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Still Learning: A 50 Year History of Monash University Peninsula
Campus is an institutional history that brings the lives of
students and staff academic and extracurricular into focus, and
conveys the excitement and atmosphere of the times. Several of
Australia s most famous artists, teachers, writers, politicians and
entertainers studied at Peninsula Campus, and Still Learning
connects significant moments in Australia s history to their time
on campus. Well known children s writer Paul Jennings, artist and
sculptor Peter Corlett and the incorrigible Max Gillies were all
students at the institution. As editor of the student magazine
Struan, Gillies made a name for himself in 1962 over the issue of
censorship, at a timewhen censorship laws greatly impacted on the
value of student reading materials. In the 1960s and 1970s a Miss
Frankston competition, which would not be countenanced today, was a
popular event. Students writing in Struan enjoyed a staple diet of
sport, social activities, rock music, sexual relationships, and
interstate and overseas trips. They nonetheless complained of lack
of funds for food The 1970s were turbulent times in Australia, and
the issues of the day played out in the lives of students and staff
on the campus. Still Learning highlights the Portsea Annexe and the
significant part it played as an external venue for teachers
developing their classroom experience. In its in carnations as
Frankston Teachers College and the State College of Victoria at
Frankston, the institution thrived. However, as the Chisholm
Institute of Technology at Frankston it faced many challenges and
entered into a period of relative decline.The timely merger with
Monash University in 1990 slowly improved the campus s fortunes.
Today, Monash University Peninsula Campus is a significant part of
the southern hemisphere s largest university, with a vibrant campus
and a key focus as a health precinct.
When the urbane, learned, and widely-liked David Derham accepted
the invitation to establish the second university law school in
Australia's state of Victoria, Derham wrote to a friend of the
challenge ahead: "I am probably mad to do it but will have some
compensating fun no doubt." As the foundation dean, Derham achieved
his vision of establishing a new law school with an innovative
curriculum, a first-rate staff recruited from around the world, and
a state-of-the-art building constructed around Victoria's best law
library. Within a short time, Monash University Law School rose to
be among the leading law schools in Australia and became the model
that successive new law schools openly copied. If David Derham
could see his law school today, there are many achievements he
would be proud of, some developments that would appall him, and a
few that would leave him scratching his head. In this lively and
engaging 50th-anniversary history of the law school, the story of
how Derham's vision has played out is told without fear or favor.
While the law school's many fine achievements are fully recognized,
so too are the wrong turns and backward steps. Most importantly,
this is a book about the thousands of people, staff, and students
who have been part of the history of the law school. There have
been many extraordinary characters. No student will forget the
inimitable Louis Waller, the intimidating Enid Campbell, or the
remarkable Lawrie McCredie and Ron McCallum. Memorable students
have been plentiful, including many who have become heavyweights in
law, politics, and business. Interestingly, the authors found that
the most widely remembered student was the great impersonator,
Campbell McComas, aka Granville Williams; far more people recall
being at his famous fake lecture than could possibly have been
present on that day (Series: Law)
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