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 2018

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 bequests were realised in 2017.

• Estate of John Northey Ashford
• Estate of Jean Audrey Barry
• Estate of Alfred Noel Curphy
• Estate of Derek Roberts Edgerton
• Estate of Brenda Morris Edmonds
• Estate of Chester Murray Robin Gray
• The Judith A Hill Trust
• Estate of Vera Crowther Jennings
• Estate of Colin Robert Laing
• Estate of Vera June Lawrence
• Estate of Duncan Elphinstone McBryde Leary
• Estate of Lyn Jean McDowell
• Estate of Vera Mert-Ilijan
• Estate of John Herbert Mitchell
• Estate of Donald Emsley Napier
• Estate of Barbara Joan Nielsen
• Estate of James Oliver Newton Perkins
• Estate of Kathleen Margaret Peace Rankin
• Estate of Norma Lois Riley
• Estate of Vasilios Sarafis
• Estate of Edward Charles (Bill) Slater
• Estate of Kenneth Richard Styles
• Estate of Jennifer Taplin
• Estate of June Bostock Wenker
• Estate of Keith Williams

• Bill Adam
• David Adams
• Elizabeth Alexander AM
• James Angus AO & Helen Angus
• Allyson Anthonisz
• Karen Armitage
• Su Baker
• Amanda Baric
• Michael Bartlett
• Chris Barton & Elaine Ong
• Pauline Baxter
• John Baylis & Dorothy Baylis
• 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
• Meryl Calver
• The late Alexandra Cameron MBE
• Rose-Mary Cassin
• The late Hon Ian R Cathie
• 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
• 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
• 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 SC
• Harold Fabrikant
• Richard Falkinger AO
• Patricia Farrant
• Stephen Flew & Licenia Ihuraqui
• Helen Freeman
• Patricia Fullerton
• Peter & Betty Game
• Julian Gardner
• Liyan Gfrerer
• Helen Gillett
• Richard Gilmour-Smith
• Sue Girling-Butcher
• Tanya Graham
• Glenys Greenwood
• Chevalier Richard Gunter
• Barbara Hamer
• Brita Hansen & Frank Halley
• John Harcourt OAM
• Roy Hardcastle AO & June Hardcastle
• 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
• Philip Kissick
• Robyn Krause-Hale
• Jane Kunstler
• Kerry Landman
• Rejane Langlois
• The late V June Lawrence
• 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
• Mary Lugton
• Harold Luntz
• The Hon Peg Lusink AM
• Betty C Lynch OAM
• The late John Mann
• Leon Mann AO
• Rose Mant
• Ieuan Mapperson & Kathleen Mapperson
• Ray Marginson AM
• Rob Martin
• Allan Mawdsley OAM
• Andrew McAliece & Richard Simmie
• Christine McCarthy
• Anne McCoy AM
• Jeanette McInnes
• P H McKeon
• Valerie McLaine
• Tom McNair
• Kenneth McNaughton
• Anthony J Merrett
• Andrew Michelmore
• Peter Mikelaitis & Tanya Mikelaitis
• Vaughan Millar
• Anne Miller & Edward Miller
• Megan Morgan
• Graham Morris & Prudence Sanderson
• Geoffrey Mottershead
• Jane Munro AM
• M L Murnane AM
• Christopher Murray
• Adrian Newton
• Tracey O'Brien
• Pam Oliver
• Leonie Osowski
• Ettore Pacini
• Marilyn Panichi
• Sandra Pankhurst
• Kenneth Park
• John & Mary Parrott
• Lyndal Pascoe
• Michael Pearce SC
• Sharon Peers
• David Penington AC
• Patricia Warren Petch
• Mai Pham
• Bill Pick
• Jock Plenderleith
• Margaret Pont
• Tony Price
• Kevin Redmond
• James Richardson
• 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
• Ann Stocker
• Eric Stokes
• Barbara Stopp
• Ian Sullivan
• The late Owen Tassicker
• Rosalind Terry
• Gail Thomas
• Michael Togias & Christine Politis
• Max Tomkins
• Julie Tomlinson
• Christine Tursky Gordon
• Dayle Tyrrell
• Murray Vagg
• Geoffrey Vaughan AO
• Margaret Walker
• Sir John Walsh of Brannagh
• Jack Warin
• Graham Watsford
• Joy Wellings
• James Wilkinson
• Peter Williams
• Patricia Wilson OAM & Bill Wilson APM OAM
• Norman Wodetzki & Meryll Wodetzki
• Elinor Wrobel OAM
• Peter Yeung & Judy Pui-Ling Yeung
• Brooke Young
• Robert Zahara
• Jenny Zimmer AM
• 177 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.