The date for the next alumni dinner and Annual General Meeting of the Association will be on Saturday 21 October 2000. Lorna MacKellar, Secretary/Treasurer will organize the dinner. Further details about the dinner will appear in the next issue of newsletter.

You will read an interesting article contributed by a Dick Vet graduate in this newsletter. We hope to receive more articles from alumni and appreciate your feedback and comments to make this newsletter a success.

Very best wishes,

Ven Yee Foo
President 
 

The reprints or computer image files of the photographs are available to the alumni on request. A nominal charge applies and payable with unused postal stamps in equivalent amount. On Internet, you may click a picture to get its enlarged version which has better picture quality. 

The Association archives the pictures. If you have any pictures of previous NSW alumni get-togethers, e.g. the 1987 dinner and 1998 Edinburgh Rugby visit. please send us some copies. Thanks.

NEXT AGM
The Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held about 15 minutes before the alumni dinner on 21 October 2000 mainly to elect the president. Members are welcome to propose amendments to the constitution already published in the NSW sub-web site of http://www.edalumni.com. A copy of the constitution will be made available to you on request. 

On the basis of user pay, non-members were asked to indicate if they want to continue receiving the newsletters. Annual subscription fees applies to alumni who preferred printed copies instead of the reading it on the web site. Six alumni sent their yearly subscription fees, $4.50 each in 10 unused Australian postage stamps (one of whom did not leave his/her name or address). Thank you very much. It does help. 

We managed to add 10 new members to the list. The total membership of the Association is 54 with one from ACT.

Our circulation list for this issue comprises of 40 hard copies and 35 notified by email for reading the newsletter from the web site http://www.edalumni.com.
 

COLOURED PENCILS AND COMPUTER ARTS
Ms Peggy Stamm, psnomore@aol.com, a comtemporary artist based in California, USA kindly sent the following art works (Copyright Peggy Stamm 2000) to enrich the content of this newsletter and her best wishes to New South Wales alumni:

The picture on the left was drawn with fine coloured pencils.The little girl protected by the lion is brave now as she knows no harm will come from the howling wolf in the background. The picture above is a fine piece of computer art painted with a mouse. It shows a tranquil setting at night where dreams are made...

ALUMNI 2000, the University's weekend of millennium celebrations, 1st - 3rd September 2000, is the main event we are working on at present. We have a full programme with over 50 individual events including: Welcome reception in Playfair Library Grand Gala Dinner, Edinburgh International Conference Centre, Guest Speaker, Baronness Young of Scone. Scottish Parliament Forum with alumni Members of the Scottish Parliament Exhibition of work of Elizabeth Blackadder, prominent Scottish artist and alumna. And talks, tours, exhibitions, jazz evening and more.

The full programme will be on the web from 1st April 2000. We are thrilled that over 350 people have booked already. We are still taking bookings. For more details please contact the Development Office. Tel: 011 44 131 650 2240 or Email: Development@ed.ac.uk. 

The Alumni Fund continues to support a wide range of initiatives throughout the University. The Small Project Scheme received a record 127 applications for this term's allocation of $53,000. Forty-six awards were made supporting students and staff projects.

New web pages are being developed for Development and Alumni Services. We are planning a series of improvements that will provide a more informed and up-to-date service for alumni. Our page can now be reached from the front pages of the University web pages at www.ed.dev.ac. We would be grateful for any feedback. 

Also received is a flyer for the ALUMNI 2000:
 

"We have been much encouraged by the warm response of alumni from all over the world. Over 1,000 alumni expressed an initial interest and, to date, we have have over 350 firm bookings. We do, however, still have space available, and would like to encourage more groups to attend."

Maureen Clove, Alumni Services Manager sent email on 28 April and her best wishes to NSW alumni: "Hope things are going well and that you have been able to keep in touch with lots of alumni and perhaps have regular meetings."

 

Academic credit is available. SUISS credit is officially accredited through the University of Edinburgh Credit Awarding Body (SCOTCAT). A small number of scholarships are available through the University (see details on the appliction form) and from the British Council. Applicants should discuss these with local British Council officials. 

More information from: 
The Administrator Scottish Universities International Summer School 
21 Buccleuch Place 
Edinburgh EH8 9LN 
Tel: 011 44 131 650 4368  Fax: 011 44 131 662 0275 
Email: ISSLHA@srv0.arts.ed.ac.uk  Website: http://www.ed.ac.uk/~artsfac/suiss 

 

The new commercial division of Accommodation Services has new contact numbers:

Edinburgh First for Accommodation,
The University of Edinburgh,
18 Holyrood Park Road 
Edinburgh Scotland EH16 5AY
Tel: 011 44 131 651 2055  Fax: 011 44 131 667 7271 
Web: www.EdinburghFirst.com Email: Edinburgh.First@ed.ac.uk 

Same great prices! A single room with shared facilities is £27 during the standard season, £30 during the peak season (4 Aug-28 Aug). Double room with private facilities B&B £69 during the standard season, £75 during the peak season, including VAT. Excellent rates too on self-catering flats. 

Even better places! The University has more accommodation nearer to the center of the city, much of it newly renovated. Pollock Halls alone provided accommodation for 18,308 customers last summer - a total of 78,570 bed nights with breakfast. 

Dining, banqueting, meetings and conference facilities are also available. Two magnificent dining rooms at St Leonard's - the Nelson Room and the St Trinnean's Room - have now been restored and provide excellent facilities. They are available for the academic and the business community, for special dining events. Information from the same address. 

Did I mention the new the new Customer Care initiative? A 'people carrier' (station wagon) transports visitors and their luggage around the Pollock site! 

While in Edinburgh don't forget the refurbished Chapterhouse Restaurant in South College Street. Selection of sandwich, lunch and dinner menus available. This is one of the best restaurants in the area.
 

Eileen Macmillan, President of AFUE sent her best wishes to all alumni of NSW. Not seeing the our newsletter for sometime, she wrote in her email: "Hope that things are going well". 

For those who may not know, AFUE is a tax-exempt, non-profit, organization dedicated to stimulating interest in the University in the USA. Although AFUE is autonomous and independent of the University, close links are maintained. Its purpose is to develop ties between Edinburgh graduates, non-graduating alumni and friends of the University living in the US, to raise funds for scholarships, and to support University programs and projects. AFUE has a web site http://www.afue.org.

Editor: We would be delighted to receive news and newsletters from other clubs or associations of the University. 
 

The first 50 years of Veterinary Practice in Scone in the rich Upper Hunter Valley of NSW has been 'ruled' by graduates of the 'Dick Vet'! 

The late Andrew Murray Bain (circa 1936) established the first permanent veterinary service in 1950. This followed a distinguished career in Herefordshire, Army War Service (Palestine, North Africa, 1940 - 1946), Claiborne Stud, Lexington, Kentucky USA (1946), and Alton Lodge Stud, NZ (1947 - 1950). Murray became one of the most illustrious equine veterinarians of his generation with a global reputation in equine reproduction. For 24 years (1950 - 1974) he pioneered veterinary practice in an area heavily populated with thoroughbred horses, equivalent in geographic size to the 'Home Counties' of England. 

W. P. (Bill) Howey (1966) joined Murray in 1967 after 1 year in NW Ireland. John Morgan (1962) arrived in Scone on 'shuttle' from Newmarket in 1968 and settled permanently with his family in 1969. Angus Campbell

(1969) followed Bill and John to Australia in 1972. For the next 20 years, the practice developed into the largest single entity of its type in Australia and arguably the Southern Hemisphere. At one stage (1988) there were 20 veterinarians and 48 staff associated with Morgan, Howey and Fraser and Partners. The practice serviced almost 10,000 thoroughbred broodmares located on over 80 properties in the Hunter Valley. This amounted to approximately one quarter of the mares in the Australian Thoroughbred Stud Book.

Today the practice operates very successfully as Scone Veterinary Hospital with a large veterinary and ancillary staff. John Morgan has retired to 'elegant consultancy work' in the Hunter Valley. Angus Campbell will soon resume his postponed sailing career from his Rozelle, Sydney Harbour base marina. Bill Howey succeeded Dr. Tom Hungerford and Dr. Douglas Bryden as the third Director of the Post Graduate Foundation (PGF) in Veterinary Science of the University of Sydney on 3rd. April 2000. The late Murray Bain was passionately fond of this organisation and largely instrumental in its inception in 1965.

The PGF is the 'custodian home' for the Edinburgh University Rugby Club Plaque presented to the NSW Alumnus Association in 1998.

 

CUSTODIAN HOME FOR UNIVERSITY PLAQUE
At the dinner to welcome the Rugby Team from Edinburgh University on 18 August 1998, the captain of the team presented a University Plaque to the New South Wales group. The plaque was handed over to Mr Bill Howey(BVMS 1966) for custody in February 2000 (shown in picture below). Its new home is at Level 2, Building 22, Conference Centre, Regimental Crescent, University of Sydney 2006 overlooking No. 2 oval of Sydney University Rugby club, one of the oldest in Australia.

Bill Howey played for the R(D)VC 3rd. XV in the 1960's. A very famous captain of Sydney University Rugby Club in the late 1880's was J.A.K.Shaw whose club 'mementos' are mounted in the grandstand bar at No. 1 oval. Bill now resides in his house at Scone, NSW - 2 Shaw Street. His son Hugh plays rugby for the Sydney University Club and was treasurer in 1998.

Dr Paul Luey retired from his position at the Dean office, Department of Social Sciences, University of New South Wales last year. Happy retirement. I catched up with him for a lunch at the fish market of Sydney few months ago. The fishermen's wharf in San Francisco may be for tourists. If you are looking for a fishermen's wharf for the people, you find it here in Sydney and arguably the best in the world!. 

Mr Bill Howey (BVM&S. 66) became the Director of the Post Graduate Foundation (PGF) in Veterinary Science of the University of Sydney in April 2000. My information of the Foundation is somewhat sketchy. I understand that it is funded by its membership and it organizes seminars for the Vets in various townships in Australia. (Added on 19 May 2000: Bill just told me about a fine web site of PGF http://www.pgf.edu.au which contains useful information.)

Mr John Crichton (Geography) wrote a couple of emails from Orange, New South Wales. Our departments in the University were next to each other at Drummond Street and therefore we may have crossed each other. It is always nice to talk about the good old days.

Dr Elliot P Gilbert (BSc) completed his PhD in The Australian National University and now lives in the Chicago area doing research in Chemical Physics at the Argonne National Laboratory. His web site is . http://www.pns.anl.gov/sad/Elliot.html 

Editor: Please write to us and send us your news when you have time. Thanks.