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April 2018
The PC Wire
Welcome to The PC Wire
Perth College’s vision is ‘Perth College girls: Remarkable There is such breadth and depth to our Old Girls community
women.’ As you read this issue I am sure you will agree that and this issue showcases a variety of remarkable women
your fellow Old Girls are certainly that. who are achieving great things in their lives.
We’ve had finalists in prestigious art awards, community 2018 is well underway and there are plenty of opportunities
members nominated to run in the Commonwealth Games for you to be involved with Perth College and the Old Girls’
Queen’s Baton Relay and women succeeding in their chosen Association. Take the time to read our 2018 calendar and
careers. ensure you receive invitations and communications by
updating your details here.
Perth College Old Girls Return
During Term Four 2017, two Perth February 2018 when she became the five per cent of students in the state or
College teams competed in the Aurecon first female Anglican Archbishop in received an award for excellence within
Bridge Building competition under the the world. Principal Jenny Ethell and their chosen subjects. They have now
inspirational tutelage of 2014 Leaver and many members of the Perth College decided which paths they will pursue
Sports Vice-Captain, Manon Gebauer. community attended her installation in 2018, and the diversity of their
Manon has a Bachelor of Science, service at St George’s Cathedral. courses and universities is impressive
majoring in Engineering Science and Archbishop Kay returned to Perth – from English to Biochemistry to
German, from UWA. With a passion College to commission Reverend Stage Management and Fashion
for sustainable engineering solutions, Lisa and Reverend Pat as the School Merchandising. In addition to local
Manon will commence her Masters
Chaplains on Thursday 22 March and universities, our high achievers are also
in Professional Engineering this year,
officially open Excelsior House on studying interstate at the University of
specialising in Environmental Engineering.
All PC students who worked with Manon
Monday 26 March. Sydney, ANU, RMIT, the University of
gained a valuable insight into engineering Queensland, and Melbourne University.
as a career choice. Thirty-two of Perth College’s top We wish all of our Leavers the best of
students from 2017 returned to the luck and look forward to hearing of their
Honorary Old Girl, The Most Reverend School in January to celebrate their progress.
Kay Goldsworthy AO (Perth College WACE achievements during a special An infographic of the 2017 Leavers re-
Chaplain 1988-1995), made history in assembly. These girls either received sults can be viewed here.
an ATAR that placed them in the top
Manon Gebauer (2014) with Perth College The Most Reverend Kay Goldsworthy AO 2017 Leavers at their High Achievers assembly
student officially opened Excelsior House
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for scouting as a whole. Caitlin that 2011 Leaver, Alice Barber,
News and Events also assists at Tuart Hill Yokine had won the prestigious New
2006-2017 as an assistant Scout Leader and
has attended the World Scout
Colombo Plan Scholarship.
An initiative of the Australian
Leavers Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, and
the World Rover Moot in Iceland.
Government, the scholarship
supports Australian undergraduates
to live, work and study in up to 40
locations across the Indo-Pacific
Elle Campbell, 2006 Leaver and Art region. Alice is only one in 120
Captain, was a finalist in the 2017 students to be awarded and is
Black Swan Prize for Portraiture, currently working in Seoul, Korea.
with her submission ‘Aly May – You
epitomise all I strive to be’. Elle, Katie Manns, 2008 Leaver,
who boarded at Perth College from boarder and House Captain,
Dandaragan, is an emerging textile won the NT Exceptional Young
artist, hand-painting silk for art, Woman in Resources award in
fashion products and the community. 2016. Congratulations! This award
recognises, promotes and celebrates
the outstanding achievements
of women, men and companies
in contributing to a more diverse
workforce. In early 2017, Katie
started work as a consultant
Caitlin Arcus (2009) specialising in the ventilation and
refrigeration of deep underground
Congratulations to Emma mines.
Handreck (2012) on joining
the Sunrise programme on Channel Emily Gelineau (2016 Music Captain)
Seven. Emma has previously worked made the Dean’s Honour Role for her
as a producer for the John Laws radio second semester at Berklee College
programme and as a journalist at of Music (USA). Emily is in her third
Elle Campbell’s (2006) submitted artwork
2SM in Sydney. semester now and will take a break
Caitlin Arcus, 2009 Leaver and in summer but remain in Boston to
Campion House Captain, was 2016 Leaver, Melissa Clements, was continue working and recording. In
nominated and accepted to run in one of the artists featured in the Fine the autumn she will take her fourth
the Commonwealth Games Queen’s Art at Perth College ‘In the Moment’ semester in Valencia, Spain.
Baton Relay in Perth in February. She exhibition on Friday 23 March. In
was nominated by a parent at Tuart her final year at PC, Melissa received 2015 Head Girl, Lola Baldsing, was
Hill Yokine Scouts to recognise her a General Exhibition, Subject a fellow exhibitor at the Fine Art at
contribution to scouting. Exhibition and Subject Certificate of Perth College exhibition in March.
Excellence – Visual Arts as well as a Lola’s pieces were extremely popular
Caitlin became involved in the Tuart Certificate of Distinction. and many works were sold. Lola
Hill Yokine Scout Group as a Cub is currently offering life drawing
(aged eight) and continued through Ben Morton MP (Federal Liberal classes at Curtin University and you
Scouts to age 14. She joined the Member for Tangney) sent can check out her works on her
next stage, Venturers, at Subiaco communication to Perth College’s Instagram @baldsinging.
Scout Group. She is now in the eldest Principal in December, advising
age group, Rovers. In recent years,
Caitlin helped restart the Rover Crew
at Subiaco Scouts after a hiatus of 50
years.
She has also been involved at branch
headquarters on the Branch Youth
Council and in executive positions
on the WA Rover Council. Caitlin is
currently the Branch Commissioner
for Youth Empowerment and is
on the National Program Review
Melissa Clement’s (2016) artwork ‘The Prospector’
that develops future directions
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Head Boarder, Tiffiny Genders Canada. For the past eight years
News and Events (2004), is currently working as a Sarah has been working in the Arctic
2000-2005 crime reporter for nine News Sydney.
Her days entail waking up at the
and northern Canada, and has
recently started a new position as an
Leavers crack of dawn, then tracking down
crooks across the suburbs and in
Ecologist for Nahanni National Park
Reserve.
court. She says it’s a fast-paced,
exhilarating and fulfilling job; the 2005 Deputy Head Girl, Joanna
Pop-up shops have become a best part is never knowing where Meredith, is a visual artist inspired
regular attraction in the regional you’ll end up and meeting new by the body, movement and Western
town of Dowerin (157km from people every day. Australia. She recently exhibited a
Perth) and 2003 Leaver, Tammy
suite of landscapes at the Juniper
(Maddock) Minson, has benefited
Studio in November/December and
from the Shire’s initiative. Tammy
was a recipient of the Bob and Trish
owns Pots and Tangles offering
Juniper Art Prize administered by the
macrame hangers, everlasting seed
Mundaring Scholarship Trust. She
bombs, cement planters and potted
used her prize to study portraiture
succulents. Stop by and say hello
in Florence, tour galleries across
next time you are in Dowerin.
Europe and the US, and continue her
studies. Perth College was lucky to
When you think entrepreneur, many
have Joanna exhibit at the Fine Art at
names come to mind, but one you
Perth College exhibition last month.
may not be familiar with is Loren
Trlin. A 2005 Leaver, Loren became
a litigation lawyer and in 2016 was
voted one of nine Aussie start-up
founders to watch with her business
Buzzy Tasks. Since then, Loren has
launched an online coaching and
advisory business, Loren Trlin, and
Tiffiny Genders (2004)
an online eCommerce store, The
Modern Alchemist. Loren calls herself
a human potential specialist and After travelling in Tasmania and
helps people unlock their potential. seeing the icebreaker Aurora
She has just moved to Los Angeles Australis in Hobart harbour, Sarah
to grow and expand both personally Arnold (2002), became intrigued by
and professionally. We wish Loren all the adaptations of polar specific to
the best with her business, and look such extreme environments. That
forward to hearing more from her in prompted her to begin a Masters of
the future. Science majoring in Biology at the Joanna Meredith’s (2005) landscape piece
University of Manitoba in Winnipeg,
Sarah Arnold (2002) uses a ground penetrating radar to measure the thickness of Bologna
Loren Trlin (2005) Glacier
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stepped down at the end of 2017. Amie (Krikstolaitis) Wallis (1996)
News and Events Heidi, International Programs has been appointed as the inaugural
1990-1999 Director, took on the role from
January 1 2018.
Head of People for the Australian
Olympic Committee (AOC) and will
Leavers Heidi holds a Bachelor’s degree
join a seven-person management
team. With a colleague, she will
in Environmental Engineering take responsibility for implementing
and a Master of Water and Waste The Ethic Centre’s review
1992 Leaver Rishelle Hume is Engineering in Development, and recommendations and manage
devoted to advancing the lives first became involved with EWB athlete-focused programmes such as
of Aboriginal people and in 2016 as a research student in 2006. In Athlete Transition. Amie is a human
was named Western Australian of 2009 she served as an EWB Field resources generalist with more than
the Year in the aboriginal award Professional in Timor-Leste for a year, 16 years’ experience across a range
category. This year she added and has experience in engineering of sectors, most recently as Head of
another amazing achievement to her consultancies in Melbourne and People for NAB Business.
repertoire when she participated in of working with a US Government
the Queen’s Baton Relay. “Had an funded programme in Timor-Leste.
awesome experience today as a 2018
Commonwealth Games Queen’s She has been leading EWB’s
Baton Relay Runner. I had the best International Program since
time,” she posted to social media. 2013, managing and overseeing
EWB’s Australian Government-
funded programmes in WASH,
Energy, Appropriate Housing and
Professional Skills Development
across the Asia Pacific region.
Amie Wallis (1996)
1994 Leaver and Bedford House
Captain, Jemma Guthrie, is on a
quest to travel to the USA to give her
six-year-old daughter a life-changing
Rishelle Hume (1992) operation. Jemma and her partner,
Scott, have set up a webpage to
The Engineers without Boarders raise money to assist getting little
Australia (EWB - Australia) Board Maya her operation. If you would
have appointed Heidi Michael (1994 like to support Jemma and her family
Leaver and Head Boarder) as its Heidi Michael (1994)
please click here.
Acting CEO after her predecessor
Stay Connected
InstaQuotes
Do you have a favourite quote or saying? We want to feature it on the Perth College Instagram page.
Share your inspirational, insightful, funny, meaningful or nostalgic quotes, favourite proverbs or other words of
wisdom with the Perth College community. Email Director of Development, Natalie Swannell, via
oga@pc.wa.edu.au with your text, full name and peer year.
2018 Tuition Fees Raffle Result
In front of 500 guests at the annual 2018 Welcome Sundowner, Year 10 parents Carolyn and Wayne Crofts were
announced as winners of the Perth College Foundation’s inaugural Tuition Fees Raffle. Their prize was payment of
their Year 10 daughter’s full tuition fees for this year.
Thank you to all Old Girls who supported the Foundation by buying a ticket. The surplus funds from the raffle will
be used to purchase equipment for use in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) programmes
across the School. A list of the purchased equipment will be shared in the May edition of the Heritage magazine.
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News and Events
1978-1989
Leavers
This year is the 1988 Leavers’ 30-Year Reunion.
To ensure you receive your invitation to the
event, please update your details with the Old
Girls’ Association here.
Connect with your classmates through the closed
Facebook group PC 1988 Leavers-30th Reunion.
Once logged-in to Facebook enter ‘PC 1988
Leavers-30th Reunion’ into the search bar.
Over time we lose touch with some of our Old
Girls for a variety of reasons but we are always
keen to re-connect.
Click here for a list of
lost 1988 Old Girls
News and Events
1961 to 1977
Leavers
50- Year Reunion (1968 Leavers), Saturday 17 March 2018
L to R: Trish (Anderson) Pepper and Marilyn (Papas) Cacavas Georgie (Campbell-Pope) Walker reading in Chapel service
50-Year Reunion Attendees
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News and Events
1960 and Earlier
Leavers
1934 Leaver Betty (Ellis) Ahern
boarded at Perth College from 1929
to 1934, and celebrated her 100th
birthday in 2017. Betty was featured
in the Sunday Times liftout STM
on Sunday 4 March to celebrate
International Women’s Day. For the
full article visit our Facebook page.
Three Old Girls – Catherine Minchin
(1949), Beryl ‘Chookie’ (Fowler)
Haneman (1941, Head Prefect and
Lawley House Captain) and Marion
(Fyfe) Wood (1939) – visited the Year
3 class in Term Four 2017. Catherine,
‘Chookie’ and Marion told the Betty Ahern (1934) featured in the STM magazine
students all about their lives at the
School, the mischief they had, the
close relationships they shared with
fellow boarders and day girls, the
school rules and their fond memories
of the Sisters. They showed the Year 3
girls where the boarding dormitories,
sitting room and Junior School once
stood. They delighted in telling the
girls about the swimming pool having
no filter but plenty of frogs, and how
the Sisters would be in attendance to
ensure they were safe. These three
inspirational women had enriched
the Year 3 students’ understanding
of Perth College, its growth and
community, well beyond the scope of
a text book.
Year 3 visit
Class Gifts
We know you reflect on your time at school fondly, and how fortunate we were to receive the gift of an
education at Perth College. There were so many opportunities and your schooling prepared you for life beyond
the PC gates.
Today you have the opportunity to give the gift of education to another girl through a new initiative in 2018 run
by the Perth College Foundation called Class Gifts. Class Gifts are donations from members of a year group (or
groups) towards a new alumni-funded scholarship.
We are stronger together than as individuals, and Class Gifts allow Old Girls of all ages to work together towards
the same goal. We encourage you to consider making a voluntary donation (no matter how large or small).
Contact Natalie Swannell, Director of Development, on 9471 2124, or via email foundation@pc.wa.edu.au.
Page 6Vintage Reunion (1957 and Earlier Leavers)
Friday 9 March 2018
L to R: Margaret (Greaves) Gribble (1953), Mary (Morrell) Melot (1941) and L to R: Catherine Minchin (1949), Beryl ‘Chookie’ (Fowler)
Helen (Burnside) Treloar (1957) Haneman (1941) and Marion (Fyfe) Wood (1939)
L to R: Margaret (Broadhurst) Brinsden (1944), Yvonne (Maloney)
L to R: Louise (Watters) Flavelle (1954) and Olga (Brundish) Greig Brooks (1946), Merle (Giese) Best (1944) and Jenny (Finkelstein)
OAM (1953) Shub OAM (1943)
60 Year Reunion (1958 Leavers)
Wednesday 14 March 2018
L to R: Ann (Tindale) Russell, Jill (Langford) Green, Mary (Perkins)
Maddison, Robin (Evans) Walker, Anne (King) Maloney and Reverend
Lisa Ahuja
L to R: Christine (Keay) Carter, Deborah (Tomlinson) Lennon and
Roslyn (Fisher) Noel, Kaye (Solley) Henderson and Paty Rodgers Judith (McLean) Page
Page 7KEEP IN TOUCH 2018 FIELD DAYS
Stay connected with your school and the Old Perth College takes to the road for the annual
Girls’ Association by updating your details via the field days. Take a look where we will be visiting
online form. and pop by to say hello.
Kununurra Agricultural Show
Friday 13 and Saturday 14 July
Karratha FeNaCLNG Festival
Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 August
Dowerin Machinery Field Days
Wednesday 29 and Thursday 30 August
Newdegate Machinery Field Days
Wednesday 5 and Thursday 6 September
EMPLOYMENT VACANCY - DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANT (0.4 FTE)
The Development Assistant provides administration and clerical support to the Director of Development
to ensure that the School’s philanthropic and alumni programmes run in an effective and efficient manner.
This is a part-time, term-time only position working 20 hours a week (four hours a day). There is some
flexibility with the hours, depending on the priorities and scope of work required at certain times.
Development Assistant Job Description
Applications close: Friday 27 April 2018
If you are a team player who is able to manage multiple tasks and prides themselves on their attention to
detail and organisation skills, then please submit your application to the Human Resources Manager at
hr@pc.wa.edu.au or call 9471 2100 for further details.
VINTAGE FAIR PERTH COLLEGE
Saturday 15 September 2018 HERITAGE CENTRE
11.00 am to 4.00 pm The Perth College Heritage Centre encourages
you to share your memories by donating, loaning
A day to celebrate all things vintage with a or sharing memorabilia and photos or providing
variety of vendors showcasing their wares, an oral history. Contact Heritage Officer,
including food, clothing, jewellery, games Jessica Marantelli, on 9471 2163, or email
and fashion parades. We welcome stallholder Jessica.Marantelli@pc.wa.edu.au.
applications for this event. Stalls are $100 and
include a six-foot trestle and two chairs.
Email oga@pc.wa.edu.au or call Director of
Development, Natalie Swannell, on
9471 2124.
Page 82018 OGA COUNTRY LUNCH 2018 INFORMATION SESSIONS
Friday 2 November 2018 AND COMMUNITY TOURS
11.30 am If you are interested in enrolling your daughter
or granddaughter, please take this opportunity
We invite you to enjoy a country lunch in the Perth to visit the School. Community Tour sessions
Hills at the home of 1989 Leaver Nicola (Davies) will begin in Excelsior House with small groups
Firth. touring both Junior School and Senior School
The bus will be departing from Myalla House at campuses (our Boarding House will also be
approx 11.00 am and returning at approx. 3.00 pm available for tours on request).
• Tuesday 12 June 2018
• Tuesday 31 July 2018
• Thursday 6 September 2018
• Thursday 18 October 2018 (evening)
• Thursday 22 November 2018
Day sessions commence at 9.00 am, with
refreshments served at 10.30 am.
Evening sessions commence at 5.00 pm,
2018 MID-YEAR followed by refreshments from 6.30 pm.
ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIPS
Click here to register your attendance.
Mid-Year Scholarships will open on Friday 1 June
2018 and close on Friday 3 August 2018 for entry to
Perth College in 2019. There are three scholarships
on offer. Visit our website for full details and entry
year levels.
VENUES FOR HIRE
Perth College has two venues for Old Girls to hire. For weddings, baptisms or a funeral, please consider
the Chapel of St Michael and All Angels. If you require a function space for your next event, the newly
refurbished Myalla House has a fully-equipped kitchen and a spacious room and courtyard.
Contact Events Co-ordinator, Meghan Franzinelli, on 9471 2119 or email Meghan.Franzinelli@pc.wa.edu.au.
Page 92016 LEAVERS 2013 LEAVERS
19 May 2018 22 June 2018
2016 Leavers are warmly invited to their 18-Month 2013 Leavers are warmly invited to their 5-Year
Reunion. A casual reunion to reconnect with Reunion. A casual reunion to reconnect with
classmates and reminisce. There will be a limited classmates and reminisce. There will be a limited
bar tab and platters provided. bar tab and cocktail food provided.
To book please visit www.trybooking.com/TAUD To book please visit www.trybooking.com/SWWD
1988 LEAVERS 1998 LEAVERS
21 July 2018 28 July 2018
1988 Leavers are warmly invited to their 30-Year 1998 Leavers are warmly invited to their 20-Year
Reunion including a school tour and cocktail Reunion including a school tour and cocktail
function at Excelsior House - Sewell Open Studio. function at Myalla House.
To book please visit www.trybooking.com/SWWG To book please visit www.trybooking.com/SWWH
2008 LEAVERS
13 October 2018
2008 Leavers are warmly invited to their 10-Year
Reunion including a school tour and cocktail
function at Myalla House.
To book please visit www.trybooking.com/SZMX
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