class of 2007 maintains our excellent VCE standards
• Over 900 parents respond to survey
• Scotch College preparing Tollway widening compensation case
• Scotch is in for the long haul to Make Poverty History
• His monument is all around us
• Upcoming 150th football celebratory events for your diary
• Tiwi relationship enters twelfth year
• Scotch footy booms as game turns 150

Principal

• A global eye to the future
• Nathan Francis – bittersweet memories

Chairman

• Government funding for education

Chaplain

• Being part of God’s restoration of all things
• Searching for meaning in the marketplace

Junior School

• Being your best rather than the best
• Silver at State swimming championships
• A vision of boyhood

School Captain’s Report

• Sowing the seeds in the Senior School

Senior School

• Class of 2008 Dinner Dance
• Switching on to switching off
• Challenging, rewarding day for science competition award winners
• Debating around England and France
• Senior School update

Senior School Sport

• A very sweet win
• It’s five in a row! Scotch triumphs again at Nagambie
• Tait Trophy 2008 marks sesquicentenary of schoolboy sport
• Basketball with the lot in the USA
• Big soccer breakfast packs out the Pavilion
• Five of the best for badminton team

Senior School Music

• The Prom, the Wolf, the Pianos and Shanghai

Boarding

• Long-term benefits from Arthur Rob makeover

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May 2008 issue

Great Scot is published by Scotch College
ABN
86 852 826 445

Editor
Tim Shearer

Assistant Editor
David Ashton

Graphic Designer
Kathryn Cairney

Printed by:
New Litho, 124-138 Union Road, Surrey Hills, Victoria 3177

Photography: Stephen Harman, Andrew Murdoch, Jocelyn Pride, Kathryn Cairney, Tim Shearer and Scotch College staff

Cover: The winning Head of the River crew Photography: Photoplay
Inside cover
Editorial

Selected articles from this issue.

OSCA

• Now 95 years on …
• Going for Gold!
• Matt hits the target – Olympic selection for Beijing
• Australia Day Honours 2008
• Good cricketing times recalled from ’57 and ’58
• Country lifestyle just fine for Ian Murray
• Medical man of brilliance and heroism
• World War I fighter ace proudly flew cardinal, gold and blue
• Second bite of the cherry for people in need
• Scotch AFL production line rolls on

What They’re doing now

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

Scotch Weddings

• Scotch weddings

OSCA Events

Photo Gallery

• Foundation/OSCA Cocktail Party
  Class of 1988 ¥ 20-Year reunion
  Bowls Club Luncheon
  Head of the River Luncheon
  Tait Cup Luncheon
  Mornington Branch Dinner
  Darwin Branch Dinner
  

Old Scotch Clubs

• Old Scotch Cricket – Champions in ’08
• Colin Simpson honoured at tennis club AGM
• Busy times for the Old Scotch Lodge
• Old Scotch wheels out yet another new club – cycling
• Summer maintenance sets up Koomerang for the winter
• Soccer Club well prepared for new season
• Les Misérables will be a remarkable Scotch Family production

Foundation

• Michael Robinson becomes Foundation President
• Art investment stands the test of time
• Grandparent Mornings put out the welcome mat
• Friendship bonds strengthened at Easter Chapel Service
• A Tiger’s tale
• Bursary continues Boykett family’s commitment to Scotch

Archives

• Lives of the Scotch Collegians
• $9,000 needed to restore these letters
• Macadam of the macadamia nut
• The 20 oldest Old Boys

Obituaries

• Obituaries
• Vale Vic Nash (staff 1964-85)
• Vale Jim Shaw (’41)