The Installation of the Chancellor

Swinburne University of Technology

Dr Douglas Mitchell

26 June 2002

Hawthorn Town Hall

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Order Of Proceedings

Musical Prelude

Entrance of Academic Procession

Vice-Regal Salute

Indigenous Welcome

Formal Opening

Proclamation of the Appointment to the Office of Chancellor

Welcome and Introduction

Installation of the Chancellor

Address

Address by the Chancellor

Formal Closing

Departure of Academic Procession

Incidental Music

Mr Bryan Andy Swinburne Indigenous Programs Unit

Mr Trevor Brown Deputy Chancellor

Mr Frank Bannon Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor

Professor lain Wallace Vice-Chancellor

John Landy, AC MBE Governor of Victoria

The Hon Lynne Kosky, MP Minister for Education and Training

Dr Douglas Mitchell

Mr Trevor Brown

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Mus i c Programme

Performed by members of the Australian Army Band Melbourne

Officer Commanding/Music Director

Musical Prelude

Processional Music

Recessional Music

Major Gordon Lambie

Excerpts from Taunhauser Richard Wagner

Marche Militaire Franz Schubert

Academ i c Process i on

John Landy, AC MBE Dr Douglas Mitchell

Professor lain Wallace The Hon Lynne Kosky, MP

Ms Jean Austin Mr Frank Bannon Ms Judy Bissland Mr Trevor Brown

Dr William Brown Ms Barbara Camfield

Ms Karen Cleave Mr Alistair Crozier

Dr Norman Curry Ms Sarah Davies Mr David Eynon

Professor Murray Gillin AM Ms Heather Gray

Mr Gautam Gupta Sir Rupert Hamer, AC KCMG ED

Dr June Hearn Professor John Jackson

Ms Judith King Mr Geoff Leonard

Mr Sam Lipski Professor Helmut Lueckenhausen

Professor Graham McDowell Professor Gabrielle McMullen

Professor Robert Miller-Smith Mr Stephen Murby

Professor Dale Murphy Mr John Perrymeant Professor Kerry Pratt

Professor Way Robinson

Professor Jarlath Ronayne, AM Mr Duncan Street

Professor Barbara van Ernst Justice Frank H R Vincent, QC

Mr Doug Watson Ms Kath Watson

Professor Geoff Wilson

Mace Bearer Dr Kerry McManus, AM

Governor of Victoria and Visitor Chancellor Vice-Chancellor and President Minister for Education and Training

Member of Council Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor Member of Council Deputy Chancellor DUniv(SUT) Member of Council Member of Council Deputy Vice-Chancellor (TAFE) Deputy Chancellor, University of Melbourne Vice President (Student Services) Member of Council Emeritus Professor Member of Council Member of Council DUniv(SUT) Deputy Chancellor, Monash University Deputy Vice-Chancellor Resources, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Member of Council Member of Council Member of Council Member of Council Deputy Vice-Chancellor, LaTrobe University Pro Vice-Chancellor (Academic Affairs), Australian Catholic University Emeritus Professor Vice President (Resources) Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Higher Education) Member of Council Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research and Industry Liaison) Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic and Research), University of Ballarat Vice-Chancellor, Victoria University Member of Council Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Lilydale) Chancellor, Victoria University Member of Council Member of Council Vice-Chancellor, Deakin University

Deputy Head, School of Engineering and Science

Dr D 0 u g I as G M i tch e I I ' BSc(Melb), MSc, PhD(london)

Dr Douglas Mitchell is a rare combination of scientist, financial analyst and philanthropist. Born in Melbourne in 1938, Douglas Mitchell attended Box Hill High School before enrolling as a chemistry student at Swinburne Technical College. He completed his Bachelor of Science (Chemistry) at the University of Melbourne in 1959, and returned to Swinburne soon after as a chemistry lecturer from 1961-63.

Dr Mitchell left Australia in 1964 for further study in the UK and Sweden. While at the Royal Technical High School in Stockholm, he researched trace metal analysis. This led to Dr Mitchell's first entrepreneurial foray when he invented, patented and constructed a scientific instrument to measure metal levels in water.

This work was the basis for his 1970 PhD in analytical chemistry from the University of London. He then moved to the USA, working in commercial scientific instrument development and subsequently the New York State Department of Health. It was in this role that Dr Mitchell discovered that his most useful skill was in the interpretation of numerical data such as the results of pollutant level investigations. However, he gradually discovered that there was little interest in this work and became frustrated by people selecting the facts that best supported their desired conclusions.

Dr Mitchell switched to the world of business when he decided to apply his data analysis skills to financial markets. He developed mathematical models to describe market behaviour, tested them with his own money and then in 1981 founded CCA Capital Management. "People tell me that I left science, but this is not true. Modelling of financial markets is difficult science. It is deciding what to do when given poor information and the world needs these skills in fields like environmental and medical science. "

Dr Mitchell semi-retired to Australia in 1996 and moved to Melbourne in 1999. He continues as Research Director to a successor company of CCA in the US.

A strong and committed philanthropist, Dr Mitchell contributes to a variety of causes, including a recent significant donation to personally sponsor Opera Australia's 2001 production of Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde. In addition to supporting the arts, he is a strong believer in building communities and "doing whatever we can to help the communities that have assisted us".

Dr Mitchell says he is an entrepreneurial type who fits in very well with Swinburne's strategy to be an entrepreneurial university.

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George Swinburne MLA

Swinburne University of Technology is the only Australian public university to bear the name of its founder.

George Swinburne arrived in Australia in 1886 to take up a position in his uncle's engineering firm. He brought with him a passionate interest in education and the welfare of people. His reputation as a successful engineer and businessman, local Councillor and later Mayor of Hawthorn and Member of the Legislative Assembly led to his appointment in 1904 as a Minister in the Victorian Government. He carried his knowledge and experience as a Minister of the Crown to his work for the Commonwealth Government on inter-state matters and national matters connected with the First World War. Throughout he was guided by his educational ideals including the conviction that educational institutions "which minister directly to the needs of the community, create the best system of education which turns out the type of men and women of which this country has most need".

His ideas were put into practice when he founded the Eastern Suburbs Technical College in 1 908; the name was changed a few short years later to commemorate its founder. George Swinburne believed that education should be available in a local community, not only to save the students from incurring expense and loss of time due to travel constraints but to arouse public enthusiasm for the local educational institution. He recognised that unless such institutions were established, Australia would fall far behind other countries that were already very active in disseminating technical knowledge and skill. He also believed that technical education must be allied with cultural education and inculcated that spirit in the Swinburne Technical College.

In a treatise on technical education written shortly before his death in 1 928 he had this to say:

"Under present conditions of specialised industry, and the ordinary education in the State School ceasing at the age of fourteen, there is no doubt that a continuance of both a general and a specific education as applied to industry in which the youth is engaged would be of immense advantage. It would be better for the youth and better for the industry."

The motto for the Swinburne Coat of Arms, 'Achievement through learning' reflects the vision of its farsighted founder.

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Coat Of Arms

The coat of arms conferred on Swinburne by the College of Arms on 25 June 1969 is based on the coat of arms of the Swinburne family.

At a period during the 12th-13th century, when the northern counties of England were ruled by the Scots, a knight of France came to the aid of Queen Margaret of Scotland. She rewarded him with a grant of land in what is now Northumberland, on the banks of the Swin Burn, a small river that flows into the North Tyne, where he built a castle. He became known as William Swinburn(e) and soon the county reverted to the crown of England.

The Swinburne family coat of arms in medieval times was silver with three boars' heads in triangular formation. In the 17th century, during the wars between the Stuart Kings and the Parliament of England, the Swinburnes fought for the royalists. After the restoration of Charles II in 1660, the head of the family was created a baronet for his services. The crest became a baronet's coronet, with the boar's head rising from it and the coat of arms, divided horizontally red and silver, was charged three cinquefoils counter-charged.

Swinburne holds a unique place among educational institutions in Australia in the link that persists between it and the founder and his family. The conferring of a modification of the family's coat of arms preserves and strengthens that link.

The arms The basic colours of red and white, and the cinquefoils charged on the shield, commemorate the arms of the Swinburne family. The omission of the third cinque­foil which appears in the family coat and the addition of the Bordure and the Mullets (Stars) are what are known heraldically as 'differences', which may often serve to indicate an association with another armigerous body or family. The four Mullets in Cross symbolise the Southern Cross.

The crest The demi-Boar and the cinquefoil perpetuate the Swinburne connection; the book is symbolic of learning.

The motto The College of Arms' translation of the motto is: Achievement through learning.

Swi nb urn e Univ ers ity Of Tec hnol og y

Swinburne University of Technology was proclaimed a university on 1 July 1992 by an Act of the Victorian Parliament. This represents the final step in a series of events initiated in 1908 when George Swinburne founded the Eastern Suburbs Technical College.

Each of the developmental steps in the intervening years was a response by Swinburne to the emerging technical and technological needs of the community. As evidence of this continuity, the objects for which the new University of Technology was established parallel the original objects stated in the infant institution's first Memorandum of Association - namely the provision of education generally with special emphasis on technology.

Since Swinburne's history has been characterised by addition rather than substitution of activities, it is now one of a few Australian universities whose responsibilities span the range of programs from apprenUceships to PhDs. In keeping with this breadth of involvement the University continues to play a leading role in creating new approaches to integration between the sectors. Swinburne was founded to provide expanded and more convenient educational opportunities to the residents in the 'outer east' of Melbourne. This mission was affirmed by the Victorian Government through the Swinburne University of Technology Act. Due to expansion of the city during the intervening years between establishment and transition to university status, the region now extends from Prahran in the inner suburbs to Lilydale in the contemporary outer east. At the same time as focusing on its regional responsibilities, Swinburne is heavily involved in international initiatives, playing a significant part in the internationalisation of Australia's tertiary education system.

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The Office of the Chancellor

The Swinburne University of Technology Act provides for a Council to be the governing authority of the University.

In addition to prescribing the membership of Council, the Act states that:

"The Council must elect as prescribed a person to be the Chancellor of the University"

The Chancellor is the Head of the University, presiding over meetings of the Council, and is an ex officio member of all other bodies of the University.

In earlier times, in the English system, the position was confined to ceremonial matters. Chancellors of Australian universities, especially in recent years, have tended to carry the burdens of office not only when gowned at ceremonies but at a multiplicity of meetings, formal and informal. The position is honorary.

The Chance ll or 's Go wn and Trenc her

The history of academic dress reaches back to the days of the world's oldest universities.

The design of the Swinburne gown is based on an Oxford and Cambridge tradition for University Chancellors' robes and employs an English Queen's Counsel style gown in a black fabric with appropriate traditional adornment (horizontal banding) on the sleeves and the edges of the gown. The traditional colour of embell ishment on a Chancellor's gown is gold.

The Swinburne gown is made from a black brocade fabric of English origin. The decorative traditional banding on the sleeves and the sleeve openings are in a gold braid of English origin. A red satin band exists upon the front facings, the collar, the bottom edge of the gown, the sleeve ends and the rear vent. This coloured element serves to identify the gown as that of Swinburne University of Technology. The colour red is the dominant colour in the original College of Arms coat of arms drawn for Swinburne.

The black velvet trencher with gold braid and tassel is the traditional headgear.

The Mace and t he Chair

In Universities a mace is used as a symbol of Institutional authority and it is carried in procession before the Chancellor as a symbolic weapon of protection.

The ceremonial items of the office of the Chancellor of Swinburne University of Technology were designed by Professor Helmut Lueckenhausen, Head, Swinburne National School of Design. Fabricated from Queensland silky oak, sterling silver and gold, the mace has eight facets resolving as an open silver finial and crown which contains a carving of the rampant boar from the Swinburne coat of arms.

The chair also has eight divisions on the seat and back with an engraved silver boar and the Southern Cross on the upper back.

Artists and craftspeople involved in the project with the designer were lan Higgs, cabinet maker, Geoffrey Dunne, Swinburne ~esign graduate, Sue Wraight, netsuke carver and Hendrik Forster and Marion Marshall, silversmiths.

Civic contributions made towards the purchase of these items included the former City of Prahran for the University Mace, the former City of Hawthorn for the Chancellor's Chair and the former Shire of Lilydale for the Chancellor's gown.

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