Letters and emails
Alumni around Australia and the world share their news.
Dr Ted Eadie (TC 1958) has been awarded a Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD) in law by the Australian National University and has published a book, Animal Suffering and the Law – National, Regional, and International.
Dawn Leicester (TC 1979) is General Manager, Operations for a large valuation firm. With Penny Mackieson (TC 1980) she released Real Women Love Footy – the account of two female football supporters – in September 2003. Two weeks later, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. After six months’ treatment, she is now fighting fit. In 2008 she commenced a Masters in Journalism and is an Ambassador for the National Breast Cancer Foundation.
Guy Nelson (TC 1981) recently resigned as an Executive Director of Macquarie Group after 10 years, mostly in Australia and also in India. He is now pursuing private interests, including spending more time with his family – wife Frances and children Millie, Tom and Emma – at his farm at Metcalfe, in country Victoria.
David Hamnes (TC 1992) took up appointment as Director of the Liturgical Centre, Church of Norway, in October 2008, and in December completed his PhD thesis ‘In service of the Church. The Neve Sachuchkeit and the Organ Chorale Prelude in the Church of Norway’.
Mandie Frewin (née Griffiths, TC 1988) is busy with two young children – Amy, three, and Benjamin, 11 months.
Jack Fuller (TC 2004) has moved to Sydney this year to work with think tank ‘percapita’. He is also doing Honours at Melbourne. He describes his trip overland to Poland in November last year as ‘fantastic’. He especially liked Russia, travelling on the trans-Siberian railway, and finding Moscow ‘surreal – really dark, cold, black and white, giant architecture, huge flakes of snow falling in the street lights, and most people dressed in leather and furs’.
Annelise Tiller (TC 1996) is working as an architect in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Tom Miller (TC 1996) is a freelance hydrographic surveyor, working offshore.
Lachlan Edwards (TC 2000) works in tax litigation – an area apparently immune from financial turmoil. He’s trying to stave off genuine adulthood by continuing to play cricket and rugby. You’ll find him free for a beer in Sydney, usually.
Laura Hart (TC 2000) has received an Ian Scott PhD scholarship – one of nine awarded nationally by Australian Rotary Health – to complete her PhD research into ‘Mental Health First Aid for Eating Disorders: development of first aid guidelines and an intervention for the public’ at the University of Melbourne.
Nicholas Carter (TC 2004) has been appointed Assistant Conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the resident orchestra at the Sydney Opera House. He takes up the post in May and will be working under Principal Conductor and Artistic Director Vladimir Ashkenazy. In March, he conducted three performances of Don Giovanni for Opera Victoria, sharing this role with Richard Gill.
Frank Hofheins (TC 2005) attended the inauguration of President Barack Obama as a participant in the international University Presidential Inaugural Conference in January. He was among the crowd of two million who, despite sub-freezing temperatures, waited in the National Mall from before two am until noon to witness the historic event. Frank considers it ‘the defining moment of my generation.’ He has been assisting part-time in the Conferences department at Trinity for a couple of years, but is working with former apprentice chef at Trinity (2007) Amanda Barnes on Lizard Island on the Great Barrier Reef for 10 weeks in April/ May. He graduated BA(Hons) in 2008.
Jason Chew (TCFS 2005) spent the summer as an intern at Pôle de Plasturgie de l’Est (PPE) in Saint Avold, France, and attended the 6th International Symposium on ‘Composites RTM Infusion’, looking at innovations in the field of composites applicable to the aeronautics, automotive and construction industries.