Heritage Society

The Heritage Society recognises the generosity and foresight of the growing number of alumni and friends who have pledged to support the University of Melbourne in their Will.

Members receive the Heritage Society newsletter, with inspiring stories that demonstrate the tremendous impact of previous bequests, and updates on University activities.
See also:  Gifts in Wills 

Take a look at what we have planned this year - Heritage Society Events Calendar 2019

Heritage society newsletters

Edition 22, December 2017  Edition 21, December 2016 Edition 20, December 2015 Edition 19, June  2015 Edition 18, December 2014

Previous events

[2017] Heritage Society - Annual Luncheon
The highlight of the Heritage Society Annual Luncheon was an engaging presentation on the power of visual imagery to promote solidarity within the community from Professor Uma Kothari, a current Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow

[2017] Heritage Society - Designing Cities for our Health
Dr Brendan Gleeson led a stimulating presentation and discussion on the work of the Melbourne Sustainability Society Institute, including some insights into future city planning.

[2016] Heritage Society - Gaudi's Multidimensional Mysteries
Mark Burry, Professor of Urban Futures, is a principal architect on the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. In April, Professor Burry presented an insightful and thrilling history of his engagement with the project.   Event photos →

[2015] Annual Heritage Society Luncheon
Members and guests enjoyed a thought-provoking keynote speech from prominent composer, festival director and current Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow Sir Jonathan Mills AO. Sir Jonathan left our members reflecting on the richness of our cultural collections and their contribution to this outstanding legacy.   Event photos →

[2015] A Morning of Treasures
The University is home to some of Australia’s most remarkable cultural collections, many of which are housed in the Baillieu Library. Members explored the richness of the Melbourne catalogue as well as hearing from the University Librarian, Philip Kent. He spoke of the important teaching and research use of the Baillieu’s cultural collections, saying bequests to the Library provide resource documents unmatched by other Australian universities. Materials and Conservation student Amy Walsh also explained the benefit students receive from overseas internships, detailing her own study at the University of Birmingham.   Event photos →

[2015] Tour of the Melbourne Theatre Company
Executive Director of the MTC, Virginia Lovett, and Associate Artistic Director and Melbourne alumnus, Sam Strong, welcomed the Heritage Society to a guided tour of the MTC, which is also a department of the University of Melbourne. Guests saw an early rehearsal of Death and the Maiden in which Susie Porter, Steve Mouzakis and Eugene Gilfedder performed a script reading of one of the play’s scenes, preceded by an introduction from director Leticia Cáceres. Members were also taken through the wardrobe department, tailor’s workshop and set construction areas.   Event photos → 

[2015] Melbourne School of Design Tour
Heritage Society members were among the first people through the doors of the impressive new Melbourne School of Design. Following the tour, guests enjoyed morning tea in the gardens of the fabled Shigeru Yura-designed Japanese Room, which has been sensitively restored from its original 1960s design.   Event photos →

[2015] A Conversation About Mental Health
Members and guests attended a special presentation by an esteemed panel of University of Melbourne mental health experts. Professor Ian Everall, Cato Chair of Psychiatry and Head of the University’s Department of Psychiatry, headed the discussion, which explained the latest efforts to combat major mental health challenges. Speakers included Professor Christos Pantelis, a research fellow whose specialisation is in adolescent brain development; Associate Professor Kathryn Ellis, whose Academic Unit for Psychiatry of Old Age conducts research focusing on mental health and neural degeneration and Associate Professor Carol Harvey, an expert in psychosocial aspects of prevention, treatment recovery from mental illness.   Event photos →
 

The University of Melbourne acknowledges with gratitude the following generous benefactors whose estate gifts were realised in 2018.

• The late Alexandra Esther Cameron
• The late Roger Bramwell Heslop
• Anonymous estate gift in memory of the late Professor Ian Ramsay Maxwell
• The late Peter Eugene Krafel
• The late Vera June Lawrence
• The late John Norman Mann
• The late Lorraine Maxine Helen Meldrum
• The late Isabel Columbia Smith
• The late Owen James Tassicker
• The late Geoffrey Norman Vaughan
• The late Margaretta Besford Wilkinson

• Bill Adam PSM OAM
• David Adams
• Elizabeth Alexander AM
• James Angus AO & Helen Angus
• Allyson Anthonisz
• Karen Armitage
• Su Baker AM
• Amanda Baric
• Michael Bartlett
• Chris Barton & Elaine Ong
• Pauline Baxter
• John Baylis & Dorothy Baylis
• The late Graham Beanland
• Caron Beaton-Wells
• Sarah-Jane Beavitt
• Ronda Bird
• Jane Bloom
• Geoffrey Boag
• Lesley Boston AO
• Bern Brent
• Des Bright & Ruth Bright AM
• Lindsay Brunsdon
• Tess Cafarella
• Tina Cafarella & David McCall
• Robert Cahn
• Meryl Calver
• Rose-Mary Cassin
• Suzy Cato-Gashler
• The Hon Alex Chernov AO QC & Elizabeth Chernov
• Michael Clough
• Wendy Cobcroft
• Ian L Cochran
• Ross Coller
• Matt Collins QC & Leonard Vary
• Anton Cook
• Martina Copley
• Terry Corbett
• Graham Corr & Robyn Corr
• Roberta Ann Cowan
• Bruce Crossley
• Keith Crowley
• Jenny Cummins
• Judy Davey
• Helen Davies
• Glyn Davis AC
• James Davis & Taryn D'Costa
• John Dawson & Carmel McDonald
• Denise de Gruchy
• Christina Dennis & Carole Popham
• Meredith Doig OAM
• Ann Dooley
• Elizabeth Douglas
• Pamela Dowsing
• Diane & Lyle Drayton
• Julian Driscoll
• Michael Duke
• Pamela Eddey
• Betty Edington
• Peter Eichfuss
• Kenneth Eltham
• Carolyn Evans & Stephen Donaghue QC
• Harold Fabrikant
• Richard Falkinger AO
• Patricia Farrant
• Barbara Fenner & Bradley Fenner
• Stephen Flew & Licenia Ihuraqui
• Andrew Freeman FACS
• Helen Freeman
• Patricia Fullerton
• Peter & Betty Game
• Julian Gardner AM
• Liyan Gfrerer
• Helen Gillett
• The late Richard Gilmour-Smith
• Sue Girling-Butcher
• Tanya Graham
• Glenys Greenwood
• The late Chevalier Richard Gunter
• Bronwyn Halls
• Barbara Hamer
• Brita Hansen & Frank Halley
• John Harcourt OAM
• Roy Hardcastle AO & June Hardcastle
• David Harding
• Peter Hardy Smith OAM & Beryl Hardy Smith
• Ronnie Harrington
• Charles Hart
• Brenton Harty
• Susan Haslam
• Helen Hayes
• Peter Hekel & Marie-Louise Hekel
• Anne Hellstedt
• Mark Henry & Jennifer Henry
• Keith Higgins
• Marian Hill
• John Hockley & Anne Powell
• Fay Hodgskiss
• Roderick Home AM
• John Houghton
• Merilyn Howorth & David Howorth
• John Humphrey
• Sharon Hurst & Peter Levy
• Gary Israel
• Anne Jabara
• Raymond Jensen
• M R (Taffy) Jones AM PSM
• Stephen Jones & Janet Ruby
• Marjorie Josephs-Wilks
• Fiona Judd & Julian Davis
• Merrilyn Julian
• George Karoly FACS
• Margaret Kelleher
• Maureen Kepalas
• Geoffrey Kerr
• Yolande Kerridge & David Jay
• Marina Keskevich
• Philip Kissick
• Robyn Krause-Hale
• Jane Kunstler
• Kerry Landman
• John Langford AM
• The late Rejane Langlois
• Ada Lau
• Kathleen Le Lievre & John Le Lievre
• Trevor Lee
• Cynthia Leigh-Jones
• Jillian M Lenne
• Jill Liney
• Lara Lipton & John Deadman
• Janice Lockwood
• Michael Loftus-Hills & Hilary Royston
• Denis Long
• The late Mary Lugton
• Harold Luntz
• The Hon Peg Lusink AM
• Betty C Lynch OAM
• Leon Mann AO
• Rose Mant
• Ieuan Mapperson & Kathleen Mapperson
• The late Ray Marginson AM
• Jon Martin & the late Helen Martin
• Rob Martin
• Allan Mawdsley OAM
• Andrew McAliece & Richard Simmie
• Christine McCarthy
• Anne McCoy AM
• Margaret McCutcheon
• Jeanette McInnes
• P H McKeon
• Valerie McLaine
• Tom McNair
• Kenneth McNaughton
• Anthony J Merrett
• Andrew Michelmore AO
• Peter Mikelaitis & Tanya Mikelaitis
• Vaughan Millar
• Anne Miller & Edward Miller
• Shaun Miller
• John Milne
• Megan Morgan
• Graham Morris & Prudence Sanderson
• Geoffrey Mottershead
• Jane Munro AM
• M L Murnane AM
• Christopher Murray
• Adrian Newton
• The Hon Alastair Nicholson AO RFD QC
• Tracey O'Brien
• Pam Oliver
• Leonie Osowski
• Ettore Pacini
• Marilyn Panichi
• Sandra Pankhurst
• Kenneth Park
• John & Mary Parrott
• Lyndal Pascoe
• Marion Patten
• Michael Pearce SC
• Sharon Peers
• David Penington AC
• Patricia Warren Petch
• Mai Pham
• The late Bill Pick
• Jock Plenderleith
• Margaret Pont
• Deborah Power
• Tony Price
• Kevin Redmond
• Ian Reiher
• James Richardson
• Andrew Roberts
• J M Robertson OAM
• Ron Rosanove & Elizabeth Rosanove
• Mrs Kingsley Rowan
• Bruce Rowe
• Leslie Rowe
• Ann Rusden
• Ron Rye
• Max Schnapp
• Linda Shardlow
• Elizabeth Shaw
• Colin Smith
• Graeme Smith OAM
• Max Smyth
• Richard Southby KLJ, CStJ & Janet Southby
• Anne Spurritt & Susan Yates
• Max Stephens
• Ann Stocker
• Eric Stokes
• Barbara Stopp
• Ian Sullivan
• Rosalind Terry
• Gail Thomas
• Michael Togias & Christine Politis
• Max Tomkins
• Julie Tomlinson
• Christine Tursky Gordon
• Dayle Tyrrell
• Murray Vagg
• The late Geoffrey Vaughan AO
• Margaret Walker
• Sir John Walsh of Brannagh
• Jack Warin
• The late Graham Watsford
• Joy Wellings
• Julie Weste
• Ronald L White
• James Wilkinson
• Peter Williams
• Patricia Wilson OAM & Bill Wilson APM OAM
• Norman Wodetzki & Meryll Wodetzki
• Debra Wood
• Caroline Woodhouse
• Elinor Wrobel OAM
• Peter Yeung & Judy Pui-Ling Yeung
• Brooke Young
• Robert Zahara
• Jenny Zimmer AM
• 196 anonymous benefactors

Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of this report. We sincerely apologise if any error or omission has occurred.

If you notice an omission or any error please notify University of Melbourne Advancement on +61 3 8344 1751 or donor-relations@unimelb.edu.au.