New Fellows installed
Sunday 13 September
Four new Fellows of Trinity College were formally installed during this
evening's Choral Evensong service in the Trinity College Chapel.
Welcoming the new Fellows – L to R: David Brownbill, Louise Gourlay, Taffy Jones and Denis White. (Photo: Andrew Murdoch)
Those receiving the College's highest honour were: leading neurosurgeon and co-founder of the National Stroke Foundation Mr David Brownbill, AM; prominent philanthropist Mrs Louise Gourlay, OAM; former Director of Medical Services at the Alfred Hospital Healthcare Group Dr Michael ‘Taffy’ Jones, AM, PSM; and former Executive Director of the Foundation Studies Program at Trinity College Dr Denis White.
The Dean of the Theological School, the Revd Dr Timothy Gaden gave the address, in which he described the attributes of the new Fellows thus:
'The four Fellows who are being installed tonight are nothing if not answers to the College’s prayers.
David Brownbill, a former Captain of Rugby, former Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Foundation, Council and Board member, answers the College’s prayers for governance expertise and wisdom with resolute skill and good humour.
Louise Gourlay, an outstanding and retiring embodiment of service and philanthropy, is also an answer to prayer, not least through the establishment of the Louise Gourlay Prize for Social Change, an answer to the College’s prayer that it will transform not only the lives of its students, but through them the world around it.
Taffy Jones, resident Fellow, Acting Dean, President of the Union of the Fleur-de-Lys, Annual Giving Leader and Medical Tutor, enriches the College’s life equally by his personal example, generously shared, and by gifts of leadership across the whole spectrum of those varied engagements with the College community. ...
Denis White, executive director of the Foundation Studies Program through most of the 1990s, was an answer to the prayers of the Warden and College at a critical time, establishing and extending the educational reach of the College into uncharted territory.
For those with eyes to see, they are all sacraments of God’s providential care, “sacrifices of thanksgiving” as the psalmist puts it.'
The total number of Fellows of Trinity College is limited to a maximum of 30 at any one time. All are lifetime appointments.