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Concept drawing for Margaret Henderson House

Margaret Henderson House
The College will a Doctor of Medical Science honoris possible space for activities ranging from
name a new causa. The generosity of the Henderson study to play rehearsals. This new building
teaching and family is felt across the whole University couldn’t be more urgent in terms of the
learning centre – a recent, major gift from Margaret’s Student Club. The fact that the building
in honour of sister Noel Shaw enabled the Baillieu will be constructed entirely off site and
Dr Margaret Library to redevelop the Gallery named dropped in during the mid-semester break
Henderson (1934) in her honour. means that it won’t disrupt students either,
in 2015 as Dr which is even better.’
Henderson approaches her hundredth Within the College students and staff
birthday. are eagerly anticipating the new tutorial For her part Margaret – who featured on
rooms, as JCH currently needs its Chanel 10s’ The Panel news show – is
Among the College’s first Fellows, Dining Hall and Common Rooms to characteristically humble about the new
Margaret is a pioneer and role model accommodate an academic program building. ‘The College has been such
for generations of women in Medicine. of over 70 tutorials a week for its 97 a support and joy to me over a span of
In 1976 she gained the rare distinction students. Student Club President Elise some eighty years’, she said. It would be ‘a
of an OBE for services to Medicine, Labaschagne reflects that ‘every night pleasure to give my name to part of Janet
and in 2012 the University granted her of the week students are using every Clarke Hall’.
The Betty Elliott Fund

In a gift of remarkable generosity, regular and much-loved dimension to cultural interests over many years, from
Dr Betty Elliott (1940) has left the her ‘retirement’ well into her nineties. Shakespeare to Flaubert and from Homer
College a bequest of $300,000 to to Henry Miller.
establish the Betty Elliott Fund for Having maintained lifelong friendships
new student scholarships. Betty with JCH women of her generation, Betty Elliott’s book donations constitute a
died in March 2014 after a full life in Betty was drawn back into the life of the superb addition to the Library
which she contributed greatly to the College as the godmother of two of the
professionalisation of libraries in the Clarke children, as descendants of Janet,
school sector, particularly through her Lady Clarke gathered for a celebration
work at Melbourne Grammar. She was in the College in 2009. Thereafter she
a founder of the Independent Schools was a faithful friend to the College,
Library Association, and a member and a source of inspiration to the
of the School Library Association of Principal as they discussed the issues
Victoria, and President of the School surrounding good educational practice.
Library Section for Victoria in the As a librarian, Betty was keen that her
Australian Library Association. extensive collection of books should
find a suitable home. She bequeathed
Retiring from Melbourne Grammar a large and valuable collection nearing
in 1985, she worked with Monash 2,000 volumes to the College. Among
University on helping students with the collection are a great number of
learning disabilities. Her company was richly illustrated art books, along with
enjoyed enormously by her large circle a varied collection of international
of friends, and overseas travel was a classics which highlight her extensive
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