Trinity College, Melbourne

Horsfall Chapel from Royal Parade

Bishop's

Behan

For other institutions named Trinity College, see Trinity College.

Trinity College is the oldest college of the University of Melbourne. The college was founded in 1872 on a site which had been granted to the Church of England in Australia. It is one of the larger residential colleges at the University and houses approximately 280 students. Trinity is also unique among Australian university colleges in having, in additional to its resident community of students and tutors of the University of Melbourne, two other major educational programs: the Trinity College Foundation Studies program, which prepares 500-800 international students for admission to the University of Melbourne; and the Trinity College Theological School, an Anglican theological college.

History

Trinity College was founded in 1872 by the first Anglican Bishop of Melbourne, the Right Reverend Charles Perry. The college was affiliated with the University of Melbourne in 1876. The Trinity College Theological School was founded in 1877.

With the establishment of the Trinity Women's Hostel (later to become Janet Clarke Hall) in 1886, Trinity admitted women as resident students, making it the first university college in Australia to do so.

In 1989 Trinity College Foundation Studies was established to prepare international students for entry to university courses. Foundation Studies caters to around 800 non-resident students annually.

Architecture

Situated to the north of the main university campus, Trinity's various ivy-clad stone buildings surround a large grassed area known as the Bulpadok.

The college's main buildings are as follows:

• 1870: "Provost's Lodge", now the Leeper Building
• 1878: Bishops' Building (named after Charles Perry and James Moorhouse, first and second Bishops of Melbourne)
• 1880: Dining Hall
• 1883-87: Clarke's Building
• 1914-17: Horsfall Chapel
• 1933: Behan Building (named after former warden John Clifford Valentine Behan)
• 1958: The Memorial Building (Jeopardy)
• 1963-65: Cowan Building
• 1980: Dorothy Building
• 1995-96: Evan Burge Building
• 2006-07: Gourlay Building (Woodheap)

Foundation Studies and other buildings

These are buildings located beyond the main campus, occupied by Trinity College Foundation Studies staff and students.

• 715 Swanston Street: Trinity occupies two floors of this building. It has two lecture theatres and tutorial rooms. The Swanston Street building serves as a 'student welfare precinct', with the student welfare office, student counsellor, and chaplaincy located in the lower ground floor. Departments with staff located here are: examinations, extended programmes, timetabling, mathematics, economics and chemistry. A computer lab can also be found here. The study area is often used for quiet study and lunch.

• 199 Grattan Street: This is where student services is located. Student services organises orientations, valedictories and excursions during term breaks to locations such as Mount Baw Baw, Uluru, the Great Ocean Road and Sydney. The staff also prepare the weekly Trinity Contact Bulletin. The building also has a tutorial room and a drama room. A number of drama staff are also located here.

• Foundation Studies Centre (FSC), 33-35 Royal Parade: The building has a number of tutorial rooms and a drama room. Literature, drama and history of ideas staff are located here. The building also has a student common room with sofas, tables and a kitchen for student use.

• 29 Royal Parade: This is where most EAP (English for Academic Purposes) classes are held. It also houses most EAP teachers' offices.

• 18-20 Lincoln Square North: This building has a drama room, a well-equipped physics lab, student computer lab and six tutorial rooms. Staff in economics, accounting, environment and development, media and communications, psychology, physics, biology and mathematics have their offices here.

Clubs for residential students

The Trinity College Associated Clubs (TCAC) serves the resident members of the college, also referred to as members of the Junior Common Room. The TCAC provides leadership for the annual Orientation Week program at the beginning of the year. The TCAC also facilitates a multitude of social events throughout the year. It also advocates students' interests and co-ordinates most residential student activities. The social, sporting, cultural and academic life of the college keeps most residents busy. Trinity's clubs and societies run many different functions and events throughout the year, including the wine cellar, billards room, 'Beer Budlay', dialectic society, music society, environmental committee, dance club, arts studio, film society, drama club, informal dining society, games society and many more. Trinity is presently the only Melbourne University college to produce both a musical and a play each year.

Sport

Trinity College participates in many different sports in intercollegiate competition, including Australian Rules football, rugby union, soccer, netball, hockey, athletics, swimming, volleyball, squash, tennis and badminton. The college also has a particularly strong tradition in rowing. In these competitions (and in general), Trinity has developed a fierce rivalry with neighbouring colleges Ormond College and Queen's College. In 2006, Trinity won the intercollegiate trophy for men's sport, the Cowan Cup, and were runners up in the women's sport competition, the Holmes Shield. Trinity College again won the Cowan Cup in 2007 but came second in the 2008 competition; ultimately losing out to Queen's College after the final round of sports (field hockey).

Chapel and choir

The Choir of Trinity College has become a nationally-renowned ensemble, known especially but not exclusively for choral music in the tradition of English cathedrals and the collegiate chapels of Oxford and Cambridge. The choir sings for Evensong in the chapel during term, and Choral Evensong at Trinity has become a well-known liturgical drawcard in Melbourne. The choir also performs locally and tours internationally and has also made a number of radio broadcasts and CD recordings, including five albums for ABC Classics.

Since 1956 the college has provided liturgical hospitality to a local Anglican congregation, the Canterbury Fellowship. Since May 2005 the Choir of Trinity College has sung Sunday Evensong during term, the Choir of the Canterbury Fellowship singing at other times.

Wardens

• 1876–1918 Dr Alexander Leeper
• 1918–1946 Sir John Clifford Valentine Behan
• 1946–1964 Mr Ronald William Trafford Cowan
• 1965–1973 Professor Robin Lorimer Sharwood, AM
• 1974–1997 The Revd Dr Evan Laurie Burge
• 1997–2006 Professor Donald John Markwell
• 2007- The Revd Dr Andrew Brian McGowan

Distinguished alumni

Distinguished alumni include

• Sir Stanley Argyle, Victorian Premier, 1932-1935
• Sir Rupert Hamer, Victorian Premier 1972-1981
• The Right Hon Richard Gardiner Casey, Governor General 1965-1969
• The Right Rev'd Peter Hollingworth, Archbishop of Brisbane, Governor General 2001-2003
• Adrienne Clarke, Lieutenant Governor of Victoria, botanist
• Michael Thwaites, poet
• Manning Clark, historian
• A. G. L. Shaw, historian
• Chester Wilmot, historian and war correspondent
• Lieutenant General Sir Edmund Herring, Chief Justice of Victoria 1944-1964
• Rob Sitch, film director
• Carrillo Gantner, actor
• Derek Denton, scientist
• The Right Revd Peter Carnley, Archbishop of Perth and Primate of the Anglican Church of Australia 2000-2005
• The Most Revd Philip Aspinall, Archbishop of Brisbane 2002-present; Primate of the Anglican Church of Australia 2005-present
• Richard Larkins, Vice-Chancellor of Monash University
• Sir Brian Inglis AC
• Mechai Viravaidya, Thai social reformer
• Ananda Krishnan, Malaysian entrepreneur
• Brian Loton AC
• Sir Roderick Carnegie AC
• Kay Maree Goldsworthy, first woman bishop in the Anglican Church of Australia

External links

• Trinity College website
• Canterbury Fellowship website