Vale - St. George's College

2010 Valedicts
Andrew Ahmat
Andrew has completed his Physics Honours and while he has no
defi nite plans he would like to take a few years off to travel before
possibly undertaking further studies overseas.
Pat Anderson
Pat is not yet sure where to apply the life skills he has gained from
the last 3 years.Although he has received numerous offers from hair
modelling companies, he would rather spend the rest of his life doing
something which he holds closer to his heart. This probably means
inheriting his old man’s lawn mowing business.
Claire Bailey
After graduating with an Arts Degree Claire hopes to get a job in
the public sector. She is also considering postgraduate studies in
public health or health promotion. If that doesn't keep her occupied
she plans to gain a better understanding of string theory and the
quantum-critical state of electrons, thus solving the mystery of high
temperature super-conductivity.
Lynton Bennett
After spending more time at College than anyone who has been here
less than 6 years, Lynton will be travelling overseas before starting work
at the Department of Premier and Cabinet in February. John Inverarity
once told Lynton’s parents that they had better not keep their son away
from St George’s for too long otherwise he would get the shakes. We will
soon fi nd out if this was a joke or a statement of fact.
Giuliano Bosio
Giuliano will be graduating in Civil Engineering. He is considered to be
the “Hall B Patriarch” after residing there for 4 years. He will be back
in Perth next year after summer holiday in Mauritius, his country of
origin. He plans to work casually during 2011 in order to travel and
start his Masters in 2012.
Sara Damiani
Sara hails from California and is affectionately known as the College
matron. She came to College in 1935 to study medicine. Now that
she has fi nally fi nished her degree she is ready to compete to be
the world’s least muscular (but very pleasant and certainly pretty)
orthopaedic surgeon.
Cameron Fosbery
Cameron is undertaking a Diploma of Graduate Education next year,
after which he will use his fi nely honed verbal skills to (in his own
words) “teach children how to do stuff. And get paid for it. Wicked.”
Grey Johnston
Grey feels very fortunate to have spent his fi ve years studying
Engineering and Economics at St George's College and is very sad to
be leaving. Grey accepts that the next fi ve years can not possibly be
as good, but is still excited about the future. He hopes to do some
postgraduate study before contemplating the prospect of employment.
He is, however, extremely concerned about his chances of survival as
he will not have Nicola, Jess, Margaret, Colleen, Sonja, Leanne and
Anne-Marie looking after him!
Elle Linfoot
Elle has completed her Arts Degree and will fi nish Law next year. Over
the summer she will undertake vacation clerkships at commercial law
fi rms to fi nd the right fi rm with whom to spend her graduate years. Elle
would eventually like to settle in mergers and acquisitions
Pippa Lund
Pippa has lived at College for 3 years. If you haven’t seen her, it
is because she has been watching movies or sleeping or eating
copious amounts of chocolate. Ironically she is about to graduate
from Exercise and Health Science. She hopes to continue next year at
Curtin in a Masters of Occupational Therapy.
Rachel Paterson
After four years, Rachel is leaving St George’s and UWA with Advanced
Science Honours in Genetics. She spent her fi nal year studying an
inherited eye disease and is applying for PhD scholarships to continue
her studies in Medical Research.
Damien Pontifex
After fi nishing uni Damien wishes to travel and take a break, but
also fi nd an overseas university at which to do Honours and a PhD in
Nanotechnology. Whilst pursuing these studies he plans to discover
something new and amazing that will change the world and allow
him to retire and cruise around the world on his yacht while still
reasonably young.
Matt Sims
Simsy will graduate this year with a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of
Education and hopes to teach in a high school in 2011. He has loved
living at College, especially since he moved away from the notoriously
rowdy South G and into the glorious heights of South B, with all the girls.
Shana Sylvester
Three years ago Shana moved to Perth from her village market in
Kenya. She was very excited by all the new things she found here –
for instance, the big grey things you ride into town had wheels instead
of trunks. Next year she will be starting a post-grad course in speech
pathology at Curtin.
Hannah Thornton
Hannah Thornton is the energetic RA who cycles or walks everywhere
FAST! Hannah will graduate from Geography and Environmental
Management and will commence Honours next year in Urban and
Regional Town Planning. Any towns Hannah plans will be greatly
biased towards cyclists and motorist should be aware that they will no
longer have right of way.
Nick Travers
Next year Nick hopes to continue to save the world one equation at a
time, pursuing an Honours Degree in Applied Financial Mathematics.
Nick has thoroughly enjoyed his four years at the College. He hopes to
one day prove that thinking in binary is not necessarily as limiting as
one might think.
Trenton Warburton
Trent is graduating with Honours in Biomechanics and is not exactly
sure what he is doing next but hopes to be in elite sport somewhere.
He is looking at doing a PhD but he is pretty keen for some time off fi rst.
Cheryl Wheatley
Everyone at College knows Cheryl Wheatley. She has been here for 4
years, and during that time she has probably had a lengthy dialogue
at you. As much as Cheryl can talk, she is also kind and caring which
makes her perfect teacher material. Cheryl will graduate from Health
and Physical Education this year after graduating from Sports Science
last year.
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