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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.

Creating Futures

December 2019 (PDF)
December 2018 (PDF)
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 2019.

The late Margaret Jean Adams
The late Harold Graham Baker
The late Graham Howard Beanland
The late Maureen Doris Brunt
The late Ian Robert Cathie
The late Patricia Lea Coue
The late Sylvia Gelman
The late Richard John Gilmour-Smith
The late William Farnworth Heape
The late Eve Shore Laing
The late Rejane Langlois
The late Mary Evelyn Lugton
The late Daryl John David Manley
The late Ian Hamilton Munro
The late Ann Elliott Rado
The late Eric Stokes
The late Victor Leslie Sykes
The late Leonard James Tierney
The late Graham Donald Watsford
The late Hugh John Wirth

Members

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
Warren Bebbington
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 AM QC & Leonard Vary
Anton Cook
Martina Copley
Terry Corbett
Graham Corr & Robyn Corr
Roberta Ann Cowan
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
Prudence Dobbin
Meredith Doig OAM
Ann Dooley
Elizabeth Douglas
Pamela Dowsing
Peter Doyle
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
The late Patricia Farrant
Barbara Fenner & Bradley Fenner
Stephen Flew & the late Licenia Ihuraqui
Andrew Freeman FACS
Helen Freeman
Patricia Fullerton
Peter & Betty Game
Julian Gardner AM
Lionel Gell AM
Glen Gersch
Liyan Gfrerer
Geoffrey Gibson
Helen Gillett
Sue Girling-Butcher
Tanya Graham
Glenys Greenwood
Tom Griffith
Ken Hager
Bronwyn Halls
Barbara Hamer
Brita Hansen & Frank Halley
John Harcourt OAM
Roy Hardcastle AO & June Hardcastle
David Harding
Peter Hardy Smith OAM & the late Beryl Hardy Smith
Ronnie Harrington
John Harry
Charles Hart
Brenton Harty
Susan Haslam
Helen Hayes
Margaret Healy PSM
Peter Hekel & Marie-Louise Hekel
Anne Hellstedt
Mark Henry & Jennifer Henry
Keith Higgins
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
Frank Larkins AM
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
Harold Luntz AO
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
Isabel McBryde AO
Christine McCarthy
Helen McCausland
Anne McCoy AM
Margaret Loughnan McCutcheon
Derek J McDougall
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
Rick and Margaret Milne
Pierina Morano
Megan Morgan
Graham Morris & Prudence Sanderson
Jim Morrison
Geoffrey Mottershead
Victor Mulder
Jane Munro AM
M L Murnane AM
Christopher Murray
Alida Natoli
Adrian Newton
The Hon Alastair Nicholson AO RFD QC
Peter Nicholson
Tracey O’Brien
Pam Oliver
Gayle Osborne
Leonie Osowski
Ettore Pacini
Marilyn Panichi
Sandra Pankhurst
Geoffrey Park
Kenneth Park
Richard Parker
John & Mary Parrott
Lyndal Pascoe
Marion Patten
Michael Pearce SC
Sharon Peers
David Penington AC
Patricia Warren Petch
Mai Pham
Jock Plenderleith
Margaret Pont
Deborah Power
Maria Prendergast
Tony Price
Kevin Redmond
Geoffrey Rees
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
Marian Simpson
Colin Smith
Graeme Smith OAM
Max Smyth
Richard Southby KLJ, CStJ & Janet Southby
Anne Spurritt & Susan Yates
Geoff Stansen & Karen Stansen
Max Stephens
Robert Stewart AM
Ann Stocker
The late Eric Stokes
Barbara Stopp
Ian Sullivan
Stan Tarka
Rosalind Terry
Gail Thomas
Michael Togias & Christine Politis
Max Tomkins
Julie Tomlinson
Richard Trembath
Christine Tursky Gordon
Dayle Tyrrell
Murray Vagg
Margaret Walker
Sir John Walsh of Brannagh
Jack Warin
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
213 anonymous benefactors