Trinity College (University of Melbourne)

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Trinity College is the oldest residential college of the University of Melbourne, Australia, and was founded in 1872 on a site which had been granted to the Church of England.

Contents 1 Geography 2 History 3 Architecture 4 Off-campus buildings of Trinity College Foundation Studies 5 Choir 6 College Sport 7 List of Wardens 8 Distinguished alumni 9 External links

[edit] Geography

Situated to the north of the university, Trinity's various ivy-clad stone buildings surround a large lawn known as the Bulpadok, making for a very pleasant environment for its 269 resident students to enjoy.

[edit] History

Trinity College was founded by the first Anglican Bishop of Melbourne, the Rt Revd Charles Perry in 1872. The College was affiliated with the University of Melbourne in 1876, and the Trinity Theological School was founded in 1877.

With the establishment of the Trinity Women's Hostel (later to become Janet Clarke Hall) in 1886, Trinity admitted women as resident students, making it the first university college in Australia to do so.

In 1989, Trinity College Foundation Studies was set up to prepare international students for entry to university courses. Foundation Studies presently caters to some 700 students annually, who do not live on campus.

[edit] Architecture

The college's main buildings were built as follows:

• 1870: "Provost's Lodge", now the Leeper Building
• 1878: Bishops' Building
• 1880: Dining Hall
• 1883-87: Clarke's Building
• 1914-17: Horsfall Chapel
• 1933: Behan Building (named after former warden John Clifford Valentine Behan)
• 1958: The Memorial Building (Jeopardy)
• 1963-65: Cowan Building
• 1995-96: Burge Building

A new Woodheap building is being built to provide accommodations for students and visiting scholars. The construction of this building will also solve the problems of very small rooms in other buildings.

[edit] Off-campus buildings of Trinity College Foundation Studies

These are buildings located beyond the main campus, occupied by Trinity College Foundation Studies staff and students.

• 715 Swanston Street: Trinity occupies two floors of this building. It has two lecture theaters and tutorial rooms. The Swanston Street building serves as a 'student welfare precinct', with the Student Welfare Office, Student Counsellor, and Chaplaincy located in the lower ground floor. Departments with staff located here are: Examinations, Extended Programs, Timetabling, Mathematics 1, Mathematics 2, Economics, and Chemistry. A computer lab equipped with Apple G5 iMac computers with central-server printing can also be found here. The study area is often used for quiet study and lunch.

• 199 Grattan Street: This is where Student Services is located. Student Services organises orientations and valedictories, and often organises excursion during term breaks to locations such as Mount Baw Baw, Uluru, the Great Ocean Road and Sydney. The staff also prepare the weekly Trinity Contact Bulletin. The student common room is equipped with a photocopier, table tennis table, vending machine and a photocopy card revaluing machine. The building also has a tutorial room and a drama room. A number of Drama staff are also located here.

• Foundation Studies Centre (FSC), 33-35 Royal Parade: The building has a number of tutorial rooms and a drama room. Literature, Drama and History of Ideas staff are located here. The building also has a student common room with sofas and tables, and a kitchen for student use.

• 29 Royal Parade: This is where most EAP (English for Academic Purposes) classes are held, and also house most EAP teachers' offices.

• 18-20 Lincoln Square North: This building has a drama room, physics laboratory and tutorial rooms. Staff in Economics, Accounting, Environment & Development, Media & Communications, Physics, Biology and some Mathematics 2 teachers work here. This building also houses a well-equipped Physics lab and a student computer lab.

[edit] Choir

Trinity College has a Choir which sings for services in the Chapel and around Melbourne, and tours internationally. The Choir has made a number of radio broadcasts and CD recordings.

Since 1956, Trinity College has provided liturgical hospitality to a local Anglican congregation known as the Canterbury Fellowship. In former years this arrangement worked well, with Trinity College Choir providing weekday services (in term) and Canterbury Fellowship on weekends (full year). In the early 1990s Trinity College moved the focus of its services to Sunday in favour of weekday services, and a somewhat unique situation arose with two Sunday evensongs by different choirs each week during term. Since May 2005, the College and Canterbury Fellowship have agreed to "share" responsibility for Evensong, with the Choir of Trinity College singing during term and the Choir of the Canterbury Fellowship singing at all other times.

[edit] College Sport

Trinity College participates in many different sports, among them Australian Rules Football, Soccer and Rugby, competing against the other nearby residential colleges. In these competitions (and in general), Trinity has a fierce rivalry with neighbours Ormond College and Queens College.

[edit] List of Wardens

• 1876–1918 Dr Alexander Leeper
• 1918–1946 Sir John Clifford Valentine Behan
• 1946–1964 Mr Ronald William Trafford Cowan
• 1965–1973 Professor Robin Lorimer Sharwood, AM
• 1974–1997 The Revd Dr Evan Laurie Burge
• 1997–2006 Professor Donald John Markwell

[edit] Distinguished alumni

Distinguished Alumni include

• Sir Stanley Argyle (Victorian Premier, 1932-1935)
• Sir Rupert Hamer (Victorian Premier 1972-1981)
• The Right Hon Richard Gardiner Casey (Governor General 1965-1969)
• The Right Rev Dr Peter Hollingworth (Governor General 2001-2003)
• Botanist Adrienne Clarke (Lieutenant Governor of Victoria)
• Poet Michael Thwaites
• Historian Manning Clark
• Historian A.G.L. Shaw
• Lt. General Sir Edmund Herring (Chief Justice of Victoria 1944-1964)
• Film Director Rob Sitch
• Actor Carrillo Gantner
• Scientist Derek Denton
• The Most Rev Dr Peter Carnley (Archbishop & Primate of the Anglican Church of Australia 2000-2005)
• The Most Rev Dr Philip Aspinall & Primate of Australian Anglican Church 2005-
• Richard Larkins
• Sir Brian Inglis
• Thai social reformer Mechai Viravaidya

[edit] External links

• Trinity College
• The Canterbury Fellowship