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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 are invited to attend special events and interact with University leaders, academics and students. Members also receive the newsletter, Creating Futures, with inspiring stories about current benefactors who have pledged a gift to the University in their Will, and the tremendous impact of previous bequests.

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

CELEBRATING GIFTS IN WILL

December 2018 (PDF)

Past editions:

December 2017 (PDF)
December 2016 (PDF)
December 2015 (PDF)
July 2015 (PDF)
December 2014 (PDF)

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 →

Realised bequests

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

Members 2018

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
The late 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
The late 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.