THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME AUSTRALIA
OCTOBER 2001
THE OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME AUSTRALIA MAGAZINE
Notre Dame Celebrates 10 Years of Achievement
HE Vice Chancellor of Notre
Dame, Dr Peter Tannock, has
described the achievements of the
University over the past ten years as
truly remarkable.
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Prime Minister John Howard with NDA Chancellor Terry O'Connor (left) and Vice Chancellor Peter Tannock (right).
PM Honoured as Part of NDA’s 10th
Birthday Celebrations
HE Prime Minister, Mr John
Howard, received an Honorary
Doctorate of Laws from the
University of Notre Dame at a
special awards ceremony in July.
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The ceremony, held to mark the 10th
anniversary of the establishment of the
university, took place on the Fremantle
Campus before 300 invited guests.
Mr Howard told the gathering it was an
honour to receive the award and that he
greatly admired the contribution of Notre
Dame to the education system in Australia.
“The resolve shown by the Catholic
community here in Western Australia in
establishing the University of Notre Dame,
deserves high praise,” Mr Howard said.
“The founders of this university have
achieved their goal of offering a high quality
university education which promotes the
values of the Catholic faith to its students.”
Mr Howard congratulated Notre Dame
on 10 years of achievement and said the
university had made a “distinctive
contribution to the rich tradition of
Catholic education in Australia”.
Vice Chancellor of Notre Dame
Professor Peter Tannock said Mr Howard
was an exemplary Australian who had made
a significant contribution to the
advancement of Catholic education and the
University.
The special ceremony also included the
conferring of distinguished service medals
to three people who have made exceptional
contributions to the development of the
university. They were Anne Gordon,
Timothy O’Meara and Des O’Sullivan.
Ms Gordon gave more than 20 years
service to Catholic education in WA and
spent eight years working for Notre Dame
in a range of roles including Manager of the
Development Office.
Mr O'Meara, a former Provost of the
University of Notre Dame in Indiana and
Governor and trustee of UNDA was a
crucial member of the founding team of the
university.
Mr O'Sullivan's work was central to the
establishment and development of Notre
Dame. He worked to establish the
university and was assistant to the
foundation Vice Chancellor, David Link.
Speaking on the 10th anniversary of the
University’s foundation earlier this year Dr
Tannock said Notre Dame had come from
nothing to an institution that had made a
significant impact on the higher education
industry in Australia.
The university was founded through an
Act of State Parliament in 1990 and a
canonical statute from the Archdiocese of
Perth enacted on July 2, 1991.
In its first decade it has grown to have an
enrolment of more than 1500 students
across two campuses and to encompass five
Colleges offering a wide range of courses
including graduate and postgraduate
degrees in business, education, law, health
and theology.
Dr Tannock said the university’s first
decade had been an immense struggle but
Notre Dame had survived against what
seemed at times to have been impossible
odds.
“The university is thriving and we have
built a platform for our development for the
future but it will be another 10 to 15 years
to complete the establishment of this
university,” Dr Tannock said.
He said Notre Dame enjoyed a loyal and
growing following both nationally and
internationally and had been recognised
and supported at the highest level by both
sides of Australian politics.
“Our graduates are in strong demand in
the workplace and the professions into
which they have entered.
“We have established a strong financial
base to take us through into the future with
revenues streams from both public and
private sources underpinning our work. We
are now operating in surplus.
“We have exciting development plans
for the university on both the Fremantle
and Broome campuses.
“By any measure the story of Notre
Dame has been a remarkable one,” he said.
Vice Chancellor’s Report
am pleased to report that 2001
has been a very good year for
Notre Dame. The University is
thriving and there is an air of
confidence and purpose about the
place which is very encouraging.
At the heart of this is the sharp
growth in our enrolments in the
last
two
years
and
the
accompanying diversification of
our academic programs. The
market place, both Australian and
international, is responding very
positively to the nature and
quality of a Notre Dame
education.
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2002 promises to be another positive
year. The Federal Government has
introduced two initiatives for next year
which will be important for us. Firstly, it
has allocated to Notre Dame’s College of
Business a total of 135 fully funded
“HECS” places to develop a new
Bachelors degree in Information and
Communications Technology. This is a
major qualitative and quantitative boost
to the University and its curriculum
offerings.
Secondly, the Government
has introduced the Post Graduate
Education Loans Scheme (PELS). This
will enable our Australian post-graduate
students to meet the cost of their tuition
fees by taking out interest-free loans from
the Commonwealth and repaying them
through the tax system in subsequent
years (similar to the HECS arrangement).
This should make post-graduate courses
much more affordable and provide an
incentive for students to enrol.
The University will be offering several
other new courses in 2002 to cater for
increasing
demand.
At
the
undergraduate level, these include
Behavioural Science, Human Resource
Management, Marketing and Public
Relations, Banking and Finance, and
Sport and Recreation Management. At
the post-graduate level, we will be
introducing new diplomas in Nursing
(Mental Health), Counselling and Public
Law and Administration. New Masters
degrees will be offered in Law and
Nursing. The Masters degree in Law will
qualify graduates for legal practice.
The University was impacted directly
by the tragedy of the terrorist attack on
America which has so traumatised the
world in recent days. We have a large
group of American students studying in
Fremantle from the University of Notre
Dame in Indiana, Catholic University of
America in Washington, D.C., Boston
College in Massachusetts and St John’s
and St Benedict’s in Minnesota. We tried
to show these students (and their home
universities) how much we feel for them,
and how supportive we are in their
anguish and grief. They are a wonderful
group of young people whose faith, loving
families and strength of character will see
them through. Their special qualities
were very much in evidence at the mass
we held for them and the whole of the
Notre Dame community on 12
September 2001 in our Chapel.
INSIDE
THIS
EDITION
Jean-Marie Lustiger at NDA
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ND's new RE school
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College of Health launches its vision
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$700,000 grand for Broome
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The good oil on mallee
MBA's in USA
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Artist's perspective on NDA
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Memorial to Kevin Barry
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NDA wins Corporate Challenge
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Performing Arts success
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ACE opportunity
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ASEACCU Conference for NDA
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New links with Atma Jaya
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Push for Alumni at NDA
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Inaugural Lang Hancock Lecture
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Peter Tannock
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Summit Aims to Build an Active
Future for the Under 8’s
Notre Dame to
Receive HECS
Funding for
New IT
Business Degree
HE College of Business is to
receive funding for 50 new
HECS places in its new Bachelor
of
Information
and
Communications Technology
Degree next year.
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Encouraging physical activity in early childhood: The School of Health and Physical Education's Dr Helen Parker
(left) and Dr Beth Hands get active with three-year-olds Lucy and Solomon and Cooper (6).
HE importance of physical
activity in early childhood and
its impact on future attitudes to
sports participation and lifelong
health will form the focus of a
national summit at Notre Dame in
November.
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The summit is being hosted by the
Centre for Lifespan Motor Development, a
partnership between the School of Health
and Physical Education at the University of
Notre Dame and the Department of Human
Movement and Exercise at the University
of Western Australia (UWA).
It will bring together researchers, service
providers and sports professionals.
Executive officer for the College of
Health at Notre Dame Dr Beth Hands said
the summit aimed to develop strategies and
research initiatives to help highlight the
importance of, and encourage physical
activity among children aged 4 to 8.
Dr Hands said most programs that
encouraged physical activity in children
were aimed at those aged 10 years or over.
She said the early childhood years were a
time of optimal growth and development
and yet we know little of what constitutes a
healthy level of physical activity in those
years.
There was growing concern at a lack of
physical activity in young children and how
it affected their willingness to participate in
sport at school and in later life.
“We need to establish what factors in
early childhood affect whether children will
enthusiastically choose to be involved in
sport and what factors are barriers that
prevent or constrain opportunities for a
healthy level of physical activity,” Dr Hands
said.
She said the summit would set the
agenda on an important issue that was
currently
overlooked
by
sports
administrators and health practitioners
alike.
“We are driving an agenda that hasn’t
been driven before.
“Early childhood is a critical age and yet
we don’t know what is a healthy level of
physical activity in young children or even
how to measure their activity levels.
“We hope the summit will reaffirm the
importance of developmentally appropriate
early intervention and support during early
childhood.”
The summit entitled “Building an
Active Future” will include a keynote
address from internationally renowned
physical activity and public health advocate
Professor James Sallis from the San Diego
State University in California.
NDA, UWA and the Australian Sports
Commission are sponsoring the summit.
The places have been allocated
under the Federal Government’s
Backing Australia’s Ability program
and will increase to 135 in 2005.
The funding is part of the Federal
Government’s
Department
of
Education, Training and Youth Affairs
plan to provide up to 2000 new places
in universities and colleges for programs
that strengthen the nation’s ability to
generate ideas and undertake research.
Dean of the College of Business
Professor Peter Dallimore welcomed
the allocation and said it demonstrated
that the new degree would be both
innovative and responsive to industry
needs.
He said it would be delivered using
flexible delivery methods including
both on-line and face to face.
It will include five streams that will
equip students for a range of careers
from network administration to multimedia, electronic commerce and the
teaching of electronic learning.
“This degree will include industry
placements and will produce industry
ready graduates,” Prof Dallimore said.
It is the first time that Notre Dame
has been allocated HECS places
outside the Colleges of Health and
Education.
“The HECS places were won by the
university after it made a submission to
the Federal Government through the
competitive Backing Australia’s Ability
Program,” Professor Dallimore said.
Announcing the allocation in
August this year, Federal Education
Minister David Kemp said the
universities who had won places had all
demonstrated past excellence and
proposed innovative plans for the
future.
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Archbishop of Paris Delivers
Public Lecture at
Notre Dame
ORE than 300 people
packed Foley Hall on
the evening of Tuesday
August 14 to hear the
Archbishop
of
Paris,
Cardinal
Jean-Marie
Lustiger, present the 2001
Caritas Australia Helder
Camara Lecture.
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Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger delivering the
2001 Caritas Australia Helder Camara Lecture
Cardinal Lustiger spoke on
global urbanisation and said
cities although “disfigured by the
excesses of evil” were places of
spiritual struggle that given true
human values such as forgiveness
would eventually become Cities
of Peace or “Jerusalems on
High”.
He said that in the last half of
the 20th century the percentage
of the world’s population living
in cities had grown from 30 to
nearly 50 percent.
But he said the city was our
destiny and while giant cities
often expressed urban excess
they could also lead to hope.
Cardinal Lustiger has written
20 books. As the Archbishop of
a major European city, he has
considerable influence on
European Catholicism and on
French society.
Born in Paris in 1926 to
Polish Jewish migrants he
converted to Catholicism in
1940 but has never ceased to
identify with his Jewish
background and experience.
He
has
made
major
contributions to the areas of
Jewish-Christian dialogue, has
been an important advocate of
human rights and an outspoken
critic of racism and the rise of
right-wing extremism.
His visit to Notre Dame was
part of a national speaking tour
sponsored by the Catholic
overseas aid agency Caritas.
New School of Religious Education to Boost Research
and Teacher Training
NEW School of Religious
Education has been established
within the College of Education.
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The school will coordinate the teaching
of religious education and Catholic studies
units for both undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Director of the Catholic Institute of WA,
Dr Wayne Tinsey will head the new school.
Acting Dean of the College of Education
Jennifer Nicol said the new school marked a
coming of age for the university and was
indicative of the growth in student
enrolments within the College.
“The School of Religious Education will
give greater witness to the mission of Notre
Dame as a Catholic university,” Associate
Professor Nicol said.
“This initiative positions religious
education as an equal partner within the
College of Education, alongside its existing
schools of Humanities, Teaching and
Graduate Studies.
“The school will be responsible for the
development, maintenance and teaching of
all religious education programs within the
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university. It will also coordinate the
College of Education’s specialist graduate
religious education programs, which include
a Graduate Certificate (Religious
Education) and a Master of Religious
Education.
“It will provide an academic formation in
religious education for preservice and experienced
teachers that is thorough,
contemporary, relevant
and reflective of best
practice in the field.
“It will cement Notre
Dame’s place as a leader in
the field where the
Church
and
its
educational bodies can be
confident that teachers
are receiving preparation
in religious studies that is
second to none.”
Associate Professor
Nicol said the School of
Religious
Education
would work closely with
the Catholic Education Commission of WA
and the Catholic Institute in addressing
priorities in the academic formation of
teachers for the Catholic education system.
She said the new school would also foster
a culture of research in areas relating to
religious education and Catholic studies.
Head of the new School of Religious Education Dr Wayne Tinsey
Notre Dame Launches a New Vision for
Health Care in WA
NEW vision for health care in
Western Australia was unveiled
in June at the launch of a major
fundraising appeal for the University
of Notre Dame’s College of Health.
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The vision centres on the training of
health care professionals who will focus on
the treatment of the whole person rather
than just their disease.
The appeal is seeking $2
million to develop the College
and has already raised $1.5
million from corporate and
individual sponsors.
Dean of the College
of Health Professor
Michael Quinlan said
the College represented
a new era in health care
and would produce
graduates who were
industry ready and wellrounded.
“Notre Dame has taken a
unique approach to training
health care professionals and is
meeting a real community need for
graduates who have had plenty of hands-on
clinical experience,” Dr Quinlan said.
The college brings together the
disciplines of nursing, health and physical
education, counselling and applied
psychology and has plans for the
development of a Graduate School of
Medicine.
All courses offered by the College of
Health have a substantially larger practical
component than courses offered at other
universities and have a strong emphasis on a
holistic approach to health care.
“Our nursing program is attracting
interest from universities around Australia.
It provides more than double the practical
He said the success of Notre Dame’s
nursing program came at a time when both
the State and Federal Governments were
looking at ways to improve nursing
education in order to combat the chronic
shortage of nurses Australia-wide.
“We believe much of what we are already
doing in terms of producing nurses who are
industry ready and have plenty of
practical experience will pre-empt
the recommendations of the
Federal and State inquiries,”
Dr Quinlan said.
Money raised in the
campaign will be used to
renovate and refurbish
the National Trustlisted Challenge Bank
building to house the
College. Any excess
funds will provide
scholarships and establish
an endowment fund.
Gifts made to the
College of Health Campaign
are fully tax deductible.
Left: Students in Notre Dame's Nursing program
preparing for theatre.
experience of other nursing programs and
includes a mentoring system that has
students paired with nurses in the
workplace.”
Dr Quinlan said demand for places in the
College of Health outstripped supply and
funds were needed to develop a first-class
training facility in Fremantle.
The National Trust listed Challenge Bank building in High
Street soon to be the College of Health's new home.
Broome Campus Library Gets an
extra $700,000 Federal Grant
EDERAL Minister for Education
Dr David Kemp has allocated a
further $700,000 for the development
of a new library and research centre
at Notre Dame’s Broome Campus.
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The grant announced in September this
year builds on an earlier allocation of $1.3
million announced last year and brings the
Commonwealth’s contribution to the
project to $2 million.
Construction of the research centre and
library building is scheduled to begin in
March 2003.
The facility would be used to house the
university’s growing collection of archival
material as well as books and other
material.
It will be a multi-partner library for use
by a range of educational providers
including other universities and the
Kimberley College of TAFE.
The additional $700,000 will be made
available in 2004 and comes from the
Commonwealth’s Capital Development Pool.
University Librarian Bruce Bott said
the new building would be designed in a
way that would make it more appealing to
Aboriginal people.
Ideas being considered for the design
included open spaces and outside study
areas.
Mr Bott said the library would also be a
teaching and learning centre and would
include a significant computing facilities
area.
He
said
the
Commonwealth
Government’s $2 million grant would be
topped up by the University’s own fund
raising.
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Mallee Oil Gives New Hope for G
N innovative research and
development project being carried
out at the University of Notre Dame has
the potential to repair soils degraded by
salinity, aid in the reduction of
greenhouse gases and give ailing rural
economies a much-needed boost.
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A West Australian mallee. The mallee have multiple stems and are capable of resprouting
after harvest.
Dr Allan Barton
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The project centres on the development of uses
for the humble mallee.
Murdoch University’s Associate Professor of
Chemistry Dr Allan Barton has joined the
University of Notre Dame as a visiting fellow and is
spending six months exploring potential commercial
applications for the mallee’s eucalyptus oil.
The work is being done in conjunction with the
head of the School of Environmental Management
at Notre Dame, Dr Syd Shea.
Dr Barton said the current worldwide market for
eucalyptus oil was only around 5000 tonnes a year
and almost all of that was used in pharmaceuticals.
Australia imports eucalyptus oil from countries
like China that have developed small-scale oil
industries using Australian gum trees.
Dr Barton said large areas of the wheatbelt had
been planted to mallees in an effort to control
salinity. The mallee stands were
capable of producing large
quantities of eucalyptus oil but
a market for more than 30 000
tonnes of the oil needed to be
found to make the harvesting of
the trees economically viable.
Dr Barton has spent 20
years researching eucalyptus oil
and has developed various
commercial uses for it including
Greenhouse, Salinity and Economy
as an industrial solvent or degreasing agent.
yielding variety of mallee and planting of mallee
Alcoa Australia is currently using the oil in its seedlings began on cleared agricultural land
workshops to clean and degrease its machinery.
throughout the wheatbelt.
“Eucalyptus oil is more chemically stable than
The plantings were aimed primarily at slowing
many other natural industrial solvents such as dryland salinity.
limonene. It is recyclable and has a better health and
More than 900 farmers were enlisted to plant
safety profile than many of the petroleum based more than 20 million mallee seedlings.
solvents,” Dr Barton said.
But Dr Shea said in order for the mallee stands to
“The market for natural
be effective in reducing salinity, at
industrial solvents is growing,
least 2 million hectares of mallee
“The natural
particularly since the withdrawal
needed to be planted.
recently of a commonly used adaptations of the
“We are not going to get that
ozone depleting solvent.”
sort of commitment from farmers
Dr Barton’s work has been mallee make them unless we can come up with other
recognised both nationally and
uses for the mallees that are
internationally and earlier this
one of the world’s profitable,” Dr Shea said.
year he was made a Member of the
The mallee farmers have formed
Order of Australia for service to most suitable trees the Mallee Oil Company headed by
the environment.
Dr Shea and are seeking investors
to store carbon to to fund further research and
He said the mallee oil project
was now at a stage where it would
offset greenhouse development.
benefit from a substantial boost in
The company issued a
research and development.
statement of offer in July this year in
emissions”
Once a commercial market for
a bid to raise $5 million.
the oil was found further
The farmers and researchers are
substantial plantings could take place and the large optimistic that the mallee stands that are already
scale harvesting of existing stands could begin.
helping to solve their salinity problems will provide
Research into eucalyptus oil and the planting of the basis for a viable eucalyptus oil industry in WA
mallees in WA began in the 1980’s with trials by the while at the same time acting as a carbon sink for the
Department of Agriculture and genetic research by world's greenhouse gases. They also hope the stands
CSIRO in conjunction with work by Dr Barton.
will be able to produce a variety of other products
In the early 1990’s the Department of including biomass fuels for electricity generation.
Conservation and Land Management’s Farm Forestry
Mallees produce underground root systems called
Unit, headed by Dr John Bartle, together with a lignotubers that allow them to resprout after harvest.
group of farmers began work on a genetic These large underground roots act to store carbon.
improvement program for mallee eucalypts.
“The natural adaptations of the mallee make
The research led to the development of a high oil them one of the world’s most suitable trees to store
carbon to offset greenhouse emissions,” Dr Shea said.
“A number of large corporations are currently
negotiating with the Oil Mallee Company to
determine the potential for
using mallees to offset their
greenhouse gas emissions.”
Dr Shea said while the
world was not quite ready to
trade in carbon credits large
companies were already
moving to establish large
scale tree plantings in areas
such as Australia in
anticipation that there will
be mandatory requirements
to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions in the future.
Dr Syd Shea
As an offshoot to the
mallee oil project Western
Power is currently developing a pilot power station at
Narrogin, 190 km southeast of Perth, using mallee
biomass provided by the farmers.
The one-megawatt power station will produce
energy, eucalyptus oil and activated carbon and is
scheduled to open next year.
“The mallee oil project is an application of
“industrial ecology”. It is an attempt to find many
integrated and complementary uses for a tree crop,”
Dr Barton said.
“The planting on degraded agricultural lands of
eucalyptus for leaf oil provides a commercial
incentive for restoring original vegetation. It is a
sustainable method of controlling groundwater and
salinity. It yields a product that is an environmentally
benign substitute for a widely used solvent damaging
the ozone layer. And it provides a mechanism for
reducing atmospheric carbon dioxide levels.”
Salt affected land in the wheatbelt. Researchers and farmers are hoping the mallee
will provide an economically viable solution to the spread of salinity.
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US Internship Opens Doors for NDA’s MBA’s
Professor Peter Dalllimore and MBA student Lisa Gollan discussing the NDUS internship scheme
WO graduate students from
Notre Dame’s College of
Business have been the first
beneficiaries of a special internship
program involving one of the leading
universities in America.
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Lisa Gollan and Bronwyn Clee spent six
weeks studying and working at Notre Dame
Indiana’s Mendoza School of Business in
June and July this year.
Their work will be credited toward their
Masters of Business Administration (MBA)
at NDA.
Dean of the College of Business at NDA
Professor Peter Dallimore said internships
offered a unique networking opportunity
for students and provided them with
invaluable exposure to American business
culture.
Under the internship program graduate
students undertake research work through
NDUS while they complete a unit of study
at the university. They live on the campus
and receive a living wage for their work.
Professor Dallimore said the pair were
the first to take advantage of the scheme
and it was hoped that the program would be
expanded in future years.
“Internships are a fantastic opportunity
for students. Not only do they get the
chance to study overseas but they are being
paid to work while they learn,” Professor
Dallimore said.
Ms Gollan 30, said her stay in America
was truly rewarding from both an academic
and a personal perspective.
“The whole experience was engaging.
The study and research activities provided
great intellectual stimulation and exposure
to new realms,” Ms Gollan said.
“This
overseas
experience
complemented my Australian-based
graduate studies extremely well.”
Ms Clee, 29 said her experience at
NDUS was unforgettable.
She said some of the highlights included
the relationships formed with academic
staff and other MBA students, the spiritual
strength of the Notre Dame community
and the experience of campus life at
NDUS.
An Artist’s Perspective on Campus, On Cards
NTERNATIONALLLY renowned
local artist Richard Reynolds
Ward has produced a series of
prints capturing the essence of
Notre Dame’s Fremantle campus.
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The prints have been produced as a
special series of greeting cards that show
snapshots of the courtyards, gateways and
buildings.
Mr Ward said he had attempted to
illustrate the beauty and quintessential
character of the campus by highlighting
natural components that were easily
identifiable as Notre Dame, Fremantle.
“I wandered around the campus looking
for corners and areas of interests. What
struck me were the gateways and
courtyards,” Mr Ward said.
He said he had tried painting
streetscapes of the campus but the results
were too impersonal and lacked the
“weight” of the areas chosen for the final
prints.
Mr Ward has had a close association
with the university. His wife Gayle
recently completed her doctorate at Notre
Dame and his daughter Whitney is also
studying on campus.
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He has exhibited regularly in Perth and
overseas and his works are in private and
corporate collections in Australia, the UK,
Europe, Hong Kong and the USA.
Later this year he will present his
second solo exhibition at Notre Dame.
The exhibition will feature his most recent
paintings and showcase the beaches and
bushland areas of Western Australia.
The Notre Dame card series is made up
of four prints that include the gateway off
Henry Street and views of the main
courtyard.
The cards come in packs of four or eight
and are available from the university’s
Development Office in Henry Street
Fremantle.
Artist Richard Reynolds Ward at work in his studio.
Public Lecture a Memorial
to Kevin Barry
EAN of Postgraduate Research at
Notre Dame Professor Don Watts
will deliver the inaugural Kevin Barry
Memorial Lecture on November 6.
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Dr Watts will speak on Equity in Australian
Education.
The lecture will celebrate the memory of
Kevin Barry, a lecturer in the College of
Education who died suddenly in August last year.
Senior lecturer in the College Kevin Casey
said Dr Barry had, throughout his career in
teacher education, been committed to
excellence in teaching and learning.
“His willingness to support and provide wise
counsel to his many devoted students and
colleagues was a feature of his professionalism,”
Mr Casey said.
“He was the co-author of a widely used text
“Beginning Teaching and Beyond”. The text and
the impact of his teaching meant that his
influence has been felt extensively throughout
the education community of this state and
indeed the whole of Australia.”
His memory is being celebrated through the
lecture and the awarding of a Kevin Barry Postgraduate Education Scholarship, donated by
David Barlow of Social Science Press.
The free public lecture will take place in the
university’s Drill Hall, Mouat Street Fremantle,
Tuesday November 6 at 6pm.
Those interested in attending are urged to
reply to Clare Donaldson at the College of
Education on (08) 9239 5600 by October 29.
Performing Arts Students Win
Applause
ERFORMING Arts students at
Notre Dame staged their first
production in June this year to a
sell out audience.
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series of workshops from professionals who
have worked enthusiastically with the
students to develop their strengths and
show them different techniques and
styles,” Ms Izzard said.
Last month the students joined
performers from around the world in a
five-day international circus workshop on
Rottnest Island.
“Our students are working with
professionals who use their skills in
different ways for example actors who are
using theatre as a means of social change
and those who work with people who have
disabilities.
“They are learning that they can be part
of something that is more than fame, it has
the power to do something in the world.”
The group performed Freo Nights in a
short but highly successful season.
The production was a first for the
fledgling group of first year students and a
first for the university’s new Studio
Theatre.
Course coordinator Teresa Izzard said
the audience response to the production
had been encouraging and the students
had been overwhelmed by the success of
ticket sales to the event.
Freo Nights was followed by A Manual
of Trench Warfare, an all male play
written, performed, publicised and
produced by the students.
Ms Izzard said the group of 16
students was currently rehearsing
for a show to be run as part of the
Fremantle Festival in November.
The show, titled Beauty, will
be the student’s final production
for the year and will look at the
darker side of beauty.
It will be created entirely by
the students and will run
November 22 to 24.
Ms Izzard said the performing
arts students were a diverse and
talented group with a great deal
of spirit, energy and drive.
“The course is not about fame
but about theatre and job
opportunities. We have had a Teresa Izzard (standing, centre, second from left) with students in
the Performing Arts program
Notre Dame
Wins Green
Corporate
Challenge
NDA Provost Professor Greg Cravan (right)
receives the Corporate Challenge Shed Your Car
Day perpetual trophy from Fremantle Mayor,
Peter Tagliaferri
CADEMIC and administrative
staff at Notre Dame were
awarded a special trophy last
month after finding innovative carfree ways to get to work.
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Fremantle’s annual Shed Your Car
Day on September 19 saw 50 per cent of
staff at Notre Dame pledging to leave
their cars at home and walk, cycle, catch
public transport or car pool their way to
and from work.
The event is designed to encourage
workers in Fremantle to find healthy
environmentally friendly ways to get to
work and to make the city car-free for
one day.
The car free concept is already an
annual event in many countries around
the world and last year 150 cities and an
estimated 22 million people took part in
the event.
Notre Dame was one of a number of
large institutions and businesses in
Fremantle to join the corporate challenge,
a competition to see which organisation
can get the greatest proportion of staff to
go car-free for the day.
The university was a clear winner
with 50 of its 100 staff pledging to leave
their cars at home.
Provost of Notre Dame Professor
Greg Craven accepted the award on
behalf of the university and said staff at
Notre Dame were a committed part of
the Fremantle community and had
actively embraced the car-free concept.
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ND Graduates Offered an ACE opportunity
RADUATES of Notre Dame
Australia are being offered
the opportunity to teach for two
years in America under a program
run through the University of
Notre Dame, Indiana.
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lifetime opportunity to live and work in the
United States while earning a post-graduate
degree.
Ms Rangel, a graduate of Notre Dame,
Indiana, joined the program in 1996 and
spent two years working at an African
American school in Alabama.
She said it was one of the most
challenging and rewarding experiences she
had ever had.
“One of the greatest joys of the program
was the community living,” Ms Rangel
said.
While teaching, participants in the
program live together in small groups of
between four and seven and act to support
and encourage each other.
The past two rectors of Port Lodge in
Fremantle, David Platt, Ms Rangel and the
current rector Daniel McGinty, have all
been graduates of the ACE program.
Member of the Board of Governors at
Notre Dame Australia Father Timothy
Scully helped establish the program in
1994. It now has more than 130 recent
graduates working in 75 schools across
southern America.
For further information contact:
Patricia Rangel on (08) 9239 5542,
prangel@nd.edu.au. or visit the ACE
website at: www.nd.edu/~ace. Applications
close Wednesday, November 14, 2001.
Successful applicants to the program
receive a living wage and on completion of
their service a Masters Degree in
Education from Notre Dame Indiana,
tution-free.
The program is organised by the
American Alliance for Catholic Education
(ACE) and aims to develop a corps of
highly motivated and committed educators
to meet the needs of that country’s most
under-resourced primary and
Graduate of the ACE program Patricia Rangel: "...the program offers graduates the chance to live and work in the US while
earning a post-graduate degree."
secondary Catholic schools.
It includes blocks of
intensive study where students
undertake
professional
development to equip them for
teaching.
Students from NDA have
been taking part in the ACE
program for several years and
currently there are three
Australian graduates working
in American schools under the
scheme.
The Edmund Rice Centre is
coordinating the recruitment of
students to the program in
Australia and is currently
seeking applications from
graduates of all disciplines.
Service learning coordinator
of the Edmund Rice Centre
Patricia Rangel said the program
offered graduates a once in a
Notre Dame to Host Major Regional Catholic
Universities Conference
OTRE Dame will play host to a
major conference of the
region’s Catholic universities and
colleges in August next year.
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The Association of South- East and East
Asian Catholic Colleges and Universities
(ASEACCU) will hold its 10th annual
conference at Notre Dame’s Fremantle
campus August 2 - 4, 2002.
Notre Dame Vice Chancellor Dr Peter
Tannock described the conference as “very
significant” for the university.
He said there was immense interest in
Notre Dame from Catholic universities and
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colleges in Asia and the conference would
provide an opportunity to showcase the
Fremantle campus.
“We need to develop a regional presence
and further our relationships with Catholic
universities in Asia. The conference will
provide us with an opportunity to do this,”
Dr Tannock said.
Last year more than 175 delegates from
Catholic Universities around the world met
at Notre Dame when the university hosted
the 20th General Assembly of the
International Federation of Catholic
Universities (IFCU).
Dr Tannock said next year’s ASEACCU
conference would be like a miniature IFCU
meeting but would be more intense, more
focused and more practical than the larger
conference.
He said 120 delegates from colleges and
universities in Indonesia, Japan, Thailand,
The Philippines, Korea and Australia would
attend the three-day conference.
It will be the first time that ASEACCU
has met in Australia.
The theme of the conference will be
`Institutional Renewal and Transformation
in Relation to the Mission of Catholic
Universities’.
Notre Dame Forges Links with Atma Jaya
HE University of Notre Dame
has established a unique
relationship with Atma Jaya, one of
Indonesia’s
leading
Catholic
universities.
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The relationship will see academic and
administrative staff at Notre Dame assisting
in the training and professional
development of staff at Atma Jaya.
The new project will also include the
Justin Lilleyman
Push for Alumni Association at Notre Dame
IVE graduates are currently working
together in the hope of establishing a
successful Notre Dame Alumni Association.
The group began over a few glasses of wine
and plenty of conversation at a birthday
party for a fellow graduate of the University.
After reminiscing about the good old times
of university life compared with life in the
working world we discovered that we all had
one thing in common: we all wanted to
maintain our connection to Notre Dame and
the friends we made there.
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We have now met several times and a Steering
Committee has been formed to discuss how we can
best put our plan into action, and we are now some
way towards achieving our goal of establishing the
Notre Dame Alumni Association.
Kate French
Our Aim
One of the main aims of the Steering Committee
is to establish a complete contact list of graduates
dating back to the first graduating class of 1994.
Enabling us to link old classmates and develop the
common bond that we all share as Notre Dame
graduates.
Leticia Jennings
will travel to Indonesia next year to take
part in a cultural exchange program that
will see them teaching at Catholic schools
while staying with local families.
Dr Tannock said the exchange program
would give students a once in a lifetime
opportunity to live with an Indonesian
family while doing a teaching practice.
Students in Notre Dame’s Business in
Asia unit will also be involved in a similar
exchange program.
We also look forward to:
• Running many social events, the first to run in
conjunction with Graduation 2001 where we
can welcome Notre Dame’s newest alumni into
our ever-growing family.
• Establishing Notre Dame Alumni contacts in
various locations around the globe in recognition
that as the Notre Dame Network expands we can
help provide a friendly face for those who may
pass through, or even move to that location.
What can you do?
The Steering Committee will continue to work
through the developing stages of the Alumni
Association. However, we need your help. If you are
a Notre Dame graduate can you please email us at
alumni@nd.edu.au with your contact details, and
encourage your friends to do the same.
As Notre Dame celebrates its tenth birthday, we,
as the students who experienced its first ten years,
can help to further develop our University by
supporting it and keeping in touch. We encourage all
of you to get in touch with us.
Yours in Notre Dame
The Alumni Steering Committee
✃
Your Alumni
Committee
exchange of students between the two
universities.
Vice Chancellor of Notre Dame,
Professor Peter Tannock said Atma Jaya was
a very significant institution in Indonesia
and the relationship would have positive
spin-offs for both universities.
“It is a really exciting project with one of
the most prominent universities in Asia,”
Dr Tannock said.
Education students from Notre Dame
Alumni Association Registration Form
Surname: _________________________________First Name: _______________________________
Maiden Name: _____________________________Year of Graduation: ________________________
Address: ___________________________________________________________________________
Country:__________________________________Degree: __________________________________
Telephone: (home) ________________(work) _________________(mobile) ___________________
Luke Colgan
Email: ____________________________________________________
Day and month of birthdate ______(day) _________________(month)
Current employment:________________________________________
Toby Hicks
Please return this form to the Alumni Association at:
Notre Dame Alumni Association, Development Office,
University of Notre Dame Australia,
PO Box 1225, Fremantle,WA 6959 OR
Alternatively you can register by email; alumni@nd.edu.au
WE LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING FROM YOU!!
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Hancock Lecture to Look at
Family Business in the New Millennium
WO of America’s leading
authorities on family owned
businesses, Leon and Katy Danco,
will deliver the inaugural Lang
Hancock Lecture at the University
of Notre Dame on Monday, October
15.
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The pair will speak on the importance of
family businesses to free enterprise and
society.
While in Australia the pair will also
deliver a keynote address to the National
Conference on Family Business in
Melbourne later this month.
Dr and Mrs Danco set up America’s first
family business consultancy more than 40
years ago and have since been recognised
worldwide for their contribution to the
profitable growth and continuity of
privately held family owned businesses.
Dr Danco is president of the University
Services Institute, Cleveland Ohio,
Adjunct
Professor
of
Business
Administration at John Carroll University
and a visiting professor at numerous
universities.
He is the co-founder and chief executive
officer of the Centre for Family Business and
serves as senior adviser to the Small
Business Administration’s task force on
Family Business and Continuity.
Dr Danco is a widely published author
and contributing editor and has published a
number of best sellers.
Mrs Danco is vice president and treasurer
of the University Services Institute and cofounder of the Centre for Family Business.
She is author of “From the Other Side of
the Bed: A Woman Looks at Life in the
Family Business.”
The Lang Hancock Annual Lecture
series is aimed at supporting excellence in
business education, introducing new ideas
to Australian business and promoting free
enterprise.
The series is sponsored by Hancock
Prospecting Ltd and will each year bring to
Australia an internationally renowned
business leader who will deliver a public
lecture and give workshops to staff and
students at the university.
Family Business Australia is also
sponsoring the Danco’s visit to Australia.
The public lecture will take place in the
Drill Hall, Mouat Street Fremantle at 7pm,
Monday October 15. Entry is free.
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