ABOVE , LEFT TO RIGHT : MARTIN DAVIES (’ 67 ), ALASTAIR WOODARD (’ 78 ), JUSTIN BOCK (’ 89 ), LYNDON GREEN (’ 11 ), JEFFREY ZHAO (’ 14 )
Congratulations to DARREN KERR (’ 86 ) and ANDREW ( HENRY ) KISS (’ 85 ) who have each been awarded life membership of the Portsea Surf Lifesaving Club . Described by the club as ‘ great lifesavers in their own right ’, Darren and Henry received their awards at the club ’ s annual general meeting in September .
At the AGM , life member and past President , STUART RAYNER (‘ 88 ) spoke about Darren ’ s many contributions to the club , including his key role as Event Director for the Portsea Swim Classic , while Henry has provided distinguished and sustained service to the club for more than 33 years , particularly as a key educator .
Darren and Henry were part of the Portsea masters beach relay team which won gold at the 2020 masters state titles this year . The team was named Masters Team of the Year at the 2020 Life Saving Victoria Awards of Excellence .
Stuart Rayner moved to Hobart about three years ago , and lives near Darren ’ s brother , ROHAN KERR (’ 88 ). Their children attend the same primary school .
JUSTIN BOCK (’ 89 ) now lives in the country (‘ if you call Red Hill “ country ”’, he says ) with his wife , Jannicke , son Max , and Bruno the dog . He is a member of the Group Executive at Cirrus Networks , an ASX-listed IT solutions integrator , providing an independent , flexible approach to designing , building and managing IT infrastructure . Justin says his sporting life ( in normal times ) now consists of ‘ playing some very ordinary golf , and Wednesday night tennis with the locals ’.
1990s
DR CHADDEN HUNTER (’ 90 ) is a wildlife biologist and BBC TV producer and director . He has worked on such well-known natural history series as Wild Arabia , Planet Earth ,
Frozen Planet and Seven Worlds , One Planet , along the way encountering armed bandits and surviving brain parasites , and filming everything from indigenous tribes in Africa to snow leopards in Pakistan .
Chadden attended Scotch from 1985 to 1987 , leaving the School in December 1987 to return to his birth state of Queensland . He studied zoology at the University of Queensland , then gained a PhD on gelada baboons in Ethiopia . He has spent much of his life diving in oceans around the world as a divemaster and with underwater film crews . He has worked with marine conservationists on the major environmental issue of plastics in the seas in waters from South-East Asia and the Caribbean to underneath the Antarctic ice .
SHAUN GERSTMAN (‘ 98 ) is an IT consultant with Capgemini , having also worked with interesting clients previously at Ernst & Young , Lavastorm Analytics and IBM . Shaun and his wife Elena have three children ; their son , Sam , is enrolled to start at Scotch in 2026 . They also enjoy playing tennis at their local club where Shaun serves on the committee .
Shaun is a diehard Melbourne Demons supporter and hopes for an elusive renaissance by the red and blue . They enjoy travel – Shaun visited Singapore late last year for a cycling technology conference and the family visited the Northern Territory recently to enjoy some Australian wonders . They look forward to being able to venture more in Australia and abroad post-pandemic .
2000s
LYNDON GREEN (’ 11 ) graduated Bachelor of Music from Melbourne University with Honours in Music Performance , majoring in Classical Voice . At university he was a member of the Trinity
College ( Melbourne ) Choir . Lyndon aspired to a career in opera , and this year he was cast as an Opera Australia chorus member in one of Verdi ’ s lesser-known operas , Attila , and also in Wagner ’ s Lohengrin – but , alas , the 2020 opera program became a victim of the COVID-19 pandemic .
With the future as an opera singer in doubt , Lyndon ’ s career path has taken an unexpected turn : he is applying to join the Royal Australian Navy as a Cryptologic Linguist . Languages have been one of Lyndon ’ s strong suits , and his role in the RAN would be in naval intelligence . He is currently working his way through the enlistment procedures . During lockdowns this year Lyndon worked on his fitness at home with weight training and calisthenics . ‘ It has helped to preserve my sanity during the lockdowns ,’ he told Great Scot .
After gaining a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Melbourne and taking a gap year to travel , JEFFREY ZHAO (’ 14 ) is now working full time in consulting at Deloitte Digital . Realising that Asian representation in mainstream media was very low , Jeff , together with his friend Isabella , launched the ‘ As I Am ’ podcast (@ asiam . podcast ), aiming , as he says , ‘ to understand the Asian identity in the West ’.
Since its launch in April , the brand has experienced strong and steady growth , most recently with a total rebranding and the addition of several team members . Jeff hopes to expand the brand into several other mediums , while maintaining his primary aim of telling unheard stories and improving diversity and representation across all facets of society .
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