Scotch College

Features

• Scotch’s commitment to country and service
• Poetic Scotch
• Building hope at Chitulika
• ‘We are here to do what we can for others’

Principal

• Education is the answer

Chairman

• Aiming high, with feet firmly planted

Chaplain

• No man’s father land

Junior School

• ‘What is best for the boys?’
• The colours of Beauty, Goodness and Truth
• Memories of the day
• Jurassic Park or the Black Lagoon?
• Junior School to welcome a wealth of experience and knowledge

School Captain’s Report

• Into the adult world

Senior School

• Distinguished economist to speak at Easter Breakfast
• Cadet Tattoo
• Informatics Olympiad success
• A little fellow making a difference
• Great fun, successful fundraising
• Unanimously, it was debating’s annus mirabilis
• Family Day and House Athletics Sports 2010
• Science students win national awards
• Scholarships for 2012
• Thank you!
• Stronger links with Shanghai school
• Scotch farewells Warwick Barry and Ian Banks
• A cause for celebration
• The da Vinci challenge
• Easy riders
• Chris wins VAAC Award
• Back (again) to Yellow Mountain
• The Great Walk of China
• Giving and learning

Senior School Sport

• A creditable fourth place
• A taste of the Old Dart
• Athletics and Cross Country prizes awarded
• Sid Boxall returns to Scotch after 50 years
• Greg Chappell launches Scotch’s 2010/11 cricket season

Senior School Music

• The Three Wise men arrive early

Senior School Drama

• A little fellow making a difference

Boarding

• Seizing opportunities for creative expression

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December 2010 issue

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

Editorial team: Tim Shearer, David Ashton, Kathryn Cairney, Mark Collins, Kate Ikinger and Paul Mishura
Editor
Tim Shearer

Assistant Editor
David Ashton

Graphic Designer
Kathryn Cairney

Photography:
Jocelyn Pride, Kathryn Cairney, Tim Shearer, Stephen Kong and Scotch College staff.

Cover: Principal Tom Batty, James Ford (Year 7) with the cross for his great, great uncle Cedric Permezel (42’) and Dr Alex Morsby (’41) in the quadrangle on Remembrance Day. Photo by Kathryn Cairney

Selected articles from this issue.

Editorial Country and Service

OSCA

• A call to a major new cause
• A magic OSCA AGM and President’s Dinner
• Once a Scotch parent …
• Well merited awards
• Boy soldier: A forgotten Scotchie
• Survival against the odds at Gallipoli
• A fortunate man
• An Old Scotch navy hero
• Solace in a living hell
• Scotch’s unknown flight ace
• Some people watch television at night after work. Others play tennis or do crosswords. Christopher Ride (’82) writes novels.
• Fire Service Medal to Andrew Wilson (’78)
• Geneva the next stop for brilliant scientist
• A spin maestro who chose football
• Remembering the Overland Track
• A Scotch connection to Paudwar
• Is Scotch the greatest VFL/AFL nursery?
• OSCA rowers excel at world championships
• APS Golf Day – Scotch reclaims the Sir Arthur Robinson cup

What They’re doing now

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

OSCA Events

• Photo Gallery

Old Scotch Clubs

• The Lady was a triumph!
• Teaching about depression
• Developing an impressive sound
• Close finish behind old foes
• (No) cricket in the rain
• A sneak peek at the new Junior School
• Big year for Rovers
• Heritage Club gathers momentum
• Eager for season ‘11
• Great late season skiing

Foundation

• On behalf of our boys – thank you!

Archives

• Unhonoured war dead
• A Scotch College in St Kilda
• The 25 oldest Old Boys
• Archives volunteers. You can help.
• Symbolic Scotch
• Cricket display cabinet completed
• – Early Scotch newspapers –

Obituaries

• Obituaries
• Staff obituaries
• Ken Mappin: an inspiring schoolmaster