Founders and Benefactors honoured
Friday 28 September
During the annual commemoration of Trinity’s Founders and Benefactors in the College Chapel this evening, Dr Alan Watkinson was installed as the new Director of Advancement. Formerly Director of Development at Scotch College and current President of the National Council of the Association of Development and Alumni Professionals in Education (ADAPE), Alan has made an outstanding contribution to the development profession in Australia.
At the Commemoration Dinner which followed, first year music student and inaugural Markwell Scholar, Peter Clark, proposed the toast to our Founders and Benefactors.
In his speech, Peter emphasised how philanthropy had made study at the University of Melbourne possible for him. He could never have contemplated it without his scholarship from Trinity. Peter, a violinist with the Australian Youth Orchestra, will travel to China with the Melbourne Philharmonic Orchestra at the end of the semester.