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Develop ment

Holman Hall

JCH Alumna Honoured

Prof Mollie Holman AO (1950,
1930-2010), physiologist, achieved
renown for her contribution to
research and development in
her field and most especially
for her pioneering work in
neurophysiology. Her remarkable
international reputation as a
researcher led to her appointment
Mr Alan Reid and Mrs Janet Reid OAM with Reid Scholars in 1970 to a Personal Chair in Physiology, a position she held
Emma Morrison and Ruby Jacobs until her retirement from Monash University in 1996.
Announcing the Holman Hall which recently opened at Monash is named in her

Janet Reid (Malley) honour and in recognition of the special care for and interest in
her students that she showed throughout her career.
Scholarships JCH alumna, Elizabeth Meredith (1950) attended the opening

We are delighted to announce that in 2016, thanks to the of Holman Hall and has fond memories of her friend. She
generous support of the Reid Malley Foundation, the College is reflects:
able to award two new scholarships that will assist two worthy
students to continue their residency at JCH. Moll and I were at school together at Merton Hall. We had
Dorothy Ross, a forward thinking educator, as our Principal
Janet Reid (Malley) was a resident of the College from during that time. She created the first SRC in Victoria and we
1960-64, during which time she completed her first degree BA were warmly encouraged to develop social responsibility.
(Hons). In 2015 she and her husband, Allan Reid, contacted
the College offering $20,000 annually for three years to fund We went on to do first year Medicine (+ Maths) at Mildura
scholarships for 2016, 2017 and 2018. University during that post-war period of overflow. This
was interesting because we mixed with the mature returned
In 2016 the inaugural Janet Reid (Malley) Scholarships have servicemen… I think we coped better than some of the girls,
been awarded to Ruby Jacobs and Emma Morrison, both of but when we came to JCH the following year as science
whom come from regional Victoria. students we went into culture shock! Suddenly we needed
PERMISSION to go out, and paper work for being out after
Ruby entered JCH in 2015 to study for the Bachelor of Arts 10 pm, and some sort of character reference for any man we
and has made a remarkable contribution to the life of the might be accompanying!
community, through singing in the College Choir and at
various other events throughout the year, and sitting on sub- From Melbourne, Moll won a scholarship to Oxford. We
committees including the Wine and Cheese Society. She travelled overseas together by ship and continued to have fun
was also active in the sporting life of the College through as we toured Europe and the U.K. Visiting Moll at Oxford,
rowing, table tennis and athletics. Her varied contributions I looked at a large and complex oscilloscope she was using.
were honoured through a College Service Award and she was ‘How did she manage it?’ ‘That’s ok,’ she said, ‘I made it’.
nominated by the Principal to attend a Future Rural Leaders
program run by the Helen Macpherson Smith Trust. Ruby Moll went on to become the second woman scientist to
was elected by her peers to serve as their representative and be named Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.
Student Observer on the College Council for 2016. Moll was much loved by her sisters’ young families and mine.
She particularly influenced my physicist son, John, linking
Emma also entered College in 2015 to study for the Bachelor him among others to the then young Dr Alan Finkel (recently
of Arts with a concurrent Diploma in Music, focussing upon named Australia’s Chief Scientist), who became
clarinet, requiring her to undertake 10 subjects instead of the his mentor.
usual eight. Emma credits ‘the positive environment at JCH’ for
assisting her to undertake successfully these combined studies,
thereby allowing her to continue pursuing clarinet at a tertiary
level. Emma was very active in the College community
representing the College in soccer, softball, and hockey,
serving as a College Fire Warden, representing the Student
Club in intercollegiate music competitions, and assisting with
the College Play.

We congratulate Ruby and Emma on their well-deserved
scholarship awards and join them in expressing our sincere
gratitude to Janet and Allan Reid and their Reid Malley Monash University names new residential hall in honour of
Foundation. Mollie Holman

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