John Byrne (BA '71) recently moved to the Dandenong Ranges outside Melbourne after an international career in dance spanning 35 years - as a dancer, teacher, writer and examiner. Highlights included his appointment as artistic director of the Royal Academy of Dance, London. In 2002 he was made a Fellow (FRAD) of the Royal Academy in recognition of services to dance. He continues to work freelance in Australia and abroad.

- Last updated 16/06/06

 

Michael J. Clowes (BEc '70) has retired from Crain Communications Inc., New York, where he had been editorial director of two financial publications, Pensions & Investments and InvestmentNews. Mike began his career with the Sydney Daily Mirror in 1958 and later was the first US correspondent for The Australian. He earned an MBA from Columbia University in 1971. He received the Lillywhite Award from the Employee Benefit Research Institute, Washington, D.C. in 2005 for "extraordinary lifetime contributions to Americans' economic security." Mike wrote The Money Flood: How Pension Funds Revolutionized Investing and (with Zvi Bodie of Boston University) Worry Free Investing. He and wife Ellen have three children.

- Last updated 16/12/06

 

Amy Dutton (BA '70) (formerly Lesley Baikie) retired after many happy years of mathematics teaching in high schools. Amy is now enjoying avicultural interests and is involved with her husband in wildlife rescue and rehabilitation. She sends her best wishes to all former friends at the University of Sydney.

- Last updated 16/12/06

 

Robert Fay (BPharm '71) has recently returned from overseas where he worked with the poor and marginalised. He was reunited with his wife, Leziel Gaudel Abarrientos, who is a past Miss Philippines Beauty Pageant winner, on 5 August 2006. Both are blessed by the expected arrival of twin girls.

- Last updated 16/12/06

 

Michael Hintze (B Sc '75, BE Elec '77) is the founder, Chief Executive and Chief Investment Officer of CQS.  Prior to establishing CQS, Michael was Managing Director in the Leveraged Funds Group at CSFB.  Before this Michael was Managing Director and Head of Convertibles and Equity Derivatives at CSFB. Before working in finance he worked briefly as an electrical design engineer and also served for several years in the Australian Army as a Captain in the Royal Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. He lives in London and is a board member of the University of Sydney UK Alumni Association.
- Last updated 3/04/06

 

Vincent Okunor (Dip TEFL '76 MA '77) has retired as director of the Ghana Institute of Languages and is now a practising lawyer, mainly concerned with the development of the Ga language (the language of the indigenous people of Accra), including the translation of the Ga bible and other publications.
- Last updated 8/02/06

 

Professor David Partlett (LLB '71) assumed the deanship of Emory University School of Law, Atlanta, Georgia, on 1 July 2006. He has been a faculty member at Vanderbilt Law School and Australian National University, and earlier worked on human rights and racial discrimination issues for the government in Canberra. David earned an LLM from the University of Michigan Law School in 1974 and a Doctor of Legal Science from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1982. He remains an active scholar, with recent work focussed on tort law, as well as defamation and free speech, child mental health, and medical malpractice.

- Last updated 16/12/06

 

John Ramsland OAM (M Ed '72)  was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in June 2006, principally for his historical research into child poverty and abuse, the Indigenous experience and institutional life in colonial Australia, as well as to education.
- Last updated 19/10/06

 

Patricia Stabback (BA '70) gained her Masters in Educational Administration in 1997 through ANU. Patricia retired as assistant principal at MacKellop College, Bathurst on 30 June 2006, after 26.5 years teaching at the College. She has now moved to 30km north of Coffs Harbour to enjoy her “sea boomerang change” (Patricia grew up in Manly, NSW).

- Last updated 16/12/06

 

Brian Taylor (BSc '76) has been appointed Dean of the School of Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) at the University of Hawaii. Brian went to Columbia University on a Fulbright Scholarship and there received his PhD in Marine Geology and Geophysics. He married Barbara in New York in 1979 and their daughter Stacy was born in 1986. Brian joined the faculty at the University of Hawaii in 1982, became a professor in 1991, and acting associate dean for research of SOEST in 1994. He has secured $8 million in grants, led 30 oceanographic research cruises, published 90 papers and edited nine books. 

- Last updated 16/12/06

 

Chris Williams (BScAgric '70) completed a PhD in Agronomy at the Waite Institute, University of Adelaide. He then went on to work in the South Australian Department of Agriculture and in New Zealand on seed production and crop agronomy. This was followed by work on potatoes, vegetables and grapevines in the South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI). Chris led a research team which identified that a deficiency of the trace element molybdenum (Mo) can be a key factor in poor seed formation and low bunch yield of merlot grapevines.

- Last updated 16/12/06

 

Chuji Yasuda (DipTEFL '73) has been a committee management member of the National Federation of Educational Organisations of Japan, which is funded by the Ministry of Japan. The Curriculum Council has announced a plan to teach English as a compulsory subject at primary school. Chuji was nominated to present a project proposal on this initiative at the Council's general meeting.