Author: Richard Morgan

From Katie Newcombe, Senior Tutor

Our annual undergraduate Academic Dinner for 2023 was once again a wonderful night full of celebrations, congratulations, and comradery. It was a great pleasure to recognise and celebrate the hard work and academic talent of our students.

The guest of honour this year was The Honourable Chief Justice Andrew Bell. An Old Pauline and distinguished jurist and Rhodes Scholar, Chief Justice Bell addressed our students at dinner, giving us a powerful reminder of the importance of community, listening to each other, and that learning communities such as St Paul’s can be a wonderful antidote to social and intellectual isolation. Together with the Warden, Chief Justice Bell presented prizes to some of our highest achieving students.

Prizes were awarded for high achievement in specific subject areas, as well as service to the College, and excellent academic achievement overall. It was particularly fantastic to welcome back Paulines whose valedictory was last year and congratulate them on their achievements in their final year of College. A special mention must also go to Ed Taylor (BE(Hons)/BA) for achieving not only the highest Fresher marks last year but the highest in the College overall!

Also awarded at our Academic Dinner was the St Paul’s College Teaching Excellence Award, given to the tutor, nominated by their peers, who most embodies the Pauline values of excellence and supporting others. We had over 10 nominations this year and the prize went, with raucous applause, to Mathu Pushpakumar (BE(Aero-Space)(Hons)/BComm). 2022 was a particularly successful year for our tutorial programme with over 1100 tutorials taking place throughout the year.

We are incredibly proud of our prize winners and high achievers honoured at our Academic Dinner and also proud of the friends, tutors, and peers that encourage all students to do their best and aim high at St Paul’s College.

Prizes were awarded to:

• Ed Taylor Prize for the Highest Annual Average Mark in College
• Jack Holt McWilliam Prize for law and service to College
• Jackson Rogers Uther Prize for three years’ distinguished examination results and service to College
• Bryson Constable Sir Ian McFarlane Prize for exceptional results in economics/commerce and for service to college
• Hayden Fleming Portus Prize for exceptional examination results in History, Economic History of Philosophy
• Mathu Pushpakumar Prize for Most Outstanding Tutor – nominated by his peers

Those gaining a High Distinction average in 2022 were:

• Bryson Constable
• Nicholas Jones
• Riley Jones
• Tommy Lu
• Austin Markwick
• Luka Mattani
• Alessandro Petagna
• Joseph Scopas
• Aakash Singh
• Alexander Siu
• Harsh Talathi
• Joshua Taleb
• Edward Taylor
• Julian Visalli
• Tylor Wessels

Those gaining Distinction average in 2022 were:

• Harry Algar
• Wiley Anderson
• Oliver Andronicus
• Mitchell Arcus
• Luke Arnold
• Henry Blackwell
• Jack Bouvier
• Lachlan Bowen
• Lachlan Brewer
• Lachlan Brown
• Thomas Burge
• Oscar Carr-Middleton
• Samuel Choi
• Charles Dight
• Lachlan Donaldson
• Nicholas Dower
• Joe Dyson
• James Feetham
• Hayden Fleming
• Thomas Follett
• Oliver Freeman
• Auxence Gide
• Nathaniel Gleeson
• Thomas Green
• Joshua Hall-Johnston
• Sebastian Hodge
• Walter (Jack) Holt
• Nicholas Horne
• John Houstone
• Marcus Howes
• Alan Huang
• Henry Hughes
• Archibald Hyles
• Thomas Jarvis
• Joshua Jones
• Nicholas Laforest
• Matthew Leijer
• Henry Lewis-Thorpe
• Leo Li
• Benjamin Locke
• Hunter McAuliffe
• Isander Mesimeris
• Michael Mingay
• Nicholas Moroni
• Isaac Morse
• Theodore Mower
• Finnegan Murdoch
• Cooper Nagy
• William Nicholas
• Jonah O’Sullivan
• Thomas Phelps
• Maximilian Philips
• Max Prince
• Mathu Pushpakumar
• Alexander Ranson
• Samuel Richards
• Aidan Riethmuller
• Jackson Rogers
• Alexander Rosic
• Charles Rutledge
• Jack Sandelin
• Oliver Schnitker
• Sebastian Shanahan
• Toby Smith
• Kyle Soepono
• Joska Steinbusch
• Zinzan Still
• William Studdert
• Simon Toscan
• Nicholas Trotter
• Joshua Turner
• Hugo Walker
• Harry Whitehead
• Lachlan Whitehead
• Connor Whiteley
• Devon Wilson
• David Zhang
• Jason Zhu He

The College community congratulates all these Paulines on their achievements.

Rhodes Scholars of St Paul’s who gathered in 1996 – Andrew Bell 2nd from right

Here is a pdf copy of the May Boomalakka which can be viewed on screen or downloaded to your computer and printed.

Click HERE

Rehearsing in the Quad will be a thing of the past when the Waddy Performance Centre is complete! Always a tough competition, the Paul’s Intercol Palladian Dance team were having fun rehearsing and the wonderfully skilled women student leaders have given dance a lot of momentum this Semester.

Palladian Dance is on tonight at 7pm at the Seymour Centre.

A significant part of the Waddy Centre will be a multi-purpose studio, welcoming individuals and groups to use it as a rehearsal space. This facility will also be used for a range of workout activities such as pilates, cardio, strength training, fusion, barre and yoga.

If you are interested in supporting this project, please donate today.

We truly appreciate your support.

The educational offerings at St Paul’s College are complementary to the University’s courses and teaching programs and include our broad-based and effective tutorial programme. To help students in specific disciplines facing the next step in their development a ‘St Paul’s education’ includes career advice.

On 1 May College welcomed a panel of experts from diverse and interesting areas of the engineering sector to address students about opportunities after tertiary study. On the panel were Pauline and Chair of the College Council Mark Elliott, Chantelle Malacco, Project Manager at Cochlear and Mark Waterworth, Managing Director at Shock and Vibrations Technology.

Over 20 students participated in the wide-ranging discussion about careers in this diverse industry. The Senior tutor, Katie Newcombe, makes herself available to undergraduates and post graduates across disciplines to provide practical advice on course choice, progression and after uni options with the support of the associate deans.

280 current students attended the Sydney Dawn Service on Anzac Day. This was followed by the College Service of Remembrance at 10 am when Senior Student Simon Toscan and Students Club Treasurer Jack Holt read the names of Paulines fallen during war. Part of the Anzac tradition at College is to organise ‘vertical’ groups of undergraduates bringing seniors and freshers together for a visit to the city to join post-parade celebrations.

The Annual Anzac Commemoration Dinner was held on 19 April when 260 members of the undergraduate community heard from Rev’d David Hastie who has served for many years as a naval officer, and soon to return as a naval chaplain. He was our guest speaker at the Anzac Service as well. The dinner speech from the Alex Back (Lord of Yore) reminded the College of the extraordinary sacrifice of its men in world conflicts.

Alex Back addresses the Anzac Commemorative Dinner

 

Faultless performance by exciting young choir

Allegri’s “Miserere” – a special performance was included in the Tuesday Evensong during Holy Week. The College Chapel Choir brings together 34 students, and sings every Tuesday during semester and for other special services and events at the College.

On 4 April the St Paul’s College Chapel Choir performed Allegri’s “Miserere”. This iconic piece of 17th Century unaccompanied music for choir is a regular part of the choral repertoire of the great cathedrals of Europe. Composed around 1638, Allegri’s setting of the Miserere was used by the choir of the Sistine Chapel during Holy Week liturgy, a practice dating to at least 1514. The Choir sung the ‘Evolution’ version of the work, developed by The Sixteen. During the Choral Pilgrimage 2013 Harry Christophers and The Sixteen presented a new version of Allegri’s Miserere charting its evolution. The version intends to shed light on the complicated history of this most famous of choral pieces. Listen out for the famous “top C” in the second-half of the 4-voice, sung here by Ariana Ricci, Elsa Susnjara, William Varga and Gabriel Desiderio.

On Friday 31 March we ventured into the labyrinth to discover a very personal path to enlightenment. Anna Fraser (soprano), Thomas Wilson (organ) and the women of St Paul’s College Chapel Choir (Jack Stephens, Director of Music) gave a sumptuous and spiritual journey, guided by College Chaplain, Rev Antony Weiss, showcasing this beautiful and rarely heard French Baroque vocal work. Michel-Richard de Lalande’s “Leçons de Ténèbres” and “Miserere” (1730) is a beautiful, decorative, introvert sacred music of great style and grace and showcased the true baroque tone of the College Chapel’s two-manual Flentrop pipe organ.

Here is a pdf copy of the March Boomalakka which can be viewed on screen or downloaded to your computer and printed.

Click HERE