His nephew is Associate Professor Will Kemp ( SC 1982-90 ).
John was a man of many talents and interests . He loved food and wine , golf , billiards and snooker , and was a passionate Demons supporter . He was Honorary Treasurer of the Senior Golfers ’ Society of Australia .
An enthusiastic member of the Australian Club , John played bridge , snooker and billiards , and sang in the choir . He was President of the Australian Club from 2012 to 2014 .
In parallel with his accounting career , John was a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and served as Board Director and Deputy Chairman of the RACV . He was also Chairman of State Trustees Victoria .
A very proud Old Scotch Collegian , John attended many OSCA Annual Dinners , and regularly wore his OSCA tie or bow tie .
John died on 13 July 2021 at the Epworth Hospital , Richmond , and is greatly missed by Mal , Jon and Sophie .
MASON , Robert Joseph Barr ( Bob ) (’ 49 )
Bob ’ s son , David (’ 75 ), wrote :
Robert ( Bob ) was born at Maffra on 25 September 1930 , the son of Harold Joseph Mason ( born 29.6.1898 , SC 1913-16 , died 8.1.1977 ) and the grandson of Joseph Mason ( born 27.9.1871 , SC 1887-88 , died 31.7.1957 ). Other Scotch relatives included his uncles John William Noel ( Noel ) Mason ( born 26.3.1900 , SC 1915 , died 23.1.1990 ), Lance Boreham Mason ( born 9.7.1901 , SC 1917-18 , died 13.3.1984 ) and Hubert Johnston Mason ( born 16.6.1905 , SC 1921-22 , died 25.9.1989 ), cousins David ( SC 1962-66 ) and Peter Mason ( SC 1964- 68 ), son David ( SC 1972-75 ) and grandson Nick ( SC 2008-2010 ).
Starting school at Nambrok West State School , and then Sale Technical School , Bob attended Scotch from 1946 to 1948 as
a boarder in School House , and a member of Littlejohn House .
A member of the 1948 Athletics team , Bob ran in the 880 yards and competed against future Olympian John Landy . He played in the premiership 1947 1st XVIII and the 1948 1st XVIII . Bob had the rare pleasure of playing against Melbourne Grammar School at the MCG on 2 July 1948 : the first time those schools had met there since 1938 .
His Scotch nickname , ‘ Lofty ’, which he hated , fortunately did not follow Bob when he returned to the family farm at Nambrok , in Gippsland , to work with his father in 1949 .
Bob played 263 games for the Sale Football Club ( a record until 2013 ) between 1949 and 1962 .
He played in seven premierships and won three league best and fairest trophies , including the first two in the Latrobe Valley Football League in 1954 and 1955 . He was also a Life Member and inaugural Hall of Fame inductee at the club .
While at Scotch , Bob met Marjorie Grace Egan , who was a student at MLC . They married at Scotch on 21 October 1955 . After 64 years of farming , they retired to Sale in 2013 .
Bob died at Central Gippsland Health Service , Sale , on 19 April , 2021 and is survived by his wife , children David and Susan , and four grandchildren .
McQUILKIN , Robin Malcolm Paterson (’ 59 )
Rob ’ s wife , Liz , wrote :
Robin was born at Melbourne on 30 November 1941 , the son of Old Boy Malcolm Paterson McQuilkin ( born 26.6.1909 , SC 1922-25 , died 5.1.1963 ). He attended Scotch from Grade 5 in 1952 until he Matriculated in 1959 . A member of Morrison House , Rob excelled academically , but was also a champion athlete . He was a member of the 1957 and the premiership 1958 and 1959 Athletics teams as a short and middle-distance runner . Rob played in the 1958 1st Hockey team , and was premiership Captain of the 1959 team . He was a 1958 Probationer and a 1959 Prefect . Rob ’ s cousin Ivan ( SC 1962-67 ) and uncles Hector Paterson McQuilkin ( born 6.5.1905 , SC 1920-21 , died June 1977 ) and Douglas Paterson McQuilkin ( born 7.1.1919 , SC 1931- 35 , died 21.4.1994 ) also attended Scotch .
Rob attended Melbourne University , graduating with a doctorate from the School of Chemistry in 1967 . At University College London he spent three years as a post-doctoral fellow , researching the-then important field of non-benzenoid aromatic molecules in annulene chemistry . On 26 April 1969 Rob married Mary Elizabeth ( Liz ) Hall at Forest Row , Sussex . A year later they moved to California , where Rob was a research chemist at pharmaceutical company Syntex at Stanford Industrial Park , Palo Alto .
Returning to Australia in 1971 , Rob joined a small team of Hobart CSIRO scientists to research chemical control of the sirex wasp . From 1974 he worked for 27 years at Diagnostic Services , a Tasmanian statewide pathology company , becoming its Chief Biochemist . Rob and Elizabeth raised their children Emma , Jenny and Andrew during this time .
Simultaneously an active member of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute ’ s Tasmanian Branch , Rob was its President for three years . Rob was also President of OSCA ’ s Hobart Branch for 13 years . He retired from his work in pathology in 2001 , in plenty of time to travel widely and to enjoy gardening , fishing and cycling .
A life well lived , a man much loved and respected by everyone who knew him , Rob succumbed to Alzheimer ’ s disease at Fairway Rise , Lindisfarne , Tasmania , on 18 May 2021 . He is survived by his wife , children , and five grandchildren .
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